But her friend did her best to cheer her up and keep her interested in life. A neural network using every arthropod brain on the planet in parallel? Her eyes widened. Are you going to go after Sophia? he added after some thought, tensing a little just to be on the safe side. Miss Militia had learned over time, how to expect the unexpected. While the overall body shape, except for the extra arms, was more or less humanoid in pattern, the head wasn't. Wasp stings hurt, sure, I remember that from before I got my powers, but unless there were a lot of them or the muggers were allergic I can't see how that would help much. These were special wasps, Amy giggled. Suddenly it stopped and he slowly relaxed. I forgot to charge my phone last night because I was so tired when I got back and the battery ran down this afternoon. Zero. He watched, then did the same next to her. I may troll her a little now and then just to keep her honest but her crimes towards me are a long way in the past from my point of view. She sighed. But she knows one hell of a lot about DNA and insect manipulation, I can tell you that much for sure. If you could do that why would you restrict it to human levels? Good point, Dragon replied, adding a Brute 2+ rating to the tally. I have to admit I dont like to believe she could deliberately burn someone alive, but I also have to admit I can see her locking someone she didnt like into a confined space. Not human. I think Taylor's doing a pretty good job of retiring so far. Kind of. And worried him more than a little, despite his conclusions from a while back. Amy paused, then nodded. Small consolation to her father, but Trailing off he sighed minutely. Anyway, I was tired again, so I decided to go and get a cup of coffee from that shop a block over that does the nice donuts as well, then call you from their payphone. But Id like to talk to you sometime, if thats OK. Curious, Amy nodded. Dismissed. Director. He nodded one last time to her then left the office, closing the door quietly behind himself. His head came up. Posted since I came across it while sorting out files and thought some people might find it interesting for one reason or another. Basically everywhere. What sort of activity? Colin watched as she looked momentarily uncertain, not a common occurrence. I've enjoyed it so far, hope there will be more. There are other possibilities but they become successively less likely. Hive held out one of her own right hands, the delicate-looking clawed digits wrapping around Amys own fingers. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. Let her rest in peace. The healer gasped in amazement. Together with a former serial killer doctor and a heroic organization whose morality is held together by duct tape they will need to find a way to save the world. A Rogue or Independent, then. No. Assault stared at her. I have. I don't know, like she's been around for a long time. There was a quiet rhythm to them, a delicate balancing act between boredom and terror, between long silences where your mind could wander and moments where you were so focused you could spot a dropped pin. Well, until the S9 made a pit stop in Brockton Bay anyway, in the latest chapter. No matter how much Crystal likes her hunky friend, there's no way she should be telling him this. Subjectively it took years to come up with the right design. Around ninety billion. In a way. Assault sat there for a while during which she went back to watching the wasps dance in the air. Injected with chemical agent. Her tormentors stole her homework and used it themselves, destroyed what they couldn't use, stole her property over and over again, including mementos of her mother, did everything they could to make her life hell. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. Only those dumpsters left, the machete-wielding assailant announced. Energy generation ex nihilo sounds a lot like the [SOLUTION] though. She shook her head. Thank god, it was dark. But the end result was totally unlike anything shed ever encountered. The muggers that Hive dealt with, she explained carefully. Fuck, its a trap, she yelled. Silent is the fastest updating Worm Fanfic currently known. Something out there is learning everything it can, about everything. no knowledge of either setting is required. She had been having a strange dream, one where she crying out for help to anyone who would listen, begging the cosmos to deliver her from the torment of her life. Woman? If we have to look for you were going to be annoyed and we might be a little rough as a result. Not even using the poisonous ones, cockroaches would be enough to strip someone to the bone in a few minutes if you used enough of them. Assault shuddered again, harder, feeling ill. OK, I get the point. Good. The family wasn't the same after that, obviously. Id expect a Brute rating of some sort, Assault added. Until it just stopped. He stared, then paled yet again. With wasps. Vicky looked at her sister, both eyebrows rising. Father was such a miserable person. They were about to attack Panacea so you might like to give them a hard time. After a moment she chuckled a little but said nothing else. I know she claimed not to be one, but the ability to understand Tinker-tech to any level rates at least a 3 to 4 rating. Dutifully Dragon added the classification. Combat uses are less obvious but I guess being stung a lot would slow most people down if nothing else. True, she replied. Youre certain of parahuman involvement in the fire? Yes, that much I am sure of. Every insect inside a two thousand foot radius attacking anyone involved, or she thought was involved? the woman asked wryly, making him shudder as he contemplated her words. There are more insects in a square mile of countryside than there are humans alive on the entire planet. Yep. No knowledge of League Of Legends Needed! Knock out that underpinning and the entire ecology has a drastic change, which wed see very quickly. The sounds of footsteps came closer and closer. I think Id like that. Ive got your number. Muse is horrible so here is a dumping ground for whatever snippets it throws at me when i'm trying to write my ongoing fics. I eventually realized what had happened to me, and I think I more or less went insane for a while. I have no idea how yet, but thats the theory I have currently. She paused, then added, After I found out about the malaria and confirmed it, I did some more checking. Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings. She looked around. To visit familiar areas while I worked out what I'd do next. A local, then? he asked quietly. As the locker got hotter and hotter, she tried writing the name of the person who shoved her in that fucking thing in her own blood, but couldn't finish it. Shes He mumbled, remembering the report. Yep. A series of thuds told her that her teammates had met the same fate. We have backup standing by if needed. Thanks, Dispatch. Im running an emotional overlay right now for human interaction otherwise Id probably sound like a psychopath or a robot, but Im neither. Alec laughed slightly while Brian went quiet, sighing a little after a second or two. Add to that arachnids, mites, copepods, crabs She glanced at him as he paled. Please. She reached up and peeled her mask off, sighing in relief that they were back and apparently in the clear. One side effect of my personal singularity is that my mind runs a lot faster than a normal human one does. Neither one of them would want me to do it. His voice trembled with emotion but rang with surety. Vicky's eyes widened in shock. Hilarity ensues. Brockton Bay is a great retirement spot, right? Youd probably know her under a different name, though, Sophia. Her father withdrew into himself a lot, as did she, in different ways. Same again. She headed for the stairs, her sister following her. Because of the way they worked, it wasn't directly possible, but her powers found a way even so. The Taken Queen Taylor gets the power of The Taken King from Destiny. True. Armsmaster thought about the idea for a little while. Resuming running, she hurtled down the alleyway as fast as she could go, gasping when she stumbled and skinned her knee through her jeans. Anyway, I need something to eat. Amy met the blonde's eyes with her own in the mirror and held up a hand, showing the unpleasantly adherent goo. Really, really badly. Two months she said reflectively. At first, I might have wanted to try to end myself, but now? A gesture of resignation followed. She tried a couple of doors that led into the buildings she was at the back of, but they were locked. What have I said about sneaking up on people? That they don't like it? Vicky's voice was full of amusement now. Practically instant loss of voluntary muscle control. Probably around ten chapters, varying lengths. She loved reading, like her mother did, while her friend was more into slightly more girly things, but they had a lot of fun together. "oops I was practicing and accidentally managed to only destroy a little box and not everyone on the island with my laser beam. Hive must have truly incredible visual acuity and sensitivity. Holding another hand above it, Hive made the appendage glow a soft green color like a firefly, which Amy realized was almost certainly from the same chemical reaction. While we've done our best to make the core functionality of this site accessible without javascript, it will work better with it enabled. You see, once upon a time there was a girl, she grew up over that way somewhere, she began, waving one arm vaguely towards the Docks area in general. Taylor Hebert is dead, Assault. Every single arthropod could be controlled simultaneously and independently, which also required a multitasking ability way past anything else I've ever heard of. misread your question. Taylor was gone for five years, lost in a fantasy world where she had to fight the gods themselves to survive. Armsmaster nodded once more, more slowly. It looks like the word she, with part of another letter at the end. It was written in blood based on the chemical analysis, Armsmaster replied. They made a trap, filling a locker with biological waste, then managed to push the young woman into it and lock her in. The sky was completely clear, after a cold mid-March night, with not a cloud to be seen. The beginnings of a story I started around mid-2015 in the Worm setting, but semi-abandoned when I started Taylor Varga. She shouldnt really be in the position shes in because of that. The woman sounded sure of her conclusions. After a moment the figure waved at her. Primarily a Thinker, definitely. A subreddit to discuss fanfics for Wildbow's works! Its not a hundred percent accurate at the best of times, and unfortunately Shadow Stalker is one of the people who it doesnt yet work quite as effectively on as Id like. In them, in the nineteen thousand, eight hundred and twenty seven cockroaches within one hundred feet of here, in the housefly sitting on Armsmaster's second monitor from the left in his lab, in the spiders in the attic of the Sydney Opera house, in the crabs at the bottom of the English Channel All of them. Assault shook his head a little then leaned forward. About | Wiki Rules | Reply !Delete to remove | [Brackets] hide titles. Off. A storehouse of weapons beyond imagination, controlled by an enigmatic old man of unclear origins and an abused teenager. Cool beans. I turned off most of my emotions a long time ago, they just caused problems. Based on some charred residue there were also some very unpleasant waste products in there with her. Arthropods tend to creep humans out for some weird reason, especially ones six feet tall and intelligent. She cocked her head again, amusement radiating from her. At least as much more in the private stuff that shouldnt be able to be accessed, yet as far as I can tell somehow was. Who, how, and why, I suppose are the main questions, he finally