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Charles's post-race comments | Japanese Grand Prix | 23 September 2023
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#yeah that darn first sector#still good job on getting P4#also the dimples at the end 😍#charles leclerc#japanese gp 2023
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Into, Across and Beyond! Scripting: The Big Chase
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Outside of the Quill Society HQ's meeting room in Many More Heroes, an alarm started blaring, confusing many Quill Society members who heard it.
OMT!Tails (through their communicators): All stations, drop what you're doing and stop that Sonic!
Quill Society Sonics: pointing fingers at each other in confusion
OMT!Tails: Darn it, sorry. I meant LM, the one with the red eyes of evil! He's headed for Sector 4!
The person who entered Sector 4 first was Chaos Adventure Sonic, which is the first to catch the attention of those spending time there.
CA!Sonic: Er, is something on my quills or something? What's the whole stare contest for?
OMT!Tails (from down that hallway): CA, he's right behind you!
SS!Amy (from down the same hallway): Turn around!
CA!Sonic: Huh? (turns around) I don't see anything...
OMT!Tails: Maybe feel behind you?
When he DID turn around, LM!Sonic was revealed, trying to hide behind him, and with his cover blown, the present Quill Society members quickly identified their target.
SunFIRE: That's our guy!
ZX Spectrum and Game.com Sonics: *indecipherable beeping*
LM!Sonic: O-Oh! Hehe...
CA!Sonic managed to feel LM!Sonic behind him.
CA!Sonic (quite casually, like in RodentRap/Sonic Legacy): Oh, there you are!
LM!Sonic: Aw, crud...
(Mini trivia: Alongside that story's version of Sonic, Chaos Adventure's counterparts of Amy and Cream are in the Quill Society as well, the former mainly to ensure Sonic doesn't get into more trouble than it's worth.)
Cue the big chase, with many members working to get after LM!Sonic and apprehend him however they could, whilst OMT!Tails and SS!Amy headed toward the space elevator.
During the chase, OMT!Tails and SS!Amy had to keep Turbo off their trail.
OMT!Tails: Can this day get any crazier?!
As if on cue, Metallix flew up, targeting the duo.
OMT!Tails: Well, guess it can. Keep moving!
They slipped past and caught sight of the sector where the Transport Hub was; their ticket out of here. But for now, that had to wait.
LM!Sonic was on his way after them, but was halted in his tracks by a Sonic 1 version of Nack the Weasel.
S1 Nack: Alright! Yer askin' for it!
He drew out his cork gun.
S1 Nack: We'll settle this man-to-man! On three! One-!
But LM!Sonic just blasted him out of the way.
S1 Nack: YOU DIDN'T WAIT 'TIL THREEEEEEEEE...
Nitro caught up with April riding on his back.
Nitro: Hey, LM!
LM!Sonic: You again?!
Nitro (holding up his 2DS): You mind quickly taking a picture? It's April's first grand-scale chase!
LM just rolled his eyes and zipped off.
Nitro: Ah, well.
He simply threw the 2DS in the air, letting April leap up and take the picture between them before they kept going. Back with OMT!Tails and SS!Amy, OVA!Knux was letting them ride his horse across the area.
OVA!Knuckles: You need to reach that elevator? Got you covered, kids!
They trotted through the prison area, with a few of the prisoners rooting for the pair (yes, even Scourge, who hates the idea of someone dictating what people can and can't do)... then they started booing Turbo and Metallix as they made pursuit. On the way there, they got off the horse once in the clear as Millie the Fox (CartoonsAnimate22's OC) showed up.
Millie: Are you the Tails from that dimension where you helped kill a shapeshifting beast?
OMT!Tails: Uh, yeah!
Millie: Heh, I knew it! I'm a huge fan of your heroics, Tails!
OMT!Tails: Hehe, thanks!
She turned her attention to the pursuers.
Millie: Hey, you two! Do either of you think us heroes using comedy so much makes us look like we have some screws loose?
Turbo: Uh... what?
Millie: Get it? Screws?
She leapt up and tail-whacked Metallix's head off, causing him to careen down to lower ground.
Metallix: SYSTEM ERROR! NAVIGATION AND TARGETS INACCESSIBLE!
SS!Amy: Heh, nice one! You hang here while we take care of the rest.
Millie: You got it, Amy!
The two heroes continued on their way. Back at the bigger chase, OVA!Sonic leapt forward to attack.
OVA!Sonic: You might know everything we're going to do, but that's not gonna help you, since WE know everything YOU'RE going to do!
However, his slow animation made him outright miss.
OVA!Sonic: Oh, dang it! I really gotta get my speed improved, don't I?
Soon enough, LM!Sonic was cornered by many Quill Society AND Blur Gang members on all sides.
Mini Sonic: Nowhere to run now!
LM just resorted to leaping out the window.
Mini Sonic: O-Oh! Heh, my bad, everyone. There was somewhere to run.
Creamy: I blame the one with the anvil.
Mr. Needlemouse (defensive): What? We were tryin' to catch him, don't look at me!
[Mr. NM has a body count :) - MCS]
Outside, OMT!Tails and SS!Amy were freefalling as LM!Sonic continued his pursuit. Fiona caught sight of them, quickly taking Carol's motorbike from her.
Fiona: Sorry, Carol!
Carol (just waking up before noticing): Wha...? Hey! Come back with my bike!
She made pursuit as LM!Sonic started flying after OMT!Tails and SS!Amy.
LM!Sonic: Stop running!
OMT!Tails: Then stop chasing us everywhere!
LM!Sonic: You're so frustrating!
Fiona pulled up on a balcony with the bike as OMT!Mina watched.
Fiona: I know he's your friend, but it's the only way LM isn't going to get angrier.
OMT!Mina: But my gut says-!
Fiona: Then use your head, kid!
CR!Sonic heard this with CR!Sonia and CR!Manik, coming up with a plan whilst slipping away. Fiona attempted to knock them both down with the bike, though OMT!Mina caught them both with webs.
OMT!Mina: Gotcha!
OMT!Tails: M-Mina? You came back for me?
OMT!Mina: I can't just leave you in danger.
OMT!Tails: It's okay, Mina. Me and Amy will handle it together. Just trust us.
They severed the webbing, only to be pinned to a wall by Turbo.
Turbo: I got you cornered now, kids, so don't even- OW!
They both knocked themselves free as they went into the underbelly of Gust Planet, which hadn't been explored in years. The two didn't know where they were to go, but they didn't need to; two enerbeams got them up to the safety of a higher sector.
CR!Sonic: Tails!
OMT!Tails: No no no no! Let us go!
CR!Sonic: It's too crazy to run for too long!
SS!Amy: And running is the least crazy thing we're putting up with right now!
They started looking for a way out.
CR!Sonic: Look... I feel really bad for earlier, buddy.
OMT!Tails: Good.
CR!Sonic: But there's only so many ways we can screw stuff over. If you aren't careful, you won't be able to win!
OMT!Tails ignored him, still looking around as CR!Sonia and CR!Manik got in front of him.
CR!Sonia: Hey, um... I know this isn't the best time, but... do you want to hold one of us?
OMT!Tails: I, er, sorry, I can't-.
CR!Manik: 10 seconds at most and then talk with Dad, alright? It'll really change our mood.
OMT!Tails: Sorry, but I-!
CR!Sonia: It's very rejuvenating!
OMT!Tails: I feel very rejuvenated right now!
CR!Sonic: And you'll be more so when in the presence of one of my amazing kids!
OMT!Tails: You don't GET to have a heartfelt conversation with me right now, Sonic-!
CR!Sonic: JUSTHOLDONEOFTHEMANDWE'LLSEEWHATHAPPENS!
CR!Sonia held OMT!Tails gently, to his surprise.
CR!Sonic: You're the reason I had them, okay?!
The two heroes stopped for a moment.
CR!Sonic: I thought that if I did a good job raising them, there was a chance they were gonna turn out like you. And that got me excited, because you're a wonderful kid and I really like being around you!
OMT!Tails sighed, feeling worried.
OMT!Tails: I really wanted to be around you guys even more through this place, but the side of it LM manipulated you into isn't a positive one.
CR!Sonic: Look, bad things are always gonna happen to us at some stage, no matter what. It's what makes us who we are. But lots of good things happen as well.
He put a hand on his surrogate little brother's shoulder.
CR!Sonic: Like you happened. And they happened.
OMT!Tails: Hey... I don't...
E-21 (over the comm): Sonic, we got your location! Sit tight, and they'll be on their way!
CR!Sonic (panicked): Elise, abort that protocol! You DON'T have my location!
LM!Sonic (through the same comm): I'm coming over now! Do NOT let those rats escape!
CR!Sonic: T-Tails, I didn't know... Please, let's talk about this.
OMT!Tails: Hey, it's alright. We just did. Just keep them distracted for at least a little bit, alright?
The two kids got ready to do so as OMT!Tails and SS!Amy departed.
CR!Sonic: Well, good talk.
As OMT!Tails and SS!Amy careened into the city streets, CR!Sonic and OMT!Mina were running close by.
OMT!Mina: Where are they going?
CR!Sonic: I just hope Tails has this planned out.
Fiona rode alongside them on the bike.
Fiona: If it hasn't been stated before, by the way, you're a terrible teacher!
She leapt up into the air with the bike, but OMT!Tails managed to swipe the bike from under her and fling it into the air for Carol to catch, causing Fiona to crash onto a train roof.
Carol: I'm taking that back!
CR!Sonic: Well, he did just beat you, so I'm not a terrible mentor.
LM!Sonic showed up, annoyed, as OMT!Tails and SS!Amy reached the elevator dock and got it ready for liftoff.
LM!Sonic: You're both equally terrible. Does THAT settle it?!
LM!Sonic grabbed onto the space elevator as it began its ascent, with CR!Sonic, OMT!Mina, Antho, Nitro and Mobiverse Tails right behind them.
LM!Sonic: Stop pretending you know what you're doing!
OMT!Tails: Oh, I have a plan! You just don't know it yet!
He and SS!Amy clung onto the elevator roof for dear life as LM!Sonic clawed his way after them.
Terminal Velocity Intercom: Departing for Gust Planet's moon!
OMT!Tails: What are those, claws?! Dude, are you sure you even class as a hero?!
LM!Sonic: Are you? Who do you think you are, really?!
OMT!Tails took a deep breath.
OMT!Tails: My name is Miles "Tails" Prower...
