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General Protection Fault--The Comic Strip [[In the left edge of the panel, posi-Trudy looks at her unconscious counterpart eyes wide with shock. Between them, a gleeful Nega-Nick is rubbing his hands in anticipation and joy]] / Evil Nick: Truehart! My, my... Now I have a matching set! They even dress alike. How quaint! / [[Posi-Trudy is still looking at her unconscious counterpart, who is being taken over by nega-Sehgal]] / Voice off-screen (Nega-Nick): Sehgal! Revive her! And no "accidental" poisoning this time. I have a massive gloat coming on, and i want her to be conscious. / [[Standing between Posi-Ki, Posi-Justin, Posi-Sharon and a stormtrooper, Posi-Trudy looks on with sad disbelief.]] / [[Looking along Posi-Trudy's sad face, we see Posi-Nick looking back at her, casting blame with his mere look]]
General Protection Fault--The Comic Strip Evil Nick: Awake now? Good. I do hope we can dispense with the "You'll never get away with this" crap, because frankly, I have! / Evil Nick: I won't bother with sorting Trudys just yet, as I'm sure that will be evident soon enough. I'l start by announcing that by now, my men should be done cleaning out your sewers, so to speak. / Evil Nick: As an additional precaution, I took the liberty of blowing up the Grey holding cell you used to enter my palace, both sealing the breach and eliminating a few bulbous-eyed traitors at once. / Evil Nick: Your rebellion is finished, my dear sweet Trudy. Now all that's left is the maniacal laughter, the shocking denial, and the subsequent executions.
General Protection Fault--The Comic Strip [[Ki and Alternate Trudy look bound and weary.]] / Ki: This is hopeless... / Alternate Trudy: Not... yet. There's still a chance the greys may... come to our aid... / [[Emperor Nick stands before a curtain, smug smile upon his face. He's pressing a button on a remote which opens the curtain behind him.]] / Emperor Nick: Oh, I don't think so. You see, the greys are nothing but drones. They have little will of their own. Only their leader, the Great Skaboola, has the will to act independently. / <> / <> / [[Emperor Nick is off panel, the focus is on the Great Skaboola who has been revealed to be behind the curtain. Various hoses are hooked up to his body, drool seeping from the corner of his mouth. He appears near catatonic.]] / Emperor Nick: Of course, keeping control of the drones is easy: just control the Skaboola. Doctor Sehgal was quite ingenious in figuring out their physiology. His catatonic mind-control drug is a pharmaceutical gem. / [[Emperor Nick rests an elbow on the Great Skaboola's head while flashing an evil grin.]] / Emperor Nick: So you see, as long as I have E.T. here, all his worker bees are mine to command. It's a buzz-kill, I know, but I do love squashing glimmers of hope. / The Great Skaboola: Gwah
GPF Archive: Sunday, June 18, 2006 Pi: What do you mean, my memory engrams have been altered? / C: Look, 'Pi,' I know this human language is crude, but it's not that imprecise. / C: See for yourself. You have a classic memory disruption pattern indicative of-- / Pi: I know what it's indicative of! But that's not possible. We've done periodic sweeps of the rebel base. We would have known if they had infiltrated the rebels! / C: Hmph. Maybe you did find them, if you catch my drift. / Pi: What about Planck? Was he affected? / C: Yes. His scan is in the previous file. / Pi: This is disastrous! If they have infiltrated the rebels, then they could be influencing the. Gnarf, Terrell's whole plan could be a trap perpetrated from within! And with the passage to the sewers blocked, we have no way of confirming it. / C: So? Why should we care? This is an internal human affair. / Pi: It became our business the day the Skaboola made his pact with the emperor. / Pi: Our enemies may never have even learned of this planet if it weren't for our interference. We're responsible if they conquer the Earth. / Plank: Whoa. That's one bummer of a guilt trip, Pi.
