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askdani · 3 years

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Tales of Dani - Chapter 1 - Newtralized (Part 1)

In the rooftops of New York City, Kraang droids dodge out of the way as Raphael and Casey Jones follow close behind them. “Kraang must evade those that pursue Kraang!” one of them shouted while they fired lasers as the red masked turtle jumps into the fire escape the droids are on. “Move it, Casey!” Raphael says while pinning down the droid with a briefcase.

“You think I’m on a midnight stroll?” Casey responds, jumping to the fire escape. However, he ends up grabbing the side of it, making the bolts pull out of the wall. The two teenagers and the droid fall into the alley below. The droid snatches the briefcase and runs off. “They’re getting away with the plutonium!” Raphael calls out, “We can’t lose them!” he gets up to chase it, only to trip over Casey. “Are you pulling my sai?” he asks, getting back up, “Let’s go!” “I think I lost another tooth,” Casey mutters while following the turtle.

They run into another alley and notice that the Kraang droids are suddenly destroyed. Raphael asks “Who could’ve done this?” “And it keeps getting worse,” Casey adds, lifting his mask up. “They took the plutonium. What do you think they need it for?” Raphael wasn’t sure. “No idea. But whoever it was, they packed some serious firepower. Let’s just hope they’re on our side.”

Without their knowledge, two figures were watching them from the rooftop above. “The red one,” the small figure says, “is he the one who -” before she could finish asking her question, the large figure coldly said, “Yes,” as he left the scene, the small figure following close behind him.

Much later, Raphael and Casey Jones return to the lair and tell the rest of the Turtles that other vigilantes took down the Kraang and stole the plutonium. Leonardo decides to split the team up; he will take the sewers. Donatello and Michelangelo will go to the rooftops, and Raphael and Casey will stay on the ground level.

While he inspects the sewers, Leonardo sees several Kraang droids that have already been destroyed. ‘One of those vigilantes must’ve been here,” he thought. Before he could take a look at how the droids were defeated, he hears lasers firing. Leonardo walks to the source of the noise and is surprised to see what is going on. Kraang droids are firing at a cloaked figure with a tanto blade in her hand. “Kraang must destroy those that attack Kraang!” “Not if I destroy you first!” the figure shouts as she slices one droid down with a grin on her face.

As Leonardo watches her in the shadows, his first thought was Karai, a kunoichi who was raised by his enemy, the Shredder. Just recently, Master Splinter told him and his brothers that she is his lost daughter, Miwa. Are the Foot going after the Kraang again? When the cloaked figure finishes fighting the Kraang droids, she lifts up her hood and Leonardo gets a better look at her. Her brown hair is so short and her eyes are blue like the sea. She wears a black jack with green lines in her sleeves, blue jeans, and black boots.

The girl didn’t notice that a Kraang droid was pointing his gun at her. Before he was able to shoot her, Leonardo jumped and attacked the droid behind her. She turns around and sees the blue masked turtle. “I want you to know that I appreciate your intentions,” Leonardo said facing her, “but what you’re doing is wrong.” The girl laughs and responds, “Nice to meet you too. The name’s Dani.” “Leonardo,” he says. “Why are you after the Kraang?”

“I’m just doing anything I can to make sure those alien scumbags don’t invade this city again,” Dani replies, “I’ve recently partnered up with two mutants who know a lot about the Kraang. We plan to wipe them out for good.” “Why steal their tech?” Leonardo asks, raising an eyebrow.

Dani responds, holding one vial of plutonium, “Why not? It could be of use to us.” Leonardo pulls out his blade and points it to her, “I’m afraid I can’t let you do that, Dani. Give me the plutonium and let us take care of the Kraang.” Dani shakes her head and says, “I’m disinclined to acquiesce to your request.” Seeing that the turtle is confused, she adds, “Means no,” as pulls out her blade and charges right towards her opponent.

Meanwhile, Raphael and Casey Jones make their way down an alley, looking for Kraang droids and the vigilantes. “Think you can keep up this time, Jones?” the red masked turtle asked his friend. Casey retorts, “What is your problem, Raph? The whole fire escape thing?” Raphael turns around and says, “Face it, Casey. Street thugs and robo-ninjas are one thing. But alien threats from other dimensions are a whole different ball game.” “I took on a giant space worm single-handedly,” Casey reminds him. Raphael continues walking and responds, “Yeah, you were single-handedly eaten by it.”

