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The Armageddon Squad

This will simply be called "The Armageddon Squad".  I was originally going to call it "Armageddon Squad 2", but I decided to call it this just because it recaps what happened in the first issue into a larger story, the entire story which the first issue was supposed to be a part of. 

Table of Contents
This is an outline to help identify different parts of the story.  The
titles do not affect the flow of the book, nor do they appear anywhere
in it.  They do not necessarily signify scene changes.  Each []
signifies a new frame.  The dialogue for that box follows.

1. Opening-Zippy Runs home
2. Fight Jokka Mul
3. Goto Mall
4. Meet Nasty Greg
5. Pair Off
6. Knife World
7. Coy and Malice and 666
8. Buzz bucks
9. Fountain - kills Malice
10. Fight--Greg Saves the Day

The story takes place in the small town of Misty Hills a few miles north
of Reno, Nevada, which is only a few miles from the Californian border.

Page 1:
[wide shot of a desert area near a lonely highway.  A house lies in the
midground and a wooden sign lies in the foreground near the highway.
The Sign Reads:  "Lovely Lola's Shack of Unwholesome Goodness".]

[interior.  A woman (hooker) is standing behind a counter (complete with
cash register) wearing something sinful, of your design.  She has her
eyebrow raised and a very suspicious look on her face.  She is facing
the camera.]

Prostitute:  Pardon, my asking, sir, but could I see some I.D. ?

[Zippy in a trench coat with an unconvincing false beard and a pair of
Gracco Marx nose and glasses.  Trenchcoat and hat.]

Zippy:  Sorry, sonny, I lost my ID in the war.

Prostitute:  And which war did you serve in?

Zippy:  All of 'em!

Prostitute:  Even the war of 1812?

Zippy:  Especially that one!

[Zippy is outside, face first in the asphalt.  Fake glasses and beard
have fallen off.]
Zippy:  (face still to the ground)
You could at least have the courtesy to jump up and down a few times
before kicking me out!

[Runs Home]

[Extreme Close-up, non-smoking sign on a stand in the middle of the
mall]

[Clyde and Haze are walking up to a Burger World in the food court of
the mall, past the sign.  Clyde is smoking.]

Clyde:
No Smoking my ass!  I tell ya, Haze, I was born at the wrong time.  I
should've arrived 50 years ago, when everyone thought smoking was good
for you.

Haze:
You mean it was advertised that smoking was good for you.  There's a
difference.

Clyde:
No there isn't.

[They are at the counter, see them from beyond the counter]

Haze:
Can I get you anything.

Clyde:
Yes, You can give me back the 5 minutes of my life I lost arguing with
you.

[Haze removes the cigarette from Clyde's mouth and extinguished it into
the countertop.  In a smooth motion, he orders.]

Haze:
Two Soda pops please.

2: Fight Jokka Mul

[Empty shot of room, except for ringing telephone.]

Narrative quote:  At their secret layer, the Armageddon Squad receives a
call to action...

[Smoker appears to answer it.  half body shot]

Smoker: Talk to me.

Oh, it's you.

Yah.

What?!

But Family Ties is on!  Oh, dammit!

[Smoker turns to the rest of the crowd sitting on a couch.  They are all
wide eyed in shock.  Zippy is at his feet.  Cleric is doing needle point
on a square type pot holder other square type pot holders will be
resting on an adjacent coffee table. ]

Smoker:  Guys, we have to go save the world now.

Cleo: What!?  But Family Ties is on!

Zippy:  Someone get a tape!

[Jokka Mul Close up]
Jokka Mul:  Behold, foolish short people!

[Full body shot, him standing before an empty parking lot with the mall
in the background]
Jokka:  I am Jokka Mul!  Master of Mayhem!

[looks left]
[sees nothing but an empty highway]
[looks right]
[sees nothing but desert]
[realizes he is in an empty parking lot with no people, is looking at
camera]

[the Armageddon Squad appears, stand tall,  ready to fight]

[Jokka Mul picks them up]

[Jokka shoves them in his mouth, chews, pull back camera a little.]

