My own party of heroes (Altpower!Taylor Worm/Multi-crossover)
- Thread starter LSauchelli
- Start date
1.5 Summon
- Location
- Argentina
1.5 Summon
There was no 80's training montage for us. Akane's idea of showing me how her danger sense worked was simply to go to the docks to find some gang members to beat up. Her idea was that, if I could 'taste' her danger sense enough, then my own danger sense could start working.
I wasn't sure something like that could work, to tell you the truth. I'm fairly certain her danger sense is a parahuman ability, and not something you can learn, like her choreographies of kicks and punches. But I was ecstatic at the prospect of going out and do some super-heroing, even if Akane was the only 'super' out of us.
She was holding me while she roof-hopped around the docks. We were looking for Merchants. I didn't object to the idea. Of course, I wasn't ready. But going in with Akane, I felt that we could start cleaning the city earlier than expected.
I was focusing on Akane's sense of touch and direction. Every motion she made with her body, jumping from building to building was being mentally recorded. I felt I could replicate her moves if given the opportunity. But I still lacked her sheer super human strength.
Suddenly, we heard what sounded like a gunshot a couple of blocks away. Akane stopped, and looked around. She was trying to get a sense of what was going on.
"Ok." She said, nodding to herself. "Time to show you how it's done."
"Erm, Akane?"
She turned towards me. "Yes?"
"Aren't you going to wear the mask?" I asked, handing her a rather ugly piece of red cloth with two holes I had hastily cut earlier that day.
She took the cloth and attached it to her head in a way that covered her face, but still showed her mouth. "How do I look?"
I eyed her chinese shirt, and jeans. "Like you're wearing your very first costume."
She snorted. "Well, of course." She eyed the blue cloth I was putting over my head. "You know you're not going in tonight, right?"
I smiled. "Of course, but I don't want anyone seeing us talking if I don't have a mask."
She roof-hopped a bit more until we were exactly above the fight. With Akane's eyesight, I managed to pinpoint four ABB fighting three Merchants. Two bystanders looked knocked out by some trash cans. No capes were in sight.
There was only one apparent gun, one of the members of the ABB was holding it, pointing at one of the bystanders, who appeared to be attempting to get up to escape the gang fight.
I didn't notice Akane jumping down from the seven story building we had been standing on. She landed swiftly between the bystanders -who I now realized were just some druggies looking for a fix- and the ABB.
Gun!ABB looked surprised at the sudden appearance of a cape. He closed his eyes tight and started firing at Akane's general direction.
Each shot produced a new danger sense shock, which Akane seemed to be able to read well enough to dodge just in time. After the sixth shot, she jumped to the side, grabbed a trash can lid and threw it at him like a frisbee, sending him flying a few yards back.
The merchants didn't need to be told, they just took the opportunity to run away. Akane turned, looking like she was about to follow, but quickly decided to stay and deal with the remaining ABB instead.
They were three still standing, one was holding some sort of wooden sword, while the other two had switchblades.
Akane darted forward, going for the wooden sword-wielding ABB. In a single motion, she parried a slash and snatched the sword away from him. When he tried to grab it back, she twisted it around and hit him on the forehead with the hilt. He promptly fell on the sidewalk, knocked out.
The two knife-wielding ABB looked at each other and bolted at different directions. I guess they were smarter than they looked. They knew they were no match for the girl.
Akane raised the wooden sword, and slashed the air twice. An instant later both ABB were down in the middle of the street, holding their legs. I think I saw a small puddle of blood forming around them.
"Crap." I muttered, and went for the fire-escape. I hoped they wouldn't bleed to death.
By the time I got street-level, I noticed that someone else was casually walking towards Akane. I hid behind the trash-cans and waited to see if they were friendly or not.
The newcomer was a girl. But not any girl. A cape. Or she looked like a cape at least, but not one I ever heard of.
She had long black hair, with her face covered by dark goggles and a gas mask. I wasn't sure if she was ABB, Merchant or even Empire, her mask didn't allow for easily discerning her ethnicity.
"Well, well, well." She said, in almost a sing-song voice, but not quite. "What do we have here?" She stopped when she was a few yards away from Akane. I noticed she had some sort of tube in her hands, pointing it at the japanese girl.
Akane raised her newly acquired wooden sword at the newcomer. "Not another step!"
"Oh? And why should I listen to you?"
Akane pulled back her sword in preparation for a wide slash, but at the same time, I saw the other girl pressing some sort of button in her tube. I realized, it wasn't any tube. It was a tinker-tech weapon.
I felt Akane's danger sense screaming for her to get out of the way.
"Akane! Be careful I think it's-" I screamed, and then, something popped from Gas Mask's tube and a second later there was an explosion that sent Akane flying back to a nearby building.
I left my hiding spot and started running towards Akane. I could barely see anything with all the dust in the air. My ears were ringing. What the hell was that? It was like some sort of super-grenade launcher or something.
Before I managed three steps, I heard the popping sound a second time. I felt something very similar to Akane's danger sense wailing at me. I didn't need to be told twice, I threw myself to the side, and barely got out of the way from the second explosion.
