================================================================================ >:::The following added 1998/09/22 14:59 by JY01STU >:: Vacuum boy Alpha-hydrox THIS, bitch!!! "It's the White Slut!" cried Vacuumboy. "How did you survive the onslaught here when the rest of your fellow sjs team members didn't?" "Annoying Fanboy and I had run to Marvels and Legends so that he could pick up his comics this week," the White Slut explained. "Oh, no," said BJ. "That dork survived this attack too? I had hoped he was dead." Jared the Hunter shook his head sadly and said, "It's a crying shame. Such a tragedy." "So where is he now?" asked Vacuumboy. "well, he's back in his quarters," the White Slut replied, pointing back behind her down the hallway they had just come from. "At the other end of this tunnel here is where we have our secret parking garage and our quarters." "OUR quarters?" Murray said, eyeing the White Slut suspiciously. "Do the two of you share a room?" "EEEEWWW!" the white Slut cringed. "God, no! I may be a slut, but I'm not blind!" "So why are you barely dressed?" BJ the Goalie II asked her, pointing at her leather bra and panties. "This is my normal costume," replied the White slut. "Well, then why did you escort him to the comic book store?" asked RecklessBoy. "Well, Chet, that's because my own son used to collect comic books when he was still alive, and it's part of my coping process," she answered. "It's Reckless..." Chet began to explain. He was interrupted however by Annoying Fanboy's scream of sorrow as he entered the room. "Oh my God!" he cried. "This is worse than Crisis and Zero Hour put together! And even when Scourge killed all of Captain America's villains! This is the biggest bloodbath in superhero history!!!" He fell to his knees and began to weep. "Oh why oh why did this have to happen? If only I'd been here I could have done something." Annoying Fanboy rose to his feet. "If I hadn't been out buying comic books, bagging them with backboards and alphabetizing them, I could have prevented this." He raised his fists to the heavens. "Damn you, DC!!! Damn you, Marvel!!! As of this day, I swear off comic books FOREVER!!!" "Really?" BJ the Goalie II asked happily. Annoying Fanboy stopped his tirade and thought about it for a moment. "No, that's a little rash. comic books aren't to blame for this tragedy." "D'OH!!!' cried BJ. Annoying Fanboy continued with his ranting. "But I DO swear that I will find the villain who did this and bring him to justice!" "Are you sure that's wise?" said Jared, who was afriad that the Annoying Fanboy would start to tagalong with them. "you're right," he replied. "I'm too weak to do anything but sit here and weep over all the dead heroes." And with that, Annoying Fanboy began to list all of the now-dead heroes aloud. "Flaming Daffodil, anachronism, old-man, Kaufman... But wait! Is Kaufman dead?" Kaufman's corpse stirred. "Is he moving?" the White slut asked. The corpse began to slink away. "where he is going?" Chet asked. "I wonder if he's going to his hideout," Vacuumboy wondered. "I wonder where his secret hideout is," Murray wondered. "I wonder if he can recuperate," wondered the Progger. And as Kaufman crept away, Annoying Fanboy continued listing the dead. "there's Superfluous Mike over there. And over there is the Dunkirk Daddy-o!. Kid Carpool Lane, Le Pere de la Jeune MariŠe, the Rock-and-Roll Schoolmarm. All dead!" He began to weep again loudly. "sheet-metal Shaman! The Cardiovascular Cardinal! Agitato the Large! The Thermonuclear Thespian! Closet Lad! Barometric Pressure Boy! Dr. Dismissive!The Nepotistic Norwegian! ALL DEAD!!" "Whoa, dude!" shouted Jared. "Calm down, OK?" Annoying Fanboy continued. "The Jaded Jacobin! Lord Periwinkle!! The Anthropomorphic Automaton! Genuflection Boy! The Somnambulating Hombre! Herr Korperchen!! Mr. Marabou! Neutrino the Narcoleptic!!! OCTAGONAL CHARLIE!!!!!" "He's gonna blow a gasket!" shouted BJ jumping toward Annoying Fanboy in an attaempt to hold him down. The Fanboy knocked BJ aside with the flick of a wrist and kept ranting. "Blunderbuss Girl! The Epileptic! Higgledy-Piggledy Lad! The Photosensitive Florist!! Piscatorial Pete! Lt. Lardass! Eggplant Kid! The Decalcified Debutante!! Spokesman! RHEUMATISM GUY!! Even Indoors Lass, for God's sake!" BJ again tried to take the Fanboy down, but he again was swatted away like a fly. "Quadraplegic Man!! The Carpeted Cavendish! The Embiggenator! The Hayseed!" Finally the white Slut took care of the problem by turning toward him and flashing the Annoying Fanboy. The Fanboy, who had never even seen a picture of a naked woman before, was so shocked that he instantly passed out. However, even asleep, he mumbled the names of dead superheroes to himself. "The Sorghum soothsayer... Ramses the Reticent..." "Well, now