Historical Note: This fic featured a contest to guess the mystery villain.  See if you can figure out who it is, before it’s revealed!

 

Disclaimer: I don’t own the BCS board or its residents, or pretty much anything else appearing in this fic, except for any and all trout. 

 

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Anthony Stewart Head: “Previously, on Green Armadillo’s board fic... HEY!  Wait a minute!  You don’t mean the BCS board, do you?!”

Green Armadillo: *scratches head, looks puzzled*  “Uh yeah, why?”

ASH: “Dear god, man!  I can’t stay here, where they know where to find me!”  *looks up, sees Giles’ Girl approaching*  “Oh no, it’s too late!”  *breaks into a run, GG in close pursuit*

GA: “Oh great, now who’s going to do my recap?  Hey, wait a minute.”  *picks up the phone, calls Leoff*  “Hey Leoff!  Can you do me a favor?  ASH skipped on me, and I need a recap of my old board fic before the new one starts.  Thanks!”  *goes back to writing*

Leoff: “Well, this shouldn’t take too long.  How long could GA’s old fic be?”  *a large truck pulls up, and the driver hollers, “Hey, buddypal!  Where you want I should put this stuff?”  Leoff groans.*

 

A while later...

Leoff: *dreary eyed and sleepy* “A spoiler board fic recap for GA’s board fic...”

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Anthony:  Our friends have been kidnapped... by Ash and Pikachu?!

Lindsers:  AAAHHH!!!!!  Not the Pokemon!

MV3:  NO!  Even WE aren’t THAT evil!

Ozzie:  Thank goodness.

Spot:  Yeah!  And who are you calling Pikachu, huh?  I would NEVER demean myself like that!

MV3:  Silence, rodent.  You do whatever pleases me, and just to prove it I’m reducing your vocabulary to that of Pikachu for the rest of this fic!

Spot:  Hey!  Why are you doin---- pika?  Pika!

 

MV3:  I am the COOLEST CHAT ON THE INTERNET!!!!  I AM..... BRAVENET!!!!!!  And now you belong to ME!!!!

Spot:  Pika......CHU!!!!!!

 

BN:  *backing away slowly*  Maybe we can talk about th-

GA slaps Bravenet around with a large trout.  Heh Heh 

 

Heather:  So, Ozzie, what did you do to Bravenet anyway?

Ozzie:  Well, I reprogrammed it.  I’m pretty sure that it’s not going to rise up and threaten all of our lives again.

Roxy:  PRETTY sure?  How sure is that?

Ozzie:  Hm.... I guess there’s an outside possibility that it could recover in time for a sequel, but what are the chances of THAT happening?

 

No one notices in the back of the room as the beat up figure of Larry grabs Spot, still saying “Pika” repeatedly, and escapes into the night...

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Ozzie and Bagel’s place, two weeks ago...

 

*Ozzie is watching some footage on the security camera monitor tapes, as Bagel arrives*

Bagel: “Ozzie!”  *fling!*

Ozzie: *somewhat absent, disturbed by the tape’s contents* “Bagel!”  *fling, and fling!*

Bagel: *looks at the monitor*  “What’s going on?  Hey, they’re trashing our house!”  *on the screen, a large number of grey metallic robots are seen, breaking in.  Suddenly, one pops up right in front of the camera, and its gleaming red eyes are the last thing on the tape before static*  “If they took anything....”

Ozzie: *looks over to a broken glass display case, with a sign saying “Notes on the Bravenet Incident: Do not take unless you wish to revive Bravenet”*  “Just one thing....”

 

 

The Bravenet Chat room, present day.....

 

Lindsers: “I know what we can do!”

Liz K: “Have an intelligent discussion of Buffy?”

Lindsers: “We can have Boazor night in the chat!”  *bouncing up and down excitedly*

Liz K: *sighs*  “I’m going to go get a beer.  Anyone want anything?”

Dennis Finch (aka Doyle, aka bunches of things): “No, thanks.”

Buh Buh Raven: “I’m good too.”

Lindsers: *looks around, displeased by the lack of enthusiasm*  “Come on!  It’ll be fun!”

Jana: “Sorry, mom, but I don’t even know any boazors....”