[Emerald Coy jumps out and kicks Jokka Mul in the head, eyes bug out, he
spits our heroes out]

[Armageddon Squad in a heap, composing themselves, covered with camel
spit]

Cleo:  Ick!

Damozon:  Ick!  (once more!)

Zippy:  Ick!  (yet again!)

[Emerald Coy stands on a car]
[Coy vanishes]

[see Cleric and Damozon]

Cleric:  Who was that Green Guy?

Dam:  The Lone Ranger?

3: Goto Mall

Zippy: say, while we're here, can we go to mall?

Smoker: Well, I could use a carton or three of cigarettes.

Cleo:  (hand on head) You're hopeless.

[View of Armageddon Squad from the top of the building.  We don't have
to see the characters, but a bit of the ledge so that the viewer knows
that we are looking down at them from the top of the building.]

Voice:  (666)Fools.  They suspect nothing.

[see Android 666 and Malice, 666 on the left]

666:  I can take care of them in no time.  With your bloodstone, you can
make and infinite number of vampire-zombie slaves.

[see the two of them from behind from another aerial view.]

Malice:  They'll just be my hor d'oeuvres.  I'd like to make that Cleo
my main course.  I may be a carnivore, but I see some melons I'd like to
sink my teeth into!

[look up at Emerald Coy suspended in the air, arms crossed, looking down
in hatred.]

4: Meet Nasty Greg

Note:  Greg is carrying a metal briefcase

[sitting at the café]
Clyde: Who's this?

Haze: Clyde, meet the "Master Criminal" Nasty Greg, my bootleg Japanese
animation dealer.

Clyde: That's all you do?

Greg: No.  I also rebroadcast Major League Baseball games without
express written consent... and smoke heroin.

Haze and Clyde:
You can't smoke heroin.

Nasty Greg(Rolls eyes into back of head):
Pshaw.  Neophytes!

[see Clyde and Haze turning and whispering to each other]
(aside)
Clyde:  Haze, this guy is an asshole!
Haze:  Worse, he's a super deluxe asshole with cheese, but he's the only
one with the goods.

Haze:
So what did you bring me?

Greg:  (opening case at Haze, no need for camera to seen into the case)
Behold!  All of the Sailor Moon fifth season!  First generation copies!

Haze:  Do they have translations of the ending theme songs?!

Greg:  Not only that, but if you kick 'em the right way, they
self-destruct!

Haze: (eyes are sparkling)
By the Matrix!  Lemeatum!

Greg:
Hold on a sec!  I went to great lengths to get these.  It's gonna take
more than simple moneys to make me part with these!

Haze:
Like What?

Greg:
You, me, a few drinks, wink wink, nudge nudge, saynomore!

Haze (slams fist down on table):
Damnit Nasty Greg!  I wouldn't sleep you with you if you were the last
man on earth!

(Clyde and Haze exchange glances)
[Clyde is looking at Haze as if saying "what the hell is wrong with
you?" and Haze is doing the same to Clyde]

Haze:
Because I'm straight.

Greg (Stands up, looks determined):
Well, I'm not going to let these go for any less than a hot night of
butterscotch bondage!

Haze (calm):
I'll give you a personal check.

Greg:
Done.

Anja: (walking onto the scene)
Hey Clyde!  Hey Haze!  What's up!

Greg:
Hey Anja!  What's that? (points off into the distance to the right)

Anja:
What?

Greg:
It's one of your legs!

Greg:
What's that over there?
(Anja is infuriated)

Anja:
(whacking Greg out of the scene as in Ranma)  Go to hell and roast,
butter boy!

[little SD Haze and Clyde whispering to each other in the corner of the
panel Haze is on the left]
Haze: Loose?
Clyde: Looser than Little Richard's grip on reality.

