Alister braced himself as he caught Nefarious' head on the way down. "Did you see enough?" he asked.
"Yup!" Nefarious confirmed as Twilight attached his head back to his body. "And the best part is they aren't moving, and there aren't any friendly targets amongst them."
"I...fail to see how that's the best part..." Qwark murmured in confusion.
Twilight giggled happily. "I don't. Get your Plasbomb Launchers out, everyone. And the Element Blasters, too!"
"This is going to be abjectly terrifying, isn't it?" Alister asked nervously as he pulled out the requested weapons.
A quick connector modification and Twilight had everyone's weapons connected, the Element Blasters each set to a different element and channeling the energy into the Plasbombs. "And now we just locate the ideal target location..." Twilight murmured as she and Nefarious ran calculations based on what Nefarious observed. "Adjust the payload for a greater launch range...adapt the Plasbombs for Elemental eruption...FIRE!"
All four immediately launched the mortars, which sailed through the air towards where the enemy troops were based. When they landed, the combined explosion caused the intra-element reaction to create the explosive temporary singularity, obliterating all the troops in that location.
"Success!" Nefarious crowed happily, cackling in triumph.
"Yes yes yes yes yes!" Twilight chanted as she bounced happily around him. "It worked! It worked!"
"And how much of the settlement they were occupying is left standing?" Alister asked sternly.
Twilight froze in her bouncing. "...oops?"
"We can always rebuild it before we leave," Nefarious countered. "Nothing to fuss over."
"True!" Qwark agreed happily.
"And now I'm not so sure about it," Nefarious quipped dryly.
Alister shook his head, deciding to leave things along for now. "Well, as long as we've got a clear path, let's get moving."
"Right!" Twilight agreed, taking to the air.
As they followed along the now clear path, the voice they'd heard aboard the Ephemeris echoed. "Attention Tharpods. By order of Commander Spog, this land now belongs to the Master. Please, remain calm, gather your belongings, and relocate to the corner of We Don't Care and Not Our Problem."
"...I really don't like that computer," Twilight grumbled angrily.
Eventually, they reached a point where more hostiles blocked the path, and the group once more drew their weapons to mow their way through. Twilight disabled the connector between the Element Blasters and the Plasbomb Launchers, as that combination only really worked well as a stationary attack point on a distant, non-moving target. Using the same connector to put the Element Blaster energy into the Devastator homing rocket launcher, on the other hand...
"I'm beginning to think we might want to pull back on the firepower," Alister commented dryly as he stared out at the smoking waste ahead of them.
"Why?" Nefarious countered. "The robots did most of this damage!" Shrugging it off, he turned to Twilight. "By the way, how did you make that assembly field?" he asked curiously.
Smiling, Twilight tapped the helmet she'd donned. "Pilot's Helmet," she explained. "Picked it up on the first adventure back in Solana, made some modifications to make it work with my magic, and I can use it to generate a field in which any tech inside will expand into its component parts so I can see how best to modify it. It's not as efficient as using the simulator I built based on it, which I left back in our home in Metropolis, since it puts a bit of a strain on my magic and mind..." She paused, gently tapping her horn. "Not nearly as much as when I first used it, though."
"Pretty sure after quantumly entangling your mind in order to bootstrap a fix to the time-space anomaly the Great Clock was built to contain, very little is going to seem a strain," Alister chided teasingly.
"Wait, she did what now?" Nefarious asked quickly, optics wide.
Twilight winced, rubbing her forehead. "I'd love to tell you about it, but it's painful to even think about what I did then," she explained. "I think the only one who really understands what I did and can explain it is Orvus."
"I thought he was dead!" Nefarious gasped out. "Umm...I would like to state for the record that I never actually intended to kill him or cause his death, just use him to get access to the Clock..."
"Quite alright," Twilight replied easily. "After all, thanks to me, he got better. And so did my grandparents on my other side."
"...is that what Ratchet was talking about in that interview about me when he mentioned the recently resurrected grandparents?" Nefarious clarified.
"Yup!" Twilight confirmed.
Nefarious frowned thoughtfully, piecing a few things together...and his eyes widened. "You made time your bitch?" he gasped out excitedly.
"Causality, actually, but yes!" Twilight proclaimed proudly.
"That...is so cool..." Nefarious marveled.
Alister rolled his eyes as he kept moving, hoping in that way to keep everyone more or less on track even as Twilight and Nefarious once more launched into a technical discussion.
Before long, the group made it past the last of the hostiles in that area, finding their way to a power conduit. "According to the map data," Alister observed, "this leads straight to the N.E.S.T. sorting terminal."
"Which is where Commander Spog will be," Qwark pointed out.
"Which means we're going to grind down it," Twilight grumbled. "I don't like grinding...it's hard keeping all four hooves on the cable now that I'm so big..."
"You could always ride on my shoulders again," Qwark offered.
"Or fly," Alister suggested.
"Or use your jetpack," Nefarious pointed out. "It shouldn't take too much modification to give it fast level flight instead of slow descent, especially since it's designed for someone much heavier than you already and adjusted for your light body mass."
Twilight grinned from ear to ear. "Just a second!" she called out as she pulled out her jetpack and tools.
