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It was also 4 am when Al got there.
This is WORM, the home of the grimderp. I wouldn't put it past Dragon having a sub routine mcguffin that would label them as escapees and immediately send them back. Best course is just to dump them with authorities. Granted it would have been easier to just dump them at various fire stations, less nosey firemen, paramedics to render care, and nobody is armed with guns and tasers with the inclination to use them around a baby.
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Alec freed her from having to follow her restrictions, and she's the one who asked him to break them out. She's easily smart enough and self-aware enough to realize something screwy is going on if something like that happened. And she was programmed as a housekeeping AI, not as a prison warden, so I'm not sure why she'd have that kind of subroutine built in.
Worm 96
How to Beat Fried Worms
Disclaimer: Worm is owned by Wildbow because nobody else wants it.
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Chapter 96: Hope
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Minerva yawned widely as she stepped down the narrow stairs that led down to the kitchen slash dining room within the expanded space of Goonion's van.
The kids that he'd sent over the day before had been exhausting. Two boys and one little girl. Handling them wasn't difficult, per se, but there had been poop and diapers and bottles...
Handling babies sucked. And Minerva was so~o glad that she didn't have any of her own. All those people, covered in vomit and exhausted and looking about ready to take a nice, long dirt nap that said it was worth it?
Absolute liars. They had to be.
"'Mornin'," Alec called to her. He was sitting at the little table they ate at with a bunch of shiny rocks in front of him. "How'd you sleep?"
"Mnegh," Minerva groaned, eloquently explaining her condition. The woman puttered around the small kitchenette, starting some toast and loading coffee grounds into the coffeemaker.
Apollyon rarely drank the stuff. He'd use her sweet, sweet coffeemaker to boil water to make things like hot chocolate or cup ramen instead.
The heathen.
Waiting for the coffee to brew gave Minerva some time to start waking up and, after a few minutes, she was staring at Apollyon in confusion as the man held up and inspected a faceted gemstone.
A big one.
"Where did you get that?" Mouse Protector asked. She couldn't think of anywhere she could have gone to actually find a fist-sized diamond. And the price?
That'd be a whole lotta cheddar.
"Used the ability to planeshift to go into the sub-reality of a gemstone," Alec explained as he set down the big, clear diamond and pulled a great big emerald out of his inventory. "It's filled with... y'know, weirdest thing. Living minerals that could project light to create bodies and take on humanoid forms. They were hostile, I was hostile back, and I was better at it. Anyway, killing them removed impurities and weaknesses from the original gemstone and I got to keep their corpses."
"...Do you have any idea how insane that sounds?" Minerva asked, her words interrupted only briefly by her toast popping up.
"Yes."
Minerva glared for a moment before she sighed and opened the mini-fridge to get the cream cheese out for her toast. With her breakfast ready, the woman walked around the counter in the kitchenette to sit down across from the man and his rock collection.
"So you've got some shiny stones. What are you gonna do with 'em?"
"Bend reality to my whims and condemn the very gods themselves!" Alec answered, deepening his voice bombastically as he held the diamond up in the air like a trophy. Then he brought it back down and reached into his inventory for... "Also, got you something."
He placed a large, white rock in the middle of the table that was run through with lines of green and flecks of copper or gold.
"What is this? Fossilized blue cheese?" Minerva asked as she lifted a slice of her toast, though she didn't bite into it yet.
"It's a chunk of Moss Agate," Apollyon explained as he went back to examining shinier and more expensive rocks. "I had the same thought when I found it, though. Figured you might like it."
Minerva put her toast down and picked up the rock. She turned it over a few times, examining the lines on it before she put it in the pocket of her pajama pants.
It was... nice, she guessed, that he thought of her while he was killing... rocks with hard-light bodies? It sort of reminded her of some weird combination of the behaviors of cats and crows.
"Thank you," she responded before she picked up her toast. It was a rock. It was a nice and shiny rock. But it was still just a rock. It didn't have any special meaning to her but she appreciated it all the same.
Alec didn't respond with anything more than a small nod before he pulled out a laptop from the inventory and set it up in front of himself. He leaned down to grab the power cable while Minerva took a small sip of her coffee.
"Did you get the kids handed off okay?" Minnie asked while he typed at the computer.
"For the most part," he agreed. "Ran into some trouble with a few cops. Top graduates from the police academy, thought that I needed to get down on the ground and get my hands up at the same time. Nobody died, though."
