CHAPTER
8
Gary had fallen with a metallic thud as he landed outside
the old warehouse. He patted his bottom as he slowly
rose to his feet in battle scared armor. "Damn...looks
like some of those lasers did hit home." He said brushing
off some burnt marks on his icy blue armor.
Iceman looked to the small old warehouse. "Unbelievable
on how such a small building could hold so much chaos."
He whispered to himself. Gary was about to teleport
off when he noticed that he used up a lot of energy
during the Pulzar Chase. He would have to wait a good
Ten minutes before the teleportation unit could fill
up with energy.
"Damn
it! The guys need to know this now!" He grunted angrily.
"Could things get any worse!" He yelled out again.
The top of the warehouse blew open as a blackened figure
arose from the ashes. Pulzar again had spotted Iceman
from outside the structure. It roared loudly with pincers
clanging open and shut.
"I
really gotta stop saying that..." Gary pulled his head
down in pity.
Pulzar landed loudly as he shrieked and roared at Iceman
shaking the Earth below. Gary knew that without the
Hover Board, he couldn't escape as easily. And without
his teleport ability full, he'd have to fight it out
until then.
"Alright...time
to put on the stunts." He ushered to Pulzar with finger
pointing 'Just bring it'.
Pulzar roared and approached Iceman, hovering over the
little 3 foot Eskimo with all his might. Peering at
him in an endless shadow. Iceman didn't look too amused.
It seemed that during the day light, Pulzar's eyes didn't
glow so bright. It was great! Iceman couldn't get petrified
by the beast now that the dull sunlight peering through
the dense clouds made Pulzar less scary.
Pulzar's skin was also not as dark. But a bright purplish
color shined from the pale sunlight's beams. Pulzar's
glowing horn looked more threatening actually as it
pulsated with electromagnetic energy.
Pulzar lifted up his giant claw and came booming down
on Iceman. It hit the ground hard causing sand and dirt
to rise up quickly. It rendered Pulzar's site of the
little blue Eskimo and he got his Claw temporary stuck
into the ground. Pulzar figured he missed the pest since
he had hit solid, soft ground.
After the dust had settled, Pulzar lifted his claw from
the ground and looked around for Iceman. The little
pest had vanished quickly. Pulzar looked down to his
claw and saw in writing in magic marker.
"I'm
a big dufus." it stated clearly.
Pulzar let out a nasty annoyed roar as he tried to rub
off the magic marker writing. To no avail. Iceman made
it stick nicely.
"Over
here you ugly insect!" Iceman blurted out loudly sticking
his tongue out at the beast. Pulzar using lightning
reflexes shout out a large blast from his mouth and
aimed correctly right at Iceman.
A large explosion occurred as the building piled down
to ash. Iceman right on the roof of the building. The
entire building had collapsed with Iceman in it. Pulzar
knew that was the end of Iceman.
Or was it. Iceman's right hand started to rise out from
the ashes. With anticipating music coming from the background.
Pulzar thought that it was impossible for something
to rise out of something so heavy. So secure. So burnt.
Though the hand fell onto the ashes, with music stopping
instantly. It looked like Iceman ran out of energy.
Pulzar turned slightly away when his eye caught something
else.
Iceman's left hand now came out from the ashes with
the same music following. Pulzar's eyes again got big.
Nothing could have survived that. Nothing! Pulzar couldn't
believe his eyes!
Iceman's left hand then fell onto the ashes. Music stopped
once again. Pulzar found his eyes rolling around in
circles in annoyance. Alright...that's that.
Iceman's left foot then appeared from the ashes with
the classic 'Jason Vorhees: I keep coming back' music
playing in the background. Pulzar at this point couldn't
take it anymore and fired yet another blast into the
ashes. Another large explosion was heard as Iceman's
foot fell onto the ashes and seemed to have finally
been put out.
Pulzar sighed in relief as the pile of ashes smoked
and let out fumes and nasty smells from the now burnt
pile of ashes.
Ten seconds later however, Iceman's right food appeared
and the music again came back on. Though it was then
that the antics had stopped. Pulzar enraged had used
an EMP kind of attack which completely paralyzed Iceman
in place. The little Eskimo couldn't feel his joints
as he was grabbed from the smoldering mold and tossed
up to a wall. Pulzar again loomed over Iceman as if
he was going to zap him of all his precious energy.
