Betty Moodie

Betty Moody is one of the two main characters of the comic Galaga. She is best friends with the comic's other main protagonist, Penelope Eagleburger, and the two of them defended the Earth together when it was attacked by aliens.

## History

**Betty Ursula Moody** lived with her parents in the American Midwest near her friend Penelope Eagleburger. The two teenagers both enjoyed playing video games together, and one day while they were playing them at Betty's house and listening to a livestream about NASA, an alien in the form of a bee fell into their yard. The girls went outside to find that the falling creature had exploded into a multitude of cubes, which the girls eventually dubbed as "points". As the girls were trying to figure out what the cubes were, they accidentally found that when certain cube types were put together they would react in different ways, like shoot lasers out of themselves. Betty accidentally shot a laser through the roof of her house, and the beam travelled into space and destroyed one of the aliens which the United States President had just announced on a livestream were attacking Earth. Penelope saw the laser destroy an alien on the livestream, and she then used the President's livestream on her laptop to direct Betty when to shoot more lasers using the cubes and destroy additional alien bugs. Eventually the two defeated all of the aliens in the first invading swarm, and the grateful President over the livestream wanted to know who had done the deed.

As a result of the blown up aliens, many more cubes had fallen into Betty's backyard. The two girls were excited and built these cubes into all sorts of shapes and structures, finding that they fell apart except for when the girls built a spaceship. The girls decided to use this spaceship to go destroy the rest of the aliens, and they called the President to let him know their plan. The President was upset that two young girls were trying to defend the planet on their own, but Betty boarded the ship and blasted off into space anyway, while Penelope stayed behind as a sort of "mission control" to direct her.

It took a little bit of time for Betty to get learn the ship's controls, but eventually she became accustomed to them and began destroying waves of aliens. Some time later, after destroying many aliens, she is attacked by an alien bug that rams into her and destroys her spaceship. Luckily she had collected enough points by destroying bugs that they had formed into a new ship, so she floated through space over to the ship inside of a single point. Unfortunately the controls for the new ships were in different places than her old one and she promptly ran it into another alien bug, destroying it.

Just as she was contemplating the fact that she would die in space, Penelope showed up in a new ship that she had built on Earth and rescued Betty. The girls continued to blow up aliens, and at one point one of their ships was stolen by an alien bug using a tractor beam. Not long after, they were contacted by the President, who had tracked down Betty's house and all of the points in her yard. With the girls' help, the President built himself a spaceship and jettisoned himself into space to assist in the defence of Earth.

As Betty and her friend demolishing more alien bugs, they happened upon a gigantic alien mothership which they agreed to destroy in hopes that it would stop the alien invasion. Around this same time they encountered another spaceship that looked like theirs. This turned out to be the same ship that had been stolen from them earlier in the tractor beam, and it had spawned two doppelgangers of Betty and Penelope made out of points, just like the alien bugs. The alien versions of themselves explained to the girls why the bugs were invading and pledged to help them stop the invasion. The quartet used their ships to obliterate more aliens, but while they were doing so the President was captured inside the giant mothership and alien copies of him were made as a strategy to subjugate all of Earth's people. These alien copies were placed all over Earth and watched over every human household to make sure they obeyed the aliens' commands.

Upon hearing of Earth's subjugation, Betty, Penelope, and their doppelgangers flew the great distance back to Earth to defeat the pixelated Presidents. The girls landed at Betty's parents' house first, and found Betty's parents under the watch of two Presidents made out of points. Pixel Betty and Pixel Penelope interfaced with the alien guards and "debated" with them at incredibly fast computerized speeds to convince them to free the people of Earth instead of subjugate them. The Pixel girls then devised a strategy to debate all of the Pixel Presidents into leaving Earth, but doing so required them to have many points. The girls' pixel selves created a machine which they called "GALAGA", which would allow them to control spaceships remotely, blow up more aliens in space, and funnel the leftover points down to where they were needed on Earth. The human Betty and Penelope agreed to control the machine, allowing the Pixel Presidents to go out and convert more Pixel Presidents to their side, exponentially growing their ranks until they had debated every alien on Earth.

Once every alien on Earth had been convinced through debate, control of America was given back to the original President and a parade was hosted in honor of Betty and Penelope for saving the the planet.

## References

1. ↑ File:Galaga\_page\_48\_When\_You're\_President\_They\_Teach\_You\_How\_To\_Do\_That.jpg
2. ↑ File:Galaga\_page\_4A\_Govermental\_Abstraction\_Layer\_Aeronautics\_And\_Generalized\_Analysis.jpg