MaimakteriAnn
(Verified Sleepy)
- Location
- Enormous And Round Terran Homeworld
- Pronouns
- She/Her/Dr
Nope. She's not a testing user, she doesnt get updates as frequently. Possibly at all.
Project: Gamer Ver. 2 (Young Justice/Gamer/Multicross OC)
- Thread starter Mister Ficser
- Start date
- Location
- Alabama
Can't wait till the thread gets caught up a bit more with the caer azkaban version(I hate posting format there)
Cause there's some serious discussions I want to have about certain things without getting too spoiler heavy.
Cause there's some serious discussions I want to have about certain things without getting too spoiler heavy.
MaimakteriAnn
(Verified Sleepy)
- Location
- Enormous And Round Terran Homeworld
- Pronouns
- She/Her/Dr
Yeah, I'm reading ahead there too, but I'm not about to create an account and join in the discussion on that side.
Very interested to see if any of the current arguments surface in a different forum
Very interested to see if any of the current arguments surface in a different forum
- Location
- Alabama
Oh wait Crap....I just realized an issue about why Als dragon growth feels so bad an unbalanced compared to Jinx, and a facet of the problems with Player One.
That may or not have been discussed before and may or may not be a relevant issue down the line.
Void Dragons are a DnD thing, where a single stat point is conceptually a much much heavier flat value compared to the actual The Gamer where a single point is a small percentage.
2 points per level is a scary concept when you can easily level up hundreds of times. But he's using the Gamer interface, not DnDs w/e so that racial bonus doesn't really amount to much. It's why his cross system magic using is so strong and outside his weight class.
DnD magic is built for a...lets say Denser level cap. Like the FF Materias. So all the magic and skills from there start off strong and rapidly ramp up.
He's in theory mixing and matching systems that really shouldn't be working well together and it's working because as a Gamer, he thinks it should. His perception is altering the ruleset.
Jinx thinks Alchemist is basically magical Superman so when she gets perks and powers and abilities based off of Alchemist's suggestions she's expecting much more out of them than what they should be worth. Her Original racial bonuses and stats are based off of Alchemist's perception of her. and her Growth is what Alchemist would expect of someone being power leveled. She personally doesn't really know how to use any of it effectively.
Mild spoiler, but not really. We finally get a peek and Tiffany's stats and they are complete and utter garbage. But it makes sense. There is no in universe reason really shown as to why she would ever become The Gamer. She's not one, has only vague experience with gaming and to top it all off just recently came off of a seriously bad bender. She hasn't experienced enough game culture to understand character growth and power creep of a gaming character. She's barely even trying compared to Al, and based on what we've seen. She's kind of an unimaginative idiot. So her powers are barely usable without an abyss auction/ Market.
Then there is WW....who kind of just reinforces this thought.
And Considering what Han Jihan himself was capable of doing, it all fits?
That may or not have been discussed before and may or may not be a relevant issue down the line.
Void Dragons are a DnD thing, where a single stat point is conceptually a much much heavier flat value compared to the actual The Gamer where a single point is a small percentage.
2 points per level is a scary concept when you can easily level up hundreds of times. But he's using the Gamer interface, not DnDs w/e so that racial bonus doesn't really amount to much. It's why his cross system magic using is so strong and outside his weight class.
DnD magic is built for a...lets say Denser level cap. Like the FF Materias. So all the magic and skills from there start off strong and rapidly ramp up.
He's in theory mixing and matching systems that really shouldn't be working well together and it's working because as a Gamer, he thinks it should. His perception is altering the ruleset.
Jinx thinks Alchemist is basically magical Superman so when she gets perks and powers and abilities based off of Alchemist's suggestions she's expecting much more out of them than what they should be worth. Her Original racial bonuses and stats are based off of Alchemist's perception of her. and her Growth is what Alchemist would expect of someone being power leveled. She personally doesn't really know how to use any of it effectively.
Mild spoiler, but not really. We finally get a peek and Tiffany's stats and they are complete and utter garbage. But it makes sense. There is no in universe reason really shown as to why she would ever become The Gamer. She's not one, has only vague experience with gaming and to top it all off just recently came off of a seriously bad bender. She hasn't experienced enough game culture to understand character growth and power creep of a gaming character. She's barely even trying compared to Al, and based on what we've seen. She's kind of an unimaginative idiot. So her powers are barely usable without an abyss auction/ Market.
Then there is WW....who kind of just reinforces this thought.
And Considering what Han Jihan himself was capable of doing, it all fits?
Trixy
Mayhem and Mischief !
- Location
- Bourgogne, France
- Pronouns
- He/Him
I would argue that these beings aren't really that much of a threat. DC/Marveal Earths are deadly worlds with a mindcracking amount of threats, yeah, but they also have the means to deal with those threats. (I mean one of the near-omnipotent reality warpers or the Infinity Gauntlet could get rid of all the villains in less than a day, so is the world really in danger most of the time ?).
What are a few eldritch dark gods from the dark reverse anti-universe whathever for heroes who regurlarly dealt with those kinds of monsters and worse for years ? After all, the Justice League did defeat beings like Nekron, Anti-Monitor, Upside Down Man, Barbatos and so on. Trigon, Mr Mxyztplk, Specter and Phantom stranger died/were defeated in the Injustice-verse, none of them are actually unstoppable.
What I mean is, yeah the kind of villains you are talking about are probably cosmic crisis-level villains, but they're still villains that heroes or others can deal with.
- Location
- Alabama
They are that much of a threat, but just like Regular(lol) Great Old Ones. The threat isn't a direct problem that anyone will ever really face. Like Dorumannu or however the hell you spell his name, They need an Invite. And the threat they pose is existential, and usually not out of Malice.
Aside from Trigon and Darkseid I don't recall the Justice League ever directly dealing with anything That dangerous. The Cthulu expy that Grundy,Shayera, and Fate dealt with is the exception.
Constantine is usually the one to deal with those.
Marvel on the otherhand, is a full on cosmic entropy Death Multiverse. Fuck that place. No seriously, If I got Isekaid into a Marvel Universe without IMMEDIATE access to a means of ascension I'd just kill myself.
In DC there's a chance. Marvel just gets worse and worse.
Chapter 127
Project: Gamer Ver. 2 Alpha Build 1.2.7
Disclaimer Me Do: I own nothing you recognize. And most of what you don't recognize, I still don't own.
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It was... Thursday? Thursday, at least Alchemist thought so.
He'd been taking things slow for the last however long since coming back from Gaia.
Just small projects when he wasn't working on something for the League or guiding Yuffie through schoolwork.
