Agent Calivide

IEYTD nerd who can’t shake this brainrot They/Any Practically an IRL Phoenix (derogatory)

[agent-calivide]

Pinned Post! I should have made this ages ago, but I, like a dumbass, made my main blog be a side blog because I didn't know how Tumblr worked.

This is my IEYTD side blog! I go by Cal or Calivide, I prefer they/she pronouns but I don't mind others :)

Please, send asks, ping me, whatever ya want to grab my attention! I love seeing what y'all make and joining conversations!

Main Blog: @calivide

Hatchetfield Side Blog: @felyatepa

My Art: #calivideart

I still use this blog a lot and likely will be for the foreseeable likely indefinite future! I've just been feeling guilty posting non-IEYTD things on this blog, so I finally made a main one for me to post art that's not IEYTD related! I've got a lotta OC's and the like that I wanna share without disappointing people who follow me for IEYTD.

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Have a Phina getting ready for work

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Wooo Zoraxis Phina redesign!

[agent-calivide]

"I like bar-tending because it's like Chemistry, but nothing explodes. Except for the occasional beer..... And I did have a waitress set herself on fire, we had a drink that we would light and it caught her on fire, the table on fire, the dance floor....... We weren't allowed to serve that drink on fire anymore-"

An excerpt from my mother that I can't place right now, but does feel IEYTD in nature.

[bucketofchurros]

[lavalampstealer]

I had today marked as ‘important’ in my calendar for some reason… OH RIGHT

It’s the release date of the newest JJ movie!!!!! Omg Im SO excited, I saw the trailers and it looks like it’s gonna be so peak. Who wants to go with me

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Wooo new Seraphina ref for Art Fight! I know it's not for months, but my whole gaddamn art style changed, so god knows how many new refs I need to make-

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Here are some doodles of (one of) my Agent Phoenix(es)! I still need to make a proper ref sheet, but for now I have these.

This is Claude Nestor! They're a big silly who gets very lucky on missions and somehow managed to survive.

Reginald has to force them not to eat bird seed or floor food all the time because they always try. Mold will not stop them.

[lavalampstealer]

Dear god it’s all ref sheets

plus some alt outfits for him:)

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🎵 - I think you know who this is about

(Juniper)

Hmmm hmmmmm who could this POSSIBLY be for……🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

From my John Juniper playlist:

“All My Life” by Robbie Williams! I figured all the jazz and 007 themes I have on his playlist are to be expected—Bublé, BBVD, Sinatras, blah blah blah. I’ve already brushed on some of the iDKHOW songs that are applicable to him, and the in-betweens are songs that feel like a ‘no duh’ to have in there, but this one specifically has been on my mind a lot.

To pull some lyrics for you, from the very beginning of the song:

“A wise man once said, ‘Use your delusions,’

I'd like to point out that man was me,

My life is based on a true story,

One of dreams, chaos and audacity”

WOW very strong start. Sounding a little pretentious? Just you wait. Let me bring up the chorus (it’s a long one), and I don’t even think I’ll have to analyze anything, it’s all spelled out.

“So go ahead and stage an intervention,

Try to put me in a place I don't belong,

You tell me l'm addicted to the light,

And maybe you're not wrong,

But all my life,

I've been chasing visions to the edge of my mind,

My, oh my,

If I can't be who l am, then man,

I'd rather die,

And I'm alright,

Even if it's just another beautiful lie,

Baby, I've been crazy all my life,”

STAGE an intervention? Addicted to the [spot]light???? Walk with me.

Now, I don’t know exactly who it is John would be talking to here, maybe it’s more of an internal monologue with himself or maybe it’s a theoretical dialogue between him and the Agency/Zoraxis. Or it’s to Phoenix. Not my Phoenix, not Cyan of course, but I’ll leave that open to your interpretation.