that we've shut him up," said the White Slut as she replaced her breasts within her bra, "let's scour the area for clues." However, the heroes, who themselves had gone quite a while since last seeing a naked woman, were too stunned to move. And as they stood there, still entranced by the vision of the White Slut naked, they were suddenly attacked by three small versions of the Mangler that sprang out of the wall. ================================================================================ >:::The following added 1998/09/22 15:32 by KR53STU >:: The Hunter Another proud member of Gamma Delta Iota... Everyone scattered, everyone except annoying fanboy, who was devoured while still unconcious. His last words were "The Filleting Flounder, the Groping Groupie, the Jiggling Juggler, the...aghhhhh." "They killed Annoying Fan Boy," screamed the White Slut. "Hurray," yelled everyone else. Then the baby manglers began advancing on the group of heroes. "What do we do?" asked Reckless Boy. "Well," said the Progger, "I don't know what you're going to do, but I'm going to Rush these things straight into meltdown." And with those words, the Progger cranked the Progg (tm) Blaster to full power and desintegrated the nearest manglerito. Vacuumboy had soon sent the second mangler baby to the Vacuum dimension courtesy of his handheld. When, however, they turned to deal with the third little one, they saw that Chet had intentions of his own. "Come here you little glorified turntable. Your mama worked in a microwave. I bet daddie's bearings were kinda small, weren't they? Come on you hunk of junk," berated Chet. As the Mangler baby advanced on Chet, everyone except Chet seemed concerned. As the baby mangler approached, Chet got a crazy gleam in his eye and pulled from his oversized pants... a cafeteria tray. The mangler baby shrieked in fear (it sounded like breaks locking down on wet pavement) and started to retreat, but it was too late. Chet put the tray PART OF THE WAY into on of the machine's slots. As the tray began to move toward the corner, the baby mangler became frantic. "Not so funny now is it?" screamed Chet. "How'd ya like them apples? UHHH!!" And as the tray turned the corner, it jammed. Smoke began billowing out of the mangler baby, and the sound of gears grinding filled the room. Then, the mangler baby fell to pieces as Chet laughed maniacally... ================================================================================ >:::The following added 1998/09/22 15:37 by TY19STU >:: The Progger the new moral cancer then he cried and cried...until he had stained himself. ================================================================================ >:::The following added 1998/09/22 22:37 by KR53STU >:: The Hunter Another proud member of Gamma Delta Iota... "Why are you crying, Chet?" asked the Hunter. "I'm really not sure," replied the teary eyed Chet, "and the name is, oh hell, call me Chet, what the hell do I care." "There is a reason for concern, though," said Vacuumboy. "Yes, yes there is," agreed the Progger. "Well then spit it out," stated the Goalie in frustration. "I think what they are worried about," said Murray, "is the fact that up until know we considered the Mangler to be a unique entity formed by some act of Sodexo. Now it is reproducing, and who knows where this will lead." "Exactly," said Vacuumboy and the Progger in unison. ================================================================================ >:::The following added 1998/09/23 21:37 by EM82STU >:: Walden F. Pond I break legs for money!!! "Jinx, you owe me a Coke!!!" said VB for all to hear. "What are you babbling about?" questioned Progger, who then realized the folly in his ways. VB immediately started to dance because his carefully orchestrated plan to get free Coke had worked. "Yes, I get free Coke!!! Nanny nanny poo poo!!! HaHaHa!!!" screamed Vb as tears began to flow down his rosy cheeks. ================================================================================ >:::The following added 1998/09/24 14:44 by JY01STU >:: Vacuum boy Alpha-hydrox THIS, bitch!!! "Hey! Wait!" the White Slut cried out before Vacuumboy had a chance to cry and cry until he stained himself. "Where did those mini-Mangler thingees spring out from?" BJ pointed toward the wall of the meeting room. "I think it was from out of that giant computer console there." The heroes walked toward the main wall of the meeting room, which housed a super-crime-computer as well as main viewscreen. "Well, what do we have here?" the Progger said, peering at a readout on the console. Only one thing was visible on the readout: the word . "Oh bloody hell!" shouted the White Slut. Bj turned toward her with drool hanging out of his mouth. "Excuse me? What did you say?" "I said Bloody Hell!" she