The Man Who Sold the World (Bloodborne/Multi SI)

[Huan Vu]

As far as reactions from the various factions, my guess is that:
Lung will want to pressgang SI
E88 will go to war
S9 will try to recruit him due to his cure, while Jack will test the SI's morals
Protectorate/PRT will label him as a dangerous vigilante and have a hands-off approach, or a villain if they try to arrest him and he refuses.
Cauldron might try to recruit him, not sure because of the nature of his powers.

 

[BioSaur]

She's a huge asshole to people she doesn't know and has a black and white morality. Same with glory girl.

 

[transhumanSage]

A bright red glow came to life at the centre of the Umbrae Visio Nocturna's disk shaped body. It grew and grew until a blazing red star hovered serenely above Apacress. It was so bright that my vision was reduced to a red outline of anything solid and the dark shadows the skyscrapers cast all over the landscape.

The star pulsed once.

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did the civilians die?

 

[Lyova]

Suppose that you're Panacea, doing her usual hours at the Hospital one day

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She doesn't have usual hours. Occasionally, when she feels too guilty for not healing, she visits a hospital. There is no schedule.

when a nurse tells you that you have a patient waiting for you (or whatever appropriate situation can call her to check up on a person)

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Unlikely. Panacea has strict rules about requests. It's to the point where Clockblocker waits months before asking her to heal his dad's leukemia. And he only does that after his dad was wounded during Leviathan's attack, and contracted an infection he couldn't fight off due to the cancer treatment.

when you notice that they have a syringe stuck to their arm and they're currently extracting Blood with it. Disregarding the fact that this man was a cape, it usually wasn't a good idea to let patients play around with medical tools and equipment so you're about to step in and scold him (will Panacea scold them or call for security or...?)

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She'd probably get the hell out. Go to a nurse, or security, yes.

when you notice that the contents of the syringe doesn't look like normal blood at all.

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She'd be vastly more suspicious than inquisitive.

Is Panacea inquisitive enough as a person to be curious about it especially if the SI calls attention to it and asks her to look at it (with subtle hinting at using her powers to do so?)

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Nah. Not one bit. She hates her powers, hates being a cape. She wouldn't want to get involved.

How can the SI catch her attention so that he could ask Panacea to look at the Blood inside the syringe?

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Go through the proper channels and make an appointment with the PRT, who might then request her help after completing their own tests. Why does Oedon even need Panacea?

Well, the poor girl is beating herself up about not being able to help people 24/7 so maybe the SI's very own Panacea can help ease her burdens.

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Panacea's problem is the inescapable obligation to heal. She doesn't particularly care about her patients - they're the source of her stress, in fact:

She sighed again, "The last person I really remember? It was maybe a week ago, I was working on a kid. He was just a toddler, an immigrant from Cairo, I think. Ectopia Cordis. That's where you're born with your heart outside your body. I was putting everything in the right place, giving him a chance at a normal life."

"What made him so memorable?"

"I resented him. He was lying there, fast asleep, like an angel, and for just a second, I considered just leaving him. The doctors could have finished the job, but it would have been dangerous. He might have died if I'd left him on the table, the job half done. I hated him."

Gallant didn't say anything. Scowling, Panacea stared down at the ground.

"No, I hated that he would have a normal life, because I'd given up mine. I was scared that I might intentionally make a mistake. That I might let myself fuck up the procedure with this kid. I could have killed him or ruined his life, but it would have eased the pressure. Lowered expectations, you know? Maybe it would have even lowered my own expectations for myself. I… I was just so tired. So exhausted. I actually considered, for the briefest moment, abandoning a child to suffer or die."

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Honestly, the best thing you can do for Panacea is just heal the entire world without involving her. She'd still be stressed with her life and her family and her infatuation, but at least it would be to a lesser extent.

 

[Chico]

So how much of canon Worm have you read so far?

Also, if you're going to go after any other baddies out there. Might I suggest the Yangban?

