DepressedPenguin
Penguin
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a piece of extremely sharp, hard candy the size of a fist, thrown by someone with Aura enhanced strength, is bound to hurt some some capes that have a brute rating, right?
Surviving in Worm(A Case 53 SI)
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RichardWhereat
Feanor did nothing wrong.
- Location
- Australia
If not, then throwing Lemon drops at people should be considered a war crime.
Chapter 6
- Location
- USA
"Two hearts." I muttered lowly before a thought came to me and I perked up. "Does this mean I'm a Time Lord?" My question drew one sharp barking laugh from the woman.
"Ha! If you're a Time Lord then you have to promise to take me as a Companion on your TARDIS sometime. It'd be fascinating to see other alien cultures and get away from this crap sack of a planet." She put away her stethoscope and started writing something down on her clipboard. "Hmm, this puts a little chink in the plan though."
"Sorry."
"Don't be. This is the kind of stuff I live for." She wheeled her chair backwards towards a cabinet that she rummaged around in before she pulled out a blocky handheld device. Then she wheeled back over as she started fiddling around with it. "Now this little beauty is a medical scanner that a Tinker who watched one too many episodes of Star Trek made. Unfortunately, it isn't as versatile as it was in the shows but it should work to see what's going on inside of you." She kept fiddling with it before stopping suddenly. "Alright its done warming up. Please have your arms out and your legs shoulder width apart."
I did so as the device started making an annoying sound while Dr. Waller waved the device along my body. Finally, the sound cut off and she turned back to the computer to plug the scanner in. A moment later a black cut out of a body showed up on the screen. "Is it supposed to be like that?"
"No." She said slowly as she started to click around on the screen. "This should have shown us everything in your body but, hmm, maybe it has something to do with your Aura? Frustrating." She started up the device again and waved it over her own arm. Soon enough an arm appeared on screen but it wasn't blackened out like mine was.
"Sorry." Now I feel bad wasting her time like this.
"Like I said before don't be sorry. No data is still data and I always enjoyed puzzles. We'll probably have problems with bloodwork as well if the scanner didn't work. No matter though we have more testing to do."
It took another two hours before Dr. Waller was satisfied with what she called her 'general' physical examination. I questioned the term general because we seemed to be doing everything under the sun and some extra but I actually wasn't bored at all while we were testing because she always explained everything if I asked. Plus, it was interesting seeing the limits of my body. Dr. Waller had told me that in almost every test that I had preformed at either peak human level or beyond peak human levels. Which was good, I guess. She certainly thought so, but alas it was time for a lunch break.
"So," she stated as she finished writing down the last bit of information on her clipboard. "I think it's time to start on the real bread and butter of today with your overt powers, no pun intended, and since it's lunchtime why don't we start with your food generation power."
I tilted my head as I regarded her. "I thought I shouldn't let other people eat my food until it's tested or did I miss interpret that from what Vista said?"
"No, she was correct to not accept any food from you but we analyzed the burrito that you dropped on the floor last night and everything came back clean." I held a moment of silence for my lost love. "Compounding on that is the fact that you can't seem to eat any other food than what you produce ergo if it's safe for you it's probably safe for others. To be honest though some people higher up on the hierarchy are pushing for faster testing on it because your power could be extremely useful in disaster relief efforts. So I volunteered to be the first one to eat your food." She snorted. "You would not believe the amount of waivers I had to sign to do so."
"Oh." People think I'll be useful. That's… that's great! Being important feels so nice. I beamed up at Dr. Waller. "That's great! What do you want then? Oh, but if I don't know what your taste buds are like it'll only taste amazing instead of stupendous. If you want I can find out though." My excitement bled through to my voice and I think she recognized it.
"And how would you find this out?" She arched an eyebrow and the beginning of a smirk formed on her face.
"Well I need to taste your tongue to perfectly map out your taste buds so I can tailor your meal to them."
