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GPF Archive: Wednesday, June 5, 2002 [[Floor POV on Empress Trudy's right leg and the head of Nick who lies dead with a gunshot wound to the head. The pistol, smoking, falls to the ground.]] / Todd: The outcome, however, does not have the effect she intended. The killer is wounded more than her victim. / [[Same scene Pull back slightly to show Trudy kneeling in grief and the pistol on the ground, smoking]] / Todd: I have heard that this was the first time she herself had killed anyone in cold blood, and to destroy one whom she cared so much for... / [[Closeup on Empress Trudy's head]] / Todd: The incident plunges the Empress deeper into her pit of darkness. Crushing the rebels becomes her obsession, her madness... / [[Empress Trudy is at her balcony directing a horder of police bots to attack]] / Todd: She will not rest until those who stole her beloved are wiped from the face of the earth...
GPF Archive: Thursday, June 6, 2002 [[A trio of police bots advance on fleeing rebels. One fires a laser]] / Todd narrating: Mad with grief and rage, the empress intensifies the hunt. Without Nick, the rebels cannot defeat the bots and seekers. / [[A police bot casts its shadow on wall. Fooker is slumped against the wall, dead, with puncture wounds from the police bot's claws]] / Todd narrating: Armed with new technology from Doctor "O", they drive the rebels underground. Loyal heroes began to fall to the advance... / [[Ki, Dexter, Sharon, Dwayne, and a young Sidney are standing with a small group of rebels. Sharon seems to be mourning Fooker]] / Todd: [[narrating]] Each defeat is more devastating than the last. Soon, only a pocket remains. Hope is in short supply... / [[Ki is carrying a young Todd and has a rifle slung on her shoulder]] / Todd narrating: It is into this world I was born, grew up, and lived. And it is this world I hope to destroy...
GPF Archive: Friday, June 7, 2002 {{General Protection Fault: Surreptitious Machinations -- Chapter 6: Plots and Complications}} / [[Todd is sitting on a chair facing Ki (unseen but apparently sitting on her bed)]] / Todd: Eventually, we learned of the circular plot. The Empress would use the stolen time machine technology to go back and instruct her past self in the needed steps. / Todd: It was the Professor's idea to send _me_ back to stop her, but that failed. That's when I realized _you_ [[points at Ki]] were the key. You can stop this plot while there's still time... so to speak. / Todd: [[stands up and turns away]] You must reuinite the others and confront Trudy before Nick completes Project Velociraptor, before C.R.U.D.E. becomes unstoppable. / [[As Todd turns back to face Ki -- who has fainted backwards on her bed]] / Todd: Any question-- Uh oh...
GPF Archive: Saturday, June 8, 2002 [[Ki is sprawled on her bed]] / Ki: W-what happened? / Todd: You fainted. Take it easy sitting up. / [[Ki sits up]] / Ki: I had this weird dream where this guy from the future told me a wild tale about Trudy conquering the world, and he made it sound like he was my so- / [[Ki looks shocked]] / Todd: Hi, mom. / [[Ki faints.]] / Todd thinks: This is going to get old quickly...
GPF Archive: Sunday, June 9, 2002 Todd: I know all this is difficult to grasp, but I swear every word is the truth.. / Ki: I-I konw.. and for some reason, I BELIEVE you.. / Ki: It's just so overwhelming. I mean, you tell me I'm the key to stopping something that hasn't happened yet. how do you know this future is avoidable, that it CAN be changed? / Todd: I DON'T. But it's a risk I have to take. If I don't, billions of lives will be lost, and billions more doomed to a life of suffering. To me, I have no other choice. / Ki: And what about YOU? If you change your past, what happens to you? You could be doomed to live your life in a world where you don't belong, or worse yet, you could simply cease to exist! / Todd: It doesn't matter what happens to me. All I care about is stopping the empress once and for all...
 
GPF Archive: Monday, June 10, 2002 [[Scene: Ki's bedroom. She folds her arms and looks at Todd.]] / Ki: Okay, I'm in. So what am I supposed to do first? / Todd: We must assemble the rest of the GPF group. They are the core to the resistance. / [[Ki puts a finger to her mouth, pensively.]] / Ki: That won't be easy. I have no idea where they are, except Nick. / Todd: We can't confront him until we have evidence against the Empress. / [[Ki lifts a blanket to reveal Persephone, asleep and snoring. Todd looks both surprised and very happy to see her.]] / Ki: The only other person I know where she is... / Todd: PERSEPHONE! / Persephone: <> / [[With a big smile, Todd picks up Persephone and hugs her. Ki looks startled.]] / Ki: Oookaaay... / Persephone: This is a most definitely bizarre yet not unagreeable way to wake up...
