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A Worm in the Gulch (Worm/Red vs. Blue)

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...you know, after going back and re-reading some segments, I'm half tempted to introduce the Reds and Blues to the Sleeper if only just to see what happens.

Eh, might be worth doing as an omake. Speaking of, this story will feature omakes, or "Caboose's Daydreams" as you will. Fun fact, the first one will be semi-canon(?), though when you can expect it, I have no idea.

The characters involved in the omake are Taylor, Doc, O'Malley, and a Worm character. I don't expect it to be very long, though. Maybe just under 500 words? It depends, really.

I also got a thing to announce to everybody. Well, two things. First is that the MHA/Worm crossover I had planned is being put on the back burner do to some...problems. I won't say what kind of problems, but it mainly involves where I want to take the story. As it is, I'm planning out the whole thing instead of going it arc by arc like I'm doing with Adapt and DT.

The second thing is more of a spur of the moment. I am a fanboy of the SMT series as you might know. In particular, my favorite entry thus far has been Persona 5. I finished Royal ages ago and was thinking of picking it back up again (well until my PS4 started to take a dive anyway) when, surprise surprise, Persona 5 Strikers is announced to be releasing here in the West come February. Between that and discovering a fanfic titled "Phantoms of the Bay..."

Yep, I'm doing it. I am fucking doing it, and no one can stop me.
 
I loved the first few seasons of RVB, even if it occasionally strayed into 'so bad it's good' territory. I stopped later on as it got more serious, but not because it stopped being good.

I dislike it when series drop comedy to focus on drama and being serious. It's like eating a strawberry danish that turns into a pepperoni hot pocket about halfway through. I enjoy both, but if I take a bite out of a danish, I want to taste custard and strawberry jelly, not cheese and pepperoni. And I DEFINITELY don't want some kind of half and half abomination.

RVB did the transfer better than most, but I still found myself loading up an episode while hoping for comedy and getting drama I wasn't in the mood for.

The action was always awesome though.
 
SkyRig said:
First is that the MHA/Worm crossover I had planned is being put on the back burner do to some...problems. I won't say what kind of problems, but it mainly involves where I want to take the story.
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A couple years ago here on SV, there was a fanfiction by a well known author whose name i forget, that fused Worm with MyHeroAcademia perfectly. They wrote the MHA quirk system be a post-gold-morning Shard Network host connectome analysis hack implemented by Taylor's and QA's allies to prevent the rampant triggers of Ward, forcing all unemployed Shards to automatically connect to random hosts in collaboration with several other random shards across entire population. That fic is dead, but if you can find it, you may find the ideas presented useful?
 
SkyRig said:
...you know, after going back and re-reading some segments, I'm half tempted to introduce the Reds and Blues to the Sleeper if only just to see what happens.

Eh, might be worth doing as an omake. Speaking of, this story will feature omakes, or "Caboose's Daydreams" as you will. Fun fact, the first one will be semi-canon(?), though when you can expect it, I have no idea.

The characters involved in the omake are Taylor, Doc, O'Malley, and a Worm character. I don't expect it to be very long, though. Maybe just under 500 words? It depends, really.

I also got a thing to announce to everybody. Well, two things. First is that the MHA/Worm crossover I had planned is being put on the back burner do to some...problems. I won't say what kind of problems, but it mainly involves where I want to take the story. As it is, I'm planning out the whole thing instead of going it arc by arc like I'm doing with Adapt and DT.

The second thing is more of a spur of the moment. I am a fanboy of the SMT series as you might know. In particular, my favorite entry thus far has been Persona 5. I finished Royal ages ago and was thinking of picking it back up again (well until my PS4 started to take a dive anyway) when, surprise surprise, Persona 5 Strikers is announced to be releasing here in the West come February. Between that and discovering a fanfic titled "Phantoms of the Bay..."

Yep, I'm doing it. I am fucking doing it, and no one can stop me.
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To quote Leonardo diCaprio,

"Gentlemen, you had my curiosity. Now you have my attention."
 
