Skull Flowers
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Minx arms one of the Torrents.
Officer Whistle Britches fires the DDT into a swarm of Scanners.
808 jumps onto one of the Torrents and takes a seat.
A view screen with a targeting system appear in front of 808.
He pulls the trigger on the Torrent and takes out a H.Y.D.R.A. with a Crossfire missile.
The Torrents 808 and Minx are on begin to race down a multicolored neon conveyor belt attached to the guardrail like a roller coaster.
Assault sees Minx seated atop one of the Torrents.
He gives chase while gliding along the side of the Infinity.
808 is in hot pursuit of Battery.
The gunfire from 808 causes explosions all around Battery.
Assault fires several shots at Minx.
One of the shots grazes her head.
Minx grabs her burnt hair.
MINX
That was close.
She's pissed.
With a rapid fire machine gun burst from the Torrent, Minx blows Assault off his Shredder and face first into some sewage.
A video of her pops up on the view screen above 808.
MINX
Shoot the toxic waste, fool!
808 targets and opens fire on a barrel of toxic waste floating in front of Battery's Shredder.
Battery's Shredder is engulfed in a huge explosion that sends him hurtling face first into the ooze.
Junebug begins to run below deck.
Junebug open a weapons chest and grabs a high-powered sniper rifle named the Brain Scrambler.
Junebug begins to run back up to the main deck.
Alexis has the Laser Blade transformed into a bow and is picking off Scanners one by one.
Officer Whistle Britches fires the DDT off the back of the Infinity's main deck.
The blast from the DDT blows up 3 H.Y.D.R.A.'s
The shock wave from the explosion takes out dozens of W.A.S.P's
A Scanner crash lands on the deck and slams right into Officer Whistle Britches.
OFFICER WHISTLE BRITCHES
Ahhhh!
Alexis spots the Scanners jetpack laying on the deck.
It's still in one piece.
She grabs it and puts it on.
She is about to fly off when Junebug hands her the Brain Scrambler.
JUNEBUG
Take this!
Alexis grabs the Brain Scrambler and flies off.
The tunnel of the sewer system is filled with Scanner's, Wasp's, and Hydra's firing Cobra, Stinger, and Fang Missiles.
Explosions are everywhere.
The Dreadnought's are still in hot pursuit of the Infinity.
Alexis heads straight for Scarzensky.
The Raven and several Dreadnought's continue to pummel the Infinity with every pass.
As the Raven turns and prepares to make another swoop passed the Infinity Scarzensky opens fire on Alexis.
He misses her by a lash as she raises the Brain Scrambler and sees that she has him dead to rites.
She fires a round through the protective glass of the Raven's cockpit and hits Special Agent Scarzensky right between the eyes.
The cockpit of the Raven explodes and begin to plummet into the middle of the sewage flowing into Fiddlers Creek blowing up all the remaining Dreadnought's around the Infinity.
Verse XXVII
Inside the Capstone ov tha Pyramid ov tha Priestess ov Mars Xavier can see what has just happened in the sewer as he gazes into his Eyegasmatron.
XAVIER
Imbeciles!
The wreckage of the Raven begins to sink into the ooze beneath the Death Factory.
MYSTRE
I fear you toy with our enemies.
Mystre holds the Codex Magicka in one hand and the Staff ov tha Illuminati in the other.
MYSTRE
Perhaps, it is because you still feel the pain from the loss of your son?
XAVIER
I assure you nothing will stop what we have already set into motion.
Xavier leans back into the Throne ov Oblivion with a look in his eyes like he has much on his mind.
MYSTRE
Remember, my young disciple...
Mystre begins to walk the Left Hand Path that leads away from the Pillars ov Eternity.
MYSTRE
People are like Skull Flowers,
The Centipede That Ate The Centuries crawls upon the pillars.
MYSTRE
Some need no help to continue to grow upright and strong,
Several dark clouds creep passed the moon.
MYSTRE
Others struggle and need guidance along the way,
The moonlight outside begins to creep inside the capstone.
MYSTRE
Some get lost and die amongst the weeds,
Mystre stops before the moonlight and begins to turn back toward Xavier.
MYSTRE
While others perish and never make it past the seed.
The moonlight slowly crawls across Mystre's face revealing his true form as a crimson eyed cobra.
