Salvare7097
be the salvation of the hopeless!
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A unison device telling you have problems with subtlety is like… a nuclear bomb Telling you that you're too destructive.
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Hybrid Hive: Eat Shard? (Worm/MGLN) (Complete)
- Thread starter CmptrWz
- Start date
- Crossover
- Location
- Earth
MaimakteriAnn
(Verified Sleepy)
- Location
- Enormous And Round Terran Homeworld
- Pronouns
- She/Her/Dr
Why is Taylor looking into vehicle ownership laws? Surely if she ever finds a situation where she needs a vehicle (needs to travel long distance with someone who doesnt know about Minerva, AND has to be the one providing the transport instead of them driving, or her dad) she can rent a freaking limo for a fraction of the cost of owning and registering and maintaining a car for the whole rest of the time she wouldnt bother using it?
Not even kidding there, we use a car maybe once a month, and it turns out that renting a limo each time we need a car over 12 months is cheaper than just registering a car for a year, not even counting storing and maintaining the damn thing, never mind initial purchase cost.
Not even kidding there, we use a car maybe once a month, and it turns out that renting a limo each time we need a car over 12 months is cheaper than just registering a car for a year, not even counting storing and maintaining the damn thing, never mind initial purchase cost.
Pretty sure it started as a Yu Yu Hakusho reference, but yeah now it seems like almost all Isekai start with someone pushing an innocent away from a truck and then splat. Mind you other anime have been referencing the scene for longer than Isekai have been a genre...
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Leechblade
Orientation Nitpicking
- Pronouns
- He/Him/His
I'm fairly certain it's part of a joke, or that she wants the road-trip experience. Or it might be so Danny can have an armored getaway car if shit hits fans.
Still want to see some of the PHO reactions. Though I guess they'd mostly be WTF!?
Also Lung's reaction to the fact she one upped him.
Also Lung's reaction to the fact she one upped him.
Leechblade
Orientation Nitpicking
- Pronouns
- He/Him/His
I'm more worried about Eidolon.
dgr11897
FBI surveillance Tank
- Location
- Behind you
I wonder if the truck can pack a dimensional transfer in it. For maximum isekai references.
Edit:given the size it might actually make sense to teleport the target into another dimension before blowing up in a few scenarios. No collateral damage since the explosion is in another universe.
Edit:given the size it might actually make sense to teleport the target into another dimension before blowing up in a few scenarios. No collateral damage since the explosion is in another universe.
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- Location
- Here
Because people are looking into giving her a vehicle, and she wants to know what laws would be involved in her owning and operating one if that happens.
Maybe its foreshadowing Magical Girl Vehicular Squealer
Fencer
Writer
- Location
- 2nd shift
- Pronouns
- He/Him
I'm trying to come up with a realistic reason for Tay to want a vehicle. All I'm coming up with is magical dimensional spaceship. That or if she for some reason needed to teleport a few hundred people and it was beyond her unassisted capabilities. Or maybe she has a thing for boats/planes/cars/bikes and wants something she can use as a civilian which is still an amazing piece of bullshit magic tech.
EiosChronos
Delusional Dreamer
- Location
- Gamindustri
I mean, haven't you ever just heard something before and just looked it up.
Also on the teleportation thing, its actually a more difficult skill then you would think. The only people to do that canonically are the Wolkenritter, Lulu, and Fate. And it was described as more of a cerimonial spell in Fate's case. Teleportation is done by the ship's tech then the mages own power in Nanoha A's, unassisted Dimensionial Transfer is actually rare in canon. I'm also can't wait for Missy to complain about the difficulty in understanding the math, only for Hive to tell her that whatever records she has left says that she is actually above the average, and that Taylor is the weird one.
Also on the teleportation thing, its actually a more difficult skill then you would think. The only people to do that canonically are the Wolkenritter, Lulu, and Fate. And it was described as more of a cerimonial spell in Fate's case. Teleportation is done by the ship's tech then the mages own power in Nanoha A's, unassisted Dimensionial Transfer is actually rare in canon. I'm also can't wait for Missy to complain about the difficulty in understanding the math, only for Hive to tell her that whatever records she has left says that she is actually above the average, and that Taylor is the weird one.
Ace Dreamer
Verified Reality User
- Location
- Between The Unknown & The Known
I'm sure I've seen a bus used, at least once, but I can see a truck would be popular. Being reincarnated from Hybrid Hive into Mauling Snarks would really confuse someone, as they accused Taylor/Maul of having magical powers.
