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Calamity Coup D'etat

S1 E6: The Old World

S1 E6: The Old World

Sep 03, 2022

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November 11th

Hank and Achilles sit by the white plastic folding table, with Vice Vice President Emu standing on the other side of it, with VP4 Duckling on his head.
Emu looks around and begins speaking "I was hoping you all could be here, but I guess not. I hope Vekna's not stuck in the vents like Seagull is." Muffled gulls come from the vent "See? Anyways. There's someone we need you guys to meet, we VPs can't leave for this unfortunately, we're too recognizable."
"But he has da beeg red suit" Duckling announces.
"Yes but... Yeah no you're a liability Hank, sorry, but you are a smoothtalker, you could be nice to speak to this guy, better than... Achilles would."
Achilles doesn't look up and continues playing his guitar
"Look, the person we need you to meet, is President Plantagenet. The President of the NRG, the Niune Region Government." Emu continues.
"Wait, I thought Dydact was the government." Hank says.
"Yes and no, Dydact is now essentially the government, however, what Gordon Wayne suppressed, was the NRG, making it essentially worthless, you'll find them on Luminous, the capital of the Niune Region, for both governments." Emu says.
"We're going to kill them, or kidnap them?" Achilles asks.
"Unfortunately neither." Emu starts. "We need you guys to just tell them that we're fighting against Dydact, and we'd appreciate their support, no matter how small"
"I was hoping for some action, damn." Achilles responds.
"Remember, this is the capital, no matter what, there's a general around every corner, be careful, and if you aren't, there may be a general in your face, the one I'd advise against seeing the most is General Crikey, he operates in that area, he's around 8 feet tall, and his armor makes him an absolute unit, be careful, as he isn't just your average General, he's apart of the top 3 generals of the entire Dydact Army." Vice President Heron says walking into the room, he pats Duckling before continuing. "I can't stress this enough, avoid any general, at any cost. And if you're cornered, pray. Take Phil with you."
"That goes without saying." Hank says.



