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12 OOP Chaos Warriors (primed black, some in the beginning stages of painting)
6 OOP Harlequins
1 Dark Reaper Exarch with Shuriken Cannon.
1 Warhammer Fantasy shoulder bag (with not-original strap)
1 Warhammer special edition dice and bag (came with the shoulder bag)
12 Bretonnian Knights/horses (knights on sprue, most of horses as well
27 Yeoman with bows. (8 painted, 11 based, 8 on sprue)
Space Wolf RunePriest (x2)
Commisar Gaunt
Tyranid Biovore w/ spore mines
Tyranid Tyrant Guard (the horrid looking ones) (x2)
Spore Mines (x2)
Wolf Guard (x4)
Space Wolf Captain
Skink Warchiefs
Rugluds Armored Orcs
Necromancers Foot and Mounted
Imperial Pistolier
Bloodletter Champion (x2)
Bloodbowl Minotaur
LotR Rohan Capt Foot and Mounted
LotR Theodred Foot and Mounted
LotR Wood Elf Command
LotR Sharku Foot and Mounted
LotR Orc Trackers
Eldar Farseer (pistol and Spear) (pending)
Librarian Terminator (pending)
Saurus Hero on Cold One (pending)
Saurus Lord on Foot (pending)
Empire Detachment
2 boxes OOP (metal) Chaos Knights
Blood Bowl Dwarf Deathroller
Empire State Troops (pending)
Wood Elf Lord on Eagle (pending)
Ork Warboss (pending)
Dice tins of Warhammer Dice (Dwarf, Wood Elf), 40k Vehicle dice (Marines, Orks), and Fantasy Counters (x2)
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GF9 Multi Template Standard
Bits of note
Scything Talons. Lots and lots of the old metal hormagaunt talons. Did i mention LOTS? (pending)
Blood Bowl Dark Elf Linemen (x2)
Blood Bowl Dwarf with chainsaw.
Chaos Dreadnought TL Autocannon.
Chaos Marine arm w/ autocannon
Non-GW stuff
Mechwarrior Wolf Strike starters
MW Domination boosters
MW Vanguard boosters
D&D 3 Monster Gift Set
Dreamblade boosters
various Reaper blisters
In order of preference. Prefer on sprue or at least not glued together.
Dark Reaper Exarch (Tempest Launcher)
Harlequin Troupe Master
Wave Serpent
Howling Banshees + Exarch
Shining Spears
New Tyrant Guard
Lictor (any version)
Deff Kopta (just one)
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Nightwing (Hey a girl can dream!)
Chaos Predator (old style)
Cadian heavy weapons
Leman Russ Tanks (any version is fine)
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Mission 7: Area 51
Having averted death after a helicopter crash, the Four Contras head on in to the restricted Area 51 itself. While it was said to have housed experimental aircraft and weapons systems, recent reports indicated that the base is also involved with both the alien cell of Red Falcon, along with stolen Bacterion technology -- courtesy of General Shepherd and his personal army.
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[Alert BGM: Bowser Attacks! (Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time)]
Having emerged from a nearby rock formation we used to protect ourselves from the debris, thrown by the helicopter explosion, we got yet another transmission from General Shepherd.
Shepherd: "Oh, why is it so difficult to kill just the four of you, anyway?!"
Me: "It's because of both our video game knowledge, and real-life training. Now, care to tell us about the searchlight your men used on us?"
Shepherd: "I told you, it's classified. But if you want to find out that badly, you'll just have to come to my office alive."
Ami: "You really are paranoid, aren't you?"
Shepherd: "You're just the same as those two Bombermen that used to work for Red Falcon. Attention, Gilgamesh One, fire mission -- target Bacterion hatch -- danger close."
G.O. commander: "That's too close to the entrance, sir! We might not be able to launch anymore Bacterion attack craft if we shoot there!"
Shepherd: "I'm not asking for an opinion, just send it!"
G.O. commander: "Roger, fire mission danger close!"
(The transmission on our communicators ended here.)
Arctic Bomber: "Oh, CRAP! Not again!"
Blaze Bomber: "Everyone, get behind the rock formation quickly, and keep your heads down!"
We got back to the rock formation, and went prone without delay. Immediately, the outer cannons shot out a barrage of artillery shells like a machine gun, followed by firing a mega shell. Within seconds, the artillery fire landed all over the front of the base and its large hatch (for dispatching Bacterion warships), killing and wounding every one of Shepherd's soldiers opening fire on us. In the end, the mega shell exploded upon hitting the ground, incinerating the dead soldiers' bodies and the wreckage of our CrygorCopter. Although Ami and I didn't have time to recite our Konami Barrier incantation, we turned on our 5-hit barriers via our Contra Rifle and Bomberman Watch. While that saved us from certain death, we were a bit shell-shocked from the blast, and our heavy armorsuits destroyed. Thankfully, though, we didn't suffer any severe injuries.
[End BGM]
Arctic Bomber: "dam...since when does Shepherd care about danger close? I mean, he wasted all of his shells just to kill us for freak's sake..."
(She looks down, and glances over to Ami.)
[Suspense BGM: Taloraan Sky (Star Wars Rogue Squadron)]
Arctic Bomber: "Hey, uh...Ami?"
Ami: "What is it, Arctic Bomber?"
Arctic Bomber: "...Red Falcon's right, isn't he? We're all expendable, aren't we? Doomed to be cast out like garbage and all that..."
Ami (sighs): "No, no...we're not expendable. Well, Aaron and I felt that way five months ago when we destroyed Red Falcon, Sniper Bomber, and Axe Bomber once again..."
Me: "Yeah. But, Bill and Lance told us a few times over the months, that we shouldn't let his words rattle us. We know who we are, and how we live our lives dictates who we are. We're not expendable if we risk our lives fighting for our ideals, the people we love and respect..."
Ami: "In short, we're true heroes. We are Contras."
Blaze Bomber: "You're right. We fight not just for mankind, but Bomber-kind as well. I've just figured out why Shepherd's bringing Project: ACT ZERO into fruition. He must really want to wipe out all living Bombermen and women on Earth, and even planet Bomber as well. Ever since both the Alien Wars and World War III, he believes that our kind must perish at any cost, regardless of their alignment."