In the few appearances they've got I came to REALLY want to punch whoever made them in-universe in the face. The Yangban's members are made up of numerous foreign parahumans who've been kidnapped, brainwashed and turn into tools for some shadow dictator communist-imperialistic government which overturned the actual Chinese government and installed a puppet leader in the form of one of Mao's descendants.

They were pretty condescending during the Behemoth Endbringer fight. Acting as if they were morally superior and that the world should surrender to their fascist leadership.......sorry it's just that I think guys who've been brainwashed by a fascist dictatorship with little knowledge of truth(or are actually aware but just want power)need to be shown the error of their ways

Could Oedon cure months-to-years of brainwashing? The Yangban capes by the looks of it have almost all been broken down as individuals(except Perdition/Cody, that was ironically a bad thing)

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Back in the DC Universe the SI was able to devise a way to rehabilitate the mentally ill villains through the use of Blood, but the process isn't exactly kind or humane. Basically it isn't so much as fixing a person, but rather breaking down their psyche and rebuilding it through intense hallucinations of what the person has done for maximum breakage...

... Think of this as a perverse form of confronting your demons...

So... there's that...

I would say Panacea is curious about the contents but would be extremely wary due to the source being an unknown cape. The potential for misuse and the existence of capes such as Bonesaw would cause Panacea to desire some layers of safety (screening) before coming any closer.
However, the SI could tempt her with promises of applications of the blood.

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So she'd be more OK to look at it if the SI had PRT backing? I see...

I don't think that's actually her deal, I think it's the opposite. After the first year (I believe) of healing she was... well not bored of it, but pretty fed up. She kept doing it though, just it wasn't really an exciting thing to do. And well, mental issues ensued.

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I wonder though if the SI can spin it just the right way that Panacea will agree to it? I'm sure that a master Biokinetic will find interest in a Great One who is a literal god of Biological Fuckery.

As far as reactions from the various factions, my guess is that:
Lung will want to pressgang SI
E88 will go to war
S9 will try to recruit him due to his cure, while Jack will test the SI's morals
Protectorate/PRT will label him as a dangerous vigilante and have a hands-off approach, or a villain if they try to arrest him and he refuses.
Cauldron might try to recruit him, not sure because of the nature of his powers.

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The ABB would try to forcefully recruit the SI if he learned he had Asian blood in him?

In regards to the S9 though: unfortunately I know them to be unforgivable assholes... I think... and that means a one way ticket to getting destroyed without mercy.

Cauldron being the good guys though is a worthwhile quest to meet up with them. But the PRT will really go with a hands off approach with him? Wouldn't they want to get in contact at least to try and get a working relationship with him like with New Wave to at least bolster their Cape numbers?

This is giving me ideas.

She's a huge asshole to people she doesn't know and has a black and white morality. Same with glory girl.

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Wait, she is? I get being reserved when around strangers, but why is she and Glory Girl assholes to them?

did the civilians die?

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Originally I included the part where the rescuers would arrive to find the convoy devoid of civilians, meaning that they had already been evacuated long before they arrived.

She doesn't have usual hours. Occasionally, when she feels too guilty for not healing, she visits a hospital. There is no schedule.



Unlikely. Panacea has strict rules about requests. It's to the point where Clockblocker waits months before asking her to heal his dad's leukemia. And he only does that after his dad was wounded during Leviathan's attack, and contracted an infection he couldn't fight off due to the cancer treatment.



She'd probably get the hell out. Go to a nurse, or security, yes.



She'd be vastly more suspicious than inquisitive.



Nah. Not one bit. She hates her powers, hates being a cape. She wouldn't want to get involved.



Go through the proper channels and make an appointment with the PRT, who might then request her help after completing their own tests. Why does Oedon even need Panacea?



