Yeah, I was looking at some of his and early Goku's feats of strengths:
Speed: He's fast enough that he's invisible to normal humans.
Durability: He could tank Goku's Kamehameha, which was stronger than Roshi's, who used it to destroy the moon. Plus he has regeneration.
Strength: He's stronger than Goku at first. Goku when he started training with Muten Roshi was able to push giant boulders with ease and was described as being several times stronger by the time he fought with Piccolo. Piccolo can also become a Giant to increase his strength.
Replication: He can create many 'sons' of lesser power than him, this ages him depending on how strong of a son he makes, however, his wish to Shen Long was for "Eternal Youth" so he can basically create as many sons as needed. He also can create one son that's stronger than him. These sons are loyal to him.
Telepathy: He can telepathically communicate with his sons. It's possible it's not limited to them.
Thinker: He can 'see' happenings from great distance.
Creation: He can create objects from, maybe, thin air, such as his throne.
Blasts: His blasts are very varied, he has his city-destroying blasts, but also focused lasers that can even hurt Goku when he had already power up enough to beat King Piccolo.
Yeah, I was looking at some of his and early Goku's feats of strengths:
Speed: He's fast enough that he's invisible to normal humans.
Durability: He could tank Goku's Kamehameha, which was stronger than Roshi's, who used it to destroy the moon. Plus he has regeneration.
Strength: He's stronger than Goku at first. Goku when he started training with Muten Roshi was able to push giant boulders with ease and was described as being several times stronger by the time he fought with Piccolo. Piccolo can also become a Giant to increase his strength.
Replication: He can create many 'sons' of lesser power than him, this ages him depending on how strong of a son he makes, however, his wish to Shen Long was for "Eternal Youth" so he can basically create as many sons as needed. He also can create one son that's stronger than him. These sons are loyal to him.
Telepathy: He can telepathically communicate with his sons. It's possible it's not limited to them.
Thinker: He can 'see' happenings from great distance.
Creation: He can create objects from, maybe, thin air, such as his throne.
Blasts: His blasts are very varied, he has his city-destroying blasts, but also focused lasers that can even hurt Goku when he had already power up enough to beat King Piccolo.
Assuming Richter Is from another timeline do we have two of him running around now?
Also please remember that morality is relative. For example: from the perspective of Scion blowing up worlds is the right and proper course of action.
Hopefully Shen Long is using Taylor's morality as a basis in this case. I'm not saying you need to change anything, but it may come in handy if you need a loophole in the wish later.
Morality doesn't seem to be relative in DBZ. They have the concept of pure hearts and hells and heavens. Thankfully, they're full of exactly the people you expect.
Shouldn't Piccolo not have gotten his Eternal Youth wish yet? Otherwise, wouldn't Shen Long's allotted one wish have been already used up thus making Taylor unable to use one?
Taylor needed Shen Long for the wish, so he had to be picked up before Piccolo made his eternal youth wish, but Piccolo was only picked up after he killed Shen Long.
There's also the fact that Shen Long's creator can activate him before a year passes. Kami did so when he revived Shen Long in the first place.
Taylor needed Shen Long for the wish, so he had to be picked up before Piccolo made his eternal youth wish, but Piccolo was only picked up after he killed Shen Long.
There's also the fact that Shen Long's creator can activate him before a year passes. Kami did so when he revived Shen Long in the first place.
Hmm, I interpreted that differently when I read Dragon Ball, but it makes sense.
As for the first part, does that mean there is a completely arbitrary amount of time between when the person would have died and when they were brought over to Taylor, or is there some hard limit of "This length of time before death".
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♦ Topic: New Hero team defeated ABB
In: Boards ► Places ► America ►Brockton Bay
Bruce Lao (Original Poster)
Posted On Jan 9th 2011:
So, I'm minding my own business late at night when out of the sudden I hear gunfire! So, like an idiot I go watch what's going on. Turns out the ABB finally decided to advance in 'Merchant territory', but before anyone can be killed, a couple of capes show up and kick the ABB. The merchants obviously fled.
You had to see the girl in red -I think she's a girl- she just threw herself from a building or something and started kicking ass, then she took a sword from the ABB and slashed at them so they couldn't escape!