He leapt down and dealt a powerful drop kick to LM!Sonic, knocking him further down the track.
OMT!Tails: I inherited my best friend's mantle because he wanted me to.
LM!Sonic tried to grab OMT!Tails with his enerbeam, though was met with a cannon fastball right at the face.
OMT!Tails: I'm pretty sure you know the rest, jerk!
LM!Sonic continued clawing after the two.
LM!Sonic: You never got it! You and Antho are anomalies!
OMT!Tails: Not if you let me save the multiverse!
OMT!Tails kicked LM in the jaw.
LM!Sonic: Everywhere you two go, you’re anomalies. You’re both the original anomalies!
OMT!Tails glitched slightly in response, his original female, one-tailed self present for a split-second.
LM!Sonic: The energy that gave you your powers wasn’t from your dimensions. It was never supposed to get into you!
A couple of carriages below, CR!Sonic and OMT!Mina watched in horror.
OMT!Mina: LM, STOP!
CR!Sonic: LM, don't hurt him!
LM!Sonic: There’s a world out there without an heroic Sonic because the energy got to you instead! You were not supposed to be the heroes!
OMT!Tails: No, you're lying, you heartless bully! I AM a hero!
LM!Sonic: You and Anthony are nothing but mistakes!
He pushed OMT!Tails into the roof, glaring furiously.
LM!Sonic: If he hadn’t been stupid enough to intervene, his Sonic would’ve lived. Instead, he died trying to save him. He would’ve stopped the super-collider before it went off. Crimtake wouldn’t exist! And you... Had you actually BEEN more competent in stopping that Malware Threat, your Sonic would still be alive today! But NO! He had to die trying to save your pathetic hide! You wouldn’t have lost so many! You wouldn’t have had to take his place! And none of this would’ve happened! And all this time, I’ve been one of the only ones holding this joint together.
OMT!Tails: Get the hell OFF of me!
LM!Sonic: You don’t belong in this universe. You never did.
Antho: Okay, creep! This is going WAY too far!
OMT!Tails: Who are you to think you can decide that, "Sonic"?! I am NOT a defenceless kid anymore!
LM!Sonic: That’s EXACTLY what you are, Miles Prower! You’re nothing but a kid. Who has no. Idea. WHAT THE HELL. HE’S DOING!!!
OMT!Tails and SS!Amy smirked, knowing they had this in the bags.
SS!Amy: Yeah, well, we DID lure you a million feet away from your little penthouse.
LM!Sonic: What?
He realised how high he was above surface level, looking back at the two as Mobiverse Tails scaled the elevator, ready to give LM what for.
OMT!Tails: And I'm about to do this!
He charged up an energy bolt from LM!Sonic's shoes, causing HIM to glitch and realise he practically screwed himself over.
OMT!Tails: You are trying to tell me what my story’s ‘meant’ to be… No. I’m doing my own thing! Sorry, Lost Memory Sonic, but I'm saving the day, whether you want me to or not!
He released ALL that energy right back at LM!Sonic, catapulting him within reach of a furious Mobiverse Tails.
MV!Tails: Now you're getting it, freak!
He pummelled LM!Sonic into the elevator and punched him a LOT, leaving OMT!Tails and SS!Amy open to get right to their final goal.
OMT!Tails: We'll be back, guys. See you around.
They leapt downwards, using a Chaos Emerald to fast-warp to the Transport Hub.
CR!Sonic: Heh, I taught him how to do that. Even if he won't use a Super form, I must be a pretty good teacher for him to pull that off.
He and OMT!Mina let go back to the surface as LM!Sonic bursted out, racing back down at top speed in a blind fury. In the Transport Hub, Nicole and GCD!Amy were just trying out different hairstyles.
Nicole: Hmm, nope... Nah... Well, that's kinda cute.
OMT!Tails and SS!Amy warped in.
GCD!Amy: Oh! Tails!
Nicole: We heard you were coming over.
OMT!Tails: No time to explain! Activate the machine and get us warped over to whatever dimension Crimtake is currently at!
GCD!Amy: You got it! Quick, climb in the pods!
They did so.
Nicole: Okay, let's see... Ah, got it! Dimension ZONE-ANTI-1994!
OMT!Tails: Wait, isn't that where I had to escape my evil counterpart before? Ah, well. It'll do.
LM!Sonic was bashing on the entrance door.
LM!Sonic: Open the door, both of you! It'll only take a second if you hand Miles over to me!
GCD!Amy: Don't even try!
After three of his knocks as a warning that he's coming in, GCD!Amy rushed to the console...
GCD!Amy: Three knocks is all you're getting!
...and activated the defence mechanism to fry him with electricity. Once this happened, he busted into the room, clawing at the chamber OMT!Tails was inside in his blind fury. Other Quill Society members rushed in to stop him and pull him away.
Amy Rouge: Cut it out!
OMT!Tails nodded to his fellow Quill Society and Blur Gang friends, ready to go.
Mr. Needlemouse: 100 rings for me if the kid doesn't make it back!
Mini Sonic: Yeah, you're on!
LM!Sonic: NO!!!
LM!Sonic was far too late, the two heroes being warped away.
LM!Sonic: All he had to do was listen. Why didn't he listen?!
OMT!Mina: Maybe YOU weren't thinking the right way.
LM!Sonic glared at her.
LM!Sonic: YOU let them get away!
OMT!Mina: Me?!
LM!Sonic: You didn't catch either of them!
Other Minas in range got in front of her, keeping LM!Sonic out of her reach.
EV!Mina: Okay, just back down!
OMT!Mina: Sonic, you want to back me up?
CR!Sonic nodded.
CR!Sonic: Well, LM, as the father of a son and daughter and nephew of an uncle-.
LM!Sonic: Actually, please stop talking, CR.
CR!Sonic: Er, duly noted!
OMT!Mina: Tails is my friend-!
LM!Sonic: Yeah, and that's the problem.
OMT!Mina: Do you really know for certain what happens if Tails defies your presumed destiny?
LM!Sonic: Do you want to find out?! Urgh, I knew you were a liability. You two, send her back to her original dimension!
OMT!Mina: WHAT?!
Nicole: She's not going there again! She's suffered enough there as it is!
LM!Sonic: I was not asking!
Nitro fired a blast at LM!Sonic to shut him up.
Nitro: Enough of this! You're not even worthy of being here! If anyone, it's YOU who needs to pack it and go home!
LM!Sonic growled, grabbing Nitro by his shirt.
LM!Sonic: If you're so smug about that, how about I lock YOU out of multidimensional travel for good, anomaly?!
Nitro: ...What did you just call me, you prick?
LM!Sonic: You know what you are, Smith. You tried tampering with fate just to get your sorry excuse of a father back, and you could've made the entire multiverse unstable from your crime! Not to mention that your memories should NOT have been maintained after that reset.
Nitro quickly strangled LM in return.
Nitro: Don't you DARE talk foul about my father, you monster!
LM!Sonic: Or what?! You're gonna use some "special power" to hurt me?!
Nitro: Well, I don't need to.
Some vines wrapped around LM's ankles and wrists, pulling him back into the wall where EV!Sonic knocked him out, holding a green Chaos Emerald in his hand.
EV!Sonic: What absolute shame.
He turned back to the many members in the room.
EV!Sonic: You did well today, everyone. You can continue about your business now, but I do ask for a few of you to stay behind to supervise me in sending LM back to his dimension.
OMT!Mina: Of course. I'll stick around.
Nitro: As will I.
Many of the other members departed to return to their tasks.
Trip: Will Amy be okay?
Superstars Tails: Don't worry. I know how great a fighter she is, and she'll prove her worth.
OMT!Cream arrived through one of the chambers.
OMT!Cream: Is Tails here?
EV!Sonic: You just missed him, Cream. He and that other Amy just departed to another dimension to get after your would-be killer. But considering you got here anyway, you brought them a further fighting chance.
OMT!Cream: I'm happy to hear it. Erm, who is this Mr. Sonic next to you?
EV!Sonic: An absolute prick who tried orchestrating your death. Best to let us deal with him. (to Fleetway Amy) In the meantime, Amy, maybe you could give her a little tour of the place?
Fleetway Amy: Will do, Sonic!
She and Tekno shared a fist bump.
Tekno: Great work out there today, girl!
Fleetway Amy: Anything to help my friends! Well, come along, then. We've got plenty to show you.
OMT!Cream: I'm coming, Miss Amy!
They headed off together.
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The Lost Digidestined: Stories from the Southern Sector - Episode 8: MetalDriamon's Silver Wave (8/17) [incomplete]
The Lost Digidestined: Stories from the Southern Sector
Episode 8: MetalDriamon's Silver Wave
From the Stories from the Southern Sector section of The Lost Digidestined page of Blonde Ambition
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The Lost DigiDestined
Episode 8: MetalDriamon's Silver Wave
"So, Michiru, are you going to dress up for Halloween this year?"
Sforzie glanced over at her roommate. "What did I dress up as last year?"
Halie blinked thoughtfully. "Nothing."
"Then why would I dress up this year?"
"You were taking that state exam on Halloween last year," Halie pointed out.
Sforzie stifled a sigh. "Maybe."
The phone rang, and Halie wandered out into the hall with it. Sforzie sighed and turned back to her laptop. Mizumon peered out from behind it.
"What's Halloween?"
Sforzie was looking at a map on the screen. "It's a holiday where kids dress up in costumes and go door to door asking for candy."
"Candy?" Mizumon's interest was piqued. "And people just give them candy?"
"Pretty much," Sforzie picked up her D-3 and tapped in a few commands on the laptop. The screen changed.
"Can we go on Halloween?"
"Go?"
"Ask for candy!" Mizumon bounced from behind the laptop and onto Sforzie's knee.
"You mean trick-or-treating. I don't think they usually give candy to college students."
Mizumon stuck her tongue out. "Darn." She peered up at the laptop. "What are you working on?"
"A map for my historical geology class."
"Do you get candy in that class?"
"We did after our first exam."
"And I didn't get any?"
Sforzie smiled. "If I remember correctly, you were power napping during that test."
"Oh." Mizumon bounced a few times. "Hey, that map looks like Sunstone island!"
"The teacher wasn't specific in what we were mapping."
Mizumon studied the map for a minute. "Can we go to the Digiworld?"
"As soon as I finish this map."
Mizumon waited for about thirty seconds before asking: "Are you done yet?"
