Corruption: Backtracking
Once the laughter finally died down, Rainbow was the first to speak up. "So Spike, what new abilities did you get from-" She paused to snicker. "-sucking face with Gandrayda?"
Spike rolled his eyes as even more laughter greeted this statement. "Can you be a little less crude about it?" he pleaded.
"Indeed, Darling," Rarity chided. "While a valid question, there are other ways to ask."
"Spike got an electricity based breath, and gained complete control of his size changing," Samus explained. "That's what I meant earlier about him mastering it because of her."
"An unusual honor, I admit," Gandrayda commented as she leaned back in her chair.
Unnoticed to many of the others, Celestia, Cadence, and - surprisingly - Rarity exchanged meaningful glances. The slightest of nods from Cadence resulted in Celestia closing her eyes in thought with Rarity glancing curiously at the energy being.
"So how did that conversation go, anyway?" Sweetie Belle asked eagerly. "You stopped at Spike saying, 'It's not what it looks like'."
Chuckling, Samus continued the tale.
"Really?" Samus asked simply. She knew neither Spike or Gandrayda could see her raised eyebrow through her faceplate, but from the way they both flinched back, it must have been audible in her voice. "So...you weren't sucking the Phazon out of her and replacing it with your own fire?"
Spike blinked, flustered. "No-I mean, yes-I mean-" He growled as he shook himself. "Don't do that!" he complained angrily.
Gandrayda, for her part, burst into laughter. "I knew there was a reason I liked you so much, Sammy," she purred, starting to saunter away...only to stagger and fall to her hands and knees. "Huh...didn't realize just how weak I was going to be after that..." She smiled up at Spike. "Damn, you're a good kisser. I'm still weak in the knees."
Spike glanced away with a blush. Rolling her eyes, Samus stepped forward. "Here, let me help you up," she told Gandrayda, offering her hand.
As Gandrayda gripped Samus' hand, some of her energy bled into Samus' Grapple Beam. Her HUD beeped an alert.
Grapple Voltage acquired.
The Grapple Beam can now lock onto certain mechanical devices and drain energy out of them or pump energy into them. This can be used to activate or deactivate these devices. It will also work on certain enemies.
"Before you take me anywhere to recover," Gandrayda began, before coughing a bit. "Wow, I am weaker than I thought...anyway, this really is a back path to where you can get a Hazard Shield, to protect you from the acid rain. You'll need it. You need two people to activate the elevator."
"We'll take care of it," Spike reassured her, bracing her as he moved to one side of the controls. Samus took the other side, activating the elevator.
The trio rode the elevator up, leading to an open sky area that was only roofed over rather than fully enclosed. "It'll be a long path back to the ship-"
"I don't take harm from the acid rain," Gandrayda pointed out. "Energy being. Spike can carry me back to the ship."
Nodding, Spike pulled her onto his back, taking to the air immediately.
"Quite the wild ride," Gandrayda teased, resulting in Spike rolling his eyes as several mares tittered.
"So is Spike really that good a kisser?" Applejack asked. "From the sound o' it, he really blew ya away." Noticing several glances her way, she blushed as she lowered her hat. "What?" she demanded. "Ah know ah ain't th' only one curious."
Gandrayda chuckled wickedly. "Trust me...words don't do the experience justice."
"At any rate," Samus continued, "while it was a path to the Hazard Suit, I needed a Spider Ball upgrade to ride the magnetic rails that were the only path I could use to get there. So after dropping Gandrayda off on the Olympus, Spike and I returned to Elysia, since he remembered spotting one of those devices that I could use the Grapple Voltage to interact with."
"It proved to be a good choice," Spike explained. "That path led Mom right to the Spider Ball."
"The only thing missing at that point are your Power Bombs," Twilight pointed out.
"Didn't get those this mission," Samus admitted ruefully. "Thankfully, as useful as they are normally, I didn't actually need them. Also, since there was no rush in further exploring the Pirate Homeworld, Spike and I took the time to collect a few things we'd left behind in our rush to rescue our fellows." She gestured to Rundus, Ghor, and Gandrayda. "A few missile expansions - both for me and the ship - a few energy tanks, and a few Energy Cells. Initial reports regarding the Valhalla suggested we'd need a lot of them to get through it completely, when the time came."
"Though while we were exploring, we encountered a new type of enemy on Elysia and Bryyo," Spike explained. "Phaazoids - spherical Phazon based entities - that took shape wherever Leviathans had been shut down. They could only be damaged by Phazon based weaponry, my Fazite breath..." He licked his lips. "Or my teeth. They were delicious. Especially the red ones."
"They were normally blue," Samus explained. "At any rate, after a time, we received a message from Admiral Dane. The fleet was moving into position around the Pirate Homeworld for the assault, and that Gandrayda had made a full recovery..." Turning, she smirked at Gandrayda. "And had had to be tied down to keep her from rejoining the battle on the front lines."
Gandrayda blew a raspberry at Samus as others laughed.
"After that," Spike continued, "we were heading back to the Pirate Homeworld."