Then a red optical blast had shot at Pulzar from a distance.
It knocked him back a ways and it released the EMP ray
that seemed to have been used on other robots back at
the meteorite site. Pulzar reared back in pain as he
looked to see who his attacker was.
Gary was eye struck.
It was Super Chaos who was the savior. The yellow giant
made is way down to the battle field and approached
the looming Pulzar who was equal in size compared to
the large yellow blob creature.
"Go!
Find your friends!" Super Chaos spoke off suddenly.
"I'll hold The Creature at bay! Go! Now!" He shouted
back at Iceman who knew that he needed to get to his
team mates.
Gary didn't know whether he was dreaming, hallucinating,
or what. But he took his advice and began to run away
from the fighting. It seemed Super Chaos didn't want
too rule on a dying planet. And that even he feared
the effects of Red's onslaught. And there. The Sinister
Six's main enemy and bad guy. Helping.
Super Chaos and Pulzar were locked in a grudge match.
Both trying to over come ones strengths. Where Pulzar
seemed to be the stronger opponent, Super Chaos was
very well holding his own. Roaring and growling issued
as both opponents continued trying to overcome one another.
Iceman got once last glance as he ran from the battle.
He owed Super Chaos one. He saved his life. Though he
had to get to his team fast. The Army of Darkness is
soon about to be unleashed and its evil will finish
off the last of the planet.
"Why
didn't the teleportation chip work!" He mouthed off.
"Why did I use up so much energy!" He cursed to himself.
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The Sinister Six looked fluttered after looking endlessly
for any signs of the large beetle-like creature. No
weird or odd abnormalities stood in place. All seemed
to be normal, with exemption of the entire planet losing
life and sunshine. Scott being bored out of his limited
mind had came out of a closed down Grocery Store and
bought ingredients for a new Cupcake Recipe he had wanted
to try.
"Scott,
do you really need all that?" Tim broke off in annoyance.
The orange and black clad was holding way to much food.
"Bah,
don't pay any attention to him." IRA spoke off. "Let
the man eat." He said chugging down some Big Red.
"And
I thought you weren't going to drink anymore. That the
scene at the bar made you think." Tim said looking to
the fire struck alcoholic.
Just then a puff of smoke appeared and the Six turned
quickly expecting a large shadow of an enormous beetle
to shun over them. They quickly got battle armor ready
to face the new form that just emerged from the smoke
which it appeared from.
"Oh,
hey Gauntlet." Tim spoke off turning back to looking
for Pulzar. The others did so as well looking for any
shred of evidence.
"Oh
hey Gauntlet....?" The Ninja-clad spoke off in disappointment
to the Six's welcome party. "Boy, talk about being happy
to see yer old friend." Gauntlet stood there with arms
crossed. He couldn't believe that they didn't respond
to his long extended absence.
"Sorry
there G, it's just we figured that if we stopped Pulzar's
reign of terror that..." It was then that Tim was interrupted
by a force running towards them. It sounded remorse
and terrifying.
"It's
Pulzar!" Jason blurted out and again the Five got battle
armored ready. This time they were prepared for the
beast. No sneaking up on them now. It was battle time,
and Pulzar was going down.
A figure emerged from the bushes and Tim was about ready
to attack when Gauntlet had stopped him head on.
"What
are you doing!?" Tim yelled out in frustration at the
Ninja statue which spawned out in front of the six.
"Saving
you from dismantling Gary." He spoke in a calm voice
with left eye closed, and hand forming the Ninja-style
stance as always.
Again the Six where fooled upon a false alarm as the
Parka bearing clad came into view. "Hey guys, oh. Gauntlet's
here." Gary said looking slightly annoyed. He still
was angry at the shadow blade throwing robot from the
discussion they had earlier.
"Iceman."
Shadowman ushered to Gary in a nod.
The other six stared at the two for a few minutes then
regained conscience. "Glad you two are here actually."
Tim spoke first. "I've got some earth shaking news that'll
really make your skin crawl."
"Oh
really? What's that?" Gauntlet spoke turning his attention
from Iceman to Gutsman.
"Thunderman
is really Edward. I donno how, or why, but he just revealed
himself to us." Tim spoke suddenly. Jason soon followed.