Then, some new cape that I had never seen before shows up and starts throwing bombs around, and sent the karate-girl flying to my building. In fact, the explossion went off pretty close from my window, so I ducked and called the PRT.
But by the time I peeked again, it was already over, bomb cape was down and the karate-girl's partner -guy or girl, couldn't tell from the distance- was kicking at his prone form.
So, what do you guys think, new hero team?
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►XxVoid_CowboyxX
Replied On Jan 9th 2011:
god, i hope so!
►Nondeceptive
Replied On Jan 9th 2011:
Got any pics, Lao?
►Bagrat (Veteran Member) (The Guy in the Know)
Replied On Jan 9th 2011:
Lao, you should've called the PRT first. Besides that, do you have any descriptions about these two? Sounds like one is a brute. Also, what do you mean when you say that " she took a sword from the ABB and slashed at them so they couldn't escape!". I'm sure she didn't kill them, otherwise you wouldn't be claiming she's a hero.
The bomb cape sounds like Bakuda. We heard about her the other day, remember? We even have a thread for her.
►Reave (Verified PRT Agent)
Replied On Jan 9th 2011:
[Edited] I don't want to get fired. Please don't re-post the videos. I could lose my job.
►XxVoid_CowboyxX
Replied On Jan 9th 2011:
OH EM GEE.
She totally tanked those bombs! So Brute 8? Or maybe 9?
►Bagrat (Veteran Member) (The Guy in the Know)
Replied On Jan 9th 2011:
8? 9?
Maybe? But not really.
I mean, it's possible the new cape could go toe to toe with Alexandria, but I seriously doubt it. Also, she didn't really "tank" the bomb, you can see her mask is all shredded, right? And there's still red over there. She was bleeding. BAD.
►Bruce Lao (Original Poster)
Replied On Jan 9th 2011:
Wow. I wish I had my phone at hand, but I didn't record anything on my own. Are you sure you can just- you know, publish those videos?
►Aloha
Replied On Jan 9th 2011:
Videos? I don't see no videos?
►Bagrat (Veteran Member) (The Guy in the Know)
Replied On Jan 9th 2011:
Reave posted some, but it looks like he edited his post quickly. I downloaded all of the videos and analyzed them.
Man. I don't think we've had this many videos of a random gang fight in a while. And look at her go with the sword. Is it wooden? She slashes from several yards away, and the ABB punk goes down? That's blaster 3 at least. Plus, she just showed up from the sky. Maybe she's also kind of a flying brick? Even if she was bleeding by the end, she still could go about.
But besides the red-girl, I'm interested in the blue-one (that's a girl, right? If not, sorry guy, you kinda look like a girl). She just summons that fat guy to get the collar off her! Teleporters are pretty rare, but I bet her range is really, really big.
The fat guy is also definetively a tinker, or a thinker at least. We don't really have all that much information on Bakuda's bombs, but she's a tinker, and I'm pretty sure only another tinker can disable them.
You can find off-site mirrors for the videos here, here, and here.
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♦ Topic: Mass Resurrection [OT5] - All general discussions about the Event go here.
In: Boards ► News ► Events ►Worldwide
Bagrat (Original Poster) (Veteran Member) (The Guy in the Know)
Posted On Jan 14th 2011:
Ok. By now, everyone knows that pretty much everyone who has died in the last 30 years is alive, if they were either killed by a villain or an Endbringer.
I know it's in the thread title, but I have to make it clear that it is just for general discussions, nothing more.
It's the fifth official thread.
Thread 1
Thread 2
Thread 3
Thread 4
And on a related note, there's the thread about Shen Long, the Eastern Dragon who made it all possible. Giant Dragon: The anti-endbringer?
Try to keep it together, we don't want this thread to be filled with banned tags.
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►Red Kaze (Verified Cape) (Planeshifters) (Kyushu Survivor)
Replied On Jan 15th 2011:
So yes, we're calling ourselves the Plaenshifters, don't ask why. It was the idea of one of our newest members, and since we don't have a name yet, we're going with that. At least until we find a better name.
