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Proxy Moron

A swarthy skinned man with salt and pepper beard wearing a dingy white lab coat and wild hair like his beard sits in front of a bank of monitors and cackles to himself.

"They called me mad," he says to nobody, "I, Peter Proxy, the greatest robotic engineer this world has ever seen and they dared call me crazy? Even the CIA has decided to spend money on some other fool for their drones. I spent too long developing the most perfect remote killing machines ever built and they toss me away like yesterday's news." His weathered hands caress cold steel as he gazes at one of his creations. "Almost time, my precious, I will have my revenge. I just need a suitable target. A suitable victim for you to kill." Then he sees a light brown haired man, a robotic teen girl and a man in powered armor like a modern knight enter a power plant situated so that the surrounding waterfalls will naturally turn the turbines that produce electricity. "Well, well, well, if it isn't my old colleague Maxwell Tyr and his two greatest creations in the Teenage Intellect Network-Artificial and the Minuteman armor with whatever fool they have piloting it for now. I think I found a good candidate after all."

"Good candidate for what?" A snarky voice asks in back of him that causes Professor Proxy to turn around and see a fat man in a business suit, a high tech backpack with a hose attached to a futuristic pistol in his right hand. "Folks for me to stupefy I hope."

"Doctor Moron!" Proxy growls before saying sarcastically: "I might have known I'd make your acquaintance yet again. What brings you to my humble lair?"

"Oh, nothing much," Dr. Moron bold face lies. "I'm just checking up on my competition for INQUISTION's "Villain of the Year 2112" award."

"I have made adjustments so you're stupifier stream won't work on me, Moron," Proxy says then gets a smirk on his face. "Ah, the irony of your chosen moniker. It really is quite amusing. Even if you are an adversary and thus beneath me, I simply must compliment you on the play on words you are displaying with the name you present to our cybernetically enhanced world."

"This coming from a man who could be construed as naming himself after the hordes of unwashed masses that have built this climate of corporate rule?" Moron challenges in a sarcastically jesting manner. "Really, my dear Professor, if you really wanted to be a terror in our modern age might I suggest a sex change to go along with all your drones and call yourself Queen Bee?"

"How very droll," Proxy growls. "But you have a proposition at least for me. Either that or you wish to borrow something."

"A little of both actually." Moron admits. "I did some random web research and came about some old schematics of yours." Proxy quirks an eye brow at this and gives Moron a quizzical look. "I think we might be able to help each other out in some small way."

"And by that you mean...what?" Proxy inquires.

"Take a look at this," Moron suggests forcefully and sends a data dump directly in the cybernetic CPU implanted in Proxy's brain.

"Very nice!" Proxy says with an expression of honest impression. "A brilliant design. I take this is something along the lines of your own stupifier?"

"It is," Moron says simply.

"This is very compatible with my drones actually," Proxy remarks. "I'd accuse you of stealing my designs but you've been utilizing your technology as long as I have and we started about the same time."

"Call it, convergent evolution." Moron suggest.

"Indeed," Proxy agrees. "So what do you want of me?"

"I would like you to incorporate my stupefier into one of your drones and then field test the results." Moron requests. "I want data from said test but my curiosity is how well our agendas can coincide."

"You want to dumb down the world and I want to be a terror renowned as one not to be trifled with," Proxy states. "Starting with Municipal Megaplex #13 in which we both finds ourselves and going outward from there I take it?" Moron simply nods. "I think we can accommodate each other."

"I know it's probably somewhere around ground level, but where is that feed coming from?" Moron asks indicating another monitor with a grainy image of a russet brown furred grizzly bear with moss green hair in biker leathers that is 6'7" tall and must weigh at least 800 pounds sit a table with a 5'4" rabbit woman who can't be more than 100 pounds soaking wet with pink fur and purple hair. "Because unless I am greatly mistaken that is Michael O'Connor and Wendy McDonald, vigilantes better known as Kodyax and Running Gun-Bunny."

"Aye, that is Gun-Bunny and the Kodyax," Proxy says. "They are eating at a Burger Factory on brown street near yellow avenue. I'm keeping an eye on them for INQUISITION. I don't have time to deal with small fry like them."

"Not to mention those two Frankenstein Moreau Institute graduates can easily turn all your hard work into so much trash so quickly." Moron needles and gets a glare from the other. "I know, I can't talk." He feels his back tenderly. "I'm still recovering from the last thrashing Kodyax gave me. But the Gun-Bunny can be sweet if you have her properly secured."

"So I've heard," Proxy says with a smirk.

Meanwhile at the Burger Factory Kodyax and Running Gun-Bunny are enjoying each other's company as they eat lunch. Wendy McDonald was a vegan before becoming a superhero and the fast food establishment is only too happy to accommodate her. Michael O'Connor was a gang banger and underground gladiator before becoming a hero and while he has always been on the heavy side, he can now lift a 100 tons and his fat body can now shrug off small arms fire like it was nothing more than rain so he has his plate loaded with the kind of meal that gives dieticians nightmares.

"You really know how to get the most of the menu, don't you, Mike?" Wendy teases. "Redline fries, a boss burger and phoenix fingers. Are we expecting an inquisition attack any time soon?"

"We get few warnings on that front, Wendy," Mike shoots back. "But this is light and you know it. How's the payday salad and tofu burger?"

"Quite nice actually," Wendy states. "I hear Olympus High School just graduated some cuties with potential. I think they still track us somehow. After my last fight with Doctor Moron I haven't been right in the head."

"It can be said," Mike teases, "That anyone willing to go through Frankenstein Moreau's processes is not right in the head to begin with. But did you get hit with a stupifier stream?"

"I think so," Wendy admits. "You think that might be why I'm having problems now?"

"Absolutely, that bugger can be too good at reducing intellects with that thing." Mike suggest. "I'm going to get some more voltage soda, need anything."

"Nothing you can get me from the soda kiosk." Wendy intimates. "Is the Vagabond Home parked nearby?"

"Your nearby or my nearby?" Mike jokes as he goes to get himself a refill of soda.

"There's one of them!" A voice calls out that causes Wendy to reach for her twin plasma pistols.

