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GPF Archive: Monday, May 6, 2002 [[Ki, in a suit, is holding a wooden spoon while Yoshi drinks from a cartoon.]] / Ki: M'ma! I'm leaving for my job interviews in a few minutes. Yoshi, quit drinking from the carton. / Yoshi: FDisk you. / [[Ki turns to Mrs. Oshiro]] / Ki: Are you sure you'll be okay, home alll alone, M'ma? / Mrs. Oshiro: I won't be alone, Ki. Yoshi is home for the summer. / [[Ki turns to Yoshi, who is using his laptop to surf the internet]] / Ki: If you can get him to look up from his laptop for more than five seconds. / Yoshi: I'm on the WiFi, I'm in here, so deal with it. / [[Ki gestures with the spoon towards Yoshi as Mrs. Oshiro walks onto the panel]] / Mrs. Oshiro: He spends so much time with his online friends, like someone else we know. / Yoshi: Nick the nerd sent you a steamy love letter. / Ki: Get out of my e-mail account!
GPF Archive: Tuesday, May 7, 2002 [[At Ubersoft, Ki interviews for a position.]] / Narration: Ki's job interviews: / Alex: Hello, Miss Oshiro. I'm Alex, and for some inexplicable reason, I will be interviewing you today. / [[At Alex's desk.]] / Alex: Have you heard of Ubersoft before? / Ki: Well, you guys sued my old company last year... / Alex: Ah, yes, GPF Software. Strike one against you. I'm required to ask if you are in any way opposed to immoral acts to further the company, including lying, stealing, murder, or summoning the undead. / Ki (off guard): Um... Yes? / Alex: Ooh... Strike two. I don't suppose you're ready to sell your soul either...?
GPF Archive: Wednesday, May 8, 2002 {{Ki interviews with the "User Friendly" guys.}} / Narration: Ki's job interviews: / Chief: Stef. I have to meet with an important client. Can you handle this job interview? / Stef: OK, Chief. / [[In Stef's office.]] / Stef: YOU'RE Ki Oshiro? The one applying for the new tech position? / Ki: Yes. I have another copy of my résumé if you need it. / [[Stef is nervous.]] / Stef: Y-you have a nice set of curves--I mean, credentials. Everything is well rounded (your résumé, that is). If you're willing to put in long, hard time after hours, I'm sure I'll fit in you nicely. / [[Ki is visibly angry.]] / [[Ki walks out.]] / Ki: I don't think I need this job THAT badly... / Stef: Wait! I CAN score with a tech babe! I even programmed in Visual Basic once! Come back! (Please?)
GPF Archive: Thursday, May 9, 2002 {{Ki interviews with the "Sluggy Freelance" guys.}} / [[Text: Ki's Job Interviews]] / [[Gwynn and Ki shake hands.]] / Gwynn: Welcome to Ayleeorgnetcom! My name is Gwynn, and I'll be interviewing you. / Gwynn: [[pause as Ki looks at her]] What? / Ki: You... look a lot like someone I know. / Gwynn: Really? How interesting... / [[At Gwynn's desk, they sit down next to a "Devour the Competition" poster]] / Gwynn: Your résumé is quite impressive. Our CEO is looking for experts with your skills. Now there's just one last question I need you to answer... / [[Gwynn leans forward, and Ki turns around shocked as Aylee approaches.]] / Gwynn: Do you taste better with Tabasco or barbeque sauce? Say, if you were grilled over an open flame? / Ki: ?!
GPF Archive: Friday, May 10, 2002 [[Ki lays on her Mom's couch and Yoshi walks in.]] / Yoshi: Wow. Tough day, huh? / Ki: I had six interviews and all were duds. Lots of places are hiring, just not hiring ME. / Yoshi: Mom's at the hospital, checking in on Dad. She said you're fixing dinner. / [[Ki sits up.]] / Ki: Pizza it is, then. She knows I can't cook. / [[Yoshi starts to walk away.]] / Ki: You're not getting online AGAIN, are you? / Yoshi: Haven't been off except to pee and eat. The kids 'round here are too stupid anyway. / Yoshi: Isn't it about time for you to phone home to lover boy? / [[Ki points at Yoshi.]] / Ki: No deathmatches while I use the Netcam, bandwidth hog.
