LNH: WikiLull: Pre-Final Epilogue, AKA President Evil #6: A-Pack-O-Lies Now [1/2]
Drew Nilium
pwerdna at gmail.com
Sat Oct 31 20:17:03 PDT 2020
On 10/31/20 8:36 PM, Jeanne Morningstar wrote:
> [Content warning: this is a story about American politics so there's discussions
> of police violence, imperialism, and the general sense of electoral hopelessness.]
Woooooo~
> Somewhere in the surprisingly extensive and spacious sewers of net.ropolis,
> where the not-yet-named Morlock-y communes that had emerged in the wake of
> WikiLull lived,
:D
> Forgotten Gal was chowing down on (of course) a pizza. Maddie,
> her girlfriend, walked into their shared sewer apartment.
This is the best Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles spinoff ever.
> "What's on your mind, gorgeous?" said Forgotten Gal.
>
> "Just thinking about the election," said Maddie. "Or trying not to."
>
> "Boy do I know that one," said Forgotten Gal.
Yeah. @-@
> "This looks like it could be even worse than the 2000 one, and that was a
> disaster."
>
> "It sure was." Forgotten Gal smiled. "You know, I was involved in the end of all
> that."
Oooooo, flashback time
> "It's a long story. In fact, it's a cascade that never got finished."
>
> "Another one?"
>
> "Yeah. There are a lot of those.
Look,,,
> But I remember how it all ended. I was
> there..."
>
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> #6 "A-Pack-o-Lies Now"
YES :D :D :D
> So, what happened so far [said Forgotten Gal] was: In RACCoon City, Net.Vada,
> this shadowy company called the Raincoat Corporation
*suddenly, that time I read the whole Resident Evil Storyline FAQ slams right
back into my brain* wesker nooooooo
> was experimenting with
> something called the W Force, which drew in various weird powers like some being
> called Pregnant Chad.
Oh god. X3
> they met their newest
> member, the Obsidian Ranger,
Ahhhhh, the Sixth Ranger.
> and another random hero named Lion Brain
Ahhhhh, the Seventh Ranger.
> This was one of those "throw at least one new character
> every issue" kind of stories.
LOOK,,,,,
The Random Heroes got cornered by a bunch of
> zombie senior citizen--you know, 2000 election topical humor--
X3
> So, Lion Brain was about to fight a doomed battle against the entire Random
> Villains (Baroness Wizard--my archenemy, Compuwarlock, Android Barbarian,
> Lurking Vampire, Psychic Crustacean, The Living Bee, Phantom Weirdo and Super
> Eyeball) and then suddenly they stopped in their tracks. There was some British
> kid with an umbrella wearing a natty suit.
*applauds* Masterplan Lad! Wooooooo! Masterplan Laaaad!
> "My name is Masterplan Lad," he said. He pulled a card out of his pocket.
> "Ahem," he said, reading from it. "My appearance here takes place before the
> original Ultimate Mercenary series. This is the earliest currently existing
> chronological story on my own personal timeline." He put it back in.
X3
> "I was
> given that by my superiors. I don't actually know what an Ultimate Mercenary is.
XD XD XD
> Also, the Writer wishes to apologize for the fat jokes in the previous chapter.
Oh thx
> Lion Brain, who had already been pretty confused, followed him, walking down the
> narrative pathway created by their Plot Device in the form of an umbrella.
>
> ["How are you narrating this?" said Maddie. "You weren't there for that part of
> the story."
>
> "Shhhhh," said Forgotten Gal.]
X3 <3 <3 <3
> "I shunted them to another part of the storyline," said the weird British kid.
> "The zombies and the Forgotten Villains should be keeping each other busy for a
> while."
Fair, reasonable.
> "You look a little young to be some kind of cosmic time guardian," I said.
And a little short to be a-- never mind
> "Yes, well, er, time is relative," he said. He tugged at his collar a little.
Adorable
> "You see, I am involved in a war spanning time and space against the enemies of
> the Knights Temporal, a transtemporal posthuman empire called the Evolved. Their
> goal is to use technology to transform themselves into gods..."
