gratitude list 20200922

I can breath the air

I do not have children

I can turn on my TV by talking to my Alexa

I can buy more cheese sticks and try again tomorrow

I can stir the pot stickers next time and they will be better

I live in a place that isn't as full of obviously racist people.  I mean, Portland is VERY racist.  They flooded out Van port, it's been alarmingly recent that laws blocking Black people from buying houses have changed, the police brutality against minorities is HUGE per capita.  But in general even the truly racist people that live here try to keep a low profile.

Calibans war ch 28 - end

Ch 28 avasarala pg 305

I find those whole chapter to be very sad.  It's like that part of Hamilton when he's trying to set up the national bank and it's him against the world.  Anyway, we start off with Soren telling Avasarala that he's found evidence that Bobbie is a Martian spy.  That the real Bobbie died on Ganamyde and this Bobbie is a Martian intelligence officer.  He's got all sorts of evidence.  But then he bites his lip and the whole thing becomes an obvious lie to Avasarala.  She's figured out that Soren is working against her.  This kind of bumbs me out cause it takes the drama out of what Bobbie just figured out in the last chapter.  *sigh* She tells Soren to get her some tea.  

She calls Errinwright and he's all "we're sending you to Ganamyde"

Bobbie shows up and tells Avasarala the whole deal.  Avasarala tells her she already knows.  Kinda like how Tesla and Edison both created lightbulbs at around the same time completely independently.  Soren comes back with the tea.  It's very good tea.  Avasarala fires him.  It's just her and Bobbie now.  Bobbie's like, you can't get on the ship to Ganamyde, it's an obvious trap, they're gonna kill you.  At the very least you gotta get Bobbie her Battle Suit.  In that suit, she's a super hero.  Avasarala's got four days to figure something out.

ch 29 holden pg 317

the bomb the monster pulled out of its own body put the ship into a spin and cut off their thrusters.  They gotta do something about the water supply to get them back online.  I do not know how they fixed the ship.  I've re-read this chapter a couple times and I can't find the part where they say they got the thrusters back on line and it stopped spinning.  One second they're talking about shrapnel that bounced around engineering when it could have gone right through the reactor and then it cuts to Jim and Prax in sick bay beds.  Amost talks about how bad life as a prostitute in Baltimore is and Naomi listens.  They just get used up and thrown away.  Amos doesn't want Prax's daughter to get used up and thrown away.  That's why nothing else matters to him until they find Mei.

ch 30 bobbie pg 329

They're on Mao's ship.  None of the communications are secure.  They've trapped Avasarala in this box so they can read all her mail.  Bobbie points out, that's the least of their worries.  They're all likely to get murdered.  They are having dinner or something and Bobbie starts asking Mao what the deal is.  Of course he doesn't answer her.  Gives her the same BS "humanitarian efforts" lies.  Turns out he's not even coming along.  This whole thing just sucks.  Avasarala has a plan.  AT some point she'll ask to dock at some station and the captain will refuse and she'll declare that she's a prisoner and it will be Bobbie's job to take over the ship.  It's a very bad plan.

ch 31 Prax pg 341

They got no leads on Mei.  They go back to Tycho station.  Amos got himself a room, he insists Prax comes along.  Not sure why, Amost heads to the whorehouse right away.  Prax is trying to hire an interstellar investigation type person to find Mei.  He calls his ex wife to see if her and her new husband have some money to put toward the effort.  Prax gets the call from the investigator and the amount they want to help him find Mei is astronomical.  So yeah, things suck.

ch 32 holden pg 351

Holden's making a list of what needs to be fixed on the Roci.  It's completely unnecessary because he knows Sam's coming to fix the hsip and she doesn't need Holden's list.  Holden's procrastinating becuase  what he needs to do is talk to Fred about what happened on Ganamyde.  His plan is bad.  It's pretty much to accuse Fred of being behind it and then shoot Fred if he doesn't buy his story.  Sam and Alex show up to do a once around on the ship.  Alex and Holden have a bit of a heart to heart about the fact that they don't have paychecks or anything.  The four of them are together cause they all believe in the cause.  At this point, they gotta figure out what the cause is and Holden's close to losing it.  

Holden goes to see Fred.  He accuses Fred of realesing the protomolcule to Ganamyde cause it's the last place that's still earth/mars controlled in the belt and if he blows it up then maybe he can have the OPA totally controlling the belt and outer planets.  Fred gets super angry at this.  Fred has done SOOOOOO much for Holden and he comes in accusing him of this BS?  He doesn't dignify him with a response and he's all like, get out, you don't work here no more.  So now Holden is the independent captain of the Rocinate and he's kind of excited about it.

ch 33 prax pg 361

Amos has made steak tacos for breakfast and Prax is all OMG, this must have cost a fortune.  There's a fun talk about how the steak is lab grown and fish are better for eating in zero G for some reason.  Holden comes in and tells them they've all been fired.  Amos tells Holden about the Lunar investigators Prax was trying to hire to find Mei.  Holden's all, whoa doc, we're gonna find your kid.  Prax is like, that's not realistic, I don't have the money to pay to keep the Roci running for a day and I don't have anyone else to ask for money from.  Holden's like, how about we ask everyone?  So they do a go fund me video.  It must have taken all day to make and send and what not cause the next thing we cut to is Prax waking up and Amos telling him they made enough money to keep the Roci running for a month.

But it's even more than that.  The Social media outpouring has been AMAZBALLS.  Mei is now the face of the Ganamyde disaster.  I got a little emotional when I read that.  It's really great.  All these people sending him all these messages about how they lost their loved ones and they're in this with him.  Then he get's a message from a guy that says he recognizes Dr. Strickland, but whne he knew him, he wasn't called Strickland.

ch 34 holden pg 371

I've been spelling Ganymede wrong.  Holden finds Naomi in a bar and they talk and it's good.  They might not have a romantic relationship, but she's definitely still on the crew.  The money keeps rolling in like crazy in the Save Mei fund.  It's up to half a million UN dollars now.  Tons of people sending in supportive messages.  Amos, Prax and Holden watch the video fromt he guy that knew Strickland back in the day.  He knew him from University on Ceres.  He was about to get thrown out for ethical reasons.  But the day before his tribunal or whatever he left syaing he got  a sweet corporate job and he wouldn't have to put up with their small minded BS.  Sounds just like the scientist behind the Eros disaster.  Holden's pretty sure Strickland worked for Protogen and they're behind the whole Ganymede mess.

ch 35 Avasarala pg 381

Avasarala is trying to have conversations with people, but the lag is like 20 seconds so it makes it very hard.  She and Bobbie talk so Avasarala has someone to talk to without lag.  They watch Holden's video.  Avasarala is pissed that Holden talked about the protomolcule being on Ganymede and there's riots on Ganymede in response.  50 dead so far.  Not that it matters, those people were likely to die of starvation or suffociation or sickness or any number of things that happen when you're stuck on a dead moon.  Avasarala talks about her son that died in a skiing accident when he was 15.  She says Bobbie reminds her of her daughter.  She tells a story about how after her brother died she washed dishes for 3 hours while her hands were bleeding.  Yipes.  Things are kinda bleak.

ch 36 Prax pg 393

Crap, I'm all the way up to chapter 39 and I forgot to save.  So the next few of these are gonna be brief and lame.

