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| GPF Archive: Tuesday, September 3, 2002 | [[Nick turns to Ki]]
/ Ki: Nick, every word I've said is true. ALl those things Fooker and I told you about was leading up to this, and YOU are the key to her plot. / [[Nick turns to Trudy]]
/ Trudy: Puh-leeze. Can't you let your little insecurities go, Ki? Can you not trust your boyfriend alone for a few short months? How pathetic. / [[#18 punches a stormtrooper in the foreground while Nick, Ki, and Trudy are silhouettes in the background]]
/ Ki: If you're so pure and innocent, then how do you explain the _war zone_ we're standing in, Trudy? And why these stormtroopers obey _your_ orders? / [[Close-up of the three]]
/ Nick: Actually, that _is_ a pretty good quest-
/ Ki and Trudy: YOU STAY OUT OF THIS! http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20020903.html |
| GPF Archive: Wednesday, September 4, 2002 | {{Part of the Surreptitious Machinations story arc.}}
/ Nick: That's it. I've had enough of you two and your petty arguments. We're going to settle this and settle it now. / Nick: You've been at each other's throats for as long as I've known you, and I still can't seem to see why. I want this out and over with. / Nick: Ki, you have a lot of really wild claims to back up, and I told you long ago I'd need evidence to believe it. It's time I called your hand. / Nick: And you, Trudy, have a lot of questions to answer. And I think I'll be turning off "Velociraptor" until I get them...
/ Trudy: NO! er... I mean, please don't.
/ < http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20020904.html |
| GPF Archive: Thursday, September 5, 2002 | {{Part of the Surreptitious Machinations story arc.}}
/ [[Fooker can't get his Velociraptor-powered gun to work]]
/ Fooker [[thinking]]: Drat! Battery's dead!
/ < http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20020905.html |
| GPF Archive: Friday, September 6, 2002 | {{Part of the Surreptitious Machinations story arc.}}
/ Trudy: Shouldn't we be a little less hasty to turn off "Velociraptor"? The demonstration--
/ Nick: Went out the window half an hour ago. / Nick: There's a lot of suspicious things going on, Trudy, and I want answers. This is no demonstration, and those troops aren't government clients. / Nick: "Dr. Nadda" -- or "Dr. Not" as everyone else seems to call her -- is not what she seems. There was never any talk of "enemy troops" during our initial briefings. / Trudy: I-I can explain...
/ Ki: Oh, please do. I want to hear this...
/ Nick: You're next. http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20020906.html |
| GPF Archive: Saturday, September 7, 2002 | {{Part of the Surreptitious Machinations story arc}}
/ Ki: On second thought, I want to go first. And Exhibit A is right under our noses. / Ki: I don't know what "velociraptor" was originally meant to be, but I doubt it was the power source for an arsenal of high-tech weaponry. / Ki: Across the river in Manhattan, 500 government troops are risking their lives to fight off soldiers armed with your creations, bent to her evil machinations. / Trudy: And just what makes you think such wild accusations are true?
/ Ki: Call it prophecy, Trudy, because I've seen the future... http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20020907.html |
| GPF Archive: Sunday, September 8, 2002 | [[The image shows Nick & Ki helping Todd away from the Fookinator]]
/ Ki narrating: The young man we helped back in December said he came back in time to stop someone from altering the future. / [[The image on the left half shows the Fookinator with the right half of its skin torn away. The right half of the image shows Fooker being led away in court, with a tearful Sharon looking on.]]
/ Ki narrating: But the Fookinator was sent to both stop him and provide a basis for sending Fooker to jail, thus getting him out of the way. / [[The image shows Future Trudy surprising present Trudy]]
/ Ki narrating: Trudy's future self, already ruler of the world, sent it and came back herself to complete the plan. / [[The image shows Trudy in the act of committing arson on GPF.]]
