Toppat Recruits

General Information
Game
Path to accomplish	Endings PBT + CA Rope + Wings → Time Machine → Block → The Toppat Clan
Deaths	On-Screen: Dmitri Johannes Petrov Grigori Olyat Off-Screen: Presumed: Dolan Torkov Possibly: Weaksauce Ten Pence Mr. Angery Dima Pentsky Bill Cook Todd Tater Several Wall Catch Squad Members Several Government Soldiers Several Toppat Clan Members
Arrests	Off-Screen: Several Toppat Clan Members Possibly; Weaksauce Ten Pence Mr. Angery
Music played	"The New Recruits"
Sides
Allied With	Toppat Clan Ellie Rose Reginald Copperbottom Right Hand Man Sven Svensson Mr. Macbeth Thomas Chestershire
Antagonists	Government General Hubert Galeforce Charles Calvin The Wall Dmitri Johannes Petrov Grigori Olyat

“	Everyone, I'd like to welcome our new members. They really showed their gusto when it counted, also, they promised to return the ruby.	„
	― Reginald Copperbottom

Toppat Recruits is one of the sixteen endings in Completing the Mission.

In this ending, Henry Stickmin and Ellie Rose attempting to join the Toppat Clan and succeeding. Having killed the pursuers Dmitri and Grigori, the rocket takes off into orbit. At the end, Henry and Ellie officially become recruits of the Toppat Clan, while gaining respect for the Toppat Leader and Right Hand Man.

The auxiliary ending to this ending is "Pardoned Pals," sharing one single route till the final choice scenario. This pathway is selected by choosing "Pure Blooded Thief" and "Convict Allies" in the Endings Hub.

Plot

Intro: Arrival

After having escaped The Wall, Henry and Ellie are on the run from Dmitri Johannes Petrov and Grigori Olyat. They make their way to the Dogobogo Jungle and the Toppat Launch Site, where Ellie hopes Henry alongside her can join the Toppats.

However When they arrive, they find the Wall guards waiting for them. Coincidentally, General Hubert Galeforce chooses the same moment to launch an attack against the Toppats to stop them from launching their Orbital station, starting The Toppat Raid. Henry and Ellie crash their motorcycle on a car. With the two being surrounded by two opposing factions, they are given the following choices:

• Rope + RPG (fail): The duo try to launch the RPG by tying the rope to the trigger but when they throw it up in the air and shoot, it points at them and it explodes, taking their lives with it. Fail message: What... was the plan there exactly?
• Controller + RPG (fail): Wiring the Nintendo 64 controller to the RPG, Henry and Ellie attempt to guide the rocket to the Wall soldiers. . However, The projectile is too slow in its approach. Henry and Ellie end up getting killed by a blast from a Wall tank. Fail message: Wrong kind of RPG for a controller. Still gave you control though!
• Controller + Wings (fail): The two combine the Nintendo 64 controller and the wings, intended for them to fly up with the wings, but it ends up flying to the sky without them. Fail message: Thank you wings, very cool!
• Rope + Wings: Attaching the rope to the wings, Henry and Ellie grab the ends of the rope to escape to the rocket.

A helicopter knocks the rope over, and Henry and Ellie land inside the launch tower in the process. Konrad Bukowski and Calvin Bukowski jump after them from the helicopter and capture Ellie while Henry sneaks away. To save Ellie, Henry can use:

• Disguise Kit (fail): Henry attempts to disguise himself as The Commander, but Henry has just a paper mask of him and greets the soldiers by saying "Hey, brother!", which fails to deceive them. Fail message: Oh that's very convincing.
• CorrupTick (fail): The CorrupTick corrupts the game. It is seemingly force-closed, but soon restarts and the player can reload via on-screen prompts. However, sprites, audio, fail screens, transcripts and character placements are glitched. Fail message: I... Uh... I think something went wrong.
• Time Machine: Henry travels 2 years into the past and disrupts the Bukowski twins' attempt to enlist in the military by throwing a rock at them, starting a fight. The two are dismissed. Since they never joined the army, they are no longer there to stop Henry and Ellie in the tower when Henry returns to the present.

Henry and Ellie climb up to the top of the launch deck, but a Wall guard sees them and informs a tank driver. The tank shoots a missile on the bridge, and a part of it collapses. Henry is about to fall in the process, but there's still time to catch him. Henry and Ellie can use:

• Timeout (fail): With no option was chosen Henry dies from his fall. Fail message: Dang! He ain't gonna be in Henry 7!
• Grapple (fail): Ellie tries to use a grapple hook on him, but Henry is suddenly stuck on the exterior of the launch deck with the hook pinned to his hand, and he screams in pain. Fail message: Henry will remember that.
• Catch (fail): Henry catches Ellie's hand but his weight pulls the two downward, dying from their fall. Fail message: Fatso.
• Block: Henry lands on a hidden music block and jumps up to the bridge normally.

Henry and Ellie reach the rocket, and they encounter Reginald Copperbottom and the Right Hand Man. Reginald recognizes Henry as the man who stole the Romanian Ruby from them, but also acknowledges the two outlaws' skills and attempts a bargain - They will be accepted as members if the Romanian Ruby is returned to them. Then Dmitri and Grigori show up to demand Henry and Ellie to surrender. And to top it off, Charles Calvin arrives with his helicopter, sees Henry, and asks him to help take out the Toppats.