"So a kiss~" The smirk had evolved into to full blown grin.
"Exactl- Wait what!?! No, nothing like that! It's just a power interaction!" I nearly screeched at her.
"Tongue to tongue would be a kiss. A French kiss to be exact." She raised a hand to her face and gave me a coy look. "I had no idea you liked me that way and you didn't even take me out on a date first. Although you are making me food." She hummed in thought. Was it getting hot in here? No, no it's just me. Is that steam coming out of my ears? Abort, abort, a hideout, quick I need a hideout. I ducked under the desk to the sound of Dr. Waller's laughter and curled up. Ah, I want to die, this is so embarrassing.
Eventually the laughter petered out so the sound of my whimpers was the only thing making noise. A short while later she ducked down so I could see her face which looked contrite. "I'm sorry Shiro that was completely unprofessional. The teasing was uncalled for even if it was a great set up."
"L-Lewd. You're so lewd!" Her eyes started to roll before they stopped and she brought her hand to her nose to pinch it.
"God save me from naïve teenagers." She muttered before she sighed. It took her twenty minutes to coax me out from underneath the desk but I still couldn't look her in the eye anymore. Why? Why I am I cursed with perfect recall? The memory brought another blush to my cheeks. Argh, so mortifying!
"So," I fidgeted awkwardly at the sound of her voice. "Let's just ignore the… incident… and get back to lunch. I know, how about Beef Wellington with a side of bacon wrapped asparagus and mashed potatoes." I glanced at the table between us for a second and two plates filled with the same order appeared. As the smell wafted up Dr. Wallen's eyes widened. "This smells amazing. What kind of sauce did you use?"
"A mushroom sauce." I said while distracted by the rumbling in my stomach. As I was cutting into the steak Dr. Waller took her first bite. The moment it hit her tongue she froze before a visible shiver ran through her. Her eyes fluttered and with forced calm she slowly set her knife and fork down.
"You- you said this wasn't the best you could do right?"
"N-No, is it bad?" I felt a horrible feeling well up inside me at disappointing someone.
"God no! This is the best thing I've ever eaten. You'll make some girl very happy someday." She paused and looked at her arm as my unnamed feeling disappeared. "Huh, that feels tingly," she said as she rolled up her lab coat sleeve revealing a bandage. With a bit of care, she pulled the bandage away to reveal unblemished skin below. As she poked and prodded at the area with wide eyes she spoke again. "You might get to see Panacea sooner rather than later actually. I'm sorry but as soon as I'm done you'll be continuing on with your testing with a colleague of mine."
As soon as she finished speaking she began to dig into her food with gusto. It felt good that she seemed to be enjoying my food and I soon copied her although I was confused as to why she needed to leave. All too soon she was saying her goodbyes and I was left in the room until a tall black man named Dr. Founder came in and introduced himself. His voice was really deep with a rumble and I enjoyed listening to it because it was unique and sounded really cool.
After we had been introduced we began testing for the Brute package or what he called the boring tests. They actually were boring so I guess he got that right. Still I found out that my Aura could help me deadlift up to 850 pounds and at least block a bullet using a pressure machine or at least Dr. Founder thinks so because even if I could feel the pressure right from the start. Then we tested for Mover powers and found I could sprint at 60mph and run at 45mph easily. No Breaker, Tinker, Master, Stranger, Changer, Striker or Breaker powers unfortunately. Instead I had a very minor Thinker power for my perfect recall and a minor Trump power for interfering with Thinkers.
Then we went to a wide-open range while Dr. Founder stayed in a different room behind a two-way blast proof window. From there he would call out different weapons that I would form and if possible fire them down range. This went on for a long time before an assistant wheeled in a cart full of futuristic weapons that they wanted me to try to reproduce. No matter how I tried I couldn't do it and the failure nearly brought me to tears before Dr. Founder reassured me that Mom couldn't do it either. It did help to get my emotions somewhat back under control.
