Percival Phoenix and the Promise of Tomorrow

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Last time on Percival Phoenix:
Though the armies of Nuon and the Blood Queen seemed overwhelming in number, PERCIVAL PHOENIX (and also the rescue team) managed to divert the attack, instead striking directly at the lieutenants of Dr. Lady Deathtruction NEUTRO™! Through their combined efforts, they freed both from the doctor's evil mind control. And yet, two crew members still remain. With no choice but to infiltrate the fortress of the dreaded Lash Dr. Lady Deathtruction NEUTRO™, they venture valiantly forth!

Will they be able to save their friends before the Death Ray becomes fully operational?

And now, the conclusion!

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THE FORTRESS OF DEATH (Rescue team, Anwei, Zouichi)

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[Once Anwei and Zouichi are freed from the mysterious mind-control phenomenon (and Percival is duly convinced that the Blood Queen and Nuon have truly changed their stripes), the rescue team sets off once more -- this time to the lair of Dr. Lady Deathtruction NEUTRO™ herself... but how?!]

THE DOCTOR OF DEATH (Lash, Sakura)

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[Meanwhile, Dr. Lady Deathtruction NEUTRO™ is commencing final preparations for the Death Ray and telling Daisy that they're not so different, you and I!]

THE RAY... OF DEATH (Everyone)

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[I sense a theme here.

Our brave heroes reach Dr. Lady Deathtruction NEUTRO™ and her diabolical Death Ray through stealth and subterfuge -- at least until the not-so-good doctor appears, revealing that she has been waiting for them all along! Confronted with the possibility of choosing between Sakura's life and laying down arms, the heroes are at a loss -- until Sakura herself makes a daring escape. Rubbery giant suit monsters! SCIENCE!]

THE END? (Everyone)

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Re: THE FORTRESS OF DEATH (Rescue team, Anwei, Zouichi)

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Percival frowned, his blond brow furrowed in heroic disbelief. "NUON AND THE BLOOD QUEEN, changing sides? Somehow, I just can't see it. Jupiter's Jowls, these two have been at each other's throats almost as long as they've been bowing before that dastardly Dr. Lady Deathtruction NEUTRO™!

"What makes you think they can even work together, let alone with PERCIVAL PHOENIX?"

Re: THE FORTRESS OF DEATH (Rescue team, Anwei, Zouichi)

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"Oh, for God's sake. Don't you know anything about brainwashing? Dame Lassie Distraction NUCLEAR® or whatever her face is never built a brainwashing ray before? No magical amulets that possess people? She never hired Sabrina the Teenaged Witch to enchant people? Do you have any idea what kind of genre you're in?"

Too bad they can't just take the stupid gun and do this themselves. Putting up with Percival Phoenix is a form of torture in its own right to Howard. He jerks a thumb at Zouichi. "This is Zou. He's on our side. He can rip your head off at your shoulders but knowing this mission, he'll probably just push you out of the frame while you do a Wilhelm scream."

He turns to Anwei. "And this is Anwei. She's also on our side. She can bite your head off at the shoulders, so we'll probably just assume a discretion cut."

Re: THE FORTRESS OF DEATH (Rescue team, Anwei, Zouichi)

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Wow, Howard, helping or hurting?

"Mr. Phoenix, I'm sure that you're well aware of Dr. NEUTRO™'s ability to bend people to her will with her nefarious inventions. I was one of those people... but my friend here," he motions to Howard, "Was able to free me from her mind control. I want to put a stop to the doctor's plans just as badly as you do."

Re: THE FORTRESS OF DEATH (Rescue team, Anwei, Zouichi)

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"I can personally vouch for them as another, uh, blue-hero type such as yourself," Jaime adds a bit lamely.

Re: THE FORTRESS OF DEATH (Rescue team, Anwei, Zouichi)

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Anwei was not looking very much like a Queen of anything right now; her face was smudged with dirt, her lips were noticeably unpainted, and the Queen's most prominent badge of authority, her gold-plated brassiere, was draped casually over one shoulder. She was wearing the rags of an Egyptian tapestry tucked into her costume to preserve her modesty.

"Mr. Phoenix, we are but two of the Doctor's many victims. We need your help if we are going to stop her."

Re: THE FORTRESS OF DEATH (Rescue team, Anwei, Zouichi)

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Percival looked from one member of the rescue team to the next, but especially Anwei (who no longer looked very Blood Queenish) and Zouichi (who still looked somewhat Nuon-y, but whose manner did seem to have undergone a rather drastic change). Howard's argument wasn't very reassuring, but Jaime was VERY BLUE. ALMOST AS BLUE AS PERCIVAL HIMSELF (!!!). "Wellllll...."

He sighed. "All right. You've come with me this far. If Annie and Nu-- whatever your name was -- can still put on the old evil minion act, I think we can put together a plan to infiltrate DR. LADY DEATHTRUCTION NEUTRO™'s EVIL LAIR!"

This last was said with a raised fist and characteristic heroic exuberance.

Re: THE DOCTOR OF DEATH (Lash, Sakura)

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MEANWHILE!



