August 29th, 1 and 3/4 PM: Electric Boogaloo

### Theme

Assumptions/Judgment, Beauty, Contempt, Deception, Friendship, Geekery, Ignoring Negativity, Lookism, Name-Calling, Negativity, Poor Customer Service, Stalking, Staring, Superficiality

### Writer/Artist

Khaliq Trevor X

**August 29th, 1 and 3/4 PM: Electric Boogaloo** is a gag story and followup to August 29th, 1: Something In Dear Franks Coffee! in *the Rage Knights: Red God* universe.

## Synopsis

More fun with Damon Bradley Hell Clones! Medics carry 1-Smeer Gossiper away on a stretcher follows her failed exploits. Bradley’s friend and Rage Sword companion Ragorias is long gone, now with hundreds of dollars worth of bakery goods, drinks and equipment, but one burning question *remains...* Where the hell is the ugly guy nobody likes?

"Damon Bradley” enters the Dear Franks Coffee Co. chain once more, sits down with a laptop and sketchbook detailing his and Hendrick Ollie’s Brad-Dunn Inc. plans. Several gorgeous baristas squeal like hissing lizards with the faces of sirens from Greek mythology as they come levitating over to Bradley’s table. They speak negatively about him, even going so far as to insult him and bring up Manic Boy Comics and Doughgirl Comics as terrible film and comic book mediums. Bradley ignores them, takes a sip of his black coffee and rips a fart. One barista claws at Bradley but a forcefield protects him from harm’s way.

Just as the baristas notice a normal customer enter their establishment, they go back to their positions to take orders. As soon as a cute, heavyset Asian man in a dark green hoodie enters, the baristas notice Bradley checking him out. They insist Bradley is *staring* and that he’s judging the man. Bradley once again ignores them, but makes a weird silly face in the process. This riles up the baristas who grow pissed from his strange actions. They draw shotguns and proclaim their victories against their fabled “ugly dude that nobody likes,” complete with the appearance of one of their coworkers, Sundrawn Kenton Keynes, a handsome shapeshifting shift supervisory king who has the power to perform red magic. As the baristas go spinning their guns toward Bradley, they are once again repelled by his magic.

Keynes kisses the handsome Asian man’s hand before removing his apron and approaching Bradley. Damon Bradley prepares for battle and gets up from his desk, cracking his knuckles and facing off against Kenton Keynes as he bears his vampiric fangs. In seconds, Keynes defeats Bradley with superhuman strength. No customer inside the shop really cares, citing it as “juvenile anime violence”. Bradley gets up, and fights back against Keynes, who implants negativity into his mind such as negative comments and incessant “ugly man” and “nobody likes him” comments. With heavy meditation mid-fight, Bradley brushes off the shitty, irrelevant comments and times his next move correctly. When Keynes retaliates against Bradley, he catches Keynes’ fist and gradually forces him down. Striking and knocking out Keynes. Keynes uses his apron to grab ahold of Bradley and trap him into the store with his “unfriendly coworkers”, but this does nothing as the apron crushes Bradley and reveals that this too, was a Hell Clone being elegantly performed by the real Damon Bradley from somewhere faraway.

The baristas are horrified. Some of the customers take notice. A random pig and the handsome Asian man are in shock. Then a note falls into Keynes hands stating, “The ugly guy nobody likes is in another kingdom! :c” Keynes screams in frustration, cursing Bradley and ensuring him that everyone in Queens Mane, America and everywhere where “normal” people dwell will "tear him from limb to limb”. Elsewhere, Midlore West-Stein was watching the hostile, unfriendly baristas be tricked by yet another Damon Bradley Hell Clone. He grabs his crotch, walks with swagger and dances like Kerdur Rainer as he tells the audience that no matter what you do at a coffee chain based in Seattle, remember to treat all customers with respect, as they don’t know when they can come face-to-face with a clone and risk losing everything.

## Appearances

#### Featured Supporting Characters/Summons

* 1-Smeer Gossiper (Cameo, mentioned)
* Beautiful Baristas
* Handsome Asian Man
* Midlore West-Stein (Cameo)
* Ragorias (Mentioned, Flashback)

#### Featured Items/Weapons

* Hoodie of the Indy Hills Gods
* Rage Sword

#### Featured Antagonists

* Beautiful Baristas
* Sundrawn Kenton Keynes

## Trivia/Notes and Disclaimer

* This story features Dancing Like Kerdur.
* The theme of “Assumption” comes from the baristas assuming Damon Bradley is *staring* at customers for “being ugly”, and making negative comments based on their own perception instead of it being because of something positive or generally someone just being curious.
* Hoodie of the Indy Hills Gods is worn by a select few worthy people. In gag stories, those who are kind tend to be wearers of the hoodie.

***Disclaimer**: To whom this may concern, the characters in their entirety, while they borrow inspiration from events, ideas, themes, and other sources from the original author's life, are incredibly different and fictional entities inside the Rage Knights Red God and under no circumstance are they expressing a real person's actual views, ideologies, names and likeness to cause harm or defame them. Any names bearing similarities to any person(s) are unintentional unless stated otherwise and under special permission. The Rage Knights Red God is a work of fiction and solely for entertainment and educational purposes. Please note, the series does not represent events that have happened, events to come nor does it condone the very human evils the series itself is/was meant to advocate against. © Khaliq Trevor X*