 
GPF Archive: Saturday, May 11, 2002 [[Nick & Ki are talking via Netcam.]] / Nick: Hi, sweetheart... / Ki: Hi, my little geeky boyfriend... / Nick: So how did the job interviews go? / Ki: Terrible. I didn't think it would go THIS bad. Not a promising lead among them. / Nick: Sorry to hear that. My project's really picking up . You know, "Velociraptor?" It's high-profile now, and they're moving me to lead programmer. / Ki: Wow... / Ki: I wonder how everyone else is doing... I'm starting to miss the old gang, even Trudy. / Nick: Funny you should mention her...
GPF Archive: Sunday, May 12, 2002 [[Ki is frazzled, talking to Nick via Netcam.]] / Ki: Trudy works at the same site you do, and you didn't TELL me?!? / Nick: Actually, she's now the marketing liason for our project... / Ki: That PROVES it! She's behind all of this, I know it! The mall, the fire, your job... / Nick (frustrated): Ki, it's just a coincidence. Trudy didn't plan ANYTHING. / Ki: She's manipulating all of us, tearing us apart! I don't know why, but it's all her! / Nick: Ki, LISTEN to yourself! Are you REALLY ready to accuse Trudy of MURDER? / [[Ki stares blankly at Nick's image.]] / Ki: N-Nick... I-I didn't mean... I-I... / Nick: Look, I better go. Tomorrow is a long... GRZZ NKTFRZKT! / [[Nick's image goes haywire.]] / Ki: YOSHI! / Yoshi: Oh, were you still on? My bad... Dang! Fragged again!
GPF Archive: Monday, May 13, 2002 [[Ki lies on her bed]] / Ki thinks: Nick and Trudy working at the same place, the rest of us scattered. I'm almost _positive_ she's behind this, but is she really capable of _murder_? / Ki thinks: She might have burned down GPF and manipulated Nick's job, but she _couldn't_ have built the Fookinator. It was supposed to be from the _future_... / [[Ki starts to sit up]] / Ki thinks: Unless a _future_ Trudy sent it back, but that whole future story is hard to swallow anyway. _I_ hardly believe it, and I was there! / [[Ki sits up, resolute]] / Ki thinks: Well, since I can't get a job anyway, maybe I ought to do some investigative work, lilke finding out who ran down my father.
GPF Archive: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 [[Two police officers, behind a desk, are talking with Ki at the police station]] / Female Officer: I appreciate your willingness to help, Ms. Oshiro, but there's not much you can do. Our people are working on the case. / Ki: I know... but maybe if I can help just a little... / Male Officer: Your father didn't have any enemies, competitors, or old acquaintances threaten him? / Ki: Not that I know of... / [[The female officer hands Ki a photo]] / Female officer: Well,. the only lead we have is this photo from the traffic klight the car ran. We ran the plate, but the car's stolen. No ID on the driver. / [[Ki looks at the photo and is horrified]] / Ki: What if I tell you I _know_ who the driver is?
GPF Archive: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 [[Ki examines the photo; Chuck as he hits Ki's father]] / Ki thinks: I can't believe it, but there it is... Fooker's neighbor _Chuck_ ran down my father! / [[Ki is examining the photo in public]] / Ki thinks: But _why_? And why did he give such condemning testimony at Fooker's trial? I thought they were close friends. It just doesn't add up / [[Ki thinks as she looks at a reflection in a store window]] / Ki thinks: But wait... wasn't he also _Trudy's_ neighbor? I think Fooker said he was infatuated with her once. I wonder if there's a connection, and why... / [[Chuck is behind an alarmed Ki.]] / Ki thinks: ... why he's following me right now!