"Yeah, he's locked up at our base now." He finished.
Gary was eye struck and didn't know what to say while
Gauntlet remained where he was and didn't have much
surprise in his face. Even with the mask on.
"Oh,
I already knew that." He spoke with finger in the air.
"It was quite obvious really." Gauntlet had finished
as he stood there in another Ninja-Stance. The Sinister
Six again were speechless. How could this be possible?
"WHY
DIDN'T YOU TELL US!" Tim mouthed off loudly, startling
the other Six.
"You
didn't ask." Gauntlet finished lamely dodging a fast
fist attack.
Gutsman growled slightly, holding off his anger. He
knew Gauntlet was going to respond with that, being
the smart alec that he was. The others didn't know what
to compute.
Before Any of the other members could continue the conversation
a large sound came from not to far off in the distance.
A familiar roaring sound to Iceman soon followed. The
sound tore through concrete and the ground trembled
loudly.
"Oh
yeah...I forgot to mention that Pulzar was chasing after
me." Gary said with a slight nervous chuckle.
This was it, the opportunity the Sinister Six where
waiting for. Pulzar had finally emerged from the darkness
and shown during the day light. His ability to freeze
his opponents with fear with its eyes would be of no
use during the sun light. The Sinister Six had a slight
advantage now.
The ground shook more as an enormous shock wave come
out from the shadows and struck the seven figures. They
flew back roughly to the concrete under them, as the
roar continued on.
"Damn...sneaky
little thing ain't he?" IRA spoke off rubbing the pain
in his rear. The other Six were already at their feet
in defense.
"He
ain't so little..." Gary said looking over to Gauntlet.
"At least now we have old Gauntlet here to help us right?"
He said motioning over to the Ninja who still stood
calmly and lit.
"Sorry
guys, but I'm busy with my own mission at the moment."
Gauntlet said as he puffed away in a cast of smoke and
dirt.
"DAMNIT
GAUNTLET! YOU COWARD!" Tim rose off in anger. He had
to admit that the Ninja could have stayed and helped.
But something else of far seriousness was going on with
him.
It was then Pulzar had emerged and the Beast eyed the
Six Robots that stood before him. The reflections of
them appearing in its beetle black insect eyes. The
Monster then charged immediately at the limbering bodies.
"Watch
out!" Tim shouted out as several of the Sinister Six
members were jolted backwards by the attack. The beast
was fast. The creature however shifted to the right,
and prepared to charge again. Only this time the Six
were ready with full attacks.
"Fire
Storm!" IRA led off. Though the Fire had not pierced
the armor of the Insect.
"Rolling
Cutter!" Jason soon followed, only to watch the blades
deflect off the rock solid armor.
"Hyper
Bomb!" Scott threw off. Although it looked like it would
hurt the beast, Scott's aim wasn't exactly on the dot
as he blew up an old neighboring building near by.
"Scott!
Watch what you're doing!" Tim said dodging a Hyper Bomb
of his own. Pulzar used this small diversion to his
advantage as he ran straight into Gutsman. Gutsman was
being plowed over by Pulzar as the Beast began to stomp
on the large Mech robot.
"Tim!!"
Shouted Andon and the others as they saw in great peril
their friend being crushed by Pulzar's enormous weight.
Pulzar was about to drain Tim's energy as its armor
stopped all attacks based from behind when Tim lifted
the beetle. Pulzar's large body was no match for Gutsman's
strength as Tim bolted the Beetle into a large run down
building. Destroying it in the process.
"Oops..."
Tim said in accident. Though it didn't matter much since
the old building was on its last leg anyway.
Pulzar was already on its feet and continuing its attack.
Tim couldn't believe that he couldn't damage it.
Andon threw a Thunder Beam at Pulzar, but not to attack
it. But as a test. Andon noticed that all attacks based
on Pulzar would only give him more energy. Espically
elemental attacks. Electricity, Fire, Ice, Wind, Water.
It all powered him. Andon got an idea, but was already
shot down by Pulzar.
"Andon!"
Jason spoke off as he too was rammed into a wall. All
the Sinister Six were down.
"He's....too....strong..."
Gary blurted off lying in the street. Then he got a
vision. The Meteorite incident flashed back into his
head. He saw the beast crying out in pain and was suffering.