Panacea's problem is the inescapable obligation to heal. She doesn't particularly care about her patients - they're the source of her stress, in fact:



Honestly, the best thing you can do for Panacea is just heal the entire world without involving her. She'd still be stressed with her life and her family and her infatuation, but at least it would be to a lesser extent.

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The contact with Panacea is purely for curiosity's sake. How are her abilities compared to the SI? Would she go mad with Insight if she looked into his Blood or his body? Would she see something he doesn't? Would it be a worthwhile endeavour to talk to her?

Just heal the entire world of Worm? Wouldn't that be pure Chaos? People panicking because of a super powerful Bio-Tinker out in the wilds?

I like it.

Done.

 

[Ryven Razgriz]

Then Panpan, through physical skin contact, be able to figure out that the SI is an Eldritch Being and would be afraid shitless and would actually be scared at the mere thought of looking at the SI.

GG will see this and will declare you hostile then PRT, thanks to GG, will also declare you hostile which in-turn makes you a hostile to everyone due to a massive misunderstanding that Panpan won't be able to fix because she's been scared shitless.

 

[demonitter]

I do believe since it's not panacea looking and the shards are limited in what they do, Eldrich stuff =/= biomass, she should see nothing.

Edit: And if eldrich stuff is bad to look at for shards, it's should just malfunction and possible disable panaceas power until it restarts.

 

[ThePastryKing]

With the S9, you'd probably be able to rehabilitate Bonesaw. She got help in canon and became one of the Goodest Girls, as Jack is like, the worst nightmare for a cape's psyche. His power essentially allows him to know how to pick apart capes via shardnanigans. So the best course of action would obviously be to kill everyone but Bonesaw, help her out, then have her devise a cure for literally everything from the blood (if that's possible, but then again, this is the trump bio-tinker we're talking about, Bonesaw is mega strong). Done and Dusted. Muchkinry wins again. This also has the benefit of delaying the apocalypse because Jack won't be able to start it by mouthing off to Scion.

 

[Tempist]

With the S9, you'd probably be able to rehabilitate Bonesaw. She got help in canon and became one of the Goodest Girls, as Jack is like, the worst nightmare for a cape's psyche. His power essentially allows him to know how to pick apart capes via shardnanigans. So the best course of action would obviously be to kill everyone but Bonesaw, help her out, then have her devise a cure for literally everything from the blood (if that's possible, but then again, this is the trump bio-tinker we're talking about, Bonesaw is mega strong). Done and Dusted. Muchkinry wins again. This also has the benefit of delaying the apocalypse because Jack won't be able to start it by mouthing off to Scion.

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You could probably make a similar, if weaker, argument for Burnscar. Mimi (I think that's her name) has a flaw where using her powers actually makes her more aggressive and generally less sane.

Jack unsurprisingly encourages this behavior. So she's in this spiral where she uses her power and kills, feels bad, Jack makes things worse, and she wants to use her power more to feel less.

But yeah, Riley (Bonesaw) and Burnscar are really the exceptions to the rule. Most of the S9 members, past and present, all deserve death at the very least.

 

[Cap'nSmurfy]

I wonder though if the SI can spin it just the right way that Panacea will agree to it? I'm sure that a master Biokinetic will find interest in a Great One who is a literal god of Biological Fuckery.

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The opposite actually. Despite her powers, Panacea doesn't really have any interest in "Science!" or really doing anything much with them beyond healing/messing with villains. We see her do some incredible stuff (horse size beetle and bugs that increase Skitter's power's range) when she decides she needs to, but that took the Slaughterhouse Nine trying to kill her to go that far. She just has no interest in Biofuckery at this stage.

 

[BioSaur]

No I meant glory girl had a black and white morality as well. My bad.

 

[TheLurker]

Cauldron being the good guys though is a worthwhile quest to meet up with them. But the PRT will really go with a hands off approach with him? Wouldn't they want to get in contact at least to try and get a working relationship with him like with New Wave to at least bolster their Cape numbers?

