| “ | "You know, feel free to call us if you've got any more jobs to do together. Right, Henry?"
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| ― Ellie Rose |
Triple Threat is one of the sixteen endings in Completing the Mission.
In this ending, after escaping from The Wall, Henry and Ellie work with Charles for the Government. Their goal is to stop the launch of a rocket into Earth's orbit and prevent the Toppat Clan from becoming invulnerable.
The ending is set after the Government Supported Private Investigator and Convict Allies endings.
Plot
Intro: Meeting of Friends
Having fled from The Wall, Henry Stickmin and Ellie Rose wait for Charles Calvin to pick them up as Henry retells his partnership with him to her. The helicopter arrives, and Charles welcomes them aboard, becoming quick friends with Ellie as well. Charles reveals General Galeforce sanctioned this rescue and in exchange requests Henry's help again. As Charles fulfills their getaway, the two agree to help.
Charles briefs them while in the air - The Toppat Clan plans to launch a rocket into orbit around Earth, which would jeopardize global security and they are essentially unstoppable from there. He is optimistic about the mission, as he and Henry worked well in the past and Henry has a new friend to their assistance.
Two Hours Before Launch, arriving at the Toppat Launch Site, Henry and Ellie prepare to disembark from the helicopter, as Charles claims that the SAM turret prevents him from closing in.
- [X] Parking Lot via Parachute: Henry and Ellie parachute down into the parking lot and come in hot under fire by Barry Bruh. Ellie is shot while Henry searches under a parked car for a weapon, but only finds an ammunition box and a scope, leaving him defenseless against Barry. (MSG: No guns. Of course...)
- [X] Tower via Parasol: Henry and Ellie use parasols to land on the aircraft control tower. A Toppat clan member named Byeah #503 notices them and radios a comrade. For only a moment, the comrade builds a quick watchtower and shoots Henry and Ellie. (MSG: Outplayed.)
- [X] Rocket via Wings: Henry and Ellie fly down with wings on their arms to swoop into the rocket, but they fly into the rocket itself and fall off, landing unceremoniously on the ground. This is a reference to the Birdman bonus mode of Pilotwings 64. (MSG: What a graceful landing.)
- Turret via Jetpack: Henry and Ellie fly down in a rocket pod and crash into the SAM turret, destroying it in the process.
Once they land, Charles closes in, and urges Henry and Ellie to get moving right away, as rocket pilot of new Toppat Leader Sven Svensson, makes an announcement that the rocket will launch very soon. This creates a unique choice screen where there are five choices overall, but the player can only see and use three at the time. One has to use the Swap option to switch between Ellie and Henry in order to see all available options.
Ellie's options:
- [X] Throw: Ellie picks up Henry and spins him around before releasing him, though he doesn't make it far before falling to his death. (MSG: So long-eh, Henry!)
- [X] Climb Down and Run: Henry and Ellie climb down the building with a rope and run up the rocket gangplank, much to Charles' confusion. Underestimating the actual length of the ramp, they both collapse in exhaustion long before reaching the door at the top. (MSG: Only 20 more minutes until you’re almost halfway there!)
Henry's options:
- [X] Build: Henry uses Minecraft-themed blocks to build a path for him and Ellie to follow. However, at some point, Henry runs out of dirt blocks, steps off, and dies from fall damage, leaving behind his shoes, a stick, and some cooked beef. (MSG: You died!)
- Barrel: Henry places a barrel with an explosion mark on it, jumps in with Ellie, and they fire into the sky, collecting bananas and hitting other barrels that launch them upwards. This is a direct reference to the Donkey Kong Country series of games.
Each time the Swap button is pushed, they sound like monkeys. If the player selects the Swap option repeatedly six times, Charles will radio in and comment that it looks fun but that they're on a strict time limit. The player will earn the "This is Fun!" medal.
After getting shot out of the last barrel, Charles swoops in to help Ellie and Henry with his helicopter. He can:
- [X] Timeout: If no option is chosen in time, Henry and Ellie slam into the helicopter and fall to their deaths. (MSG: He came outta nowhere!)
- [X] Net: Charles shoots Henry and Ellie with a net that plasters them to the cafeteria window of the rocket, immobilizing them, with nearby Toppats watching in confusion. (MSG: That's a net loss for you two.)
- [X] Hand: Charles high-fives both Henry and Ellie but fails to grab them. (MSG: High Five, bro!)
- Cannon: Charles catches the two with a mounted cannon.