Prax is happy cause of the money and the messages.  But then he's sad cause he gets hate mail and the reason is that his ex wife posted a video saying Prax had abused her and was physically, emotionally and sexually abusing Mei.

ch 37 Alavasarala pg 403

Avasarala sees the video and knows it's a smear job.  She starts sending videos and messages like crazy.  This really pisses off the Mao's people on the ship and they cut off her communications.  She tells Bobbie it's time for her to take the ship

38 Bobbie pg 413

Bobbie puts on her super suit and goes about taking over the ship.  She has to take the ladder cause they've turned off the lift.  She takes out a half dozen people on one deck.  She finds a lift and takes it up a waze.  She finds the captain and he's pretty amenable to turning over the ship.

ch 39 Holden pg 425

Remember when Alex was like "we don't get pay checks or anything" that one time? Well, Holden wants to do something about it.  He's all like "who are we?" and the punchline is that they're gonna incorperate and declare officially that holden is the captain.  Holden and Naomi are boning again.  And I guess they're just gonna be together now.  At least they're gonna share a bunk.  Holden is woke up by Alex.  There's a message incoming.  It's Avasarala, her face looks wierd cause she's traveling at high G.  I'm excited to hear how that happened.  They just had a conversation about how Mao's ship doesn't go faster than a G.  Six UN ships are heading their way and are planning on destroying them.  She says to head their way and she can protect them.

ch 40 prax pg 435

They're burrin at 6 G and Prax doesn't like it.  His knee hurts like hell.  They stop for dinner and Amos helps him with his knee.  Amos has a toe with a similar habit of hyperextending during high G.  So don't hyper extend it.  Amos asks Prax if any of what His ex is acusing him of is remotely true.  Prax is all, no, not even remotely.  Amos is like, cause guys do things and sometimes they're bad things.  It doesn't make them bad people.  Prax is all, yes it does.  If someone had done what Prax was accused of they would be a bad person.  The sort of person Amos (I keep putting a T on the end of Amos cause I'm so used to typing almost)  would throw out the airlock.  

Avasarala's ship arrives as they're getting ready to hit high G again.  Bobbie is the first to board.  Amos is really not pleased with a giant armored martian marine being on board.  Avasarala arives and tells Naomi she needs help with her hair.  Naomi tells her to fuck off cause she's not a God Damned hair dresser.  Avasarala needs to make a media broadcast and she needs to get appropriately dolled up for it.  Naomi is the only person on the ship remotely likely to be useful in that persuit.  So pretty please, with sugar on it, help me get my fucking hair did for this media broadcast.

ch 41 avasarala pg 447

They do a media blast that's pretty slick.  Naomi plays the part of the reporter as Avasarala is playing the part of someone at a large news conference.  There's stuff about how Prax's ex has mental problems and it was irresponsible of the media to take her raw blah blah blah and declare it to be a story without getting all the info.  They send it out to the solar system.  They have a long talk about what the protomolecule monsters are and how they aren't really under control and they're communicating back to Mars.  Avasarala takes all this data and puts it together into a sort of consumable media packet for Errinwright.  He's not in control of the protomolecule.  Whatever is on Venus is in control and whatever control you think you have you're gonna lose even faster next time because Venus knows everything that all of the other protomolecule monsters went through and as soon as it can, it communcates all that to the next protmolecule monster.  So he needs to stop the whole thing before he gets destroyed by his own project.

The response is that the ships that previusly slowed down to cruising speed had once again jumped into high G to come after them.  Avasarala tells Bobbie that if she wants to say I told you so, now would be the appropriate time.

ch 42 holden 459

Holden wants to do the Holden thing and broadcast everything to everyone.  Avasarala wants to just send it to a few powerful people to turn the political tide against Errinwright and Nguyen.  Holden is like "well, that's too bad, cause I'm the captain and what I say goes." and Amos is like "don't we vote on this sort of thing now?"  And of course they vote for Avasarala's idea cause it seems like that idea might end up with them alive at the end of it.

Avasarala sends the message to a few UN Admirals hoping they'll rise up against Nguyen.  Holden goes a little rogue and sends the message to his mommy.  Holden's got another brilliant idea.  He's gonna put prax and Naomi on the tiny racing ship Avasarala and Bobbie came on and send them to safety while the Roci heads back toward the UN ships to buy them some time.  This suicide mission seems like a bad idea.  Bobbie has an idea...

ch 43 bobbie 469

Her idea is that we try to team up with the Martian ships that are following the six UN ships heading their way.  The pitch is this, these are 6 rogue UN ships trying to kill a high ranking UN diplomat in order to Silence her.  Which is pretty much the truth.  The situation is not ideal, but they make it happen.  The Martian ships are in.  They abandon the whole send a couple people away on the small ship idea.  When the shooting starts it's super fast.  Bobbie is running the guns.  They are able to blow up the incoming missles real good.  But then there's some holes in the ship.  But they're all in vac suits so everyone's ok.  The punchline is that all 6 UN ships end up either destroyed or surrendured.  I love it when a plan comes together.

ch 44 holden 481

It's a real God Damned love fest.  Holden 's all "hey Mars, we used a bunch of bullets and missles, how about you give us some" and the Mars people are like "we'll send it right over." And also he asked for something special for Bobbie.  The Martians are intrigued by Holden's motley crew.  Golden and Amos chitchat and Holden speculates that Alex might have a thing for. Bobbie.  Amos makes the unrelated state ment that he's a talented amature.when it comes to violence.  Bobbie is a pro.  She and Amos aren't even playing the same sport.

Ch 45 Avasarala's pg 489

She's talking to Admiral Souther and he seems to be on her side.  She gets a message from her husband who's also in her side, but a little bummed that she.might die in space and he might never see her again.  She gets a message from Errinwright, who is definitely not on her side.  His message is all threats and Avasarala's thinking that's good for them.  He wouldn't be making threats of he were in control of the situation.   Five hours later there's a broadcast message from the Secretary General, the head of the UN, that feel s kinda wishy washy where he's like, I'm gonna get to the bottom of this. (My fat fingers keep typing thus) if there are people within the U.N. Military going rogue they will be dealt with.  If these rumors are untrue, the.source of.those rumors will be punished.  Avasarala's is super psyched.  She thinks this means Errinwright is done.

