Adventure: Everywhere
At the bottom of a long, winding stone tunnel, the main Ocean Force Point Temple opened up in a massive chamber. The walls soared high above low pools of water, and glowing rune-inscribed floor panels heralded some sort of trap. The ceiling seemed to vanish into a cloud-like mist in the distance above, and Sharpclaws could be seen patrolling in the distance. The very air itself felt wet and heavy, as though the group had stepped into the bottom of the sea and yet could still breathe.
Sunset frowned as she tried to gather her magic, only to barely be able to bring any of it forth. "...that's not good..." she murmured worriedly. "I...I can't even make my sunstones glow. How am I supposed to do anything down here?"
"Here," Fox said, handing her Krystal's staff. "I think it's time for me to burn some magic." He calmly walked forward onto the obviously trapped floor panels.
Electricity arced across the floor, blazing into Fox...and he stood there and let it flow into him as first his eyes and then his body began to glow with a sparking white light. As the power flowed into him, he raised his hand and launched a blast of lightning forward, arcing through the air to strike down the Sharpclaws from a distance, frying them to ash as the amplified magic lashed through the Temple and cleansing it of those who had invaded and did not belong. Fox calmly walked forward until he reached the edge of the panels and the magic stopped flowing.
Turning back, he frowned. "Okay, now how to get you both across-" He blinked as he saw Sunset and Tricky right beside him. "What?"
"Not all the panels sparked when you triggered it," Sunset explained with a grin. "We just walked on the ones that didn't."
Fox chuckled indulgently as he ruffled Sunset's mane. "Smart kid." Glancing around, he saw that most of the rest of the path led through deep pools of water. "Looks like you're up."
Grinning, Sunset rushed forward. Without any hostiles to block the path, she was able to make her way easily through to throw some switches, activating a flame puzzle higher up. She used the Staff's fireball spell to solve it, activating a warp panel. "Up here, Dad!" she called out, running to the edge of the platform and waving him over.
Fox quickly used his Lightning Dash to get himself and Tricky up there before the group stepped onto the warp pad.
At the other side of the warp gate, the Temple was a series of interconnected square rooms that seemed to extend up and down much further than dimensions should have allowed for, with platforms suspended over deep pools of water. Once again, the group made their way forward carefully with Sunset seeking out any puzzles or manipulators that needed swimming to get to while Fox zipped after her once she determined the safe path. As they moved, though, Tricky found himself wondering something. "How come Fox's magic is so strong here?" he asked curiously. "I mean, I get it's lightning, but he only just unlocked it. Should it really be this strong or this readily available."
"Well, Shabunga said that Lightning is a mix of Fire and Air," Fox pointed out. "This Temple is Air and Water energies, while the other one is Fire and Earth energies. So the Temple is feeding one side of my magic while suppressing the other, which...basically lets me regenerate magic a lot quicker, I think. That's why I only get a supercharge while in my element."
"Then our second trip here's going to be rough," Sunset deduced worriedly. "We've got the Air Spellstone, which will block off the Air energies flowing into this Temple. Next trip here, there will only be Water energies...and that'll suppress both of us."
"And I won't get charged up in the Volcano Temple next trip, since the Flame energies are already being cut off," Fox confirmed worriedly. "We'll just have to be careful."
Eventually, after a great deal of running around, the group reached a deeper warp plate, taking it into a new chamber.
As the warp faded, Sunset gasped as she stared at where they arrived in awe. "The Heart Chamber!" she exclaimed as she looked around excitedly. "I've read about this place, but I never thought I'd get to see it!"
Fox chuckled as he looked over the chamber with her. It was a massive circular room that rose and fell into seeming infinity, with an X shaped platform at the level they arrived, extending to the edges of the room. All around the outer walls were what looked like stained glass windows that seemed to thrum with inner power. In the center of the platform stood what looked like a massive, upside-down cauldron. Energy flowed endlessly from below, drawn into the central structure. The Flame Spellstone was active and placed in one of four indents on the structure, lined up to each of the four paths to the edge of the room, one where they had arrived. Three colors of energy flowed freely from the top of it; a pale blue, a dark blue, and a pale yellow.
"The Choke!" Sunset squealed as she rushed up to it. "This is what the Krazoa built to contain the endless flow of magic inside the planet...but also to release it if there was ever a need. The Spellstones aren't supposed to be removed to do that, as that results in uncontrolled flow, but..." Her eyes widened as she looked over the runes inscribed into the structure. "Ohmigosh! Is this...no, I have to be reading this wrong! There's no way...or is there? It would explain so much..." She immediately began going over the runes on the structure in much finer detail. "...by six souls..." she murmured in awe as she reached the end. "No way..."