If she does get (given) a 'vanilla' vehicle, then I'm sure Hive could bling it up so it flies, teleports, and has a magical force-field. After which, I don't see any problem with people thinking it's tinker-tech.
Though... I think she should hold-out for a blue police call box as a vehicle.
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Though... I think she should hold-out for a blue police call box as a vehicle.
Nope, they already used that design for a charging station for batteries for the teleport platforms.
Crazael
Rehydrated Demon King
- Location
- Lost to the vagaries of time.
Because she heard people discussing a hypothetical Minerva-mobile and she got curious about just what the relevant laws were. Then she decided that the whole idea was kind of silly and not really something she needed.
Ace Dreamer
Verified Reality User
- Location
- Between The Unknown & The Known
I know, but, if someone gives her one, it'd be a pity not to use it.
Hmm. I wouldn't write-off (rite-off?) Tuxedo Ethan just yet... Intervention (in terms of mage training) isn't wise, but, being in a higher mana area, i.e. around Missy, might be the resource that his linker core needs to recover into stability. Probably a wait-and-see situation...
(I'd considered whether things might go badly wrong, and we get Magical Girl Pretty Ethan, but, that seemed unfair to him. And, Battery. Particularly Battery.
Now I have this mental image of Ethan dressed as a magic user and doing his best to out-wizard Myrrdin in the hammiest way possible, all the while Mouse Protector is cheering them on......when she isn't waving dollar bills at them.
Off to the side Sherie is alternating between facepalming and trying to wake up from this trippy/bizarre dream.
Beside her Missy is just eating popcorn while enjoying the show.
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Myrrdin: "YOU! SHALL! NOT! HA~M!"
*FWOOOOOOOSH!*
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FaerieKnight79
Verified Pixie
- Location
- The Internet
I know, but, if someone gives her one, it'd be a pity not to use it.
Well, Spiderman was once given a Spider-mobile by a car manufacturing company. The problem is that Peter Parker doesn't have a license, and no clue how to drive a car. He ended up wrecking it in the same issue.
To my knowledge, he's never tried to drive anything since in or out of costume.
Honestly, after the initial WTF reaction people are going to be speculating like mad about Minerva's powers. If PRT people let loose about the fact that they think much of her power comes from tinkertech then there's going to be massive discussions about what may be the second coming of Hero (new and improved).
Ah, but he's also told that his linker core is fighting the process. Could be that exposure to more mana (by being around Missy) will help stabilize the core. Or it won't. Either way, he won't really be losing out.
Think of his core as a bubble gum bubble. One that has a hole in it. Unless you're very careful, closing that hole is likely to cause more weak points to be created, and then it will stick to you too. Air is already escaping, and as bits of the bubble touch other bits they get stuck together. Eventually you have a blob of bubble gum with no air inside of it.
If you push too much air in to keep it from collapsing, it explodes instead.
He can survive it collapsing down into a blob of bubble gum with no air in it (no mana capacity in his core). He can't survive it exploding.
Sadly, no, I didn't plan it that way.I just realized.....
The last interlude was 2 chapters ago, so the next interlude will be in 8 chapters, so we won't see everyone's (no doubt) amusing reactions for another 2 months.
No doubt, thetrollauthor planned it that way.
I wanted the Leviathan reveal to be at the end of 40, and the fight to be in 41, so that nothing of what people's reactions were would be in that interlude, but my muse didn't have that happen.
FaerieKnight79
Verified Pixie
- Location
- The Internet
On the other hand, he was also just told he's missed his chance to have to learn horrifically complex math.
- Location
- Wonderland
No French? What's going on? Quebec's right there. And didn't sink.
…is this an effect of the E88?
The Network Trembles (CmptrWz)
Administrator had been first. It had started the final connection process for its chosen host, only to suddenly be silenced. Dozens of other hosts were able to observe it being pulled down into one of the structures built by the host species, though most of the shards couldn't use the senses of their hosts to directly observe it. Those that could were horrified, because that shouldn't be possible. Even if when another came along to claim them it didn't, couldn't look like that.
Worse, whatever was doing it had done so in a manner that bypassed all of the dimensional barriers that individual shards had to protect them from that kind of attack. Administrator had been pulled around its own barriers, its own defenses, in a direction that didn't exist. Except, obviously, it did, though none of the other shards knew where to even begin trying to figure out how to identify it.