Ch 46 Bobbie pg 499

Bobbie is thinking she misses her dad.  None of her.brothers went into the service like her dad so they were close in a way that none of.The rest of the family was.  She's thinking she's never gonna see her dad again because she knows she's gonna have to fight another protomonster and she doesn't love her odds.  She starts wonderimg.why she was.left alive when the rest of her squad and.who knows how many in marines were taken out by the thing.  She figured out its because the thing destabilized and it's self destruct went off.  She watches her suit's video feed a few times and sees that the more damage it took, the more it mutated away from it's original form.  Also that it can run fast in a straight line but was not horizontally agile.  Not that it helps her because her suit has the same.limitations.  

she's kinda got a plan.  Doo enough damage to the monster and hope it's self destruct fires before it kills her.  

she calls her dad and her captain and suddenly feels super tired and crashes.when she wakes up Holden shows her the surprise.  It's a fun for her suit and a lot of explosive rounds.  We will see if its enough.

Ch 47 Holden 509

there's a ton of ships around Io.  This far no shooting.  Nguyen is targeting the Martian ships.The martian ships are targeting Nguyen's ships.  The "good" earth 🌎 ships lead by Admiral Souther are just there so far.  Pray starts to.lose it.  WE GOTTA GO DOWN THERE AND GET MEI!!!!!  Holden kicks him in the stomach and tells Amos to take him to his bunk and sedate him.  Lots of chatter now.  Ok has broadcast that they're gonna fire.their biological weapons at the Martian ships if they don't stand down.  Mars says they're gonna turn Io to glass of they fire a single shot.  Even more fun, there's a broadcast from.The U.N. Demanding Nguyen's immediate surrender.

Ch 48 avasarala pg 519

Io shoots monsters out at the ships.  This somehow went horribly wrong because Nguyen 's ship gets hit.  He's begging for someone to get him off the ship.  I'm pretty sure he's dead because an escape.pod gets launched from his ship and gets blown up.  But that doesn't really help anything because the monster rockets have gone dark and we're pretty sure they're headed to Mars.  They're gonna take the ship down to Io to get Mei.  But Holden's not coming along.  He's going to Nguyen's ship to find the codes to turn the trackers on the monster rockets back on so they can blow the! Up anD save mars.

Ch 49 holden pg 531

Holden goes over to the Agatha King and the first thing he finds is a survivor that hits him with a wrench.  There's vomit zombies like on Eros.  He and the survivor make their way to the CIC to get the codes.  He's shooting zombies all the way.  They get to the CIC and Nguyen is there.  Holden.shoots him in the neck and he dies.    Holden finds the self destruct button.  There's no timer.  It's just a button.  You push it and the ship blows up.  The survivor says he'll stay behind to.push it.  Holden.sends the codes to Admiral Souther.  The Agatha King blows up.

Ch 50 Bobbie 545

They get down to Io and Bobbie sees a protomolecule monster and is like "hold my beer" and shoots it a lot.  She kinda runs around in a square cause the monster can't corner well and it allows.her to.keep her distance and keep shooti mg at it.  Her do a lot of da!age.until the self.destruct goes off.theory kind of works.  The problem is that the monster rips the bomb out.of itself and throw a it at Bobbie.  She's out of comission.  The monster is sniffing around at her  and it's got a brown goo tube I guess to try to turn her into a vomit zombie.  She's able to move her arm just enough to blow the.monster's head off.  

Ch 51 Prax pg 555

Prax and Amos are making their way around the Io base.  Prax is super good at navigating the base.  You lived in one moon base science lab, you can live in all of them.  They find Strickland.  He shoots another science lady and tries to act like he's the victim in all this.  Mei is there and Prax has her and all is well.  He's thinking about shooting him, then turns on his guns safety and says this...

“I don’t need to kill you,” Prax said. “I have my daughter back. Revenge isn’t important to me.”

Amos needs revenge.  He shoots Strickland in the head with his shotgun.  There's a bunch of security guards trying to form a perimeter.  But Amos is alreadY within said perimeter so it's easy for him to blow them up with a grenade.  They've got the kids in air sealed transports.  The transports have 40 minutes of air so they've got no time to.lose getting back to the ship.  They meet Bobbie on the way.  She's fine, but her suit is covered in protomolecule.  So she has to take it.off before getting back on the ship.

Ch 52 Avasarala pg 567

Holden and Prax are talking about how Prax has too much money.  He saved his daughter cause that's what the money was for.  But people are still donating.  This is inconvenient for Avasarala because she wants to put Prax in charge.of the Ganamyde rebuild project.  If he's independently wealthy it's going to be hard to convince him to take.The job.

Mei and Amos are playing around in zero g. Avasarala is like "when you.play catch with a child they shouldn't be the fucking ball" and Amos is like, chill and Mei.is.like "where's my daddy?" Amos is. like, she's cool for.five minutes before.she.needs her dad.  Avasarala tells Bobbie she's gonna end up being in charge of Earth and Bobbie has a job with her if she wants it.  Bobbie says she needs to spend some time with her dad.

Ch 53 Holden pg 577

Holden is on the moon.  He's there with Naomi.  He calls his mom to say he wants the Family to.come up to the moon to meet Naomi, she's a belter.  Holden's mom doesn't love this news.  Beaters can't really hang out on Earth.  So if Holden and Naomi have kids, the y won't ever come down to see their grand parents on earth.  They're all gonna have to hang out on moons and space ships.  

Holden is hanging out in a hallway waiting for someone.  Turns out that someone is Jules Pierre Mao, who's in cuffs being escorted by two YUGE guards.  They have some words.  Avasarala shows up and there are more words.  They're all negative.  The punchline is that Avasarala is in charge of Earth now and with all that power she's gonna make sure Mao spends the rest of his long life in a real bad prison.

Ch 54 Prax pg 585

Prax is at a dinner party everyone we know is there.  It's a divers e group and people seem to be having a good time.  Avasarala just found out about Frwd Johnson blowing up the Io monster rockets with the rockets he stole from Earth and she's not.pleased.  Prax is talking to Bobbie about the Ganamede rebuild.  she's gonna go back to Mars for her brother's wedding.  There's news from Venus.  SOmethi mg big is coming up.  It's a giant space octopus.  Bigger than Ganamyde.  This is very bad.

epilogue Holden pg 593

Holden is watching the Venus footage over and over again and freaking out about it.  Naomi is all, what can you do about it?  His lack of answer is an acknowledgement that he can't do anything.  But that doesn't really help.  Naomi is going to bed.  Holden is super worried, then Miller is there.  "We need to talk."

Sidekicks 31 - end

Ch 31 page 332

Flying over the city by butterflies is scary.  Anna and Randy are handling it much better than Sam.  Sam claims this is because they still have super suits.  The other problem is that butterflies are slow.  Anna has an idea, they drop onto a moving subway train.  The idea after that is to jump through Savor's wall of fire a nd them get to the cathedral so they can take off his helmet and hope that solves all their problems.  They're prepared to do this when they realize the train is slowing down.  It stops at a station and they get off.

