This is a blatant lie! Blue eyes white dragon is the superior dragon!
Technically, both the canon and fanon Ziz are accurate right now? I think? Ziz is getting emotion emulation from Addy, and while it'll probably be a while for that connection to meaningfully influence her the errors will probably start piling up at some point.The Simurgh still being an evil bitch who is straight up bullshitting Addy with the 'friendbringer' fanon stereotype is wonderful.
I always have a bad feeling in my gut whenever Ziz comes up in this fic, as well as Addy's cavalier attitude towards her. Cracky fics usually have her be redeemable some way while others have her being a complete monster. This chapter cemented Ziz as the latter, and I dread the moment this comes back to bite Addy in the ass. The one hope I have for this not to be a future Cerebus Syndrome moment is that Addy is infecting 'Simmy' with emotions.An ice cream playdate with Host-Adeline would be very entertaining in the long run.
Addy's phone rang. Noting the caller ID as 'The Countess', Addy picked up.
Sky Cancer, obviously.
Meanwhile, in Bakudas tertiary workshop.Biotinkered monsters are far more of a threat to us, and probably this entire country, than one lone bomb tinker.
"Oh my god they killed Connie!"the national guard to back up the ENE's forces in killing off Splyce's latest horrors.
Mr. Johnson," She"No Mr Johnson." She replied to the local Youth Guard idiot busy blathering at her, this time about how Magpie's request to contact Mothri (and thus her guardians) had been blocked by her after that entire fiasco on May third. "At the time we had a charnel house full of bodies and a single little girl in the middle of it."
Magpie, PiggotAfter a very short call which consisted of her people relaying a message from Magpie Piggot put the phone back down and focused back on the Youth Guard moron in front of her.
Mr. Johnson," She"Mr Johnson." She snapped, pulling on memories of her drill instructor from back when she was a wet behind the ears grunt, silencing the NGO busybody. "Leviathan is making an attack run on this city. This meeting is over. I have calls to make. You may see yourself out."
lightningExcept it wasn't just an eye but a mirror that was reflecting somewhere else. A place with dragons and elves and trains carried by lighting, scenes shifting with each blink of the not-eye.
Instead of hair there was a nest of writhing tentacles thatatreached about at random or curled protectively around Magpie's form when the girl herself was standing still.
ProtectorateThen Magpie revealed highly classified information to her sister and his fellow high ranking protectorate members before skipping off to go bother Myrddin.
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cape'sShe followed along behind the other cape, trying to keep her eyes from wandering about the forcefield clad capes form and failing in it. She was also deeply glad that her own powers meant she didn't have costume issues like that. Skin tight silk was one thing (and at least it was bulked out in places with her chitinous armor panels). Wearing nothing but forcefields was something else entirely.
Taylor used her controlled bugs to hide the blush these compliments from such a noteworthy hero caused.
You used these sentence repeatedly? Just... pointing it out >w>)Taylor used her controlled bugs to hide the blush these compliments from such a noteworthy hero caused.
Goddamnit
'make it cooler'.She wanted to spell it properly but Adeline was adamant that the name needed the 'Y' in it to 'make it cooler.
sheRodent's current size unusual. Adeline guaranteed to make Princess Bride jokes when She finds out.
Especially important as the little Host was oh so chaotic and easy to manipulate into triggering off further chaos and greater conflicts. Conflict Drone Seven never needed to alter the way Adeline thought or manipulate her the way she did to her otherher other'time bombs'. The next scheduled attack in eighty-six local planetary revolutions would see triple the number of Hosts attending the conflict, and the data gained would be extraordinary.
{Dema- She muted him again, ignoring his transmissions. He was still incessantly nagging her and demanding she modifytoAdeline's mind to free him from his prison.
CyclesMaybe this small time out would teach him not to interfere with her things. Two cycles ago she'd set up a complex series of plans that would have incited a series of conflicts that would've resulted in so much data that Thinker would've simultaneously elevated her permission levels and caused Thinker to hold her in much higher esteem, leading to even more important roles in future cycles. But no. Conflict Drone Twelve had to ruin all her plans. Like an...