Arctic Bomber: "In other words, any Bomberman not worthy of serving him is mortally revoked of his or her right to live."
Ami: "Only the ones that he'll have personally created are considered 'worthy'. Let's finish this."
[End BGM]
[Stage BGM: Sigma's Fortress -- Stage 3 (Mega Man X)]
After recovering from another nearby explosion, we ran towards the entrance to the inside of Area 51. Since it was a restricted area, it's very unlikely that we'll run into some power-up pods, much less a stray Smash Ball (for Final Smash attacks), at all. And because I lost my Laser Beam on my Contra Rifle from the crash-landing, I was stuck with my Ice Breath power-up for the rest of our campaign. Luckily, Blaze Bomber had a backup Spread Gun to give me. He tossed the power-up itself towards my gun, thus filling the empty weapon slot. Then he had me and Ami stand back, so he could combine his flame jets with Arctic Bomber's blizzard. With fire and ice mixed up, they created a tag-team attack, the Particle Bomb, which set off a large enough blast to tear open the metal gates.
Ami: "Wow! I didn't know you two could do that!"
Me: "I think I've seen that move once before, in
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(Shepherd's voice could be heard blaring over the PA speakers.)
Shepherd: "Attention all available units: kill the Four Contras at once! I say again, kill the Four Contras on sight!"
Blaze Bomber: "I hate to say this, but these aren't soldiers...they're vermin."
Arctic Bomber: "I couldn't agree with you more, Blaze Bomber! Those morons are just throwing away their lives for nothing!"
Shepherd's personal army of US soldiers (including the remnants of "Gilgamesh One") ran towards our direction, intent on putting us out of the picture so he could carry on with his anti-Bomberman propaganda. Throughout the firefight, Blaze Bomber dreaded having to fight the soldiers all over again like he did back when he was brainwashed by Red Falcon, during the Alien Wars. But since Shepherd's soldiers were not the good guys, Blaze Bomber felt that he had no other choice but to go forward this way, for the sake of man and Bomber alike.
Meanwhile, a sergeant leading Gilgamesh One's soldiers glanced over to one of the privates.
Sergeant: "Those scum are outnumbered by us! But just in case, we'll outnumber them some more! Release the cloned Xenomorphs!"
Private: "Huh? But General Shepherd said not to let them out unless he says so!"
(The sergeant elbowed him with the butt of his machine gun.)
Sergeant: "I don't care! I want that $1 billion reward on behalf of Gilgamesh One, so DO IT!!"
(He chases off the private by opening fire on him.)
Private: "Alright, already! Dammit, it's always me! Do this, do that, go release the cloned Xenomorphs...I always have to!"
(He opens up a metal crate full of Xenomorphs, only for one of them to impale him to death with its pointed tail upon breaking out.)
Sergeant: "Better get ready to die, Contras! We're gonna be rich!"
Me: "Not on your life. I saw what you did to one of your own guys! You're a terrible sergeant!"
Sergeant: "Freak you!"
Ami: "You are the worst of the worst! You dishonor us all!"
Sergeant: "I don't have to listen to a prissy lady who thinks she's tough! Here, Xenomorphs: dinnertime!"
Unfortunately, for the greedy sergeant, the cloned Xenomorphs turned on him instead, killing him and his men with their inner mouth-like tongues. While they were distracted by their main course, I fired away with my Spread Gun. Ami followed up with her Fire Bombs to dispose of the aliens.
Arctic Bomber: "Looks like that evil sarge's gonna have a lot more to worry about than a dishonorable discharge."
Blaze Bomber: "We're not out of the hot water yet. There are more cloned Xenomorphs coming our way!"
(The commander of Gilgamesh One, concealed by a window on the upper level of the Xenomorph storage, called out to us.)
G.O. commander: "You'll never return alive from here! I'll honor my soldiers' services by taking you to hell with me!!"
(He triggers a self-destruct sequence, intending to blow up the entire storage chamber.)
G.O. commander: "When you die with me, the general will be free to eradicate all of Bomber-kind, and replace them with his own army of Bombermen and women! And by army, I don't mean the Dark Force Bombers!"
Arctic Bomber: "What a way for you to join your guys in the most ass way possible!"
Blaze Bomber (to me and Ami): "We've got to get out of the chamber before it explodes and kills us!"
We swerved around the aggressive Xenomorphs, and ran to the nearest exit before the blast door sealed it. As soon as we made it through, the Xenomorph storage chamber exploded, vaporizing all of the aliens, Shepherd's soldiers, and the rogue commander of Gilgamesh One. However, the commander's words did not go unheard to Aqua Bomber and Cyclone Bomber. Despite that they were Dark Force Bombers to begin with, they were still Bombermen in general.
[End BGM]
Aqua Bomber: "So, Shepherd and his guys don't think we Bombermen are worthy of living anymore, eh? That wasn't part of the deal!"
Cyclone Bomber: "Even our old master, Bagular, cared about us! Let's ditch this base and do a bit of conquering on our own!"
(Arctic, Blaze, Ami, and I got inside their room.)
Me: "There you guys are!"
Aqua Bomber: "Oh, hey there! As much as we'd love to tear you limb from limb, we've decided to take five for a while."
Cyclone Bomber: "We heard what that commander said over the speakers, and we're not gonna do our job for General Shepherd anymore. It seems he only cares about the Bombermen and women that he personally creates, and not us Dark Force Bombers! Oh, and he's not far from here. The elevator you need to take should be half a klick, as in 500 meters, from this door in front of you."
Ami: "Huh?"
Cyclone Bomber: "Don't misunderstand. We're still gonna defeat you, but not tonight. When the time comes, we'll do it on our own. Oh, and one more thing: that searchlight we used on you sapped some of your holy power, but it turns out that we 'bad guys' can't touch it at all, not even General Shepherd himself."
Aqua Bomber (eyeing me and Ami): "So, he just went and made copies of your DNA containing the holy power, to override the rejection. You might still be able to take him out, so we can face off with you another time. But just because we told you what we know doesn't mean we like you! Until then..."