/ Ki narrating: Armed with knowledge of future events, our Trudy burned down GPF, ran down my father, and set up your job to scatter us and separate you from the rest. / [[The image shows Nick doing something while spurred with the inventor's gene, while Trudy looks on.]]
/ Ki narrating: Once alone, she could cultivate your inventor's gene to build her key to obtaining power and the circle became complete. / Trudy: Sounds like a bad sci-fi movie. Where's your proof?
/ Ki: Right here, in your own handwriting. http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20020908.html |
| GPF Archive: Monday, September 9, 2002 | {{Part of the Surreptitious Machinations story arc.}}
/ [[Ki shows Trudy some papers.]]
/ Trudy: WHAT?!
/ Ki: Mind you, this is just a photocoy... the original journal should be in the hands of the press by now... / [[Nick begins reading the papers.]]
/ Ki: If nothing else, Trudy, you always were meticulous with the details...
/ Trudy (angrily): Where did you get that? My journal is always locked up safely! / Ki: Let's just say I had some help...
/ Trudy: The time-hopping brat! He somehow obtained it! I thought the old me took care of -- / [[Trudy does that guilty big smile face.]]
/ Trudy: heh heh... My, was I saying something incriminating? I hope not... http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20020909.html |
| GPF Archive: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 | {{story arc: Surreptitious Machinations}}
/ < http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20020910.html |
| GPF Archive: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 | {{story arc: Surreptitious Machinations}}
/ Nick: You lied to me...
/ Trudy: Just to get things started, that little [[Trudy makes a hand motion of how little]] nudge in the right direction... / Nick: You used me...
/ Trudy: I wanted us to be happy! I wanted tp give you everything your heart desired! / Ki: Liar! You wanted his skills long enough to secure your power, then you would dispose of him just like the rest of us...
/ [[Trudy puts her hands over her ears in defense]]
/ Trudy: NO! I COULD NEVER HARM NICK! / Trudy: I... I love him...
/ Ki: Then you have a strange way of showing it...
/ [[Nick appears to have a very large exclamation mark above his head. Apparently, he is surprised]] http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20020911.html |
| GPF Archive: Thursday, September 12, 2002 | {{Part of Surreptitious Machinations story arc.}}
/ Nick: You... l-love me?
/ Trudy: From the moment we first met. I-I never expected it. Nor knew how to handle it. / Trudy (crying): I had never truly been in love before. Trent, Butch, the others... they weren't the same. That wasn't love. You changed all that for me, Nick... / Trudy (now angry as well): I'll admit I may be a little screwed up. But I only wanted the best for you. Far more than she could provide. If only I could get you away from her... / Trudy (small voice): I could never hurt you...
/ Ki (to Nick): It looks like you have a choice to make. http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20020912.html |
| GPF Archive: Friday, September 13, 2002 | [[Nick talking to Trudy. Trudy is crying]]
/ Nick:Trudy, I tried to be your friend, even when my other friends denouced you. I even _defended_ you. But friendship is built on trust. I can't trust you anymore. / [[Closeup of Trudy Crying]]
/ Nick: Love-- True love-- is based on friendship. I can't love someone I can't trust. But I CAN forgive you. And ask you to turn yourself in. I'm sorry. / [[Nick turns around to leave with Ki. Trudy still crying looks very sad]]
/ Nick: Let's go. / [[Trudy's face turns from sadness to rage as tears stream down her face]] http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20020913.html |
| GPF Archive: Saturday, September 14, 2002 | {{Part of the Surreptitious Machinations story arc.}}
/ [[Trudy grabs a dropped gun.]]
/ Trudy: If I can't have you... / [[Trudy aims the gun. She is totally furious.]]
