First...Blood?
Rainbow grumbled to herself as she flew in 'patrol flights' around the eastern half of the city. The first major battle against some sort of super villain force was going on in the western half of the city right now...and she had been summarily denied her rightful participation! It just wasn't fair!
Okay, she admitted that she had no actual combat experience yet - either alone or with the group - and sending her into battle against an organized force alongside the others probably wouldn't have been a good idea...but that didn't make it feel any better when Tony told her to patrol the rest of the city instead.
Danggit, Dad! she grumbled internally. How am I supposed to get any combat experience if you don't let me fight?
That morning, a message from Nick Fury informed them all that some group called AIM was planning something major in the western portion of the city. Iron Man, Hulk, and Thor - being the only members of the Avengers currently in town - were immediately mobilized to deal with the threat. Rainbow had suited up to go fight, too, but had been immediately denied by Hulk. Thor had agreed that, at her current level of combat experience, she would be a hindrance to the team.
As she'd sunk lower to the floor with those words, Tony had tried to perk her up. He'd told her to patrol the eastern half of the city, on the grounds that some other criminal elements might seize on the distraction of AIM and the Avengers fighting to cause trouble there. She knew it was just keeping her out of the way while feeling useful, but at least it was better than sitting around in the lab waiting to hear if those she cared about got back in one piece.
At that moment, her sensors picked up something below her. Glancing down, she began to circle as she examined what she saw.
Four unusual looking men clad in bright colors were walking down the road, heading towards the bank. While only two of them were armed - one with a crowbar, the other with a large wrecking ball and chain - all four looked battle hardened and ready for trouble. "JARVIS," Rainbow asked into her comms, "do you have any information on those guys?"
"Scanning databases," JARVIS replied. After a time, profiles came up for all four. "Bulldozer, Piledriver, Thunderball, and Wrecker. All four have long criminal records both individually and as a group, known as the Wrecking Crew, both in America and Canada. They are highly dangerous, and incredibly durable. Their natural abilities have also undergone an unknown form of enhancement. Since that enhancement, they have always worked as a team. All indications are that Wrecker leads them."
Rainbow focused her attention on the purple and green clad man with the crowbar. "Hey wait a minute..." She focused her attention on the crowbar. "Why is it glowing?"
JARVIS was silent for a time. "Local security cameras do not detect a glow around the weapon. Only the sensors on your suit do, and I am unable to analyze that data. Logic indicates it is some form of magical energy."
"It kinda reminds me of Mole-near for some reason," Rainbow continued, deliberately mispronouncing the hammers name as was her habit. She always loved the faces Thor made when she did that.
"There is no available information I can analyze to correlate a comparison," JARVIS intoned. "However, given the nature of Mjolnir, it would be logical speculation that the crowbar has undergone some form of Asgardian enhancement."
"That's probably what caused their power boost, then," Rainbow concluded. "If I can get control of that crowbar, maybe I can do something to deal with the lot of them."
"I would not recommend that course of action," JARVIS warned. "Their combat experience is extensive, and your own-"
"I'm never gonna get any experience if I don't fight!" Rainbow countered.
At that moment, Bulldozer charged the wall of the bank, breaking down as he slammed it helmet first.
"No time for talking now!" Rainbow declared. "Time for action!" With that, she charged down.
Piledriver grinned as he grabbed handfuls of gold bars out of the bank vault and dropped them into their loot sacks. Thunderball had been right. With AIM drawing the attention of the Avengers and the police force, there was no one to get in the way of the heist. They wouldn't normally stoop to something as petty as robbing a bank, but easy money was easy money.
"Hey!" Bulldozer barked at him. "Hurry it up in there!"
"I'm working on it!" Piledriver complained. "Besides, what's the rush? There's nobody to stop us." He spread his arms wide. "We could steal the whole city if we wanted!"
"Or at least this half of it," Thunderball mused.
"Don't be so certain," Wrecker growled, pointing.
As they saw the blur of red and gold, at first they thought it was Iron Man, and they got ready to fight. However, as the blur resolved into a shape, they saw...a pony?