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#3 - Stockholm Syndrome (AKA Taylor Gets The Blues)
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    • #3: Stockholm Syndrome
    (Aka Taylor Gets The Blues)

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    So, Blue Team. Dear god, where do I even start?

    Well, let's just say they're probably some of the most dysfunctional people I've met, and trust me, that's coming from a Brocktonite. Unlike the Reds, who are maybe a lot less weird but have their own set of troubles, the Blues have a so-called ladies man, a man child, and a grumpy asshole who reminds me way too much of Dad. Oh, and then there's Tex, who I     really want to introduce to the Trio.

    As far as first impressions go, it really could have gone a lot better. But it wasn't Michael's fault he got a psycho AI in his head!

    At least, I     think that was the AI. I didn't realize it at the time, but there had been a reason why Church called him a "team-killing fucktard."



    The first spray of bullets missed me and the red-colored soldiers completely. By the time the second round came about, I was already on the ground, not trusting myself to get back up.

    "What the fuck!" Simmons cried out as he scrambled for cover. "Who's firing at us!"

    "Tucker did it!"

    An outcry of rage followed after that statement, "Like hell I did! You shot first, you fucking asshole! What is wrong with you!"

    "Damn dirty Blues!" Sarge roared as he pumped his shotgun and began returning fire. "First you kidnap our robot, and now you try to kill a civilian?! Does your treachery know no bounds?!"

    This was not happening. This cannot be happening. It felt like I was sitting in the middle of a gang war, only this time the gangs were heavily armed soldiers. I didn't dare lift my head up out of fear of being shot. I had to get out of here, but how?! Do-do I crawl my way over to the Simmons and Grif?

    Making a decision, I slowly pulled myself towards them.

    "I swear, Caboose, if we make it out of this alive, I am going to fucking kill you!"

    "Tucker did it!" a childish-sounding voice replied.

    "I'm Tucker you idiot!"

    Caboose and Tucker. Okay, at least now I know the names of the assholes that started shooting at me.

    "Taylor, this way!" Simmons called out. "Come on!"

    "It's a misunderstanding!" Tucker shouted from behind his cover. "I didn't even shoot!"

    A stray bullet fired close to me, making me flinch. If I crawled, I was definitely going to get shot. But if I stood up, the chance was even higher? Did I even want to risk it?

    …ah, fuck it!

    I scrambled up to my feet, ready to sprint towards Grif and Simmons. I made it three steps when something beneath my feet gave way. The ground under my right foot crumbled, throwing me off balance. My body fell over the edge, and I saw just how far up we were. The dead trees on the ground seemed like tiny sticks. I wasn't ashamed to say that I screamed when I realized what was about to happen.

    Another second later, and I felt someone grab onto my wrist. I winced in pain, feeling as though the jolt and the grip on my wrist tore my arm from my socket. I stared at the ground for a moment, still dazed and horrified before I shook my head and looked up, surprised to find that the person who grabbed me was a soldier in similar armor as Grif, Simmons and Sarge, only in dark blue.

    "Um, really sorry about earlier!" the soldier, who I assumed was either Tucker or Caboose, said. "I really am! Try to hold on! I-I'll pull you-!"

    The ground beneath him cracked, making me pale. The blue soldier groaned.

    "Aw, crap sticks."

    I screamed and found myself being pulled down to the ground.

    So, this is it. This is how I die. What the fuck, God?



    Thud!

    "Owwwwwwwwwwwie… Augh, my back… Um, miss, you okay? Miss? Hello?"



    A black void, stretching out as far as the eye could see. Lights twinkled across the expanse, almost like stars.

    No, not a void… It's a thing—a "worm" that slithers its way in front of me, crawling through space as it slowly makes its way to the next destination.

    I stared at it in wonder, unsure what it was or if I was dreaming before I saw something glitter across its body. Small specks of light, dazzling as bright as stars.

    A streak of white shifts near its head, glowing like fire, gazes upon me.

    And suddenly, my brain starts to burn.

    "Aw, look, she's gonna cry!"

    "Poor little Hebert, she probably misses her mommy~"

    "So sad~"

    "What a loser~"

    Shut up. Shut up shut up shut up!

