The Camera panned in on a normal, though somewhat gloomy looking town, the architecture carrying a hint of old-fashioned brick worked buildings, like the nearby Durem and the sky seemed to carry a subtle grey tinge, emanating from further towards the outskirts. The view shifted towards the suburban areas around the outer edges of the city, the gloom in the sky seeming to thicken all the way until one particular house came into view. It was a dark, gloomy and half run-down looking place, surrounded by supernatural mist and flanked by deserted houses on all sides. The source of the gloomy skies seemed to be the dark cloud hanging over the abode, occasionally striking the house and the array of taped-together aerials and TV dishes on top with lightning
"And it is in this town, and with these people that our story will begin!"
King Of Braves
CORBENIK
CORBENIK
The tinkle of a bell and the smell of fresh children friendly treats filled the air as an icecream truck made it's merry way down the street, the driver humming a tune that was no doubt filled with joy and soft things that you wouldn't get hurt with if you fell on them. But fear not! There! Yoder Horizon! He stands like a wall in the centre of the road, furry arms tightly folded, ears pointy and attentive and eyes ablaze with the obvious power of 2 six-packs of Mountain Dew and a coffee....-making machine. Here he stands, Corbenik the cat, ready for battle.
As the icecream van halted in front of the curious cat, he declared "Cease this instant, peddler of frozen sugary delights! Relinquish your evil control over those Icecreams, or suffer the wrath of the fist of Justi- no....or Truth- nono....hmm.....of Substantial Pain!!" Corbenik swept an arm around in front of him dramatically to point at the icecream man. The icecream man clenched a fist, narrowing his eyes "Never! I won't let you steal my sugary happy-filled cargo!" He shouted, then his glare darkened as he next spoke "Unless you pay me.....FIVE GOLD OR A PROMOTIONAL COUPOOOOON!!" "UNLIKELY!" Corbenik quickly retorted, gritting his teeth dramatically "Vile demon! You leave me no choice! Your days of putting smiles on children's faces are over, I shall need to teach you the hard way!" Corbenik lifted a furry fist into the air, his wrist sporting a futuristic looking watch communicator, the centre glowing with the emblem of a grinning cat's head with swirly eyes "It's showtime! GIGA GAIGAOGOGAR GUNDAM GETTER!!" he yelled at the top of his voice. There was a twinkle in the sky as Corbenik's personal mech suddenly swooped down to snatch up Corbenik as he leapt into the air as it passed. "Fuuuuusion!" Corbenik shouted as he found himself in the cockpit of his mech, guiding it swiftly and precisely to a landing right on top of a nearby private residence. "Fish!" he randomly bellowed as his mecha made a beckoning motion towards the icecream truck. His intercom crackled to life and the voice of his boggle-eyed spongy companion Soggybegone could be heard "I do say....I believe the word you were looking for there was "Koi" dear chap" he instructed "Whatever it is, put it on my tab..." Corbenik replied, attempting to sound smooth, though clearly not having listened at all to the sponges words.
The Icecream Man looked up at the mech towering above him, apparently having his meagre truck outmatched, yet, he split into an evil grin and followed it up promptly with some generic evil laughter "Bwahahahahahaa! So you challenge me with this do you?! Then you must have known it, my secret! That I'm really an alien sent here from outer space to hide on this planet and gather information to assure it's downfall and learn your dearest government secrets. You may know me here as a mere icecream man, but I am known to others as my true alias; "ICECREAM MAN!"" He rambled, his voice now warped and echoey like any self-respecting alien bad-guy. He pushed a button and his icecream truck began to transform. Large reverse-jointed legs flipped out from the bottom, replacing the back wheels, the sides of the van clicked out and swung forwards, revealing them to be large arms and the icecream cone on top of the van was discarded to reveal an alien death-ray underneath. There was a dramatic pause and the light crumpling sound of some bricks from the house Giga GaoGaiGoGar Gundam Getter was standing on as the opponents stared each other down. ".....No....actually, I had no clue about any of that at all" Corbenik half frowned "You still have icecream and stuff though, right?" he asked. "Well yeah, I guess. I do sell them when I'm not leaching people's internal organs so-" Corbenik quickly brightened up and shifted his hands to the controls doing a quick right-down-downright motion with one of his joysticks and pressing his thumb on a button marked 'kick' "Surprise Knee!!" He shouted, quickly interrupting Icecream Man's sentence and sending his mech skidding back with a large dent in the front. One of the screens in Corbenik's Cockpit flashed up with the word 'C C C C-COMBO BREAKER!'.
