Grrl Power #662 – Interstellar proctologist
These things, whatever Sydney is fighting, apparently don’t fight a lot of enemies that can teleport. Or at least they’ve decided their shield technology is really good against everything but teleportation, and making it work against teleporters would compromise it in other ways that are unacceptable for 98% of their other conflicts.
If you follow me on Twitter, (where I post insightful stuff like how I don’t understand the difference between clam digger pants and capris) you may have already heard this, but man I dislike drawing rubble. It’s so tedious. It does make me respect those crazy splash pages in mangas of bombed out cities and general wreckage. Of course, manga artists have people for that. There are guys who all they do is draw backgrounds and architecture. There are definitely some kind of artists who would find work like that very satisfying, but all my background work is because I want the characters to feel grounded in the world I’m creating. Some of those earlier pages of the comic have literally no background on the panels. Artistically, that can fly if you’ve established an environment, but still a shadow across a wall or something or a gradient or some cross hatching just to avoid a white panel, at least certainly in a color comic. A black and white one can swing that easier.
The next supervillain lair I’m going to design might look like an igloo designed by Apple or something. That should be easy to draw. I can tell you it definitely won’t be disguised as a freshly destroyed building. :/
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Looks like Squidward is going to be needing a couple thousand gallons of Preparation H real soon.
It fell into a burning ring of fire, It went up, up, up and the flames went higher. And it burns, burns, burns,
The ring of fire, the ring of fire.
That was good for a chuckle!
That was good for a huge chuckle!
(Hopefully, this isn’t a double post. If so, sorry.)
Good old Johnny Cash.
OMG!!! It’s really happening… I mean, there was sufficient foreshadowing… and I joked about it half-heartedly a couple days ago… but REALLY!…
Even if Squidward “should have rotated the frequency of its shields a bit more aggressively,” as DaveB phrased it, I don’t think it would have done much good.
At this point, Preparation H is irrelevant. Discussion is irrelevant. Consent is irrelevant. Resistance to Sydney is futile. It will be ass-imulated.
This is gonna be good.
This is going to hurt.
This is going to be very disgusting for Sydney if she’s not careful. We all know which way shit rolls right?
Yup. Off her shield.
…. though it’ll probably look icky as it does so.
I don’t know, I would have some concerns about that shield vs eldritch digestive juices.
If we assume this is bio mechanical, it could be mechanical in nature and she will be showered in internal machinery. But as this is Sydney and has already experienced scab oatmeal, it will likely be a shower bodily juices spraying down upon her and not in a good way.
Not sure if the shield orb will protect against a particularly offensive odor like burnt feces.
Well no, but her air orb might.
Her shield is airtight. So no smell is going to get through..
Her shield is airtight :)
The ending to the movie ‘Evolution’.
this ^
Especially gonna hurt Syd, if her pewpewpew beam has any splashback. (somewhat relevant maxim: “Anything that says ‘this end towards enemy’ is dangerous at both ends.”)
To paraphrase one of my favorite songs:
Listen up!
Listen up!
There’s a Sydney in the church
Got an Orb aimed up your butt
And this is gonna hurt!
That´s going to be interesting… Hopefully he has no body shield.
Sydney used her light bee orb to teleport into Squidward’s shields. This must be why she argued so passionately about light being able to penetrate Kopy Kraut’s force field. She already knew it worked on Squidward.
I know she tried but it could be that the shield is closer to the body. If you look at the comic where she shoots at him you can see the ray gets very close to it´s face. Could be a body shaped shield and not so mutch a bubble.
But if it works the big guy will have a hell of trouble sitting down… if he lives.
That would probably be why she sat herself next to his arm/leg thing.
If it does hug the body, she would still be inside it.
If it bounces projectiles inside the shield, he is going to have a very bad day.
That´s why i called it interesting…
Skin-tight shield! Watch out!
This is gonna be good (again)
WHITE YOUNG GIRL VIOLENTLY RAPES AN IMMIGRANT- NOT CLICK BAIT – GRAPHIC
Sydney should be ashamed of herself for that.
Snot On My Keyboard Award!
*tsks*
He’s an aggressive, violent, destructive INVADER, not a peaceful, refuge-seeking, just-wants-to-live-in-peaceful-coexistence-beside-you refugee style immigrant.