Rainbow smirked under her helmet. "Look at the mess you boys have made!" she said expansively. "Somebody's going to have to clean it up."
The four villains stared at her for a time...then burst out laughing.
"This?" Bulldozer guffawed. "This is the city's protector?"
"I feel insulted!" Wrecker laughed. "Does Iron Man really think one of his automated drones can handle us?"
"I don't think it is a drone," Thunderball spoke up. "Hadn't you heard Tony adopted a Pegasus as his daughter?"
"Wait, so this is some kinda Iron Mare?" Piledriver joked, laughing at his own humor.
Oh they didn't! Rainbow hissed in her mind.
Before she could react to counter his statement, however, one fo the civilians in the bank called, "Please save us, Iron Mare!"
Rainbow groaned. "Danggit..." she grumbled.
"What is the matter?" JARVIS asked.
"Iron Mare?" she asked. "Seriously? It's so...generic! It makes me sound like I'm Dad's sidekick! Not a hero in my own right!" She glowered at Piledriver. "And now that name's going to stick! So much for the cool name I had picked out."
"...Technological Technicolor Technomare?" JARVIS inquired after scanning her computerized notes.
"Doesn't that sound totally awesome?" Rainbow stated proudly. At JARVIS' silence, she scoffed. "Ah, what do you know?" Dashing forward, she delivered a solid high speed kick right to Piledriver's chin.
Piledriver rocked back, but quickly steadied himself. "Heh, someone's eager to party!" he laughed, bringing his fist forward in a punch that hit Rainbow square in the barrel.
Rainbow tumbled forehead over fetlocks through the air, wincing. "Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow!" she gasped out. "That hurt! I thought this armor was going to keep me from getting hurt!"
"Your armor design utilizes your own inner energy to neutralize impact force," JARVIS reminded her. "Even when drawing from energy stored in the arc batteries, some force feedback is to be expected. Also, that impact alone drained the primary battery by 30%."
"That much?" Rainbow gasped in shock. That was nearly 7 hours worth of flight time at half the speed of sound. "Better make sure I don't take anymore hits, then." Looking up, she gasped and shot into the sky.
Thunderball had thrown his wrecking ball at her, and she thought she had dodged it. However, instead of flying straight ahead as she had expected - or returning to his hand, another possibility given Asgardian magic was involved - the ball and chain instead turned in the air to follow her. "Waaah!" she screamed out, turning again to evade it, only for it to continue to follow her.
She kept zipping back and forth, screaming, as the ball chased her. A brief shot from one of her repulsors deflected off the ball, indicating that destruction wasn't really an option. However, at one pass by the bank, she saw Thunderball holding out his hand, tracking her movements with both gaze and arm.
He's controlling it, huh? Rainbow thought to herself. Let's see how good his control is? Making a sharp turn, she shot right by the wrecking ball as she reversed course, watching as it turned in a slow arc to pursue her again. Has a lot of force, but can't turn fast, huh? I can use that. She turned back towards the Wrecking Crew, slowing down for a bit to allow the ball to start to catch up. After that, she charged straight at Bulldozer.
"Heh, didn't learn your lesson with Piledriver?" he barked. Grinning, he charged at her.
At the last moment, Rainbow dropped and shot between his legs, kicking upward as she did. He gasped out, clutching at his groin. Huh, Rainbow thought. They're impact resistant, but force feedback is an issue for them, too? The wrecking ball then slammed into Bulldozer, slamming him off his feet before being recalled by Thunderball. And heavy impacts can damage them, huh? "JARVIS, gimme a quick download of human pressure points, anywhere that a hard impact will cause a disproportionate amount of damage."
As JARVIS sent her the documentation, she quickly went over it as Piledriver charged at her. Noticing something, she smirked. Spining in midair, she bucked both her hind hooves straight at his eyes, flaring her repulsors right at impact.
"AHH!" Piledriver screamed, staggering back clutching at his face. "My eyes!"
"You'll recover!" Wrecker growled, holding his crowbar out towards Rainbow.
