Issue #8

Character Roll Call Victory Xeran Mrs. Atomic Wayfinder Guile Episode Summary Robots in the bedrooms The team awakens to robots in their rooms. Fights ensue. Some robots escape. It seems Dr. Psychon from Mrs. Atomic's dimension may be involved. The team plans how to find them. They interview the other Dr. Psychon in Stronghold. Victory Bots. Oh my. The team finds Dr. Psychon operating from the same old barn as last time. They manage to jump him, but his guards - "enhanced" robotic version of Victory in sexy outfits - then jump the team. The team defeats them, captures Psychon and discovers that he had a meeting with a Mr. Green in Germany. A new investigation begins. The Armamentarium Psychon is sent home. The team goes undercover to investigates Mr. Green in Germany, and are led to Englefurchsterben, a private mansion/castle high in the German Alps. There they discover an organization called The Armamentarium. See email on text of Armamentarium meeting which Guile observes and who is present. They learn of a plan to destroy a passenger liner and obtain the Spear of Destiny. The STARCROSS team uses the baddie's own teleporter to catch up with their team on the ship. Princess Canary Battle The team battles and defeats Mr. Gold and several agents, and obtains the Spear of Destiny. Mrs. Atomic uses the spear to destroy a U-boat and its undead crew. Perfectly normal. To Koscaluna Acting on information overheard in the Armamentarium meeting, the team deploys to Koscaluna, an enormous mountain in an inhospitable and disputed region of the Himalayas. The sneak into an archaeological dig in a mountainside cavern and discover the Armamentaium at work trying to recover six small battle suits and one full-sized mech. The team is discovered when Guile tries a mind-trick and Mr. Green sounds the alarm. Grand finale, Gundam-like battle The team battle the Armamentarium. Mr. Black in the 7-story tall mech while the other villains are on foot. Xeran uses a smaller battloid suit to shoot Mr. White to bits. Wayfinder and Mr. Yellow fight to a standstill. The team scramble to the Battloids as Mr. Black's mech leaves the cavern. Xeran, rightly fearing that Mr. Black seems to collapse the cavern, heroically takes on the much larger mech by himself. He fights valiantly but his Battloid is soon destoyed and falling from the sky. Xeran ejects safely. Inside, Mr. Green recovers from his Victory-induced nap and teleports himself, the inoperative Mr. White, and a fleeing Mr. Yellow away. Mrs. Atomic (the one with the full CVK) stops Mr. Red's escape by shooting him int he back with a single shot from her mech's gatling laser, doing 18 BODY and almost killing him. He is on the ground unconscious and burning after being knocked about 90' across the cavern. She then attempts to fly the mech but is flustered by the controls and misinterprets Xeran's instructions and activates the ejection system, launching herself into the cavern roof, before falling to the ground under the partially-deployed parachute canopy... Meanwhile, Guile recovers from a clumsy fall to take a Battloid to the cavern entrance. Victory recovers from her rather unfortunate attempt at flying a Battloid (it careened off of a wall and spun through the cavern interior) and, after using her powers to extinguish Mr. Red, joins Guile at the entrance. Wayfinder's trip to the entrance is slower but much less eventful until Mr. Black's mech lauches a missile attack on him. Fortunately, the Battloid's ECM cause the missiles to miss, and the three Battloids each return fire simultaneously with a 5-missile salvo which completely obliterates the giant mech and (presumably) Mr. Black. The team mops up and heads home with their new toys. Loose Ends and Tidbits Some of the Armamentarium members escaped. Two others were not present. The mansion remains, as does thier organization's infrastructure. What of their other projects that Guile learned of? What about others that likely exist? What did this world's Dr. Psychon mean with his creepy comment about it being nice to see Wayfinder again, when they had never met? What of the Spear of Destiny on the floor of the North Atlantic? Were the undead crew of the U-703, including the female captain, all destroyed? Who was shipping the Spear of Destiny, and to whom? For what purpose? What is up with the perv Psychon? Why were a bunch of mechs in a mountain cavern for thousands of years? Travis? Battloid Systems and Info details will come later