►XxVoid_CowboyxX
Replied On Jan 15th 2011:
Cool. I'm your #1 fan, Red.
BTW, how did you summon Shen Long?
►T-Rex (Verified Cape) (Not a tinker) (Planeshifters)
Replied On Jan 15th 2011:
Yeah, I think that goes to the Shen Long thread. But I'll answer anyway, Red Kaze here is a Kyuushu survivor, she heard of the legend of Shen Long, and since she already had the four-star shard, she set off to find them. It took years to find all seven shards.
We were forced to summon Shen Long because Red Kaze had sacrificied herself in order to kill Oroboros, but we didn't want to ask for something so selfish as just reviving her -or Oroboros' victims- so we had Shen Long revive as many people as possible.
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♦ Topic: Villain at Winslow High is killing everyone!
In: Boards ► Places ► America ►Brockton Bay
XxVoid_CowboyxX (Original Poster)
Posted On Jan 11th 2011:
OMG. I'm seriously in danger right now! there are loads of dead bodies all around my school (Winslow). I think there's some sort of evil cape going around school kiling everyone! I hid myself in a closet.
I think I am going to die guys. Is the Slaterhos 9 in town or what?
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►Decree
Replied On Jan 11th 2011:
"Slaterhos 9" Sounds like the porn parody of the Slaughterhouse 9.
►XxVoid_CowboyxX (Original Poster)
Replied On Jan 11th 2011:
Seriously? Grammar Police? There are people dying AS WE SPEAK!
►Decree
Replied On Jan 11th 2011:
So? What am I supposed to do about it? Call the Protectorate, or something.
►CapRogers (Verified PRT Agent)
Replied On Jan 11th 2011:
I can confirm there's a situation going on at Winslow High right now. The PRT, Protectorate, Wards, and other allied teams are on-site. But I think it's a overkill. Armsmaster is probably end up dealing with the villain on his own or seomthing.
►Decree
Replied On Jan 11th 2011:
"Seomthing".
I'm sure Void is sighing in relief now that agents like you are on site, Captain.
►CapRogers (Verified PRT Agent)
Replied On Jan 11th 2011:
You think I would be posting on PHO if I was there? I'm at home ATM, but some of my buddies are there. I know whats going on, your just some coward who hides behind the keyboard.
►Decree
Replied On Jan 11th 2011:
"What's"
"You're"
Geez. You're making it easy.
►Majic
Replied On Jan 11th 2011:
I got a buddy who goes to Winslow, I called him and he's not responding. I hope he's all right.
►Someone (Veteran Member)
Replied On Jan 11th 2011:
I don't know, Void is always making up shit. It's probably just a gang fight or something.
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►HandOfNod (Veteran Member)
Replied On Jan 11th 2011:
A PRT member confirmed something's going on at Winslow, something big enough that it needs not just the PRT, but the Protectorate, Wards AND allied teams. You know how hard is it for the PRT to make guys like New Wave do ANYTHING they tell them?
►XxVoid_CowboyxX (Original Poster)
Replied On Jan 11th 2011:
I saw it! Armsmaster was fighting it, but I think he never got a chanse of attacking! I think it's an Endbringer!
►Decree
Replied On Jan 11th 2011:
Endbringer? What, so, we just got confirmation the PRT is there, and some random PRT nobody says Armsmaster could solo this guy, and you just decide to declare him dead? It's probably just some new cape. Man. You're the biggest Troll this side of the board.
►XxVoid_CowboyxX (Original Poster)
Replied On Jan 11th 2011:
[censored] You! I'm in danger! I went back to the closet, don't want to take any chances. It's not a cape I tell you, unless there're capes who look like GIANT SNAKES.
►Decree
Replied On Jan 11th 2011:
Giant snakes? Oh. Wow.
►XxVoid_CowboyxX (Original Poster)
Replied On Jan 11th 2011:
Here, I just uploaded a pic I took of the thing. It's from the back, but I tell you, it's a new Endbringer!
►Ekul
Replied On Jan 11th 2011:
Wow. I think he's legit. What is that?