But by what? Could this beast have a weakness? It was
then he remembered.
But Pulzar was already upon the defeated Six. The Monster
was hovering above IRA as he was about to prepare his
final swoop when a blast came from not far off. It was
a Thunder Beam. But of a different color. Instead of
the blue electric variety it was reddish gold.
Pulzar took the blast head on and reared back in pain.
A different roar was heard, but not the usual threatening,
fighting stance one. One that actually took damage.
Andon got to his feet and fired off another blast at
the beast. It was Andon who was the savior this time.
The Blast hit home as Pulzar roared another painful
wound. Andon's attacks were working. But how? Earlier
his Thunder Beams would feed energy to Pulzar.
"I
can reverse the flow of the electrons to make the energy
unstable." Andon said covering his wounds. "bad energy."
He concluded. Andon continued to attack the large monster
without much remorse.
"Andon...you're
a pacifist!" Tim said trying to get to his feet.
"The
beetle is just a bug. Plus I'm just weakening it." He
said so it won't violate his pacifist ideals.
It was brilliant. Andon was feeding Pulzar bad energy.
Instead of normal based attacks, Andon had reversed
the electrons and effects of the Electric energy and
turned it into 'bad medicine". It clearly was taking
effect. Though Pulzar was simply rearing back. To defeat
it entirely, they'd need a bigger source of power.
"The
Power Plant..." Andon spoke as he saw Pulzar was already
starting to get some fight back into him. The other
Sinister Six lighted up quickly after hearing this.
That would be a massive amount of good energy turned
bad.
"Let's
lead him to the plant now!" Tim shouted out running
in the direction. But Pulzar could easily catch them
with its speed. How could hey get their without being
torn into pieces? The Teleportation Chips were badly
depleted due to the battle strain.
A small silent beep went off as Gary's teleport chip
whirled off. He hadn't focused all his power into fighting
Pulzar during this battle, and Gary got an idea. Gary
grabbed hold of Andon and charged into battle with Pulzar.
"Gary!
What are you doing!?" Tim yelled off in fear and surprise.
Gary carefully dodged a swipe from Pulzar at close range
and grabbed hold of one of Pulzar's legs.
"Alright,
here we go!" Gary shouted suddenly as he engulfed himself,
Andon, and Pulzar in a large blue light. In a matter
of seconds the three figures had vanished into a spectrum
of blue particles. Tim, Jason, Scott, and IRA sat alone
and starred off into the absent sunlight.
"Whoa...where
did they go?" Scott said in amazement. He hadn't expected
them to disappear so quickly and so sudden. The other
three then quickly bolted head right.
"To
the Power Plant!" Tim shouted behind him with the other
three lingering behind. "We have to try to get there
in time to help them!" He concluded as the four shadows
pasted off in the distance, leaving the area totally
lifeless.
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Meanwhile a small yellow clad person was busy at work
tinkering with the computer network inside the tech
room of Sinister Six H.Q. Needle Gal was still lying
motionless on the table she was laid upon.
"Come
on...come on...connect me to the server!" Shouted Topman
as he typed endlessly on the computer. Obvious lack
of sleep and hard bruises appeared upon his eyes and
fingers as he anxiously typed on the key pad.
The Computer clicked and beeped trying to keep up with
Topman's constant fast reactions and commands. Even
with the computer's top notch speed, the orange robot
was still ahead of it. "Jesus...whoever thought the
top technology was slow." Topman grunted as he continued
to press commands.
"Connected."
The Computer fed out. Topman sat back in his chair finally
relieved. Then again a puff of smoke appeared suddenly
and Topman turned to welcome his comrade.
"Did
you get in?" Gauntlet appeared and immediately asked
his Mechanical friend. Topman quickly nodded as if his
voice was also drained from yelling at the computer's
slowness speed for over 24 hours. Weariness showed as
he got up from the chair. Obvious booty marks were implanted
in the soft chair's cousin, and the Orange robot had
trouble standing upright.
"Whoa...take
it easy Demon..." Gauntlet said helping his friend stand
up straight. "Sorry, I was up all night trying to get
a connection. Red had really fried her circuits." Topman
said in a hoarse voice.
"You
sure you want to plug in after all that hard work?"