GPF Archive: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 [[Ki, Todd, and Persephone are in Ki's bedroom.]] / Narration Text: After Persephone is quickly filled in... / Todd: Now that we have you two, we must find Barker, Duncan, and Fred. / Ki: Again, harder than it sounds. / Ki: Fooker and Dwayne are on the run. If the police can't find them, how do we? / Todd: I think I know how, but it will involve going through the U.G.A. / Ki (shocked): The WHAT?! / Todd: Nevermind. I'll explain later. Right now, we must concentrate on finding Fred. / Ki: But if he's in a forensics lab somewhere... / Todd: Then I know just the man to find him, someone I need to talk to anyway...
GPF Archive: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 [[Ki, Persephone, and Todd are in Ki's bedroom.]] / Ki: Of course, you DO realize I don't have the cash to fly back there... / Todd: Don't worry, we can use the time remote I swiped off of the Fookinator... / Ki: "Time Remote?" / Todd: An update of Prof. Wisebottom's time machine. We can use it to travel through space as well, though that's not what it was designed for. / Todd: We'll use it to jump out of here, so Chuck won't see us leave... / [[Ki looks worried.]] / Ki: Oh, no... Chuck! If we leave, my Dad will-- / [[Todd puts on his coat.]] / Todd: He'll be fine. Chuck will try to hunt us down before Trudy learns he lost us. / [[Ki turns away.]] / Ki: I need to write my Mom a note... / Todd: I'd prefer you didn't. The less evidence we leave, the fewer clues Trudy will have as to our whereabouts. Chuck's not the only spy to worry about...
GPF Archive: Thursday, June 13, 2002 [[Ki, Persephone, and Todd are in Ki's bedroom, ready to use the time remote.]] / Todd: All set? / Ki: As ready as I'll ever be... / Persephone: Are you sure that thing is-- / Persephone: --SAFE?! / <> / [[Ki, Todd, and Persephone all disappear in a flash of light.]] / [[Yoshi enters Ki's bedroom.]] / Yoshi: Yo, Sis! Phone! / <> / [[Yoshi looks at the phone, disappointedly.]] / Yoshi: Crap... Guess -I- have to talk to Nerdy Nick... / <>
GPF Archive: Friday, June 14, 2002 [[Yoshi is sitting on his bed, talking on the phone with Nick.]] / Yoshi: What do YOU want? / Nick: Hello, Yoshi. May I speak to Ki? / [[Nick sitting in his apartment.]] / Yoshi: Nope. She's gone. I think she just snuck out with her new boyfriend... / Nick: Ha ha. Very funny. / [[Yoshi laying on his bed, holding a TV remote.]] / Yoshi: No, really. She snuck some strange guy in her room hours ago, and now they're gone. Bet they went some place quiet to shag, or something like that. / [[Nick's eyes have grown to grapefruit-sized orbs.]] / Yoshi: Hey, you still there?
 
GPF Archive: Saturday, June 15, 2002 [[Nick thinks angrily in his computer room]] / Nick thinks: Yoshi's just pulling my chain... Ki doesn't have a new boyfriend. Even if we _did_ fight the last time we talked, it's not like her to do something like that. / [[Nick looks concerned]] / Nick thinks: Still... what if she _did_? She did get pretty upset about Trudy... I just wish those two could get along / [[Nick looks sad and has his hand on the switch of alightbulb connected to a pole]] / [[Nick turns on the lightbulb]] / Nick: Hello...I think I just got a brilliant new idea... / {{This is the epiphany that Todd spoke of.}} / Text: END CHAPTER SIX
GPF Archive: Sunday, June 16, 2002 [[Sam Lestrade is holding a gun at Fooker, Trent, and Dwayne, who are at the end of a water pipe on a dam]] / Sam Lestrade: US Marshall! Give it up, Barker! / Fooker: I didn't kill my wife! / [[view showing the scenery behind the three]] / Sam Lestrade: You don't have a wife! / Fooker: Oh, yeah... but I didn't kill anyone else! / [[close-up of Sam Lestrade]] / Sam Lestrade: I don't care! Now turn around and put your hands on your head! / Fooker: When I count three, get ready to-- / Dwayne: You're not going to-- / [[Fooker jumps out, holding Dwayne by the wrist]] / Fooker: THREE! / Dwayne: ! / [[Sam Lestrade stands with Trent]] / Sam Lestrade: What, you're not going to jump too? / Trent: I'm weighing my options. Prison, death. Prison, death...