/ Trudy: THEN NO ONE WILL! / [[Trudy is aiming the gun point-blank in Nick's face.]] / Nick: You do what you feel you have to, Trudy... http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20020914.html |
| GPF Archive: Sunday, September 15, 2002 | [[Trudy, tears of rage streaming down her face, aims the handgun at Nick]]
/ Ki (voiceover, internal monologue): In that instant, time stood still. What must have been a few seconds passed like an eternity. I stood frozen behind Nick, unable to move. / [[Flashback on Empress Trudy, tears of rage, aiming the handgun at Future Nick]]
/ Ki: My mind was trapped by Todd's story of how Nick met his fate, and the eerie parallel seized my mind with paralyzing fear. / [[Nick stands firm. Trudy is having trouble keeping the gun level.]]
/ Ki: Yet, for some reason, he stood fast and unflinching. No fear, no concern... just grim determination. / [[Trudy is about to lose it]]
/ Ki: Did he know something I didn't...? / [[Panel is split diagonally; in the upperleft half Trudy's face is a rictus of anger; in the bottomright half Trudy's eyes soften and quiver]] / [[Trudy lowers the gun]]
/ Ki: Something about Trudy that even SHE did not know? http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20020915.html |
| GPF Archive: Monday, September 16, 2002 | {{Part of the Surreptitious Machinations story arc.}}
/ [[Trudy drops the gun.]] / [[Trudy slumps to the ground.]] / [[Nick and Ki look at her, but say nothing.]] / Trudy (small voice): I-I can't... I'm s-sorry. http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20020916.html |
| GPF Archive: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 | {{Part of the Surreptitious Machinations story arc.}}
/ [[Todd grapples with Empress Trudy.]] / [[They break apart, clutching their stomachs in pain.]]
/ Todd and Empress Trudy: NGH! / Empress Trudy: The... pain... What's happen...ing?! / Todd: It's over... You've lost... Empress... http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20020917.html |
| GPF Archive: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 | {{Part of the Surreptitious Machinations story arc.}}
/ Dr. Nefarious: Ngh... What happened?
/ Dr. Not: Nefarious! Wake up, you bulbous-headed twit! / Dr. Nefarious: Not? What happened to you? You're slimy...
/ Dr. Not: Nevermind that! We have to retreat! / Dr. Nefarious: RETREAT? WHY?!
/ Dr. Not: The device is off. We've failed. Time to recoup our losses. / Dr. Nefarious: WHAT?! WHERE IS STRATEGO?
/ Dr. Not: If she's smart, far enough away so I can't throttle her... http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20020918.html |
| GPF Archive: Thursday, September 19, 2002 | [[Television fuzz.]]
/ Renata Fayre: Are we getting through? How's the signal? / Cameraman: Clearing up now. Renata! We've got satellite! You're on! / Renata Fayre: This is Renata Fayre of WPET News, bringing exclusive news on the events occuring in lower Manhattan... / [[Renata displays a videocassette.]]
/ Renata Fayre: Including startling new evidence in the case of nationally infamous murderer Jason Barker and his former employer, Dwayne Duncan... http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20020919.html |
| GPF Archive: Friday, September 20, 2002 | {{Part of Surreptitious Machinations story arc.}}
/ Agent #12: Amadeus! C.R.U.D.E. is beginning to retreat! / Sean Connery: I'm afraid our meeting has come to an unexpected end, Amadeus...
/ < http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20020920.html |
| GPF Archive: Saturday, September 21, 2002 | {{Part of the Surreptitious Machinations story arc.}}
/ Agent #1296: Most of Manhattan is now secure, sir!
/ Patrick Stewart: Acknowledged, #1296. / Sharon: We've managed to shut down C.R.U.D.E.'s weapon satellite. It should fall out of orbit in a few days. / Agent #12: I wonder how things are going at the statue...
/ Sharon: I'll call Dexter and find out... / [[Dexter is sitting on top of his gargantuan fallen opponent.]]
