Spacebullies Two: The Search For More Parody

In the eastern Colorado of Bat-Earth, the Native American stunt rider Shirley Digs-Many-Roots was continuing the job of integrating diverse talents for the planned humane rodeo, supported by Deuce Wayan's brother Ben. During this time, the one and only recording studio in Lincoln, Nebraska hosted the rising pop star Maxie Viva; also the composer Pryor Feldon, who had written background music for "The Taming of the Street Brat." Washday Anagram, her green-haired enabler Sybil Dampning, and Interior Secretary Ladora Greeley watched and listened while the band Kuan-Yin Artemis played, and Maxie sang her latest song, one with a harder beat than most of her tunes.

"I see a red man, and a white man, and a black;
Their color doesn't matter as I turn my back.
I see my posse girls-- (looking at Washday) --dressed in their yoga pants;
We all agree that cavemen don't deserve a chance....."
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More with Washday and Maxie later. At this time, it was night in the Union of Cooperative Collective Republics. At the zoological research station close to the city of Omsk, in the eastern reaches of Siberia, Lavrenty Borisovich Bakunin was, cough cough, enjoying the company of his Yakut girlfriend Nariyana Aytalovna Keskil. She was the witness whom he had brought to see the enhanced reindeer fawn at the secret biochemistry station.

"Lavrenty, prekrasny lyubovnik,I can't help wondering: what will become of Zaznoba when the project moves to a later stage." She was referring to the somatically altered young reindeer she had met.

"Not to worry, golubka. No one will turn her into venison sausage. They'll hide her in plain sight. Precisely because she's so tame and friendly, she can live with one or another of the researchers. If they create the end product they hope for, she'll never be notorious. She should have a happy life in obscurity-- probably longer than her species norm-- while the main actor in the play gets the attention."

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Pavel Orlov, one of the leading biochemists in the gas-well-bacteria-usage project. He answered only to Doctor Yevdokia Danilova, who held three bioscience doctorates, besides impeccable Party credentials. We find Pavel and Yevdokia two stories underground, looking into an enclosure partitioned with super-break-resistant glass. Inside, hooked up to tubes and cables like something in a monster movie, was a male polar bear-- who had been unconscious but life-supported for several days now. Being cordial coworkers, but not lovers like Lavrenty and Nariyana, they conversed in a tone at the friendly edge of stiffly formal.

"Doctor Orlov, what's your recommendation for the cell-division rate?"

"I suggest that it be accelerated by no more than six percent, with nutrient inflow increased eight percent as bones, cartilage, nerves and muscles continue growing and taking shape."

More professional discussion followed, but this much will give the idea, so I can look at other characters. Yes, a polar bear is being altered with techniques developed on the fawn Zaznoba. Yes, it will be important soon. Back to the environs of Limon, Colorado.

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At the Audacious Angus Ranch in eastern Colorado, the fourteen girl acrobats from China had been practicing diligently with Shirley Digs-Many-Roots the Cheyenne woman. Shirley's horse was fully at ease with the slender Asians by now, and with two boys from Limon. One of these, by mere chance, had the same first name as ranch owner Benjamin Wayans. Benny Lake had carved his own pair of wooden stilts, and was pretty good at walking around on them. The other town boy, Steve Grant, owned both a dirt-track bicycle and a unicycle. He and Benny could move around well: not exactly a headliner display, but both boys could become part of the moving tapestry that Shirley and the Wayans family were planning.

Ben Wayans offered the new boys a summation of the game plan. "We want to be able to open soon. Musical acts are still being lined up. You two, and the others you're practicing with, will become the very environment for the event. This will be like a Renaissance fair, with cast members circulating among the patrons while highlighted acts use platform stages."

"Any more acts to sign on?" Steve asked.

"We expect a parade of purebred dogs: border collies, mountain dogs, rare terriers, and so on. A cat show too, probably; in more controlled conditions, of course."

Benny laughed at this. "One time our cat got her head stuck inside one leg of Dad's dress trousers."
 
