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tickle-beans · 10 months

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UNDESIGNATED EARTH

Johanna looked into the sky and felt the tingle in her spidey sense. She swung from building to building using her webs and ran to her parents and brother.

There isn't much time I just want you all to know that I loved you." Johanna smiled and hugged her little brother Terrence and her father and mother Miles and Gwen Morales. The white light destroyed everything around them and they spent their last moments in each others arms.

Liam Barton gripped the edge of his bow and sat eating a sandwhich on a rooftop watching the skyline below.

The white light removed him from existence.

Cody Parker ran to his parents and hugged them both.

His fathers tight grip and his mothers red hair tickling his neck as he smiled feeling their embrace. As the white light removed them from existence.

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UNDESIGNATED EARTH

Hannah Stark and her little sister Morgan sat around and laughed with their parents. Having no time at all to react once the white light destroyed their universe leaving nothing left.

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UNDESIGNATED EARTH

Carol opened her eyes and took off into the air.

“Higher further faster baby!” She called as a white light exploded in the distance.

“What the hell?” She began to use all her power to try to outrun the blast but it was no use as the white light destroyed her removing her from this reality.

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UNDESIGNATED EARTH

Loki held onto the hand of Mobius and put his head on the shoulder of his love as everything was engulfed in a bright white light around them.

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UNDESIGNATED EARTH

Natasha Romanoff kissed Bucky and held him close. White light engulfed their earth out of existence.

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UNDESIGNATED EARTH

Loki ran not waiting to look back holding the love of his life in his arms. White light also engulfed them and removed them from existence.

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UNDESIGNATED EARTH

Sam, Steve and Bucky sat around and talked and laughed with each other as the light exploded and removed their universe from existence.

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UNDESIGNATED EARTH

Kate, Wanda, Natasha and Yelena all laughed with each other about the outfit America had been wearing that day and spent their last moments with smiles on their faces as their universe was annihilated by a burst of white light.

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UNDESIGNATED EARTH

Reed looked around at his family and smiled, he was happy with where he was, his family talked and laughed and white light engulfed the entirety of their universe.

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UNDESIGNATED EARTH

Logan left the gigantic metal silo closing it behind him.

“Oh fu- he started to say as he looked at the approaching white light, it was too late and he was engulfed by white light destroying everything.

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UNDESIGNATED EARTH

Captain Carter led the men through to the other side of the battlefield firing her gun and throwing her shield at those in her way. Through the windows burst a white light destroying everyone without a moment to breathe.

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UNDESIGNATED EARTH

Matt Murdock and the other defenders stood in a circle ready to face the Chitauri invasion of new york, and white light destroyed everything around them. The Chitauri and The defenders were no more.

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UNDESIGNATED EARTH

Blade swung his sword towards the neck of Dracula beheading him finally after all these years.

“Let’s go,” he said to the other Midnight Sons.

Moon Knight, Black Knight, and Ghost Rider all nodded and white light tore through their reality.

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UNDESIGNATED EARTH

T’Challa and the other guardians of the galaxy talked and laughed on their ship, the white light destroyed their universe.

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UNDESIGNATED EARTH

Standing before the team of The New Mutants was the evil Mister Sinister.

“It’s over!” His robotic voice cackled. Looking up all of them saw a white light coming towards them. The universe was no more.

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UNDESIGNATED EARTH

Miguel O’hara shed a tear as the white light made its way towards him, he accepted his defeat and it absorbed him whole until nothing of his reality remained.

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UNDESIGNATED EARTH

The Punisher cocked his shotgun and aimed it at the head of a murderer.

“Lights out prick!” The Punisher whispered but was burned out of existence by the white light that hit his earth.

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UNDESIGNATED EARTH

The symbiote left Peter and scurried away.

Peter took the mask off to his advanced suit and looked over at Miles.

“I’m sorry I failed you,” he mouthed.

“You didn’t fail me,” Miles smiled.

White light destroyed reality around them leaving nothing.

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UNDESIGNATED EARTH

“Jarvis make sure Pepper knows I’ll be home for dinner,” Tony Stark told his A.I. voice.

“What is that?” Tony stopped mid air looking at the coming white light. He tried to fly and outgun it but white light rushed towards him and destroyed reality.

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UNDESIGNATED EARTH

“Finally no one can stop me now!” Ultron held the infinity gauntlet up into the air. He launched a blast of energy at the oncoming white light, it destroyed him

White light burned his reality and he was no more.

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UNDESIGNATED EARTH

Blackbolt held his wife Medusa for one last time, the king and queen of the inhumans were destroyed by the white light.

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Charlie Richards looked up into the sky inhaling deeply, the white light drew closer and destroyed everything around her. She ignited her powers and felt the light burn against her skin. She held on until it stopped. It didn’t hurt and it tickled. She smiled and embraced the white light around her.

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The alien observed the warning on his control panel.

Tickle Based Multiverse Collapse:

IMMINENT DANGER!

The Alien sighed.

Another one dead, that figured. It was happening all over the omniverse and he didn’t know how to stop it.

He looked out the window of his tower and another multiverse took it’s last few breaths.

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White light engulfed everything destroying it all and there was nothing left. Darkness and a void stained this hollow multiverse. From that light came God Emperor Doom who created. Turning the void into something new forming a new world from the debris of other universes into a new one.

Tickle Battleworld.

