Commander Bus

Commander Bus is a secondary antagonist in the Spyman's Cosmos universe. He is a 67 year old American single-decker bus with a school-like paint scheme. He shares the same desire of taking over the world with his friends - Copper, BSoD, Dr Rex and Jack Jester.
Commander Bus is usually responsible for planning certain actions and executing them. He was responsible for kidnapping several characters throughout the entire timeline, such as Mangle and PCus, No-Life and Jenny Brown.
== Biography ==
=== Early life ===
Born at least in 1949, Commander Bus was a sentient school bus, who with time entered onto the criminal path. At one point in his life, he crossed paths with Spymankiller and for some reason developed a hatred towards him, but not as much as for some of his friends. Sometime later, he joined forces with two other individuals, Copper and Blue Screen of Death, who shared the hatred, and formed BSoD's Gang.
=== Collision Course ===
When the villains' mortal enemies, Spyman's Cosmos, went on vacation, Copper was watching Mangle and PCus through secret cameras and told Commander Bus to ready the weapons. Later that day, the two villains were spying on the two friends, who were having a campfire. Copper told CB to remember the plan and they then went out of the bushes in "professional disguises" (fake moustaches). Just as Mangle and PCus were about to leave, the villains stopped them, introduced themselves as landlords and said the two had to go with them. PCus was a little suspicious and though Copper tried to convince them more, their moustaches then fell off, forcing him to shoot the friends and shock them.
Soon after, Commander Bus and Copper transported Mangle and PCus to BSoD's base and while Copper sent a letter to Spyman, to inform him about the kidnapping, Bus brought the two prisoners to face BSoD himself. He explained his plan to them, making them terrified, and after that, ordered Commander Bus to take them back to the cells.
When Spy and his friends stormed the base to save Mangle and PCus, BSoD ordered Commander Bus and Copper to attack the intruders. Bus soon suited up in his battle armour and faced Spy and Pankid, who were going through the base's corridors. The latter told Spy to go, while he'd face CB. Spy listened and left, while the two had a fight, which was won by Pankid. Later, Commander Bus was taken by him and served as his new pet, which he later introduced to his friends after the battle. However, at some point, Commander Bus somehow escaped and started planning next devious schemes with his gang.
=== Us vs. Us ===
After BSoD developed a plan to create evil copies of the Spyman's Cosmos' main four, he ordered Commander Bus and Copper to activate the cloning machine. Bus, yet unaware of the scheme, asked Copper about it and when he told about the clones, Bus asked if the originals weren't enough, for Copper to add "evil" quickly. BSoD then rushed them, Commander Bus looked around for some reason and they turned on the machine, creating the clones.
After the gang stormed the base, Commander Bus, Copper and Dr Rex were ordered by BSoD to attack the intruders. However, Commander Bus didn't engage in the battle and went out from wherever he was only after it ended. In his full battle armour, he found No-Life, who defeated all his friends earlier, but was abandoned after Spyman's Cosmos left the base. Angry CB said he forgot about him and presumably defeated, to later imprison.
=== Hurricane Inbound ===
Commander Bus was seen sometime later, when the gang was recovering after the main four's storm. While BSoD was watching Spy and his friends, trying to survive a strong hurricane in Snowies, Commander Bus was guarding No-Life's cell. He was then asked by the boss how was the prisoner doing and said he was annoying, as usual.
=== In Search of the Scarlet Griffin ===
In 2018, BSoD's Gang took interest in ancient artifacts, especially The Scarlet Griffin, to destroy Spyman's Cosmos and take over the world with its power. They targetted Jenny Brown, an archaeologist, who also was in search of it, and Commander Bus was sent to Egypt, where he would steal the valuable information from her. After approaching the archaeologist and her learning about Bus's intentions, she somehow escaped, not wanting to give away the information.
Commander Bus, accompanied by Gun henchmen, quickly started the chase after her and sometime later found her in a backstreet, where she was recording a message for her old friend - Phil. After being knocked down by one of the guns, she was brought to Commander Bus, who drove over her camera. The two had a short faceoff with Bus demanding Jenny to instantly reveal all information about the Scarlet Griffin. When she refused, he said there would be enough time for her to reveal it and the guns packed her into a truck. 
Later, after transporting the new prisoner to the gang's Austrian base, Commander Bus was seen alongside his friends, when BSoD was trying to get information out of Jenny, but wouldn't, because of Jack's interruptions. Because of that, Bus and everyone, besides Copper, were told to leave the room.
The following day, Bus and Dr Rex were supposed to go to Belgium, where a map to The Griffin was located. However, during a meeting in the base's main hall, Copper realised that Bus was still there. At first he was yelled at by BSoD, but he explained that he hired two robbers to do the task. Although Blue Screen had objections, Bus assured him that they were the best people in the brand. However, he was later called, so he and Rex teleported to a cave under Château du Fassberg.