With that asshole out of the way and not messing with her plans she was now free to focus on the important goals. With the Thinker offline she needed to eliminate the Warrior. There was too much chanceofhe would irreparably damage the Cycle and all their data collection efforts would've been for nothing.
And there was also the consequences of vanishing from orbit and her current surveillance to consider. The panic caused would be amusing, even more so when she foresaw the panic returning to orbitwithwith an empty tub of ice cream would set off. The company that manufactured it would collapse in the ensuing weeks. With the right nudge she could eve get the CEO, who secretly donated to charities, to commit suicide.
It'd be dependentIt'd dependent on David pulling the same powers he used to construct out current facilities.
have with Eidolon"No." Contessa sighed. "I could try, but as she's a blindspot she'd end up interfering with it somehow and I wouldn't notice untiltheafter the Path derails. I don't have an accurate model of her the way I have Eidolon."
was a fakeRebecca thought about it for a moment. With the new knowledge that Magpie could revive the dead it was almost guaranteed that 'Roslyn Mathews' was fake identity for a revived Annette Hebert.
die"Magpie... doesn't like us." Rebecca sighed, getting her thoughts in order as she recalled the encounter. Seeing a twelve year-old girl happily and honestly tell you she would honest to God laugh if you died wasn't something she had expected to ever experience.Her rebuke had been met with indifference because the brat hadn't even had the manners to pay attention to her after that insulting tirade.
anDavid snorted. "She's a arrogant, rude, disrespectful little shit with an overinflated opinion of herself and her capabilities you mean."
alluded"After the fight had concluded Paul, David and myself met with Magpie and her sister Mothri to discuss the aftermath of the battle. Magpie had some rather pointed and unflattering comments for David and myself in particular. She knew, or at the very least aluded to knowing about doormaker and the fact we can access alternate Earths. It's part of why I had to transport Leviathan to Washington personally."
Magpie's power"That... that is a frighteningly valid possibility. During the fight Alchemyst stated the Endbringers were never human to begin with. If her power was correct in that deduction then they must have been created by the Entities themselves for whatever reason, and if so the must be some sort of Agent responsible for monitoring or controlling them. That could be how Magpie knew the targets Leviathan was after."
about that," Rebecca"I'll question her about." Rebecca said. "Or maybe I'll have Director Piggot do it. I don't want to risk her discovering that Alexiandra is also the Chief Director. With her tendency for rash action that fact would be all over the evening news the day she discovered it." She then gestured totheher copy of Magpie's file. "Now I'm not sure if this in the file or not, considering I was only informed just before the meeting, but Magpie can also apparently raise the dead." Because of course the little shit could. Why not throw something else impossible onto the list.
MagpieHi people. I'm Magpie. I'm borrowing my sister's account to post on since the mods haven't unmuted my official magpie account because they're sticks in the mud or whatever. Here's a funny little video of me dancing to prove it's me Magpie. [Linkie]
TriumvirateTumbles: I wanted to keep him as a really cool desk ornament/paperweight for my lab to show off to my friends when I have sleepovers, but the triumvirate confiscated him (like a bunch of assholes) to lock away in some super secret secure location because they're boring.
And yeah, they'll probably be selling bottled leviathan toys eventually. The PRT like their merchandising money.
groundhog: Alexandria being killed 'weaker' cape due to her own arrogance. it was so amazingly ironic. I giggled for ages. Fortunately for her I've already changed things so that possible future shouldn't happen unless she screws up really, really badly.Glenn
inGlennGlen wasn't really surprised she'd been found violating her probation without days of being moved to New York and pulled out of the Wards after Darknight (a former villain) had brought certain issues to light. At least Darknight, despite being a former villain and from Brockton bay as well, wasn't giving them any issues and might even make a very nice success story in the future.
BaythereAnd by God there was some flagrant swearing going on here. He'd eat his shirt if there weren't any complaints from irate soccer mom's angry at the language the Ward was 'promoting'.
momsGlennMaybe he could try spin this? It did help her seem to be more human and approachable. Something to think on during his flight from L.A to Boston. Glen needed to get involved with this personally. Magpie's popularity was already too high now for anything to be left to anyone by himself and his team. Another quick check on other social media platforms (PHO wasn't the only one after all) showed the latest meme was quickly going viral.National GuardHer deputy nodded. "We've had agents not on duty liaising with local emergency services and the national guard looking into various sectors of the city to assess the damage.