III

The desert was vast for several thousand miles. Amidst this desert was the wreckage of a ship. This ship had thought to of been abandoned or just was never found at all.

The door to the ship was ripped off the hinges and out limped Reed Richards, bruised and hurt he gripped his side at the site of the desolation around him.

"Why aren't we dead?" A weary Miles Morales walked behind followed by Peter and the other members on the ship.

"She saved us." Reed muttered and looked away.

"Is everyone okay?" Sam asked struggling to stand up.

"Not everyone is here!" Shuri yelled scrambling to her feet and looking around the ship.

"Okay who is missing then?" Asked Kate wiping the dust off of her suit and helping up the rest of The Young Avengers.

"Those who are alright indeed." Down from the sunlight floated Steven Strange.

"Steven?" Reed hugged him tightly.

"We need to talk somewhere safe because we are being watched." Steven looked over his should and opened a portal.

"In come on come on!" Steven yelled as everyone went through and Steven closed the portal leaving an empty ship to rot in the desert.

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Franklin held onto the hand of his sister, but they dared not take their eyes off of him.

Doom watched on his throne listening and silently uttered a guttural noise that made Franklin shiver.

Next to him their mother stood in white, defeated and broken.

"You amuse me my love." Doom stuck a hand out and rubbed her shoulder as Susan flinched at his touch.

"Don't do this Victor." Susan pleaded.

"Silence," shushed Doom.

"I beg of you my lord." The man at the foot of the throne cried.

"Take him to the wall." Doom waved his hand.

The guards grabbed the man and brought him to the ledge on the other side of the hall.

The man screamed as he fell from the ridge to the other side of the Wall. Instantly he was attacked by the mass hoard of Zombies who tore him to pieces.

Doom laughed and it instilled fear within Franklin causing the hairs on the back of his neck to stick straight up into the air.

Doom suddenly stopped as his eyes glowed with the white of his power.

"He's found them."

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"What is this place?" Kamala asked.

"A place out of his reach where he cannot see what goes on." Strange led them towards a map that hovered above them in the air.

"You are underneath the capitol building of Battleworld."

"Battleworld?" Kate asked.

"Doom took the power of the universe as it was destroyed and rebuilt what was left of the multiverse into this plane of existence.

"What?" Reed gasped.

"I actively have searched for the ship wanting to find you so that we can stop him. He reigns over this place as a tyrant and rules with an iron fist." Strange stopped and looked to Reed.

"With Suan, and your kids by his side," Strange finished.

"They are alive?" Reed was dumb founded.

"Being held against their will yes." Strange added.

"We need to stop him," Strange said.

"Do you have a plan?" Sam asked.

"I believe that the source of Doom's power comes from this chamber here" Strange pointed to a spot on the south side of the castle.

"What we need is a team to go in and destroy this power source maybe then we can finally put a stop to Doom."

"Steven?" asked Reed.

"How did you survive the incursion?" Reed asked.

"With help from me." Behind Strange strode in a beamy wide grinning America Chavez.

Kamala Khan covered her open mouth and ran to her friend and wrapped her in a gigantic hug.

"I missed you so much and thought you were dead!" Kamala cried and smiled having found her best friend again.

"I thought I was a goner too 'Mala," America laughed and went over to hug the rest of the young avengers.

"She took me to her home outside of time and space." Strange smiled.

"I met her family and saw the multiverse destroyed before my eyes as it was also rebuilt by Doom who has no idea, I am alive or any of you as well, at least he didn't." Steven looked down.0

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The staircase was long as it descended from the tower to the main hall and access of the rest of the castle. Doom wanted to avoid the argument he was going to have with Susan but the death of that man was deserved. Openly speaking out against his god and ruler was his own fault and it should have stayed between his lips.

"We need to talk about what happened Victor." Susan yelled stumbling after him.

"No!" he called back as they reached the end of the stairs and progressed walking into the main hall's balcony.

Victor stopped here and looked over his city. His world and breathed in. He had what he always desired. But why did he feel so empty.

"I know how you are Victor," Susan caught up to him.

"You do not know me like you once did Susan." Victor tried to keep tears from leaving his eyes.

"They don't know you either." Susan gestured to the city below him and put her hands on his shoulders turning him to face her.

"I want to see the real you Victor," she reached for the clasp of his mask and Victor moved away but then hesitantly let her remove it revealing his scarred face to her.

"If you want them to love you, show them who you really are, let them know their leader hurts as much as they do."

"No!" Victor grabbed his mask and hooked it back to his face.

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"So what's the game plan again?" Peter asked Strange.

"You and Miles are going to infiltrate the castle and destroy the power source." Strange handed him a capsule.

"What's that?" Miles asked.

"A combination of magic and explosives." Strange winked.

Both boys gulped and looked at each other.

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Peter and Miles landed just outside of the castle walls.

They crawled up the walls to the windows and peered inside seeing a massive, spiked object hanging from the ceiling.

"In we go!" Miles smiled and him and Peter kicked at the window as it shattered and in they dropped.

"Alright plant it Pete!" Miles smiled and Peter grabbed the bomb from his bag and hooked it to the ball on the ceiling pressing the button to ignite it.

Nothing happened.

"Hmm what a shame." A head poked out from the ball.

"Who the heck are you" Miles asked.

"Owen Reece or at least what is left of me, hey any of you guys got something to eat I haven't eaten since the collapse of the multiverse."