GPF Archive: Monday, June 17, 2002 [[Trent in the middle of a stream]] / Trent: Sputter.. I'm going to KILL that Barker eventually.. / Jason: Trent! Over here! The cops will be on the river any minute! / Trent: We've... got to find someplace to hide. / Jason: Don't worry, we ran into an old friend... / [[Jason introduces Wallace T. Bruin, a bear..]] / Jason: Trent, meet Wallace T. Bruin... / Wallace: Charmed, I'm sure. / Trent: GAH!!!!
GPF Archive: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 Wallace: "Old Friend" indeed... You and your friends left in the middle of my recitation two years ago. How rude. / Dwayne: Sorry.. / Wallace: And now you return to my woods to seek refuge from the law, fugitives from justice.. / Fooker: How did -- / Wallace: I saw it on the news. / Trent: Saw it on... / Fooker: Wallace, old pal, we could sure use your help.. / Wallace: I'm certain you COULD. Give me one good reason I should risk my pelt for the likes of YOU? / Dwayne: Trent here has never heard your poetry.. / Wallace: Mi casa es su casa. / Trent [[Thinking to himself]]: I think I drank too much river water..
GPF Archive: Wednesday, June 19, 2002 Wallace: Welcome to my hunble den. It's far from a grande hotel, but I call it home. / Wallace: The refrigerator is fully stocked, and the satellite TV is here. I can't get local stations, but Animal Planet is channel 63. / Fooker: May I use your... Um, phone? / Wallace: Of course. It's tapped to a main switching station nearby, so every call is free. I'll get something to remove those handcuffs. / Dwayne: But we don't have any hand... cuffs... / Wallace: What? Isn't a bear allowed to have a hacksaw in the woods?
 
GPF Archive: Thursday, June 20, 2002 [[At a Star Trek Convention, a staff boy hands Patrick Stewart/Amadeus a phone]] / Staff boy: Mr. Stewart, phone. / Amadeus: Thank you. / [[Fooker talking on the phone to Amadeus]] / Amadeus: Hello? / Fooker: Amadeus, it's number six. / Amadeus: Six! Where are you? Is this a secure line? / Fooker: No, and it's probably best you don't know where I am. / [[Close up of Fooker on the phone]] / Amadeus: I have agents combing the country for you. But the FBI has jurisdiction and won't cooperate. / Fooker: I know. I just wanted to touch base. I have some info for you. / [[Amadeus is behind a table with two trekkies waiting in line to get a signature]] / Fooker: I doubt this is a good time... / Amadeus: Hardly. / Trekkie: He's my favoritest captain. After Kirk, of course.
GPF Archive: Friday, June 21, 2002 Dwane: Who did you call? / Fooker: My, um, lawyer. I had to find out if she started my appeal yet. / Dwane: Too late for that, I think. Besides, as a lawyer, I didn't think she was all that hot... / Fooker: You should see her in a bikini then... / Dwane: What? / Fooker: Nevermind. Call Nicole and talk fast. We can't afford to be traced. Her line is probably tapped. How's Trent faring? / Dwane: As well as can be expected... / Wallace T. Bruin: "I think that I shall never see a salmon lovely as a bee..." / Trent: Mommy, make it stop...
GPF Archive: Saturday, June 22, 2002 [[Fooker & Dwayne are talking by Wallace T. Bruin's phone.]] / Fooker: How's Nicole? / Dwayne: J-just fine... God, it was so wonderful to hear her voice... / Fooker: I've done a lot of thinking since the trial, and I think it's important we talk to Nick and Ki as soon as possible. / Dwayne: That won't be easy. / Dwayne: Nick said Ki is with her parents and we don't have the number. Plus, Nick hadn't moved by the time I was convicted. / Fooker: Well, I do have one last idea... / [[Sharon is sitting, reading in her apartment. The phone rings.]] / <> / Sharon: ?
GPF Archive: Sunday, June 23, 2002 [[Dr. Wisebottom is wearing welding goggles and working with a welding torch. Ki and Todd appear in a special effects flash]] / <> / Wisebottom: GAH! / Wisebottom: Ki! How did you get past security? You nearly gave this old man a heart attack! / Ki: Sorry, Uncle Wise, but we had to see you. It's a bit of an emergency. / Wisebottom: And... Do I know you? / Todd: Not yet, but you will soon enough. / Ki: Uncle Wise, this is Todd. He used your time machine to travel from the future. / Wisebottom: WHAT?! / Wisebotttom: Then I will hear nothing he has to say! To hear about the future could create a paradox and disrupt the flow of time! / Todd: Actually, that's kind of the idea... / Wisebottom: Who put such a wild notion in your head, boy? / Todd: You did, sir. Twenty years from now.