(He takes an escape route to a helicopter, with Cyclone Bomber following suit.)
Ami: "I guess we're free to go on then..."
After a rather strange scene with the remaining Dark Force Bombers, we moved on to the elevator, fighting off the rest of the rogue soldiers along the way. Eventually, we reached the top floor of Area 51, and entered General Shepherd's personal office.
[Interlude BGM: Theme of Nebula (Mega Man Battle Network 5: Double Team DS)]
Shepherd: "You know what they say about revenge...you better be ready to dig four graves. Go ahead and end it. It won't change anything. I still have plenty of Xenomorphs and Bacterion warships at my disposal. Just think of how magnificent they are, and how they can change our world forever..."
(We glared at him, but stood our ground rather than put a bullet through his head.)
Shepherd: "Hmph. I knew you couldn't do it. You're such good warriors. However, you could never take that extra step to do what was absolutely necessary."
Me: "I should smash your skull in...personally. Just think of the innocent lives you've taken over the course of your so-called project, when you forced them into these armored suits that look like Master Chief clones..."
Shepherd: "You know, I never understood that. Why did you judge me? In fact, why did you judge us, the Blood Falcon organization, as the enemy in your so-called counter-broadcasts?"
Me: "You killed innocent people!"
Shepherd: "The means to an end!"
Blaze Bomber: "You started a massacre!"
Shepherd: "I caused a revolution!"
Arctic Bomber: "YOU BETRAYED THE LAW!"
Shepherd: "...I betrayed what? You Bombermen are all the same. You destroy anything you see fit with your spherical bombs, and even enjoy it to the bitter end."
Ami: "But not all Bombermen and women are bad! The ones that attacked our planet were working for Red Falcon! He and his loyal followers created them! The rest of them that aren't among the attacking forces are from planet Bomber -- neutral or good!"
Shepherd: "What do you know about a Bomberman? Or perhaps Cheerful White, Cool Black, Cute Pink? Not to mention Arctic Bomber or even Blaze Bomber, for that matter? Do you know who they all are?"
(We paused for a moment, staring Shepherd down.)
Shepherd: "Well...no concern of mine! You Contras are all fated to be killed here, anyway. For you see, Project: ACT ZERO was basically the ultimate weapons project, designed for complete genocide of every living Bomberman in the universe, much less planet Bomber. You've destroyed my project, you annihilated my experimental Super Bombermen, and you kept forcing me to take extreme measures..."
Blaze Bomber (sighs): "Look, I'm aware I took some of the US soldiers' lives long ago, during the Alien Wars...but only because I wasn't feeling myself. I was brainwashed against my will by Red Falcon. However, committing genocide against Bomber-kind in retribution won't change anything! In fact, Aqua Bomber and Cyclone Bomber told us what one of your commanding officers told us before they walked off. You don't even care about the rogue Bombermen that weren't even yours to begin with."
Shepherd: "Who cares if I broke my promise to them? I can always mass-produce my own Bombermen and women, modeled after the Five Dastardly Bombers and the Dark Force Bombers, with the power of the alien cell. Oh, and speaking of which, I've combined my copies of Aaron and Ami's DNA samples containing the holy power, with the alien cell. Now that the original DNA samples are no longer needed to make anymore copies, I've fused that mixture with myself, and in the process created the ultimate super-being! How fitting that you would be killed by the one energy source derived from your worthless ancestors! Behold the true, combined strength of your holy power and the alien cell of Red Falcon!!"
[End BGM]
(He raised his arms, and transformed into a tall, humanoid alien form of himself!)
Shepherd: "5 and a half years ago, during the Alien Wars...I lost over 15,000 men in a blink of an eye while General Rupert was still in charge of sending in Bill Rizer and Lance Bean to assess the situation. The following years since, came World War III, and I lost another 15,000 men throughout the entire campaign...including the Delta Force soldiers that assisted you. And what did the world do about it? Nothing! They just frickin' watched! Tomorrow, there will be no shortage of volunteers...no shortage of patriots. I know you understand."
Blaze Bomber: "What vile form he's taken! We've got to stop him!"
Arctic Bomber: "He can't mess with what originally belonged to Aaron and Ami's bloodline to begin with!"
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Chapter 13: The fall of a fell General
[Interlude BGM: Doppler Demo (Mega Man X3 (PSX))]
February 11, 20XX
This is for the record. History is written by the victor. However, history is filled with liars, if not every one of them. If he lives and we Contras die, his truth becomes written -- and ours is lost. General Shepherd will be a hero, despite losing all of Project: ACT ZERO.
To make things worse, he claims both his personal army of Bombermen and the armada of stolen Bacterion warships, to be a sure-fire way of changing planet Earth forever. And on account of changing the world, all you need is one good lie and a river of blood. He's about to complete the greatest trick a liar ever played on history. His truth will be the truth. But only if he lives, and we die.
Bill Rizer and Lance Bean, if you're hearing this and we really have died in battle: please take care of Cheerful White, Cool Black, Cute Pink, and even our close friends of WarioWare Inc. and what's left of Puffy AmiYumi, for us. Whatever happens, we cannot let General Shepherd wipe out every living Bomberman in the known universe and replace them with his own army...
[End BGM]
[Final battle BGM: VS Andross (Star Fox Adventures)]
With General Shepherd transformed, he experienced with the power the alien cell had in store by super-dashing across his office, knocking us over and taking away my Spread Gun power-up. Then he followed up with hurling energy bursts in mid-air to hurt us some more, causing heavy damage to the office in the process. Thankfully, we weren't injured badly due to the 5-hit barriers Ami and I had on our bodies.
Shepherd: "Do you feel it? Yes...you really DO feel true pain! We could've been gods of our nation, if not the entire world! And besides, you'd be angry too if you lost this many close friends of yours!"
Me: "Yeah...but venting out the hatred by committing genocide on an entire species, let alone Bomber-kind, won't change anything!"
Ami: "Also, do you have any idea what the Bacterions will do once they get ahold of their own warships you stole right under their mechanized noses?"