"Here," Peter handed him a sandwich and Owen took a bite out of it.

"Uh whatcha doin here?" Peter asked.

"Hanging around," Owen chewed on the sandwich and swallowed.

"What about you guys?" Owen asked.

"We were told something really powerful was here."

"That would be me I assume, no doubt Strange read the readings I gave off."

"What do you mean you?" Miles asked.

"You don't know?" Owen laughed and the ball ignited with light.

"Before the end of the multiverse I absorbed the energy of what is called The Beyond being the only one who can do so. I gave some of it to Doom as he can not hold all of it and contains it's power." Owen continued giggling.

"Tickles really bad though."

Peter and Miles looked to each other.

"So when he runs out of power I give him some more of mine against my will." Owen stuck his tongue out.

"That is uh cool I guess," Miles said.

Peter nodded along.

"Do you want us to break you out or something?" asked Miles.

"If you think you can go ahead but I'm pretty sure Doom will figure it out the instant I go missing."

"We'll burn that bridge when we get there." Peter and Miles climbed up the crystal encasing Owen and tried to undo the chain holding it to the ceiling. The chain fell and both spidermen jumped off it as the crystal shattered into pieces.

"Can I have some more sandwich?" Owen rubbed his head still giggling.

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Doom's eyes opened wide as he sensed the crystal falling to the ground.

He leapt from his throne and motioned for the guards, Susan, Franklin and Valeria to follow him as they marched to the room.

He was gone.

Doom yelled and his white glow activated as he rose into the air.

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The three boys ran down the hall as the yell sounded crushing any ear drum in it's distance.

The portal opened and the three of them jumped through landing on the ground helped up instantly by Reed and Strange.

Doom turned the corner and walked furiously towards them.

Reed scowled and then his expression changed as his family turned behind Doom. Strange closed the portal as a blast from Doom struck through the portal before it could close. The blast struck the wall of Strange's hideout and it began to shake and crumble.

"Run!" Strange yelled and they all bolted for the exit as the place began to crumble to the ground.

Reaching the surface all of the heroes scrambled to get away from the castle as it began to fall into the void.

Everyone turned to look back at the edge.

A black spec flew from the falling wreckage flying towards them.

"Get down!" Reed yelled as Doom blasted through the edge of Battleworld and landed before them.

Doom looked up and rose his hand in the air as Susan, Valeria and Franklin floated upwards behind him as they struggled.

"Let them go!" Yelled Reed.

"No," Doom grinned.

The three in the air erupted into laughter as the power of Doom tickled them. Franklin saw through his tears the cries and squeals of Valeria and his mother as he felt a tickle all over his body.

Reed was just about to charge for him when a massive headache erupted in his head as a voice rang out from the distance.

"Hear yee hear yee you are now being saved," The voice announced.

Clouds gather overhead as lightning and thunder sounded.

From the clouds in flew a woman with white hair. Behind her flew a ship that landed to the side of the confrontation opening it's doors.

A group of people stood in the ship.

Doom was enjoying this.

"Do you know how many rebel groups I have stopped why should this be any different who ever these people are I will destroy them just the same." Doom began to walk towards the ship smiling behind his mask.

"GET THE EGG! HE IS COMING!" Said the voice of Old Man Logan desperately looking to the others.

“Here!” Yelled Mobius M Mobius from the cockpit tossing the briefcase to him.

“Protect it, for it is the hope of a new age," Jean Gray nodded to Wolverine who grinned back to her.

"A new age?" Rogue asked.

"A new tomorrow,” Finished Proffesor X.

“COWABUNGA!” Yelled Deadpool and everyone in the ship jumped out charging towards Doom who launched a bright beam of white light towards them which was deflected by Cyclops using the lasers from his vizor. The two beams shot to the sideand Cyclops fell to the ground being helped back up by Jean.

Doom stumbled and lost grip on Susan and the kids and Reed stretched his arms out and caught them bringing them close to him.

"Impossible!" Doom yelled.

"The impossible was never impossible to begin with." Owen stepped forward and lifted his arms as Doom rose in the air thrashing and screaming as the bright white left him and he returned to who he was before. Owen contained the power within him and smiled.

"This is for the multiverse." He let the energy out and it blasted Doom over the edge into the void as he yelled screaming and falling.

Owen again contained the energy and snickered.

Reed hugged his wife and kids and bent down to Valeria.

"Forgive me," he pleaded.

"I will always forgive you." Valeria hugged him.

"We all will!" Franklin laughed and tackled his dad in another hug.

"All of us will my love." Susan kissed him.

Deadpool walked over and sat down next to Peter.

"The name is Deadpool," Wade stuck out a hand.

"Spiderman," Peter shook his hand and thrashed as the symbiote inside of Deadpool left him and joined with Peter as his suit turned black.

"Woah," said Peter.

"Something I'm sure readers on tumblr have been waiting for," Deadpool giggled and winked.

“H-hey!” Peter giggled as the tentacle dug into his side.

“Be careful he likes tickles.” Deadpool laughed.

After Reed had finished reuniting with his family he went over to Owen.

"Now what?" Reed asked.

"Doom said the end of the prophecy would be with the creation of a new world, but that wasn't all of the prophecy." Owen looked off into the void.

“And the mother shall bring the new from the ashes of old, for her story is yet to come.” Owen recited.

Wolverine walked over them taking off his helmet Reed saw he was old and much older than he had anticipated.