Casey growls in frustration and shouts, “Have you ever fought living intestines? I don’t think so!” “Bottom line, you’re in over your head on this one, Casey,” Raphael says.

“Trust me, I might not have ninja training, but I’ve achieved a level of awesome attainable only by Casey Jones. It’s mystical,” Casey says with confidence as he flips his mask down. Raphael rolls his eyes and the two continue walking, unaware that the large figure from earlier was standing on top of a water tower watching them.

Dani and Leonardo continue their fight in the sewers. While she isn’t as skilled as Karai, Dani proved to be a tough opponent for Leonardo. She takes him down with a kick, knocking the turtle out cold. Before she can finish him, she hears a ring coming from her mobile device. ‘Really? right now?’ she thought as she grabs her phone. She answers it. “Sister, we found where the Kraang are hiding those devices, You coming?” the caller asked with a raspy voice. She takes one look at the unconscious turtle, sighs, and responds, “Yeah. Just tell me where you are and I’ll be on my way, brother.”

She hangs up her phone and sees that Leonardo is waking up. Through his blurry vision, he sees Dani glaring at him before she runs away. “Next time, turtle.” With a groan, Leo gets back up, and looks at the direction he saw Dani leave. He must warn the others about this new opponent.

(TO BE CONTINUED)

#tales of dani #tmnt oc #teenage mutant ninja turtles oc #tmnt 2012 #tmnt 2k12 #tmnt fanfiction #teenage mutant ninja turtles #tmnt #leonardo #raphael #donatello #michelangelo #casey jones #slash #newtralizer

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thearkhound · 4 years

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Ganbare Goemon Production Material Museum Part 2: The Odd Shogun Magginess

The second part of the Ganbare Goemon production material museum from the now-defunct official site. This entry covers the second Super Famicom game in the series, Ganbare Goemon 2: Kiteretsu Shōgun Magginess (The Odd Shogun Magginess), released on December 22, 1993, an entry which introduced Sasuke as a playable character (he was a boss in the first SFC game), as well as the giant mech Goemon Impact.

Note: The recently-released fan-translation uses the spelling “ McGuinness” for the titular antagonist, but I decided to go with Magginess, since that’s the spelling they used on the filename. I’m not sure if the character’s name actually has an official romanized spelling (feel free to point it out if he does).

Production Tidbits

Yamauchi: Wow! This brings me back! At the time when Shōgun Magginess was being made I was drawing minor enemy characters.

Ebisu: What games did you worked on before being involved with Goemon ?

Yamauchi: I worked on the TwinBee series. Do you know Pop’n TwinBee? There’s a girl named Madoka in that game. She was named after me.

Ebisu: Seriously!? I don’t think anyone who bought that game would’ve even imagined such a character being named after an old guy.

Yamauchi: Who are you calling an “old guy”? Anyway, let’s talk about Goemon.

Ebisu: Well, Shōgun Magginess was my first directorial assignment, so I was pretty passionate about it. We were creating various groundbreaking gameplay systems and such. We did things like this and like that. It was so amazing!

Yamauchi: I don’t know what’s amazing, but I drew various stuff like Goemon Impact.

Ebisu: When we started development we only had three programmers, including myself, as well as three graphic designers, including yourself.

Yamauchi: It was a really small team in retrospect. But by the end of development our team grew to around 20 people.

Ebisu: That’s right. We wanted to put in stuff like that Xexex minigame, but we didn’t have anyone who could do it. So we ended up asking for people from the other teams around us to help us out. It got to the point that even my senior development manager got involved with the programming. It’s not something I would think about now.

Yamauchi: At that time newly-hired designers were required to bring over a floppy disk to the head of the development department and show off a screen of the townspeople. (laughs) Even now I don’t go there often, since I would be facing the boss. (laughs)

Ebisu: Me neither. I don’t do retakes. (laughs)

Yamauchi: Are we posting concept art and documents for the boss characters once again? We don’t seem to have anything else.

Ebisu: Yeah, I wish I had kept better track of my documents.

Concept Art Gallery

Sumo Robo

HP: 40 (60 in 2P Mode)

Description: A medium-sized mecha prepared by Marble Red, who loves sumo.

Techniques:

Vacuum Hand-Slap: A strong hand-slap that has a longer reach than it looks.

Buchikamashi: He rushes towards the opponent after posing in a stance.

