FBF - To The Death #6

Title: Killatoa

Story: Simon Furman

Art: Geoff Senior

Letterer: Martin Baines

Design by: Amazing15

Printed in the UK by: Mixam

Plot

The Pacifiers proceed to "rescue" Dryagin from the White Noise team, when both groups notice a third party arriving, Killatoa. The newcomer tears his way through the White Noise members, killing all but King himself, but he is saved when Dryagin and the Pacifiers use incendiary rounds to dehydrate the monster (following a suggestion about Killatoa's weakness from Snow, over his communicator) and they take off in the Firedrake. They decide that no matter where they'd go, the Triumvirate will find them, so they may as well continue to Earth, and bring the fight to them.

On Earth, the Triumvirate note his returning home, and lament his refusal to die, but also know that he cannot possibly win...

On the Firedrake, King gets grilled by the Pacifiers, he admits that he doesn't know if Dryagin's family are really dead, as Snow had just informed Dryagin, but he does know that they were all targeted for death, since the Triumvirate see Dryagin as a beacon for the regular people of Earth, and wanted that taken away. Dryagin isn't sure he can be this beacon of hope, but King says that he believes in him, whether he does, himself, or not.

Back on Earth, Snow is in his submarine, where he reminisces over when he learned of the Triumvirates true plans to use the Asphodel Extinction Weapon to stage an "accident" that will wipe out most of humanity, allowing themselves and a select group to escape and repopulate another world, to prepare to conquer more planets in the future. Snow couldn't allow this to be his legacy, so he faked his own death, and plotted for four years to save the world...

Four years later, in the present day, a boat approaches Snow's submarine, and he joins them, so he can meet with "The Director"

Back on the Firedrake, King gets locked into his quarters, and the team start preparing to return to Earth, with Dryagin asking Bill to try and find his wife and child, as he doesn't believe that they are really dead, and wants to rescue them. Elsewhere, above Earth, Killatoa makes his descent to the planet as well...

At the Tri-Corp Future Technologies Facility, the team there are preparing the weapon, as pre the Triumvirate's request, despite it being a little ahead of schedule, and they look into the chamber where it is being held....and is guarded by several abducted Asphodelians.... 

Characters

Pacifiers

Aleksy Dryagin

Jonas Huey

Bette Larssen

Diamond Bill

Megan Umber

Leone

Dolan Rekt

Hash Flynn

White Noise

Deacon Snow

Juddh King

Mazur Killed by Killatoa

Levy Killed by Killatoa

Trent Hubble Killed by Killatoa

Other White Noiser Killed by Killatoa

Boat Crew

"The Director" (Mentioned)

Tri-Corp

Veni/Beauregard Percy

Vici/Sebastian Pelle

Vidi/Lucius Warrender

"Future Technologies Senior Scientist"

"Future Technologies Boss"

"Spaceport Sniper" (Flashback Only) Killed by King

Other Human

Lena Dryagin

Leo Dryagin

Other

Killatoa

Asphodel Guardians

Lupex, the Doggy Thing

Killatoa's Co-Experiments (Mentioned) Eaten by Killatoa

Notes

• The Cast list page has been updated by adding Killatoa to it, and having a big red "X" over Kraken's picture
• So..I guess it was a bad sign after all that most of the White Noise guys were unnamed until now huh? (One's even STILL unnamed!)
• In the back matter of this issue we get a small profile for Killatoa, which reveals that his blade weapons are heated, explaining why they cut through things so easily.
• Snow sure seems to know a lot about Killatoa...considering it's mentioned that he was built in a lab, and that Snow used to work for them, it seems likely that Killatoa was built by Tri-Corp
• As I theorized last issue, we learn here that the flashback Triumvirate that we saw ARE the same guys as we see in the present, but inside artificial bodies.
• After about half of the series, we finally clearly learn what the Triumvirate's ultimate plan is, they want to use the Asphodel Extinction Weapon to kill off most of Humanity, allowing a smaller amount to repopulate a new world and start again.
• Snow mentions that he faked his own death, explaining why the Triumvirate don't seem to be searching for him.