"Where is Kamala Khan?" Wolverine asked.

"Uh that's me," Kamala who had been talking with America heard her name and walked over.

“This is yours.*

He revealed a brief case behind him and handed it to Kamala. Kamala opened the brief case as a glow of light shined through.

The Egg sat inside.

It cracked and Kamala touched The Egg and absorbed the contents inside, she felt everything, alternate realities and infinite numbers of them all within this little shell under her fingers. Infinite versions of her, of everyone waiting to be found. She felt the entirety of this universes energy that flowed through the veins of them all, their connections to the infinity stones and the cosmos and the beyond. The energy tickled like it was supposed to, energy derived from the sub conscious of the one above all others. Tickle energy.

Kamala smiled as she felt the tickles flow through her skin, her feet, her belly, armpits, sides and ribs all felt the tickles of an infinite egg of realities and she smiled so wide Logan thought her head was going to fall off.

"A baby multiverse," Reed shook his head grinning.

"It needs to hatch," Owen added.

Reed looked at the other heroes talking and laughing and at his own family, the love of his life and his two beautiful children. He understood that this wasn’t the end and life could now start over.

Properly.

A flash erupted from Kamala’s hands and she formed it into a ball of energy that began to grow.

“You know this will be the end of us,” Owen said to Reed.

“This was our purpose all along Owen,” he smiled at the light floating around Kamala as she laughed and giggled.

Owen blasted the power in his veins at Kamala’s ball of energy, she burst into laughter feeling what the ball felt. The ball formed tons of stars and visions of them inside. Reed saw an outline of him and his family, they all looked different, he saw a new x-men team and an earth once more full of mutants. He saw the avengers, the young avengers and everything out in the cosmos.

He smiled.

“I think we will be just fine,” he said to Owen.

The ball of energy began to grow, Reed spent his last moments looking at his family and the heroes who had fought in secret for existence to stay.

The Baby Multiverse, second of it’s kind began to expand at a faster rate destroying the last bits of Battleworld and the heroes of the old. Paving way for the path for the path of a new reality.

A reality reborn, where life could begin…

Once More.

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Credits:

Written by tickle-beans

Produced by tickle-beans

CREDITS:

@mysteriouslee

Characters:

Miles Morales

Gwen Stacy

Peter Parker

Mary Jane

Original Characters:

Johanna Morales

Terrence Morales

Liam Barton

Cody Parker

@ticklyfingers2

Characters:

Tony Stark

Pepper Potts

Original Character:

Hannah Stark

@t-marvellove

Character:

Carol Danvers

@bambinella

Characters:

Yelena Belova

Kate Bishop

Wanda Maximoff

Natasha Romanoff

America Chavez

@lokust

Characters:

Loki

Mobius

Natasha Romanoff

Bucky Barnes

@fluffyfantasticducky

Characters:

Loki

@toweroftickles

Characters:

Himself

@tickle-beans

Original Characters:

Charlie Richards

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Note from tickle-beans:

I want to thank these writers for letting their original characters and their iterations of characters make an appearance in this story. I want to thank those who read my stories and my mutuals who help me with plot holes and ideas. I have spent countless nights writing for these characters that I love so much and I wanted to make their ending as beautiful as possible. That being said this isn't the end.

The Story Forge is LIVE announcements will be posting very soon!

@trrickytickle and I have been working on a D.C. collab releasing August 31st 2023 to her blog. Part two of that fic will release to mine.

The M.F.T.B.U. will return Spring 2024

I’m going on a vacation from writing for awhile and I will be back real soon.

Until next time!

-Phoenix Rose aka tickle-beans

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NCIS: Los Angeles Season 13 Rewatch: “Bonafides”

The basics: When Lance Hamilton’s partner is murdered, he teams up with Sam and NCIS for justice.

Written by: Kyle Harimoto wrote “Omni”, “Merry Evasion”, “Chernoff, K”, “Command and Control” as episode 150, “Granger, O.”, “Ghost Gun”, “Kulinda”, “767”, “Se Murio El Payaso”, “Assets”/“Liabilities”, “Venganza”, “Superhuman”, “One of Us" (Lance Hamilton episode), “Let Fate Decide” (season 11 premiere), “Decoy” (Lance Hamilton episode), “Answers” , “Watch Over Me” (Lance Hamilton episode), “Cash Flow” and "Fukushu". He co-wrote “Three Hearts”, “Leipei”, “Humbug”, both ends of the “Matryoshka” two-parter, “Smokescreen” part two, “Searching” (Lance Hamilton episode), “A Fait Acompli” and “A Tale of Two Igors” (season 12 finale).

Directed by: Terrence O’Hara directed "The Only Easy Day”, “Brimstone”, “The Bank Job”, “Borderline”, “Tin Soldiers”, “The Job”, “Backstopped”, “Crimeleon”, “Blye, K.” Part Two, “San Voir” Part Two, “End Game”, “Paper Soldiers”, “Descent”, “Ascension”, “Fish Out of Water”, “Blaze of Glory”, “Command and Control” (episode 150), “Matryoshka” Part Two, “Belly of the Beast”, “Payback”, “Mountebank”, “Asesinos”, "Searching", “Yellow Jack”, “Raising the Dead”, “Overdue", "Red Rover, Red Rover" and "All the Little Things".

