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En la parte inferior de la página vemos lo que parece ser un Jerkop noqueado. Y en medio, un par de Jerkops que están pendientes de ser derrotados. Punchy: ¡Prower! ¡Interceptar y derribar! Título: Episodio 20 Título: CWCDefense. Prower: ¡Entendido, Punchy! ¡Estoy en la persecución! Punchy llama a Prower, su Samurai Pizza Bot personal. Vemos que tiene también la habilidad de crear un…

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Caption: Epilogue: Agust 9, 2008, CWCville Forest…

WILD: No way! Is that…?

MAGI-CHAN: It is.

WILD: Okay. But how?

MAGI-CHAN: The moment has finally arrived. It is time to rescue our master and creator from the void of time.

MAGI-CHAN: Your Vine Whips are required as a form of rope.

MAGI-CHAN: I will go in, secured with the vine, then I will tile a portion around Chris as well, and after I tug three times, you pull us out of the void. Whatever you do, do not cut or let go of the Vine Whip.

WILD: I’m secured to this tree. Just go, I’ve got you.

Caption: A minute later…

CHRIS: Cool, let’s get out of here.

Caption: Fifteen minutes of dialogue, and a transformation, later…

CHRIS: …And that’s the plan. Y’all will meet up with me in Tennessee at 2:30 PM, eastern. I have my to-do list to check-off. !Hasta luego!

WILD: Good luck, Christian!

We cut to two months down the line, when it’s finally time to revive Chris. Wild and Magi-Chan find a time portal over the jungle, they retrieve Chris from the Time Void lickety-split, and it’s like nothing ever happened. In contrast to the whole issue’s worth of plot that preceeded Chris getting lost in the void, his rescue happens in the space of a page. Chris even lampshades how much he just wanted to get this scene out of the way by cutting out the dialogue and the transformation sequence entirely by way of a jump-cut and a joking caption. That said, given what Chris and Sonichu do in Tennessee the next day, I wouldn’t be surprised if this was intentionally done to obscure the true nature of the plans he was concocting.

Chris seems to have had a wardrobe change in the Time Void as when he fell into the void he was wearing The Classic, now he’s wearing what’s called “The Impostor”.

Chris insists that everyone meet with him in Tennessee at 2:30 Eastern Time (Chris’s time zone), despite the fact that their destination of Clarksville is in the Central Time Zone. Why not just say you’re meeting at 1:30 local time?

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CHLOE: Noooo!!!

CHLOE: Sarah’s panda-ear headband… she knew she couldn’t escape, so she set us free so we wouldn’t burn with… waahhh!!!

BLAZEBOB: I know, Chloe, but you and I, we have to move on and continue in honor of Team Panda-Halo.

CHLOE: You’re right… but I just can’t believe she’s really gone…

Caption: In memory of Sonichu/Rosechu fan, Sarah Cassandra McKenzie, who died January 2009 in the Australian bushfires. She remains my good friend in my heart forever.

Flung from the inferno is Panda’s Mickey Mouse ears panda-ear headband from which she got her screen name. Her Pokemon immediately understand their circumstances and that their master is no more. Chloe is appropriately upset at the sudden death of her beloved trainer, but BlazeBob implores her to immediately move on and continue to fight in her honor. This incredibly quick to pick up the pieces attitude that BlazeBob and later the fireman show is, in addition to Chris’s own difficulty processing grief, a reflection of how long it took Chris to memorialize Panda in his comic. By the time Chris was writing this comic, more than a half a year had passed since Panda’s alleged “death”, and Chris not only had already moved on from her, but he’d already had another girlfriend fatality in Ivy’s alleged suicide in May of 2009. With his three gal-pals that allegedly died (Sarah Jackson, Panda, and Ivy) he felt more a bit of an obligation to memorialize them, regardless of how far down the line he did it, as opposed to simply forgetting they ever existed like Blanca. Note that in the memorial at the bottom, Chris doesn’t call Panda a sweetheart or a girlfriend, but rather a good friend and a Sonichu fan. Even in “death”, her betrayal stung hard enough for Chris to not call her a sweetheart.

