Rocket Co.

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Not to be confused with victim's Rocket.

Rocket Co.
Group Type	Privately Owned Technological Research Organization
Leader(s)	H4CK3R (co-founder, C.E.O.) Mitsi (co-founder, former C.E.O.)
Notable Members	Mercenaries Agent (team leader and head of security) Ballista Primal Hazard Worker Clones
Status	Active
Member Death Causes	Mitsi (casualty of the The Disintegration) Several other members (presumed casualties of The Disintegration)
Enemies	noogai3 (primary target) The Chosen One (secondary target) The Second Coming Fighting Stick Figures Yellow Green Blue Red
First Appearance	The King - AVM Shorts Episode 30 (foreshadowed) Wanted - Animator vs. Animation 9
Last Appearance	Hacker - Animator vs. Animation 12

Rocket Co. is the main antagonistic faction of Animator vs. Animation Season 3.

Originally a simple repair stand run by victim and his lover, Mitsi, the stand turned into a technological corporation over four years. Then, an event known as The Disintegration ended with most of their employees getting sent back to Newgrounds and most perishing due to the chaos caused by two red and black stick figures - including Mitsi.

Over the next seven years, Mitsi's loss resulted in Rocket Co. declining due to victim being unable to heal from the tragedy as only he, Agent and a gray stick figure remained. However, the latter one day noticed a strange sight that led him to recording a video of Mitsi's assailant and a giant cursor. Taking it back to headquarters, Agent then showed it to victim as he realized that both of his tormentors were connected.

This led him to rebuild Rocket Co. over the next five years, even going as far as to clone the gray employee to get new workers and hiring on three mercenaries to aid Agent in finding and capturing Mitsi's assailant by mass producing wanted posters. Eventually, the mercenaries succeeded in capturing The Chosen One, but also The Second Coming due to victim realizing that he had very similar drawing abilities to Alan Becker himself.

Upon bringing them back to Rocket Co., victim interrogated The Chosen One and used a memory scanner to witness his fight against The Dark Lord as he learned both how Alan's cursor entered the Outernet in the first place, but also about The Second Coming's hidden powers, with he himself also becoming aware. Changing targets, victim sought to find Yellow and interrogate him, only to realize that he was luckily trying to break in at the same time, making it easy for Agent to capture him as well and used the memory scanner to learn how he materialized the cursor into their world.

With the plan set, victim and Agent journeyed with The Chosen One in a paused state back to The Dark Lord's abandoned shack and, using a trap, successfully tricked Alan into renaming victim to "H4CK3R", thus granting him abilities overpowering the cursor. Using this power, H4CK3R also renamed The Chosen One to "NO ONE", removing his powers out of spite but also to prevent him from following him back to ALANSPC. There, H4CK3R finally reunited with Alan by hacking his computer and destroying the cursor, before finally making Alan know pain by destroying all of his work over the years, leading to Alan unplugging his computer to stop him.

Left alone in the inactive computer, H4CK3R contemplated what he was supposed to do, until a clapping was heard and he noticed a security camera watching him as it revealed itself to be a small, red spider (a mini-ViraBot) that followed the source of the clapping: a red stick figure called "The Dark Lord". There, The Dark Lord showcased H4CK3R his new powers and claimed he had the power to return Mitsi's life, only asking for H4CK3R to partner up with him in exchange.

History

Origin

During the events of "Victim," it was revealed that the company was founded in 2007 by victim and Mitsi, with the latter designing the logo inspired by victim’s rocket that he used to escape to the Outernet.

Starting as a small stand offering easy repairs and fixes very fast, the small stand reached huge success in no time with countless stick figures of all kinds approaching the duo, Agent being one of them. With its huge success the business expanded in no time, with its co-founders reaching the front covers of magazines everywhere, expanding and hiring more stick figures. Agent would be hired as a security guard, and the success of the company would allow victim to slowly overcome his trauma.

