The Boo-Ya!, Season 2- Issue 1: Part 3.1

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13.1: …as we shift to an exterior shot of the apartment building just as the first few crackles of what constitutes the morning on Mowannis Prime. There should be a sense here of ominous foreboding on who the victor is, though- like the end of page 11- we technically don’t know who is the winner.

13.2: Finally, there’s some action. The door opens and a single, wiry assassin known as an M-CLAHMPER emerges; their uniform bloodied by the spraying from their victim. You can see little nanobots on the affected area, cleaning the bits up as the merc pulls their comm out.

13.3: Cut to a text screen from that comm, which reveals the text exchange they make with an entity known as BANYDRA. Bubble 1, from the M-CLAHMPER- “The little chirper is squished.” Bubble 2, from BANYDRA- “Good. Were you able to retrieve the tablets in that apartment?” Bubble 3, from M-CLAHMPER- “Negat, ma’am. Couldn’t spot it in time before the neighbor started to get nosy, and I had to scram.” Bubble 4, from BANYDRA- “Hmm…stay on planet, keep an eye on the building- in case the OJos drift by somehow. Next chance you get, find the safe and torch every bett’n thing inside it.”

13.4: A day and change later, we see a faint dot representing the Boo-Ya! drift behind it in a landing position hidden from view of the other citizenry.

M-CLAHMPER

(text balloon, Caption)

Yes, ma’am!

13.5: The Madam and Theodonna meet up at the front lobby of the building, shaking hands in a mode of mutual respect. You can see the former’s crew positioned behind her panel left; the latter’s support crew in the same position panel right.

MADAM

You must be the agent we’re meeting, Theodonna- much less bookish than I pictured.

THEODONNA

(light scoff)

It’s Field Director, and- I get that a lot. You’re much less trashy than I pictured you to be…Madam. That your actual name?

MADAM

(Bubble 2)

Ha ha…much as peeps need. As for the trashy bit, you should see me after a half dohzeen Leesian ales and a good Zoomer.

13.6: Action shot a few moments later with the two of them continuing their conversation on their way to the lift.

MADAM

(Cont., curious) So, where’s this Sayenne chick? The quicker we can wrap this biz up, the quicker me and my crew can get the hells out of here.

THEODONNA

(sighs)

About that…there’s been a development since the Ashmaker.

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14.1: Reveal the crew and Theodonna looking on as a sizable contingent of O’Julanan operatives cleaning up what was an intense fight that left what was Sayenne’s apartment.

NESSA

Flark me…!

MADAM

(to Theodonna) You’re in Intelligence. No one thought to keep an extra body or five near her votbett’n front door?

THEODONNA

(defensive, to Madam)

They were the ones requesting no warm bodies on security detail. We respected the request, ran checks and a force field around their building, which should have taken care of any potential intrusion scenario.

MADAM (Bubble 2) And yet…!

14.2: Staehlia chimes in to the chat a beat later, standing in front of a framed photo resting on an end table with a thought coming to mind.

STAEHLIA

It takes a unique soul to not want a physical security detail protecting them. What level of enemy was she up against?

STAEHLIA

(Bubble 2; reacting to Panel 3, Bubble 1)

Right, right. Where in the administration did she work in?

14.3.: Theodonna turns her attention toward the young person a beat later, knowing immediately the answer to that thought.

THEODONNA

Better question would be who didn’t want them offed. I mean, they worked in the upper bowels of the Prime Chancellor’s office. Every MP who wanted the job…

14.4: We see Sayenne in better days in a series of flashback shots back on Capitol in the Prime Chancellor’s office, working with generals and MPs as well as other heads in different departments of the Tristellar Alliance.

THEODONNA (Caption) They were one of the original Wrien staffers that goes back to just after shx beat S0lttz in the Beschuldigig a decade ago- had multiple uses through different areas of the administration. Defense, Home Affairs, Immigration, Economic Admin.

ROBIN

(Caption) Sounds like they were sorta like a Swiss Army knife.

THEODONNA

(Bubble 2)

…I guess, yeah.

14.5: We move to the night that sparked their exit, after a late night; a stack of files precariously balanced like a pillar in both hands.

THEODONNA

(Cont., Caption) Anyway, they were delivering the military budgetary outlines for the coming jahr as the Economic Minister laid out when…

14.6: Inside the conference room, Sayenne spots a massive holographic display on the wall of planet O’Julana along with military numbers and potential battle plans; the name “Operation: Crush Roe'' is written on top. You can also see the pyramid display of the royal family on O’Julana.

THEODONNA

(Cont., Caption)

Their great-great gran actually called O’Julana home. Any scrap of loyalty or belief in the TA’s authoritarian shite promptly burned away upon seeing that.