The Flood

I'm making it sound worse than it was.

Essentially, one of the walls sprung a leak. The problem is that this leak, if you'll remember, had the full force of one of the largest freshwater lakes in the world behind it.

Long story short, I had to devise a very large pump and then Judy and I had to leave for a while so it could do its thing. Because a pump that large means no peace and quiet.

We took a trip down to old Vineyard and sifted through the wreckage of the old Doc's lair. A security guard tried to stop us but we convinced him not to politely. I. e., he's still alive, but scared half to death of duranium-encased doom.

I was surprised to see that the Cataclysm Engine, despite the rather large explosion caused by killing American Steel, was largely intact. The main problem was the fact that tremendous heat had caused all internal working parts to fuse. We did manage to rip a few large chunks of duranium off the mechanism, though. It's not much, but they'll come in handy somehow.

Okay, sleep now, petrification later.

Loose Ends

Before I go into detail about the calamities of the past couple weeks, I kinda wanna talk about how the whole June Bug thing turned out.

A couple days after JB held the head of Brannigan above the city, one of the whackjobs on the radio came out with his typical inflammatory bullshit about the event. He started talking about how it must have been June Bug's "time of the month" and how "as a [woman], [June Bug] is incapable of any of the thing's she's threatened to do." And other completely stupid things. Look at Dina Might. Hands down the most destructive, callous, juvenile, and cruel villain of modern supervillainy. ...oh god, she's going to be in my city in a month. Why the hell did I agree to that?

Oh, right, alcohol.

In response, June Bug leveled his recording studio by hitting it with the force of a Judy-sized, but several hundred times denser, meteorite.

Of course, Quizzer showed up and saved the people trapped in the rubble. They never found the body of that shithead. Any time I bring it up Judy laughs maniacally and changes the subject.

She makes me so proud.

However, at this point, the police, army, and an angered Brannigan had put two and two together and realized only one person had the motive and ability to do these things.

Unfortunately for them, Judy Baracs, as I have mentioned before, is a genius, and figured that, sooner or later, they'd catch her. So, when Brannigan security, the National Guard's Anti-Villain Task Force, and a full SWAT team closed in on her, they didn't find a meek college student. They found June Bug with a tidal bomb.

The video of these three law enforcement organizations falling over and puking from the bomb's effects is on YouTube if you wanna check it out, by the way.

Once again, Quizzer showed up and, this time, there was a scuffle. And I am both embarrassed and proud to say that the Blue Q got his keister kicked in a way I was never quite able to. I was also able to get my first clear look at her armor--some sort of black mesh under a bronze-colored composite on her chest, hips, legs, and arms. On her back is a big ovoid dome, which has most of her gravitational compressor array in it. Her helmet is also bronze-ish, and has a pair of "mandibles" and "antennae", along with a pair of green lenses over the eyes.

After she pounded Quizzer enough to make her escape, June Bug came here. I have no idea how she knew about my underwater lair, but she knocked on the airlock and I let her in and, surprise surprise, it was Judy under that armor.

So, to summarize, she and I are living together now--which is fine. I mean, my base used to house a couple dozen workers in relative comfort. Half of the rooms I don't even use anyway. I'm, at her request, giving her some tips on supervillainy, though I doubt there's anything I can teach her, since she's already doing a better job than I have in the past.

So far so good with living with her. It's been a few weeks and I don't want to kill her yet. Of course, it helps we have plenty of room to wander off if we get sick of each other.

Gotta go get pizza with Judy, I'll write about the flood of Aught Eight next time.

Update

Can't talk long. A few words to explain my absence.

1--Base Flooded.

2--Turned to stone.

3--Framed for assassination attempt against Rake--yes, framed. You didn't think I'd do something tacky like try to kill a presidential candidate, did you? I'm not one of those supervillains with a "cause" or "beliefs".

More later.

June Bug--Update

So, Judy won't admit to being June Bug. Even though whenever I bring her up, she gets a telltale self-satisfied smirk on her face and says an off-handed comment about putting people in their place. Which, obviously, just makes me suspect her even more.

However, wow, she's been...enthusiastic...all day. Supervillainy seems to have gotten her in a reaaaally good mood, if you catch my drift. Still, I wonder why she hasn't admitted to being June Bug. I mean, it's pretty obvious to me. And it's probably pretty obvious to Brannigan as well. Maybe I'll bring that up with her later. For now, we're gonna watch Terminator and eat some kettle popcorn.

New (?) Villain in Town

Right at this moment, a girl in beetle-esque power armor is holding the head of Brannigan's New Vineyard branch by his neck several thousand feet above the city. Because of her bronze armor and the fact she seems to have some sort of gravity-manipulator that enables her to smash into objects with substantially more mass than she actually has, and the month, the press has labeled her "June Bug". She has yet to make any demands, but apparently smashed through the upper levels of Brannigan Towers and grabbed him after saying something about "Needing to talk to him about some of his gender policies."

...is it just me, or does this all sound familiar? Gravity manipulation, a score to settle with Brannigan...

God, I hope Judy knows what she's doing. If it is Judy.

Hmm

So, I think Judy's up to something, though I'm not sure what. When I picked her up and dropped her off, I noticed she had a lot of high-tech equipment in her living room. She also didn't seem to want me to come in, like she's hiding something.

Hmmm.

Armor Test

I took the new armor out for a spin today. There was this armored car that had some secret plans that were headed to Brannigan that I wanted to hit. It went pretty well, I was able to basically tear the car in half and steal the plans before Quizzr showed up. I haven't had a chance to look at them, though, since I'm taking Judy out tonight in an attempt to make her feel better. She's been really busy with something over the past few days, and she won't really say what. Oh well, she'll tell me eventually.