Chapter 18
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So you all wanted Taylor to Tinker first so here it is
Chapter 18
Taylor shook her head as she stopped that train of thought. 'Tomorrow I will test that out with Victoria or Crystal. They asked me to start defending the bunker so I will' Taylor thought determined as she flew back down and turned off her powers except for Shamrock's.
'Focus' Taylor thought and used her telekinesis on her own body, a gentle force pushing her along and ready to snap focus to her front, and keep it from falling to the ground. 'I seriously need to learn about physics and biology to really use this power right' Taylor thought shaking her head as she arrived at the house area in 3 seconds.
Entering the place and walking to L33ts section she went to the back door and opened it, momentarily shocked as she noticed L33t wasn't there. 'I guess Victoria tossed him out to the bay' Taylor swallowed at the memory of what Victoria said she was going to do with him. He more than likely would never be found, probably eaten already by dome fish or something and his bones broken down by now, not even leaving a trace….
Shaking her head rapidly Taylor activated innovation, various designs slowly filtering into her head that she didn't even know what for before she demanded 'I need some kind of force fields, one way like what L33t made before. Force Field generators to cover the entire underground area and block off the hallways' it was incredibly vague but she knew when the designs rushing in her head formed of various designs she grinned.
'it will need some kind of power source, maybe I will do that later, have a look and see if Crystals lasers can be used to charge things or other kind of laser capes. But I'm going to need materials, I don't know where the heck Uber and L33t hid them, probably in another underground bunker somewhere or in some kind of digital storage but for now I can dismantle that laser' Taylor thought looking upon said cannon L33t died by. The outer materials were charred by the short circuited panel L33t was working on and thankfully it was only a few cables dead.
'now i need to dismantle something else… but what?' Taylor thought and slowly she remembered the Futuristic tank, Mech and Tron bikes outside she could dismantle. 'I can go dismantle some of the other stuff' Taylor decided before going over to the cannon…
—————————————(Time skip 3 pm)—————————————
'I guess that's enough for today' Taylor thought as she stood near the back of the bunker, remembering her last 3 hours of Tinkering. She would start again tomorrow or maybe later but now she had to focus on her powers. The synergy between Crystal's and Victoria's powers were amazing, especially combat wise but do her other powers have synergy.
Faultline's power was out immediately. Maybe with a power to grow extra limbs or something it would be useful but it was pretty much a stand alone power in terms of synergy. Labyrinth and Scrub's powers were out for similar reasons as they didn't have much synergy with other powers. Uber and L33ts were both pretty much standing alone at the moment and while L33t can be incredible with combinations with other Tinker powers that pretty much was the same with any of them.
'I could go for the 2 telekinesis Powers I have or maybe…' a idea slowly came to Taylor's mind and she put Innovation to the back seat while Saturn's power appeared, the twin spheres appearing in her palms and she slowly directed them towards some spare machine. A weird blue rectangular box as tall as her but still within the ranges of her spheres.
Putting them on either side Taylor slowly moved the Sphered until both ranges contained the blue box completely. Then she pulled it in opposite directions and watched as the box wobbled slightly before it broke it 2 pieces, very cleanly at that.
'it's got some edges but I would expect that more of a sword cutting through it then anything' Taylor thought curiously at she walked towards the broken half's. She quickly spotted some broken circuits and sighed as she realised this was also technology. She was rather lucky it didn't blow up in her face.
'Well it's not like it can't explode anymore' Taylor mentally grumbled and slowly directed Shamrock's power at the two halves. She knew that Saturn's took priority as she could manipulate the objects controlled by others but...
Focusing she slowly took a hold of one of the jagged pieces from the splitting while having the projections slowly put it down and letting it go, leaving it to be supported by its own Taylor forced the jagged piece up and down, slowly tearing it off the broken half box and with quite a effort flung it towards the roof before she caught it with Saturn's power and slowly tried to take control of it with shamrocks again, sighing she realised she couldn't.
"It was a good idea" Taylor muttered a tad sourly as she looked it over. Hell her idea might of worked if it wasn't for the fact Saturn's telekinesis trumped other telekinesis. She could probably do her idea with the two Saturn orbs, see if a object propelled by 2 uses of telekinesis was any faster but she suspected that since they were from the same shard it wouldn't really work.
