Girl-Team

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*"The Girl-Team aren't supposed to be the villains, the way they seem to you. They are a means for all the girls in such a huge school to find a way to organize and get together, function together, help each other in every conceivable way. Whereas the Boy-Team was always more... security-oriented."*
―Helen McKeen to Summer Petersen and Steven Thompson[src]
The **Girl-Team** is a foreshadowed and indirectly mentioned organization in *Superquack*, and the main antagonistic organization in the *Boys vs. Girls* trilogy, before being gradually developed into a more antiheroic light. They also had a short-lived offshoot, the Cavaliers of Thornton, in the sequel. An informal organization, they were founded around the time Tower Placement School was constructed. The organization's primary purpose is to unite the females in their school and create a private defense if ever it is needed for any reason. The Girl-Team has an occasional rivalry with their parallels, the Armies of Organa, and while the organizations are known to support each other sometimes, they usually keep their distance. Unfortunately, their stronghold is misused and manipulated by the Black Queen through her puppet, Emily Watson, in 2021, leading to hundreds of members becoming unruly and unbalanced whilst surrounded by the fearsome Techno Drones, renegade cybernetic anomalies committed to achieving independence from the humans. Assembled by the Magistrate, at first the Girl-Team members and Techno Drones both unknowingly fought the Armies of Organa for the purpose of protecting her hegemonic interests when they were threatened by the Black Queen. Fortunately, the war ended and the disheveled Girl-Team eventually found their way into repair.

After Emily was exposed as an extremely destructive and delusional megalomaniac who had been using everyone to begin a new draconian age, the Girl-Team lost much power and many supporters, but remnants of the group kept a low profile in Utah underground, rebuilding their strength. Natalia Thornton brought together everyone she could to reorganize into the "Cavaliers of Thornton", a group of militaristic fanatics continuing the Girl-Team's "mission" to bring the Eight Worlds under the rule of evil while using a different name in order to assure the Girl-Team's so-called victory, only to eventually be defeated by the Armies of Organa.

## History

### Origins

The Girl-Team was founded by hundreds of students around the time Tower Placement School was constructed sometime prior to the 1950s. The organization's primary purpose was to unite the females in their school and create a private defense if ever it was needed for any reason. The organization used the leftover space in Tower Placement to house their secret meetings in the lower levels. The Girl-Team had an occasional rivalry with their parallels, the Armies of Organa. While the organizations were known to support each other sometimes, they usually kept their distance, working independently.

### School War

*"Are you tired of living under the tyranny of your male counterparts? Then join the Girl-Team! For too long, the patriarchal elite of this city have forced women to live as lesser forms of human life! Join Emily Watson and together we will tear down the patriarchal establishment!"*
―A protestor sermonizing a crowd[src]
Unfortunately, their stronghold was misused and manipulated by the Black Queen through her puppet, Emily Watson, in 2021. The young revolutionary, appointed into power by the ex-Supreme Leader Helen McKeen, held the male gender in deep disdain and held them responsible for all evil that stained the Eight Worlds. Several naturally malignant women already gravitated to Watson, yet her increasing presence in Tower Placement caused drastic changes to the landscape and increased the number of black-hearted women present in the educational facility. Furthermore, Techno Drones were pervading Utah and seeking to conquer it, allegedly to avenge past wrongs, and they covertly and perversely assisted the Girl-Team now that the members had stumbled and lost their way. The combined negative energies of Watson and the Black Queen allowed the former to amass an army of malignant women to fight, and the Techno Drones used the leftover space in Tower Placement to build a coma chamber on the eighteenth level, supposedly for the Girl-Team's sake. As she effectively held a degree of control under the League of Wretched Worms, Emily was furious when Steven Thompson killed a secret agent named Dyer. The Techno Drones prepared a rally, during which time Emily Watson explained that war was upon them and that she would end the war and eliminate the patriarchy, which she blamed for being the cause of every war, forever. She also made a martyr of Dyer. In the moments before the attempted execution of Steven Thompson, several gunships arrived over the arena, raining fire and kickstarting the deadly School War. As a vicious battle raged over the arena, Helen turned over plans for a secret weapon to Emily.

Over the summer of 2021, the Girl-Team began recruiting adepts who had been oppressed, wronged, or had otherwise developed hatred for men, and the Girl-Team eventually became a formidable group within the United States of America. After the Bow-Tie was destroyed in a great battle, Tower Placement would serve as a meeting place for them. The Boy-Team, on the other hand, did not wish to vandalize the school so. The Girls' base inside would eventually be destroyed by Vincent Organa during the climactic First Battle of Tower Placement. Ultimately, Watson began pursuing her own personal ambition to conquer the Sol System, something that the Girl-Team had not planned to do. Thankfully, many malignant women dissipated following the manifestation of Nobility Magic.