John is a selfish man, and he knows it. It’s not the warmth of the spotlight he loves, it’s the hundred upon thousand upon millions of eyes that it draws. We know this, I’m not saying anything particularly new or groundbreaking about him. But it’s still a bit tragic nonetheless to watch him and know that his story will always have the same ending, or at least the same event happen that kills him in all ways but physically. Even if he survives the Peace Summit aftermath, he’s still lost his reputation, his property, every aspect of his social life and standing, and probably worst of all, he’s failed in such a catastrophic way that there’s zero chance of coming back from it. No matter what relationships he tries to repair or how much he tries to change after that point, the world will never forget the last time he was live on their screens. It almost pains me to think about everything he gave up in his pursuit of.. of what? Of validation? Of concepts that will never even come CLOSE to holding a candle to what he had built for himself? He’s like Icarus, in a way, except he wasn’t escaping to freedom, he was doing it for shits and giggles?? I guess??? But no matter what happened leading up to that Summit, to what led him to joining Zoraxis in the first place, he was always meant to fall. Don’t even get me started on the literal, physical reminders that he’ll always have to carry. The scars, the nerve damage, the joint and muscle pain, he can’t even walk the way he used to. His image, his visage, is so ruined to the point of near-unrecognizability, the only thing that lets it know it’s still him is the fact that when he moves, the thing in the mirror moves in sync. Idk it just. Idk. OH WAITER🗣️🗣️ MORE LYRICS PLEASE

“Masochistic, but I'm always entertaining

And I know I'll die, but I'll never leave the stage”

nvm im not hungry anymore

[lavalampstealer]

🎵 - Phoenix

PHOENIX YEEESSSS YEEEEEESSSSSS

For them, I will be choosing “Violence!” by The Zero Zero Seven Band

I came across this when I found this vinyl at a flea market, and it is by far one of my fav vinyls in my collection. It’s also the most scratched one I have😔 it adds to the charm (I tell myself). I think it was ten bucks or something like that.

I’ve dispersed a lot of this record’s songs across my IEYTD playlists!! A chunk of them went to John Juniper, some went to Handler, a couple to Zoraxis, and this one to Phoenix:) A pure instrumental, as are all the songs on this album, the quick tempo and very loud jazzy-ness of it reminds me of the music from the latter half of Party Crasher if it hadn’t leaned into the organ and instead went for more brass and woodwinds.

Side tangent- can I just say how strange it was to have that organ in there?? It doesn’t show up anywhere else in the soundtrack, right? We just have a keyboard organ for half of a mission and that’s its only appearance 😭 we never see it before nor after. Weird. Anyways, back to Phoenix-

It’s very hectic, I can EASILY picture(hear?) it fitting right into any combat segment of IEYTD 2. Yeah!

THANK YOU FOR ASKINGGG I love Cyan I miss my agent chud🩵

(plus a picture of the vinyl itself, I love it very much and im terrified every time I take it out of the protective sleeve bc the shrink-wrap plastic on the cover keeps disintegrating. Featuring some of the worst of the scratching too, it was hard to photograph)

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I see a lot of song recs in here and I’m afraid I’m only here to add to the bunch…

Anyways the Michael Bublé cover of “I’m Your Man” is reminiscent of your phoeniper. in my mind. Unintentionally spreading my Bublé propaganda, a friend of mine was the one to make me remember that song existed. Uh uhh yes YAY ok love them <3 bye bye now

Oh hOh hOH- you don't even gotta CONVINCE me Michael Bublé is a John Juniper voice claim!

I've been wanting to make an animatic to his cover of "baby it's cold outside" with Phina for AGES, maybe it'll actually happen this year-

But focusing on I'm Your Man, aUGH

Thisssss- this fffUCKER

"I'LL WEAR A MASK FOR YOU" JUST STAB ME

I don't know if I'm more caught up on the theme of changing roles to fulfill a partner's desires or "MAKE THAT MAN GROVEL"

Juniper's at his best when he's utterly infatuated with something/one he cannot have in my humble opinion. Not morally, mind you, just. Writingly.

Anywhozles, adding this to my Juniper playlist, fuck you <3

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Oh.

I hope y'all like longform content-

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Chapter 9 of Gilded Hearth is out!!

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapter 9: One Year Later

Bit of a time skip, but believe you-me, you've missed nothing of note :)

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May I offer: Penelope Graves by Dirt Poor Robins as a general Phoenix romance song? It gives me the mental image of Phoenix being sick and tired of their fame/infamy, but finds someone who just... Treats them like a person, which they find refreshing.

