CVO
Storyline
An Elder God called The Traveler breaks out of the perfect prison made from space/time itself and starts seeping into various other universes as well as the one he intended to. In the past the Elder Gods communicated to H.P. Lovecraft and used him to spread word about them as stories etc, a group called Oblivion found out about him and had him killed, but also removed a parasite sent by the Elder Gods who was inside him. In the present day Lovecraft still has his followers (fans of his work) some of which are attending a Convention in Providence, Rhode Island.
At Cross Plains, Texas Bools, Cross and Britt of CVO are sent to investigate a large slug-like monster who has suddenly appeared, and starts a slow rampage across the town,the Vampires are backed up by the local authorities in try to stop the monster, but nothing seems to be able to hurt it, except for Cross' built-in Artillica. CVO starts getting reports of more Elder God monsters appearing across the country causing rampages,a nd even of humans being turned into Gatherers, who convert others and start to turn them into food for the Elder Gods (as is happening at the convention).
In Texas Cross is alone with the slug, as the others have been teleported elsewhere to help with the other attacks. Cross collects a sample of the slug to send to Benny to analyse, when his Artillica starts reacting to the Elder God and take shim over, he attacks the local police and knocks them out.
Britt arrives at the convention and starts disabling the Gatherers, and has to try and stop them without killing them off. Bools arrives at San Francisco where he rescues the newest head of Oblivion, Amanda and is asked to take her to a building, or else everything will be destroyed. In Red Hook, Isaac and Yumiko are fighting off some fish-men, when Isaac is poisoned and starts talking in gibberish.
In San Francisco again Bools and Amanda, after some exposition explaining that Oblivion is responsible for the Elder Gods being in that prison, find the object she was after, the parasite that was removed from Lovecraft, which is in a glass case and is suddenly active again, in reaction to the large Elder God creatures outside trying to get to it. Britt is busy trying to stop the fan-boys from killing her, when she hears that Cross has been turned into a gateway of sorts for the Elder God to come through, by using his Artillica.
At the Heritage Museum in St. Petersburg in the Danger Girl reality Abbey Chase has broken in and is on a mission to recover a microbot from a painting, whilst fighting off the guards. When she starts carving into the painting however some tentacles start pouring out and attacks her.
Back at the CVO Universe Cross is still going overload, and has knocked out everyone in a 100 mile radius, and the CVO command team try to work out what to do. In San Francisco Bools and Amanda plan to leave with the parasite, so Bools grabs it, but isn't told first that it needs a host to survive, so it enters his body through the mouth.
Britt is informed, whilst still fighting off the fanboys that they plan to destroy the Artullica, and therefore Cross with a missile, as does Cross find out too when he sees the plane above them.
Bools is feeling ill after ingesting the parasite, but the Elder God creatures are avoiding him and Amanda by extension because he's holding the object they're looking for now.
The Missile approaches Cross, but he's protected by the slug monster. Bools, Amanda and Britt arrive on the scene, and the slug moves for Bools (and therefore the others too), and they work out that the way to stop all this is to remove all the objects the Gods are attracted to (the Artillica, the "Stomach Tumor" etc) and throw them into the tear, sealing it.
Cross allows Britt to tear out his heart and Artillica, whilst she cries, Bools throws up the "Tumor" and Amanda grabs it and runs to Britt, she insists that she be the ome to throw it, as it's her family and company's fault all this happened, she connects the tumor and the artillica, which opens the tear, and she walks through, falling into the tear, it seals behind her and re-imprisons the Elder Gods, Bools is sad to see his new friend get killed this way.
Everywhere else all the creatures disappear and possessed individuals are returned to normal, and Abbey is left in a pile of slime, left to run away from more guards
At CVO Cross wakes up to find himself alive, thanks to some remnants in his chest, he's been left with a Phantom Heart, which works in place of his actual heart...at least for now it seems...
Characters
Vampire
Cross
Britt
Bools
Isaac
Yumiko (part Reptilian)
Overmars
Human
Amanda Houellebecq Sacrificed Self to seal away Elder Gods
Abbey Chase
H.P.Lovecraft (Flashbacks) Killed by Emanuel
Professor Emanuel Houellebecq (Flashbacks) Dead (most likely)
Oblivion Members (Flashbacks)
Convention Goers
Gatherers
Cross Plains, Texas Police
Elder God related
The Traveler Re-imprisoned by Amanda
Maggots of S'Hloheth Gone
The Tumor Sent to Prison Dimension
Lovercraftian Monsters Gone
Other
Nikodemus (Demon)
Benny (Zombie)
CVO Staff (Various)
Other Dimension Cameos
Optimus Prime (Transformers: Hearts of Steel)
Ironhide (Transformers: Hearts of Steel)
Batboy (Team-Up)
Archibald (Team-Up)
Ramdom Vampire (30 Days of Night)
Abraxis Wren (Dungeons and Dragons)
Snake-Eyes (G.I. Joe)
Donatello (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
Michelangelo (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
Leonardo (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
Raphael (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
Notes- Since the last Infestation Britt has gotten better (but her hair is shorter I must add) and Cross is now the sole wielder of Artillica around. Benny still only has one arm though.