 
GPF Archive: Thursday, May 16, 2002 {{Main Comic}} / [[Ki ducks into a store, Chuck stands outside]] / Ki thinks: Okay, you know the safety drills... go into a busy public place like this store and call the police. / [[Chuck walks by]] / Ki thinks: He's walking by, but I'm sure he knows I saw him. Why is he tailing me? / [[Ki is talking with a man who is behind the counter]] / Man behind counter: Can I help you? / Ki: Yeah... some strange man's been stalking me. Could you call the police? / Man behind counter: Sure, you wait right here. / [[Ki thinks by herself]] / Ki thinks: Could he be following me to make sure I don't find out about him? Or... just maybe to keep me from going somewhere else? / / {{Bonus Comic}} / [[Fooker makes a phone call to Dwayne while clutching his stomach]] / Fooker: Hey, um, Dwayne? I think I'm coming down with Sithitis, so I won't be coming in to work today. / [[Nick is calling Dwayne]] / Nick: ... Yeah, I have to go see my doctor about this Padawan Elbow. / [[Ki calls Dwayne]] / Ki: ... Today's my Padme smear test. It's a woman thing, so don't ask... / [[Fooker, Ki, and Nick are standing in line at the cinema. Fooker is buying tickets, Ki is facing forward, and Nick is turned around, shocked. Dwayne is standing behind them ]] / Ki: So, do you think he bought it? / Nick: I wouldn't be so sure...
GPF Archive: Friday, May 17, 2002 [[Ki waves goodbye to the police car]] / Ki thinks: I'm glad the police gave me a ride home, and now that they know about Chuck, I hope that will deter any action from him. / [[Ki walks inside as Mrs. Oshiro greets her]] / Ki thinks: I can't let Mom and Yoshi know. Though, I can't alarm them just yet, not until I have hard evidence. / Mrs. Oshiro: There you are! / [[Ki with Yoshi, who is watching the TV]] / Ki: What's going on? / Yoshi: Your friends just made the national news. Take a look / [[Ki is dismayed as the TV shows Fooker, Dwayne, and Trent]] / TV: ... manhunt continues for escaped murderer Jason Barker and his two fellow prisoners. / Ki: GOOD GRIEF!
GPF Archive: Saturday, May 18, 2002 [[Ki is doing laundry. The clock reads 7:58]] / Ki thinks: First Chuck's stalking me, now Fooker and Dwayne are inter-state fugitives! What happens next? / [[Todd teleports in]] / <> / [[Todd is crouched on top of Ki]] / Ki: WHAT THE HECK?! / Todd: Sorry to drop in like this... / Todd: But you and I need to have a _long_ talk. / [[End Chapter Five]]
GPF Archive: Sunday, May 19, 2002 {{Surrepititious Machinations Chapter Six: Plots and Complications}} / Ki: GET OFF ME! <> / Todd: OOF! / Ki: Give me one good reason why I shouldn't take this fire extinguisher to your face, "future boy." / Todd: I'm... here to... help. / Ki: Like you "helped" my friend go to jail with your Fookinator killing people? / Todd: I can prove I'm from the future. / Todd: At exactly 8:26pm, lightning will strike a power pole in Atlanta, GA, knocking out power through much of the city. It will also result in a massive car pile-up including a tanker truck hauling liquid nitrogen, which will spill onto a fire hydrant, causing it to burst a water main. The water outage will be responsible for fire fighters failing to put out a fire at a nearby hospital, which will also be struck by lightning. / Ki: And you expect me to believe this because? / Todd: Either I'm telling the truth, or I've got quite an imagination...
