AsteroidQuest/The First Neumono Christmas
A spinnoff seasonal special of AsteroidQuest that takes place in an alternate universe. A Christmasverse.
 This article contains spoilers! You were warned.
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Characters
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| Uniform, squee! |  |
Agent Polo
A Special Agent of the Ultrahive Detective Affirmation, who finds herself assigned to the case of a worldwide delivery heist only two days before the first neumono Christmas.
By the books and a straight shooter (in both respects).
Like her canon counterpart, she's had specialized sniper training and possess the ability to go silent.
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| Jetpacks are impractical and unprofessional, sir | |
Ultraking Az
Polo's boss, who expects and endorses a certain extravagant code of conduct from his agents.
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Officer Rokoa
A member of the capital police force and the epitome of a loose cannon, crammed into a uniform. When she even bothers to wear her uniform.
Though a combination of circumstance, insufficient allocation of resources, and her own dogged determination to see the case though, she ends up as Polo's acting partner.
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The Chief
Chief of the capital police, and queen of the police hive.
Neumono nepotism is different.
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Agent Katzati
A kind spirited cuddly pile of fluff with a big heart. And other things.
She serves as Polo's UDA operator, assisting and facilitating from HQ.
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Pelios rozu Oilrigger
A neumono who is no longer in the oil rigging business.
CEO of Aprio Enterprises, a jammer manufacturer.
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| Office power! | |
Agent Lucera
An office agent who assumes the position of head investigator once the severity of the case comes to light.
A specialist, skilled at interrogation and compiling detailed, exhaustive plans.
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| (left to right) UDA agents Katzati, Lucera, Marra and Rokann | |
Agent Marra
A UDA field agent, partnered with Rokann.
Agent Rokann
Another UDA field agent, partnered with Marra.
They've been assigned to investigate other leads in the case in parallel of Polo and Rokoa's efforts.
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Jules
A family man in the security business, and our lead on his pal Itcher, a missing private investigator.
Surprisingly well prepared and cooperative.
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Lamarra
Another associate of Itcher's, and the former right-hand man of mafia kingpin. Somehow Lamarra managed to get off scot-free when the UDA came down on his boss.
Currently employed in a casino run by upstanding entrepreneurs that follow the law and isn't a front for anything.
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Luka
Three Stripes' nervous and flub-prone caretaker. Not a professional.
Predator nepotism isn't any different.
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| Hiiiiiiiii! | |
Three Stripes
A highly classified asset that few UDA agents even know exists, and even fewer have access to. Anyone with insufficient security clearances who comes into contact with him has their memory erased and edited as a matter of established protocol.
He is the UDA's trained predator, and he possess an astounding amount of social tact.
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| Giant and Three Stripes | |
Giant
Queen of the so-called "Three Stripes Hive". Combative, protective, and not a fan of anyone getting up to her her neck level.
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| The Queen of Blood and a Huge (Fighting) Nerd | |
Zorya - Queen of Blood
A fictional character and star of the first major comic book to target neumono as an audience. Rokoa's kids love this stuff.
Only a giant nerd would have this.
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| (front) Itcher and Jess | |
"Baby Head" Itcher
A former mafia enforcer turned private eye after the law got the better of his one time kingpin. He lives up to the booze-laden stereotype of his chosen profession.
One of the people hired by Pelios to investigate his blackmailing.
Jessica
Came to Itcher as a client, looking for protection from a stalker. She never left after they closed the case, and now works as his assistant.
According to Lamarra, she's from some place called "the white tops".
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Lukratsa Steelnaut
A former soldier and celebrity movie star, presumably famous for her portrayal of people who aren't Polo.
Seen here selling out to narrate an infomercial.
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Pilon
A rogue from the police hive, turned private investigator, fallen on hard times. He's taken to acting to get by, including several contributions to the niche genre of klutzy physical comedy infomercials, and most recently a gig as an unusually convincing mall Santa.
He looks stupidly adorable.
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Silver Gust
The voklit who oversees the Silver Cloud reservation, including the Rain Ritual Territory Mall where mall Santa Pilon is employed.
Really plays up the stereotypes.
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| Hok is hiding under the table. Canon. | |
Miss
A high roller, interested in luring a certain Santa away from his duties for a decidedly non-family-friendly Christmas present.
Polo's totally annoyed at the competition. ...at getting custody of Pilon. For the mission. Not anything else. Nope.
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Viln and Vern
The two biggest hunks available at the voklit reservation brothel.
Polo bought their services (with official funds) for mission relevant reasons. No, really.
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| Midboss approaching! | |
Korli
A mad biologist, and self described "damn best battle scientist this world's seen!" Quite possibly high, drunk, and more.
In the Grinch's employ.
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Red
An (unwilling) experimental test subject, treated with genetic modifications and steroids to have three times the strength of a normal neumono, and given internal bioarmor.
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Ramella
Korli's hivemate and a rocketry specialist whose research horizons have expanded to include mind controlling nano-dust and lesbian gas.
Unafraid to let someone know when she likes them.
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The Super-Team Space Hive Omega-Waveforce
An honest to god neumono super sentai team with custom power suits and justice lasers. Their signature wave beams are empathy-powered emotion-guns. No, really.
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Alison
An artificial intelligence, and the de facto spokesperson (spokeserpent?) of the UDA's CAI.
She's a hugger.
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Hok
Miklik thief extraordinaire, specialized in the acquisition of single high value targets. One or both of our wayward private detectives found evidence linking him to the Grinch's activities.
In case you missed it, he started shadowing us way back here.
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Officer Kork
Another member of the police hive, who at the time of this phone call, have custody of Jess and Itcher. Despite what looked like a mysterious break-in attempt.
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| Rake (with hivemates) | |
Rakae
Polo's hivemate as well as her designated morale booster and happiness infuser.
Sometimes, there's no pick-me-up quite like phoning home from far away, especially for a long distance workaholic.
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Kappi
Rokoa's hivemate and bedmate. Quickly getting the hang of Az-style agent abuses of authority, she had him shipped up to orbit for a booty call.
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| A flamethrower to the face is reasonable force. | |
The Fufa
A terrifying and intelligent pile of shape-shifting fungus. Significantly better at shape-shifting and being intelligent than the fufas seen in canon.
It wants backrubs.
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The Grinch
Vanski. A salikai crime boss turned Christmas supervillain, and the mastermind behind everything.
He won't be defeated by singing, and his heart isn't about to grow three sizes either.
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Mafia Alison
An alternate version of Alison, and spokeserpent of the Grinch's CAI.
Apparently there are multiple instances of the same CAI floating around out there.
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| Bombs, such a thoughtful gift. | |
The Cybernetic Arkot
One of the Grinch's exceedingly few competent minions.
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Whiskers
A master thief who prefers orchestrating grand heists. Despite contributing behind the scenes to the Christmas caper, she manages to escape appearing in person during the UDA's investigation.
Probably the person who stole Itcher's heart, and probably the person who broke into jail to see Jess and Itcher before they started singing like canaries.