►T-Rex (Verified Cape) (Not a tinker) (Planeshifters)
Replied On Jan 11th 2011:
I'm a cape on Winslow, I'm with our team, the Planeshifters. We're following the snake right now, one of our teammates is already engaging it. The monster has two powers, the first one allows it to petrify people, sorta like what Clockblocker does. The second power is scarier. It just kills people on sight.
►Majic
Replied On Jan 11th 2011:
Kill on sight? What? Have you seen a guy with green hair? He uses a red biker jacket all the time, you can't miss him.
►T-Rex (Verified Cape) (Not a tinker) (Planeshifters)
Replied On Jan 11th 2011:
Sorry. Didn't see your buddy.
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♦ Topic: Oroboros: A fourth Endbringer?
In: Boards ► News ► Events ► Worldwide
XxVoid_CowboyxX (Original Poster)
Posted On Jan 12th 2011:
So, Oroboros was scary as [censored]. I think it's the fourth Endbringer. What do you guys think?
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►SupremeTinker (Verified Cape) (The Guy in the Know) (Administrator)
Replied On Jan 12th 2011:
Oroboros is not an Endbringer. It's an A-level threat, yes. But once the Planeshifters figured out how its powers worked -it needed to see your eyes to affect you- it was fairly easy for them to kill it.
Oroboros was scary as hell. But nowhere near Leviathan or its siblings. Red Kaze killed it by stabbing its head, something that just doesn't stop the Endbringers.
I certainly hope there's NO fourth Endbringer.
I'm closing this thread and giving you another warning Void, you don't need to be the center of attention all the time. We get it, you were the first one to post about Oroboros in the board, but stop with the spam.
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♦ Topic: Saffron
In: Boards ► Places ► America ►Brockton Bay
Laotsunn (Original Poster) (Kyushu Survivor)
Posted On Jan 10th 2011:
The reason the ABB is kicking the Empire's colective ass. This is his discussion thread.
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►Kumata (Banned)
Replied On Jan 10th 2011:
You obviously never seen Saffron face to face. He could kill you in the blink of an eye. He's glorious, second only to Lung. We have the Dragon and the Phoenix now. The Empire is going to go down.
►GoodNinja
Replied On Jan 10th 2011:
I don't know about how 'glorious' Saffron is. But I can safely say that he's scary as hell.
On a related matter, I saw him last night making some of the younger ABB carry a box full of eggs. Yes. You read that right. eggs. Wonder what's up with that.
►BadSamurai
Replied On Jan 10th 2011:
Eggs? I don't know about that. But I was close by when Saffron first showed up. He blew up Lung's underground casino, like, in a single shot. Dude is scary as hell.
►CapRogers (Verified PRT Agent)
Replied On Jan 10th 2011:
We are aware of that fight. Our sources say that Saffron almost killed Lung.
►Decree
Replied On Jan 10th 2011:
What's up with that name? "Saffron" Sounds like a girl.
►CapRogers (Verified PRT Agent)
Replied On Jan 10th 2011:
Yeah... I wouldn't go around calling him a girl. If he can level a building in a single shot, he can call himself whatever he wants. In fact, he seems to be able to produce more heat than Lung when he wants to. He's his own plasma rifle, plus he has instant regeneration, and has wings big enough to fly on his own.
►XxVoid_CowboyxX
Replied On Jan 10th 2011:
He sounds scary. Man. Just when I was getting excited about that new hero team
►Kumata (Banned)
Replied On Jan 10th 2011:
The eggs are for his Master power. We won't just destroy the Empire, we will make them our slaves.
►Bagrat (Veteran Member) (The Guy in the Know)
Replied On Jan 11th 2011:
I wonder how eggs can mind-control people
►SupremeTinker (Verified Cape) (The Guy in the Know) (Administrator)
Replied On Jan 11th 2011:
Yeah... Kumata, I'm banning you. But thanks for the info!
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♦ Topic: Giant Dragon: The anti-endbringer?
In: Boards ► News ► Events ►America ► Brockton Bay
T-Rex (Original Poster) (Verified Cape) (Not a tinker) (Planeshifters)
Posted On Jan 11th 2011:
So, everyone and their mother heard about the giant Eastern Dragon that showed up on Brockton Bay, right?