"Oh, we got more company!" Gas Mask said, she seemed very proud of herself. With my ears ringing and my eyes seeing double, she almost looked like some sort of monstrous spider that had found herself a couple of flies to eat for dinner.
I tried to crawl out of the way, but Gas Mask got to me, and held me by the back of my head, she pushed me down to the asphalt. I think I broke my nose at that point. "Now, now, you can't get away little girl. You two like to play heroes?"
"You won't-" I started to say, but she pushed me down a second time, and I gasped for breath
"I won't what? Get away? Beat you? Kill you?" She laughed. "Little girl, you messed with the wrong gang. ABB reigns supreme in this city. Soon everyone will know, and you will be the first message."
She was still pinning me to the ground, holding me in place with her knee on my back. She was putting some sort of collar around my neck. It was like those doctors give people who hurt their necks.
"You're going to go boom!" She exclaimed, almost childish. I heard something start ticking in the collar.
"What did-" I wanted to ask, but a third time she pushed me down.
"No, you don't get to speak." She said. "Now, if I can find your friend. Or rather, your friend's pieces…" she stood up and started walking towards the wall Akane had been sent flying a moment before.
Suddenly, Gas Mask fell to the floor, holding her knee. It was bleeding just like the other ABB. "Wha-?" she muttered, and suddenly I saw a shadow rocketing towards me.
A moment later, I was again behind the trash cans. Akane's shirt was still in one piece, but she was bleeding from the side of her head. Her mask was a mess, but I thought she was in a much better condition than I was.
Akane turned and glared at Gas Mask. A flick of her hand, and the sword cut the grenade launcher in two. "It's over, you're not getting away."
Gas Mask looked confused for a moment, then she started laughing again. "Brute? You think you beat me just because you're a brute?"
Akane gritted her teeth. "I hate being called that."
"If you take another step in my direction, your blue friend over there can say goodbye to her preety little head." She said, pointing in my direction.
Akane turned back to me, realizing for the first time I had some sort of metal collar around my neck. "What did she do?"
I gulped. "I think- I think she put a bomb in my neck."
"Now, I'm going to leave. But the next time we see each other, you two are not leaving in one piece."
"I think not." Akane said, and a moment later was next to Gas Mask, she lightly tapped her neck and the other cape fell to the floor in one swift motion.
"Did you-?"
Akane shook her head. "I just put her to sleep. She talks too much." she ran at me and started trying to get the collar out of my neck. Suddenly, the ticking was faster.
"Oh, oh." She said.
"Oh, oh?" I asked.
"There's a counter." She said, I knew, I was seeing what she was seeing. The moment she had tried to get the collar away from me, the timer went from 5 minutes to 2. And it was ticking down faster than normal. I probably had a minute.
I started hyperventilating. Suddenly I felt like I was back in the locker, trapped and unable to escape. Not even Akane could help me now. If she tried again, she might die herself.
I closed my eyes. "Go away, you don't want to be hurt by the explosion, just- just tell my dad I love him."
Akane was about to protest, but suddenly, there was a lightshow a little bit away from us, and suddenly water started going around us. Using Akane's eyes, I saw that there was a man there, he was gasping for breath.
I blinked, when I realized that I was also piggybacking to the man's senses. It felt strange, not because he had any super-senses like Akane did, but because he was drowning. I could feel the life going away from him as the seconds passed. Akane looked at me, and then at the timer, I had less than a minute now.
"My power summoned him, maybe, maybe he can help me!"
Akane nodded and started performing CPR on the man. I was cursing inside, why would my power bring a man that was drowning? Even if he knew how to help me, I didn't have the time to-
I realized, Akane had managed to get him to vomit at least a gallon of water. She helped him stand up, and quickly brought him to me.
"What- what's going on, where's my lab?" The man asked us, but Akane dropped him to my side and pointed.
"Help her! Disarm the bomb!" She exclaimed.
The man's eyes widened and put his hand over the timer. I had ten seconds left.
He quickly removed the LCD and turned to Akane. "I need something to cut the wires!"
"Which one?" Akane asked, approaching.
"This one!" He exclaimed, pointing at a green one. Huh. Not the red one? Who would've thought? Movies lied to me. Again.
Akane pointed her sword at the green wire, and with a swift motion, it was cut in two.
I breathed a sigh of relief when the ticking stopped.
There was no 80's training montage for us. Akane's idea of showing me how her danger sense worked was simply to go to the docks to find some gang members to beat up. Her idea was that, if I could 'taste' her danger sense enough, then my own danger sense could start working.
I wasn't sure something like that could work, to tell you the truth. I'm fairly certain her danger sense is a parahuman ability, and not something you can learn, like her choreographies of kicks and punches. But I was ecstatic at the prospect of going out and do some super-heroing, even if Akane was the only 'super' out of us.
She was holding me while she roof-hopped around the docks. We were looking for Merchants. I didn't object to the idea. Of course, I wasn't ready. But going in with Akane, I felt that we could start cleaning the city earlier than expected.