Anja:
(arms folded, composing herself) So, guys, what's up.

Clyde:
Nothing and a half.  Whuzup with you?

[close up, Anja is very concerned]
Anja:
I need some potholders for my Mom, but I can't seem to find them
anywhere!

[widescreen, see all three of them]
Clyde:
Well, I was just going to get some smokes.  We'll Check the North wing,
you take the South.

[frame where we can see all 5 members standing in a circle.  They are
equal distances from each other, implying that each one will be going to
a separate place.  Should resemble the last panel.]

Smoker:  and we'll meet back in an hour.

5: Pair Off

[Zippy is skipping along, singing to himself]

Zippy:  ... large balls... balls that were heavy as lead
with a dexterous twist of his muscular wrist,
he could flip 'em right  over his head.

[Zippy turns his head with a jerk as he hears a voice from off-screen]

Voice:  Hey Hansom.

[Malice lying on a bench in the center of the mall looking very
seductive]

[Zippy dashes over to her and kneels before her in begging position]

Zippy:  Marry Me!

Malice:  (unsurprised) (smiling) Like a fly to my honey.

[extreme close up of Malice's mouth, fangs exposed, smiling]
Note:  Malice wears black lipstick
Malice:  Speaking of sweet treats!

[large, full page shot of Clyde and Haze walking in the mall, Haze now
has metal briefcase.]
Haze:
So that's your girlfriend this week?

Clyde:
Yeah.

Haze:
Good Breasts.  I prefer nice big ones that fit nicely into my palms.

Clyde:
Actually, I prefer a small one in one palm and a big one the other.

Haze:
And where do you find a woman like that?

Clyde:
Who said anything about one woman?

Clyde:
We are here!  Tobacco World!

Haze:
Dude!  You're took young to buy cigarettes!

Clyde:
But you're not.

Haze:
What?! The Haze Man use his powers of being 18 for evil!  No Way!

Clyde:
Yeah, Yeah.    Don't worry, we smokers have a code of honor!

Clyde:
Hey Mister, would you buy me a carton of unfiltereds?

Smoker:
Sure, kid.

Clyde:  See?
Haze:  See what?

Clyde:
See, he's at the counter ... he's buying an extra carton of unfiltereds...
he's exiting the store... he's running away... Hey!

[Clyde runs after him]

Cleo and Haze (crosses arms, sighs):
Sigh... Simpleton.

[Haze looks up to find that Cleo has done the exact same thing.]

Haze:
Say, are you from Idaho!

Cleo:
Yeah!

Haze:
Me to!
Wow, we sure do have a lot in common!  I'm Haze.

Cleo:
(proud)
Cleo.  But don't get the wrong Idea.  I'm gay.

Haze:
Well, that figures.  Straight women don't make eye contact with me.  So
you have pretty wild and funky parents.

Cleo(puzzled):
No, not really.

Haze(inquisitive):
Hmmm.  Old fashioned farmers?

Cleo (still puzzled):
Yes.  Why?

Haze:
(has hand to his chin, in deep thought)
Hmmm.  Just like mine.  Well, I bet they didn't take the news to well.

Cleo:
News?

Haze:
Yeah.  I mean, when I told my parents that I was thinking of buying this
black trench coat, well, my mom cut herself up pretty bad.  Found her in
the tub.  She's OK, but hasn't been the same since.  Good thing we got
her those big pills.

Cleo:
...

Haze:  (offers her his soda, doesn't seem to notice her distress)
Soda pop?

6. Knife World

Damozon:  (to store clerk)  OK, listen, I need a blade.  A blade that
has been the tool of so much bloodshed that, if set next to a flame,
would ignite due to the shear volume of human oil that has seeped into
it over the centuries.  And it must be under $19.95.

Clerk: Um.  We have a sale on letter openers.

Dam: And how many people have they killed?

Anja:  Excuse me?  Do you have pot holders?