If not, you can go here, here, or here. If you need more, you can always go to the wiki.
The Dragon seems to be benevolent. He is actually the reason everyone on Earth killed by villains or endbringers got resurrected.
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►XxVoid_CowboyxX
Replied On Jan 13th 2011:
Wow. How did you get that kind of picture? Not even the local newspaper got that good of a shot!
►T-Rex (Original Poster) (Verified Cape) (Not a tinker) (Planeshifters)
Replied On Jan 13th 2011:
I took a photo as soon as he showed up, of course. I was one of his summoners.
►Laotsunn (Kyushu Survivor)
Replied On Jan 13th 2011:
Summon? He is Seiryū, isn't he?
►T-Rex (Original Poster) (Verified Cape) (Not a tinker) (Planeshifters)
Replied On Jan 13th 2011:
Sei-who?
►Tin Mother (Moderator)
Replied On Jan 13th 2011:
Seiryū is the way Japanese people call the legendary Azure Dragon, one of the Four Symbols of the Chinese constellations who protects the East. He does look like an Eastern Dragon, and his ability to resurrect the dead makes him very god-like.
►XxVoid_CowboyxX
Replied On Jan 13th 2011:
Azure Dragon? But this one is green.
Isn't azure a kind of blue? How is blue, green?
►Blue(Verified Cape) (Planeshifters)
Replied On Jan 13th 2011:
I don't know about any Seiryu. The dragon's name is Shen Long. He's an eternal dragon who is able to grant any one wish, once you gather all his shards across the world.
►Bagrat (Veteran Member) (The Guy in the Know)
Replied On Jan 13th 2011:
What's going on in Brockton Bay? First you get another cape to back-up Lung that is actually as strong as he is, then you get a crazy Endbringer-lite monster-thing, and almost instantly after that, some sort of "AntiEndbringer"? And this 'Shen Long' can grant wishes? What's up with that? Who is he?
►XxVoid_CowboyxX
Replied On Jan 13th 2011:
Not to complain, but why does this thread exist, if my own "Oroboros as the fourth end-bringer" was closed?
►Tin Mother (Moderator)
Replied On Jan 13th 2011:
Because the "Anti-Endbringer" here doesn't mean he's literally something that can fight an Endbringer, it means Shen Long literally undid most of what the Endbringers' did.
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Is there any reason to have it be based on posts as the action is happening ? Why not just have everyone piece it together after it happened? Because the whole Greg argument and capes answering while fighting that sort of killer comes off as goofy tbh.
It's actually disappointing that the bulk of the chapter goes to that and only a tiny part deals with the literal changing of history. What shows up there is more of an info-dump for the PHO browsers than it is enlightening for us, when it should be the other way round.
Oh, and tell everyone about Shen Long and how it works lol.
Shouldn't this be blaster 4 instead? To the best of my knowledge striker applies to powers that work by touch and blaster works at range.
Yeah I don't think that explaining so much about Shen Long works was a good idea. (Cauldron will be monopolizing the Dragonballs from now until Scion blows up the planet, but they don't know that. I could easily see wars being started over the Dragonballs and the wish.)
So Akane finally knows about Saffron, between that and the basilisk, maybe the Planeshifters (and is giving away that much really a good idea?) will learn about the drawback to Taylor's power. (And then they'll remember what killed Richter. They've got a lot of work to do.)
I agree telling everyone how Shen Long works is about as good a idea as giving yourself a hero name that tells all of your powers, other than that I like the PHO interlude, but the planeswalkers should keep any and all information other than their names on the down low.
Its not smart to give out information that someone else can use to summon the dragon, what if the Slaughterhouse 9 or heartbreaker or some schlub summons him?
I sighed as I dropped my ass onto the chair. I used its little wheels to swing a bit to the left, and then a bit to the right, examining the conference room. It was way neater than I expected, and almost every single detail screamed 'Tinkertech'. The wall opposite to me wasn't really a wall from what I could tell, but some sort of interactive screen.
