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Goddamn Teenagers (Worm, AU/time travel)

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Typos fixed in the text! Thank you very much!

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Also, nothing quite says the power of Doctor Weaver when one major supervillain bows at her respectfully while she describes the rehabilitation of one former S9 member.

As a former supervillain himself, he should at least know a few things about other supervillains, especially someone as close to the Bay and infamous as Accord. The mask, though not described in this chapter, would've been elaborate enough to give a hint given Accord's tastes.
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Basically this. As a former villain, Alec is familiar with the major operators in the region. Accord is high on his list of 'fuck no'.

Amy, in contrast, doesn't who Accord is because she doesn't really care. He isn't a threat to her, and outside of some disaster where Truce applies, she is not going to run into some random villain thinker from Boston.
 
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I suppose 'mad botanist' is a term you rarely hear... And, people don't tend to complain, too much, as long as your hobby helps keep you rooted...
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Huh, that reminds me of the fanfic Body Shop, by FirstSelector, where Amy and Taylor are platonic tinker buddies. Amy, among other things, makes a botanical early warning system for their not!lair, and some really wild plants to produce tailored recreational pharmaceuticals.
 
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The Shape of Things to Come, Part 6 New
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    • Alec, still shaken, followed on auto-pilot as Dr. Weaver led them to the place where they had gotten to play with that dead chick the other day. He was still… fuck. That was Accord, that had to be Accord, what the fuck was Accord doing here?! The man was just a couple steps down from delightfully departed dad on the list of guys Alec wanted to stay way the fuck away from.

    This must be how his idiot sister felt all the time, no wonder she was such a spaz.

    Wasn't Accord supposed to be in Boston? For literally the first time ever he regretted not looking at all those threat updates the PRT kept sending him. He would have to figure out a way to get Lisa to tell him this shit, at least the important parts. She lived for reading and shit and the mockery would be fucking worth it to avoid these kinds of surprises.

    Then they went in the room, to find an absence of a dead woman and a metric shit load of mad science shit that would make even Big Blue go 'dude, a bit much'.

    The dead woman was gone, and in her place was a lump of stuff in a tank, connected to a ball of grey squishy looking stuff that… yep, that be brains. The brain thing had tubes of flowy shit connecting it to the tank, and was covered in parts with wires all stuck in like some fucked up porcupine. A piece on the edge of the brain thing was slightly singed, and there was a faint smell of burning in the air.

    The whole thing was like one of those TV ads about calling the PRT if you saw tinker shit.

    Still not worth Accord, jesus jehovah fuck merde, but at least something new.
    Note: Alec. Telling it like it is.
     
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    • dc2008 said:
    That was Accord, that had to be Accord, what the fuck was Accord doing here!
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    While the first half can use an exclamation point, it seems like the latter half is a question. Of course, you can always go with the trusty interrobang ( ‽ ) and say 'por question no los dos?'

    You could also just do one after the other if you wanted, too. That's not too crazy, right? Are you saying I'm crazy?!

    ...for example.

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    Still not worth Accord, jesus jehovah fuck merde, but at least something new.
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    Jumping Jehoshaphat, Jesus and Jehovah ought to be capitalized!
     
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    While the first half can use an exclamation point, it seems like the latter half is a question. Of course, you can always go with the trusty interrobang ( ‽ ) and say 'por question no los dos?'

    You could also just do one after the other if you wanted, too. That's not too crazy, right? Are you saying I'm crazy?!

    ...for example.


    Jumping Jehoshaphat, Jesus and Jehovah ought to be capitalized!
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    Added an interrobang to the first one.

    For the second, lower case is intentional because Alec.
     
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    • Alec made another note. His power was acclimating to the things, slowly but surely. He was even getting better resolution into the interface between the crystal bits and the not crystal bits, not 240 yet but getting better. And, what do you know, he still felt bizarrely and extremely interested in all of this. Which really was, apparently, his power, yes his power, which really was a big pile of that crystal stuff in another dimension that really was sort of kind of definitely mastering him.

    Something to not think about later.

    Double-checking that his 'make a note, moron' timer was reset, he returned to his much more pleasant, and self-appointed, job of looking for stickers and trying to not have mumbling Amy or her note-taking nurse stumble into him as they wandered around in a hyper-focused haze.

    So far he had found two. The first he had found right away by accident, a frowny face stuck on the floor near where the singed bit was on the brain thing. He had later found a second when poking around not looking at the things, a happy face on the bottom of a drawer full of creepy surgical tools.

    Much better than thinking about what Dr. Weaver had said about the 'next step' of the project, which would involve grafting eyes and shit onto the things and seeing if the signals in started matching up with the signals around the crystal thing.
    Note: Alec snippets keep getting away from me.
     
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    stumble into him in as they wandered around
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    extra word 'in'?

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    Poor Alec. They told him not to 'look at the man behind the curtain', so, of course, he did. And, he is following the trail of the lesser-spotted Riley. Risky.

    Dr. Weaver is doing perfectly reasonable Mad Science. How could anyone object to what she's about? :)

    (I could be wrong, and this isn't poor Alan Gramme... Who from memory got Simurgh'd. But, the Riley stickers do make me wonder...)
     