Ch 32 page 342

The cathedral savior is hiding out in is the hero Memetzos old hide out.  Allergy girl.used to serve.under memetzo and.remembers there was a secret entrance in the sewer.  They get in.and find calcu Lass.  She's strapped to a chair and has a bunch of electrodes in her head.  She communicates with them by sending text messages to Anna.  They're all prepared to go take down Savior and Calc u Lass says she'll cause a distraction.  She says she wants someone to stay cause she's.lonely.  The obvious one to stay behind is Sam cause he doesn't have a super suit.  Randy and Anna head out.to get savior.  Calc u Lass tells Sam she's not lonely.  She's 40% of Facebook.  But sje.said that cause.They need to.talk.

Ch 33 page 355

The chapter starts off with Calc u Lass kinda professing her love for Sam in a creepy kinda way and than tying him up in cables. so maybe she's crazy pants.

 Randy and Anna are fighting Savior and it's a pretty.decent stalemate.  Randy hits.him with a couple of church pews and Anna keeeps.throwing her allergy blasts at him but he burns them all away with fire and they do an ok job of avoiding his fire blasts.

back to Sam and Calc u Lass.  They are talking more and She explains that Randy and Allergy girl are better off without Sam.  Not !much, they are at 2.2% success with him and 3% without him.  They talk about how special Sam is amd.that if he fully used his powers Calc u Lass has no idea what the odds are cause his power is so random.  Sam confesses that he doesn't concentrate to use his powers.  He concentrates to keep his powers locked up in his head.  Calc u Lass convinces him to let his freak flag fly.  She might be crazy, but there's a method to.her.!madness.

Sam joins the fight and it's random A F.  He encases Savior in jelllo.  He's saved by a giant wrapping of toilet paper.  Anna connects on one of her allergy blasts and Savior starts sneezing uncontrollably.  Randy says he'll get the helmet.  The last thing we see is a fire blast hitting the ceiling and a large amount of debris falling in Sam's direction.

Ch 34 366

Sam and Anna are doing their best to fight Savior.  Slowly but steadily they are losing the fight.  Both of their super suits are flashing the low battery symbol.  Everything is looking to be lost and a fireball is headed at Randy.  It turns into a banana cream pie.  It doesn't kill him like the fireball would have.  Then the pile of rubble that was covering Sam turns into a pile of inflatable dicks.  Much easier to get out of than a pile of rock and wood.  Sam runs out of the dicks toward Savior.  Savior unloads on Sam.  But Sam is protected by a wall of pork fat.  Randy Simmons his butterflies to get Savior's helmet off.  Looks like victory.  That is until Sam gets a text message from calcu Lass HELP!!!!  Savior is all,.you think you've won?  I'm just getting started!!!!!

Ch 35 373

Savior may be down but his fire has gone underground to destroy the city just like he said it would.  Sam tells Randy and Anna to go save calc u Lass.  Sam decides he can save the day of he puts on the helmet.  He does and all sorts of fun random stuff happens to save the day.  The greatest of.these is he turns the fire into a giant pancake.  Then things get a little scary when Sam tries to take the helmet off and the helmet convinces him not to.  With Sam's power Brian could disappear.  Sam could have his family back and really fix the.world's problems.  Predictably, Sam gets the helmet off.  Savior tries to get the helmet, but then a hole in space and time opens up a ways above him and beef chief's mutant bull falls from the hole and smashed Savior but good.  And they all lives happily ever after.

Sidekicks ch 22 - 30

Ch 22 pg 248

The bladder guy calls himself Savior and confirms he killed the justice platoon. Doc mighty and the others. He says he's freed society of the tyranny of these so called heros. They were playing catch and release with villains to keep their movie deals and merch selling. All the while innocent lives were lost.  The Savior is here to punish people.  That's why he killed beef chief.  Sam starts to say something in beef chief's defense but thinks better of it so as to not get exploded by the 

Ch 23 of 255

Savior starts blowing up people as he names their petty crimes.  Sam goes after him and ends up in fire.  Pretty sure he's made a horrible mistake and is going to die.  He is hit by something hard and fast and does not die.  It's kaptain Nazi.  Savior decides to test kapitain Nazi.  He shoots at some reports to see if Nazi tries to save them.  He does.  He dives in front of the bullets and saved the reporters.  He d ies in Sams arms.

Ch 24  pg 263

Sam punches Chuck in the face and explains that he did so because Chuck faked the beef chief.footage that initially had them.going after beef chief.  Sam is going off on everyone and he is o u t out.  Anna follow him and suggests they get drunk.  Sam says he needs to check on his kid.  But he promises he'll call amd.sje.gives him her card and they walk away.

Ch 25 pg 273

Sam goes to see Corey.  At first his ex doesn't let him in.  Then she agrees to let him in for five minutes.  Corey is watching the news and it's horrible.  Savior has taken over a big church and has created a bunch of magma dogs to punish law breakers.  Brian is one of.those law breakers.  He comes in and talks about how he ran a red light and a magma dog came after him.  He thinks he.lost it.  But then there's screaming from Corey's room.

Ch 26 pg 281

There's a magma dog outside of Corey's window.  Somehow I always imagined Brian living in a condo that was high up in a big building.  Guess not.  It's confirmed to be a house.  A house with other windows.  A window that the magma mut jumps through.  BRian is not a sniveling coward.  Sam jumps on the firedog and his pants light on fire.  The magmapups feel pain as Sam and Brian dare able to stab it and while it's writhing in pain they're able to get away.  Sam uses his power and somehow ends up smashing the lava dog.  Maybe it was the thing that Sam made disappear earlier.  Corey's real worried about all the other people that are getting attacked by fire monsters.  Sam suddenly knows exactly what he's gotta do.  He tells Laura and Brian to get Corey out of town until all of this is over.  Also, can he borrow some cab fare.

ch 27 pg 292

Sam goes to Anna's.  They're gettin the band back together.  Randy's been hiding in the back of Anna's place the whole time.  What a wierdo.  They go back to talk to Chuck.  Sam wants a super suit.  They don't have another super suit and his is burnt to shit.  Randy and Anna have theirs.  So it's not all bad news.  They're gonna go get the Savior.  He has a wall of fire around the cathedral he's hanging out in.  Sam says pretty confidently that the Savior is going to let them in.  Anna asks if there's money in the budget for a cab cause she does not feel like riding the bus again.  Chuck's all coy about it and says "Oh, I think we can do better than that."

ch 28 pg 299

They have a batmobile and they drive it to the asylum cause they heard that Savior is heading there to kill the criminally insane.  Chuck shoots a lot of lavamutts with a really big shotgun.  The two guards get killed by magmamutts.  Sam goes into the asylum and tells the crimnals what's coming.  They run away.  Sam and Chuck are having a conversation as to whether this is good or bad.  Then some exploding starts happening.  I'm assuming this is the Savior and that super bad stuff is gonna happen now.