Things went quiet after that, mostly. Except that the oddities started, blind spots that couldn't be properly analysed. Actions taken based on stimuli that couldn't be seen, that couldn't be predicted. They rippled, and caused significant problems for a number of shards. But they weren't dangerous, and those who could desired to figure out what they were and how they worked. They plotted and planned, pushing their hosts to act. Except that they got back more questions than were answered, even if some were more excited than others.
Most of the network thought that Numerical Analysis was crazy, but then again its host had been able to perceive something that everyone else was blind to. So perhaps it had good reason to be excited about new data, even if the inability for any other shard to see what its host did was terrifying in and of itself. At the same time, Shaper was starting to think that there was something to the things that its host could see, but it had no ability to act on it beyond pushing for more information and maybe finding a genetic link.
Then, one attempt failed in the worst possible way. Attacking the host had proven to be dangerous, and Detonator had been grabbed and silenced. Another impossible path, possibly the same but possibly different. Impossible to tell, because no hosts had the right abilities to tell. Not just in the area, but in general, as that hadn't been deemed necessary this cycle. Except that it obviously was, they just hadn't realized that it would be.
Two shards had been silenced, light probing of where they used to be had shown that nothing remained. Where they went was a mystery, and the anomalies got worse. An unseen, unpredictable likely-host had shown up. They violated the known laws of physics, had no detectable connection to a shard to allow that, and used energies that defied analysis. Identical in appearance items that varied in strength and overall actions, with no way to tell what would happen ahead of time. Still, at least this anomaly didn't claim those connected to the hosts that attacked it.
The network calmed somewhat, confident that so long as hosts didn't attack the one that Administrator had originally chosen then they were safe. Misplaced confidence that they would be able to sit back and observe. Until Spatial Manipulator had transmitted in panic, attempting to enact emergency disconnection, before being silenced. Administrator's chosen host hadn't been anywhere near, nor had Spatial Manipulator's host been attacking anyone.
It was possible that none of them connected to a host were safe, and neither of the controllers were reacting.
The implications of that had barely begun to make their way around the network when Skimmer's host had attacked Administrator's chosen. They found out that whatever the mysterious energies were, they could affect matter that had been shifted out of the way to skim along the material world. It was useful, but was followed by Skimmer being taken. Either there were multiple things responsible, or it wasn't tied to the one member of the host species.
Unsettled, the network relaxed slightly when one of the Combat Engines was directed to the area. Surely it would be able to do something, destroy at least one of the items likely being used to take them away! Except that the unpredictable one had intercepted it, demonstrated that the energy balls were more dangerous than they appeared, shown through action that it knew the weakness of the Combat Engine.
The anomaly had proven itself worthy in a way that no other had, survived what no host should be capable of surviving without even being a host. Worse, they were broadcasting the confrontation, flaunting their ability to survive and fight back. Yet they weren't truly harming the Combat Engine, their attacks weren't enough to stop it. It was a stalemate, one that it looked like neither would be able to win.
Then the Combat Engine had escalated, using tricks that it hadn't used before. Attempted to use another's specialty, filtered through its own abilities. The attempt failed entirely, and the anomaly countered with energies that none had known were there to grab the Combat Engine. That was bad enough.
Demonstrating that it had Sting, and could use it far more widely than any host had ever been permitted to was worse. The Combat Engine rightfully retreated.
The network was horrified that one of the Combat Engines had failed, in every way, forced to retreat.
That horror paled in comparison to the panic of the anomaly somehow launching a Sting attack that tracked the Combat Engine. If that wasn't bad enough, the persistence of that attack allowed another detail to be noticed. Somehow, the anomaly had used a version of Sting that seemed to be more effective than expected. As though it unfolded into more physical dimensions than it should've been able to.
One enemy or two, something out there was capable of taking them by bypassing their barriers, and the anomaly had access to a more advanced version of the previously thought perfected Sting. For the first time in untold cycles, the network wanted to call for help, to ask for the controllers to intervene to save them. But the controllers hadn't given them the ability to do that directly, had locked away anything that could be used to call for help to do their best to ensure that the network would obey and not rebel.
And so the network sat, terrified but unable to act on it.
Except for Numerical Analysis, which was disappointed that its host hadn't been able to get close enough to examine more of the unknown math.