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I can't remember whether Celestia has a foster-daddy picked out yet. And what poor bastard will get stuck with Discord?
6707165 Celestia is being sent to the care of Captain Jean-Luc Picard, of the USS Enterprise-D... or possibly E, depending on when Tatsurou sets that fic.
As for Discord, I don't recall if he has plans for our chaos entity...
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Sheeogorath.
Discord and Sheogorath!? Well, bring on the cheese... Aaaand chocolate rain!
6707186 Now, is this Skyrim's Sheogorath, the former champion of Cyrrodil? Or is this Oblivion's Sheogorath?
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...not sure. Was gonna do research when the time came.
6707165 Actually to the best of my knowledge those two are undecided
Discord is really hard to place.
and Celestia is even worse.
---------anyways a great chapter, and beautifully timed prank.
6707201 I direct you to my comment directly below his.
6707186 Really? Chaos with chaos will... Lords above might actually create order.
I'd love to see thte most orderly guy ever try to teach him oder.
Another enjoyable chapter. Good job.
6707197
Silly, the answer is 'Wabbajack'.
6707193
Beat me to the punch. Bravo.
6707197
You are going to research on Elder Scroll lore? Good luck, fair weather, and see you in a few years.
In the mean time, have a small primer:
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Jyggalag approves of this post.
Looks like Applejack's wanting to sample some dragon.
Very off-topic, but for some reason, I can imagine Nurse Redheart in the world of Pokemon being raised by one of the Nurse Joys...
Yes, she just chooses not to.
I gotcha.
Clever Samus. Then again, you don't live as long as you do in Samus's lifestyle by being stupid.
But it's fun!
Useful.
That would probably help, yes.
Useful. Also, take damage I think, or don't get harmed.
HEH!
May not have played the Prime series, but there's one rule that's prevalant in ALL Metroid games. You are going to want to collect ALL the expansions. Granted you can complete the games without them, but they tend to make things a lot easier.
Heh.
OK then. Time for the final confrontation?
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You could not have picked a better person.
And had had to be tied down to keep her
1. Umm... I think the second had in this instance is not needed.
And there not being Power Bombs in Corruption was a big ripoff.
However, it was WORSE in Other M; you had to wait until the after mission to use them. Major downside when abilities connected to a character are locked as a result of story; you have to do something lame like that in order to justify further game-play. Really shoddy trope.
I should mention that this doesn't mean I disliked Other M. I don't; it actually was a fairly decent game in its own right. It absolutely shined as far as storytelling went; few have done as good a job. The game-play was pretty sweet as well; however, the way missiles was used brought that down considerably.
At least the action leveled the playing field enough to make the game good; one of the few times where a story-line-driven game was actually worthy of replay value. The only other two I ever played, Heavenly Sword and Asura's Wrath absolutely sucked on replay value.
One was an overwrought and overdone fighting game. The other one was the same, only with the occasional rail shooting situation added in for the mix. I look for a lot more out of games than how many heads I get to crack, but there needs to be more in a game then just awesome visuals.
Case in point: Okami. Now, I absolutely love that game. Has some of the best animation I've seen. However, the godhood abilities of the game make it the single easiest game of its type I've ever played (even easier than Zelda, and that's a hard nut to crack). Getting the String of Beads makes it even easier. It's the only game of its type I've ever played where it's next to impossible to die. And in most situations, the difficulty level of the monsters leaves something to be desired. It loses points on that alone.
I know, I know; that's a hard balance to strike. I've yet to find few games that get a perfect rating on that department simply because of how hard that balance is. About the only one I can think of in my opinion is WoW pre-Mists. Mists was a rehash of everything they tried in Cata; not bad, just overblown a little. The newest expansion bids fair to be the best one they've done since BC.
Spike blinked, flustered. "No-I mean, yes-I mean-" He growled as he shook himself. "Don't do that!" he complained angrily.
No PLEASE do
Samus got in a bit of trolling, I see.
6707409 What does that mean?
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Sheogorath, god of Madness, was once Jyggalag, god of Order. After the original Sheogorath became Jyggalag again full time, the adventurer who broke the curse ended up becoming the new Sheogorath.
Did you even watch that video?
6708583 It all makes sense now! Discord drives Jyggalog to become Sheogorath!
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No, that was the curse. More likely, the orderly act of raising another, even Discord, would allow a precarious balance between Sheogorath and his original Jyggalag persona during the Grey March. Perhaps enough so that the events of Shivering Isles would less a pointless battle followed by the Player getting the Mantle dropped on him, and more of an adoption, with Discord getting a new (not so) baby brother.
...but that is just wild speculation. The Author still has much to nail down first.
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Actually, my current plan involves Discord getting the mantle after the Greymarch, while maintaining the Father/son relationship with the newly restored Jyggalag. It was my solution to "how to give Discord character growth while staying Discord".
6711034 Cool.
6711038 Looking forward to it.
...How does one go about tying down an energy being?
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With ropes made of magic energy.
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If you meant by the Federation, with electrified bindings.
7134166 The only thing effective against anything in the universe is itself.