General Protection Fault--The Comic Strip C: Those are bold statements, 3141592. I doubt the Skaboola would approve, since he made the pact. / Pi: The Skaboola be flargnakked. / Planck: Gasp! Pi! You did not just say that! / Pi: Oh, quit your groveling, Planck. Seriously, when was the last time you felt the Skaboola's influence? / C: Not... for a while... / Pi: Not for a very long while. We all know who got the raw end of the deal with the emperor. Even the Skaboola isn't that gzak-brained. / Pi: No, we've been slowly growing more autonomous for years. My guess is that the emperor has drugged the Skaboola, thinking that will keep us enslaved, little realizing he has handed us the key to our independence...
 
General Protection Fault--The Comic Strip Pi: Planck, get to work on those hydraulics. We need to free the other drones. 'C,' get Avogadro and round up as many of the others as you can. / Planck: Pi... D-do you really think the emperor is controlling the skaboola? / Pi: Yes. We would have felt it if he were dead. Instead, his influence has just diminished. / [[Planck starts work on the hydraulics]] / Planck: Diminished to non-existence, you mean? / Pi: Yes, gzak-brain. Do you think we could have been helping the resistance this long if the skaboola were still in control? / [[Planck receives an eyeful of blue hydraulic fluid]] / <> / Planck: I always thought it was his subtle way of sabotaging the emperor without his knwing. / Pi: I think you're giving ol' cheese brain too much credit...
General Protection Fault--The Comic Strip Faraday: The others are coming, and Planck fixed the hydraulics so we can fee the others. / Pi: Good work, Faraday. Gather everyone over here ASAP. / Pi: What happened to you? / Planck: Hydraulic fluid. i keep scrubbing but it won't come off. / Pi: Fellow drones! Listen! By now you'ver probably heard the theory i've told 'C,' The skaboola, for whatever reason, no longer controls us and, by association, neither does The Emperor! / Pi: It's time we did what was right! It was us who helped the Emperor enslave the earthlings, and us who led our enemeies here. So let's fight back and free not only ourselves, but the humans as well!
General Protection Fault--The Comic Strip Alien 1: Why should we care what happens to the humans? / Alien 3: Weren't we doing horribly inappropriate experiments on them before all this anyway? / Pi: Yes, but can't you see? The rebels are trying to free this world--and us--from the emperor! He is our enemy! If we stand and fight, our numbers can overwhelm them! / Alien 2: We're scientists and engineers, not soldiers. Those were cloned in the next vat over. / Alien 4: I think he's been hanging around the umans-hay too long... / Planck: Stand aside, Pi, my old friend. I think it's time I took over from here...
General Protection Fault--The Comic Strip Planck [looking like William Wallace]: Friends! Romulans! Country Bumpkins! Lend me your auditory canal openings! / Planck: Ask not what your fellow clones can do for you, but what you can do for country music! This is a day that will live with the infantry! Once more onto the beach, and let's sic our dogs on the poor! / Planck [off camera as other clones look at each other confused]: Never in the field of drone conflict was so much owned by so many who only had a few. When you die in your disposal vat, will you trade all the days, from this day to that, for one chance to come back here and tell the emperor... / Planck [as Pi rubs forehead in the background]: You can take our cheese, but you can never take... our FRITOS!
General Protection Fault--The Comic Strip [Note from Jeff: Needs description of visuals] / Pi: You... did it. You really did it. You spurred them into revolt. I don't see how, but you did it. / Planck: Glad I could help. / Planck: Now we need to find some weapons and march on the Emperor's positions! / Pi: Where... did you come up with that? / Planck: Oh, my awe-inspiring speech? Just somethings I've heard humans have said at times like these. And I used a super hero movie as the final template! / Pi: A super hero... movie? / Planck: That's right! Courageous Kidney! Or something like that. / Planck: And he wore a skirt too!
General Protection Fault--The Comic Strip [Note from Jeff: Needs description of visuals] / Pi: You... did it. You really did it. You spurred them into revolt. I don't see how, but you did it. / Planck: Glad I could help. / Planck: Now we need to find some weapons and march on the Emperor's positions! / Pi: Where... did you come up with that? / Planck: Oh, my awe-inspiring speech? Just somethings I've heard humans have said at times like these. And I used a super hero movie as the final template! / Pi: A super hero... movie? / Planck: That's right! Courageous Kidney! Or something like that. / Planck: And he wore a skirt too!