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MARY LEE {thought}: Oh well… he wins this time. I’m tired and I’ve done enough for now.

MARY LEE: Count, ensphere me and take us home.

COUNT GRADUON: Yes, Slaweel.

COUNT GRADUON {thought}: She’ll fall soon…

Caption: Meanwhile, below…

SONICHU: Thank you for catching me, sweetheart.

ROSECHU: That’s okay, honey-bolt. We watched your bought from down here. Why did you save her?

SONICHU: Well, as a hero, I could not help but to answer her cry. Besides which, the true final blow on that witch belongs only to Christian. Now, let’s help put the city back together, then let’s head home for dinner and “Mary Poppins” with our children.

Sign: Country Cookin’

Sign: CWCville Shopping Center

Let’s be clear here - Sonichu retreated. No one said that Mary Lee accepted defeat until she said she accepted defeat. Mary Lee was just saved by Sonichu, then he ran away, and then she said “I’m going to throw in the towel”. And despite the fact that Graduon just said that he was more than okay with letting Mary fall to her death, she tells Graduon to make a bubble, they’re going home. Graduon even ominously states “she’ll fall soon” - but Graduon, you’re carrying Mary several hundred feet above the ground. Unless removing this psychic bubble at this height would be liable to kill you too, why don’t you take the opportunity to kill her right now? Nevertheless, we’re meant to take away from this that Graduon and Mary’s formerly solid relationship is now on the rocks and their partnership will soon come to an end.

As an inverse of the earlier scene where Sonichu caught the unconscious Rosechu, Rosie returns the favor by catching Sonichu. She questions why Sonichu didn’t let Mary fall. He answers with the expected “I’m a classical, bleeding-heart hero who saves friend or foe”, with the added note that he believes he shouldn’t be the one to finish off Mary Lee, rather since this has been Christian’s vendetta all this time, only he has the motive to do her serious harm.

Team EHP gathers at the bottom of the screen, and Sonichu says that they’ll put in an appearance at the cleanup, then head on back to watch Chris’s favorite film, Mary Poppins, with his three children, seen here for the first time. From left to right (and oldest to youngest) we have Cerah, Christine, and Robbie. The three will get more individual characterization in the issues to come, but until they evolve, the three are just there to be cloying. Cerah is the only one of the three without a common name, though it’s assumed that she’s named after one of the many Sarahs in Chris’s life, most likely either Sarah Hammer or Sarah Cassandra McKenzie (Pandahalo). Christine’s name is a bit more obvious, and in fact Tomgirl Chris would later share the same name. Robbie was likely named after Chris’s father, or possibly the titular character from Chris’s second favorite film, The Adventures of the American Rabbit, Robert Rabbit, or less likely Robert Simmons V.

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MAGI-CHAN {telepathy}: Just an update for you two; we’ve managed to take out some of the baddies, all of the other electric-hedgehogs are aiding the medics with transport of the injured citizens and to-be-unbrainwashed jerkops, all though some of them didn’t make it sadly. The Autobots are cleaning up the the PVCCitizen Decepti-clone parts to be transported to the army bases for recycling. The CWC-Power Rangers took down the super-sized B-Manajerk and Merried Seinor Comic with survivable injuries. Then they both shrunk down to their original sizes. Our police and army forces held their ground very well, again, a few casualties within. The mall’s protective dome is starting to weaken, and Slaweel is closing in now. Our defense volunteers are worn out from their hard labor. We had one casualty here; Ivy was trapped in the elevator; the tremors made the floor under her break; she got her neck tangled in the cable. Billy Mays tired to rescue her by breaking her fall, but she got caught, and he tried to climb up to disentangle a rescue. He could not reach and the walls were slippery… just terrible.

MEGAZORD: !Go-Go!

EXCELINA: Have a safe trip back!