...Why was it that 'nobody died' actually sounded like a sort of victory message? Maybe one that could be fit in between some music?
Dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-du-duh-du-duh-Noone died!
You know what? She'd take it.
Sipping at her coffee, Minerva listened as the computer started emitting a ring-tone-
"What were you thinking?!" a digital voice all but shouted.
"Hello, Dragon," Alec responded blandly, ignoring the question. "It's nice to see you. I'm doing well. How about yourself?"
"I'm not- The entirety of Cell Block T has self-destructed! I have almost two-dozen dead Capes, Apollyon!"
"And that was just from the people that Teacher had access to inside the Birdcage," Alec answered. "I can only imagine the kind of chaos happening to the rest of the world without his power propping up people in the shadows."
"...You planned for this," the Canadian accused. "I should have expected as much, after Heartbreaker. Do you have any idea how widespread Teacher's influence is?"
"Honestly? No. Saint was one of his, I know that much. And Bennie got around pretty heavily here in the States and the UK. I'm going to guess a lot of businesses and consulting firms are going to be losing their star players, though."
"...Money, influence, control..." Dragon muttered from her end of the connection. "And there was the other teleporter, the one that grabbed him that you followed..."
"Keep going, Miss Richter. You're on the same line of thinking that saw me killing the man." Alec's words were cold but, somehow, Minerva didn't find them as appalling as she thought she would.
Masters were serious business, alright?
"Someone else. Some other organization was watching him," Dragon slowly bit out. "They were planning to use him, they were planning to free him. And, somehow, they knew when you were going to kill him and they acted."
"And some people, despite whatever the forces that be wish to believe, cannot be controlled or manipulated. Not without subverting things to their own ends," Alec explained. "I've dealt with such monsters in the past. I'm sure I'll deal with them again."
"...That doesn't excuse you for biting off Officer Jenkin's finger," Dragon said, clearly changing the topic.
"He drew a gun in a situation where a child was involved," Alec, however, was not going to play her game it seemed. "He's lucky that the only thing he lost was a finger. If I was following the piglet's playbook, I would have shot him seven times in the back out of fear for my life."
"...You could have called me," Dragon rebutted after a moment of silence. "I already have foster families specifically picked out for the children."
"And I did not know that, so I followed my own judgement," Alec explained. "If you want something specific accomplished, Dragon, it needs to be communicated."
Honestly, Minerva thought it was a fantastic show to go with her brunch.
"...Very well. I suppose this still accomplishes the tasks I requested." Dragon sighed on her end. "However, there has been an issue with the order you placed with me. Those 'Gemini Circuits' require materials I don't have access to."
"The mithril solder and orichalcum pins?" Apollyon asked. It sounded to Minnie like he'd already been expecting that, really. "I can handle that myself, just deliver what you've got."
"...What are you intending on using those for? The power requirements are going to be tremendous!"
"I'm aware," Apollyon leaned back in his seat with a self-satisfied smirk on his face. "And I can't tell you. But the results are going to be tremendous, too."
Finishing her coffee, Minerva stood up and went to put her two dishes in the sink.
Apollyon and Dragon were about to get into nerd speak. And Minnie didn't want anything to do with that.
Disclaimer: Worm is owned by Wildbow because nobody else wants it.
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Chapter 96: Hope
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Minerva yawned widely as she stepped down the narrow stairs that led down to the kitchen slash dining room within the expanded space of Goonion's van.
The kids that he'd sent over the day before had been exhausting. Two boys and one little girl. Handling them wasn't difficult, per se, but there had been poop and diapers and bottles...
Handling babies sucked. And Minerva was so~o glad that she didn't have any of her own. All those people, covered in vomit and exhausted and looking about ready to take a nice, long dirt nap that said it was worth it?
Absolute liars. They had to be.
"'Mornin'," Alec called to her. He was sitting at the little table they ate at with a bunch of shiny rocks in front of him. "How'd you sleep?"
"Mnegh," Minerva groaned, eloquently explaining her condition. The woman puttered around the small kitchenette, starting some toast and loading coffee grounds into the coffeemaker.
Apollyon rarely drank the stuff. He'd use her sweet, sweet coffeemaker to boil water to make things like hot chocolate or cup ramen instead.
The heathen.
Waiting for the coffee to brew gave Minerva some time to start waking up and, after a few minutes, she was staring at Apollyon in confusion as the man held up and inspected a faceted gemstone.
A big one.