The girl wasn't stupid, thankfully. She wasn't booksmart, but there were a lot of people like that. It just meant working things into lessons that were more interesting for her.
Putting a high-energy child into the public school system was a quick way to fail them.
"Sooo." The ninja was poking at the shell of the dragon egg he'd had in his inventory for... A while, now. "What's inside?"
"A dragon." He told her.
He'd have said more but honestly, he wasn't quite sure himself what kind was inside.
"Okay... What kind of dragon?" On a positive note, at least she wasn't crying about treasure.
"Probably the scaly kind." Probably. There were a variety of other possibilities.
If he somehow got his hands on an egg containing Priscilla the Halfbreed, he was going to be asking a lot of questions.
"Is it gonna hatch soon?" Yuffie pouted when Alchemist pushed her hands away from the shell.
"I don't know. I've never hatched a dragon before." Or raised a dragon. Or raised a child... This was probably not going to go well.
They simply sat in the tiny kitchen of the slightly refurbished cabin, now slightly larger since he'd carved out and created a basement doubling the overall available space.
"This is boring!" Yes, Yuffie, it is. "I'm gonna go play outside!"
"Alright. Take Ash with you, try to stay inside the fence line." The fence alone had been one heck of a project! Normal wire fencing, converted to silver and then fused with holy wrapped all the way around the property had taken the better part of a week, even with two Alchemist's working on it!
It did work to keep this ugly, tail-less animal spirit out. He'd caught it, a Raccoon spirit, taunting his familiar in English to try and trick her into following it out beyond his fence before it had been enchanted.
If it was the spirit he was thinking of, it had already gotten a taste for hunting dogs. And hunters.
It stopped real quick when Ash began breathing sulfuric smoke and flames. Alchemist hadn't even had to interfere!
He was waiting for the day it tried taunting Yuffie or Ash got sick of it. He even had a plaque picked out for its head!
Yuffie let Ash out first, then slammed the door shut behind her.
Not maliciously. The girl was just always in a hurry and was hard on her environment.
He hoped she'd grow out of that or else he was going to have to find a way to make that into a lesson. Maybe something about him not being able to repair something if she broke it too thoroughly? It would be a lie, but also an important learning experience.
Alchemist picked the egg up and made his way over to the living room, setting it down on the floor while he made himself comfortable with a scroll of Mending.
If the dragon wasn't ready yet, that was fine. It could take its time.
Not all things needed to be rushed.
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Jinx had been rushing home for the last week to keep playing her game! Every day she'd make a bit more progress, get more done, level up or find something new!
And there was so much to explore!
She'd only just managed to reach the Gold Saucer in-game, rising high above the ruined remains of Corel.
It looked a lot different than she remembered it. Gold Saucer and Corel both.
She'd never met Barret and Cait Sith made even less sense than normal for her. The part of the story about Sephiroth going mad in Nibelheim had sent chills down her spine.
She'd seen the man back in Junon. Alchemist and him had talked, in all their strange, socially stunted glory. Watching him follow a trail of lies and just lose himself had just been... Wrong.
"Too much videogames will rot your brain, you know that right?" Dinah asked her from where she sat on the opposite end of the couch.
"And all work and no play makes Dinah a dull girl." She fired back instantly.
There wasn't any heat to it. For either of them.
"Mind if I ask you something?" The blonde had been respecting Jinx's boundaries more since she'd been teleported out of the girl's room.
"Depends on what you ask?" The witch was only giving her guardian half of her attention, the rest focused on getting more GP from the minigames.
"What happened to your skin?" Jinx paused her game for a moment and looked down at her hands when Dinah asked that.
She wasn't actually sure what the woman was talking about at first! Her skin was darkening a bit to match her moms skin color, what did that have to do with-
Oh! Right! The whole Gray thing! She'd let her disguise drop after coming home and was too caught up playing the game to notice!
"I found an option in Alchemists Gamer System that let me adopt a different race, so I stopped being a Metahuman." She'd still had her Hexbolt and luck powers, though! She assumed those came from the Homo-Magi part of her lineage. Or maybe she got to keep them because she'd leveled them up?
"You... Stopped being a Metahuman?" Dinah sounded aghast at the very idea.
The woman needed a few moments to rally her thoughts, time Jinx spent losing at a three-button fighter minigame.
"What made you decide on such a change?" Dinah leaned over, looking at Jinx more thoroughly. "Are those... Scales?"
"...You like to leave the news on, Dinah." Jinx set aside the controller and picked up the remote instead, switching the input to cable. "And almost everyday I hear about some Metahuman Registration. I hear about people arguing over whether or not blood tests should be mandatory. If there should be some sort of database."
The current news story was about something going on in India with mutated wild animals, not Congress arguing about anything.
"So I decided to find a way to defend myself against that. The first step being the truth. I'm not a Metahuman. I don't have a metagene. I swapped that out for a bit of dragon heritage instead. It came with scales, and they really itch sometimes, but it beats sharing any blood with Vandal Savage." Jinx sounded somber as she spoke, bringing a hand up to touch the deep purple scales along her neck.
"I wish you'd talked with me first, Jinx." Dinah leaned back, a complicated expression on her face. "...What do you mean by sharing blood with Vandal Savage? If you're related to the villain, we need to know!"
"You... Don't know?" Jinx really didn't understand, how could she not know! "Vandal Savage, the immortal caveman? He was the first Metahuman! He used to be Genghis Khan! He's fathered more kids than I can count! He wasn't my dad or anything, maybe a great-great-great whatever grandpa though. I wasn't the only one related to him, you probably are too!"
Jinx snorted and turned back to her game.
"On the plus side, at least he's not eating his kids anymore." Jinx shook her head and moved her game character over to the motorcycle minigame. "Alchemist said the guy really didn't understand cancer back during the dark ages."
Or maybe it had been earlier than that?
Eh, it didn't really matter. It was long gone and long buried.
Dinah, in contrast, had completely frozen up. Her hand, which had been petting Cinder, was frozen on the dogs head.
"What?!"
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How exactly does one socialize a feral ninja child?
Truth be told, Alchemist didn't really know. He just knew he was supposed to make sure the girl had adequate social interactions with her peers to ensure stable mental development.
He considered dropping her off with Jinx to be decent, but he knew for extroverts they needed some variety...
So he'd left her in Robin's hands in Mount Justice while he left to do some more 'Boring' work.
The Dragon egg had yet to hatch, and he had a new spell he needed to work on before it could be Fused into things. Mend would, he hoped, add an auto-repair feature to things. Maybe not a fast one, but that would be fine.