Appearance: Area 1-4 - Sumo Castle (sub-boss)

Senshuraku

HP: 300

Description: Marble Red’s beloved giant robot. Despite being a self-proclaimed sumo fan, he doesn’t seem to be particularly skilled, with his main technique being a plainly named Hari-te (hand-slap) attack...

Techniques: Head-butt, Hari-te Bomber, Mage Bomber

Appearance: Area 1-6 - Dosukoi Plains (boss)

Kabuki Returns

HP: 250 (415 in 2P Mode)

Description: After being defeated by Goemon and Ebisumaru in the previous game he was recruited by Marble Blue in hopes of getting his revenge someday. He had most of his body modified into a karakuri mecha and has (apparently) improved.

Techniques:

Marble Bullets: Bombs which he launches with the Tsuzura box he carries on his back.

Poisonous Fog: A poisonous mist that he spits out from his mouth bit by bit.

Homing Wig: A flying wig that flies towards the player’s current position.

Appearance: Area 2-5 - Kabuki Castle (boss)

Tasogare Ichigō

HP: 10 (invulnerable while the hell’s candle burns)

Description: A mecha built by Marble Yellow, who likes to entertain people. He was been built to perform three kinds of shadow puppets functions, but none of them were particularly well-received to be honest, so they were given hostile characteristic as well.

Techniques:

Shadow Puppet Skill - The shadow puppets that he makes take form and attack the player. He has three types of shadow puppets: A dog, a cat and a black kite (that somehow sounds like a crow).

Appearance: Area 3-5 - Washoku Castle (sub-boss)

Sharekobe

HP: 300

Description: A giant lightweight mecha created by Marble 5 based on their prior experience with Senshuraku. The spinning top he stands atop on was idea suggested by Marble Green, who loves toys, and is one of the key features of this mech.

Techniques: Spinning Top Attack, 6x Marble Bullets, Deserter Spirit Ball, Otadutsu Kick

Appearance: Area 3-7 -Susono River (boss)

Omen Ninja

HP: 300 (500 in 2P mode)

Description: A multi-functional mecha that Marble Green came up with. However, he can only perform one function depending on the mask he’s currently wearing.

Techniques:

Unmasked: Jumping, Shuriken

Neko Mask: Axe

Kitsune Mask: Kick

Hyotokko Mask: Ninja Beam

Appearance: Area 4-7 - Kokeshi Castle (boss)

Mikoshi Tengu

HP: 500

Description: It was originally built by Marble Black, leader of the Marble 5, for Magginess’s Japanese Conquest Memorial Parade, but was modified for combat. It is equipped with a pair of Kadomatsu Launchers, a newly-developed weapon that can be remote-controlled.

Techniques: Elehand Attack, Nose Barrage, Double Elehand Attack, Kadomatsu Launcher, Thorn Barrage, Rapid Barrage

Appearance: Area 5-5 Magginess’s Army Underground Tunnel (boss)

Shogun Magginess & His Floating Kettle

HP: 100 (165 in 2P mode)

Description: He is actually a robot decoy built by the real Magginess to attract the attention of his enemies. His coolness factor is said to be 20% higher than the real deal himself.

Techniques:

Kettle Laser: A laser beam fired from the bottom of the floating pot.

Purple Umbrella: An umbrella-shaped bomb that explodes when it hits the ground.

Red Umbrella: An umbrella that opens up in mid-fall.

Kettle Attack: A charging attack.

Appearance: Area 6-4 - Magginess’s Castle Tower (boss)

Goemon Impact (Evil Version)

Description: A version of Impact that was successfully (or so it seems) hijacked after it was abandoned by Goemon and his friends. He pilots it alongside Omicchan.

Techniques:

Koban Snot Attack: Aims and shoots at the player.

Karakuri Punch: Three consecutive attacks are launched.

Kiseru Pipe Bomb: Impact inhales the smoke of the Kiseru Pipe and exhales. It doesn’t do any direct damage to the player, but it can cause them to fly high in the sky.

Marble Shells: Explosives thrown by members of the Marble 5.

Appearance: Area 6-4 - Magginess’s Castle Tower (boss)

#Ganbare Goemon #Konami #Mystical Ninja

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sparklyjojos · 4 years

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CARNIVAL recaps [2/13]

Today’s recap: Men in Black, not very subtle villains, and the overly dramatic Uno samurai detective who’s trying to figure them out.