repeated. BJ the Goalie II was staring at the White Slut lustfully until Murray slapped him upside the head. "Knock it off, man! She's not British!" he explained. "She's just using their terminology for some reason." The White Slut said, "It's because there's this new British girl living on my floor, and I just sort of picked it up from her." "Where? Where?" shouted BJ excitedly. "Introduce me! Introduce me!" "Later!" Jared said to BJ, also smacking him across the back of the head. "Why did you say that in the first place, White Slut?" "That's the signature of androgynous boy's computer virus," she explained. "Somehow it must not have been defeated by Kaufman." "Wel, let's see if I can't get to the bottom of this," said the Progger who then hunkered down beside the console to investigate the machine further. "WauuEUGhhhHh!" screamed Chet. But his supposed warning cry was too late. Already the danger he had foreseen only moments before the others had struck. Another mini-Mangler sprung out of the console and ground the Progger to bits. it moved next to Murray, ripping his body apart and leaving only his head intact. The Mangler baby moved next toward Chet himself, but because he was impervious to all forms of physical damage, he remained unharmed while BJ thrashed the Mangler into pieces with his goalie stick. "Damn!" Vacuumboy said, looking at the Progger's corpse. "Now I'm going to have to wait to get my soda!" "Forget the soda," said Murray's severed head. "How about some kool-aid?" ================================================================================ >:::The following added 1998/09/24 15:47 by YT55STU >:: Herbie A dirty little crack whorin' GDI "We need to destroy that machine." said the White Slut. "Well duh!" cried Bj very sarcastically. "Shut the hell up Bitch, and smash the damned thing with your hockey stick. Vacuum Boy pick up Murray's head. We really should get out of here before this wretched building claims yet another superheroes life. I know I ain't letting it take mine." with that the White Slut turned to walk out the door. ================================================================================ >:::The following added 1998/09/24 16:07 by KR53STU >:: The Hunter Another proud member of Gamma Delta Iota... Unfortunately, the doors were controlled by the computer system. The entire building went into a state of lock-down just before the White Slut made it through the door. "Dammit," she yelled, "Dammit all to hell!" "I already escpaped the is virus once, and now you dimwits are going to get me killed by it afterall. There's only one of you that I would trust with a toaster much less a computer virus, and he's dead." "Well," interjected the Hunter, "I doubt that he's dead anymore, he was just regenerated back outside..." "I guess for our purposes then...HE MIGHT AS WELL BE DEAD," screamed the White Slut. "He probably regenerated in the Love Chicken," said Vacuumboy who was trying to think calmly and rationally despite all of the yelling going on. "Does he still keep extra Progg(tm) blasters on the Love Chicken?" asked the Hunter hopefully. "No," said Vacuumboy, "I mean he does, but when BJ killed him outside, that was his last reserve blaster. "Damn you BJ," yelled everyone in unison. "Jynx owe me a..." "Shut up, Vacuumboy," said the Hunter. "This isn't a game anymore." "If he had a blaster, he could get in and get us out, but, now, I'm not sure," said Murray. At that moment, the entire building began to levetate, leaving the heroes standing in a hole as the SJS Headquarters hovered above them. "What the..?" said Chet in disbelief. "The Love Chicken's tractor beam, of course," said Vacuumboy. After the heroes climbed out of the hole, the White Slut first (everyone insisted), the Progger lowered the HQ back into place and joined the others outside the Love Chicken. "Great work," said Vacuumboy, "But now, how do we deal with the virus, the baby manglers, and are they connected or just coincidences?" "Well," said the Progger, "I doubt Androgynous Boy originally designed his virus to make baby manglers, so I vote for coincidence, but it is possible that the two became connected..." ================================================================================ >:::The following added 1998/09/24 22:26 by KR53STU >:: The Hunter Another proud member of Gamma Delta Iota... "Couldn't the virus have, ya know, mutated?" asked Murray. "Maybe," replied the Hunter, "but viruses usually reproduce themselves, not what they infect. I can easily see the virus running the Mangler and making it interact with other machines, but I don't see the virus making new manglers." "He has a point," said Vacuumboy. "Sure," said BJ, "but is it valid?" "What I want to know," said a highly annoyed White Slut, "is does it matter? Does it make any