During the fourth anniversary party of the company, a horrible event would take place. Many of the assistants would suddenly turn into green particles and disappear, caused by the attack of The Chosen One and The Dark Lord to Newgrounds, Mitsi and Agent would be teleported back to Newgrounds. Mitsi would end up dying after being struck by one of The Chosen One's fireballs while Agent would manage to escape back to the Outernet and returned to Rocket Co. After returning, victim would use the memory machine on Agent to find out about Mitsi's death and the perpetrator.

After Mitsi's demise, victim stepped up as the CEO of Rocket Co., but his tenure would see the company decline greatly; their share prices plummeted as major shareholders began to sell their shares, and employees began quitting, with one ex-employee stating "it's just not the same," as victim was not as good of a CEO without Mitsi (most likely due to his grief over her passing). In the year 2018, a worker of Rocket Co. would reveal to victim that they not only found The Chosen One, but also Alan Becker who was working alongside him, causing victim to realize that the two people who ruined his life were both working hand-in-hand, only motivating his reasons for revenge even further as he sought to destroy both of them.

Despite the decline of Rocket Co. over the next seven years, most employees have remained loyal to victim after the incident, such as Agent and some gray stick figures who continued to follow his lead. They may continue to work to honor Mitsi's memory, or because they also wish to avenge her by capturing The Chosen One; specifically Agent, who knew Mitsi well and also harbors a vendetta against the black stick figure for her demise. Agent oversees the recruitment of three mercenaries: Primal, Ballista and Hazard. The mercs help victim by capturing The Chosen One and monitoring both him and victim while inside of The Box, saving him from The Chosen One's flames and putting him in a position for victim to interrogate him.

Foreshadowing

The television that King Orange sees playing Animation vs. Minecraft, where he first learns of the Stick Gang and their Minecraft game icon, has the organization's logo on its antenna, foreshadowing their future role in the franchise.

Hunting The Chosen One

A poster of The Chosen One appears in "Cherry Blossoms - An Actual Short," the end text says "report sightings to " which further foreshadows the events of the third season of the Animator vs. Animation series.

At the beginning of "Wanted," The Chosen One is seen flying through the city as he is being hunted down by the mercenaries riding in antigravity vehicles while firing at him with very strange devices that cause him to glitch when struck by them. Despite his best efforts, he is fighting a losing battle. Upon remembering how The Second Coming helped him to defeat The Dark Lord several years ago, he escapes to their home on Alan's computer where he takes the orange hollow-head back with him to help fight the mercenaries.

Unfortunately, due to The Second Coming being unable to access his true power at will like last time, the mercenaries overwhelm the duo despite The Second Coming using Alan's pencil icon to fight back against them. The two are frozen by Agent and taken back just as Yellow, Blue, Green and Red arrive only to watch their friend and his predecessor being taken away back to a private research laboratory.

The Second Coming is imprisoned, and his pencil icon is confiscated for testing, while The Chosen One, still frozen, is placed inside a white simulation box for unknown reasons. The mercenaries take the elevator to the top floor where they meet with their employer, the organization's boss and the one who hired them to hunt down the super-powered stick figure: none other than the very first stick figure that Alan Becker ever created, victim.

The Box and the Pencil Tool

At the beginning of "The Box," the workers are seen testing on the Pencil tool confiscated from The Second Coming. They are trying to understand how he used it to make the drawings he made come to life, but ultimately fail after multiple attempts of drawing random scribbles in the air. They then decide to bring in The Second Coming to try and get the Pencil tool to work. He is transported out of the prison and taken to the test chamber.

Meanwhile, victim and the mercenaries enter the room while passing by The Second Coming. They walk over to the box, where The Chosen One is still imprisoned, and he is unpaused by Agent. Despite his best attempts to escape, his powers are negated by Agent using the Box's capabilities. Realizing that he could not escape, The Chosen One notices there is someone else in the room with him and finally comes face-to-face with his predecessor for the first time. However, he doesn't seem to realize that victim has a connection with him. Despite this, victim begins attacking his successor and gains an immediate advantage when Agent not only weakens The Chosen One but also is able to enhance victim's strength at the same time where the latter is now the one in control of the fight.