Flying toward the rocket, Charles fires the weapon. Henry and Ellie were smashed into the rocket’s cafeteria but soon find themselves facing a massive contingent of Toppat clan members. They can:
- [X] Downgrader: Henry pushes a button, and the world immediately reverts to a very low-budget animation with crude stick drawings. Wallace Dagwood and The Toppats, with their guns rendered unusable, knock Henry down and demand him to change the world back, but the downgrader is also non-functional after its initial use. Furious, Wallace, Fredrick Muenster, The Ruffian, and Mr. Skyscraper proceed to beat them to death with the rest of the Toppats watching. (MSG: I guess the budget ran out.)
- [X] Fusion: Henry and Ellie fuse into Ellry, a powerful entity with Ellie's tenacity and Henry's luck. Ellry asks if there is anyone in the cafeteria who will challenge them. As the Toppat members cower in fear, Kabbitz steps in and taunts them before engaging in a rushing battle. Eventually, Kabbitz overpowers Ellry and sends them flying through the window, before Ellry splits into their original counterparts. (MSG: Normally this goes on for another 3 hours.)
- Diversion: Blasting trap music, Henry and Ellie start dancing. The music and their moves create a contagious atmosphere of dance and soon after, the entire Toppat contingent joins in. Many Toppats perform dances taken from or inspired by popular culture. Under the cover of the entire cafeteria dancing, Henry and Ellie make their exit.
After getting through the cafeteria, Henry and Ellie find a ladder to take them through the rocket. However the rocket begins to lift off. Henry and Ellie have to stop it before it gets into orbit. They can use:
- [X] Ellie's Plan: The group goes along with Ellie's Plan, which involves her and Henry overloading the reactor in the engine room and causing an explosion, after which Charles will provide the group with an exit outside of the auxiliary exhaust by the "forward left booster". After sabotaging the rocket, the group fails to locate each other as they cannot convey their positions, and the explosion kills Henry and Ellie. (MSG: Forward Left… Your left or mine?)
- [X] Charles' Plan: Charles' plan of crashing his helicopter into the rocket is disputed by Ellie, questioning its practicality and effectiveness. After a series of clarifications, Henry agrees to go along with Charles' plan, outvoting Ellie. However, because the group wasted too much time debating about Charles' plan, the rocket is already out of Charles' range. (MSG: It would've been amazing, Charles.)
- Henry's Plan: The group goes along with Henry's plan: he and Ellie breach the cockpit, subdue Sven, and reprogram the rocket to an alternate course. With the rocket redirected from the course to outer space, Henry and Ellie bail from the rocket. With Charles helping to break their descent with his helicopter, the mission is complete.
As Charles inquires Henry on the rocket's location, it lands at The Wall, leading to the presumed arrest of everyone on board. Ellie reveals that she enjoyed the adventurous aspect of the mission and informs Charles that she and Henry are open to embarking on more missions together-- all he needs to do is call them.
Characters
- Henry Stickmin - Protagonist
- Ellie Rose - Deuteragonist
- Charles Calvin - Tritagonist
- General Hubert Galeforce (Only Shown in a Small Flashback) - Tetartagonist
- Sven Svensson - Main Antagonist
- Barry Bruh
- Byeah #503
- Skeev
- Fredrick Muenster
- Wallace Dagwood
- Mr. Skyscraper
- The Ruffian
- Marty O.
- Louie G.
- Carol Cross
- Whitehead
- Mr. Macbeth
- Poppedtop
- The Leprechaun
- Al the Pal
- Earrings
- Smooshed Sammy
- Red Crimson
- Cool Joe
- The Bookie
- The Witch
- Darius Johnsonite
- Hannibal Burns
- Unknown Toppats
- Ellry
- Kabbitz
- Orange Hat Kid
- Toby Mack
- Pasta Primavera
- Figaro Mulligatawny
- Parmezza Lasagne
- Krabman
- Konkey Dong
- Jonathan Bravo
- Hat Girl
- Mr. Unstoppable
- Sleepy Dogg
- Cowboy
- Ciggy
- Tommy Partridge
- The Magician
- Lenk
- Lonk
- Sal Malone
- Handsome Harold (Flashback)
- Reginald Copperbottom (Flashback)
- Right Hand Man (Flashback)
- Heath Stone (Flashback)
- Isaac Binderson (Flashback)
- Dmitri Johannes Petrov (Flashback)
Italics indicate they only appear in this pathway.
Underlined indicate they only appear in fails.
References
PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds
During the Parachute sequence, Ellie's injured animation and Henry's searching scene are both taken from this game.
