Camia/Characters

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Bob (1)

Bob was an Earthling who was well known for his skill in boxing and his aggressively masculine personality. He swore allegiance to TCT and used his money and power on Earth to help TCT get things done on Earth.

Bob (2)

Bob was the owner and referee of a wrestling company. He was well known for his loud voice and his uncanny ability to locate the TCT kids whenever they were attacked so he could film the battle and play it on his TV station as a wrestling match.

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Cleanup Corps

The Cleanup Corps (CTC) was a group of children living on planet Earth whose purpose was to clean up toxic waste spills and other environmental problems. This for some reason caused some of the other Earthlings to hate them, and since Earth was so overpopulated, the Cleanup Corps kids were under attack everywhere they went. Most attackers used traditional Earth weaponry such as machine guns, but they also suffered more advanced attacks such as torpedos and chemical warfare.

Unlike other superhero leagues, these kids had no superpowers, nor did they have any advanced technology, and they were thus the most hapless of all of the "child superhero" leagues. One day, Nancy called up eight of the TCT kids and assigned them the task of destroying planet Earth. She had grown tired of Earth interfering in her plans and decided the best thing to do was just to get rid of it once and for all. The TCT kids obeyed her orders and left their current mission on Xema for Earth. Once on Earth, they immediately began destroying buildings and attempting to trigger natural disasters to kill all of the Earthlings.

While they were at the height of their massacre, however, the TCT kids met up with the Cleanup Corps kids. Perhaps the Cleanup Corps were trying to pick up some uranium bomb shells that the TCT kids had accidentally dropped so that they could be properly and dutifully recycled into reusable consumer products while simultaneously dodging snipers sent by their enemies on Earth and the mechanical attacks from TCT itself. But when the TCT kids realized that there were people on Earth who were actually doing good deeds instead of causing massive pollution and overpopulation problems, they decided to cancel their mission and let the remaining Earthlings live in peace for the time being. Then they adopted the Cleanup Corps into TCT and brought them back to Teppala.

Later, some of the TCT kids became powerful enough to achieve effective independence from their teacher, but the Cleanup Corps kids were too young to do this, so Nancy changed the name of the combined league to Cleanup Corps and began referring to one of the independent ones (Teddy and Zach's league) as the true TCT.

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Gary

Gary was the child of Wamian immigrants who settled in Camia at the height of Camia's war against Wamia. In fifth grade, he got beat up by Camian kids about once every two days. Sometimes, though, the Camians took him along on their missions so their enemies could have an easy target to distract them from attacking the Camians.

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Nancy

Nancy was the teacher of the TCT kids and several other leagues of children that attended her school at STW. With so many students and no other teachers, Nancy delegated much of her teaching curriculum to the students, and merely checked in to make sure that they were doing the right things.

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Richie

Richie was a man from planet Earth who was brought to Camia when Teddy asked his father for a present: a slave to beat up on, which he promised to keep in the basement so that the slave did not disturb his parents or his sister. His dad agreed, and captured and brought the man to his new home all in one night in order to surprise his son the following morning. This was possible because a neighboring town, "Ogden", was heavily involved in the capture of Earthans for use as slaves in Camia and therefore Camians wishing to acquire slaves did not have to trouble themselves with going all the way to Earth to get them.

Teddy generally left Richie chained to the wall in the basement of his home. Since Teddy spent much of his time on the go, fighting aliens and invading armies, he quickly forgot about Richie, and Richie went without food. Teddy's parents mostly took over the role of providing Richie with food and water.

One day on planet Namma, Teddy was wandering around in the grasslands north of the village when he ran into an advancing army of about 300 men in tanks who had traveled in spaceships from Earth. One of the men looked like Richie to him. Teddy was angry that the slave he had tortured and beat up on for such a long time would go so far as to join an army and travel to Namma to track him down, but Teddy realized that he might not be able to singlehandedly defeat an army of 300 men in tanks by himself. Instead, he ran away from the men and let the Earthlings massacre the people around him instead. He promised he would get revenge on Richie, but later found out the man who had attacked him was not Richie at all and that Richie had been simply going hungry while chained to the wall.

Because Richie was from Earth, Teddy sometimes used him to communicate with Earth. For example, one day Teddy brought Richie along with him to a conference between Earth, Theta, and Teppala at which representatives of the three planets would decide what the relationship between the three planets would be. Richie was the only Earthling at the conference, so Earth only had one vote. However, as the conference was interested in the possibility of a unanimous vote, Richie's votes on the most important questions at the conference were taken away. The conference ended with Teppala and Theta signing a new treaty and agreeing to a mutual invasion of planet Earth.

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STW

Save the World was an organization on planet Teppala open to children of all ages who want to help preserve Teppala's society long enough to give the Teppalans enough time to kill all the people living on Earth and then move to Earth themselves.

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TCT

TCT was a league of child superheros who bounced around the universe from planet to planet in order to fight battles that no one else is willing to fight. For example, when planet Xema invaded Camia with several thousand men, and the Camian army's defenses crumbled, they called TCT for help. At that time, TCT was already busy fighting off an invasion of renegade Earthlings in tanks on planet Namma, but as soon as they had repulsed the Earthlings they got the help message and sent four children back to Camia to take on the invading Xeman army. When the Xemans saw that the TCT kids had arrived, they stopped attacking the Camian army and ran after the two youngest children. The other two children immersed themselves in the crowd of Xeman soldiers, and kicked and slapped at the Xemans as they ran while the regular Camian army shot at the Xemans from the rear. Within minutes the battle had ended with a clear victory for the Camians and their TCT helpers.

Although TCT was a subset of STW, STW trusted them well enough to let them choose their own leaders, and those leaders were usually Teddy and Zachary. Thus, there was no direct adult leadership, and T&Z sometimes made decisions that went against their teacher's wishes. She tolerated this because nobody else was available to keep the kids in control.

The name "TCT" is used here because although it was originally named the Terrific Ten, the name of the league changed many times as the number of members within it waxed and waned. Nevertheless, the identity of the group itself was maintained, and neither Teddy nor Zachary ever left the group.