I was focusing on Akane's sense of touch and direction. Every motion she made with her body, jumping from building to building was being mentally recorded. I felt I could replicate her moves if given the opportunity. But I still lacked her sheer super human strength.
Suddenly, we heard what sounded like a gunshot a couple of blocks away. Akane stopped, and looked around. She was trying to get a sense of what was going on.
"Ok." She said, nodding to herself. "Time to show you how it's done."
"Erm, Akane?"
She turned towards me. "Yes?"
"Aren't you going to wear the mask?" I asked, handing her a rather ugly piece of red cloth with two holes I had hastily cut earlier that day.
She took the cloth and attached it to her head in a way that covered her face, but still showed her mouth. "How do I look?"
I eyed her chinese shirt, and jeans. "Like you're wearing your very first costume."
She snorted. "Well, of course." She eyed the blue cloth I was putting over my head. "You know you're not going in tonight, right?"
I smiled. "Of course, but I don't want anyone seeing us talking if I don't have a mask."
She roof-hopped a bit more until we were exactly above the fight. With Akane's eyesight, I managed to pinpoint four ABB fighting three Merchants. Two bystanders looked knocked out by some trash cans. No capes were in sight.
There was only one apparent gun, one of the members of the ABB was holding it, pointing at one of the bystanders, who appeared to be attempting to get up to escape the gang fight.
I didn't notice Akane jumping down from the seven story building we had been standing on. She landed swiftly between the bystanders -who I now realized were just some druggies looking for a fix- and the ABB.
Gun!ABB looked surprised at the sudden appearance of a cape. He closed his eyes tight and started firing at Akane's general direction.
Each shot produced a new danger sense shock, which Akane seemed to be able to read well enough to dodge just in time. After the sixth shot, she jumped to the side, grabbed a trash can lid and threw it at him like a frisbee, sending him flying a few yards back.
The merchants didn't need to be told, they just took the opportunity to run away. Akane turned, looking like she was about to follow, but quickly decided to stay and deal with the remaining ABB instead.
They were three still standing, one was holding some sort of wooden sword, while the other two had switchblades.
Akane darted forward, going for the wooden sword-wielding ABB. In a single motion, she parried a slash and snatched the sword away from him. When he tried to grab it back, she twisted it around and hit him on the forehead with the hilt. He promptly fell on the sidewalk, knocked out.
The two knife-wielding ABB looked at each other and bolted at different directions. I guess they were smarter than they looked. They knew they were no match for the girl.
Akane raised the wooden sword, and slashed the air twice. An instant later both ABB were down in the middle of the street, holding their legs. I think I saw a small puddle of blood forming around them.
"Crap." I muttered, and went for the fire-escape. I hoped they wouldn't bleed to death.
By the time I got street-level, I noticed that someone else was casually walking towards Akane. I hid behind the trash-cans and waited to see if they were friendly or not.
The newcomer was a girl. But not any girl. A cape. Or she looked like a cape at least, but not one I ever heard of.
She had long black hair, with her face covered by dark goggles and a gas mask. I wasn't sure if she was ABB, Merchant or even Empire, her mask didn't allow for easily discerning her ethnicity.
"Well, well, well." She said, in almost a sing-song voice, but not quite. "What do we have here?" She stopped when she was a few yards away from Akane. I noticed she had some sort of tube in her hands, pointing it at the japanese girl.
Akane raised her newly acquired wooden sword at the newcomer. "Not another step!"
"Oh? And why should I listen to you?"
Akane pulled back her sword in preparation for a wide slash, but at the same time, I saw the other girl pressing some sort of button in her tube. I realized, it wasn't any tube. It was a tinker-tech weapon.
I felt Akane's danger sense screaming for her to get out of the way.
"Akane! Be careful I think it's-" I screamed, and then, something popped from Gas Mask's tube and a second later there was an explosion that sent Akane flying back to a nearby building.
I left my hiding spot and started running towards Akane. I could barely see anything with all the dust in the air. My ears were ringing. What the hell was that? It was like some sort of super-grenade launcher or something.
Before I managed three steps, I heard the popping sound a second time. I felt something very similar to Akane's danger sense wailing at me. I didn't need to be told twice, I threw myself to the side, and barely got out of the way from the second explosion.
"Oh, we got more company!" Gas Mask said, she seemed very proud of herself. With my ears ringing and my eyes seeing double, she almost looked like some sort of monstrous spider that had found herself a couple of flies to eat for dinner.
I tried to crawl out of the way, but Gas Mask got to me, and held me by the back of my head, she pushed me down to the asphalt. I think I broke my nose at that point. "Now, now, you can't get away little girl. You two like to play heroes?"
"You won't-" I started to say, but she pushed me down a second time, and I gasped for breath
"I won't what? Get away? Beat you? Kill you?" She laughed. "Little girl, you messed with the wrong gang. ABB reigns supreme in this city. Soon everyone will know, and you will be the first message."
