Latest / The Multiverse Collective / Axis & Allies E15: The Road to Hell...
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- 0:03Just excited for Kyle to find these sounds later.
- 0:13All right, that's. Awful.
- 0:16Yeah. Oh, he's got it better than me.
- 0:31You're just going to use this as a cold open?
- 0:32No, I know what you like. What the fuck?
- 0:38All I heard when I put my headphones on was a slurping
- 0:40noise. What the fuck?
- 0:44And here I was thinking that everything would cool down after
- 0:47getting on the Enola Gay. Things were quiet.
- 0:51Finally, I got some time to talk to Rex and Cordelia.
- 0:54A little debriefing. That was nice.
- 0:57I think everyone else seems to be holding up OK.
- 1:00You know, the military, they've got a lot of innovations, but I
- 1:04think my favorite one has to be this new spot at the mess hall.
- 1:08Quizzed Nose. I've never heard of it, but they
- 1:11sure make a mean sub. Oh yeah, that's right.
- 1:16Is that snuck on board the ship and his eye out in my room?
- 1:21Shit, this channel isn't being listened to, is it?
- 2:11So we opened where we left off in Aces dream he's and basically
- 2:19surrounded by darkness with a spotlight coming down upon him.
- 2:23And when he looks forward, another spotlight turns on,
- 2:28showing Hyperion basically on her knees, her arms chained down
- 2:33with this black purple energy. And she looked up and at Ace and
- 2:39said, Ace, help. I think Ace is going to
- 2:43wordlessly run over and see what he can do.
- 2:49So when you get over there and you start examining what's going
- 2:52on, you see these, you see this black power basically like
- 2:57coming out of the darkness, wrapping around her arms and
- 3:00hands. But you see it doesn't
- 3:03necessarily get to her. There's almost like a green
- 3:07energy right around where it should be touching her.
- 3:10And she looks at you and goes got to, you're not going to be
- 3:15able to help me from in here, but you got to help me.
- 3:18What? What can I do?
- 3:20Your heart Ace. The power that fixed your heart
- 3:24has been corrupted. Fuck.
- 3:28Can I uncorrupt it? Or like, what did that?
- 3:32Fucking not? Did Schmidt fuck with me?
- 3:37You haven't had your heart repaired yet?
- 3:39Oh wait, are you talking about like when I got like stabbed?
- 3:45And you got healed by magic. Who healed?
- 3:48Rex. You motherfucker shit.
- 3:55So what do I do? I have to like re break myself
- 3:58to re fix myself. Just you need to the the magic
- 4:03holding you together needs to leave.
- 4:05All right, fuck. All right, I'll I'll get it
- 4:09sorted. And you you wake up in a cold
- 4:13sweat. Did he pee?
- 4:16Can we roll the safe? He peed.
- 4:21There's a big crash next to you as Liz.
- 4:23You startle the fuck out of Liz that.
- 4:25I forgot she falls off the bed. Never mind, please don't do the
- 4:29kiss roll. What's the what's the closest
- 4:32thing to like a con like Defy or clash?
- 4:37Defy. I'm going to roll plus defy to
- 4:40defy my bladder. Come on that.
- 4:44Is a that is A9. OK.
- 4:47Yeah, you're fine. You're out a little bit.
- 4:53Is there like a clock telling you what time it is?
- 4:56Probably, or you probably have a watch honestly.
- 4:59Yeah, all right. So what time is it?
- 5:01Magic man. It is like I'll be like 3 AM,
- 5:074:00 AM. It's so pretty early in the
- 5:08morning. I don't think Ace cares.
- 5:10I think Ace is going to like, he's just going to get out of
- 5:14bed and he's going to put on like just like casual fatigues
- 5:19and he's going to sit on his bed and tie up his boots and just
- 5:24under his breath. I don't know what that
- 5:26motherfucker did to me, but I'm going to make him undo it.
- 5:32You also get this feeling of sort of it's, it's sort of a
- 5:35familiar feeling of the first time you got your hard drive
- 5:38damaged. It doesn't feel like at the
- 5:40moment if you wanted to, you could summon Hyperion.
- 5:43This motherfucker. And I think, I think Ace is just
- 5:49going to look back at Lizette and be like, I need to go fix
- 5:52something. I'll be back.
