La mariposa, el Doctor y el etéreo ch. 4
I OWN AND REGRET NOTHING!
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I dedicate this chapter to Alex Hirsc; The man who gave us the wonderful adventure that was Gravity Falls.
Not only did he give us a satisfactory conclusion...but also gave us enough Fanfiction fuel to last many years(I especially appreciated how he left all the Shipping ambiguous enough so that we writers can keep them alive as we wish it...)
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"ARE YOU KIDDING ME!?" Shouts an irritable bystanderd; as he and a buddy take shelter in a Kwikie-mart. "We have a surveillance system that can not only spot a single naked kid in a big city, but also give a close-up of his microscopic junk...BUT IT CAN'T DETECT A %$%^&# SECTOID BOMBER RAID!?"
His friend shrugged. "They did say it was a 'prototype'." He pointed out. "Less talking, more defending my store!" Shouts the clerk as he and his teenage octuplets grabbed rocket launchers and fired at the sky.
"Thank Vishnu for the re-amended 2nd amendment! We can now get guns ridiculously easily! It's completely worth the no non-stop armed robberies!"...
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Captain Gut smirked from inside his airship. Those Sectoid bombers were ripe for the plucking! "FORWARD MEN! TONIGHT; DRINKS ARE ON ME!"
But he wasn't alone. Jack Sparrows ship and Captain Soto's ship, and many more privateers were joining the X-com airships in beating back the Sectoid bombers.
An unexpected consequence of the Sectoids return was the rise of the Sky pirates. Some were independent; some were working on behalf of corporations.
As long as they stick to bringing down UFO's X-COM is more then happy to look the other way of their activities.
Their were of course the cloudcuckoolander's who claimed that all the pirates and their corporate sponsors were secretly working for a shadowy criminal syndicate named EXALT; which in turn was under the control of a mysterious leader known only as "The Illusive Man".
Detractors promptly laugh at these theories. The cloudcuckoolander's then point out that it was people like them who predicted the Sectoids coming before it happened. And had people like the detractors listened to them; then all the horrors of the first human/Sectoid war might have been avoided...
To this the detractors have no response...except to have a horrifying epiphany about the world they now live in...and put guns in their mouths...
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Meanwhile; the bombers had deposited some ground troops...who were having some difficulties against the hundreds of government sponsored civilian vigilante groups, neighborhood watches, and private militias.
The two most successful groups were of course the Promise Hand and The Cult of Unitology.
The Promise Hand was created by X-com after seeing the stability of Amish communities during the first Sectoid/Human war. Their lack of technology not only prevented their communities from collapsing from Sectoid EMP weapons but also made them more difficult for Sectoids to find them(as they were focusing only on "civilized" areas).
After the war X-COM approached the various Amish settlements to train guerrilla warfare groups who were skilled in low-tech fighting.
The Amish agreed. After seeing the horrors inflicted on the many refugees that flocked to their towns; the Amish were happy to lend a hand! They also felt it best to start incorporating some high-tech bunkers, supplies, weapons, and communications(only to be used during Sectoid invasions of course) into their communities.
And then theirs the interesting case of the Cult of Unitology. To combat the possibility of a return of the Cult of Osiris. X-com secretly funded a cult that instead of promoting alien worship; used New Age BS to convince people that humans were the true Aliens; And the Sectoids were 'false' aliens that should be worshiping humans!
Yes; every human and their grandma was fighting to protect their homes...Except Marco who was too busy trying to not die-
THIS ISN'T WHAT I MEANT WHEN I ASKED FOR HEAT!
Screamed Marco as he tried to put out the inferno that his rear had become...
…Unfortunately; that would prove to be the least of his worries...
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"What the!? Isn't that the human who's usually with Star Butterfly!?" Snapped the Supreme Ethereal irritated. As they watched the scenes of Marco that had been hacked from the human surveillance system.
"How'd he get here!? Where's the abduction department!?" Demanded the Supreme angrily.
"Hey man, Abductions just follows the acquisition orders-
"Don't put this on Acquisitions! We only acquire people that haven't been calculated!"
"We'll Calculations, doesn't calculate people that have been abducted, so-
The Supreme rolled his eyes. "Oh, oh I see. So it's no one's fault." He said sardonically. "Well, problems solved then- Oh, wait! No it's not! There's still another humanoid here!"
The Supreme just shook his head in irritation. "Right; keep an eye on him. But our priority is still Star Butterfly!"
He then smirked at the destruction their various bombing campaigns were causing across the world. "In fact; I think we've made our point. Call off the attack and send our demand to X-com...
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Commander Sharp looked at the message, looked at it again, then a third time...
This just gets weirder and weirder...and coming from me; that's saying something! Thinks Sharp as he continue to look at the Sectoids threat of continuing their bombing campaigns unless Star Butterfly be allowed to fight them...
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TO BE CONTINUED?
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