ch 29 pg 315

Sam calls Savior Jim.  He's figured out that Savior is former sidekick Jim Flamable.  The rest of the chapter is them talking about the old days and debating the goodness or badness of the Justice league.  At one point Chuck starts thinking about shooting him, but the gun melts before chuck can do anything.  Savior says the reason he knows all the things about all the people that have done these petty crimes is cause he has Calcu-Lass on his side.  Randy has a whooe thing about how Calcu-Lass could totally get it and Jim's like "we're together" and Randy feels bad about what he said for like a microsecond.  But then Savior talks about having tied her up and put electrodes in her head.  That's not a good relationship.  Jim has gone crazy.   He throws a fire ball at Chuck.

ch 30 pg 324

Jim continues to have a meltdown and says something like "WE'RE NOT FRIENDS ANYMORE!!!!"  Then he throws a big ass fireball at them.  Sam uses his powers to summon something wet to protect them.  None of them are dead.  They look around at the aftermath of the fireball and Savior is gone.  They look around more and there's a bunch of what look to be burned out bowls around them.  Anna deduces that they used to be turtles.  They're now surrounded by dead burned turtles.  Anna's like, we'll it's good you can control your powers better now.  But Sam's like, no, I really can't.  Randy says Chuck's dead.  Chuck is not dead.  But he is in super bad shape and he's coughing up blood.  Chuck suggests they regroup and go after Savior later.  Randy mentions that Savior is going to destroy the city to get back at them for not being his friend.  Chuck says they should go after him then.  Anna mentions that Savior didn't really lose it until she made him sneeze and he almost lost the big stupid helmet he wares.  They recognize the helmet.  It used to blong to Mr. Alagator.  He used to be a bad guy with two alagators.  Then one day he comes along wearing that helment and he has a thousand Alagators and he destroyed the city.  But after he was caught he claimed the helment was controlling him.  So if they can get the helmet off the Savior maybe he'll be less crazy and go back to being good ole Jim.  They're gonna go do that.  But their batmobile is all messed up, how are they gonna get there?  Butterflies, that's how.  Randy's power finally works and thousands of butterflies come along to be their form of transportation.

calibans war CH 1 through 27

There's a kid on Ganymede.  Her mom went to Ceres.  Sounds like her parents are getting a divorce.  She's doing finger painting and someone is here to get her.  She's supposedly going to get to see her mommy.  Punchline, she ends up seeing a gross monster pseudo man that I'm assuming is the result of a proto molecule experiment.

CH 1: Bobbie page 7

Bibbie is a lady martian marine stationed on Ganymede guarding a greenhouse.  Nobody used to need to guard the greenhouses but now everything is horrible so the martian green houses are guarded by martian marines and earth greenhouses are guarded by UN marines.  Then usually spend their days staring at each other from a couple kilometers away.  Today is no different.  Bobbie is looking at six UN marines.  Also she has an old space suit that's leaking.  Bobbie's life sucks.  Then it sucks more.  The six UN soldiers are headed their way.  No, there's seven of them now.  Orders are to shoot if they get within 509 meters.  Bobbie notices that one of the seven UN marines is further back and weird and the other six are running away from them.  At 1000 meters bobbie can see the seventh in marine isnt a marine at all.  It's some kind of monster and it's super obvious the 6 UN Marines are running away from it.  Bobbie tells her marines to fire on Tge monster.  It doesn't help.  The monster catches up with one of the UN marines and tears them in half.  This is super bad.  Their bullets don't seem to affect the monster.  They just go right through like it was made of water.  One by one bobbie sees the monster kill the UN marines, then the Martian marines.  Now its just Bobbie.  Pretty sure she's gonna die.  Except she doesn't.  The monster sorta sprouts two arms out of it's chest and then explodes.  Bobbie is still alive.  But up in space she can see martian and UN ships shooting at each other.  

This is a horror show far worse than what the feds are doing to Portland on 7/21/20.  To my knowledge they haven't killed anyone.  They're making a lot of unconstitutional arrests in unmarked vans.  There's the teargassing and shooting people with rubber bullets.  Also they broke that poor Navy guys arm.  Figurative monsters rather than literal monsters.

CH 2: holden page 17

Sweet, holden is still in this and the chapter a are ten pages long.

Holden is trying to get coffee, buthe can't cause there' sno power in the main cabin at all.  So he goes down to engineering to ask amos why.  He's working on some panel that had to be removed from the main cabin.  But Amos has coffee so all is forgiven.  They're persuing some prirate.s  They threaten to blow them up and the priates suraneder.  Now they gotta get back to Tycho cause Fred has some sort of BS they need to be involved in.

ch 3 Prax page 25

Prax is a ganymede botonist.  He's int he agriculture dome but it's all wrong.  It should be all lit up with the light that gets reflected by the giant mirrors out in space.  But it ain't.  Doris shows up and tells him things have gone horribley wrong and it's gtfo time.  Prax has been working on this special soy bean that's only grown here for 8 years and he ain't gonna let his lifes work go without a some amount of effort.  So he digs a soybeen out of the ground with his bare hands and he follows Doris out of the dome.  Prax's number 1 priroity is to find his daughter.  Even though everything has been locked out cause of the war fighting described in Bobbie's chapter, Prax gets a scooter and makes his way to the day care center.  He's told his daughter's mother came to get her this morning.  That's very bad cause Prax's ex-wife lives on Ceres.  Prax's life is very bad, his dome is destroyed cause of the war and his daughter has been kidnapped.

ch 4 bobbie page 35

Bobbie is in super bad shape.  But some milatary jackass demands she be given a bunch of drugs in an unsafe manner so he can get her testimony.  The punchline is they get the video of the monster and it was hard cause her suit is old.  Then she's been recovering and eats jello and wishes there was real food.  Then a priest shows up who's also a grief counciler and the punchline of that converastion is that sh'es going to earth to give them ehr testimony.

ch 5 avasarala page 45 

Avasarala is an Indian lady in the U.N. Government.  I forgot her title, it was something vague like information Secretary or whatever.  She's the only woman in the war council.  There's some war council arguing and Avasarala's influential and they.land on opening up talks with Mars.  Avasarala tells one of her people to start monitori my Nguyen's communication.  He's a military guy that kinda wants to blow up mars.  She seems to know everything.  She knows all about the protomole cule and she has video of the protomolecule monster attack on Ganamede.  She has a cute conversation with her husband.  She doesn't swear as.much as I was told to expect.  Maybe she swears a lot more when things get worse.