A tall busty blonde woman who looks to be 19 or 20 in patriotic spandex which is to say a blue body stocking that covers her face that features a big white star on her chest, her back, her thighs and forearms with red gloves and boots to match steps up with a guy in white swat armor featuring crosses all over the place behind her and next to him is another douche bag in a costume that is all webbing that covers him from head to toe, a muscle head who apparently is big into professional wrestling from his attire and some exec in a suit and tie with a clipboard. Everybody else in the restaurant scatters as they all make a bee line for Wendy. A robot comes up and takes Mike and Wendy's food trays away promising to return them when the fight is over.

The newcomers announce themselves as recent graduates of Olympus High and are here to clear the establishment of the villainous vigilantes disturbing the peaceful proxies and their mid day meals. After introducing themselves as Avenging American Amazon, Puritan Paladin, Araq, Max Grappler and the Assessor the heckling begins in earnest. Running Gun-Bunny and Kodyax have eaten at this particular Burger Factory many times before and the only times there have been trouble are either when some thugs tried to rob it or when neophyte capes try to take down the vigilantes as a way of furthering their own reputations.

Assessor makes notes on his clipboard as Max Grappler and the Amazon both go straight for Kodyax while Paladin and Araq try for the bunny. As the fight starts to get on the way, it looks like Assessor is just an observer as he just stands back and takes notes. As the vigilantes prepare to defend themselves from the newbie heroes they both take note of the Assessor as students are watched by instructors from afar so this suit is cause for concern for them.

Puritan Paladin's tactics are rather straightforward as he has a blaster assault rifle and a shield for extra protection and for him its rock and roll till the target falls. Araq has spider powers and tries to web up the bunny or otherwise slow her down so the Paladin can nail her with his gun. Running Gun-Bunny is a plasma pistol packing speedster so she is a hard target to hit as she tries to maneuver Paladin and Araq to hit each other, phasing out of the way of their attacks whenever possible.

Max Grappler is all about strength and power, he has some minor wrestling training but only enough to compliment his incredible strength. Amazon is very similar to Max but she can fly as well which helps keep her out of most trouble. Kodyax is a street fighter whose large frame belies his inner talents in grappling, tripping and otherwise making life miserable for his opponents even as he pummels them into submission.

Patrons of the Burger Factory set themselves up in the upper levels of the place in an area where it's easy to look down and see what is going down below them. After the last ten fights of this nature, this particular burger factory set things up to make the first and third floors of the building into arenas if need be. Once they learn this, the teenagers are going to be particularly disturbed by this fact but it always amuses the vigilantes no matter how many times they go through the motions of the fight.

Kodyax opens up the fight by reversing the hold Max Grappler makes on him and tosses him into a teleporter beam that deposits him on the deserted third floor. Amazon chases Max and Kodyax into the beam with Gun-Bunny soon following suit followed closely by Araq and the Paladin. The Assessor is extremely hesitant about following them and argues with someone through the phone feature of the implant pretty much everyone has in the year 2112 before reluctantly following suit.

Patrons of the Burger Factory lovingly refer to the third floor as the "Arena" and when Kodyax and other vigilantes are challenged up there it almost becomes a pay per view fight but the price of admission is the purchase of food rather than an actual ticket. Normal human beings are asked by management to refrain from going up to the Arena floor and for most part there is universal compliance as you have meta-humans fighting each other and all sorts of things flying around that your average everyday Joe does not want to get hit with. Besides there is live feed available for anyone that wants it and the cameras are so good it's like having ring side seats to a major title bout.

In the Arena Araq is having a field day just looking around and sending short messages to his cohorts to which Amazon is intrigued enough that she flies up take a look around herself. The room has columns that stretch from floor to ceiling and can project light walls between them easily to create ever changing mazes to confound or intrigue the participants. Pop-up turrets turn on randomly shooting any number of random projectiles.

Lighting in the Arena can be problematic for many people as there usually isn't much because vigilantes like Kodyax and Running Gun-Bunny don't need much as they have very good night vision and the cameras are all calibrated to take advantage of this. Motion sensors about but other than the light walls, which can be just about any neon color the guy upstairs at the switchboard feels like putting on at a given moment, there is no real light other than a few recessed white lights for those that don't have the same senses as the vigilantes. The columns themselves also have recessed lighting that is rather intermittent as well as holographic projectors to make things even more confusing.

There is usually somebody, usually a manager with delusions of being some sort video jockey or other type of entertainer, at the switchboard at all times as the same mixing board also is in the same room the feed from the security cameras gets sent to. From this perch the guy or gal can run all sorts of effects from holographic doppelgangers of folks in the room to a variety of images on file or ones he or she will make up on the fly themselves. Although alien creatures from cartoons and other media remain quite popular.

Assessor himself takes flight to get a bird's eye view of the situation which forces both vigilantes to reevaluate the suit. Crusader has his shield up and is very annoyed at the situation as he does not have a clear target in sight. Max is looking at the pillars as things to smash Kodyax into as he tries to throw the bear into the walls and columns with limited success.

"He can fly?" Wendy asks Mike over a call made between their internal cell phones. "Makes me wonder what else he can do."

"You and me both, hun," Mike agrees with Wendy. "See if you can see how he's doing it? Hulk Hogan's prodigy is really starting to annoy me."

"Hang in there, Mike, I'm going to run up and take some pot shots at him." Wendy promises and uses her superspeed to run up the pillar and strafe Assessor very quickly and discovers he has a force filed as he touches his own forehead. "Looks like we have a psychic! I've bounced plasma bolts off of a lot of things and the way he deflected mine is classic psychic force field method."

"Which means that we take psycho dude out first." Mike conjectures to Wendy.

"Agreed!" Wendy concedes wholeheartedly.

Crusader has only a few seconds to react when Kodyax comes barreling at him and does so by turning is assault rifle on the bear and opens fire. Bullets bounce off the bear's hide as if they were no more than raindrops as Kodyax knocks the wind out of him by bouncing his body off of a column. Kodyax then takes the stunned crusader and makes him a ling missile to be sent straight into Assessor.