- 5:56Oh, you know, sure, whatever. Just don't scare the shit out of
- 6:00me next time. Sorry, it's nightmare shit.
- 6:04You know how it is so. What are you going to do?
- 6:14Ace is just going to walk over to Rex's quarters and he's just
- 6:18going to bang on the door. Rex.
- 6:23Rex will open the door map. Rex.
- 6:26Ace if there's not a good fucking reason for.
- 6:27This. I don't care what time it is.
- 6:30I don't care what time it is, whatever fucking magic you did
- 6:34to heal my hard drive corrupted it or corrupted me and I can't
- 6:38summon Hyperion. I need you to fix it.
- 6:42Can this wait? No.
- 6:44Like 4 hours. This is a matter, this is a
- 6:46matter of national security. And Ace stands up and like puts
- 6:51his shoulders back and tries to do his best to channel Cordelia.
- 6:58You know, you, you were cool like 3 days ago.
- 7:02When, and I will be cool when I am able to be used as the
- 7:06military asset that I was bred to be.
- 7:09Fix me. OK, I'll give it a go.
- 7:14I put my hand on his where his hard drive is and try to pull my
- 7:19power back. As soon as you like would
- 7:23attempt that, both of you would get the sense that whatever is
- 7:27holding his heart together would also be pulled apart.
- 7:31No candy broski, I'm going to close the door.
- 7:35No, no, that's not how we're doing it.
- 7:38You're coming with me, my friend.
- 7:40Are you? Are you going to make me come
- 7:42with you? We're already going and Ace just
- 7:45kind of like grabs Rex's arm and does like the elbow and elbow
- 7:49thing and just starts walking towards where he thinks he can
- 7:52find Schmidt. Yeah, so Rex is just walking
- 7:57boxer shots through the middle of a ship at 4:00 AM.
- 8:06You would your best guess for Schmidt would be in the in the
- 8:10lab. I assume you've seen him before
- 8:12there and you know he doesn't sleep, so he's probably there
- 8:15doing something. Of course, fucking.
- 8:18Good coffee. I'm going to once again bang on
- 8:20the door. Come in, come in.
- 8:23Ace is going to walk in and before Rex can say or do
- 8:26anything, Ace is going to speak up and be like Doctor Schmidt.
- 8:30I know it's a little bit early, but how's about you and me do an
- 8:34experiment real quick? This motherfucker healed me up
- 8:39in the field. Ended up, I don't know,
- 8:42corrupting my hard drive. I woke up from a nightmare not
- 8:4515 minutes ago where my Astor was speaking to me, telling me
- 8:49that on her knees, chained and I cannot transform freely.
- 8:58This needs to be fixed. Rex tried to do it himself, but
- 9:03we got the feeling that if he did it, whatever is holding my
- 9:07hard drive together is going to be removed from me.
- 9:11So I need somebody here to, I don't know, keep me alive.
- 9:16Well, Rex decorrupts me. I asked him to wait until an
- 9:22acceptable time. And is this something I should
- 9:25be doing in my underwear? Mr. Randolph, I, I told you when
- 9:32we were back in Japan that when we got back to the United
- 9:35States, you would need to have repair done on your heart.
- 9:38I think this needs to be expedited if possible.
- 9:42Once again, Ace just tries to stand up and channel his inner
- 9:45Cordelia. What would she say?
- 9:47This is a matter of national security, Your Honor.
- 9:51Doctor Fuck Schmidt just sort of looks around and goes.
- 9:55Are are the enemies in the room with us right now, Mr. Randolph?
- 10:00I I don't trust anything anymore and I can't 100% say yes or no,
- 10:08so I would like to be able to be used as the military asset that
- 10:14I was born and bred to be should I need to.
- 10:18He he takes a step forward and he just says, Jack, the you are
- 10:24scheduled for surgery and repairs when we land.
- 10:29We're less than 24 hours from New Mexico.
- 10:31I think you can wait that long. All right, well.
- 10:35Can I go back to bed? Yes.
- 10:38There are two things that are going to be happening at a
- 10:41decent hour. I'm going to be talking to my
- 10:43commanding officer to see if that is the case.
- 10:47And two, if that is not the case and I need to and I need to
- 10:52transform before we land and get to where I can be repaired.