Guest stars of note: Bill Goldberg returns as DOJ Agent Lance Hamilton for the first time since season 11’s “Watch Over Me”. Christian George returns from “Head of the Snake” as Henrik Vuksan. Well-known Navy SEAL Jocko Willink plays Noah “Herbie” Herbert. Ski Carr as Percy Vander. Duncan Campbell is back from “Murmuration” as Agent Castor, Cindy Dolenc as Ryan Logue, Traci Belushi as Ms. Wilson, Million Dollar Listing star Fredrik Eklund plays Rexford Blake, Gregory Shelby as Scott Reid, Bradley Dodds as Bohdan Amantas, Eugene Young as Navy Seaman Harold Forest, Chris Mathieu as Humphrey and Beckett Gunderson is the latest “Young Callen”.

Our heroes: Welcome Lance Hamilton back under sad circumstances.

What important things did we learn about:

Callen: Staking out a former foster mom. Sam: Switch. Kensi: Not sharing her card with Amantas. Deeks: Sharing his card with Amantas Fatima: Not around much in this episode. Rountree: Personalizing his desk because he’s sentimental. Kilbride: Worried about Sam’s time as Switch.

What not so important things did we learn about:

Callen: Reminds Sam that the carport parking spot is a community spot. Sam: Reminds Callen that it is his parking spot. Kensi: Country music fan. Deeks: Open to country music but more West Coast fan. Fatima: Learns to take a man down by the small bones in his wrist. Rountree: Could buy the entire town where he was born for $10 million. Kilbride: Sharing his Challenge Coin.

Where in the world is Henrietta Lange? In the back of a limo when young Callen is stolen from his happy foster home.

Who's down with OTP: Solid hour for America’s sweethearts.

Who's down with BrOTP: It was the Sam and Lance show today and they’re always good, even in rough times. The Admiral and Rountree made an entertaining pair.

Fashion review: Callen wore a pale blue polo – more a Chris O’Donnell look than a G. Callen look. Sam starts the day in a long-sleeve black tee. Sam as Switch wears the same tee with a ton of jewelry. Kensi is wearing a long-sleeve grey and white sweater. Deeks is in a super pale blue long-sleeve tee-shirt. Fatima is training in a red and black zip-up jacket. In the office, she’s wearing a red and white stripped turtleneck under a pale green sweater. Rountree trains in a long-sleeve green workout shirt. In the office, he’s wearing a grey hoodie with a black sleeves and a black pouch. Admiral Kilbride in his typical dark blue three-piece suit with a pale blue

Music: Kensi and Deeks have “Chicken Fried” by the Zac Brown Band on the radio.

Any notable cut scene: No.

Quote: Vuksan: “This is, like, a big ask. Amantas is never gonna forgive me for - bringing the fuzz to his house. Never. Which means I could lose my biggest client.” Deeks: "Fuzz?" Vuksan: “You know I had a ten-month plan for going completely legitimate? Then you guys had to walk up the driveway.” Deeks: “ This guy never stops talking.” Kensi: “Oh, that's a big statement coming from you.” Deeks: “That's my point.”

Anything else: On a parking lot roof, a young man on a skateboard is having some fun until he’s nearly hit by a car as the driver looking for a spot. Making his way into the parking structure, the skateboarder is also once again nearly hit by a vehicle. This time it is an SUV leaving a parking space. The driver yells “hey” to the skaterboy by he’s long gone. Taking a deep breath, the driver takes a second to steady himself when he’s shot twice in the chest. The gunman comes up alongside the open driver’s window with his gun drawn. Reaching into the SUV, the gunman takes a notebook while the driver struggles to breathe.

As the driver is losing consciousness, a sedan races up to his spot. Lance Hamilton runs over to see “Reid” dying in the car. Asking about the notebook and the shooting, Hamilton is told in Reed’s dying breath that “Vander” was the shooter.

Sam pulls up to the office. He’s arguing with Callen on the phone. The Admiral told Callen that if he doesn’t use his leave, he’ll lose his leave. Realizing that Sam isn’t driving, Callen asks if Sam is at work – 20-minutes earlier than usual. Before Sam can answer, Callen asks if Sam is in so early so he can get his old space back. “It’s my spot.” In his car, Callen tells Sam he’s waiting for Anna outside of Eggslut before the two of them go to a motion picture museum. That’s not true. Callen is staking out an elderly woman as she gardens.

Driving to the office, Kensi is bopping along to some country music while Deeks is trying to keep an open mind to her driving music choices. She’s singing along to some Zac Brown Band music, Deeks is wondering why. Kensi can’t believe he doesn’t like country music. He reminds her that he grew up totally on the West Coast. His music of choice is more Sublime, Pennywise, Dr. Dre and Jack Johnson when he feels like he needs to be “herbally enhanced.”

Willing to evolve, he wants to know why this music works for her. If Deeks was just some rando in a bar, Kensi would tell him that she grew up on military bases where this was the music of choice. But since he’s not some guy in a bar, she tells him the music just makes her feel good. She isn’t being told she needs a $3,000 purse to be happy. The two sing on their way to the office.

In the gym, a hand-to-hand trainer is using Sam as part of a demonstration for Fatima and Rountree. The trainer wants to see what Fatima can do. As she engages with Rountree, Sam wanting to see what Rountree can do. Fatima gets Rountree to the ground and Rountree can’t get up. The trainer puts a stop to things. When Rountree is asked what happened, he is explains the tactics Fatima used. Instead of going after Rountree’s strengths – his arms, his legs, his core – she grabbed the small bones in his wrists and was able to position herself to take him to the ground. Fatima loved the exercise, she wants to do more like this.

