Don’t believe them, don’t fear them, don’t ask anything of them.

— Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Chapter 17, Page 24

Chapter 17, Page 24

It’s perfectly rational to walk up to the unknown when you have a squadron of soldiers at your back and you believe your enemy has been defeated.  But it’s important that you’re right.  Then again, if you ask Zoey she’ll tell you that she’s never wrong…

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Soldier: Miss, stay back.
Zoey: Hold your fire, guys. There are no genocide men left. These must be delegates.
Soldier: Really?
Zoey: Hey, over here! Z.A. Zenger, Undernet News. Tell me, who are you and why are you --

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Discussion (13)¬

  1. SteelRaven says:

    Something tells me Zoey is about to learn she’s not always right.

  2. Jay says:

    She’s technically right, which is the best sort of right!

    …Except when you’re about to get finely sliced by the I-Can’t-Believe-They’re-Not-Genocide-Men shocktroops. Oops.

  3. CorimKnight says:

    Nice knowing you, Zoey. You were a fun character.

  4. Mike says:

    The media is never deterred by the facts.

  5. Xilinoc says:

    This cannot possibly end well for our intrepid reporter.

  6. Jago 7 knives says:

    She’s dead. Now for the news…”Intrepid Undernet reporter Zoey Zenger was killed today while covering a live news event involving the invasion of the United Kingdom by the Armed Forces of Senegal…”

  7. The Aussie Bloke says:

    I believe the troper term for Zoey is “Wrong Genre Savvy”

  8. Moxie Man says:

    She’s about to earn the Elijah Lovejoy Award in Journalism handed out by Colby College in Maine every year. Elijah Lovejoy was the first news report to die in America for reporting the news. He died trying to defend his printing press and anti-slavery newspaper business in Illinois against a pro-slavery mob.

  9. Drace says:

    …This is a bit of a trope.
    There better not be a scene where she tries running away in high heels.

  10. SpectralTime says:

    …Is… is this just the chapter where everyone but the main cast is really stupid? First the admiral, now *this*!

  11. Azeldan says:

    Zoey: “Hold your fire guys, were in charge here.”
    Soldier: “You’re not my commanding officer, you’re not in the chain of command, you’re not even in our military. Get back or you will be removed forcibly for your own protection.”

  12. Drace says:

    @azeldan pretty sure they will stand there like idiots when the commandos zip past zoey before slaughtering them and moving on like it was just your average day at the office. Those running lines does not look like a friendly approach.

  13. Rahka says:

    Wellp, there goes Zoey. Was nice knowing you. In other news, RUN ROGER, RUN!