The Mercenaries' ship lands at a designated parking space, the three mercs slip quickly into the darkness, leaving the pilot in the ship. Walking through alleyway after alleyway. They eventually get to an asphalt road, buildings above it and to the sides of it, almost like a sewer tunnel it looks like. The mercs walk down it for miles and miles, passing corpses, skeletons, rats, rat kings, all the likes.before getting to a faded red metal door with a broken window on it, Achilles pushes it open slowly, a dusty, dim-lit small office space lays inside, with 4 people in there, one, a small red man with horns, another a tall skeleton with glowing eyes, another, a Formicidae Weaver with a wizard beard, and the last, an old man in a tuxedo with grey hair and green eyes.
"Greetings. I'm Achilles, behind me is Hank and Phil." Achilles says.
The man in the tuxedo speaks. "This is highly unorthodox, people came to visit us?"
"We're looking for President Plantagenet." Achilles says.
The man in the tuxedo walks over to Achilles "I am President Plantagenet. This is my cabinet, see Rouge, the red man, Neetly, the skeleton, and Yonder, the ant- Sorry, Formicidae."
Angry clicking comes from Yonder.
"Yeah, that's great, look, we're just from The Bird Union-"
"THEY STILL EXIST?!" Neetly yells "Before I died down here and turned into a skeleton, 700 years ago, I was to believe they had all died out."
"I don't know the details, but they sure exist up there." Hank says "We're here to inform you that we're fighting against Dydact, and we'd appreciate the support."
Metal clanking comes from Phil creating a sentry gun
President Plantagenet looks around "I wish we could offer more, but... We don't have to tell you that we don't have much."
"Wat" Achilles says "There's a cruiser docked in order that's been there forever with 'NRG' plastered all over it."
President Plantagenet looks at Neetly, Neetly goes diving into the file cabinets, searching through as much as he can as quickly as he can. It takes about 5 minutes, but Neetly pulls out a file "Ah-hah! The Requiem MkIII! Supposedly destroyed personally by Gordon Wayne's heir, but if it's still is up there... Well, if the Requiem MkIII is all we can offer, we'll offer the shit out of it! Right sir?"
"Of course, Neetly." President Plantagenet says. "Give us President Ostriches' contact information and we can help anytime."
"Two things: President Ostrich is very very dead, President goose is president now, and yeah sure you can have his info." Achilles hands over the contact info.
"Neetly, you said that it should be President Os-" Plantagenet is cut off abruptly by the sentry gun firing, startling everyone
"WoAH!" Phil yells running over to the sentry gun, he uses his flashlight to illuminate the area, and finds nothing. He looks down at the sentry gun on the road. "Must be faulty..."
Hank pipes up. "I dunno, my radar is picking up something... Achilles, get out here, and Plantagenet, thank you for having us, but you're going to want to move locations, stay in touch."
Achilles walks out, and slams the door. "Alrightm who wants the taste of an Achilles heel."
"You must realized how not cool that actually sounds right?" Hank asks.
"When you're staring a guitar gun down it's very intimidating. I learnt it from my father, he did it to me all the time. Fun times." Achilles responds.
"I do not envy you Lunarians-" Hank is cut off by a sword being thrown from the darkness, hitting Phil. Phil falls backwards, and throws his flashlight down the road, backlighting an 8 foot tall humanoid.
The thrown sword clatters on the floor after Phil tears it from his shoulder. "Good shot..." He mumbles.
"General Crikey?" Hank asks.
"They're not gonna respond." Achilles says.
The figure takes out a greatsword and puts the tip to the ground and holds it like a cane. They slowly hobble closer.
"Fuck the suspense..." Hank says turning on his suit flashlight, revealing the figure.
Medieval style body armor, without a face plate, a metal mohawk on the helmet, and a large feather cape.
Inside the helmet is nothing but two floating white dots in the helmet.
"It's an empty suit of armor?" Phil says.
The figure speaks with a deep yet high pitched voice, almost like the voice you get when you breathe in and speak at the same time "I am General Cavum."
General Cavum picks up her sword and twirls it in the air before slamming the tip into the ground, shattering the ground and cracking open the walls.
Hank grabs Phil and Achilles and starts running, Hank turns on his comms "PILOT! GET THE SHIP NEAR US WE'RE GETTING OUT OF HERE!"
"Hank, there's one way out and... He? She? Fuck it, They're blocking it, we can take 'em." Achilles says
"SURE BUT NOT IF THE TUNNEL COLLAPSES!" Hank responds
"Fair enough." Achilles says.
General Cavum picks her sword from the ground and readies it to strike, and as Hank runs past, General Cavum cuts straight through his suit's leg, causing him to fall, Phil stands up first and throws his wrench at General Cavum, and when it hits, they fall into all the individual pieces of armor.
"That was easy." Achilles says.
Hank crawls out of his suit and looks at the pile of General Cavum. "Yeah I guess it was, c'mon, let's get outa here-" Hank is interrupted by the pile of General Cavum reaching for their greatsword, and once grabbed, the pile pulls itself back into their humanoid form. "Get back here you little still-living shits." 
Hank looks at Phil, Phil looks at Hank. "That was my only wrench, so." Phil picks up Hank and starts running, Achilles follows suit, trying to activate his guitar
General Cavum angles her sword back, and pushes against it, sending her running incredibly fast towards the mercs.
"Ah! Got it! I AM THE ACHILLES HEEL!" Achilles yells activating the guitar, pulling up the headstock and aiming  it at General Cavum. Achilles fires, but General Cavum combat rolls and dodges, the guitar hits the wall, causing the tunnel to start collapsing around them, General Cavum easily avoiding, and still approaching.
Meanwhile Phil and Achilles are abiding by the phrase 'Fuck around and find out', and are just running for the exit.
Eventually they reach the exit (and entrance), and jump out of it, seeing their ship waiting for them a few blocks down. They start running, but General Cavum jumps out from the exit and puts their sword through Achilles leg. 
Achilles falls over, General Cavum jumps on him, Achilles acts quickly, taking a string out of his guitar and using it like a whip to break up General Cavum, before using it like a grappling hoop on a gutter and proppelling himself quickly to the ship, once on, he closes the door, and promptly passes out.
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Captain Phoosma

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Wow, been a little bit. Sorry this took so long, just went through some technical difficulties behind the scenes. Writing issues, that type of thing, but through thick and thin I'll continue. hope you enjoyed this installment.

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