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Starring:

Doctor Sinister

Doctor Sinister. An evil Supervillain with an insane lust for power. From his secret island base, the Doctor plans to become future Emperor and Warlord of the planet Earth. Enjoys the company of cats and cloned genetically modified Dinosaurs.

And featuring:

General Menace. Graduated from West Point Military Academy with honours, served for twenty-five years in the US Army, reaching level of 2-star General in command of training facilities before being recruited by Doctor Sinister to command his New Model Army of World Domination. Has a penchant for cigars.

EPISODE 10 – “Over the Top”

It is a rainy windswept night on Sinister Island. As General Menace’s customised Apache Helicopter glides onto the landing beacon he looks down below him to see vast numbers of wet and miserable soldiers picking at the muddy ground with all manner of tools.

Massive floodlights illuminate the works as patrol cars drive back and forth, guards shouting orders at the men.

Huge digging machines carve enormous gouges in the ground as the General trudges through the sticky mud towards the gleaming white control pod mounted on stilts near the main working party.

Five minutes later, onboard the Portable Command Centre…

Doctor Sinister: General! Am I pleased to see you, perhaps you can get these slobs motivated for me.

General: Slobs my Lord? That’s my finest Legion down there Sir, they are the elite of the Sinister Armed Forces, without them, our Army would be pretty pitiful.

Well they aren’t acting like an elite – it’s taken them twelve hours just to dig three miles.

I’d say that was pretty good going your Excellency. Those are fighting men, not labourers. However I’m sure that with a few incentives they could work a little harder…

Incentives? Don’t I pay them enough already?

As a matter of fact, Supremacy, your wages are most generous – however that’s not what I meant. A few creature comforts wouldn’t go amiss, some fine wine, a few cigars here and there…

Cigars? Why haven’t you mentioned this before?

Actually…

Never mind all that – I can’t be messing around with luxury provisions right now, it’s the middle of the night and we’ve got work to do!

Yes my Lord, but perhaps if you told me what exactly we were up to I could assist with the planning?

Didn’t you get the memo’?

I’ve been in Costa Rica all week Sir, bribing, erm, I mean hiring some more men – I’ve not been in my office all that time. However, from the flight over here, it looks like we’re digging a canal or something – you’ve had my men dig twenty miles in a straight line all the way from the coast – are you planning to flood the excavations?

Nope.

Oh, well then, might I ask how much further this line is going to extend?

Another four hundred miles or so, however far it is to the other coast.

Four hundred miles Sir? You mean you’re cutting a gigantic notch in the ground four hundred and twenty miles across the length of the island?

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