MYSTRE
Meditate upon these things if you wish to rise above the heavens and become a Master ov tha Ancient Electronic Arts.
Mystre disappears into the shadows.
Verse XXVIII
Alexis lands on the main deck of the Infinity and sees Officer Whistle Britches is hurt.
OFFICER WHISTLE BRITCHES
Ahhhhh!
All disfigured with red jelly pouring out his belly blood constantly gushes from the wound.
ALEXIS
Whistle Britches, you're bleedin'!
808 tries the remove a piece of the Infinity lodged into the gut of Officer Whistle Britches.
OFFICER WHISTLE BRITCHES
I can't feel my legs.
He starts to shake his head like he's going into shock.
ALEXIS
What are we gonna' do?
808 injects Officer Whistle Britches with a heavy dose of morphine from the Infinity's Medical Kit.
MINX
Go on. We'll take care of him.
The engine to the Infinity begins rattling like a lung with tuberculosis.
ALEXIS
You have take him to Professor Proxy!
Alexis looks over at Minx like she's scared.
ALEXIS
He'll know what to do.
Verse XXIX
It is dark in Manzini’s Office except for the glow of one low lit lamp.
Trixxxy's one of Manzini’s ho’s has a lollipop in her mouth.
Manzini is whispering something in her ear.
Manzini smiles with a perverted grin across his face.
Trixxxy playfully slaps him on the shoulder.
TRIXXXY
You so nasty!
Manzini begins chopping up a line of Star Dust.
TRIXXXY
So baby, what is it exactly that you do here?
CARLYLE MANZINI
We are the makers of the myth, the creators of the dream, devours of consciousness that taste like candied creams.
Manzini starts sprinkling Star Dust between Trixxxy's tits.
TRIXXXY
Ya'll really make that stuff here?
Trixxxy innocently twirls her hair.
TRIXXXY
I mean, how come you don't go to jail like the boys on the corners?
Manzini snorts the Star dust from between Trixxxy's tits.
CARLYLE MANZINI
You ever tell anybody that and I'll kill ya'.
Suddenly and without a moments notice Mistress LaReaux kicks open the door to Manzini's office.
She blows Trixxxy away.
Manzini's face is covered in blood.
Trixxxy is lifeless before him.
CARLYLE MANZINI
Ah-uh-i-uhhhh!
Mistress LaReaux backhands Manzini with her pistol the Tombstone.
She drags Manzini kicking and screaming like a little bitch by the hair of the head towards the
giant Eyegasmatron behind his desk and clicks Stream.
Xavier appears on screen.
XAVIER
I made you rich off the indulgences you sold those fools on the Emissions Guild and you repay me by threatening to blackmail me.
Manzini is slobbering all over himself.
CARLYLE MANZINI
I'm sorry! I didn't mean to anger you!
I became ungrateful! I forgot myself!
Xavier looks at LaReaux.
XAVIER
Kill Him.
Manzini begins to shit his pants.
CARLYLE MANZINI
No! No!
Mistress LaReaux aims the Tombstone at the back of his head and blows Manzini's brains out.
When his body hits the floor she takes out her machete the Crucifix and chops his head off.
She holds the head up for Xavier to see.
Xavier approves.
She tosses the tarot card for death onto Manzini's dead body.
She begins to walk off.
XAVIER
And, LaReaux.
Mistress LaReaux stops and looks over her shoulder like she can barely peek over the veil that covers her lips.
XAVIER
Bring me Alexis…
Verse XXX
In the sewer underneath the Death Factory Alexis and 808 began to make their way down a long dark corridor.
808 illuminates the path with one of the glow sticks in his backpack.
Alexis's butterfly tattoo seems to flutter underneath the blacklight glow of 808's glow sticks.
They soon arrive at the doorway that leads into the Death Factory.
808 sees that a key code is needed to get inside.
He takes out his Grimoire and begins an attempt to hack the keypad.
He pulls the cord to a Stream Ripper out of his backpack and attaches it to the port on the door.
The door begins to open.
ALEXIS
That was quick.
808 throws up the Sign ov tha Horns and suddenly the door jams.
808 pulls some dominoes out of his backpack.
He motions to Alexis to give him the bubblegum in her mouth.
He places the dominoes on the door with the bubblegum like it's C4.