"Something wrong?" Fox asked her curiously as he and Tricky made their way around to where the Air Spellstone belonged.
"If I'm reading this right...this Choke and the Spellstones weren't built to maintain the planet's structure," Sunset explained. "Or...not in that order. If I'm reading it right...this planet was built around the Choke to contain the energy it regulates...to hide it."
"To hide it?" Tricky asked in surprise. "But why would the Krazoa have wanted to hide a source of limitless magic?" Turning, he exhaled his Flame Breath into the placed Air Spellstone, waking it to absorb the energy from the planet. The pale blue stream above the Choke vanished.
"Well, there's a word here...and I'm almost certain I'm reading it wrong..." Sunset murmured worriedly as the Warp opened to take them out of the Temple.
"Oh?" Fox asked as the Warp enclosed them. "Why? What do you think it says?"
"...weapon..."
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Well... dat happened...
ohboy
Oh, crud. I wonder what kind of weapon is hidden in the planet...
Kid I wish I could Planeswalk just so I could bitchslap you for even asking that question. It literally answers itself....
Sigh...Krazoa is officially the native dialect for Chozo It's all but confirmed at this point.
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...Hmm...well, they are both Nintendo properties, and I have done a Metroid story of this sort...and the Chozo were pretty far flung...
...let me think about that.
By this logic, the Krazoa are the past forms of a certain bird race who will raise a certain bounty hunter.
no, i have to be reading this wrong
1. Forgot to capitalise.
Guess Fox and the others got to the heart of the matter.
Edit: accidental double post
Weapon, eh? The deeper reason behind what is going on in this arc is starting to become clear.
Some people see a way of building a Utopia with no energy crisis
Others see a new power source to build something that makes nukes look like firecrackers.
The latter is why we can't have nice things.
Well, now we know what the villain of the game is after: he saw Force Awakens and wants his own Starkiller base... it would actually be cool to see the Star Fox Team pull a Death Star Trench run attack into a planet.
8784088
I love it when Tatsuro gets ideas from readers comments or finds new ways to link his stories together.
To avoid sploiers i'll just say id the relates to the finale in some way i'll be ecited for it when we approach it.
8784183
Only problem is that THIS planet is still host to a variety of indigenous races...
thats no moon...its a space station...
Now that it's been pointed out I'm really interested to see how they'll handle the Earth and Water aspect with such heavy suppression of magic.
Teamwork won't be an issue but lack of overwhelming firepower is something they haven't had to face yet.
By six souls? Is that the elements i see? or at least a lower energy equivalent?
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The Legend of Zelda series (specifically Majora’s Mask) has featured an unnamed alien race abducting livestock.
Plus the Rito (who are also featured in the series) greatly resemble “Uncle Birdy” in Breath of the Wild.
To be more specific Revali (the Rito champion) is a dead ringer for Falco. Change the clothes (and legs) and they would be almost indistinguishable.
Considering how much magic already exists in the Lylat System, it might not be too much of a stretch to have either Corneria or Venom turn out to be the planet where the entire Legend of Zelda series played out. Which would leave the possibility for the Tri-Force of Wisdom, Courage, and Power (huh. Fox already dresses in green) to be there somewhere.
As would the Master Sword…
Somethings else to possibly chew on.
Why is Sunset anthro when none of the other characters from the show in your PWNY stories are anthro?
I don't see why everyone is worried just because it says "weapon". it's obviously the Elements of Harmony (or EoH equivalent/predecessor).
8784286
No. Spoilers for whomever didn't play the game: There are 6 Spirits that have to go to the Krazoa temple. I think this is what she is referencing to.
8784195
Then they just don't have to blow up the core, just disable the power relays to keep the weapon from firing and take out the Sharpclaws so they can't rebuild the weapon.
8784207
Raincoats could salve the water problem.
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Six souls is a Dinosaur oath (remember, Sunset is speaking the Dinosaur language) referring to the six Krazoa Spirits that remain in the world.
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Because she went through the mirror portal to get here, and the mirror portal adapts whoever's going through into a form that matches the world on the opposite side. That's been discussed already in the comments on the first chapter.
An amusing though came to my mind recently.
Imagine if you will an Older still humanoid Sunset returning to Equis/Equestria in her very own X-Wing followed by her family. I can just SEE the Chaos!
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...Who in turn, raised a Certain purple Dragon.
So.... We have a nuclear missile of magic, with artifacts being interlocks.