GPF Archive: Monday, June 24, 2002 Narrator: After another recounting of Todd's tale... / Ki: So you see, now we have to find the others and stop Trudy's schemes... / Prof. Wisebottom: Curse these old bones... / Prof. Wisebottom: I should have destroyed the time machine like I told Nick I would. But I couldn't. It's like keeping chocolate at home while on a diet: You won't dare touch it, but it's there if you need it. / Prof. Wisebottom: All these events are _my_ fault. If the time machine were never invented... / Todd: Then the empress would have acquired one some other way. / Todd: You can't be held responsible for how another misuses your invention. But you _can_ help us defeat her. / Prof. Wisebottom: Just tell me what I have to do.
 
GPF Archive: Tuesday, June 25, 2002 [[Ki & Todd are in Uncle Wisebottom's lab, upstate.]] / Todd: To defeat the Empress, we must reunite the GPF team... / Wisebottom: With your friends Jason and Dwayne on the run, that could prove most difficult. / Ki: Uncle Wise, have you heard from Nick? / Wisebottom: Not lately. We talked some time ago, but he hasn't returned my calls as of late. / Todd: Nor will he. Nick is consumed by his invention by now. We cannot confront him until we have evidence against the Empress. / Wisebottom: Then where do we start? / [[Ki pulls Persephone out of her bag.]] / Ki: Well... Have you seen another one of these? / Persephone: Hiya. / [[Uncle Wise jumps.]] / Wisebottom: ACK! There's ANOTHER one?! / Todd: I take it that's a yes.
GPF Archive: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 [[Conversation in Wisebottom's lab]] / Ki: You've seen Fred? / Wisebottom: I-It has a NAME? / Persephone: Mine is Persephone. What's yours? / Wisebottom: Otto. / Persephone: Nice to meet you, Otto. / Wisebottom: Why am I talking to a slime mold? / Persephone: Because it's the polite thing to do. / Todd: We're looking for another one, a green mold. Have you seen it? / Wisebottom: It was shipped to our Springfield location from a forensics lab for study. I caught a glimpse before it went out. / Wisebottom: Say, since we know there's more than one of them, can I dissect THIS one? / Ki, Todd, Persephone: NO.
GPF Archive: Thursday, June 27, 2002 [[Ki, Todd, Persephone, and Uncle Wisebottom are standing in Uncle Wise's lab.]] / Todd: Then our next stop is Springfield. Can you get us into the lab? / Wisebottom: Yes. My security badge is good anywhere in the world. / Todd: Once we have Fred, we will concentrate on finding Barker and Duncan. / Ki: Then how do we collect this evidence against Trudy to convince Nick? / Todd: Leave that to me. We must concentrate on where and when C.R.U.D.E. will strike with Nick's weapon. That will be where we make our stand. / [[Uncle Wise takes out his keys.]] / Wisebottom: Then let's go. My van is in the East lot. / [[Todd takes out the time remote.]] / Todd: No. I've got a faster mode of transportation...
GPF Archive: Friday, June 28, 2002 [[Meanwhile, at C.R.U.D.E. H.Q...]] / Moldfinger: Then all is set? / Trudy: Everything is moving according to schedule. / Trudy: My technical aide is expected to complete his work in line with the deadline. / Dr. Not: I still don't like the fact you're using someone outside the organization... / Trudy: Jealous, Not? Well, you can't bottle genius... / Nefarious: I STILL want to see detailed specs! I can't wait to see how he overcomes the thermodynamic restrictions! / Trudy: When the time is right, good Doctor. For now, you just worry about preparing the alien weapons for his device. THEN you can see the schematics.
GPF Archive: Saturday, June 29, 2002 [[The members of C.R.U.D.E. discuss their plans in the secret lair. Dr. Nefarious has an evil grin.]] / Dr. Nefarious: Then we will reconvene at the target location in a few weeks. You each have your assignments. Dismissed! / [[Connery watches Trudy leave and Dr. Nefarious notices his hesitance.]] / Dr. Nefarious: Just think, Moldy Boy! In a few short weeks, our long sought goal will be achieved! / Dr. Nefarious: What? Still sulking over Trueheart's induction? / Connery: And how her scheme has bested all our own. I still don't-- / Dr. Nefarious: --trust her, I know. But the kid's a natural. If her plan works, we'll off her and take the credit. / [[Dr. Nefarious puts an arm around Connery. Connery notices Trudy leaning against a wall, leering at them with an eviller grin than usual.]] / Dr. Nefarious: So relax! Either way, we'll end up on top. She's just another pawn to dispose of. / Connery: Right game, Doctor, but wrong piece.
