Here we go, back into the Brain Tumbler to finally get to the bottom of all.
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DM77's Psychonauts Chapter 12
The Blueprint Brain Tank
As Nigel was on his way to the forest, he was passing the Main Lodge when he looks up and sees Cheese Sandwich and Veronica standing on their, he decides to go up and talk to them.
On the roof near the edge Veronica said to Cheese "So this is it."
"Yep." Cheese said nodding standing next to her.
"I'm so happy Cheese." Veronica said smiling
"Me too Veronica." Cheese said with a nod.
"It's going to be great, isn't it?" Veronica asked him,
"Super great." Cheese said smiling
"We're going to be so powerful, aren't we?" Veronica asked smiling.
"More powerful then you can imagine." Cheese said nodding
Veronica sighs and said "I can't wait."
It was then Nigel made it to the roof and approaches them and asked briefly hearing this conversation "What are you guys doing up here?"
"Oh, heyyyyyyy Nigel!" Veronica said surprised and putting on a forced smile as the two turn to face him.
"Didn't see you there!" Cheese said doing the same
"We're just looking at the sunset!" Veronica said turning around.
Cheese turns around as well and whispers to Veronica "Shh! Just wait until he leaves."
"It is a nice sunset isn't it?" Nigel said smiling.
"Yes." Both of them said uncomfortably.
"Well see you later" Nigel said and heads into the forest where Wiz's lab was.
As he walks through the woods avoiding the Psychically powered Ursaring, he spots Lisa and sees Alejandro approaching and listens in on them.
"You know Lisa, for a chick whose face I can't see because she's always wearing a helmet, you're pretty cute." Alejandro said with a smile.
"I'm not human, Earth primate." Lisa said, since her powers awakening Lisa has begun to think she was an alien.
"But you are the girl model of whatever it is you are, right?" Alejandro asked.
"Affirmative." Lisa said nodding.
"At this point, that's totally close enough." Alejandro said shrugging.
"Man, what smells like butt?" Nelson said walking up and looks at Alejandro "Oh hey Al. How about you and your butt and its odour take a hike before I puke?"
"But…" Alejandro said getting defensive.
"It'd be a real shame to leave your butt here because it was anchored to my foot." Nelson said glaring at the other kid then added "NOW BEAT IT!" Alejandro runs off. The bully then looks to Lisa and said to her nervous "Hey Lisa. How's it…I mean…You know, what's up and stuff?"
"Nelson, we need to work on you a little." Lisa said as the two walks off.
"Huh? So he does have a good side….still a jerk though." Nigel said nodding. He continues on his way to the lab and reaches the main gate and is shocked to see Baljeet standing with Buford who was holding Pain over the river psychically.
"RRRRR! Let me go!" Pain yells out struggling.
"What do we do with the bully who thought it was right to pick on my nerd's assistant?" Buford asked Baljeet.
"Oh gee, I don't know." Baljeet asked thinking "Could you put him in that 'Deadly Nelson' you told me about?"
"I could, but on such a tiny opponent, all his demon imp blood might train out his ear holes." Buford said thinking.
"AHHHHH!" Pain screams out hearing that.
"Shut up Pain!" Baljeet yelled out at him.
"On the other hand, blood from constricted trunk, could rush to tongue." Buford said thinking
"And?" Baljeet asked.
"Tongue swells. Pops. Most blood drains back down throat." Buford explained.
"Oh interesting." Baljeet said grinning.
"Yeah, less mess that way." Buford said nodding "Plus mouth stuffed with giant tongue they can't scream so quieter."
"AHHHH." Pain screamed out again.
"Shut up, Pain." Baljeet said and asked Buford "Do you have something less drastic?"
"I could use Half Deadly Nelson." Buford said shrugging.
"What's that?" Baljeet asked.
"It's like the Deadly Nelson but less dying." Buford explained.
"How much less?" Baljeet asked.
"Half." Buford said thinking
"What happens the other half of the time?" Baljeet asked him.
"Opponent lives, spends rest of short life praying for death." Buford explained.
"Hey! Can you hear me down there? Baljeet?" Pain called out struggling.
"Shut up, Pain." Baljeet said to him again.
"Seriously, Baljeet, I apologize." Pain said to him "Call off your goon and I'll never bother you again. Ever."
"The thing is, Pain, you're never gonna bother me again either way." Baljeet said shrugging. "So you're going to have to offer something a lot better than that."
"Like what?" Pain asked nevous.
"Any ideas, Buford?" Baljeet asked.
"You know anything about the giant, hairless bear?" Buford asked Pain.
"No…" Pain said nervous.
"Well, I'm all out of ideas. Preparing the nelson." Buford just said.
"Well wait! Wait!" Pain said scared "Uh, maybe…uh, yeah, m-maybe I did see something like that. Give me a minute to think."
"You ready to talk, Pain?" Baljeet asked him.
"Hold on. It'll come to me." Pain said to them.
Nigel decided to just leave them alone and goes down to Wiz's lab.
Once he arrives, he sees Wiz still working on his console that operates the Brain Tumbler. Nigel approaches him.
"Okay, I'm a certified levitator now." Nigel told Wiz smiling "Ready to roll."
"Hmm." Wiz lets out thinking and said "I've been running some tests. It seems that the sensitive circuitry of the Brain Tumbler is picking up too much psychic interference to be safe. The thoughts of some other entity are interlacing with yours at a dangerous level, which explains many of the strange things you've seen. I must call off the experiments until we know more."