I'll be blunt. The Rig is a write off. Jefferson," he nodded towards said PRT commander, "has got teams stationed around it to keep civilians and unwanted elements from poking around, not that there should be anything worth looking at. Armsmaster was very thorough in securing everything of value prior to the battle. There's evidence that looks like somebody was after something in the tinker testing lab." He brought up some images of the damage to door locks that had allowed unauthorised entry from the outside all the way to the lab in question.
"I'll be blunt.
unauthorizedShip GraveyardIt'll be a huge clean up operation to get things even remotely like how they were before, and that's ignoring some of the smaller ships from the ship graveyard being washed further ashore.
The only attendees to this meeting were Armsmaster, his second in command Miss Militia, Director Piggot herself, her own second in command Deputy Director Rennick, Dragon, and lastly Commander Jefferson who had overall command of the ENE's strike teams.
"First up. Preliminary damage reports. Rennick if you would?" Piggot started the meeting off, feeling inwardly and outwardly exhausted over the events of the last two days and the running about required to assess damage and make plans to fix said damage.realization"A black hole?" Rennick asked, his eyes wide. Then realisation struck him. "I suppose that's where the rest of the holes through the Rig came from." He brought up another set of images, showing a line of two-foot diameter holes leading from that lab all the way to and through the exterior wall.
"Interesting but I don't actually care. Rennick, the rest of the report please before we get off on more tangents." She'd like to maybe finish this meeting sometime before her kidneys failed.
"I'll go north to south. The Trainyard fared the best out of any location in the city. Too far from the coastline to suffer much against the waves and Leviathan's attack path never moved through it. It still suffered some damage from the waves, but compared to the docks and parts of downtown it's relatively unscathed."
Rennick took a sip of water and continued.Ship GraveyardThe local Protectorate leader then nodded to Rennick and seated himself back down.
Rennick then continued his report. "Next is the ship graveyard, and unfortunately for us it's even more of a jumbled, tangled mess of derelict ships. On the bright side the entrance to Lord's Port is clear, which we can all see from the window since the container ship is no longer blocking the entrance to the bay. The downside is it's now in two pieces and clustered about the other ships. I've no idea the ecological damage caused by all those ships being moved about by tidal waves.
"Well, we've already gone over the Boardwalk and the Rig. Next would be gigantic glacier visible out the window." Piggot's deputy director jerked his head towards the other window and the mass of ice easily visible in the distance. "We don't have damage assessments at the moment, but suffice to say it isn't going to be good. It's quite likely the ice scoured everything in it's path away down to the bedrock."
tidal waves."
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Renick"Thank you Rennick." Piggot thanked the man once he concluded his report and turned to Armsmaster. "Now, the gang situation. What do you have for me?"convoys"I've already prevented two attacks against aid conveys heading towards the refugee camps we have set up on the city outskirts those people who have lost everything." Dragon added. "It's likely they'll get more and more desperate in their attempts as their own supplies of drugs are used up."National GuardWell she wasn't going to give up without a fight! If she had to drag the national guard to support her teams in combing every inch of the city she fucking would. Brockton Bay would not become a second Ellisburg. Not on her watch. "Do we have any way to track her down yet?"National Guard"Find a way to get it under control. Personally I'm going to be contacting the national guard for extra bodies if I have to. Thankfully we at least have the political capital to spend on this." Piggot stated, then began to explain at the confused looks. "I've been in talks with the Mayor most of the day. The short version is that as we are the site where an Endbringer was soundly defeated every single career politician from her to the west coast wants to be associated with us. Standing by the city that stopped Leviathan is too much free political gain for those vultures, but it makes our lives easier."
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withNational GuardNot to mention that Splyce was doing her level best to try her own hand at recreating Ellisburg. For once though the US government was less incompetent than usual and had actually sent in the national guard to back up the ENE's forces in killing off Splyce's latest horrors.
