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  • TRIGUN MAXIMUM VOLUME 9

    chap 1


    flashback - a kid sits on some steps alone
    another kid tells him not to cry
    he hands the cryer some food, introduces himself as nicholas
    present - people are trying to get out of december
    wolfwood's the only one going into the city
    wolfwood speeds past the guards and blows open the gate to the city
    flashback - wolfwood thinks about livio
    he chunks a can at livio
    livio ignores him
    livio feels sorry for himself
    wolfwood clues livio in on the fact that...hello...they're at an orphanage and everybody knows how he feels
    livio lightens up
    livio helps with the chores
    for some reason...a puppy is forced to walk the plank...from the roof of the orphanage
    and this girl jasmin goes after it
    wolfwood tries to save her, but she falls
    livio dashes forward and catches her before she hits the ground
    one night as wolfwood is taking some kid to the bathroom, he sees livio in a dark corner
    livio disappears into the darkness
    and someone killed the puppy...
    livio wakes up with his hands covered in blood
    the lady who takes care of the orphans believes him
    but the kids don't
    he looks at his hand and thinks of the puppy, his eyes dialate
    jasmin cowers around the door, looking at him
    he makes eye contact she's scared...she runs away
    livio disappears
    present - wolfwood brings his motorcycle to a hault
    a kid is blocking his way
    the kid asks for wolfwood's help
    wolfwood asks for melanie and the kid is surprised
    wolfwood says he's an old friend
    he razzes the kid about going to the bathroom himself
    the orphanage is surrounded by cyborgs
    melanie is kidnapped, along with five others
    the kidnappers are livio and wheelchair guy
    they want wolfwood's head on a platter
    livio asks about the cyborgs
    wheelchair guy says they're the "alarm system"
    the kids are talking to wolfwood when they realize one of them is missing
    he's run out toward the cyborgs
    he dodges an explosion, but one of the bad guys gets him
    the kid wants his sister back
    the guy thinks this is funny
    the big guy steps on the kid and aims his gun at him
    the guy keeps going ON and ON and ON about how he's going to kill this kid
    livio shows up to finally kill the guy
    now he understands why they're the "alarm system"
    he feels wolfwood's presence


    chap 2


    one of the kids has the feeling he's met wolfwood before
    but they all agree that this guy is too old
    wolfwood takes out a cyborg, but leaves the head and central nervous system entact
    the other cyborgs COULD technically fix him, but they don't want to spend the money, so they blow the guy's head up instead
    wolfwood watches silently
    wolfwood maneuvers his bike so that the rocket launcher end of cross punisher is pointing towards the cyborgs
    he lets one have it
    he looks straight forward and shoots a rocket straight into the sky
    an explosion knocks one of the guys' guns into his head, sending him backwards
    another guy looks on in shock
    wolfwood flies in on his motorcycle, gun blazing
    a shot of little nicolas and big wolfwood
    flashback - his instructor is telling him never to hesitate, to always destroy
    present - bullets are flying past wolfwood
    the wheelchair guy is that old instructor...
    wolfwood is picking off cyborgs left and right
    he knocks a guy out with his back tire
    the instructor gets pissed. wolfwood's gotten "sloppy," and by sloppy, he means he's not eliminating the targets efficiently
    the instructor is shocked that he's leaving his opponents alive and surviving
    a shot of livio in restraints...
    a last cyborg pops up, threatening to kill wolfwood
    he just looks up and points up at the sky
    the bad guy looks up...the missile that was shot straight up...is on its way back down...
    the cyborg is injured, but doesn't look dead
    a chorus of painful sounds come from the baddies
    but...the tiger family has one more secret weapon: a huge missile
    and it's aimed at the orphanage
    the bad guy shoots the rocket...
    and livio catches it, turns it off course, and throws it towards the loud mouth.


    chap 3


    the kids in the orphanage are scared by the loud explosion outside
    they wish nicolas was there.
    cut to A FREAKING COOL SHOT OF WOLFWOOD.
    livio is itching to fight
    wolfwood is savoring a cigarette
    wolfwood asks livio why he changed into an assassin
    livio flashback - livio is alone in a town
    he encounters some adults, but runs away
    he finds a note in his pocket - RAZLO
    he doesn't know how it had gotten there
    livio is digging through trash cans for food
    some adults try to run him off
    he asks one of them to take care of him
    unsurprisingly, livio gets the ever-living-crap beat out of him and he gets stuffed into a dumpster
    he finds another note
    he keeps finding more letters
    livio confronts the guys again
    he gets beat up again
    strangely, he remembers jasmin
    livio lets go and razlo takes over
    the guys continue to kick livio's ass
    suddenly, the men sense something, they look behind them
    livio's eyes change into RAZLO'S EYES!
    present - wolfwood pauses
    livio explains that he had multiple personalities
    he says he didn't know he was going insane at the time
    razlo is the one who led livio to the eye of michael
    livio won't tell wolfwood where the eye of michael is located
    the two suddenly draw weapons!
    and point them at each other!
    AND FIRE!
    they both dodge
    livio kicks at wolfwood, but he dodges,
    and aims from underneath up at livio
    and wolfwood fires
    wheelchair guy listens from the building


