Thanks. A story? he inquired. So on balance, yes, its a good thing, although the cause might not be. Youre thinking its parahuman involvement, then. It wasnt a question. It looks like the word she, with part of another letter at the end. It was written in blood based on the chemical analysis, Armsmaster replied. It could. It is a nice day, yes, he replied after a little while. It was the watchman who raised the alarm when he smelled something other than his cigarette burning. Nodding to the folder, he added soberly, The evidence suggests that Miss Hebert was still alive when that happened. Christ. Director Piggot swiveled her chair to look out the window for a moment, before turning back. I squeezed right back into a small gap and was hoping desperately that they wouldn't see me. But I suspect it wouldn't have worked out like that for various reasons. Lacey and Kurt? Thank god, it was dark. Her friend, her oldest friend, someone as close to her as a sister, suddenly wasn't. She looked at him again, while he listened. On. It started out as a yellowjacket but I shrank it to make it less obvious and to raise the pitch of the wings enough that it wasnt very audible, and changed the color so it doesnt stand out. Alt-Power Taylor Hebert. The end result was impressively strong and tough yet very light. "Goddess" is not well definined between systems, different properties have very different ideas of what counts as a 'god'. The second story I started is this one. She loved reading, like her mother did, while her friend was more into slightly more girly things, but they had a lot of fun together. Amy stared in amazement. Do you want to come in? she asked. They were mixed with some sort of metal in a repeating pattern that defied easy analysis. I suspect your second suggestion is most likely the correct one, Im afraid. Probably around ten chapters, varying lengths. Whoever is behind it seems curious about everything. He stared, then paled yet again. Her eyes, when she moved her head a little to look at the Rig directly, had thousands and thousands of tiny facets which made the sunlight refract into all the colors of the spectrum in various patterns, like looking at a DVD from an angle but even more spectacular. All I can do is move on. Assault shivered for a moment. Lack of emotional cues, certain trace pheromones, things like that. She looked at him with her head on one side. Come on out. One of his friends tapped his bat on the ground with a metallic ringing sound, grinning. Lyme disease? I've got a rough idea of where I wanted to take it, but it's only a basic outline, and I'm not sure if it would actually work out. She stopped a couple of feet away and seemed to gaze at him as if judging his sincerity. A neural network using every arthropod brain on the planet in parallel? Certainly not on a world-wide basis. Colin raised his eyes from where hed been staring at his hands, thinking, to look at his best friend again. Tensing a little, he began to wonder if he actually should have called for backup before coming over. There was a Post-GM fic where Taylor became house-wife and rising a daughter in the world where she(Khepri) is worshipped like a god and her husband is a priest of this religion, An Idiot's Guide to the Underworld [Worm/Hades] short, I didn't enjoy Hades much cause its not my type of game, but that was incredibly enjoyable, Divine Administration - of Gods and Bureaucracy, https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/divine-administration-of-gods-and-bureaucracy-worm-exalted.13442/. What? Stung them. Not quite a psychopath, but amoral at best. Stung. With four arms?' A real AI isnt automatically a threat, you know, despite what the movies would have you believe. That may be so but even if not we need to look into it, he retorted, reaching over to turn off the microscope, then pick up his helmet. What do you know about second triggers? They're incredibly rare, for a start, he replied. It had been pretty obvious for the last ten minutes that her status as Panacea, the Healer Super-hero, wasnt going to save her from what was at least a nasty mugging, if not something worse. Hello, Assault, the figure suddenly said, the voice female and clear. Same again. Inside she found Director Piggot, Armsmaster, Miss Militia, and on a monitor overlooking the table they were sitting around, the face of Dragon. Welcome to Godkiller everyone! Exactly. Changer 7 to 8? Good idea. Youre beautiful, she said in a low voice, then went red when she realized what shed said. There was nowhere to hide, and nothing that provided any escape. Not human. She saw Assault, minus his mask, glaring at her. Other than that, Ive got a lot to think about. She looked over her shoulder at him for a second. It immediately beeped at him. Add to that arachnids, mites, copepods, crabs She glanced at him as he paled. His head came up. Work Search: I don't think it was meant to happen like that, though. You make it sound that powers are intelligent, he noted with interest. Now come with me, the Director wants a word. Staring in shock, she put down the tablet shed been reading and stood. Alec laughed slightly while Brian went quiet, sighing a little after a second or two. A few minutes later they arrived at their destination, Hives wings changing pitch a little as she descended. The armor of the suit had an oddly iridescent effect about it, a predominantly dark gray color sparkling through a rainbow of shades depending on the angle the light hit it and where it was on the body. It was, at first, she said with a sigh. Most of the technology is weird and decades if not centuries