 
General Protection Fault--The Comic Strip [[The Dexters and Justin crawl through maze-like conduits, Justin leading with Dexter the Diabolical at the rear]] / Dexter Smith: "You are in a maze of twisting passages, all alike..." / Justin: What was that? / Dexter Smith: Nothing. Just an ironic quote to remember at a time like this... / Justin: Another intersection. Which way now? / Dexter the Diabolical: If my memory serves, since I can't see anything with this great mass in the way, left. / Dexter Smith: Am I really this annoying? I know Trudy said we're not total opposites, but I'm good and he's evil. That doesn't mean I'm this obnoxious, right? / Dexter the Diabolical: You are as vexatious as you are adipose, subaltern serf. / [[Justin opens a panel and looks out from the conduit]] / Justin: Great. We're stuck with the walking thesaurus. / Justin: Whoa / Dexter the Diabolical: Ah. Undoubtedly, we've reached our destination: the main reactor.
General Protection Fault--The Comic Strip - Monday, June 26, 2006 [[Dexter and Justin (#18) are helping Dexter the Diabolical (Nega-Dex) out from the ventilation shaft into the main reator area.]] / Justin: The main reactor? Why did you lead us down here? / Nega-Dex: Are you so obtuse that you can't imagine the possibilities? / [[Nega-Dex spreads his arms to the entire reactor. Justin & Dexter look around.]] / Nega-Dex: Nick's greatest asset is also his greatest weakness: his technology! Without it, he is nothing. And without power to run that technology... / [[Justin looks for controls, Nega-Dex smirks.]] / Justin: Right, so where's the monkey wrench and where do we throw it? / Nega-Dex: Well, that all depends... / Justin: Depends on what? / [[Nega-Dex plots revenge, while Justin looks on. His eyes flatten with disgust at Nega-Dex.]] / Nega-Dex: On whether you want a slow and controlled shut down, or a spectacular fireball the size of Kansas... / Justin: While I can guess as to your preference, I'd say slow and controlled.
General Protection Fault--The Comic Strip [[Two imperial stormtroopers stand watch before a door. We see the top of the heads of Justin and both Dexter's looking at them]] / Posi-Dexter: Only two guards at the control room. Either Nega-Nick's Security is lax, or... / Justin: We won't go there. / [[In a full frontal shot, we see a battle-ready two Dexters, with a ticked-off looking Justin in front. All three look ready to charge]] / Justin: Okay. Geeky Dex, you take the one on the left. Other... Dex, the right. I'll lay down some cover fire if things get hot. / Nega-Dexter: Acceptable. / Posi-Dexter: Gotcha / [[Seen from over the heads of the trio again, we see the two stormtroopers suddenly running away to something]] / Posi-Dexter: Wait a sec.. Where are they going? / Justin: Something's caught their attention let's move! / [[The two Dexters make for the door of the control room, while Justin looks down the hallway the stormtroopers went in. Justin looks stunned]] / Nega-Dexter: We must keep watch diligently. Once we start the shut down process, it cannot be interrupted... / Posi-Dexter: Uh, Justin?
General Protection Fault--The Comic Strip [[Viewed from between the two troopers from the previous strip, we see Posi-Fooker being thrown through the door like a rag doll. He slams into the wall opposite the door]] / <> / Posi-Fooker:NGH / [[In front of the picture, a badly battered Posi-Fooker crawls up from the floor, glasses broken, face cut-up and clothing tattered, but defiant and alive. Behind him we see the two stormtroopers, and behind THEM, we see Justin still standing still in shock while the Dexters enter the control room]] / Nega-Fooker:Stand down, boys. This one's all mine. / Stormtrooper:Er, roger, General. / [[Nega-Fooker comes through the door, leaning heavily on the doorway and clutching his chest from exertion or pain. He too is injured all over]] / Nega-Fooker: You've surprised me, runt. You've lasted longer than I would have thought. If _anyone_ could take me down, it would probably be _you_. / [[From under the massively muscled arm of Nega-Fooker, adorned by the nazi-like "Emperor Nick" armband, the camera looks at posi-Fooker getting to his feet.]] / Nega-Fooker: But I don't GO down, which is highly unfortunate for you.