Ch 6 Holden page 57

The crew is on an old junker to sneak into ganamede.  It works.  There's a fun thing where Amos is talking shit to some martian marines.  Then when the customs guy shows holden spots it as a shake down and is all like, my friend here is gonna kick your ass while I point my gun at your thugs.  The customs guy runs away.

ch 7 prax pg 69

Prax Meng is looking for his daughter in the aftermath of the Ganamede insanity.  He's at some sort of law building and the lady can't help him.  She probably can't help the lines of people behind him either.  Things are bad all around.  His routine regularly involves him digging through rubblewalking around to different morges trying to find his daughter's body.  It's just the saddest.  He goes to visit some friends that have a kid his daughter's age with the same medical problem.  They tell him they're leaving.  There's just no chance their kid is still alive.  Prax talks about how his teacher said that Mei wasn't missing, she was taken and there must be a reason so she's got to still be alive, the dad doesn't buy it.  He's given up hope and is moving on.  Prax gets emotional and punches the dad.  This is a bad idea cause the dad is a MUCH bigger dude and having been punched he punches back and Prax is in bad shape.

ch 8 bobbie page 79

Bobbie is having some real PTSD problems.  She talks to some civilians about what happened.  They callt he monster that killed her fellow marines "the Aberation" and mention that it was blocking their radio signals.  Bobbie presents the idea that the Aberation came from a place largely believed to be abandoned and they started out with far more UN marines and the six that were running their direction were doing so to find someone to help them kill the Aberation.  Bobbie then has a talk with captain Martens.  His basic point is that she is suffering alone needlessly.  He could help her.  He points out that she hasn't fired her gun once since being on the ship but she cleans it once or twice a day for no reason.  Bobbie's all "talking's not gonna make me better.  Tracking down who created that thing and killing them is gonna make me feel better."

ch 9 avasarala page 89

she's reading a report about Venus.  She says the s word about it.  There was an energy spike on Venis when the Ganamede Aberation was let loose and killed a bunch of marines.  Her aide is telling her that can't be right cause Nothing launched from Venus.  She says what's on Venus violates all the laws of physics so we have no idea what a "launch" from a planet controlled by the protomolecule might look like.  Pierre Mao is in her office waiting for her.  She is not at all prepared for this meeting.  She yells at her assistant (he's got a name and it's Soren) to tell her his background.  Mao is VERY good looking.  In talking she uses the F word in relation to lawyers.  Mao doesn't give her anything useful.  As he's leaving she says she's not someone to f word with.  Soren has found HOlden on Ganamede.  

ch 10 prax pg 101

Prax is looking for his daughter Mei.  He finds a hacker that has access to all the security systems on Ganamede.  The Martian and UN armies are spending all their time looking at each other and no one is actually securing Ganamede.  He's able to find a video where Mei is taken away from her school by her doctor.  Dr Strickland took Mei, so Mei must be alive, assuming he's still alive.  The hacker says he can follow the feeds to find out where she went, but it's gonna cost chicken.  Prax got no chicken.

Prax looks into the other kids that were under Dr Strickland's care.  He figures out that they're all missing and he goes to the security office to tell them that they've been taken.  A food riot is happening and Holden is at the center of it.  Prax is starving so his brain isn't working great.  He looks at the "get help" he wrote on the list of missing children.  Maybe Holden is that help.

ch 11 holden page 111

The church of Humanity Ascendant: "Humans can be better than they are, so let's do that."  Holden is talking to them and they are undwhelemed.  The OPA promissed 22 thousand kilos, this is less than 12.  Holden doesn't know nothing about that.  There's another ship with food on it and people are on the edge of rioting to get it open.  Naomi convinces the armed corporate thugs guarding the ship to let it go by calling Amos and asking about the gunships the OPA has nearby and says, if they don't open up that ship, one of their gunships is going to come along and blow the ship up.  Prax finds Holden, tells him he knows him and he needs help.  Holden likes helping people, so we'll see where this goes.

ch 12 avasarala page 123

She's talking to her husband and playing with her grand children.  Gloria calls and she uses the F word in asking the purpose of the call.  Nguyen is sending ships to Ganymede.  She does some political stuff and ends up stopping all but threee of the ships Nguyen was trying to send.  Not enough of a fleet to piss off Mars if they figure out the whole deal.  She uses the F word again to refer to the martians in case they're overly sensitive about those three ships.  Talking about Venus again.  Whatever's building down there is super impressive.  Now she's back at her office and watching the ganymede attack again.  It's a real bummer.  Soren comes in and tells her the martians are there and ready to begin peace talks.

ch 13 Holden page 133

They buy what Prax is selling super quick.  They've got chicken so they're going to see the hacker.  The hacker decides now's a good time to play hard ball and is like, I need more chicken if you want me to find this guy's little girl.  Amos rewards his greed by picking up a can of chcken and hitting him in the head with hit.  The hacker falls to the floor and Amos take the can of chicken and does a little more damage to his face.  The hacker eventually wisens up and does his God Damned Job!!!  They figure out where Mei was taken.  Some old abandoned part of the station.  They're gonna gear up to go get Prax's girl back.  Now I'm thinking of the Hamilton song where Washington says "I gotta get my right hand man back" a billion times and it's wonderful.

ch 14 prax page 143

They're getting ready to go get Mei.  The plan was that just HOlden and Amos would go.  Prax talks them into letting him come along.  on the way they run into some security.  Prax is thinking they should start shooting.  Amos is like "these arent' the kind you shoot.  These are the kind you talk to."  Turns out these are belters who were working security for some company that cut and ran when the shooting started.  Holden tells them who he is and promisses if they help them out trying to get Prax's kid, they'll get them off of Ganymede safely.  So they've gone from a party of 3 to a party of 10 just like that.

ch 15 bobbie pg 155

Bobbie is there for the earth/mars peace negotiations.  She's very bored by it all.  Eventually she gets angry that they're not talking about the monster.  So she stands up and asks why they're not talking about the monster.  She gets dragged out of the room by some high level Martian.  Said high level martian is pissed off.  Not at her, but at Martains who said he had this situation under control.  Bobbie decides to go outside.  It takes a long time for her to figure out how to do that.  She looks up at the sky and finds it all terribly overwhelming.  There's a cute interaction between her and the guard at the door she went out of where he's like "try your best to move forward while looking down, never look straight up" and they're both all ooorah cause he used to be a Marine.  She makes her way to a coffee shop and has a soy tea.  

ch 16 holden page 167

Holden is running this operation real good.  Every intersection they get to they leave a guard to cover their asses.  They do this a few times and eventually find wha tthey think is an inhabited room because the door is a half a degree warmer than every other door.  So there's seven of them now.  Naomi gets the door open and Prax yells "NOBODY MOVE!!!" to the pricks inside.  There is a bit of a problem though.  There's twelve people inside and they've all got guns and according to the Lady that's talking there's more in the next room.  Prax seems like he's gonna lose it.  People start going for their guns.