If he needed fast he could just cast Repair.
And the reason he wasn't simply Fusing repair into things came from how it worked.
If he Fused Cure into an object, it gained a +HP effect rather than a regeneration effect. For that, he actually needed Regen or Regeneration. In a similar vein, if he did that with Repair, he got a +Durability effect. Unless it was a tool or weapon, then he got a lesser version of the spell that would activate on hit.
Useful in its own right, certainly, just not what he was aiming for.
Rapid Repair was a good spell as well... But it had a limitation in that it only worked on 'Constructs'. Robots, androids and golems basically. Good for him or Red Tornado, but that was basically it.
With that in mind, he'd made his way to a handful of cities that housed weather related villains and hit up the various scrap yards and recycling centers.
He was buying... Even more broken solar panels!
He'd already hit up Star City, the home of the Icicle family and purchased what he could find there. They'd been all too happy to get rid of the things, honestly. Solar panels were a pain to recycle because of the time and energy that went into disassembling them, so they tended to end up piled up in the back at a lot of locations.
Central City, though... For whatever reason, they were being a pain.
He'd been able to find three different companies that had a backlog they hadn't been able to dispose of, but they were all charging more than he wanted to pay! He'd been able to haggle two of them down to below Ten dollars per panel but the third, owned by a William Scruff wasn't budging!
"I keep tellin' ya kid. Fifty bucks a panel or I'm keepin' em." William was an older man. His back was crooked and he had liver spots all along his hands. His arms, however, were as thick as tree trunks and the man had not been skipping leg day!
"And I'm not willing to pay that kind of scratch for trash." Alchemist was already up a few thousand panels and down about twelve grand. "These aren't 'Gently Used'. They're broken and otherwise worthless."
He didn't need this guys inventory and he was about ready to just walk away.
"Can't be worthless if you want 'em!" The toothless old man tried to grin at him, but it really didn't help his appearance.
"You'd be surprised. Look, I'm willing to buy out your entire stock but not at that kind of price." That was how he'd gotten a sweetheart deal with the other places, really. Space that wasn't wasted on high-time, low-value items was space that could be put to better use.
"And you can! For fifty dollars a panel!" William must have thought he was being clever, but Alchemist just shook his head and started to walk away. "Hey! You ever change your mind, Ol' Scruff will be here and waitin'!"
"I'll talk to your kids in a few years instead!" Alchemist shouted to him before he closed the door behind him, leaving the aging and understaffed scrapyard.
He hated his generation. He really did.
Alchemist was about to teleport back to Mount Justice when he felt a tap on his shoulder. Turning around, he saw... Nobody!
But he felt some more tapping on his other shoulder.
Turning around again he found... Nobody. Again.
"So." A voice came from behind him. "You're the 'Villainous Tinker' Scruff called to warn me about?"
Alchemist wasn't turning around a third time. "Yep."
There was a streak of red in front of him and the Flash stood there, his arms crossed and a curious look on his face. "It's usually considered polite to tell a local hero if you're going to be doing something in their city, Al."
"Sorry." He hadn't known that! "I've spent most of my time in Gotham. 'Polite' there usually means you don't go for the crotch first."
"Suddenly, so much about Batman makes way too much sense." The Flash let out a sigh and dropped the imposing stance. "So, what brings you to Central City?"
"Picked up a new spell that I need to work on, so I was buying up stuff to practice with. Already cleaned out the Star City scrapyards and Scruff was the last place on my list." If the man had been willing to negotiate, at all, Alchemist would have been willing to throw in healing to sweeten the deal! "Since that dropped through, I was thinking of grabbing something to eat to go and picking up my kid."
"...Huh. Kid Flash says you're usually pretty hard to get anything out of." Flash rubbed his chin in obvious thought. "What kind of food were you thinking? I know all the best restaurants in Central City!"
While Alchemist had met the Flash a few times at the mountain base, the two hadn't really interacted. He'd been there to give a lecture and supervise an exercise, then spent his time with his apprentice.
"Know any Asian places that do tofu? Yuffie's having some trouble with how heavy and greasy western food is." And western places that do tofu think it's supposed to be tasteless.
"Ah, Dragon Star would be your best bet there. Come on, I'll show you the way!" The Flash started walking deeper into the city. After a second, Alchemist had caught up beside the man. "Hey, you mind if I ask you a few questions?"
"Go for it." Unless it was a stupid question, but Alchemist had some faith in Barry.
"Kid Flash says you helped him out with his powers. You gave him something that helps take the edge off his constant hunger... Why didn't you try talking with me about it first? Especially with the whole lab mice deal?" Flash asked him. He didn't sound hurt, or accusatory, just curious.
"...When I asked him what kinds of tests or analysis were being done to find out why his power was different, less efficient, he said that he was basically told to 'Grit his teeth and push on through, it'll get better!'. From the lab results with Pinkie, I think it's fair to say that it won't be getting better." Well, no, not really. One test result does not a study make. "So I looked at the options I had and I found one that would alleviate the symptoms, although it doesn't address the core issues."
Barry visibly wilted at hearing that.
"...That's what I told him about muscle soreness. Not..." The Flash shook his head and sighed. "I guess I need to talk with him, clear the air a bit."
They continued on in silence for a while, or at least as close to silence as the Flash could manage in his city. The man was practically a celebrity!
It really didn't take long before they were at the restaurant.
"Alright, I've gotta go. Get back to patrolling and all. You know, the usual." Barry tried to smile at him but it broke with a sigh. "Look, Alchemist? About Kid Flash, what you've done? What you're trying to help him with?"
"Yeah?" This was probably the part where he was going to be told to back off and leave the problem alone.
"...Thank you."
Or not?
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Roy Harper had thought joining up with the other sidekicks to learn from their collective mentors would be an amazing idea!
The reality failed to live up to expectations.
"You'll never catch me! Nyahahah!" Some little girl was in the mountain base. Running, crawling, climbing and jumping like Robin had gotten into Batman's coffee stash!
Again.
She had a short bob cut and was very clearly Asian.
Speedy was trying to catch her.
Robin was trying to catch her.
Megan was off to the side and laughing at the both of them while Karen just stood there, confused.
"Give me back my belt!" Robin shouted at the girl as she vaulted over him and ran her way up the stairs! "Speedy, go to the other side! I'll chase her and you catch her!"
"Right!" Robin ran up the stairs following the girl while Speedy... Didn't.
He was already tired of this. The kid had literally slid in between his own legs earlier and then somersaulted over Robin's head in a show of acrobatics he definitely wasn't going to match.