    I don't understand, where am I? What's going on?

    Dad? Dad, where are you?! I-I don't like it here!

    Let me out! Let me out!



    YOU WISH TO RUN.

    YOU WISH TO FLEE.

    YOU WISH TO ESCAPE.

    BUT NONE CAN EVER TRULY ESCAPE THE CONFLICTS THAT WAITS AT THE END OF THE ROAD.

    NO MATTER HOW FAST YOU ARE, YOU CANNOT ESCAPE.

    LET ME SHOW YOU HOW YOU CAN EVADE YOUR PREDATORS, SO YOU CAN FIGHT ANOTHER DAY.

    LET ME SHOW YOU HOW TO "STEP."

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    LET ME OUT!



    My body rips out from its confines, lungs gasping and gulping for air. My skin felt disgustingly warm, beads of sweat rolling down my face. My chest was tight like I could barely breath.

    Of all the things I could have dreamed about, it had to be the fucking locker and the motherfucking Trio.

    I ran my hand down my face, only to stop when I realized something. I don't know how I didn't realize it, but somehow, I wasn't wearing my dirty old clothes anymore. Instead, I was wearing armor—the same armor worn by Simmons, Grif and the people who starting shooting. It was pacific blue in color, and surprisingly light in spite of how it looked. It took me another hot moment to realize that I was lying atop a bed. To be more precise, a bunk with another bed above my head. I was in a room surrounded by metal gray walls, one side littered with posters showing girls in scandalous clothes that covered very little of their bodies. If I didn't know any better, I could swear this belonged inside somebody's college dorm room.

    "Where the hell…?"

    I gave myself a quick pinch on the cheek and winced. Okay, so this wasn't a dream and I was still alive. I'll go under the assumption that this is a room inside one of the military bases, but what I would really like to know is how I'm even here. I remember falling off the edge of the cliff and heading straight down towards solid ground. The fact that the only pain I was feeling was my backside didn't clear my confusion. The only alternative was that something cushioned my fall, but the only thing that could have done that was the solider that tried to pull me up.

    My stomach dropped when I remembered that fact. Oh, god. Had I-?

    "Oh, you're awake! Thank goodness…"

    I stared, gobsmacked, at the doorway. There stood the dark-blue soldier from before, holding what looked like a juice pack. His armor was slightly scuffed with dirt, but aside from that, he looked perfectly fine from what I could see.

    "Y-you… How?"

    "I was really worried you weren't going to wake up," the soldier admitted sheepishly as he rubbed the back of his neck. "I'm glad you're okay, though. So, um, how are you?"

    "I-what?" I gaped at him. What in the hell was this? He was definitely one of the people who was shooting at me and the red soldiers, and yet here he is, worried about me? I'm not sure how I'm supposed to feel at this moment, except total confusion. "I'm…okay, I guess?"

    "Great!" Even with a helmet over his face, I could tell he was beaming. "So, um, my name's Caboose. What's yours?"

    "Er… Taylor."

    "Nice to meet you, Taylor." After introducing ourselves, Caboose fidgeted slightly. "So, um, Church wanted me to bring you to him. I'm not really sure why, though."

    Church? Was that the name of the guy in charge of this place? He wanted to meet with me? Why?

    …well, I guess it doesn't matter either way. As it is now, I'm trapped and at these guy's mercy. At the very least, I can maybe try to salvage what I can out of this whole thing and figure out how I got here, much less what's going on. Who knows? Maybe they'll even let me go and put me on my way back home?

    …yeah, right. Like that'll happen.

    A girl can dream, can't she?
    This chapter was delayed for two reasons. First is probably the most common one: Procrastination. I was not in any mood to write anything and just wanted to be a couch potato. Reason numero dos was trying to help out the process of getting my aunt and uncle settled in the garage, which is a lot of work since we have to donate the shit we have in there and throw out anything that's either not usable anymore or just flat-out garbage.

