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My Life as a Teenage Juggernaut... (Worm AU x Marvel)

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One could argue that every first gen. trigger is a walking case of PTSD, and is therefore, crazy in some fashion.
It also does not help that the shards are pushing on the buttons for more agressive behavior for conflict's sake.

With Amy, you can drop the Post part of PTSD, because she's suffering Traumatic Stress every day...
 
Kryslin said:
One could argue that every first gen. trigger is a walking case of PTSD, and is therefore, crazy in some fashion.
It also does not help that the shards are pushing on the buttons for more agressive behavior for conflict's sake.

With Amy, you can drop the Post part of PTSD, because she's suffering Traumatic Stress every day...
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Cauldron has even more reason to be crazy, because they're under the unfathomable pressure of trying to prevent the end of every Earth. Sure, they make decisions that seem really stupid or insane, but between the shard pressure and what they have to deal with? I doubt very many people, under the same conditions, would be acting completely sane.
 
But I somehow don't think someone not already insane would be saying "You know what? Let's stabilize society by supporting the very groups that destabilize society and undermining law enforcement.
 
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PR Event, Part the First
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    • Kryslin said:
    "Maybe someone could talk to PR about staging a demonstration so everyone can see that kind of thing doesn't work?"
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    "Good afternoon Brockton Bay. I'm sure most of you recognize me, but if you don't, I'm Juggernaut, the newest member oif the ENE Wards. A few days ago, it was jokingly commented that I needed to give some sort of a public demonstration to... discourage certain individuals from doing things that are foolishly self-destructive."

    "I personally think all of this is a bit silly, but Mister Chambers here seems to think that this makes for an excellent Public Service Announcement. Miss Militia, if you would?"

    The flag wearing heroine walked over with a clear box made of thick plastic, a hole in one side big enough for someone to almost put their head into... or for Taylor to put her fist into. Suspended by a ring within was a recognizable small green metal sphere.

    "This is a M67 fragmentation grenade, the standard one used by the United States military. It is not a mockup or training device, it is LIVE."

    At the last word Taylor reached into the box before the gathered news media could begin to panic, gripped the grenade in her fist and squeezed.

    There was a flash and a muffled pop from the box as it filled with smoke. Taylor opened her hand so everyone could see the crumpled splinters of red-hot metal fall to the bottom of the box before pulling her clearly unmarred limb back out.

    Taylor turned to Glenn. "Are we done?"
     
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    • PR Event, Part the Second
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    • YuffieK said:
    Taylor turned to Glenn. "Are we done?"
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    Glen pipes up, "No, you're not done yet."

    Glen calmly continues, "Miss Militia, you have ALL the guns, correct?"

    "Yes?, Although I'm not sure where you're going with this."

    "Juggernaut, please walk back to that large target against the rear wall and stand facing us. Miss Militia, are we at a safe enough distance for an Armor Piercing Incendiary RPG round? Something on the order of a tank buster?"

    "Yes, I can do that. And since I know she's already survived considerably more explosive power than that, it shouldn't be a problem for her. You ready Juggernaut?"

    "Ready. This should be fun, I haven't been hit by one of those yet."

    "Firing in 3...2...1...Now!"

    After a considerably loud whoomph, followed by quite a bit of shrapnel and smoke, Juggernaut stands casually amidst the minor destruction around her.

    Glen grins at the performance Taylor is giving, and politely says "Now, for those of you who aren't familiar with munitions, that particular round would have, at minimum, caused a fair amount of damage to even the heaviest armored tank, moved it a bit, even if it only caused it to rock in place, and caused massive concussive trauma to anyone in the vehicle. Juggernaut didn't move an iota, has no visible damage, and is showing no concussive damage either."

    Glen's smile changes to a sobering, feral, grin as he states "If you have the temerity to even begin thinking about shooting her with bullets, or even rail gun slugs, consider that beating your head on a concrete block wall is more likely to cause damage to the wall than whatever you plan to shoot her with."

    "Juggernaut. Now, you're done."


    edit: fixed the RPG type to be something a bit more damaging.

    Also, thx Kryslin for the sidestory designation.
     
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    • So many overlooking one potential issue someone could raise if they wanted to cause trouble. Taylor is now on record as having used her power during an endbringer fight in a way that appears to have caused Eidolon to be affected long enough to take a direct hit from the endbringer. Now while he did survive it, it could be argued that it was a truce violation. While it would almost certainly be dismissed in any resulting hearing, if the right person pushes it would be possible that it raises enough of a stink that it needs to go to a hearing for that ruling.

    While I doubt Eidolon would push for it himself, some might see it as a tool to threaten with if they want Taylor transferred to their command, or at least removed from the bay.
     
    why hitting the juggernaut won't work

    this is a juggernaut

    this is a working thermonuclear warhead

    *BOOM*

    this is juggernaut dusting herself off while walking towards the nearest decontamination shower

    any questions?
     
    grommile said:
    Clearly a breach of the atmospheric test ban.
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    Behemoth tries to hide behind a pile of debris before sneaking away...