Realizing that he is at victim's mercy with his flames and lasers being rendered useless, The Chosen One attempts to freeze himself as self-defense. This causes Agent to make clones of victim to help him attack The Chosen One, and, despite succeeding in doing away with each of the clones, he fails to defeat the original due to Agent's interference and is thus left vulnerable to victim's lasso which he uses to immobilize the stick figure.

During this, The Second Coming is escorted to the test lab, to try to get the pencil to work. The workers send him into a small area guarded by an impassable forcefield, and he starts using the pencil to draw. Just like before, The Second Coming is able to make the drawings come to life, in the form of an electric eel. However, they still don't understand why. The workers then request for him to draw a bird, but when one of the employees tries to erase the eel, it fights back, causing the power to go down for a small moment. The eel is erased, and everything is back up and running again.

Succeeding in overpowering and immobilizing The Chosen One, victim starts interrogating him for information on his true target: Alan Becker. After a few failed attempts of getting The Chosen One to talk, victim commands some workers to bring in a memory scanner. He puts the memory scanner on The Chosen One and instantly sees all of his previous memories, even the current ones. In the meantime, The Second Coming is returning to his prison with some workers. While Agent is rewinding the memory scanner, they all witness the events of "The Showdown," where The Second Coming awakens his powers and destroys The Dark Lord. victim surprised by this, locks The Second Coming in his cell at high security, making sure that doesn't happen again.

Rewinding further, they see the point where Yellow programs the giant cursor for noogai3. Seeing this, victim commands the workers to print out wanted posters for Yellow, but while he and the mercenaries are walking away, a security guard calls them over to show surveillance footage. It is revealed to them that the Fighting Stick Figures have already arrived at the facility, hoping to break in. The stick figures easily take out the guards who try to attack them, but the plan completely fails when Agent deals with them and captures Yellow, who is taken away while the others are left behind. With the four dealt with, victim returns to his office where he uses a lighter to burn the image of Alan's cursor, showing what he truly wants is revenge against his creator.

Active Members

victim (co-founder and chief executive officer)

victim is the current CEO and one of the two founders of Rocket Co., alongside his late partner Mitsi. Being the technological of the two, he was more proficient in the engineering of devices and being able to repair items, vehicles, houses and other things through the use of the Flash animation tools he stole from his creator when he escaped in his rocket ship, which inspired the creation of Rocket Co. Following the loss of Mitsi in the Disintegration during the corporation's four year anniversary party, he stepped as the new head in her place, but due to being tormented by her fate, wasn't able to motivate himself to keep the corporation at the top of its game, resulting in its decline over the next seven years, until a fateful day in August 2018 re-motivated him to bring the corporation back to what it used to be as the forerunner of technology, but at the cost of Rocket Co.'s soul.

By April of 2023, victim has undoubtedly rebuilt Rocket Co. to the peak of its power, having many scientists and engineers help him in the production of new animation-based technology the likes of which have never been seen before in the Outernet. However, these new inventions are more militant due to their purpose being to weaken and take down superpowered stick figures and victim's own creator. He is the one who orchestrated the hiring of mercenaries to aid Agent in his hunt for The Chosen One and to lead to their ultimate goal: the end of noogai3.

Agent (head of security and mercenary leader)

Being one of the few remaining original members of Rocket Co. from the days before the Disintegration, Agent was originally the chief of security for Rocket Co. Being proficient in preventing trespassing and theft of any of the corporation's assets, he was first picked out by victim during the founding of Rocket Co. when it was a simple repair stand run by him and Mitsi. He was known for having close ties to both of them and also one of the many associates who disappeared during the four-year anniversary party, but unlike most, he managed to return. Upon having his memories, scanned it was there that victim learned of Mitsi's untimely demise at the hands of an unknown assailant that strangely resembles victim. Following the decline of Rocket Co., he was one of the only original employees to remain with victim, likely due to having bare witnessed to the horrors at Newgrounds and too likely had personal motivations to seeing the black stick figure that supposedly ended Mitsi's life be brought to justice.

