====== Over the Trope ======

An episode of //**[[stories:AH.com The Next Generation]]**//.

**Season:** 1

**Episode:** 6

**Written by:** [[offtopic:Jord839]]

**Air date:** June 6, 2009

**[[http://www.alternatehistory.net/discussion/showthread.php?t=126331|Thread link]]**

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==== Plot ====

[[Analytical Engine]] is mentally scarred from something, and as a result the ship isn't working right.  [[Big Tex]] and [[TheDarkServant]] go to No Islam TL #3758908 to buy a replacement part from a shifty-looking mustachioed man ([[vultan]], with a false mustache).  [[Jord839]] attempts to impersonate his alternate, a priest at a Catholic girls' school, but is beamed out before he accomplishes anything.

[[TheDarkServant]] installs [[vultan]]'s mysterious box, but it turns out to replace [[Analytical Engine]] with the malevolent Tropemaster.  The Tropemaster prevents [[TheDarkServant]] from returning to his quarters, using mechanical arms, laser turrets, and flaming buzzsaws.  ([[Blue Max]] actually falls down the ensuing Plot Hole, but is rescued by [[IAN]].)  The Tropemaster shows [[Hashasheen]] and [[godsown1991]], [[Jord839]] and [[ImperialVienna]], and [[Big Tex]], [[Wolf]], [[nikky]], and [[Wanderlust]] all getting attacked by Trobebots.  (Previously, [[nikky]]'s attempts to entice [[Wanderlust]] into therapy attracted [[Doctor What]] from the MES //AH.com//, but he crashed into the wall and had no impact on the story.)  All lose except [[Hashasheen]] and [[godsown1991]], who are still fighting.

Then the Tropemaster's door is pounded open to reveal [[Zyzzyva]].  He turns against the Tropemaster upon its incineration of his keg.  Meanwhile, [[godsown1991]] discovers the Tropebots' weakness: troping.  As a result, [[Zyzzyva]] and the Tropemaster enter a Trope-off Duel to the Death, which, unfortunately, could not be shown due to its intense trope concentration.  [[Zyzzyva]] wins, destroying the Tropemaster, and goes off to find beer.  The parts that [[vultan]] brought explode, probably just because it's cool.

The final scene shows [[August Akuma]] bringing [[vultan]] before a mysterious voice for castigation.  [[Ryder]], however, turns on the light, revealing the voice as belonging to [[Krall]].

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