While I can understand why Fox has such an abundance of magic, I don't understand how he has such control over it. Even an aquamancer would get hurt by enough water. Fox should be little more than a charred spot on the floor at this point, especially when he should logically not have that level of control over electricity. Some things can happen by pure instinct, like him making ash out of the two who thought about raping his daughter, but doing something like this:
should not happen.
8785259
An Elemental affinity means you can't be hurt by your Element. You instead absorb it.
It's like using Lightning against a Lightning Elemental. Except instead of healing, it restores mana.
8785556
Be that as it may, he still shouldn't have that level of control. Seriously, the dude wipes out the entire palace of Sharpclaws with one blast. And while an Elemental affinity can protect you from getting hurt by said element, he should still be quite overloaded, like how Samus was on the planet Phazon. Too much of a good thing is bad after all. That's why Sunset couldn't join him in the fire temple, right?
8785586
What wiped out the Sharpclaws (and there weren't that many of them to begin with) was a unidirectional uncontrolled discharge that anchored in anything conductive in that direction. It just so happened that the metal armor and weapons of the Sharpclaws were the only conductive targets.
Sunset couldn't join him in the Volcano Force Point Temple because she's Fire, which meant she was getting pure amplification from the planet's energy source until the Flame Spellstone was put in place. The electricity in the trapped panels was nowhere near that level of magical energy (in game, it's only enough to do one damage and knock you back). Fox just let it build up until his limit to hold it before discharging it forward.
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He still only just gained the lightning affinity, his max mana per say wouldn't be very high. While he did raise Sunset, he hasn't used mana in any capacity before so it logically wouldn't be that high. Even beside that fact, he effectively casted chain lightning without it coming back to bite him in the ass. That is a surprising amount of control, even with something conductive to arc it to.
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That's not quite how magic works in this system.
Whether or not they can cast magic, everyone has a mana capacity. And Fox's mana has been building for the past 11 years from living in a starship that has slowly been completely filled and shaped by Sunset's magical energy...and a lot of the past 8 years has been spent in Solaar orbit where that energy is drastically amplified.
In terms of game logic, his MP max capacity is already around 300-400, and chain lightning only costs at most 50. He's just learning what all he can do with it by letting the magic guide him...inside a structure designed to control, guide, and amplify the natural flow of magical energy.
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While of course, he has been around an effective Elemental for the past decade, that's like being a warrior raised by mages. Of course he would have grown magically, but without an effective conduit or way to train his magic, he wouldn't have grown much. And which game are you talking about? I've seen games that have Chain Lightning cost anywhere from 50-1300. And while letting the element do its own thing can be an effective teacher, it's also a fantastic way to get yourself blown up, especially with something as volatile as lightning.
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Letting the Element do its own thing doesn't have the 'blown up' danger when you absorb your own element.
Also, did you miss the bit that part of the Temples' design is to amplify, guide, and control elemental magic? In essence, if the Temple is focused on part of your Element, it's the perfect place to train as a novice, And Lightning is equal parts Air and Fire, and the Ocean Temple is Air and Water. So the Temple is amplifying the Air aspect and suppressing the Fire aspect of the Lightning, making it both more powerful and easier to control.
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I'm still not comfortable with that explanation, considering both Tricky and Sunset have metal on them, and (maybe aside from Tricky) don't belong in there, but alright. There are still a great many things I would argue with you, but I think it's better to let the matter drop.
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Neither Sunset nor Tricky have conductive metal on them. Also, they were behind him and he launched the lightning forward.
Also, Tricky is of Gatekeeper blood, and thus linked to the planet's energies, and thus the Temple's. And with Sunset's magic being suppressed by the Water aspect of the temple, there's nothing magically for the spell to lock onto.
Here we go...
Motherbuckers terraformed the Death Star?!
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Activate the orbital friendship cannon! We must call in the reinforcements from Equus!! No weapon to go untouched!!
Sorry for the dramatic post
8787541
Fool. It IS the orbital friendship canon.
8787541
I was actually thinking 'Why didn't you use a Star Wars reference.'
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Well it very well may be a trap and it definitely isn't a moon.
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That's a new one.
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The more worrying question being what state the crystals have to be in to enable it...
Is the weapon active when they are present, or when they are removed?
I assume removed, but the General and that Krazoa seem to have plans...
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Not really have you seen the Star Wars Episode where they introduce Kylo Ren?
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*starts thinking about explanations*
...
*thinks about the potential outcome*
...nope not going into that shit-storm.
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Yes. I believe I even linked the video of it firing SOMEWHERE on here.
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Probably...