"GAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!" Master Beta screamed as he shot off a wad of white, sticky goop from his right hand at two robots. Completely spent after the shot, he slunk down to the ground and watched as the goop gummed up the robots' mechanisms and stuck them together. "Whew... oh, that felt good..." Master Beta muttered to himself, "...but the guilt... the guilt..."

Larry Lance, phasing through a nearby robot which lunged at him, then giving it a kick from behind into the snow, passed by and said, "Hey, good work, kid!"

"Thanks," Master Beta said, a slight embarrassed smile on his flushed face.

Larry sniffed in the air as he passed the two robots that Beta had downed. "Ewww... what is that smell...?"

Suddenly, with a CRACK!, the goop connecting the two robots (which had already frozen in the sub-zero chill) broke apart, and the huge T5-bots came at the two metas.

Master Beta: "Ohhh..."

Larry Lance: "...CRAAAPP!!!"

Several metres away (or several feet--who cares, really?), a young man named Cobb saw the two metahumans in trouble, and he did what just came naturally to him, the talent that had given him the well-deserved name of Head-Fall-Off Boy:

Larry Lance thought he heard a whistling through the air, accompanied by someone... screaming...?

".....aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!"

SMASH!

Annikin Cobb's Head of Steel™ completely destroyed the two robots as it smashed through them at a high velocity... but unfortunately it just kept on going, and going, and going...

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...."

Master Beta: "Damn."

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Head-Fall-Off Boy: "crap! crap! crap! crap! crap! crap! crap! crap! crap! crap! crap! crap! crap! crap! crap! crap! crap! crap! crap!"

Thunk!

Head-Fall-Off Boy: "'Thunk!'?!?"

"Hi there."

Cobb heard a sultry woman's voice say those words to him and felt his Head of Steel™ being held by soft, gloved hands. Hands which turned him around to face... her.

Head-Fall-Off Boy: "Ohh... uh... hi..."

*THUD!*

As he tried to figure out how his head made that noise without hitting anything, Cobb found himself falling in love with the redheaded vision of beauty carrying him back towards his body, only to find two identical women flying next to her.

Head-Fall-Off Boy: "Homina-homina-homina... WOW! There's THREE of you! Is this my lucky day, or what?!?"

"My name's Trinity," all three women said in unison.

Head-Fall-Off Boy: "Huh? Which one of you is Trinity, again?"

"I am," all three of them said in unison, laughing. Finally, after a moment of confusion, the one holding his Head of Steel™ smiled and said to him by herself: "I get that a lot. The concept of 'one soul in three bodies' is a bit hard to grasp."

Head-Fall-Off Boy: "Ohhhhhhhhhhhh... OK, I get it -- you're like Triplicate Girl, right? Or is that Triad? Can never remember..."

"Sort of," Trinity replied as she landed next to Larry Lance and Master Beta while her other two bodies retrieved Cobb's headless body.

Larry Lance: "Wow."

Master Beta: "Uhhh... I gotta go find a bathroom..."

Larry Lance: "I don't remember seeing you girls on either the Stormloader or the E.P.S. ship. Where'd you come from?"

Trinity placed Cobb's Head of Steel™ into his own arms, allowing him to put it back into place. She (they?) turned and replied, "I have my own means of transport."

Head-Fall-Off Boy: "Are you people thinking what I'm thinking? Huh? Huh? Three guys? Three girls?"

Larry Lance: "We're in the middle of Antarctica, Cobb."

Head-Fall-Off Boy: "I'm just sayin'... hey, when did you become 'Mister Mature' all of a sudden, anyway?"

Larry Lance rolled his eyes and said to Trinity, "But who--? Where--?"

Trinity took to the air in unison and said, "I'm Trinity -- a friend of your teammates Sonia and Ameristar, and your sometime-ally Crasher, Larry Lance. Sorry, but the battle's still raging. Maybe I'll see you again some other time, okay?"

Larry Lance: "Sure... sure thing... *sigh"... I think I'm in love..."

Head-Fall-Off Boy: "Hey!"

Larry Lance: "What?"

Head-Fall-Off Boy: "I saw them -- her -- them first!"

Larry Lance: "There's a time and place for everything, young Cobb, but this is not the time. Now where did that videotape guy go?"

Head-Fall-Off Boy: "Master Beta? He's probably made himself blind by now."

Larry Lance: "Huh?"

Head-Fall-Off Boy: "The snow. You know, all this white, blinding snow around us? Hell on the eyes."

Larry Lance: "Oh, right..."

Head-Fall-Off Boy: "What did you think I meant?"

Larry Lance: "Nothing." He rolled his eyes and muttered to himself, "'Master Beta'? What a lame joke..."