Running Gun-Bunny has been keeping Assessor distracted with a constant barrage of plasma bolts from her twin pistols. So distracted is the psychic in fact that Kodyax's use of Crusader as an impromptu throwing weapon catches completely by surprise. A loud crunch can be heard as Crusader's helmet connect violently with Assessor's skull the result of which is both men crashing to Earth and bouncing with only one of them getting back up to continue fighting: Crusader.

The floor opens up beneath Assessor and his comatose body is taken out of the arena with medical nanites assessing his situation. As it turns out the young psychic hero is fine, he just has a concussion that will put him out of action for a while. For his teammates however this is a kind of wake-up call that they picked a fight with a pair of vigilantes that have dealt with their kind before.

Doctor Moron and Professor Proxy are sharing a pot of chicken noodle soup, ham and cheese sandwiches with honey mustard and barbecue potato chips with dark chocolate peanut butter and strawberry jelly sandwiches for desert as they watch the fight between the Olympus hopeful and the two vigilantes that have a thorn in both of their sides individually, as part of a small team and just them as a kind of a tag team. Kodyax and Running Gun-bunny just took out a psychic member of the young turks after he revealed that he was a powered individual rather innocently but in the end it turned out to be a rookie mistake on his part. The villains sigh and shake their head as they raise a glass of Bora Cola to ironically salute the vigilantes as they watch them go through their paces.

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"It's almost a pleasure watching those monsters take out rookies like this," Proxy states as he takes a sip of his drink.

"Indubitably," Moron agrees. "Even watching them I would be hard pressed to develop a plan on how to deal with them as a unit should they discover one of my plans. I've dealt with the bunny on her own once but then Kodyax came to her rescue before I could dissect her. That did not end well for me."

"Yes," Proxy says with a wicked smile. "For all his brawn Kodyax is not small intellect." Moron gives him a look as Kodyax body slams Crusader into the floor again and he fails to rise again. "Not the level of intellect you and I possess of course but he is smarter than most of the teeming masses that we place ourselves so far above. I mean look at his tactical expertise as just one example."

"Yes, he does seem to be quite intelligent," Moron agrees, "which can quite dangerous as it is used in conjunction with his considerable brawn."

"Oh, that's going to leave a mark," Proxy remarks as Araq manages to nimbly avoid being turned into Swiss cheese by a pop up turret only to be blast to buggery by the bunny. "She really can do some damage with those plasma pistols."

"Yes, but she fell for my trap easy enough and got a face full of stupifier." Moron giggles. "That is a moment I can watch over and over again."

"You recorded it?" Proxy inquires. "May I see?"

"Certainly," Moron states and one of the monitors in Proxy's lair displays video feed of Running Gun-Bunny making a rookie mistake herself of blundering into a pit and then get shot in the face by some kind of ray when she looks up to see where she is.

"Well done!" Proxy beams as he applauds. "How fast did that lair get condemned after Kodyax went through it like a humanoid tornado?"

"I leased it from INQUISITION," Moron admits, "I lost my deposit on that caper but ultimately it was worth it."

"You didn't pay for the team-up rider on the insurance policy they usually offer?" Proxy asks. "It's a bit expensive I'll admit but it covers situations like that."

"It either was not available," Moron offers, "Or I did not qualify. But that rider is a new feature as of last year."

"It is?" Proxy says and scratches his chest as he watches Max Grappler and Kodyax go at it like 1980s era pro wrestlers. "I could have sworn it was in place longer than that."

"And just what are you two blathering on about?" A holographic image, featuring a man in a costume of a Hessian hussar in replica whose black and silver uniform makes him looking a shimmering skeleton complete with skull face mask and helmet and grey cloak, asks with more than a little annoyance in his voice. "INQUISTION is not paying either one of you slaggards to have a lunch break while vigilantes are at large." Then he cocks his head to the side. "Well, heroes too, but at least they are good and proper saps with their paperwork all in order. The vigilantes on the hand are more prone to going off script and doing things that are regrettable to say the least."

"Good day to you as well, Silver Skeleton," Moron pops off sarcastically. "Do you have a job for either one of us or are you in a mood and just need someone to yell at?"

"Droll, Moron, very droll," Skeleton says with amusingly annoyed tone of voice. "Proxy! How close are you to launching a strike at the hydro-electrical plant?"

"I can launch now if you like, Silver Skeleton," Proxy offers. "Moron gave me the schematics to his stupifier which I just uploaded to one of my drones as a test of its abilities."

"How compatible?" Silver Skeleton asks with an intrigued tone of voice.

"I was going to use the hydro-electrical plant job as a field test." Proxy admits.

"Launch your attack as soon as possible." Skeleton orders. "I am intrigued and will be watching the situation closely. If this proves even partially fruitful I will want to see you two work together more often. Actually I think your personalities will work well together in the tolerance department. But for now, Moron, jump in your Mad Machine and fly over to the burger factory where you are watching this fight and provide INQUISITION presence. A team of sinister cyborgs are already en route. As much as I hate to do this, I am putting you in charge."

"A field commission!" Proxy says and gives Moron a high five. "Congratulations, old fool "Thank you," Moron states as he finishes his meal and departs. "But it takes one to know one you know."

Professor Proxy is smirking to himself as Doctor Moron departs. He launches a squadron of drones from his lair and directs them to the plant that is working hard but ultimately properly. They have a little trouble with the inclement weather that is a constant in municipal megaplex #13 and everywhere else in America as a measure of keeping the poor workers depressed and oppressed by their corporate masters as it is hoped that they will not have the energy or presence of mind to rebel.

Thunder Bay hydro-electrical plant is a wonder of 2112 technology as it is situated within Thunder Mountain so that the Thunder Falls turn the turbines constantly. Even with the constant rain it is still a wonder to behold and the three heroes there are all smiles of pride as they take their tour. This goes especially for Intelligencia whose brilliant designs made much of this possible.

Maxwell "Intelligencia" Tyr is in a lavender jumpsuit with all sorts of instruments strapped to his body that all do something although only Max himself knows exactly what gadget is doing at any given moment as light gleams off his bald head. TINA clanks behind her father, a robot hero sculpted in body and mind to be like your typical female teenager, she is kind of embarrassed to be here but she does her best not to show it by remaining quiet and acting as her father's metallic shadow. Benjamin Jefferson is enjoying time doing something other than hunting down monsters with his boss and secret lover as his armor is sculpted to look as much like a Revolutionary soldier as possible in the patriotic colors one would expect his armor to be painted.

