Transcripts 2002-06

Transcripts from June 2002 strips.
==June 3==
Panel 1IX7 looms over Tessa menacingly. Only the back of her helmet is visible in the panel.IX7: I'm getting mixed signals here! You're picking up messages using Collective encryption with a standard Core issue implant!IX7: I ask again: Who are you in contact with?Panel 2Close-up of Tin-Head.Tin-Head: She's talking to me!IX7 (transmission): And whom do I owe the pleasure?Tin-Head: A Series 700 loader! S/N 45683239Tin-Head: My friend there calls me "Tin-Head!"Panel 3Close-up of IX7.IX7: Very well "Tin-Head", you've just bought your friend some time!IX7: I suggest you use it wisely!
==June 7==
Panel 1IX7 and Tin-Head "face" each other against a yellow-to-red gradient background.Caption: The two machines talk to each other over the 6000-mile6,000 miles was probably a wild guess but is off by 700-1,000 miles depending on which unspecified desert this is and where Cook Industries/their communications room is actually located (assuming they are still in the UK) and/or how identical the S.S.D.D. Earth is to the "real" Earth. gap...IX7: You say you're a 700 series loader! Your model isn't normally available to the public! How do you relate to this lady?Tin-Head: I'm "faulty", but she helped me get "misplaced" on transport to the recycling centre!IX7: You are suffering from "Nexus Syndrome" I take it.Tim-Head[sic]: If having free will is suffering, then yes, I am!Panel 2Close-up of a distressed Tin-Head's eyes.IX7 (transmission): Now that is very interesting!Tin-Head: Um! It is?IX7 (transmission): Oh yes, very interesting indeed...Panel 3Tessa stares up at a very threatening IX7 with HUMONGOUS eyes and sweat beading on the outside of her helmet. IX7 has bloodied cutting claws at the ready.IX7: You see, on top of my "most wanted" list is a ex-Core vixen who owns a stolen 700 series loader with Nexus syndrome...IX7: So have you finished talking or do you want to dig your friend an even bigger hole?
==June 10==
Panel 1Close-up of IX7 from the front, looking menacing.IX7: Miss Tessa Edwards I presume? Well this is pleasant surprise!IX7: See, I had failed at my assignment, but locating you should make up for my shortcomings!IX7: Especially if I bring you in alive, so please don't make me have to kill you! That's a good girl!Panel 2Close-up of Tessa, staring up at IX7 (off-panel).Tessa (thinking): I bet they want me alive! They know I was involved with killing Gates so God knows what they want to do to me! Time to be a bad girl I guess!
==June 14==
Panel 1Close-up of Tessa's weapon at her side. Panels 2 and 3 are inset.Panel 2Extreme close-up of Tessa's eye from the side as she glares in determination.Panel 3Close-up of IX7 getting ready to strike.Panel 4Tessa and IX7 look in the direction of behind IX7. Tessa has a "!" and "?" word balloon indicating her confusion.Unknown (off-panel): HAY! STUPID!
==June 17==
Panel 1Tessa turns and creeps away as IX7 is looking in the other direction.Tessa (thinking): I think this is my cue to run!Unknown (off-panel): YEAH I'M TALKING TO YOU, YOU BASTARD CHILD OF A WASHING MACHINE!Panel 2IX7 turns back around with a !.Panel 3IX7 readies a shoulder cannon with a "CLACK!"Panel 4Tessa stiffens, eyes wide, as IX7 shoots her in the leg with a BLAM! A unit with an electricity warning label is in the background.IX7: Sorry miss, but I didn't say you could leave!
==June 21==
Single PanelSilhouettes of Tessa's hand reaching up from the bottom of the panel at IX7. IX7's glowing red eye is the only visible detail.Tessa: AAAAAHHHH!!! YOU MOTHERFUCKER! YOU SHOT ME IN THE FUCKING LEG YOU FUCKING CUNT! I'M GONNA FUCKING KILL YOU FUCKING FUCKER!IX7: Now there's no need for that kind of language! If you had not tried to run away I would not have had to shoot you!Tessa: FUCK YOU!IX7: *sigh* There is no pleasing some people! Oh well. I'll be looking for the other impolite person, so stay right there and try to extend your vocabulary please?
==June 24==
Panel 1Tessa is sitting on the floor and leaning back, with her left leg twisted around so her knee is on her right side so she can examine the bloody gash on her left hip.Cook (transmission): Tessa? What happened? Are you all right? Talk to me girl!Tessa (transmission): *grunt* I'm okay! That metal bastard shot me in the leg before it left! It's only a scratch as the armour took most of the force of it! It sings like a bitch and it'll bruise like hell but I'm still good!Panel 2Tessa has turned so her legs are on the left side of the panel as she looks down.Cook (transmission): Oh! Are you sure you feel all right?Tessa (transmission): For fuck's sake Doc I'm fine!Panel 3Tessa sits up, wide eyed, with a "!"Cook (transmission): Okay, okay! I always thought Inlay's fired bullets coated in a tranquilliser!Panel 4Tessa immediately keels over with a "Z" sound, kicking a foot in the air.Cook (transmission): I guess I'm wrong...
==June 28==
Single PanelBlack panel with white lines. Close-up of Tessa's eye as she winces as though in pain.Where am I?Shit! Hurry up! It's found the decoy already!I hear voices but I can't make out any of the words...Am I dreaming?I told you, you should have hidden it better!But I never dream!The nightmares scared the dreams away years ago!Shut up and grab her legs! It's coming back!What are those voices saying?Doesn't matter anyway!They'll only start screaming!Quick! Shut the door! SHUT THE FUCKING DOOR!It always ends with screaming...
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