"Before we get to the Olympus," Luna cut in, "I was wondering if perchance we might explore Spike's battle declaration at the end of the fight with Ridley?" She gave Spike a direct look. "You claim you don't know where it came from...but I recognize its nature. Whereas ponies have heartsong - a spontaneous melody that can express a deep feeling from the heart, often causing many others around them to spontaneously sing along-"
"Wait, you mean Equestria is the land of spontaneous musicals?" Samus interrupted.
Fluttershy gasped, stunned. "You...you mean you don't have heartsong? But...but then how do you know you belong within a community, welcomed despite your differences, if your heart doesn't resonate with the hearts of others for the music that comes from within? You poor thing..."
Samus stared at Fluttershy for a time before deciding to not explore the idea any further. "You were saying, Princess?"
"Yes," Luna continued. "At any rate, where ponies have heartsong, the dragons of our world have something similar they dub heartfire, which takes shape in battle declarations that spring forth from the fire in their core without bothering to consult the brain. From the sound of it, that is what happened there." She looked carefully at Spike. "Proclaiming yourself warrior, distancing yourself from the beastial nature of Ridley, proclaiming you are not like him. Hatchling is the Chozo term for Samus, and how they referred to you as well, so that proclaims your kinship with Samus. Proclaiming yourself Chozo needs no explanation, as you declared your allegiance to their ways and morals. But...why proclaim yourself a child?"
Spike glanced away, shooting a soft smile at Twilight. "I didn't understand at the time...but whenever I tried to make sense of it as I fell into slumber, I'd always have the some dream...a vague recollection of a warm hug, and a motherly voice telling me I was her baby dragon."
Twilight blushed in pleasure as she glanced away. Luna smirked smugly at the sight.
"It turned out the Federation's plan was...rather straight forward," Ghor spoke up, directing the talk back to the story. "Use the Leviathan orbiting the Pirate Homeworld to open a wormhole to Phaaze. Send the entire fleet to bombard the living Phazon planet and the Pirate Fleet surrounding it, while Samus and Spike went in to take down Dark Samus and the stolen Aurora Unit. It was hoped this would cause a cascade failure that resulted in the planet's destruction, as the Aurora Unit was known to be connected directly to the planet's control core. When the plan was explained to all of us, I expressed...dissatisfaction."
"Foolishness," Ghor stated bluntly as Admiral Dane finished the briefing.
All heads turned to him. "...excuse me?" Dane demanded. "Do you have a problem with the plan?"
"Several," Ghor replied calmly. "First, the Pirate Fleet surrounding Phaaze will be constantly drawing power from it, meaning you will be dealing with ships in Hypermode. Your fleet will barely make a dent in the defensive formation, let alone in the planet. Second, while Samus would be able to maneuver past the defensive fleet to make planetfall in a best case scenario, the Phazon radiation in the area can be calculated as being three times as intense as the orange Phazon Samus encountered in Tallon IV's Impact Crater. Not only would this be instantly lethal to Spike, it would overload Samus' PED, causing an explosive growth of her Phazon infection. Even if she didn't immediately become completely corrupted, it would be a race against time and her own body to find Dark Samus and the Aurora Unit and destroy both, when they could conceivably heal themselves from the planet around them, while just walking on the surface would push Samus towards total corruption."
While Samus recognized all the hazards Ghor was pointing out, she was ready to make the attempt - without Spike - in order to preserve the galaxy against the threat of Phazon.
"We know the plan has problems," Dane barked out. "But unless you have a better one-"
"I do," Ghor countered.
Silence fell once again. "Well, don't leave us in suspense," Gandrayda chided. "Let's hear it."
"The first step is for Spike to eat the core of the Leviathin in orbit around the Pirate Homeworld," Ghor explained. "As Spike's ability absorption is based in situational requirements, this should enable him to open his own spatial rifts. Since the Leviathan is already programmed with Phaaze's coordinates, he will be able to open a rift gate right there, using the structure of the Leviathan as an amplifier. I've already run simulations based on the data collected on Spike's growth so far to confirm this will work."
"And then what?" Dane demanded. "How do you intend to use that as a way to destroy Phaaze?"
Ghor turned, ignoring the Admiral. "Gandrayda, I assume from the way you were able to absorb Spike's flame energy into your body that you would be able to enter a pure energy state and infuse him?"
