Hello everybody and welcome to my IC Challenge contribution!
I know we were all excited for Sentinel's contribution but hopefully I can still entertain you while we wait for what he cooks up. And believe me, Sentinel is cooking.
With that being said please enjoy my segment.
Earth-924
Muppet Theatre
A stage was set, patriotic music played, an eagle made of felt stepped up to the podium and began to speak.
"Good evening," he began, "if you are like me then you have been shocked and appalled by this story's previous events. Such weird things like children that speak to ghosts, strange men dressed as birds, a Women in a blue box talking to a banana detective , carnivorous sheep, karate turtles, pig masked superheroes, pink lightning, and many more unusual and disgraceful shenanigans."
Sam the Eagle puffed up. "But not to worry, for I am now here. I will make sure that this section will be wholesome, decent, safe for the whole family, and most importantly of all American. Yes, with me around absolutely nothing will go wrong, nothing."
KRA-KOOM
Suddenly Sam was struck by pink lightning, knocking him back and destroying the podium. When Sam recovered he looked down and saw a most horrific sight. "What the?!" Himself as a pink ranger! "Oh no!" He frantically tried to take off the suit and helmet to no avail. "Don't look at me! DON'T LOOK AT ME!"
Earth-7382
New York City
Chaos, absolute chaos. That was the current state of Manhattan. Carnivorous sheep flooded the streets and the only hope was four turtle teenagers and their Mutanimal allies. Currently they were having a climactic battle on the hop of the Empire State Building. This is not what we're focusing on, instead we're following an armored truck as it drives through the streets, plowing through the sheep.
"Step on it Dad!" Called out the person in the passenger seat, a white furred anthropomorphic fox in a black hoodie. The driver was a human sized mosquito in a raggedy top hat and cape, who was going as fast as he can. "I can't go any faster Alopex!"
He frantically turned to wheel left and right to avoid obstacles and the hungry mouths of the sheep. "Hey, I just had a thought." Said Alopex. "You think this is Hob's doing?"
"I don't think so. As ruthless as that old cat be she wouldn't be stupid enough to unleash all this without-"
"LOOK OUT!"
The van suddenly hit a random debri and spun around. They crashed into a building, thankfully they were safe because of seatbelt safety. Alopex and her adoptive father swiftly got out of the car and climbed on top. Reaching into his cape the man sized mosquito pulled out guns in all four of his arms. "If they want a taste of Screwloose and Alopex," he stated while Alopex got ready to attack with her claws, "then let them come!"
Screwloose started shooting the sheep, making sure to hit their heads. Alopex, meanwhile, clawed and swiped at any hungry sheep that attempted to climb on top.
"If we don't make it Dad I think you should know,"
"Yes, what is it? Tell me anything!"
"I was the one who threw up on your Bob Ross painting!"
"You WHAT!"
Before the conversation could continue a portal opened up in the air and a man fell out, complete with a superhero landing. The sheep backed away revealing the man to be…oh god.
Does-does it have to be him? You can use anyone, LITERALLY ANYONE ELSE! And you choose…. *sigh* fine.
It was none other than JB of Earth-51 AKA …Dogwelder. He stood up, a blowtorch in one hand and a burlap sack filled with dead, you can probably guess, in the other. Before the portal closed another being fell out. A regular sheep in a welding mask, his name was Shaun but during his time with Dogwelder he became known as Sheepwelder.
The carnivorous sheep then pounced on the two, forgetting about the mutants. But Dogwelder was prepared, he swung his burlap sack at the sheep, knocking several back. He ran towards them and began punching and kicking, he was strong enough to punch a sheep's head clean off and kicked through their torsos.
He was surrounded by biting sheep but that didn't matter. He punched and grabbed one by the legs and swung it around, leaving quite the bloody mess. Screwloose and Alopex looked at it all with disgust while Sheepwelder just climbed on the car roof behind the two mutants. A meat eating sheep was about to bite into Shaun only for him to turn around and singe his fellow sheep's hair with his own blowtorch.