Caption: *In memory of Sonichu-Girl, **Ivy O’Niel**

It seems like every other page Chris tops himself in the massive text block department. This one spills over the background! Magi-Chan summarizes the remainder of the battle that Sonichu was not privy to. The hedgehogs have come out victorious in the battle with the jerkops, though not all of the jerkops pulled through. This is the first mention of the deaths of non-named characters - at this point the only fatalities have been Sarah Jackaras, Pandahalo, and, according to supplementary materials, Punchy’s master Shinabe. Now the masses begin to die, a trend that would continue to spiral downward next issue.

But if you were worried that broken Decepti-clone parts would litter the streets of CWCville, don’t you worry, they’re being gathered up and then sold for scrap. Keep CWCville Beautiful!

While we were watching the fight in CWC-Central Park, apparently Mary Lee Walsh had a case of the Rita Repulsa’s and made her monsters grow - in this case, B-Manajerk and Merried Seinor Comic. Chris countered with the obvious choice to fight a giant monster, the aforementioned team of Power Rangers CWCville has on standby (you can see their Megazord in the back there). Despite the idea of Power Rangers fighting a giant B-Manajerk and Merried Seinor Comic being the awesomest idea ever put forth in this comic, we don’t ever see it. This is the greatest waste in the history of the comic. At least we’re told that the two of them survived.

Alas, Ivy wasn’t so lucky. Granted even less of a memorial than Pandahalo, Ivy’s death was explained in Magi’s massive info-dump. Now, the real Ivy supposedly “died” in July of 2009, about two months after he was last in contact with her, apparently a suicide by hanging. Chris attempted to fit her method of death into the context of the comic, that for some reason she was in an elevator (what elevator we’re never explained - since the section before this was about the CWCville Mall, maybe Chris means the elevator there? I always actually assumed that she was supposed to have died in the same apartment that killed Sarah.) So she was hanging around in an elevator shaft, when the floor out from under her broke, and her neck was trapped in the cables that pulled the elevator, so when the floor broke she was hanged by the elevator cables. Okay, what? There is no floor in an elevator shaft. Either she was standing in the elevator when its floor crumbled (which probably would have sent her plummeting to her death but probably wouldn’t have gotten her hanged by the cables), or she was standing on the roof of the elevator with her neck wrapped in the wires when the roof she was standing on gave way and then she was hung by the cables while inside the elevator car? My head is starting to hurt. Anyway Billy Mays, apparently now working for the CWCville Mayorship, tried to break her fall… before she got hung by the cables? Then he tried to disentangle her body, but the walls were wet? WHAT?! WHY?! Why were the walls wet when it’s an elevator that’s indoors?!?! Whatever. Farewell, sweetest Ivy. So much for your GodJesus blessed romance.

At the bottom of the page, I suppose Son-Chu and Excelina are seeing off a helicopter carrying a crate of Decepti-clone parts headed for a dump or something.

Meanwhile, Magi-Chan mentioned that Patti’s psychic dome was weakening, so Mary Lee is heading off to do away with the dome once and for all, so her surviving jerkops will be free to ransack the mall.

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SFX: *Thwack*

BIONIC: Ow!!!

BIONIC: Aw, dang!!!

NIDOKING: Roar!!!

NAITSIRHC: This is for that whack in my head back at the high school, Bionic the Hedgehog! Nidoking, Take-Down!

Naitsirhc (remember that he was a Pokemon trainer this whole time), unleashes a Nidoking on Bionic. Remember, though, in Sonichu 0, Naitsirhc was packing two Legendary Pokemon (Zapdos and Raikou) and according to the CWCipedia Nait has also been packing the ridiculously OP team of Ho-Oh, Mewtwo (no mention as to whether this is the same one that raised Magi-Chan since Pokemon canon flip-flops over whether or not there can be more than one Mewtwo), a Tyranitar, a Red Gyarados, and the aforementioned Zapdos and Raikou. Why not fuck their shit up with one of those Legendaries, Nait? That said, since Giovanni is a Ground-Type specialist and has used Nidokings and Nidoqueens at points in his career, it’s possible that Nait is borrowing this Nidoking from his father.