FIVE

07 Sep 1996 — 13 Sep 1996

BERMUDA TRIANGLE

So far, the Billion Killer destroyed the JDC headquarters, the Empire State Building in New York, Stonehenge and Cappadocia. Each time a skull made of orichalcum (as the material that hasn’t been ever discovered on Earth is called) was left on the scene. Witnesses claim that a trio of people in black suits and sunglasses is always hanging around just before disaster strikes.

The first two attacks decimated two detective organizations, JDC as well as NYDT that had its headquarters in Empire State Building. The Billion Killer moved to other targets after that, but each 1 PM on Saturday still saw one of the many detective organizations in the world being blown up by some other criminal.

The Billion Killer, the bombing of detective organizations, the rapidly increasing crime rate, Alive on the loose—the chaos of the Crime Olympics rules the world and claims four million lives daily according to the UN statistics.

Let us leave our hardworking detective protagonists and move somewhere else for now.

This gloomy closed space in which it’s hard to tell the time of day is called the Sanctuary. Let’s say, for now, that it’s a giant invisible castle swimming tirelessly through the heavens. Maybe we should say “unseeable” instead; it’s not really invisible, but occupies a convenient blind spot.

There’s a giant round room in the middle of the Sanctuary with a table surrounding a fountain—its name is Lebensborn, the fount of life.

[I don’t know about Japanese readers, but it's really not hard to figure out a certain plot twist (?) after seeing this name.]

Three people in suits and sunglasses stand next to the table, all looking androgynous. These are Dots. The name comes from the fact that they’re nothing more than disposable pawns of RISE—little dots in the grand picture. They talk in calm, unemotional voices in a secret language known as R language or Ra language. [The reader may notice that they always start their dialogue with “...”, because, you know. Dot dot dot.]

Dots are just foot soldiers. RISE is led by a group of so-called Rainbow Sophists, each having a pseudonym symbolizing a color and a chess piece:

Violet Queen

Blue King

Green Bishop

Yellow Bishop

Orange Knight

Red Knight

Black Rook (a.k.a. the Master)

White Rook (a.k.a. the Doctor)

[Insert your Doctor Who joke of choice here.]

They’re all commanded by the leader of RISE, Rudolf Strauss (RS for short).

One of the Dots mentions talking with “the Master” about the book Cosmic that has just been released on September 5 [the real world date of its release.] It seems to pose no threat to RISE, and “mein fuhrer RS” decided they could allow it to be sold.

[If the reader didn’t catch on after Lebensborn, they sure caught on hearing mein fuhrer, huh. Subtle.]

Another Dot says that the Sanctuary is headed for the Bermuda Triangle and that they should get ready to leave the orichalcum skull there. Before that, they go to the Cosmic Room to talk with the Fuhrer. On the way one of the Dots is wondering aloud just what the Sanctuary actually is, but gets shushed by others so that he doesn’t bring “Ra’s wrath” on them; mere Dots are not to know secrets. When the problematic Dot continues to get agitated and speak out of line, suddenly there’s a sound like an explosion and his head is blown off from his shoulders.

The other two don’t seem too concerned and decide to go to “Dragon’s Center” first and inform the Master that a new Dot is needed.

(Everyone is wearing a mask. The world is a constant masquerade, a never-ending chaotic carnival.

Nobody, even a hypothetical “other people detective”, could possibly solve other people perfectly—but then again, nobody is even able to understand themselves. Our reasoning about others and even about ourselves is often completely misguided.)

The world has seen a lot of secret and dark organizations like the Freemasons and Illuminati, the Neo Nazis and sects. They’re not completely secret, but they don’t have to be; popularity just brings in more curious people who can be introduced to the actual secret parts once they've proven themselves.

RISE is the secret behind the secret, the organization that’s always been hiding behind many others for ages. The common “secret society” sign of the eye in a triangle is a symbol meaning Ra, the one whose eye is always observing the Dots and punishing them.

The Sanctuary drops off three Dots in a pontoon in the middle of the Bermuda Triangle before moving far away again, unseen by anyone.

It seems the Billion Killer is going to target a new advanced submarine known simply as “Robo-Ship” with about fifty members of UND on board. UND is a recently created organization of the United Nations gathering talented private detectives from the entire world, who have ironically come here to observe the upcoming Billion Killer’s case. RISE had sent a warning to the White House earlier that the fifth case would happen here.