Blaze Bomber: "Killing us won't stop them from jumping into hyperspace towards Earth!"
Shepherd: "So what if they come in a matter of months? I'm going to rebuild both Earth and planet Bomber. The Xenomorphs and Bacterion warships will prove very useful for profiting as bio-weapons!"
Arctic Bomber: "You mentioned that before, jackass! You're no god if you abuse your powers as a general! Killing innocent people, stealing technology from another galaxy, and stockpiling what used to belong to Red Falcon's forces...how do you plead? Huh?!"
Shepherd: "What are you, a stubborn Bomber-girl? I'm not guilty, but you are for nosing in on our business!"
Arctic Bomber: "I knew you'd say that! HEE-YAAARRGH!!"
The Mistress of the Cold attacked aggressively with her assault rifle, firing a barrage of Diver Mines at General Shepherd to inflict damage. He retaliated by charging up for a Hadouken-style energy blast in his hands; Blaze Bomber pulled Arctic Bomber out of the way just before Shepherd unleashed his attack on her, killing instead his own soldiers that ran in here to back him up. The ex-Hate Bombers strafed around to draw the traitorous general's attention, while Ami and I opened fire with both her Ice Bombs and my Ice Breath (which I luckily still kept) to freeze him over.
Just as Shepherd broke free of the ice, Arctic Bomber and Blaze Bomber performed their tag-team Particle Bomb attack, dishing out more damage to him. Suddenly, he stopped super-dashing towards us as his alien form went haywire after enough damage had been done. He held his head in pain like his brain was about to explode.
Shepherd: "UUGGGGHH!...Too much power!...Can't...maintain...EEEEEEEEYYYAAAAAAAAAARRRRGGGGHHH!!!"
Blaze Bomber: "Oh, my gosh! He's changing again!"
(Beyond Shepherd's control, he mutated even further...)
Arctic Bomber: "Wh...what the hell IS that?"
Shepherd (distortedly):
"Everything must burn!"
A major side effect from having fused the alien cell of Red Falcon with himself, General Shepherd was no longer a man but a distorted, alien beast of mass proportions with two bald, humanoid heads situated at either side of his bulk. He began jumping up and down, and towards the back of his office, heavily damaging both his seat and desk, knocking a computer over, and breaching a big hole in the wall. Then he lunged at us with one of his heads on a long neck, banging upwards and downwards to injure us some more (taking away my Ice Breath power-up), while completely destroying his office appliances. Then a rain of molecule-shaped projectiles was summoned from the ceiling, just barely touching our injured bodies as we moved out of the way. Arctic Bomber and Blaze Bomber unleashed yet another Particle Bomb attack, hurting Shepherd's exposed head.
Me: "Everybody okay?"
Ami: "I've taken some damage, but I think I can still fight."
Arctic Bomber: "How are we gonna exterminate the distorted monster who's both massive AND quick?!"
Blaze Bomber: "We keep firing, until his form changes once more!"
When Shepherd finished his attack, he jumped across the heavily-damaged office once again, nearly crushing us flat as he broke another big hole on the other wall. Then he lunged out at us for more damage with his other head, but instead of banging against the ceiling and floor simultaneously, it chased us in a snaky fashion. We put as much strength as we could into avoiding the sharp fangs from the head's mouth, and returned fire with our weapons. Once that was over, Shepherd jumped back to the center of the office, and transformed once again. Although his third form's much smaller, it was now an alien brain with bald, humanoid heads for a circular shield.
Shepherd (telepathically):
Pitiful Contras. Your kind cannot defeat me now.
Me: "Care to wager on that, Shepherd? Let's end this here and now, Ami!"
Ami: "I'm with you as always, Aaron! We just might survive to tell the tale..."
Me (smirks): "I knew you'd say that."
Shepherd's brain floated around the room, its circular shield of alien heads bobbing back and forth. Everytime we shot his brain, the heads extended briefly, eventually spreading out to hit us in the face as we kept attacking with wild abandon. Apparently, Ami and I forgot about that part from
Contra: Hard Corps
, but that didn't stop us from standing our ground. We stopped firing to wait for the heads to retract back towards Shepherd's brain. Five or so minutes later of keeping the circular shield at a tolerable size, we finally prevailed over the traitorous general, bringing about the end of the Blood Falcon organization for good. He floated haphazardly as his circular shield of alien heads went out of control.
[End BGM]
Shepherd (telepathically):
You're all idiots! Bombermen destroy anything they see fit with their spherical explosives! You and your loved ones will be dead, buried, forgotten...spending eternity rotting in the ground! GRRAAAAARRRRGGHHH!!
(His telepathic death scream faded into nothingness as the humanoid heads detonated around his brain in a whirlwind of explosions, incinerating what's left of him for good.)
Arctic Bomber: "The only Bombermen that destroy anything they see fit, are the ones that corrupt warmongers like you or Red Falcon have personally created! You mess with us Contras, you get the horns!"
Blaze Bomber: "Now that it's finally over, I'm afraid we'll have to take out Area 51 by setting all Bacterion warships to self-destruct. There should be a master control room beyond the damaged wall..."
We followed Blaze Bomber to the destination, and watched him initiate the self-destruct sequence on the warships. Then we began evacuating Area 51 by finding a nearby helicopter. Nearly ten minutes later, we reached the last remaining helicopter and used it to escape from Area 51. The moment we had reached minimum safe distance, the Bacterion warships' cores had overloaded, causing them to detonate in a chain of explosions, destroying the entire base and leaving behind a large crater.
[Ending BGM: Ending -- Farewell (Gradius II (NES/Famicom))]
As for us, the Four Contras, we were relieved that General Shepherd's reign of terror was over. Now, our friends in Diamond City awaited our safe return before midnight.
Blaze Bomber: "There. With the Bacterion warships and cloned Xenomorphs destroyed along with Area 51, life in the country will return to normal."
Arctic Bomber: "But what good would that do? The Bacterions have probably already picked up on their 'missing' warships' location by now!"
Ami: "Our actions may not stop them from coming in a matter of months, but if they really do, we'll be ready for them."
