Sci-Fi Dogs: Phase 2 Episode 3

#### Allegiance Sworn

After 2 days in isolated protection in his room, ISIC finally calls Leon to the bridge to join the D.O.G.S. The Commander asks Howel to walk to a corner in the room where after a few seconds he hears a buzzing noise. Leon arrives at the bridge and when he enters and is met by Taylor, who swiftly welcomes him back before punching him in the face. The punch is weak, but still somewhat of a shock to Leon. Taylor rants at Leon about his actions in Sci-Fi Dogs: Phase 2 Episode 1, stating that he had embarrassed them all, not just Howel, and that a personal meeting with the Fuhrer alone, let alone one that was streamed across the whole wide Wolfenstein Empire, made it the most important day of their lives, and that he had ruined it. Taylor closes his rant with the comment that while Leon "may not have a family out there to disappoint, [he] certainly does". Leon, unfazed, comments that maybe the Dogs needed humbling. Bernard calls this out as bullshit. ISIC attempts to defuse the situation by threatening the entire ship with nuclear destruction if the Dogs do not stop arguing. ISIC then asks Leon the same question that the D.O.G.S were asked at the end of Episode 2. Will Leon swear allegiance to ISIC or will he choose to remain with the Wolfenstein. Leon retorts that it is an incredibly huge ask of ISIC to ask him to devote his cause to him, however, with observed reluctance, he obliges. Leon swears his allegiance to ISIC. ISIC rejoices as now the entirety of the D.O.G.S team have sworn allegiance to him, and grants them a week to relax, although stating that they are not permitted to leave the ship (the intermission, *Wolf's Bane*, *Bernard's Request for Knights* and *Petal's Debut* explore this time, in that rough order). He decides that it is time to enlighten Bernard and Taylor on a little project of his.

##### Wolf's Bane

A few weeks prior to this, Bernard had inquired on Wolf's Bane, a word he had decrypted from Dr. Haydon's laboratory on Subnortica. He had been ushered away by ISIC and discouraged from investigating into Wolf's Bane any further however now ISIC is the first one to bring it up. ISIC tells Bernard to get inside of a drop pod. The drop pod is completely barren of seats or any kind of supportive gear, however, Bernard clambers inside and stands in the centre. Moments later, Bernard is dropped from the ship and the pod plummets into the surface of a planet. The drop pod's shell cracks open and Bernard walks out to find himself at a familiar laboratory (the lab from session 3-4). When Bernard emerges ISIC leads him through the facility to the room of interest. *I just wanted your thoughts on my own genius, one engineer to another.* Bernard enters a room to find a mechanical contraption, an exosuit of sorts, but this exosuit was not built for human wear. The real question was *what* it was built for. Bernard is impressed by the marvellous exosuit but the question does come to mind, what was ISIC's exosuit built for? This is when ISIC gives the exposition to Bernard about his experiments, the failures, *the Wolf's Bane*. The experiments from the laboratory are failed results of cloning the Wolfenstein Wolves, genetically malleable super soldiers. He waits a moment before calling Taylor into his laboratory, dropping him from the ship and guiding him to the laboratory room. When Bernard and Taylor are together, he asks them if they would be able to perform an operation in the future. He implores them to share their opinions about the exosuit as well. After this, Taylor and Bernard are recalled to the ship.

##### Bernard's Request for Knights

Between Episode 2 and Episode 3 Bernard sends an email to ISIC discussing his ability to construct knights. He asks ISIC if there is any willing participants to put his real engineering skills to the test. ISIC asks Taylor and Bernard to head to Medbay. When the pair arrive at Medbay, ISIC informs that he has fulfilled Bernard's request, however, ahead of them sits slumped an archaic bucket of bolts. A Nexus Era Knight rusted and battle-damaged, his red optics appear to be non-luminescent indicating his slumberous status. Bernard is overjoyed to get to work on what he believes to be a willing participant provided by ISIC. Bernard begins to remove the Knight's outershell and Taylor hooks him up to an external life-support system, managing his vital information. The job is somewhat laborious but Bernard makes good use of the time to conjure a knight of his own design. Bernard entertains the idea of making this knight a backup member of their boyband fitting it with appropriate abilities. Bernard is happy with how it is turning out and the pair of them run systems diagnostic tests and link up the knight with his new body. In little time the knight's eyes reignite and he reanimates with the whirring and steaming of pistons. When the knight awakes up, he is yet to say anything, so Taylor presses asking if he is experiencing any more chronic pain than usual. The knight laughs before sticking himself up straight and slamming his large hand on Bernard's shoulder. *Thank you, this body feels excellent, Doctor.* The knight remarks giving his body a clean swift stretch. Bernard tells the knight that he's not the doctor and that Taylor is, he is only the engineer. Essentially from this point onwards Bernard lets the knight know that his stage name will be "Petal" and he briefs him on all of his new abilities. He discards the knight's old gear somewhere within his workshop. He asks Petal a little about his life before he arrived here. Petal seems relatively confused before he reminisces on the fact that he is a farmer.