General Protection Fault--The Comic Strip [[Justin sees Nega-Fooker and Fooker fighting]] / Justin: JASON! / Nega-Fooker (looking surprised and possibly sad): J-Justin? / [[Justin rushes forward through crossifre, both Dexters in the background]] / [[Fooker tackles the flat-footed Nega-Fooker]]
 
General Protection Fault--The Comic Strip [[Lord Dexter lifts a soldier in the background, preparing to punch him, while Justin fires at someone off-panel]] / [[Fooker punches Nega-Fooker in the background, while a soldier is hit by a laser, presumably Justin's shot]] / [[Dexter body slams a soldier in the background, while Fooker punches his counterpart again]] / [[Fooker's blow lands and his counterpart reels backwards over the railing]]
General Protection Fault--The Comic Strip [[With a high kick, Nega-Fooker hits Posi-Fooker on the chin, sending him flying backwards]] / [[Posi-Fooker lies on the ground in front of Justin and Posi-Dexter. All three are looking at the (off-screen) Nega-Fooker]] / Posi-Fooker (yelling): Justin! Shoot him! Now! / [[Justin's face looks wretched with doubt and anger. Behind him posi-Fooker yells again]] / Fooker: Shoot him! / [[Hanging on the railing with one arm and slowly getting up, Nega-Fooker has a genuinely pity-drawing look on his face]] / Nega-Fooker: You... won't shoot me... will ya... l'il bro...?
General Protection Fault--The Comic Strip [[Justin is aiming his gun at Fooker's counterpart in this universe after running into the two, weary from fighting.]] / Fooker: Don't listen to him, Justin! He isn't me! / Nega Fooker: He's right. I'm not him. But... I am your older brother... / Nega Fooker: My... Justin... was killed years ago. It was all my fault. I was the one who sent him to the UGA, who gave him that mission. I was the one who failed him. / Nega Fooker: After Dad died... after Mom left... I was the one who raised you... him... took care of him. I took the responsibility. Let me show you i can do it again... / [[Justin fries Nega Fooker.]] / [[His body falls down into the reactor pit.]] / Justin: You're right. You aren't my brother. He was never responsible. / Fooker: That's... my boy.
General Protection Fault--The Comic Strip [[Justin helps a beat-up Fooker to his feet]] / Justin: You okay, bro? / Fooker: Nothing six months in the hospital and a few years of rehab can't fix. / Fooker (to Nega-Dexter): Whoa... Dex... You've been working out... / Nega-Dexter: I think I like your Barker better. More of a sense of humor. / Dexter (looking down): Um, General Barker's body is causing a whole lot of sparks down there... / Nega-Dexter: He struck the Primary Distribution Node. / Fooker: Let me guess... That's a bad thing, right? / Nega-Dexter: Let's just say you no longer have a choice between slow and controlled and a fireball the size of Kansas.
General Protection Fault--The Comic Strip [[All peer over the handrail, where Nega-Fooker's body lays smoldering below]] / Fooker: Wait... this is the main reactor, and because of nega-me, it's set to explode? / Dexter the Diabolical: In a nutshell. / Fooker: How long do we have? / Dexter the Diabolical: I'd estimate around fifteen minutes. If we hurry, we can silence the alarms and Nick will have no warning... / Fooker: We'll still need to get out ourselves. Justin, Dex, synchronize watches for ten minutes. We need to contact Fred and Dwayne to pull us out as soon as we find our Nick. / [[Dexter the Diabolical is walking away]] / Fooker: Going somewhere? / Dexter the Diabolical: You have your mission to accomplish, and I have mine. Our alliance of convenience ends here.