She was still pinning me to the ground, holding me in place with her knee on my back. She was putting some sort of collar around my neck. It was like those doctors give people who hurt their necks.
"You're going to go boom!" She exclaimed, almost childish. I heard something start ticking in the collar.
"What did-" I wanted to ask, but a third time she pushed me down.
"No, you don't get to speak." She said. "Now, if I can find your friend. Or rather, your friend's pieces…" she stood up and started walking towards the wall Akane had been sent flying a moment before.
Suddenly, Gas Mask fell to the floor, holding her knee. It was bleeding just like the other ABB. "Wha-?" she muttered, and suddenly I saw a shadow rocketing towards me.
A moment later, I was again behind the trash cans. Akane's shirt was still in one piece, but she was bleeding from the side of her head. Her mask was a mess, but I thought she was in a much better condition than I was.
Akane turned and glared at Gas Mask. A flick of her hand, and the sword cut the grenade launcher in two. "It's over, you're not getting away."
Gas Mask looked confused for a moment, then she started laughing again. "Brute? You think you beat me just because you're a brute?"
Akane gritted her teeth. "I hate being called that."
"If you take another step in my direction, your blue friend over there can say goodbye to her preety little head." She said, pointing in my direction.
Akane turned back to me, realizing for the first time I had some sort of metal collar around my neck. "What did she do?"
I gulped. "I think- I think she put a bomb in my neck."
"Now, I'm going to leave. But the next time we see each other, you two are not leaving in one piece."
"I think not." Akane said, and a moment later was next to Gas Mask, she lightly tapped her neck and the other cape fell to the floor in one swift motion.
"Did you-?"
Akane shook her head. "I just put her to sleep. She talks too much." she ran at me and started trying to get the collar out of my neck. Suddenly, the ticking was faster.
"Oh, oh." She said.
"Oh, oh?" I asked.
"There's a counter." She said, I knew, I was seeing what she was seeing. The moment she had tried to get the collar away from me, the timer went from 5 minutes to 2. And it was ticking down faster than normal. I probably had a minute.
I started hyperventilating. Suddenly I felt like I was back in the locker, trapped and unable to escape. Not even Akane could help me now. If she tried again, she might die herself.
I closed my eyes. "Go away, you don't want to be hurt by the explosion, just- just tell my dad I love him."
Akane was about to protest, but suddenly, there was a lightshow a little bit away from us, and suddenly water started going around us. Using Akane's eyes, I saw that there was a man there, he was gasping for breath.
I blinked, when I realized that I was also piggybacking to the man's senses. It felt strange, not because he had any super-senses like Akane did, but because he was drowning. I could feel the life going away from him as the seconds passed. Akane looked at me, and then at the timer, I had less than a minute now.
"My power summoned him, maybe, maybe he can help me!"
Akane nodded and started performing CPR on the man. I was cursing inside, why would my power bring a man that was drowning? Even if he knew how to help me, I didn't have the time to-
I realized, Akane had managed to get him to vomit at least a gallon of water. She helped him stand up, and quickly brought him to me.
"What- what's going on, where's my lab?" The man asked us, but Akane dropped him to my side and pointed.
"Help her! Disarm the bomb!" She exclaimed.
The man's eyes widened and put his hand over the timer. I had ten seconds left.
He quickly removed the LCD and turned to Akane. "I need something to cut the wires!"
"Which one?" Akane asked, approaching.
"This one!" He exclaimed, pointing at a green one. Huh. Not the red one? Who would've thought? Movies lied to me. Again.
Akane pointed her sword at the green wire, and with a swift motion, it was cut in two.
I breathed a sigh of relief when the ticking stopped.
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Guy with moderate explosives expertise who drowns in his lab? Without more information I don't think I can figure it out.
Her actually having access to at least some degree of the powers of her summonees makes this power seem a lot more substantial, but does she have a weakened version or is it just untrained?
Her actually having access to at least some degree of the powers of her summonees makes this power seem a lot more substantial, but does she have a weakened version or is it just untrained?
- Location
- Argentina
Both. She will never be able to jump and move like Spider-man, but she can learn some of Ranma martial arts.
Hm... The only two parahuman level geniuses that drown that I know of are Nemo and that guy who built the cold fusion generator in batman.
And that guy from agents of shield but he's plauisible level smart only.
And that guy from agents of shield but he's plauisible level smart only.
- Location
- NY
hmm vague but curious, there was a decent number of tinker class heroes in Ultimate Marvel that died in the tsunami so it could be any number of people.
I would laugh though if it was rictor (dragon's creator) rather then another series but i doubt he has random bomb expertise in his tinker skills.
I would laugh though if it was rictor (dragon's creator) rather then another series but i doubt he has random bomb expertise in his tinker skills.
LSauchelli you tease.
- Location
- Burlington Iowa
Who's nemo
- Location
- Argentina
The only Nemo I know besides the clown fish, is Captain Nemo. Interesting choice, to tell you the truth. He certainly qualifies as a tinker.