[Half body shot]
Damozon:  Hey!  I'm being served here!

[same Half body shot, only speed lines in the background.  Hear
"slicing" sounds]

[Damozon's body falls apart, into forearms, legs, body and head.]

Dam: Hey!  Who did this?!

[worm's eye view of Vampire Zippy, holding a "Ginyu" knife, show the
words "Ginyu" on the knife.]

[Damozon's parts are all over the floor.  Her right forearm has landed
on it's edge, so that it sticks straight up in the air.  It is making a
fist at Zippy.]

Dam:  Zippy!  Damn you!  I kick your ass so hard it will give you a
toothache!

[Same view looking up at Zippy, only Malice appears behind Zippy and
puts her hand on Zippy's shoulder.  She has a seductive grin.]

Malice:  Pity you can't be killed.  You'll just have to sit and watch
while I make Your little Cleo into my brunch!

[camera back on Damozon, Anja is on her knees looking puzzled at
Damozon's parts.]
Dam:  No!  Not Brunch!

[Knife world entrance, Malice and Zippy are leaving.]

[back to Damozon, she is yelling at Anja]

Dam:  Don't just stand there!  Give me a hand!

[pause]

[same picture, Anja is clapping, Damozon's head is pissed, her right
hand is giving her the finger.]

6. Coy and Malice and 666

[Haze and Cleo turning their heads to a voice from off screen]

Voice:  (666)  That's as far as you go!

[see Haze and Cleo on the extreme foreground.  A fountain is in the
extreme background,  Android 666, Malice and Zippy are standing in the
midground about 15 feet from Haze and Cleo.]

Cleo:  Zippy?

[shot if the bad guys]

Malice:  In name only.  He is now my zombie slave!

[Haze yelling, Cleo is standing next to him nodding in a matter-of-fact
kinda way.]

Haze:  Ha!  Everyone who passed third grade science class knows that
vampires can only extend their will to one minion at a time, AT BEST!

[Close up of 666]

666:  Normally, that's true, but due a little enhancement...

[Pull camera back to see the bad guys surrounded by an army of
vampirized mall shoppers!]

666:  ...Malice's powers of persuasion are now infinite.

[Cleo and Haze looking dumbfounded]

[Coy jumps out and makes several poses, taking up several frames, each
very intense as if he is saying something important.  Blank word
balloons.  While he is posing, we can see Smoker being chased by Clyde
in the background.]

[Coy face-faulting in reaction to Cleo's remark]
Cleo:  Um, you realize you can't talk, right?

[Coy removes the stone from his forehead, the green skin starts melting
off]


Coy:  Alright then, as I was saying...
Note: he's naked under the skin.  Don't make any fancy effort to cover
his privates.  Just use a plain black rectangle.  That'll be funny.

[Haze and Cleo standing side by side with their heads turned away (their
rights) and their arms thrown up]

Haze:  Dude!  Get your monkey a cage!

Cleo:  Ack!  I'm even GAYER than I was this morning!

[pause, that is, another frame just like the last one only no dialogue]

[Haze and Cleo, both unmoving, open one eye and seek a peek.  This frame
should be the same as the last two.  The only difference should be the
expressions.]

[Camera turns to a half shot of Coy (no clothes), speaking with a lot of
emotion]

Coy:  I followed her for years.  She met hardship after hardship.  She
fell in with the wrong crowd.  She even took a job at Lovely Lola's
Shack of Unwholesome Goodness!  She got tired of being treated poorly
for being different.  She was willing to sell her soul to get revenge at
the world.

[story continues as the camera shows Android 666]

Coy: She got her wish when she met the Evil Android Co-op!  They had a
machine that could give her ultimate power by sucking all the goodness
out of her being.

[show Coy's hand, stone in it ]

Coy:  All the goodness she had is contained in this stone, within her is
a stone of pure evil...

Cleo: but wait, aren't you a stalker then?