Instead he walked over to try and strike up a conversation with someone that seemed a little more levelheaded.
"Is it always this crazy here?" Green Arrow had left him here earlier. No introduction, just told him to 'Go find Robin or Aqualad, they'll get your sorted.'
"Oh, no." Megan the Martian Girl told him. "This has been a pretty good week. Batman has Alchemist on some sort of assignment so it's been nice and calm lately. Normally we get something else big happening. Well, bigger than yesterday I mean."
"What happened yesterday?" He'd still been training yesterday. His hand, his new hand, it felt right. Mostly. But there were a lot of little micro-movements that weren't quite perfect. For day to day things it wasn't a problem, but out in the field?
"Some French brain in a jar was experimenting on animals up in India and we had to go and deal with it. Red Tornado says he's picking up some other duties so he had Captain Marvel working with us as a kind of backup 'Den Mother' and he came along. Somehow, the guy made friends with one of the tigers that were experimented on so he decided to bring it back with him..." That sounded... Hectic.
He got distracted from the rest of Megan's explanation, thinking about how muscular tigers were normally and just how much bigger one would be on steroids...
Captain Marvel either had the heart of a lion or the self-preservation instincts of a wolverine!
He was broken out of his thought by a vent grate hitting the ground with the ninja girl following it a second later. She was laughing the entire way and holding one of Robin's shoes.
"Well..." Karen, another victim of Cadmus started. "It's better than last week? She and Jinx, that's Alchemist's apprentice... We think. They set up tripwires all over the place."
"How bad was that?" Well, it would train situational awareness?
"Not that bad, actually." The blonde didn't seem at all perturbed by it, but Megan had brought her hand up to her face, miming a headache.
"You just walked right through them. The rest of us were falling all over the place. Or getting hit with ink traps!" Megan actually sounded really upset about that.
"Connor wasn't." And Karen just didn't seem to get it.
Whatever Megan was about to say was cut off by Robin stumbling back down the stairs, his steps uneven as he now had a four-centimeter difference between his feet. "Where did the little she-devil go!"
Speedy pointed to Robin's right. Megan pointed to Robin's left.
"You just missed her." Karen answered instead.
Robin let out a short scream of frustration before kicking off his remaining shoe and running down a hallway.
The wrong hallway.
"As his teammates, shouldn't you be helping him?" Speedy wasn't really sure which one he was asking.
"No." Karen answered him.
"Gods no." Megan continued for her. "If we did, she might come after us instead!"
"Nyahahah!" It sounded like she'd gotten back into the vents again. "None can stop Yuffie, Ninja Princess of Wutai!"
"...Yeah." Speedy inhaled slowly before letting out a long, deep sigh. "That sounds fair."
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The Rock of Eternity was something of an odd location.
It was the home base of the wizard Shazam. The last surviving member of a now defunct order of wizards and watchers.
It was also a prison housing the greatest demons and monsters that he and his order had failed to truly best throughout the ages.
For Jebediah, the wizard Shazam, it was in truth both. He was bound to the Rock in such a way that he could not truly leave it. Not for any great amount of time.
"Shazam?" And that was the one true light to his never ending duty. William Batson.
"Billy!" The aged wizard used his staff to assist in bringing him to his feet. He was not so weak that he could not stand unassisted but age did have its ways of catching up with everyone. "What brings you here today?"
The boy had entered the hall wearing his form as a Champion, yet Shazam saw only the child within.
Bright and curious and clever!
"I think... I found a pet- Familiar! I think I've found a creature to act as a familiar but I don't know how to make it official... And... I learned some things I'd like to talk with you about." Young William raised his hand and snapped his fingers, calling a truly massive tiger into the room.
A clever beast, to already know such a command.
"Binding a familiar is a simple task, child. But it is not a simple decision." Shazam held his hand out to the great creature, letting it sniff at him. "It will share in your strengths, but you must bear some of its weaknesses. Are you certain you wish to do this?"
"Mr.Tawny is really smart! I don't think it'll be a problem." The young man was so confident, so sure.
Shazam missed his youth, the brash certainty he'd not lost until after suffering defeat at the hands of an implacable Spectre.
"Very well. We shall take care of that after our discussion. What is it that you wish to talk about, my child?" How many familiars had he had throughout his life? Perhaps a dozen or so, he thought.
"There is a wizard who works for a member of the Justice League. He... He knows who I am, but he promised he'd keep it a secret." Shazam pursed his lips at Billy's admission. That could be worrisome. "He... Taught me several spells. One he said might even be able to return me to my normal form."
"That should not be possible, William." Shazam shook his head. The arrogance of mortal sorcerers never ceased to amaze or amuse. "You are empowered through a compact with the gods. Even temporarily subduing this magic should be impossible!"
"I know. But he taught it to me so I could face Black Adam and I don't think he was lying. He said a lot of other things, too. Things that nobody should know." Billy sounded uncertain, now, and it worried the old wizard.
"What did he tell you, then, that has you so concerned?" It seemed there was always someone trying to lie to, or otherwise manipulate those tasked with defending the Earth.
At least William was still willing to come to him for help and advice.
"He said that Black Adam was actually a man named Theodore Adam and that he was tricking the gods using an amulet holding the soul of Teth Adom." Shazam was suddenly much less certain that the magician was a shyster. "That he'd killed my parents to keep the amulet for himself."
"If this is true, it is not something which I knew." Shazam had thought that Teth had somehow sealed himself away in his empowered form, only to awaken anew in the modern world.
He would hardly be the first person to have done so.
But... No, it made some sense. Black Adam acted nothing like the Teth that Shazam remembered.
"If this is true... It would explain much." It would at that. Black Adam was a brute who used very little Magic. Absolutely nothing like Teth.
"He also said that the spell he was teaching me was a tool. That he was trusting me to make the right decisions with it." Billy sounded nervous as he said that. Shazam placing a hand on his shoulder seemed to help, at least a little. "It's supposed to be this 'Ultimate Defense Spell' that erases any other spells on a person. He said it was made by an Arch-Mage to cancel out a transformation spell made by a demon strong enough to kill God."
Such a lofty claim!
"Well, this is one that we can test easily enough then!" Shazam had lived for millennia! He sat enshrined in the source of all Unearthly magics on the mortal plane! While the spell that would create a divine champion needed the assistance of willing deities, he knew countless more spells than that!
Defining them as stronger or weaker was foolish, they were measured by complexity, purpose and cost instead. A spell made to dull the bite of fire would hardly be called weak just because it was ineffective against the cold after all.
