Wounded Prey

Episode 14 of Wrong Way Up starts with Splitsie welcoming a double dose of Capacs (W4stedspace had spawned in wearing an orange suit and changes to a red-black hexagon suit). Capac shockingly calls Splitsie's rover design "bland" as they meet on the deck to review last episode's suicide murder run to capture the Bots' Mastodon tank. Splitsie encourages w4sted to prepare a Kanajashi-style high-altitude bombing run. They notice that Texfire, W4stedspace, Capac, and DE all have custom suits and emotes by Chipstix--only Splitsie stands out by using the default. Capac's plane falls off the elevator and Jexsam Bot in in-game chat feels his stolen plane's pain. Texfire continues re-re-building his crane while grumpy DE's Toblerone acts its name and breaks itself in two. Capac makes an emergency landing in the wilderness (again, Jexsam's plane telepathy tingles) and warns them of the Bots' incoming "Bruce Willis "survey rover.

(0:30) In in-game chat, the Bots unsuccessfully tell Capac to execute "order 66" and lure him with sandwiches, and Splitsie lures him back, but what Capac actually wants is an Unknown Signal. Splitsie uses Texfire's crane to drill stone, then proceeds to dismantle the unused Collector pit and its clamshell roof doors, so W4sted has room to build a 3D printer on Texfire's trailer. The Bots are quietly recapturing their Mastodon while the protagonists are struggling with aircraft construction, rubberbanding, the BuildVision UI, Splitsie's ideal Twitter feed, and spoken-word rock songs.

(1:00) Texfire accidentally detaches the carried Nicolas Rollcage rover and Splitsie blames Capac for BuildVision bugs out of habit. W4sted finally gets a ladder and plans to build something mysterious. Splitsie builds a new airplane (Neon Pumpkin-to be) and DE builds a blue plane, the Panther. Splitsie discourages DE from stirring up the Bots with his PBW missiles.

(1:30) While the Bots plot the Mastodon's repair and defence in in-game chat, DE improves the hangar and Splitsie invites Capac to be his new plane's gunner. W4sted criticises Splitsie's plane design but Splitsie succeeds to lift off the roof of the Jalopy. They suddenly remember an enemy rover is approaching, so Splitsie hurries to make a pancake landing. DE teases Splitsie with the threat to drive the Jalopy while Splitsie's plane is not secured. Shortly after, Capac builds a gun turret with cockpit and Splitsie hurries a second time to fasten the Jalopy's handbrake. Splitsie and Capac lift off to engage the decoying enemy rover and DE mans a turret.

(2:00) Capac and DE detect TheFinalEvent Bot on the ground riding an Assault Segway. While Splitsie makes several attempts to land on the Jalopy, Capac jumps off Splitsie's plane and asks Naburine to mail cookies to Australia instead of sharing them at home with DE. DE describes the cookies as crispy on the outside and gooey on the inside which prompts W4stedspace to complete the sentence with "... armadillos!!" We witness Splitsie's first proper non-pancake landing and W4stedspace sings "Right Said Fred" by Bernard Cribbins and stumbles off the runway. Splitsie parks to refuel and paints his new plane Capac-orange and neon green and names it Neon Pumpkin. Then he adds a health&safety sensor to protect Capac from W4sted's dangerous 3D printer. Texfire and Capac get compliments for their trailer builds.

(2:30) They beg Chat to mod the modded plane wheels so they no longer sink into the floor. When they calculate their hydrogen reserves, they are reminded to raid the Mastodon's tanks, and/or start building solar panels. Their attack planning (capture the mastodon, not destroy it) is interrupted by the Bruce Willis survey jeep driving by. Capac brilliantly uses available space as he puts solar panels on the underside of the folded-down acid rain umbrella. Splitsie messes with the fuelling arm when he gets his plane ready to launch, then he messes with Texfire's crane when W4stedspace' drone gets ready to launch. The whole time, the Bots in in-game are hinting strongly that they are watching and ready to strike back.

(3:00) W4stedspace launches his drone perfectly and they print a second one. While they name the drones after Stargate, DE wonders about the actors' weird names and Splitsie asks "Michael?🥺", making Tex laugh out loud. Tex remote controls the first drone, W4sted controls the second, Capac and Splitsie launch in the Neon Pumpkin, and DE remote controls the Joyous Riposte. Everyone is in full battle mode, the drones have their usual connection issues, and Capac eats snacks as bullets are exchanged between the Mastodon wreck and the protagonists. DE takes over a Nicolas Rollcage and disables the last turret on foot. Capac jumps out of the plane and steals the Bots' forklift. After a shoot-out on foot, they storm the Mastodon that is lying on its side. Splitsie insists on investigating the crime scene and syphoning off the hydrogen before any attempts of rolling the Mastodon using gyroscopes.

While DE and Splitsie go to fetch the Jalopy, they leave Capac unsupervised and he casually uses the forklift to right the Mastodon (Twitch clip). Capac warns the others of TheFinalEvent Bot in the toilet stall; they run back to his aid and TheFinalEvent Bot ambushes them all... Elsewhere, W4stedspace chases a Karl Urban Assault vehicle over a cliff.

(3:30) Spitsie returns to the Jalopy right before thick fog sets in and Capac teases TFE Bot by asking what he was doing in that toilet stall? They drive to the Mastodon in the fog and meet up with w4sted who fetched his parked plane. For the next episode, they plan to convert the Mastodon into a new detachable attack vehicle in adaptive camouflage paint leading the roadtrain.

## References

1. ↑ He is quoting an old chocolate bar commercial.
2. ↑ In one of the rooms on board the Mastodon, they saw "dead engineers" lying on the ground, possibly hinting that the Bots had highjacked the Mastodon from a human crew.