Rainbow winced as she felt something stab into her mind, though she was able to repel it. "What the hell was that?" she demanded of JARVIS.
"...records indicate that Wrecker has some ability to mentally manipulate the weak willed," JARVIS replied. "Given the magical nature of the weapon, it would appear you are more vulnerable - if not more susceptible - to such an assault from a magical source."
"How am I supposed to-AGH!" she screamed out. Thunderball had taken advantage of her distraction to strike her with his wrecking ball. Before she had a chance to recover, Wrecker had struck out with his crowbar and impacted her right between her wings, slamming her into the ground. Just before Thunderball brought his weapon down on top of her, she was able to zip out of the way.
"Primary arc battery at 20%," JARVIS informed her. "Secondary arc battery at 80% and has suffered minor damage and is leaking energy."
"Dammit!" Rainbow cursed as she flew back, but paused. "The glow around the crowbar has...changed."
"Unable to analyze data," JARVIS informed her. "Only available conclusion is that some form of interaction has occurred between the Asgardian energies and yours."
"Then maybe I can do something about-GYUK!" She folded in on herself as Bulldozer - having recovered from the earlier hit - punched her right in the gut. "Dammit! How am I supposed to keep track of all of them?"
"Primary arc battery at 5%."
Rainbow began to feel afraid. However, she squashed that fear down. I won't lose! she insisted to herself, gearing up for battle.
"Hey look!" Piledriver said, wiping his eyes and pointing. "Her rainbow spikes are smaller!"
Surprised, Rainbow glanced back at herself. It was true, the spikes growing at the back of her helmet were slightly smaller and flickering on occasion. The ones at her rear were barely there at all.
"I think it means she's running out of power," Thuderball said. "She's got two arcbatteries, not an arclight, and the one in front looks like it's about to give out."
Crap crap crap! Rainbow panicked.
"Then we're nearly halfway finished with her!" Bulldozer proclaimed, getting ready for another assault.
At that moment, an enraged reptilian shriek pierced the air. Zuki leapt from a nearby pond onto Bulldozer's back, grabbing his shoulders and biting at his helmet. There was a crunch as his teeth sunk partway into the metal.
"What the hell?" Piledriver demanded, trying to punch Zuki off his companion. Zuki, however, flexed his body so the punches missed him, hitting Bulldozer instead. With the helmet now completely torn off, Zuki leapt at Wrecker, only to be knocked back as the crowbar flew forward to take him in the gut. Zuki gasped for breath as he got back to his feet, then shuddered. Wrecker was holding his crowbar towards the reptile, obviously attempting a mental assault.
"Leave him alone!" Rainbow roared. She charged forward, stopping just behind Wrecker with her wings spread. She wasn't entirely sure what she was doing, as instinct had taken over. Her left wing flexed, and the bottom edge of the wing armor shifted, changing from dull, flat plane to a feathered, razor edge. She swung her wing at Wreckers back.
The points dug into his flesh, one neatly cutting between two vertebrae.
"AGH!" Wrecker screamed in surprise and agony.
Rainbow pulled her wing out, confused. Why did I do that? W-what did I do? She shook her head. Can't think about that just now! Spinning, she kicked Wrecker in the face, knocking him to floor and making him drop the crowbar. She caught it as it fell.
"My legs!" Wrecker shouted in pain and fear. "I can't feel my legs!"
Blocking that out, Rainbow held up the crowbar, focusing on it. I hope this works... Focusing her mind, she forced her magical energy - both from her body and the arc batteries - into the crowbar.
The Asgardian magic flared, fighting her energy. As the magical feedback arced into her, she screamed in agony.
Tony brushed his hands as he, Hulk, Thor, and a SHIELD detainment unit finished up with stopping AIM. "JARVIS," he said calmly as he caught his breath, "what's the status with the rest of the city?"
"Rainbow Dash has engaged in battle with the Wrecking Crew at the Federal Reserve Bank," JARVIS replied.