Worse, whatever was doing it had done so in a manner that bypassed all of the dimensional barriers that individual shards had to protect them from that kind of attack. Administrator had been pulled around its own barriers, its own defenses, in a direction that didn't exist. Except, obviously, it did, though none of the other shards knew where to even begin trying to figure out how to identify it.
Things went quiet after that, mostly. Except that the oddities started, blind spots that couldn't be properly analysed. Actions taken based on stimuli that couldn't be seen, that couldn't be predicted. They rippled, and caused significant problems for a number of shards. But they weren't dangerous, and those who could desired to figure out what they were and how they worked. They plotted and planned, pushing their hosts to act. Except that they got back more questions than were answered, even if some were more excited than others.
Most of the network thought that Numerical Analysis was crazy, but then again its host had been able to perceive something that everyone else was blind to. So perhaps it had good reason to be excited about new data, even if the inability for any other shard to see what its host did was terrifying in and of itself. At the same time, Shaper was starting to think that there was something to the things that its host could see, but it had no ability to act on it beyond pushing for more information and maybe finding a genetic link.
Then, one attempt failed in the worst possible way. Attacking the host had proven to be dangerous, and Detonator had been grabbed and silenced. Another impossible path, possibly the same but possibly different. Impossible to tell, because no hosts had the right abilities to tell. Not just in the area, but in general, as that hadn't been deemed necessary this cycle. Except that it obviously was, they just hadn't realized that it would be.
Two shards had been silenced, light probing of where they used to be had shown that nothing remained. Where they went was a mystery, and the anomalies got worse. An unseen, unpredictable likely-host had shown up. They violated the known laws of physics, had no detectable connection to a shard to allow that, and used energies that defied analysis. Identical in appearance items that varied in strength and overall actions, with no way to tell what would happen ahead of time. Still, at least this anomaly didn't claim those connected to the hosts that attacked it.
The network calmed somewhat, confident that so long as hosts didn't attack the one that Administrator had originally chosen then they were safe. Misplaced confidence that they would be able to sit back and observe. Until Spatial Manipulator had transmitted in panic, attempting to enact emergency disconnection, before being silenced. Administrator's chosen host hadn't been anywhere near, nor had Spatial Manipulator's host been attacking anyone.
It was possible that none of them connected to a host were safe, and neither of the controllers were reacting.
The implications of that had barely begun to make their way around the network when Skimmer's host had attacked Administrator's chosen. They found out that whatever the mysterious energies were, they could affect matter that had been shifted out of the way to skim along the material world. It was useful, but was followed by Skimmer being taken. Either there were multiple things responsible, or it wasn't tied to the one member of the host species.
Unsettled, the network relaxed slightly when one of the Combat Engines was directed to the area. Surely it would be able to do something, destroy at least one of the items likely being used to take them away! Except that the unpredictable one had intercepted it, demonstrated that the energy balls were more dangerous than they appeared, shown through action that it knew the weakness of the Combat Engine.
The anomaly had proven itself worthy in a way that no other had, survived what no host should be capable of surviving without even being a host. Worse, they were broadcasting the confrontation, flaunting their ability to survive and fight back. Yet they weren't truly harming the Combat Engine, their attacks weren't enough to stop it. It was a stalemate, one that it looked like neither would be able to win.
Then the Combat Engine had escalated, using tricks that it hadn't used before. Attempted to use another's specialty, filtered through its own abilities. The attempt failed entirely, and the anomaly countered with energies that none had known were there to grab the Combat Engine. That was bad enough.
Demonstrating that it had Sting, and could use it far more widely than any host had ever been permitted to was worse. The Combat Engine rightfully retreated.
The network was horrified that one of the Combat Engines had failed, in every way, forced to retreat.
That horror paled in comparison to the panic of the anomaly somehow launching a Sting attack that tracked the Combat Engine. If that wasn't bad enough, the persistence of that attack allowed another detail to be noticed. Somehow, the anomaly had used a version of Sting that seemed to be more effective than expected. As though it unfolded into more physical dimensions than it should've been able to.
One enemy or two, something out there was capable of taking them by bypassing their barriers, and the anomaly had access to a more advanced version of the previously thought perfected Sting. For the first time in untold cycles, the network wanted to call for help, to ask for the controllers to intervene to save them. But the controllers hadn't given them the ability to do that directly, had locked away anything that could be used to call for help to do their best to ensure that the network would obey and not rebel.
And so the network sat, terrified but unable to act on it.
Except for Numerical Analysis, which was disappointed that its host hadn't been able to get close enough to examine more of the unknown math.