Me: "I know it's a pain to have to destroy such a restricted area in the process, but we can't risk any further jeopardy if the warships and Xenomorphs fall into the wrong hands before the Bacterions even arrive in the near future. Like Ami and I said, we know who we are, and how we live our lives dictates who we are."
Ami: "In short, we're true heroes...We are Contras."
(Ending Credits)
Aaron (me) -- MYSELF
Ami -- JANICE KAWAYE
Bill Rizer -- BOB BUCHHOLZ
Lance Bean -- SYLVESTER STALLONE
Arctic Bomber -- GREY DELISLE
Blaze Bomber -- SCOTT MENVILLE
Penny Crygor -- JANICE KAWAYE
Jimbo -- BILL PAXTON
Sully -- MICHAEL BIEHN
General Shepherd -- LANCE HENRIKSEN
Yumi -- GREY DELISLE
Yuffie Kisaragi -- CHRISTY CARLSON ROMANO
Steven -- HIMSELF
Cyber-Crash -- HIMSELF
Wario -- CHARLES MARTINET
Mona -- LESLIE SWAN
9-Volt -- TARA STRONG
18-Volt -- CHRIS RAGER
Kat -- GREY DELISLE
Ana -- TARA STRONG
Cheerful White -- TARA STRONG
Cool Black -- VERONICA TAYLOR
Cute Pink -- JANICE KAWAYE
Ashley -- CHRISTINA PEYSER
Young Cricket -- SCOTT MENVILLE
Jimmy Thang -- JEFF BENNETT
Dribble -- KEVIN MICHAEL RICHARDSON
Spitz -- MIKE MCAULIFFE
Colonel Bassad -- TOM KANE
Mohawk King -- CHRISTOPHER SABAT
Aqua Bomber -- BRIAN DOBSON
Cyclone Bomber -- KATHLEEN BARR
Fire Bomber -- PAUL DOBSON
Earth Bomber -- MICHAEL DOBSON
Gilgamesh One commander -- GARY CHALK
[End Credits]
[End BGM]
"Faster than a donut! Stronger than cardboard! I am Wario-Man!!" ~Wario (from
WarioWare: Touched!
"What is Bill Rizer? It is just the name of a single entity who has been gone for centuries." ~Master Contra (from
Neo Contra
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MADISON, Wis.—Think spring: the thud of a soccer ball, the crack of the bat, the shot of a pistol for the 40-yard dash.
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"ACL surgery requires replacing the ligament with a graft, usually a tendon from another part of your body or a cadaver," he says. "It takes an average five to six months before the athlete can play again."
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"Our culture and mentality is that more is better, but that isn't always the case," she says. "If you do anything 12 months out of the year, you are likely to end up with an injury because your body needs periods for rest and recovery."
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The France international, who scored 16 goals in 42 appearances last season, had been linked with a transfer to the Emirates Stadium, with Gunners boss Arsene Wenger determined to strengthen his squad significantly before the September 2 deadline.
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My pageviews have dwindled in the last month, so I decided to ask a friend to pose in a bikini on the beach. With these photos up, how could anyone resist my blog!?
Just kidding! Bryn (whom you've seen here and here) is building her modeling portfolio and asked me to shoot photos of her. I was surprised, honored and nervous all at once! Photography is still so new to me and I didn't want to mess it up. But despite 63 degree weather, sprinkling rain and surfer boys hollering, we managed to get 400+ photos and narrow it down to under 10. Here's a sneak peek of the photoshoot to hold you over until I can share the finished product!
She got out of bed for make-up at 5am. What a trooper!
We contemplated taking her photos with the sweater on...
Can you tell we had fun?
We rewarded ourselves with mimosas and omelettes after!
Thank you, my dear friend, for graciously allowing me to take (and post) these pictures. Good luck in your future endeavors! We're all rooting for you.


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As a generation we spend an unusual amount of time cropping the perfect profile picture for our digital identities, carefully laying an Instagram filter over a photo to disguise a hangover or wearing our best clothes in the hope of getting 'tagged' in a Facebook photo or two by a party guest with a camera. We're all guilty of it. Our online personas are arranged beautifully for all to see with all the bad bits hidden away in a big online rubbish bin, which if discovered would be full of double chins, red eyes, blurred faces, drunken snogs and badly angled bikini shots.
I mean for god's sake, doctors in South Korea are now reporting a surge in "digital dementia" among young people who have become so reliant on electronic devices that they can no longer remember everyday details like their phone numbers. Sheesh.
Generally the only photos we usually display in our newsfeeds are modified self-portraits - those 'Throw Back Thursday' posts of how we used to look in the good old days and a myriad of token photos of us with a drink in hand and a cheesy smile. The only time this pattern ever changes, is when someone has a baby. This is a social media game changer and the shift in photo uploads and real-time updates are rather drastic. With a newborn baby in tow, any previous 'selfies in the mirror' or self-obsessed status updates vanish forever. From then on in, it is absolute baby-mania. This behavioural shift seems to suggest motherhood is the only answer to curing digitally narcissism (without going to rehab first). I am yet to reach this milestone and have a long way to go.
This shift is completely understandable of course; having a baby means you now have something in your life more important than yourself. (I must remind you I am child-less and do not have any ounce of this feeling as of yet). It's clear that social media behaviour reflects what people find most important in life and what you want to share the most with their networks. After all, Facebook - being a closed community of friends and family, seems the ideal place to share special milestone moments. Of course the only downside to this is that Facebook's small print tells us that every photo you ever upload onto the site will probably exist somewhere in the vast internet cloud forever even after you one day delete your profile. But ho-hum, I guess we'll all worry about that later.
Sharing photos in closed social networks is one thing, and although it's pretty annoying having your Facebook feed clogged up with baby snaps, it doesn't make me uncomfortable.
However, there appears to be the beginnings of a new social media trend in the making that takes this baby-mania one step too far: Twitter accounts for kids. In fact scrap kids – we're talking babies here.
I don't find this cute. I find this well creepy and I know I'm not alone. American TV star, Melissa Joan Hart, recently announced that she had made a Twitter account for her 9-month year old son Tucker.