"BAAH BAAH BAAAH! Bah bah bah?" Shaun chastised his fellow sheep. The other sheep looked at Shaun for a bit then ran away, crying. All it wanted was a bite of Shaun, he didn't have to be so mean about it!
Back with Dogwelder he smashed a sheep's head on the ground again and again. Another leaped at the demented superhero but he simply caught the animal by its neck. It was the last one left and after a brief struggle he held it down on the ground.
As Dogwelder held the sheep down he knew what he had to do. He reached into his sack and pulled out a dead, you know what, got out his blowtorch and did what he is known to do. Screwloose and Alopex looked on with horrified expressions while Shaun did his best to ignore the sight.
Dogwelder stood up admiring his work, the now dead sheep never looked any better. (At least to Dogwelder's eyes.) "That was…disturbing." Said Alopex, putting it mildly. "Let's…agree to do everything we can to forget this moment."
Shaun rejoined the human, his welding mask helps obscure all the sheep guts from Sheepwelder's view. Dogwelder put on a sock puppet resembling a dog as it was the only way this cursed welding mask let him speak. "So what's the assessment?"
Sheepwelder handed him an electronic pad, it had information about this Earth's recent Multiversal activities. "Dang, wrong TMNT Earth. But we're only off by one number, next Earth is definitely where the source of these sheep are."
"Baah baah. Baah Baah baah baah?" Sheepwelder pointed to Alopex. Dogwelder turned and looked directly at Alopex intensely. The mutant fox could feel Dogwelder's gaze, she hid behind Screwloose who stared back at Dogwelder with an equally intense gaze, getting ready to shoot if necessary. Finally Dogwelder shook his head.
"She's …innocent but the temptation…" His hands twitched and he breathed hard. Everything in his entire body screamed that he'd end her life and weld her corpse to the giant bug's head but he remained strong, he'd only do that to evil sentient canines. "Get me out of here, NOW!"
Sheepwelder got the urgency and taped a button on his front leg. A portal opened up in front of them, the welders walked through and it closed.
The mutants were left wondering what just happened. "At least he got rid of the sheep." Alopex mumbled.
"Hopefully that will be the end of today's problems." Said Screwloose.
"NO DAD, WHY'D YOU HAVE TO-" yet another portal suddenly opened up in front of the two mutants, "say that." Alopex slapped her forehead. An evil laugh came from the portal and out stalked a terrible creature. Screwloose and Alopex recognized him immediately, it was skekMal, the Skeksis Hunter. "So many worlds, so many prey. I wonder what fine trophies this world has to offer?"
skekMal brandished his swords and got ready to strike. "You know when I wished that Netflix would uncancel Age of Resistance, this is not what I meant!" Alopex yelled, this was quickly becoming a strange day and it will only get stranger as pink lightning descended from the sky and was about to hit Alopex. But that is a story for another day.
Earth-1972
62 West Wallaby Street
Spring cleaning and the inventor and his smarter dog were busy. Gromit dusted the various knick knacks and trinkets around the shelves while his master was cleaning the gutters with his latest creation.
As he wiped the various momentos to the past he heard someone call out to Wallace. "Excuse me, mister!" He peeked outside the window. It was some blue haired girl, trying to get Wallace's attention. "Can you hear me? *sigh* What am I saying, of course you can't."
Gromit ignored her and went back to his chores. Moving on to the hallway, the next thing to wipe was a new model kit that came in the mail. A Victorian style mansion painted pink, the pink palace Wallace called it. Gromit was suspicious as always, the package had no return address and Wallace certainly never ordered anything like that, but from all appearances was just a regular model house. Even came with some little people.
"Don't worry guys, my friends are working on getting the number of this Earth then I'll come back." Gromit suddenly heard a girl right next to him. How she managed to go from outside to right next to him was irrelevant, she was an intruder. Gromit swiftly tried to grab her arm to no avail, to his shock his hands went right through her.