Now caught between three factions, Henry and Ellie can choose to side with:

• The Government: See "Pardoned Pals."
• The Wall (fail): The duo decide to surrender to Dmitri and Grigori to bring them back at The Wall. In there, Henry and Ellie are frozen in ice, as an extreme measure to prevent any future incident at the complex. Fail message: If you can't leave 'em, join 'em.
• None (fail): The two jump off the rocket and they hang on to it using a knife. The rocket launches into space, causing them to die of suffocation. Fail message: Normally you want to be INSIDE the rocket when it goes to space.
• The Toppat Clan: Henry and Ellie decide to ally themselves with the Toppats and recieive rifles, allowing them to kill Grigori and heavily wound Dmitri. The Right Hand Man uses his pistol to damage Charles' helicopter, forcing him to retreat.

While the rocket is launching into space, The Right Hand Man and Reginald vacate the area, while Dmitri regains his strength, giving him an opportunity to attack the two, and lunges at Ellie, knocking her out. Furious about his ruined reputation due to Henry's involvement with the riot back at The Wall, Dmitri attempts to kill Henry once and for all. Throwing a punch, Dmitri misses, and Henry throws him from the rocket to his doom.

The rocket completes its journey into space. Ellie recovers from her wounds, and the two are officially recruited by Reginald in exchange for returning the Romanian Ruby in the future. During the recruitment ceremony, some Toppats such as Carol Cross and The Leprechaun display a grudge towards the two while some others such as Fredrick Muenster and Sven Svensson show acceptance towards the duo.

Characters

• Henry Stickmin - Protagonist
• Ellie Rose - Deuteragonist
• Dmitri Johannes Petrov - Main Antagonist
• Grigori Olyat - Major Antagonist
• General Hubert Galeforce - Tertiary Antagonist
• Charles Calvin - Secondary Antagonist
• Reginald Copperbottom - Tritagonist
• Right Hand Man - Tetartagonist
• Matteo Gurtchev
• Ten Pence
• Weaksauce
• Mr. Angery
• Dima Pentsky
• Dolan Torkov
• Todd Tater
• Bill Cook
• Konrad Bukowski
• Calvin Bukowski
• Bob Pants
• Paul Penn
• Ivan Petroteva
• Thomas Chestershire
• Sven Svensson - Supporting Character
• Carol Cross
• Slice
• Floyd Winters
• Mr. Macbeth
• Poppedtop
• Orange Hat Kid
• Beans
• Mr. Jobb
• Chip Crumm
• Fredrick Muenster
• The Leprechaun
• Unknown CtM Toppats
• Heath Stone (Flashback)
• Isaac Binderson (Flashback)

Italics indicate they only appear in this pathway, as well as its auxiliary ending, "Pardoned Pals." Note that the many Unknown Toppats in the credits scene only appear in this ending.

Trivia

• This is the only route in which all of the main characters (Henry Stickmin, Ellie Rose, Charles Calvin, Hubert Galeforce, Reginald Copperbottom, Right Hand Man and Dmitri Johannes Petrov) appear.
• The fail message of the Catch choice alludes back to the fail messages for the Left option from the "Sneaky Escapist" ending of Escaping the Prison and the Balance option from the "Ghost Inmate" ending of Fleeing the Complex about having a similar thing for Henry being fat.
• It is the only scenario where personnel from The Wall are in Completing the Mission.
• The purple and black texture during CorrupTick is a reference to the famous Garry's Mod (and many other games) missing texture (Mostly due to missing CSS texture content).
• The controller in the first set of options is the controller used for the Nintendo 64.
• The Block option is a reference to the Note Block (A.K.A. the Jump Block and/or the Music Block) from the Super Mario series.
• The Disguise Kit option is a reference to Team Fortress 2 (where it's also known as the Spytron 3000 Disguise Kit), where the Spy uses it to disguise as any class from either team.
• The Grapple option's fail message ("Henry will remember that.") is a callback to Fleeing the Complex, where the "Ghost Inmate" route involves Henry abandoning Ellie after she helped him escape, prompting the text "Ellie will remember that" to appear. It is also a reference to Telltale Games's choose-your-own-adventure games.
• Toppat Recruits and Pardoned Pals are the only "Pure Blooded Thief" routes where Henry does not steal anything.
• This is the only ending that contains the word "Toppat" that does not take place after RPE.
• The "Fission Mailed"/CorrupTick game over screen is a reference to Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, where there is a game over screen with the same text.
• During the final option, the correct choices are The Government and The Toppat Clan. This may be a callback to the Phone a Friend option in Fleeing the Complex, where these two choices were present, leading to a government ending and a Toppat ending.
• When Dmitri punches Ellie onto the floor, if you slow down the video a little bit, you can see that her arms disappear for a brief second.
• Out of the small amount of Toppats who makes a cameo during Henry and Ellie's Recruit Ceremony, the only ones who are clickable for a bio are Sven Svensson, Thomas Chestershire, Mr. Macbeth, Carol Cross, Floyd Winters and Poppedtop.
• This is the only CtM ending where Reginald remains as leader of the Toppat Clan. In all others, Reginald is ultimately killed, incarcerated or dethroned.
• This is the only PBT-chosen pathway that does not result in the Toppat Clan being made defunct.
• This is one of the 2 endings of the only two forks in Completing the Mission.
  • The other is "Toppat 4 Life"/"Multiverse Correction."

Music

Track	Composer/Artist	Notes
🎧 "Ellie's Theme"	Ockeroid	First half of the opening theme.
🎧 "End of the Road"	Ockeroid	Second half of the opening theme.
"Tear Down the Wall"	Ockeroid	Dmitri and Henry's fight theme.
🎧 "The New Recruits"	Ockeroid	Ending theme.