He personally oversaw the tryouts for each applicant to join the mercenary squad needed to hunt down and subdue Mitsi's presumed assailant. Having overseen 130 applicants, ranging from the extremely lethal to utterly useless, he picked out the three best stickmen they had at their disposal to construct a small yet elite team with the skills needed to get the job done. With his squad assembled, victim gave them the hoverbikes and firearms needed to aid them in their quest, with him also being given orders by his supervisor on the field to subdue The Second Coming when he attempted to stop them from taking The Chosen One, due to his strange resemblance to both victim himself and his affinity for using animation tools that seem to connect him to noogai3, while also proving useful for using against the creator himself.

Worker Clones (scientists, engineers and bodyguards)

These gray stick figures are the current employees of Rocket Co. They make up most of the corporation's personnel and seem to be the only other people besides their boss and the mercenaries working on the production of the new technology such as an animation simulation cell, wireless memory scanner, futuristic animation HUDs, etc. Although not physically capable like Agent, they are still loyal to their boss and are shown to be efficient in their work and intelligent enough to help see victim's experiments come to fruition, including helping him in the hunt for The Chosen One and later, Yellow when The Chosen One's memory reveals him to the be the one responsible for bringing Alan's cursor into the Outernet once before.

It's unknown how long they've been working for victim, as none of them were seen during the time when Mitsi was still the CEO herself. The earliest known instance was in 2018, when one of them in particular (wearing a hat rather than a helmet) was the one who accidentally caught footage of a dark energy beam that led him to discovering both victim's creator and Mitsi's assailant working together, thus leading victim to realize that both of his enemies were on the same side and solidifying his new goal and thus, the future of Rocket Co.

These gray stickmen are all clones from an unknown, original stick figure who make up the majority of Rocket Co's personnel, being the only members of the organization other than H4CK3R and Agent, alongside the other three Mercenaries hired on to assist as extra security.

Mercenaries (guns for hire)

The mercenaries are, alongside Agent as the team head, three elite stickmen fighters known for their unique and powerful capabilities: Ballista, Primal and Hazard. Out of one-hundred and thirty applicants, ranging from the useless to the very powerful, only the top three were picked for the role due to a small, elite squad being chosen for purposes of quality over quantity. Unlike their leader who stays with victim out of loyalty, the other three only seem to work for victim since he is willing to pay them well in their hunt for The Chosen One and for helping victim to find the location of Alan Becker.

Despite their business-oriented style and individuality, they are shown able to follow the orders of victim and, by extension, Agent. Despite their eagerness to engage with their targets, they know when to stand down as Agent was given new orders in the field to capture The Second Coming due to victim recognizing the orange stick figure's drawing ability as suspiciously similar to Alan Becker and for his willingness to protect The Chosen One or when they watched idly by as victim interrogated the black stick figure and searched his memory, despite some slight annoyance or boredom.

Former Members

Mitsi (co-founder and former chief executive officer)

The first CEO of Rocket Co. and one of its two founders, alongside victim. Being inspired by the rocket that victim used to come to their world and seeing how his resourcefulness was helpful to others, she helped him set up a repair stand so that she could introduce him to others and get his mind off of Alan Becker. She is the business-like of the two, as she knows how to lead others in a charismatic manner and is good at organizational skills, such as hiring others to help her and victim turn their little stand into a organization centered around technology.

Mitsi was known for being the heart and soul of Rocket Co. due to the seemingly endless joy and love in her heart, making it feel like more than just a corporation. However, during the four-year anniversary party, she and many other associates were forcefully brought back to Newgrounds because of the rampage caused by The Chosen One and The Dark Lord. Helping to get Agent to safety, she tried to help other unfortunate characters escape from the chaos, until an explosion trapped her under rubble, while she was struck down by a stray fireball just as Agent tried to reach out to help her.