Coy: What?!

Haze:  Yeah, dude.

Coy:  (flustered)  I wasn't STALKING her!  I was just secretly following
her around and collecting things from her garbage!  You can't call that
stalking!

[Android 666, yelling]

666:  Enough exposition!  Kill them!

8. Buzz bucks

[Cleric and Nasty Greg having a pleasant conversation in a coffee shop]

Cleric:  Yes, but how do you resolve the circularity problem with the
proof of the existence of God?

Greg:  Well I go back to Arnauld's Fourth Set of Objections...

9. Fountain = kills Malice

[Clyde finally tackles Smokers in front of 666 and Malice.  They are
sweatdropping at their childishness.  Android 666 is still pointing.]

[close up of an angry 666]
666:  Now, Malice, infect the redhead!

Malice:  (making fists, head down, shaking) I can't!  I just can't
enslave her!  She's too tasty!

[new shot of Malice, looking philosophical,  see Coy in the background,
resuited in the green skin]
I need to chop her into bit-sized morsels and stir fry her, so that I
can savor every sweat drop of her flesh!

[Malice consulting 666]
Malice:  (puts hand on 666's shoulder, her eyes are big and looking for
understanding)You understand, don't you?

666:  Insolent wench!  You forget the disadvantage of having us give you
that bloodstone:  We can take it back!

[666 swipes his claw through Malice's torso, blood everywhere. ]

[Coy reaches out as if he were yelling "NOOOOOO!", but he can't talk]

10. Fight--Greg Saves the Day

[666 places the bloodstone (flaming) on his forehead, mimicking Coy.
Close up]

666:  Now I have the power!  And don't even think of pilfering it.  Only
someone with steel hands could touch something so blazen with the heat of
hatred.

[camera pulled all the way back, 666 is pointing, vampire zombies
assemble and meander toward our heroes]

666:  Now!  Finish them, my faceless minions!

[Malice has fallen into the fountain.  An aerial view of her lying
lifeless in the water, blood everywhere.  A chunk of her torso is
missing.]

[666 backfists Zippy, lots of speed lines!]
666:  And now I have no more use for you either!

[ he flies into the fountain, he is wounded and Bleeding.  He is leaning
against the center pillar, propped up like a rag doll against a wall.]

Zippy: ouch

[see a wall of vampire zombies approaching.  Use a mid body shot]

[pulled back shot of the heroes, Cleo, Smoker, Coy, Clyde, looking
worried.  See parts of Vampire zombies on the edges of the frame.  Haze
is using his metal case as a shield, Clyde is making an X with his index
fingers.]

Smoker:  Cleo, you and Green guy go after the Tin Man, I'll hold 'em
off!

[Smoker turns into serpentine cloud of smoke]

[the cloud encircles groups of vampire zombies and starts levitating
them off the ground]

[see Cleo and Coy running at the screen, fists raised, lots of speed
lines]

[666 punches Coy in the face]

[Coy goes down]

Cleo:  (injecting her head into the panel)  Dude!  You suck!

[Haze whacks 666 in the head with his metal briefcase.  666 is hit
pretty hard]

[Close up, 666, he is hunched over an looking up, really pissed off.
Part of his face is missing and you can see his metal skull.]

[full body shot, Haze, leaning back, holding case in front of him, has a
stupid "oh, crap what have I done?" grin on his face.  Sweatdrop.
camera is looking straight at him, as if from 666's p.o.v.]

[666 backfists Haze into the fountain, just as he did Zippy, the case
flys off somewhere, we don't see it again until the last panel.]

[Haze is in the fountain, leaning against the center pillar, like Zippy
is.  They are both very injured and bloody.  This should be a big panel
for all the dialogue.]
(both keep there heads down and appear lifeless as they speak)

Zippy:  How's it going?

Haze:  I've been better.  I think I've ruptured my spleen.

Zippy: That's not your spleen, that's your sternum.