Okay, now you guys are just trying to hurt me on purpose (silly)

I see so much of Seraphina in this, which sucks so bad because now I have torment angst thoughts. I'm like, actually on the verge of tears listening to this song and picturing my Phoenix-

1000/10, why do you do this to me?

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I know I keep dropping song recs recently but I feel like "Naiilang" by Le John fits Johnny during the Fan Letter days. (To me at least)

Something about him thinking of Phina as a friend and then falling for her. And him wondering if she feels awkward if it's just the two of them.

Seriously, Original Pilipino Music (OPMs) has a lot of pining and relationship songs.

aughhh why did I only see this just noooowwww right when John and Phina are rapidly approaching The Bad Place?

Sobbing. Throwing up. Adding it to my playlist, how could you do this to me? (said in absolute delight)

[the-lesbian-of-too-many-fandoms]

Welcome to the spies fandom! We're happy to have you here!

I've seen a couple of your posts on a SaF x IEYtD crossover and it looks really cool. I played IEYtD years ago on VR and am a little confused cause it seems I missed a lot of the lore. Is IEYtD VR different from regular? Did I just miss a giant aspect of the game? (Plausible, it was like 5 years ago)

Very curious cause your posts on IEYtD make it sound very interesting

(if you want to lore dump about IEYtD I would be delighted)

JHHJBJVBJGJNBJHGJBKJ I HAVE WAITED MY WHOLE LIFE FOR THIS OMG!! okay okay okay so first THANK YOU!!! chances are you only played the first game out of the trilogy!! IEYTD 1, but two more were made afterwards and they were the ones who had a super liniar stories and fleshed out a lot of the lore!

so a few terms to start off with:

IEYTD, as you know is the acronym for I Expect You To Die.

The agency: when people say the agency they are usually referring to specifically the EOD

EOD: stands for the Enhanced Operateratives Division, this is who you, the player, work for. why are they called the Enhanced Operatives Division? because of you TK!

TK: abbreviation for Telekinesis! Schell games, the creators of the games, wanted them to be a seated experience, so that it was accessible to everyone! so they made a game mechanic were you could point at things far away, grab them, and pull them towards you! as well as hover things in air! the in game explanation for this is that Every agent in the EOD has a TK implant surgically put into their brain that gives them the ability for Telekinesis! it actually comes up as a future plot point later!

Handler: the silly little british guy in your ear guiding you through missions! think "guy in the chair" also, my fav character :3

Zoraxis industries: the capitalist mega corporation that acts as a front for Doctor Zors evil deads

Dr. Zor the mysterious leader of Zoraxis. no one knows who their gender is, what they look like, nothin!

I expect you to die!

so I expect you to die one has lots of missions that were released afterwards as DLC's until finally the full game came out with all the DLC's included. basically only the first 4 levels were part of the original game, so they were all very self contained, without a lot of follow thru. but the dlc's are where the lore (what little of it we were given) really starts.

it starts on the fifth operation VACATION: first class (this is in fact a mission you were tricked into going on by your handler who told you that it was a vacation, it was not, in fact, a vacation) anywho, the mission is to get information from a defected zoraxis employee in exchange for a pardon! she tells us that zoraxis has started a top secret project called the death engine, and we gotta steal it's plans, the next mission is us doing that.

then we figure out the death engine is A GIANT AHH SPACE STATION THAT'S GOT IT"S GIANT LASER POINTED STRAIGHT AT THE AGENCY! how did no one on earth notice this thing until now, IDK?

anywho we blow it up, presumably dying in the process BUT NAH! we load into the mission select room afterwards and your handler is just like 'CONGRATS YOU SOMEHOW DIDN'T DIE!! HOW? NO IDEA? NO CLUE HOW YOU MANAGED TO PULL THAT OFF!!! JUST KNOW UR NOW LEGALLY DEAD!! YIPPEE" and that's the first game!

now for the second game! I Expect You to Die 2; The Spy and the Liar!

the second game opens with you waking up from, what your handler calls "the accident" that you conveniently won't remember for a while hmmm. this section is a tutorial on how to use your TK implant/game mechanic. you learn via disarming bombs, Which causes a lot of smoke, turning your vision to black as your handler says "don't worry agent! I've got Everything under control..." odd.