GPF Archive: Monday, May 20, 2002 [[Ki and Todd, in a laundry room. Ki is holding a fire extinguisher, and looking at a clock reading '8:02'. Todd looks hurt.]] / Todd:Just give me a half hour, and I'll prove I'm telling the truth. If not, you can hit me with the fire extinguisher as much as you want. / [[Ki helps Todd with his arm around her shoulders.]] / Ki: Fine. 30 minutes. But I've got to get you out of the laundry room before my mother and brother see you. / [[Ki helps Todd into the door of a room outside another room with Yoshi in the foreground, typing on his computer.]] / Ki: *whisper* And stop bleeding on the carpet. / Todd: *whisper* Sorry. / [[The door clicks. Yoshi looks around.]] / Yoshi: ?
 
GPF Archive: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 [[Ki & Todd are in Ki's bedroom; Ki is on her computer, looking disturbed.]] / Narration Text: 30 minutes later... / Ki: I don't believe it... Every word is true... / Todd: That took forever to find in the archives. / Todd: Convinced yet? Because I'm probably all out of tricks... / Ki: I take it that if you're back, you weren't successful on your first trip...? / Todd: I'm not sure. I don't think so. Last time, I went at it from the wrong angle, trying to do it all myself. Now I know the REAL key to saving your future... / Todd: YOU. / Ki: ?
GPF Archive: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 [[ Ki and Todd are talking in bedroom]] / Ki: I-I dont' understand. / Todd : You won't, until I tell you. The professor would kill me, but he's probably gone already. / [[Todd is removing his shirt]] / Ki: "Professor?" / Todd: Wisebottom. He thought I was the key. I think I'm only the messenger. / [[Ki starts to tend the wounds on Todd's back]] / Ki: Why don't I help bind your wounds... / Todd: I'm going to tell you the events of the next 20 years as I know them. Then you can judge for yourself. / Ki: Should I really be hearing about the future? / Todd: If you value your friends and all they stand for, absolutely.
GPF Archive: Thursday, May 23, 2002 [[Ki is binding Todd's wounds in her bedroom.]] / Ki: My word... What caused all these wounds? / Todd: Police bots and a few imperial soldiers. The Empress had a "welcome home" party waiting when I returned. / Ki: "The Empress?" / Todd: A lot changes in the next few months and years. Her rise to power, the fall of democracy... / Todd: Everything falls apart. The Rebellion tries to fight back, but she's crushed us one by one. Now, you and I are the only hope of defeating Empress Trudy... / Ki: TRUDY?!? Trudy becomes Empress of the world? HOW?!? / Todd: If you'll stop INTERRUPTING me, I'll TELL you...
GPF Archive: Friday, May 24, 2002 [[Ki is bandaging Todd's wounds.]] / Todd: Let's see... Where are we now? You're here, Generals Duncan and Barker are on the lam, Dr. Fred is missing, Dad is on his "project"... / [[Ki is very surprised.]] / Ki: "Dad?" / Todd: Er... I'll get to that in a minute. Have you discovered Chuck Walker is watching you? / [[Todd gets his shirt.]] / Ki: Yes... / Todd: Good. Then we have time to talk and plan. Timing is essential... says the time traveler. / Todd: It begins in the next few months. I'm not sure of the exact date, but I do know your boyfriend Nick is on the verge of an incredible discovery...
GPF Archive: Saturday, May 25, 2002 [[Todd talking to Ki]] / Todd: By now, I'm sure you're aware that Nick has the inventor's gene.. / Ki: Yes, we found out a few months ago. / Todd: In the next few months, he will have an epiphany that has Earth-shattering results. It will redefine all concepts of matter and energy. / [[Todd talking, but a picture of Nick working with Trudy watching him is in the panel]] / Todd: I don't know the details, but his invention will revolutionize almost every industry with the prospects of limitless power. / Todd: It is this discovery, however, that will enable the empress to seize power.. Operation: Velociraptor. / Ki: That's the name of Nick's project!!
