Payback influence ahead.
Back at the grassy field, the prototype Wheatley was on the ground, reacting to GLaDOS's order. "Stay calm!" he spoke. "St-stay calm. 'Prepare'. That's all they're saying. 'Prepare'. It's all fine, all right?" Meanwhile, a red-haired girl was trying to sneak past Wheatley. She took one step at a time with her arms placed out in front of her.
The Snob noticed, and yelled into his phone. "Who the f*** are you?!" His curse was bleeped, but his message was clear.
The girl looked to her left, surprised. She had been discovered. She let her arms drop to her sides and sighed sadly. She then shrugged her shoulders and looked slightly to her left.
"I'm... such an idiot," the girl mumbled in a surprisingly mature voice which only seemed to fit her. Her name was Cul. She was supposed to "make a revolution" the next day, but she was trapped in this city. She wore her red hair in a ponytail that was split into several segments, and had a gray futuristic headset that wrapped around the base of her ponytail, with two stick-like segments protruding from it. Her eyes were red and had white pupils, and her fingernails were painted in red.
Cul wore a distinct black and red one-piece pleated skirt, striped black and white thigh-high stockings with tiny red bows at the back, and shiny black ankle-length boots with white laces. She also wore a black collar around her neck with a small spiky shape in front that reflected red and white light.
Cul heard a whooshing hiss beside her. She turned her head a bit further as Spy reappeared from his cloak.
"Oh... merde," Spy cursed in French.
Cul winked, begrudgingly.
"Aah!" Spy yelped.
"Don't say anything," said Wheatley.
As Cul turned her head to look in front of her, the inhibitor signals scrambled.
Kshzzzt.
"But I love the red hair!" Heavy was heard exclaiming.
"That's... pretty weak," the Critic said.
"Los weiter!" Medic called in German. He struck inhibitor #2 again.
Pong!
The inhibitor viewscreen showed Mugi talking to Heavy. "The only instrument I can play is the keyboard," she spoke.
"Oh. I cannot do this," replied Heavy.
Mugi's thick but cutesy eyebrows drooped. "Ah, sorry about that," she said. She then proceeded to mime playing an upright keyboard and drummed her fingers across the air from her left to her right while imitating keyboard sounds. She then smiled as she put her hands to her cheeks in astonishment.
Kshzzzt!
Mugi then suddenly dropped her hands to her sides, leaned forward, and looked to her right. "Well..." she began in her close, other, voice, "Maybe they'll grant my wish, too."
"What?!" shouted Heavy. He didn't have something to wish for, and she didn't need to wish for something else besides having a keyboard, did she? "There is no need," he asserted.
Mugi then looked up at Heavy and continued to speak.
"So I can tell kshzzzt... that I'm a kshzzzt." Her voice was interrupted by scrambled inhibitor signals, which then brought up another clip on the inhibitors.
Kshzzzt!
"But then," a man wearing a Santa hat spoke, "this year, you had to go... and make this!" He took out a copy of a certain infamous 13th installment of a video game series in anger.
"Wwwwhat?!" the Critic reacted.
Mugi's cover was blown. She had sounded exactly like a character from that video game. She quickly clapped her hands together and looked up sadly towards Heavy, silently begging for forgiveness.
"And then!..." the man continued, "did you not feel you'd failed enough this year?!"
Suddenly, the inhibitor showed a girl with black hair tied in two asymmetrical hair-bunches, wearing a long black overcoat with a white star on the back. She was holding a giant rocket-launcher-like weapon in her left hand and was bobbing her head to a song playing on her boombox:
California girls, we're unforgettable...
Medic then realized that this was the song that described Yoko's appearance, and felt that Spy may as well retract his claim to that description.
The girl tapped the boombox's stop button with her gun and began to speak, but her voice seemed too mature for a quiet girl like her.
"Are you refusing me?" she whispered, seemingly to herself.
Louis came on the viewscreen once more. He called: "Yo! That witch ain't gonna sit still much longer!"
The girl returned onscreen and placed her right arm across her chest. Her clothes under her overcoat could only be described with the next line in the song she was bobbing her head to: "Daisy Dukes, bikini on top".
Heavy's yells were heard in the distance. "Aaah! Medic!"
The girl continued to whisper. "Or am I... the one who's hesitating?"
Suddenly, a zombie-witch's snarl was heard. The girl became alert and aimed her gun to her right. Mugi, who had let out the witch's snarl, ran to the girl and pushed her gun down in a fit of anxiety.
"I told you we didn't need that!!!" Mugi shouted in a panic while keeping her voice well-mannered. One could say that the black-haired girl had startled Tsumugi.
Francis was not pleased. "You got a death wish? Leave that witch alone!" he shouted.
Suddenly, Mugi sneezed.
"Gesundheit!" Medic called. Even for a doctor who lost his medical licence and got team-switched, he still had to be polite.
The girl covered a smile with her right hand and placed her gun down to her left.
"Sorry," Mugi said as she clapped her hands together again.
The inhibitor screen showed the Nerd taking a gulp from his green bottle, but the clip was pixelated. "Oh my God," he said in disbelief.
Vrrak-BANG! Meanwhile, the girl heard a green onion missile launch. She slowly aimed her giant gun toward the sky with her left arm outstretched and her right arm underneath the gun.
"Get them! Raus, raus!" Medic called.
KRAK! BLAM! The shot from her gun destroyed the missile.
Vrrak-BANG! Another missile launched to her left and flew off to her right. She kept her gun aimed at the missile, but didn't fire.
