Sunset quickly ran up to Fox's side. "Dad, that was so cool-yipe!" As she reached out to grab his arm, lightning sparked over it, causing her to jerk back as she got a small shock. It was no worse than a bad charge of static electricity that Fox, Krystal, and Peppy had to deal with frequently in the carpeted segments of the Great Fox, but it caught her off guard and the lightning was still arcing over his fur. "D-Dad?" she asked worriedly.
"I...w-where did that come from?" Fox asked worriedly as he stared at his arm, bringing his other hand up in a futile attempt to brush the lightning off his arm, first with hand and then with staff. Neither worked well.
"It came from inside you, dolt!" Shabunga declared as he floated out from behind a nearby tree. "Did you really think raising a child with enough magic to reshape the fabric of reality wouldn't have long term effects on you? Especially when you then design all your tech to work with her magic? Your own magical quotient has been building up in response, and it's been activated by carrying a Krazoa Spirit inside you. Your natural inclination towards battle between the stars is a sky affinity for the air element...and that's combined with Sunset's fire affinity to give you natural lightning magic." He shook his head ruefully. "Very dangerous magic to have. Unless you learn to control it, it's as likely to kill you as someone else. Don't go swimming until you stop sparking, and I'd suggest not handling any artifact that generates magical fire anytime soon."
"Air and fire, huh?" Fox asked curiously, a thought beginning to shape in his mind. "And I need to purge the excess?" Reaching into his pack, he placed his hand against the bright blue Spellstone they'd retrieved from Cloudrunner Fortress.
Before his very eyes, the Stone glowed faintly before the lightning was sucked off his arm and into the Stone.
"Not bad, not bad," Shabunga allowed, reaching into Fox's pack and pulling out what was left of his blaster.
"Hey!" Fox snapped.
"Do you want to be able to use lightning without frying Prince Tricky?" Shabunga demanded harshly, causing Tricky - who had come close to investigate - to pull back quickly. "Then let me work!" Shabunga did a quick bit of tinkering before handing the blaster back, along with an oddly configured glove. "There. The blaster now runs on your lightning magic, so as long as you hold it in the hand wearing that glove, you'll be able to shoot different sorts of magical blasts based on how you learn to shape your lightning. 200 Scarabs deducted from Sunset's account for the work. Now get going before the Spellstone eats you! At least the remaining two are Earth and Water, which won't react to you." With that, Shabunga vanished.
Sunset and Tricky stared after him. "I will never understand him..." Tricky murmured ruefully.
"...does he look anything like Tink to you, Dad?" Sunset asked thoughtfully. "Other than floating, Shabunga does kinda look like a Sharpclaw..."
Fox held up his repaired blaster, weighing it in the glove. Holding it forward, he visualized the lightning he felt inside him leaping forward from the barrel...and pulled the trigger.
A blast of white heat erupted from the blaster, scorching a trail against the stone wall opposite the trio as the arc of lightning linked wall and gun briefly before fading as Fox released the trigger. With a grin, he holstered his weapon. "A distinct possibility," he allowed, "but not something we need to speculate about just now. We can ask Tink up on the Great Fox next time we need the Ar-Wing. For now, let's get to Cape Claw." Feeling a bit more confident now that he had his blaster back - even if it was in an unexpected way - Fox led the way down to the Cape.
While the blaster was an exceptional ranged weapon - especially with the new upgrade - except for emergency Fox decided to stick to using the staff. While lightning was powerful and versatile magic, even when used as just energy, one thing it was not was subtle.
Once at the Cape, the group found a Lightfoot Tribesman being harassed by two Sharpclaws. Sunset immediately leapt down onto the sands below, gathered fire into her hands as she rolled, shoved her hands into the sandy beach, and came up with glass daggers that she shoved upwards into the Sharpclaws under their tails before spinning around to drag them up their bellies, releasing a blast of fire along the blades into the Sharpclaws to knock them flat.
...much to her chagrin, the Lightfoot was on his face in front of her by the time she was finished. "Oh, get up," she groaned out ruefully.
As the Lightfoot got back to his feet - a glowing orange gem in his delicate hands - Fox and Tricky managed to catch up. "You're really enjoying making glass weapons that way, aren't you?" Fox asked Sunset, marveling at just how effective she'd been there.
"If hot glass protects me from the sonic barrage, I should get used to using it," Sunset answered readily.
"Thanks for help!" the Lightfoot professed eagerly as he handed Sunset the gem. "Sharpclaws want this, say I steal it! You take! You deal with them!" With that, he rushed off as a Sharpclaw siege cannon swiveled to lock onto the group.