Naitsirhc is particularly siccing this Nidoking onto Bionic as revenge for his defeat at the end of Evil is Afoot. At the end of that issue, Nait made a declaration of revenge against the orange hedgehog, and now, about eight months later in story time (much longer in the real world) Nait finally gets his turn.

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SONICHU: Bionic and Darkbind; what’s going on with y’all?

BIONIC: Well, I was shootin’ some hoops with my homies at the court on 5th and Char St., when the jerkops came and interrupted our high-5s. So we split up and K-Oed some of them with our slam dunkin’ strength. I ended up here at the park where I saw you and Rosechu in trouble, then I found Darkbind nearby; we teamed up and helped y’all out.

DARKBIND: I was leveling up with experience by practicing my swordsmanship on some goblins and demon, when I heard the chaos caused by the giant robots, and I blazed a trail through some of the jerkops and robots. I ended up here as well, saw you two in danger, and teamed-up with Bionic to help you two out.

SONICHU: Well, Rosey and I, we are grateful.

NAITSIRHC: *Gasp* You!!!

Darkbind and Bionic come in to explain where they fit into the story. Bionic, who hails from the mean and dirty streets of CWCville (note that Chris has never seen a “mean street” in his life), spouts some slang about how he was playing basketball when the PVCC attack started, and Bionic’s attempts to show his appreciation for his friends and teammates with high-fives were disrupted by the intervention and presumable attacks of a squad of jerkops. Darkbind, meanwhile, was practicing the art of swordsmanship before his focus was shattered by the clangor of Decepti-clones, and both he and Bionic began to fight the forces of the PVCC and quickly joined up (note that we’ve already seen Darkbind this issue but we haven’t seen Bionic until now).

I might just be dramatically extrapolating from their characters here, but I think we’re meant to view the team-up of Bionic and Darkbind as an unexpected one. Bionic is the rough and tumble basketball player, possibly from the bad side of town (we never learn exactly where “5th and Char Street” are), and Darkbind is a knight from a medieval European inspired high fantasy kingdom. They’re a textbook case of snobs (Darkbind) vs slobs (Bionic). However, the pair don’t really have much characterization beyond those surface level character gimmicks, so if we were supposed to see these two teaming up as an odd couple pair, we really don’t feel it.

At the bottom of the page, we see the unconscious forms of Giovanni and Robotnik (he got knocked out too, apparently), and a disoriented Nait, who recognizes Bionic from when he knocked him out at the end of Sonichu 6.

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SON-CHU: Autobots, transform, and attack PVCCitizen’s Decepticlones!

Son-Chu calls out the famous Transformers catchphrase “Autobots, transform and roll out!”, but edited to refer more specifically to the Decepticlones.

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Caption: *Makes gun do a 180*

“Makes gun do a 180” is perhaps the most infamous “sound effect” in the entire comic. Much like “crash to grass” and “straight as a miracle bullet”, “makes gun do a 180” is less of a sound effect and more of a descriptor.

The action on this page is a mess, and that’s saying something considering the rest of these pages surrounding it. What I think was supposed to happen is that thing in the top left is an SAV pulling out a gun to shoot at Blake. It looks like on this page that Blake is grabbing his tail, but I think he’s supposed to grab the gun, then shoot a pink laser back at the SAV that pulled the gun on him, as well as the other remaining SAV.

On the bottom of the page, Blake and Bubbles make out in front of the army of SAV robots that lie before them, apparently not having moved from where they started. You can also see the discarded crown of the King SAV on the right. Also, I suppose Bubbles has always had waist length hair, so it should theoretically cover the base of her tail, but on this page it looks like her Marill tail is coming out from the same level as her armpits.

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SFX: *Thwack*

SFX: *Boom*

MARY LEE: Help!