Then we were finally testing my food generation. It felt wrong to just be wasting food like this but it was for a purpose. First, he would call out different food in different locations and starting speeds. I found I could have my food have a maximum speed of 30mph starting speed and any location within 60ft of myself. Although creating it within my eyesight didn't create a headache like when I didn't rely on my eyesight.
"Very interesting." Dr. Founder's voice came over the speaker. "Now, don't do this but can you create anything harmful with your food generation?" I only had to think for an instant before nodding. "Could you give an example?"
"Sure. Well, I can create cyanide from cassava root." I ticked one of my fingers up. "Then there is puffer fish toxin, thousands of different venom from snakes, and capsaicin from Carolina reapers." I kept listing things until I ran out of fingers and before I could start using my toes Dr. Founder interrupted me.
"Right. I've heard enough. Thank you. Please do not create any of those things at this time. Let's move on to volume. Try to make as many nonlethal things as possible as quickly as possible." I looked down the firing range. It was about 50 feet long and 20 high but what to fill it with? My mind wandered until I came up with the idea of using peanuts.
"Alright I'm ready." In an instant everything in front of me was filled with salty peanuts. I had only a moment to admire my newly formed salty wall before it started to shift. Right before the avalanche of nuts rushed over me I had a thought that maybe filling an entire room was a bad idea. Well, that and 'Ah, Nuts!'
"Ha! If you're a Time Lord then you have to promise to take me as a Companion on your TARDIS sometime. It'd be fascinating to see other alien cultures and get away from this crap sack of a planet." She put away her stethoscope and started writing something down on her clipboard. "Hmm, this puts a little chink in the plan though."
"Sorry."
"Don't be. This is the kind of stuff I live for." She wheeled her chair backwards towards a cabinet that she rummaged around in before she pulled out a blocky handheld device. Then she wheeled back over as she started fiddling around with it. "Now this little beauty is a medical scanner that a Tinker who watched one too many episodes of Star Trek made. Unfortunately, it isn't as versatile as it was in the shows but it should work to see what's going on inside of you." She kept fiddling with it before stopping suddenly. "Alright its done warming up. Please have your arms out and your legs shoulder width apart."
I did so as the device started making an annoying sound while Dr. Waller waved the device along my body. Finally, the sound cut off and she turned back to the computer to plug the scanner in. A moment later a black cut out of a body showed up on the screen. "Is it supposed to be like that?"
"No." She said slowly as she started to click around on the screen. "This should have shown us everything in your body but, hmm, maybe it has something to do with your Aura? Frustrating." She started up the device again and waved it over her own arm. Soon enough an arm appeared on screen but it wasn't blackened out like mine was.
"Sorry." Now I feel bad wasting her time like this.
"Like I said before don't be sorry. No data is still data and I always enjoyed puzzles. We'll probably have problems with bloodwork as well if the scanner didn't work. No matter though we have more testing to do."
It took another two hours before Dr. Waller was satisfied with what she called her 'general' physical examination. I questioned the term general because we seemed to be doing everything under the sun and some extra but I actually wasn't bored at all while we were testing because she always explained everything if I asked. Plus, it was interesting seeing the limits of my body. Dr. Waller had told me that in almost every test that I had preformed at either peak human level or beyond peak human levels. Which was good, I guess. She certainly thought so, but alas it was time for a lunch break.
"So," she stated as she finished writing down the last bit of information on her clipboard. "I think it's time to start on the real bread and butter of today with your overt powers, no pun intended, and since it's lunchtime why don't we start with your food generation power."
I tilted my head as I regarded her. "I thought I shouldn't let other people eat my food until it's tested or did I miss interpret that from what Vista said?"