“Herbie”, the trainer, was a SEAL with Sam. They would train for 18-months sometimes for one six-month assignment. The Admiral pops up on the screen and Herbie goes into full sailor mode. After an “As you were Commander Herbert”, the Admiral was grateful for the training session. He’d also like to see Sam immediately. While Sam leaves, Fatima and Rountree continue their work with Herbie.

In the fishbowl office, Lance Hamilton’s ID photo is on the plasma screen. Sam asks if he’s working with Hamilton. While he doesn’t have all the details, Hamilton was working a case investigating dirty federal agents. Yesterday, his partner Scott Reid was killed. Sam is bothered by this. It gets worse when the Admiral tells Sam that a target of the investigating was a Percy Vander, an undercover asset when Sam is Switch. Sam tells the Admiral that Vander was Switch’s mentor who gave Sam the bonafides to work in his criminal enterprise.

Reviewing the Switch file, the Admiral is impressed with all the good work Sam as Switch got done. The Admiral asks if the Switch persona is still viable. Sam isn’t sure – he’d have to check with King. “I don’t know if she kept quiet on the inside or if she told people who I was.” Hamilton believes Vander was responsible for Reid’s death. Sam knows where this is going – Switch would lure Vander out. The Admiral is worried about the person Sam is and the persona of Switch opened themselves to Vander. “Can you hunt this man Vander down?” The Admiral is worried Sam is too invested. Sam tells the Admiral, “I got this.”

In the boatshed, Sam and Hamilton share greetings. Sam learns Reid had a two-year old son. Reviewing the case, there is a notebook with the names of dirty federal agents from Texas, Mississippi and Alabama kept by a wealthy Texas ranch owner with ties to the Dixie Mafia. The ranch owner died. His son Luke Gilroy sold the notebook to Reid. The sale went through without incident – Luke Gilroy was even arrested – but someone came and shot Reid. As back-up, Hamilton is wrecked that he didn’t make it to Reid in time. Reid set up the purchase of the notebook in a hurry so no other buyers would be involved.

Sam asks where Vander fits in all of this. Hamilton explains Reid’s dying word and asks Sam about Vander. Saying that Vander was used to launch Switch, Sam tells Hamilton it was his most successful undercover operation ever. It was a bicostal set-up, New York and LA.

In Ops, Kensi, Deeks, Fatima and Rountree are reviewing a new case. Ryan Logue, a civilian airspace engineer at EXEC Aerospace stole highly classified Navy schematics. Fatima and Rountree aren’t sure what the schematics are for but the thought is that she’s going to sell them to a Ukrainian national named Bohdan Amantas. He’s been selling legal and illegal weapons for years. Kensi thinks this is an FBI case. It would be but Amantas has been in contact with an old friend of NCIS OSP – Henrik Vuksan, “Omni’s man in LA.”

After Rountree is brought up to speed on Vuksan’s past with NCIS, Rountree shares that Vuksan is now out of prison on parole for over a year. The FBI wants to know if Vuksan is involved. Is he helping Amantas buy the schematics or is using Amantas as a go-between to buy the schematics for Omni. Using social media, Fatima found Vuksan in a pricy neighborhood. Everyone stunned by the pricy real estate – Rountree thinks $10 million would buy the entire town where he was born. “Welcome to LA” is Fatima’s reply.

Checking with King, and admitting to Hamilton that he has some history with “Dana”, Sam tells Hamilton that King did not blow his cover. Hamilton asks if Sam trusts her. “We have no choice but to trust her.” Working on the plan, Sam tells Hamilton that Vander has a big personality that covers a very calculating man. Thinking that Sam as Switch is working out of Mexico City, Vander won’t trust Switch just showing up. Sam thinks he as to get something done for Switch instead.

Outside a mansion, Vuksan is showing around possible buyers, pointing out the features of the home. The buyers aren’t impressed. They had four “must haves” and the house only has three of them. Saying that the house is priced accordingly, the other real estate agent working with Vuksan calls the buyer friendly price “Grand Theft Mansion”

As the possible buyers drive off, Kensi and Deeks arrive. He recognizes them immediately, saying “NCIS!”. His real estate agent buddy thinks NCIS is a “tacky” real estate firm in the Valley. Kensi pulls her badge and Vuksan decides to send real estate agent buddy Rexford back to his office. Before he leaves, Rexford asks if Kensi and Deeks are looking for house. Deeks asks for a three-bedroom, two-bathroom house near the beach. Rexford has a fixer-upper for $3.7 million. Kensi and Deeks have shocked faces. Rexford leaves, Vuksan wants to talk.

As the older woman leaves her house, Callen flashes back to a holiday with her. They are making cookies with a Christmas tree behind decorations all over the house. Ms. Wilson is proud of Callen’s cooking-making skills. He’s likely 12. Back in the present, he watches her get in her car and drive off. Callen follows.

In Sam’s car, Hamilton wants to know what’s the plan. Vander, Sam explains, has made his name by providing protection for illegal shipments throughout LA. Never lost one. Hamilton thinks that’s a “lucrative market to have cornered.” Sam agrees but there is a new young crew – a Korean biker gang – looking to infringe of Vander’s territory. Hamilton thinks they are going to team up with the crew to go after Vander. No, Sam tells him, “we’re gonna rob ‘em.” Hamilton likes it.