Sforzie suppressed a laugh. "Yeah, I guess so."
"Then let's go!"
"Right, right." Sforzie stood up, picking up her D-terminal and holding her D-3 in the other hand.
"Digiport, open!"
It was sunny in the Digiworld. Except on Sunstone Island, where the sky remained an embittered mass of clouds. Sforzie and Driamon made their way up the beach, after checking the tv-gate for recent activity.
"Do you think there are just the two tv-gates on this island?" Driamon wondered.
"Maybe," Sforzie said. "It's not a big island."
"Maybe there are some on the other side of the island," Driamon suggested. "We could try walking on the other side."
"I guess it couldn't hurt." Sforzie stopped in mid-stride, looking doing. "Funny, the sand here is awfully sof-"
As she spoke, the sand around them exploded. The long, dark form of Chapmon burst to the surface, knocking the pair apart. Sforzie landed on her back. Driamon rolled several feet away.
"What the--" Sforzie looked up to see Chapmon looming over her. He was even uglier up close.
"Sssssso, I finally found you," Chapmon hissed. A snake-like tongue flitted from his bovine mouth.
"You were looking for us? Why?" Driamon wondered.
"I must serve the master Melanomon," Chapmon said. "I was sent to destroy you, but somehow you managed to elude me for the past few days."
"It's not that hard to hide from a big, dumb, flying cow-snake," Driamon said. The whip-like end of Chapmon's tail snapped in front of her face.
"You may have been able to elude me, but I have you now." Chapmon growled. "Melanomon was most displeased that I wasn't able to dispose of you sooner. I shall not feel his wrath again!"
"We'll see about that!" Sforzie shouted. "Driamon!" She held up her D-3.
"Driamon digivolve to... Karamon!"
Chapmon reared back as Driamon digivolved. He snarled.
"You think getting bigger will help you?" Chapmon flared his wings open. "Think again."
"Typhoon Twister!"
Chapmon dodged Karamon's attack. He snorted. "You can barely move, you stupid Digimon!"
Sforzie got to her feet. "She doesn't have to move to beat you."
Chapmon's body coiled as he turned to look at Sforzie. "I don't have time for this."
"Sforzie, get someplace safe!" Karamon shouted. Chapmon snarled, his tail whipping in front of Sforzie. The hooked tip passed just in front of her face, leaving a thin spot of red on her nose. Sforzie stepped back, her hand going to her face.
"You aren't going anywhere," Chapmon said. "Bull whip!" His tail arched back to strike Sforzie, but stopped in mid-swing. "Huh?" He looked back. Karamon held his tail down with a paw.
"Leave her alone! It isn't fair to fight against something non-Digimon!"
"I don't have to play fair!" Chapmon shouted. "Black poison!" He spat a thick black slime into Karamon's face.
"Augh!" Karamon released Chapmon's tail as she twisted away from him. Wiping her snout with a paw, she snarled. "Black paint!" Karamon rubbed her face in the sand furiously.
Chapmon's tail wrapped around Sforzie, holding her tight.
"Karamon!" Sforzie shouted, struggling to break free.
"Keep squirming, I can crush the air right out of you," Chapmon hissed. His fangs were getting too close for Sforzie's comfort.
"Karamon!" she shouted again.
"Sforzie!" Karamon wiped the last of the black mess from her face. "Let her go!" Karamon threw herself at Chapmon, knocking him several feet. He didn't let go of Sforzie. She was dragged through the sand.
"I'm going to kill her, and then I'm going to finish you, you obnoxious blue sea slug!" Chapmon's tongue forked out again. He opened his mouth, exposing two long fangs. Sforzie continued to struggle, turning her face away from Chapmon's.
Beneath the coils of green flesh, something flash bright blue.
"What?!" Chapmon lurched back, nearly letting go of his prey.
"Karamon!" Sforzie gasped as her friend was enveloped in the light.
"I will stop you, Chapmon!" Karamon roared. She pushed herself up.
"Karamon...digivolve to..." The Digimon grew much bigger, sprouting hind legs. The front half of her body was covered in a silver armor. "MetalDriamon!"
"What is that?!" Chapmon dropped Sforzie in alarm. She wheezed, looking up at her Digimon.
"You digivolved again," she said needlessly, slumping back to the ground.
MetalDriamon glared at Chapmon. "Now what were you saying about not being able to move?"
"And like I said, getting bigger isn't going to help you," Chapmon snarled.
Unfortunately for Chapmon, MetalDriamon was a great deal bigger than Karamon. His tail struck her armored forelegs harmlessly.
"You can tell Melanomon that he can't destroy us that easily!" MetalDriamon shouted. She reared up onto her hind legs, her tail counterbalancing as she moved to attack. The metal around her feet began to glow. "Silver Wave!" She slammed into the ground, and the energy that had been gathering at her feet was released in a (well named) silver wave. Chapmon was knocked to the ground.
"Melanomon isn't going to like this," Chapmon hissed as he opened his wings and threw himself into the air. "Don't think that this is over!"
"It is for now," MetalDriamon growled as Chapmon flew away.
MetalDriamon walked over to Sforzie, who remained crumpled in the sand.
"Sforzie, are you okay?"
"Is he gone?" Sforzie asked softly.
"Yup," MetalDriamon nodded. "I scared him away."
"Good." She lifted her head. "I can't move."
MetalDriamon chuckled, dipping her head down next to Sforzie. "He gave you a good squeeze, didn't he?"
"I never hated snakes before this," Sforzie mumbled. "Or cows."
"I'll carry you, if you like," MetalDriamon said. Sforzie managed to sit up.
"I think I'll take you up on that offer."
to be continued...
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What will Melanomon do now that MetalDriamon has arrived? Find out in future episodes!
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“Yeah, I know the species you’re talking about. You call it a Rang’var? We humans call ‘em Tilluxian Dragons.”
“Dragons?” The alien warbled.
“Yeah, dragons.”
“What does that mean?”
“Uh, well, dragons were a mythical creature in human histo… you know what? Let me just tell ya my story about ‘em.
“So I go about minin' for ores in places that look promisin' for the kinds I trade in. One of those places was this rimworld a few light years from here. Real nice biosphere to it, your basic jungle-like flora and fauna. Well as I was traipsin’ about my business, keepin’ an eye on my scanner for anything fancy underground to flag for later, when I happen to hear some hootin’ sounds off to my left.”
“You ran from such an unknown, right?” The alien’s 3rd eye began to twitch, James noticed.
“Nah, us humans are a curious species, remember?”
“You didn’t.”
“I did. And once I parted the leaves what should I see but a whole pack of juveniles play fightin’ in this sandy hollow down a hill a ways. In fact, they were rather adorable.”
“Adorable?! *Spluttering* B-b-but what about the 6 kleng long fangs? The volatile temperament? Thousands of colonists have been seriously hurt or killed by their packs when colonists unwittingly settle on a world already plagued with them?”
“I realize, but they are animals, and on my planet we gots some animals that behaviorally are just like ‘em. They get all full o’ hiss and vinegar when they think they gotta defend themselves, but otherwise keep outta sight. Bit hard, considerin’ how big they get, but stay outta their way and they tend ta stay outta yours.
“Anyway, I watched their funny antics for a while, but knowin’ a momma was usually close by I skedaddled to do my surveyin’ in a quieter sector of the planet.”
“My, that was a close call human-James, and an interesting story of caution!”
“I ain’t done.”
“Oh? Oh no…” What little of the blue coloration to the skin had been left at this point continued to drain to white.
“Yep! About a week went by, and again I’m doin’ my surveyin,’ and I was bein’ silly looking too hard at my reader and not where my feets were goin.’ First I heard a deep n’ nasty growlin,’ and then I felt the ground quake neath my feet from two big stamps. Then I looked up to see them teeth you were talkin’ about earlier of a fully adult Tilluxian.”
“By the Great Klan! How did you survive?”
“Well, it's a bit funnier in the tellin’ than it was at the time. I was scared witless, of course, seems I had woken it up from nappin’ when it heard me comin,’ and it sure wasn’t happy to be awake. We were in this big clearin’ between the trees, with me on one side and it on the t’other, and it went and charged me!”
“Dear Klan!”
“I know, right? Now, the first thing that came to mind - since I sure wasn’t gonna outrun this behemoth - was to drop inta a playful position like I saw them juveniles doin,’ and hooted at it!”
“... you what?”
“Yeah! I hooted at that angry humongous thing, that two-story wreckin’ ball of lizardy flesh, and the damn thing stopped!”
“It stopped?!”
“Yep, and then, hehe, it did the next most adorable thing I would never have expected. It tilted its head at me, like a Terran dog that heard a funny sound! I woulda laughed right then and there if I wasn’t in the midst of shittin’ myself.”
“What happened then?”
“Well, it sniffed me a bit, and looked like it was tryin’ to figure out what I was up to, so now that I was thinkin’ about Terran dogs, they will roll over to a bigger nastier dog to appease it, so I got on the ground and rolled over. Then I went inta that playful position again. I about got knocked over when that big avalanche of anger did the same thing with its forked tongue lollin’ out of its mouth. That’s when we started playin’ hide and seek among the trees!”
“You played… a children’s game… with a Rang’vnar?”
“Yup! We played for well over an hour, I even got ta boop it on the nose whenever I found it, again not hard considerin’ my hand was about the size o’ one nostril, and even the big trees on this planet we were on couldn’t cover more than a 1/4th of their body.”
“You even touched one of those monsters?”
“Eh, they ain’t so bad if y’actually got ta know ‘em. Treat ‘em right and you might be surprised what happens. So anywhos, after an hour o’ this, I tried to say goodbye to it, so that I could get to my ship and clean out the inside of my exo-suit, and it ran in front o’ me, nearly knockin’ me over again from the shakin’ it made of the ground, and it still wanted to play some more! We were dartin’ in and out of them trees til both of the suns had set over the horizon. Both of us were dead tired, I could tell he was by the way his tail was sweepin’ on the ground and his head wasn’t bein’ held up much anymore. That’s when it clambered over to me and hunkered down on the ground, wrapped its big ol’ body and tail over me so I could hardly move. I ended up just pettin’ the big galumph ta sleep that night.”