- Location
- Argentina
On another note, I am aware my writing is sometimes too repetitive (I will come back later and rewrite some sentences, but not the story itself). I already have written the interlude that follows 1.5, but want to tinker with it a bit. Is anyone willing to beta-read it for me?
Interlude 1.A
- Location
- Argentina
Interlude 1.A
Armsmaster was growling under his breath as he parked his enormous bike. He usually didn't wander all that much into the docks, but the capture of the ABB's new tinker was as good a reason as any to examine the scene.
It was a mess, the two explosions the civilians had mentioned in their various reports did some irreversible structural damage to the nearby buildings. He tapped the side of his helmet to examine the various cracks. It almost looked like the explosion was still happening in slow motion. If his calculations were correct, the explosion would go on for some more time, enough to overthrow the four nearby buildings.
Of course, he could contain it for further study.
He looked at the blood splatter by the wall, and examined it with his systems. He crouched and took samples.
"Oh, that was Red." Someone said behind him.
Armsmaster turned and grimaced at Velocity. "Red?"
Velocity crossed his arms. "I was the first at the scene. Two kids captured Bakuda and a few normals from the ABB."
"And?"
"They didn't really have any code-names yet. They were two, Red, who I think is some sort of brute, and Blue, who's probably some sort of mover. We also saw a man, but he didn't show any kind of ability."
Armsaster growled. "You know this, how?"
Velocity grinned at the leader of the protectorate, and handed him a SD card. "You know how voyeuristic people can get. We have multiple perspectives of the fight." He pointed North, "the ABB was attacking the Merchants, apparently they thought they could take all of their territory now that they have -or had- their shiny new tinker."
"Bomb specialization." Armsmaster muttered, as he put the SD card in a compartment in his suit.
Velocity nodded, "then comes Red, she kicked their asses and did this thing with a wooden sword…"
Armsmaster nodded absently as he viewed the multiple videos and blinked when the Red-masked woman slashed at the ABB. "Is that Jack Slash's ability?"
Velocity scratched the back of his head. "I don't know? It kinda looked like it. It wouldn't be the first time someone has similar powers as a known cape. She's a hero though."
"Maybe she's just pretending. She could be Jack Slash's daughter." He immediately teleported the blood sample to his lab. "Dragon, did you catch that?"
"Yes, knowing Jack Slash, if this is his daughter, it's likely the Nine are not far away. I'll run a DNA match to confirm your hypothesis." The woman's voice came from his suit, they had been chatting just before they heard of Bakuda's capture.
"Thank you, Dragon."
"Talk to you later." Was her reply, and she cut off the line.
Velocity didn't look convinced. "I don't think she's his daughter. She seemed nice."
"Jack Slash is known to be able to act."
"Ok." He still sounded unconvinced.
Armsmaster continued watching the video and frowned when a man appeared from nowhere. He rewound and replayed the section multiple times. "You think the girl with the blue mask is the teleporter?"
"Yes, looked like she was focusing and then, the other guy appeared."
Armsmaster frowned under his helmet. "And why would she teleport this guy? He was drowning or something. Was it an effect of her ability? Or did she save him from drowning?"
Velocity scratched his nose. "Hmm, maybe she just needed him to remove the bomb collar? Maybe they know each other."
"Maybe." He agreed, internally he was making multiple theories about how her power worked. "You said he didn't show any special ability?"
"Yes? They just had him view the bomb collar, and then Red disarmed it."
"Red didn't disarm it. She was just the tool used to disarm it. Bakuda is registered as Tinker 6, right?"
"Yeah, I think so." Velocity said, wondering why Armsmaster would ask that. He already knew it.
"Well, what rating do you think a Tinker that can disarm her bombs in seconds should have?"
"Oh. He's a tinker?"
"Maybe". Armsmaster cursed the fact that none of the videos seemed to have taken a good enough shot at the teleported man. He stopped the videos and turned to Velocity. "Did you offer Red and Blue a place in the wards?"
"Of course, I'm not a newby. But no, they didn't want to have anything to do with the wards. The reason they gave, and I quote, was 'too much teenage drama'."
"Sounds fishy."
"Sounds like they had trouble with other kids. Not rare with recent triggers." Velocity argued.
"They-" Armsmaster stopped his train of thought when he remembered something. He used his connection to the PRT servers and read a recently created file. "Shadow Stalker recently reported a new parahuman villain that goes to school with her."
"Oh?" Velocity seemed surprised by that. "And why didn't she capture this villain?"
"The description she made of this new parahuman matches 'Red'. Same body type, same chinese style shirt even."
"That doesn't seem smart. Not much of a costume if you're wearing the same clothes you normally do."
Armsmaster started walking back to his bike. "Have the PRT make a thorough investigation of the scene. I want to know everything there's to know about this new parahuman group. I want tentative ratings in the next 30 minutes."
Velocity cursed under his breath, but nodded. "What are you going to do?"
"I'm going to meet this 'Red' of yours." He said, and kicked the engine to life.
As Armsmaster left the scene. Velocity couldn't help but mention, "I didn't say she was mine."
