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With Friends Like These...

Beginning of Area: With Friends Like These...
[[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Downtime|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]]	The Crime Blotter: There is something at work in Culverton. Young Zeroth: The Crime Blotter has been helping me work out the pieces.
[[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Early Edition|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]]	The Crime Blotter: Your misguided classmates The Whom are mucking with things they don't understand. And we need to be ready to clean up their mess.

Beginning of Fight: Young Zeroth
[[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Downtime|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]]	Young Zeroth: I have been getting stronger. More connected to my powers. I need you to fight me and push me as hard as you can.

Beginning of Fight: Sunderlings
[[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Jaws of Death|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]]	Young Zeroth: Despite defeating all their bosses there seems to be an unusual amount of henchman activity right now. There is clearly some other hand orchestrating their movements.
[[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Jaws of Death|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]]	Young Zeroth: We left a trail of breadcrumbs that has lead a pack of Sunderlings right to the Crime Blotter's Morgue. There should be enough for everyone but remember that we need them in a condition to talk.

Beginning of Fight: Crime Blotter
[[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Crime Blotter: Gumshoe|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]]	The Crime Blotter: Have you seen today's papers? What The Whom have set in motion?
[[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Robbery Day|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]]	The Crime Blotter: One of the most devastating foes we have ever fought was The Formula. An other-dimensional force of destruction summoned by the powers of three emergents known as The Variables.
[[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Crime Blotter: Gumshoe|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]]	The Crime Blotter: They have been held in isolation and separated from each other for more than a decade. The Whom have been instrumental in their release and have been keeping them safe from angry mobs.
[[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Crime Blotter: Gumshoe|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]]	The Crime Blotter: All we can do is wait for the fallout of their actions. And I hate waiting. Fight me.

Beginning of Fight: Shimmerstorm
[[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Guess Who?|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]]	The Crime Blotter: Shimmerstorm is bringing back someone from the Meanwhile Squadron days who fought The Formula before. She may want to fight you when she arrives. You got the best of her last time and she has been practicing.

Can't Fight City Hall

Beginning of Fight: Iso-Man
[[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Man Out of Time|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]]	Shimmerstorm: Allow me to introduce Iso-Man, the backbone of the Meanwhile Squadron. Although these days you probably know him better as --
[[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Iso-Man|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]]	Iso-Man: Zeroth! I told you the last time we met that I would make you pay for your actions!
[[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Chit Chat|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]]	Iso-Man: If you stand with this man I will lay you out beside him.

End of Fight: Iso-Man
	Young Zeroth: This was clearly a mistake that I will get to the bottom of when we have time. Speaking of time, Shimmerstorm will you please bring Iso-Man back to where you found him?

Beginning of Fight: Kindlings
[[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/The Crime Line|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]]	Young Zeroth: The Crime Line! That will be Sentry calling in.
[[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Call to Arms|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]]	The Southside Sentry: If you guys are done with your tea and scones we have some actual crime that needs fighting.
[[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Rabble Rousing|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]]	The Southside Sentry: And the sooner you can get here the better.

Beginning of Fight: Gingerhaired Men
[[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Gingerhaired Men: Enlisted|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]]	The Southside Sentry: The henchmen are all working together and have taken control of City Hall. They are trying to kidnap the mayor.

Beginning of Fight: Henchmob
[[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Moment of Clarity|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]]	The Southside Sentry: After I knocked a couple of these goons down I noticed something odd attached to their heads.
[[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Hench-Mob|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]]	The Southside Sentry: They seem to be under some kind of remote control. They are working in concert. Like some sort of Henchmob.

Invariable

Beginning of Fight: Eyebots
[[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/EyeBots|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]]	The Southside Sentry: Heads up everyone! They look like the same thing that are attached to the Henchmob's heads. Some sort of Eye-Bots!

Beginning of Fight: The Variables (1)
[[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Solving for X|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]]	Young Zeroth: We have more to worry about than just Eye-Bots! The Variables are in Culverton and have started their equation.

Beginning of Fight: Beacon
[[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Hot Potato|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]]	The Beacon: We will deal with The Variables and The Formula later. Right now The Whom are here to apprehend Zeroth and bring him to trial for his actions.

