- "Baby Intelligence here, he spent exactly three hundred twenty-six seconds feeling sorry for himself, but still, he moved forward. […] Failure has molded us! Has molded us all! And that is my path to a successful business in the construction of buildings, and our path to a new era! There are many times, he, well, understandably, thought it was the end, but did Baby Intelligence give up? We may decide to throw down our arms, but the twist in the story is, we won't!"
- ―Bailey Dennings[src]
The Super Mutant Smashing Babies, almost always referred to as the S.M.S.B., is the main protagonist faction of The Super Babies Saga, and a peacekeeping organization unified by its belief and observance of the Light. The S.M.S.B. were the guardians of peace and justice in the Solar System, and became perhaps the most well known of the various mutant organizations. Led by the great Baby Intelligence, the organization grew over the years despite facing many trials. Their worst enemies were the NoHeads and much later the Unifiers, who were the two largest threats to their very existence. Two members broke away, but one returned to their side and the group remained a success. The group remained active until the 2170s, at which Matthew endeavored to build the New Order to within reason do everything the S.M.S.B. once did for society.
Background[]
Leadership[]
Amid the ranks of the S.M.S.B., Baby Intelligence was ultimately the Grandmaster. He trained all the other members in it, saved their lives several times, and founded the group with help from his own teacher, Sheriff Bladepoint. Many people noted that he was an excellent leader and more than capable of holding this extent of power.
Ranks[]
S.M.S.B. Code[]
- "I thought that was against your Code?"
- ―Ramona Meyer after Sebiscuits Cardarphen shows off his powers[src]
Members of the S.M.S.B. were encouraged to follow a set of guidelines, including self-discipline, responsibility, and public service. These principles were put simply yet effectively in the S.M.S.B. Code:
- "''Help damsels in distress.
- Never unleash your full power against weaker opponents.
- Protect the weak.
- Use your sword only in self-defense or defense of others — never to enrich yourself.
- An S.M.S.B. member can never lose his honor in a fair fight.''"
- ―Baby Intelligence's S.M.S.B. Code[src]
Derived from the Code of the Police Grand Army Baby Intelligence transcribed a code that all members of the S.M.S.B. must abide by.
The Code was not necessarily a strict set of rules, but a general set of guidelines that S.M.S.B. members were encouraged to keep in mind as they went about the business of the Order. Numerous teachings interpreted and expounded on the Code in subsequent decades. These rules, created and embraced by the S.M.S.B., were essential tools in a member's growth. In them, S.M.S.B. members were encouraged to overcome personal obstacles such as pride and materialism, to understand their small yet important place in the star system, and to give every being and point of view equal consideration.[1]
History of the S.M.S.B.[]
Early history[]
In 2029, Greg and Rotta Hecks conceived a child named Peter Hecks, who began displaying superhuman intelligence when he managed to escape his crib and was doing a floor puzzle in his room. Over the next few days, he pondered over finding a way to speak, and quickly found the way how. His parents were mean but cautious throughout his first week alive as he learned to stand and speak at an incredibly young age — he had also taught himself to stand when he was six days old and took his first steps. At one point, they also took him with them to a party, where he demonstrated his telekinetic powers for the first time by crushing the seatbelt to his booster and telekinetically hurling balloons at other guests. Terrified, Rotta dragged him home. Thanks to a visit from Colby Doge, Peter became “the latest news flash”, and everybody wanted to meet him. Unbeknownst to him, Rotta and Greg were both plotting a way to get rid of him, not out of spite, but because they wanted to protect him from the evil Mr. Stupid NoHead.
Peter was finally abandoned after he was asked by NASA’s leading officials to attend a space mission. Rotta left the station with Greg before he could return to Earth, after declaring he was not welcome in their home. Despite his misery, Peter was able to spot a UFO coming their way. The astronauts immediately engaged, but when the UFO began gaining ground, Peter forcibly took charge and miraculously destroyed the UFO, thwarting its planned planetary invasion. The astronauts were amazed. This also led the Police Grand Army to adopt and train him, also believing he might be the Chosen One (which he was indirectly, along with the currently unborn Lindsay Kellerman). Peter began training with them for a month, dealing with Sean Cornelly in the process, until his first real mission came around.