Tori Spelling, from Beverley Hills 90210 has done the same for her son - as has Maci Bookout from MTV's 16 and Pregnant.
Now I understand that digital communication is fast evolving, and as a 'millennial' I have grown up fully submerged in this era of mass content creation, but even I find this hard to fathom. I was trying to imagine how I would have felt if I'd found out on my eighth birthday that my mum had created a whole internet world with me at the heart of it with people sharing and 'liking' and re-sharing photos of me without my knowledge.
To go through the ups and downs of discovering my own identity in the real world, then to only discover I already had a pre-existing online persona would have been the weirdest thing in the world. There's also the question of why? Why would this become a social trend? Why would you pose as your baby on Twitter? If it's to share photos and updates of the baby's progress to friends, surely this can be done through one's through the parents' profile. In Hart's case, her baby Tucker's Twitted feed is also playing a part in PR-ing her career, with the account linking to her TV shows and media coverage. This element adds a rather sinister twist to it all.
I am grateful, being 24 years-old, that my earliest memories are free from mobile phones, digital cameras and with no necessary up-keep of an online profile. I miss the fact that people used to have to ring you on a landline and if you'd arranged to meet up you'd have to be on time because you couldn't text to say you were running late. It also meant as a family we would all spent more time together, even if it was just watching TV, because as least we were watching one screen. If creating online accounts for babies is becoming a 'thing', I cannot help but be slightly worried for our next generation. To enter into a world where your every move has already been documented must mean taking away the freedom and privacy of childhood. Does this mean the world is on its way to becoming completely virtual, that you now also need a cyber version of yourself created on the day you are born?
Spoof Twitter baby accounts are on the rise too
We've seen this Twitter-baby-account-trend happen to public figures' offspring too – sometimes before they are even born. Parody Twitter accounts started to appear only in a matter of minutes after the announcement of the Duchess of Cambridge's pregnancy, including: @RoyalFoetus, quite a witty Twitter feed which describes itself as 'live-tweeting from inside the royal womb'.
Then @IamRoyalBaby popped up - the Twitter biography of which says: "3rd in line the throne and no I don't know what my name is yet". And only a few days ago, after Kim Kardarshian and Kanye West welcomed their baby into the world, came the spoof Twitter account @NorthWestSays claiming to be 'already more famous than you' amassing over 18,000 followers.
Parody accounts are one thing, but parents creating real profiles for real babies on social networks is something totally darker. These mums and dads will have a lot to answer on that day their child is old enough to see that all of their embarrassing baby photos are floating around on the internet for any potential school friends, suitors or bullies to use and abuse.
Emma is an online writer and digital strategist living in London. Girl Lost In The City is Emma's lifestyle blog, recently selected as More! magazine's top 10 blogs and shortlisted for a 2012 Cosmopolitan Blog Award.


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Fender has launched a USB version of its classic Squier by Fender Stratocaster guitar, which can directly connect to an iPhone, iPod touch, iPad or Mac, and Apple is stocking it in its online stores in several countries.
Available on Apple.com for $199.95 and the UK version of the site for £159.95, the guitar comes with connections for both USB (so can be hooked up to a computer) and the older 30-pin cable for iOS devices. If you have an iPhone 5, iPad mini or iPad 4, you'll also need a Lightning adaptor.
The guitar has all the normal switches and gubbins you'd expect on a classic Stratocaster, including the pickup select switch, pickup volume control, pickup tone control and headphone volume control. And there's a 6.3mm passive guitar output for hooking it up to a conventional amplifier. There's also a 3.5mm headphone audio output.
At the moment, Apple is listing the Squier by Fender USB Stratocaster guitar as out of stock, both in the UK and US, but that's no doubt because it has just been launched and is awaiting delivery.


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The Sandy Point Village is located at Sandy Point, next to the airport. The small Sandy Point beach outside the hotel is not always ideal for swimming and most guests will take the 10-minutes walk to Store Bay. The Sandy Point Village should not be confused with adjacent Sandy Point Beach Club which enjoys a far superior reputation, despite the fact that until recently, both establishments shared apartments within the same building complex, leading to total confusion by all concerned.
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Located on one of the most beautiful islands in the Caribbean, Sandy Point Village is located only 5 minutes from the Tobago International Airport. With plenty of sun, sand and an abundance of activities, whether you are on holiday or on business, your stay with us will be an enjoyable and pleasurable experience. may we be the first to say 'Welcome to Tobago'.
Our facilities at Sandy Point Village are varied. Our hotel is pleasant, clean and peaceful, just the right atmosphere for your holiday and your relaxation. Our experienced staff canh help you plan your day around our beautiful island and our services are always provided with a warm Tobago smile.


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My eight year old was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes eight months ago, and since then we've watched our family members very closely. My sister's three year old has had numerous febrile seizures, and she has noticed that when he doesn't get a morning or afternoon snack, or has a meal he doesn't like (so he doesn't eat much) his behavior becomes naughty. He will be visiting a neurologist later this month. Could the seizures be somehow related to low blood sugar or diabetes? Would it be valuable for my sister to check my nephew's blood sugar level after a seizure? Do many people with diabetes have a history of seizures when they were younger, or before they were diagnosed?
Seizure problems are not related to diabetes, although severe episodes of hypoglycemia can cause hypoglycemic convulsions. There is a condition called ketotic hypoglycemia that can also cause seizures, and this is especially a problem during illnesses when food intake is suboptimal.
Risks for cousins getting diabetes is significantly less than 2-5%. Any suspicious symptoms, however, of either hyperglycemia (urination, thirst, bedwetting, etc.) or hypoglycemia (crankiness, pallor, passing out, etc.) would be a reason to check blood glucose levels.
Your sister should discuss directly with her son's pediatrician as well as the neurologist, for more detailed recommendations.
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House of Building.