“Petted it? Petted it?! Human-James, you realize how dangerous-”
“Yeah, I know. They said the same about them Droxxians, and we figured them out enough to make pets out of ‘em! I eventually was able to squeeze out from underneath ‘im, and wound my way back to the ship for a bit o’ proper shuteye, and I slept like a babe, I’ll tell ya! Now that I’m in my forties ain’t no way I can keep up that sort o’ adrenaline rush for long, I ain’t my youthful self no more. So, next mornin’ I wake up and real groggily get my chores finished up, and when I left my ship I darn near crapped my freshly-cleaned exo-suit again. It was there. Waitin’ for me.”
“Ah, it had come to try finishing you off then? I’m sure it took all your human guile to-”
“Nah, it had one of my boulders I had been samplin’ in its mouth, and it dropped it at my feet and went thunderin’ off, lookin back at me all expectant like. Now, this was a big chunk of now slobbery rock, but my suit has some servos built in for my work. Once I got over my surprise, I guess I said ‘ta hell with it,’ ya know? I picked up the rock and threw it several hundred yards. We played some big-ass fetch fer half the day. The damn thing became an attached eight ton limb from then on, could barely get my work done for it. I didn’t have to deal with any of the lion equivalents on the planet no more though, they steered well clear with it lumberin’ nearby. I started thinkin,’ I had this big patch o’ land where I live, and ain’t nobody for miles, and you’d be surprised what can fit in a minin’ freighter’s cargo when you don’t take as much ore.”
“Wait, do you mean to say that… is it on the station? Here?”
“Yeah! Why don’t you come meet Charlie? He’d love to meet ya!”
Read the other parts of the series!
Part 2: https://georgecrecy.tumblr.com/post/183787102041/charlie-2
Part 3: https://georgecrecy.tumblr.com/post/183794906326/charlie-3
Part 4: https://georgecrecy.tumblr.com/post/183805565796/charlie-4
Part 5: https://georgecrecy.tumblr.com/post/183818824461/charlie-5
Part 6: https://georgecrecy.tumblr.com/post/183819131196/charlie-6
Part 7: https://georgecrecy.tumblr.com/post/183819391261/charlie-7
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Chips List of Horror
Hi I’m Chips and I adore horror, so this is going to be a huge and I do mean huge, list of my favourite horror manga, anime and Asian horror movies. If you enjoy the genre but could do with something more to read/watch then look to this list as it include lesser known series. Right at the end I’ll add in all the popular/well known ones without detailing, just assume I think they’re decent series since I’ve added them in.
I will be doing a western version of this: TV series, comics and movies etc in the future.
Disclaimer: These are my personal opinions on this, so don’t get stroppy because I like something if you found it to be bad.
Manga:
Anything by Itou Junji-
He’s well know in the horror sector, a lot of short story collections and they’re always fantastic. I don’t want to ruin anything so just go and check him out, his most well know works include Tomie, Yami no Koe and Uzumaki. A lot of his stuff is really surreal or contains body horror, you’ve probably seen a couple of his horror panels floating around tumblr from time to time.
I am Hero- It’s brilliant, yes it’s about zombies however goes down a slightly different route and has some genuinely interesting characterisation.
Ousama Game (Renda Hitori)- Not to be mistaken for the other manga with the same name...I love this one and it will be appearing later in another section, it’s got a lot of gore and some mystery thrown in. It’s a survival horror than involves and classroom of students that need to follow the kings orders and play his games, or death.
Gantz- Honestly I adore this, it’s so different and the plot...oh boy be prepared to be taken on a ride. Fair amount of gore but reasonably used and has a nice cast of characters... I’d describe it as Sci-fi horror but very unique.
American Ghost Jack- It has horror, supernatural elements and even a little bit of romance. It was very intriguing, I quite liked it actually and it’s an easy read. I’m sure I read that there was going to be a sequel but don’t quote me on that.
Real Account/Real Account 2: They’re parallel stories, gosh darn I enjoyed this one. I just really love survival horror type scenarios, it’s kind of crazy with lots of gore and I really like the main cast.
Apocalypse no Toride- It starts off in a prison and then everything goes to shit, it’s got zombie elements and sci-fi elements (think hive minds) and honestly it’s fantastic. I adore all the characters and to be honest I keep praying this will one day be made into an anime.
Online-The Comic- Another one that’s interesting, to do with video games but with horror/gore and mystery thrown in. It’s actually really good, let’s just say I’d hate to be thrown in to this kind of scenario. Wouldn’t you hate a game that could kill you?
Bio Meat- So basically the usual, humanity is stupid. They use science to make creatures that eat rubbish and then is killed off for meat. Let’s just say it’s a terrible idea and most of the blood on the pages is from humans.
Tenkuu Shinpan- This has gone under the radar and it really shouldn’t of, it’s brilliant. Skyscrapers, murders in masks and a person deemed ‘god’ of that world. It’s fantastic with some awesome characters and gore.
Hakaijuu- Oh look another one about creatures trying to kill humanity with lots of gore in, is it the end of the world? Maybe... What can I say I’m a sucker for apocalyptic/post-apocalyptic horror.
Torikago no Tsugai- A group of people trapped in a place, solve puzzles or die. They’ve got to solve the mystery of the birdcage or die trying to get out, very simple but nicely delivered.
Dolly Kill Kill- Alien insects, dolls....murder of a large amount of the human race...people getting abilities and a fight for the survival of the human race. It’s very interesting, very gory and very fun to read.
Nemuri No Fuchi- It’s surreal and supernatural, it’s very good with a very different plot. It involves and labyrinth, a little girl and some people looking for answers.
Green Worldz- What if the apocalypse was actually plants? Not seriously, this sounds stupid but is actually fantastic...The creatures, the plant structures are incredible, the gore is on point and the plot is fairly good This is a really nice read.
Dolls Code- Guy wakes up, memories gone in a school of criminals, six other boys have each had a body part taken. They have to figure out who the puppet is to get them back and graduate. It’s really short and sweet but good none the less.
Mouryou no Yurikago- What’s worse than zombies? Being stuck on a slowly sinking cruise ship and zombies. Oh yeah this ones a ride, some ecchi in it but over all a good read with some decent characters.
Kichikujima- They land on a island where there are some very horrific things going on, a messed up family and a lot of gore. They people...will they survive? I suggest anyone who’s not into the darker side of things not to read.
Hideout- I don’t even know how to describe this one, let’s say it’s a captive horror with some mystery. It managed to unsettle me but that’s a good thing. A bit of gore, a fair amount of horror and it’s worth checking out.
Kyochuu Rettou- So it’s an island full of giant insects that view humans as prey and an airplane full of students who have crash landed there. It’s survival horror with some ecchi thrown in, if you can look over a lot of nudity/perverted shots then it’s a good read. I honestly don’t mind some ecchi as long as the plot is good.
Gyo- I’m sure a lot of people have heard of this, the one with fish in it. You know, fish taking over...fish with scuttling little legs.... No? Read it...I don’t think there’s anything worse than a land shark.
Kangoku Jikken- You want dark? This is for you, take someone of your choice captive and do anything bar killing them that you want in a month. However if they guess your name, they win and will get the 10 million yen at the end of the month. This is a psychological gore fest with some very dark themes and it’s gone going, pretty good stuff.
Some quick fire horror collections: 2001 + 5 , Hyaku Monogatari, 8.1 Yamada Yuusuke Gekijou and Kouishou Rajio
Anime:
Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress- I freaking love this so much, it has a flesh eating virus and a badass protagonist who is far too lovable. I won’t say too much as honestly it’s just worth watching.
King of Thorn- This is an anime movie adaptation of manga but it’s perfect, they couldn’t of done better and flows the manga so closely. I’d say watch this, then read the manga. They’re both amazing, anyway it’s about medusa virus which causes people to turn to stone and people ‘frozen in sleep’ to try and save humanity but they wake up when they’re not supposed to, it follows the story of a twin.
Shiki- A deadly disease that eventually kills sweeps a small village but the real lesson in this anime is that the real horror lies in humans. It revolves mainly around a group of teenagers.
Mayoiga- A village that can’t be found where you can live a perfect life and a bus full of people looking for it but when they get there, is this urban legend true or was the reason it couldn’t be found more sinister? It’s alright, a great lead up and ends up a little under whelming but a good casual watch.
Kowabon- It’s got ghosts and techonology, so there’s no escape from the horror and I think that’s the true terror. It’s got some nail biting moments and is a short enough series to binge.
(There aren’t many anime series that are really decent in the horror section aside from the more well known series which a will be putting at the end of these lists.)
Movies/TV Series (Live action not animated unless stated otherwise):
Anything by Takashi Miike- He’s been named a master of horror and for a good reason, his movies are disturbing, interesting and strange. Usually full to the brim with unique characters, the tales he weave are horrific but you won’t want to look away. My favourites include Ichi the Killer and Imprint. Though here are some more special mentions:
As the Gods will- If you don’t want to read the Ousama manga then the live action is fantastic, it’s nothing special plot or special effects wise but it’s very good for a watch and I hope there will be sequel to follow the manga plot further. It’s got gore and it’s got bizarre
Terra Formarz- It’s actually both a manga and anime series but honestly I didn’t like either, however watching Miike’s live action of it was enjoyable. A bit zaney but good none the less, an easy and interesting watch
Others- Audition, Three Extremes(The Box), Visitor Q, Gozu, One Missed Call and Over my Dead Body
Train to Busan- I’m adding it in because it’s one of the best zombie based movies I’ve watched in a long time along with a protagonist you really route for, these movie has become fairly well known.
Old Boy- This is a classic and fairly well known but how could I not put it here, it’s got everything. Beautiful cinematography, a really intriguing plot and really is a thriller that glues me to the screen every time with some nice plot twists.
Hansel and Gretel- A surreal but disturbing psychological horror with fantasy thrown in surround a man who crashes his car and stumbles upon a cottage with 3 children. A very unique take on the Grim’s tale and it kept me invested till the end.
Kuchisake-Onna- I’m sure a few of you will know of the slit mouth woman who carries around huge scissors. A live action movies about this legend and it’s pretty good, they sure made her look eerie.
Suicide Club- Also a manga, it’s a good watch. Quite disturbing for some pepole with obviously dark themes/tones. Just... watch it if you wish.
Guinea Pig Series- Watch at your own risk. Highly disturbing when they first aired, to the point where people thought there were actual snuff films. Obviously they’ve ages quite a bit but other the watch for any gore lovers.
Grotesque- Another one to watch at your own risk, this is what some people would describe as torture porn. A couple get kidnapped and tortured by a doctor to see how much pain they can for through for the sake of love. Nothing to spoil, just some outrageous gore... the ending ruined it a bit though.
