Moondancer raced back towards the cockpit as fast as her PSI could carry her...for as long as her PSI held out. However, another shockwave of PSI from there sent her tumbling, rolling across the floor before coming to a halt. She tried to tap her PSI again to levitate, only to find the sheer PSI pressure in the environment made it impossible to concentrate. Rather than wasting further time in futile attempts, she instead took to her hooves as she raced through the ship. She cursed just how long the corridors were that it took her so long to get there, worried that whatever was happening to her father would be finished - and horrible - before she got there.
The ship continued to shake as she ran, and she could feel various systems flickering on and off as numerous parts of the ship became damaged, the computer systems crashing. She had to get there fast. Seeing parts of the paths she had to race across collapsing in front of her, she desperately tapped her magic instead of her PSI, letting her do short range teleport jumps across the gaps. While not as simple an effort as using PSI to teleport, PSI Teleport only worked for vast distances - like from one end of the ship to the other, or from this ship to another - while her magic based teleports worked excellently for short hops, the same way Starmen used their Flashporter Engines to move around rapidly.
Despite her best efforts, she'd only made it to the flight deck when she felt a primal scream through her PSI, and the sound of shattering glass and torn fabric. She staggered against the wall as she felt that, then pushed herself upright just as she saw the door to the cockpit open. Seeing the floating alien that came out, she rushed forward. "Fa-" she started to call out, only to freeze.
Giegue looked more or less the same, but his PSI aura felt drastically different. The air of compassion that had always been there whenever he looked towards her was gone. The patience in his gaze had vanished. His yellow eyes now glowed red. He swept past her through the air without a second glance.
Moondancer slumped back into the floor, her eyes wide in disbelief. "D...Daddy?" she whimpered, unable to believe that in one moment she had been so summarily and definitively rejected by the center of her world. She could feel her mind, her Magicant, starting to crumble from what had happened, and she felt something deep in her mind stir. For a brief moment, she felt a crack within her psyche, and red energy filled her gaze.
"Moondancer..."
That voice snapped her out of her reverie. Turning, her jaw dropped as she saw who was standing there. "N-Niiue?" she gasped in surprise. "But...but you're supposed to be inside Daddy's Magicant! You're a part of him!"
"A part he could no longer handle having in his mind," Niiue explained as he walked up to her before kneeling beside her. "The damage that had been done to his mind...it was tearing him apart. He held on, staying whole, for as long as he could...but finally the only way he could keep you safe was to remove himself from the equation. And so, he took the conflict in his mind and split it down the middle. The aggressive, angry aspect that blames humanity and himself for everything that went wrong is what you see going off to continue his plans to 'fix' things. And I..." He sighed softly. "I am his heart, the part that remembers the love of his parents and still loves them, Ninten...and you. And now, as a separate entity, I will keep my promise to take care of you."
Moondancer glanced between Niiue and the path Giegue had taken. "Is...is this the path that Apple was talking about in my dreams?" she asked worriedly. "Is that the part of Daddy...destined for destruction?"
Niiue shrugged his shoulders. "It may be," he admitted. "I know for a fact that one of the things he intends to do now is seek out the Apple - a sentient artifact we've identified as the Apple of Enlightenment - to get the fullness of its prophecy. I...I'm afraid if its prophecy is that, then...learning of it will cause it to become self-fulfilling. So I want to see what I can do to stop him from getting ahold of the Apple...without confronting him directly."
"What...what happens to you if he's...?" Moondancer couldn't finish the thought, not wanting to say anymore.
Niiue sighed softly. "We're still linked," he explained. "I exist as a discrete part of him. If he dies...I will cease."
"Then we have to save you both," Moondancer declared firmly. "How can I help?"
"That I do not know," Niiue observed sadly. "For now...we will just have to wait and see what he does, and what happens with the rest of the solar system. There are forces at work easily as powerful as we are, and we need to be ready to act as guided...and ready to find a way to tweak events if possible so the future we want comes to pass. If the Apple communicated with you directly, I can only assume something about you is significant to the way events are going to play out."
"The figures in my Magicant?" Moondancer asked curiously. "There's a circle of eight statues in my Magicant, but I only recognize you and Giegue..." She shivered, not liking that she now had to mentally classify 'Giegue' and 'Daddy' as separate entities. "You think I'll somehow be guided to the others, and that might help me save Daddy?"
Niiue smiled sadly, worriedly. "We can only hope..."
Not untill you pointed it out.
Very clever.
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Think I can get a link for the Fan made one? I want to try that out. I think I can find the mother for NES and try playing that one.
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http://cogdis.tazmily.com/
I can't figure out the pattern of the chapter names...
Huh, is this why you can't use PowerShield on some of the bosses in the first game?
Oh, right, music.
It's fitting because this song plays under similar circumstances in the game.
... He's not gonna spam inexplicable attacks every turn, is he?
