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{{Surreptitious Machinations, Chapter 8: Wars and Confrontations, Sunday July 28, 2002}}
[[Laser beams and rockets are firing as we see the floating pod holding Trudy and Dr. Nefarious flies by. A newsreporter by the name of Renata is on the roof of a building in the background reporting on the scene unfolding in front of her.]]
Renata: ... reporting live from lower Manhattan, where the streets have become a literal war zone!

Renata: As the mysterious C.R.U.D.E organization made it's demands, goverment paramilitary troops attacked, engaging the superiorly armed enemy.

Renata: Fortuantely, the devastated block leveled as a show of force was evacuated hours before by enigmatic "men in black."

<<An explosion is heard in the distance in the direction of the Statue of Liberty>>
Renata: What's this? We've just learned this battle has branched into a second front to the south, at the Statue of Liberty!

[[A gray sideburned man with a blue hat approaches Renata]]
Ferris: Uh, I hate to break it to you Renata, but no signal's getting through. Satellite's dead.

Renata: Mystery soldiers, scrambled satellites, Manhattan a war zone... I don't know what's going on, but i'm sure as heck going to find out!
[[Yellow haired camera operator is thinking to himself]]
Kevin: What a Newshound...