Haze:  Really?  Then where's my spleen?

Zippy:  What am I?  A doctor?

[Cleric and Greg run out of the coffee shop, they are standing in awe of
what is going on.]

[Big picture, maybe even a full page.  The whole scene, vampire zombies
are suspended in air by smoke, Smokers head is at one end of the smoke
and is looking up some slave-lady's dress.  Coy and the others are
down.  Clyde is standing around and looking at them.  Cleric and Greg
don't need to be in this frame, but the frame must be from their
perspective.  In the center is Cleo squaring off against 666.  That's
very important, so make sure it can be seen.]

[Mid shot of 666, he is powering up, as in Dragon Ball Z]

666:  Now pay for you foolishness!

[waves of black electric waves emerge from the bloodstone.  They hit
Cleo, she writhes in pain!]

[Close up of Cleric.  He is sweating, his background is all black.]

[pull camera back.  you only need to show Cleo, on the ground, writhing
in pain, 666 and Cleric.]

[Close up of Cleo on the ground, arm outstretched to the camera]

Cleo:  Help me...

[Close up of Cleric, he is gritting his teeth and sweating, sort of
hunched over in pain.  Background is black]

[Cleo writhing in pain]

[A similar shot, but Cleric is standing in front of her, arms
outstretched.  He is in a Christ-like position, screaming in pain]

Cleo:  (puzzled) ... Cleric...?

[666, mid shot]

666:  Fool!

[Greg Leaps onto Android 666's back wearing potholders and rips the
bloodstone out.]

[Greg throws the bloodstone and it shatters into a million pieces.  ]

[see victims changing back to normal,  Smoker is letting them down.]

Android 666:
(shouting, angry)
Fools!  You'll still die by me hands!

[Android 666 finds himself bombarded by bullets, crosses his arms in
defense, is being pushed back.  His cloths are fraying off as he is
hit.]

[Damozon, barely standing, limbs taped on, her head is still being held
by Anja who is cowering behind her.  Damozon is holding an M 16, it's
firing!]

Damozon's head:  You forget that this store has a Big S-Mart!

Anja:  (sweatdrop)  Shop Smart!  Shop S-Mart!

[he is being pushed back to the fountain]

[see the picture of the injured Haze, in close up, as he spots an
"on/off" switch on 666's now exposed metal butt.]

[Haze pushes the off button.]

[666 shuts off.  Falls into a heap ]

[everyone (available) stands around, sweatdrop]

[Cleo playfully kicks the fallen android]

Cleo:  Well, that was anti-climactic.

[body of 666]

Electronic Voice:  Self-destruct mode activated.

[explosion!!]

[Cleo again, in same position, only a little charred]

Electronic Voice:  (from nowhere)  You are now dead.  Have a nice day.

[Cleo brushing herself off]

Cleo:  Well, I think we all learned a valuable lesson today!

Clyde:  I learned never to trust anyone over thirty!

Haze:  I learned where my sternum is.

Coy:........................!

Cleric:  I learned that we need to tolerate others and offer them
support and understanding, even if we thing they are making the wrong
choices.

Damozon:  I learned that all anyone really needs is a little head! (she
is placing her head back on her neck)

Greg:  I learned that Haze knows how to finger an ass!

Haze:  (off-screen)  Up your nose with a garden hose, Greg!!!

[Full page, see everyone:  Haze and Zippy are still in the fountain,
Cleo is kissing Damozon.  Coy is jumping into Cleric's arms, as in
Scooby do.  The metal briefcase is off somewhere.  Anja is hugging
Clyde, holding pot holders/oven mitts.  Smoker and Nasty Greg are in the
extreme foreground, talking.  Smoker looks exited.  Greg is sly.]

Cleric:  I see you're Homophobic.

Smoker:  So, you can get me ALL of the episodes of Family Ties on VHS?

Greg:  Yeah, but it'll cost ya.

END