 
GPF Archive: Sunday, June 30, 2002 [[Todd, Ki, and Persephone are hiding in an alley.]] / Todd: This is taking too long... / Ki: Well, he can't go too quickly, or he'll look even more suspicious... / [[Prof. Wisebottom leaves the compound, and waves to the security guard.]] / Ki: There he is! / [[Prof. Wisebottom meets up with Ki, Todd, and Persephone in the alley. He pulls a green slimemold from his pocket.]] / Wisebottom: It took some time to get it past the security cameras, and if I'm found out, I'll never work here again, but... / Ki & Persephone: FRED! / Fred (weakly): *Koff* Hi, guys. / [[Persephone & Fred embrace.]] / Fred: That sterile lab was stifling. I really need some recoop time in Fooker's cesspool. / Ki: All in good time. We have work to do first. / Todd: Now we need to find Barker and Duncan. / Wisebottom: With half the police in the country after them, it'll be quite a challenge. / [[Fred notices Todd for the first time.]] / Fred: Who's this guy? / [[Ki ponders the situation.]] / Ki: Well, if I were Fooker, didn't know where my friends were, and were desperate to reach someone, I bet I know where I'd start... / [[Sharon looks frustrated and angry.]] / Fooker (on the other end of the line): FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, DON'T HANG UP AGAI-- Click! / [[Sharon slams the phone down.]] / <>
GPF Archive: Monday, July 1, 2002 [[Phone ringing in background, Sharon is ignoring it]] / [[Phone continues to ring, Sharon still ignoring it, looking sad..]] / [[Phone still rining, Sharon puts a pillow over her head to attempt to muffle the ringing sound]] / [[She answers the phone.]] / Sharon: Make it fast. I don't usually talk to convicted murderers. / Fooker: I'm not usually falsely accused of murder, so we're even.
GPF Archive: Tuesday, July 2, 2002 [[Sharon angrily listens to Fooker's story.]] / Fooker: Okay... Just hear me out. I've been a real jerk. I know that. I hurt the woman I cared about with pettiness. I deserve for you to hate me. / [[Fooker is on the phone, and Trent, in the background, is running away from Wallace T. Bruin, still reciting (bad) poetry.]] / Fooker: I also know this cost me the best thing that ever happened to me. I know you'll never forgive me, and I don't blame you. But I blame me and it kills me inside every time I think of it. / [[Fooker on the phone.]] / Fooker: You probably didn't believe me when I told you I was sorry, and I still don't blame you. But I am. It's okay if you still hate me, but please know I meant what I said. I loved you, and still do. / [[Sharon, crying, with a hand over her face, and the receiver on her lap.]] / Fooker: Are you still there?
GPF Archive: Wednesday, July 3, 2002 [[Sharon, looking sad, on the phone with Fooker, grasping her knee to her chest.]] / Sharon: Fooker... / Fooker: Sharon, please. Before you let me have it, I really called to get your help. / [[Trent is running past Dwayne, who looks surprised.]] / Fooker: I don't want to risk having you help an escaped felon, but I need your help. Both to clear my name and to stop the real killer. I can't do that from here. / [[Wallace chases after Trent, weilding his book above his head.]] / Fooker: I don't have all the facts, but I bet I know who put me away and why. I need someone on the outside who can help, and you're my last hope. / [[Sharon looks frustrated.]] / Fooker: If you can stop hating me long enough to help... / Sharon: How about you stop talking long enough for me to say yes? / Fooker: Um... Okay... Sorry...
GPF Archive: Thursday, July 4, 2002 [[Fooker is on the phone with Sharon.]] / Sharon: Fooker, about US... / Fooker: Please. We'll talk about that later. Right now, I need your help to find Nick and Ki. / [[Sharon, in her apartment.]] / Sharon: Okay, but after they moved, I lost track of them. / Fooker: But you still stand a better chance of finding them than me. / <> / [[Sharon walks over to the door.]] / Sharon: Sigh... All right. I might have Ki's new e-mail somewhere, but Nick is a real mystery. Hold on a second... / [[Sharon opens the door to find Ki, Uncle Wise, and Todd.]] / Sharon (surprised): Um, scratch that. I think I just solved half your problem...
 

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