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Ride the Lightning (Worm / DC Comics Cross Over)

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Question though: Is taylor going to do to an endbringer what flash did to Braniac/Lex Luthor?
 
Some statistics.

Thus far here are my word counts:

1.1: 754

1.2: 789

1.3: 2,382

1.4: 669

1.5: 1971

1.6: 1427

1.7: 1181

Interlude: 756

So far my longest chapter has been 1.3 at 2,382 words. Now much of the reason for the short chapters was how I was writing them. While I have an outline, I was churning them out as fast as I could in order to build up some story momentum. Now that I am working towards my bi-weekly posting schedule they should be a little bit longer.

At the moment I am about 1/3 of the way through 1.8. At last count it was up to 2,088 words. When it is done it will probably be about the same length as 1.1-1.6 combined. I am hoping that this will be the average length of all future chapters. Interludes are their own thing.


EDIT: Ok, I changed my mind. As I was writing 1.8 I decided that it really needed to be in two parts. Taken all together it gets really disjointed. That said, I am about to post 1.8. 1.9 WILL go up this weekend as part of the "normal" posting schedule.
 
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Well I just wrote THAT SCENE!!!!!

Now I have to <shudder> drive to Texas and back, so probably no more writing today. When I'm not driving I may get on my phone to check out the boards and such, but (excepting a few minutes tonight depending on when I get home), I am done writing until I get off work Thursday / wake up Friday.

Also I will be posting a poll (maybe before I leave, depends on when my wife comes to yell that it is time to go) that will have an impact on the story. The poll will be posted both here and on the other board.
 
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A good chapter, but the threadmarks are out of order. Also it's Principal, not principle.

Hopefully we'll never hear from the three of them ever again even if Taylor doesn't act on her thoughts here, but I doubt it.
 
TheNotoriousSMP said:
A good chapter, but the threadmarks are out of order. Also it's Principal, not principle.

Hopefully we'll never hear from the three of them ever again even if Taylor doesn't act on her thoughts here, but I doubt it.
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We'll need to hear about Sophia at least. She is a Ward and Taylor is a freelance heroine, meetings will be inevitable. Also we know that at least once Sophia persecuted Taylor out of the school in the original series, if they see each other on their civilian ids she'll probably try again just to confirm the steel she saw in this chapter was real and not just the courage of a fleeing prey.
 
BF110C4 said:
We'll need to hear about Sophia at least. She is a Ward and Taylor is a freelance heroine, meetings will be inevitable. Also we know that at least once Sophia persecuted Taylor out of the school in the original series, if they see each other on their civilian ids she'll probably try again just to confirm the steel she saw in this chapter was real and not just the courage of a fleeing prey.
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Dead on analysis. That said, the fact that the Locker Incident didn't get to happen (coupled with Taylor not really remembering anything that morning) has to be taken into consideration. If she remembered opening the locker, Sophia trying to push her in, being chased out of the school..... I'm just saying Sophia was lucky getting off with just a hole in her shirt.
 
thecoffeeguru said:
Dead on analysis. That said, the fact that the Locker Incident didn't get to happen (coupled with Taylor not really remembering anything that morning) has to be taken into consideration. If she remembered opening the locker, Sophia trying to push her in, being chased out of the school..... I'm just saying Sophia was lucky getting off with just a hole in her shirt.
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I wonder how Shadow Stalker's Breaker state interacts with a lightning riddled tornado focused on her.
 
Taylor should have Emma relive her nightmare. After school one day, she vanishes in thin air and appears in the middle of ABB territory without her phone. No one would ever know.
 
moon so bright said:
What caused the hole in her shirt?
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Taylor touching her at superspeed.

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Reaching my hand out towards Sophia's chest I pointed my index finger at her heart, pushing with just enough force that I could feel that weird pressure I felt when I moved someone else at superspeed. I could do it, take all of my anger, aggression, fear, hurt; take it all and unleash it here.


But in doing so, I think I would lose something important that I would never be able to get back. I let my arm drop to my side.
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BF110C4 said:
I wonder how Shadow Stalker's Breaker state interacts with a lightning riddled tornado focused on her.
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In the best possible way, maybe not for her, but certainly for us.

That being said I do like the time that I've seen Taylor's bullies be, if not fully redeemed, at least made into likable people. It's to bad that Emma never shows any aptitude for computers though, she'd make a hell of an Oracle to Sophia's Huntress.
 
How come your poll doesn't have a "I don't care so long as you keep pumping out these wonderful, wonderful chapters" button?
 
JamesB said:
Taylor should have Emma relive her nightmare. After school one day, she vanishes in thin air and appears in the middle of ABB territory without her phone. No one would ever know.
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oooooooor we could not.


On a more relevant note, I really like this story, and I'm liking the pace you pump out chapters as well. I'd prefer you just decide whether she join the wards or not based on where you want to take the story rather than any poll, if only because SV proves on a daily basis how terrible its joint decision making process is.
 
Applying stuff like Vigilante Acts and lawyering never ends well in worm fics imo. People do it because they think it adds some legitimacy to their fic but it pretty much has the opposite effect. I mean we don't see Taylor in Canon worrying about the legality of her actions after taking down Lung, Parahumans are a law unto themselves and should be treated as such.
 
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