"What the?" The girl seems to have felt that and turned around to see Gromit. "Oh, he has a dog." The girl patted a confessed Gromit on the head and while he couldn't feel it Gromit welcomed the pat nonetheless. "They said only dogs could see me. Sorry if I scared you…" she looked behind him and saw his dog bowl. "Gromit, That's your name?"
Gromit nodded, he had no idea what to think of her but she seemed alright even if she did come in uninvited. The girl started fading away, her time here was up. Good thing the dogs here can understand English. "Hey listen," the girl started, "I have to go now but until I come back can you watch over this for me?"
The girl gestured to the house and Gromit didn't know why but something about this girl told him she was no threat. He nodded and a smile Coraline affectionately rubbed his head. "Good boy Gromit, good boy."
She fully faded away leaving Gromit to wonder if any of it was real. *CRASH* "Ohhh! Gromit! Come here, I need some help lad!" Gromit rolled his eyes, business as usual it seems.
Space between Earths
The Inventory
The various icons and celebrities of all worlds were hanging about, having a drink or playing games, including the ever iconic poker. But there are more important things than Poker Night at the Inventory such as this interesting specimen of a man sitting at the bar. He was dressed as a Plague Doctor, Karl was grinning, they were so close to their end goal of their righteous cause and soon the multiverse will be saved and they will go down in history as the multiverses greatest heroes.
"Who would ever be foolish enough to stop us?" He asked himself, suddenly a Mexican man in a red superhero suit knocked Karl out cold with a hammer. Más ágil que una tortuga. Más fuerte que un ratón. Más noble que una lechuga. Su escudo es un corazón. Es El Chapulín Colorado.
"¡Síganme los buenos!" Said El Chapulín only to remember he was alone in this mission. What was he doing again? "Karl! We're about to leave, come on!" Oh yeah, he'd been following these strange, clearly diabolical people for months and now he had the perfect plan. "Los siento, pero voy a tener que pedirle prestado algo."
Another plague doctor was waiting for their associate, he was taking a while. Oh, here he comes now. "¡Estoy aquí! ¡Estoy -OP!" El Chapulín tripped on a stool, flipping over and exposing his red leggings and yellow shoes and shorts. "Todos mis movimientos están fríamente calculados." The plague doctor was shocked as El Chapulín frantically fixed his disguise. "Karl, since when can you speak Spanish?!"
El Chapulín looked sheepish for a moment. "Um. My blood is foreign goods. I have many things." He said not really having the slightest idea of what he actually said.
"Really, that's so cool." Said the plague doctor, not even questioning why Charlie suddenly had antennae sticking out of his hat. As you can probably tell they were not the sharpest tool in the shed. "Anyway, ready to go?"
"Listo."
The Plague Doctor stepped out the door which was actually a gateway to other Earths. El Chapulín smiled underneath his mask, against all odds he had successfully infiltrated this sinister organization. "¡No contaban con mi astucia!" He said and followed the plague doctor through.
Earth-7383
TCRI Building
The TCRI Building was a massive structure, like most buildings in New York but that didn't stop Dogwelder, not one bit. He was climbing on the side with Sheepwelder clinging to his back, both ignoring all the Pink Lightning going on. He was using sharp spiked gloves and cleats to climb and he was almost there. Dogwelder yawned, it was long past his nap time but he couldn't sleep now, not when he was so close.
On the top was the mysterious source of all this trouble with the evil sheep. The former laboratory of one Dr. Brenda Stockman, as the welders got on the glass ceiling they saw the entire top floor was converted into some sort of strange combination of a farm and a mad scientist laboratory.
The welders became alarmed when the glass they were on started cracking. The whole thing shattered and the two fell in. While in the air, Dogwelder quickly grabbed his ward and wrapped himself around the smaller sheep for protection.
They hit the ground, Dogwelder made sure that he landed on his back, cushioning Sheepwelder with his gut. The fall was painful but the damage was superficial. Shaun got himself out of Dogwelder's arms and looked around. "Baaaaah!" He called out to his flock not fully convinced he'd get an answer.