Ben: Nice place, Max, you did a great job

Max: Thanks, Ben, but remember we're in public. TINA can easily intercept these texts.

Ben: I forgot about that, anything you need me to do?

Max: Just keep up appearances. I'll give TINA homework later.

TINA: Dad? What are you and Ben talking about?

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Ben: Max, TINA I'm picking up something on long range. Could be nothing but it's been too quiet.

Max: TINA, be a good girl and fly out to see what Ben is picking up would you?

TINA: OK!

TINA flies out on an intercept course but the drones are travelling too fast for her to intercept. She and them streak past each other en route which annoys TINA no end. Rockets launch from the drones that are ultimately harmless as they strike the side of the mountain ineffectively.

Benjamin "Minuteman" Jefferson flies out to investigate as Maxwell "Intelligencia" Tyr takes out special tactical binoculars he made for just such an emergency to see if he can identify the craft attacking the plant. The drone with the stupifier stream attached uses its new weapon to target Intelligencia; scoring a direct hit. Max can feel a wealth of intellect that he has relied on for years just drain from his body as the stupifier does its work.

Minuteman starts blasting away at the drones with his suit's internal weapons as Intelligencia collapses to the platform stunned and starts gibbering nonsense like a toddler. TINA is pissed and like you would expect from a robot heroine with all the maturity of a teenage girl to have she attacks the drones like a metallic harpy. Intelligencia is still recovering from his brain drain and cannot put his thoughts in order enough to much more than regain his feet and try to shake the cobwebs out of his head.

A full battalion of fascist brown shirts who are all half machine and half human all of whom have red armbands with a blue circle and a white star on it goose step their way around the burger factory where Running Gun-Bunny and Kodyax are playing with the Olympus University hopefuls as the "Battle Hymn of the Republic" blares loudly on an endless loop. Flying in to join them is a metal bowl with a plexiglass dome that also features four legs that extend like spider legs but carry the battle pod into the fight more like elephant feet. The brown shirts salute Doctor Moron before marching on the burger factory, assault blasters at the ready.

Kodyax has just finished rendering Max Grappler and Amazon when the Arena public address system blares out a warning:

"ALERT! Tea Party Soldiers attacking the Factory. ALERT! Tea Party Soldiers attacking the Factory. ALERT!"

"Inquisition harassment yet again!" Wendy growls at full volume.

"Are we the only CHAOS agents in the area?" Michael asks and brings up a hyper-map. "We are, damn!" He then sets his voice recorder into broadcast mode. "Attention all members of VACUUM and especially CHAOS, this is a Red Alert! We have a situation at the burger factory at the corner of brown and yellow. This is Kodyax, Running Gun-Bunny is with me but it may very take more than us to rectify this situation. CHAOS shield activate!"

"You think that will really help?" Wendy asks with doubt in her face. "I tolerate you and sleep with you because you aren't a dick. There are plenty other coalition members I really don't like working with."

"Do we have much of a choice?" Mike asks as he opens up a back door and shows Wendy what looks like hundreds of brown shirts.

"No," Wendy concedes with a heavy sigh and her head hung low. "No, we really don't"

"Will this count as a good deed on my application?" A humanoid figure asks as he rises out of the street and looks like he is made of its particulates.

"It will, Asphalt," Mike promises to which Wendy gives him a look. "What would you clarify it as?"

"Good point." Wendy concedes with a shrug of her shoulders. "Asphalt, I am deferring to Kodyax on this one. Unless a more senior member of CHAOS arrives on the scene, Kody's in charge."

"Okey dokey!" He then turns to Mike. "What are our objectives here?"

"Protect the humans and take out the cyborgs, without killing them if it can be helped." Mike orders.

"Killjoy," Asphalt mutters as he turns his arms into whips and rushes forth into the crowd.

Wendy gives Mike a look to which he just shrugs and rips up the sidewalk and throws a chunk of it into the crowd to scatter them like crows. She shakes her head and just goes running in circles and firing her pistols rather indiscriminately. Doctor Moron takes potshots at Running Gun-Bunny but after the first shot she becomes aware of his presence and does all she can to avoid his mad machine.

The sound of a stupifier discharging is very much unlike what an assault blaster report sounds like and this alerts Kodyax to the presence of Doctor Moron. Kodyax is none too pleased at the fact that the crazy old codger is possibly directing all this as the fact that he is the only super villain among these super thugs leads Mike to believe he is the one in charge. Asphalt is just going hog wild whipping tea party soldiers with his malleable body and if Kodyax is giving other orders he isn't hearing them.

Kodyax looks over at Asphalt at play and decides to leave him alone for right now as he wants to mow his way through the minions to get to the boss and possibly end this with a minimum of bloodshed. Other members of the Coalition of Heroes Against Organized Society have given him slag for his adherence to the code of honor he tries to follow but Kodyax does not really care what they think. Wendy occasionally climbs into his bed of her own accord and she is the closest thing he has right now to a spouse but even her counsel can be suspect at times although his thinking of taking out Moron to make the fight easier is one she would approve of.

Doctor Moron fires nullifier beams at Kodyax and Asphalt and while Kodyax stands tall without any noticeable change; Asphalt turns into a normal human teenager and upon realizing he has lost his powers, cuts and runs. Kodyax throws tea baggers into Doctor Moron's Mad Machine with wild abandon which does two things simultaneously, one is disable the minions upon the cyberspines shattering against the mad machine's hull and the other is clogging the life support machine and this making things very stuffy for the operator of the machine. Doctor Moron orders the soldiers to form firing squads to deal with the bunny since he is unsure what their effect would do to Kodyax as he directs the mighty stomper legs of his mad machine to slam into the bear with the express purpose of trampling him to death if that is possible.

Kodyax barely withstands the assault of the stomper pads of Doctor Moron's Mad Machine and exerts his mighty strength to overturn the vehicle in order to be able to demolish it. Since his transformation from a normal, if portly, human male to the ursine hulk he is today Mike can life a maximum of 100 tons under optimal conditions. Lifting and upsetting the Mad Machine is not hard for him, neither is it easy and when Doctor Moron realizes just what Mike is trying to do, he reconfigures his Mad Machine into an exoskeleton to fight the mutate mano e mano like a mechanical boxing giant.