### Aftermath of the School War

With Emily Watson defeated, the Girl-Team was left without leadership, and with the revelation of Emily being an extremely destructive and delusional megalomaniac who had been using everyone to begin a new draconian age to establish herself as a goddess, they began to fracture and scatter. While the militant sect of the revolution was greatly weakened as result and was to blame for much damage to America, they did force a worldwide dialogue about the representation of women. Despite this, however, a remnant of militant members of the Girl-Team chose to continue resistance and went into hiding to avoid detection for the following twelve weeks. Eventually, future students would learn of the battles of the past in textbooks, with the struggles of the School War. The organization seemed to have reorganized by the late 2030s, but the rules were far more strict than they were in the 2010s.

### Resurgence under Natalia Thornton

Unfortunately, many individuals who had been loyal to Emily Watson rallied under the evil Natalia Thornton. After I.D.E.A.L. had come out of hiding at the end of the Dinobot Invasion to serve the Phoenix Squad and civilization as a whole, Fern Miguel became disgusted with the society's direction. Following the destruction of the Bow-Tie, Emily Watson and Ludwig Beethoven II were finally killed and the girls were rendered disenchanted. However, Natalia Thornton met up with Miguel and together, they created a faction to preserve how Miguel believed I.D.E.A.L. should be and how Thornton believed the Girl-Team should be, known as the "Cavaliers of Thornton", and they hence turned to the members of the Boy-Team. Upon encouraging several dozen girls to strike back on several separate occasions, she began placing more and more boys under her spells, effectively turning them into submissive monsters.

The Cavaliers rebelled against I.D.E.A.L., intending to eradicate social classes and establish a communistic all-female government. Though the Cavaliers' existence was known within I.D.E.A.L., the latter was unaware that Miguel's group had become extremely militant. With their forces now large enough, the resurgent Girl-Team resumed their original lifestyle and behaviors. Kidnapping, torturing, and assassinations of both enemies and innocents began anew as the Second War began. Within a week, a Girl-Team offshoot would coalesce as the mysterious Cavaliers of Thornton. They rapidly expanded in a bid to conquer the earth. Inspired by the Girl-Team and composed of various leaders of the organization, the Cavaliers fought for control of the Eight Worlds against the Armies of Organa, now led by Helen McKeen. Eventually, the organization began operating in Nexus Tower.

Natalia Thornton led the siege of the Boy-Team in the Battle of Orem. Later, she came forth in person with two Shades and they assaulted a Treatment Center, at which point Joshua Petersen chose to come with them quietly. They proceeded to the Empire State and flew around the skyscraper in a spiral motion to create a twisting and buckling movement on the bridge walkway. The cables snapping, the bridge undulated and twisted intensely, pulling free of its piers, ultimately splitting in half and crashing violently to the ground, killing some civilians who were inside the tower at the time. Natalia Thornton, along with her Cavaliers and other allies, attacked Tower Placement and those defending it in May 2023. Storming the school, they killed several members of the Armies of Organa lost Beion to Summer Petersen. Thornton explained to Petersen and McKeen by telling them about the origins of the Cavaliers of Thornton and how Emily Watson had formerly been a crucial piece of the picture. Later, when Thompson seemingly killed Thornton, the spell was broken and the Cavaliers were freed. They then split and fled the school in defeat.

### Amelia Carter's revenge

The Fall of the International Alliance waged against the Magistrate brought a new wave of recruits to the original Girl-Team cause, after their numbers had dwindled for a number of years. Some new members joined as they had lost loved ones in the series of attacks, while others lost their jobs to men. Violent as well as non-violent members remain active as of 2028. As a result, some men are hyper-vigilant in identifying and persecuting them.

Many Girl-Team extremists began to regroup under a new leader called Amelia Carter. While not everyone was willing to follow her, Amelia succeeded in gathering the disparate strands of the radical Girl-Team movement and reforming it into a small but dedicated group. Amelia proved that those that earned her respect would be treated as true equals, and many acted as her personal guard. The new radical members believed in her ability to rebuild the movement and respected her leadership and power. All of Amelia's followers saw their personal history with men as a justification for future violence. However, the Battle of the Bases saw Amelia's arrest, and the Girl-Team's roots of peace and balance remained ever firm.