An adequate sacrifice to be targeted by this 'Spell' was readily available in the form of a dust-covered chair. It had once been the seat of... The seat of...
...How long had it been that he could no longer remember?
Well, that didn't matter at the moment.
Shazam waved one hand in an intricate pattern, arcane Babylonian words muttered just under his breath before he slammed his staff down against the stone floor once.
A shimmering, impenetrable barrier surrounded the chair.
"Cast your spell, Billy. Let us see if it works as you've been told." The young champion stepped past the old man.
He could hear the boy whispering foreign words in a language he did not know, moving his hands about in short, sharp motions.
He thrust them both forward and a light flowed from him to the barrier... And the barrier winked out of existence!
Shazam hurried over, casting spells the rest of the world had long forgotten in a bid to learn how that had been done! That had been an arcane ward capable of standing against the Three Faces of Evil! And it had just been erased!
"This is fascinating!" He couldn't find anything! It was as though his spell had simply ceased to be! There weren't even any traces that it had been cast to begin with! "Did this wizard say anything else?!"
"A few things." Young William reached up to scratch the back of his head, sounding terribly nervous.
Shazam couldn't imagine why, but Billy's next words were answer enough.
"Like how your name was Jebediah of Canaan."
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It was... Thursday? Thursday, at least Alchemist thought so.
He'd been taking things slow for the last however long since coming back from Gaia.
Just small projects when he wasn't working on something for the League or guiding Yuffie through schoolwork.
The girl wasn't stupid, thankfully. She wasn't booksmart, but there were a lot of people like that. It just meant working things into lessons that were more interesting for her.
Putting a high-energy child into the public school system was a quick way to fail them.
"Sooo." The ninja was poking at the shell of the dragon egg he'd had in his inventory for... A while, now. "What's inside?"
"A dragon." He told her.
He'd have said more but honestly, he wasn't quite sure himself what kind was inside.
"Okay... What kind of dragon?" On a positive note, at least she wasn't crying about treasure.
"Probably the scaly kind." Probably. There were a variety of other possibilities.
If he somehow got his hands on an egg containing Priscilla the Halfbreed, he was going to be asking a lot of questions.
"Is it gonna hatch soon?" Yuffie pouted when Alchemist pushed her hands away from the shell.
"I don't know. I've never hatched a dragon before." Or raised a dragon. Or raised a child... This was probably not going to go well.
They simply sat in the tiny kitchen of the slightly refurbished cabin, now slightly larger since he'd carved out and created a basement doubling the overall available space.
"This is boring!" Yes, Yuffie, it is. "I'm gonna go play outside!"
"Alright. Take Ash with you, try to stay inside the fence line." The fence alone had been one heck of a project! Normal wire fencing, converted to silver and then fused with holy wrapped all the way around the property had taken the better part of a week, even with two Alchemist's working on it!
It did work to keep this ugly, tail-less animal spirit out. He'd caught it, a Raccoon spirit, taunting his familiar in English to try and trick her into following it out beyond his fence before it had been enchanted.
If it was the spirit he was thinking of, it had already gotten a taste for hunting dogs. And hunters.
It stopped real quick when Ash began breathing sulfuric smoke and flames. Alchemist hadn't even had to interfere!
He was waiting for the day it tried taunting Yuffie or Ash got sick of it. He even had a plaque picked out for its head!
Yuffie let Ash out first, then slammed the door shut behind her.
Not maliciously. The girl was just always in a hurry and was hard on her environment.
He hoped she'd grow out of that or else he was going to have to find a way to make that into a lesson. Maybe something about him not being able to repair something if she broke it too thoroughly? It would be a lie, but also an important learning experience.
Alchemist picked the egg up and made his way over to the living room, setting it down on the floor while he made himself comfortable with a scroll of Mending.
If the dragon wasn't ready yet, that was fine. It could take its time.
Not all things needed to be rushed.
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Jinx had been rushing home for the last week to keep playing her game! Every day she'd make a bit more progress, get more done, level up or find something new!
And there was so much to explore!
She'd only just managed to reach the Gold Saucer in-game, rising high above the ruined remains of Corel.
It looked a lot different than she remembered it. Gold Saucer and Corel both.
She'd never met Barret and Cait Sith made even less sense than normal for her. The part of the story about Sephiroth going mad in Nibelheim had sent chills down her spine.
She'd seen the man back in Junon. Alchemist and him had talked, in all their strange, socially stunted glory. Watching him follow a trail of lies and just lose himself had just been... Wrong.
"Too much videogames will rot your brain, you know that right?" Dinah asked her from where she sat on the opposite end of the couch.
"And all work and no play makes Dinah a dull girl." She fired back instantly.
There wasn't any heat to it. For either of them.
"Mind if I ask you something?" The blonde had been respecting Jinx's boundaries more since she'd been teleported out of the girl's room.
"Depends on what you ask?" The witch was only giving her guardian half of her attention, the rest focused on getting more GP from the minigames.
"What happened to your skin?" Jinx paused her game for a moment and looked down at her hands when Dinah asked that.
She wasn't actually sure what the woman was talking about at first! Her skin was darkening a bit to match her moms skin color, what did that have to do with-
Oh! Right! The whole Gray thing! She'd let her disguise drop after coming home and was too caught up playing the game to notice!
"I found an option in Alchemists Gamer System that let me adopt a different race, so I stopped being a Metahuman." She'd still had her Hexbolt and luck powers, though! She assumed those came from the Homo-Magi part of her lineage. Or maybe she got to keep them because she'd leveled them up?
"You... Stopped being a Metahuman?" Dinah sounded aghast at the very idea.
The woman needed a few moments to rally her thoughts, time Jinx spent losing at a three-button fighter minigame.
"What made you decide on such a change?" Dinah leaned over, looking at Jinx more thoroughly. "Are those... Scales?"
"...You like to leave the news on, Dinah." Jinx set aside the controller and picked up the remote instead, switching the input to cable. "And almost everyday I hear about some Metahuman Registration. I hear about people arguing over whether or not blood tests should be mandatory. If there should be some sort of database."
The current news story was about something going on in India with mutated wild animals, not Congress arguing about anything.
"So I decided to find a way to defend myself against that. The first step being the truth. I'm not a Metahuman. I don't have a metagene. I swapped that out for a bit of dragon heritage instead. It came with scales, and they really itch sometimes, but it beats sharing any blood with Vandal Savage." Jinx sounded somber as she spoke, bringing a hand up to touch the deep purple scales along her neck.
"I wish you'd talked with me first, Jinx." Dinah leaned back, a complicated expression on her face. "...What do you mean by sharing blood with Vandal Savage? If you're related to the villain, we need to know!"