"Baaah?"
"Baaah?"
"Baaah!"
"Baaah!" "Baaah!" "Baaah!" "Baaah!" "Baaah!"
Shaun smiled as he recognized some of the baahs, it was his flock. They were here and it sounds like they haven't turned into one of those horrible creatures yet. After all these weeks, the nightmare will finally end. As Shaun ran to the sounds of the other sheep, Dogwelder slowly got up. He looked around and cringed behind his mask.
The stench of farm animals permeated everywhere. He knew it, somehow he always knew it. There was only one person in all of the infinite Earths that would be insane enough to do all of this. To unleash sheep upon the helpless delicious living bodies made of meat and then sit back, laughing at his work.
He turned around when he heard a chuckle, a very familiar one. The chuckle's owner was sitting in a black swivel chair, its back turned to Dogwelder. Dogwelder pointed to the chair dramatically as if to say 'YOU!'.
"Hello, it's me, Professor Anti-Panties! So glad you can come along my old nemesis." The chair turned around to reveal a chubby red guy in a lab coat, Einstein wig, and an exposed truly giant prominent bare red butt. Seriously this was the biggest butt in the multiverse, so big that if there was a biggest butt competition he would win.
Anyways, the Red Guy bounced off of his chair and butt walked in circles around the superhero. "Yes it was I! I was the one who's been kidnapping sheep, turning them into man eaters, and unleashing them all over the worlds! Side note! I know what you're thinking BUTT no." Red Guy shook his head. "I have no idea who those SCP-049 wannabes are. Bunch of weirdos if you ask me. Weeeeeeeeiiiiiiiiiirrrrrrrrrrd."
The Red Guy then wrapped an arm over Dogwelder's shoulder and whispered in his ear. "Anywho, why did I do this you may ask. Well, hahahahaha, I'M NOT TELLING!" Red Guy punched Dogwelder in the mask, cracking it. Dogwelder fell to the ground while Red Guy laughed. But then Dogwelder grabbed Anti-Panties by the scruff of his coat and began doing….horrible things.
"WAAAAAAAH! OWOWOWOWOW! MY NOSE! MY EYES! MY NONEXISTENT MUSTACHE! AHHHHHHHHHAHAHAHUGGGGG!"
Dogwelder let Red Guy go to reveal that Red Guy's face was now welded to a dead dog. "MY FACE! MY BEAUTIFUL FAAAAACE!" Red Guy ran around screaming and acting in an over the top dramatic way. "SIKE!" *WHAP* It was, of course, an act. Red Guy ripped off the dog as if it was merely duct tape and his face was completely fine. He whacked Dogwelder across the head with a dog.
"Oh poor little Weldey," the Red Guy pinched Dogwelder's cheek in false affection, "you keep forgetting that IT DOESN'T WORK ON ME! haha. How many times will you try until you learn!?"
Dogwelder started to softly laugh, much to Red Guy's confusion. He pointed to Red Guy's derriere and much to the devil's horror he saw that Dogwelder welded a dead dog … to HIS GIANT RED BUTT!
Red Guy pulled the dog off his butt. "Now you've done it, and they call me sick." He got out a metal triangle and rang it. "OH LADIES!" Multiple doors opened up, letting out more sheep with their bellies empty, and their teeth ready to munch. "Chow Time!"
Red Guy laughed as he rolled out of the sheep's way into a safe spot and sat back with some popcorn to enjoy the show. Dogwelder got in a fighting stance, a blowtorch in one hand and a dead, you know what, in the other and charged at the sheep head on. This was going to be a long and bloody fight.
Unknown location
"Please, please no more." Begged a small man in a batsuit. He was Batman's big fan (no matter the variant) and currently he was in a bit of a pickle. Bat-Mite was currently tied down to a chair made of cosmic rope and looked worse for wear. Normally the 5th Dimension imp could easily get out of these situations but his captors came prepared.