There, they met with Spyman's Cosmos, who were in possession of the scroll, as well as Tobias Sanders, who temporarily took it and wanted to get his payment, but was turned down by Commander Bus, saying that he shouldn't have called them. Although it turned out to be his partner Larry, they both didn't get the money and the scroll landed back in Phil's hands, but not for long, as Commander Bus turned on his holographic projector and a conversation with BSoD himself. After their boss threatened to kill Jenny if the good guys didn't give away the map, and the archaeologist actually getting hurt because of Spy's action, Dr Rex got the scroll and the two teleported back.
However, they were both teleported straight to Nisipoulis, where they spent some time on investigating the terrain. They were eventually joined by their friends on the next day and were discussing some things for a while, until another person, Spymankiller, also arrived on the island. BSoD ordered an attack on him and Commander Bus was the first one to go, attacking the enemy with his axe. He then watched as Spy began to lose when Dr Rex froze him in time and then, Jack flew up with him. Finally, the Gang beat Spy and forced him to go to The Griffin's Cave and get the idol out for them.
Spy returned after several hours and was brought to the rocky altar, where Commander Bus, Jack and Rex were already waiting for him. Bus and his friends then watched as Spy started reciting the activating spell, but to their surprise, nothing happened. Their adversary said that it was because he wasn't a good man, as he had abandoned his friends, but BSoD didn't think that was the case. He then told his people to kill Spy, which satisfied Bus, but before they could do that, they noticed the rest of their enemies parachuting down to the island. Blue Screen ordered to shoot them, but they managed to dodge the missiles and their plane responded with a backfire. Fortunately for the Gang, they were protected by Jack's force field.
Subsequently, Commander Bus put on his armor and began to fight the incomers, focusing mainly on OkiWan. He deflected the bullets of the boy's gun with his battleaxe, but was suddenly distracted by Lenny throwing a rock at him, which allowed Oki to shoot him in the armor, which still affected him. He kept on fighting the enemies for some time, until he joined his boss, who became a giant, upon unlocking the power of The Griffin. With the rest of the Cosmos arriving, Commander Bus went on to fight them. 
At one point, he was facing against Rex, with their respective weapons - axe and pickaxe - constantly colliding. A while later, he was surprised, seeing the main four also becoming a scarlet titan. As they were approaching BSoD, Commander Bus was pushed off the ground, due to the force of the titan's steps. Eventually, BSoD was defeated and the Cosmos was victorious. However, Bus and the remaining members of his Gang gathered again to escape. Firstly, Jack took their boss' screen to later fix it, but was stopped for a minute by his brother. Bus observed as Jack crossed his limit and soon after that, they teleported back to the Snowies base.
=== BSoD's Gang disbandment ===
After getting tired of being constantly destroyed, BSoD decided to end his villain career and retire, which led to BSoD's Gang being inactive. Ironically, after years of trying to destroy the Spyman's Cosmos on many different ways, it was this one particular thing that actually broke them apart.
=== The Thunder ===
In 2020, BSoD was already back at his old routine and at one point, he called Commander Bus to present his brand new scheme to destroy Spyman's Cosmos. He was asked if he had ever heard of the ancient God called Fari. Sometime later, Bus presumably disguised as one of the two archaeologists, who "accidentally" released the deity from its tomb, unleashing a huge storm on Finledge.
=== Core Inbound ===
Two months later, Commander Bus was in a forest, where he was training with Copper. Once they were finished, he was called by BSoD, who told both of them to come to the base. Copper was happy to hear that BSoD was back, which Commander Bus agreed on, saying that it was thanks to Garmatrol's comeback. This surprised his friend, unaware that their alien ally was back. Bus then asked him whether he had any predictions on what the new plan could be and Copper thought it had something to do with the purple skies above them.
They arrived in the Skyopolis base at the same time as the rest of the Gang and after entering the main hall, they were greeted by Blue Screen of Death, who asked if anyone of them had ever heard of Vitreous and his search for the ultimate weapon. Garmatrol was the only one to know, so BSoD began to tell the story to the other members. They heard of the alien's entire history, as well as of the weapon he seeked - a powerful entity able to create and destroy, that was hidden in the Earth's core, Diagon. While the three other members were constantly interrupting, Commander Bus and Copper listened carefully, remaining respectful towards their boss. Eventually, they were all ordered to prepare for Vitreous and stop him, as he would destroy the planet, which was still their home.
Sometime later, The Witch was brought to the base by Garmatrol, to help develop another Power Aura, but firstly, BSoD told Garma, Jack and Rex to create a new mecha form for him, hence Commander Bus and Copper had to guard the visitor while they were doing that. After both creations were done, the Gang headed out to Vitreous' hideout in order to meet him. At first, Garma was sent to talk with him in peace and order to back away. However, he was quickly thrown out of the lair, which surprised the gang. They had to fight Vitreous and it didn't take long for all of them to fall. Their leader was the only one to have quite equal chances with the enemy, but even he was defeated and his mecha form got shattered.