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As on Original Earth, Jinan was one of the biggest cities in central-north China, around one-third the size of Beijing. Theda Kirby, half Chinese despite her name-- sister to Chang-Shi Kirby of Street-Bat's inner circle-- had used the pretext of seeing acquaintances to make her way up to Jinan. There she met with personnel of a seismic monitoring station. There was no need to be evasive about what brought her here; the world now knew about the elemental dragon Fin-Zin-Chin-Pin. The geologists lapped up everything she could tell about the monster's non-murderous but property-damaging activity in America.

At one point, the eldest man in the station disclosed something: "We have records of movement, below the crust, over the last four days. If this was Fin-Zin-Chin-Pin, it started each time from somewhere under the Indian Ocean seabed, then snaked as far north as eight degrees latitude above us before turning back. The deep-layer paths followed latitude lines, progressing east to west."

"Is there anything known to you that the creature might be looking for?"

The geologist shrugged. "Many of us know that in legends, Fin-Zin-Chin-Pin was vanquished by the Righteous Mountain Warriors." (What he means is Bat-Earth's version of True Earth's "Water Margin" kung-fu legends.) "But no recognizable successors to those heroes exist in the world today, that the earth dragon should be scouting for their possible presence as a threat to look out for."

"Any other hypothesis?"

"The nearest guess we have is that Fin-Zin-Chin-Pin is coming just far enough north to reach out with its elemental senses. Trying to spy on something happening up in the U.C.C.R."

Neither Theda nor any of the seismologists knew anything about the animal-altering project in Omsk.

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Back in the United States, Interior Secretary Ladora Greeley, after an enjoyable visit with President Hegel, took on more visits to the burgeoning Life Avenues. Her visits were an equal mix of giving speeches to Oneness Pioneers, attending self-criticism sessions, and play-acting as a regular person. This routine included standing in lines to be weighed for portion calculation before eating plant-based "meat" and plant-based "cheese" with organic spinach and steamed rice. It was a highlight when she presided over the opening of a new, relatively small Avenue overlapping Kansas and Oklahoma.

Mere hours after she departed from this location, she was mentally contacted by Fin-Zin-Chin-Pin, as follows: There is activity of importance in the northeastern U.C.C.R. The nature of your office in America makes it plausible for you to visit the Omsk region. There are facilities which would probably detect my subterranean approach; not that I fear anything the Russians there might do in the short term, but their activity might eventually lead to something inconvenient for me.

So, abetted by Beatrice Wayans-- who figured that Ladora's absence would mean Beatrice getting more of Mark Hegel's attention-- Ladora soon had her ticket for a flight to Siberia. Lavrenty Bakunin the researcher would guide her inspection.

This has been an insert of sorts; I need time to decide what can happen on Bat-Earth of a more thunderous nature.
 
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This chapter will return to Punksteema, but not to the setting based on the Gormenghast Trilogy. I want to resume Jonawiku's adventures. We last left him and his dog Fish Hook searching for clues to new armament in lands west of Samplibam.

LOTS of stuff to refresh! I gather it haphazardly-- to KEEP it available, since my Keanu Reeves imitation has been offstage for ages.

=====>> Firstly, good-aligned characters who play, lately have played, or soon will play a role in the ronin-archer's mission:

Field-Master Nefekor, a sergeant-major equivalent in Shogun Wajitujit's army, who has received the Towerman anointing. / Odilladet Gohuhal, a former servant of the necromancer Jaheg-Jorod; she was restored to life by the Colorless Quetzalcoatl after having been a zombie for many days. Meeting Jonawiku after she was re-humanized, Odilladet informed him that Azellajo, a young kinswoman of the archer's deceased wife Shufiro, would be in peril in the near future. Odilladet is able to operate a "rattle-gun." / Zutozar, a female Tengu, whose husband had perished in battle against foes of the Shogun. She has two nephews, Butabik and Widagro, who assist Nefekor in scouting; they have become pals with Kambijud, a teenage boy from the friendly city-state called Flodmarth.

"Fist-of-Ice," one of the leading men from Tagdoss, will encounter Jonawiku soon, accompanied by his warrior son Bronze Raven. Zakatuho, historian to Shogun Wajitujit, who can speak Tagdoss-Flodmarth, will be brought by "walk-on" Tengu at a plotline-suitable time.

Some who have heard the gospel of Jesus from Mistress Mukuma call it Krissa-Channity.