stated. Unfortunately. An obscenely high level one. Really efficiently, no fight or anything. What did she do? Vicky now looked fascinated. Reaching the roof of his target a few seconds later he hopped over the edge and landed behind the figure, which didn't move. Also, though I like this story a lot, it is sadly dead. He looked up at her. In a locker on Earth Bet, the future always changes irreparably, for better or for worse. I share some memories with her from a long time ago, but I'm not really her. If I had to guess, maybe 10k or 20k words. She closed her eyes. It looked much closer to the head of some sort of wasp if anything, with compound eyes and a pair of obviously insectoid antennae sticking up from between them at the top. If it wasn't for the fact that she's useful she'd be locked up right now. No, it's not. No. She saw energy storage glands, full of sugars and enzymes, linked to biochemical pathways that would give a massive power boost when activated. Restricted to insect or arthropod based forms from what she said, but with additions that could come from anywhere. You have stolen the fire of Mount Olympus and cast down the gods. Armsmaster nodded slightly. It would be a considerably darker story that Taylor Varga although not to the level of unrelenting grimness that canon Worm is. as well as There wasn't anything else to do, those guys were only about twenty seconds behind me and coming in the only way out. But her favorite character in any tale was the prince: charming, handsome, and brave. That would happen. It was obvious this was her doing. From what she said her powers connected all the neurons directly somehow, bypassing the normal synaptic connectivity and electrochemical processes. She shook her head in apparent awe. Groaning in terror she looked around again, seeing nothing else that could help her. After a moment, he added slowly, When did it start? A week before the insects stopped spreading disease, Dragon replied quietly. She had ideals, you see, she wanted to be a Hero. Relaxing a little he put the phone down again. As he did it landed on the desk, facing him. A faint, deep, humming sound slowly percolated through her mind. After a moment the danger seemed to pass. Are you a Hero? No, she replied, sounding mildly amused. Theyve all stopped dead, all at once. Both of them were silent for some time, just staring at each other. It worked, more or less, and she slowly began to get over the death of her mother. The insect-woman sighed faintly, pausing her story for a few seconds. He had people to fill in. Were going to have to tell the Director, of course. Yes, I think so. She hesitated. Theyre not going to do anything now. Cautious and very suspicious, Amy didnt move. For a moment, leathery wings materialised behind her and with a single beat she launcher herself across the dark waters. She was in a much better mood than she probably should have been, and indeed had been for weeks. 10 is probably a minimum. Sophia stared at him, then looked around at the others. Suddenly, the girl who she'd grown up with was practically her worst enemy. But she hasnt gotten high on her power and is still figuring out her limits. Which didnt make the following interview with Director Piggot and Armsmaster any easier in any way at all. Dragon, weirdly, did. It wouldn't have ended well. None of these conclusions, except for the second one, made her feel in any way better. Aside from the obvious. Then it copied her mind into it. Did anyone else notice the Home Alone reference in Crystals section? The four arms are different, and the wings are even stranger. The pause this time was considerably longer. It had been pretty obvious for the last ten minutes that her status as Panacea, the Healer Super-hero, wasnt going to save her from what was at least a nasty mugging, if not something worse. Both of them liked reading about Capes, and they used to wonder if they'd be heroes when they got older. She fell silent for a moment. Has a bit of power wank, but most of the conflict so far is people not having figured out Taylors stronger than they are. Lack of emotional cues, certain trace pheromones, things like that. She looked at him with her head on one side. Taylor wakes to find a world abandoned. Deciding it was probably because everyone knew where New Wave lived she dismissed the thought and enjoyed the flight, which was weirdly different from what her sister did. There was nowhere to hide, and nothing that provided any escape. She shook her head with good humor. There was something about the voice that made him suspect the person beside him had gone through things that were beyond his understanding in many ways. How much more? he asked slowly. Rile is a pretty sensible guy; he knows not to mess with the powerhouse and just try to get through the day as he can. It would have been fairly quick, I believe, he added after a moment. Victoria didn't seem to notice. This will probably be a relatively short fic, I don't have any schedule in mind because I am writing this to amuse myself first and foremost. Not really. Assault out. By now he was close enough to see that the shiny reflective surface looked like someone in a somewhat weird looking suit of power armor, not anything he recognized. In a murder? Shes come very close, although admittedly almost by accident as far as I know, more than once before, Piggot said tiredly. I could see it could have some uses for reconnaissance, that sort of thing, he ventured. The amount of sensory information was overwhelming for the first couple of minutes. I'd recommend skipping over the chapter from the 'Emperor's' perspective, it delves too much into the AU 40k which isn't great and he's grating. It was a sensible suggestion. Not least because no one listens anyway. My normal mental speed is so much faster that it can get pretty boring waiting for something to happen. Really excited for this one. 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