Episode 12: The VGMaster Shoots a Thing

All of a sudden, The VGMaster pulls out a ray gun and begins firing away. "Where does he get these?!" The Vinny asks while running for his life. Now, The Vinny was, for the most part, a pacifist, so he had no intention to actually do harm to The VGMaster. However, it was... very evident something needed to be done.

"What's your plan?" Vanessa asks The Vinny. "Not sure. If I could just get that gun away from him..." he says. "You distract him and I'll try to use my whip to get it!" Vanessa says. "Good idea! That's using the smarts!" The Vinny says.

The Vinny stands by a small piece of rubble just tall enough to provide adequate cover. "Hey, The VGMaster!" The Vinny yells. "Legend has it that you smell rotten!" "Alright...?" The VGMaster says. "And your mom was ugly!" The Vinny says. "Indeed." says The VGMaster. "And StarTropics is an awful game!" The Vinny says.

Suddenly, The VGMaster's face turned red. "You... take that back!" he manages to sputter out, barely. "I don't believe I will." The Vinny says. The VGMaster's barrage of lasers becomes quicker and more fierce than before.

Vanessa sneaks up behind The VGMaster and slings her whip at his gun, knocking it to the ground. She picks up the gun and points it at him. "Now, The Vinny is gonna deactivate your machine and you aren't going to try anything." she says. The Vinny heads over the the machine and hits the very lovingly labeled "shut down" button. Then he blows up the machine somehow just for good measure.

The Vinny pulls The VGMaster up and looks him right in the eyes. "I want you to leave this planet. Leave it and never return." The Vinny says. "But... where will I go? Galliflorida is gone." The VGMaster says. "That's none of my concern." The Vinny sternly replies. "You had your chance to come peacefully and you blew it."

"Heheheheh." The VGMaster chuckles. "As if you really thought I wouldn't have one last trick?" "What?!" The Vinny yells. "Vanessa, get back!" "This whole time..." The VGMaster wheezes. "This whole time, I had a secret little weapon. A small bomb in my pocket. It's nowhere near enough to destroy a planet, but I'll at least be able to kill you."

"Get out of here, Vanessa!" The Vinny yells. Vanessa hesitantly complies, looking back along the way. With the sound of rapid beeping, the Cliax Enterprises building explodes into rubble behind her...

That sounds dangerous! I'm glad that The Vgmaster was thoughtful enough to label the "shut down" button in accordance with Cliax Enterprises accessibility standards.

Episode 13: Death of a Vinny

"The Vinny!" Vanessa screams at the rubble. She rushes towards it in the hopes of finding him, turning over every stone she can find. Eventually, she's about to give up, but a hand thrusts itself out of the rubble. Vanessa grabs it and pulls with whatever she can muster.

As she had hoped, the hand belongs to The Vinny, but he's not in good shape. He's bleeding profusely and is missing an arm. "Oh my god, you're-" Vanessa barely manages to say. "I know, I'm not in the best shape of my life, am I? Heheheh." The Vinny says. "Why are you laughing?! You're missing an arm!" Vanessa says, completely aghast. "Yeah, but it's okay. I have ways of dealing with this." he says. "Just carry me back to the TORTOISE, if you would."

Vanessa drags The Vinny to the TORTOISE and gently sets him down. The Vinny looks at Vanessa as a subtle light begins to engulf him. "What's going on?" Vanessa says. "You see, legend has it that we team lords have a funny little way of cheating death." The Vinny says. "It's called reformulation. After this process, I'll be back and fit as a fiddle. Well, sorta." "Sorta?" Vanessa says. "Well, there's the tiny little snag that... I'm kinda gonna be a different person. But still me. It's strange, trust me." The Vinny says.

Suddenly, the subtle light became more akin to a roaring fire of energy so bright The Vinny's face was conveniently not visible through it! It eventually subsides...

"Ah. I feel like a new man! Possibly because I'm a new man." says The Vinny. "So, what do you think, Vanessa? Pretty groovy, huh?" "I-I... uh..." Vanessa stutters. "Huh? Do I have something in my teeth? I do have teeth, right? Is it my hair? I'll bet it's the hair. That's the thing with reformulations, really. I keep getting strange hair." "No, it's... it's fine. You look fine." Vanessa says. "I'm just... a little shocked, is all. It feels like this day couldn't get any stranger."

Suddenly, Vanessa started to rapidly drop in opacity. "What?!" she yells. "What's going on now?!" "I'll bet I know." The Vinny says. "Whatever The VGMaster was using to displace Cliax Enterprises in time must've been destroyed. Now that time is returning to normal, you're being returned, as well."

As Vanessa becomes more and more transparent, she solemnly asks the Vinny something. "Will I ever see you again? After all this, will I even remember you?" "Maybe! Possibly. I don't know, maybe not." The Vinny says. Vanessa shakes The Vinny's hand as she fades away.

"Darn it, and I had this companion for about 13 episodes, too." The Vinny says dejectedly. "Bummer. Oh well, moping about isn't doing much! Time to chill out in the TORTOISE and hardly ever reference her again until we have some kind of anniversary special or something!"

The Vinny cruises out to space and attempts to calm himself after those adventures. "No place like deep space, that's what I say." The Vinny says to himself. "Quiet. And there's nothing around ever to bother y-" All of a sudden, the TORTOISE shakes. "That sounded like an impact!" The Vinny says. "What could it possibly be?" The Vinny pokes his head out of the TORTOISE, but it's okay because he has an... air shield... or something.

He sees a foreign spacecraft stuck to the side of the TORTOISE. A somewhat small, armless creature emerges from it. The creature is purple and is wearing what appears to be military gear. "Hey! Don't you know who I am? Watch where you're going! You know, if it's... uh... if it's not too much trouble." the creature says.

"what" says The Vinny.

HA good stuff

And with that, Vinny Who is on hiatus. Or over. I really don't know.

Perhaps in the future, it'll adopt more of a forum game style where different users write different episodes.

A sensational finale to a sensational series! I'm happy that the Who-ness of Vinny Who leaves open the possibility of a Vinny Who Season Two.

I suppose it's fitting that I bid farewell to Vanessa with a polite handshake instead of a prolonged kiss that occurs while highly romantic string music plays.