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    Poor Alec. They told him not to 'look at the man behind the curtain', so, of course, he did. And, he is following the trail of the lesser-spotted Riley. Risky.

    Dr. Weaver is doing perfectly reasonable Mad Science. How could anyone object to what she's about? :)

    (I could be wrong, and this isn't poor Alan Gramme... Who from memory got Simurgh'd. But, the Riley stickers do make me wonder...)
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    Typo fixed in text! Thank you!

    The crystal thing was in the brain of a woman who died during the EB attack. We don't know where the pile of brains and support stuff came from.
     
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    • Note: Same uptime continuity as the prior ones.
    "… accordingly," Colin concluded, "you really are the best person for the job. Yes, it will require a few weeks away but that is manageable at the current stage of the project."

    Lisa scoffed. "No matter how you frame it," she replied acerbically, "no matter how you dress it up, this is a transparent attempt to distract me!"

    "Absolutely," Dragon agreed.

    "Yet you still insist on lying to my face, just like—" Lisa abruptly stopped as she actually processed what the other woman had said. "Wait, what?"

    "The project is at a stage where," Dragon replied, "well the problems we are currently addressing are outside your areas of expertise."

    Lisa scoffed again. "They absolutely need me, why just the other week—"

    "Listen to them," interrupted the woman who suddenly registered as present. "Yes, you can 'organize' things, but there are other people who can do that too and meanwhile someone has to follow around cleaning up after you when you piss people off."

    "Hey!"

    "More importantly," Colin cut in, nudging a folder back toward Lisa, "the situation really could use your skills. What we thought was a minor villainous tinker problem has gotten much more complicated. We suspect one of Teacher's 'pupils' is involved, and the local team is out of their depth. However, if we can resolve the issue, we can move—"

    "—yes, yes," Lisa cut in, sulking. "She is a tinker with a directly relevant speciality, why do you have to be all reasonable."

    "Look," Aisha added flatly. "Even if none of that convinces you, you're stressed and when that happens everyone suffers. Head out, bring comms. You can stay in touch with us here, and take out your frustration on a target that actually deserves whatever bullshit you throw at them."
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    Aisha: And before you congratulate yourselves on managing her, just think about what Dr. Hebert might be getting up to unsupervised.
     
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    • Only tangentially related fact... A kitten had disabled my function keys via stepping on the Function Lock key, switching F1 through F12 to the following functionality: Help, Undo, Redo, News, Open, Close, Reply, Forward, Send, Spell(check), Save, and Print. I hadn't realized that fact, so I've been spending the last 5 hours hitting F5 to refresh pages repeatedly, then getting frustrated and clicking on the Reload icon. Only to just now glance at the keyboard and notice the Function Lock and Caps Lock lights were both off.

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    Except apparently most of the email and media playback functionality of the Microsoft media keyboard I've got isn't supported by Windows 11, so without Function Lock the function keys do absolutely nothing. The only media functionality supported is the volume and mute buttons.
     
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    Only tangentially related fact... A kitten had disabled my function keys via stepping on the Function Lock key, switching F1 through F12 to the following functionality: Help, Undo, Redo, News, Open, Close, Reply, Forward, Send, Spell(check), Save, and Print. I hadn't realized that fact, so I've been spending the last 5 hours hitting F5 to refresh pages repeatedly, then getting frustrated and clicking on the Reload icon. Only to just now glance at the keyboard and notice the Function Lock and Caps Lock lights were both off.

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    Except apparently most of the email and media playback functionality of the Microsoft media keyboard I've got isn't supported by Windows 11, so without Function Lock the function keys do absolutely nothing. The only media functionality supported is the volume and mute buttons.
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    We went through a brief period between when our cat first discovered that this screen thing the humans are always sanitation at sometimes shows pictures of mice and chipmunks and woodland creatures, and when the cat got bored and went back to watching cars out the window.

    Multiple times we would come back from an outing to find that he had enabled source code view, or closed the browser, or otherwise accidentally ruined his viewing experience before stomping off in a huff
     
    dc2008 said:
    We went through a brief period between when our cat first discovered that this screen thing the humans are always sanitation at sometimes shows pictures of mice and chipmunks and woodland creatures, and when the cat got bored and went back to watching cars out the window.

    Multiple times we would come back from an outing to find that he had enabled source code view, or closed the browser, or otherwise accidentally ruined his viewing experience before stomping off in a huff
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    I believe it. Blossom normally just lays on my desk behind the keyboard. But sometimes she flops on it, and rolls around. At one point she closed the text document I was working on (a short story I was writing and hadn't saved my work for the day yet), then closed Firefox, then somehow managed to open up the Win 11 security screen opened by pressing Control, Alt, and Delete at the same time. Followed by managing to disable my monitor via switching primary monitor to a different (turned off) monitor. No idea how she did all that just by flopping around on the keyboard, but I watched as it happened. Then had to kick her out of the room for a while so I could fix things.
     
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    "Listen to them," interrupted the woman who suddenly registered as present. "Yes, you can 'organize' things, but there are other people who can do that too and meanwhile someone has to follow around cleaning up after you when you piss people off."
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    Wait, did Aisha Trigger sometime in the past chapters?

    Edit: Oh wait, this is Canon Worm timeline. Got it.
     
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