Noiroi- The Curse- Very bizarre and the old style of filming as a ‘documentary’ was so effective in delivering that creepy tone. This is one meant to make your skin crawl.
Dumplings- I really can’t say much about this movie without spoiling it, it’s about dumplings that are said to keep you youthful but obviously there’s a lot more to it. Some disturbing themes.
More popular Asian horror to see(This includes a mix of all three media forms):
There are well known or popular, be aware that some of them may just have horror some themes or gore in them and won’t be purely linked to that genre alone. This will also be a mixture of movies, manga and anime in no order.
Akira, Beserk, Battle Royal, Ju-On, D.Gray Man, Another, Hellsing, Corpse Party, Gakkougurashi!, Elven Lied, Ajin, Ringu, Tokyo Ghoul, Highschool of the Dead, The Chasing World, Deadman Wonderland, Death Note Vampire Hunter D, Shinsekai Yori, Kukurenbo, Attack on Titan, Cello, The Tale of Two Sisters, 3x3 Eyes, Jojos Bizarre Adventure, Whispering Corridors, I Saw the Devil, Boogiepop Phantom, Violence Jack, Cindrella, The Wig and many more, please ask me if you need any suggestions for horror to watch.
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Kids of sector 77!
@why-is-daraya-in-detention
(under the cut because we got a lotta kids here)
*Leader/Caretaker of sector 77
*Loves her kids, but if she sees one more hanging off of the chandelier then someone’s getting stabbed
*She’d leave if these darn brats hadn’t weaseled their way into her cold heart
*you wanna take that back?
*she’s going for that bandit vibe
*attention hog
*never changes out of his swimsuit
*waterproof mascara
*what are shoes?
*suspenders are fashion too
*he’s an icon shut your mouth
*gay hairstylist
*suspenders are not fashion
*cooler than you
*bets she can scream louder than you can
*troll my chemical romance is her jam
*actually very excitable!!!
*doesn’t know what “stay still” means
*monocle monocle monocle
*wild child
*only reason she’s clean is because she swims constantly
*defines the word hipster
*she bites
*collects stuffed animals
*always one step ahead
*likes saying “nice pun” to people that haven’t made a pun
*screw the whole seadweller thing he’s not swimming
*feels like a unicorn sometimes
*cerulean blood mind control powers, as long as you look into his eyes first
*walking dictionary
*if anyone asks the wings aren’t there
*hahahahahahhahhahhahaHAhahHAhahhhahHHAHhHAHAHAHAHAHHA
*what do you mean she’s creepy?
*on cooking duty!
*she’s a sweetheart
*”everyone chill holyf-”
*finds everything funny
*overprotective
*yeah I wouldn’t cross him
*stylish
*scarves are always in style
*she’ll paint your claws for you!
*says “lol” unironically
*”NERD!!!!”
*he’s a tool
*even he’s not too sure what he’s got going on
*might not look like it, but he’s actually really smart!
*ruthless fighter
*was hatched without part of his face
*robots are cooler flesh anyways
*ladies man
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^this is my submitted girl Emagro’s sector! I mentioned her having friends a lot in her bio and figured I might as well actually give her some friends??? (Ignore her hair and horns, this is an old design)
Some stuff about sector 77:
-Every kid in Sector 77 has been together since grubhood. This has created a fierce protectiveness between all of the kids in this sector, since they’ve been watching each others back for so long. All the kids in Sector 77 are great friends, even though sometimes they bicker in a way that might make you think they’re enemies. At the core of it they do love each other, though. This goes for the caretaker as well!
-All the kids are seadwellers because
1) effectiveness, makes it easier to care to their needs
and
2) they were trying to give the kids more in common so that the chances of them liking each other was higher.
-Still haven’t fully recovered from the death of one of their members about a sweep ago.
Will add names in the future!!
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311. Salsa
Lots of foods exploded onto the scene in the 1980s and 1990s, but Salsa is in a category all to itself. Salsa wasn’t just an explosion, it was an earthquake. Ok, I’ll stop.
Salsa became the number one condiment in the United States in 1991, beating out ketchup:
Dave Pace, who in 1947 bottled and sold the first commercial salsa in the United States, is amused by the ethnic explosion.
"In '47, my sauce bottles exploded all over the grocery shelves because I couldn't get the darned formula right," said the 78-year-old Mr. Pace, who retired last year from Pace Foods Inc. in San Antonio, where he still lives. "In the 70's, the business exploded when the hippies came along. No question but this health stuff made the whole category explode, and it just tickles me to see these people take the ball and run with it." 1
I think Pace’s NEW YORK CITY?!?! commercials helped drive Pace’s sales up too. For those who don’t remember, the commercials would be these cowboys in the desert, eating dinner. They would always run out of Pace Picante Sauce, and of course, someone would offer them their salsa made in (get this!) New York City instead of out west. Noo Yorkers apparently don’t know what salsa should take like.
Also, to a much, much lesser extent, those Chris Elliott Tostios commercials.
Heinz, the Ketchup empire, tried to compete with Salsa-Style Ketchup, but it failed:
Well, do we ever stand corrected -- not to mention relieved. From time to time we've noted that, these days, salsa outsells ketchup in the United States. And that's what we keep reading in the food-industry periodicals. But, chatting with a representative of Heinz USA the other day, we learned that ketchup is, in fact, holding its own. Yes, salsa is a bigger seller in dollar amounts (after all, salsas tend to be "fancy" products that sell at fancier prices than plain ol' ketchup). But ounce for ounce, ketchup still outsells the chunky stuff -- 10 billion ounces of ketchup consumed a year against 4 billion ounces of salsa. Whew. We feel all-American again. Of course, Heinz was calling to tell us about its new product -- Salsa Style Ketchup. Oh, well. 3
Salsa even became a vegetable in kids’ lunches in 1998: 2
What made me think of Salsa exploding in the 90s, was the first season episode of Everybody Loves Raymond where Frank is on his own because him and Marie got in a fight. One of the things he does is buy his own groceries for the first time. He falls in love with the salsa handed out by the sample lady:
Frank: I went to the supermarket.
Raymond: Yeah.
F: I want you to taste this great new thing they have now.
It's called salsa.
R: I’ve had salsa, Dad.
F: I bet you never put it on a chip.
R: Yeah, even on a chip.
I know.
It's good.
F: Good? It's genius.
And the woman in the supermarket was giving it away.
No charge.
R: That's called a sample, Dad.
I must have had 50 of them.
No, this woman, she was great.
R: She had on a big sombrero, she was sitting on a plastic burro.
I'll take you to see her.
[...]
Frank: Are you ready for the surprise?
Deborah: I’m starved.
F: Okay.Here it is.A dinner of eggs. But not just any eggs. Eggs with salsa on them. They're called huevos rancheros. This dish is gonna sweep the nation. Yes, sir. Fill your face. I made mucho.
Deborah: Thank you.That's really sweet of you,
Frank.I can be sweet.It takes people time to discover that.
Deborah dancing around with chips and salsa was the hottest scene in the series.
One recipe Frank didn’t “create” was Velveeta + Salsa, which was popularized by commercials in the mid 90s.
1. O’Neill, Molly, “New Mainstream: Hot Dogs, Apple Pie and Salsa”, New York Times, March 11, 1992. http://www.nytimes.com/1992/03/11/garden/new-mainstream-hot-dogs-apple-pie-and-salsa.html.
2. “Hot News! Salsa is a Vegetable”, Tuscaloosa News, July 1, 1998. https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1817&dat=19980701&id=Vz0dAAAAIBAJ&sjid=RqYEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3029,8428&hl=en
3. “On the Fridge”, Washington Post, September 22, 1993. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/food/1993/09/22/on-the-fridge/d76feacd-fe5e-451d-aa1f-9e4bcf3d1bff/?utm_term=.b529c2b0c54a
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1997/05/the-salsa-sectors/376871/
Related links:
The Best Salsa from a Jar - Tostitos, Pace, Newman's Own - Thrillist
The Best Store-Bought Salsas | Real Simple
Nash Bridges - Loco Joe's Family Style Salsa Commercial
Riding Salsa's Coast-to-Coast Wave of Popularity
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(you want the other 3/5s of this fic? So do I)
Two figures darted between bushes, one moving with grace and precision while the other recklessly rolled from one shrub to the other.
The moon hung high in the night sky as the two journeyed through the backwoods leading towards Gallagher Elementary. As they breached the tree-line, they found their progress halted by a looming chain-link fence. After sizing up its height, the taller of the two figures soared up and over the obstacle.
Abby stuck an unnecessarily stylish three-point-landing, because KND operatives should always look cool, and her eyes slowly grazed over the playground for any signs of danger.
The girl rose as a shovel clattered down beside her. With a heavy sigh, she said, “How do I get herself into these messes?”
“Tell me about it,” a voice from above said. Abby diverted her gaze upwards just in time to see Wally struggling to pull a second shovel over the fence. “I ask myself that all the time.”
“Gee, wonder why?” Abby quietly snipped as her hand snapped out the catch the falling shovel. “C’mon, man, Numbuh 5 could be catching some z’s right now.”
“Would ya quit saying that? Ya can sleep later-WHOA!”
Abby sidestepped as Wally came tumbling down, landing face first in the dirt. He peeled himself off the ground with a groan, then shot a glare up to his companion. “Why didn’t you catch me?”
“’Cuz you woke Numbuh 5 up at 2AM in the morning to dig up your time capsule,” Abby flatly said, using her free hand to flick a spec of dirt from his hoodie. “So that makes us even.”
Wally grumbled under his breath as he picked up his shovel, stomping off further into the playground mumbling obscure things about cruddy girls and their need for beauty sleep. Abby rolled her eyes, but ignored his rantings as she followed close behind.
The two members of sector V strolled through the empty lot of Gallagher’s playground, the slides and swing-sets eerily still and neglected during the late hours. But as tempting as the prospect of scaling the monkey-bars was, there were much direr matters to attend to before dawn. Or at least, that’s how Wally decided to phrase it.
“Only you would wanna dig up a time capsule not even eight hours after you buried it,” Abby complained as she stretched out her arms with an accompanied yawn. “You realize that defeats the whole purpose of the thing, right?”
“S’not my fault I was dis-informed!” the small boy argued. “I wouldn’t have put my stuff in there if I knew I wouldn’t get to dig it back up later.”