While this move does catch Kodyax off guard for a brief moment, it also means that Doctor Moron just made his Mad Machine that much easier to defeat and Kodyax knows it. In this configuration the victory is determined by the fighting skill of the combatants and Mike used to be an underground gladiator as part of how he made ends meet. Using all the tricks and traps of a street fighter, Kodyax is easily able to handle the Mad Machine and force Doctor Moron to retreat.

But as the soldiers flee in terror as after their leader started running, Kodyax started beating up on them just for fun and without direction the tea party soldiers show the courage of all bullies throughout time. They initially tried to gang up on Kodyax but when he managed to knock out scores of them without being seriously injured himself they turned tail and ran like the cowards they really are. However, once they departed Kodyax could see that they manage to severely injure Wendy which freaks him out as he grabs her and runs to the nearest hospital.

Minuteman arrives at the same hospital carrying Intelligencia as Kodyax carrying Gun-Bunny and both hero and vigilante are accepted at about the same time by the robot receptionists. TINA flies in looking a lot worse for wear about a half an hour later and walks straight towards Minuteman to inquire about her father. She also recognizes Kodyax but only glares at him as she has been programmed to regard vigilantes like Kodyax as lucky amateurs and blundering ones at worst.

Agitated and afraid, she sees Kodyax and wants to pick a fight but Minuteman uses special technology her father developed to keep the robot on a short leash. Ben is none too pleased at having the bear here as well but this is a hospital and a fight here would only cause more casualties. Mike is in no mood to deal with heroes himself but this is neutral ground and he is honor bound to respect that so he goes to the coffee bar to try and relax.

Kodyax orders himself a caramel mocha latte and goes into the back while keeping up a hyper-screen that only he can see which is attuned to Gun-Bunny's vitals. While sitting there in the cyber café he also has a sausage, egg and cheese biscuit to quiet his complaining stomach. He knows the second she pulls through although with her own mutant healing factor not as good as his own, she will need to stay in the hospital overnight.

Via email Kodyax makes an appointment to be there when Wendy gets released and from there he runs back to where he parked his mobile headquarters, the Vagabond Home, just so he could have something to do besides worry about Wendy. This also makes him a target for Professor Proxy who now has a moving target to hit and harass Kodyax some more. Minuteman actually saves Kodyax from a drone strike as he wants a discussion with the mutate since he calmed down enough to have a civil conversation and wants to compare notes.

"So what do we have to talk about?" Michael asks of Benjamin as he makes coffee in the Vagabond Home's, which is really little more than a glorified recreational vehicle modified for his use, kitchen and offers to make Ben a sandwich.

"Well for one thing, what happened that the Running Gun-Bunny actually needed hospitalization?" Ben asks. "Max was blasted by Professor Proxy's drones."

"The same ones that attacked the Vagabond Home?" Mike asks to which Ben just nods as he takes a sip of coffee. "Wendy and I are were having a leisurely lunch at the burger factory near the corner of brown and yellow when first we had post grads from Olympus high trying to get into Olympus you when tea party soldiers turned up with Doctor Moron leading them."

"Doctor Moron was directing tea baggers?" Ben asks incredulously to which Mike just nods. "Jeez! What's next? Another uprising from the ant folk led by the Supreme Machine?"

"Never say that again!" Michael thunders. "I have had just about enough from your boss's rogue pet project. "

"I'm sorry," Ben apologizes. "Max is still sore on that one. And why we keep TINA on a short leash sometimes."

"Where is robot girl?" Mike asks.

"Still at the hospital with her father." Ben admits. "Since she is a robot the staff have no problem just letting her stay there with Max. And I think Max feels better having her near actually."

"I have a kind of 'friends with benefits' relationship with Gun-Bunny." Mike says and then asks: "What is with you and Max? You two are closer than just employee and employer."

"I'm not comfortable with answering that question," Ben says defensively.

"That tells me volumes." Michael says with a smirk. "I was an underground gladiator before become the freak hero I am today. You learn to pick up on certain clues to survive."

"I don't like what you're intimating, O'Connor," Ben growls.

"Take it as you like," Mike retorts casually. "I think Proxy and Moron might be temporarily joining forces. Although from what I know of the two social mutants they might actually coexist quite well together."

"That's a disturbing thought," Ben says fearfully. "Both of them have it out for Intelligencia and should they work together it could mean trouble for the plex."

"I was not intimating that it was a good thing." Mike states. "Both see themselves at the top of the academic food chain so to speak. But unlike others they actually respect fellow geniuses. Max Tyr is a genius in his own right, which means they may not like him but they respect him as a fellow super brain."

"Great, then all we need is the Egghead to become active again." Ben retorts sarcastically and almost gets slapped for it.

"I just sent that mad scientist away for a very long time." Michael growls. "Eventually he will break out but I'm not looking forward to that either."

"Sorry, I forgot Egghead has a special beef against vigilantes like you." Ben apologizes as he picks up his helmet and departs.

"Just go," Mike growls.

"City Zoo calling Kodyax," A voice over the Vagabond Home's communicator calls out. "City Zoo calling Kodyax. Come in Kodyax."

"Great, now what?" Mike asks himself rhetorically and then punches in the code to activate the holographic projector and answers the call. "Kodyax here, go ahead City Zoo."

"Thank goodness," the voice on the other end says with great relief in their tone. "What's going on, Kody? We heard Wendy was hospitalized."

"She'll be fine tomorrow." Kody promises. "We got into some hot water with the tea baggers."

"We need to arrange a meeting." City Zoo says over the radio. "How far are you from Menagerie Park?"

"The off ramp is coming up actually." Kodyax admits. "Where in the Biological Gardens should I look for you?"

"I'm in Carnivore Court now," City Zoo says. "Bull Moose is also here as is Turtle Tech. We are discussing Bunny and what happened. I heard you got some static at the hotel."

"Not from the receptionist," Kodyax relates. "But Intelligencia got victimized by a drone armed with a stupifier. So I had to deal with Minuteman and Tina."

"So everything needs to stop and save HIS life." City Zoo says with heavy sarcasm.

