4-gotten: The Gravity of the Situation
After the group leapt up a few platforms together in the altered gravity - Qwark and Nefarious practically taking turns stabilizing Twilight in the process - they reached a much larger platform of metal rather than stone. The flying spherical robot they'd seen just before the gravity went wonky appeared, still emitting strange blue waves.
Twilight quickly scanned it with her magic, then gasped. "That's what's screwing up the gravity!" she proclaimed. "We need to destroy it!"
"Could you shrink it down instead?" Nefarious asked. "Gravity manipulation tech like that could be useful."
"Too big," Twilight replied sadly. "The compression field won't enfold the entire robot."
"What if you put a shield around the gravity generator?" Qwark suggested. "So it doesn't break when we blow the robot up?"
Twilight tapped her chin for a time as the group evaded the rocks the Gravity Minion threw at them. "Hmm...can't maintain a shield for that long...but I think I can invert the gravity waves so that the generators protect themselves. But I'd need to get the oscillation just right, and it seems to be rotating..."
"I can lock onto the oscillation," Nefarious offered. "You've focused spells through technology before. Maybe if you focused it through me?"
"Worth a try," Twilight allowed, stepping behind Nefarious and sending a beam of magic into him as she focused. Nefarious then leveled his arm, altering the frequency of the magical energy as it passed through him, sending it at the enemy bot.
The Gravity Minion froze as its further attempts to throw rocks did nothing. It glanced at its tech to find the problem. "Now!" Nefarious barked out.
Qwark and Alister bombarded the bot with everything they had. With it unable to fight back, it was only a matter of time before it exploded, allowing Twilight to collect the Gravity Generators, stowing them the same way she stowed the rift jump robot. With gravity returning to normal, the metal platform lowered to join with others.
"Now that that's been dealt with, let's go!" Alister insisted, leading the way forward along the new path.
Further progress through the plains proved to be much the same as before. The four would follow the only path available for progress, using a mixture of acrobatics and gadgets, and blowing up any robots in their path. Twilight and Nefarious continued to debate various technical details regarding the application of the tech they were in the process of 'salvaging'. Qwark and Alister would attempt to follow, only to fail miserably. The only relief on that front was the occasional communication from Clank on Aphelion, indicating that at least someone was taking notes.
The first new obstacle they encountered involved an electrical being called a Voltergeist, which could be used to activate powerless devices in much the same way the Lumenoids had been used back on Igliak. While nothing that really caught their eyes, the next point of interest to follow were some hostile Gravoids, purple balloon shaped creatures that would inflate and take apart the floating platforms to attack.
"Gravoids?" Twilight asked, confused. "Those are indigenous to the black rock moons of Abaro! What are they doing here?"
"I imagine much the same thing we are," Alister suggested. "That ship showed up to grab the Z'Grute once it was down, and the robots also tried to grab Twilight. I think it may be designed to collect unique specimens throughout the universe and bring them here for...something."
"Is that why the recording from Dr. Frumpus Coy in that lab talked about being at war with Neevos Collectus?" Qwark asked.
"Precisely," Alister confirmed, surprised Qwark had kept track of those details.
"That's what the gravity bot was doing!" Twilight gasped out. "The black rock moons have a unique gravitational field! They were supposed to simulate their natural environment!"
"The only question then is why," Nefarious deduced. "While everything being done is beginning to make sense as far as the collection of rare and unique specimens - even the 'testing' facilities - it still doesn't explain the end goal. Why do all this? Anyone have any ideas?"
"...making a zoo?" Qwark suggested.
Nefarious glowered at Qwark. "Anyone have any sensible ideas?" he asked again.
"Genetic experiments to create the ultimate biological battle body via gene splicing?" Qwark tried again.
"...any sensible ideas that aren't terrifying?" Twilight whimpered hopefully.
"Maybe we should curb our speculation and keep going," Alister suggested. "Perhaps Susie will have more information once we make it somewhere we can rest safely for a time."
"That sounds like an eminently sensible suggestion!" Twilight stated eagerly, rushing forward.
"Well, you brought him along for some reason," Nefarious sniped teasingly.
The group continued through the plains, moving as quickly as possible. Before long, they encountered a new hostile enemy, a Gravoid that had been cybernetically augmented with parts from what looked like the Gravity Minion from earlier.
"Well...do I get to say I called it this time?" Qwark asked worriedly.
"I sincerely hope not," Twilight whimpered. "I don't want to be experimented on!"
"You won't be on our watch!" Alister insisted firmly as they all drew their weapons.
All four of them concentrated their fire on the Gravoid Brute, dodging the rockets it fired back at them. With their concentrated fire, it wasn't able to put up much of a fight, and soon fell apart in a fiery explosion. As it did, Susie's balloon pulled into view.
