Once Sunset called Krystal 'Mama', the blue vixen knew two things. One, she was in caring for the little filly for the long haul. Whatever the situation with her and the rest of team Star Fox may or may not have been, she'd lost too much already - her own family included - to abandon a little one who looked to her that way. Two, she knew it was time to start working to expand Sunset's mind towards teaching her to control her expansive magical gift. Not only had her power only continued to grow, it was rapidly exceeding the capacity of Slippy's tech to contain...mostly due to a lack of storage capacity. The materials needed to make proper magic containment vessels simply weren't readily available in the Lylat system, and Slippy could only do so much with used soda cans, no matter how much attuning them to Sunset's wavelength did to improve their structural integrity. If nothing else, he was running out of room for the cans.
Towards building up Sunset's cognition, Krystal started carrying Sunset with her around the ship. As long as she made sure to hold Sunset close to an ACSU panel to make sure she didn't have a build up coming, she could carry her through the halls for nearly an hour before danger of a build up began. Since the ship was of a size that - short of an electrical outage in the elevator - one could walk every part of the ship in a loop in less than half that time, that was more than enough to take her wherever Krystal decided to go that day. Sunset always enjoyed the excursions, taking in every inch of the ship and naming things as best she could in her baby talk as she pointed insistently at objects.
Today, Krystal decided to walk towards the halls where Slippy was at work. He was making modification of some sort - he almost always was these days - and Krystal wanted Sunset to get the idea that things around her would change sometimes and that wasn't a bad thing. On the way there, she encountered the Great Fox's robotic operator, ROB 64. He was a golden robot whose blocky joints housed his narrow limbs, as he was built to interface with the Great Fox's systems, and movement and other such functions were secondary to his design. He rarely left the bridge, save to go down to the repair bay to get Slippy to fix up some part of him, or to visually check a confusing report from the computers. When Krystal bumped into him, he was on his way back from the repair bay. "Greetings, Krystal," he greeted, his robotic voice unable to truly convey emotion, though she chose to interpret that he was happy to see her. Leaning down, he put himself at eye level with Sunset. "Greetings, Sunset."
"Bwo-bot!" Sunset called out excitedly, reaching out with both arms to the machine. ROB lifted one hand to let Sunset grip his finger. As always, it was impossible to tell the robot's emotional state - or if he even had one - but he never passed up an opportunity or refused an invitation to play with the little filly, so it could be assumed that he enjoyed being her 'Bro-bot'. That had initially been thought to be Sunset's attempt at pronouncing 'robot', but her refusal to drop the initial 'b' made it plain she knew what she was saying.
"She really seems to like you," Krystal murmured softly.
"Affirmative," ROB agreed. "I am plainly her favorite toy."
"Pretty sure she doesn't see you as a toy-" Krystal lost her voice as she saw Sunset's horn glow, using her aura to completely disassemble ROB's hand before reassembling it - still attached to him - as a bubble gun.
"You were saying?" ROB asked flatly as bubbles sprayed into the air from what had been his finger. Sunset happily lunged upward, popping the bubbles that got close enough with her horn.
Krystal struggled not to laugh. "I'm terribly sorry about that, ROB," she began sincerely.
"I did not say I minded being her favorite toy," ROB corrected as he ran out of bubbles. Sunset's horn glowed, restoring his hand to normal. He then patted her mane lightly before turning towards the bridge.
"Bye bye Bwo-bot!" Sunset called out happily, waving to him as he went. As ROB rotated his upper body to wave back without stopping, Krystal continued on her way.
It didn't take long after that for Krystal to reach Slippy. He was hard at work applying ACSU panels to the walls of the corridor, laying them carefully so the conduits interlinked with each other. "Hey Krystal!" he called without turning to look at her, one of his eyes having already caught sight of her approach out of his peripheral vision.
"Hello Slippy," Krystal greeted softly as she knelt down so Sunset could see Slippy easier. "What are you working on?"
"Unca Silly!" Sunset called out happily, reaching out until Slippy extended a webbed hand for her to play with. She was always fascinated with the way the webbing between his fingers stretched and collapsed as he flexed the digits. Letting her watch and play didn't even slow down his work, as he had simply pulled off one boot and used his similarly webbed foot to grip the tool while balancing expertly on one leg, his wide peripheral vision allowing him to both immediately correct if his balance shifted even a nano-meter and watch Sunset play and his own work at the same time.