"Everyone sca-"
Fox's words were cut off as Sunset flicked her wrist, sending one of her newly made glass knives whistling through the air. In the distance, there was a wet thunk, a pained grunt, a shocked scream, and a splash. The siege cannon stopped moving, the Sharpclaw who had been controlling it struggling to swim with a glass blade lodged between vertebrae and collarbone.
"...remind me never to play darts with you," Fox muttered to Sunset.
"Darts?" she asked curiously. "What's that?"
"Ask Falco to teach you some time," Fox suggested with a grin, remembering how much Falco used to brag about being the best dart player on the team. It would be fun watching his beak fall off if that wasn't just a lucky throw.
Congrats, Fox, you've basically got a hand cannon now.
Always fun watching someone's ego get knocked down a peg.
Lol, that scene would be pretty funny.
Anyone else wondering on the lack of... mess, caused by Sunset effectively eviscerating those two sharpclaws...? Hot Glass and fire magic scorching the wounds or no she did just basically open them up from tailbone to sternum and cauterization is only effective with prolonged exposure to the brand...
I Almost feel sorry for those two... Almost... Not a good way to go no matter how you look at it.
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Or five.
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Sunset's probably gonna just throw him off the ladder entirely
Oh great, now I have a mental image for Fox & Krystal's first real big kiss. Hint: FLOOF!
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If she hasn't already.
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Falco's been a way for a while. Sunset's older, more powerful, and more skilled since the last time Falco saw her. When he was still on the Great Fox, she didn't really have the means to bust his ego.
8753225
I'm guessing that since this Sharpclaws has been revealed to be basically war rapists, an increased level of brutality in dealing with them has been approved.
This I approve of.
I blame those recent floof stories that are on the site.
Guess we can count on Fox if they need a lot of static defense. Though now I wonder if he's going to make a new catchphrase of "I put a shock to your system", wear a blue and yellow themed outfit and ride on the top of a garbage can lid.
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It's called Bloodless Carnage, and it's a common censorship trope in media that have lower ratings.
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It's not bullying if the balance of Creation is at steak.
At least now tossing the Sharpclaw seems to be the most humane way to kill someone. I wouldn’t be too surprised if Fox somehow learned Chidori on accident.
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Personally I think Falco has already taught her how to throw things. She just hasn’t put two and two together yet what he was doing.
Do you mean fall instead of fell?
8753324
Wow suprised anyone still remembers that cartoon... ah more nostalgia and crossovers...
8753408
Which cartoon is this?
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Static Shock.
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I understand what the trope is, but Tatsurou has also been known in the past to at least try to keep a relative level of authenticity as far as the carnage in these stories are concerned, nor has Tats shied away from at the Least downplayed descriptions of gore that leave you knowing the extent of the damage without needing to go into explicit detail. Many of the the PWNY's tend use weapons or attacks of the sort that leave very little more than a scorched crater behind, so it doesn't become an issue very often, but when they don't we are made aware of it...
In terms of Gore, I'd rate the PWNYs as:
1: Pinkie Pie (Spartan Avatar of War. Enough Said)
2: Fluttershy (Raised By the Red Mercs with a Flawless Kill-Streak. Messily and repeatedly killed her friends in various messy ways before being convinced/hired to return to Equestria)
3: Applejack (Demon Hunter with a very Hooves On approach)
4: Three More Things (The CMC have yet to kill anyone, but Sonata has quite violently torn apart an entire cult and later incited the demise of a group of thieves that was apparently so unpleasant we weren't even given a description of the aftermath...)
5: Sunset Shimmer (Throwing Sharpclaws out of Atmo to Magically Rapidly Decompress and now Eviscerating two of them)
6: Moondancer (She's killed several creatures in a few unpleasant ways using her PSI powers in the first part of the Cognitive Dissonance Arc...)
7:Chrysalis (Daughter of Deadpool, Enough Said, but since I'm not sure if I should count many of the arcs since they're like Schrodinger's Cat due to the fluid nature of the fourth wall and how they affect the world around them simply by being them I put them lower on the list...)
8: Cadance (She generally avoids conflict, but what she did to Auzla was pretty brutal)
9: Shining Armor (A few of his Melee attacks are pretty brutal, but Eco doesn't really lead massive amounts of Gore unless you're using the unrestrained dark variant, and he was always pulled back before he could cross that edge.)