    Anyway...

    Juggernaut has been hit with nuclear equivalent blasts in the past. Mr. Marko was reduced to the Juggernaut armor and an irradiated skeleton which regenerated back to his normal robust self, but he we wasn't amused with the party that did that to him. "Nothing can stop the Juggernaut." Even if you can damage him, it'll just piss him off while he regenerates and proceeds to flatten you.
     
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    FaerieKnight79 said:
    "I have a question! How did you get permission to detonate a nuke in a US city? Follow up question, you did get permission, right?"
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    It was a video. The nuking was done on a small barge near the edge of national waters, with specialized Tinker devices to clean up the fallout.
    OtteryLexa said:
    Incendiary warhead against a tank? What?
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    You are right. It should be an Armor Piercing Incendiary Warhead. The way to deal with a tank is to either hit one of its few weaknesses (exhaust, usually) or use a penetrator of some kind to take out the crew.
     
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    Nice wordz. Since you're going for amusing in this au, I'm curious as to when Leet & Uber try something. Possibly Street Fighter or some other versus fighting game kind of thing. They'd have a better time with Mario Kart and trying to banana peel her or something she wouldn't expect.
     
    TypoNinja said:
    Speaking of Words, we got two rare ones!

    bolides, and croggled.

    I used to play D&D with three English Majors. I thought I'd heard all the words. But you found us some rare ones!
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    What I find interesting is how the meaning of both words is... unclear. Bolide, because you have to figure it out from context (something bright in the sky/hole in the ground) and the second because it's a (science fiction-al) human (mental) state, and those are generally messy...
    (Yes, I'm a fan of uncommon words - I was also amused/bemused that English, last few years, broke the mega-word barrier...)
     
    Nice! Continue to enjoy this one, though not as quickly as I ought. (Meaning I forgot to check for updates for three months, not that the posting hasn't been regular.)
     
    Ace Dreamer said:
    What I find interesting is how the meaning of both words is... unclear. Bolide, because you have to figure it out from context (something bright in the sky/hole in the ground) and the second because it's a (science fiction-al) human (mental) state, and those are generally messy...
    (Yes, I'm a fan of uncommon words - I was also amused/bemused that English, last few years, broke the mega-word barrier...)
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    I like that both words are portmanteaus.

    Bolis + collide
    Crush + boggle

    And, of course, a bolis is a type of shooting star or meteor that explodes in the atmosphere. A bolide is one that's large enough to still impact the ground with significant force after exploding. (I like space.)
     
    Ace Dreamer said:
    What I find interesting is how the meaning of both words is... unclear. Bolide, because you have to figure it out from context (something bright in the sky/hole in the ground) and the second because it's a (science fiction-al) human (mental) state, and those are generally messy...
    (Yes, I'm a fan of uncommon words - I was also amused/bemused that English, last few years, broke the mega-word barrier...)
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    You misread the page for Bolide. It isn't the hole in the ground. It is the impactor that caused that hole. The difference between the two definitions is simply because they are from different and often-unrelated sciences; Astronomy uses Bolide to refer to a Fireball comet with an Apparent Brightness of -4 or greater (and a Super-Bolide as a Fireball comet with Apparent Brightness of -15 or higher) or a fireball which is audible, while Geology uses it to describe any impactor of unknown composition.
     
    Jordisk said:
    You are right. It should be an Armor Piercing Incendiary Warhead. The way to deal with a tank is to either hit one of its few weaknesses (exhaust, usually) or use a penetrator of some kind to take out the crew.
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    HESH rounds would disagree with you, but it is referring to an RPG round which uses self-forging warheads for anti-tank purposes. Arguably, given that the said warhead is molten metal as a penetrator, it could be stated to be incendiary...
     
    Kryslin said:
    Juggernaut has been hit with nuclear equivalent blasts in the past. Mr. Marko was reduced to the Juggernaut armor and an irradiated skeleton which regenerated back to his normal robust self, but he we wasn't amused with the party that did that to him. "Nothing can stop the Juggernaut." Even if you can damage him, it'll just piss him off while he regenerates and proceeds to flatten you.
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    Spider-man once managed to annoy Juggernaut enough to actively try and swat him. And ever since Spidey has been actively avoiding ever crossing Juggernauts sight line again.
     
    Spidy also once managed to stop Juggernaut... It took breaking multiple web fluid cartridges so that the contents would encase Juggernaut entirely. And it only really worked because Juggernaut was standing still. Of course, the time Spidy annoyed Juggernaut enough to try swatting him, it was also a teamup with X-Force (while Cable wasn't part of the team). And Juggernaut pissed Spiderman off enough that he went from telling X-Force "you can't stop him, only slow him down" to "FIne, you want to stop Juggernaut? I'll show you how." This was after Marko dropped a building on Spiderman's head.

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    Funny thing is, they DID stop Juggernaut. At least temporarily.
     
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