Even without her pitchfork, Mary Lee has enough ingrained psychic powers (I’m just assuming all the purple in this comic is psychic energy, since that seems to be Chris’s go-to handwave for anything, despite the fact that psychic energy in Pokemon is more often pink) and she deflects his attack. But Sonichu is able to shatter the dome (or maybe it only lasts one hit) and as he falls to the ground, he tries to take her down with him by kicking her in the chest. She goes flying backwards while Sonichu lands on his head, but quickly rights himself. Meanwhile, Mary Lee is clinging to the edge of the psychic platform for dear life, since her broomstick is no longer there to save her. This page is incredibly bizarrely composed.

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Caption: Later, at the CWCville Shopping Center…

MARY LEE: And now, to chant the dark spell to remove the dome.

MARY LEE: Hinkle finkle linkle inkey hinkey binkey sleeky boo bleedle…

ROSECHU: Oh my God! She’s starting her chant. Oh my God. What a mess this lot looks like.

SONICHU: Stay here, Rosey, I’m heading up.

MARY LEE: What?

SONICHU: Eh… witch doc, you got a vaccum cleaner?

Mary Lee’s psychic-power-removing chant bizarrely consists of nonsense phrases and words. Like Nait’s embarrassing ultimate move name, you’d think that people would choose less stupid nonsense phrases than the ones Chris came up with. Meanwhile, Sonichu and Rosechu arrive on the scene and decide that it must be time for the final battle. Sonichu tells his beloved to stay out of trouble as he goes to confront Mary Lee alone. The bottom half of the page seems to reenact what Sonichu was doing on this issue’s cover - that is, pulling Mary Lee’s broom right out from under her.

Sonichu’s final line seems to be reminiscent of Bugs Bunny, and the description of Mary Lee Walsh as a witch doctor (taking the place of Bugs Bunny’s catchphrase “what’s up doc”) might be a reference to the 1958 novelty hit “Witch Doctor”, commonly misattributed to Alvin and the Chipmunks (technically the original 1958 release was credited only to future Chipmunks handler David Seville, voiced by Ross Bagdasarian Sr. Following the success of “The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don’t Be Late)”, Bagdasarian Sr. as both Seville and all three Chipmunks would release a Chipmunk version, and the song has been a recurring part of the Chipmunk canon ever since).

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Caption: A while ago…

SILVANA: Ugh! You win this round, Magi-Chan.

MAGI-CHAN {thought}: Darn. That took a while… it finally took a moon-lit memory to give her the headache. I’d better inform Sonichu where the Punislav took Rosechu.

Caption: Back to now, at CWC-Central Park…

BIONIC {thought}: Gotta appreciate the good cheers.

MEGAGI: L! A! N! C! E! R! S! Let’s go Lancers, let’s go! Yay! Bionic!!!

MAGI-CHAN {telepathy}: Sonichu, we need you back at the mall.

SONICHU {telepathy}: I’m on my way.

SONICHU: Rosey, we gotta go!

ROSECHU: Okay, honey-bolt!

This page explains how Magi bested Silvana, which apparently took place before page 79 when Magi deduced Rosechu’s location. Magi bested Silvana by invoking a “moonlit memory” on her which gave her such a headache she lost the fight. No one knows exactly what this “moonlit memory” is supposed to be. Is it referring to some memory of her time on the moon? Was Magi-Chan involved? We don’t know. My immediate assumption from the phrase “moonlit memory” would be that it was some sort of romantic occasion, but Magi and Silvana aren’t a couple at this point. And if it was romantic, why did it give her a headache? We might never know.