10: Spike (He may be a voracious eater, but he's very neat about it and his breath weapons don't leave much behind...)
11: Gilda (Much of the actual combat is Scene-Cut over, but it's still implied that there was a Lot of carnage in the push to retake Earth from the Combine, and since Half-Life's gore was only really limited by its engine and the small "Puffs" of blood were considered pretty gory when the game first came out, I'm putting this one up here. Plus, Gilda rips Chell's throat open at one point, even if it's instantly healed by nanites...)
12: Discord (He never actually does anything himself, but what his actions inadvertently lead Rainbow to do to Mehrunes Dagon is up there)
13: Twilight Sparkle (Most of the weapons she designs and uses are the sort that only leave rubble behind, but she does have a couple moments.)
14: Rainbow Dash (She annihilates the entire Skrull invasion force, but it's not like they exploded, just more or less dropped dead from the force of her destruction enhanced Rainboom.)
15: Maud (People have "died", but everyone in the Gulch wears power armor or those who have "died" were completely disintegrated so the "gore" has been contained...)
16: Vinyl/Octavia (Their opponents are all Robots or Reploids)
17: Trixie (there's Violence, but it's all very cartoony due the the nature of the setting and for similar reasons to Chrysalis she gets put down here.)
18: Rarity (As the Daughter of the Batman, she doesn't kill.)
19: Coco (Her Punishments can be dark as F, but she has yet to actually kill anyone.)
20: Luna/Moony (She's literally in a video game... Do I need to say more? I also don't think she ever kills anyone while in the Arcade either...)
At least she seems to be tempering the glass, having it fragment mid cut would cause a hell of a lot more damage and pain than I think Sunset would purposely chose to cause.
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The burst of fire magic through the blades reduced the by-then dying Sharpclaws to ash to make it quick.
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Hmm... I didn't quite pick that up from the scene. Still, in the few short moments before they were incinerated they would still have been in incredible pain due to both the searing heat of her razor-glass blades and the nature and placement of the wounds she was inflicting...
I wonder what kinds of magic Peppy, Slippy, Falco and Rob have.
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The nature of the wounds was such that shock set in before they could scream.
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Still skeptical, since as trained soldiers from a militant socirty they'd probably be better able to handle pain and shock than the average civilian due to their training (soldiers in wars past who were unfortunate enough to be disemboweld by enemy fire have been reported trying to scoop their innards back in despite the obvious pain), and disembowelment as a form of exicution in Ye' Olden Days was known to be particularly brutal since the condemned could survive and remain conscious for hours before passing on.
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You have to remember they weren't the military force until general scales . and even then they are more a civil guard from the revolution they won, so they aren't that well trained, also have you ever burned by accident or even have a firework explode on your hand ? I tell you from experience that when it explodes you have like 2 or 3 seconds of no physical reaction , you know it happened , you know its damaged but there's no movement. No sound coming from your mouth until that time passes and your brain registers that you need help and badly.
That's why I believe they couldn't react well to sunset attack, the timeframe from start to finish was maybe 4 seconds most enough to get them to scream but not to act on it
Now Fox has a desision to make: Hero or
Vila... Anti-Hero raout.Ether way he gona get Infamous.
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I've burned myself by accadent plenty of times, and though I haven't had a firework explode in my face I have had other similar things happen to me. I have no military training to speak of but most of the time for the latter all I register is Oh F and a metric ton of adrenaline as I back the hell up from whatever happened. As for the former, at this point it's happened often enough where I just hiss in annoyance and go find some cold water to run over the burn (I'm a bit of a pyro).
If Shock is a reaction at all it usually only starts to set in for me once the adrenaline wears off... Maybe I'm just weird or something, I don't know...
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Static Shock ,yeessss
Is Sunset going to end up dressing as Cinder Fall from RWBY???? Because say what you want about Cinder, her first dress was elegant and classy, something that would work great for Sunset if you replace the Dust in the Dress with magic tech.
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Oooooo...... change the color scheme a little bit to match her better, and that would look great! Nice idea. I wonder if there's already art of that....
8753324
Oh man, I loved that show growing up! There definitely needs to be more Static Shock in the future.
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And damn was it a good one.
(after reading the darts moment) ............................ (holds out a jar with 'bets' written on it) ok place them now on how bad falco will get it at the up coming darts game with sunset.
8754208
Hm-hm
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She is the Robin Hood of darts now. Enough said
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that is so true.
Just realized that Shabunga is Uncle.
Mind Blown!!!!
Like mother like daughter