"Through solar winds or supernovas," she called out from the basket, "a galactic scout will-" Her voice paused as she caught sight of them. "Hey! You made it! Come on, my village is just ahead!"
Twilight let out a sigh of relief, eager for somewhere to lay down and rest. The group followed readily.
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omg you don't know the half of it.
I am loving how Quark is calling the highlights of the enemies plan.
I am completely lost in this. I had at least some basis of what was going on after Size Matters. I've even seen some of Dreadzzone.
But I know absolutely nothing about this or Into the Nexus. Should I be concerned that reading this fic is gonna ruin the baseline for those games should I play them later on at some point?
Nah, I'm good
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I can practically feel the anger of the rest of Twilight's family at the idea someone would experiment on her and can totally see Ratchet, Clank, and all of Twilight's mommies storming the planet and ripping through everything in their way to get to her.
Ooohhh, gravity tech, can't wait to see the stuff Twilight and Nefarious come up with from their liberated tech.
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I had to load this page onto a TV, and then get up close to it in order to read your avatar.
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I want that on a tee shirt so much!
The Gravity Minion froze as its further attempts to through rocks did nothing.
I'm assuming you meant threw rocks. I should probably go back and read the sentence again just in case I missed something.
Stupid mobile spell check. Threw not throw. Fixed it on my end.
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Same here. It fits me so well.
7214433 Welp, if anyone ever tries to experiment on Twilight, they'll hafta go through her parents, Ratchet, Clank, Qwark, Nefarious an; Allister, Shining Armor and his bros and Cadence with the entirety of the Fire Nation. Also, don't forget about Princess Celestia and Luna and possibly the Mane Six with their families plus Fluttershy and Team RED Moon. It's a complete shame Twilight was experimented on in the EDFverse, though...
7214437 I don't know why you needed a TV to see so study hard and be evil.
7214335 Indeed. He continues to impress me.
...I wonder if Twilight will control the soul of the final boss or if Nefarious will have a ship to steal in the end?
He's not stealing the Nefarilight... whatever its called ship.
When Qwark is right, the universe trembles.
That was fun, may I have another? Looking forward to more.
Keep up the good work. Deus tecum.
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Of course not. He'll be hijacking the SS Twilarious.
All aboard!
7215423 This ship is sailing, no matter what.
Another enjoyable chapter. Good job.
7217273 well i like them
7217008
From what I can remember from having last read this over a year ago, the problems were very episodic; some even being solved just a few paragraphs down. In the 29 chapters I read, there just wasn't anything to keep me reading, I had no emotional attachment to the characters. This probably stemmed from how Twilight was too smart and solved everything quickly. Other people clearly like the story but it is not satisfy what I was looking for.
Sorry I can't explain myself better, but I can't point to a specific thing and say that was my issue since it has been so long ago.
7215523 Not even Twarkcane can stop it! ...on second thought, I hope that's not a real ship...
Evil Overlord List Item #12: One of my advisors will be an average five-year-old child. Any flaws in my plan that he is able to spot will be corrected before implementation.
I think Quark counts as a five-year-old child, mentally, so....
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The issue is the Pokemon series not working well for this type of story.
7221532 ... fair enough. I was thinking of the pony being raised by Professor Oak after being confused for a new species of pokemon, but I can't think of much that could actually HAPPEN to make the story interesting... aside from a standard Pokemon adventure with the pony as a trainer.
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Precisely the issue.
And how many times could I make the joke of "I am not a Pokemon!" before it got old? Especially if Pokeballs did work on the pony in question?
7221669 It would get old fast... wait, what if she's raised by the legendaries AS a new legendary? The "Legendary of Magic". And she goes through the various games and helps the legendaries in each of the games with their problems, particularily the "villain organization of the week" attempting to obtain them for whatever purpose... and perhaps a new organization that want to capture the "Legendary of Magic" in order to become wizards/sorcerers for whatever purpose?
Though, with that setup, Lyra likely wouldn't be the right choice... Trixie?
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Trixie's already been used.
Though I must admit, the idea of a unicorn being raised by Arceus does sound interesting...
7221755 Trixie's been used? really? hmm... The only other unicorn that I can think of that would fit (that hasn't been used) is Starlight Glimmer. There are few unicorns left to use that would work... Unless you want to make the pokemon one Non-PWNY and use Trixie anyway as an alternative Trixie PWNY fic (similar to your current undertale one with Luna)?
Edit: Oh, Trixie is the Sam and Max one... I'm not a fan of Sam and Max, so I'll likely never read that one.
Edit 2: Maybe make both of them as Trixie ones, and make a poll to decide which one becomes the official one when you make My Little PWNY?
7222064 You might have to read it to make sense of the rumored clusterfuck story Tats might make.
7221755
Why not Starlight Glimmer
What does " PWNY" mean?
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Combination of PWN - as in Ownage - and Pony.