"What?" Tony demanded in shock. "Fury, we need another detainment unit at the Federal Reserve bank. The Wrecking Crew is attacking it, and right now only Rainbow's there to fight them!"
"Sending a dispatch unit right away!" Nick replied over comms.
"Rainbow is in danger?" Thor asked in shock, immediately following Tony and Hulk towards the bank.
"What's her status, JARVIS?" Tony demanded.
"Primary arc battery has lost all power. Secondary battery at 45% and dropping rapidly. Vital signs unstable."
"Fuck!" Tony barked out. "Hang on Rainbow!" he called out, putting everything in the thrusters.
The pain was worse than anything Rainbow had experienced, almost more than she could take. But she held on...because she could feel the power of the artifact wavering, beginning to fail. She refused to address the fact that she was rapidly running out of power, too.
Bulldozer and Piledriver stayed back, their eyes flicking from the corona of energy surrounding Rainbow and the crowbar to Wrecker, still screaming in pain and fear at being unable to feel his legs. Thunderball, while just as concerned as those two details, also kept his eyes on Zuki. The reptile had gotten back to his feet, but was still staggering.
Rainbow let off one last scream, and the corona of energy focused around the crowbar. Lightning flashed out of it, striking all four members of the Wrecking Crew. All four felt the energy the Asgardian artifact had given them being drained right out of them. Their powers were taken back with interest, leaving them physically reduced and with barely the strength to stand.
The energy flowed back into the artifact...and then it shattered explosively.
Rainbow fell back from the explosion, pushing herself up to her hooves, her wings spread. She felt like she was going to throw up, but she refused to fall. "Had enough?" she managed to demand of them.
"Secondary battery at 5% and dropping," JARVIS informed her. "There is no longer enough energy to maintain structural integrity of the armor, flight, and stabilize your vital signs."
Rainbow knew, even without JARVIS' status report, that she was drained. The rainbow spikes on her helmet had been reduced to a barest fuzz, and the ones at her rear had vanished completely.
But as she stood, braced to continue fighting, she knew she had already won. "Well?" she demanded of the depowered criminals.
At that exact moment, the SHIELD detainment unit arrived, surrounding the building. Iron Man, Hulk, and Thor showed up not moments later.
Thor stared at the defeated villains and shattered fragments of the crowbar. "She...won?" Thor asked in shock, turning to stare at the young filly in awe. "She is but 10 years old, and already she has achieved a major victory in battle against foes I have struggled against in the past! Marvel of Marvels!"
Hulk, for his part, watched Rainbow in concern as he helped Zuki steady himself.
Tony, however, was unable to tear his eyes away from Rainbow's wing. The feathered edge was still there, and blood still dripped from it. A swelter of confused emotions swirled through him, and he mastered them as best as he was able. "Rainbow," he managed to say calmly, "get back to the tower. You...need medical attention."
Seeing the direction of Tony's gaze, Rainbow hung her head in shame. "Y...yes Dad," she said quietly. Knowing that she didn't have enough energy left for the thrusters, she spread her wings and flapped her way into the sky and slowly back to the tower.
"Good call," Nick Fury mentioned through the comms. "It's good for her image as part of the team if she doesn't have to be carried back from her first battle."
"If she'll still be a part of the team at the end of this," Tony said, turning to stare at the depowered Wrecker, still screaming about his legs. "Pepper, Rainbow's going to need immediate medical attention when she gets back to the tower...and she's to stay in the med lab until I get back and talk to her."
"Is...is it bad?" Pepper asked nervously over the comm.
"Yeah," Tony replied. "It's...bad." He then did his best to gather his thoughts, using the clean up time to work through the worst of the emotional turmoil the sight of that blood dripping from Rainbow's wing had filled him with.
The talk with Rainbow about this was likely going to be even harder for her than the battle was...and the last thing he wanted to do was risk making it worse because he couldn't control himself.
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Ouch, I'm gonna guess the blood was not from an injury on rainbows part but from the cut she gave the bad guy, whatever his name was. And that Tony is gonna have to talk to her about mortal wounds and how much damage she actually did. And why it's bad.