General Protection Fault--The Comic Strip [[All peer over the handrail, where Nega-Fooker's body lays smoldering below]] / Fooker: Wait... this is the main reactor, and because of nega-me, it's set to explode? / Dexter the Diabolical: In a nutshell. / Fooker: How long do we have? / Dexter the Diabolical: I'd estimate around fifteen minutes. If we hurry, we can silence the alarms and Nick will have no warning... / Fooker: We'll still need to get out ourselves. Justin, Dex, synchronize watches for ten minutes. We need to contact Fred and Dwayne to pull us out as soon as we find our Nick. / [[Dexter the Diabolical is walking away]] / Fooker: Going somewhere? / Dexter the Diabolical: You have your mission to accomplish, and I have mine. Our alliance of convenience ends here.
 
General Protection Fault--The Comic Strip Dexter: You're just going to run away?! You have a chance to be a hero! / Nega-Dexter: Hero? Ha! You undoubtedly haven't been paying attention! / Dexter: This is your chance to dethrone Nick! We could use you! / Nega-Dexter: And risk the probability of being blown to smithereens? Not likely! / Nega-Dexter: We have one chance of getting our of here alive. If I were you-- which obviously I'm NOT -- I would cut my losses and save my own skin. Your "friends" are as good as dead. Make some new ones when you get home. / Nega-Dexter: As for me, I'll lay low until the fall-out settles, then swoop in to take over what remains. Why fight your enemies when you can keep silent and they blow themselves up for you?
General Protection Fault--The Comic Strip Fooker: Dex... are you okay? / [[Dexter frowns after retreating Nega-Dexter]] / Dexter: ... Yeah. Just... mad at myself. / Justin: We're wasting time. How are we going to find Nick and the others in ten minutes? / Fooker: If only our equipment weren't being jammed... / Fooker: Dex... you look like you're thinking of something... / Dexter: Do you think you can walk on your own? / [[Dexter is staring over at one of the unconscious armored guards]] / Fooker: Yeah. / Dexter: "Aren't you a little short for a stormtrooper?" / Justin: What? / Fooker: Dex, you're a genius.
General Protection Fault--The Comic Strip [[Two storm troopers are standing guard.]] / Guard 1: What the... / Guard 2: Where are you taking this ... thing? / [[Jason and Justin, dressed as storm troopers, are leading Dexter.]] / Barker 1 (It's impossible to tell whether it's Jason or Justin, as both are wearing stormtrooper uniforms): One of the Rebels who raided us from the lower levels. Have any others been captured? / Guard 1: Actually, Yes. / Guard 1: The emperor wanted to interrogate them himself. They're in the lab adjacent to the throne room. We better take this one up there too. Follow Me. / Guard 2: Have you seen General Barker? He hasn't responded to any of our hails lately... / Barker 2: I think he went to the reactor level to smoke.
General Protection Fault--The Comic Strip [[A hand punches upward from inside a ventilation duct on a roof with an urban wasteland behind]] / [[Nega-Dexter climbs out of the air vent to the roof]] / Nega-Dexter: At last! Freedom! To breathe fresh air once more! Huzzah! / Nega-Dexter: cough... Actually, it's pretty noxious. That will be the first act of my new regime. I'll clean up the environment, make the sheep love me. THEN crush their spirits! Now I'll-- / [[a shadow falls across Nega-Dexter from above. He looks up]] / Nega-Dexter: Ah, crap.
General Protection Fault--The Comic Strip [[Alternate Nick strides through a cutrained off door in the background while Alternite Duncan examines the readings on a piece on machinaty in the foreground]] / Alternate Nick: Something wrong, Duncan? / Alternate Duncan: I thought I saw and alarm indicator on the reactor panel, but I guess it was a glitch. / [[Alternate Nick grins and fastens his cloak to his shoulders while Nick glares at him]] / Alternate Nick: Good. I'd hate for a technical foible to stand in the way of a great torture/interrogation session. Now, let's see... who will we eradicate first? / Alternate Duncan: Milord, three guards have arrived just outside. They say they have another prisoner. / Alternate Nick: Then by all means! The more the merrier! / [[Three armed and armoured guards lead a manacled Dexter into the room to stand in front of Alternate Nick]] / Alternate Nick: Ah, this must be your Dexter Smith. I'm sure you'd love to meet your duplicate, but I'm afraid he won't be seeing the light of day for a long time. / [[Dexter locks eyes with Ki and gives a hard smile and a thumbs-up]] / [[Trudy, Sharon and Ki huddle together]] / Trudy: What's wrong? / Ki: I don't know. But I have a sneaking suspicion some tables are about to be turned...