"Pulling into the parking lot now," Kodyax says as he parks the Vagabond into a tour bus slot.

"You're driving the Home?" City Zoo asks. "Can't you actually run as fast as that thing?"

"I don't sleep on park benches." Kodyax counters.

"OK, so what kind of suite do you have on that thing anyway?" City Zoo inquires.

"Among other things, I have a security scanner." Kodyax says sarcastically. "Plus I have boosted surf option in here. But I only do that when and where I can do so in peace and security."

"As in places where random gangs of humans and mutants are not going to harass you in your sleep?" City Zoo asks.

"Why do you think I park here and don't worry about the Vagabond Home getting broken into or stolen?" Kodyax asks. "This is the City Zoo where mutants like us congregate and watch each other's backs." Then he looks out and sees a myriad of corpses. "Zombies or did the Puritans launch yet another offensive?"

"Both actually," City Zoo admits. "There should still be a Puritan APC in the parking lot that we set on fire. Not ten minutes after they arrived a wave of the walking dead came crashing at the front gates. We let the two groups whittle each other down to size before we stepped in and did a clean up."

Kodyax just nods and turns off the radio as he gets out of his mobile headquarters which is just a modified recreational vehicle the size of a tour bus with all the comforts of a residential hotel room. The parking lot is actually rather nice with the cinderblock walks sporting an Easter Island look to it and the faded paint on the walls is much like a child's picture book of a trip to Hawaii and Africa from somewhere back in the 1950s. The asphalt is divided by green painted lines that almost take on a neon glow of their own in the near light as dusk begins to settle.

He moves through the parking lot slowly but with purpose as the halcyon lights overhead flicker on one by one. Owl City blares through the speakers as if to try and create a cool and hip place for folks to visit when the megaplex citizens were actually civil enough to one another that humans, hybrids and synthetics could co-exist in relative harmony. Michael actually takes a moment to listen and sigh in contentment until the stray sound of a bunch of feet shuffling in his general direction activates his active paranoia.

Zombie patrols are a reality in the plex as some corporate scientist can't leave the dead alone when there is so much potential in cheap labor from the walking dead. A group of about fifty former wage slaves shuffle into the general vicinity of Kodyax and like something out of a bad horror movie converge on him. Fortunately for Kodyax the Puritans tried to force open the heavy metal gates to the park with a toe hook and chain attached to an armored personnel carrier, the same one that is now a burnt out hulk that Kodyax hefts and heaves at the zombies.

About five of the zombies are crushed to uselessness by this act and Kodyax takes the chain and starts swinging it about him as an improvised weapon, which impresses nobody he knows but he charges into the horde none the less as the deserted streets are eerily quiet as this was a busy intersection once upon a time. The only traffic is a black painted helicopter whose insignia is a red circle with a capital letter "I" in white in the center of the circle with Kodyax knows full well is the corporate logo of the Institutional Negation of Questioning and Undoing of Individualization Syndicate of Invalidation Terrorist International Organizational Network, referred to by most as Inquisition for short. The chopper holds an additional twenty tea bag soldiers and the Silver Skeleton himself who is watching for now.

Until Kodyax gets the brilliantly arrogant idea of using the Inquisition helicopter to mop up the zombies. He hooks the chopper with the toe hook and slams it into the median which causes it to explode and take out the zombie horde in one shot. Silver Skeleton is pissed to say the least as the assassin draws out his katana in preparation to attack Kodyax. Kodyax grabs a piece of the chopper's rotor for his own blade and gives a rude "Bring it!" hand signal to Silver Skeleton.

"Do you have any idea who you are dealing with, Kodyax?" Silver Skeleton inquires with lethal annoyance in his voice.

"Silver Skeleton, one of the actual directors within INQUISITION," Kodyax retorts. "I've been spoiling for a fight with you for quite some time now."

"You actually want to pick a fight with me?" Silver Skeleton asks incredulously. "You are a really special kind of stupid ain'tcha?"

"You have no back up, shiny bones," Kodyax says as he parries a strike from Skeleton using an epitaph he knows the villain hates. "So it's just you and me." He then gives the Skeleton a head butt that sends him flying. "You need a small army of henchmen to help you win. One on one, you're just a pathetic poser of a super villain."

"I always took that as the point to being where I am." Silver Skeleton challenges. "I am someone of some importance in an organization that has taken over the most powerful nation in the world." He then throws daggers at Kodyax. "Eat this, teddy bear!" And then drops his guard as he sees said weapons just bounce off his hide. "INCONCEIVABLE!!"

"Are we done with parlor tricks?" Kodyax asks as he runs and tackles Silver Skeleton. "You can't win a fair fight. Now say good night, Gracie."

One punch shatters the skull helmet of Silver Skeleton and activates his contingency technology that teleports his unconscious body back to an INQUISTION safe house. When he wakes up the next day he swears to get even with Kodyax no matter what the cost. Other directors within INQUISITON take note of the incident to use it against the Silver Skeleton since Kodyax is the first hero in years to soundly trounce the Skeleton so severely and completely in a random encounter as he was just following the zombie horde he created for his own amusement and to wreak havoc on the poor people of municipal megaplex #13.

Kodyax reaches down and picks up the katana that Silver Skeleton dropped when he head butted the villain and puts it in the Vagabond Home as a trophy as the skull pommeled sword is not his style of fighting. A blue mink, an orange tabby and a brown raccoon meet him at the gate when he opens them with his prodigious strength and yell for joy at his presence. All three are street walkers but their adoration means a lot to Kodyax as he knew his fights were witnessed by those that live in Menagerie Park and he hopes he gave them a good show.

Human-animal hybrids come out of their hidey holes in the park and give Kodyax a hero's welcome as he makes his way to the Biological Gardens. Wrought iron fences set into stone pillars make a kind of maze through various parks that used to have a diverse ecosystem of semi-wild animals once upon a time before the current troubles began. It's still a beautiful place as the hybrids take pride in maintaining the place and defending it from the horrors that lurk just outside the gates.