Gauntlet said holding Topman by his side. Topman really
looked beat, but the look of determination to save their
team mate was fluttering in his eyes like a warrior
fighting until the very end.
"Let's
go." Topman said quietly and took out his PET device.
Gauntlet and Topman being the only members of the Mechanical
Maniacs to have VI PET Links, they are able to pixilated
themselves into anything digital and become forms of
their own. Navis. They had received these powers from
joining the Viral Infection Team of the EXE Universe.
Topman and Gauntlet plugged the devices into a small
opening near the computer where they had connected to
Needle Gal's server and quickly dissipated into digital
data.
Moments later they had awoken in a different world.
A world inside the computer. The whole place lit up
with hundreds of lights and all kinds of strange data
surged through and a passed them by on mazes and mazes
of networks.
"Now
we have to find our way to Needle Gal's main frame and
turn it back online." Topman said to Gauntlet who for
once was towering over his leader. Topman's VI identity
was known as Gutsman.EXE. So for a first time Topman
was bigger than his comrade.
Gauntlet however still remained nearly the same. The
Shadow Blade on his head, and dark bluish cloth still
covered the sneaky ninja. Shadowman.EXE was his name.
The two team mates then set off, hoping for the best.
The two robots, now net navis, navigated the unfamiliar
terrain. Strange spikes and flowers were everywhere.
Gauntlet felt somewhat awkward about invading his sister's
mind, but didn't see any way around it. "What do we
do" asked Gutsman, clearly at a loss. Look around. There's
data all over the place. We gotta collect it all and
put it back where it belongs."
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A bright flash concealed the inside of the abandoned
power plant and three figures emerged out of the clear
blue. "We're here!" Gary quickly stated as a giant roar
caused the inside of the palace to shake violently.
"Crubs...forgot about him." Gary finished as a giant
claw thwacked into his armored plated body and sent
him spinning for the closest wall.
"GARY!"
Andon shouted out. He attempted to go to his aide but
Pulzar stepped into his path. The Monster seemed totally
unaware of its new surroundings. All was on its mind
was destroy. It growled nastily as he took another swipe
for Andon. The pacifist quickly dodged through the swipes
as they pierced the cemented ground under them. Andon
sent out several negative bursts of energy at the lumbering
beast, but Pulzar seemed to have adapted to them quickly.
They needed to send out a burst big, and strong enough
to put him down the first time.
Andon was crushed to the ground by the creatures’ enormous
pincer. Pulzar loomed over the fallen warrior and was
starting to drain his energy. Andon groaned in pain
as the creature started glowing. Draining Andon's very
life essence. Pulzar roared in glee as he was getting
some energy back for a change until a blast disrupted
his connection and was forced to draw back.
"There
he is!" Yelled out Scott. The robot threw out another
bomb and Pulzar barley dodged it. IRA ran into the fray
and blazed the beetle with non stop fire action. But
Pulzar seemed to just eat it up as the creature shot
out a dark blast straight at the heart of the four characters
that ran into the plant.
"Watch
it all!" Tim said as he shoved a boulder into the path
of the dark energy blast. It destroyed the rock, but
left the Sinister Six totally unharmed. Gary quickly
rose to his feet and ran into the action as well. The
monster was extremely powerful. It could take on all
six of them at the same time.
It left them with little plan to get Andon into the
Plant's energy source. If they didn't stop Pulzar, then
the Plant would be vital energy food for the insect
monster.
"Darn
it! Nothing is working!" Jason shouted as he noticed
his blades didn't pierce the Monster's armor. Pulzar
moved in for the kill as he grabbed Jason by the chest
and began to crunch is insides. "NOOOO!" Jason shouted
as he shook to get free from Pulzar's crushing claw.
Gary attempted freezing the beast, but it only broke
free, as IRA's fire power never shown the monster any
fatigue. Andon tried to get to the Power Plant's controls.
So he can turn all the energy to negative strands, but
the monster seemed to enjoy blasting him away. Nothing
seemed to have worked until....
"Hey...what's
wrong with the lights...?" Tim said picking up the giant
monster over his head and throwing into debris that
it caused earlier. Jason was still attached to the monsters
deadly claw. "I don't know...why don't you figure it
out after you ply ME FROM ITS GRIP!" Jason ordered.