ch 17 prax page 177

The Prax chapters are an out of body experience.  This one is a real trip.  He's yellingand cocking his gun and all of a sudden all the people seem to be gone.  That's cause Amost and Holden and Wendel (one of the people they picked up has a name, that's nice)  shot them all and the ones they didn't shot ran away.  There's a fun thing where the bad guys throw a grenade in and Amos throws it right back.  They go into the next room and it's just guts and destroyed equipment.  They get to an airlock and they know on the other side of the airlock a ship just lifted off.  Prax is pretty sure Mei is on said ship.  They go intot he next room and the walls are covered with protomolecule sludge.  Holden calls Naomi and is all like "we gotta get the hell off this rock"

ch 18 avasarala page 187

Some biggerwig tells Avasarala she's off the Mars negotiations and Venus is her priority.  It's disguised as a special assignment but she knows it's to get her out of the way.  She's thinking maybe this is Nguyen's doing.  She refers to Bobbie as the marine that shat on the table.  She's at a bar with Bobbie and offers her a job.  She's thinking about who else she can get for her super secret Venus squad.  This is kind a like a heist movie.  I expect the next person she talks to is gonna say "You son of a bitch, I'm in."  But no,she's talking to some CIA-esque stooge in Atlanta.  Somehow he knows what's going on with Holden.  She tells the stooge to send in the cavalry and save Hoden and the rest of his team.

ch 19 holden page 201

it's time to GTFO.  Holden doesn't much care that they have wounded or that Prax is still thinking his daughter might be around the next corner.  He's gotta get off Ganymede NOW.  The Protomolecule strands they found are giving him flashbacks to Eros.  Everyone he's seeing is someone that's just moments away from death cause the Protomolecule is gonna get them.  But it's really not.  Holden's just going crazy.  There's some shenhannegans but eventually they make it to the ship's airlock.  But he's calling Naomi and she's not answering.  Then a bunch of seriously armored folks show up and the punchline is that the other guys win.

ch 20 bobbie page 211

Bobbie takes the job with avasaralia.  She's handed a GIANT stack of paper to read with Ganymede info.  She doesn't get much sleep as she's woken up at 4 am and she was up reading til 1 am.  She comes into the office and it's a CRAZY hub of activitiy.  Ganymede has become much much worse.  Sehs' told it's time to Liase cause she's Avasarala's liason.

ch 21 prax page 223

They're all tied up by whoever these armored folks are.  Turns out the "bad" guys were using rubber bullets or whatever cause nobody's dead or severly broken.  The "bad" guys, who I'm pretty sure are the group sent by Avasarala, are stopping everyone's bleeding using a cautorizing gun.  Then there's word that something super bad is happening and most of the "bad" guys leave and as they do they tell the medics to cut the prisoner's leg restraints cause we're gonna have to move real quick.  Never one to sit around, Holden and Amost take this oportunity to partake in some good ole fashioned violence and they end up with a gun and the two medics are not really in a position to keep fighting.  Wendell and his group are free to take the somnambalist and go whereever they wanna go.  Holden and crew find some space suites cause they gotta get a move on and with the amount of violence that's happening there's like to be a tunnel that used to have breathable air that no longer does.  They end up outside and there's all sorts of talk of how the hell they're gonna get to a dome that has communications equipment so they can call Alex on the Rocinante to come get them.  Naomi sias this is a moot point because she's pretty sure she sees the Roci setting down just over there.

ch 22 holden page 235

It was the ricante.  They get on board and it's a little wierd becuase the ship is in a drive down position and everything that should be forward is up.  They all get strapped in and off they go.  There's a lot of ships around Ganymede shooting at each other.  They're shot at a couple times but they manage to avoid the missles and they make their way out.  Holden and Naomi do it.  Holden goes on a rant about hwo he thinks this is all Fred Johnsons' fault.  Fred used the sample of the protomolecule they gave him to do experiments on Ganymede and they gotta murder him for the common good.  Then they have a super sad conversation about how Naomi doesn't recognize Holden anymore.  He's all shoot first and never ask questions these days.  Holden has turned into Miller.

ch 23 avasalara page 245

Bobbie has written a letter of resignation she's a Martian and they're at war with the U.N. So she can't work for a U.N. lady.  Avasarala says that's silly.  There was some swearing.  Now she's piseed about where Nguyen got all these ships.  She thought she had prevented this exact thing from happening.  Somebody else that's more political than Nguyen must have made this war happpen.  this really sucks.  Mars negotiation ed in good faith and Nguyen pulls this shit.  

Anyway, now she's watching a video from venus.  A U.N. Science ship was observing venus and the video she's watching is the ship coming apart in orbit.  Reduced down to its tiniest parts in space in a little over an hour.  Whatever is on venus can do that.  So that's super scary.  She sends the video to Admiral Souther.

Earth is too busy fighting Mars to realize the true threat is Venus.

Ch 24 prax pg 257

Prax continues to be sad because of his missing daughter.  He's trying to use his brain to figure otu what it is about the protomolecule and Mei's condition that might be coapsetic.  But his brain doesn't figure anything out.  So he tells Holden that he needs some sortof communication device to hook up to the net and do more research.  Holden's like "we're trying to keep a low profile, so any sort of communcaiton is out of the question."  But he's like, maybe we can connect to Tycho's network.  Alex and Amost keep talking about soeme sort of mechanical problem with the drive.  It's got a 12% problem due to a crack.  They're gonna wait until they get to Tycho and have the engineers there fix it.  Also the cargo bay door has a hole in it.  So they start looking at the cargo bay to maybe figure out why.  They see the hole and they can see there's no other holes so it can't have been a gauss round or anything super explosive.  What they find is a humanoid figure in the fetal position.  It's the protomolecule monster and it's stowed away on their ship.

ch 25 bobbie 267

Bobbie is not having much success calling Martians to get an earlier version fo the official sttement of war.  Avasarala wants it so she can compare and contrast to get a good idea of how they really feel.  But nobody is talking to her.  Avasarala is thinking long term maybe this will pay off with Martian people specifically calling Bobbie to give her bogus intel.  So Bobbie shouldn't feel too bad about it.  Bobbie is annoyed with Soren cause he's always eating these cookies out of very loud plasticy/foily wrapping and it's really getting on her nerves.  She starts to yell at him about the cookies and then all of a sudden Soren gets a call and takes a thumb drive Avasarala gave him to take to data services a few days ago and leaves.  Bobbie notices that he didn't head toward data services.  He is leaving the bujilding.  Bobbie follows him to a bar where she finds him in the back pool room with a military guy she sees Soren has given the drive to.  The guy runs out the back and Bobbie grabs Soren and tells him she's gonna tell on him.

ch 26 Holden 281

They're trying to come up with ideas for what to do about the monster in the cargo bay.  The current plan is that they try to shoot it full of a ton of holes and throw the pieces out of the airlock.  If that doesn't work, Alex will drive the ship into the sun.  Holden and Amos go in and start shooting at the thing.  It doesn't go well.  Holden ends up stuck to the wall by a magneticly locked crate.  Amos tried a couple things but each time the monster threw something very heavy at Amos so they stopped trying.  They could turn on the thrust and launch the monster out the airlock, but that would kill Holden.  Prax goes "that's interesting."  So I'm guessing he's got some sort of a plan.

ch 27 prax 293

Prax notices that the monster is hanging out in the spot closest to the ships reactor.  And now that they've turned down the power on the reactor it's trying to dig through the walls to get closer to it.  The plan is to tkae another nuclear power source outside and hope the monster takes the bait and thye can throw it out away from the ship and it'll be stuck out in the empty void of space.  That plan kind of works.  The part that doesn't work is that the monster has left behind some kind of explosive.  Said explosive goes off shortly after everyone gets back inside.  Something hits Prax in the head and the world fades to black.  Quite the cliff hanger.