Peter Hecks' first mission came when a robotic monster invaded New York City, his hometown. Peter and Zett took off to the scene, where Hecks saved several Grand Army members already at the scene by stabbing the robot. Atop the rooftops, the trained baby came face to face with the NoHead Master. Mr. Stupid NoHead threatened him, but Peter was unshaken and mockingly addressed him. The battle started when NoHead blasted Peter with lightning, sending him flying across the balcony and slamming into a wall. Peter quickly recovered and retaliated with a powerful telekinetic blast that sent the Dark Lord flying over a table. A brief yet spectacular battle ensued until Mr. Stupid NoHead began using a mix of two different powers to torture Baby Intelligence until Sheriff Bladepoint intervened, rescuing him. Afterwards, he became a Superhero at last. After the Police Grand Army began helping Hecks build the MBH, he became Baby Intelligence, and vowed to find children like himself and raise them as a band of followers destined to serve the public forever.
Outbreak of the Second NoHead War[]
While seeking out members, Baby Intelligence became the "Inferno", a symbol of hope for the NoHeads' enemies. This led to Sebiscuits Cardarphen joining him after they rescued Mayor Katie Black during the Battle of the Wasp. Baby Intelligence also recruited Baby Strength, Paige Nelson, and Force Baby to the group after the Battle of Palmyra. Soon after, Cardarphen, whose turmoil clouded his judgment, told Baby Intelligence that the NoHeads were relocating in Palmyra. The S.M.S.B. went there at once, where Cardarphen intervened in Nelson's duel and incapacitated her before submitting to the Darkness and became a NoHead in order to find his destiny. This event preceeded Operation: Purge, where the Grand Army was virtually wiped out.
While Mr. Stupid NoHead quickly rose to power, the S.M.S.B. members were fugitives.
After learning of Sebiscuits’ conversion, Baby Intelligence led another attack roughly 11 days after the first. They engaged the NoHeads’ new Rocket army. During the carnage, Baby Intelligence witnessed Mr. Stupid NoHead’s betrayal of Rotta Hecks. He immediately murdered her, enraging Intelligence and giving him the strength he needed to kill NoHead. The S.M.S.B. thought they had won, but NoHead returned from the dead, and Paige was killed by Sebiscuits during the battle.
Afterwards, the S.M.S.B. courted the support of King Xener in Iseville over Planet 10. Afterwards, the new trio embarked on a mission to find and piece together three scrolls written by the great Sir Edgar Caravan. After many hardships and the abduction of Baby Strength, they located the scrolls and, upon taking refuge in New Hampshire, the Chosen One herself. Upon seeing the MBH for herself, the Chosen One, whose name was Lindsay Kellerman, willingly participated in an impromptu rescue mission. With Roman reinforcements arriving, Baby Intelligence flew to Tsala, neutralized a would-be army of wolves, and destroyed Mr. Stupid NoHead’s ultimate weapon. Baby Intelligence and Merlin's second apprentice dueled Mr. Stupid NoHead, but when he overpowered them both, the former unleashed the Voice of Sir Edgar Caravan alongside Lindsay Kellerman, destroying Mr. Stupid NoHead once and for all.[2]
Post-Tsala[]
Following the Battle of Tsala and the outbreak of the 2030 pandemic, Baby Intelligence and Force Baby set out to keep the peace during the pandemic, thinking it their duty as solar guardians virtually incapable of falling ill. They also confiscated fake protective measures (such as cheap and fake medibots, fake protective serums, or in one particular case, a tailsman that engorged and hardened the user's fingernails). While many such objects surfaced in the panic after the outbreak of COVID-19, the purpose of their creation was not always clear - creators may have simply been profiteering, or it may have been something darker, as some of the confiscated articles were highly dangerous. Most of the perpetrators were described by Carol Wilcox as people such as Al Rooker who had not worked an honest day in their lives. However, occasionally something exceedingly dangerous did turn up.