Back to immediately after the defeats and departures of Naitsirhc, Robotnik, and Giovanni, we see Megagi for the first time in a while, cheering on Bionic. On the cover of this issue, she was teased as having a role in this fight, that she would take part not unlike her significant other Bionic. I kinda get the sense that Chris forgot about Megagi completely in the nearly a whole year between when Chris drew the cover and when Chris made this, and by the time he remembered she was on the cover all the key points in the action were planned out, so he just slapped her in near the end. Chris was widely criticised for turning the once no-nonsense tomboy Megagi into Bionic’s personal cheerleader, so later appearances (though rather scant) have tried to give her back a bit of her old spunk. The image of a cheerleading skunk though does bring to mind Chris’s High School Story, wherein the cross between Carrie and Christian that is Terrah LeAnne Yowman haunts the halls of Menchi-Nasu High School (a weird mashup between “Manchester High School”, Chris’s alma mater, and Menchi, the dog from Excel Saga) drawing her own Sonic OC Francine Stripecheer, a cheerleading raccoon.

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NAITSIRHC: *#!&!

SFX: *tinkle*

SFX: *pfft*

SFX: *Teleport*

GIOVANNI: We’ll get you back for this!

Nait again symbol swears as the curse of embarrassment intended for Bionic takes hold over him. Yes, the extent of this curse was apparently simply to have Bionic soil himself in public. Chris is, uh, very familiar with the shame of defecating in public, so like his deliberate choice to break Jerkief’s glasses in Sub-Episode 1, he deals out this curse knowing full well of the effects. Unlike Chris, however, who has to nonchalantly as possible walk to the restroom or to his car so he can take care of it at home when he shits himself, Naitsirhc has the luxury of teleporting away. How he does this is unclear, it’s phrased like the Pokemon move Teleport but Nait is not a Pokemon here, so he can’t use their moves. Maybe we’re meant to assume he has some sort of device on him that he can use to teleport? Maybe he keeps it in his codpiece.

Meanwhile, Giovanni has come to and has dragged the still unconscious form of Doctor Robotnik to the vehicle they presumably arrived in (I don’t recognize it but I’m guessing it’s one of Robotnik’s). As he gets the hell out of dodge, Giovanni swears that the two of them will get back at Bionic and his allies. They never do, though, as this is the last time we see either. As I’ve discussed at length before, these two were given such prominence early on since it was initially decided that Sonichu would very much fit into the canon of its predecessors, but as Chris moved towards depicting his real life foes all the direct allusions to Sonic and Pokemon fell by the wayside. But the fact that they were never dealt with became a bit of a plot hole, as while Chris was busy fighting off mall cops and his community college’s disciplinary staff, that whole time, there was an evil mad scientist and his Mafia backers that were running around CWCville, presumably still committing crimes, but were going unpunished because the all-powerful mayor wanted to beat up a manager that kicked him out of a store. Their reappearance here was lip service to the fact Chris introduced them and then forgot about them. I then find it strange that Chris doesn’t take the time here to just stop them for good, because Chris never intends to use either of these two again (unless maybe he was still planning that plot about Wild’s dad being alive and working for Team Rocket). Now would be as good a time as ever to lock them away so they stop being a plot hole. But I suppose their ability to run off at the end of every appearance unphased is probably grandfathered in from their source material. Eggman/Robotnik is the primary villain throughout the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise and while not every game/TV show/comic/whatever has him be the main baddie, he’s Sonic’s arch nemesis and the two of them going head to head is an iconic staple of all things Sonic the Hedgehog. He certainly can’t be killed, and even if he was arrested he can’t stay in jail for very long because the next game/TV show/comic might want to use him. Giovanni’s case is a bit stranger since the anime and its associated tie-in media keeps Team Rocket around all the time and the games and their associated tie-in media (like the aforementioned Pokemon Adventures) don’t. In the anime Jessie, James, and Meowth take most of the beatings for him and all of them will always come back each and every episode for more mischief. No one uses any more permanent method than “blasting them off” to get rid of them because they need to come back next episode to inevitably get blasted off once again. The games are a bit subtler as pretty much each game has a different villainous team, and Team Rocket and Giovanni lie dormant for years both in-universe and in the real world, but nevertheless the game developers always want to leave the door open for Team Rocket to come back in some form, so Giovanni always escapes to go off the grid and plot for a few years about how he’s going to reform Team Rocket (though in practice he didn’t actually reform Team Rocket for two whole IRL decades, until Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon). Christian has just consumed so much Sonic and Pokemon media in his life, as well as other comparable media that has one big bad guy that never stays down when he’s beaten, like Bowser from the Mario franchise, that he can’t help but let Robotnik and Giovanni escape out of habit.

