bbi_teambanzai

Communication - East Brunswick to Battery Park

2005-05-17T14:21:26Z

for mib_jones eyes only.

[unlike Mrs. Johnson who sends neat memoes on stationery that smells like fresh baked bread, Perfect Tommy dials in a number that bounces off several satellites before getting to its destination]

Hey, Mr. Jones.

Perfect Tommy, BBI.

We thank you for the attention to the alert Mrs. Johnson sent, and we have another matter of a similar life-or-death nature requiring your attention when you have a moment.

You've got the number.

Much obliged.

Cross Dimensional Dispatch: BBI to MIB - for

2005-05-16T23:48:15Z

for mib_jones' eyes only

Hello, Kay, dear.

So sorry to bother you at work, but we've encountered a bit of a problem.

It seems Indigo Camandor [you might know her as indigoskynet], who you helped get a legal dimension hopping license, has gone missing between dimensions.

We were hoping you might have some leads on where she might be.

Also enclosed, find a jar of that jam you so like.

Cordially,

Mrs. Johnson

UPDATE: Our alert has been cancelled. Bluesky has been recovered safely.

Banzai Institute

ALERT: Missing BBI

2005-05-16T05:03:21Z

Just received a phone call, cross dimensionally, from one Doctor Egon Spengler of the multidimensionally acclaimed world-saving Ghostbusters.

It would appear that one of our very own Blue Blaze Irregulars, Indigo Camandor -- whom we know as Blue sky -- was in their company for the final battle against the threat to their world. She has disappeared.

The phone number for the cross-dimensional landline at Ghostbusters is downloaded to all Go-Phones. All Banzai Institute Personnel and Blue Blaze Irregulars are requested to keep an eye out for Bluesky:

She stands approximately five foot six inches tall.
Weighs approximately 168 pounds.
She has dark brown dreadlocks with purple highlights.
Her eyes are either brown or violet depending on whether her empathic abilities are above standard human ESPer level.
Distinguishing marks: she has a Fifth Element tattoo on her right arm, a phoenix on her left bicep and a pair of wings tattooed on her shoulderblades.

Please report any sighting to the Banzai Institute immediately.

--Reno Nevada

Lectroid Watch Update

2005-04-03T12:34:43Z

Several Blue Blaze Irregulars have pointed out the name John Smallberries in the credits for several BANDAI anime imports dubbed for American audiences.

Research does prove it is, in fact, the same John Smallberries.

Gainfully employed. And doing no harm.

Astounding.

Music Soothes the Savage Breast

2005-04-02T02:03:58Z

Or at least, I used to think that was the case.

Not so much anymore.

Since the other night, Lizardo's...or Whorfin's...offer has had us all playing tug of war with each other.

We had a chance to perform for the Sages of Chaos crowd. Swede even put a little helium in the O2 feed so we'd pull off goofy Chipmunk voices. I hoped it'd help lift spirits around here, but it hasn't done much.

We're still in the same quandary.

To trust him or not to trust him.

To save our friend, but at a terrible cost.

This is the worst part of being who we are and doing what we do.

Team Banzai: Deal With The Devil

2005-03-29T15:07:09Z

The mAn is a MUrderer!

He killlled many peopl3.

Including me.

[Penny takes a deep breath, and quells her shaking hands so she can type clearly].

My name is Penny Priddy.

I've been with the Banzai institute, and Buckaroo, since the Eighth Dimension incident.

And Whorfin killed me.

Along with dozens of others over that sequence of events, and many others before and since.

He offers them the way to bring Rawhide back in exchange for what I died to keep from him.

HOW CAN THE GUYS BE CONSIDERING THIS?!

I am gonna have such a hangover when I wake up.

Provided I can ever get to sleep again.

Every time I close his eyes, I see that thing he was going to feed me to. I feel the fire ants crawling on my skin. I hear his voice saying "Kill the girl" in that creepy duotone voice of his.

I know they want Rawhide back. I do too. I barely knew the guy but Buckaroo says it's like not having his right hand; and what hurts Buckaroo hurts me.

But not like this.

How can they be giving this serious thought?!

There's no thought to be given! He's a monster.

Team Banzai: Deal with the Devil

2005-03-29T15:01:50Z

I mentioned in my last missive that there had been serious repercussions based on Team Banzai moving through the Chaos Nexus.

See, the other reason we were keeping an eye on it was because our old enemy, John Whorfin, aka johnwhorfin is also there, mugging for an Overthruster so he can go home to Planet Ten.

Whorfin is of the opinion that the Adders were bluffing about starting World War III to stop him from getting back to Planet Ten.

Pinky said as much on the DVD release.