Beginning of Fight: The Variables (2)
[[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Into the Fray|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]]	The Crime Blotter: Sigh! I remember being young and foolish. I was lucky to survive my own ideals.
[[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Into the Fray|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]]	The Crime Blotter: We are going to have to split up. We will deal with your classmates while you do the math.

Formulaic

Beginning of Fight: Bookworm
	Bookworm: Gotcha!
[[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Trial by Fire|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]]	Bookworm: In my research I stumbled across some of the Meanwhile Squadron's video journals. Codename: Soldier had some especially interesting things to say about you.
	Bookworm: Black suit, white suit. Old, young. I don't care. You are going to be held accountable.

Beginning of Fight: Bantam
[[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Heads Up!|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]]	Bantam: We get to kill two birds with one stone. Apprehending Zeroth --
[[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Heads Up!|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]]	Bantam: And doing what you old-timers never could in the past. Solving The Formula once and for all.

Beginning of Fight: The Accelerant
[[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Arch-Frenemies|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]]	The Accelerant: I know what you think of us. That we are just full of ideals and hot air.
[[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Arch-Frenemies|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]]	The Accelerant: But I know a thing or two about the power of "hot air".

Beginning of Fight: The Formula
[[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/You're Welcome|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]]	Bookworm: Oooooof! Young Zeroth: What was that?
[[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/The Formula|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]]	Team Member: The Variables have solved The Formula. The last time we fought it Moxie ended up under the Conservator's care for three months.
[[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Divide and Conquer|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]]	Team Member: But if we don't find some way to hold it at bay it will destroy the city. And it will just keep getting stronger.

End of Fight: The Formula
[[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Hacking the System|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]]	Team Member: Great job everyone. We were able to keep The Formula busy. Until Zeroth figured out a way to reprogram the Eye-Bots.
	Team Member: We attached Eye-Bots to The Variables and working with The Whom were able to extract the equation that sends it back to whence it came. Of course none of that helps us understand the source of the Eye-Bots in the first place.

Daddy's Girl

Beginning of Area: Daddy's Girl
	Daddy-O: Bravo! Bravo! How accomplished you have all become since our last encounter.
	Daddy-O: I am overcome with nostalgia! Like visiting your childhood home and seeing all your old playthings. You can call me Daddy 2.0.
	Daddy-O: I can see by your slack jaws that you thought you had defeated me. Do none of you ever back up your computer?

Beginning of Fight: Henchmob
[[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Hench-Mob|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]]	Daddy-O: You have been so good at beating up on crimelords. That it left a void in leadership among the rank and file.
[[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Hench-Mob|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]]	Daddy-O: I probably did not need to fill it by boring directly into their cerebral cortexes. But where would the fun be in that?

Beginning of Fight: Eyebots
[[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Eyes in the Skies|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]]	Daddy-O: But I have grown bored with these strongmen and circus clowns. I am looking to collect a full set of action figures instead.

Beginning of Fight: Little Susie: Eye Candy
	Daddy-O: I used to have them all until someone spoiled all my fun. I recently restarted my collection with one of my favorites.
[[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Little Susie: Eye Candy|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]]	Daddy-O: She is so pretty to look at. Isn't that right Crime Blotter?
	The Crime Blotter: Susie!!!

End of Issue

The final panel contains the dialogue originally for the Daddy 2.0 megabrawl. It has been added here to complete the storyline.

Megabrawl Story: Daddy 2.0
[[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Hacking the System|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]]	Young Zeroth: I may not have all my memories back. I don't have any idea who this creep Daddy2.0 is for example.
[[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Hacking the System|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]]	Young Zeroth: But I am getting sick and tired of fighting these bad guys on their own terms. I think I can hack these Eye-Bots so I can take the battle to whatever corner of the internet he is infesting.
[[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Daddy 2.0|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]]	Young Zeroth: Here's the problem. It looks like these Eye-Bots are loaded with powerful explosives. Meaning that this HenchMob are walking and talking landmines that he can set off if he thinks he is in danger.
	Young Zeroth: I need you all to keep him occupied while I sneak in and can threaten a little mutually assured destruction. The important thing is that you keep him fighting for as long as possible. As long as he thinks he is toying with us he won't put us away.