She sighed and just walked away from the scene. She knew the box was going to get her questions tomorrow but she didn't care. It was late in the afternoon and she just wanted to go home.
————————————(Time skip 4:30 pm)—————————————
Taylor trudged through the door into her room and just sat down on her desk. She was feeling drained today so she hoped dad would come back soon with dinner.
'I can still do something at least' Taylor thought getting her note book out the draw and skipping 23 pages until she fell upon a blank page. 'Which one should I write in' Taylor thought for a moment.
'Well I wrote in the Asian gang. How about the opposite, the brutal White supremacist group in Brockton Bay' Taylor thought before writing down Iron Dominion as a new title page.
'Well first is their leader. Iron Rain. Let's see what the Parahuman Wiki says about her' Taylor thought as she went to start up her computer and was pleasantly surprised it was still on the Wiki.
Searching up Iron Rain she clicked on the top link before going on her page and scrolling down to the Power section.
'...Iron Rain has the ability to creating various metal weapons and objects in the sky, in one occasion the PRT has reported her making said weapons in the stratosphere and in one occasion Iron Rain has claimed to be able to create her weapons in the higher Atmosphere. This is a concern as it is known she can create in a sense a fake meteor strike whenever she wants…'
Taylor absently wrote it down before making a new page and scrolled down to Underlings and found Fenja and Menja.
'.. Fenja and Menja Powers are rather unique in that they can become increasingly bigger with durability growing with their sizes, as well as their strength. Their growth is also shared with their weapons and presumingly any object they could hold before growing that isn't organic matter. In one occasion the duo have grown to over 90 feet tall, twice the size of Endbringer Behemoth…'
Taylor shivered slightly at that and wondered on the actual upper limits on their powers before hitting back and clicking on the link below them. Crusader and was surprised when his power description was actually rather small.
'... Crusader can create and control ghostly duplicates of himself that have a copy of his equipment that can only interact with organic matter, allowing them to move through walls or even the ground. In one occasion fighting against Serpent of Hecta it seemed as if his ghostly duplicates were unable to go into water…'
Taylor made sure to underline that last sentence as that could be a limitation to take advantage of. Moving on to the next link she had Yggdrasil, Iron Dominions heavy hitter.
'... Yggdrasil has a power remarkably similar to Hellhound of the Undersiders. Her power allows her to grant various trees extreme growth and make use of nearby salt and carbon in the air to form armour and weapons. She usually carries a bonsai tree that despite Japanese origin, commonly growing them to the size of a small house having projectile thorns made of salt and a hardened carbon armour around it's branches and bark which are quite literally diamonds. In her greatest show of power Iron Dominion planted a regular tree at over 10m in Height right in the bay which Yggdrasil grew to over 300 feet tall, using the salt in the bay to create actual spears made of salt and extremely durable armour…'
Taylor quickly decided Yggdrasil was the most dangerous of the capes in Iron Dominion for her. Her power had extreme potential which made her wonder why she did participated in Endbringer fights.
Next was Shocking truth. He had the ability to generate electricity and control it, although he has the ability to build it up so it was suspected that it didn't dissipate normally unless it hit something. Taylor just gave dot points for that one. He was a minor player and was barely seen outside of inner ID territory.
Finally got the list of ID capes was Protector. A cape that turns any gas, even air, into a solid of the same colour, which for air is invisible. He did have a limit of not affecting the air around people in a 5 meter radius and it was suspected that he couldn't just turn the air above a person solid, he needed to have the gas attached to the ground and in a position that was stable.
"Taylor!, I got dinner!" Taylor jumped as she heard her dad yell from downstairs and closed her note book and putting it in the draw. Turning off her computer she went downstairs with a smile and went to ask her dad how his day went.
Now your options for tomorrow
[X] Continue Tinkering immediately when you get back
[X] Continue trying power synergies (write in and please make it believable for Taylor to figure out)
[X] Tell Victoria/ Crystal (if they are there) about your idea to give a person 2 Powers
Yeah…. Hope you all like Iron Dominion, also will accept Independent Villains for the fic so I would appreciate if you gave some ideas. Going to start rewriting previous chapters soon so if I don't update tomorrow I will make it up to you all.