Not for the first time, Krystal wondered just how Slippy was able to process so much mental input at once, and wondered if the attempt was somehow responsible for his clumsiness while moving at high speeds, especially when he seemed to have absolute control while standing in one place.
"I noticed you started taking Sunset around the ship to show her around," Slippy explained in his high, piping voice. "Now, I can guess where that goes. Once she knows her way around, it won't be long until she's wandering around on her own, whether to find whoever she wants or because she thinks it's fun to play hide and seek." He winced slightly as that statement caused Sunset to giggle almost wickedly. "Now, that could cause a problem if we can't get her back to her room before she starts another magical buildup. My first thought was to try and take the ACSU tech and put it into a suit she could wear, but I hit several problems with that.
"First," Slippy began as he pulled up another wall panel, placing an ACSU panel in its place and welding it there, "the suit couldn't hold nearly enough energy in itself, and we'd have the same problem with draining the suit as we do with her buildups. Second, I haven't figured out how to make this stuff into a fabric yet. I was lucky to make the panels work so well on the initial design, and have just been refining it since, testing what works best. The third problem was most significant, though." He gestured to Sunset. "She's still growing. Given her size relative to the rest of us, she'll likely grow fast. And one thing I can tell about putting this tech into fabric is that it's going to be expensive, both in terms of development and the material itself. I'd rather wait until she's big enough I won't have to make a new one every week, and responsible enough I can give her a gun so she can discharge the collected energy in a controlled manner.
"Then it hit me," Slippy continued as he hopped sideways to work on the floor panel. "If she's going to be wandering the Great Fox, why not turn the problem into a solution? I've been struggling to find a way to store all the excess magical energy she gives off...but what if I turned the Great Fox itself into the battery? By lining the entire ship with the panels and conduits, it'll make the ship itself ACSU compatible, storing the magic in the material of the ship itself and the concept of it as a unit. From what you translated in those spell books Sunset brought with her, a structure that has 'personality' will often draw excess magical energy to itself in massive quantities to become more, which sounds remarkably like some sort of haunted house. What if we shaped the Great Fox to do that, based in its 'personality' as a protector of the Lylat System? With ROB at the helm, it's already got a will in a way. That's why I installed an ACSU circuit in ROB just a bit ago, so he can interface with the ship."
Krystal shook her head, marveling at the way Slippy thought everything out so carefully and made such amazing leaps. "Of course, it'll probably be years before there's enough magic absorbed to create a noticeable effect on the Great Fox, even at Sunset's output. The scale the books talked about was for small houses, and maybe a manor. A ship this size..."
"Then if it works, it'll be a long time before we have to worry about storage issues for the magical energy, won't it?" Slippy pointed out with a wide grin, before turning to grab some of his lunch out of his box with his long tongue and turning back to his work as he chewed.
Guess the Great Fox is going to be powered by magical Hnngs.
neat... GO FOR IT!!!!! .... that is all
Oh yeah, the Klabby... Klabu... err, ship spirit! That could prove quite the useful development! Normally I'd say perhaps TOO useful, but this is PWNY we're talking about, such a thing is WAY more difficult to reach here!
Brilliant as always.
And for the magic infused ship idea. Go for it.
Just as an idea that came to mind. How badly is Andross going piss his pants if the Great Fox can at some point add some of the magic to its guns? Magically empowered starship class main cannons are a rather terrifying thought. That might be enough to permanently harm even something as stubborn as Andross.
Really? I'm the first one to say it?
Totally shipping the Great Fox with Aphelion already
Well, I certainly hope you're not going to take all the inspiration from Going Merry, if only because my feels couldn't take reading that scene again.
Also, this is going to be a spaceship-sized Checkhov's Gun, isn't it? Already looking forward to the Great Fox obtaining/revealing it's self-awareness either when it's least expected or for a Big Damn Heroes moment.
I will admit it I like the idea of making the Great Fox alive, and having it pull a move similar to the Going Merry and having it come help the crew of its own accord sounds pretty awesome.
Also here is an idea if Sunset will be helping power the Great Fox I wonder if she could give extra power to say the Main guns of the ship by manually giving it more power.