/ Dexter: Oh, everything is just fine here... http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20020921.html |
| GPF Archive: Sunday, September 22, 2002 | Narrator: Trudy lay at Nick's feet, clutching his leg, for the longest time. She seemed so pitiful, so small... so unlike the woman I thought I knew. / Narrator: At another man's order, a guard pried her away from us and carried her away. Surprisingly, Nick did nothing to stop them. / Narrator: At last, she looked up, and it was a different face that looked back at us, remorseful and sad. Then they vanished around the corner. / Narrator: That was the last time we saw Trudy... for a very long time.
/ Ki: Are you okay?
/ Nick: ... Yes. / Narrator: Nick was difficult to read... deeply introspective.
/ Ki: A-are you angry? Or sad?
/ Nick: No... / Nick: Just... disappointed. http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20020922.html |
| GPF Archive: Monday, September 23, 2002 | {{Part of the Surreptitious Machinations story arc.}}
/ [[Helicopters are flying over the Statue of Liberty.]] / [[Inside one helicopter...]]
/ Dr. Not: What are our losses?
/ Sean Connery: 80% of our forces, as well as our anonymity. We'll have to remain underground for some time to recover. / Dr. Nefarious: Curses! The plan was flawless! How could the U.G.A. have known?
/ Sean Connery (hands atop a TV): It seems the press has the answer already... / [[Elsewhere in the helicopter, Trudy is bundled in a large blanket, as the TV in the foreground shows her picture.]]
/ TV: ...now identified as Trudy Trueheart... http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20020923.html |
| GPF Archive: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 | [[Renata on camera, Kevin holding camera, Ferris looking surprised]]
/ Renata: ... whose journal chronicles a bizarre, twisted plot for world domination... / [[Kevin still holding camera, while Ferris is tugging his arm]]
/ Renata: Although much of it reads like a science fiction novel...
/ Ferris: (whispers) Um, Kevin... / Ferris: (whispers) Kevin!
/ Kevin: (whispers) Shh, Ferris! We're on live!
/ Ferris: (whispers) But Kevin, you _gotta_ see this! / [[Ferris and Kevin look at the Fookinator head which disappears]]
/ Ferris: (whispers) Is this thing supposed to do _that_?! http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20020924.html |
| GPF Archive: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 | {{Surreptitious machinations}}
/ [[Todd and Empress Trudy from the future are up on the top of the Statue of Liberty, in a final showdown]] / Todd: It's over, Empress...
/ Empress Trudy from the future: Will you stop saying that? Do you have any idea how... annoying that is?! / Todd: [[stands up]] The circle is broken, your highness. Nick has rejected your past self. C.R.U.D.E. has retreated. The goal has slipped through your fingers. / Empress Trudy: Minor... setbacks. My past self was too weak. I will go later this time, when she is stronger. With a time machine, I have all the time in the world. / Todd: Wrong. Your time is up. [[Todd's arm dissapears]] http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20020925.html |
| GPF Archive: Thursday, September 26, 2002 | {{Part of the Surreptitious Machinations story arc.}}
/ UGA agent: C.R.U.D.E. is retreating. Shall we pursue, sir?
/ Patrick Stewart: Negative. We'll have time to deal with them later. / Sharon: We did it! We stopped them!
/ Agent #12: You seem a bit too excited...
/ Sharon: Sorry. I've never saved the world before...
/ Agent #12: You'd get used to it. / Sharon: I just hope Fooker is okay. Have you heard more about what happened at the statue, Trent? Trent? / [[Trent is climbing into a machine gun turret on top of an armored car.]]
/ Sharon (thinking): I wonder what he's up to... http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20020926.html |
| GPF Archive: Friday, September 27, 2002 | [[Trent climbs the ladder on a UGA vehicle and thinks]]
/ Trent thinks: Okay... so I'm a coward and I made no real contribution to this fight... / [[Trent waves his arms at a helicopter]] / [[Trudy looks shocked]] / [[Trent points his fingers and grins]]
/ Trent thinks: But I can still conduct a little psychological warfare, just for fun... http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20020927.html |
| GPF Archive: Saturday, September 28, 2002 | [[Trudy, wrapped in a blanket shakes her fist out the helicopter's window.]]