## Organization

### Leadership, motivations, and convictions

*"Emily Watson is our solution."*
―A typical Girl-Team slogan in 2022[src]
Inspired directly by the virtually all-male Armies of Organa, the Girl-Team was organized as a means for all the women in Tower Placement School to find a way to become organized. As a working net of sorts, they effectively functioned together and provided each other with assistance and support. They are led by a Supreme Leader who wields absolute authority. The current Supreme Leader remains in charge until they graduate or step down and personally select a student to replace them. In the case of graduation, it is their job to select a successor, with the girls having little, if any, power to veto the ex-Supreme Leader's decision. The rank is usually reserved for students in junior high or high school, with the sole exception of Emily Watson.

The Girl-Team always met in the lower levels of Tower Placement School. They eventually had aquabots, which Emily used to guard the Procreation Chamber. Assisting Emily in her quest were a multitude of Girl-Team fighters empowered almost exclusively by weapons conjured by the Black Queen, although they all believed she was always the Orc Devil. Their organization included sleeper agents disguised as ordinary school students, and highly trained "shades", which were mutants with unique and enigmatic powers.

When the charismatic Emily Watson was in charge, the Girl-Team followed her teachings as she began spreading her ideas that the Eight Worlds were horribly out of balance. The main cause of this imbalance was the male gender, which she believed existed only to bully and oppress the female gender and overall be the cause of every war and political disaster. According to Emily, the only way to restore equality was to remove the influence of men, who exploited and marginalized the female majority for thousands of years, and overthrow the "patriarchal elite" in a wide-ranging social revolution. By eliminating male influence throughout the Eight Worlds by any means necessary, they were doing more for each other than they had even imagined doing under Helen McKeen. Accordingly, Girl-Team propaganda often featured Emily as a central motif.

Emily claimed that when the Girl-Team seized immense power within the already existent chaos, she would replace the "patriarchal regime" with a "fair-minded" female government. Although her final goal remained unclear at the time of her death, the revelation of her harnessing the Orb to create a draconian era and rule as a goddess dealt a huge blow to the Girl-Team's reputation and ideology, allowing them to slowly but surely return to their original roots of innocence. Despite this, a large number of radical Girl-Team members continued their fight for a new world order of equality and the "common good". After Natalia Thornton had promised them to help them in their struggle, some of these fanatics expressed a strong loyalty to her, and henceforth, the "Cavaliers of Thornton" sought to capitulate and improve upon the teachings of Emily Watson, reigniting the spreading of her ideas that the Eight Worlds were horribly out of balance because of the male gender. They sought to overthrow the so-called elite in a wide-ranging social revolution and finish what Emily started without incorporating any insidious agendas of malevolent destruction or genocide, merely seeking to force men to live beneath them as opposed to crushing them, which was what more than eighty percent of Girl-Team fanatics had wanted in the first place.

### Equipment and methodology

Members of the Girl-Team were shown using various means to defeat men. Girl-Team members were trained as hand-to-hand fighters and marksmen. Because of their logistical disadvantage in muscle mass, they typically employed underhanded tactics such as ambush attacks, hit-and-run strikes, and use of sleeper agents, among others. They also employed fear tactics, which was exhibited during the attack on Vernal. Aside from their fighting skills, the Girl-Team employed a large range of tools and weapons, many of which were manifested directly by the profane cosmic power of the Black Queen, as the Girl-Team indeed regarded "the nameless benefactor" with praise and gratitude for arming them, although very, very few of them had ever seen "the Orc Devil" in person before.

To gain public support, Emily targeted men who were well known for abusing their power. In doing so, she implanted fear into the male population and won the support of women. After Dyer was martyred and the Techno Drones began openly revealing themselves to the public eye, Emily made no distinction as she began to target all men regardless of who they were. This was made evident when the Girl-Team leader planned to execute Steven Thompson in an otherwise innocently operated stadium, including Andrew Hendersen, who was only six years old. While they mainly employed guerrilla attacks, the Girl-Team also possessed massive amounts of both fire and manpower, enough to completely defeat the Police Department, take over all of Utah in the span of a day, and even defeat the Armies of Organa fleet, although relying very heavily on undercover agents and the element of surprise.

## Notable aquabots

* TK-227, a robot who responded with confusion to Carmen's joke ("Letma buddy in").
* TK-228 who threatened to shoot Carmen if she did not send Josh away.

## Trivia

* While the Girl-Team aquabots are often mistaken by readers as variants of the Techno Drones, there is actually no relation between the two.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 *Boys vs. Girls: The Rise of the Serpent*
2. ↑ Cite error: Invalid `<ref>` tag; no text was provided for refs named `BVG1`
3. ↑ *Boys vs. Girls: The Fate of the Towers*
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 *Boys vs. Girls 2*
5. ↑ *Band of Justice: Omniverse*
6. ↑ *League of Red Stars*

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