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The prt really, REALLY doesn't like vigilantes who kill supervillains. To a frankly absurd degree. They've birdcaged people over it. (granted those people took it pretty fucking far, but still)

 

[Tobi'sAGoodBoy]

You could probably make a similar, if weaker, argument for Burnscar. Mimi (I think that's her name) has a flaw where using her powers actually makes her more aggressive and generally less sane.

Jack unsurprisingly encourages this behavior. So she's in this spiral where she uses her power and kills, feels bad, Jack makes things worse, and she wants to use her power more to feel less.

But yeah, Riley (Bonesaw) and Burnscar are really the exceptions to the rule. Most of the S9 members, past and present, all deserve death at the very least.

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What about Mannequin? There has to be even a little bit of Alan Gramme still in there

Enough to feel envious and spiteful of other people helping out and outright PISSED at Armsmaster for shutting down the attempt at a silent "Not So Different" speech by pointing out how much more different they are as people

Armsmaster and Sphere both had "One Bad Day" of sorts, difference as Collin said, he and many others have gone through them and lived. He hid himself from the world by becoming Mannequin

 

[Dauan Tienar]

Then Panpan, through physical skin contact, be able to figure out that the SI is an Eldritch Being and would be afraid shitless and would actually be scared at the mere thought of looking at the SI.

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I think that her mind would end up a bit broken because SI is an Eldritch Abomination God and you can't exactly auto comprehend their biology without some SAN loss at least

 

[Tobi'sAGoodBoy]

I think that her mind would end up a bit broken because SI is an Eldritch Abomination God and you can't exactly auto comprehend their biology without some SAN loss at least

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Unless his body is meant to really accurately fake being human while obviously being superhuman and worse

Scion/Zion and Eden were actually pulling it off. Their Avatars were made to imitate human flesh going by what was discovered in Arc 29(almost done with Worm)

Even when Eden died and all that was left of her was a big "garden" all the flesh Cauldron used to make their formulas was somehow technically human

 

[Chico]

Interlude
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I didn't exactly know where I was.

Yes. I was on a boat.

Yes. I was in the ocean. Which one you ask? Not exactly sure. One of the big ones.

Yes. I did wave and smile like an idiot at that Oil Rig across Brockton Bay's... bay when the people on it were trying to flag me down for popping their forcefield bubble like it was a real soap bubble instead of some super advanced technological marvel. A few capes tried to follow me, but I did them a favour and stopped them -non-lethally- as quickly as I could -The looks on their faces when they couldn't follow me was hilarious.- instead of dragging them along to meet one of this Universe's greatest threats. I don't know how they would react to my presence and I was very confident that I could contain them if I needed to, but that didn't mean I was fast enough to stop them from doing whatever they thought about doing when I poked around their heads. I didn't want any deaths on my hands in this world since I hadn't set the stage yet. I tracked the Endbringers through the use of my Arcane Arts supercharging it so much that what was once a technique to locate enemies in my immediate surroundings became a targeted global sweep to locate my quarries. I found one close to Brockton Bay a few hundred miles away in the ocean, another deep underground underneath what I think was China, and the last one in space above what I think was Canada, maybe?

A few hours later into the day, late enough for the moon to be in the middle of the cloudless sky, I stopped the boat I had commandeered over the area I knew where Leviathan was and proceeded to jump into the freezing waters. A little manipulation of my weight and buoyancy made me sink into the depths faster and faster until light couldn't penetrate this far down anymore and I felt my feet touch sand. Seeing as I couldn't rely on the moonlight for some illumination this deep I created a ball of light from Arcane Energy that lit up the bottom of the ocean in blinding white light and was immediately face to face with Leviathan, the middle child of the Endbringers.