>
> "So... they want to evolve humanity... and that's bad... why?" said Winter Droid.
>
> "In keeping with common narrative tropes about posthuman entities, they've lost
> track of their humanity and their fundamental moral values."
>
> I wasn't so sure the guys Masterplan Lad worked for were so in touch with
> humanity themselves, but I let him go on:
X3 These are excellent points.
> You see, in one version of history, the city Sig.ago is destroyed [The Team
> #25--Footnote Girl]. This leads to the super-genius inventor and businessman
> Andrew Weinstein [also from The Team], who was from Sig.ago, developing
> revolutionary technology which serves as the foundation of their way of life.
Ahh, yes, the Willeyverse. Excellent use of continuity.
> There are
> only two possible outcomes of this election--"
>
> "Only two? Really?" I said.
According to the Time Gem, anyway.
> "Only two. Either Hexadecimal Luthor wins or George W. Bush wins.
Yeah... *sigh* Yeah, that's how I thought it would be.
> As bad as
> Luthor is, he is fundamentally a superhero-genre narrative force who can be
> contained and defeated within a superhero genre narrative. Bush represents Real
> World problems, and so it's far more difficult to face him within those terms.
Oooooooh, that's good.
> Because of interference from the Real World, the balance between comedy and
> drama in the LNH has been unstable for some time. Because of the narrative
> imbalance caused by the events of 9/11 [see Limp-Asparagus Lad #55], the nature
> of the Looniverse was seriously disrupted and underwent a Darkening when Doctor
> Wiley stole the Clogs of Comedy around the same time [Journey into Irrelevancy
> #3-4] If--"
OF COURSE
> "Enough explanation!" said undead consumer safety advocate and third party
> presidential candidate Ralph Nadir, who was also here for some reason.
Yeah, sigh, etc.
> I thought about what Masterplan Lad had said. I didn't like the sound of this
> Hexadecimal Luthor, and I could tell this Masterplan Lad kid didn't either. From
> my days in the war, I remember the feeling of trying to rationalize orders from
> on high you know are shitty.
Oooooooooh. :D Excellent point-of-view use.
> We walked through the creepy secret bunker of the Raincoat Corporation. "This
> place looks extremely unsafe," said Ralph Nadir. "I'll definitely have to write
> an expose of whatever it is they make here."
>
> "What the heck *does* the Raincoat Corporation manufacture, anyway? Does anyone
> know?" said Shining Wombat.
>
> "Evil, I guess," said Lion Brain.
They were a notable precursor to Amazon that way.
> "Well," said Obsidian Ranger, "that'd be fun to play in a video game but kind of
> repetitive to read in a text story."
Well. X3
> Just then we were attacked by these big, gnarly final boss zombies. We had a
> really swell fight I don't have time to describe, and in the confusion I got
> separated from the rest of the team along with Masterplan Lad.
X3 God dammit
> We barely managed to escape into a secret room. "Well this looks bad," I said.
There was a shiba in there, using a computer to - wait, wrong PS1-era survival
horror.
> Masterplan Lad shook his head. "I have faith in the Writers. They'll get us
> through. I'm fairly sure tThe universe wants us to be alone together," said
> Masterplan Lad, panting. It would've sounded like a pickup line coming from
> anyone else.
X3
> Before he could explain Doctor who,
Thank goodness, it would have easily doubled the size of this issue.
> "Ah!" he smiled with relief. "This is the Knight I was talking about. He was
> using the name Daniel Marlon. He's a good friend of mine, Forgotten Gal, you can
> trust him..."
>
> He smiled. "I'm afraid not," he said.
*Fascinating*. :o We've seen almost nothing so far about what MPL's experience
with the Knights Temporal was actually like.
> When Masterplan Lad and I woke up, we were tied down and manacled to metal
> slabs. It was a familiar situation for me.
*wolf-whistle*
> He had a
> copy of From Ritual to Romance by Jessie Weston he'd been reading on a table
> beside him.
What's that :o
> Behind him was this weird, glowing tank.