I smiled as Akane entered the room and waved her way. She nodded at me, and then motioned someone on the other side to come inside. I focused on my summons' senses and knew it was Myrtle there, she was experiencing fear at all the strange things inside the building.
I was about to tell her to come inside already, when a simple glare from Akane seemed to do the trick. The british girl hurried inside, and when she saw me, she sat on the chair furthest from my own. Akane rolled her eyes and smirked as she walked to my side and sat.
"Sorry about that." She said with a look that wasn't exactly apologetic. I extended my senses to feel her emotions and frowned, she felt protective of the other girl, and was directing some anger my way.
I drew in a deep breath. I really had blew it with Myrtle. The girl hadn't deserved the mistreatment I had given her after I summoned her.
I started to say, "look, Myrtle I-"
But the other girl raised her hands and interrupted me. "Ravenclaw."
"What?"
"Ravenclaw. It's my cape name. Akane helped me choose it."
I slowly nodded. It didn't surprise me she chose that name, considering where she comes from. I shook my head, looking her over. She looked absolutely ridiculous, with a dark blue robe and a pointy hat. Her mask laid on the meeting table in front of it, a plastic (or was it ceramic) mask that resembled the green skinned witch from the Wizard of Oz.
"Ravenclaw." I said, softly. "I don't really have any excuse for the way I treated you."
She shifted on her seat, surprised. She hadn't expected an apology. She wasn't used to them.
I continued. "I wasn't thinking straight. I- I will not do it again."
She blinked, and nodded. "Don't worry about that, you brought me back from the dead, I owe you."
I shook my head. "No. You really don't."
She opened her mouth to say something else, when Andrew Richter entered the conference room, followed by Sue and two women I didn't recognize. The one on the front, I figured was Dragon, her new organic-like body looked like a movie star, tall blonde with lots of curves and breasts as big as my head, perky too. The one on the back looked more… mousy-like, younger also, but not quite as young as Sue, probably Scatha.
My thoughts lingered for a moment in Richter's claims that Dragon and Scatha were Tinkers like him. They weren't humans, of that I was sure, so how did expect us to believe they could possibly have parahuman powers? Sue's claim to a Striker power was also suspect, if anything she had a Breaker power thanks to her ability to change into her fighter mode.
"Hello everyone!" Andrew said, with a wide wave.
Akane sighed and nodded at him. "Hey."
Both Dragon and Scatha sat near the screen, with Sue standing behind a seat between them. Andrew stood in front of the screen and looked us over, waiting to see if anyone had anything to say.
"Ok. We're all here, right?" He said, eyeing me. "No new heroes for the party?"
I shook my head. "No more heroes."
"Excellent." He said, with a large smile. "Now that we have Taylor with us- or is it Blue?"
"Planeswalker." I said. Sure that I had my true cape name now.
He nodded. "Now that we have Planeswalker with us, we can actually start doing some shit." Louder, he said, "we're now starting the third official meeting of the Planeshifters."
It was actually the first meeting I attended in person. Following our fight with the killer snake dubbed by PHO and the media as 'Oroboros', and the summoning of Shen Long, I was left exhausted. I needed three whole weeks of mandatory Hospital stay. At least Sue had gifted me a laptop with Internet connection to entertain myself.
Andrew's smile turned into a grin. "It's also the first time we have our full membership on site."
Akane raised her hand. "Full? Doesn't Sue have another sister?"
"Rodan isn't actually a member of the Planeshifter, nor is Dragon." He said, and nodded at his eldest daughter. "They're merely allies. Dragon in particular is a sponsor for our team, thanks to her vouching for us, we can act as an official hero team."
Akane frowned. She was thinking that she hadn't actually asked about Dragon or our status as an official hero team.
"Since this is the first time we're all here together," he said, eyeing Akane, expecting to be interrupted. "I thought it would be a good idea to summarize what we talked about last week."
I raised my hand. "I actually know what you guys talked about. I can see and hear what you hear, remember?"
"Even so, humor me, please." He said.
I gritted my teeth, but nodded. I idly wondered who had made him team leader. If it wasn't for me, the team wouldn't even exist.