Corbenik's mech boosted forwards to deliver a follow-up blow, his mecha's fist catching fire due to mysterious manliness as he brought it round "Burning Fist Knuckle!" he roared. "Naive!" Icecream Man suddenly retorted "Your cunningly thought-out plan may have caught me the first time, but I won't make it so easy for you! Ice-Pop Waaaaall!" He went on. The van mecha's hands quickly reached round the back and grabbed a huge stack of opened Ice-Pops from the vans inventory. The space between the vans bumper and radiator opened up like a mouth and a giant tongue emerged to give the ice-pop stack a mighty lick, the arms quickly holding the licked pile up before the fist which stopped it in a solid wall of flavoured ice-treats. "Bwaahahahaha! It's useless! When something is stuck onto an ice-pop after you lick it, it's almost impossible to get it off! With this wall of chilled goodies, not even the heat from your inexplicably flaming fist can break through!" Icecream Man taunted "Not bad! But your super-advanced alien technology is no match for my might!" Corbenik replied proudly "...Well....actually that's not really super adva-" Icecream Man didn't get to finish as the heat from Corbenik's mech intensified "Burning HAND Fist Knuckle!!" He shouted "Impossible! Not HAND Fist Knuckle, tch" Icecream Man made a run-of-the-mill serious battle face as he leapt away just as Corbenik's fist broke through the icy wall. "Take this! Super Scooper!" Icecream Man growled. The ray-gun atop the Van Mech shot out a ball of energy towards Corbenik, turning into a giant scoop of green icecream mid-flight and hitting Giga GaoGaiGoGar Gundam Getter's head and upper torso with a great wet smack, staggering it momentarily. Corbenik leaned forward dramatically looking up at the green, freckled icecream engulfing his monitor He frowned, reaching out for a button "Deploying the Tactical Vision Impairment Nullification Apparatus" He stated, pressing the button and folding his arms as a couple of windscreen wipers swished about to clear his vision from the dastardly mint chip veil.
Corbenik turned his head to the communicator in his cockpit "Quick! What's the most expensive vehicle in the general area?" He hurriedly asked. Soggybegone wasn't sure what to make of this, so thought it best just to play along "BMW at 3 o'clock, convertible, custom rims, fuzzy dice-" The sponge hunched over a bit, creating a shadow over it's googly eyes and some dramatic tension "-In two colours..." he finished. Corbenik quickly looked around and located the car, leaping over to it and picking it up and swinging back into a pitcher-style throw. In his cockpit a little bar popped up on the screen marked with 'min' at once side and 'max' at the other with a little indicator bouncing between them. Corbenik squinted intently at the bar, his finger hovering over the release button and his tongue half poking out of the corner of his mouth in deep concentration. The Mecha Van started rushing in to take advantage of Corbeniks pause but too late. Corbenik suddenly pounded the button with a furry fist, the bar halting right up towards the 'max' side of the bar "Profound Success!" Corbenik stated triumphantly as his mech whirled it's arm around and pitched the pricey vehicle at the Mecha Van at super-sonic speeds. The vehicle smacked off of the Mecha Van, shattering the car into a collection of twisted bits and fuzzy dice, shortly followed by a resounding sonic boom. It appeared though, the impact had only forced the Van Mecha back, having been saved from taking damage via a suspicious green glow around the Mech. "Curses! He has a convenient alien forcefield! What do I do?" He quickly asked Soggybegone, who's reply was swift "Using the latest breakthroughs in the scanning of mystery objects I have determined the shield is weak against extreme violence" the sponge replied, always on the ball. "Ah, Soda!-" "-Sou-da, I believe...-" "-So that's the secret method to victory! We just need more violence, and I have just the thing! TEAM! Prepare to sortie!" Corbenik ordered. There was a quick confirmation from Soggybegone and a squishy noise from Boogaloo, Corbenik's pet bowl of evil soup. "I'm sending the request for Final Fusion now!"
Meanwhile!!