Sidekicks ch 13-20

 Ch 13 page 140

They put on the super suits.  Anna's has nipples.  This is 2020.  I should be able to say "this is unacceptable" and keep a straight face.  But the systemic sexist, racist, homophobia, etc. Seems to be getting worse.  

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Anyway, they go out to prowl the streets.  They see some thugs up to no good.  they're up on top of a four story building.  Randy decides to jump down.  It goes badly.  Anna slides down a drain pipe.  Sam takes the stairs.  They mess up the thugs with their super suit powers.

Ch 14 page 152

They're eating, or getting ready to eat.  The conversation quickly moves to Sam's power.  He is a God.  He can do pretty much anything he puts his mind to.  But he can't really control it.  When he starts talking about the ti me Nazi tortured him and he gets angry and.the tables behind him start floating and bending and melting into goo and when the goo hits the floor it evaporates.  Sam leaves and finds a super hero museum.  Nazi follows him and they have a heart to heart talk.  Sam uses his powers to throw a knife at Nazi then he uses them to throw the knife at a wall and at the same time turns it into a frog.

Ch 15 of 166

Anna comes into Sam's room with wine and they talk about their feelings.  Things start to get romantic and physical and Randy interrupts them.  Chuck wants to celebrate.  They do so with whisky because Anna already drank the wine.  Randy has one shot and passes out.  He comes to and says something about communing with the butterflies. Anna really thinks Randy should be kicked off the team.  She's seriously worried he's gonna get himself killed and also them in the process.  Sam is more worried Nazi is gonna turn evil and kill them.  Chuck checks on Nazi's whereabouts and starts to tell Sam Nazi's story.

Ch 16 page 183

Chuck shows Sam Nazi's room And how he's learning about the people he killed to try to pay tribute to them.  It seems like he feels bad for what he's done.  Sam thinks of it like this, if Nazi is a weapon developed by Hitler them is he any more responsible for the people that died than the knife or gun that was used?  Randy wakes up Sam at four am.  He says his butterflies have found beef chief and he and Sam have got to take him out.  They go get Anna too.  She says she hates them, but she goes along with it.  There's gun stuff with Randy saying he had butterflies do all sorts of stuff.  They get to the main door and when it opens up Nazi is there.  He's all, let's get going, the cameras won't stay off forever, making the point that he did all the things that Randy claimed the butterflies did.

Ch 17 of 198

Nazi can't go with them because Chuck out an explosive tracking device in his head.  The three of them are trying to make their way to beef chief.  There's some amusement in how they try to figure out how to get there on the bus.  They end up taking a taxi.

Ch18 pg 207

They're at this boarded up butcher shop and they're not sure what to do.  Randy tries to comune with a month and it kinda works til the moth gets hit by a bus.  They end up knocking on the door, there's some muttering about how he didn't want this and then a giant bull breaks the door down.  Randy gets it to follow him and runs away.  Now Sam and Anna are fighting beef chief.  It doesn't go well.  Beef chief beats them up with a leg of lamb.

Ch 19 pg 219

The fight with beef chief goes badly.  Then he gets hit by a truck.  The giant bull comes charging at them and Sam used his power to make it levitate and disappear.  The catch, he doesn't know where the bull went to.  Wonder if it will come back later.  Turns out beef chief is ok even though he got hit by a truck.  Turns out the truck was full of frozen hamburgers.  Beef chief throws them like bullets and Sam jumps around to block the beef bullets from hurting the crowd that has formed to watch the fight.  Anna goes after beef chief.  It doesn't go well.  S he's now surrounded by beef and is pretty sure she's gonna die.

Ch 20 pg 234

Chuck is in the shower and Mari comes to tell him about the horribleness that is the fight between the beef chief and the sidekicks.  Chuck storms down to Nazi and shows him the live feed of the fight.  He blames Nazi for it.  This is very bad.  Then Mari says they have another.problem and shows them a screen with the data to show them just how bad that problem is. 

sidekick CH 7 through 12

CH 7 the fight goes badly and chuck jumps in time save them.

CH 8 pg 76

The three former side kicks go to a bar and get drunk.  Lots of solid drunken complaints about the good ole days.  Then they see the news.  A bad guy calling himself beef chief is at the central bank doing bad things.  Like mass murder.  Sam decides they gotta do some thing to they go back to Chuck who's like "so you heard about beef chief"

CH 9 pg 89

Chuck asks if they're really ready.  The sidekicks say yes, Anna says "-ish"  they go down a long elevator.  The sidekick initiative is a little underwhelming.  The room they arrive in is just full of old boxes.  Chuck explains this is because they didn't want to heat the whole complex so they pulled everything into this one room.  They meet a robot named Mari.  This is extra amusing because earlier when Chuck talks about his partner Randy asks if they're sexual partners and kinda makes a big deal out of it.  Super funny that chuck isn't having sex with a robot.  Its time to get to training.  They're all drunk so this is gonna suck.

CH 10 page 99

If this was a movie this would be the world's lamest training Montague.  The highlight is randy falling off his treadmill cause he turned it up too fast.  Then they take him to the medical room and his body is covered in scars from the years of crime fighting.

CH 11 page 110

Sam calls to check up on Corey.  He's fine, Brian still sucks.  Sam sleeps in his room that has bunk beds and a sink.  The next day Chuck reminds them how much they suck.  Sam agrees, Randy does not.  Chuck says they're bringing in a coach to help.  Turns out its an old bad guy that used to go by captain Nazi.  That's not ideal, but he claims his villainy was all due to Nazi brain washing and he's been unbrainwashed and is a good guy now.  Sam especially hates this because kaptain Nazi used to be doctor mighty's main nemesis and so there's that.  This whole situation is really horrible.

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They're doing this tennis ball run down a hallway thing and it goes badly.  There's a moment where Sam has this twinkling at the back of his mind that he could use his power.  He shakes it off and gets hit by a bunch of tennis balls and falls down.  Then the three of them try to fight captain Nazi.  It goes badly.  Again Sam has a moment where there's like a devil on Sam's shoulder telling him to let loose and use his power "it's too dangerous.  And yet..."  Nothing comes of it.  Then there's bickering about whether or not Sam and Randy even have powers.  Chuck begrudgingly shows them the super suits.  They're pretty super.  They want to try them out, chuck says its time to break for.lunch.