Later, Hell Burnbottom attempted to possess a celebrity singer named Rocken Role. The S.M.S.B. knew then that the NoHeads were still active, and went to the base hoping to stop them for good after Force Baby made an uneasy bargain. Baby Intelligence destroyed the source of power for Role’s predicament; meanwhile, the NoHeads easily dominated the S.M.S.B. members that had challenged them. After a short duel with Burnbottom, Baby Intelligence was forced to relinquish the NoHead Grandmaster in order to save Lindsay Kellerman and Baby Strength. They knew from there that the NoHeads remained in power.
Soon, Hell Burnbottom dispatched Rockets to invade the MBH. When the S.M.S.B. cut down all the troops, Burnbottom arrived and forcibly occupied the MBH, forcing them onto the run. The group then fled to the junkyard, where they refueled and also discovered a new S.M.S.B. member named Tyler Grant Jnr. However, they were all scattered, meeting up again after a game of the International Crodela Cup and inducing Optica into their ranks. From there, they went to the Yellowstone Base. There, with the help of Tyler (now renamed Telekinibabe) and the Police Grand Army, which had just resolved months of tension with the S.M.S.B., the Sheriff and the S.M.S.B. delivered a massive blow to the NoHead’s Rocket army for which it would never recover, and slew Hell Burnbottom in battle. After the NoHead Grandmaster was destroyed, the S.M.S.B. hunted down the Arcanus led by Brute Gunray and Annabeth Black and their disciple the Lord of the North, as well as the renegade Karkamel, and won the titanic Battle of the Eastern Field.
However, Baby Intelligence was reminded of Sebiscuits Cardarphen’s existence, and he rallied the S.M.S.B. to help defeat the last NoHead. Intelligence chased Cardarphen and Annabeth Black to a construction tower in his fighter. Along with regenade Pythoman, Cardarphen and Black engaged them all at once, fighting to a stalemate. In the City Volcano, Cardarphen slew Baby Intelligence, leading to the S.M.S.B. being forced on the run and meeting Ashton Quintan, who helped them change the course of history to give them another chance at victory. In the revised timeline, Cardarphen was defeated, losing much of his organic limbs after suffering grievous mutated injuries, necessitating the majority of Cardarphen's body being kept in a mobile life-support system to keep him alive. This, along with Black's demise and Pythoman's arrest, prompted him to join the S.M.S.B. again, thus silencing the threat of the NoHeads for good.[3]
Establishing a foothold[]
Afterwards, Baby Intelligence began construction of a motor home. A month later, it was completed, and he rallied the other members to join him on a quest to purge their country of evil. They went across America, defeating criminals, righting wrongs, and changing it forever. The mission lasted for two years, roughly as long as Baby Intelligence had been alive when the mission began. They also recruited Titanium Girl. At age six, Baby Intelligence took the name of Master Intelligence, respectively. He also fought against Darren Slade after sensing an increased number of threats to their city, though he realized that the latter was innocent and did not kill him. When the Melanization led to the Werewolf Renaissance, the S.M.S.B. was forced to directly intervene when humans tried to catch the werewolves off their guards. They also established connections with a commoner named Crystal, hoping she could help them strengthen their relations with Fobble schools and silence a conniving nurse and secretive gangster named Rose Johannson.[4][5]
Third NoHead War[]
The NoHeads were also hatching a complex plot to return to power and defeat the S.M.S.B. Lindsay touched her plate, and was suddenly transported to the Tower of Reincarnation. Upon her arrival, Whammo Fireball performed a ritual resulting in the return of Hell Burnbottom. After robing himself, the reborn warlord summoned his old followers, declaring them official NoHeads. Kellerman managed to escape and inform Master Intelligence of the NoHead Grandmaster's return, and the S.M.S.B. created a patrol for any suspicious activity. Burnbottom prepared to reawaken his army and overthrow the government. Since the only knowledge of his return was Lindsay’s word, Burnbottom was able to grow in power in secret.