- 10:56This one's on you, my friend. And I think Ace is just going to
- 10:59be, he's just going to, you know, salute.
- 11:02He's still going to be polite. He's going to salute and he's
- 11:06going to bout face and walk out the door.
- 11:07Goodnight, Doctor. When Rex, Rex nods to Schmidt,
- 11:15turns around, and when he gets back to to to my my, my
- 11:19dormitory or whatever it's fucking called, I'm going to
- 11:22write a note saying Ace is on his bullshit and then teleport
- 11:26it into Cordelia's room. Cordelia by this time is like
- 11:31already up doing her calisthenics and this like
- 11:34portal appears and a little note flutters out.
- 11:37Just what the fuck? Actually, I think I think Ace at
- 11:43this point, knowing Cordelia's schedule is going to go to her
- 11:45room, bang on her door. This is like happening
- 11:48simultaneously is the note is floating down.
- 11:51Yeah, I I imagine you, you read it and you sure knock on the
- 11:55door, Yeah. Come in Ace, it's unlocked.
- 12:02And Ace opens the door and sighs, and and then he very
- 12:07quickly again tries to channel his Cordelia shoulders back.
- 12:13Captain, we have a problem. What is the problem that we need
- 12:18to be addressing at? She looks at the at her watch.
- 12:21Four O 3 AMI. Am going to try and explain the
- 12:25situation in a way where you do not immediately tell me to shut
- 12:33the fuck up, so I'm going to lead with the bad part.
- 12:36Delightful. I cannot, I cannot use Hyperion
- 12:40because reps has corrupted my hard drive.
- 12:43When we did that feel healing a few days ago, a few weeks ago.
- 12:47I don't know how long it's been. I like to point out Cordelia
- 12:50doesn't know about that. You 2 specifically hid that from
- 12:52her. Oh shit, did we?
- 12:57That was during your bro bonding moment.
- 12:59Oh my God. Is looking at you wide eyed.
- 13:03You're. What?
- 13:06You're what? Randolph, you're.
- 13:11What? Rex hears the shower and just
- 13:15locks his door. Oh.
- 13:21My God this is what I get for not fucking taking notes.
- 13:28Yeah, that was like a big thing that you guys were like, don't
- 13:30tell Cordelia about this because she's going to be mad about it.
- 13:34Yeah. Guess what she is.
- 13:39Cordelia steps very close to you, like so close you're like.
- 13:44You can feel her hot breath on your chest.
- 13:47You're what? Randolph.
- 13:50Do you remember during the battle at the Beach Head when I
- 13:55got stabbed and I was unable to use Hyperion for a time, and
- 14:03then I was able to use Hyperion again after the fact?
- 14:09Oh my God. And she pinches the bridge of
- 14:12her nose and she sighs so, so heavily.
- 14:18Oh, why are you like this? What?
- 14:23What did I do to deserve this? Respectfully, Captain, what was
- 14:31I supposed to do? I am.
- 14:33I understand we were in an impossible situation.
- 14:36And to be frank, it was your first real combat experience, if
- 14:40I am not mistaken, and it ended pretty poorly.
- 14:43Yeah, I mean, I understand we make decisions in the field, but
- 14:46the fact that you did not tell me about this, you are a
- 14:50liability in the field. For how long after this
- 14:54happened? How long were you a liability in
- 14:56the field? And thank fuck it is only coming
- 15:00out now that you can't transform into Hyperion.
- 15:03Think fuck, we're about to be back on American soil.
- 15:07Yes. Yes, great.
- 15:11Can I roll the thigh again? All right, we got another nine.
- 15:18We're we're cool. I want you to March your ass
- 15:24back to your bedroom where your cute little stowaway lady friend
- 15:28is laying in bed waiting for you to return to her.
- 15:31And I want you to deal with this problem with a qualified
- 15:33professional. Tomorrow morning I am going to
- 15:38have to add an extra 2 miles to my run.
- 15:41Goodnight, Ace. Or good morning, whichever it
- 15:44is, yes. Captain.
- 15:47Thank you. Dismissed.
- 15:50And Ace dejectedly walks back to his room.
- 15:55Pouring. Pouring God damn, what a.
- 16:02Delightful piece of information that Cordelia has.
- 16:08I was curious if you knew that you'd drop the head or not.