“Guessing the part where Ms. Thompson said we were sharing our history with future generations flew over your head, huh?”
“How was I supposed to know a generation is a really, really long time? I thought it was, like, two Tuesdays from now or something.”
Abby yawned. “You’re only off a few kazillion Tuesdays.”
Wally huffed and kicked a stray pebble. The boy began hugging his shovel defensively to his chest and adopted a frustrated pout as he trudged along.
“Stop being all mopey. Numbuh 5 got out of bed to help, didn’t she?” Sensing his agitation, Abby began to gently ruffle his hair. After a few strokes, she retracted her hand, Wally absentmindedly running his own through his hair at the loss of her touch. “’Sides, it gives Numbuh 5 the chance to dig hers up too.”
Wally smugly smirked. “See? Now you’re getting the idea. Why should future people get their grubby hands on my stuff? It’s mine, not theirs!”
“Something tells me Ms. Thompson wouldn’t see that way if she found out you dug out your capsule.”
“Ah, she won’t find out. Even if she does, I came prepared,” he said as he dug around in his hoodie pocket and presented his masterpiece to his friend. “I’m gonna replace my stuff with this baby. Ain’t she a beaut?”
Abby blinked. “That’s a brick.”
“Well, it’ll be the future, so they probably won’t have bricks anymore. It’ll give ‘em a chance to appreciate the finer things in life,” he said haughtily as he pocketed his brick. “Besides, ain’t no way I’m risking some loser slobbering over my Yipper cards.”
Abby responded with another yawn. The girl rubbed her eye and smacked her lips as she was only reminded of her drowsiness. “Yeah, Yipper cards are totally worth dragging me outta bed in the middle of the night.”
“Really? Cool! Thought you were gonna be mad about that,” Wally said with a smile, oblivious the girl face-palm behind him. After a moment, his curiosity nagged at him until he looked over his shoulder to ask, “Say, what are you getting back from your capsule?”
“Numbuh 5 ain’t getting back her capsule,” Abby answered. Her head dipped forward slightly, the rim of her cap veiling her eyes, and after a few moments, she quickly added, “She just thinks she probably put too much in there and wants to lighten the load.”
“How’s that any different from what I wanna—”
Abby paused mid-step to see Wally face-plant into the ground. Again. “Tonight just ain’t your night is it, sport?”
Wally slowly rose, a collection of dirt and grass spilling from his mouth. He closed his eyes, took a deep calming breath, and simply marched on as if nothing happened.
Or he would have had he not fallen yet again after a few long strides.
Abby rose a brow in concern as he walked closer to Wally. “Numbuh 4, did you forgot how to walk—oh!”
The girl quickly jabbed her shovel into the ground and used it as support to keep from falling herself. As she regained her bearings, she finally looked down to see just what was obstructing their walk. She squinted her eyes as she looked around, and as her vision adjusted under the moonlight, she only became more confused.
“Numbuh 5, look!”
At Wally’s shout, she gazed up to see what he was fussing over. The boy was still on the ground, but that’s not what had captured her attention. No, Wally’s little mishap had taken a backseat to the field of holes scattered about the back-lot of the playground.
Abby scratched underneath her hat. “Where’d all these holes come from?”
“Wait a minute, I know where we are,” Wally spoke up, his fists clenching the grass as a low rumble erupted from his throat. “This is where we buried our capsules!”
Abby was about to respond, but held her tongue when Wally gasped. He quickly scrambled to his feet and broke towards the left, tripping and fumbling all the while. But the boy endured his many pit-falls—literally—and trekked on until he stopped at the tree stump off to the side.
Wally frantically looked around the stump, fretting over it until he spotted a mound of dirt. He rounded the stomp and raised his shovel only to drop it with a cry of despair.
“No!” he wailed into the night as he pointed down at the hole. “It’s gone! Someone made off with my time capsule!”
“Someone made off with all the capsules, Numbuh 4,” Abby felt the need to say as she finished her assessment of the area. After a quick count, she could confirm the number of holes matched the number of kids in their class. “Who the heck would steal time capsules?”
“Oh, I know who,” Wally growled as he pounded his fists together. “It was Muffy Jenkins!”
“Numbuh 4, you can’t blame everything that happens to you at school on Muffy Jenkins.”
“Sure I can. She has it out for me, I tell ya!”
“Even if that were true—”
Wally rose a finger.
“Which it ain’t!
Wally retracted his finger.
“—that still don’t explain why she would take the rest of ‘em.”
Wally shuffled in his shoes, face crinkling in thought as Abby poked through his logic.
Darn it, she was good it at that. “Well, uh, maybe she did it to cover her tracks?”
“Sure,” Abby said slowly. She crossed her arms as she he analyzed the hole again. “Don’t look like we’ll find out anytime soon. Ain’t no telling how long it’s been since they dug ‘em all up.”
“Move aside,” Wally said as he folded up his sleeves. Abby watched curiously as the boy bent over, scooping up a pile of dirt in his hand and wiggling it between his fingers. He leaned in close to scrutinize the hole before dragging his finger across the ground.
Before Abby could ask what he was doing, she made a gagging noise as Wally plucked his finger in his mouth. His eyes trailed upwards in deep thought as his tongue swirled around his finger. His survey done, his finger freed itself with a plop and he let the corners of his lips edge up into a smirk.
“They were just here,” he said as a devious light flickered in his eyes, “so that means they’ve gotta be lurking around somewhere close.”
Abby eyed Wally with a heavy dose of skepticism. “And you can tell all that by the dirt?”
Wally stared straight into her eyes and said, “I know my dirt.”
“…Ok.” She then stroked her chin. “Mr. Frybingle’s homeroom buried capsules today too. Should be on the other side of the playground.”
“Then what are we waiting for?” Wally bent over to adorn his shovel and waved it around menacingly. “Let’s get my capsule back from that no good thief!”
Abby slowly arched a brow at his proclamation.
“And everyone else’s too,” he added begrudgingly. He then shook his head before bolting off across the lot, Abby quickly running after him.
It didn’t take them long to navigate to the other side of the playground. After a quick short-cut through the swing-set, the two arrived at their destination.
Abby and Wally took cover behind the slide, poking their heads out to search for the culprit. It wasn’t long before Wally nudged Abby and excitedly pointed over to a barren plot of land near the back fence.
Off in the distance was a stranger with their back to the kids. Whomever it was dressed in a plain robe, their face tucked away inside its hood. They were currently digging into the ground, stopping to scoop up a time capsule.
“There’s our thief,” Abby whispered as she watched the stranger deposit the capsule in his sack. She waited until he moved on to dig another hole before looking down at Wally. “They haven’t spotted us yet, so let’s take it nice and easy—”
“GIVE ME BACK MY TIME CAPSULE YA DIRTY, ROTTEN, TIME CAPSULE-STEALING STEALER-ER!”
Abby simply stared at the spot Wally used to occupy.
The culprit, for his part, was simply minding his own business as he hummed a little tune. Just as he started to unearth another capsule, he heard a rather boisterous commotion coming from behind him. Wondering who would be out so late—other than himself—he turned around to see what was going on.
He was greeted to the sight of an angry little boy charging towards him swinging a shovel.
Needless to say, he ran.
Wally let loose an infuriated scream as thief scurried off into the tree-line and the boy hurried after him. After the initial shock of the situation faded, Abby banged her head against the slide and kicked off after Wally before he did anything foolish.
And considering that this was Wally, she would give him a generous three minutes.
“GET YOUR CRUDDY BUTT BACK HERE!”
Two minutes.
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Turning your e-mini buying and selling right into a slick cash making gadget thru automation might appear to be every e-mini trader’s dream come true. We might all love to sit again and revel in the PC making a success exchange after exchange and watch the cash pile up in our futures buying and selling bills. In case you study a number of the excellent return figures that are posted on purveyors of computerized buying and selling systems we should all prevent looking to flail away at the marketplace with our gadget of manually entering orders, putting stops, and worrying about things like assist and resistance.
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Approximately me: I’ve been a puppy proprietor for over 50 years, and for forty of those years I have recognized and understood the sick consequences of Fleas. Oh yeah, I also spent a few years running for one of the Nation’s leading “Pest Manage” Agencies.
We have all had or will have flea issues, whether or not we want to admit it or not. Even if you do not have pets, fleas can nevertheless hang-out your house sometimes. Why name a “Pest Control” enterprise while you may do it yourself, and cheaper. It truly isn’t that difficult to do yourself.
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Lady fleas want blood to complete their reproductive cycle. Child fleas need blood to develop. Even though fleas opt for dog and cat blood, they may eat human blood.
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2 Stocks to Consider to Invest in a Renewable Energy Future
Industry Focus: Financials host Gaby Lapera's resolution for the New Year was to buy at least five stocks this year, one from each sector on the Industry Focus family of podcasts.In today's Energy episode, she interviews Motley Fool analysts Sean O'Reilly and Taylor Muckerman about two stocks they think would make great buys for long-term investors: 8point3 Energy Partners (NASDAQ:CAFD) and General Electric (NYSE:GE).
Find out what makes both companies such compelling investments, how energy yieldcos work and why 8point3's dividend yield is a whopping 7.4%, how GE's merger with Baker Hughes (NYSE:BHI) will affect the energy giant, two pieces of general advice for any beginning investor, and much more.
A full transcript follows the video.
This podcast was recorded on Feb. 10, 2017.
Sean O'Reilly: Welcome to Industry Focus, the podcast that dives into a different sector of the stock market every day. Today is Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017, so we're talking about energy, materials, and industrials. I am your host, Sean O'Reilly, and joining me today in studio is my arch-nemesis for the day, Mr. Taylor Muckerman, and our special guest, Industry Focus: Financials host Ms. Gaby Lapera. How's it going, guys?
Taylor Muckerman: Arrr. That's my pirate sound.
Gaby Lapera: Hi!
O'Reilly: Pirate? Really?
Muckerman: Yeah, I'm your arch-nemesis, old school, pirates. I don't know.
O'Reilly: You should be over there in a gray pantsuit with a white cap, like a Blofeld-y, James Bond kind of thing.
Muckerman: We're talking about more than just one billion dollars today.
O'Reilly: Oh, God. I want to watch Austin Powers now. So, Gaby, this week on each and every show, we are each going to be discussing stocks that may or may not be of interest to somebody that may or may not be starting up a stock portfolio. Did I frame that right?