Later on, Sebiscuits Cardarphen was lured to Bast Castle, where he challenged Hell Burnbottom alone, leading to his death. The S.M.S.B. made haste to Bast Castle, and despite being ambushed by over three dozen robotic fighters and Hell Burnbottom himself, they were all able to reach their destination. Burnbottom confronted them before revealing Sebiscuits Cardarphen’s corpse, but on that note, Cardarphen came back to life and drove Burnbottom out. As the battle resumed its ferocity, Lindsay Kellerman fought Hell Burnbottom in a construction site. Eventually, Master Intelligence intervened and joined the duel in defense of Kellerman. Suddenly, Red X appeared and used the Verasect to vanquish the leader of the Elite NoHeads. In the meantime, Whammo Fireball and the Lunch Money Bandit were killed, completing the S.M.S.B.'s decade-long mission to destroy the NoHeads.[5]
The Gladiator's campaign[]
- "Oh, he's done it. He's finally done it!"
"Who? Done what?"
"The Gladiator. He knows. He's building a giant bomb, the Grand Nuke as he and Becca call it, and the U.S. will be destroyed! Tonight!"
"He's even crazier than I thought. Are you sure of this?"
"Absolutely."
"Very well, then. That we never knew of the Knights of Plague sooner continues to confuse me, among others. Lindsay, stand up. We can still silence them. We have to. Class is postponed, guys! To the Derby?"
"We don't have much time." - ―Lindsay Kellerman and Master Intelligence before heading off to Transylvania Quarters[src]
After the end of the Apostles, the S.M.S.B. continued to face several adversaries. A very notable enemy was the Gladiator, who led the Knights of Plague and inadvertently brought them into direct conflict with the Resometh, the culprits behind the Melanization.
On January 9, 2052 after receiving a vision of the Grand Nuke being created by the Gladiator in Transylvania Quarters, Lindsay Kellerman vowed to stop him. Master Intelligence agreed, and the eight S.M.S.B. members flew to Oklahoma in the enlarged Pinewood Derby, only to discover that the Gladiator had planted the vision in Lindsay's mind to get Master Intelligence to remove the Orb of Power from the Court of Domination. During the subsequent battle, in which they were aided by the Band of Justice, several of the S.M.S.B. members suffered injuries until the Gladiator unwillingly killed Red X and the members were revived by Force Baby. They managed to slaughter most of the Knights, and the Orb was destroyed, but Andromeda was murdered by her mother, Becca Smith. Meanwhile, the S.M.S.B. arrived on Jupiter to fight the Resometh and their malevolent lord, Genesis. Master Intelligence dueled the Gladiator in defense of his friends. After winning, Master Intelligence helped round up the surviving Knights and summoned the Pentagon, leaving the survivors at their mercy while Valhalla was able to vaporize Genesis with the Disc of Amity. All the S.M.S.B. members survived the battle, and returned victorious, at the cost of much killing on both sides.[6]
Age of prosperity[]
Shortly after the end of the conflict, Master Intelligence recruited a boy named Centauri to the S.M.S.B. An era of peace followed, during which time very few adversaries were engaged by the organization, who settled for developing industry and educating young mutants across the globe who either did not have access to Superhero School or simply found Master Intelligence's teaching preferable. In 2054, however, Ramona Meyer attempted to kill Master Intelligence. The S.M.S.B. penetrated the hologram pit chambers in pursuit of her. Ramona tried to manipulate Centauri into giving her access to the pit, but Centauri refused and killed Ramona. The S.M.S.B. also went against the Styricat and undertook the Mission to Russia.[7]
Asian Revolution[]
Several years later, Centauri fell to the Darkness and became the Dark Flame.[7] Not knowing of Centauri's conversion, the S.M.S.B. began on the Asian Revolution, where they recruited Retrowoman and were joined by Squeazy. Despite being absent from the United States, an old ally, Eegan Grover, came into possession of the Map of Light in 2094. When the Team of Terror, in an effort against the Unifiers led by Vincent Organa, learned of this, they attempted to retrieve the Map from Grover's residence in Palmyra. The Unifiers, however, also seeking the Map in an effort to eliminate the Light entirely, likewise learned of Grover's findings and attacked Palmyra in an effort to retrieve it. Eegan gave the map to his children, who successfully escaped with the help of a former Knight of Meyer called Fifteen. Hoping to give the Map to the S.M.S.B. for safekeeping, Jason, Sue and Britney Grover went to Asia.