difference whether they are connected since we have to fight both anyway." "Yes," said the Progger, "if the virus is making new manglers, our first priority should be to stop the virus, but if the Mangler is simply spreading the virus, then our first goal should be to stop the Mangler. If they are seperate, then we have to decide which, by itself, is more destructive, the Mangler, or the virus. My vote, in that case, is the Mangler, but my opinion's not the only one that matters. We have a lot of decisions and information to deal with before we make our next move..." ================================================================================ >:::The following added 1998/09/24 23:50 by JY01STU >:: Vacuum boy Alpha-hydrox THIS, bitch!!! "Wait a minute," said Vacuumboy. "Earlier when I said that Jared had a point, I was mistaken. He didn't. You all seem to be forgetting that the virus originally caused ActionVan to keep recreating itself." The White Slut interjected. "Actually that was originally part of the program Crash had designed, and the virus just infected it." "Either way," the Progger said, "the virus obviously carried this aspect of the program over to the Mangler whenever it got infected." "Obviously," said Jared. "Shut up, dude!" BJ the Goalie II yelled at him. "You have no clue what they're talking about." "Neither do you," said Jared defensively. "Yeah, but at least I don't pretend to," BJ retorted. "Everybody aboardthe Lovechicken," Vacuumboy said. "We're going to take to the air again and look for where the Mangler might have struck next." "But what about the hq?" asked Chet. "Don't we need to disable the computers?" "I've got it covered," said Vacuumboy. The group of heroes hopped in the Lovechicken. Once inside, Vacuumboy set the ship aflight, and bombarded the remnants of the smartass justice system's headquarters with quantum torpedoes until it was merely a crater. "That about does it," said Vacuumboy. "Hey guys, we've got another area of mass destruction coming up on the sensors," the Progger said, looking up from his computer console. "It's in a cemetery on the outskirts of town." As the Lovechicken landed outside of the cemetery, the White Slut exclaimed, "This is the graveyard where the little tyke was buried!" ================================================================================ >:::The following added 1998/09/26 14:59 by JY01STU >:: Vacuum boy Alpha-hydrox THIS, bitch!!! "This can't be coincidence," said the White Slut as they moved through the cemetery closer and closer to the area the Mangler destroyed. "You're right," said Jared. "All of these events have to be connected in some way." "According to some of the readings I'm getting from the area," the Progger said, holding out a tricorder-ish device, "the Mangler has been here, but it was before it destroyed the sjs hq." "How do you know that?" BJ asked, trying to take a peek at the readout on the Progger's device. "Back off, Goalie!" the Progger said. "Your feeble little brain couldn't understand this anyway." "Oh yeah!" said the Goalie II. "So the Mangler escaped, struck this cemetery, and then the sjs hq?" asked Vacuumboy. "That sounds like what happened," said the Progger. "But as for when it got infected with the virus, I have no clue." "My guess," said the Hunter, "would be before it escaped. I mean, before that it was evil, but it had never left the cafeteria. I think the virus must have gotten to the Mangler somehow, erased its sentient personality like it did with ActionVan, and made it bust out." "But why?" asked Murray, who was tucked underneath Chet's arm. "And how did it get infected in the first place?" "Well, I think... weeEaAuuUgGGGGhhhhhH!" Chet cried as he and Murray tumbled into a large hole in the ground. "This must have been where the Mangler struck," said Jared. "Yep, the readings confirm that," the Progger said, after analyzing his tricorder's readout. The White Slut pointed to a tombstone at the head of the large hole. "this was where the little tyke was buried!" she cried out. "Why would that bastard machine want to come here and desecrate my son's grave?" "I think actually grave-rob would be a better term," said Murray from down in the hole. "The casket is still here, but it's empty." "That damn machine is going to pay!" the White Slut screamed. ================================================================================ >:::The following added 1998/09/30 10:01 by JY01STU >:: Vacuum boy QUASQUICENTENNIAL, bitch!!! "Calm down, Slut," Vacuumboy said. "It'll be OK. We'll find the Mangler and take it down." "But how are we going to find it?" the Hunter asked. "We have no clue where it went after it trashed the sjs hq, or even why it's doing any of this." "Actually," Chet said from down in the hole, "I think I have an