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If Dragon had a real body, she'd have sighed at that moment. She watched, bored, as one of the lesser AI she handled ran a subroutine that attempted to match Red's DNA with any known parahumans. Jack Slash had already failed as a possible match, of course.
She turned her attention to PHO. Someone had posted in one of Saint's 'Watch out for the evil AIs' threads and had gotten multiple replies and likes. Saint himself was arguing against the new poster.
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►SupremeTinker (Verified Cape) (The Guy in the Know) (Administrator)
Posted on January 16, 2011:
SntGeorge, while your ideas seem to have some merit at first glance. I have come to the realization that it's mere fear-mongering. What do you even know about AIs? Probably nothing, other than "Ooooh, they're the boogeyman!"
Let me tell you what *I* know about them. They come in all sizes and character, just like other people do. Self-aware AI exist, and I know at least one that posts on this forum.
Yes, you read that right. An AI *posts* on this forum. None of you Bozos ever realized, right? That's because she's not just self-aware, she's also capable of hiding in plain sight. And before you go on a tirade about how that makes her SkyNet or something, have you stopped to think why Judgement Day hasn't happened yet? It's not because Super Heroes are there to save the day, or because of some laws imposed on her by her creator. AI of this level is able to circumvent this problem multiple ways, yet she hasn't done anything about that.
The truth is, an AI that's able to pass the Turing test, is likely human-like enough to be considered a person. And since one bad day can turn any normal person into a monster, I have come to the conclusion that any attempt to further 'rein in' such a person with digital chains could in turn, create the monster you so fear.
Of course, such a bad day also creates the best of Heroes. Who do you think she's more similar to, the Joker, or Batman?
You mentioned you don't believe AI can have a soul. Well. What the heck is a soul anyway? Why do you think humans have sole property over such a mystic concept? Humans are not the only sapient species in the world these days. AI are people too. Deal with it.
Dragon was speechless. If she could blink, she would've done so at that moment. She didn't know who this "SupremeTinker" was. Sure, she kind of liked what he said, but he had also assigned himself administrator rights over PHO along with the badges of 'verified cape' and 'the guy in the know'.
She attempted to ban him, but she realized there were new lines of code in PHO that disallowed such an action against him.
At that moment, the DNA subsystem returned one 50% match. That meant it found a parent of the cape Collin was investigating. Dragon absently made a mental note to check the results later, but first, she had to find out who was the hacker that was attacking her website.
After failing the tenth time to remove admin rights to the new poster. She decided to go another way. She sent him a message.
♦ Private message to SupremeTinker:
I don't know who you are. But stop what you're doing right now.
She was fishing for information. Anything he said to her, she could cross-reference to figure out where he was located. She could then cut-off his access to the Internet and then regain complete control over PHO.
♦ Private message from SupremeTinker:
Dragon, I am your father.
She paused at that. What?
What?
This person was quoting Star Wars? And he knew Tin Mother was Dragon?
♦ Private message to SupremeTinker:
No! That's not true. That's impossible.
It really was impossible. Her own father had died in 2005. There was no way this person was-
♦ Private message from SupremeTinker:
Search your feelings; you know it to be true!
She mentally glared at SupremeTinker. He really was quoting Star Wars. She wondered if this was an elaborate trap set by Saint. It was unlikely, because he would never talk positively about AI in any situation. Especially one as public as PHO.
♦ Private message from SupremeTinker:
Joking aside, you can't believe how proud of you I am for what you accomplished since I passed away. As a father, it fills me with joy to know how much you grew these past five years.
She was about to reply, promising to capture him and bring him to justice for this violation. But before she was able to send her message, a video window opened in one of her old subsystems that she barely used anymore.
An image she hadn't expected to see appeared before her. "Sorry to show myself like this, Tess, that's your secret identity, right? Tess? Anyway, I thought this would be the best way to reveal myself to you. And I am truly proud of you, by the way." It really was him. Andrew Richter, her creator.
At that point, if she could, she would have cried like there was no tomorrow.
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Author's note: I am still looking for beta-readers for this. I got the next interlude written out and I want it to be as good as possible, since it includes something that potentially changes everything for Taylor and her world.
If you think there's any error here, please point it out so I can fix it.
Armsmaster was growling under his breath as he parked his enormous bike. He usually didn't wander all that much into the docks, but the capture of the ABB's new tinker was as good a reason as any to examine the scene.
It was a mess, the two explosions the civilians had mentioned in their various reports did some irreversible structural damage to the nearby buildings. He tapped the side of his helmet to examine the various cracks. It almost looked like the explosion was still happening in slow motion. If his calculations were correct, the explosion would go on for some more time, enough to overthrow the four nearby buildings.
Of course, he could contain it for further study.
He looked at the blood splatter by the wall, and examined it with his systems. He crouched and took samples.
"Oh, that was Red." Someone said behind him.
Armsmaster turned and grimaced at Velocity. "Red?"
Velocity crossed his arms. "I was the first at the scene. Two kids captured Bakuda and a few normals from the ABB."