"No, she was correct to not accept any food from you but we analyzed the burrito that you dropped on the floor last night and everything came back clean." I held a moment of silence for my lost love. "Compounding on that is the fact that you can't seem to eat any other food than what you produce ergo if it's safe for you it's probably safe for others. To be honest though some people higher up on the hierarchy are pushing for faster testing on it because your power could be extremely useful in disaster relief efforts. So I volunteered to be the first one to eat your food." She snorted. "You would not believe the amount of waivers I had to sign to do so."
"Oh." People think I'll be useful. That's… that's great! Being important feels so nice. I beamed up at Dr. Waller. "That's great! What do you want then? Oh, but if I don't know what your taste buds are like it'll only taste amazing instead of stupendous. If you want I can find out though." My excitement bled through to my voice and I think she recognized it.
"And how would you find this out?" She arched an eyebrow and the beginning of a smirk formed on her face.
"Well I need to taste your tongue to perfectly map out your taste buds so I can tailor your meal to them."
"So a kiss~" The smirk had evolved into to full blown grin.
"Exactl- Wait what!?! No, nothing like that! It's just a power interaction!" I nearly screeched at her.
"Tongue to tongue would be a kiss. A French kiss to be exact." She raised a hand to her face and gave me a coy look. "I had no idea you liked me that way and you didn't even take me out on a date first. Although you are making me food." She hummed in thought. Was it getting hot in here? No, no it's just me. Is that steam coming out of my ears? Abort, abort, a hideout, quick I need a hideout. I ducked under the desk to the sound of Dr. Waller's laughter and curled up. Ah, I want to die, this is so embarrassing.
Eventually the laughter petered out so the sound of my whimpers was the only thing making noise. A short while later she ducked down so I could see her face which looked contrite. "I'm sorry Shiro that was completely unprofessional. The teasing was uncalled for even if it was a great set up."
"L-Lewd. You're so lewd!" Her eyes started to roll before they stopped and she brought her hand to her nose to pinch it.
"God save me from naïve teenagers." She muttered before she sighed. It took her twenty minutes to coax me out from underneath the desk but I still couldn't look her in the eye anymore. Why? Why I am I cursed with perfect recall? The memory brought another blush to my cheeks. Argh, so mortifying!
"So," I fidgeted awkwardly at the sound of her voice. "Let's just ignore the… incident… and get back to lunch. I know, how about Beef Wellington with a side of bacon wrapped asparagus and mashed potatoes." I glanced at the table between us for a second and two plates filled with the same order appeared. As the smell wafted up Dr. Wallen's eyes widened. "This smells amazing. What kind of sauce did you use?"
"A mushroom sauce." I said while distracted by the rumbling in my stomach. As I was cutting into the steak Dr. Waller took her first bite. The moment it hit her tongue she froze before a visible shiver ran through her. Her eyes fluttered and with forced calm she slowly set her knife and fork down.
"You- you said this wasn't the best you could do right?"
"N-No, is it bad?" I felt a horrible feeling well up inside me at disappointing someone.
"God no! This is the best thing I've ever eaten. You'll make some girl very happy someday." She paused and looked at her arm as my unnamed feeling disappeared. "Huh, that feels tingly," she said as she rolled up her lab coat sleeve revealing a bandage. With a bit of care, she pulled the bandage away to reveal unblemished skin below. As she poked and prodded at the area with wide eyes she spoke again. "You might get to see Panacea sooner rather than later actually. I'm sorry but as soon as I'm done you'll be continuing on with your testing with a colleague of mine."
As soon as she finished speaking she began to dig into her food with gusto. It felt good that she seemed to be enjoying my food and I soon copied her although I was confused as to why she needed to leave. All too soon she was saying her goodbyes and I was left in the room until a tall black man named Dr. Founder came in and introduced himself. His voice was really deep with a rumble and I enjoyed listening to it because it was unique and sounded really cool.