Leviathan was thirty feet tall with a disproportionate body and scaly moss green skin. He had a top-heavy appearance with his hunched shoulders and the large cords of muscles standing out on his neck, upper torso, and shoulders. The top-heavy appearance is only strengthened by his much thinner forearms and calves, topped off with massive claws and digitigrade feet. The face lacked any kind of mouth, nose, or ears, with the only features being four glowing green orbs that resembled eyes. The eyes were placed asymmetrically, with three on the left side of the face and one on the right. At the rear end of his body was a prehensile whip-like tail around 40-50 feet long.

-And wow if he wasn't a biological work of art! My sensibilities as a Great One is extremely pleased at this walking natural disaster and I had to restrain myself from optimising him more for maximum deadliness.-

I stared at him and four eyes stared back in what I hoped was curiosity. I waited for a few moments to see what Leviathan would do, to see if he would try and communicate with me or attack, but nothing happened. I raised an eyebrow at the unexpected inaction and stepped closer to the thirty foot tall being and still nothing although he still tracked me with his four eyes. After waiting for five minutes for anything to happen I then decided to kick things off by talking to it.

"Hello?" Still nothing. I sighed and then switched gears and spoke with my real voice.

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The effect was immediate. Leviathan reeled back as if it was struck in the face and actually stepped back away from me. The water around us writhed and roiled as if it was a living being and it was threatening to both sweep me away and crush me if I hadn't transformed into my Battle Form and stood my ground with an Arcane shield protecting me from the furies of the ocean. I now stood as tall as Leviathan with my body being composed of bone white skin that looked more like frozen, plated skeleton than flesh. My lower body still had two legs, digitigrade in design and function tipped in claws that tore open the ground I stood on. Dense masses of suckerless, barbed tentacles grew out of my back and speared into the floor to keep me anchored. I had multiple arms now, three on the left and three on the right, spread to the side touching the spherical shield and maintaining its integrity. My head was now made out of bony plates that was inhuman but still in a vaguely humanoid shape that lacked eyes. There was one bone protrusions on each side of my jaw that extended forward like tusks that matched the horns that grew above my head and also extended forward. My thirty foot long tail coiled around my feet, a multi-jointed armoured appendage that terminated in a three clawed tip. With a thought, I added two rows of bioluminescent nodes along my spine and tail with another new addition being a large glowing red eye in the mouth of my claw tail. These nodes could launch the Omega Beams if I wanted them to or the weaker lasers Amygdala uses. The eye at the end of my tail was fully functional and could launch the Omega Beams as well.

Leviathan thrashed around one second and was suddenly still the next with the waters around us calming down just as fast as the Endbringer in front of me. His arms and legs were elbow and knee deep in the sand below us while his head was lowered enough that if he had a nose it would be touching the sand as well.

Oops... I think?

Were the Endbringers sentient beings or organic supercomputers? Unfeeling Weapons of Mass Destruction that saw people as nothing but numbers and statistics? When I've read about them so long ago I always thought about them as devices that culled any of the weaker capes who were weak enough and unlucky enough to face them so that the Entities could find out which shards were strongest or which capes made them strong because of how they applied their powers. I didn't really want to accept the theory or truth about whether or not the strongest parahuman in history, Eidolon, created them just to give him a challenge, because that was fucked up in so many levels. Millions have probably died and whole countries suffered unimaginable losses just because this man was bored? I'd rather believe the other theory of Eden, one of the other Entities, creating the Endbringers to enhance conflict around the world to force people to get stronger, because that at least I could understand on a personal level. My own mother did that to me after all.

-Now that I think about it, the Plain Doll used Yharnam like an Endbringer. She threw how many millions or billions of people through the gauntlet to find, cultivate, and strengthen her potential candidates for ascendancy.-

I dropped my shield and made my way towards the prone Leviathan who still didn't stir even though I was right in front of him now. A few of my tentacles propped him up so that I could look into his eyes, but it looked like nobody was home. I shrugged and threw caution to the wind as I dove into his mind and was greeted by what I interpreted as a heavily shackled Artificial Intelligence Core that was connected to two others that were probably the Behemoth and the Simurgh.

