Kaboom Caboose

Episode 13 of Wrong Way Up starts with Splitsie, W4stedspace, and Texfire pranking a delayed Capac by grinding off his seat and leaving him for the Bots to assimilate. As they drive on across the ice lake, W4sted needs a moment to find his plane again and DE joins late. Splitsie claims not to know any memes and completes the words "ice ice..." with "Stop! Hammertime!" DE shows off the bulletproof vest that Chipstix made him because Splitsie shoots him for no reason, so Splitsie shoots him to test the armor; Splitsie turns around to face a muzzle and forbids Tex to use that rocket launcher. Splitsie upgrades the Benedict Cumberbus and pauses to text Capac some wake-up! gifs. Chat sends greetings to "Josh" and DE helpfully explains that Josh is a virtual potted plant turned cult leader. DE uses the time to build Joyous Ripostes (missiles) and a new Toblerone and w4sted keeps losing his plane on the ice in the dark.

(0:30) Texfire has turned his crane into a drill and starts mining ice dangerously close to the Jalopy's wheels. Splitsie changes the subject to distract DE from using punny NSFW euphemisms, and both w4sted and Splitsie confess to Chat having bought prebuilt PCs once! Texfire (who missed a few episodes) notices the new fuel-carrying trailer, the Kaboom Caboose. An unknown ground vehicle is sneaking around them and at the same time, a bomb drops inches from w4sted's grounded plane, leaving a crater. Splitsie has turned the Benedict Cumberbus into a tank and texts Capac more wake-up! GIFs. They are out of magnesium and confused by the new ammunition names. DE keeps teasing Texfire and they chat about pizzas and sandwiches, while Splitsie keeps himself busy putting greebles on a tank that will just get blown up anyway. W4sted returns from being distracted by a hamburger and house maintenance due to English rain.

(1:00) Splitsie politely asks whether there would be any issue with him driving forwards 15m -- and DE is very proud of Splitsie's new awareness. They are interrupted by a Bot tank approaching and Splitsie fends it off with the Cumberbus. DE proposes to contact Capac's neighbours and encourage them to be loud. Splitsie admits that he and Capac have been nagging each other for 25 years, so Capac might oversleep simply out of spite. DE and Splitsie in the Cumberbus aim to fend off the Bot tank but are soon sent limping back to the Jalopy; eventually, the new artillery cannons on the Jalopy have enough stopping power. Splitsie fixes up the Bots' tank (Keanu Reaper) enough to be a decoy for their atrack on the Bots' artillery base. DE and W4sted chuckle about secret features in their modded suits made by Chipstix. Splitsie adds enemy-seeking Searchlights to the Jalopy as Chat suggested. W4sted procures the needed magnesium by disassembling thousands of spare rifle ammo. DE loses control of his first Joyous Riposte, getting consistent PBW behaviour is hard in multiplayer survival.

(1:30) It's time for Splitsie to send Capac more wake-up gifs while Chat chants Capac's name three times to have him appear. Capac hangs up on Splitsie's phone call :-P and appears online in Discord--success? W4sted meanwhile has fixed up his Edward Scissorplane and Splitsie changes the defaced Keanu Reaver's license plate from "Like and subscribe!" to a cute "number 1 meatshield" cartoon.

They drive towards the Artillery Base, hampered by invisible trees, and w4sted takes out three Bots on foot while his fellows are still respawning. They grab the ammo from the defeated base and run for it, because Penelope Cruz missiles are coming for them.

Capac finally joins and they remember they left his seat behind on a blinking disco-coloured block... Splitsie notices that they can jetpack at 260 m/sec and blames the aerodynamics mod. The Penelope Cruz missile misses the artillery base and everyone is "so sad". They drive the Jalopy closer to the disarmed artillery base.

(2:00) Pav Bot posts recruiting calls in in-game chat saying that people who join the Bots could sleep as long as it takes their battery to recharge... The Bots write "Bot report in" in binary and TFE responds "understood". W4sted responds with a cryptic statement about foxes versus lazy dogs. Splitsie is not surprised that the Bots made no attempt to abduct Capac when they had the chance...

Splitsie builds a Gonzo-nose contraption to carry the Keanu Reaper, Texfire, and DE continue building the last trailer, and w4sted is ready in his plane to intercept the next Penelope Cruz missile, but the Bots miss again. Despite the ice they mined, their hydrogen tanks are not full yet. Texfire discusses drill crane designs and while everyone is distracted, the next missile blows an (easily fixable) hole into the closed runway roof! They take potshots at an Assault Segway that approaches but have a variety of problems getting cockpit control of the roadtrain...

(2:30) ... Suddenly the roadtrain stalls: The trailers buck up and dig themselves into the ground, the hitches emit clang sparks, the wheels detach, and the runway elevator is ejected... The Bots praise Klang, DE urges for a quick reload, and Splitsie watches the destruction calmly because he knows it's a server with timed backups. Intrigued, they study whether detaching individual mechanical blocks stops the clanging, and then theorise about the causes while Splitsie reloads the last save. DraygoKorvan in chat teases that this looks like a good time for him to release an update to the Aerodynamics mod. Texfire explains why he is using the PARK script and not a Turret Controller, and they laugh at the thought of several players cooperatively steering a Walker's legs with individual Turret Controllers. The Aerodynamics mod isn't loading its settings so they'll limit flying for the rest of the episode. They pause driving because Capac's ground vehicle got run over and break out in a choir of falsetto "You're a monster!". W4stedspace amuses himself mowing down trees simply by taxiing Edward Scissorplane.

(3:00) They finally drive on north but keep an eye on the Jalopy's smoking hitches. W4stedspace is still flying and scouts out a huge, inescapable enemy rover, the Mastodon: heavily armed, with only few weak points. An incoming Penelope Cruz missile damages the runway at its second attempt, which prompts a redesign of defences. While W4sted and DE still ponder putting warheads on the damaged Keanu Reaper, Splitsie has already done that. DE laughs hysterically when Splitsie notices Chipstix' prank of writing "Like and Subscribe!" on the default suits' wristpads, and Splitsie retaliates by grinding DE's seat off. They all pile into the hastily fixed-up Keanu Reaper and W4stedspace plays *Ride of the Valkyries* on the Kazoo as they race across plains towards the Mastodon. Thnaks to Splitsie's dodging cannon fire, they ignite the warhead under the Mastodon! When respawning, they notice one of them is missing: W4stedspace has survived and heroically grinded the Mastodon's tyres off before Kanajashi managed to shoot him.

They plan to start the next episode with an attack on the pinned enemy Mastodon, and possibly even agglomerating it. DraygoKorvan will update the Aerodynamics mod now, so they probably will have to relearn how to fly planes.

## References

1. ↑ Cartoons drawn by Blackshadow5738
2. ↑ W4sted is alluding to the font test sentence that contains all 24 ASCII letters: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."
3. ↑ Quoting the gingerbread man from the Shrek movie