idea. But first, catch!" He threw Murray up to Jared. Jared, whose only football skills related to kicking them, let Murray slip between his arms. "OW!" Murray cried as he hit the ground. "Watch it, you bastards!" "Anyway," Chet said as he climbed out of the grave, "my idea was that the Mangler for some reason might have a personal vendetta against the slut here." "What do you mean?" the White Slut asked. "Well, it struck here at your son's grave and then attacked the headquarters, where you spend a lot of your time. It might have continued to follow you." "If that's the case, then it looks like we have two options," said the Progger. "Either it went to the dorms and attacked there, or it followed her to the comic shop." "Good thinking, everyone," said Vacuumboy. "Let's take to the air and see if we can't catch it before it destroys something this time." And so, the heroes boarded the Lovechicken and set it to flight. ================================================================================ >:::The following added 1998/09/30 14:43 by KR53STU >:: The Hunter Another proud member of Gamma Delta Iota... The Love Chicken sped toward the comic shop. Upon arrival, they found exactly what they were looking for, the Mangler. Ken, the owner, was standing outside the store trying to beat back the Mangler with a broom. "A whole lot of good having my own super-hero is doing me, the boy annoys the hell out of me, and isn't here when I need him. (Of course Ken didn't know Annoying Fan Boy was dead, he would never talk poorly of the dead, he was just to nice a guy) Back you metalic beast!" yelled Ken. "He doesn't stand much of a chance by himself," said BJ, master of the obvious. "Hold Demon, and Give Quer!!" yelled Ken as he swung his broom. The Mangler pawwed Ken aside, luckily only dazing him, and headed for the shop... ================================================================================ >:::The following added 1998/10/01 11:23 by JY01STU >:: Vacuum boy QUASQUICENTENNIAL, bitch!!! "By the acid-eaten face of Nemesis, we have to do something!" shouted the Hunter. "Here, let me take care of it," cried Chet, and instantly from the folds of his uniform he began producing item after item that he had procured from the cafeteria and then throwing them at the Mangler. Forks, knives, cups, plates, soup spoons, salt shakers, trays, napkin holders, even a couple of workers--all he hurled in the direction of the Mangler. Before the Mangler could attack the comic shop, it was hit with all of the stolen cafeteria goods, and it became stunned. The items became caught in its stokes and the Mangler stopped turning for a moment. It shook as if it were trying to knock the items loose that had it jammed. "Now! Hit it while we've got it paralyzed!" shouted Vacuumboy. And with his cry, the heroes struck. BJ the Goalie II and Jared the Hunter both jumped onto its back and started striking it repeatedly with their weapons. The Progger blasted away at it with a Progg(tm) blaster (despite what others thought, he always had a spare lying around somewhere) and Vacuumboy tried to suck it into the vacuum dimension. All to no avail. The Mangler shook free of its many jams, at the same time knocking Jared and BJ off its back. The Mangler moved forward again to attack the comic shop, while Ken lay helpless beside his dream store. "Oh, no," he cried. "! had just finally gotten the air conditioning hooked up." He grimaced and looked away as the Mangler prepared to strike. Just then the White Slut jumped in between the Mangler and the little shop. "If you want to take it down, you're going to have to take me with it, you bastard!" she shouted. The Mangler stopped in its tracks. suddenly everyone in the area received a very strong telepathic message. The force fo the single word was enough to knock all of the heroes unconscious. When they awoke minutes later, the shop was still intact but the Mangler and the White Slut had both disappeared without a trace. ================================================================================ >:::The following added 1998/10/01 22:45 by KR53STU >:: The Hunter Another proud member of Gamma Delta Iota... "What the hell just happened?" screamed a startled, confused, and enraged BJ. "I don't know," replied a dazed Hunter. "Let me try," began the Progger, "the virus infected The Mangler, it went after the Little Tyke's grave because his watch computer was also infected, the watch was programmed with the Little Tyke's personal log, when the log was incorporated into the Mangler's system, it filled the void left when the virus wiped out the Mangler's sentient being. Since then, besides following the destructive orders of the virus, the Mangler has also been working under the strongest impulse of a lost young child, finding its mother. Of