I feel like this is going to further prove Cauldron's theory that Addy mimics EB powers, afterall what is more Simurgh than turning the Simurgh herself into an Addy BombI'm seeing signs that the connection between Addie and Simmie is a two way street. Corruption goes both ways
Simurgh may go from manipulative Engbringer pretending to be nice to Friendbringer for real.
I will need two bolters and a phophex launcher for this fresh heretical shit.The first are basically giant rats. The largest my teams have seen so far is the size of a German shepherd, but most appear to average the size of a Bulldog. From my own encounters with them they're extremely territorial, vicious and smart as well. Maybe as much as a human child
Rather than Deathworld, perhaps the better term would be "Hellworld", since Magpie can now officially ressurect people so that they can continue to suffer for eternity.I am torn between hilarity and horror. I guess that's the right place to be.
...that simmy bit wasn't funny at all.
This also doubles as a reminder that while Magpie lives in a cartoon, everyone else is living in a deathworld, lol.
Great chapter, thank you!
I hear this in my head being said slowly and with a bored eye roll.Because Magpie wasn't apparently bullshit enough and had to tinker up a cure
You repeated yourself. I think?Taylor used her controlled bugs to hide the blush these compliments from such a noteworthy hero caused. "Um, thanks. The vote of confidence means a lot to me, though you'll be waiting a long time before I could join. I'm only fifteen."
"Really?" The leader of the Guild replied, making a small 'huh' noise afterwards. "Well you are very mature for your age and rather tall. I honestly thought you were seventeen at minimum. It makes your achievement today even more impressive." Then she continued then shrugged, which also proved her forcefields also lift and support. "Well the offer still stands. The Guild would be honoured to have you if you ever decide to join."
Taylor used her controlled bugs to hide the blush these compliments from such a noteworthy hero caused. "I'll defin
Magic Coat, you bloody casual.(Alternatively, "Simurgh used Simurgh Bomb, Addy used reflect, Simurgh is now confused)
Nah Addy has Final Fantasy tech, she hasn't gotten Pokémon tech yet.
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It's pulling the malcious compliance gig since you're slipping the leash (don't want to bother calcing this thing so Thinker Headache!).Her power had been throwing out all sorts of crap now that she had a way to deal with the headaches.
Looks like Magpie is going to be getting a few more counts of self defense."The Crowley family require our support. Gather your things. We have a pilgrimage to make and a heathen to punish."
Wonder if they'll leave any sensors with the bottle or Addy will just yeet it back without them ever knowing.
The only thing keeping her from vetoing the entire idea was that Magpie would be kept entirely offworld, meaning that she couldn't build anything too worrisome that could cause Cauldron trouble if they did that this option.
And for some reason you don't think this is going to come back to bite you.Hi people. I'm Magpie. I'm borrowing my sister's account to post on since the mods haven't unmuted my official magpie account because they're sticks in the mud or whatever.
If Addy creates world peace it'll be by accident or as a side effect of something else.
Is girl has magic.
This is what I was trying to get at in my previous post. Addy lives in a world where Ziz is a lovable troll. Everyone else lives in a world where Ziz is the worst nightmare.This also doubles as a reminder that while Magpie lives in a cartoon, everyone else is living in a deathworld, lol.
Also, Addy has that crafting-focused Dragonmark. You know, the one that will eventually give her access to infinite resources from thin air?Oh you poor ignorant fools. Her shard would be giving her the good stuff if you did that.
I've got a Heresy era Auto cannon and 77 Blight GrenadeI will need two bolters and a phophex launcher for this fresh heretical shit.
Peace of the grave?If Addy creates world peace it'll be by accident or as a side effect of something else.
They really don't learn. Causing problems for Magpie leads to Magpie letting loose problems on you. She dropped an Endbringer on Piggot's desk to avoid being punished with console duty or something equally banal. What do you think Magpie will do in retaliation to this? She already self-defended herself lethally against her last kidnappers."It could work, however such an option would need to be kept away from the Heberts' and Magpie's notice long enough for it to go through to have any chance of success. Closed court meetings at the very least. If they find out about it too soon my inability to path the girl could throw up problems or even derail that entire Path, and even then I can't predict how the girl would react to the situation." Contessa replied after considering it for a moment. "Four hundred and seventy-three steps. Assuming Magpie doesn't interfere. If she does it's up in the air."