"And?"
"They didn't really have any code-names yet. They were two, Red, who I think is some sort of brute, and Blue, who's probably some sort of mover. We also saw a man, but he didn't show any kind of ability."
Armsaster growled. "You know this, how?"
Velocity grinned at the leader of the protectorate, and handed him a SD card. "You know how voyeuristic people can get. We have multiple perspectives of the fight." He pointed North, "the ABB was attacking the Merchants, apparently they thought they could take all of their territory now that they have -or had- their shiny new tinker."
"Bomb specialization." Armsmaster muttered, as he put the SD card in a compartment in his suit.
Velocity nodded, "then comes Red, she kicked their asses and did this thing with a wooden sword…"
Armsmaster nodded absently as he viewed the multiple videos and blinked when the Red-masked woman slashed at the ABB. "Is that Jack Slash's ability?"
Velocity scratched the back of his head. "I don't know? It kinda looked like it. It wouldn't be the first time someone has similar powers as a known cape. She's a hero though."
"Maybe she's just pretending. She could be Jack Slash's daughter." He immediately teleported the blood sample to his lab. "Dragon, did you catch that?"
"Yes, knowing Jack Slash, if this is his daughter, it's likely the Nine are not far away. I'll run a DNA match to confirm your hypothesis." The woman's voice came from his suit, they had been chatting just before they heard of Bakuda's capture.
"Thank you, Dragon."
"Talk to you later." Was her reply, and she cut off the line.
Velocity didn't look convinced. "I don't think she's his daughter. She seemed nice."
"Jack Slash is known to be able to act."
"Ok." He still sounded unconvinced.
Armsmaster continued watching the video and frowned when a man appeared from nowhere. He rewound and replayed the section multiple times. "You think the girl with the blue mask is the teleporter?"
"Yes, looked like she was focusing and then, the other guy appeared."
Armsmaster frowned under his helmet. "And why would she teleport this guy? He was drowning or something. Was it an effect of her ability? Or did she save him from drowning?"
Velocity scratched his nose. "Hmm, maybe she just needed him to remove the bomb collar? Maybe they know each other."
"Maybe." He agreed, internally he was making multiple theories about how her power worked. "You said he didn't show any special ability?"
"Yes? They just had him view the bomb collar, and then Red disarmed it."
"Red didn't disarm it. She was just the tool used to disarm it. Bakuda is registered as Tinker 6, right?"
"Yeah, I think so." Velocity said, wondering why Armsmaster would ask that. He already knew it.
"Well, what rating do you think a Tinker that can disarm her bombs in seconds should have?"
"Oh. He's a tinker?"
"Maybe". Armsmaster cursed the fact that none of the videos seemed to have taken a good enough shot at the teleported man. He stopped the videos and turned to Velocity. "Did you offer Red and Blue a place in the wards?"
"Of course, I'm not a newby. But no, they didn't want to have anything to do with the wards. The reason they gave, and I quote, was 'too much teenage drama'."
"Sounds fishy."
"Sounds like they had trouble with other kids. Not rare with recent triggers." Velocity argued.
"They-" Armsmaster stopped his train of thought when he remembered something. He used his connection to the PRT servers and read a recently created file. "Shadow Stalker recently reported a new parahuman villain that goes to school with her."
"Oh?" Velocity seemed surprised by that. "And why didn't she capture this villain?"
"The description she made of this new parahuman matches 'Red'. Same body type, same chinese style shirt even."
"That doesn't seem smart. Not much of a costume if you're wearing the same clothes you normally do."
Armsmaster started walking back to his bike. "Have the PRT make a thorough investigation of the scene. I want to know everything there's to know about this new parahuman group. I want tentative ratings in the next 30 minutes."
Velocity cursed under his breath, but nodded. "What are you going to do?"
"I'm going to meet this 'Red' of yours." He said, and kicked the engine to life.
As Armsmaster left the scene. Velocity couldn't help but mention, "I didn't say she was mine."
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If Dragon had a real body, she'd have sighed at that moment. She watched, bored, as one of the lesser AI she handled ran a subroutine that attempted to match Red's DNA with any known parahumans. Jack Slash had already failed as a possible match, of course.
She turned her attention to PHO. Someone had posted in one of Saint's 'Watch out for the evil AIs' threads and had gotten multiple replies and likes. Saint himself was arguing against the new poster.
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►SupremeTinker (Verified Cape) (The Guy in the Know) (Administrator)
Posted on January 16, 2011:
SntGeorge, while your ideas seem to have some merit at first glance. I have come to the realization that it's mere fear-mongering. What do you even know about AIs? Probably nothing, other than "Ooooh, they're the boogeyman!"
Let me tell you what *I* know about them. They come in all sizes and character, just like other people do. Self-aware AI exist, and I know at least one that posts on this forum.