Gandrayda swallowed, plainly shocked. "Well...yeah, I could, but-"
"Doing so will amplify Spike's energy abilities to immense proportions," Ghor interrupted. "Combine that with the amplification of the Leviathan, and a full powered Fazite blast should cause a cataclysmic chain reaction that will utterly destroy Phaaze. Based on my calculations, the Federation's plan has a 15% chance of success, with a 60% chance of death for all involved. My plan, on the other hand, has a 84% chance of success, no chance of death, and failure will allow us to implement the Admiral's plan as backup...especially if we use the technology available to upgrade the Leviathan's energy generation and amplification properties."
"Once Dane got his ego under control," Rundus added, "that's the plan we went with."
"He's a good Admiral," Samus pointed out. "It only took him two minutes to calm down and agree to the better plan."
Dane just let the bounty hunters do what they do best...overcome odds, make the impossible look easy and BLOW SHIT UP!
6761374 I thought this was Metroid not TTGL.
Dam that's a really good plan.
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"What the fuck?" blinks a few times, checks to make sure his head is on straight "No seriously Tats'; What. The. Flying. Fuck?
WARNING! HYPER SPOILERS! WARNING!
Dark Samus ain't dead is she Tats'?
WARNING! HYPER SPOILERS! WARNING!
Longer chapters please.
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Not yet. She's currently on Phaaze. But she dies there in canon, anyway.
I love it when characters get snarky. Especially AIs.
That sound like a fairly intimate experience. No wonder Gandrayda has such a connection with Spike at this point.
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TTGL-Pwny verse story...
No... Asside from the question of Who, there's the issue that in that continuity they use Galaxies as freaking Shuriken!
Even for Pwny-verse, I'd say that's going a bit too far...
6761787 We have a pony who is learning to be with the God of War, one who was with Ratchet and Clank, one who was raised by TONY FREAKING STARK, one who was raised by TF2, and one who was raised by the Batman and now a dragon who eats Phazon, which SHOULD have actually killed him in all truth.
6761794 All true... but TTGL takes several OP concepts and ramps them up to eleven (while still managing to maintain a sense of humor about itself in the process). Spiral power is stated in the continuity itself to potentially have no limits on what it can achieve. While the Ponies of Pwny-verse are no doubt powerful, and several orders of magnitude stronger and/or more efficient than their canon counterparts, they all still have fairly straightforward limits.
Spiral-Energy is quite literally potential-made-manifest expressed as a measure of infinity amplified against a factor of the willpower of the individual trying to use it..
6761816 Well Celestia could use a Pwny version of herself.
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Raised by Picard.
6761845 Well shit...... Gilda then?
6761848
Glados from Portal.
6761851 Lightning Dust?
6761852
Doesn't meet my pony qualifications.
6761858 What are they then?
6761860
I've posted them several places.
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Personally I think you've got plenty to be getting on with for the moment without needing to consider any more Pwny-verse stories that you don't already have planned/are already working on but haven't published yet...
The ridiculous rate you're able to pump out new chapters is to be applauded good sir, but as of now you've already covered all of the major characters along with a fair few background characters and adding any more at this point would probably be so much more garnish on an already full platter of deliciousness. Someday I'd like to get to the main course/dessert that will be the eventual cross between everyone and whatever ridiculously OP force that would warrant That Much firepower being brought to bear against it, and the more stories you add the longer that's going to be put off so that you can build the character backgrounds...
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Alright.
Besides, there's already several spin-off stories waiting to be written, too.
6761637 She's already been inside of him, and had a bit of him inside of her. can't really blame her for wanting the full thing in her, after all of that.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!
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I meant in the present of the story being told by Samus & Spike. I've beaten most of the metroid games, Prime Trilogy included. Dark Samus gets very, very, dead.
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Yes, she's dead in the present of the story.
6762355 Oh, well okay then, there goes that assumption.
But anyway, setting up for Spike to do what he's about to, how do you even begin to think of something like that? Its frickin' insane!
Two notes,
Dark Samus has three abilities in Corruption gained from the defeated hunters that she will NOT have in this continuity thanks to spike saving the hunters. The Phazon crystals that she creates periodically throughout the fight came From Rundas's ice powers, The Echo clones are from Gandrayda's, And merging with AU 313 is from Ghor's power.
Secondly, I Just realized that you skipped The Hunters game (It takes place between prime and echoes)
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I've recently gotten into Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann.
Interesting plan, can't wait to see it in action. And speaking of interesting, the heartsong/heartfire concepts is rather a clever way to explain the whole musical numbers they do.
C&Cs:
"Well don't leave us in suspense," Gandrayda chided.
> Comma after ‘Well’.