 
General Protection Fault--The Comic Strip Ki: (Thinking) If Dex has some sort of plan, then he may need a distraction... (aloud) Er, isn't' there some sort of supervillain code that says you have to tell us your plan before you kill us? / Emperor Nick: You know, there isn't. And I suppose it really wouldn't be fair to kill you without letting you know why you're about to die... / Emperor Nick: But I'm just the sort of mean guy to do just that! Seriously, it's not that hard to figure out. Why would I kidnap your fiance with the knowledge of how to cross dimensions? / [[One of the stormtroopers guarding Dexter levels his weapon toward another stormtrooper as Nick watches]] / Emperor Nick: Really, Ki... I thought you were smarter than this. I'm beginning to wonder what my buddy Nick sees in you... besides that luscious body, of course.
General Protection Fault--The Comic Strip Ki: (Thinking) If Dex has some sort of plan, then he may need a distraction... (aloud) Er, isn't' there some sort of supervillain code that says you have to tell us your plan before you kill us? / Emperor Nick: You know, there isn't. And I suppose it really wouldn't be fair to kill you without letting you know why you're about to die... / Emperor Nick: But I'm just the sort of mean guy to do just that! Seriously, it's not that hard to figure out. Why would I kidnap your fiance with the knowledge of how to cross dimensions? / [[One of the stormtroopers guarding Dexter levels his weapon toward another stormtrooper as Nick watches]] / Emperor Nick: Really, Ki... I thought you were smarter than this. I'm beginning to wonder what my buddy Nick sees in you... besides that luscious body, of course.
General Protection Fault--The Comic Strip Nick (to Nega-Nick about Ki): What I see in her, Emperor, is a noble heart, a fiery spirit, and a love deeper than I could hope to imagine. All things you could never understand. / Nick: All you know is deceit and treachery, how to use others and throw away what remains. I've been used before, and it sickens me to see that trait within myself... in YOU, the mirror of what I could become. / [[Nick continues, Trudy is in the foreground]] Nick: But it also reminds me that our choices are not absolute. People can change. So I'm giving YOU a choice: end this now. Let me and my friends go. / Nega-Nick: You... have the GALL... to threaten ME? And what if I refuse? / Nick: I'll tell Dexter that whatever he's planning, now's the time.
General Protection Fault--The Comic Strip [[Dexter strangling a guard]] / Dexter: ROAR!!! / Guard: Look out! He's loose! / Guard: He'll tear us all apart! / [[Guard shoots, "missing" Dexter but hitting another guard near Nega-Nick]] / Guard: I'll get him! / Nega-Nick: You Fools! Watch where you're aiming! / [[Nick slugs Nega-Nick in the face with his left fist, more shooting in the background]] / [[Guard aims at Nick, who is nursing a hurt hand]] / Nick: Ow! Ow! Ow!
General Protection Fault--The Comic Strip [[Guard is shot behind Nick]] / Nick: Chuck?! You're a double agent? / Chuck2: Triple, actually. But who's counting? / [[2 guards remove their helmets to reveal that they are part of the rebellion]] / Trudy2: Sorry we left your friends out of the plan, but we hoped this way they'd give a more convincing performance. / Ki: Then who's over here with Dexter? / Fooker: The fabulous Barker brothers. Who else?
General Protection Fault--The Comic Strip [[Good Trudy standing over fallen evil Nick]] / Good Trudy: Well, well. It's been a long time, hasn't it, Nick? And my, have the tables turned... / Good Trudy: Here you are, without your guards, outnumbered fourteen to three, and I still can't think of a good reason not to kill you outright... / Good Nick: Then I have one: it will make you no better than him. This universe has taught me several important lessons, the first being about myself and what I am capable of. A sobering lesson indeed. / [[Good Nick looking at evil Trudy, who is looking sad]] / Good Nick: But it's also taught me about opposites in my own universe. If I were you, Trudy, I'd look closer at the dark reflection below you before turning into that which you hate.
 

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