He bowed a little and then pressed a button in a remote I hadn't seen before. On the background, the screen turned on and showed Shen Long. "First, the elephant in the room. Dragon here has been kind enough to share with us the latest developments regarding the effects our wish had on the world." He pressed the button again, and the image shifted to a world map, filled with numbers. "On total, the number of resurrections are close to 1 billion people. This, of course, poses a kind of a problem to all the states around the globe, because they suddenly have 1 billion more mouths to feed."
I gulped at that. We hadn't really thought that far ahead.
He pressed the button again and the map zoomed-in to Japan. "Interesting is the case of Japan, one of the most affected countries and also one of the countries we could more closely analyze." Another button press, and the image shifted to something akin to a radiograph of the country. "Kyushu victims have more or less appeared scattered on nearby islands, and for some reason the radioactivity levels have vanished entirely."
Akane frowned. "What, so it's safe to live there now?"
"Yes. It appears that, even though we didn't specify that, Shen Long saw fit to help the people he resurrected have a chance at living without being instantly given cancer or worse."
I nodded. I knew that already. Shen Long had told me he had tried to do the best he could with the wish I had given him. When I made the wish, I was half expecting him to bring a billion literal zombies to the world, but thankfully he wasn't really like the evil genies that fill all those old stories.
I tuned out of what Andrew was saying, and remembered a recurring dream I had each night during my latest stay in the hospital.
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I was back inside. Back in the locker. It was still filled with grotesque toxic waste, plus my own upchuck. I could barely breath, and I was sure I was going to die this time, that Akane wasn't coming to help me, that she detested me for taking her away from her friends, family, and love.
I was crying. I wanted to be a hero, not a victim. I wanted to live my life, to be someone people aspired to.
That's when I felt something deep inside of me ignite with power, greater than my own ability to summon heroes, far beyond it. I felt as if I had more than a million eyes, each one looking into a different plane of existence, and my feet had the ability to take me to any of those planes.
I could leave the locker at any time. I was free to walk across the worlds. Leave Earth Bet behind.
I forced myself to close most of my eyes, to focus on a single plane. On a world where a boy had killed what many would call a god. The boy commanded ice and wind, into a shredding tornado that annihilated his opponent . The boy had tried to save the girl that he loved.
He failed. I could see. Her spirit wasn't even in her own body. Akane was dead.
I was going to take a step in their direction, I knew I could help. I could put her spirit back into her own body. I could be a hero, or at least, help one.
When I realized all the power I had within me, I felt something else explode within me. I had a power beyond that of even Eidolon at my fingertips. But something- someone- was trying to tame me, to block the access I had to my spark. It was a monstrous worm, something that didn't live in any one plane of existence.
A fraction of this colossal being was hidden deep inside my head. I turned my attention away from the boy trying to save the girl he loved, and focused on my own plight. I realized that the fraction was as alive as the whole. It identified itself as a manager, a ruler of sorts, and it was linked, not just to myself, but to my spark as well. It was almost parasitic in nature, but symbiotic at the same time. It wanted to live off me and my experiences, but it also wanted to end me before going on her own merry way.
I got to take a closer look at the whole it used to belong to. The impossibly giant, multi-plane, being, how it danced with its mate, how it was now alone, almost depressed, if such a being could feel depression as we do. I saw deep into the fraction of this monster, in fact we saw each other, and we changed each other. It became more, not just a fraction, but separate from the whole it used to belong, and now it was mine. I changed as well. No longer did I feel my feet had the ability to transcend planes, but in exchange I now could give it to others to aid me.
I focused again on that dead girl. That poor girl who had sacrificed her own life in order to protect the boy she loved, and I knew what I had to do. I had to help myself, but still keep her in one piece. They could have their happily ever after once I had what I needed.
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"Taylor!" I heard someone yelling at me, and abruptly opened my eyes as I noticed Akane shaking my shoulders. "Hey, are you alright?"
"I'm OK." I lied. I could've helped her, and instead I helped myself.
Everyone looked at me with a worried expression. "Are you certain?" Dragon asked me.
I glared. "Yes. I just had some trouble sleeping last night. So- you were talking about Shen Long and how he affected the world?"