The dominoes explode and the door is blown off its hinges.
They enter the lab of Dr. Necropolis.
Inside there is a giant tube labeled Torment with some kind of monster inside.
Next to the tube is several ampules of Halcyon 1138 and some experimental Nekrotek.
ALEXIS
I don't like the look of this place.
Behind prison cells with lasers for bars are many half-starved semi-human beings.
Some have extreme deformities.
808 walks passed a cremation oven filled with half-burned bodies.
ALEXIS
I don't know what is going on in here, but I've got an extremely bad feeling about it.
There is a huge super computer with a large screen at the end of the room.
It is labeled the Mind Control Machine.
808 begins to attempt to hack its database.
A file labeled Agenda 33 appears on screen.
808 clicks on it.
A streaming video appears on screen.
ALEXIS
Look 808, they've been conducting experiments on these things.
Alexis takes over the controls.
A time lapsed video of one of the subjects appears growing tumorous.
ALEXIS
Oh my god those things were once people.
The same nano-bots they've been putting in the Star Dust, they've been putting in their food.
The room in the video is watermarked Sector 3D.
As Alexis continues talking 808 takes one of the weed brownies out of his book bag and begins to eat it.
ALEXIS
It's just like Professor Proxy said,
The human test subjects in the video began to eat the food given to them by Dr. Necropolis, labeled PLG-1, PLG-2, PLG-3
ALEXIS
Most people, don't even know anything is happening to em'.
The stream shows a pregnant women giving birth.
ALEXIS
Look at this, once they're done grafting you if you ever become pregnant the fetus is automatically tagged too.
Right before Alexis and 808's eyes a fetus is being tagged by a nano-bot.
ALEXIS
Once the fetus is tagged the controller has complete control over the subjects DNA regardless if it is male or female and can begin to merge the two in order create the perfect slave.
Alexis clicks on another file.
On screen appears an emaciated creature, a new genotype that is neither male nor female.
It is androgynous in appearance and aggressive in nature.
ALEXIS
An individual incapable of reproduction without the ability to think for itself.
Several Drones appear in the video alongside Xavier, Dr. Necropolis, and the Marquis Van Gogh.
The Drones begin to whip the hermaphrodite's with laser whips called Morning Stars.
ALEXIS
It explains why the Orphans ov Doom were in on the assassination.
The Drones begin to prod it with Circuit Breakers.
ALEXIS
They were just patsy's under complete mind control.
A diversion to take the attention away from what the Brimstone Society was really up to.
The creature begins to do as it is commanded.
ALEXIS
The fiends in the Grully were just testers to make sure it worked and the forced inoculations a guarantee that the first round of test subjects would be properly exposed.
Alexis looks into the Mind Control Machine with a deep look of concern on her face.
ALEXIS
It's like we're all lab rats and the city streets are our maze.
Alexis looks down at 808.
ALEXIS
We've got to put a stop to this.
808 nods and spots Scarzensky's Roach running across the floor.
He follows it scurrying across the room.
It runs underneath a large locked door.
Suddenly, the door flies open.
It's Dr. Necropolis with Killer and the Psyborg Corps by his side.
Verse XXXI
DR. NECROPOLIS
Kill them!
The Psyborg Corps armed with machine-guns called Violater's open fire on Alexis and 808.
They shoot up everything in the room.
808 ducks for cover and opens fire with the X-orcist.
The blast from the X-orcist hits Killer in the face and knocks him out cold as he tries to jump on 808.
Dr. Necropolis comes running after 808 with a chainsaw called the Corpse Grinder.
Dr. Necropolis swings the Corpse Grinder missing 808 by the skin of his teeth.
The missed blow busts open a large specimen tube containing several monstrosities.
Goo pours out all over the floor and the monstrosities scurry off in every direction.
Alexis transforms the Laser Blade into a machine gun.
She try's to blast the 3 members of the Psyborg Corps that are coming at her.
The clip is empty.
She attempts to transform the Laser Blade into a bow.
It jams.
As she try's to swing the Laser Blade as a sword it is shot from her hands.
She has to run for cover.
She grabs a portable saw, the Wig Splitter, off a operating table.
As she ran towards the Psyborg Corps she dodges and ducks their gunfire.
She activates the Wig Splitter.