    Like, holy shit, before there was only a small walkway leading from the steps from the garage door in the house to the garage door in the driveway with how cluttered it was. Now it's just all kinds of fucking empty. We pretty much moved over ninety percent of what was inside.

    …well, okay, there was a third reason. I'm happy to announce that myself and @TheStranger are working on a joint project that will be published sometime next year (hopefully). A recursive fanfic of the DanMachi/Fate crossover "Heroic Myth," but instead Bell finding the Holy Grail, he finds something else: the only gun to exist in all of Fire Emblem that summons heroes.

    DanMachi: Hero's Emblem is in production as we speak. Right now we're just ironing out the details and whatnot, such as what characters from FE Bell will summon, how those characters will interact with the cast of Orario, etc.

    It's been a long time since I've watched DanMachi, and I haven't touched the light novels. Which, of course, plays into why you won't see it published anytime soon.

    Either way, keep an eye out for it! Reminder that it is being written and posted by @TheStranger, also called TheStrangerThatCameFromNowhere on Fanfiction.net and TheStrangerOfNowhere on Spacebattles. I'm just the co-writer in this case.

    With that out of the way, I'll be taking a break from writing as the holidays are coming up very quickly, and because, well, I'll soon be playing Cyberpunk 2077.

    …well, I will be once I get my PS4 Pro in the mail sometime this century. I know the game has its problems, but I intend to enjoy it nonetheless.

    That's enough for now. In the meantime, stew on the fact that I'm leaving this on a cliffhanger and Taylor's first meeting with the guy who can't shoot a sniper rifle to save his life.
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    • Eh, better learn whatever you can from Tex and use it on Trio yourself. It'll be much more satisfying that way.
    And from the opening I take it PRT eventually will interrogate Tay ? Though who knows how time discrepancy will work here. Imagine 20-ish Taylor coming back xD
     
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    ShiftingSandLand said:
    Taylor doesn't deserve this shit.

    And yes, she SHOULD introduce Agent Texas to her bullies.

    Sophia would LOVE being punted through a wall...
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    Piggot: "I don't want excuses! I want the one who brutalized to death one of my wards deal with!"
    Armsmaster: "I understand, we have called Watchdog to discover the identity of the assailant."
    Piggot: "That would take too long. Tell me what we know now."
    Armsmaster: "The attacker is probably a mid to high-level brute, giving that he passed through one of the Winslow High's load-bearing walls to assault Shadow Stalker in her civilian ID."
    Miss Militia: "Didn't that would compromise the building..."
    Armsmaster: "No, that sole action didn't compromise the structure, it was too localized. What he did later with the rocket launcher probably made the whole building unsafe to continue to be used. It almost looks premeditated."
    Piggot: "That's secondary. Continue."
    Armsmaster: "We also believe that Jugger, the name we gave the assailant, also has a Breaker/Striker power."
    Miss Militia: "How so?"
    Armsmaster: "Jugger beated Shadow Stalker into a pulp with her own skull while she was alive."
    Assault: "Wait a second.. how do you beat someone to death with their own skull? That doesn't seem physically possible."
    Armsmaster: "According to the testimony of the heavily traumatized witnesses that's exactly what Sophia kept screaming during the attack."


    I know, it's pretty cheap, but I love it and it's a classic.
     
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    Shadow-86 said:
    I'm curious on what would happen if she meets the Zealots. :D :drevil:
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    SkyRig said:
    tbagging abound!
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    Oh my god, I would pay actual money to see this happen. Like, holy shit.

    While I do feel as though Stalker would just tear through them unless they have numbers on their side, which they usually do, it would still be a glorious image that must be immortalized.
    …well, okay, there was a third reason. I'm happy to announce that myself and @TheStranger are working on a joint project that will be published sometime next year (hopefully). A recursive fanfic of the DanMachi/Fate crossover "Heroic Myth," but instead Bell finding the Holy Grail, he finds something else: the only gun to exist in all of Fire Emblem that summons heroes.

    DanMachi: Hero's Emblem is in production as we speak. Right now we're just ironing out the details and whatnot, such as what characters from FE Bell will summon, how those characters will interact with the cast of Orario, etc.