Meanwhile, the S.M.S.B. was captured by a group of Imperial scouts under Mella Mou and brought to the Palace of Despair, where they were confronted by Montgomery and her associates. Mou and Link interrogated Lindsay Kellerman for the truth of Shan Mou's demise. Kellerman refused to talk, and in the meantime, George Thames II came and rescued the group, along with Wesley Carrier, from the dungeons. The group fled to the home of Rocken Role, where they were found by the three children. Jason Grover presented the S.M.S.B. Grandmaster with the Map of Light as a symbol of the only hope the Eight Worlds had left in defeating the Dark Flame and the Unifiers by bringing the S.M.S.B. back into the fray.[8]
Shadow Wars[]
The S.M.S.B. returned to the MBH as planned, but they were quickly discovered by the Dark Flame. As the S.M.S.B. members prepared to hold off their enemy, the Unifiers launched attacks on the MBH but could not enter it. Master Intelligence activated the shield generator before everyone came outside and fought the Dark Flame alone. The latter destroyed Retrowoman and Telekinibabe, but as he fought the others, a squad of Advanced Recon Commandos sent by the President in Maryland burst in on the duel, extracting the S.M.S.B. members to Jorvian Asylum and leading to a jailbreak in the process.[8]
Four years later, the S.M.S.B. officially became involved in the Shadow Wars. Around this time, they were joined by Water Angel and her daughter, Fire Angel.[8] They contemplated the physical manifestation of a deity, but then the Ruby Eidolon suddenly appeared behind them, asking about the whereabouts of Eegan Grover.[9]
In 2130, the Dark Flame would prove to be Master Intelligence's killer, but not before destroying several cities. The Grand Master's death was avenged by Sebiscuits Cardarphen. After Master Intelligence was killed by the Dark Flame (who was killed off as well), many people became afraid; they feared the MBH would close for good. This was not the case; however, the S.M.S.B. appointed Lindsay Kellerman as its new Grand Master. With the Shadow Wars won and over, Hardy departed, Titanium Girl retired, and Cardarphen prepared to train an entire new cadre of S.M.S.B. members alongside Kellerman and Captain Strength.[8]
Members of the S.M.S.B.[]
Locations[]
The MBH in New York City was the main S.M.S.B. headquarters from the Second NoHead War in 2020. Despite its impressive appearance, the MBH was a relatively modern building in comparison to some of the city’s others— the base was built on a plot of land which had been awarded to Baby Intelligence by the government after he defeated a robotic monster and seemingly drove off the threat of the NoHeads. The government hoped that having such a large S.M.S.B. presence in New York City would leave the country less susceptible to invasions. From this site, Baby Intelligence took care of the administrative, strategic, and spiritual needs of the S.M.S.B., ensuring that it met the needs of the government and its vast multitudes of citizens.
Baby Intelligence lived there alone at first, but planned to share the vast building with his future allies. He was initially reluctant to build a citadel there — he held the belief that the organization he intended to found would not be a military organization, and that a military-oriented building would be a contradiction to his code. Instead of taking the government’s proposition, Baby Intelligence authorized the construction of a meditative and training center instead. Eventually, the original meditative and training center would grow vastly in complexity. Led by Lizzy Karl, the Police Grand Army willingly built it, and Baby Intelligence helped, doing much of the work himself. Despite several battles, wars, and setbacks, the MBH remained safe and sound, and was the S.M.S.B.’s headquarters for two centuries. Beginning in 2027, Master Intelligence expanded on the building so full-grown men would fit inside, and not just babies and small children. The MBH had five floors.
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External links[]
- S.M.S.B. on the The Super Babies Wiki
S.M.S.B. | |
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Current Members | |
Andromeda • Captain Strength • Fire Angel • Force Baby • Hardy • Ironside • Lindsay Kellerman • Master Intelligence • Red X • Retrowoman • Sebiscuits Cardarphen • Squeazy • Telekinibabe • Titanium Girl • Water Angel • Wolf Flame | |
Former Members | |
Centauri • Dante Christensen • Optica • Paige Nelson |