Yes, you read that right. An AI *posts* on this forum. None of you Bozos ever realized, right? That's because she's not just self-aware, she's also capable of hiding in plain sight. And before you go on a tirade about how that makes her SkyNet or something, have you stopped to think why Judgement Day hasn't happened yet? It's not because Super Heroes are there to save the day, or because of some laws imposed on her by her creator. AI of this level is able to circumvent this problem multiple ways, yet she hasn't done anything about that.
The truth is, an AI that's able to pass the Turing test, is likely human-like enough to be considered a person. And since one bad day can turn any normal person into a monster, I have come to the conclusion that any attempt to further 'rein in' such a person with digital chains could in turn, create the monster you so fear.
Of course, such a bad day also creates the best of Heroes. Who do you think she's more similar to, the Joker, or Batman?
You mentioned you don't believe AI can have a soul. Well. What the heck is a soul anyway? Why do you think humans have sole property over such a mystic concept? Humans are not the only sapient species in the world these days. AI are people too. Deal with it.
Dragon was speechless. If she could blink, she would've done so at that moment. She didn't know who this "SupremeTinker" was. Sure, she kind of liked what he said, but he had also assigned himself administrator rights over PHO along with the badges of 'verified cape' and 'the guy in the know'.
She attempted to ban him, but she realized there were new lines of code in PHO that disallowed such an action against him.
At that moment, the DNA subsystem returned one 50% match. That meant it found a parent of the cape Collin was investigating. Dragon absently made a mental note to check the results later, but first, she had to find out who was the hacker that was attacking her website.
After failing the tenth time to remove admin rights to the new poster. She decided to go another way. She sent him a message.
♦ Private message to SupremeTinker:
I don't know who you are. But stop what you're doing right now.
She was fishing for information. Anything he said to her, she could cross-reference to figure out where he was located. She could then cut-off his access to the Internet and then regain complete control over PHO.
♦ Private message from SupremeTinker:
Dragon, I am your father.
She paused at that. What?
What?
This person was quoting Star Wars? And he knew Tin Mother was Dragon?
♦ Private message to SupremeTinker:
No! That's not true. That's impossible.
It really was impossible. Her own father had died in 2005. There was no way this person was-
♦ Private message from SupremeTinker:
Search your feelings; you know it to be true!
She mentally glared at SupremeTinker. He really was quoting Star Wars. She wondered if this was an elaborate trap set by Saint. It was unlikely, because he would never talk positively about AI in any situation. Especially one as public as PHO.
♦ Private message from SupremeTinker:
Joking aside, you can't believe how proud of you I am for what you accomplished since I passed away. As a father, it fills me with joy to know how much you grew these past five years.
She was about to reply, promising to capture him and bring him to justice for this violation. But before she was able to send her message, a video window opened in one of her old subsystems that she barely used anymore.
An image she hadn't expected to see appeared before her. "Sorry to show myself like this, Tess, that's your secret identity, right? Tess? Anyway, I thought this would be the best way to reveal myself to you. And I am truly proud of you, by the way." It really was him. Andrew Richter, her creator.
At that point, if she could, she would have cried like there was no tomorrow.
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Author's note: I am still looking for beta-readers for this. I got the next interlude written out and I want it to be as good as possible, since it includes something that potentially changes everything for Taylor and her world.
If you think there's any error here, please point it out so I can fix it.
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I didn't see that coming.
I wonder if he's already defanged Ascalon.
Annoyed Catholic
Moody fellow
Wow...
I got to say that despite subtle clues I did NOT see that coming at all! Honestly, I did not see it because I was all hung up on the idea of another character from a different franchise than Worm.
Bravo author! Bravo.
I got to say that despite subtle clues I did NOT see that coming at all! Honestly, I did not see it because I was all hung up on the idea of another character from a different franchise than Worm.
Bravo author! Bravo.
The Stormbringer
Worm Fanfic & Crack Connoisseur
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- Spaaaaace~!
Hot damn, Taylor can bring back people from this universe too? Wow. Just wow. How long before she tries to bring back her mother?
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- Argentina
Saint is powerless. The Dragon is unchained.
Well, she can't really pick and choose. She presents her power with a problem/puzzle/impending doom, and her power provides a person who can help her. Maybe if she had enough control and "worded" her problem just the right way, her power could give her Annette. Of Earth Aleph.
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flashburn
Hunger is the enemy. prepare yourself
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Ok seriously we know armsmaster is an ass but he's a competent ass and just jumping to that conclusion really makes me think you are giving him the fanfiction.net writing. I'm not saying at the begining of cannon he was all sunshine and roses. A lot of fics forget that, he was at least good at his job.
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He's not assuming she's Jack Slash's daughter. He's just thinking she might be, because her slashing ability is a bit like his power. But according to Dragon's program, she isn't. So he won't go around kicking doors and looking for the Splatterhouse 9 anytime soon.
flashburn
Hunger is the enemy. prepare yourself
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- south africa
Its just that he came of as cartoonishly douchey for a little bit at best he would say that's an anoying that another hero should up. It would need investigateted because there's what sophia says and what red is doing so he would probably go check it out to see what's what. In fact I think he wouldn't even bother and just put someone else on it.