"You... Don't know?" Jinx really didn't understand, how could she not know! "Vandal Savage, the immortal caveman? He was the first Metahuman! He used to be Genghis Khan! He's fathered more kids than I can count! He wasn't my dad or anything, maybe a great-great-great whatever grandpa though. I wasn't the only one related to him, you probably are too!"
Jinx snorted and turned back to her game.
"On the plus side, at least he's not eating his kids anymore." Jinx shook her head and moved her game character over to the motorcycle minigame. "Alchemist said the guy really didn't understand cancer back during the dark ages."
Or maybe it had been earlier than that?
Eh, it didn't really matter. It was long gone and long buried.
Dinah, in contrast, had completely frozen up. Her hand, which had been petting Cinder, was frozen on the dogs head.
"What?!"
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How exactly does one socialize a feral ninja child?
Truth be told, Alchemist didn't really know. He just knew he was supposed to make sure the girl had adequate social interactions with her peers to ensure stable mental development.
He considered dropping her off with Jinx to be decent, but he knew for extroverts they needed some variety...
So he'd left her in Robin's hands in Mount Justice while he left to do some more 'Boring' work.
The Dragon egg had yet to hatch, and he had a new spell he needed to work on before it could be Fused into things. Mend would, he hoped, add an auto-repair feature to things. Maybe not a fast one, but that would be fine.
If he needed fast he could just cast Repair.
And the reason he wasn't simply Fusing repair into things came from how it worked.
If he Fused Cure into an object, it gained a +HP effect rather than a regeneration effect. For that, he actually needed Regen or Regeneration. In a similar vein, if he did that with Repair, he got a +Durability effect. Unless it was a tool or weapon, then he got a lesser version of the spell that would activate on hit.
Useful in its own right, certainly, just not what he was aiming for.
Rapid Repair was a good spell as well... But it had a limitation in that it only worked on 'Constructs'. Robots, androids and golems basically. Good for him or Red Tornado, but that was basically it.
With that in mind, he'd made his way to a handful of cities that housed weather related villains and hit up the various scrap yards and recycling centers.
He was buying... Even more broken solar panels!
He'd already hit up Star City, the home of the Icicle family and purchased what he could find there. They'd been all too happy to get rid of the things, honestly. Solar panels were a pain to recycle because of the time and energy that went into disassembling them, so they tended to end up piled up in the back at a lot of locations.
Central City, though... For whatever reason, they were being a pain.
He'd been able to find three different companies that had a backlog they hadn't been able to dispose of, but they were all charging more than he wanted to pay! He'd been able to haggle two of them down to below Ten dollars per panel but the third, owned by a William Scruff wasn't budging!
"I keep tellin' ya kid. Fifty bucks a panel or I'm keepin' em." William was an older man. His back was crooked and he had liver spots all along his hands. His arms, however, were as thick as tree trunks and the man had not been skipping leg day!
"And I'm not willing to pay that kind of scratch for trash." Alchemist was already up a few thousand panels and down about twelve grand. "These aren't 'Gently Used'. They're broken and otherwise worthless."
He didn't need this guys inventory and he was about ready to just walk away.
"Can't be worthless if you want 'em!" The toothless old man tried to grin at him, but it really didn't help his appearance.
"You'd be surprised. Look, I'm willing to buy out your entire stock but not at that kind of price." That was how he'd gotten a sweetheart deal with the other places, really. Space that wasn't wasted on high-time, low-value items was space that could be put to better use.
"And you can! For fifty dollars a panel!" William must have thought he was being clever, but Alchemist just shook his head and started to walk away. "Hey! You ever change your mind, Ol' Scruff will be here and waitin'!"
"I'll talk to your kids in a few years instead!" Alchemist shouted to him before he closed the door behind him, leaving the aging and understaffed scrapyard.
He hated his generation. He really did.
Alchemist was about to teleport back to Mount Justice when he felt a tap on his shoulder. Turning around, he saw... Nobody!
But he felt some more tapping on his other shoulder.
Turning around again he found... Nobody. Again.
"So." A voice came from behind him. "You're the 'Villainous Tinker' Scruff called to warn me about?"
Alchemist wasn't turning around a third time. "Yep."
There was a streak of red in front of him and the Flash stood there, his arms crossed and a curious look on his face. "It's usually considered polite to tell a local hero if you're going to be doing something in their city, Al."
"Sorry." He hadn't known that! "I've spent most of my time in Gotham. 'Polite' there usually means you don't go for the crotch first."
"Suddenly, so much about Batman makes way too much sense." The Flash let out a sigh and dropped the imposing stance. "So, what brings you to Central City?"
"Picked up a new spell that I need to work on, so I was buying up stuff to practice with. Already cleaned out the Star City scrapyards and Scruff was the last place on my list." If the man had been willing to negotiate, at all, Alchemist would have been willing to throw in healing to sweeten the deal! "Since that dropped through, I was thinking of grabbing something to eat to go and picking up my kid."
"...Huh. Kid Flash says you're usually pretty hard to get anything out of." Flash rubbed his chin in obvious thought. "What kind of food were you thinking? I know all the best restaurants in Central City!"
While Alchemist had met the Flash a few times at the mountain base, the two hadn't really interacted. He'd been there to give a lecture and supervise an exercise, then spent his time with his apprentice.
"Know any Asian places that do tofu? Yuffie's having some trouble with how heavy and greasy western food is." And western places that do tofu think it's supposed to be tasteless.
"Ah, Dragon Star would be your best bet there. Come on, I'll show you the way!" The Flash started walking deeper into the city. After a second, Alchemist had caught up beside the man. "Hey, you mind if I ask you a few questions?"
"Go for it." Unless it was a stupid question, but Alchemist had some faith in Barry.
"Kid Flash says you helped him out with his powers. You gave him something that helps take the edge off his constant hunger... Why didn't you try talking with me about it first? Especially with the whole lab mice deal?" Flash asked him. He didn't sound hurt, or accusatory, just curious.
"...When I asked him what kinds of tests or analysis were being done to find out why his power was different, less efficient, he said that he was basically told to 'Grit his teeth and push on through, it'll get better!'. From the lab results with Pinkie, I think it's fair to say that it won't be getting better." Well, no, not really. One test result does not a study make. "So I looked at the options I had and I found one that would alleviate the symptoms, although it doesn't address the core issues."
Barry visibly wilted at hearing that.
"...That's what I told him about muscle soreness. Not..." The Flash shook his head and sighed. "I guess I need to talk with him, clear the air a bit."