Fortnite
The Parasol is a reference to the Victory Umbrellas, and the tower that kills Henry and Ellie is constructed like how it is in Fortnite.
Pilotwings
The fail screen for Wings is a direct reference to the Birdman bonus mode from Pilotwings 64, and even has its own track referencing a track from the game.
Super Mario 64
The Throw segment is done the same way as in Mario 64, and the fail message even references the famously misquoted "So long, gay Bowser!" from that game.
Minecraft
The Build option is a direct reference to that game. Henry builds a path with dirt blocks from the inventory while a Minecraft-like song plays, and when he dies, he makes the death sound present in the beta version of the game before dropping flesh, which animals do in that game if you kill them. The fail message is a reference to the death message in Minecraft.
Donkey Kong
The Barrel is from this game.
Animation
The Downgrader turns the scene into an animatic, which is something used by animators to pre-visualize an animation.
Dragon Ball
The Fusion sequence is a reference to Dragon Ball. Henry and Ellie do the Fusion Dance and become Ellry, who gains features, names, and voices from both, just like Gogeta or Vegito. Their fight with Kabbitz, likely a reference to Raditz, plays out the same as a fight normally would in DBZ, and when Ellry is defeated and unfused, Henry and Ellie make the famous Yamcha Death Pose. The fail message is a joke about how long DBZ's fights take.
Fleeing the Complex
The Diversion option is a reference to the Distraction option. The Distraction Dance returns, with a remix of its own theme.
Several other popular dances are also referenced in this scene:
- "Krab Borg" from SpongeBob
- "Snoop Dogg Blingee" ("Drop It Like It's Hot")
- The "Dab"
- "Team Fortress 2 Conga Dance " (specifically Sniper's version)
- "Tranquility Dance" ("Smug Dance")
- "Do the Mario"
- "Torture Dance" (from Golden Wind, Episode 5 of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure)
- "Peter Parker Dance"
- "1273 Dance"
- The "Worm"
- "Donkey Kong 64 Rap"
- "Orange Justice" by
- "The Harlem Shake"
- "Raise the Roof"
- "Head Nod"
Charles
Charles' Plan references what Charles always does.
Trivia
- This ending starts a short time after Fleeing the Complex but concludes 3 days afterwards.
- Charles breaks the 4th wall in this path after saying "Completing the Mission" in a dramatic way.
- Ellie even comments on this by saying, "Why did you say it like that?"
- This ending, along with as Cleaned 'em Out and Special BROvert Ops are completely pacifist, since there are no deaths in the route.
- Master Bounty Hunter, Valiant Hero and Toppat Civil Warfare are also pacifist in a sense, as Henry did not cause any of the deaths directly.
- The Toppat Orbital Station appeared to crash into the maximum-security cells.
- During the Cannon option, when Henry and Ellie smash into the glass window, it is shown as a circle from the outside. However, when they break into the orbital station, it appears as if the bottom of the window is completely flat. It then shows the window as a circle again as they confront the Toppats. This is likely a continuity error.
- This is the ending whose title is actually the movie of the same name.
- This and Pardoned Pals are the only endings in entire series to have an alliterative name.
- When starting the first choice of the mission, Ellie says "Where we dropping, boys?" This is a reference to most battle royale games, specifically Fortnite.
- This ending and the Special BROvert Ops ending are the only ones where all Toppats are incarcerated, except Hatchman, Matthew Norbert, & Benjamin Bourseious, who were killed. However, there’s one difference: the Toppats who were imprisoned at The Wall or worked there, such as Wallace Pemberton or Gordon Smith, have an unknown status in this ending. If this Triple Threat path comes from Convict Allies, then the Toppats who escaped were either re-arrested during TT or during the Escape Incident, or they were killed. In the Special BROvert Ops (SBO) ending, however, both Wallace Pemberton and Gordon Smith survived and were never incarcerated.
Music
| Link | Track | Composer/Artist | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🎧 | "Meeting of Allies" | Ockeroid | Opening theme. |
| 🎧 | "Flight Results" | PuffballsUnited | Played during the "Rocket via Wings" fail. |
| 🎧 | "Dance Mr. Funnybones (Trap Mix)" | PuffballsUnited | Played during the "Diversion" scenario. |
| 🎧 | "Scouter Level" | Ockeroid | Played during the "Fusion" fail. |
| 🎧 | "Henry's Plan" | Ockeroid | Ending theme. |
Gallery
The correct one for this is Jetpack.
The correct one is Barrel
The correct one is Cannon
The correct one is Diversion
The correct one is Henry's Plan, after which the route concludes.