/ Trudy: They had TRENT helping them?! That no good, vile, back stabbing son of a--
/ (Offscreen): AHEM. / [[Dr. Not, Dr. Nefarious and Moldfinger confront Trudy]]
/ Dr. Nefarious: It has come to our attention that you have not fulfilled your obligation to our organization, Miss Trueheart... / Dr. Nefarious: Failure to do so is punishable by _expulsion_ from the group.
/ Trudy: That's _IT_? You're just going to kick me out? / Dr. Nefarious: Actually... we had something a little more _permanent_ in mind... http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20020928.html |
| GPF Archive: Sunday, September 29, 2002 | [[Empress Trudy and Todd are standing on top of the Statue of Liberty. A strong wind is blowing their hair and clothing. Todd's left arm is translucent, as if he is beginning to disappear. Empress Trudy is enraged; her eyes are squinting and her teeth are bared. Todd is frowning or concentrating.]]
/ Empress Trudy: What is _this_? Some sort of _trick_?
/ Todd: No tricks, Empress. Just cold, hard _facts_. / [[Todd gestures toward the Empress with his translucent left arm.]]
/ Todd: C.R.U.D.E. has been defeated. Your past self has failed. If she never takes over the world, then the circle is broken. Our destiny, our fates are sealed. / Empress Trudy: What are you babbling about, whelp? There is no fate aside from what we make for ourselves! / [[Empress Trudy shakes her left fist at Todd.]]
/ Empress Trudy: I went back in time, just as my future self did before me! If this iteration did not work, then I'll go back and _fix_ the problem. / Todd: Not likely. Think about it, Empress... She _failed_ here, so she will _never_ become you, and will _never_ go back and "educate" herself. / [[Todd smiles and, with his still-solid right hand, points toward his head.]]
/ Todd: You should have read more sci-fi when you were younger. Haven't you ever heard of a _paradox_? http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20020929.html |
| GPF Archive: Monday, September 30, 2002 | [[Empress Trudy and Todd stand confronting one another]]
/ Empress Trudy: A..._paradox_?
/ Todd: A flaw in the flow of time. An error... an imperfection. / Todd: A paradox occurs when time is altered in such a way that it is impossible to exist. If you killed your own grandfather, how can you exist to alter time in the first place? / {{Empress Trudy smiles wickedly}}
/ Empress Trudy: So a paradox is a threat to _all_ of us, then, and _you_, young fool, have doomed those you sought to save! / {{Todd smiles triumphantly}}
/ Todd: Depends on how you look at it. In my opinion, I just helped _correct_ one.
/ {{Empress Trudy blanches}} http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20020930.html |
| GPF Archive: Tuesday, October 1, 2002 | {{story arch: Surreptitious Machinations}} / Todd: _Your_ jaunt down memory lane was the _real_ infraction, Empress. _Our_ future should not exist.
/ [[Empress trudy's hand starts fading]] / Todd: By breaking the chain of events, _our_ time line unravels and the _intended_ time line surfaces. All evidence simply ceases to be. / Empress Trudy: And who are _you_ to determine what should and should not be? How do you know _our_ time line isn't the _correct_ one? / Todd: Let's just call it a _hunch_... [[robot from the future dissapears]] http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20021001.html |
| GPF Archive: Wednesday, October 2, 2002 | [[Empress Trudy and the partly faded Todd are standing on top of the Statue's head]]
/ Todd: That's it, your highness. We're all that's left of our time line. Now the others willl live in relative peace. / Empress Trudy: And you will just lie down and sacrifice your life for them, people who will be mere shadows of the ones you knew? / Todd: Yes. I have always been ready to give myself up to save anyone from your tyrany.
/ Empress Trudy: How noble. / [[Empress Trudy grins and pulls out a Time Remote. Todd looks surprised.]]
/ Empress Trudy: I, on the other hand, never claimed to be so honorable. http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20021002.html |
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