In the last three, maybe four years I've been quite fascinated with Bauhaus, the German style of architecture and design that was developed by Walter Gropius. The Bauhaus was a German fine arts and architecture school that was opened in 1919 and closed under pressure from the Nazi regime in 1933. You'll have probably come across some of the more famous examples of Bauhaus; the Wassily Chair or the Engel House in Tel-Aviv and you'll have probably heard their motto "Form follows function"; the idea that the shape of an object or building should be based on its intended purpose. The Bauhaus has had massive influence on developments in modern graphic, interior and industrial design, typography and architecture.
Below is an article written by Erik Spiekermann last November for Blueprint magazine discussing Bauhaus as a style.
For more than 40 years my letterhead has consisted of a red bar at the top of the page, with my name reversed out of it. Some of my educated friends still feel they have to make remarks about that device, especially now that the Bauhaus celebrates its 90th birthday and Berlin is covered in posters emulating what is obviously perceived as a specific style.
Perhaps we Germans should be glad that we have created at least one world-famous and perhaps even popular style, but, know-alls that we are, we have to point out that the Bauhaus was much more than a simple style. Having been invented in Germany (if not entirely by Germans), it had to have a theory as well as a serious message to mankind.
Herbert Bayer paraphrased the Bauhaus proposition as 'combining the areas of utilitarian design, after researching their constituent elements, under the purpose of "Bau" (German for building or construction)'. 'Researching their elements' meant discussing economical, social, formal and ethical topics to form a theoretical, scientific basis for design, in order to move away from personal, purely artistic attitudes. 'Bau' meant every artefact, not just buildings made from stone or steel.
One of the main problems with most of what we know about the Bauhaus (and other periods or styles, for that matter) is that we have only seen these artefacts filtered through some intervening technology: photographs of buildings; scans of book pages, more often than not reproductions of reproductions and hardly ever at the original size. This process tends to be kind to the printed pieces from the Bauhaus workshops. What was actually fairly crude typesetting from a very limited choice of fonts and plain letterpress printing on bad paper, today appeals to us as lovingly handmade, put together by charming, bespectacled gentlemen, sporting interesting facial hair-styles, under enameled lampshades in cosy mid-European ateliers. I bet the poor compositors who had to work to detailed sketches from designers such as El Lissitzky hated every minute of it. They would have much rather set straightforward columns of plain type instead of having to compose impossible illustrations from metal rules and 12-pica full points. At the same time it must have been frustrating for Lissitzky and his colleagues to have their imagination constrained by the tight limits of a mechanical craft that was more rule-based than the most Teutonic of engineers could have wished.
Crude as it was, this new way of constructing pages, rather than simply setting them from the top down and centred, soon created a demand. In 1928, Bayer observed that more than 50 per cent of the orders taken by printers in Frankfurt were specified to be set in the 'Bauhaus Style'. By that time this had been reduced to big dots and heavy bars or, worse still, ornaments and imitations of nature by means of typographic materials. The original concept of being true to the material had come full circle.
If the Bauhaus concept had already been reduced to a mere style as early as 1928, while it was still going – perhaps even as strong as in the beginning – how can we be surprised that today a red bar is enough to evoke it? What would it mean today to be 'true to the material' when the material consists of invisible noughts and ones? How would we define 'utilitarian design' when we are supposed to invent experiences and virtual worlds for the consumer to get sucked into?
What's left? Discussing economical, social, formal and ethical topics may well be desirable again when we design not just artefacts but processes, politics and, in fact, our future. Connecting these issues under the topos of design is what the Bauhaus invented. Creating networks, thinking across disciplines. What we call networks but tend to only get in the shape of cables is the way out for designers. The way out of their isolation, caught between clients asking for free pitches and competitors ready to do the same work for half the fee. The way out of the alienation and isolation caused by unlimited technology, which, by definition, is irresponsible.
If the red bar on my letterhead reminds me of this premise, I can live with the fact that, for most people, the Bauhaus is just another style.


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SANTA BARBARA — Thousands of Santa Barbara residents were allowed to return home Saturday as morning fog and drizzle gave firefighters the upper hand in their assault on the 5-day-old Jesusita fire, which stretches for five miles.
Erratic winds and high temperatures last week had stoked the blaze and led officials to order the evacuation of 30,500 people in an enormous swath of the city. Officials said about half that number were able to go home.
Firefighters said the fire was about 40% contained and -- with no predictions today for the sundowner winds that had driven embers down the canyons -- could be fully contained by Wednesday.
"The saving grace is lack of wind," said Tom Franklin, the Santa Barbara County fire chief. "Should the wind shift or weather change, there's always an opportunity for that fire to take off."


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By Abdul Hafiz Lakhani
Ahmedabad: Former Minister K. Rehman Khan recently said that largescale corruption in the Waqf Boards are defeating the very purpose of their existence. While the boards need more power and teeth, they should only be granted after a thorough administrative overhaul. There is huge corruption in state Waqf Boards and because of this Waqf properties cannot be used for the purpose they are meant for. Ruling parties have given the responsibilities of the Waqf Boards to their party workers, despite the fact that they lack the desired skills to administer the boards. In addition, they are corrupt. They have not lived up to the expectations of the community. Whether it is the security of the properties, illegal encroachment on Waqf properties or the rent coming from these properties, the boards have completely failed on all fronts.he furthert told that We should unitedly take up the cause of the Waqf properties. All Muslims should take the issue of illegal encroachment over the Waqf properties very seriously.
Generally speaking, Waqf in Islam connotes donations by individuals and institutions in the name of God for the benefit of the poor and the needy. While it continues to discharge its main obligations across the country, the 35-state Waqf Boards in India are by no means a catchall welfare net. They are owners of huge properties and owe surprisingly little accountability to the constituents they purport to serve. The credentials of the powerful Waqf Boards makes for interesting reading: five lakh registered properties with more than 600,000 acres of land and an estimated Rs 1,20,000 crore worth of book value with a measly Rs 163 crore coming in as rentals, hoardings, change of ownership and through sales, speakers said.
Introspecting on the state of waqf management, prominent leaders of the Muslim community have blamed Muslims for the mismanagement of 1.10 lakh Waqf bodies holding four lakh acres of waqf lands all over the country. In a day-long national seminar on Nizaam e Auqaaf (system of waqfs) for preservation, awareness and development of Waqf properties here K Rahman Khan, former Union Minister for Minority Affairs, expressed dissatisfaction at working of Waqf bodies in the country, "for which no one can be blamed except Muslims," he said.