Chapter 18
Taylor shook her head as she stopped that train of thought. 'Tomorrow I will test that out with Victoria or Crystal. They asked me to start defending the bunker so I will' Taylor thought determined as she flew back down and turned off her powers except for Shamrock's.
'Focus' Taylor thought and used her telekinesis on her own body, a gentle force pushing her along and ready to snap focus to her front, and keep it from falling to the ground. 'I seriously need to learn about physics and biology to really use this power right' Taylor thought shaking her head as she arrived at the house area in 3 seconds.
Entering the place and walking to L33ts section she went to the back door and opened it, momentarily shocked as she noticed L33t wasn't there. 'I guess Victoria tossed him out to the bay' Taylor swallowed at the memory of what Victoria said she was going to do with him. He more than likely would never be found, probably eaten already by dome fish or something and his bones broken down by now, not even leaving a trace….
Shaking her head rapidly Taylor activated innovation, various designs slowly filtering into her head that she didn't even know what for before she demanded 'I need some kind of force fields, one way like what L33t made before. Force Field generators to cover the entire underground area and block off the hallways' it was incredibly vague but she knew when the designs rushing in her head formed of various designs she grinned.
'it will need some kind of power source, maybe I will do that later, have a look and see if Crystals lasers can be used to charge things or other kind of laser capes. But I'm going to need materials, I don't know where the heck Uber and L33t hid them, probably in another underground bunker somewhere or in some kind of digital storage but for now I can dismantle that laser' Taylor thought looking upon said cannon L33t died by. The outer materials were charred by the short circuited panel L33t was working on and thankfully it was only a few cables dead.
'now i need to dismantle something else… but what?' Taylor thought and slowly she remembered the Futuristic tank, Mech and Tron bikes outside she could dismantle. 'I can go dismantle some of the other stuff' Taylor decided before going over to the cannon…
—————————————(Time skip 3 pm)—————————————
'I guess that's enough for today' Taylor thought as she stood near the back of the bunker, remembering her last 3 hours of Tinkering. She would start again tomorrow or maybe later but now she had to focus on her powers. The synergy between Crystal's and Victoria's powers were amazing, especially combat wise but do her other powers have synergy.
Faultline's power was out immediately. Maybe with a power to grow extra limbs or something it would be useful but it was pretty much a stand alone power in terms of synergy. Labyrinth and Scrub's powers were out for similar reasons as they didn't have much synergy with other powers. Uber and L33ts were both pretty much standing alone at the moment and while L33t can be incredible with combinations with other Tinker powers that pretty much was the same with any of them.
'I could go for the 2 telekinesis Powers I have or maybe…' a idea slowly came to Taylor's mind and she put Innovation to the back seat while Saturn's power appeared, the twin spheres appearing in her palms and she slowly directed them towards some spare machine. A weird blue rectangular box as tall as her but still within the ranges of her spheres.
Putting them on either side Taylor slowly moved the Sphered until both ranges contained the blue box completely. Then she pulled it in opposite directions and watched as the box wobbled slightly before it broke it 2 pieces, very cleanly at that.
'it's got some edges but I would expect that more of a sword cutting through it then anything' Taylor thought curiously at she walked towards the broken half's. She quickly spotted some broken circuits and sighed as she realised this was also technology. She was rather lucky it didn't blow up in her face.
'Well it's not like it can't explode anymore' Taylor mentally grumbled and slowly directed Shamrock's power at the two halves. She knew that Saturn's took priority as she could manipulate the objects controlled by others but...
Focusing she slowly took a hold of one of the jagged pieces from the splitting while having the projections slowly put it down and letting it go, leaving it to be supported by its own Taylor forced the jagged piece up and down, slowly tearing it off the broken half box and with quite a effort flung it towards the roof before she caught it with Saturn's power and slowly tried to take control of it with shamrocks again, sighing she realised she couldn't.
"It was a good idea" Taylor muttered a tad sourly as she looked it over. Hell her idea might of worked if it wasn't for the fact Saturn's telekinesis trumped other telekinesis. She could probably do her idea with the two Saturn orbs, see if a object propelled by 2 uses of telekinesis was any faster but she suspected that since they were from the same shard it wouldn't really work.