"Wiz, there's no time. I think my vision of DJ came true." Nigel told the Psychonaut scientist "I'm worried it's going to happen to the others if we don't get to the bottom of this quick."
"But we don't know where the foreign projections are coming from yet." Wiz told him.
"Is there a faster way to find out than sending me in there to investigate?" Nigel asked.
Wiz thinks and shakes his head and relents. Nigel steps up to the Brain Tumbler and sorts his shades as Wiz turns it on and sends him back into his own mind.
Once he was back in, Nigel saw he spawned in near the brocken overhead bathtup. He rushes over to the tower and proceeds to follow Miss. Bunneary up the vines to ascend the tower. He uses the aid pods to levitate up to parts he can't reach. He reaches a window ledge and lands on it to peer through the window to see Dr. Nefarious and DJ.
"Aaaaaaa! DJ screams still retaining his brain.
"Why are you screaming?" Nefarious asked a bit annoyed but smirks "Oh right! I remember!" He pulls out the 'plasma gun' and DJ screams, however when Nefarious pulls the trigger it grinds like a pepper grinder and sprays pepper in DJ's face.
DJ laughs and looked like he was about to sneeze and then he does and out of his nose, his brain literaly flies out and hits the wall and slides down, DJ now has the same brainless look he has in the real world.
"Oh, good boy. There's that pesky brain. Here's a tissue" Nefarious said with a grin he gets a tissue and wipes DJ's nose. "Now, don't you feel better, my dear squishy lad?"
"TV?" DJ asked dazed
"Of course! Right here!" Nefarious said and turns on the TV in the room. He then picks up the brain "And this BAD tooth, we just drop it in the old garbage chute!" He throws it down a chute and closes it "Now don't chew solid foods for six hours!"
Nefarious pulls a chain and a door opens revealing Rachel on the otherside. Nigel shocked said "Rachel!" Nefarious goes in and the door closes. Nigel then looks around and sees he somehow was inside the room with DJ.
"TV!" DJ said unaware of his presence.
Nigel sees the chute and opens it, if he was going to get to the bottom of this, it would be best to follow the brain. He then slides down the chute. He lands in a room filled with blueprints next to DJ's brain. He looks around and sees on the wall a clear blueprint depicting an armored tank with spikes on it with claws in a dome like area and in those claws looked to be something was to be inserted. The Blueprint title read Brain Tank
Nigel was surprised but moves to grab DJ's brain crawling to it but then a mechanical claw grabs the brain and drops it into the blue print, it goes into the tank and appears in the spot with the claws. The Tank then moves and the blue print changes to a live view showing the Blueprint Brain Tank that turns around facing Nigel and fires a Psi Blast right at him and Nigel covers himself bracing for impact.
When Nigel recovers he finds himself in the arena with the Blueprint Brian Tank. Nigel then quickly moves to avoid the Psi Blasts and Confusion Grenades it launches. It then tries to charge and does but Nigel spotted a weak point underneath the tank.
Nigel waits for it to try to charge again and when it does, he fires a Psi Blast knocking it upside down. "Man I am so smart. Soft, gelatinous underbelly, here I come" He said smiling and moves in and begins to smack it with his Psi Hands. Eventually it recovers and flips back over leave Nigel to run and keep hidden before getting another shot.
The cycle repeated with the Blueprint Brain Tank not changing it's attack pattern, showing why it was a prototype and soon Nigel does enough damage to it to take it down and it explodes. However the only part then remains was the glass dome containing DJ's brain and it was not giving up.
The Dome has a slicer beam going around it and firing Confusion Grenades that Nigel dodges as he approaches it and begins to smack at the dome cracking it. The dome then levitates itself and moves far away from Nigel. Nigel chases it as the dome was Psi Blast proof and eventually he does one last powerful smack breaking the dome and freeing the brain.
Nigel pants and falls onto the floor and passes out. When he comes too he finds himself looking at a blue print of an evil scheme show casing a world take over plan framed with some curtains. The red writing on it said 'All mine!'
"Is this a nightmare…or a plan? Or both?" Nigel asked himself and looked around and sees he is in a white hallway, a very familiar white hallway "Wait a minute!"
However just then Nigel felt his mind being pulled out.
Nigel gets out of the machine and holds his head, he was back in the real world.
"Nigel, I'm sorry." Wiz said from the stairs as he was leaving "I had to abort the experiment. Something unbelievably urgent has come up and I must leave immediately."
"I know! You'll never believe…" Nigel called out.
"Hold that thought!" Wiz told him "In a rush! Official Psychonauts business!" He then goes to the exit.
"Wait! So is this!" Nigel called out then sighs "Official Psychonaut…" He then sees lying on the console the Psychic door device "Hey! You forgot your…" He then stops and thinks "Hmmm." He grins and pockets the small door, it might come in handy.
Just then Raine's head comes out of Nigel's ear and said "Hey, that white room…"
"I know! It's from Sarge's Mind!" Nigel said with a nod. "I think I was in the Coach's dream this whole time! Ever since I stepped though the static in the caravan, it felt funny. I knew I wasn't obsessed with meat!"
"But Sarge is." Raine said nodding "AND with stealing psychic brains to arm a fleet of deadly tanks, apperently!"
"I got to tell Rachel. She's waiting for me down by the boathouse." Nigel said thinking.
"Down by the…. water? Uh oh. Better hurry." Raine said.
Nigel nods and hurries his way to the Boathouse.
Well seems the one behind what's going on is Sarge, time to regroup with Rachel and fill her in quickly
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