FBF - To The Death #8

Title: The End of the World as we Know it

Story: Simon Furman

Art: Geoff Senior

Letterer: Martin Baines

Design by: Amazing15

Printed in the UK by: Mixam

Plot

The White Noise guards at Essen-Six are attacked by the aircraft and run inside the building to regroup with the rest of the team, only to find them killed by Diamond Bill, who also killed the new-comers, having left the aircraft on auto-pilot. Bill enters the cell where Leo is being held and rescues him.

The main Pacifier team arrive at the bottom of the cloudscraper and launch up in jetpacks to infiltrate the building, meanwhile in the access tunnel, Dryagin and White Noise break through a seal to enter the basement of the building too.

Dryagin's team quickly find the Asphodel Extinction Weapon, and record it, and prepare to try and neutralize it, until they are attacked by the Dolmen, the alien species abducted from Asphodel, who are guarding the weapon.

Whilst the teams are busy at the Cloudscraper, Bill rescues Lena from Essen-Six, and she demands to know where Alek is, and to be brought to him.

Two of the White Noise team are killed by the Dolmen, forcing the remainder of the team to try and regroup, and try and find a way to get past them.

Up the top of the tower, the Triumvirate finally see footage of Dryagin's team infiltrating the old access tunnels, and are concerned as to how they knew of it's existence, but also know that it's of no use to them, as the evacuation of their chosen few has begun, and Earth will be destroyed in an "accident" very shortly.

Lower in the tower, the Pacifiers are trying to make their way through the floors when they are suddenly attacked by Killatoa, who immediately kills Umber. The team try to fight him off, but his reflexes are too great for them to hit. Leone however says her last goodbyes to her lover, kisses her, and closes are eyes, before propelling herself into the battle too....

Characters

Pacifiers

Aleksy Dryagin

Diamond Bill

Leone

Megan Umber Killed by Killatoa

Dolan Rekt

Hash Flynn

Bette Larssen

Jonas Huey

White Noise

Deacon Snow

Juddh King

Channon Killed by The Dolmen

Amador Possibly Killed by Dolmen (The Female Team Member is Killed)

Berenger Possibly Killed by Dolmen (The Female Team Member is Killed)

"Goatee Guy"

Forward/Tactical Bunker Staff

Essen-Six Guards All Killed by Diamond Bill

Tri-Corp

Veni

Vidi

Vici

Killatoa

Other Human

Lena Dryagin (Rescued by Bill)

Leo Dryagin (Rescued by Bill)

Other

The Asphodel Dolmen 

Lupex, the Alien Doggo

Notes

• Bill's scenes in this issue are very odd, he's often seen heavily shadowed, implying menace or that he's not who he seems to be
• We see a little more of Dryagin's "premonitions" where we see him reunite with his family, just as the Earth starts exploding, seemingly from the Asphodel Extinction Weapon, though it is still unclear why he's having these "visions" (The first coming before he ever learned about this plot, so it's not just fantasies based on what he's been told recently)
• The female White Noise member out of Berenger and Amador, name dropped last issue, is killed in this issue, but since I have no idea which is which, the character list for this issue will be a bit messy.
• The only member of the current White Noise team to not be named is the one with the goatee, so I am naming him "Goatee Guy"....for some reason....
• The alien golems from Asphodel are named here as "Dolmen"
• Killatoa's new red and yellow colour scheme is currently unexplained, but is most likely a way for him to be more fire-resistant, as he knows the team use incendiary weapons