Of course, an invader isn’t necessarily someone planning on settling down, and for all we know, he is planning on doing that…in which case, the violence, aggression, displacement, mass murdering, and destruction all make him a COLONIZER. Not an immigrant.
(At this point, it miiiight be appropriate to drown out the sound of his next attempted skweeeeeeen beam with some joyfully interruptive barking noises…but I’ll leave that up to the non-white folks to decide. I’ll just leave y’all with this thought: combined with a napalm laser enema, I am quite certain such a sound-and-light show will be very startling, and he’s bound to lose at least a few points of initiative ranking from it!)
Well squidly is about to get a DECOLONIZER.
Aiee the punz they burn!
But first Sydney must anal-ize him.
There is no end to all these puns.
I offer my rebuttal.
*sniff sniff sniff*
Smells like the butt of the joke.
Looks like squidward is BEHIND on his tactical analysis!
Sydeny is about to show us how to “tear ‘im a new one”
…Literally…
Hey, if Sydney wants to treat Squidward in such a (-b)ass (+b)ackward manner, she had to first “be forward” about it.
Speaking of joyful barking, and totally off topic, where’s Yorp? haven’t seen himerit in quite a while.
IIRC he moved. He came around Monday, tho.
I think Yorp had to go to the vets to have a lampshade fitted. He may be barking soprano for a while.
*gasp* He wears the cone of shame!
That’ll teach you to take time away from the comic to address real life issues, Yorp.
We don’t call it “The Cone Of Shame”…
( … at-least not when they’re listening … )
… we call it “The Megaphone”!
( … yeah – THAT’s th’ticket!)
;)
:)
or ‘the treat catcher’
No, no, no! No snip, still as active as ever!
Just homeless, so spending the bulk of my time trying to get a kennel of my own and a job. Without which my cats will be rehomed with someone else.
If I manage to get us a roof over our heads, then I will get back to my obsession of trying to get us closer to world peace. So unlikely to see me here much, even if I do find us accommodation.
It is depressing though, seeing news reports every day, about problems that I know could be lessened, or solved, if my concept was implemented. Brexit, Catalonia/Spain, Ukraine, Palestine/ Israel and so on.
*sigh*
tsk tsk tsk.
No no no. for the please don’t sue us language you need to replace ‘rape’ with ‘sexually assaults’ and ‘immigrant’ with ‘unsuspecting foreigner’. Unsuspecting will sound like innocent to most readers.
=p
Awesome
I foresee another problem, Sydney. How to get out from under its corpse…
Teleport.
Or PPO it into giblets.
Or use the opportunity to test out the lift capability of the upgraded flight orb.
Or the strength of the lighthook.
or Mr Bubble it from the inside til it explodes like a beached whale.
Now you know how Achilles feels. At least all that gravel gives it more of a mouth feel though.
YOU SAY TEXTURE! YOU …
;-P
You’ll probably get only one shot. Make it count.
This opportunity comes once in a lifetime, yo?
Once in Squidward’s lifetime, certainly…
Sydney: Proctologist to the Stars! (don’t have an anus in your species you say? NO PROBLEM! Dr. Sydney will make one for you!)
nice
Well, either she is within the shield radius now, which is bad news for the big guy getting a laser up its rear, or the main body is still shielded, which is bad news for the big guy as well as that means their legs are fair game to be cut out from under them.
One leg, if she decides to for that instead of the anus. Which might not be so effective since Squidward has four legs, and once he gets hurt he’ll know where Sydney is. Plus, I’m still wondering what kind of wea[pons the ship itself has. If Sydney succeeds in taking Squidward down I wouoldn’t be surprised if the ship breaks out the planet busters.
“Particle Beam Enema” almost sounds like a thing you’d find in a beauty spa in Star Trek, at least to me. Troi gets one before her wedding, they mess up the calibration a bit, there’s a whole kerfuffle where it causes some kind of glitch in her Betazoid powers right when she’s needed for an emergency thing with a newly contacted species, and she almost messes everything up, but they catch it in time.
You, sir or madame, get all my non-existent upvotes for today.
MIRV’ed the keyboard, etc. I’ve called the crew of the Spintersize “The Particle of the Week Club” ever since next gen.
It would take one insane theory of matter to account for all the particles they came up with.
You’d almost have to go with “we put power in and matter is created, these particles have nothing to do with the makeup of matter, they just get formed from the excess energy, it’s all good”.