After we had been introduced we began testing for the Brute package or what he called the boring tests. They actually were boring so I guess he got that right. Still I found out that my Aura could help me deadlift up to 850 pounds and at least block a bullet using a pressure machine or at least Dr. Founder thinks so because even if I could feel the pressure right from the start. Then we tested for Mover powers and found I could sprint at 60mph and run at 45mph easily. No Breaker, Tinker, Master, Stranger, Changer, Striker or Breaker powers unfortunately. Instead I had a very minor Thinker power for my perfect recall and a minor Trump power for interfering with Thinkers.
Then we went to a wide-open range while Dr. Founder stayed in a different room behind a two-way blast proof window. From there he would call out different weapons that I would form and if possible fire them down range. This went on for a long time before an assistant wheeled in a cart full of futuristic weapons that they wanted me to try to reproduce. No matter how I tried I couldn't do it and the failure nearly brought me to tears before Dr. Founder reassured me that Mom couldn't do it either. It did help to get my emotions somewhat back under control.
Then we were finally testing my food generation. It felt wrong to just be wasting food like this but it was for a purpose. First, he would call out different food in different locations and starting speeds. I found I could have my food have a maximum speed of 30mph starting speed and any location within 60ft of myself. Although creating it within my eyesight didn't create a headache like when I didn't rely on my eyesight.
"Very interesting." Dr. Founder's voice came over the speaker. "Now, don't do this but can you create anything harmful with your food generation?" I only had to think for an instant before nodding. "Could you give an example?"
"Sure. Well, I can create cyanide from cassava root." I ticked one of my fingers up. "Then there is puffer fish toxin, thousands of different venom from snakes, and capsaicin from Carolina reapers." I kept listing things until I ran out of fingers and before I could start using my toes Dr. Founder interrupted me.
"Right. I've heard enough. Thank you. Please do not create any of those things at this time. Let's move on to volume. Try to make as many nonlethal things as possible as quickly as possible." I looked down the firing range. It was about 50 feet long and 20 high but what to fill it with? My mind wandered until I came up with the idea of using peanuts.
"Alright I'm ready." In an instant everything in front of me was filled with salty peanuts. I had only a moment to admire my newly formed salty wall before it started to shift. Right before the avalanche of nuts rushed over me I had a thought that maybe filling an entire room was a bad idea. Well, that and 'Ah, Nuts!'
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RichardWhereat
Feanor did nothing wrong.
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He said non-lethal. You make that many peanuts and you're bound to kill off those with weak genes.
DepressedPenguin
Penguin
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can you make homing missile baguettes?
RichardWhereat
Feanor did nothing wrong.
- Location
- Australia
What on earth are you asking that for? Can't everyone?
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- Philippines
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You this food generation powers remind me a certain Chinese novel called ½ Prince where she/he uses her pet meat bun to defeat her enemies
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Does the PRT not have safeguarding procedures? Especially for minors without parents? Yes this is indeed incredibly unprofessional and I'm surprised you included it really.
RichardWhereat
Feanor did nothing wrong.
- Location
- Australia
Oh don't let's turn this into another morality fight like A Little Helper.
DepressedPenguin
Penguin
- Location
- UK
so what does everyone think the Manton limit for Shiro's food generation is gonna be?
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- Earth Prime
TARDIS. Always all-caps; it's an acronym.
Wow. Is he imitating anime on purpose, or is it baked into his power-granted appearance? I mean, he's adorable, but this stood out in particular.
Did I detect a hint at his food having healing powers, too? What, does he cast heroes' feast at will?
Something awesome how about seeds, I'm kinda hoping that they start groves outside the city, hmmm. Let's say he is in a hallway with a hundred empty rooms and walking from one end to another takes ten minutes, each one has a see through door how long would it take to fill each room with food. Loving his power because seriously he can feed armies and can always be armed, in other settings he could form armies and rule nations better than many powers in worm. Also food generation is now the fifth best power, behind healing, power bestowal, self replication/duplication, precognition.
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edmantgoog
init high just high
can you make dwarven battle bread? drop scones FTW?