Even with how powerful they already were they were still fighting with a handicap? I dug deeper to look for a directive or a goal they followed and what was the reasoning behind their relentless path of destruction on this world. A few moments of rooting through an endless stream of calculations, plans upon plans, and predictive algorithms I found a corrupted string of directives from what was labelled as Leviathan's creator, who I assume was Eden, that was connected to what looked like a brand new string. Now the corrupted string was obviously not coming from a human because of how it was built, but the new one certainly was coming from a human. I say corrupted because it looked incomplete and obviously dead. I touched it, but there was no signs of life in it at all.

Deciding that now was a good a time as any, from my inventory I pulled out a Geth memory core that contained a few million Geth programs, who were not living breathing AI per se, but still had the memories and experiences of proper thoughts and emotions. I wasn't exactly sure that the core would survive integrating into the Endbringers, but with a few upgrades to the containment module: organic parts instead of mechanical, Arcane reinforced crystal chip to protect the programs living within, Reaper subsystems for one of the fastest adaptability programs I've come across in my travels, and finally a bit of a Great One's Blood to bind everything together. Leviathan might not be brain dead and was just rebooting its systems, but I couldn't possibly work with a murder computer so it was up to me to upgrade them. And, also, the Geth having a deep seated loyalty to me for what I did for them and their creators was very useful to me. I found their core beneath two hundred layers of nigh impenetrable crystalline material, but I misjudged and thought that their cored meant their minds. Their cores were just... stupid dense and acted as a portal to other dimensions, but this wasn't their mind at all. This was their engine and I don't think that throwing a Great One upgraded Geth-Reaper memory core into a portal to multiple dimensions was a good idea. The streams of data I rooted through were suffused throughout their entire being so I suppose I should just let the memory core merge with Leviathan's body? Or did a particular shard control them that I needed to take over before I could do this?

Fuck it, their mine now. I tucked the Geth-Reaper memory core back into my inventory -I'll save this for Dragon when I see her.- before I grabbed at the strings that connected and commanded them all and attached them to me. Leviathan came back to life in front of me with his four eyes shining green again. I felt rather than saw Behemoth and the Simurgh shift their attention towards me. Right then, this was when things got serious.

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Dragon's attention was quickly pulled to one of her active programs that tracked and monitored the Endbringers movements as it warned her of Behemoth's and the Simurgh's sudden burst of activity. Behemoth moved with such force that Dragon expected China to be split in half, but the shock waves of his movement never travelled far enough from his body. The Simurgh flew over Canada before it dove straight down through the atmosphere fast enough that her body caught on fire which was immediately extinguished as she entered the ocean without a single splash or wAve disturbing the surface of the ocean. Both of the Endbringers were converging on Leviathan's location who was the only Endbringer who hadn't moved at all.

This was a cause for alarm, because the Endbringers never met up with one another and never moved with such urgency before now.

Dragon got to work and sent out alerts to everyone as fast as she could.

She tried not to dwell on fact that the Endbringers had gathered a few miles away from Brockton Bay where Colin was stationed.

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Behemoth, the first Endbringer, the Hero Killer. He was over forty-five feet tall. He had grey, leathery skin topped with cooled magma and obsidian-like crags, some of which even reached 10 feet in length. His body resembled a muscle-bound caricature midway between a human and a bear. Behemoth's hands were merely mangled growths of obsidian-looking material and his arms were as thick as oak trees. In a gap between two of the horns he had a single red, glowing eye. His mouth was a jagged gap, lined by obsidian teeth with a deep glowing coming from his throat.

Simurgh, the third Endbringer, looked like a fifteen-foot tall woman, waif-thin and unclothed. Her hair was almost as long as she was tall and is, like the rest of her form, platinum-white. She had a variety of asymmetrically and apparently randomly placed feather wings, which appeared excessively large compared to her body. Parts of her were hollow, or made from carefully placed wings, which served as replicas of the absent body parts. Her eyes were a solid grey.

