4-gotten: Dark Forest
Close to the entrance of the Dead Grove, another shop terminal had been planted, where the group was able to acquire new weapon, the Warmonger rocket launcher. Cackling more than a little wickedly, Twilight once again bought one for everyone, as well as the upgrades available for the weapons they already had in their possession. They also received a message from Ratchet regarding a supply depot at the other end of the forest, likely where they'd find Commander Sprog. With weapons and information in hand, the group made their way further in.
Before long, they came across spiky yellow caterpillars the size of Alister. "What are those?" Twilight yelped, jumping back from a creepy crawly larger than herself.
"Dreadgrubs," Nefarious replied readily. "Relatively large, tendency to curl up and roll to attack, the spikes on their backs deflect energy based projectiles when they're curled up. Frustrating, but relatively weak. Just don't let it get on your back, its underside is its mouth."
"Eeyurg!" Qwark cried out, wriggling in displeasure.
"Well, we all have non-energy weapons," Alister pointed out as he lashed out with his wrench-spear.
Shivering, Twilight drew her own wrench, only to blink in surprise as Nefarious stepped protectively between her and the Dreadgrubs, turning the laser aspect off his arm chainsaw before wading into the fray. She could see past Nefarious that Qwark was using his fists to deal with the grubs, but she was more focused on how readily Nefarious had stepped up to deal with something she was uncomfortable with, and something that was an unusual danger to her. A thoughtful expression crossed her face.
As Dreadgrubs were plentiful in the early portions of the Dread Grove, Twilight was content to hang back and let the others lead the way at first. She stepped up to the fray when a new large creature showed, a tank sized ladybug-shaped creature Nefarious was able to identify as a Grove Beetle. Its armored shell proved impervious to weapons...until its charge had been dodged, causing it to slam into a wall and flip over, exposing its vulnerable underbelly. The second time they encountered one, Twilight discovered she could indeed use her magic to forcefully flip the creature onto its back.
After the second, the group paused as they spotted a robotic minion at a water cooler, apparently having a drink before returning to his armored turret nearby. "If we get too close," Alister murmured, "that bot will spot us and withdraw to his turret. Then we'll need to figure out a way around it..."
"But we don't have any weapons with reach that far!" Nefarious snapped back. "And I'm not about to play distraction!"
"Or I could remotely control the turret from here to take him out," Twilight offered.
"Oh yeah, you can do that!" Qwark responded eagerly as she moved to the fore.
With the turret dealt with, they were able to keep going, where they found a new gadget for the four of them, Quakehammers. Twilight examined them carefully. "Umm...how, exactly, are these different from jackhammers?" she asked curiously.
"While they're used the same way," Alister explained, "Quakehammers build up a charge when used. When the charge is unleashed, it causes a localized tectonic shift that can be used to, amongst other things, blast stone walls and the like down from their moorings. Good for clearing pathways and other things."
"Really?" Twilight asked, intrigued.
"Allow me to demonstrate!" Qwark proclaimed, taking his to a likely rock before a stone wall. Hopping on, he rode it for a time until the charge was built up. When it was released, a massive quake shook the tunnel they were in, causing the rock wall ahead of them to collapse, clearing the path.
"Ooh..." Twilight all but purred. "I wonder if I could weaponize that..." She began a careful examination of her Quakehammer.
"Be careful with tinkering," Nefarious warned. "This gadget is precariously balanced. You might want to start with reinforcement of the energy flow channels..."
Alister shook his head as Twilight and Nefarious once again began discussing ways to turn a perfectly innocent gadget into a superweapon. "I want to say he's a bad influence on her," Alister began, "but I can't help but think she'd be doing this with or without him."
"She would," Qwark replied grumpily. "If anything, having Nefarious to help gives her someone to test these with that can be put back together if things go wrong." Sighing, Qwark pushed forward.
Before long, the group found themselves trapped under another pocket-space shield dome. "We really need to find a way to stop that from happening," Alister grumbled.
Twilight hesitated. "Actually..."
Turning, Alister saw Twilight and Nefarious hefting heavily altered Quakehammers...which now looked like actual hammers, rather than jackhammers. He sighed, facepalming. "Go ahead..."
Squealing together, Twilight and Nefarious rushed forward to the edge of the shield dome. Swinging the altered gadgets, they struck the barrier together. The entire dome shook, cracked, and shattered in a flash of white light. "It worked!" Twilight cheered. "By building up the charge based on the movement of the one carrying the gadget rather than the gadget's own movement, a much greater charge capacity enables instantaneous release of tectonic energy that can be discharged through anything it strikes!"
"Where did you come up with such an idea, anyway?" Nefarious asked eagerly.
"An Old Earth animated series Daddy and I really liked," Twilight admitted. "I wasn't able to follow all of it, but...I think there were 'magical' pirates? One of the characters had an ability like this-"
"Oh, Whitebeard!" Nefarious cried out gleefully. "I loved that guy!"
Much to Alister and Qwark's stupefaction, the scientifically inclined pair proceeded to debate various points of 'anime'.