Ready to go, Sam is getting geared up as Switch – lots of gold chains, a big gold watch, a black puffer coat – as Hamilton gets into place.

Arriving at their desks, Rountree asks Fatima if she found Ryan Logue. She has not. Rountree is holding a football – one he was awarded in college as the game ball. He is going to put it on his desk. Fatima thinks it is cute he’s personalizing his workspace. “Maybe I’m just more sentimental than you.” Fatima gets a hit on Logue’s ATM card – she maxed out her daily withdrawal limit. There is a hotel next to the ATM. Rountree is going to check it out with Castor, Fatima is going to talk to the Admiral about the case.

As members of the Korean gang leave their HQ, Sam as Switch pulls up. He speaks Korean to the leader – Sang. Sang wants to do some business with Switch. Things have changed since Switch left town. Sam says he knows Sang and his men are moving on Vander’s business. Thinking Vander is an old man, Sang wants to move on. Sam doesn’t so he pulls his gun on the four gang members. The gang members are also armed with pistols. Hamilton shows up with a much bigger gun than any of them are carrying so Sang orders his men to put their weapons down. Taking away their ill-gotten games, Sam and Hamilton clean out the gang members. When Sam and Hamilton leave, the gang members all jump on their motorcycles to follow. Hamilton chained them all to a wall – nobody is going to follow.

Walking from the mansion, Vuksan explains that he’s done with Omni, he’s opened a new chapter in his life. Omni gives him contacts and money to buy LA real estate with cash, everything is on the up-and-up according to Vuksan. When Kensi asks about Bohdan Amantas, Vuksan is evasive until he admits Amantas is a real estate client looking for two homes. Deeks asks if Vuksan is supplementing his income by selling military secrets. Vuksan says he makes far more selling real estate than he ever would selling military secrets. Kensi and Deeks are enlisting Vuksan to help them find Amantas.

In the Armory (was Hamilton ever in the super-secret office before? That goes for Herbie too – this place should be on the Hollywood Map of Stars at this point), Sam and Hamilton document their ill-gotten, ill-gotten gains for evidence. Sam is sure Vander had to hear about the robbery when his phone rings – Vander wants to meet with Switch.

In interrogation, the Admiral relieves Castor as Ryan Logue is sitting on the wrong side of the table. Rountree remains. Logue finds being detained ridiculous. She’s in a hurry to leave. Reviewing a file, the Admiral asks why she checked into a hotel not far from her home. Claiming her neighbors were doing construction, she wanted to get some sleep. The Admiral asks if she needed to sleep so much that she didn’t report to work in two-days. She tells him yes. Rountree asks why didn’t she contact the office and tell them she was sick. She wasn’t sick, just tired. She can’t believe she’s been brought in to answer these questions.

Closing the file, the Admiral asks if she’d rather speak about Navy Special Warfare N9 schematics? Saying there is a lot of physics and engineering involved, Logue doesn’t thinks the Admiral or Rountree did more than state schools with undergrad degrees so she doesn’t think they’ll understand. Rountree chuckles. The Admiral stands and tells Logue, “I don’t think this is a day you’re going to remember fondly.”

Hamilton asks about Vander and Sam talks about the good times he had with Vander. Telling Sam that if Vander was involved in Reid’s death, he needs to know Sam has his back. Sam does.

The older woman is reading in the park with Callen watching from his car. Callen once again flashes back to time with Ms. Wilson reading “The Wizard of Oz” to him with a fire going in the fireplace.

As Logue paces around the interrogation room, Rountree asks the Admiral how long are they going to “sweat” her out. The Admiral says answers a while – Logue is a thinker. Rountree mentions the FBI has proof she’s been downloading the schematics. She has but they can talk to her about that down the road. He’s happy to wait until they have proof she was trying to sell the schematics. As a thinker, the Admiral thinks Logue is going over everything she said to them to find the perfect answer to her dilemma. Logue looks into the security camera in interrogation and tells them she’s willing to talk.

Walking down a pier with the drugs stolen from the Korean gang, Sam hears from Hamilton that he’s in the overwatch vehicle in about 30-seconds. On his boat, Vander sees Switch and welcomes him back to LA – he already heard about the robbery. Sam as Switch isn’t happy that someone is muscling in on Vander’s territory. Switch asks permission to come on board the boat – permission is granted.

In the Audi, Vuksan is complaining about what he’s been asked to do – bringing the “Fuzz” to Amantas’s house. Vuksan could lose his biggest client. Deeks chuckles at “Fuzz”. Luskin goes on about his 10-month plan to go legit and Deeks has had enough of his talking. Kensi thinks that is funny coming from Deeks. Deeks thinks that’s the point. Vuksan complains that working with law enforcement is making it harder for him to go legit.

On the boat, Sam and Vander are sharing some champagne on the top deck of the boat, talking about Switch’s business in Mexico City. There is a bodyguard nearby Vander and a woman in bikini near the bodyguard. Vander wants to hear more about Switch’s business and drink some more champagne.

Logue admits to downloading the schematics, which the Admiral says they already have proof of her actions. Rountree asks Logue how she thinks she’ll survive in federal prison. She asks what they want? Bohdan Amantas is the answer. Crying, Logue says she met Amantas after a night in a sports bar. He threatened her – if she didn’t steal the schematics, they’d kill her family. Her only family is her father, who lives in a care facility in Minnesota – Shore Lake - that Logue doesn’t know its address. Barely knows the name. As the Admiral leaves, he asks her what game was she watching at the sports bar. She talks about the Minnesota Wild.