Lastly I have one question is I might have missed you explaining it but is Sunset in an Equestrian form meaning four hooves or is she like Fox and is bipedal and has hands?
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Bipedal like the others.
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Problem!! Unless Tats go back and changes a few things that can't happen as Twi aleady meet Sunset as per EQG.
Other ways they wont meet untill the convergens happen.
Hey Tats, I got an ide for how Sunset can get back to Equestria.
Twilight finds out about Sunset and builds the adons to the mirror and uses the relinked book to change the world the mirror go's to and wounds up on the dino planet and tackes Krystals place in adventurs and Sunset, Fox's place. or you can say krystal investigates an magical anomely and wounds up captuard along whit Twilight.
It would also be kinda cool if the Great Fox developed a spirit that attempted repair itself, like the Giong Merry on Skypia.
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After reading the chapter that was the first thing I came looking for in the comments. I'm glad the comment section didn't disappoint.
I could definitely see the gray fox doing a Robotech esque transformation
Slippy built the storage untis out of soda cans?! I would say that is the most impressive repurposing of an everyday item I have heard, but I think Tails from the Sonic series has him beat.
Behold the impossibility that is tails mechanical skills:
{Sonic the Hedgehog:
[seeing Tails fix the biplane] We good to go or what, Tails?
Miles 'Tails' Prower:
I've built a TV out of paper clips...
Sonic the Hedgehog:
Yeah...
Miles 'Tails' Prower:
...and reprogrammed a super computer using dishwashing detergent and a toothpick...
Sonic the Hedgehog:
I know...
Miles 'Tails' Prower:
...So look, fixing a propeller on a biplane? That's about as difficult as taking a nap. [spins propeller]
Sonic the Hedgehog:
'Kay, I did not need your whole life story. A simple "good to go" would have been cool.
Miles 'Tails' Prower:
Alright. Good to go!
Sonic the Hedgehog:
Cool!} Moustache to anyone who knows which game this is from ;)
8265785 Lost World I believe it is?
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Yep!
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OH YEAH! This gonna be good.
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I imagine that would probably be reserved for something more along the lines of a super slag cannon.
Since Rob can already be interpreted as the 'will of the ship', wouldn't he become the ship spirit for the Great Fox?
Yeah, that was the impression that i got.
On that note: Slippy's got some skillz!
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You're going to turn the Great Fox into a Genius Loci?
And then Sunset would become Eneru, charging her own ship with her power.
Not being a big One Piece fan - though only because I have little opportunity to be so. Luffy is damned awesome in my opinion. - I have no idea what you're talking about, so I'm going to make a guess.
*Clears throat.*
It's ALIIIIIIIVE!!! *Starts cackling like a madman.*
Honesty yeah I think you should do that, make the great fox be something More but dam dude the feels when assault comes Around, that going to hurt then.
So, wait, have the Star Fox crew not already amputated their legs? I mean, Slippy still has his webbed feet, but I don't know if that's because they do in fact have their natural legs or you just slipped a mite.
I don't have a conduit in which to watch One Piece. I am going to assume it is a robot form similar to Gen 1 Transformers. Optimus Prime's ship can transform, too.
I for one want to see Great Fox get a ship spirit and do something to help the team. Like when they have a large stationary target blast it.
8265556 That would be awesome. Especially if the ship fires on its own so he doesn't have any warning besides Rob going "What?" over comms.
8265734 So basically it morphs into a giant mecha fox and fires an appropriately sized Wave Motion Gun??? Preferably into Andross's face????
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And you fail to properly interpret how "My Little PWNY" is going to work.
And absolutely not. Sunset will only be 11 by the time Adventure rolls around.
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Go back to the last chapter and read more carefully. In this timeline, it's not amputation, but the surgical implantation of cybernetic augments. In essence, they have their real legs under those metal leg-boots, but those leg-boots are attached via cybernetic implants. They can be removed.
I think this description also more-or-less fits C-3PO from Star Wars
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Ah, okay. Sorry, I'm just so used to in canon where they did amputate their legs because of the G-Diffuser system, or however it's spelled. My bad, then, and thank you for clearing that up.
