Billy Bat 45

BILLY BAT #45

tl by molokidan

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Chapter 45 - Clone

1: Ahhhhhhhh
2-4: klak
5: come onnnn
6-7: klak
8: I'm counting on you here!!
9: Right now Billy Bat is super popular!! We can't leave any gaps!!
10: You're already past your deadline!!
11: Well, it's the editor's job to re-fix the deal with the printing company when the deadline doesn't match up, right?!
12: I've already re-fixed it, and re-re-fixed it!!
13: Alright, then just do it one more time, please!!
14-15: skritch skritch

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1: You might as well ask me to spin the earth backwards!!
2: OK, fine, whatever, just do it!!
3: What happened to Chuck, anyway?
4: Ahhh...about that...
5: I go to take a 15-minute nap, then I come back and he's gone.
6(2b): skritch skritch
7: And it's been too long for a lunch break.
8: I tried to stop him, but...
9: You knew?
10: Kevin, I kept quiet because I didn't want you to lose your motivation...
11: Where did he go?
12: To go see the ocean...

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1: The ocean...?!
2: He said he couldn't get the ocean right, no matter how hard he tried, so he went to go take a look at it.
3: sssssssh
4: You should fire him.
5: Chuck...

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Chapter 45 - Replica

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1: I see...so a part of the government, a part of the army, and the defense industry are working together with the mafia...
2: to assassinate the President...?
3: And now they're going to make it all seem like it was the work of some dummy...
4: whose name is...
5: Oswald.

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1: That's quite a story.
2: And they're planning to do it during the parade.
3: If they aim from three angles, they'll have a very high chance of success.
4(2b): That bat you say appears in front of you...he's one heck of a scenario writer.
5: He...
6: The bat told me this:
7: "You thought all this up, didn't you?"

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1: Super refreshing Golden Cola
2: How about a drink?
3: It's too late for that now!!
4: When I was sober, I let him tell me everything.
5: Ohh...so you mean you know what happens next, then?
6: This story won't end without a sacrifice.
7: SOMEONE'S sacrifice, might I add.

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1: One more Golden Cola!
2: Yessir.
3: Here it is again: your weekly dose of adventures and dreams!!
4: The Billy Bat Hour
5: Look, the most popular show on TV is on.
6: Turn that off please, bartender.
7: Sorry, but I wait to watch this every week.
9: Now, Billy, what kind of fantastic world will you take us to this time?!

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1: I said turn it off!!
2: And introducing your host, as always...
3: creak
4: Hey, wait.

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1: Hey!!
2(2b): The father of Billy Bat...Chuck Culkin!! clap clap clap clap clap
3: Wooow, this one's just as great as the others!!
4: It's perfect, Kevin!!
5: I somehow made it through this time...
6: The fight scene in the jungle is so intense!!

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1: That's because Chuck worked hard for me.
2: Be proud, Chuck!!
3: He worked all night for three days...
4: Chuck's my right hand man...
5: No, he's my clone...

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1: Looks like the rumors were true.
2: Whenever the "Billy Bat Hour" is on, the nation's streets get cleared out.
3: Apparently it has over a 70% rating in California, you know.
4-5: klak
6: What was that about your trusted trainee betraying you...?

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1: Man up. You were just naive.
2: It was too soft of you to simply leave everything in his hands when you went to Japan for a bit.
3: Think about it.
4: When you come home, your office is empty.
5: And not only that, but your character was completely ripped off...
6: Everything was stolen from you...
7: and he's a billionaire now.

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1: Chuck Culkin isn't the kind of man you think he is.
2: He's a masterful, vicious businessman!
3: Do you think Chuck sees the bat?
4: I don't know.

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1: And that's it for "The Billy Bat Hour!!"
2: Whaaat?
3: It's over already?!
4: But we'll be back next week to take you to another fantasy world of dreams and adventure!!
5: This was your host, as always, the father of Billy Bat...
6: Chuck Culkin!!
7: See you next week!!

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1: Wha...
2: It's true...
3: that my comics may have been getting a bit too real lately...
4: And I know what you mean about focusing on the children.

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1: But I only have enough power now to keep this going by myself.
2: When I think about your future...
3: I realize I shouldn't be holding you back.
4: No...
5: You're wrong...that isn't the way things are...
6: I, um...
7: I actually feel like I'm holding you back...
8: Kevin...I could never draw the right kind of ocean you were looking for...
9: I couldn't draw it right, so I had to go all the way to the ocean...

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1: If I keep drawing the way I am now, then all the great things about Billy Bat...
2: will just be ruined in the end...
3: Chuck...
4: Please don't tell me you're going to quit.
5: Huh...
6: Billy Bat isn't just my Billy,
7: but your Billy as well.
8: Please, keep lending me your strength.

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1: Of course! If you don't mind me sticking around!!

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1: See you next week!!

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1: I'll be waiting for you here with Billy!!

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1: Who is that?!
2: What's wrong?!
3: Who is that man?!
4: Huh?

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1: What are you talking about? That's the man who whirled up this national boom, your ex-assistant...
2: Don't you know his name, mister?
3: Wooow...
4: He's the most famous cartoonist in the world!!
5: He's the father of Billy Bat!!
6: You don't know Chuck Culkin?!
7: No!!

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1: This man isn't Chuck...!!