My favorite was an entire episode with 1701 in drydock undergoing process to “remove baryon particles”. Since neutrons and protons are types of baryons, all that should have been left of Enterprise was radiation.
They are indeed. Protons and neutrons are only composed of two types of quarks. If they were removing baryons that consist of three types of quarks – which includes Lambda and some Sigma, Xi, and Omega particles (not to be confused with the “Omega particle” that the Borg were so in love with) – then I might have given them a pass.
Which type of Quark works in a bar? o_O
If someone here doesn’t know the answer to that, it’ll cost them 1 bar of gold-pressed latinum to find out.
Particle Beam Enema. You can bet your ass that somewhere out there will be a Rule 34 for just that sort of Trekkie kink.
But here in the Grrl-verse, it’ll be Squidward putting up that bet.
If I was a Supervillain, I’d have my secret lair be a log cabin in the middle of the woods
It’d be remote and discreet, but wouldn’t rouse any real suspicion to any Hunters or Hikers who do happen to pass by. So long as I don’t do anything outstandingly weird that can’t be quickly explained
With all the abandoned malls across the country, a hidden lair
can be more confidently located.
A Log Cabin would be cosier and easier to keep warm
An abandoned Mall would only really have extra storage space and room for setting traps, that’d just take up space when you’re no been attacked. Plus there’s always the chance of it been demolished by the city or a developer
Ted Kaczinski thought that, too. Didn’t work out nearly as well.
It fended off the FBI’s most expensive investigation for 18 years, and only failed because his brother recognized his manifesto.
In other words, Real-Life proof the my idea works!
On the other hand, so does the mall one, at least here in the Midwest. Great Mall of the Great Plains was mostly empty for about 5 years, Indian Springs was mostly from the late 90’s (if you’re really subtle, this is even better; what’s still there is the west division of KCKPD). Metro North is more thoroughly empty for nearly as long.
I suspect any city with the sprawl problem Greater KC has will have a few malls completely empty. Then all you have to do is grease the right city official (I’ve lived in KC most of my life, the hard part here would br finding the correct official).
Relevance?
So what’s weird? I have a neighbor who fires what sounds like a 30-06 nearly every evening, target practice apparently. I’ve been known to shoot lasers around and launch rockets a few thousand feet up, sometimes accompanied by rather loud explosions, and fly drones as well. Not to mention the chickens, the passion flower vines (ummmm passion fruit) which attract loads of Gulf Frittilaries, three dogs, two cats, racous 4th of July celebrations – and that’s just me. Then there’s the guy who was keeping goats and switched to horses, the guy up the street who has a beard he could probably sweep under his armpits and tie in a bow behind his shoulders, and one guy who races cars and works out the engines, and then the other guy who both races and does show cars – waved at him as they took a convoy out to a show last week, matter of fact.
Send em’ over here, as long as they don’t have giant robots or rampaging zombies running amok, they’ll fit right in! Not kidding, even a little bit.
At least it’s not boring in your neighborhood.
I think the giant robots might fit in actually. . . o.O
And this is why most supervillains get their own island or work out of a rural area – neighbors and HOAs are far too uptight* about unlicensed pets and experiments in big cities.
*Discalimer: I live in a quiet, semi-upscale neighborhood of a major city, and all my neighbors are pretty chill. We shut down the road for block parties and the occasional holiday bonfire.
Or….
A downtown apartment building so you’re near the Starbucks.
♪♫♬ Duffensmirtz Evil Incoroporated ♪♫♬
As neat as that sounds, and as fun as that show was, it was constantly broken into
By a platypus
Little cabin in the woods
Mastermind by the window stood
Saw a bunny hopping by
blew his guts away…
The shield might also do fine against many forms of teleportation (wormholes, matter-replication, micro-wormholes, space-bending, reality hacking, etc), but not so much against the specific kind of teleportation that Halo’s orbs make use of – it is a lot more niche after all than the ones who can just pop up anywhere.
It’s very interesting when you think of that there are many ways that a power might work mechanically, and there might in the same setting be people who have seemingly similar powers (like pyromancy), but they come about using completely different principles (one just has powerful energy projectors, another uses a specific form of telekinesis to vibrate matter from afar).