They continued on in silence for a while, or at least as close to silence as the Flash could manage in his city. The man was practically a celebrity!
It really didn't take long before they were at the restaurant.
"Alright, I've gotta go. Get back to patrolling and all. You know, the usual." Barry tried to smile at him but it broke with a sigh. "Look, Alchemist? About Kid Flash, what you've done? What you're trying to help him with?"
"Yeah?" This was probably the part where he was going to be told to back off and leave the problem alone.
"...Thank you."
Or not?
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Roy Harper had thought joining up with the other sidekicks to learn from their collective mentors would be an amazing idea!
The reality failed to live up to expectations.
"You'll never catch me! Nyahahah!" Some little girl was in the mountain base. Running, crawling, climbing and jumping like Robin had gotten into Batman's coffee stash!
Again.
She had a short bob cut and was very clearly Asian.
Speedy was trying to catch her.
Robin was trying to catch her.
Megan was off to the side and laughing at the both of them while Karen just stood there, confused.
"Give me back my belt!" Robin shouted at the girl as she vaulted over him and ran her way up the stairs! "Speedy, go to the other side! I'll chase her and you catch her!"
"Right!" Robin ran up the stairs following the girl while Speedy... Didn't.
He was already tired of this. The kid had literally slid in between his own legs earlier and then somersaulted over Robin's head in a show of acrobatics he definitely wasn't going to match.
Instead he walked over to try and strike up a conversation with someone that seemed a little more levelheaded.
"Is it always this crazy here?" Green Arrow had left him here earlier. No introduction, just told him to 'Go find Robin or Aqualad, they'll get your sorted.'
"Oh, no." Megan the Martian Girl told him. "This has been a pretty good week. Batman has Alchemist on some sort of assignment so it's been nice and calm lately. Normally we get something else big happening. Well, bigger than yesterday I mean."
"What happened yesterday?" He'd still been training yesterday. His hand, his new hand, it felt right. Mostly. But there were a lot of little micro-movements that weren't quite perfect. For day to day things it wasn't a problem, but out in the field?
"Some French brain in a jar was experimenting on animals up in India and we had to go and deal with it. Red Tornado says he's picking up some other duties so he had Captain Marvel working with us as a kind of backup 'Den Mother' and he came along. Somehow, the guy made friends with one of the tigers that were experimented on so he decided to bring it back with him..." That sounded... Hectic.
He got distracted from the rest of Megan's explanation, thinking about how muscular tigers were normally and just how much bigger one would be on steroids...
Captain Marvel either had the heart of a lion or the self-preservation instincts of a wolverine!
He was broken out of his thought by a vent grate hitting the ground with the ninja girl following it a second later. She was laughing the entire way and holding one of Robin's shoes.
"Well..." Karen, another victim of Cadmus started. "It's better than last week? She and Jinx, that's Alchemist's apprentice... We think. They set up tripwires all over the place."
"How bad was that?" Well, it would train situational awareness?
"Not that bad, actually." The blonde didn't seem at all perturbed by it, but Megan had brought her hand up to her face, miming a headache.
"You just walked right through them. The rest of us were falling all over the place. Or getting hit with ink traps!" Megan actually sounded really upset about that.
"Connor wasn't." And Karen just didn't seem to get it.
Whatever Megan was about to say was cut off by Robin stumbling back down the stairs, his steps uneven as he now had a four-centimeter difference between his feet. "Where did the little she-devil go!"
Speedy pointed to Robin's right. Megan pointed to Robin's left.
"You just missed her." Karen answered instead.
Robin let out a short scream of frustration before kicking off his remaining shoe and running down a hallway.
The wrong hallway.
"As his teammates, shouldn't you be helping him?" Speedy wasn't really sure which one he was asking.
"No." Karen answered him.
"Gods no." Megan continued for her. "If we did, she might come after us instead!"
"Nyahahah!" It sounded like she'd gotten back into the vents again. "None can stop Yuffie, Ninja Princess of Wutai!"
"...Yeah." Speedy inhaled slowly before letting out a long, deep sigh. "That sounds fair."
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The Rock of Eternity was something of an odd location.
It was the home base of the wizard Shazam. The last surviving member of a now defunct order of wizards and watchers.
It was also a prison housing the greatest demons and monsters that he and his order had failed to truly best throughout the ages.
For Jebediah, the wizard Shazam, it was in truth both. He was bound to the Rock in such a way that he could not truly leave it. Not for any great amount of time.
"Shazam?" And that was the one true light to his never ending duty. William Batson.
"Billy!" The aged wizard used his staff to assist in bringing him to his feet. He was not so weak that he could not stand unassisted but age did have its ways of catching up with everyone. "What brings you here today?"
The boy had entered the hall wearing his form as a Champion, yet Shazam saw only the child within.
Bright and curious and clever!
"I think... I found a pet- Familiar! I think I've found a creature to act as a familiar but I don't know how to make it official... And... I learned some things I'd like to talk with you about." Young William raised his hand and snapped his fingers, calling a truly massive tiger into the room.
A clever beast, to already know such a command.
"Binding a familiar is a simple task, child. But it is not a simple decision." Shazam held his hand out to the great creature, letting it sniff at him. "It will share in your strengths, but you must bear some of its weaknesses. Are you certain you wish to do this?"
"Mr.Tawny is really smart! I don't think it'll be a problem." The young man was so confident, so sure.
Shazam missed his youth, the brash certainty he'd not lost until after suffering defeat at the hands of an implacable Spectre.
"Very well. We shall take care of that after our discussion. What is it that you wish to talk about, my child?" How many familiars had he had throughout his life? Perhaps a dozen or so, he thought.
"There is a wizard who works for a member of the Justice League. He... He knows who I am, but he promised he'd keep it a secret." Shazam pursed his lips at Billy's admission. That could be worrisome. "He... Taught me several spells. One he said might even be able to return me to my normal form."
"That should not be possible, William." Shazam shook his head. The arrogance of mortal sorcerers never ceased to amaze or amuse. "You are empowered through a compact with the gods. Even temporarily subduing this magic should be impossible!"
"I know. But he taught it to me so I could face Black Adam and I don't think he was lying. He said a lot of other things, too. Things that nobody should know." Billy sounded uncertain, now, and it worried the old wizard.
"What did he tell you, then, that has you so concerned?" It seemed there was always someone trying to lie to, or otherwise manipulate those tasked with defending the Earth.
At least William was still willing to come to him for help and advice.
"He said that Black Adam was actually a man named Theodore Adam and that he was tricking the gods using an amulet holding the soul of Teth Adom." Shazam was suddenly much less certain that the magician was a shyster. "That he'd killed my parents to keep the amulet for himself."
