h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I dunno, scaring sounds good to me *flexes gauntlet muscles*

: I trust ya; ... ^_^; <- People've bashed me in about stuff like that on other threads eh-heh... particularly a Fullpowered Animist FMA spoof. Turned out naming the brothers Ecg & Arc (instead of Ed and Al, confused the sh*t out of people)..., oops/

Alex Ferrous: "Why would he have such a vested interest in it?"
I say, taking a marker and circling the part of Ronald's face where the smirk is... asking Professor Chaos to pause the TV... (Or whoever it'll turn out to be nearest).
"In fact."
*Reaches over and gets the recording/playback controls to himself and then rewinds it back to that same part... pausing the film cell/segment.*

"Right there. Between the part where he is talking about himself... you know, right before the section where he abruptly goes back to talking about it all supposedly being our fault. -His teeth... look funny."

*Hands the remote to nearest League-member.*

"Spec,- you got any sorta zoom for this thing?"
*Fiddles with a tuning knob, to reduce the fuzz.*
"See what I meant."

*Does a slightly devious wink.*

no that's just a normal tv, but i see what you mean.

*skips ahead a few frames*

there it is again, look. it's either a trick of the light or there's deffinately something different from how they were before.

*picks up a newspaper bearing the headline "in League with the Christmas chaos?" and holds it up next to the tv to compare the pictures of the reporter.*

there's no hint of it in this picture though. what could this mean? some sort of shape shifter?

Not sure, but I was rather fond of the headline, though it would have been a better pun if I was involved rather than out fighting Tar and Feathers Boy, damn hooligan.

I say we hunt this guy out and intimidate him until he gives up, but that's just my two penny's worth.

*Reads the article*

Listen to this, 'The League of Superheroes, or so they'd like us to believe. Why then, do they ascociate with such known criminals as the infamous Professor Chaos, responsible for some of the most notorious and sickening crimes this fair city has ever seen? And the Crimson Lady, who is rumoured to be connected to a group of radical Eco-terrorists and various military cover-ups. Could she be using her position in the league, who have connections to such rich and powerful people in high social standing and multi-millionare Alex Ferrious and high flying businessman Anthony Van Tome, to cover up for her various below the radar scemes?' That just isn't true!

great, now everyone's going to know about out alternate egos connections with the League. i was hoping that would stay quite. now i'll get hastle all the time.

ok, we need a plan. we need to figure out how to stop any more rhumours leaking out without making ourselves look worse. and someone needs to talk to this reporter.

*Sniggers as an idea on how to keep the report quiet comes to mind*

I have a few ideas on the reporter.

But on to ideas you might like, with some clever spinning hopefully you can persuade people that your egos are merely associates; though any kind of positivity because of this looks to be hampered.

*bursts into the room*

Sorry I'm late, got cought up in a class

Sorry I haven't gotten around to doing a story for Pink Storm, but currently shes a colleg student named Elizabeth Shumacher. Hopefully I can get the story up soon. Sorry for not doing it sooner.

Grey Swordsman: "D@*n... there goes my company's net stock worth. Sh*t. Who is this guy, anyway? Wait a sec... hold on for a minute."


*Telephones his robotic butler*
"Hello, yes? Edward? Thankyou, can you go over to the computer and where behind the safe is... make yourself some sorta a voice modulator... uh-huh,- so that you could sound like me? You can??"

"Brilliant. Then I need you to call up my broker and tell him that I want t buy up news company shares... We can always revert back to converting more lead if my paper funds start to dry up (/run out)."

*hangs up.*

"There, maybe if we chip in... if somebody can find me a large block of lead... there is an old antique that the dying alchemist bequeathed to me... I've always kept it hidden in a disguised safe, within a concealed room that well... you get the idea."

"Professor,- [have] you ever wondered what Alchemy actually -is- like?"

*The Blademobile sends a fax copy of pages from the magician's old of from a machine that is part of the dash.*
}Here there'd be those old fashioned fax-modem dialup noises{
*Retrieves the fax*
(Then under his breath as an aside) : *Thank you robot butler*
"I think the news company might be due for a new change in ownership... Eh-heheh."
*For some reason he gives Professor Chaos a look that seems to suggest: "Don't you think?"*

"How would you like to see the look on this Ronald guy's face, when it is announced to him (on-air) that his new boss is none other than our dear Chaos, ey?"


"And, best of all, there will be nothing he can do about it..."

Then as Alex Ferrous again:
"So, how would you feel about it? At the least, it will buy us some time to come up with a way to dig up some background information on this guy."

I'm saying nothing, but I do wanna talk to this guy and find out where he got that story about me.

wow, nice job swordsman. need to keep the deal quiet though or someone could leak that you've bought up the company and start asking quetions.

*raises hand*

umm, what can i do?

ummm...ooo, how about a flood over the other side of town where there aren't many people. that'll fill the news for a few days so this takeover slips under the radar. don't hurt anyone mind. maybe do it by that old factory near the estuary, that thing's been deserted for years.

*shakes head emphatically*

I wouldn't. Its used for raves by the uni kids on weekends. And some of 'em sneak up there during the week days to get high/drunk.

well just flood it a little bit so they have time to get out. that would make a news story in itself. not sure how effective it would be as a cover up though.

Grey Swordsman: *es a little*
"Eh... Y'know. Hey, If we can obtain a large sample of lead, we can reimburse eachother and the damage. I've got all alchemy gear and the "recipe" that my robotic butler was nice enought o fax over from the magician's old spell book."

*laughs*
"How did you all assume that I had gotten to be so rich (shh! The tax collectors have been after me for years on that one)?"


: This by the way, sets up a nifty parallel bit of miniature sub-plot... for later, when I will introduce the Grey Swordsman's complementary associated villain/foe character, Dr. Nordski, the former tax collector and now mad scientist who gets to channel the spirit of a real viking beserker... thanks to an argument with the car in front of him during gridlock from when the bridge was out. Y'never know when the person driving the car in front of you could turn out to be a sorceror, eh?