"Tell us what we need to know." Said one of his interrogators, another Plague Doctor. "Our righteous cause depends on it."
"You know I can't do that!" Bat-Mite snarled. "Even if you were justified in your actions." 'Which you aren't you delusional small minded apes! You'll never be better heroes than the Bat-Family.'
"At least give me a Batman comic to read. It's been three months, a fanboy can only take so much drought."
"…Alright." The Plague Doctor snapped his fingers. Another Doctor arrived carrying a longbox. "Maybe this will make you talk."
The Plague Doctor got a trade paperback and showed it to Bat-Mite, much to the imp's horror. "NO! NOT THAT BATMAN COMIC!" It was Garth Ennis' Batman: Reptilian. "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
And that's the end, I hope you I tied you over until the next one.
The opening with Sam the Eagle was in my head since day one of the challenge. I am so happy it's finally and as you can see poor Sam has absolutely failed in his goal.
Earth-7382 is the world of TMNT Mutant Mayhem, one number below 7383: the TMNT rule 63 Earth. The reason that is is because MM has so many Genderfliped (with myself alluding to a female version of the IDW character Old Hob) characters I thought it would make sense for those two worlds to be close to each other.
Now Dogwelder, what can I say about him? As Much as I don't like the works of Garth Ennis there's just something about that character I can't look away from. Ever since I read that one side story of Hunters of Justice on Spacebattles he's taken up large parts of my mind. He repulses me and yet I'm so drawn to him, I don't know what's going on. Of course I softened him a bit, (He no longer uses dead puppies to talk and instead uses a regular sock puppet) but he's still going around, welding dogs to peoples (and animals) faces.
The scene with the Pink Palace in Wallace and Gromit's house was supposed to be much longer. It would have had Coraline be knocked out and enter the Dreaming where Morpheus (dressed as the Wesley Dodds Sandman) would have shown her where her home was.
However all the allegations against Neil Gaiman came out and while normally I'm able to separate art from artists I felt incredibly disgusted with myself for even considering writing about two Gaiman characters meeting when the awful things Gaiman did were still fresh in everyone's minds. But I still really liked the idea of Laika crossing over with Aardman (the two great stop motion animation studios across the pond from each other) so I went ahead and planted the seeds for the potential crossover, it helps that the name of Coraline's home is exclusive to the animated film. And as far as I'm aware Nick Park has not done anything awful. Please for the love of GOD let there not be any horrible controversy involving Nick Park in the future!
The Inventory is an underground club from the (sadly now unplayable) video games Poker Night at the Inventory 1 and 2. Here in the IC multiverse it's another Multiversal hotspot that the greatest icons can come and kick back and relax. It would have originally connected to the previous scene (briefly showing Coraline taking off a VR headset and thanking the cat for leading her to the Inventory) but then I realized that there's no way the Inventory would let a minor like Coraline inside.
Ladies and Gentlemen allow me to introduce one of the most famous Mexican Superheroes of all time El Chapulín Colorado. Yes I (as a Mexican American) have been meaning to add him into IC for a while and now seemed like the perfect time. Let's hope that this is one of his more competent days. I hope I got the Spanish right. (I'm the only one in my family that doesn't speak it fluently. *sob*)
Originally the scene with Dogwelder and Shaun climbing the building would have them encounter some far-right figure (that Dogwelder would have quickly killed by throwing them out their window) in a parody of the Adam West Batman window scenes. However I took it out as I realized the TCRI Building was not an apartment complex and it would make no sense for them to live there. I still want to do it though, maybe someday.
Much like his Prime self Dogwelder!JB has a cartoon nemesis: Cow and Chicken antagonist I. B. Red Guy. Two very insane and twisted people who drive each other nuts. It is revealed he was the one responsible for the sheep. Why did he do this? He's not say but probably for a laugh.
Final scene with Bat-Mite was written at last minute to show that the Plague Doctor cult are still a threat if they can successfully hold Bit-Mite hostage.
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