Lapera: Yeah, that's actually a good introduction to some of the legal disclosures that I need to give, which is that Taylor and Sean are not providing personal advice for me, because if we do, the regulators-slash-the lawyers will come after us. So today, they're just going to be pitching stocks that they like, that they think are interesting and are worth buying. They're not pitched directly to me, and they definitely aren't pitched directly to you, mostly because they probably don't know you, but also, like I said, because we could get into a lot of trouble. Some of the other disclosure stuff that I have to tell you is that we have trading restrictions at The Motley Fool. We have a disclosure policy, and we have to publicly disclose if a contributor has an interest in any of the stocks mentioned. You want to know if Sean or Taylor has an interest in any of the stocks mentioned, you can look at the article that we produce after, or look at either of their TMF pages. Additionally, Fool employees work under trading restrictions which say that we have to hold the stock for at least 10 days, which makes sense, because day trading is pretty much the antithesis of what we do here at The Motley Fool. It also says that we cannot write or talk about a stock on air for a period of two market days before to two market days after purchasing or selling a stock, which means that none of us have bought or sold any of these stocks in the past two days, and we won't for the next two days. That's just to make sure that we're not manipulating the market, because we're so powerful at The Motley Fool that that's something that we can do.
O'Reilly: Which is why we wear the evil Blofeld pantsuits and have cats. We're going to take over the world.
Lapera: I'm really allergic to cats.
O'Reilly: You are? Me, too!
Lapera: Yeah, they make me sneeze. I like them, but, sneezy.
O'Reilly: So we are not giving you advice, but we do want to talk to you about a couple of stocks that we find interesting in the energy and industrials sector. Taylor, do I go first? Do you want to flip a coin? What should we do?
Muckerman: You go first.
O'Reilly: All right. So, Gaby, I want to talk to you about my pick in the energy and materials space, which is 8point3 Energy Partners. What the heck is 8point3 Energy Partners?
Muckerman: I'm interested, too. I'd never heard of this company until you brought it up last week.
O'Reilly: Really? You're serious?
Muckerman: I'm dead serious.
O'Reilly: Oh, wow. Get out your pencils, kids. It is actually named after the time it takes for light from the sun to reach the Earth. It takes 8 minutes and 20 seconds for sunlight to reach the planet. Twenty seconds is a third of a minute, so, hence, 8point3 Energy Partners. It was formed as a joint venture between First Solar and SunPower and is known as what is called a yieldco. This is actually analogous to something that you know a lot about, Gaby, which is REITs, real estate investment trusts.
Lapera: I do know a lot about those.
O'Reilly: So how does a REIT run their business? They own buildings, they charge rent to tenants, they try to expand their foothold by occasionally selling shares or debt, buying new buildings, building new buildings, etc. It is not uncommon -- correct me if I'm wrong -- for a REIT, over the years, to have more and more shares outstanding. That's kind of what happens. Or, they just stay stagnant.
Lapera: It depends on the REIT. I'll say that. But, this isn't a REIT show, so continue.
O'Reilly: The other thing REITs do, of course, is pay out dividends to investors.
Lapera: Right, 90% of their taxable income.
O'Reilly: Right. Same deal with these guys. It is more or less the same business model. First Solar and SunPower build and install solar panels, and installations. It's mostly for industrial and large corporate customers, compared with a Tesla or SolarCity that do rooftops. They created 8point3 Energy Partners to buy these projects, because, as you can imagine, it's not the easiest thing to do to build a $400 million solar-panel array in the middle of the desert and just keep that in your books forever. It is nice to be able to spin that off, maybe keep some of the revenues for servicing the project, but that is how they function. They created 8point3 Energy Partners together with its subsidiaries to acquire, own, and operate solar-energy generation projects in the United States. As of right now, at the end of Nov. 30 -- they have not reported earnings yet -- they own nine utility-scale solar-energy projects and have a total capacity of 642 megawatts of electricity. It is a beautifully simple business model. It owns a bunch of solar panels; it contracts the energy generator for them out to utilities and pays out the cash to shareholders.
"Sean, what is this dividend yield that you keep talking about," you're wondering. Currently, it has a current quotation of about $13 and a half per share. It has a dividend yield of 7.4%. That's pretty darn good in a world where Treasury bills are yielding 3%, where we're at the very top of what has been an eight-year bull market. It actually compares very nicely with the average long-term returns of the stock market, which, in the last hundred years, as you know, was 8%. And, to boot, it is green. They own solar panels and free energy.
Lapera: So I feel good.
O'Reilly: You feel great. You're making 7% a year.
Lapera: I mean, investors in general feel good, not me in particular.
O'Reilly: Of course. You would never feel good. You would never feel anything about --
Lapera: Like the planet, you might feel good about this stock. Continue.
O'Reilly: The lawyer over in the corner is looking at us. That's it; it's meat and potatoes. The company is projected to grow its dividend by about 12% this year. They are projecting long term to grow their dividend by about 15%. That is subject to revision based upon the number of projects that they are able to purchase from their sponsors. The pipeline of First Solar and SunPower does, more or less, appear to be rather lengthy. They do have a number of projects coming on board in the next couple of years that they'll be buying. And the last question I'm sure you're wondering is, how long will this continue? Because utilities won't just buy power from these people indefinitely without talking about it again. The average length of their current contracts for all their projects -- meaning they could actually stop right now buying projects from First Solar and SunPower, not expand at all, just keep hanging out, literally doing nothing but collecting money from selling electricity from the utilities -- the answer is 20 years. You could just sit there and do nothing for 20 years and get 7% per year off this thing. And you're saving the planet. Yay.
So, Mr. Muckerman. I brought up 8point3 Energy Partners as a stock that may or may not be of interest to people. What do you have for them?
Muckerman: Well, for investors looking to get into the energy space, and industrials, I guess, GE. You might have heard of that one.
O'Reilly: Did Thomas Edison start that?
Muckerman: It's somewhat boring, maybe. It's not a new company like 8point3.
O'Reilly: Founded in 2015.
Muckerman: But it's making a lot of money and it's diversified. And when I'm thinking about energy as we move forward in the world, we're not done with fossil fuels yet, but it's not far off. So I'm hedging my bets. I'm going to profit from fossil fuels now and renewables later. Even a little bit now. So when you look at GE, I think the big story with them right now is the combination of GE Oil & Gas with Baker Hughes, probably going to finalize itself here in 2017. What you're basically looking at is GE owning 62.5% of the joint venture, and Baker Hughes owning 37.5% of the joint venture. GE already is making over $15 billion in the oil and gas space. That was in their 2015 revenues. Up slightly in 2016. Very well diversified across five different business units within oil and gas. Carved out a niche in turbo machinery and the digital solutions space that you're looking at with this company. Turbo Machinery, actually the biggest of its five oil and gas divisions, also lends itself nicely to wind power generation. Looking at this company, it's going to have some cost synergies, it's going to be the second largest equipment and services company in the world when it comes to oil and gas, right behind Schlumberger, ahead of Halliburton, a company that I have owned for several years -- Halliburton, I mean.
So, that's what I'm looking at with GE in the moment. But we're long-term investors here at the Fool, so I'm looking at it kind of where Sean's investment thesis came from with 8point3, we're talking about renewable energy. GE offers you exposure to wind, hydro, and solar. Right now, they had a record onshore wind year in 2016, booked 7 gigawatts globally, which was up almost 20% from 2015. Total installed base globally now stands at 57 gigawatts. They're working with countries all around the world, Japan, India, Germany, Greece, Saudi Arabia. Basically, their stated mission is to make clear that renewable energy is an unstoppable force. So I agree. You look at solar in the United States creating more jobs last year, in terms of percentage growth, than any other industry in the United States, that's basically my pitch. It has great exposure to oil and gas now, and it's building a very impressive portfolio of renewable energy for the future.
Lapera: OK. I have questions for both of you.
Muckerman: Yeah, what's up?
Lapera: I'm going to start with you, because you just went. But you can jump in on this question, too, because this is kind of a general question. I need some context for a gigawatt. How much is a gigawatt?
Muckerman: 1,000 megawatts.
Lapera: Right, but, in terms of --
O'Reilly: Have you ever seen Back to the Future?
Lapera: Yes.
O'Reilly: You need 1.21 jigawatts to power the flux capacitor.
Muckerman: Jigawatts or gigawatts?
O'Reilly: Gigawatts, I'm sorry.
Lapera: I wouldn't have even blinked at jigawatts, because the science in that movie is questionable.
O'Reilly: It's a bolt of lightning -- what's questionable -- I'm kidding.
Muckerman: Very, very frightening.
Lapera: How much does that mean for a regular person? How much does a regular household use? How much does a city use? Some scale -- I mean, 7 gigawatts sounds like it could be a lot.
Muckerman: If you're looking at -- 1 gigawatt could realistically power 300,000 homes.
Lapera: Oh. OK.
Muckerman: So that's a lot of energy there.
Lapera: So 7 gigawatts is a lot.
Muckerman: Yes, it is. If you got it straight from the source, you're probably looking at 750,000 homes. But, obviously, you have to account for transmission loss and things like that. So probably right around 300,000 homes per gigawatt.
O'Reilly: To do the math, 8point3 Energy Partners currently generates enough electricity to power about 200,000 homes, two-thirds of that. But it's all from the sun.
Lapera: Fair enough, I just needed some context for that before I understand.
Muckerman: Yeah, I don't know how many homes there are globally, but 57 gigawatts, I'll do some math here -- it's a lot of homes.
O'Reilly: That's a lot of homes.
Lapera: That's a lot of homes. That's really impressive.
O'Reilly: I think, when Warren Buffett installed his Iowa wind farm -- this was about five or 10 years ago now -- do not quote me, anybody, I think it was going to be enough electricity to power 800,000 homes, and that is, like, the crawl space of my mind -- I think that's the number.
Muckerman: We will hold you to that.
Lapera: It's so windy in the Midwest. I just need a second to talk about this. I moved to Nebraska in 2012, and everyone was like, "Oh, it's going to be so cold!" No one told me about the wind.
O'Reilly: Which was important.
Lapera: No one said anything to me!
O'Reilly: You were up there in Lincoln, Neb., right?
Lapera: I had to buy shorts to put underneath all of my dresses, because you never knew when it was going to get too windy! It was crazy, crazy. Anyway, just in case you were thinking about moving to the Midwest, please take that into account.