Anywho the black screen transitions you into another BANGER intro sequence! after this intro sequence, the words "five days Earlier" appear in front of you. and you load into your NEW mission select area, one week before the tutorial takes place!

your new mission select area is a van!

your handler says that your technically dead and that;

"I know it's not as luxurious as your old office, but zor knows your face now, and his employees may not react kindly if they recognize you, on the bright side, now you've got a mini fridge!" :D

in IEYTD the world is composed of 5 major countries, with five major world leaders. on the radio there is news and lore about the world. and it changes before and after each mission.

before your first mission, if you turn on the radio, you can hear an interview from the prime minister of the Hudson federation, and how he doesn't trust zoraxis defense, a new branch of zoraxis.(as he should)

anywho your first mission is to go undercover at a play as a stage hand. as your handler says:

"Now, our intel indicates the Prime Minister is attending an event in Manhattan tonight. My instincts say Zoraxis will try something there, and my instincts are only wrong about half the time. Oh! And the event is hosted by Hollywood actor John Juniper! I'm such a fan! His performance in "Marigolds Are Forever" was so... Ahem. Excuse me. Let's get you undercover so we can figure out what Zoraxis is up to. (singing) Marigolds are forever....."

The loading screen reads four days earlier

is this mission there is a very scary woman over coms, with a voice that your handler recognizes, but can't quite place, as she says;

"alright everybody today's the big day! if anything goes wrong with my play well... remember what happened to that last sound designer"

Anywho, thru lots of chaos you realize that the main set piece, a giant mask that is supposed to be a smoke machine, is actually filled with poison gas! you blow up the mask, and you hear the woman again.

"what have you done! zoraxis, find whoever did this! I want them DEAD!"

your handler then says

"I knew that voice sounded familiar! agent, she's a Zoraxis agent known as the fabricator! that is not an idle threat!"

anywho you kill a few zoraxis agents and your done! what happened to the prime minister? well your handler fills you in:

"Well, you did it! The Prime Minister's safe, and I hope John Juniper got out, too. Although... Well, something feels off. That stage manager - the Fabricator? Well, she's a nasty piece of work, but she doesn't usually take such a stage in Zoraxis plans. Very strange..."

now that you've returned to the van, you can turn on the radio to hear that the prime minister has completely switched his stance on zoraxis, and now says that he trusts them completely! odd...

anywho, you load up your next mission debriefing, Reginald says that they interviewed the cast and crew, and well;

Juniper: "John Juniper here. Oh! I'm so glad you called. Yes, I do have information on the attack, but is it safe for me to tell you over the phone...? No, I can't, I left for Europe this morning. How about this- I've got an autonomous jet at JFK. If you send someone to the airport, they can come meet me."

Handler: Well, lucky you! A ride on a private jet AND a meeting with John Juniper when you get to Europe. Find out what he knows. I'm gonna see if Headquarters will let me come along!

headquarters does not let him come along :C

The loading screen for this mission says three days earlier…

now you are on the worlds fanciest jet, everything's green and gold, there's alcohol everywhere, and a giant self portrait of junipers face. but right off the bat things are odd. your handler is telling you about how he is very sad that he can't come with you, when suddenly:

"SIGNAL LOST" JJ: "oh! were you on a different call? sorry unregistered signals tend to cut out at these altitudes, but I can keep you company until you get here!"

so your chilling, you try and call the "snack bar" when the security lasers come on

JJ: "I can't believe this! my flight staff forgot to turn of the security, I'm so sorry agent.. I'll have to talk to them about that!"

Now the more we fuck around and find out in junipers jet we realize that. Hey. Wait A minute. Booby trapped cigars…. This guys is trying to kill us, ON PURPOSE.

And yep! We are correct. Turns out juniper was blocking our handler’s signal on purpose, once we reconnect with our handler;

H: “Agent? Agent! WHATS HAPPENING UP THERE- wait a minute, it says here that you’re being flown to a zoraxis airbase! I don’t like the sound of that.!”

Our handler then gives us clearance to land at an agency airport in Lisbon, we redirect the plane. Juniper at this point; is furious.