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Yup, blood dripping off her armor.
She severed his spine, paralyzing him from the waist down.
5681612 That's....one way to stop a bad guy....woah.
A Marvel-pony crossover?
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Wow, there's gonna be some major fallout from this battle, causing permanent injury to one of the villains. I wonder how RD will react once she realizes what she's done.
Though I wonder even more where this violent impulse came from in the first place. Doesn't really fit the personality of the Rainbow Dash we know from Equestria. (Yes, she's quick to raise her hooves for a brawl, but normally not with the intent to kill or seriously maim her opponent.)
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I described it as an instinctive reaction. Specifically, Pegasus combat instinct, where aerial combat was solved by making it so your opponent couldn't stay in the air.
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Hm, I suppose it is part of her genetic and cultural legacy. I have no doubt Commander Hurricane was able to cut down his enemies in the air with a brutal efficiency like that.
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Precisely. Which is why it was triggered by Wrecker trying to take control of Zuki...trying to steal a member of Rainbow's flock.
I liked this chapter except for the fight itself. Don't get me wrong the fight was OK if a little short but the idea for a superpower wrecking crew losing to a rookie albiet by a good guess puts a sour taste in my mouth
The idea of it though should have been made for a bigger battle with lots of buildup.I would have
1.have the wrecking crew without the powers.
2.not have rainbow cripple wrecker.
3.made the fight a little bit longer.
4.have the crew feel humiliated when that are being taken away.
With that they become the butt of the joke get in contact with Loki. He gives them the power ALL of them. They systematically take out each avenger except for RD and tony then have them team up in an epic showdown
That said all thus could have been a precursor to a bigger arc but ya blew it
Chapter 6.5/10
Ouch rd will feel that battle in the morning.
how will tony handle rd with every thing she just did, even if she did super good.??
Man, this chapter was heavy. Now poor Rainbow Dash has to deal with battle scars both obtained and afflicted.
5681612 Harsh... she's gonna get an earful even the deaf will hear, right? Please?
Huh, very interesting. I was going to make a Tony adops Rainbow Dash story myself and even teased the idea at the end of my goofy crossover.
I think I'm going to read this instead. Less work that way. Does this take place in the cinematic universe?
5681714 Daaaaannnggggg!!! Protective.
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It takes place in a mixed universe. Primarily the character representations of the newer movies, but some elements taken from older continuities for where it will make a better story.
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Given medical technology these days, and the speed of the first responders in arriving (likely already prepared to swoop in, albeit more out of expectations of civilian casualties), there is at least a decent chance that the doctors can reconnect Wrecker's spinal cord. Especially if it was a clean cut.
And who's to say that Loki won't do the 'Empower Four for Vengeance' deal? He loves using pawns, and this gives him a win/win scenario: If the enhanced Wrecking Crew wins, then that's a blow against his brother and the Avengers! If the wrecking crew loses, well... Loki hadn't been pleased when Wrecker inadvertently bonded with the artifact that Loki had made and had been infusing with power to use to enhance himself with, so that would be vengeance against the Wrecking Crew.
Loki has attempted this trick a few times, but always lost the new artifact he made right before he could bond with it, and then a few more times intending to have the artifacts bond with someone else - which tended to work out better for him. He's even employed and/or fought alongside several of these villains as allies. That doesn't mean he doesn't laugh when circumstances turn on them, and setting them up to potentially lose twice against Rainbow Starksdotter despite having been healed and made even more powerful is just the sort of win/win scheme Loki loves.
:My legs!"
1. Mistyped your opening quotation mark.
Yep, Rainbow is now gonna be having... The Talk.
My real question is though, do they have a recorded video of the fight from different angles? From Rainbow's visor or even from the bank camera? Will Tony be able to accept that Rainbow can't explain what happened as just a reaction? Will anyone else for that matter? Would Nick Fury or even Thor possibly say that Rainbow needs training to control her instincts? That's one option sure, but we won't know until the author says so
Tony is probably going to come home to find Rainbow Dash bawling her eyes out in her room. She wanted to fight smart, not deadly, and finding out that she even had such potentially lethal fighting instincts is going to be a serious blow of disillusionment to the little filly who just wanted to be a superhero. Even if said instinct was triggered by a need to protect a member of her 'flock'.