away from anything normal. But you can understand it? he wondered out loud, amazed. Suddenly it stopped and he slowly relaxed. I have no idea how yet, but thats the theory I have currently. She paused, then added, After I found out about the malaria and confirmed it, I did some more checking. Then you can help me figure out what I'm going to tell Mom and Dad. Her sister waited impatiently until she'd dried her hands then followed her back to her room. An Idiot's Guide to the Underworld [Worm/Hades]. He looked around, then leaned against another similar unit. It was a shock, obviously, to find that as she started High School, a school she'd picked specifically to be with her best friend, that friend was now apparently dead set on turning everyone against her. This could be a problem, he eventually said. OK, I'll tell you the rest. As he approached, he slowly became aware that there were a number of other oddities about the person which began to make him slightly less sure it was a woman at all. She designed that body from scratch. She almost sounded scared. May as well tell you a story, she said, leaning back a little and bracing her upper body with all four arms. Paper and Sand is Endbringer!Peggy Sue!Taylor. left kudos on this work! Not to mention all the other arthropods. After a couple of seconds, he walked closer, still staying cautiously out of reach because he wasn't an idiot, but not feeling any threat. Over the last few weeks Ive seen traces of unusual activity. No cases at all. Its spread by mosquitoes, isnt it? Yes, the Anopheles genus. He thought for a moment. Its not a hundred percent accurate at the best of times, and unfortunately Shadow Stalker is one of the people who it doesnt yet work quite as effectively on as Id like. She mentally stalled, staring at the figure watching her curiously from a short distance away. Adrian Gorgey May 11, 2015 #2 I- Coronation It was dark. A working knowledge of 'Worm' is required. He kept discreetly studying her while she looked back out over the water at the rising sun. Taylor died, but her memories, thoughts, personality, that lived on. As well as every online library Im aware of. Custom paralytic, not lethal. Lost. Pay attention. Her eyes slid sideways reluctantly to meet the Directors furious expression. Every day he'd eat the same kind of food, dress the same, sit in front of the same kind of shows. Kratos, is like, a guy with powers who's really good at killing people. It was a second trigger, but something went wrong. You people? he asked, grinning for a moment. Which is the fact that, for the last six weeks, there have been no new cases of malaria diagnosed. She followed the pointing finger and did as ordered. Oh, my god, thats amazing, she mumbled, her power tracing out the biological intricacies of the body she was touching. Fast acting. I'll be fine with pre or post GM. Ah. Sophia does have a habit of poking her nose into things. You believe she could have been directly involved, Director? Armsmaster sounded curious. Why were you near a dumpster? Vicky asked, looking puzzled. An AU, Taylor Hebert loses the capacity for speech after the locker incident. Theres nothing you have or are that she wants. She began a dive for the door, only to feel a sudden pinprick on the back of her left hand. Now you dont Again, she vanished. Assault paused, something shiny off to the right catching his eye as he moved over the rooftops of the outskirts of the central business area of Brockton Bay. At first, I might have wanted to try to end myself, but now? A gesture of resignation followed. Turning, she grabbed both her sister's shoulders. Only those dumpsters left, the machete-wielding assailant announced. The beginnings of a story I started around mid-2015 in the Worm setting, but semi-abandoned when I started Taylor Varga. She had been having a strange dream, one where she crying out for help to anyone who would listen, begging the cosmos to deliver her from the torment of her life. "I don't know Hive seemed nice." Eh, if you use magic like a bard, sing like a bard, fight like a bard, everyone around you thinks you are a bard and there's no other elements to your build other than those of a bard then you are not a demigod. He had managed to get a Tinker-tech firebomb from somewhere and tried using it on the E88 gangers. She looked at him for a moment, then went back to watching the helicopter. It worked, more or less, and she slowly began to get over the death of her mother. The insect-woman sighed faintly, pausing her story for a few seconds. Whether she can succeed is another matter entirely. Ive just had the most terrifying conversation of my life with someone who could do things to you that you wouldnt believe, and in my opinion would be fully justified in doing so, but you can thank every deity youve ever heard of that shes a better person than you are. Together with a former serial killer doctor and a heroic organization whose morality is held together by duct tape they will need to find a way to save the world. So if you're not an alien, that leaves Trailing off, he eventually shrugged. Victoria didn't seem to notice. Pulling her head back she stifled the whimper she nearly made, wondering what they wanted. Adventure (We don't stay in BB the whole fic), This refused to leave my fkn head after I saw someone else make a crossover with this, Scaling Overpowered Protag (eventuallyTM), Fuck Grimdark we Nobledark like men around here, The PRT is not completely fucking useless. I don't know why, perhaps it was just a convenient place. Not entirely sure why she was smiling considering the awful recent