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...That being said: while I will not deny Whitebeard's sheer badassery, Chopper is clearly best pirate, on the grounds that he's a talking reindeer that can go all Chopzilla on your ass. Luffy is a close second though, because Luffy.
...huh, I would have thought that idea would have come from Halo and those gravity hammers that my friend always killed me with.
She'll make a hero of him yet!
7265740
I wish I knew more about One Piece than I do; only caught a handful of the episodes.
I'm not sure about that. Sure, Twilight is likely to have read the books and seen the movies, but there isn't as strong a following for LoTR as there is for anime. And Nefarious strikes me more as a Warcraft, DnD, or War-hammer kind of guy frankly.
By the way, I found the movies to be overblown. I didn't say bad, just overblown. At least they were a hell of a lot better than the pile of offal they did for Eragon; pretty much that pile of shit is the reason why the author put the halt on the rest of the stories.
7265740 No one is as good as the true Pirate Warrior, Ussopp! King of Snipers and God of Dressrosa, who could possibly compete with that?
And yet another One Piece reference. Too bad that series isn't on Netflix; I'd actually like to sit down with it at some point.
...You know...I'm probably just now noticing this,
But Twilight scares me...
Wow. They really are made for each other.
7265819 Read the manga and buckle up. You've got a week's worth of reading at minimum.
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Kabutowari!
7265755 except heroes aren't made
Twilight x Nefarious OTP
Love the One Piece reference.
7265833 What are you kidding me? She' always been terrifying! It's just that now she doesn't have the social norms and desire to please Celestia holding her back!
... Speaking of, I wonder how she'll react to Celestia when she gets her memories back?
7265824
It's on Hulu. They have, like, all of the anime. ALL OF IT! (Okay not actually.)
Also: I expect that expression was Twilight beginning to take the possibility of dating Nefarious seriously. Whereas before she was thinking it was a joke or would inevitably end in a horribly amusing manner.
7265875 i think he's been chosen already.
7265875
You do realize that even the lead actor admitted that the movie sucked, right?
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WHOO-HOO!!! One Piece reference for the win dude!!!
Another enjoyable chapter. Good job.
7265979
So basically, your suggestion is to pay for yet another service...
Yeah, sorry, but I can't afford that. If it's not on Netflix or You Tube, then I don't watch it. Already paying more for T.V. than it's worth; if there weren't others that watch it, I'd drop the fucking shit.
Seriously; my cable bill is almost $180 a month, and less than half of that is for the internet. DON'T suggest satellite either; I can't afford to switch right now.
7265939
The 'lidded eyes' look; I can see it now.
"Seriously? I've been holding together two galaxies and you did this to me??"
7266101 I'm just paying for internet my bill is 80.
7266151
Wish that's all I had to pay. My internet is about that much; however, there are at the very least three others in the house that watch t.v. As a result, I really can't drop it because that would be unfair. Paying 9 bucks for Hulu on top of what I already pay for Netflix is more than I can afford right now.
7266186 do they help you pay the cable bill?
7265824 go to crunchy roll and get most of there shows free only pay the subscription if you want the episode that aird last week. Oh its sub only thow
7266190
No, actually. It's basically splurge at this point, as well as being part of my division of the bills. If worse came to worse, I could probably drop it without causing too many issues.
Except maybe boredom
7266217 You do realize that with the right video codecs you can stream pretty much anything for free on those free anime-streaming sites, as well as pretty much every movie online from the free movie-streaming sites, and it's completely legal since you aren't downloading or re-distributing them.
Get VLC Media Player, the XVid codec, and the DivX codec and you can stream everything. I don't even think about Netflix or Hulu at this point.
~Crystalline Electrostatic~
4:35_6/1/2016
7266241
I don't know enough about what you're talking about to do it with any kind of accuracy; nor am I willing to with only this one working laptop and no money to get it fixed if I fuck something up.
I stay away from stuff like that largely because I know shit about it more than because it's grey legally.
7266057 And then Krillian proceeds to show why terrible ninjas with a few fancy powers get trumped by a bald midget that can blow up planets.
7265740 BULLSHIT!
Trafalgar D. Water Law is the best pirate!
Monster-point Chopper ain't got shit on him!
It's armored shell proved impervious to weapons
1. Its.
Wait wait wait, you mean to tell me that she just modified a quakehammer to essentially replicate Whitebeard's devil fruit power and succeeded with frightening accuracy? *pauses for a moment then slowly moves back to a heavily fortified bunker* I think I'm gonna stay here until she stops scaring the demon outta me
And this is the only time I have ever seen a One Piece reference in a story, bravo sir, bravo
of course how can you not love the ultimate manifestation of MAN.
ok ok ok I am finally giving in Twilight and Nefarious will make a great couple s'long as nefarious can keep his evil tucked away or at least make it directly useful for twilight
>>Belnazarth Do you really think a bunker is going to save you from that hammer? I highly doubt it.