"Something’s
going on with the controls." Andon busted out. He looked
around and noticed that Pulzar had lost his control
of Jason who quickly crawled away into a corner. He
was crushed up pretty bad. Pulzar on the other hand
looked slightly nervous. Like it sensed something odd
with the Power Plant. The creature looked around as
if something was after him.
"Now's
our chance! He's distracted!" Andon said as he made
for the controls. Tim, IRA, Gary, and Scott quickly
surrounded the large insect which was trying to make
its get away.
"Whatever
you do! Don't let it escape!" Andon shouted as he hacked
into the controls. He then saw a Shadow Blade and a
Green Cross icons staring him down. "Gauntlet...Spinning
Demon? You guys shut down the lights and stuff?"
Inside the Power Plant's main frame. Gauntlet and Topman
(who is now Gutsman.EXE) gave a thumbs up as they left
the server to employ their mission to revive their sister.
They had shut down all the lights, and gave Andon the
distraction they had needed.
Pulzar swiped Tim away as he tried to leave the Plant
by blowing a hole through the wall. Gary quickly froze
it up, and Pulzar turned to try another path.
"He's
scared." Tim said as he threw some debris at the beast
that seemed to take little notice to the damage it was
causing. The Monster stamped and pounded around the
Power Plant, causing the entire building to start collapsing.
This was a bad sign. A blade flew through the air and
sliced off Pulzar's horn. The Monster hadn't seen it
coming, and now it couldn't summon the dark energy powers.
Pulzar was losing the battle.
"Good
one Jaso...." Tim stopped in mid sentence. "JASON!"
He ran quickly to his side. Jason's mid section had
been completely crushed by Pulzar's claw. He indeed
had taken serious damage to his inner circuits. Tim
quickly knelt down to his fallen comrade with fear and
worry. "You...you're going to be alright..."
Jason smiled and looked up at his friend. Leaking coolant
from his mouth and was 'bleeding' from his waist. "I
don't think I'm gonna make it Timbo." He said trying
to sit up. A tear fell from both their eyes. Jason seemingly
wanting to quit the Sinister Six before, felt that he
didn't want to now. He didn't want to leave the team
in this condition.
"You'll
be alright Jason...I know you will." Tim said as he
heard a roar from the background. Pulzar had been cut
off by IRA, Gary, and Scott. Andon had just finished
the controls and now held a large electric generator
on his backside. Tim rose to his feet in what seemed
like anger and rage.
"YOUUUU!!"
He shot out at the beast. Which caused the others to
stare. Tim marched towards Pulzar, causing tremors of
his own. Andon backed off and witnessed Tim do something
that he'd never thought he would do. Instead of taking
the generator, Tim grabbed hold of some power lines
that fed energy to the generator. Pulzar swiped at him,
but Tim simply used his other arm to knock his giant
pinching claws away.
"DIE
YOU BASTARD!" Tim said as he plunged the large energy
wires into Pulzar's mouth. The negative strands flew
from the computer into the wires and fed into Pulzar's
energy eating body. Pulzar roared in pain like no one
had ever expected. Gary, Andon, Scott, and IRA fled
backwards has the monster gobbled up the bad energy
and reared back causing the entire wall to cave in.
Tim simply stood watching the monster with anger and
lust.
Pulzar fell onto the yellow grass outside the plant
and the monster lay onto its back as the bad energy
consumed him. Pulzar's bright purple color soon turned
a dull gray and its glowing white eyes started blinking
like a light bulb ready to burn out. The roaring started
to dim lighter and lighter until its voice died out
and the monster layed motionless on the ground. The
red-orange bolts of electricity started to flicker off
and soon the energy stopped. Like any dead bug, Pulzar
laid with its legs up in the air and body wrinkled up
into a slight ball. It was dead.
Soon everything went quiet. Even the Plant which had
suffered a major beat down, had stopped crumbling and
breaking. Andon stood in near half shock. Tim was still
standing there. In half silhouette. Breathing hard.
Looking straight on. Gary, IRA, and Scott stood back,
taking in what they just witnessed with wide open mouths
and eyes. Andon didn't know what to say or do as he
gently put down the generator.
Then after about 5 minutes, the police arrived and that's
how they found them.
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