Her demise was essentially the death of both Rocket Co.'s success and victim's heart. Due to the latter being forced to step up to the CEO position in her place and being ruined by her loss, the corporation was never the same without her and many of its original workers eventually left on their own, remarking that Rocket Co. had declined not just in productivity but also in heart without their charismatic leader. After learning that Mitsi's killer was working with his own tormenter, victim rebuilt Rocket Co. as a more efficient yet more ethically questionable corporation in order to avenge Mitsi.

"Original workers" (former employees)

The original employees of Rocket Co. were the rural stick figures and other applicants from across the Outernet that joined Rocket Co. from the beginning, when it was only a repair stand run by victim and Mitsi. Unlike the current gray workers that are seemingly all identical and lack much personality, the former workers came in all shapes and sizes, plus having much varying personas. Many of them were unfortunate casualties of The Disintegration, which claimed the lives of their former CEO and many others. Among them, Agent is the only confirmed worker to still work for Rocket Co. in the present, with many others simply leaving behind as it declined over the years.

Locations

• Technological research laboratory (headquarters)

Technology

• Firearms
• Televisions
• Advanced hoverbike
• Glitch beam aircraft weapon
  • Artillery
• Entity suppression rifle
• Adobe software weaponry
  • Selection tool
  • Lasso tool
  • Free Transform tool
  • Line tool
  • Shape tool
    • Rectangle tool
    • Oval tool
  • Eraser tool
  • Pencil tool (confiscated from The Second Coming)
  • Zoom tool
  • Animated stop
• The Box
• Memory scanner
  • Memory machine (prototype)
• Laser printers
• Security cameras and monitors

Appearances

• Animation vs. Minecraft Shorts Season 3
  • The King (foreshadowed, debut)
• Actual Shorts Season 1
  • Cherry Blossoms (foreshadowed, wanted poster)
  • Corn Dog Guy
• Animator vs. Animation Season 3
  • Wanted
  • The Box
  • Victim
  • Hacker
• Mercenary Tryouts

Trivia

• Before their official name was revealed to be Rocket Co., the fans had already assumed many different titles such as "victim’s organization," "Rocket Organization," and even jokingly as "Team Rocket" due to their willingness to perform morally questionable acts such as kidnapping to ensure their goal. Ironically, "Rocket Co." was correctly assumed to be one of the names.
• Before the release of "Victim," many fans assumed that the rocket logo was meant to signify victim's plan to return to Alan's computer by using a rocket ship to get into the grid through the sky. However, it's true symbolism is revealed to have the opposite meaning, as the rocket was victim's means of escaping from Alan's computer to freedom.
• Mitsi was the one who designed the Rocket Co. logo after she was inspired from victim's rocket when they first met.
• It could be theorized that the "StickSlavery.com" website which appears in Animator vs. Animation 3 was made by them, as it talks about and condemns the abuse of stick figures by some animators, much like it happened to their founder and CEO, victim. Due to Rocket Co. being technologically advanced because of victim's skills and tools, it could be possible.
• The Rocket Co. logo firstly appeared in “The King”, months before its official debut as foreshadowing by Alan and his team.

Gallery

Television playing Animation vs. Minecraft, with the rocket logo on top.

Wanted poster of The Chosen One, seen in "Cherry Blossoms."

Rocket Co. headquarters in 2023.

Rocket Co. headquarters in 2018.

Rocket Co. headquarters in 2011.

The simulation chamber (The Box) and holding cells, one of the latter trapping The Second Coming.

The researchers in one of the labs.

victim and the Mercenaries walking through the facility.

The organization's rocket logo, inspired by the rocket that victim used to escape Alan's grasp.

Rocket Co. seemingly interrupting ABTV, sporting the organization's rocket logo.

Rocket Co.'s logo can be seen in one of the fighting stages in Animation VERSUS.

External Link

• Rocket Corp. on the Villains Wiki