Outside of interrogation, the Admiral knows the Minnesota Wild didn’t play that week. Checking out Shore Lake, Rountree finds it is a hospice. Everyone there is already dying. The Admiral thinks Logue believes she enhanced her story with the details. She just made it easier to take her story apart.

In a park, Amantas is sparring with a trainer and two bodyguards watching him. Kensi, Deeks, Vuksan approach and introduce themselves. Amantas dismisses his bodyguards and ends Vuksan’s crime-free future by firing him as his real estate agent. Vuksan is dismissed by Amantas – offering him sushi with the bodyguards - leaving him with just Kensi and Deeks.

Kensi asks Amantas about Ryan Logue. He doesn’t know why he’d have to answer until Deeks brings up the three homes Amantas has in escrow. If Amantas doesn’t keep them busy with answers to their questions, they’ll be busy looking to see where Amantas got the money to buy the houses. Deeks is going to need tax returns for the last three years.

Told that he threatened Logue if she didn’t steal the schematics, Amantas tells a different story. Logue contacted him, not the other way around. Amantas’s people shut her down – they don’t do business with people they don’t know. Kensi and Deeks asks why should they believe Amantas story and not Logue’s? Asking if NCIS has good computer people – they do – Amantas provides a site on the dark web for them to investigate. Logue is open for business. As they’re about to leave, Amantas wants Kensi’s card in case he remembers anything useful. He gets Deeks’s card instead before Deeks grabs some sushi with Vuksan and the bodyguards.

Laughing and having a good time, Vander wants to do right by Switch for helping with the Korean gang. Sam asks about the notebook – he wants in. It would be a big help for his business in Mexico. Vander is unhappy – he liked Switch, he trusted Switch. Another bodyguard appears and they pull their weapons on Sam. Hamilton does not have a shot.

When Vander orders his bodyguards to search Sam, the one who approaches gets knocked out by Sam for his trouble. The movement allows Hamilton to take out the other bodyguard. Sam runs after Vander, who went to the lower deck. Sam approaches Vander, telling him to put the gun down. Saying that only the police knew he had the book, Vander won’t go down like this. Sam offers to help while Hamilton tries to get a shot on Vander but can’t. Vander accuses Sam of being a cop. Sam tries to warn Vander that there is a sniper waiting for him to move – surrender and he’ll live. “I loved you like a son, how are you going to do me like that?” Vander asks. Sam asks Vander to put the gun down again. Vander walks into Hamilton’s line of sight and raises his gun. Hamilton makes his shot.

As Vander dies, Sam holds his hands.

Fatima confirms Amantas’s story. Logue was selling the schematics on the dark web but not having much success. Thinking that she did the hard part by stealing the schematics, Logue didn’t understand that criminals don’t go into business with people they don’t know. Deeks wants Fatima to call the Admiral and tell him what is going on.

Asking if NCIS looked after her dad, the Admiral tells Logue they didn’t even try. Rountree says everything she told them was a lie. Logue tries to sell being railroaded – this is why everyone hates law enforcement. The Admiral is pretty sure not everyone hates them. He also wants her copies of the schematics she stole since she approached Bohdan Amantas not the other way around. He’s willing to go on the record for that. Rountree is feeling pretty good about his state university undergraduate degree.

At the docks, Sam watches the EMTs wheel Vander’s body away. Hamilton says he’s sorry but Sam blames himself for getting so attached to Vander. Hamilton thinks that’s what makes Sam a human being. While listing what Vander did and his plans for taking the names of the dirty feds from the notebook and make them work for him, Hamilton gets a call. The DoJ found the notebook in Vander’s Tarzana apartment. Sam admits Vander’s death hurts. Hamilton understands.

Packing up his gear, Herbie is greeted by the Admiral. Explaining he can only take LA in 30-hour chunks, he’s is returning to San Diego. The Admiral agrees. Herbie is grateful for the opportunity the Admiral offered his new training company. Herbie has put a lot of his family’s money into getting the company off the ground. The Admiral stops the thank you’s. After Ramadi, the Admiral can’t do enough for Herbie. NCIS will be employing Herbie’s company for all of the agents under the Admiral’s command and the Director plans to roll it out to all offices. Herbie is thrilled. The Admiral gives Herbie his Challenge Coin.

At night, Callen is still watching the older woman in her home from his car. In a flashback, Callen is being removed from Ms. Wilson’s care. He’s crying. The man taking young Callen from Ms. Wilson wants him to meet someone – Henrietta.

What head canon can be formed from here: I’ll stop complaining about the Callen backstory debacle at some point but not today. Early episodes had Callen moving from place to place sometimes only last a day or two but he blanked out on Ms. Wilson whose kindness and decency would be the thing you think he’d remember. Earlier this season Callen had memories of a foster father who built furniture and let Callen help but a woman who seemed to genuine care for him is only now a memory. Feh.

The cases of the week mirrored each other. Sam as Switch was able to work his way right back into Vander’s trust circle by once again proving his worth. Logue could not get Amantas to give her a second of his time because there was no trust there.

Episode number: This is the Munsters episode – 1313 (season 13, episode 13). It is episode 293 overall.1

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