Close by in Kokujo's lair, or 'house' as he had often heard people refer to it, Kokujo was busy on his computer dully clicking through some pro-ninja forums he was trolling and trying to ignore whatever Corbenik was doing outside. All of a sudden a box popped up on his screen like some sort of internet add. All it said was 'Final Fusion!?' in size 45 bright red font and an approve button. Kokujo paused for a second to take this in, then hit the x at the top to close the window and continued with what he was doing. On Corbenik's screen a big red cross and a 'Rejected' notice flashed up. Corbenik narrowed his beady eyes and cracked his knuckles "So....It's going to be like that...." He half-whispered darkly. Back at Kokujo's house, Kokujo perked up, getting a strange feeling, narrowing his good eye at his computer screen "I can sense him.....it's coming..." He said to himself under his breath. Suddenly his computer monitor was spammed with a flood of Corbenik's request windows popping up everywhere. Corbenik's finger was a blur as he minced the Send Request button in his cockpit, as was Kokujo's finger as he clicked like the wind to x-out the stream of windows. This went on for a little until Kokujo finally caved. "Oh fine then, whatever....hmf" He mumbled, clicking the approve button on one of the windows causing a green approval sign and little cake icon to appear on Corbenik's screen. "Ohyes! Final Fusion....APPROVED!" Corbenik shouted with glee, swinging a fist froward then bringing it sharply back into a large red button on a panel just behind him. Giga GaoGaiGoGar Gundam Getter boosted a little into the air, hovering as it started to transform, the forearms and lower legs folding back and into the body, with an impressive spiky crest appearing on the mech's head.
In the nearest shopping centre car-park the ground suddenly split in 2 as the 2 huge doors that made up the surface of the car park opened up, sending all the parked cars and unlucky bystanders crashing to the sides. This made way for a swift jet aircraft to fly out of the opening, sporting 2 pairs of interlocked wings, angled forward and up at their centres and a long, sleek fuselage. "Grrlleaarlffh Shmoflach! (CVYF-9001S Super-Fighter, now docking!)" The pilot, Boogaloo reported via noises that sounded like someone dragging sewage up a hill. The Jet swooped down and attached itself to the back of Corbenik's mecha with a victorious shine, the 4 wings spreading out and the nose and cockpit folding up and over the mechs head to rest on it's chest plate. Elsewhere a nearby residence was suddenly upturned as the ground it was on suddenly flipped upside-down like a turning door, revealing a giant mechanised winged pig with a similarly sized hamster biting it's tail on the door's other side. "I declare! This is Super Flying-Pig-With-Hamster-Biting-It's-Tail, AKA 'Guinea-Pig', now commencing docking" Soggybegone stated, piloting the ridiculous creature over to Corbenik. The Hamster detached from the Pig, both of them sprouting large mecha-hands from their mouths and connecting with the mecha's arm stumps via ports on their rear ends to become the mech's new Forearms. There was a blast of Gold light as this new mecha punched it's fists together and struck a pose "Behold, the glorious Dark Hero has awoken!! King EmperorKaiser-Ou......X!!!" Corbenik Proudly shouted, a well timed strike of lightning flashing from the cloud above Kokujo's house.
"Ooooooh" woo'd Icecream Man; incidentally having done nothing during the whole process but watching and being bedazzled "Prepare Yourself for defeat, silly goose!" Challenged Corbenik, though by now Soggybegone was eyeing the stumps they still had in place of legs suspiciously "Dear boy, I believe we're missing a pair of legs" He tried to inform Corbenik "Pah, Needless details! I've got this one!". No sooner had the words left to evil cats mouth when there was an ominous creaking, and the entire mech toppled forward, lacking balance. Icecream Man winced at the large falling mech as it's shadow passed over him and his entire Van Mech before they were squished with a loud metallic crunch as King EmperorKaiser-Ou X promptly fell on him. There was an awkward silence "See! All skill guys, all skill" Corbenik quickly assured everyone. "Well, I do suppose you just saved the world from an icecream empowered alien spy old boy...." Soggybegone shrugged as best a sponge could "And yet, the price was far too great..." Corbenik added sombrely as he gazed upon the remains of crushed icecreams that had escaped their rightful place in his stomach. "Hmm, I guess we do need legs.....and I know just the guy we need..." Corbenik donned a sly grin and turned around dramatically staring back towards Kokujo's house and it's dark occupant.
See you next episode Corbenik Combat Cadets!