J: “I’m sorry agent but this plan has been YEARS in the making I am not letting you off this plane, Gibson! Change of plans! Launch the missile!”

uh oh! We try the planes defences but they are offline, luckily the planes manual is in the agency database, so he walks us through getting them back on line.

It works, but theres a malfunction, the door that opens to the défense flairs is jammed, and its outside on the left wing. So we BREAK THR PLANE WINDOW AND OPEN IT MANUALLY! LIKE A FREAKING MAD LAD!! the defence flairs go off and destroy the missile with seconds to spare! Juniper is not happy;

J: “YOU BLEW UP THE MISSILE?!! Theres only one agent that could pull that off and they died on the death engine!! Except.. *GASP* Gibson! Get Zor on the phone! Seems like a pesky Phoenix has risen from the ashes!”

YEP! juniper is a bad guy working with zoraxis. Why? We have no idea.

This mission’s debrief from your handler is;

Agent, I... Well, I don't know what to... I mean, John Juniper? The John Juniper tried to kill you? Oh, for the love of- is nothing sacred?! Well, that must mean he was working with the Fabricator on the theatre attack. If he's involved with Zoraxis, we need to find out what he's up to.

If you turn on the radio, you’ll hear that ANOTHER major world leader has completely went back on their stance on zoraxis. coincidence? maybe.. next mission debrief!

H: Let's see, so Juniper's been working with the Fabricator. As you saw at the theater, she builds... Well, call them "luxury death traps" for Zoraxis. I wonder what she's been doing with Juniper... Agency intel says she operates out of a high security workshop in Barcelona. We've left it alone because, frankly, she's VERY good at her job. Well, there's nothing for it... Let's find out what Juniper's up to.

The loading scream says two days earlier

now we gotta break into the world's most booby trapped desk. we disarm security lasers, unlock the desk, disarm a tripwire bomb, find out the desk opens up to reveal MORE desk. we finally unlock a hight mask called;

and eventually, with lore tapes and paper s in the desk we learn that this mask can mimic people's appearance and voice, and that Juniper has been using it to imitate heads of state to get to their nuclear codes!! UH OH. we don't want anyone to know we broke in, so we place a tracker in the mask to find it later!

mission debrief:

"From the mimic mask, and everything else we saw in the Fabricator's workshop, it looks like Juniper's been impersonating Heads of State to siphon their nuclear codes to Zoraxis Defense. At this rate, he could have the world at his feet by the end of the week. We need to stop Juniper, and fast."

once again the radio interviews another one of the world leaders who now suddenly trusts zoraxis.

mission briefing:

That... briefcase the Fabricator made for Juniper... Well, that must be what he's been building toward. I've traced the mask you bugged to a castle in the Alps- if Juniper's there, the briefcase must be too. You need to find it and get it out of there.

The loading screen reads one day earlier

we arrive in a wine cellar under junipers party. (the fandom unanimously decided that we got dressed up and infiltrated this party, and that it is specifically a masquerade party). we knocked out the butler stationed there, gibson, and stuffed him in the box.

we make sure juniper thinks nothing is wrong by sending up drinks, through a series of puzzles in the room, we unlock a security control panel. we set off the defense bombs outside, making juniper think we have him surrounded, and one by one pick off his guards by gassing the rooms their in, until juniper panics and sends us the briefcase with the nuclear codes.

Gibson wakes up. once again calling us "the phoenix" we dodge gunfire, and use a grande to break through a brick wall and escape!

Debrief:

We need to get that briefcase to Agency Headquarters. If that butler was right, the Heads of State are still alive. We need to find out where.

I FORGOR what happens on the radio here. But any who. WE HAVE THE BRIEFCASE!! NO NUKES WILL BE LAUNCHED TODAY!! YIPPIEEE!!

The briefing gives us our last mission:

All you need to do is bring the briefcase and a sealed document to the head of that office. Nice and simple.

So easy! Hahaha- UNLESS…

suddenly a smoke bomb gets dropped into the van, we start coughing, vision blurring, we hear our handler calling to us.

Agent, what is happening? Agent... AGENT!!