- 16:11No, I had no idea. So are you just waiting at this
- 16:19point or do you have anything else you want to do?
- 16:21No, that's it. So yeah, on schedule, you guys.
- 16:31At some point during the day when the sun comes up, you look
- 16:33out and you realize that you are over American soil again.
- 16:37Even though it hasn't been a ridiculously long time since you
- 16:40left, it sure seems like you've been through a lot in the last
- 16:43couple months that you've been deployed.
- 16:46And yeah, you see a familiar facility.
- 16:50This is the same facility that all three of you were once at
- 16:53for pilot training to various degrees.
- 16:56So it's, it's sort of like coming home at this point.
- 16:59You just happen to be coming home in one of the most famous
- 17:03airships in the country at this point.
- 17:05Upon landing, you see there's the the barracks that you guys
- 17:08stayed in. You see other pilot recruits out
- 17:13doing their morning runs. You see people in practice
- 17:18asters learning how to pilot for the first time.
- 17:21How? How does it feel being back
- 17:22home? Oh this stings like a
- 17:24motherfucker, especially seeing the young pilots.
- 17:27I bet. No promotion is going to undo
- 17:30that. I think Rex is just like nerds.
- 17:36Is is Rex like going to pilot his ass her off and.
- 17:40Oh yeah, he's not going to walk it off.
- 17:43He's going to teleport it into the ground.
- 17:48Into the ground. Yeah, not into the ground Well
- 17:51at the training. Yeah, I you get many people that
- 17:56are like, wow, I want to pilot one of those one day.
- 17:59You wish and the ninjas walk so. I think in a previous life, Ace
- 18:07would have tried to do the same thing and done like a, you know,
- 18:11like a cool, like, show off to these recruits and be like,
- 18:16yeah, and maybe one day you could be as cool as Ace
- 18:19Randolph. But I think, I mean, especially
- 18:21given the fact that he can't, but I think just given all of
- 18:25the learning he's done, I think he just very politely like as he
- 18:30walks by the these recruits, I think he just, you know, salutes
- 18:34and he's kind of all business. Yeah, and General Finch and
- 18:40Doctor Schmidt meet you on the grounds.
- 18:43They they give Rex a chance to go Doc the fallen in one of the
- 18:50docking bays. And you guys see the building
- 18:53that nobody, no recruits, have ever been allowed to be in the
- 18:57main lab Center for the Manhattan Project.
- 19:01Fancy. Are you ready to see what's
- 19:04behind the curtain? Ready as I'm going to be.
- 19:09I'd like to remind you that everything you see in here is of
- 19:11the highest confidentiality and that to be spoken of outside of
- 19:14the building. Is Cordelia here for this or no?
- 19:17Yes, yes. No, she is.
- 19:19She's still just silent. And Schmidt looks at Ace and
- 19:24goes. You're scheduled in three hours
- 19:26for your surgery, so we have time to walk around.
- 19:30Perfect. So they lead you in.
- 19:39There's several very high security doors, lots of codes,
- 19:44passwords, shit like that. As you go through several sets
- 19:47of security doors and you walk into this main lab facility
- 19:53that's sort of this big center of a warehouse and you see
- 19:57there's even more armed guards inside of this place.
- 20:01And they're just, but they just sort of seem to be milling about
- 20:03like they're not really like at attention or anything like that.
- 20:05They're just sort of at stations.
- 20:06And as you look over this balcony and look down, you see
- 20:10this. Massive crater with a 20 foot
- 20:14diameter red hole that looks very similar to the one you just
- 20:19closed. Hoop up, hoop up, hoop up.
- 20:24Yes. What's that?
- 20:27That's a hole. Got clearly.
- 20:31Oh wow, I never would have guessed.
- 20:35Does it? Does it lead anywhere cool?
- 20:37I can't tell I've been through the last one either.
- 20:41It's not open. Can we open it?
- 20:46So are you having this conversation out loud?
- 20:51So out loud, Schmidt is just sort of explaining.
- 20:56Back in 1932, Einstein discovered this hole.
- 20:59It was just sort of out here in the middle of the New Mexico
- 21:02desert. The Manhattan Project was built
- 21:05up around it to study and see if we could harness its energy.
- 21:09Most of the modern day we've technology we found has come
- 21:12from the research and development from this portal.