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Technically, that's not actually canon. That's just heavily recognized fan theory. Nothing in games or instruction manuals ever states that's what the metal legs are.
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Well, once more, I stand corrected. Thank you.
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...your interpretation of that as referring to a romantic relationship is troubling and while not entirely unfounded considering the pandemic nature of shipping, there are these things known as platonic relationships. This term is typically used to describe nonsexual relationships and not romantic ships.
Like friends, best friends, battle buddies, etc.
So, the Great Fox could become Moya level-intelligence. (Farscape) Which would make an amazing little aside if you were to make Sunny's fighter the same way. You could have a Great Fox be the Mom(Dad?)-Starship, and Sunny's fighter by the son/daughter. That is free-spirited and likes to shoot things. Suddenly it would be a Farscape Crossover as well, with Moya and Talyn.
Or the Great Fox could become like EDI from ME. Need to be a lady, tho. We've already met our quota of foxy guys.
If this happens, the line "I enjoy seeing humans on their knees." needs to be used at some point. Or "sophonts" or something. Cuz that was one of my favorite lines from ME.
Or you could just give it Trixie's personality. Because it already has "Great" in its name. Not a lot needed from there. And it would be hilarious.
*shrugs*
Ideas. So many cool things could happen!
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Not familjar whit Star Fox time line and didn't know it actualy was that early, so yea nope to that ide.
As for PWNY, what beyond "Tatsuru's will be done!" do we need to know.
Jokes aside, I know Order and Chaos is the technical begining as Discord split the time lines and hired you to wright them and they all are going to converge in to one univers again. Wheter it be through memory convergen or actuall dimensional tears or something ells, I don't know. But you are one of few I belive can actually do a mega crossover whitout it becoming a huge closter and be readable.
Survival instincts in a ship perfect!
Energy crystals that are actually crystallized magic, all that much more exterminate in our exterminatus
When I heard Slippy's voice in Star Fox 64, I thought he was a girl.
I'm already curious how the adventures in Equestria will turn out and which way Sunset will get her old memories back. If she isn't going to get her old memories back then I hope Celestia isn't trying to try to force her to stay. I know it is to soon to think about it.
I honestly think Sunset would demand to get back to Fox soon enough too, I mean you probably let it happen in the background, but after his personal scene that you probably going to do, I hope that he get's a few more chapters or that Sunset doesn't start to see Krystal as her main
caregiver. I liked it that she imprinted herself on Fox at the start and at least two movies suggested that this is going to lead to a pretty strong affection.
Lately if I copy something I get a whole link here, not sure if it is because of some changes on this side or the place where I copy the english words I translate.
So, you can drink the magic? Wonder how it tastes? Probably spicy
This is a lot like the time Tails tried to compensate for excess Chaos energy when using a Chaos Emerald to power the X-Tornado in Sonic X.
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Okay, how do you add such a spirit (Not familiar with one piece but I did click the link) to a ship that already has such a spirit. The description I just read describes ROBs job to a T. As I understand it, the only thing ROB cares for more is the crew, the main reason Peppy got away with his stunt in the Aparoid event. No spoilers for those whom haven't played the games.
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By enhancing such spirit to become magical.
I am shipping it now, the Great Fox and Aphelion
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Did you just say exterminatus, you sir are a good battle brother. Yes let the great fox cleanse the segmentum of the heretical monkey and his xeno allies. For the emper I mean for the good of the lylat system yeah that's what I meant, totally meant for the people there ya. 😅😎
8274730 Well, if YOU require a god-emperor to tell you that you need to eradicate heathen filth that disgraces our species just by existing and puts one more nail in the coffin of the argument that humanity is NOT a plague upon existence, go for it, all the power to you. Me, one swing and I break out the bacon bits.
I really like this Klabautermann idea for the Great Fox, I hope it works out.
this must happen
Considering that the Great Fox's main guns fire STL ingame it can be surmised that they are particle beams, rather then lasers.
Why do I bring this up at all?
Particle weapons usually have condenser champers to increase the density of the particles before firing. If Slippy could store magical energy in a capacitor in the Great Fox's main guns he could then have the particles infused with magical energy during the condenser phase. This could be used to to both super charge the main guns and discharge excess magical energy when needed.
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!!!! YES!!! Do it!!
Well, Sunset could use a familiar.