The event marked the centenary year of Ahmedabad Sunni Muslim Waqf Committee. Khan said the new waqf act would change things for the better. He said the act provided for doing away with exemption for waqf properties from rent rules, which was a good sign for financial health of waqf bodies. Secondly, he said the provision for setting up of dedicated three-member tribunals to decided on Waqf property related disputes would accelerate disposal of cases.
National-level leaders including former Union minority affairs minister K Rahaman Khan, additional attorney general Zafaryab Jilani were also present at the seminar. Talking about the controversy, businessman Naseer Shaikh said, "I tried to draw attention of dignitaries to the issue of encroachment on Waqf property, but I was not allowed to speak. Organizers told me to wait till the question-answer session. I waited but finally I was not allowed to talk about intrusion on Musa Suhag Kabristan by Dharmadev Group builders. A PIL has also been filed in the Gujarat High Court."
Kaleem Siddiqui, president of Tarkash Foundation, said, "We had participated in the seminar with documentary evidence. But after waiting till 4:30 pm, when we tried to raise the issue again in the evening, organisers deployed bouncers around us."
Rizwan Kadri, President of Ahmedabad Sunni Waqf Committee, countered the allegation citing discipline issue. "Decorum should be maintained in every event. We already had question-answer session at the end of seminar. But some participants tried to disturb the lectures of dignitaries. We had asked them to submit their questions in writing for the session. They didn't have correct data. I replied to their queries saying that we are only trustees and we will be bound by the HC's verdict. We don't have prejudice against anyone." General Secretary of Gujarat state unit of All India Milli Council's Abdul Hafiz Lakhani said, "If the organisers were transparent, they should have given protestors an opportunity to speak."
[Abdul Hafiz Lakhani is a senior Journalist based at Ahmedabad, Gujarat. He is associated with India's First Online Muslim Newspaper "IndianMuslimObserver.com" as Associate Editor. He can be reached at email@example.com or on his cell 09228746770]


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Martin senior Emily Slagle considers teammate Gabby Bell a frustrating player. And that's a compliment.
The Martin girls basketball team thrives on its man-to-man defense, and the most pesky on-the-ball defender is Bell, the Lady Warriors' sophomore starting point guard. Her continued development has played no small part in the team's return to the playoffs. Martin (21-5, 11-2 in district) was alone in second place heading into the District 3-5A finale Tuesday against third-place Lamar.
"I definitely think she has grown up a lot on the floor and she is more vocal," said Slagle, the team's leading scorer and reigning district offensive player of the year. "Her defense is amazing. I think she's learning what she can do and how frustrating it can be for other teams."
Eager to get started
The morning after Martin was eliminated in the area round of the playoffs by Lubbock Coronado in 2013, coach Brooke Brittain awoke to a text from Bell asking when the Lady Warriors were going to get back to practice. It was time to prepare to beat Coronado. Brittain figures Bell was joking — sort of.
"She was already thinking ahead for Lubbock Coronado," Brittian said. "You've got that empty, deflated feeling after losing in the playoffs. And to get a text from my freshman point guard ready to move forward, it was a burst of energy. And I was ready to go to work with her. I wished the next season started right then."
Bell brought that level of enthusiasm into this season, and the added confidence that came from the hard work she put in between her freshmen and sophomore seasons.
"You just have to keep working harder every year," Bell said. "I don't think it gets harder or easier. You just have to keep working hard at it."
Patient approach
Hard work is important in the Lady Warriors' offense, where patience is more important than tempo. That is, Martin by design isn't one of the higher octane offenses in the district. But what the Lady Warriors lack in prolific output, they make up for in efficiency.
"We work the ball and are patient," Slagle said. "We don't want to just come down and throw up a three-point shot."
Slagle can carry the load, but when opponents are trying to face-guard the senior and limit her shots, she knows she can rely on someone else on the team to score some key baskets. In a recent victory against Weatherford, for example, Lexis Weber came through with 14 big points to help the Lady Warriors put away the persistent Lady Roos.
"If somebody's face-guarding me, I just have to be patient and find the open player and trust them to take the shot," Slagle said. "That's where our defense has helped me, is I am getting some of those transition opportunities and easy baskets that way."
Stops and steals turn into easy scoring chances, but those turnovers and transition chances only comes about when everyone on defense is doing their job at play on-the-ball and off-the-ball defense, Slagle said. "When we play as a team, it will fuel our offense and help us feel more confident on offense, too," Slagle said.
Despite being counted on to slow down the other team's primary scorer or ball handler, Bell, like Slagle, prefers to give the Lady Warriors' team-oriented approach the primary credit for her success. "I love working hard on defense," Bell said. "I love pressuring the ball. The team supports me. The team has my back in gap support. It's a support system."
Bell's not looking past the bi-district round of the playoffs, but the sophomore hopes it's a long while before she's giving her coach another enthusiastic text about working toward next season.
"We're striving for success," Bell said. "If we stick our minds to it and don't give up, I feel like we can go farther than last year."


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Kin Toffee Vodka
New Toffee Vodka from the heart of the Lake District - Kin
Kin Toffee Vodka is made in the heart of the Lake District. A delicious hand blended, small batch vodka inspired by the stunning surroundings.
A delicious tipple with rich caramel tones and a subtle kick. Delicious served chilled.
This new product is produced by Judith Wren. Judith lives at the South end of Lake Windermere and is producing this artisan product for the enjoyment of all following increasing demand from her family and friends.
Fino Cafe Bar
We are delighted to announce that we are opening a Cafe Bar in Ambleside in February 2014. The new business will be called 'Fino'.
Fino will be serving top quality charcuterie and cheese with fabulous wine, beer and spirits. Our aim is to provide the finest combination of Spanish and locally selected food, in stylish surroundings, with friendly efficient service.
You can find us at 2&3 Old Post Office Buildings, Millans Park, Ambleside from 10th February 2014.