7266413 By the end of the Cell saga, Krillin was as strong as final form Frieza.
Frieza in his base form can destroy planets.
Krillin, therefore, is more than powerful enough to destroy planets.
7266413 Vegeta at the START of Z can blow up a planet. By the end of Z Krillian is several times stronger than Vegeta was at that time. He's canonically the strongest human in the entire setting. He may not have the 'DESTROY THE UNIVERSE!' power that the aliens and killer cyborgs have, but he's still a badass beyond what any failure of a ninja can be.
Okay, 'magical pirates' next, try to replicate the 'ninjas' with the sharingan?
7267172 Failure of a ninja isn't because of lack of power. It's because a ninja is based on stealth and deception. Something 90% of the Naruto cast CAN'T DO PROPERLY. The point of the ninja arts is that by the time you see them, you are already dead/unconscious.
As far as their chakra, that's all well and neat. The problem is that the Z characters are all STUPIDLY FAST to go with their absolutely absurd level of power. Once more going back to the start of Z, the majority of the characters are already capable of moving faster than the human eye can follow. Piccolo flat out tells Gohan 'Stop wasting time using your eyes and just sense their energy'. And Krillin, unlike Yamcha, KEPT TRAINING AFTER THE SAYIAN ATTACK. Krillin may have been hopelessly outclassed by all the aliens and killer cyborgs, but he NEVER STOPPED TRYING. Everyone makes fun of Krillin for being weak, but nobody faults him for trying. Unlike Yamcha who pussed out like a bitch after dying to a plant monster.
Chakra users may have fancier tricks, but they don't have the raw speed and power to keep up. The only instance of one of them matching a DBZ Ki user in power was in a pocket dimension where physics didn't apply. Similar to the fight at the end of TTGL. (I love Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagan, and that fight is awesome, but it makes it clear early on that physics and reality went out the window the moment they entered the Anti-Spiral Realm)
Krillin's power level at the end of Z, according to Akira Toriyama in the Daizenshuus, is 15 million. From the same source, Vegeta in his fight with Goku topped out 18,000 without transforming. Now doing the math, that's just over 833 times more powerful. So any feat that Vegeta could have done, including the previously stated superhuman speed, by the end of Z Krillin is 833 times better at it. As was said before, by the start of Z Vegeta is clearly able to move faster than the human eye can perceive, with strength and reflexes just as stupidly overpowered. Now multiply that by 833? It's simply insane. Even if you don't want to use exact power levels, the fact is that Krillin is AT LEAST hundreds of times more powerful by End DBZ than Vegeta was at the start.
That's why you don't see End DBZ characters facing off against 'normal' foes like the cast of Naruto. They've stopped being people, and are starting into the realm of Physical Gods. (Why do you think Yamcha made a fortune as a baseball player. It was child's play to him and he's one of the weakest Ki users.) It's not a fair fight, it's a curbstomp. Is it possible for the terrible ninjas to best such people? Yes, with planning, preparation, and quite a bit of luck. It's how Batman, a guy who does the ninja thing properly, and without the powers, gets by most of the time. He out-thinks his foes, uses their fear against them. Tricks, gadgets, traps and stealth. That is what ninja were all about. But in a straight up street brawl? No setup, no knowledge, and no prep time? No dice. These guys can kill you with a finger faster than most people can think, and are able to survive things that can level entire cities instantly. And not just survive them, but shrug them off entirely. The comparison is almost as one-sided as Steve Rogers without his shield vs Thor. Sure the former is the peak of human perfection, but the other is a Physical God.
7265824 don't bother the english version has been censored to the point of stupidity, better to get the original Japanese version with English subs
7268357
When I can, I try to do that anyway. The only time I won't is for Sailor Moon, as the English version is the one I grew up with.
Though I do want to see some of the original episodes for the sake of comparison
Most anime is either weird or dumb. Luckily some are still enjoyable if a bit common.
7268511
I noticed you. 
I-It's not like I like you or anything! B-baka!
I just finished a fun weekend at my yearly local con, this makes me smile. I can just see Twilight and Nefarious dressing up in costumes to go to a big anime con.
thank you 7265988 for getting the reference you get to ride on the tank
7266047 you did not so you can walk... also your GIF was broken
7269130
Ummm...
Are you talking to the right guy? I'm a golem, not a Necron.
If Nefarious and Twilight kiss at any point...
I'm gonna scream.
Twilight's new catch phrase!
AAAAAAAAAAMMIIIIINNNEEEEEEEE
7269282
Ha.4kids died thankfully,had a huge cascade of failures after someone bought the pokemon license from them(their claim to fame that got them rolling),along with several lawsuits for illegal products they produced and sold for the yugioh series,a show which konami and Saban bought the rights for after ....in the end they filed for bankruptcy to salvage funds.....now 4kids are doing sports gear under a different '4' name....and likely to file bankruptcy again.
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A shame too since the company name they had before 4kids was responsible for Thundercats and G I Joe...
...seriously...when they changed names in 1992...what the heck happened?