At 1 PM, the Robo-Ship suddenly disappears. The only thing found near the crime scene is a pontoon with an orichalcum skull and three headless bodies in suits.

SIX

14 Sep 1996 — 20 Sep 1996

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE

Suzukaze Unomaru, the JDC detective looking like a samurai, is investigating a case and is in turn being investigated by his travel companion Marion, secretly one of RISE’s Dots.

Marion started to tail Unomaru a month ago when he came to Cape of Good Hope to investigate a strange incident: a hundred-of-meters-long moving shape was spotted under the ocean’s surface, spawning rumours about a giant sea serpent. Marion told Unomaru that she was a private detective also investigating the rumour and suggested cooperation. (Of course her entire backstory as well as the name Marion are fake. She had another name once, but can’t remember it. Dots aren’t allowed to have individual differences.) The two get on a cruise ship and even witness the giant underwater shadow once, which bonks into the ship from below, briefly rocking it and sending the passengers into a frenzy.

One day, Marion enters Unomaru’s cabin and discovers the floor is covered in piles of anime cards. Unomaru solemnly explains that he’s in the middle of searching for a rare Super Saiyan 3 Vegeta card that he lost, infodumps about how Vegeta never goes SS3 in canon and only in Dragon Ball GT, and dramatically adds that if they don’t find the card, it surely means someone stole it and Marion will have to help him investigate and catch the culprit.

Aside from anime, TCG and other playing cards, Unomaru also collects basically anything you could call a card (credit cards, those shop loyalty thingies…) and can do some neat magic tricks with a normal deck.

They talk about the sea serpent sighting and the chaos that erupted among the passengers. Unomaru is reminded of how in Jaws the shark didn’t even have to be shown fully, as just the triangular fin was enough to make people afraid, or how Duel showed only the arm of the truck driver to similar effect.

Unomaru believes the underwater thing wasn’t a sea monster, but maybe a giant submarine. He thinks that the impact against the ship was intentional so that everyone’s attention would be focused on the sea, creating a convenient blind spot in the sky. He just can’t figure out what would be there in the sky they weren’t meant to see.

Unomaru shows Marion one of his card tricks under the promise that they’ll play some UNO later. He pulls out a deck of fifty-two playing cards, takes a few and spreads them on the ground; they’re all of different colors and values. Unomaru returns the cards to the deck, shuffles it, then gives Marion half of the deck and they shuffle their halves as they like without looking. Finally Unomaru puts the halves together, separates it again into two piles, and has Marion check them. The cards were shuffled so many times, but now they’re neatly separated into one pile of all black cards and one pile of all red. [The illusion isn't named, but it reminds me a bit of Paul Curry's Out Of This World.]

The trick is that Unomaru prepared the deck in the right order long before the illusion was shown, including a few “random” cards that he showed at the start to mislead Marion. The rest just required skillful handling. All those anime cards strewn around helped misdirect Marion’s attention. Since the two halves of the deck had been already sorted by color, it didn’t matter how much Marion would shuffle her single-colored half. The trick to an illusion is always easy in hindsight—just like it is with tricks to mysterious crimes.

Unomaru changes the topic to the three mysterious “men in black” seen before the Billion Killer’s cases, and finally launches the attack: “Say, Marion-dono, wouldn’t you happen to be one of these ‘men in black’?”

He recounts the signs he noticed in her: nervous expressions, lifeless eyes, strangely impersonal androgynous atmosphere, always starting a dialogue with a moment of silence as if she was carefully choosing words. In fact, Unomaru noticed it all the first time they met and intentionally let Marion follow him around. It’s now Saturday and nearing 1 PM, so it must mean the Billion Killer case will start soon.

After a brief hesitation (that even she isn’t sure the reason for) Marion jumps at Unomaru with a garrote, but it catches on the wooden sword strapped to his back. In response, Unomaru booms at her in his own twist on the heroic lines from Momotarō-zamurai, acting so confident (and weird at the same time) that Marion freezes in her tracks.

“Ooo-one! People live to solve mysteries! Twoo-ooo! The strange and mysterious must be solved and make clear! Three-eee! Solve mysteries with the sword of logic!” He dramatically points the wooden sword at Marion. “Suzukaze Unomaru challenges the villain!”