Hah! Clever move. And if zapping a bunch of ‘drones’ got her one level-up, taking out that big sucker ought to fill half the remaining skilltree! … Unless it’s got a progress limiter, like “Any XP you gain can take you only up one level, and will always leave you one XP away from the next level; anything beyond that is lost.” Even if she got a big enough speed boost to go superluminal, she doesn’t know where she is, she doesn’t know where Earth is, and she doesn’t have a food or water supply, so her only sensible strategy right now is ‘eliminate the immediate threat and wait for rescue in the general vicinity of where we came in.’ Maybe Dabbler can swing by in a spaceship or something if she can hold out for a week.
Water is not a problem re: https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/2945, second panel,note the fountain.
If that is water and not, say, methanol. Of course, a methanol fountain in an oxygen-rich atmosphere would probably burst into flame in the presence of an ignition source, say like all the high energy fireworks that are going around here. Quit shooting big guy.
Way to go Sasha! I totally missed that fountain.
Still have to agree with David though, I’m not sure how she (and the A-team) lucked out that the atmosphere was comparable to Earth’s but that might not be a _water_ fountain. It could be an acid fountain or something.
The fact that Sciona was walking around on Earth without any visible life-support gear, and the fact that her people were planning an armed invasion indicates compatible breathable air, at a minimum.
I meant she doesn’t have a portable food or water supply that she could take with her if she did try to set off into space, but the fountain does take care of the issue if she stays where she is!
The annoying thing for Sydney though (and us as the reader so far) is that it isn’t as yet defined as to what constitutes the exp to upgrade. If you recall the last time, she hadn’t been in a combat situation and it was after using it to teleport. It may be down to usage. She uses the shield and flight nearly all the time, and for those it may be like hitting greys and greens while grinding meaning she would need to do it a lot or max it out a lot to get more exp. She used light hook, shield and flight a lot during the restaurant rumble and never got any further, yet just using the same and the ppo during the press conference it took a while after but the skill tree popped up. In fact it seems to take a while after usage for it to pop up. There may even be a set of rules that she has to be on the ground for it to come up for instance. Only DaveB knows and this it the fun in guessing because we play along at the same speed as Sydney.
Sydney: this might feel a tad unpleasant…but I’ll Be fine.
Big guy:*Whimper*
Reminds me of a comedian talking about having to go to the hospital for a Rigid Rectal Sigmoidoscopy.
“That’s where the doctor brings out a camera that looks vaguely like a Louisville Slugger and requests pictures of my colon. I’d never had anyone request pictures of my colon, so I asked him if he wanted the wallet-sized black and white pictures, or the 8.5×11 full-color glossies.”
“He told me I might feel a slight cramp. This is like telling a man in the path of a flash flood that he might experience moisture. The cramp was in my neck!”
The late Dennis Wolfberg in all his glory. https://youtu.be/5r9LAYaIvP4
Y’know Sydney looks goooooood with her hair down
CRITICAL HIT! X3 DAMAGE!
You forgot to add the double damage for stealth bonus. Also “Under the belt line” and “Weak point” may applicable.
HIT IT’S WEAKPOINT FOR MASSIVE DAMAGE
Don’t know if the “backstab” bonus applies, but if it does… X5 extra damage too….
X30 damage!
Pretty sure this counts as a sneak attack and wins her initiative.
I hadn’t really realized the scale until now…
I could not tell it had four legs till now. Great nod to Miyazaki. I really like the next gen style pages too.
I get the feeling Sydney’s also going to be in an unpleasant situation when the knees buckle…
Ooooooh, nice reference to the beginning of the comic. So Sydney is not just nerd-talking in that Pen&Paper RPG, she is talking from actual experience. :-)
Sydney the Human Enema,or Public Enema #1….!?
Here’s your Public Enema Number One :P
I thought todays installment was going to be on Earth while Sydney made herself inconspicuous.
But, counter attacking now makes sense.
As I’ve said in previous comments, her stamina is finite and running down.
Is it just me, or should panels 8 and 9 be swapped?
I thought so too.
Not really. 8 shows the hologram of Sydney appearing at the light-bee’s location, and 9 shows actual Sydney activating the control to teleport to the hologram’s location. It hasn’t been specifically stated, but it seems that the hologram must activate first, before she can teleport. That would make sense: the hologram can be used to check for hazards or enemies at the destination, before the user commits and teleports in.
I think it works just as well in this order — Sydney’s saying it after the fact, like something checked off her list.
I agree. The first image shows Sydney with her shield up, which suggests it’s the real one not the hologram.