Tired of losing by BSoD's side, Jack Jester decided to join Vitreous' Authority and was followed by Garmatrol and Dr Rex. Commander Bus and Copper didn't like that and said that they would tell the boss about that, but the other three didn't care much. The two then watched as they attempted to control the Power Gem, but only Garma succeeded and instantly turned his back on his former allies. Despite Jack and Rex's treason, the four fought on the same side. Yet, they were still beaten very quickly. After Garmatrol and his new master left, the gang got up and Jack called BSoD to tell him what happened. He said that he was thinking of asking Cosmos for help, but the computer immediately forbid him to do that. 
After the call ended, the scientist said that he would try to do that anyway to survive, but Commander Bus and Copper once again weren't keen on that. Bus accused him of wanting to collaborate with them only to see his brother, which he denied. Finally, the loyal two abandoned the scientists and went back to the base to tell Blue Screen everything. When he heard what happened, he was very mad and said that he had called an additional help, but there was no time to wait for them. He switched to his mobile form and told his people to follow him for the ultimate showdown with Vitreous.
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=== Cloak of Murk ===
After the war with Vitreous, the relations in BSoD's Gang were complicated, mostly regarding Garmatrol, Jack and Rex. At one point, the latter finally snapped and got mad at BSoD for not respecting him as a time master. Hearing all that, Commander Bus asked him if he had ever considered leaving the team and Rex said that under conditons like the ones he was at the time, he gladly would. At first BSoD was surprised, but after he left, he actually didn't care much. After that, Blue Screen hired a supervillain called Trauma to spy on Rex in case he wanted to turn against the Gang. 
He did, in fact, do that by allying with Spyman's Cosmos. However, he and the main four were stopped by the new ally and eventually found themselves guarded by the Bus. Copper then also showed up to execute them. Bus asked him how was his blaster and his friend replied that it was better than ever. Their enemies were about to finally die, when they were saved by someone, who turned out to be a CPA agent, shooting Copper's blaster. The main four and Rex managed to escape with General Stefanson and his people, which Bus only watched without any fight.
Sometime later, Trauma officially joined the ranks of BSoD's Gang and for some time, he worked with BSoD on restoring the Nightmare Box to cause nightmares on a global scale. However, he eventually betrayed BSoD and sent him to the nightmare realm, while also imprisoning Commander Bus and Copper after showing them their own fears. While Copper fell unconcious, Bus warned Trauma that Rex would eventually come back with the good guys and stop him. Trauma then threatened to show him the death of his wife again, which silenced the Bus. He tried to prevent Trauma from spreading a worldwide nightmare once more, but to no avail.
Later, Bus was also unconcious and during that time, Dr Rex came back to defeat and kill Trauma and rejoin the Gang. After that, Bus and Copper were likely gotten out by him.
== Personality ==
Unlike Copper and BSoD, Commander Bus mainly focuses on hunting Spy's friends instead of Spy himself. Although he's not as aggresive as his friends from BSoD's Gang, he still has a criminal past and to this day breaks the law. Unlike the gang's scientists and Garmatrol and much like Copper, he is very loyal to his boss and would never think of betraying him even if it was to save his life.
While Commander Bus is a harsh villain, who will do anything, he has weak points. Bus is still tormented by the demons of his past, that is the death of his wife. Despite the fact that she died many years ago and he seemingly moved on, he still hasn't truly coped with that and seeing it again, when Trauma showed him his greatest fear, only made Bus weaker and unwilling to stop the traitor.
== Appearances ==
#Why Frank Hates Phil (pictured)
#Collision Course 2/4
# Collision Course 3/4
# Collision Course 4/4
# Us vs. Us 2/4
# Hurricane Inbound 3/4 (cameo)
# Us vs. Us 4/4
# In Search of the Scarlet Griffin 1/5
#In Search of the Scarlet Griffin 2/5
#The Thunder (cameo)
#Core Inbound 2/5
#Cloak of Murk 1/4
#Cloak of Murk 2/4
#Cloak of Murk 3/4
#Cloak of Murk 4/4 (cameo)
#Core Inbound 3/5
#Core Inbound 4/5
#In Search of the Scarlet Griffin 4/5
#In Search of the Scarlet Griffin 5/5
#Core Inbound 5/5
#Machinery Landing 1/4
== Trivia ==
* He made a couple appearances in non-canon one-shots by Dr Saturn.
*He had a wife at some point in his life, which tragically died in front of him. Trauma used this memory to weaken Commander Bus mentally.Cloak of Murk 3/4
== Footnotes ==
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Category:BSoD's Gang
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