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Hail the Conquering Heroes

Things can happen without Stacy knowing, that much is apparent now. The damage to her sensors is significant. But the fighting clued her in.

After it's all over, after those captured have been rescued, after the injured have been tended to, only the nest is left, and Stacy takes care of it.

||Infestation of Cluster 42, Level 4, Sector 7, Sublevel 12, Zone 37 has been detected. Triggering internal defenses. Decontamination commencing.||

There is a pause.

||Decontamination complete.||

Simple as that, once she knows the problem was there. Her internal sensors are damaged, especially in the city, and so are some of the systems monitoring them. You have to know what's broken to know to fix it.

Such a simple thing and it only took one man dying to make it happen. (His body is gone, by the way, ripped to shreds and eaten. There's not even a spot of blood on the floor. That's the bugs' doing. The bugs' bodies are gone too--that's Stacy's doing).

||Any injured personnel that still have not received medical attention, report to the nearest lift, and you will be transported to the MedBay. Any uninjured personnel, report to the Living Area, to the restroom facilities to undergo decontamination of xenobiological material. Then report to the Obs Deck to meet your new crew-mates.||

Said crew-mates--and the Doctor, who'd skipped out and miraculously ducked and weaved his way to the lift when he'd realized the Master was there--are there and waiting, and just a tad confused.

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"...Whatever happened to the last guy Brenda dated?" Paco asked Jaime after a moment. "You know, that one dork with the stupid hair who sat next to her in biology?"

"Was that the one we locked in the janitor's closest?"

"Yeah, that's the one. What happened to him? I'm pretty sure Brenda found him and let him out of the closet at some point..."

"After she hit him and stuff. I mean, we locked him there because he macked on Devin Winick behind her back..."

"Wish I could've done something like that to the last guy sam dated, " Among other things, "and yes, that's partially out having been somewhat jealous, but the guy was also a jerk. But he ran off before me, Tucker, or Sam could do anything to him."

"That would be why you lock them in the janitor's closet," Paco said. "It makes it much more difficult for them to run away. And if the teachers find them before you get back, they get in trouble for being somewhere they shouldn't. Win-win situation!"

"Would've, but I had other things to worry about when he ran off. Like not getting killed by government operatives."

"Haven't had that one yet. But could've happened, if they'd found out about me. I might've wound up all ET in the ice cream cooler."

ET voice: "Ooooooowch. Goverrrnment guuuuys are toooools."

That gets a chuckle from Danny.

"Yeah. If we ever get home though, it probably won't be happening again. Being a worldwide hero kinda prevents that sort of stuff. Only downside is that I have nearly zero privacy."

"Did you get merchandise?" Paco asked curiously. "Because the amount of blue-and-beetle-y stuff skyrocketed when Jaime started flying around El Paso."

"Yeah, I don't see a dime. That could put me through college and everything..."

Jaime sighed. It was so hard being all noble and stuff and not being willing to take money for what he did. But then, he didn't want to be some weird guy on someone's tooth paste that people thought was fictional like Toucan Sam.

"Yeah, my identity is public now, so I do get all the money from it. But I ended up deciding to put some of it in a college fund and then just give all the rest to charity."

"...Please don't tell me that you're going to study to be a dentist. I will be creeped out."

"...no, uh, was gonna try and be an astronaut, though this might put me off going into space. Any reason why you brought up dentistry?"

Paco gestured expansively in Jaime's direction.

"Ask him. It involves sweater vests."

"Hey, dentistry is a perfectly good career that'll make me really rich so I can take care of my family, and let's not forget that my dorky, sweater-vest-filled aspirations saved your sorry butt from the former hitman of God."

"... you wanting to be a dentist saved him from...okay, I think you've officially out-bizzared anything that's ever happened to me. And that includes fighting an evil future version of myself and having a female clone."

Jaime grinned.

"Basically, there was a hitman of God. There's another one that's still the hitman of God, called the Spectre--and let me tell you, he is bad news. Anyway, the former one, Eclipso went a little nuts and God cast it out, and it popped from host to host, and it was trying to steal our friends' baby as a host, because little Alina's the kid of Damper and Bonito, who are two magical people--we have people who are like, metas, but metas with magic. Anyway, Alina's their kid, so she's probably going to grow up magic-ey, and Eclipso was trying to use her for a host, but me, Paco, and my now-girlfriend Traci Thirteen, who is another magic person--we got there just in time."

Now for the mildly embarrassing part. "So Eclipso put this magic circle around Alina so only non-magic persons can run in. While I'm fighting her, he--" He jerked his thumb at Paco "--runs in like an idiot--and that makes it so he has to face Eclipso's challenge. She can send a champion at him--and she's basically kicking my butt, so she sends me at him, using her magic to make my ultimate power fantasies real, thinking 'hey, he's got an alien killing machine in his back, he'll turn into a monster and melt his best friend's face off with acid.'"

He snorted.

"Didn't exactly work out like she thought on account of my big power fantasy involves me being rich with a very lucrative career--especially if I become a dental specialist; they make over three-hundred grand a year, on average, you know. Anyway, that is the story of how Paco beat the former Hitman of God by hitting me in the head with a stick and getting blood on my sweater vest."

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"Hey, I did not run in like an idiot," Paco objected. "I ran in like an idiot with a plan. 'Grab Alina and run' was a perfectly good plan, it's not my fault Eclipso had some extra rules up her sleeve."

He leaned back against the fleshy couch and grinned at Danny. "And this was only one of many wacky Beetle-and-friends adventures. Where did you get a female clone from?"

Evil future self? Yeah, time-travel, whatever. Opposite-sex clones, though, that sounded like a story.

"Eh, my archenemy is a half-ghost too, and he wants me be to be his son. At some point he finally figured out that was about as unlikely to happen as my best friend ever eating vegetables. SO he tried to clone me in order to get the son he wanted. Unfortunately for him, they were all mutated and ended up dissolved into ectoplasmic goo. Most stable was Dani, with an I by the way, who's basically what I would be if I were a twelve-year-old girl. She ended up realizing Vlad is one seriously-crazed up fruitloop, left him, and I eventually found a way to prevent from melting."

"That...is the weirdest thing I've ever heard."

A pause.

"Also, your archenemy sounds really creepy. I'm kinda glad I don't have one yet--I mean there's the Reach, but I beat them, and that's not an arch-villain specifically."

"He wants to kill my Dad, marry my mom, and make me his evil son. I think it's safe to say that Vlad is creepy beyond all reason. The only good thing to come from that guy is Dani."

"...Wasn't there a Greek guy that did that and wound up clawing his eyes out?" Paco asked, wrinkling his nose.

"Oedipus. This sounds like Oedipus in reverse or something really weird and creepy."

"Vlad is his own, unique, definition of creepy."

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