If this is a mixed continuity universe, Tony is going to understand that things like this happen. He might not be happy about it, and he's going to be mad as hell that one of the cruel realities of their world was forced upon his daughter, but he's not going to take it out on her if she's an emotional wreck over it. She's a rookie hero, and this is the first time she's caused a potentially life-ruining injury. The smartest thing Tony can do, after talking with his daughter himself and being there for her, would be for him to ask either Steve Rodgers (Captain America) to talk with her as an experienced soldier, or ask Nick Fury if he could send somebody to talk his daughter through her trauma. Heck, even Clint Barton might be a good idea as a shoulder of experience for Rainbow to lean on.
Somehow though, I don't expect either the hulk or Black Widow to be very good in this situation. I imagine that all the Hulk would be able to do is just hug her and be there for her, while Natasha might very well go the highly ill-advised route of trying to tell Rainbow Dash how she could have made a cleaner kill...
Rainbow Dash: "BWAAAAAAAAAAAW!"
Hulk: "WHAT WIDOW LADY SAY!?"
Natasha Rominov: "What, I was only giving her advice!"
Tony Stark: "My daughter is ten!"
Natasha: "Then why did you make her that armor?"
Tony: "She made it herself! She wants to be a superhero, not an assassin!"
Rainbow Dash: "BWAAAAAAAAW!"
Hulk: "QUIET! DASH UPSET! YOU NOT HELPING!"
Steve Rodgers: "I'll talk to her." *starts leading Rainbow Dash away*
Tony: "Thank you..."
On the other hand, if the first thing Tony hears out of his daughter's mouth is her spouting off about how cool her battle was (hopefully as an attempt to cover how upset she is rather than as an act of obliviousness), Tony is going to be livid.
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...I never get tired of reading your alt-scripts for my stories. I'm not always able to work any details from them into the stories - no matter how much I like them and would want to - but I always enjoy them.
RD will probably be traumatized...Tony will have to talk to her...He will have to accept that sh** like this will happend as long as she wants to keep fighting crime...Beside, Tony also have killed, permenantly injured other, he should probably talk to her. The world is a dark place, that's why there are those who are willing to do the deeds to make it a better place. That and he will have to study her abilities and train her to use it efficiently...and either goes for a different kind of armor or improve the armor she has.
On a side note: I always like a dark hero and I have always hope to get some sort of dark hero that will defeat the villians and make sure they can never harm anyone else again...Seriously, the hero universes are choke full of villians who will continue to harm other as long as they are alive and the heroes keep sparing them...
5681714 Importantly, normal feathers would collapse under that sort of impact. Metal feather armor won't. A feather-whip would be painful, but not crippling.
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Against another Pegasus, that strike would be aimed at the base of their wings. The instinct focused the natural magic that allows flight into the feathers, making them sturdy enough so that folding creates a cushion to protect the attackers wing bone so as to deliver a paralyzing - but not damaging - blow to the target's wing joints, forcing the opponent to fall. With the reduced altitude from the fall, the victim of the assault is at a severe disadvantage from any further attacks.
It just so happened that Rainbow's armor responded to the instinctive shift of magic, and the strike became bladed.
5682328 OK you got me but still this chapter could have been better in my eyes
Interesting way you weaponized the wings, using feathers instead of the leading edge.
Her magical nature in a world with less magic than her own is coming in handy.
Rainbow's abilities are overall the most inconsistent in the show, with her rarely showing the same ability twice. The Rainboom being the notable exception.
Also I'm not sure if I should praise your restraint or lament the reduction of awesome that her ending the fight with a sonic rain nuke would be.
Let's hope Tony doesn't mind Dash having a bit of Wolverine in her arsenal. Although if she hadn't bitten off more than she could reliably deal with, she wouldn't have been pushed so far. But the girl who kicked a dragon in the chin in an attempt to evict it. She crazy.