##### Petal's Debut

There's no more time to waste as its time for the debut of Sci-Fi Boys Team Squad. ISIC needs to D.O.G.S to perform one song in front of a live audience and then he promises that he will be able to deepfake the rest. Bernard has been tailoring away at some uniforms for the D.O.G.S over the past week of downtime and it is finally time for them to give their new outfits a spin. All of the D.O.G.S are fit with pink variants of their default outfits aside from Leon, whom Bernard has taken extra care with to make sure he has an absolutely show-stopping appearance. Bernard created Leon a pink dress for his stage outfit, he finds it rather amusing. Without much time for further infighting or arguing, ISIC sends the gang to the theatre room. Petal chortles and entertains himself as he follows the crew to the theatre room, sharing idle chit-chat with the D.O.G.S until their arrival. The D.O.G.S arrive in the theatre room, lights blaring in their eyes, and an audience of a couple hundred sitting before them. At the back of the theatre room, above the head of the audience tucked between stage lights there is a small mechanical screen displaying lyrics. *1, 2, 3, Hallo!* Music begins to blare through large speakers surrounding the D.O.G.S on stage signalling the start of their performance.

The D.O.G.S had no rehearsal and are encouraged to freestyle the performance. Everybody puts up a good shot but are ultimately outshined by Howel who seems to put everything he has into the synchronized performance. In a desperate attempt to continue the performance Bernard tells Petal to engage Cutie mode. Behind them spawn holograms of backup dancers and LEDs all over Petal's body illuminate captivating the audience, however, moments later whilst cutie mode is engaging, there seems to be a malfunction. An entourage of bullets spray from Petal's palm as well as a plume of flame from his flamethrower, igniting the crowd, including Karl Bundy, who Taylor quickly rushes to and Medstims. Within moments half of the crowd is completely singed and soldiers at the back of the room begin to push more civilians and soldiers to replace the audience. The performance doesn't halt one second despite the horrific mishap. Howel begins to huff and puff and become disorientated after over-exuberating himself in the performance. A sound reverberates around Howel's immediate area resembling *wom-wom-wom-wom-wom* as time seems to slow for the D.O.G.S around him and himself. It becomes difficult to move and the D.O.G.S struggle their way through their motions until the effect dissipates. The curtains draw and ISIC enlightens them of their success, he says that he will edit the carnage out in post and this should be enough to deepfake them for 50 years. The crew look amongst each other confused before ISIC calls them back to the bridge.

##### Intermission

We go back to a week prior during our down-time and Leon cooks the crew a roast dinner. He brings it to their rooms individually. It seems as if everyone apart from Bernard accepts the dinner. Taylor accepts it, awkward and obviously confused. Shortly after his visit from Leon, Taylor hears a second knock at his door and looks through his peephole to see Karl outside his door. He quickly lets Karl in, who stumbles forward into the room. He asks Karl if he is hungry before pointing him towards the food. The two share a meal and Karl explains that he's there to check up on Taylor, since he seemed distressed at the bar yesterday. Taylor admits that something is bothering him, but puts it down to tension between the crew. Karl can sense that he is lying, or at the very least that there is much more to it, but decides not to push it. After a while of the two eating together, Taylor asks Karl a question that has been bugging him: how did Karl come to work with ISIC? Karl, slightly slurring his words, begins to explain. When ISIC found him he was imprisoned by the Federation for not following orders, but was apparently "too good to be killed, or something". This was just after the merging of the Federation and Wolfenstein, and ISIC then rescued Karl from imprisonment to come work for him. Taylor is initially somewhat disgusted when he hears of Karl's background in the Federation, but quickly represses this response, and it is a reaction Karl does not notice in his still somewhat drunken state. Taylor sends him on his way, content to have learned more about Karl and even though he was closed to him in regards to his own issues, the interaction still improved his mood slightly. Taylor keeps a loose eye on Karl as he walks away.

##### Bernard's Family Notes

*-bernard is like pissed off because leon wants to act like he has moral superiority when he took a mother away from her children*

*-basically leon and nick gang up on bernard because bernard killed like 200 people*

*-howel tells nick to not pick a side because isic threatens to obliterate them if theres more infighting*

*-bernard stops talking because theyre right*

*-isic is like ok well its time to pick up your family bernard. isic suggests that they send another soldier not bernard to the location as the wolfenstein have lots of bombs inside.*

*-howel volunteers to collect bernard's family, he even suggests that he will remove his mask to look nice and friendly for them. howel asks to take taylor with him on the deployment. apart from this it will be as easy as pie*

*-while the "arguing" is happening, hanns takes nick for a spin where they introduce each other. this is where hanns reveals that he is hanns not petal*

##### Bernard's Family

Howel is sent to retrieve Bernard's family, he brings Taylor with him.