It appeared that Daisy was no longer in the trio of cages like before. In fact, she was now tied up to the head of the Giant Death Raygun™ that DR. LADY DEATHTRUCTION NEUTRO™ had been bragging about for the past few hours with enough rope that she couldn't move or get out. Why hadn't she gagged her prisoner remained a mystery, but there the poor Daisy Duke rested, her clothing half torn with nothing beyond PG-13, thankfully (just enough to be barely scandalous!)

"A HAHAHAHAHA HAAA HAAAA!" The Lady laughed with all the oomph a mad villain should be explained to laugh with. "With this Giant Death Raygun™ ALL my plans will be fulfilled! I will finally be able to blow up everything all my heart's desire, and never have to think about the consequences! And after it is mounted on my Death Fortress™ nothing will be able to stop me! NOTHING!"

Re: THE FORTRESS OF DEATH (Rescue team, Anwei, Zouichi)

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"I am... fairly sure I can still act the part, at least temporarily," said Zouichi. "But Anwei appears to be missing a rather important prop in her costume; I'm not sure that she'll still be able to pass as a member of Lash's-- er, the doctor's retinue."

Re: THE FORTRESS OF DEATH (Rescue team, Anwei, Zouichi)

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Anwei sighed, heavily, and hefted the two half-globes in her hand. "Once more into the cleavage, it appears," she tried to joke.

She half-turned her back to the adventurers, dropping the tapestry shreds around her feet as she pressed/hoisted/squeezed/cupped/smooshed herself back into the gleaming symbol of the Blood Queen's radiance. With a few touches of her fingers, the dirt was gone and her face shone with its previous evil glamor.

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Struggling was proving futile, if part of Sakura wondered at the practice of trying to make her into a living PG-13 figurehead was really necessary. "Responsibility is important to accept!" she cried out, negligible bosom heaving in distress of the truly tied down. "And you're telling us all

How this much bondage was slipping by the censors, she had no idea. Creative styling counted for a lot. "Your reckless ways will catch up with you, you dastardly Doctor!" Struggling in a beautifully pitiful fashion, she searched her brain for some solution. Percival would be here, she had no doubt, and his kind of not as cool as him companions, the Rag Tag band that always triumphed and then never had a successful sequel.

Wait! Maybe Percival's brethren in name would come to her assistance! She whistled some half-forgotten tune almost morosely.

A pigeon flapped onto the Giant Death Raygun™, settling down on the surface. Fluffing a few feathers, it strutted around, pooped, then flew away again.

Sakura had nothing to say in the face of that. Stupid casting directors .

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"Recklessness? No, no my girl, THIS. IS. PROGRESS!"" As an example of progress, she kicked down another red shirt that was just standing close to the death ray as he fell down to his doom. "Haaa haa ha ha ha ha ha haaa! At this very moment my minions are reducing your precious excuse of a man into nothing but a flat little pancake! You will see his bloody remains soon!"

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"You're reducing minions faster than they're even getting close to touching Percival," she pointed out. "The only one making pancakes is you, and they're not even edible by polite society's standards!"

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"Quiet!" She looked around for a suitable gag but found none. Damn. "I will make all the delicious pancakes that I want with maple syrup and they will be far more delicious than anything you have ever tasted!" She raised one of her fists to the sky.

"Once I reduce the moon of this world into nothing more than a little dust memory!"

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"That's terrible!" she cried. "Think of what you're doing to the poor dolphins!"

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"They should have grown arms and legs and learned to walk like everyone else if they didn't want to die!"

And then just to prove she was evil again, she let out another evil laugh.

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"They went back to the oceans after learning how to walk on land! Your argument makes no sense at all, just like your delusions of actually winning!"

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Oh you did not just call her on a poor judgement of words.

"SILENCE! I will decide what the dolphins have been before. Either way they should be on land and not water if they didn't want to die!"

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Sakura flinched, not that it did much. Tears streaked down her face as she thought of those poor fuzzy dolphins.

Yes, fuzzy.

"You're planning on killing everything on land, too! Who's your editor? They should be fired for allowing all these glaring inconsistencies to make it through to the final edit of your master evil plan!"

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"I AM my own editor, you sniveling idiot!" The Lady pressed a bit more buttons so that the giant raygun slowly moved to point towards the sky. And we do mean slowly, at this rate it would take at the very least an hour to charge properly!

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"Oh."

She sniffed, then rolled her eyes. "You should really fire yourself and hire a competent one. Maybe a speech writer too. Did you know Percy took a class on speech writing? It was an act of community service, for the class. He was amazing at inspiring people..."

Of course, the slow movement of the raygun attracted her attention. Sakura breathed in deeply, and shouted, "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

When she ran out of breath, the raygun still was moving. So she breathed in again and continued her haunting cry against the injustice of, well, avoidable death and dolphin destruction.

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DR. LADY DEATHTRUCTION NEUTRO™ was now glad that she had prepared for such a situation. Those Evil Earplugs™ had never been shoved into her ears with such vigor.

Enjoy the silence.