Nah, we already know a fake projection of the shield accompanies the hologram.
But there wouldn’t be any noise from the hologram, the “poit” is from the actual teleport.
And it just makes more sense IMO.
So I agree, I think 8 and 9 are reversed.
If you look back here: https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/2402 , you’ll see that “poit” is the sound effect which occurs when the hologram appears. So far, no sound has been allocated to teleportation (it could well be the same, so it isn’t totally conclusive in this case, but I still maintain that panel 8 is the hologram.)
Huh, that’s pretty definitive I guess.
I asked this a while ago, but can’t seem to find the comment to see if it was answered. But What isthe range of the lightbee? Is there any reason to believe she Couldn’t have teleported to the moon?
I suspect the speed of the lightbee is tied to the speed of the flight orb. After all, we do see the lightbee needing to travel/fly to get to a location, and it would make sense for the two orbs to be linked together in that way. So she’d have the same grinding problem of, if the local moon is the same distance from the Alari homeworld as our moon is from ours, it’ll still take her over three days at mach 4 to reach it.
Theorhecticaly since it has no mass, since its made of light. Wouldn’t gravity be a nonissue? I always figured its slow moment had more to do with winding paths as she scouts with it. I dont think she has done simple straight line point a to b yet. More over it might not be an issue of how fast it can move, but how fast she can process the information given without disorientation. Then again, this is all pure speculation on my end. Unless she does tests with it, I doubt we’ll get hard numbers. ;w;
how fast can the lightbee move, if it does have the range to reach the moon, it could take hours, days or months to get there. then theres the question whats the range of her teleport, there’s no point spending hours sending the lightbee to the moon if she cant teleport that far.
I just really hope she tries to take its head back as a trophy…
Maxima: “NO!”
Dabbler: “It won’t fit in the hole (of the portal)……Teehee”
Maxima : “Grrrrr (at Dabbler)”
Harem: “Where would you even put something that big?”
*Dabblers muffled speech as Anvil covers her mouth*
Halo while striking dramatic pose: “I must Mount it on my wall!!”
*collective snicker*
I’m sure Dabbler has a bag of holding somewhere.
Probably keeps it in hammerspace with her weapons. An inside that’s bigger than outside inside a bigger than outside.
Only weapons we’ve seen pull out of that was her Magic Sword Soul Reaver. Her Tech weapons are Teleported from/to her Lab.
NOPE. Dabbler is a seasoned adventurer, she would KNOW how dangerous it is to put a bag of holding into an extra-dimensional space…
I’m pretty sure someone suggested sent me was going to do that even so is awesome to see. I can’t help but wonder if Mecha squid is using orbs like Sydney.
With the idea she might gain an orb or two from it?
No more like her learning potential future capabilities and limits to her powers. Also make a squid thing using orb like abilities or items would kind of indicate why it became so flustered when it’s scanned her and recognized the orb’s power signatures and that they were active
I would swap panel 1 and panel 2’s positions if I had my druthers.
And switch their thought bubbles.
Better flow IMO.
The speed upgrade has nothing to do with bypassing the shield, though. That thought coming AFTER the resolution to bypass the shield makes no sense.
I don’t get it. She’s barely closer to Squidward than the last time she was shooting at him/her/it, and that did no good at all. Why does she think it will work better now? Her PPO is no stronger than before, and Squidward’s shield is clearly form-fitted to his/her/its body. If you ask me, Sydney’s getting desperate. Kopy Kraut was impressed by her lawyering and throwing Lumina under the bus, but I don’t think Squidward will be.
That said, I get the feeling it will probably work, not because it makes any sense, but because it’s that point in the story. I hope there’s something I’m missing because that would be really weak writing.
Also, how do we know there’s only ONE of these things in that humongous ship?
She is currently between two of it’s toes/fingers.
MUCH closer than before.
True, but she’s not aiming at its feet, but at its ass that’s high above her. (Squidward looks really huge from down there and four legs? I thought it had at least three, but nice to finally see it up close.)
Okay, Sydney, you’re performing your first PPO-assisted enema on an extraterrestrial and you probably don’t know how alien physiology works or where your called shots should be aimed at, so let me give you a quick primer.
You aim for the small thermal exhaust port, right below the main port.
Don’t you need to be a magic space wizard for that to work?