"If this is true, it is not something which I knew." Shazam had thought that Teth had somehow sealed himself away in his empowered form, only to awaken anew in the modern world.
He would hardly be the first person to have done so.
But... No, it made some sense. Black Adam acted nothing like the Teth that Shazam remembered.
"If this is true... It would explain much." It would at that. Black Adam was a brute who used very little Magic. Absolutely nothing like Teth.
"He also said that the spell he was teaching me was a tool. That he was trusting me to make the right decisions with it." Billy sounded nervous as he said that. Shazam placing a hand on his shoulder seemed to help, at least a little. "It's supposed to be this 'Ultimate Defense Spell' that erases any other spells on a person. He said it was made by an Arch-Mage to cancel out a transformation spell made by a demon strong enough to kill God."
Such a lofty claim!
"Well, this is one that we can test easily enough then!" Shazam had lived for millennia! He sat enshrined in the source of all Unearthly magics on the mortal plane! While the spell that would create a divine champion needed the assistance of willing deities, he knew countless more spells than that!
Defining them as stronger or weaker was foolish, they were measured by complexity, purpose and cost instead. A spell made to dull the bite of fire would hardly be called weak just because it was ineffective against the cold after all.
An adequate sacrifice to be targeted by this 'Spell' was readily available in the form of a dust-covered chair. It had once been the seat of... The seat of...
...How long had it been that he could no longer remember?
Well, that didn't matter at the moment.
Shazam waved one hand in an intricate pattern, arcane Babylonian words muttered just under his breath before he slammed his staff down against the stone floor once.
A shimmering, impenetrable barrier surrounded the chair.
"Cast your spell, Billy. Let us see if it works as you've been told." The young champion stepped past the old man.
He could hear the boy whispering foreign words in a language he did not know, moving his hands about in short, sharp motions.
He thrust them both forward and a light flowed from him to the barrier... And the barrier winked out of existence!
Shazam hurried over, casting spells the rest of the world had long forgotten in a bid to learn how that had been done! That had been an arcane ward capable of standing against the Three Faces of Evil! And it had just been erased!
"This is fascinating!" He couldn't find anything! It was as though his spell had simply ceased to be! There weren't even any traces that it had been cast to begin with! "Did this wizard say anything else?!"
"A few things." Young William reached up to scratch the back of his head, sounding terribly nervous.
Shazam couldn't imagine why, but Billy's next words were answer enough.
"Like how your name was Jebediah of Canaan."
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- Australia
Well, thanks for the cliffhanger, shithead. 
Leaving things there? Man, the following conversation is going to be something.
Leaving things there? Man, the following conversation is going to be something.
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- Here
Hang on, I think I got a quote for this! It was in a movie I think, one second...
View: https://youtu.be/Okb91_vkGho
Holy crap, according to the subtitles he's supposed to be saying Jeff! I swear I thought that he said Jeb...
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Well, you know what they say about dragon omelettes...
"Yuffie, you are such an amazing ninja, you broke my Repair spell."
If she thinks they'll care about that, she's... optimistic.
"You have to register per the Metahuman Registration Act."
"I'm not Metahuman, I'm part dragon."
*Frantic scribbling*
"You have to register per the
"You can't do that!"
"Wanna go before Congress and see what they say? I garauntee they aren't in an open-minded mood."
With ninja treats and a spray bottle?
I forget, doesn't the wizard Shazam have a half-demon daughter?
Or am I thinking of some other ancient wizard?
For minor scale irritation, try Vitamin-E oil, it works great on lizards, turtles, and snakes.
For severe scale irritation, try Vaseline a.k.a. petroleum jelly.
I love that Yuffie is unleashed upon the crew of Mount Justice. That poor team and their mentors 
That whole scene made me laugh a lot, then I thought about what it would be like to live through it and...yeah—definitely a mixture of laughter and sympathy.
The suffering that scene showed was pretty real. There are a good number of villains in DC I'm not sure I'd wish that kind of madness on.
Looks a couple of members of the league may have some extra questions for Alchemist sometime soon as well. Looking forward to it.
Love seeing an update, as always. Thanks for the chapter!
That whole scene made me laugh a lot, then I thought about what it would be like to live through it and...yeah—definitely a mixture of laughter and sympathy.
The suffering that scene showed was pretty real. There are a good number of villains in DC I'm not sure I'd wish that kind of madness on.
Looks a couple of members of the league may have some extra questions for Alchemist sometime soon as well. Looking forward to it.
Love seeing an update, as always. Thanks for the chapter!
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Robin also knows it's his karma for some of his actions as Robin. Really, the only way to let the ninja boy understand how irritating when he ninjas away from the team is inflicting a ninja on him. It'll help him grow up and mature, I'm sure Batman's a-ok about it.
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- Planet Earth
DANG YOU AUTHOR AND YOUR CLIFFHANGERS!!!! I WANT MOAR OF THAT DISCUSSION WITH SHAZAM!
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- Missouri
Barry's good people. I'm glad to see you're doing him justice.
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First, we ALL know Robin got mouthy at Yuffie and called this down on himself. Second, if Robin has the SLIGHTEST sense of self preservation he will suck it up and never mention how much this got to him, because if he bitches to Alchemist about this...well, Alchemist has an ironic sense of revenge. So he'll mention to Bruce how his daughter was making Robin her bitch without even trying...and this will become approved training from that point on.
Wolverines have great self-preservation instincts. At least on the species level. "I will eat your face and rip out your throat from the inside if you try anything! Who wants some!?"
"Nah, I'm good. Fighting you is not worth the calories." - Every carnivore larger than a wolverine.
Robin needs to learn the greatest secret of every aunt, uncle, grandparent...you can send the kids back to their parents after you spoil them rotten.
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- Florida
Yes you are correct he also has a Son that is her twin the daughter is named Blaze while the son is Satanus both are ridiculously powerful individuals but it's to be expected of their bloodline.
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They have great species preservation instincts. It's detrimental to individual wolverines that get into dangerous situations, but advantageous to the group as a whole. Kind of like the human tendency towards self-sacrifice for a greater cause, but with even more violence.
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Hammer of Percussive Maintenance!
Lycanthromancer
The Arcane Fuzz
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- USA
I like the Frying Pan of Healing, myself.
The Miracle Whip is fun, too.
"Jebediah of Canaan."
*puffs on a fag*
"I Haven't Heard That Name In Years"
*puffs on a fag*
"I Haven't Heard That Name In Years"