    It's been a long time since I've watched DanMachi, and I haven't touched the light novels. Which, of course, plays into why you won't see it published anytime soon.

    Either way, keep an eye out for it! Reminder that it is being written and posted by @TheStranger, also called TheStrangerThatCameFromNowhere on Fanfiction.net and TheStrangerOfNowhere on Spacebattles. I'm just the co-writer in this case.
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    Happy to have you on board with the project! Just don't burn yourself out by writing so much, yeah? I'd hate to see you lose your passion.

    Just let me know if you need help with that P5xWorm crossover you mentioned a while back, yeah?
     
    The fact taylor has teleporting powers changes alot and she can stop a certain event from happening ya know the one with Church and Washington in the base with The Meta.
     
    TheStranger said:
    Oh my god, I would pay actual money to see this happen. Like, holy shit.

    While I do feel as though Stalker would just tear through them unless they have numbers on their side, which they usually do, it would still be a glorious image that must be immortalized.

    Happy to have you on board with the project! Just don't burn yourself out by writing so much, yeah? I'd hate to see you lose your passion.

    Just let me know if you need help with that P5xWorm crossover you mentioned a while back, yeah?
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    Nice. But I highly recommend checking out the Light Novels. The anime cut out very important parts, like the Rakia Arc being Welf's character development arc. Instead, the studio made the anime made it a Hestia-Centric arc that undermines the significance of it all. Plus, I recommend the Sword Oratoria Light Novels as well, as it provides a different perspective on Orario through Loki Familia. The studio that made the anime butchered details from it too(and never touched it again after the first season). Sword Oratoria is also really interesting due to the different viewpoint and perspective. The two series give a more wholistic view of the world and all the events that run simultaneously that both parties face that the anime never touches on due to neglecting Sword Oratoria.

    In short, if you want the full lore and not botch it, the Light Novels are the best option. The Memoria Freese Story Events are also a good source if you want some miscellaneous storylines like Grand Day or the war against Evilus 7 years before the story as the 3rd anniversary story. The latter is a good story because it features the Astrea Familia when they were alive, as well as the two key Evilus Members that were the remnants of Zeus and Hera Familias, and their ties with Bell.

    Again, cannot stress this enough. Light Novels. Best detail to help build. Good luck.
     
    Evolt said:
    Nice. But I highly recommend checking out the Light Novels. The anime cut out very important parts, like the Rakia Arc being Welf's character development arc. Instead, the studio made the anime made it a Hestia-Centric arc that undermines the significance of it all. Plus, I recommend the Sword Oratoria Light Novels as well, as it provides a different perspective on Orario through Loki Familia. The studio that made the anime butchered details from it too(and never touched it again after the first season). Sword Oratoria is also really interesting due to the different viewpoint and perspective. The two series give a more wholistic view of the world and all the events that run simultaneously that both parties face that the anime never touches on due to neglecting Sword Oratoria.

    In short, if you want the full lore and not botch it, the Light Novels are the best option. The Memoria Freese Story Events are also a good source if you want some miscellaneous storylines like Grand Day or the war against Evilus 7 years before the story as the 3rd anniversary story. The latter is a good story because it features the Astrea Familia when they were alive, as well as the two key Evilus Members that were the remnants of Zeus and Hera Familias, and their ties with Bell.

    Again, cannot stress this enough. Light Novels. Best detail to help build. Good luck.
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    I've only watched the anime and own the first volume, so obviously, I have some reading to catch up on. In any case, thank you in advance.
    ChaosStar0 said:
    I believe that's (Alpha)Church and Washington staying behind to stall the Meta while the Reds and Blues set off an EMP to wipe out the Meta's AIs. Which also caused the death of (Alpha)Church.
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    I believe that is the last episode of Season 6.

    But yeah, that brings up a very good point. Taylor now has the means to save Church! ...assuming she can figure out how her powers work first.
     
    Poor poor Taylor on the bright side she'll fit right in considering everyone in blood gulch has issues (except for Doc but he gains them later so he doesn't count)
     
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