Hey all.
On this creepiest day of the year, I just wanted to share a custom I made in honor of my favorite Joe alternaverse ever conceived - JFAK's End of Days.
There was a contest over on another site today where some fantastic similarly themed customs were shown (and possibly the most perfect Outback rendition I've ever seen by DavAnthony), and this was my humble entry.
You may want to read the bio to understand the new look.
When the streets of Glasgow were over run by the living dead, Lord James MacCullen Destro felt it was his duty to aid in the defense of his homeland. From the safety of Castle Destro, the lord dispatched a platoon of his finest Iron Grenadiers to assist the regular military in their efforts to restore order. They were incredibly effective, elimnating all known zombies with minimal losses. Of the 20 men who set out that day, 14 returned alive. A fifteenth was dead, but didn't yet know it.
By 22:00, Destro, his personal physician and fourteen surviving members of Destro's elite guard had barricaded themselves in a secure communications tower as the undead moaned and mewled in the halls and courtyard outside.
Knowing that the local military would be too busy to reciprocate for his earlier efforts on their behalf, Destro put out a call for help to Cobra. The Commander's response was to fly a transport full of B.A.T.s over Castle Destro and have the crew kick the androids out the cargo doors at low altitude into the now zombie-infested courtyard.
Ever a daring tactician, Destro took advantage of the distraction his noisy yet largely ineffective reinforcements provided. He and his men armed themselves and charged into the courtyard. At first it seemed the gamble might pay off, but Destro had not counted on the undead possessing a sensory hierarchy. Apparently the smell of fresh meat was far more interesting to them than the metallic mayhem of their B.A.T. attackers.
As his men died around him, Destro fought like a man possessed. His guns emptied, he was soon overtaken by a group of the undead while attempting a retreat. More than a dozen gaping maws with soulless eyes stood between him and the door to the personal vault where his family's most prized treasures lay. Glancing around, he knew that the few B.A.T.s with enough remaining functionality to crawl in his direction would not arrive in time. As one of the undead began to bite down on his right arm, Destro triggered his last remaining wrist missile. The blast incinerated more than half of his ghoulish attackers...as well as most of his arm and legs.
Ignoring the agonizing pain, Destro began to drag himself across the blood soaked grass. When his physician approached him, bleeding from what appeared to be a bite on his neck, the Lord of Castle Destro prepared to meet his end. But the physician flagged down a mostly functioning B.A.T. and instructed it to carry Destro inside the vault.
It was there, surrounded by arms and armament from across the centuries, that Destro understood what needed to be done. His physician had been bitten. His time was short. But Destro needed the man's medical expertise and manual dexterity to help preserve his own life. And, knowing he was doomed, in return the physician asked only that, when he began to change into one of the undead, Destro would spare him that fate.
Using parts from the B.A.T., pieces of ancient armor and implements of destruction ranging from the iron age to the atomic age, Destro and the doctor constructed new limbs of massive strength to replace those the lord had lost. They also gave him the means to inflict massive, immediate damage upon the undead. Destro's first test of these enhancements came when he was forced to decapitate the doctor within moments of the man's eyes glazing over.
Literally rearmed, Lord Destro made short work of the remaining zombies in the courtyard. And, soon after, he set out to try and find other survivors...holding out hope that his beloved Baroness would be among them.
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