- 21:18And nothing strange has happened with it or has come out of it
- 21:24particularly like a, you know, any sort of extra planar
- 21:31entities. Not so far that we have security
- 21:36on standby, but the unlike the holes that have been appearing
- 21:40around the world, this one has been around for a long time as
- 21:44it's pretty stable. We do not know where it goes
- 21:47yet, but that is the reason that we started developing the Astor
- 21:51project to begin with. They are eventually intended to
- 21:55be an Expeditionary force through this hole.
- 21:57So that putting the robots through the holes got it.
- 22:01Well, with the pilots, we just haven't gotten the technology to
- 22:04where it needs to be. And then the war started.
- 22:06So we decided to use the Asters for the war efforts and we'll
- 22:10get back to doing this when we finish this little issue over in
- 22:15Europe. Understandable.
- 22:17Hey, Cordelia, Really quick. Sidebar.
- 22:20Yes, Ace. And Ace is going to drop his
- 22:23voice and make it so that Cordelia is the only one that
- 22:26can hear. Do we?
- 22:29Do we tell them? Do they already know what we saw
- 22:32at the other one? I mean, General Finch is there.
- 22:35He's the one that killed it. Oh shit, yeah, once again, me
- 22:41not taking notes. Never mind.
- 22:44So what do you want to talk about?
- 22:45Ace and our sidebar? Are you OK honey?
- 22:47I know I was a little harsh with you this morning.
- 22:50Are you OK? I know seeing this hole again
- 22:52may be a little traumatic for you.
- 22:54I'll be all right, Captain. Great.
- 22:57Thank you for your. Concern.
- 22:58Of course. Ace walks back to Rex.
- 23:02Dude, she's too cold. I don't like this.
- 23:05It's a. Whole What's the worst that
- 23:07could happen? Forbidden knowledge gets out, if
- 23:12you're catching my drift. Rex, you're just going to slowly
- 23:16turn his head and look. Hey.
- 23:22What? Look, all I'm saying is.
- 23:29Have you been drinking like? Not yet 10 AM.
- 23:35You know what? It's fine.
- 23:36It's fine. OK, you said it was fine.
- 23:39Just have your surgery. Everything's going to be OK.
- 23:43If if you die, you die. You know it's one of them.
- 23:47You're not going to die. You got Schmidt.
- 23:49I'm sure he's capable. The first nice thing you said
- 23:53about it. The fuck is going on?
- 23:58And I think Ace just looking very suspiciously at this hole,
- 24:03trying to make, trying to make any semblance of whether or not
- 24:06we're in like some bizarro universe where Cordelia is nice
- 24:10and Rex actually likes the German doctor.
- 24:16Rex is only being nice because in the back of his head he's
- 24:18like, do I go and touch it? Do I go and touch the hole?
- 24:22Yeah, that's fair. I think that's a question that
- 24:24we all are experiencing right now.
- 24:26Do we touch the hole? Do we touch the hole?
- 24:32I can't help but I just want to touch and hole.
- 24:36Pretty cheap. Yes, Chef.
- 24:44A A a couple of random lab coats walk up to you, Mr. Mr.
- 24:51Randolph. Ace holds out his hands in front
- 24:54of him. Take me away, boys.
- 24:56They they sort of look at you for a second.
- 25:01Yeah, yeah, we're here to collect it for surgery.
- 25:03So yeah, just follow us. And they, they take Ace away to
- 25:09go have his surgery. Meanwhile, Cordelia and Rex,
- 25:12they're still just sort of showing you around some of the,
- 25:15the whole, the more, well, the more like Labby researchy areas
- 25:21of the whole. They show you a small factory
- 25:24where hard drives are presumably assembled.
- 25:28And they, they give, they tell you a little bit about how they
- 25:31work with the basically each hard drive has a small fragment
- 25:36of a weave hole inside of it that powers it.
- 25:39And it's just sort of like a self-contained stabilized hole.
- 25:41Yeah, Cornelia, I think is evaluating this place and
- 25:45comparing it to the factory that they decommissioned in Japan
- 25:50just for her own edification, essentially just like compare
- 25:55and contrast what's really happening.
- 25:57Because I think upon seeing this hole here and knowing what came
- 26:02out of the other one, she doesn't necessarily trust this.