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NAITSIRHC: Argh! Nidoking! What the #&%@ is wrong with you?!

DARKBIND: Just to let you know, Bionic, Nidoking is a Poision-Type, and he is weakest against Psychic and Ground-Type attacks; Mud Slap is a Ground-Type attack.

BIONIC: Awesome. Thanks, Sonichu, Now, y’all watch me work my globetrottin’ magic.

Naitsirhc swears at the Nidoking, which might be the first time in the comic that someone uses harsh language, even if censored. This paints Nait as, compared to the saintly Chris, as a quick-to-anger trainer with a penchant for verbally abusing his Pokemon. That said, though Chris has claimed to be a Pokemon trainer in this universe (his team, according to the CWCipedia, consists of, in addition to Sonichu, a Blaziken, a Swampert, a Sceptile, a Gardevoir, and a Salamance, a team that was presumably pulled off the cover of a “Visit Fabulous Hoenn” tourism brochure), we never see any of his Pokemon, and while Sonichu is implied to be his, we never see them in a trainer/Pokemon relationship, so we’re just meant to infer that Chris treats his Pokemon well while we’re shown that Nait doesn’t.

Darkbind explains to Bionic, who presumably would be unaware of this as he isn’t a Pokemon, the Pokemon type mechanic and that Nidoking as a “Poision-Type” (sic) he is weak to Ground- and Psychic-Type moves (actually, as previously mentioned, Nidoking is Poison/Ground-Typed, which means that it is not only weak to the two types listed but also Water- and Ice-Type moves, but Bionic’s one and only skill set is basketball so this is all really for naught). Sure enough, Bionic ignores all of Darkbind’s advice and just kicks the thing to death.

Bionic describes his basketball skills as “Globetrottin’ magic”, since his general bombastic style of basketballing is rather reminiscent of the exhibition basketball team the Harlem Globetrotters. The Globetrotters, mind you, are not an actual basketball team in the sense that they don’t play to win anything and are more concerned with the theatrics of their shows.

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NURSE A: Let’s get him on the bed.

NURSE B: Yeah. Wait… what are those?! Those long-haired beings are pulling him under… *gasp* those are devil trolls! Was he in alliance with them?!

Caption: *Hmm… what “Legend” brought these fans?*

Caption: Later, at CWC-Central Park…

SONICHU: Giovanni! Robotnik! Where is Rosechu?!!

SONICHU: *Gasp* Rosey! Rosey!!! What have you done to her?!

ROSECHU: Zzzz

GIOVANNI: No worries, Sonichu; she’s only fainted. She is safe… for now… depending on your cooperation.

While in the Gun Comic, Solid Chris simply left Liquid to bleed out in his own home, Sonichu has the decency to call for an ambulance for his downed foe. That first panel is all we get to see of it, but apparently before the emergency medical personnel could reach Liquid, a bunch of devil trolls grabbed him and put him onto a giant lilypad, I think, and drag him away, possibly to hell. We don’t see these devil trolls until Sonichu 10, when their base is destroyed by Solid Chris.

A caption wonders “what “Legend” brought these fans”, the “fans” likely referring to the devil trolls. “Legend” is probably the video game Brutal Legend, an action adventure game with a heavy metal music theme. Chris was playing the game around this time, in the fall of 2009, and uploaded two videos (the first infamously without audio) praising it, so it’s quite likely he was playing that game and writing this comic side by side.