She sighed and just walked away from the scene. She knew the box was going to get her questions tomorrow but she didn't care. It was late in the afternoon and she just wanted to go home.
————————————(Time skip 4:30 pm)—————————————
Taylor trudged through the door into her room and just sat down on her desk. She was feeling drained today so she hoped dad would come back soon with dinner.
'I can still do something at least' Taylor thought getting her note book out the draw and skipping 23 pages until she fell upon a blank page. 'Which one should I write in' Taylor thought for a moment.
'Well I wrote in the Asian gang. How about the opposite, the brutal White supremacist group in Brockton Bay' Taylor thought before writing down Iron Dominion as a new title page.
'Well first is their leader. Iron Rain. Let's see what the Parahuman Wiki says about her' Taylor thought as she went to start up her computer and was pleasantly surprised it was still on the Wiki.
Searching up Iron Rain she clicked on the top link before going on her page and scrolling down to the Power section.
'...Iron Rain has the ability to creating various metal weapons and objects in the sky, in one occasion the PRT has reported her making said weapons in the stratosphere and in one occasion Iron Rain has claimed to be able to create her weapons in the higher Atmosphere. This is a concern as it is known she can create in a sense a fake meteor strike whenever she wants…'
Taylor absently wrote it down before making a new page and scrolled down to Underlings and found Fenja and Menja.
'.. Fenja and Menja Powers are rather unique in that they can become increasingly bigger with durability growing with their sizes, as well as their strength. Their growth is also shared with their weapons and presumingly any object they could hold before growing that isn't organic matter. In one occasion the duo have grown to over 90 feet tall, twice the size of Endbringer Behemoth…'
Taylor shivered slightly at that and wondered on the actual upper limits on their powers before hitting back and clicking on the link below them. Crusader and was surprised when his power description was actually rather small.
'... Crusader can create and control ghostly duplicates of himself that have a copy of his equipment that can only interact with organic matter, allowing them to move through walls or even the ground. In one occasion fighting against Serpent of Hecta it seemed as if his ghostly duplicates were unable to go into water…'
Taylor made sure to underline that last sentence as that could be a limitation to take advantage of. Moving on to the next link she had Yggdrasil, Iron Dominions heavy hitter.
'... Yggdrasil has a power remarkably similar to Hellhound of the Undersiders. Her power allows her to grant various trees extreme growth and make use of nearby salt and carbon in the air to form armour and weapons. She usually carries a bonsai tree that despite Japanese origin, commonly growing them to the size of a small house having projectile thorns made of salt and a hardened carbon armour around it's branches and bark which are quite literally diamonds. In her greatest show of power Iron Dominion planted a regular tree at over 10m in Height right in the bay which Yggdrasil grew to over 300 feet tall, using the salt in the bay to create actual spears made of salt and extremely durable armour…'
Taylor quickly decided Yggdrasil was the most dangerous of the capes in Iron Dominion for her. Her power had extreme potential which made her wonder why she did participated in Endbringer fights.
Next was Shocking truth. He had the ability to generate electricity and control it, although he has the ability to build it up so it was suspected that it didn't dissipate normally unless it hit something. Taylor just gave dot points for that one. He was a minor player and was barely seen outside of inner ID territory.
Finally got the list of ID capes was Protector. A cape that turns any gas, even air, into a solid of the same colour, which for air is invisible. He did have a limit of not affecting the air around people in a 5 meter radius and it was suspected that he couldn't just turn the air above a person solid, he needed to have the gas attached to the ground and in a position that was stable.
"Taylor!, I got dinner!" Taylor jumped as she heard her dad yell from downstairs and closed her note book and putting it in the draw. Turning off her computer she went downstairs with a smile and went to ask her dad how his day went.
Now your options for tomorrow
[X] Continue Tinkering immediately when you get back
[X] Continue trying power synergies (write in and please make it believable for Taylor to figure out)
[X] Tell Victoria/ Crystal (if they are there) about your idea to give a person 2 Powers
Yeah…. Hope you all like Iron Dominion, also will accept Independent Villains for the fic so I would appreciate if you gave some ideas. Going to start rewriting previous chapters soon so if I don't update tomorrow I will make it up to you all.