The Stormbringer
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Healing food, huh? If he can make plates and silverware, I imagine he can do packaged versions too. Can we say game changer?
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- USA
Well it wasn't shown but assumed that Dr. Waller was trying to make him relaxed as possible during the testing. This included making small jokes like being the Time Lord's Companion and explaining everything that she was doing. After doing this for nearly two hours she tried to make another small joke/ explaining what he was asking for in a humorous way, but it ended up backfiring on her. *Shrugs* these kinds of things can happen to everyone because you can never know how people will react to certain things.
In her defense almost immediately afterwards she felt horrible about it but since you have an unreliable narrator from Shiro's POV you didn't see all of that.
Edit: It was also part of the reason why she left almost immediately after lunch was finished because the PRT does have rules against this sort of thing. Well that and the fact that she's going straight to M/S quarantine while Panacea will be checking her out to make sure she's not horribly mutating because the food healed her small cut.
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That's fair, though I was also thinking about not having a chaperone with him at the doctor's given he's a minor.
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- USA
Ah, I see your point there. Hmm, I could just say there are additional laws that give the PRT in loco parentis for orphaned/runaway underage capes but that seems like a cop out.
- Location
- Canada
That likely IS the case, since I doubt known parahumans would be left with normal social services to take care of. However it wouldn't be a blanket coverage for every employee in the PRT, they'd have a specific department to handle it. Probably case workers like the one who (failed to) monitor(ed) Sophia's probation.
Anyways, I really don't see what she said to be all that unprofessional or out of line. True if she had let him 'taste her tongue', or if she was the one asking for the kiss then it'd be wrong (at least unsupervised. there's no doubt that power testing should be done fully if there's a risk and some testing might require things that aren't normally appropriate for normals. Newter is one example since you'd have to test all his body fluids in contact with people even if you don't need them direct from him.)
I would also argue that Shiro is also valid exception in which testing his food production after having 'tasted their tongue' would be required given how he reacts to his food (orgasmicly) is much more than the tester did to the fantastic/healing food. If any food he produces for people after he's kissed them does so or does something different (addictive? master effect?) then it's definitely something to find out now rather than in a year or two when he's kissing his GF.
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Of course said testing should require parental permission (or someone acting in loco parentis) and probably be monitored. Not sure if doing said testing in a relaxed / humorous manor or in the most scientific / emotionless manor would be best - though any women on here who've experienced going to a male gyno while a young teen would probably be able to answer that question since it's a similar issue regarding a normally sexual act (touching genitals/kissing) being done for health reasons. I would think it'd be better for the doctor to act casual and relaxed than to be stuffy and super professional since that'd just add more stress, but since it involves having an older man/woman touching a young girls genitals likely has plenty of laws in place regarding their behavior.
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They still do have to test that part of his power because leaving it unknown is just not an option. Still if Shiro hadn't freaked the F out Dr. Waller would have called in a colleague to act as a monitor and as a baseline test when they both ate the food he created. In regards to acting unprofessional she made an innocent tease, to her mind anyway, which made her patient extremely uncomfortable. This in turn means that she was acting unprofessional.
RichardWhereat
Feanor did nothing wrong.
- Location
- Australia
Or indeed, Miss Militia coming in and apologising that she left him so long, and then they just get on with it? Fuck ups happen, and he was with a trusted member of staff, one of her friends.
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- United Kingdom
do you live under a rock? I get that worm occurs a few years in the past but this can still be counted as sexual harassment, which is why I thought it unusual the author included it. You have a doctor, a person it a position of great authority and power, asking a orphaned and memory wiped minor for a kiss. Hes like 10 or something isn't he? It's incredibly dodgy.
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- Earth Prime
Looking back at it, she didn't ask for a kiss. When told he'd have to "taste her tongue," she said it sounded like a kiss.
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- United Kingdom
Indeed, she doesn't, so my mistake there, but I assume you get my more general point about the inappropriateness of the idea?