>
> There was a corpse of a god in the tank. The same one I'd killed and then pulled
> into Limbo to make sure it was extra-dead.
daaaaaaaaaaaamn, intense
> "Ah, I see you've seen my greatest weapon," said Daniel Marlon. "It was salvaged
> from a Ragnarok that happened a long time ago in this universe. This is the god
> who decides the outcome of battles, who appoints kings."
>
> "The W Force," said Masterplan Lad. "It stand for Wotan."
Daaaaaaaaaamn!!
> "I remember now!" I said. "I was sent into Limbo to stop a narrative magicakal
> ritual carried out by Nazi sorcerers to summon an evil Nazi version of Norse
> mythological stories to change the outcome of the war! I fought alongside the
> original Eddic versions of the Aesir and Valkyries against the ones from Nazi
> iconography!"
NICE. :D :D D:
> I winced at my own expository dialogue. See, as a Golden Age
> heroine I either talk like an actual Golden Age character, if I'm lucky, or like
> a Roy Thomas character.
X3 Oh no
> "Ah, so this is all a symbol for the resurgence of fascism, naturally," said
> Masterplan Lad.
Oooooooh. Yeah.
> "Indeed," said Daniel Marlon. "We engineered Pregnant Chad as an incubator to
> create a child which would hold within himself the power of the W Force," said
> Daniel Marlon.
Wow, you managed to make sense of this nonsense!
> "How dare you!" said Masterplan Lad. "You betrayed the Knights Temporal--"
>
> Daniel Marlon laughed. "I was sent here on their orders. I'm just doing it for
> myself instead of for them.
GASP.
> Did you really think they'd send a novice Knight who
> hadn't even chosen their True Name for a crucial mission like this? You were
> being set up to fail. The High Council of the Perceptory wanted to make what
> they were doing look heroic and honorable, sending out a young hero for a noble
> and doomed stand, while they would make their true move from the shadows."
Holy cow. :o That's a lot, and very good.
> "Believe that if you want. They wanted me to channel the W force for their own
> ends, but I had other plans. I'm going to write in even more people as the
> President! Ralph Nadir! Zombie Elvis Presley! Arthur Spitzer! Howard the Duck!
> They're all going to be President! And then the narrative will collapse
> completely--and I will reshape it to my own ends!"
oh my fucking god XD
> He walked over to Masterplan Lad and leaned in to him homoerotically. "My orders
> were to kill you, see, but I couldn't do it. You're just too cute. I could hurt
> you, yes, but not kill you." He smiled icily. MPL blushed. "But now I've decided
> I'm not taking over the universe for other people anymore. I'm doing it myself.
> I will rule all of time and space--and you can rule with me!"
Oh my GOD :D :D :D That's amazing X3
> "No," said Masterplan Lad, jaw slack with absolute horror.
>
> "Ah, right, ruling isn't your thing, is it? Well, you can serve me, then."
>
> He looked like he was seriously considering it. But he clenched his jaw and
> said, "Absolutely not."
X3 you useless sub
> I remembered all my interactions with Baroness Wizard,
> and I was familiar with the dynamic. As confused and lost as he clearly was, as
> much as he was beholden to the shitty ideas of the people who taught him, that
> kid was a hero.
awwwwwwww <3
> I'm an old
> hand at getting out of manacles, ropes, chains, eels, and just about anything
> else you could tie someone up with. You know how Golden Age comics are, right?
X3 I very much do.
> "You're not the first person I've ever heard give a speech like that," I told
> him. "You remind me of a guy called Adolf Hitler! And you're getting the same
> thing he did--a sock to the jaw!" I knocked him to the floor.
YEAH! :D The good Golden Age stuff
> "Adolf Hitler?" he said. "Haven't you ever heard of Godwin's Law?"
>
> "I don't think that really applies when you're wielding the power of a dead Nazi
> god," said Masterplan Lad.
Another very '00s bit~
> By now Ralph Nadir, who was still around for some
> reason,
I love that this is a running gag.
Drew "for some reason" Nilium
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