Kzzzzz-BLAM! An electric shot took down the other missile. Medic laughed.
The girl smiled proudly; she recognized who fired that shot. This girl was known only as Black Rock Shooter, or BRS for short. Besides her asymmetrical black-hair bunches, she had blue eyes. It was believed that her left eye could cast a blue flame, but in this city, BRS was somehow unable to do this. Her rocket-launcher-like gun could fire the eponymous "black rocks" at a rapid rate.
BRS found herself in the city because it was widely believed that she looked like the subject in silhouette, despite her asymmetrical hair-bunches and her long overcoat. As for how she had recognized the electric shot, she had met Yoko nearly four months ago, likely because of the song that played on her boombox.
"Wait a minute." superslinger2007 the persona reappeared. "I really would like to know what the nonsense is happening," he claimed.
Medic chuckled. He began, "Well..."
Vrrak-BANG!
Medic turned around. He noticed a group of three green onion missiles and watched them fly off into the distance. "Anyone still alive has let me down!" Medic said angrily. He then saw three more missiles flying right at him, and ran away from the inhibitors as fast as he could.
Whoosh! Two missiles flew right over inhibitor #2. However...
Whoosh-BLAM! The third missile explosively crashed into the inhibitor.
Just past stage left, Black Rock Shooter stood beside Yoko. Cul and Wheatley were also present. She slowly aimed her gun outward once again with both hands, and winked. Yoko gave her a thumbs-up. Cul, who was watching BRS, put her left hand on her mouth as she stifled a laugh. Her attention was now on the friendly red-haired woman.
Yoko raised her right hand beside her head in a salute-like greeting. She pointed up to the sky with the same hand and then pointed forward, seemingly at the red-haired girl in front of her. Cul moved her hand to her chest, but could not hold herself back any longer. Yoko continued. She smiled as she performed a peek-a-boo gesture with her hands, and then raised her left foot backwards and placed her right hand back up to her forehead. How Yoko even came up with these poses, as if someone had told her to do random poses, was anyone's guess. Cul broke out into silent uncontrollable laughter as she bent over and hit her right knee repeatedly with her closed right hand.
"Oh? That's funny, is it? Oh it's funny?" an irritated Wheatley asked. "Because, we've been at this for twelve hours, and you haven't solved it either, so I don't know why you're laughing!"
As missiles flew behind them unnoticed, BRS and Yoko looked at Wheatley in complete confusion.
Kshzzzt!
Mental inhibitor #2 was damaged from the missile strike. Its right side was scorched, and the black triangular prism at its back-right was crooked from the blast. Mental inhibitor #3 was still sparking from the fire axe jammed inside it.
Soldier ran towards inhibitor #2 with shovel in hand. He laughed as he crept forward and struck the inhibitor with his shovel.
WHACK! Kshzzzt!
At stage right, Sniper was facing an open entrance to the building where the odd touchscreen instrument was planted.
"No worries, princess," he reassured. "I could do this all day!"
A text note appeared on screen: "Sector DECONTAMINATED".
CRASH.
A construction vehicle known as a road roller had run into Sniper's camper van. Sniper turned to look up at the main street. He mumbled to himself, "Ooh. Got ya right in the ovary." Then he ran.
A teenage girl was driving the road roller. She smiled to the sky as she drove the road roller against the camper van once more.
CRASH.
Sniper chuckled as he headed around the hedge, drawing the girl's attention.
"I'm gonna plant one right between your eyes, ya punter!" Sniper called as he raised his rifle by the scope and fired.
BANG!
Unfortunately for Sniper, the shot went into the white bow on the girl's head.
"Bugger!" he reacted.
The girl gasped and let out a yelp as she raised her left hand to her forehead. Her name was Rin Kagamine. A week earlier, she toppled Sniper with a "Poof poof!" using a finger gun gesture, but how she came up with that was anyone's guess. Despite being too young to drive, she has been known to operate a road roller and was once defeated in a bizarre incident that is too weird and disgusting to reiterate.
Rin had shoulder-length blonde hair and blue eyes. She had a giant white bow attached to her headset, and thin white clips in her hair. She wore a white, dark gray and yellow-striped shirt that was similar to a school uniform shirt, and had a large yellow ribbon on it. There was a red "02" branding on her left arm. The rest of Rin's clothes followed a dark gray and yellow stripe motif: gray-black shorts with a yellow belt, detached sleeves, and gray almost-knee-high coverings around her white shoes that resembled speaker systems.
Soldier chuckled menacingly at the poor girl's reaction.
Sniper climbed into his van, secured his rifle above his seat, and started the van's engine. At that moment, Rin decided to blare a song on her road roller's audio system.
Countdown to insanity
Goodbye reality
Annoyed, Sniper growled as he looked in the right-hand mirror at the road roller behind him.
Rin pulled a lever beside her steering wheel and pushed a red button on the dashboard. She then looked to her right and winked her left eye. As Soldier broke into laughter, Sniper then drove off in his van along the main street, with Rin following in her road roller at the same speed.
"Good God!" the Snob reacted. "How is that even possible?"
KRSHbrrrrrrrsszzzzt.
A warped electronic noise containing a slowed-down sample stopped the inhibitor's signals, sending it to a color bar screen.
Soldier turned around and saw a young man jumping toward the inhibitors. "Dammit!" he yelled, and chose to run away.
"Dis-missed!" Scout called. He chuckled, as it was now his turn at the inhibitors.