The loading screen has two words: present day

we wake up in the same room the tutorial takes place in. Supposedly after it. It looks like a normal, typical room in the EOD. Theres a projector, a desk, some posters on spy tips, calming music and a giant EOD logo on the wall. Hell our handler is even there!

“Oh good you’re awake… we were just looking over this marvellous briefcase you found…”

And yet… something about it seems… off. Theres a massive slice of cake and a glass of red wine in front of you. You usually get food and beverage after a successful mission, but, it’s always a cupcake and a bottle of champagne… this seems too formal.

You try the first drawer.. it’s locked. You use your knife to force it open.

Your handler says “oh no don’t look in that drawer…”

Very… flatly… almost amused

inside are a few things. A drill (with no battery), a lighter, and a clipboard with a checklist of steps to setting up a film set… and at the bottom:

“Sorry the drill has no battery, I had to use it for the rocket launcher”

Fuck

you look around the room, tearing things off the walls, trying to find any clues. When you grab the EOD logo… it swings down crooked, revealing a hole with… a camera.

Your Handler(?) sarcastically says

“Oh no. What is this agency coming to…”

Around the hole you can see bare unpainted wall, that has “caution highly flammable” all over it. You use the lighter to set the wall ablaze. Your “handler” slips into a more sinister tone saying that “it looks like someone’s connecting the dots..”

Suddenly the music abruptly stops

The voice of your handler is heard, not in your ear, but from a speaker somewhere in the room.

CUT! that. Was perfect!

The walls of the room push away to reveal it was in fact, a fake room, a machine unfolds over you, surrounding you in a cage of lasers. a camera is filming you a few feet away.

The voice of your handler returns and morphs into a familiar voice..

Oh, don’t get any ideas, you’re not going anywhere, as a matter of fact , I think you and I are gonna have a little chat..

John juniper

Hey Agent! Up here!

up above there is a with a window overlooking the set, and through the window you can see John juniper. The mimic in hand.

Remember this?

He slides the mask onto his face.

“…We’ve got to get that briefcase to agency headquarters…”

Then takes it off again.

not a bad impression of your handler eh? I didn’t win all those awards for nothing… you know I’ve never gotten the chance to do a classic villain monologue before. And what do I have here… but a captive audience!

He laughs.

"Dr Zor had offered me the role of a lifetime. Zoraxis needed the world’s greatest actor.. so I delivered! Who, but John Juniper, could have impersonated EVERY head of state! fooling the whole world into thinking they had joined Zoraxis? Hollywood just can’t compete… I’ve never had a bigger spotlight!" "and then there's you... agent Phoenix, back from the dead. an extra... trying to upstage.. the star! Oh, your little performance back in the wine cellar almost had me fooled. almost. Don't worry though." he lifts the briefcase up to the window. "I've got all the nuclear codes right here, so it's time for my my final scene. zoraxis defense... the peace summit... the big reveal! Oh cheer up, we're not gonna destroy the world or anything! were just gonna set up a few nukes to make sure they know who's in charge now.. sadly... that makes this your final scene too.." he says with a mocking tone. "If it were up to me, I'd just shoot you. but zor was insistent on getting some footage of the Phoenix... don't ask me why . if things had gone according to plan, you'd have been dead before you were halfway across the Atlantic! well fine! I've got the kidnapping thing down, I've got this (mask) set for the heads of state, and I do have a back for direction!" he leans up to the glass "I don't expect you to understand, I expect you to-!" he composes himself. "well frankly I expect you to find a way out.. but you'll be too late!"

after stating how surprised we sat through the monologue. he gives a quick, "lights, camera, action" activating the different parts of his elaborate trap, such as a Lazer, the rocket launcher, and more. and walks away with a chuckle, saying that he "couldn't resist"

after bypassing the trap, and disabling the communications scrambler. we are found by our very worried, real handler.

mission debrief:

Juniper's got some nerve thinking he could impersonate me. You're lucky my tracking skills are still up to snuff! The bad news is; he's got that briefcase, and our window to stop him is rapidly closing.

now is onto the last mission of the second game :3

in the screen of the van we see a picture of a massive, massive nuke, labeled "the peace maker" yeah that's not good.

briefing:

Well... We know where Juniper's taking the briefcase. The Headquarters of Zoraxis Defense is on an island in the middle of the Black Sea. Zoraxis is broadcasting all over the world, which means Juniper has set his endgame in motion. This is it, Agent. You'll be walking right into enemy territory. Well, if anyone can pull this off, it's you, Agent... Hmph, Agent Phoenix."

we arrive at the headquarters of zoraxis defense, there's alarms going off, because the peace maker (which is built into the building) is about to launch and the whole place is about to be torched by the fire of it's liftoff. we are in an elevator, juniper is doing his broadcast on highest floor. 36 stories up. and we gotta reach him, freeing the real heads of state along the way. and well... it doesn’t exactly go to plan.

First of all our elevator gets sabotaged, so we gotta power it with a car battery we found in a storage closet. Until we finally find juniper at the top, doing a villain speech on a giant catwalk, over the missile silo:

Using our TK we pull a lever that retracts the catwalk, jolting juniper, making him fall off, just barely able to hang onto the edge of the platform. We have him right where we want him! But then:

“Whoa wait wait! Let’s not be too hasty agent! You don’t want me you want Zor! I can tell you who doctor Zor is!”

Then suddenly a distorted voice echos through the speakers…

“No juniper, I don’t think you will.”

Zor themselves…

“Ha! And what exactly are you gonna do about it! There’s nobody left in this building to stop me, I’m still the one running the show!”

“Mister Juniper… you were never the one running the show.. fabricator, if you would?”

“Bye-bye john!”

“No! Wait doctor I-!

Suddenly, the mimic mask, still on johns face, lights up with electricity, John screams in agony, letting go of the ledge, falling to his death.

The screen ahead of you shows a ten minute count down

“Your move… agent..”

the launch has been activated, and now it’s a race against time to stop it.

“Never mind that agent, you’ve got this”

You open the briefcase and find a three, suspiciously simple puzzles needing to be solved to disarm the nuke. Each one lighting up a blue light, once all are lit, you are safe to press the abort Launchpad button! Except:

Theres not enough power

You look around and realize your only option is to use the car battery hooked to the elevator. Wich also happens to be the only thing keeping you from plummeting down 32 floors to your death.

“No.. no that can’t be it!” Your handler says.

But there’s no time. You start hooking up the battery, you handler pleading with you the whole time;

“But agent if you do that you’ll- you’ll fall to your death!”

With the battery hooked up and the elevator starting to fail, all Thats left to do is press the abort Launchpad button, one last time, Zor speaks over the speakers;

“Let’s see… if you survive this agent… I shall be in touch…”

You press the button with seconds to spare, the elevator starting to groan and spark –

Agent?!!

And drop.

AGENT!!!

The floors all pass in slow motion as you fall, the peacemaker nuke exploding in front of you as the screen fades to black, and the credits role..

the mission debrief takes place presumingly sometime after the beginning of the third game.. for lore reasons. our handler leaves the usual recording, but this time. it's far more somber, and it's not addressed to us...

To the [REDACTED] Agency Board of Directors, from Agent Supervisor [REDACTED], this is my final report on the Juniper Incident. Shortly after the television broadcast cut out, Zoraxis Defense Headquarters was destroyed... in an enormous blast. The Agent at the scene, hereafter referred to as Agent Phoenix... well, we haven't... found a body yet... if they DID survive. [sigh] Well right before they disarmed the warheads, Dr. Zor addressed the agent. Directly. If Zor's taken a personal interest, well to be plain, it is my STRONG recommendation that we prepare for direct engagement. Thanks to Agent Phoenix, Zoraxis cannot operate in the dark anymore... Zor's strategy is already changing, and we need to be prepared for anything.

damn... I really got carried away here didn't I... uhhh if you actually read all this thank you!! originally I was gonna do the third game too but this is SOOOO long, so I'll do it in a different past later and tag you! if you wanna get into theories that might explain shit @agent-calivide is to IEYTD what Matt Pat is to FNAF, they have a YouTube channel with timelines, and theories! really good watches! would recommend! thank you for letting me yap! I'll tag you soon!

also since I spent way too much time on this imma tag other ppl in the fandoms! they got cool posts and fanart :) @purplebehittindifferent @radio-crows

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