Professor Proxy sends one of his drones to try and further harass Kodyax but before it gets to the gates, serpentine centaurs, snake men whose legs have been fused into a serpent's tail, with rocket propelled grenades spring from the tall grass and knock it from the sky. Menagerie park has its defenders, super and otherwise, even if they keep themselves hidden out of a kind necessity. Although they do have tally boards of kills they make and then get together off hours to share and brag about later.

The Biological Gardens are at the center of the park and display marvels on scientifically enhanced biology. Plant creatures that look almost human stroll the grounds and help maintain the greenery throughout menagerie park. None of them pay any attention to Kodyax and treat him as just another humanimal.

Other hybrids see Kodyax and treat him as something of a celebrity as he one of the few of their kind that can go out and challenge their detractors directly. The Biological Gardens started out with the ambition to be the greatest zoo and botanical gardens ever constructed and turned into a show case of everything that theoretical biology could come up with. Conservatives and fundamentalists were horrified at this and tried to shut the place done but by the time they got enough support it was already too late and thus led to the culture of racial violence that exists today.

Carnivore Court is literally at the heart of the Biological Gardens and it is here the one hybrid that is more or less the president of the race hangs out and in his own way holds court. He calls himself King Leo and he is a neon orange furred lion man with a neon green mane and solid neon purple eyes dressed in a royal purple jumpsuit with an ornate golden crown on his chest with a gold lined white cloak and boots that actually gives him a kind of regal look to him. Most of those that live in menagerie park accept and even promote him as their ruler although Kodyax sees him as a fellow hero, albeit one that has in a sense settled down to consolidate political power in addition to the super powers he possess.

Scantily clad humanimal females abound in Carnivore Court with many of them lounging around King Leo himself who is idly chatting with them until Kodyax steps into the court proper. All eyes turn to him as he does so and a proud smile comes over Leo's muzzle as he lifts that gilded pipe he carries around to serve as his scepter. Without rising from his throne King Leo hails and regales Kodyax.

"Kodyax! How now art thou?" King Leo asks of Kodyax with a tone of utter love and a genuine sense of welcome as if one were addressing a heroic peer returning home for the first time after a long stretch of absence.

"I have been done better, Leo," Kodyax says with some mirth in his voice. "Wendy is recovering from a tea bagger attack."

"Forsooth! Pray tell thee the account of such a dire tale whence the Running Gun-Bunny herself doth hath been so far damage in the physical such as she would need the quackery that this modern medicine?" King Leo inquires with great disappointment and alarm.

"She and I were taking lunch at the burger factory at yellow and brown when recent graduates of Olympus High attacked after soundly thrashing them the fast food joint was besieged by a battalion of the brown shirts led by Doctor Moron." Kodyax starts to explain.

"Doth mine ears deceive me or did you just say that the foolish blackguard Moron was their commander?" Leo inquires with an almost amused tone of unbelieving in his voice.

"Aye, it was Moron," Kodyax assures. "I have faced his insanity enough times to know him all too well. You well remember the time I needed to fetch Wendy from his clutches a few years back?"

"All too well, my friend, all too well," Leo states. "Pray continue thy tale."

"Not much to tell really," Kodyax says with a shrug, "She was cut down by sheer numbers I suppose and I left the scene in the Vagabond Home to a hospital where Minuteman had taken the Intelligencia because he had fell victim to Moron's handiwork married to something of Proxy's playthings."

"Professor Proxy and Doctor Moron in alliance with one another?" Leo inquires with more than a little bit of alarm in his vocalization. "Pray tell me thou art in jest cousin, poor taste it may be."

"I wish I was," Kodyax admits with a heavy sigh. "Minuteman told me himself before I came here and tussled with the Silver Skeleton."

"THE SILVER SKELETON!!!!" Everyone in the court yelled in frightened unison.

"The notion that the inquisition hat taken an untoward interest in our Menagerie Park is not unanticipated," Leo says with great sadness. "We shall redouble our efforts at security."

What nobody among the humanimals is aware of is that Araq is among them as stealthily as the spider themed operative escaped the arena and is now shadowing Kodyax. Stealing in on web swings Araq makes a miscalculation and lands hard in an unpopulated area but with such force that would be enough to stun most males as their scrotum can hardly take such abuse but Araq rises again almost immediately as a serpent centaur comes to investigate almost immediately. Araq uses his web shooters to web up the sentry in complete silence and moves on swiftly.

Distractions and subterfuge are needed by the hero to make his way in Menagerie Park with his passage unnoted and unnoticed by anyone save perhaps the ants in the grass who would not be able to report the presence of a prowler even if the insects had the presence of mind, or the sheer intelligence unheard of in normal insects, to align with the humanimals that for all intents and purposes rules Menagerie Park. A plant creature The watering some of the greenery manages to inadvertently soak Araq and the costume betrays the fact that while for the most part Araq projects themselves as masculine but is in actuality the opposite gender although as of yet none of the inhabitants have taken notice of her presence. She shivers in secret as she bears witness to the conversation between King Leo and Kodyax himself and after gleaning the information that Running Gun-Bunny is temporarily invalid she recedes to a place she can somewhat safely make contact with the outside world.

"Araq to Central Station," Araq whispers into her cybernetic communicator. "Araq to Central Station, I have information to report."

"Central Station," A soulless voice calls back. "Report Araq."

"Running Gun-Bunny is hospitalized," Araq reports without emotion. "The same hospice apparently as Intelligencia. I am shadowing Kodyax presently."

"Understood and recorded." The voice intones. "Continue to monitor the bear. Where are you?"

"Menagerie Park," Araq reports.

"Recede," The voice orders. "You are not authorized to trespass into that mutant zone. Access the sewers and escape that region at present."

Araq is puzzled by the order to leave but since she is still trying to get into one of the teams that would ensure her entry into Olympus University she has no choice but to obey. She finds a manhole cover and opens it silently as a pretense to entering the sewers and making good her escape. Up until this point, Araq has been so painfully stealthy she was a positively a shinobi in what she is doing but once she enters the swampy region her passage is very noticed by the Gator Guard a large and impossibly strong human-alligator hybrid just as soon as Kodyax is a human-bear hybrid.