From the angle she’s at, a penetrating shot will go through its entire torso the long way. Chance are pretty good that she’ going to hit something vital. Alien psychology may be very different, but chances are good that if you put a hole clean through something, it is going to stop it.
She’s clearly aiming for its ass, which is way above her. Squidward’s shield was shown to be close to its body so… but it has to work now, or she is dead. So, it’ll probably work.v
the problem you having is your assuming squidwars shield is automatic and not manual. he saw Sydney’s last blast coming but he won’t see this one
Butt (pun intended… this time :P), he will certainly feel it! :D
Perhaps the shield is convex and therefore creates a giant bubble between the legs. Sydney clearly thinks she is inside the shield.
I had another thought. The shield appears to deflect the beam along it’s contours. If she is inside the shield near the toes, Perhaps firing towards the ass would cause her shot to be deflected along the interior contours of the shield and end up hitting the ass anyway.
I dunno if it’s a nod to the comic or if it’s a commonly thought-of “teleport sound,” but POIT is how Wapsi Square indicates theirs, and I love the subtle callout.
Whoop whoop! Wapsi Square! :)
Fairly sure mentioned that way back when she first used the Lightbee and the Holo-Halo
`Depends on whether or not said teleporters are “glyph-readers” (like Monica) or if they are using the “Library’s” teleport/transport system.
That was rather low of Sydney. She doesn’t give a crap about hitting below the belt.
When you are in a life and death situation, there is no such thing as chivalry unless you want to be dead. Fighting dirty is how you survive.
I’m assuming, ro jaws, that you were actually reaching for 3 double entendre’s here, and if so, I applaud you. Otherwise, I must respond “PHRASING!” =D
Or she could thread into its head instead, then POIT it’s dead with a splash of red.
It’s not hard to imagine this one is just a grunt and there are bunches more in the ship.
Interesting – I wonder if this would work…. Typically teleported matter is either assumed to swap places with the target area’s matter, or displace it. Either way, flying the bee up its nose for a teleport is going to do some damage.
Here is an idea inspired by videogames:
Make ~400 different rocks outlines in a png file with no background
All you have to do after is select a bunch, place at random, color and shade
Plus with the rotation tool you have 36000 variation (0.01 degree each) on each rock
Suddenly you have ~14400000 different rocks
Plus if you put details in the outlines you can play with size.
The thought going through my mind when I got to the last panel was from the film “Evolution” when Governor Lewis (played by the great Dan Aykroyd) is asked what the main cast seem to be doing with a giant fire truck hose under the aliens ass and says “I think they are about to give it a jumbo enema!”. Ah, no matter how many times I watch this film it still cracks me up. Thought of the day, “There is always time for lubricant”.
Even if he has a body tight shield, and this does nothing, Syd is in a relatively safe spot. The only thing he can do is stamp on her. He (or she, probably Syd could tell from there) won’t be able to shoot straight at their own feet at crater making strength without hurting themself.
Panel 4… Love that look. Evil Sydney rises!
Nah, not evil, playful :D
Since she popped in with the Telepresence and Truesight orb, I wonder what Sydney saw to be revealed regarding Tall, Dark, and World-destructive? She should have gotten a read on his shield at the very least, unless it only activates as needed.
The orb should at least tell her if it is a boy or a girl…
Y’know, unless she knows that her attack can scratch it, actually attacking it seems like a bad idea. Sure, it has a shield, but that doesn’t mean its flesh is any less durable.
Good point! That’s my problem too: she’s taking a huge risk for no good reason. I wonder if it has anything to do with her meds wearing off?
She’s taking risks to upgrade her orbs to something escape-usable before her food/water/meds supply runs out.
Hmm, an idea comes to me (maybe to Sydney as well). Let’s check parallels.
1) Large very dangerous weapon/warrior. Check.
2) A small fighter could get close enough to attach. Check.
3) The target is a small exit hole in a usually protected area. Check.
4) A single tricky shot triggers a massive explosion which destroys the entire weapon system. We shall see.
I foresee Sydney taking aim saying “Steady … steady … Use the Force, Halo … Let go and trust your feelings … steady … NOW!” and the big bad becomes lots of little ugh. “Now where are your Tie Fighters? Oh, yeah, I kept blowing them up.”
Sydney takes the shot…and…bursts Squidward into all the Splatoon characters.
It’s comics like this that make me suspect the orbs have a little sapience. Because I can see them wanting to be with someone that *can* think in creative and non-linear ways. :)