For such an iconic figure of Christory, Liquid Chris gets very little screentime, basically these three pages and the Gun Comic. After this, Liquid is out of the story (we don’t even ever learn if he’s working for Mary Lee in this universe or not, given the timing of this attack it would make sense that he was but neither he nor Mary Lee make any mention of a connection). Because there was so little shown of Liquid Chris, in 2015, an artist named Ben Saint commissioned Solid Chris to draw the ultimate fate of Liquid’s comic incarnation, and Solid gave him this little nightmare story (originally shown here). In it, Beel recounts that Liquid was dragged to hell, was presumably killed down there, and then his soul, wiped of all memories, was reborn into another infant’s body, and Liquid’s body was burned in a pool of hellfire, damning him to be forgotten for eternity. At the bottom, Solid Chris, Sonichu, and Rosechu proclaim the righteousness of this damnatio memoriae, claiming it was what Liquid deserved. Rosechu closes the page out with a particularly chilling note - “his fate was fitting of his crime. We’ll never see him again.”

Meanwhile, Sonichu scurries off to finally find his heartsweet, now unconscious in the hand of a Punislav, with Ivo “Eggman” Robotnik, Giovanni, and Reldnahc Notsew Naitsirhc standing between the two lovehogs. Giovanni calms him by saying that Rosechu has only fainted, the term for Pokemon whose HP has run out and are unable to fight.

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Caption: *Rock Throw*

SONICHU {thought}: Obviously a Rock Type.

Caption: *Iron Tail*

LIQUID CHRIS: Augh!!!

SONICHU: Ah-ha! Just as I thought, paper-thin and Robotnik-powered. Doctors! Take this man in for medical treatment, and check his head too.

Sonichu and his doppelganger in brown prepare to duke it out in a proper, turn-based Pokemon fight. Liquid Chris throws the first stone (literally) with Rock Throw. Since Rock Throw is a Rock-Type move, and Liquid Chris wears brown not that unlike the iconography of the Rock-Type, Sonichu immediately jumps to the conclusion that Liquid’s Sonichu form is also a Rock-Type. Chris doesn’t seem to realize though that the moves a Pokemon uses aren’t necessarily indicative of its type, and Mudkip, which is a Water-Type that evolves into a Water/Ground-Type (and in fact resists the Steel-Type move Sonichu’s about to use on Liquid), can learn the move (later generations would add the Timburr line and Landorus as non-Rock-Types that can use Rock Throw).

Sonichu dodges the rocks and counters with his own attack, the Steel-Type attack Iron Tail. Sonichu, being part Pikachu, using the Iron Tail move to counter Rock-Types has its basis in the Pokemon anime, wherein Ash’s Pikachu was taught the move during the Hoenn arc, in order to battle Rustboro Gym’s Roxanne and her team of Rock-Types (though the species was able to learn Iron Tail as early as the Johto games). Ash’s Pikachu has known it ever since and the move has become quite tied to it, though unlike Sonichu here Ash’s Pikachu actually had to train for a whole episode in order to use the move properly. Also note that Pokemon famously can only know four moves at a time, and Sonichu has now used Mega Kick, Double Team, Thunder, and more recently, Rolling Kick and Sky Uppercut. Alright, Sonichu, which ones did you forget? Or have you been blessed with infinite Pokemon moves by the all-powerful CWC?

Liquid crumples like a leaf when hit with Iron Tail (though if he was Rock/Electric-Typed as you would expect from an Electric Hedgehog, he would have taken neutral damage from this Steel-Type attack), and this presumably hit him in his transformation spot on his chest, much like the spot that Chris has on his chest to reverse his Sonichu transformation. He transforms into the human brown shirted impostor we all know and love, his paper Sonichu medallion rent in two. This paper Sonichu medallion was apparently not Anchuent Prophecy-based, hence the fragility of his Sonichu state, but rather the doing of Doctor Robotnik’s, though canonically he’s more inclined to build robots than engineer something to transform people into other living things (though since he is involved with the cloning of Sonichu early in the story, it’s possible he’s broadened his scientific horizons).