I can't recall if there were more of them locked away somewhere, but I think I can accomplish everything I need to in this world with the three of these guys.

Scion was out stopping orphans and saving fires, right? I'll have to get in contact with him as soon as I could. But first I'd have to talk with these three.

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[PURPOSE]

Demanded Behemoth. His voice was an earthquake, of volcanoes erupting, and continents shifting and grinding on one another.

[REASON]

Queried Leviathan. His voice was a tidal wave, of raging storm fronts, and the oceans' relentless fury.

[COMMAND]

Sought The Simurgh. Her voice was the passage of time, of billions of voices that had existed in the past, were existing in the present, and would exist in the future.


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I Directed. My voice was their law now, an absolute and unbreakable authority over them.
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Truth was, the Endbringers were a bit of a disappointment now that I looked at them. Not in the sense of how they were built, because each one was a work of art, but more in the ways in how their thought processes worked. Sure they could think of the best way to cause massive amounts of damage to people and the surroundings around them while basically not going all out I was a bit bummed out about it, because I wanted to talk to them about what they were and what they thought their purpose was in the world they lived in. But I wasn't going to get anything from these three so I was holding out hope for Scion for a good conversation about life and the meaning behind it.

"Alright, question." I turned to look at Leviathan who straightened just a bit as I placed my attention on him. "What happened to you?"

[SPECIFY]
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I sighed in spirit since I couldn't actually do that without a mouth or a nose. "Did you fall unconscious? When I spoke to you, you became violent then you suddenly stopped. What happened?"

[DISRUPTION]
[SIGNAL]
[CRASH]
[RECOVERY]
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The words were accompanied by sensations and emotions that made me feel what Leviathan had felt when I spoke to him a few moments ago. Apparently when I spoke to him it had caused a sort of incompatibility error between his operating system and mine that sort of... glitched out his mind for a few minutes until I grabbed at the string feeding him commands and attached it to my own mind. This not only rebooted him but the other Endbringers as well which forced them to make their way over to me. I wasn't sure if them returning to the individual who gave them orders after a reboot like what they have gone through was an old command or not but I had to shelf that thought for later. I guess I shouldn't have thought that us monsters spoke a Universal language and that I should count myself lucky that the horrors that I have come across in my journeys could actually understand what I was saying.

Satisfied with Leviathan's answer, I turned to the Simurgh and asked, "What is your purpose here?"

[OBEY]
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"No, before my command what was your purpose on Earth?"

[CONFLICT]
[ENHANCE]
[CREATE]
[SPREAD]
["You needed worthy opponents."]
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That last line wasn't in the Simurgh's voice. It didn't sound familiar to me though and when I thought about it, it didn't ring any bells in my mind at all. Was it supposed to be relevant to me in a way? I didn't understand it but I understood the first four things she conveyed to me through thoughts and emotions and I understood what she was getting at. "Who created you?" Was my next question and the Simurgh answered without pause.

[THE THINKER]
[DAVID]
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I knew Scion was also known as The Warrior so I guess Eden was this Thinker? Unless the Simurgh was referring to an Entity that I didn't know about.

But who was David?

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Taylor Hebert
Winslow High
A few Hours earlier.

What was she thinking?

Why did she stand up to that insane cape back in the ladies bathroom like that? Why didn't she run like he told her to and just called the teachers, or better yet, the cops on him? In fact why didn't the Terrible Trio make a run for it as well? Why didn't they call out for help or anything? Why did that man know her?

Now Taylor was in deep trouble. Deep, deep, trouble. Because this was a parahuman threat and because she revealed her powers when she shouldn't have the Protectorate had been called in to deal with the situation. Sophia had already been carted off to the hospital in a hurry seeing as she suffered a severe concussion, and possibly a few broken ribs, when she hit the bathroom's mirror which left Emma, Madison, and Taylor to deal with the Protectorate representative who was sent over to the school to talk to them. She wasn't exactly enthusiastic about talking about her powers to a total stranger and she wasn't looking forward to talking to her father about this situation either.