What has heretofore been unreleased info, I will share with the internet and the multiverse. Buckaroo received one last electrochemical transmission from the Adders after Whorfin's defeat. It was the spark that revived Penny Priddy from her deathlike state. But it was also a confirmation that the particle beam weapon was being deactivated.

They had not, in fact, been bluffing. Since encountering Agent K of the MIB in the Nexus, New Jersey's theory is that that line was put into Pinky's track of the DVD intentionally, so as to not cause another Orson Welles type panic. Though I am not entirely sanguine with the idea of misleading the people we're sworn to protect, I can see the rationale.

And now I have come to the most distressing part of our chronicle.

Whorfin, who has apparently seen the DVD, offered us a deal. In exchange for an Overthruster, he'll help us with one of our greatest and most vexing difficulties -- finding a cure for Lectroid venom.

Our beloved Rawhide lies in cryostasis, his body functions slowed to very nearly nothing, as a result of leaping in front of Buckaroo to save him from a Lectroid venom barb. The other member of the institute, Badwrench, was not so lucky. His barb was spat with such force that he flew backward into his garage and his spine shattered on impact. He is lost forever to us.

But we could get Rawhide back.

If we deal with the devil.

With the help of John Parker, we have been close. Many times. But not close enough to call it success.

Buckaroo simply told Whorfin that we'd have the cure first, though Buckaroo's cryptic phrasing escaped him and New Jersey had to clarify.

It's perfectly rational, really. The minute we handed Whorfin the Overthruster, he'd return to make war on our allies on Planet 10. This is a state of affairs Buckaroo considers untenable. Not to say he doesn't want Rawhide back on his feet as bad as most of us do. But not necessarily at that price.

I admit I let my temper get the better of me. That Whorfin seems to think we're naive and stupid didn't sit well. He's left the offer open since last I bothered to see what he had to say.

We are torn apart.

We want our fallen comrade back.

We do not trust Whorfin with an Overthruster.

We do not want to be the cause of war on Planet Ten.

The cure for Lectroid venom could not only return Rawhide to us, but could open a million doors in medical research.

John Parker is calmly attempting to reach John Emdall. She isn't answering, though she is undoubtedly aware of what is going on. Buckaroo is, in fact, an antenna as far as they are concerned. Should they wish to know what we know, they have only to tune in on him.

Which makes me disinclined to the feeling of gratitude and amazement I once had for the Adders, along with John Parker's confirmation of what Whorfin murmured about warrior caste and genocide.

Finally -- if Whorfin departs our dimension for Planet Ten, he takes Dr. Hikita's colleague and friend Dr. Emilio Lizardo with him.

Rawhide, my friend, I am sorry. If it comes to a vote, I do not know that I could in good conscience vote to take the deal at the price it will cost us, and possibly the multiverse. It is with a heavy heart I say this.

--Reno

Team Banzai Meets the Chaos Nexus

2005-03-29T14:46:37Z

This is Reno Nevada for the Banzai Institute.

When Buckaroo finally greenlighted us to contact the interdimensional nexus called Sages of Chaos, we knew there was potential for a great many things to happen. The nexus is fueled, after all, by Chaos.

We'd known about it for awhile but had been quietly keeping our distance, for our own reasons -- many of which had to do with Buckaroo's situation; which Pinky Carruthers shared on the DVD. [I'm still not sure how he sneaked that past Big Norse and got an okay.]

But then the unthinkable happened. Buckaroo's Oscillation Overthruster started turning up on the Chaos group regularly. Then frequently. Then with disturbing frequency. We had to act. Every last one except for the one used by Dr. Emmett L. Brown, as he apparently either came across the design on his own or through other appropriate channels -- was a result of the incomplete designs stolen from us by the minions of Hanoi Xan.

Given what miseries have befallen B. Banzai himself as a result of the successful Jet Car test and the subsequent trip through the 8th Dimension, Buckaroo was understandably agitated at this news.

Working with New Jersey, Perfect Tommy, and Dr. Hikita [who had worked with Dr. Emilio Lizardo and Buckaroo's parents on previous Overthruster experiments], they fashioned the Overthruster killer. We detonated it three days ago, so all of them are gone save the one we exempted. No one else asked us to; a fact which sets our mind at ease.

Good things have come out of this. Mostly.

Pinky has made friends. We at the Institute are all fanboys and fangirls at heart. Of course, Pinky being Pinky, it turned into a misunderstanding.

We have a new Blue Blaze Irregular aboard -- Abbey Synthesis, aka verde_fae, or The Green Fairy. Which will make her fun at parties, no less. I'll have to contact The Swede about her training. In the meantime, we congratulate her hearty on joining our number and we welcome her with open arms.

But the biggest repercussion of dealing with the Chaos group is what transpired last night.

That I'll get into in a minute.