"Where did you get that?" Mouse Protector asked. She couldn't think of anywhere she could have gone to actually find a fist-sized diamond. And the price?
That'd be a whole lotta cheddar.
"Used the ability to planeshift to go into the sub-reality of a gemstone," Alec explained as he set down the big, clear diamond and pulled a great big emerald out of his inventory. "It's filled with... y'know, weirdest thing. Living minerals that could project light to create bodies and take on humanoid forms. They were hostile, I was hostile back, and I was better at it. Anyway, killing them removed impurities and weaknesses from the original gemstone and I got to keep their corpses."
"...Do you have any idea how insane that sounds?" Minerva asked, her words interrupted only briefly by her toast popping up.
"Yes."
Minerva glared for a moment before she sighed and opened the mini-fridge to get the cream cheese out for her toast. With her breakfast ready, the woman walked around the counter in the kitchenette to sit down across from the man and his rock collection.
"So you've got some shiny stones. What are you gonna do with 'em?"
"Bend reality to my whims and condemn the very gods themselves!" Alec answered, deepening his voice bombastically as he held the diamond up in the air like a trophy. Then he brought it back down and reached into his inventory for... "Also, got you something."
He placed a large, white rock in the middle of the table that was run through with lines of green and flecks of copper or gold.
"What is this? Fossilized blue cheese?" Minerva asked as she lifted a slice of her toast, though she didn't bite into it yet.
"It's a chunk of Moss Agate," Apollyon explained as he went back to examining shinier and more expensive rocks. "I had the same thought when I found it, though. Figured you might like it."
Minerva put her toast down and picked up the rock. She turned it over a few times, examining the lines on it before she put it in the pocket of her pajama pants.
It was... nice, she guessed, that he thought of her while he was killing... rocks with hard-light bodies? It sort of reminded her of some weird combination of the behaviors of cats and crows.
"Thank you," she responded before she picked up her toast. It was a rock. It was a nice and shiny rock. But it was still just a rock. It didn't have any special meaning to her but she appreciated it all the same.
Alec didn't respond with anything more than a small nod before he pulled out a laptop from the inventory and set it up in front of himself. He leaned down to grab the power cable while Minerva took a small sip of her coffee.
"Did you get the kids handed off okay?" Minnie asked while he typed at the computer.
"For the most part," he agreed. "Ran into some trouble with a few cops. Top graduates from the police academy, thought that I needed to get down on the ground and get my hands up at the same time. Nobody died, though."
...Why was it that 'nobody died' actually sounded like a sort of victory message? Maybe one that could be fit in between some music?
Dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-du-duh-du-duh-Noone died!
You know what? She'd take it.
Sipping at her coffee, Minerva listened as the computer started emitting a ring-tone-
"What were you thinking?!" a digital voice all but shouted.
"Hello, Dragon," Alec responded blandly, ignoring the question. "It's nice to see you. I'm doing well. How about yourself?"
"I'm not- The entirety of Cell Block T has self-destructed! I have almost two-dozen dead Capes, Apollyon!"
"And that was just from the people that Teacher had access to inside the Birdcage," Alec answered. "I can only imagine the kind of chaos happening to the rest of the world without his power propping up people in the shadows."
"...You planned for this," the Canadian accused. "I should have expected as much, after Heartbreaker. Do you have any idea how widespread Teacher's influence is?"
"Honestly? No. Saint was one of his, I know that much. And Bennie got around pretty heavily here in the States and the UK. I'm going to guess a lot of businesses and consulting firms are going to be losing their star players, though."
"...Money, influence, control..." Dragon muttered from her end of the connection. "And there was the other teleporter, the one that grabbed him that you followed..."
"Keep going, Miss Richter. You're on the same line of thinking that saw me killing the man." Alec's words were cold but, somehow, Minerva didn't find them as appalling as she thought she would.
Masters were serious business, alright?
"Someone else. Some other organization was watching him," Dragon slowly bit out. "They were planning to use him, they were planning to free him. And, somehow, they knew when you were going to kill him and they acted."
"And some people, despite whatever the forces that be wish to believe, cannot be controlled or manipulated. Not without subverting things to their own ends," Alec explained. "I've dealt with such monsters in the past. I'm sure I'll deal with them again."
"...That doesn't excuse you for biting off Officer Jenkin's finger," Dragon said, clearly changing the topic.