...and failure will allow us to implement the Admiral's plan as backup...
> Shouldn’t it be ‘as a backup’?
6761816 Well, there IS a limit to how much a being can do with Spiral Power without becoming humanoid as evidenced by all the mechs that take advantage of Spiral Power having far more powerful humanoid form than their non-humanoid ones as well as the whole part in the second movie where Boota turns into a naked child sized male humanoid life form.
Not that I would suggest bringing an Equestrian life form into the TTGL multiverse. Pre-timeskip they'd be more likely to end up as dinner than they would be apprentices and post-timeskip there's just nowhere to feasibly bring them into the gang.
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Well if we can just make Pinkie's tail partially edible...
*hint, hint, nudge, nudge*
6762496 It isn't so much being "Humanoid" and more to do with DNA Structure. Humans have our fancy double helix DNA and other "Spiral Races" also have similar twisting genetic structures. The only ones we see in the seriesare Humans and the Ant-Spirals but that doesn't mean that there aren't other spiraling genetic templates that shape non-bipedal life-forms (Yay Fanfiction!). The "Beastmen" (who are quite anthro in appearance) and other animals (like the pigmoles such as Boota) could not use spiral tech because they were specifically engineered not to have a spiraling genetic structure. But even then, that wasn't entirely enough to stop them as in the end, Boota was actually able to harness the Spiral Energy from being exposed to The TTGL to evolve himself to have a compatible genetic structure.
Furthermore, the mechs they used aren't limited to form either. In the grand scheme of things, the more humanoid bots built during the time skip were actually less effective against the Anti-Spiral's tech than the older Ganmen such as the banana shaped King Kittan, which were specifically built to combat them. The Linchpin here is Lagann, which is little more than a "Head" with extendable arms and legs but was specifically engineered to channel the full unbridled potential of Spiral Energy into whatever other machine it interfaced with.
Nah, that's Disney movies, but but it's A land with spontaneous musicals.
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Good question.
Oh really?
*snerk*
Oh?
He makes an excellent point, Spike can adapt, but only so fast.
Do tell.
Go on...
Potentially.
... Well played. Granted, it's a little TOO easy and probably won't work that easily, but if it does, I doubt Samus is gonna complain about no longer needing to worry about Phazon corruption.
Smart man.
6762562 The ship that they were using to evacuate earth was in a standard "ship" form to start with. Then when Simon combined with it it assumed a humanoid form and the Spiral Computer stated that this was because Spiral Power is only able to be used to it's fullest by a humanoid form.
Lagann is actually fairly useless before it combines with another Ganmen and assumes a more fully humanoid form. On top of this, despite being designed to combat the Anti-Spiral the older model Ganmen were only shown using a form of Spiral Power on their own one time and that was through a preloaded weapon created by Gurren-Lagann.
6762912 /Sigh* Going to continue this despite my better judgement for one last post, but then I'm done. We're clogging up the comments with unrelated material and that's kinda rude.
Blacked out for those who don't want to bother reading.
More humanoid, yes, and despite what the Spiral computer said there's still room for interpretation. Like I said, there's only two different primary races shown to be able to use Spiral Energy in the series and despite both being humanoid it doesn't indicate a pattern when the possibilities literally equal infinity. This is reaching more into speculation, but it's entirely possible that when interfacing with something to give it a spiral boost the "Spiral Key" (such as Lagann or any other similarly powered mechs) takes the genetic structure of the pilot as a template. The evolution of Boota and Viral to being able to use Spiral Power can also be attributed to that the specific energy they used to evolve came from Humans and therefore was "Pre-Coded" towards a particular genetic template.
Another enjoyable chapter. Good job.
The Federation's good now but just wait to when they get to the X-Parasite incident, that's when they showed their true colors.
WOW. Now that's what i call a plan! Respect!
6761851 Wait, seriously?
BIRD! BIRD! KILL IT! MONSTER!
6766713 Indeed. I may not know much about the meteoroid universe, but what I do know is that Ghor is my favorite out of the other 3 aliens.
6763560 6762496 Wow. You two have explained Spiral power down to a science when all kamina thought it was fighting spirit which still kind of made since. My deepest respect.
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I confess... Blowin' shit up is crazy fun!
Everybody: "We need a plan of attack!"
Admiral: "I got a plan. Attack!"
Human and many other species are quite different and not as harmonious, some would find constant musicals aggravating.
Wonder what dark samus’ thoughts were when Phaaze starts collapsing for no apparent reason due to ghor’s plan?