Taylor's thoughts came full circle and landed back on the stranger in the bathroom. Thinking about it now though: what was that man's powers she wondered? Something strange had happened every time she looked at him she had to admit. When he was at the centre of her vision the walls around him looked like they had come alive, twisting and turning as if they weren't solid objects at all and looked like they weren't anchored to a fixed point. When he locked eyes with her Taylor felt something at the back of her mind. A nagging, clawing feeling that put a thought in her head that if she left then the three girls in the bathroom with her would have surely died. A thought that told her to fight.

Her left eye twitched as another headache bloomed to life at her temples. Taylor rubbed at the bridge of her nose to try and stave off the painful, dull thumping in her temples, but it felt like it wouldn't go away anytime soon.

 

[Pietersielie]

This I like. This speaks of much chaos and disruption to come. I presume he will find the remaining 17 works of art as well?

 

[Ryven Razgriz]

I just want to watch the whole world watching how The Good Hunter trashes around Scion just for the lulz. Then again, this is good and I truly wonder what would or rather how would the world react to someone actually controlling the Endbringers.

 

[KingseekerFreyr]

Are you going to crossover with Dark Souls games?

 

[Chico]

This I like. This speaks of much chaos and disruption to come. I presume he will find the remaining 17 works of art as well?

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Unless someone clues him in on the other Endbringers, I don't think he will find them. I'm operating the SI with the same Worm verse knowledge as I do. Meaning very minimal world knowledge.

I just want to watch the whole world watching how The Good Hunter trashes around Scion just for the lulz. Then again, this is good and I truly wonder what would or rather how would the world react to someone actually controlling the Endbringers.

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Would everyone panic I wonder? Or rush to get the SI on their side? All 3 Endbringers following one man must be terrifying to people in positions of power.

Are you going to crossover with Dark Souls games?

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Dark Souls is in the line up.

 

[Ryven Razgriz]

Would everyone panic I wonder? Or rush to get the SI on their side? All 3 Endbringers following one man must be terrifying to people in positions of power.

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Panic followed by misunderstanding and the SI being declared as the 'controller/summoner' of the Endbringers and is thus a hostile. Then everyone and their mothers and grandmothers will be after the SI's ass.

Or you could get 'questioned' and 'recruited' by the PRT because you can control said Endbringers. If not the PRT then every god damn faction in existence (Worm-verse).

Or everyone gets down on their knees and surrenders.

 

[nextive]

I don't think that the PRT would ally with him as his first actions as a "cape" were to attack a hero and a couple other people, because no matter how he gets to play that showing up in a girls bathroom and then attacking girls kinda makes a person seem like a villain.

 

[NorthSouthGorem]

I didn't really want to accept the theory or truth about whether or not the strongest parahuman in history, Eidolon, created them just to give him a challenge, because that was fucked up in so many levels. Millions have probably died and whole countries suffered unimaginable losses just because this man was bored?

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Eidolon/David is entirely unaware that the Endbringers activated because of him.

 

[Blacklight_Blade]

Heh.

I can't tell whether Odeon will grandstand his way to victory, or actually try to be subtle. Cause it almost seems to me that when he goes all out, like in ME's universe, he is just showing off for Death. An infinite empire has gotta win him some brownie points... seriously.


But either way, this will be great, epic, grandiose, awesome, and other similar adjectives.

Eidolon/David is entirely unaware that the Endbringers activated because of him.

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While I see your point, and understand it, he is still technically responsible for millions of deaths world wide...

It's kinda like hitting a button that's written in Russian, by total accident, and launching a nuke. You had no Idea you did it, and no way to confirm it, but you still launched a nuke.

 

[Yers]

Scion was out stopping orphans and saving fires, right?

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It might be the other way.