Andrew nodded, rather slowly. "Also, on a related matter, we have the PRT wanting our heads for the leak on the information regarding Shen Long. I had the Director Costa Brown yelling at me for not being prudent. Something about the Slaughterhouse 9 going on a quest to find all the dragon's balls."
"Dragon balls." I corrected, irritated. "Not dragon's balls."
He smiled. "Same thing."
"That's also why I'm calling them dragon shards, less laughter that way." I said, and closed my eyes, and focused on my link with Shen Long. The dragon balls were indeed being hunted down, only the four star and seven star balls were still missing. "Yes, someone is indeed hunting them."
Dragon and Scatha looked at each other with a perturbed expression painted on their faces. Dragon turned to me and said, as softly as (in)humanly possible, "how can you tell?"
"My link with my summons. I still can talk with Shen Long. And he can give me live feed on where the ba- shards are. Someone is hunting for them, but it's strange, like- they got five in a blink of an eye but two are still missing."
"You can talk with Shen Long?" Andrew blinked, surprised. "Wait, how does that work?"
"Yes, he's at the Earth's core right now, chilling for at least an year. After Oroboros the link to my summons improved, Shen Long in particular was greater in that sense. So, I can have mental conversations with him."
Myrtle furrowed her brow. "What about us? Can you have mental conversations with us?"
I smirked, and sent her a mental image.
She immediately blushed deep red. "Oh, for Merlin's sake. What the heck?"
Akane turned to me. "What did you do?"
"I told her she looks cute, dressed like a witch." I left unsaid the random Halloween witch part.
Andrew nodded. "We'll have to test that later. Ok. So, the PRT is angry at us for leaking the info, and now angry at Dragon for refusing to ban everyone speaking about Shen Long on PHO. What do we do about it?"
"Nothing." I said. "If the Slaughterhouse 9 is really getting the balls together," I cursed as half my audience giggled at the word 'balls', "then, I can always speak to Shen Long as he asks for a wish, and ask for, I don't know, Akane's panties or something."
The japanese girl blushed a deep shade of red. "Hey! Don't be a pervert!"
Andrew looked me over, unconvinced. "Are you sure it works like that?"
"Yes. I'm sure. Also, if it doesn't, I can always change the password needed to make the shards summon him."
Andrew nodded. "Very well, we will continue openly speaking about this then. And the story about Akane here being the one who 'found' the legend of the dragon balls stands. Scatha was kind enough to alter evidence of the balls existing in the past, and even fabricated stories about the dragon being summoned a couple of times over the ages."
"Sounds… difficult to believe." I muttered.
"If the legend is to be believed, he had to be summoned at least once before." He insisted.
"Ok." I just said, not really caring much either way.
He gave me a satisfactory nod and smiled at all of us. "Ok, now that that's dealt with for now. Let's go to the heart of this meeting. We have to choose our leader."
I blinked. "Wait, you're not it?"
He actually laughed at that. "Me? Naw, I'm the wise old man who gives the heroes his wisdom to help them out. Besides, I will never be in the field if I can help it."
I closed my eyes. I could do it. I could be the leader.
On a related note, how do you think the vote should go? This is as far as I had typed-out, so I can tweak incoming chapters more. Should Taylor be the leader, or say, Akane?
Classic!Planeswalkers can do that. Modern ones are far less powerful. Plus, her spark had just ignited, and she triggered pretty much at the same time.
Edit: Also, from what I recall, Urza (perhaps one of the greatest Planeswalkers ever) had a lot of trouble with Phyrexia. So it's not like they can just 'Avada Kedavra' an entire plane, even at their highest power.
Edit: Also, from what I recall, Urza (perhaps one of the greatest Planeswalkers ever) had a lot of trouble with Phyrexia. So it's not like they can just 'Avada Kedavra' an entire plane, even at their highest power.
Hard to see why someone like Richter would need to subject himself to a leader instead of a partnership or alliance anyway. IF he has to, it'd probably be the person who can see into his head, most likely, even if they don't have the combat perks.
Still, Urza was a Classic Planeswalker, and even he wasn't omnipotent, Taylor was supposed to be a modern planeswalker who had her spark altered as it ignited.