experience shed had, not to mention a pretty stressful day otherwise, Amy went into her house and closed the door quietly behind her. She held up a hand with another shake of her head. Thats why no one else can understand what they do. She was only about eleven at the time and it took a while for her to fully understand that her mother had died in a car accident and she'd never see her again. She glanced at him, then went back to staring out to sea. The DNA was obviously heavily edited, most of the normal redundancies elegantly pruned out and the entire thing simplified and optimized. Im not a threat to you, Amelia, the voice added, making her jerk in shock. Adaptation was good up until Taylor got the monkey form, after that she became an unbearable asshole. Shes not my problem any more. I wouldnt go that far, but Im certainly not a normal parahuman, no. She seemed to find the idea funny. Thats more than a little worrying. In them, in the nineteen thousand, eight hundred and twenty seven cockroaches within one hundred feet of here, in the housefly sitting on Armsmaster's second monitor from the left in his lab, in the spiders in the attic of the Sydney Opera house, in the crabs at the bottom of the English Channel All of them. It also didn't really seem to be necessary from a story point of view? Lasts about twelve hours with that dose, unless a counter-agent is administered. How did you get it into them? Amy asked with interest, looking over at Hive. I share some memories with her from a long time ago, but I'm not really her. Who's Hive, why were you being chased by muggers, and why didn't you call me? Amy sat further up the bed, Vicky turning around to face her. Im not the second coming of Nilbog, or anything like that, although I expect a lot of people will come to that conclusion. She reappeared, fading into view more slowly as the effect was gradually turned off. A member of the ABB was involved in a grudge with some E88 thugs and it spread to the school late that night, more or less randomly. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. It was obvious from her voice that the lack of family had an unpleasant story behind it. Where have you been and why didn't you call me for a pick up? Amy jumped a little, spinning around from her position at the sink in the bathroom where she'd been washing her hands to remove the dumpster-gunk, to find her sister peering in the open door watching her with mixed curiosity and worry on her face. On. The experience was enough to make the girl Trigger. I will continue to work on the problem and will let you know if I find anything else. Good. Closing the folder, the Director pushed it away from her then stared at it for some seconds. Worried, yes, but also curious. While he placed a call to Director Piggot, he admitted to himself he felt the same. He stared, horrified. Somehow rolling to her feet she kept going, all the while hoping someone would help her. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. Medical, financial, chemistry, biology, and physics data repositories, astrophysics, mathematics, you name it. The sole survivor of the Hebert family sat in his chair for another ten minutes, before he quietly got up, retrieved the pistol, carefully unloaded it and locked it in his desk, then went downstairs and out the door of the Dockworkers Association building, locking it behind him. You tell me. Puzzled, Amy give her a look for a moment, then walked over and put her finger on the cheek of her machete-waving recent acquaintance. It's great to see this get a thread of its own; the whole premise is interesting and I like a lot of the small things dotted around, like how casually Taylor interacts with everything. A faint, deep, humming sound slowly percolated through her mind. Hope through overwhelming firepower Taylor becomes a weapon of galactic war, complete. For what it's worth, though, I've posted what I finished. Then one day, the three main perpetrators of the torture managed to outdo themselves. Also, though I like this story a lot, it is sadly dead. Amy was just wondering if she'd meet Hive again. What do you think?, Lisa smiled, as the light from the crystals reached dazzling heights. Injected with chemical agent. Assault stared at the figure in front of him for several seconds, trying to put his finger on it, but all he could think was that he was getting very uncomfortable all of a sudden, his heart rate rising and his body getting ready for combat. The real trick is making it work from all angles. He was finding the lack of human expressions somewhat disturbing despite himself although her body language was nonthreatening. She is for all intents and purposes a biological supercomputer of a level I can scarcely comprehend. So, with that new chapter of 'A taste of peaches' dropping, I can't help but wonder if there are any other fics out there where Taylor is or becomes a goddess. She turned her head towards him, making him stare again, a little shocked and unnerved, although he wouldn't have admitted it to anyone. But I pretty much got better. I don't know, like she's been around for a long time. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. Weirdly, after the initial shock, he didn't find her appearance particularly scary. Everywhere. Until it just stopped. Language: My mother's death came as surprise, as death was far from my mind. She noticed Assault looking at her and transferred her worried gaze to him. Dragon, weirdly, did. The amount of sensory information was overwhelming for the first couple of minutes. She was at the extreme other end of the loading area but it wasnt all that big so it wouldnt take them long to find her. Standing, he looked around, then back to her. Perpetuance Taylor is a black hole, short but good, incomplete. Oh, Jesus, Piggot is going to go insane when she finds out about you, he groaned, holding his head in his hands. Not any more, no. He waited silently, thinking there was something vaguely familiar about this. As close as Taylor was to her mom, she barely knew of her time with Lustrum. We may have been unable to prove it before, but if and when I can rectify that She smiled unpleasantly. Eventually the other woman snapped, Don't just stop there! What do you make of the word or whatever it was written on the back wall of the locker? Inspecting another photo for a moment she transferred her gaze to him. With a very warped view of interpersonal relations, as well. We've noticed, he told her. After a moment, he added slowly, When did it start? A week before the insects stopped spreading disease, Dragon replied quietly. After a moment she looked at him again. Vicky's eyes widened in shock. What are you talking about? Relenting having managed to extract a lot of amusement out of telling her sister the story piecemeal while watching the reactions, Amy explained the entire encounter in detail, leaving nothing out. Sure enough, the suited woman, if that's what it was, possessed two pairs of arms, one set of which were folded on the air conditioning unit while the other pair hung at her sides. She laughed bitterly. Have read that! I guess? Skittering Campione - Taylor becomes a Campione for killing Scion. Twitching, she quickly released her hand, looking embarrassed. I do. For example, if it's just a story where Taylor can control the Endbrings and fixes all the problems in the world in a couple of chapters, I won't be interested in that. I hope it finds its audience! Master 8 at a minimum, he went on. Spotting a row of dumpsters that were leaking an unpleasant greenish substance through their rusted bottoms, she headed towards them, only to stop when she saw that the lids were locked. She didn't respond at first. Swiveling her chair around again Director Piggot looked out into the night until she heard a knock some minutes later, turning back and calling in a firm voice, Enter. She planned on asking some very awkward questions of the frankly sullen girl who came in. Its only me now. I'm sorry, he stated, meaning it. No, it's not. But But? he asked when she went silent again. He couldnt entirely disagree with any of the points she raised. Ill do what I can to help with Endbringers, not that at the moment thats very much except dogpiling them with a hell of a lot of attack drones, which may or may not do anything useful, and I may intervene if I see a crime that needs dealing with. The old man notes that this is the first time anyone offered him the use of their umbrella, or kindness on such a level as her. So what are you going to do now? he asked rather plaintively. "I made it" She was too tall. Why? He couldn't think of a good answer for a moment. They made a trap, filling a locker with biological waste, then managed to push the young woman into it and lock her in. See you around. You mean Capes? No, she chuckled. Oh my god, thats amazing. It obviously wasnt human in the slightest and never had been. A faint clicking noise echoed around the room every few seconds. Cape stake-outs were not his favourite brand, quite frankly they sucked ass. Its more an unwinding story than anything that is likely to go anywhere, as its always good fun to throw a completely OP Taylor at the Wormverse. Or mine. All four arms were wrapped around her, holding her in an unusual yet surprisingly comfortable way. While the overall body shape, except for the extra arms, was more or less humanoid in pattern, the head wasn't. He stared in shock. Not really. Fuck, its a trap, she yelled. We have too much to lose right now. No. The smaller man was being his usual self and their long-suffering leader was beginning to get annoyed about it. Press J to jump to the feed. Tweaked a lot, of course, but it paralyzes most of the voluntary muscles without causing any deeper issues. Silent is the fastest updating Worm Fanfic currently known. For a moment, leathery wings materialised behind her and with a single beat she launcher herself across the dark waters. You heard those pauses, right? Its absolutely amazing. Piggot didnt look too happy about that. Hilarity ensues. Holding another hand above it, Hive made the appendage glow a soft green color like a firefly, which Amy realized was almost certainly from the same chemical reaction. Taylor was, too. You are not their equal, but one day you might be. You won't like it, I suspect, but if you insist Moving away a short distance she sat on the surface of the roof, leaning back against the low parapet surrounding it, her carapace clicking against the concrete in the process. Look, Im going to have to get back, Ive managed to miss most of my patrol. Lifting a hand she waved it dismissively. Groaning in terror she looked around again, seeing nothing else that could help her. Career satisfaction, crime, and Coil. I know, I should have made sure to charge it and I will next time. Get a spare battery as well, her sister commented, listening with interest. Those would seem to be the two most likely scenarios, Armsmaster agreed. Luckily, her power gives her the ability to free herself. And when Dragon revealed that the best, if not only way to save her, was adoption, well She would just have to learn how to be a good mother, wouldn't she? 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