- 26:06It's not the similarities are closer than you would expect,
- 26:09but not, you know, exactly like there's obviously not like
- 26:14crazy, like human things that are all corrupted going on
- 26:18around here. It's more it, it, it feels less
- 26:21evil, hard. Ish Hard.
- 26:25And, and you see a it's like an, an old man with wild, crazy Gray
- 26:30hair just walking by as well. Everybody seems to give him a
- 26:34little bit of reverence as he walks by.
- 26:37Who's that? I don't know.
- 26:43Tracks. This feels like a place where
- 26:45nobody we shouldn't have actually been invited to.
- 26:48I feel like they're just doing this out of the kindness of the
- 26:50hearts for no reason at all. So as the tour ends, Ace is
- 27:06presumably still in a surgery. The general French sure to bring
- 27:09you guys into into like basically like a meeting sort of
- 27:13briefing room situation after after we get everything sorted
- 27:18out here, we'd like to we we have some issues stateside that
- 27:23we could use a hand with. As you know, these
- 27:27interdimensional holes have been showing up all over the world
- 27:31and we are not immune to that effect, so we'd like some of the
- 27:37the more local ones closed if you wouldn't mind.
- 27:41OK, how can we be of service? Well, we also know that based on
- 27:46the letter that was sent from our seer that he wants to talk
- 27:51to you guys down in Texas. We happen to know that there's a
- 27:55a stable hole at the moment, like nothing's come through it
- 28:00down that vicinity as well. So after you talk to him, we'd
- 28:03like you to swing over there and take a look at it.
- 28:05Cool. Excellent.
- 28:07How will be or how will we be getting to Texas and when do we
- 28:12leave? We are loading up the we'll load
- 28:18well, OK, so I, I, I will talk to you guys about this because
- 28:23I, I feel like the Foxcatcher is a little bit extreme for.
- 28:27Oh. Rolling down a suburban, yeah, I
- 28:30mean place, so. The millions of dollars of
- 28:34damage it would cause, even a 1930s dollars would be a lot.
- 28:38Yeah, so I, I, we, we're loading up a train, we're going to send
- 28:43all of your equipment with you, but just, it's more to have on
- 28:48site if you need it. But the the Foxcatcher and the
- 28:54Fallen shall be transported with you to have on site.
- 28:58Excellent. Cool, cool.
- 29:00Cool. He just sort of gives you guys
- 29:01some more information about the general vicinity and at some
- 29:05point a a nurse wearing like pink scrubs comes in and goes.
- 29:11He's out of surgery if you'd like to see him.
- 29:13I would love to. Me too.
- 29:21And Rex, as we're on the way, don't think we're not going to
- 29:23talk about this. I don't know what we're going to
- 29:26talk about, but great. Ace told me about your little
- 29:31medic adventure. I am definitely pranking him
- 29:35now. You'll see like you'll see me
- 29:41like walk past, like you'll see like a doctor's robe on the
- 29:46side. I'm just going to grab it and
- 29:47put it on and like, slick my hair like a bit and like, I
- 29:52imagine there's like glasses in the in like the pocket.
- 29:55And I'm going to put them on. And then I'm going to get to
- 29:58like Ace's bedside and she'll be like, Oh my God, he's waking up.
- 30:05Oh my God, you've been asleep for 13 years, my friend.
- 30:08Cordelia punches Rex on the side.
- 30:11Ace, you've got to wait for like 20 minutes at this point.
- 30:13Yeah, Rex, I know it's you. I could smell you.
- 30:23I don't smell that bad. I don't know, it's like a dog.
- 30:27I can smell things. Gay, gay Hyperion.
- 30:31I'm a tree. That still doesn't explains.
- 30:37Don't elaborate on that, please. I'm begging you.
- 30:40Don't elaborate on that. I will not.
- 30:43I will not, absolutely will not, will never.
- 30:46Thank you. I appreciate your discretion.
- 30:50And you guys, Ace, you feel like whatever you've been fixed, the
- 30:56magic is no longer holding you together.
- 30:57And Rex, you don't feel that connection to that magic in
- 31:00Ace's chest. Cool, cool.
- 31:02I think Ace, he sits up and he flexes his arms, and I think
- 31:06that green, that fluorescent green magic of Hyperion, you see
- 31:11it like course through his veins, like it lights up.
- 31:41The.