Twilight's pretty much unkillable at this point.
7327151 No, by this point Everything is killable by Twilight.
7327158 So, all the laws of nature are Twilight's bitch?
7327161 Nah, everything that doesn't belong to Ratchet/Clank is Twilights' bitch, including you. ^^
One lesson they will never learn. Giving Twilight ideas will end in headaches.
7327185 ...Oh.
M-M-M-M-MONSTER KILL! KILL KILL KILL
I still look forward to teh day Twilight and Family visit Equestria. Hehehehehehehehehehe.....
Twilight has gone beyond scary and into something far different, a walking disaster aria! It seems like she is almost a safer version of Vash the Stampede.
7327205 if you want to defeat Twilight you need to make sure there is no way for her to get Idea's on how to defeat you or that you are her enemy in the first place.
Given that Twilight has kept the helmet and several other pieces of equipment across games, I am now stuck wondering how much that jet pack is going to break Nexus. ...but then again, her wings had already broken the first few games, so it might just be a lateral move. Pun not intended, or even noticed at first.
Whit how every PWNY universe ends up, I wonder if Twilight is the most powerful compared to all others. I mean, she can make anything to fight against you! Anything! Is there actually something that she can't obliterate?! And before you say a God, watch Pinkie Pie fighting with Kratos.
Put. This large if only because of context.
with how powerful she has gotten twi might aswell start wearing a superhero outfit She is by all definitions a super-powered being
7327438 If you want to defeat Twilight: Do it in a way she can't see coming, resolves instantly, and cannot be traced back to you.
Orbital MaC guns, a sniper rifle using 50 caliber rounds, Or anything else, really.
As long as the attack moves from 'primed' to 'completed' before thought can catch up. If she dies instantly, then she can't shield/teleport/retaliate.
7327379 I'd say you made a typo, but Twilight does have a lovely singing voice.
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Nah, man. She has long been far beyond that point.
In fact, she's already so powerful that a superhero tried to dress up as her.
7327798 mac's maybe, 50 cal, yea her nano tech is designed to counter that since it is technically still small arms fire.
7328243 That's true. I'd forgotten about that damned nanotech.
I guess we've moved from anti-personnel weapons to heavy weapons/ship based combat weapons/planet busters to kill her.
Because we all know you have to kill her in a single stroke. None of this mucking about with waves of enemies.
7328422 The waves of enemies only make her stronger, also We also need to be sre that she is by her self, or her allies could warn her of the attack and have her prepaired before the first shell arrives, just remember her nano tech shield barriers and such which can take ship and planet cracking attacks, and her teleportation to avoid attacks she cannot tank.
Overkill is a good thing, especially with a team. I can't wait to see what Twilight figures out, but I can see her using the jetpack and occasionally landing on Qwark's shoulders to rest her wings from steering.
7327384 An alicorn that cheated time control without mistake
with a classic "tragic-backstory" genius turned roboticized super villain wanted in several galaxies...
I'd be more concerned about whether or not they adopt.
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Knowing them, they'd find some way to have biological children.
Much more terrifying.
7328453 Nanotech does have limits. It might be instantaneous, but there's only so much it can do, and I doubt that a planet cracker is something that it could soak. I mean, yes, we're talking about focusing all the energy used to split a planet wide open into a space roughly five feet cubed, and doing this in roughly half a second, so it's not something that would be easy to do anyway, but that's basically the kind of thing required at this point. The only other option would be to literally drop a star on her.
7329334 I kinda want her grind like how a penguin slides. Have a running start and flop! ...there might be a box at the end.
7329958 (shudders) A cyborg alicorn super-genius.
Well... I guess I'd ship it over Flash/Light. That guy is just an insert for high school plot.
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Because that's not how it works. The modifications make the weapons use the magical elements, which when combined creates a magical controlled singularity. To pump it up to the levels you're talking about would require a level of magical material that doesn't exist in the known universe (see the discussion of Carbuncle back at the end of the Bogon arc).
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It has nothing to do with energy efficiency.
The only material in the known universe that works to tap the magical field is Carbuncle, which only naturally occurs on Veldin in incredibly small quantities and can't be accurately synthesized. The size of the Carbuncle stone in the device imposes a hard limit on how much magic can be channeled through it at a given time.
Ah, I liked the chapter where they grabbed Ratchet's parents. Looking forward to more.
Keep up the great work. Deus tecum.
Did Twilight just admit to Nefarious that she pulled off time alterations along the lines he was planning to do???
Now he knows he was right AND he'll have the key as his potential gf!!!
7333028 the method that Twi employed, Nefarious cant use. the only reason it even worked in the first place was that she had done it, so she could do it, so she did do it...its all a lot of wibbly-wobbly...timey-wimey...stuff...
7337940 Not exactly... any believable Stable Time Loop must have a way to be jumpstarted by something other than itself. The REAL problem is that, while Twilight's feat HAS such a method (i.e. pure study), Nefarious's goals WOULDN'T have one.
Ha.
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Is that why the song of storms is a paradox in ocarina of time? You need the song to play at the windmill so the man at the windmill will hear it and then teach you it as an adult, but the song only exist in the loop and is not found anywhere else in the game.
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I beleve that is caled the bootstrap paradox