House Burakarut is hostile to the Shogun. The expert weapon-smith Neridim Yubiwaza belongs to them, and was personally prompted by Jaheg-Jorod to invent the rattle-gun.

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---- FOR LATER ON, >AFTER< JONAWIKU HAS DONE ENOUGH AND WE >CAN< LOOK ELSEWHERE:

Labor Captain Jarsken Bowdrie, and longtime peddler Victor Shelsidan, have been busy in open country east of Lower Wenzeppu, building a permanent trading-post enterprise with plains tribes. AFTER they were last seen, Roy Crinkly from Gahurr, who had been on the side of good in the Battle of Oxhide Spring, joined them. Roy is the one with a mighty buffalo gun, and has lately added a five-shot revolver. He will have reported his becoming a Towerman.

The compact airship "Cloud Wagon," with Captain Jolut who knows about telegraph projects, may turn up.

New creations, from the Hodsup, a tribe farther southeast: Middle-aged father Noon Runner, his lovingly-tended mother-in-law Four Cloaks, his wife Singing Tree, her sub-adult brother Dirt-In-Hair, and his fifteen-year-old son Black Axe. These will have settled nearby, after parting from other kinfolk in view of scarce game. One Hodsup brave, not the same family, was already at the post, learning about modern architecture from Jarsken. The brave's name is Watchful Gopher: not a demeaning name, because the Hodsup admire the gopher's alertness.

Commerce Mediator Triglon Fedlo from Lower Wenzeppu is a natural to visit the trading post, maybe on board Cloud Wagon

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Still in the Ominous Lands, Jaheg-Jorod has had several remote conversations with Frantic Druids on the moon. Main contact, not seen before, is a male named Bexpodo Yellowstem, the father of Star Swallower. Bexpodo took a long time persuading the other Frantics to accept use of technological weapons. Tidumo, the Wellvernian coastal state related to the Loi-Hukshem and Loi-Bavrid, whose shipping Yarbeck Trask attacked, is the desired target, since it is Christian-friendly.

0000000000 \\\\ Jizbrol Tazaff (surname first) from Quelidar, and Kring Dakamish from Jeltua, are the designer and pilot of the dirigible "Queen's Favor," which has been on many adventures. Tazaff is the one who hopes to fly to the moon. He's working on formulating a rope elastic enough to snag the passing moon. Heejee faf-Tujan the marks-girl, daughter of Sazka faf-Boli the lensmaker, is in the expedition. Her Mifdolan bestie, Yadiva Jilris whom she trained in rifle use, is along too.

Rizlaya Tohir, the good sorceress at Prethlonstead in Felruda, may be involved remotely. Since this reality allows GOOD magic to exist, Pastor Silas Larkburg of Saint Kung-Sar Free Church in Tablanor might visit Rizlaya to confer (if he isn't at sea with George Rothermill). Whistler Jerkysalt of Sneeziya in Rufnekkia, as well as Veevalamora Heartlifter, may be involved.

Mellow Druid Froliptar Greenbranch is with them too; I think I'll make him the one who finds an answer...... perhaps after visiting the Elves of Ruffnekkia! Those might have magic rappelling ropes for cliff-dropping. In case it becomes relevant: Habohai, the Uzakmid of Shangri-Blah (analogous to a Dalai Lama), is able to communicate psychically with Queen Juliet-Andrea of Austreejuntzland.

General Cornell Brandon's home is in Tasmuthshire. He is unlikely to finish his far-away diplomatic mission before Froliptar visits this nation.

RONALD OF GOLIAD, long sidelined, knows about the realms along the Six Nations River, and so must go there at last!

At the Pril estate in Hukshem, the Nizozuan women Warrodai and Bohili are well along in Smoke Maiden instruction from Razibi Zur, daughter of the Prils and wife to the dream-wizard T'Pinnok Zur.

OKAY, as I return to "present-time" narration, all of the story-facts given here will be assumed.
 
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Another permanent post of review, to re-orient readers to this gigantic salad bar of super-ing.

Top-line good guys on that Third Galaxy world include Superdude, Superhottie, Black Admiral, Bakerstray Bill, Thorpe son of Garryowen, Walloper Woman, Princess Grrrryyll, She-Wow, Oliver Hackman, Esteban Mazarino, and Sha-Na-Na.
 
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