- Bools has grown facial hair since the last Infestation as well, which implies that Vampire can indeed gross hair etc in this universe
- Cross and Britt have basically swapped roles in this story from the previous one, where she was the gateway and he had to stop her, to the other way round here.
- It seems that it was the Elder Gods who negated all the Artillica at the end of Infestation
- Britt hates Conventions, and probably convention goers as well.
- Britt seems to have a loving care for Cross, and possibly the same in reverse
- Amanda might have survived...might....probably not though....
Team-Up
Storyline
At Area-51, Archie is bored, so he and Blob go for a walk around the base and walk into Leticia working with some telekinetic Greys, but he ruins the tests by starting to smoke which distracts them and angers Leticia. Archie goes outside to smoke and get out of the way, when he is kidnapped by an Elder God and flung in a city elsewhere where he meets Batboy and the two (ignoring the superhero battle with the Elder God above them) decide to go for a drink in a bar, where both of them reminisce over past Team-Up events that they've been involved in, and how they're bored of them now.
The Bartender listens to them, but decides to ask for help when the Elder God starts heading towards the bar and starts destroying the place, and picks up Batboy. Archibald decides to leave the bar, gets out Blob, who...EATS THE ELDER GOD!!!!
Batboy is freed and the dynamic duo go back into the trashed bar for another drink, commenting on how this event would have no permanent effect, just like all the other events (despite the city being destoyed and people dead all around them, and from a news station the paper reads about a future Infestation events coming next year.....
Characters
Archibald the Grey (Archie)
Blob
Batboy
Bartender
Leticia Pope
Telekinetic Greys
The Watcher
The Watcher's Friend in Bar (let me know if you know his name)
Super-Soldier
Amazon
Iron Lantern
Elder God Eaten by Blob
Gwen Stacy (Flashback) Dead
Hero Greys (Flashbacks)
Notes
- This story essentially mocks team-up storylines from other comics, and even this very series itself
- The superheroes shown in this story are from the Amalgam comics line (basically a mash up of Marvel and DC characters). Batboy from Weekly World News is from this continuity as well it seems. It's implied however that Archie from Groom Lake is from the CVO universe in other comics, so that would mean the Elder Gods tossed him into another reality for this story.
- Archie comments on how usually in team-up's the two team-up guys tend to fight first
- Archie remembers several instances of battles in the past based on some other comic events, and even shows some Greys in outfits etc based on those of actual characters in actual events etc
- There's a lot of death in this issue, mostly done off-screen of course to add to the humour.
- The ending implies that Infestation 3 will be coming in 2013...we can only hope....
30 Days of Night
Storyline
In 1952 a photographer and a pilot are sent to a location 250 miles below the North Pole, upon landing the landing gear is damaged, but the duo continue on their mission to take photos of some strange structures detected int he area, believed to belong to soviets. The Photographer recognizes them from some nightmares she had as a child, and inside they find several people all speaking something like Romanian. They take photos of the people, and are found (thanks to the flash) the pilot, Fitch is attacked by these vampires whilst the woman escapes, with his dying words he tells her his callsign, though she didn't know what it was.
The woman is chased around the building when suddenly an monster from the Elder Gods appears from under the ground and starts attacking the vampires, almost as if it was protecting the woman. She takes some pictures of it and runs away towards the plane, with some vampires still following. In the plane she calls for help, which will come in about 6 hours. She prepares to defend herself with an aerosol and a lighter when the Elder God monster emerges and starts attacking more of the vampires. The soviets arrive, having picked up a signal earlier and start attacking the monster, and thanks to the earlier vampire attacks and wounds the monster falls, not dead, but dispersed somewhat across the landscape. The woman approaches one of the globs of monster left and walks into it, which keeps her warm and protected from the harsh weather, and whilst inside she can commune with it.
She's found later and taken to a base where she is interrogated about the vampires and how she managed to survive, under threat of imprisonment, but she doesn't care anymore about he old life, she just wants to be re-united with the Elder God again.
Characters
The Photographer Inprisoned
Lt. Col. Fitch Killed by Vampires
Elder God Monster
Soviets
Rescuers
Vampires
Interrogators
Photographer's Uncle (Mentioned)
Notes
- I don't follow this franchise at all, so I have no idea if any of the characters are in the main comics or anything
- Vampires speak Romanian!
- The Photographer woman doesn't seem to be named in this story at all
- It's likely that the Photographer's camera was rendered useless in the cold weather
- Her dreams as a child seem to imply that she had a connection or something to the Elder God before this (which could mean she was a fan of Lovecraft's work like the con-goers in the CVO section)
- The inside of the Elder God blob is so hot that it burns off her clothes, but not her skin
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