 
GPF Archive: Sunday, May 26, 2002 [[Todd, getting dressed after Ki helped with his wounds.]] / Todd: "Velociraptor" did not start out this way, but Nick's discovery and Trudy's marketing wizardry turn it into an entirely different animal. It instead becomes the greatest scientific discovery of the twenty-first century. / Todd: To foster its growth, Trudy must isolate Nick from everyone who may distract or dissuade him... / Ki: I knew it! She's behind the GPF break-up! / [[Dark room, with Trudy dressed in a wool cap with a can of kerosene, as Dwayne misses seeing her as he stands in the doorway.]] / Todd (narrating): Correct. She caused the company to falter, then burned down the building to give the appearance that Duncan needed the insurance money. / [[Chuck, behind the wheel of his car, looking at Ki's father crossing the road.]] / Todd (narrating): She also arranged Nick's job and had Chuck -- under her mind control -- run down your father to draw you here. / Ki (eyes wide): And the Fookinator? / Todd: Sent back in time by the Empress to get Barker out of the way. / [[Both look toward the reader]] / Ki: That raises more questions than it answers... / Todd: I thought you'd be used to that by now...
GPF Archive: Monday, May 27, 2002 [[Flashback split panel with a robot in the background and Trudy in the foreground holding a small baggie.]] / Todd (narrating): The Empress used a clip of Barker's hair to clone his appearance, then modified a seeker chassis to become the Fookinator. / [[The Fookinator holding a large gun with smoke everywhere]] / Todd (narrating): The cyborg was indistinguishable from the real man. If it left behind DNA evidence, it would be traced to Barker. / [[A fingerprint whorl]] / Todd (narrating): Since DNA cannot replicate fingerprints, she imprinted the cyborg with prints lifted from Barker's apartment. She used the same prints and DNA to imprint the shack where Chuck's "evidence" was found. / [[Ki and Todd sitting across from one another]] / Todd: She also arranged to have the security tapes from both the airport and the chocolate factory "disappear" before Barker's trial. / Ki: I was _wondering_ about that...
GPF Archive: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 [[In Ki's apartment, Todd explains how everything will unfold.]] / Todd: Chuck injured your father because Trudy knew you'd run here to take care of your parents. If you try to leave, he's instructed to injure him further, maybe even kill him... / Ki: So THAT'S why he's been stalking me... / Todd: He's currently in the house across the street. He's also tapped your phone and sniffs your internet packets. / Todd: The last of the Rebel leaders to account for is Fred, the slime mold, who is unfortunately in a research lab upstate. The forensics lab that processed Barker's apartment sent him there. / Ki: This is so MUCH, but I still don't understand WHY... / Todd: It's a long, dark tale, but that's where I'm headed...
GPF Archive: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 [[Todd explains the future to Ki.]] / Todd: Nick's Velociraptor project will explode with his creativity, and Trudy must isolate him to keep him focused. / [[Nick is building Velociraptor at JCN.]] / Todd (Narrates): Without the influence of his friends, he will withdraw into his work, both accelerating its development and pulling apart his friendships. / [[Nick & Trudy are talking at JCN.]] / Todd (Narrates): Trudy, of course, will be there to share his excitement. With time, she becomes his only confidant, giving her the perfect opportunity... / [[Trudy looks at Nick with a maniacal grin.]] / Todd (Narrates): ...to turn his discovery into a means toward world domination.
GPF Archive: Thursday, May 30, 2002 [[Todd & Ki discuss the future in her room.]] / Ki: World domination?! I'll agree she's evil, but she's just a marketing director. She doesn't have the resources to take over the world! / Todd: On the contrary, one year ago, she was inducted into an organization called C.R.U.D.E., or the Commune of Really Unscrupulous and Diabolical Evildoers. / [[The top four C.R.U.D.E. members are shown.]] / Todd (Narrates): C.R.U.D.E.'s whole purpose is global domination, and Trudy uses Nick's invention to provide the means to obtain that goal, combined with the alien technology she obtained-- / [[Ki is shocked, and Todd puts his head in his hands.]] / Ki: ALIEN TECHNOLOGY?!? / Todd: Sigh... Don't you keep up with ANYTHING your friends are up to?