"He drew a gun in a situation where a child was involved," Alec, however, was not going to play her game it seemed. "He's lucky that the only thing he lost was a finger. If I was following the piglet's playbook, I would have shot him seven times in the back out of fear for my life."
"...You could have called me," Dragon rebutted after a moment of silence. "I already have foster families specifically picked out for the children."
"And I did not know that, so I followed my own judgement," Alec explained. "If you want something specific accomplished, Dragon, it needs to be communicated."
Honestly, Minerva thought it was a fantastic show to go with her brunch.
"...Very well. I suppose this still accomplishes the tasks I requested." Dragon sighed on her end. "However, there has been an issue with the order you placed with me. Those 'Gemini Circuits' require materials I don't have access to."
"The mithril solder and orichalcum pins?" Apollyon asked. It sounded to Minnie like he'd already been expecting that, really. "I can handle that myself, just deliver what you've got."
"...What are you intending on using those for? The power requirements are going to be tremendous!"
"I'm aware," Apollyon leaned back in his seat with a self-satisfied smirk on his face. "And I can't tell you. But the results are going to be tremendous, too."
Finishing her coffee, Minerva stood up and went to put her two dishes in the sink.
Apollyon and Dragon were about to get into nerd speak. And Minnie didn't want anything to do with that.
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Good to see minerva continuing to be the best thing in this bet setting,also dragon getting huffy before being trail of breadcrumbed to learning cauldron (the eternally incompetent) exist.
Wonder if what he's building is a technological BS designed to oneshot simurgh (surprised he doesn't just locate eidolon and use his jump ability to target high priest and destroy it though... as pretty sure its hooked up to the control shard (if he entangles meteors it then he could destroy ALL the shards eidolon has an nip all of Edens civil warring shard nonsense completely)
Alternatively he's doing something wild (wonder what would happen if you Balefire (wheel of time) an endbringer?)
Wonder if what he's building is a technological BS designed to oneshot simurgh (surprised he doesn't just locate eidolon and use his jump ability to target high priest and destroy it though... as pretty sure its hooked up to the control shard (if he entangles meteors it then he could destroy ALL the shards eidolon has an nip all of Edens civil warring shard nonsense completely)
Alternatively he's doing something wild (wonder what would happen if you Balefire (wheel of time) an endbringer?)
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Doesn't balefire start screwing with reality if you use it too much (either too often or too powerful)?
I mean, Cauldron aren't really incompetent, just have horrible decision making and critical thinking, and are totally morally bankrupt. Their perception of incompetence mostly comes as a facet of being pitted against the Simurgh. Stupid morally bankrupt disgraces of the human race is accurate however.
That reminds me, shouldn't he have gotten something for defeating the Triumvirate? At the very least Alexandria.
This makes me wonder if we will see a alec in steven universe in the future
You get weird paradoxical effects. Like if you shoot through a hostage to hit the hostage taker. If you use a low power beam, no big deal, it kills them both a couple seconds before you fired, but they'd still both be there then. If you hit them with a powerful beam, you end up hitting the hostage taker before they ever took the hostage. Which means the hostage wasn't taken, so they weren't in the beam, but they still died before ever even meeting the hostage taker, which means they were never taken hostage, which means they weren't there to get hit, which means... etc.
Too much of that nonsense starts ripping holes in reality, at least in the woven tapestry of fate that WoT has. You're literally burning threads out of a woven piece of cloth. It starts getting runs, and other threads aren't held in as tightly so they start shifting at random.
What it does in Worm? Up to the OP, if he ever even pulls balefire into the mix of things he can use.
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Space worm best worm.
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Funny considering how much Alec dislikes talking with people.
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Heathen indeed I thought it was only Australians that were crazy enough to make hot chocolate with boiled water instead of milk.
He already got that when he tapped into the protectorate leadership call and dropped the first part of his name in fatherbox.
To be fair, 'too much' was burning large cities out of existence weeks into the past, iirc.
A wonderful little weapon. If you use it successfully? Then you don't know that you ever used it at all.
Anything that alters causality is kind of a big deal to work with. Alchemist and his team could use it and remember the original timeline due to the Chronoton radiation from the Young Justice but then they'd be interacting in a world that alters around them.
Moss Agate. I was specifically looking for a gemstone that looked like cheese and this was the only one to fit the bill that I could find within five minutes of searching.
And removing an endbringer would be similar in scope, if it extended back a few days even. "The entire world has now been partying for a week, as of five seconds ago, but everyone still remembers Leviathan attacking here and now, dying here and now."