4-gotten: Going Up
With Twilight and Nefarious racing to complete their modifications, both finished up in eight minutes, and at exactly the same time. Nefarious' modification to make the pigs generated by the Critter-Strike release Nanotech worked like a charm, while Twilight had successfully converted the Pyro-Blaster into the Element Blaster, with a Fire, Ice, Lightning, and Soundwave function, the last based off the Smashhammer's tectonic energy by shaking the air molecules to deliver a ranged force pulse. The pair had then spent the next two minutes modifying the FTF tech so that unique effects could be created by combining different elements when the weapons were fired together. The most effective occurred when each weapon fired a different Element, creating a massive centralized implosion that could crush numerous enemies together in a miniature singularity.
The test firing of this function shocked Qwark awake when the singularity exploded as the energies keeping it collapsed ran out. "Who, wha, huh?"
"Twilight and Nefarious just turned ordinary weapons into planet breaking superweapons," Alister explained.
"Oh, again?" Qwark murmured. He paused as he felt the air. "Ah, that shockwave's not even a four pointer on the Orvus scale. I can go back to sleep..."
"Except they're finished tinkering, so we can get moving again," Alister added.
Qwark sighed as he pushed himself back up. "Alright..." he grumbled, checking his watch. "Huh. Ten minutes exactly."
"So where do we go from here?" Twilight asked curiously as she passed out the upgraded weapons.
Nefarious pointed up the cliff, where swing-launchers waited to propel them to the top. "We go up," he offered.
"...seriously?" Twilight demanded angrily. "After all that time going down, now we have to go back up?"
"Wonky gravity is wonky," Qwark offered consolingly.
Grumbling to herself, Twilight moved to scale the cliff with the others.
The group climbed upward, encountering few obstacles other than climbing at first, until they discovered the main road blocked and another group of displaced Tharpods, as Spog's minions had apparently overrun their settlement. After lending some assistance to the refugees, they made their way through the blockade, finding several bridges blocked by precariously positioned boulders held barely in place. All four of them had fun taking turns setting the boulders free to roll across the bridges and smash through obstacles.
At one point, they encountered puddles of Weevoid Toxin splattered about, blue liquid that clung to anything that stepped in it, locking them in place until someone broke them free. Qwark got caught in it three separate times, much to Nefarious' amusement and Alister's frustration. Before long, they encountered the Weevoids themselves, large purple scorpion-like creatures that wore native stone as a protective, concealing shell that at first glance seemed far too small for the size of the creature it concealed. Nefarious quickly tested the improved Critter-Strike to prove the functionality worked well, and discovered that it did...although rather than the pigs storing the Nanotech, it was released as soon as the transformation completed, flying over to the group to replenish any lost.
"Not what I designed it to do, but certainly efficient," Nefarious muttered. "I'll take it."
"And this way we don't have to squash the piggy!" Twilight added happily.
The group kept pressing on along the sunny path, keeping an eye out for Critters to collect and new hazards or enemies to fight. A new Minion type robot - flying ones called Hunter Minions - proved to be only slightly more durable than standard. "Whoever's building these really needs to work on design," Alister murmured. "As much as I'm happy to be able to breeze through this...where's the challenge?"
"Do you want to face off against robots equipped with weapons reverse engineered from what Twilight and I have been designing?" Nefarious hissed spitefully.
"Oh hell no!" Qwark wailed, terrified of the very idea.
"Exactly!" Nefarious confirmed. "Now shut up!"
"Nefarious, be nice," Twilight chided.
"Don't try to change me, baby!" Nefarious countered playfully.
"Call me baby again and I'll turn you into one," Twilight snapped severely.
"Note to self: Twilight does not like being called baby," Nefarious muttered, recording yet another self-memo.
Qwark and Alister both chuckled, and the group then climbed for a time in silence. Eventually, they reached the occupied settlement, which proved to be heavily fortified. The group paused before actually reaching the point where they could be seen by the defending troops. "Alright," Twilight began, "how are we going to find out what's up there without alerting them to our presence? Pretty sure me flying up or floating any of us up would have them firing on us right away."