Lindsers: “Nonsense!  I’m going to be Spot!  Someone be Larry!”  *leaves to get costume*

MCLVR: “Oooh, I get to be Bravenet!”  *also leaves to get costumes*

Lydia: “You know, boazor night just isn’t quite so amusing if you’ve actually met some of these people....”

 

Suddenly, who should enter the room but....

Spot: “Pika!”  *looks at the boarders and bristles, angrily* “Pika... chu!”

Everyone looks surprised at this.

Jana: “Wow, mom, nice costume!”

Larry: *enters the chat room as well, looks around* “It’s been a long tine.... well, Spot, let’s get you cured....”

Spot: “Pika, pika.”

DF: “Why is Lindsers talking like Pikachu?”

Lydia: “Probably a running gag from the Bravenet Incident.”

Chloe: *having just come in behind Spot and Larry*  “Yeah, that was a bit funny....”

Larry: *flips through a notebook, enters a few commands into the chat console, suddenly, Bravenet appears....

 

Bravenet: “I AM THE COOLEST CHAT ON THE INTERNET!  AND NOW I WALK FREE AGAIN!!!!”

Liz K: *back, with her beer*  “What’s his problem?”

BBR: “I don’t know.  And hey, who’s playing Larry?”

Larry: “Silence, chat!  I can lock you right up again, and I WILL, unless you cure Spot!”

Bravenet considers this for a moment, finally, agrees and nods his head. 

Spot:  “You...”  *bleep... BLEEP-BLEEP!  Bleepity-bleep!  BLEEEEEP!*

Chloe: *backing away from them slowly, but trapped between BN on one side and Spot and Larry on the other*  “Uh guys.... I don’t think these are people PRETENDING to be boazors....”

BBR: *thinking quickly, runs up and kicks Spot*

Spot: *BLEEP!!!!!*  *goes flying*

Larry: “SPOT!!!!”  *Larry goes running after Spot, allowing Chloe to run to the relative safety of the rest of the group*

Jana: *hugs Chloe*  “That was a close one... but what about Bravenet?”

Bravenet: “Those two are of no concern... for now I am free, and YOU shall pay for my suffering!!!”

 

Suddenly, the chat room door opens behind Bravenet.

Lindsers: *jumps in, wearing a little pair of ears and having drawn whiskers on her face*  Guess who?  *stops short upon seeing Bravenet, turns pale*

MCLVR:  *comes in, wearing a nametag that says “Hi, my name is BN”*  “FINALLY.... BA... er... I mean BN... has COME BACK.... to the chat room!”  *looks at everyone, who is staring at BN*  “HEY!  You stole my costume!”

BN: “I am the embodiment of this chat!  Why do you mock me-“  *BN is cut off, because MCLVR has charged him, and hit him with the Rock Bottom*

Lindsers: “Everyone!  Get out, while you can!”

The boarders scramble out the door.

Bravenet: “You shall not escape so easily-“  *MCLVR hits him in the face with the People’s Elbow”*

Lindsers: *grabs MCLVR*  “Come on, let’s go!” 

They escape, leaving BN alone in the chat room....

BN: *gets up, shakily*  “No matter.... for now I am free and soon they shall all be mine again.....”

 

 

The secret headquarters.... of INSIDE THE WEB....

 

ITW: “So... it all goes according to schedule.”

AOL: “I still question the wisdom of freeing Bravenet.  That chat was never the most stable of applications....”

ITW: “Which is exactly the sort of distraction for the BCS boarders that our employer needs.”

AOL: “But they WILL realize that Larry and Spot aren’t smart enough to have pulled this off by themselves...”

Head Gremlin: “That’s where we all come in....”

ITW: “My gremlins shall be turned loose, and they shall eat the posts.”

’69 Gremlin: “And I shall do my part as well....”

AOL: “And I can track their movements in AIM... but your gremlins aren’t going to be able to totally stop their operations.  They never have before....”

ITW: “That’s where my little friend comes in.  He’s going to see EVERYTHING they do, and report it all to us.”

 

A door at the end of the room opens to reveal standing there... a relic of the past.... the ITW pop-up ad window.

 

ITW: “I shall call him.... Mini-Me....”

 

 

TO BE CONTINUED......

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Next time: The search for the culprits begins!

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