Colossus By Design: Entry 0104 - In For A Loop

[January 13, 2146]
[Cape Town, African origin continent]
[Temporary G.U.D. Base of Operations]
[Outside makeshift laboratory]


(Jiro Ifukube): I assume that you have good news to have called me up at this hour?

(Laura Reed): Actually, yes. Take a look for yourself, sir.


[Dr. Reed opens the door to the lab for Dr. Ifukube]
[Dr. Ifukube's eyes widen as he gazes upon a newly built and extremely large Oxygen Destroyer]


(Jiro Ifukube): Is this-- can it be--


[Dr. Wei Ho and Dr. Anna Maximoff step out from behind the large device]


(Wei Ho): Good to see ya, sir!

(Anna Maximoff): I was gonna wrap it up for you, but.......

(Wei Ho): We were too busy actually making the darn thing.

(Jiro Ifukube): You two? Working together on something?

(Wei Ho): I know, hard to believe.

(Anna Maximoff): Turns out that his botany skills and my expertise in non-standard DE energy made the perfect combo. But I did most of the engineering work.

(Wei Ho): Excuse me? If it weren't for my knowledge on safe handling of the flowers--


[Dr. Reed gestures to them as Dr. Ifukube turns around]
[Dr. Ho and Dr. Maximoff stop their squabble]
[Dr. Reed stops gesturing just before Dr. Ifukube sees her doing so]


(Laura Reed): Anyways..... with the samples that Union's Warrior and the research team brought us, we have just enough to make one large and completely updated Oxygen Destroyer.

(Jiro Ifukube): Excellent work, everyone.

(Wei Ho): Well?

(Jiro Ifukube): Well what?

(Anna Maximoff): When are we gonna use this thing?

(Jiro Ifukube): That question will be answered in good time.


[Messenger comes running into the laboratory]


(Messenger): DIRECTOR!! DIRECTOR!!

(Jiro Ifukube): What is it?

(Messenger): New reports just came in! The trio of the Alpha, Gamma, and Zeta were spotted heading to South America!

(Laura Reed): South America?

(Messenger): Not just that, but..... the Epsilon and Delta have made landfall in the Wasteland, sir!

(Jiro Ifukube): Do we have satellite feed on the area?

(Messenger): Yes, sir! Follow me!


[All four head G.U.D. researchers follow the messenger upstairs to the communications office; they gaze at the screen showing the satellite feed of the South American Wasteland]

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[January 13, 2146]
[South American Wasteland, former South American continent]

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The Epsilon and the Delta both make landfall in the middle of the wasteland, near the site that contained the last known toxin flowers for the Oxygen Destroyer; flying in circles overhead are numerous Betas. However, their appearance is not the strangest in the land.

That would be another party, standing just a kilometer away from the pair: a small group of P.E.M.F.s of many different variations, with an apparent leader in front of them all. This one is an odd bipedal beast, with an almost cyborg-esque appearance; it shrieks at the two across from it, as if to challenge their rule.