"I could sneak up," Alister offered cautiously, "but stealth was never really my strong point in combat training."
"Despite putting Dad through a course of guerrilla warfare when sending him to Bogon," Qwark added, "I...never actually completed such a course."
"Or I could scout it out," Nefarious suggested. "They wouldn't shoot at me."
"...because you're a robot?" Twilight asked suspiciously.
"Not exactly, but yes," Nefarious replied, reaching up to his neck. "You see, these are mass produced minion bots. Robots like these have very limited reasoning functions, so they'll have a specific list of targets to shoot at based on visual profiles. While my entire body might match a profile in their programming..." With a click, he removed his head from his neck. "This wouldn't. In fact, it would probably more closely resemble a Hunter Minion bot in transport mode in shape." He glanced around at the stunned expressions directed his way. "Now, who's going to throw me?"
Qwark grinned widely. "I have the best arm-"
"No! Absolutely not!" Nefarious countered insistently.
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Qwark didn't even blink when Alister said that Twi and Nef made planet crackers, I am uncertain how to feel about that.
7314512 In this verse' Twilight is the inventor of the RYNO line of weapons. Not really surprising.
7314512 genitive to those two just ignore the potential to destroy world unfocused on how nice they are acting, if you value your sanity. Quark has the right idea.
:Wise thing to do: sorry my phone is an idiot.
Lazy way to extend the level.
7314512 well, what 7314540 and 7314547 said, but also, this isnt the first time Twi retconned something harmless to go 'mega boom'...
7314584 Physics would like to remind you that a singularity, otherwise known as an artificial black hole, is the most powerful thing in known existence. Even making one the size of a pinhead would require more power than humanity itself produces on a daily basis. It wouldn't take many to obliterate a planet. The fact that these new weapons aren't destabilizing the entire planet given the gravitic energy produced by a quantum singularity, is proof of even more actual power since they can CONTAIN something that powerful so that it doesn't kill them as well. This is most certainly one of those "If I turn off the safety features it WILL kill EVERYTHING" types of weapons now.
7314584 are you really sure you want an answer to that question...?
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7314703
You two either chill or take it to PM, no one wants to see you two fight
7314703 One, I didn't call you a prick of any kind. I stated that your PM was insulting and thus had no desire to continue that discussion. I told you not to contact me again on that matter. You did, and thus are blocked.
Two, this is an entirely different matter, where once more I'm trying to show you why things are as they are. Anything creating, and containing, a singularity is in fact putting out enough power to destroy a planet, or at the very least wipe out all life on the surface of it. Whether or not all that power can be properly directed toward such a thing, the potential energy is still there. Thus the modified weapons ARE in the 'planet breaker' category.
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7314899 Actually my reaction was more along the lines of
THEN 
when I realized he was serious.
Why not? With the luck of Qwark, he could shoot him to the boss room.
what would also be nice would be the ability to change enemies into other animals, but good anyway.
Another enjoyable chapter. Good job.
I expected head puns in the comments
7316350 I guess you were a little a-head of yourself!
Now they just need Heart.
LOL. But nobody did the "Alas poor Yorick..." line from Hamlet.
7314625 *cough cough* Zurkon *cough cough*
7317538 exactly my point...
7317256 twi did that joke back in Dredzone...
7317605 I remember that.
7317256 That's because Qwark hasn't touched Nefarious' head yet. Accidentally lose the body, catch the head, and you have Private Jimmy! ...I mean Hamlet.
"And then Twilight detached Nefarious' head from his neck and began beating him with his own head."
"But Ratchet, that doesn't seem physically possible."
"That's exactly what he said when it happened, Clank."
"THIS DOESN'T SEEM PHYSICALLY POSSIBLE!!!"
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LOL
7314512
Same.
7317256
Twilight pulled a variation of the Yorick shtick back in Dreadlocked. It was combined with a Clint Eastwood (I believe) reference.