    chap 4


    wolfwood shoots livio
    livio falls to the ground
    wolfwood watches as the bullet hole seeps with blood
    one of the cyborgs realizes they never stood a chance to wolfwood
    wolfwood shoots livio in the head
    wheelchair guy smiles
    the foot soldiers come out.
    wolfwood looks determined? off-put?
    livio cocks his weapon
    the old guy tells wolfwood that livio's recovery ability is like SUPAFAST, behind wolfwood, livio stands up
    livio is standing
    wolfwood gets shot in the chest
    livio is already behind wolfwood before wolfwood can react
    livio fires, but wolfwood uses his cross to maneuver out of the way
    livio fires again
    wolfwood is shot
    WOLFWOOD GETS A NEW NAME!!! he's now NICHOLAS THE PUNISHER
    livio and wolfwood shoot guns at each other
    they're out of bullets
    wolfwood looks panicked
    livio stares defiantly
    wolfwood ejects the magazine in his pistol and looks for another
    livio just turns his guns around and starts firing again
    wolfwood loads the new magazine, but before he can get a single shot off, he's already been shot
    wolfwood slides down the wall, leaving a huge bloodstain where he was leaning
    for some reason, livio feels the need to aim between his legs at wolfwood
    livio totally unloads
    wolfwood is shot clear accross the ground
    a shot of chapel as he watches
    a shot of the foot soldiers
    wolfwood crawls to his punisher
    livio looks a little dismayed
    wolfwood has A LOT OF DETERMINATION!
    wolfwood swallows a vial's worth of liquid.
    the wounds in his body begin to smoke as they heal
    livio watches as wolfwood heals
    chapel is furious
    wolfwood stands up
    livio charges
    wolfwood charges
    wolfwood fires a rocket at livio at very close range
    livio locks his arms over his head and looks shocked
    while livio is distracted, wolfwood attacks
    wolfwood grabs livio around the neck and pushes himself against livio
    wolfwood fires, livio is a yucky puddle of goo


    chap 5


    chapel watches as livio gets creamed by wolfwood
    chapel decides he must intervene in the fight
    wolfwood senses something and opens fire at the house
    wolfwood and chapel open fire on each other (though i believe wolfwood is outside and chapel is inside)
    flashback - a wrapped cross bangs against the floor. young chapel gives it to wolfwood
    present - wolfwood is still firing at the wall when...
    SOMETHING BUSTS OUT OF THE HOUSE
    there is an arial shot of the roof of the house as it explodes
    chapel's wheelchair is now air-borne
    wolfwood and chapel fire directly at each other
    chapel lands right in front of wolfwood, they point their guns at each other
    chapel coughs blood
    wolfwood asks if chapel is going to drink another vial
    chapel isn't going to drink one
    wolfwood puts his gun to chapel's head
    chapel says it's only a matter of time before livio comes back
    wolfwood doesn't believe him. livio did just get hit with a rocket, after all.
    foot soldiers appear
    they're livio's soldiers
    they leap up and over wolfwood...
    to kneel before a fully regenerated livio
    well...a fully regenerated razlo
    wolfwood blocks an attack with his cross punisher
    he fires...but razlo has caught the bullet in his hand
    and watches as it harmlessly falls to the ground
    a third arm rips out of razlo's back
    the three cross punishers which were carried by the soliders are given to razlo
    his skull face thing falls to the ground
    razlo's got some crazy tattoos,
    EVERYBODY GETS A NEW NAME!!!
    now razlo is the TRI-PUNISHER OF DEATH!!!


    chap 6


    flashback - livio is in a dark place.
    a psychologist seems to be observing him
    another livio looks on at the suffering livio
    a shot of livio with a knife after murdering a man and a woman
    two men who look like they belong to the eye of michael are observing a strapped down razlo
    present - razlo and his weird tattoos
    wolfwood remembers the night he first saw razlo
    chapel says that razlo and livio have split and that livio is not coming back
    also, he confirms that TRI-P of DEATH and DOUBLEFANT are two ghg's in one body.
    razlo kills the soldiers which brought him his cross punishers
    wolfwood looks horrified
    blood and guts rain down upon wolfwood
    razlo charges
    wolfwood dodges
    razlo aims all three punishers at wolfwood
    wolfwood barely dodges as a huge hole is blown in a wall
    razlo attacks again
    three missiles come towards wolfwood
    and EXLPODE
    he's thrown backwards
    chapel watches judgmentally
    wolfwood hits the wall behind him with such force that he cracks a hole in the wall
    wolfwood's eyes go blank
    he can't believe razlo's strength
    he falls to the ground
    chapel gloats over wolfwood
    razlo asks if he can take a break
    chapel stutters as he answers
    both razlo and chapel look down at wolfwood as he lies in his own blood
    chapel unfurls his cross punisher
    chapel reveals it was wolfwood who put him in his wheelchair
    wolfwood thinks of a young livio
    chapel blames vash for wolfwood's deterioration
    wolfwood thinks of vash
    wolfwood denies it, can't believe it...
    DREADED RECAP EPISODE!!!
    chapel keeps deriding vash
    but wolfwood believes in him
    as razlo and chapel look on, wolfwood gathers himself up


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