Gator Guard grabs Araq as she drops down from above and slams her against the walls of the sewers much like a rag doll. Once he has her head reeling from the pounding, Gator peels down Araq's pants and feels up her camel toe which shakes the cobwebs from her head real fast as she tries to wriggle out of trouble and fails. The struggling actually turns on Gator Guard as he has a nice piece of Hindu ass in front of him buck naked.

The ridged prick of Gator Guard pierces the chocolate skinned folds of Araq easily as he presses her front against the slimy wall of the sewer. The spider themed heroine cries to herself as this is not the first time she's been taken by a monster as she silently sobs under the gator's meaty hand. Internally a piece of cyberware in Araq alerts someone that she is being violated as the gator is ramrodding his schlong in her cunt.

While Gator Guard is raping Araq she starts to go into convulsions and while it makes Gator Guard feel good because her pussy is spasming on his cock, he kind of gets the impression that she's dying and should be given medical attention so they can keep on playing with her. The fact that this is not the first time this has happened to him is also playing on his mind and King Leo's threat to make an army's worth of boots out of his hide if he should let another intruder die before they are interrogated also lays rather heavily on his mind. Gator Guard takes Araq to the infirmary which has been furnished and is staffed by operatives of Frankenstein-Moreau Incorporated albeit ones prone to self-experimentation.

On call when Gator Guard comes to call is Doctor Arachne, an African American woman obsessed with a certain pen and paper fantasy role playing game and especially a monster from the game that combines dark elves with giant spiders in a centaur like configuration. She has Gator lay Araq on a table quickly as she plunges a syringe into the young lady's rump while rubbing at her breasts. Araq is still doing not much more than just convulsing in her own death throes as the compound races through her veins so she can't resist what the Doctor is doing to her.

Doctor Arachne has Gator Guard report his findings to King Leo, in part because he really needs to know and also so she can be alone with the young woman. The experimental formula counter acts the signal being sent to the nanites that sustain her and start to change her as well. As she calms down, Araq starts dreaming of the tales of India as related by Rudyard Kipling in the Jungle Book which also gives the other nanites something to latch onto as they reprogram her very body.

King Leo and Kodyax come to see the intruder as she is transforming in a she-wolf of the kind native to India. Araq will retain the spider powers she already had and learned to use but her body was getting a few new things as Doc Spider is tracing Araq's records to find a way to convert her files to those kept by the bio-technical company she works for and finds them easily enough as Araq starts to spasm and convulse on the table as she gets a few extra parts to her body. Part and parcel to all this is the makings of a lawsuit that FMI will launch against the Olympus Corporation in order to seize Araq as an asset of their very own.

Frankenstein-Moreau Incorporated is the one behind King Leo, Kodyax and practically every other humanimal living in municipal megaplex #13 not to mention pays them all handsomely for their efforts as heroes. In return FMI gets to use their images in marketing and promoting itself duty free which it then uses to parlay contracts with governments wanting animalistic super soldiers which FMI is well versed in providing. These contracts net the company trillions every year and since Kodyax and others like him retain stock options in the company that made them the vicious cycle ends up being very profitable.

Unbeknownst to Doctor Arachne, some of the processes that went into making Araq what she is came from ECHIDNA, Inc. and the Eccentric Craftsmen for Hire Intelligently Designing Nefarious Adversaries, Incorporated are not about to share, least of all to their rivals. Madame Medusa, a high ranking corporate officer at ECHIDNA, Inc. is taking this very personally. From many miles beneath the waves, the bio-sculpted CO of ECHIDNA orders a strike on Menagerie Park to teach these fools a lesson and to destroy Araq before she is restored to health and possibly switching sides.

Beetle winged scorpions the size of an SUV land in Menagerie Park in force and begin marching on the medical building en masse. The defenders of Menagerie Park are quickly overrun as their weapons have little effect on the quintet of living tanks sent as a bio-mechanical plague upon the area. In truth Running Gun-Bunny would be hard pressed to do much against them if she were here. Word quickly reaches the medical building and despite his better judgment, Kodyax goes out to see what he can do.

Leaping onto the scene Kodyax quickly goes after one of the five and finds that his strength is just enough to smash one of the flying scorpions to bits. In fact he is so strong he is able to use one as improvised weapon on the other four quite handily. Madame Medusa is watching the fight and activate a kind of self-destruct mechanism in the scorpions that turns them into a toxic sludge one that is quite difficult to clean up or puzzle out any of the DNA used to make the monstrosity.

Back at the medical facility, Araq wakes up in a new body and looks to commit suicide herself out of despair since she will never get into university with a freakish body like what she has now. Knowing full well this could have been a possibility, Doctor Arachne webbed up Araq so that only her head, breasts and vagina are exposed as she is plastered to a wall in a cell. This is not first time the good doctor has needed to do this as well.

Kodyax is quite annoyed as he looks to interrogate Araq but the Doctor wants some fun with him first. Claiming the need to examine him for a surprise inspection, Arachne has Kodyax strip naked and lie on a table. What she really wants is to suck on Kody's cock and bite his scrotum to administer a new drug into his system.

The drug in question is something like a super concentrated version of Viagra and after being injected, it doesn't take much coaxing for Arachne to get Kodyax hard. The drug will keep him stiff for hours and Arachne knows it as she helps herself to a Kodyax flavored semen shake. When she has had her drink, Arachne then asks Kodyax to fuck Araq on the pretense of testing the effect of the new drug she just administered to him.

A request from Doctor Arachne is usually something akin to an assignment from Frankenstein-Moreau and considering the assignment is fucking Araq, it's one he is well prepared and even eager to carry out. Araq had little better to do than watch the doctor at work and while her body drooled at the prospect of being violated by Kodyax, mentally she is horrified. Pleading with Kodyax to not take her is not in the cards so Araq just braces for his invasion and closes her eyes with a voice telling her some of this is justified as she was spying on them and she should be thankful she isn't dead.

Kodyax can see her shuddering in anticipation and decides to go somewhat easy on her and try to be sensual rather than rough. The fact that this being taped is not on his mind but he is aware of it as he walks up and licks at her breasts while slowly but surely inserting himself inside of her. Araq cries silently to herself as she hates to admit that a part of her is actually enjoying this and once Kody climaxes within her, Doctor Arachne puts Araq to sleep with a sedative and shoos the bear out of the infirmary so she can get to work on her new patient.