Always seemed to be more of a black or dark blue to me.
walkthrough.starmen.net/earthbound0/image/screens/36/36-2.png
Then again, the resolution isn't that great, not to mention there isn't any official art to confirm it. Aw.
Wasn't there also a bit about being his his guilt, regret, and remorse, which further ties into why he split off in the first place? I mean, wouldn't feeling bad about feeling terrible, and casting away that feeling be a good topic to explore? Doesn't seem like something that you'd just leave out, to be honest. Taking the good with the bad is how writing three-dimensional characters is all about, after all. If you just write off their bad juju as being non-existent, then you can't necessarily connect with them when they do something that would otherwise be out of character, can you?
... No. You said it yourself, didn't you? The Apple said you were gonna *defeat* him, not destroy him. With some other peeps, even.
Self-fulfilling prophecies interest me in a way. On the one hand, you could argue that Zeus only killed Kronos because of what Kronos did to his brothers and the world at large. On the other, you could argue that he would've killed Kronos anyway because gods are kinda petty like that, or maybe it's meant as a mercy killing if Kronos were to be afflicted with something. Or maybe he accidentally killed him in a game of catch by overthrowing his shot, I dunno (accidental deaths happen all the time, just look at Europa). Point is, it's kinda hard to judge whether or not something is fulfilled regardless of what happens, or if it's only fulfilled in that case when it's heard by the person enacting it. You could just make it so that the people telling the prophecy are a bunch of jerks, or just have the main character break physics to subvert things, but it's interesting how this game gives you the option of influencing your own destiny by your choices and nothing more. It makes things slightly more realistic and fulfilling, even if it's a game where you play as a bunch of random mooks and can potentially cow your way through defeating Giygas himself.
Hopefully she won't be so significant that her presence blares out the presence of other characters who need their time to shine.
Well it's not too crazy; you don't think Yin and Yang are the same, do you?
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They might be based from the same model, but they're distinctive enough in their appearance and the roles they play to distinguish the two from each other.
Not really, n-
Giant Step
Lilliput Steps
Milky Well
Rainy Circle
Magnet Hill
Pink Cloud
Lumine Hall
Fire Spring
:pinkiega-
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Thanks for that. :D
Nope, I see some people do but can anyone just put the reason in a spoiler tag?
Well-played, Tatsu...
how interesting.
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Yes, Niiue's all that too, but he didn't want to depress Moondancer even further by mentioning that.
8096053 Ah, whoops, guess I went on a tangent. Kind of reminds me of the time I read this Gamer Highschool DXD fic, and I commented on how I thought it was weird how the teachers were bashed even though the source material is primarily student-centric. Then I went on to say that It made sense that a different Gamer story he made (with Naruto) had a character, Mizuki, that was slightly bashed, but that representation made more sense in the context of the story. Come to think of it, I probably should've mentioned how off-putting that Rias would describe her present flares in temperament as a result of her being on her period, resulting in "bitch-fits", as she put it. Would Rias ever say "bitch-fits"? Even in the dub, I don't think she's said anything more vehement than "damn" or "hell". What do you think?
{Tatsurou:...}
Whoops, went on another tangent again.
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Yeah, that doesn't sound like something Rias would say.
Specifically, it doesn't sound like Rias to excuse anything about her behavior. If it's towards those outside her 'clan' (those she's King of), she stands on being Rias Gremory and has nothing to excuse. If they are part of her clan, she switches from stern disciplinarian to motherly loving at the drop of a hat, depending on what's needed.
8096117 Wait, I got it wrong, it wasn't that she had "bitch-fits", it's that being on her period, "which always makes [her] bitch-switch go up to eleven."
If I remember correctly, it was in regards to a force that's threatening to murder her and the rest of her peerage, and her period is simply augmenting that stern disciplinarian persona of hers. But yeah, it's still pretty out of whack.
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...demons have periods? Cause Rias is a full demon, after all...
8096198 Well, this is also the world where Lucifer isn't a fallen angel, Satan is a title, and hot chicks die at the drop of a hat. Something tells me that devils having periods is the least of our concerns.
8063937 Uhh... no. That's Ninten, Ana, Loid/Lloyd/Roid, and Teddy, the main protagonists of Mother 1 / Earthßound Beginnings (This is confirmed with the items dropped: The Red Cap, Goddess Ribbon, Heavy Bazooka, and Sharp Pointy Thing, not to mention the similar movesets to the characters they represent). After all, they are responsible for Giegue's mental breakdown that turned him into Giygas... even if at least one of them couldn't possibly be there.
Well.....Now we are in trouble cause it seems Giygas has been born. STILL WANT PORKY TO PAY THOUGH!
I don't get the pattern and I forgot to say something for the last chapter.
ahem
The corridor is lit, fam. I'm still kinda split on this joke.
So this is not an adaptation of the snes game?
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They're very subtle puns on the Areas of Power in Earthbound.
Little Step becomes the Lilliputian Steps, Eruption is the Volcano, etc