O'Reilly: Well, that was the thrust of the argument -- I don't know if you heard about it when you were out there, but in 2008, the oil billionaire T. Boone Pickens, he had what was called the Pickens plan, and he wanted to install a ton of wind turbines in the Midwest, and he talked about how they're the Saudi Arabia of wind.
Lapera: They are.
O'Reilly: And he showed this map of North Dakota or something all the way down to Oklahoma, and it's what you're talking about, there's more wind in that corridor of the United States than --
Lapera: And it's freezing wind, just in case you were curious.
Muckerman: Well, look at just a few years ago -- 12 states produced 80% of our wind energy in the United States. You're talking about Texas, Iowa, California, Oklahoma, Illinois, Kansas, Minnesota, Oregon, Colorado, Washington, North Dakota, and Wyoming. So, pretty much the entire middle of the country, plus California.
O'Reilly: Buy your shorts.
Lapera: Yeah, that's in the summer. In the winter, ugh, it's so bad. They have this thing called runzas there, and they do Temperature Tuesdays. I don't know what happens when the temperature goes negative, which is pretty often.
O'Reilly: Runzas?
Lapera: Yeah, like a little Polish empanada. It did not sit well with me, I'll say that. But they sell you this runza for whatever the temperature is outside. If it's 25 degrees, the runza is $0.25.
O'Reilly: Oh, wow. Cool.
Lapera: Maybe if it was negative degrees and they were giving them away, I might take one, but probably not.
O'Reilly: They'll pay you to eat it.
Lapera: What is Baker Hughes? You said that a few times. I have no idea what they are.
Muckerman: Baker Hughes is/was the third largest energy oil and gas equipment and services company behind Schlumberger, Halliburton, then Baker Hughes. Like Halliburton, it derives a little bit more than half of its revenue from North America. The rest of it is international. Schlumberger is the opposite, it relies more heavily on the international market than North America. That's another reason why I like this acquisition -- in my mind, what you're going to see and what you are already seeing is North American land drilling has picked back up with some pretty decent ferocity now that oil prices are back in the $45-$55 range. So I like that exposure, especially if you look at the incoming administration, very favorable terms when they talk about fossil fuels. So I like the exposure that Baker Hughes gives General Electric to the North American land drilling market. We're talking about shale in Texas and Oklahoma, North Dakota. We'll probably get into onshore in a few years, which, GE does have some good expertise in the subsea market. So very well-rounded, now that they're about to be together.
Lapera: Cool, thank you. Question for you. Why is 8point3's yield so high? High yields make me very nervous because I come from the financial sector, and that means hinky accounting is going on.
O'Reilly: You are wise to be suspicious.
Muckerman: What is the yield?
O'Reilly: It's 7.4%. The reason is, recently, SunEdison went bankrupt, and it has two yieldcos. They had TerraForm Global and TerraForm Power. And things are not going well over there. The yields on those are astronomically high, and it's because of the association with SunEdison; you wonder who owns these projects and what's going on. Everybody owes everybody else money; there are all the problems. So there is a sector overhang to the yieldcos because some investors have gotten burned with that, and they're like, "Nah, I'm not going over to 8point3 Energy Partners, it's not happening." Fortunately, it is jointly owned by these two companies, so you can imagine a scenario where, let's pretend one of them goes bankrupt; the other one will more than likely be around to keep things going, keep it funded, buy the stake in the other one. SunEdison is going through bankruptcy, and the ownership of these yieldcos, the part ownership, I should say, of TerraForm Global and TerraForm Power, that's in bankruptcy court, so that tosses all kinds of questions up in the air, and nobody wants to touch it.
Lapera: So, listeners, I think that the thing that Sean is getting at here is that, when a stock's price goes down, its dividend yield goes up. So when there's problems with the stock, even if it's not fair, even if it's just the economy in general, the dividend is going to go up. So it's up to you to decide whether or not the stock itself is safe. Interesting, OK. Question for you again. To Sean: 8point3 Energy Partners, are they only doing American stuff? Is there any international exposure?
O'Reilly: They are just the United States right now. I'm done.
Lapera: OK, excellent.
O'Reilly: There are no current plans to expand internationally. I think there's plenty of room for growth here in the United States. Any time you go international, it's like, "OK, now I have to bribe a politician, I have to contract it out with a utility I've never talked to before," you have to worry about owning solar panels in less stable countries, sometimes ...
Lapera: That's totally fair. Just curious. Taylor, GE. GE is not just in the energy space. They have a lot of other stuff going on. They have GE Capital, which we talk about occasionally on the Financials show. They have all sorts of other stuff.
Muckerman: Yeah, healthcare.
Lapera: Exactly. So, for you, is that one of the perks? Do you know anything about that side of the business?
Muckerman: I don't know as much. But yeah, it is a nice little perk, because you have some hedging there, not only within the energy space with renewables and fossil fuels, but also economic growth around the world on the industrial side, then advancements in healthcare as well. And I don't know much about GE Finance, not as much as I should.
Lapera: We can talk later.
Muckerman: Yeah, that's fine. You can pitch GE back to me from a different perspective.
O'Reilly: Love it. Actually, that would be fun. Then we could get Kristine in here for the healthcare angle.
Muckerman: Yeah, an all-GE show.
Lapera: All GE, all the time.
O'Reilly: We could all come on the show and talk about General Electric.
Muckerman: You'll have to leave the consumer-goods folks out of it, but tech could hop on, too, with the Internet of Things.
O'Reilly: Yeah. Really quick, Taylor, I was just curious, is GE's only competition for the wind turbines Siemens? What's the deal there?
Muckerman: Oh, there's other competition. Not always publicly traded, though. But yeah, there's not only two companies in the world producing wind turbine supplies, yeah.
Lapera: Do you guys have any other questions for each other?
Muckerman: Not really, man.
O'Reilly: No, I'm good.
Muckerman: Pitched it pretty well. Which one are you going to buy? Or are you going to buy both of them?
Lapera: I need to go and do some more research on them, because GE is pretty complicated, and 8point3 is a structure that I am unfamiliar with. So, as with all the other shows we've done this week, I'm going to go home, do a little research now that I have a couple of pitches.
Muckerman: That's fair; that's smart. Our listeners should do the same thing. Much more research. Do not take us at our word.
O'Reilly: You know what we should have done is we both should have picked gold.
Muckerman: No way. I stay far, far away from the miners. Just a quick little note, I looked up, there's 125 million to] 126 million households in the United States. So that 57 gigawatts of energy that GE has installed globally from renewable sources could power up a little over 10% of those.
O'Reilly: Beautiful. Brings a tear to my eye.
Lapera: That's pretty impressive.
Muckerman: I mean, it's pretty awesome, right?
Lapera: This is such a feel-good show, except for all the fossil fuels.
O'Reilly: Don't you feel all optimistic about the future of mankind?
Lapera: Thank you guys very much. The way that I've closed all the other shows is I've asked each person for a little bit of investing advice for beginners. Sean, if you want to go first? I know you've already given one, but if you have any other nuggets of knowledge -- I hate the word "nugget." I can't believe I just said that.
Muckerman: What did he already say? I missed it.
Lapera: He said make a bear case.
O'Reilly: Oh, make a bear case; invert the thesis. I'm going to say invest in what you know. It's not going to be a Buffett-y type of thing. I just know that the first stock I ever bought, this thing went up a bunch and it was awesome, was United States Gypsum Corporation, and I bought it because my dad was finishing our basement when I was 15, and I couldn't help but notice that all the drywall he was buying was USG sheetrock gypsum. You can find it at Home Depot. It's one of those products --
Muckerman: Observant little son of a gun.
O'Reilly: Thank you. It's one of those products where you go to Home Depot or Lowe's, two major competitors, and they both sell only one brand of drywall, and it is USG sheetrock. So that was a nice little invest-in-what-you-know. I had faith and confidence, it went down after I bought it but I held on, and then the housing bubble happened and it turned out well.
Muckerman: Perfect. Mine, I have two. Read fool.com. Great free content there.
O'Reilly: Oh my gosh.
Muckerman: Maybe even subscribe to a service or two.
O'Reilly: Facepalm.
Lapera: It's not like they pay us to say stuff like this.
Muckerman: But also, create a watch list for yourself so you can keep track of stocks.
O'Reilly: That's a good one. Can you create the watch list on fool.com, Taylor?
Muckerman: I believe you can. I haven't, I use Google Finance, so, not quite as much of a --
O'Reilly: He means yes.
Muckerman: Not quite as much of a home-oriented as I might have just let on to be, but yeah, create a watch list. Generally, what I'll do is, I'll add a stock where you can simulate buying one share. That way if the stock drops a lot, I can buy another share to see how it might rebound, or see if it continues to drop, so you can dollar-cost your average of your watch list, just to see how the stock is performing over time. So maybe you don't add it to your watch list at the high and then be like, "Oh, this stock crashed; I need to buy it!" Maybe it was just a little overvalued, and now it's fairly valued. Or maybe if you add it to your watch list at the bottom and it skyrockets, you're like, "It's way overpriced, look at the watch list, I missed out," you might not have missed out; maybe the market is just finally catching up to it. So don't just add it and leave it. You can dollar-cost average, just like you showed in your regular portfolio, I believe, into your watch list.
O'Reilly: Cool.
Lapera: Excellent advice. Thank you guys so much.
O'Reilly: You bet. Thank you for joining us on the show, Gaby.
Muckerman: Yeah, absolutely. A pleasure.
O'Reilly: Do you have another disclosure you need to read?
Lapera: No, it's your turn to read the disclosure.
O'Reilly: Yeah, can I? Yeah. That is, if you have not guessed, it for us, folks. Be sure to tune in tomorrow for the Technology show. If you're a loyal listener and have questions or comments, we would love to hear from you. Just email us at [email protected]. As always, people on this program may have interests in the stocks that they talk about, and The Motley Fool may have formal recommendations for or against those stocks, so don't buy or sell anything based solely on what you hear on this program. For Taylor Muckerman and Gaby Lapera, I am Sean O'Reilly. Thanks for listening, and Fool on!
Lapera: And thanks, Austin!
O'Reilly: We love you, Austin!
Gaby Lapera has no position in any stocks mentioned. Sean O'Reilly has no position in any stocks mentioned. Taylor Muckerman owns shares of Halliburton and Tesla. The Motley Fool owns shares of and recommends Tesla. The Motley Fool owns shares of General Electric and Halliburton. The Motley Fool recommends Home Depot. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.
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