5681612 Well judging from that I take it he's gonna be in the hospital then and possibly in a wheelchair for the rest of his life then right? If this ends up like I think it might, then Rainbow's gonna be visiting the guy in the hospital with flowers and apologizing for accidentally paralyzing him and trying to make up for it cause, villain or not even he didn't deserve that happening to him.
Huh, Interesting fight.
5681609
granted in marvel-verse that isn't a permanent injury.
YAY FOR MEDINANOS!
Sweet! I can't wait tosee how every one of these fics ties in to what we saw with FortresShy!
need moar
This is amazing.
Good job!
Slight fourth wall breaking done!
I sound insensitive, but EXPECT THE FEELS TO RISE!
ooh! I've got the perfect song for when Zuki was injured by the Wrecking Crew! Well, almost perfect.
Only one word needs to be changed in order to make it perfect.
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And then have 'that one crazy writer' who will mashup all the My little Dashie-esque versions of the mane 6 and create possibly the best, or worst fanfic ever!!
AIM.
AOL Instant Messenger?
Truly, a dastardly foe.
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Advanced Idea Mechanics. One of the villain groups Iron Man fights frequently.
5684834 Tat is amazing. Trust me, he got dis
That was fun. Looking forward to more.
Keep up the good work. Deus tecum.
5682408 My legs? Sounds like http://youtu.be/Ys-661oLevE =)
AWESOME!!!!! :o
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Frankly, I'm surprised that repeating-crime villains AREN'T put to death or punished in paralytic fashion at a certain point. They get beat up, put in jail, and they either serve their time or break out and do THE SAME DARN THING all over again, causing property damage, civilian casualties, and encouraging others to misuse their abilities for personal gain.
I have absolutely zero issue with Rainbow's actions. Think of me what you will, but at some point a line must be drawn, or else nothing will ever improve as some people just. Don't. Learn!
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I think the primary issue here is a Superhero taking such action. If a vigilante is willing to be Judge, Jury, and Executioner, then the safety of civilians is entirely up to where said vigilante draws the line between innocent and guilty...and that can change overtime.
While I agree with you entirely that villains like, say, the Joker should have received the death sentence after a while instead of being stuck back in Arkham - and similar views regarding other empowered criminals, once they've proven they can't or won't reform and their very existence is a threat to people - no one wants to see a Superhero take that decision into their own hands. That's why it was so shocking and terrifying in the Superman v Doomsday movie when the fake Superman Luthor made killed the Toyman after his actions led to a little kid getting injured badly.
I do not have an issue for Dash's actions but for a different reason. What she did was to stop the bad guys. Similar to Police officers using tasers or their guns to stop a dangerous crime in progress. Police officers in that situation would damn well be emptying their guns at the perpetrators. What should happen is Tony should encourage Rainbow to seek other means of disabling people and teach her better methods of doing so.
Civilians do have the right to stop felonies. It is just highly not recommended. You do not have anywhere near the amount of civil and criminal immunities that police officers have. An example would be if there was a bullet ricochet. Police officers would be immune to criminal and civil liabilities. Civilians attempting to stop the perpetrators would not be convicted of criminal charges from a ricochet since you can not control ricochets but would pay out the nose for civil damages. Some people are such a big asshole that you can save their life and they will still turn around and sue you.
Liking this story a lot. Having short fights is SO much better than having long ones that drag out DBZ style. Read a few fics here on fimfiction that is focused on fighting and not many writers can pull it off. Most of them just drag things out and introduce so many plot holes and characters being ooc it makes my eyes bleed.
Maybe she could add a third battery to the suit?
LOL OLAF
5760370 I'm sorry even for a villain I say that that is a horrible thing... To lose the use of your legs... I can't imagine it...
5762570 I can..
my best friend is paralyzed from the waist down, the ONLY difference is he was born that way
the thought of somepony losing the use of their legs is not funny
That... that's not Rainbow's blood.
Things just got real.
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Who is that guy in the top photo?