 
GPF Archive: Friday, May 31, 2002 [[Fooker & Trudy standing before The Skaboola.]] / Todd (Narrates): Eight months ago, both Trudy and Barker were abducted by aliens. Trudy blackmailed their leader, who let them go... / [[Trudy, holding an alien rifle, standing next to Dr. Nefarious, both grinning evilly.]] / Todd (Narrates): ...along with a cache of their weapons. Combining Nick's invention with the alien technology, C.R.U.D.E. eventually succeeds in world domination... / [[Trudy, peering over a globe, grasping it.]] / Todd (Narrates): Of course, Trudy plans ahead and keeps the most powerful weapons for herself. She defeats the rest of C.R.U.D.E., has them executed, and sets herself up as the supreme ruler of Earth. / [[Dr. O's silouhette, next to a police bot.]] / Todd (Narrates): Somewhere during this conquest, she enlists the aid of a mysterious new ally named Doctor "O". Together, they crush all opposition, and the world is plunged into a tyrannical nightmare.
GPF Archive: Saturday, June 1, 2002 [[Ki sitting across from Todd, looking startled.]] / Ki: That's so _terrible_. But if you're here, that means _someone_ will succeed in opposing her... / Todd: Precisely. / [[Fooker and Dwayne (with a beard) out front of the state prison, Nicole hugging Dwayne.]] / Todd (narrating): With Nick under her control, and her goal obtained, her old colleagues are of no concern. She permits all of you to reunite. / [[Ki, Dwayne, Fooker (looking angry) and Fred, heads in a circle.]] / Todd VO: But what she does not realize is that the four of you -- you, Duncan, Barker and Fred -- stand to oppose her reign and form an alliance to remove her from power. / [[Ki pointing at Todd with an accusing finger.]] / Ki: An evil empire, a rebel alliance... if you start talking about a mystical "force", I'm getting the fire extinguisher again... / Todd: Huh? What are you talking about?
GPF Archive: Sunday, June 2, 2002 [For all this time, Nick has been isolated from the outside world, unwittingly arming Trudy's forces. Her lies convince him all his friends are long gone...] / [ZAPOW!] / ?! / {No sound in third panel.} / [It doesn't take long to convince him otherwise...] / [Freed from his captors, Nick learns of Trudy's crimes. At long last, reality soaks in and her deception is pierced. A new ally is gained...] / [And old friends are finally reunited...] / !
GPF Archive: Monday, June 3, 2002 [[Nick and another silhouette, possibly Fooker, run from a car explosion]] / Todd as narrator: Armed with Nick's knowledge of the Empress's network, the rebellion shares new success. For the first time, her reign is truly threatened. / [[Nick and Ki have sex, a weapon near the bed]] / Todd as narrator: Reunited, you and Nick rekindle your old romance... well, um, maybe "rekindle" isn't the most descriptive term. / [[The Empress stands on a rooftop while smoke rises in the background]] / Todd as narrator: Victory after victory for the rebels ignites unrest... the empress becomes enraged... the rebels must be stopped... / [[A soldier holds Nick down at gunpoint. Fooker pulls Ki away as lasers are fired at them]] / Todd as narrator: So when she strikes, it is at their most valuable, most pivotal point...
GPF Archive: Tuesday, June 4, 2002 [[A cut and bleeding Nick is led before a shadowy Trudy]] / Todd Narrating: Bruised and bleeding, Nick is brought before his former "friend." For the first time he sees her for what she truly is. / [[Empress Trudy raises Nick's head with a smile on her face, Nick is frowning with one eye swollen shut]] / Todd Narrating: The Empress offers him wealth and power beyond measure for info on the rebels. But it is too late. The betrayer has been betrayed. / [[Empress Trudy turns away in tears as the guards restrain Nick.]] / Todd Narrating: No one knows exactly what is said. They had formed a strange bond. But the outcome is without question... / [[An enraged Empress Trudy has tears streaming down her face, while she aims a pistol at Nick]] / Todd Narrating: The betrayer does not wish to be beaten at her own game.
 

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