course I could be wrong." "No," said Vacuumboy, "I don't think so. That theory fits all of the facts we have, and at this point I'm willing to believe anything. I think you're correct." "So," said the Hunter, "we're faced with a moral dilema." "Yeah," said Murray, "we've got this clepto over here. Do we turn him in, or just be real careful?" "I resent that," said Chet, "I don't steal from people directly, only through the large corporations and other such entities they fund." "Oh," said Murray, "I guess I can live with that." "NO, Dammit," said the Hunter. "The moral dilema is that in order to stop the virus, we now have to destroy what is left of the LittleTyke. While it's not really him, it is part of his psyche, and I'm not sure if that would make destroying the Mangler like murder or not." ================================================================================ >:::The following added 1998/10/01 23:49 by JY01STU >:: Vacuum boy QUASQUICENTENNIAL, bitch!!! "So Progger," asked BJ, "how did you know all that about the virus and the little tyke's computer watch and his journal and stuff?" "I don't know," said the Progger. "It just sort of came to me." "Wow," Jared marveled. "What a genius! You must know everything!" "The only thing I don't know is how the virus might have infected the Mangler," the Progger admitted. "I bet it has something to do with that new sucko video system," said Chet. "Yeah!" said Vacuumboy. "They switched them over the summer when the old video jukebox was mysteriously stolen. The new system has a sattelite uplink." "Of course!" shouted the Hunter. "The Little Tyke's watch had a mode m that was hooked up to his computer at his homebase. When the home crimelab computer got infected, it must have infected the watch too. And when he got buried with the watch, the virus must have searched for a way to escape by using the modem and hooked into the Mangler!" "How did you know that?" asked Murray, still lying prone on the ground after being knocked out by the Mangler's telepathic message. "You're no genius like the Progger!" "I just know, OK?" said the Hunter. "Our next priority is to find the Mangler and save the White Slut," said Vacuumboy. "I wouldn't mind saving her at all, if you know what I mean," said BJ as he snickered to himself naughtily. "Actually our first priority is to see if Ken is OK," said Murray, who tried to roll over but stopped midway through. "Oh my aching me! That telepathic blast is going to leave me with a me-ache for weeks!" BJ came over and scoopedMurray up and the two of them moved toward Ken to see if he was alright. "Gah!" cried Murray as BJ carelessly lifted him from the ground. "Be careful! Oh man, my whole body hurts from that one! I'm going to be taking some serious Tylenol for that one!" As Chet and Vacuumboy went over also to check on Ken, Chet stopped Vauumboy and said to him, "Hey have you ever thought about installing a video system in your car, man? I know where you could get one real cheap! And while you're at it, I could tint your windows." And while everyone else walked over to check on Ken, Jared leaned over to the Progger and whispered, "So did you sneak a peek at the Annoying Fanboy's Who's Who of Cape Superheroes too?" "Yeah," said the Progger. "But I won't tell them that that's where we got the ifo on little tyke if you won't." "My lips are sealed," said the Hunter. "I don't mind being considered a genius for once." And while the heroes were helping Ken to his feet, the White Slut was waking up from her telepathically-caused unconsciousness in a strange place... ================================================================================ >:::The following added 1998/10/05 17:13 by KR53STU >:: The Hunter Another proud member of Gamma Delta Iota... "Huh...where am I?" wondered the White Slut out loud. As she rose to her feet and adjusted her costume (it was made more for looks than for comfort and praciticallity) she looked around. She was in a cave somewhere, surrounded by computer consoles. She couldn't see any sign of an exit. The only light was coming from the consoles and the overhead florescent lights suspended from the cave walls. She couldn't even make out a sliver of sunlight coming through a crack any where. "How did I...oh, I remember, that mental scream in my head. ''. I wonder what it means. I wonder what happened to the Mangler. Even more importantly, back to the original question, where am I?" asked the White Slut, continuing to talk to herself. "Are there any natural caves in the Cape Girardeua area? Even if there are, it doesn't mean this isn't man made. Why was I brought here? Where are the other heroes? Why am I still alive? Are the others still alive?" At that moment, the White Slut heard the distinctive sound of the Mangler approaching...