He tells Marion about the first thing that clued him in as to her true identity: that she didn’t look Japanese and claimed to be from another country while speaking flawless native-sounding Japanese. Marion answers that oh, you see, she’s not actually speaking Japanese at all, which confuses Unomaru enough that she’s able to run away from the cabin. She throws him a line about how this ship is going to sink soon and kill him, and that the detectives will never be able to square against the transcendent being that is the Billion Killer. Unomaru yells after her that she should stop what she’s doing or she’s going to die, just like those other men in black did in the Bermuda Triangle.

As Marion changes into her black suit and joins two other Dots on the deck, she finds herself strangely thrown out of rhythm and still thinking about what Unomaru said. He had to be wrong. The Sanctuary is supposed to come pick them up after the job. Surely the Dots from the Bermuda Triangle were safely retrieved?...

Marion realizes with terror just what being a disposable tool means. She screams in fear, drops the orichalcum skull and runs back towards Unomaru who is sprinting towards her, just a few meters more and he will save her somehow, surely—

Marion’s head is suddenly blown up right in front of Unomaru. The same thing happens to the other two scared Dots soon afterwards.

At exactly 1 PM, the ship hits something giant underwater and sinks, taking over a thousand people with it.

[>>>NEXT PART>>>]

#sparkly reads carnival #maijo and jdc stuff

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cruddyborderlandstheories · 5 years

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“i had a dream about the Borderlands are Yours trailer last night for like the 7th time so i guess i ought to do the analysis before i have a breakdown”

find the trailer here

~discussion of the cloth map spoilers occurs in here, but nothing else. if you’re worried about those spoilers do not read~

non-spoiler tl;dr: we discuss why rhys’s head implant is yellow instead of blue in this one particular scene and also go thru a bunch of theories as to what tf is up with Zer0. and some other stuff about giant space lasers

so the intro is pretty much the same as the we are mayhem trailer so we’re gonna ignore that since we figured out where sanc-iii was

pretty sure this scene has been shown already too, in the official announce trailer, i remember taking note of the pink shots

another cov camp on pandora (see elpis in the back). ive said it before and ill say it again i adore amara’s as animations

seen this a bajillion times as well

from we are mayhem near the end. also im still lowkey convinced that robot directly to the right of moze is jakobs. i know i’m probably wrong but... i want to believe. it reminds me of a cowboy

The Are. this is directly below Sanc-III (u can see the wall in the background)

eden-6!!! im interested in the signs in the back there

Prison, Reliance, Jakobs Estate, and... amoe kyuri??? wtf does this say?? idek.

This A Way (glad to know Claptrap will haunt us from beyond Sanc-III)

im interested in the Prison. i wonder if that’s any of those concrete structures/buildings we’ve been seeing across eden-6. i was under the assumption those were like testing facilities, but a prison would also make a whole hell of a lot of sense.

actually

given this sign here over the bridge to the left of the above shot

and the fact we see this concrete structure on the far left in this coming shot

that might actually make some lick of sense...

also can i just say i love the aesthetic of this supply line

so there’s a lot of shots here we’ve already seen and gone over multiple times, im not going to do that again. sorry but... eh.

maliwan = cultists confirmed

i mean if the cult-themed t-shirts being maliwan colored didn’t already cue us in on that, this definitely should lol

and speaking of this shot, i wonder if this has anything to do with Rhys’s building? the one his office would be in. it looks like there are multiple levels to the right of this robo

ah maliwan working with the cult why am i not surprised

rhys gets fucking annihilated (TM)

in all honesty... given this quest name

“Space-Laser Tag” and the subsequent quest “Atlas, At Last” makes me honestly think rhys is about to seriously get fucked up

which sucks. i like rhys. we’ll talk more about this in a second, but i don’t think its coincidence the VHs have come up to the asteroid belt to stop the giant space laser and thus are not on Promethea where the laser is going to hit

better look at this shot, that definitely looks like a rampager to me. i get it, i think. gearbox is hyping up this rampager fight to be super awesome, show it in all the promotional material, have a kickass fight with it, then the twins come in and steal the kill from you. they steal the satisfaction from getting to kill this super hyped-up vault monster.

im picking up what you’re putting down, GB.

did not realize fl4k actually snaps. how the heck do they do that?? gotta be hard with metal caps as their fingers tbh

404 space station not found

we’re back on the asteroid

... why this gun shoot tentacles :|

this is art

wheres his head going

i was so distracted by the razor blade status effect (??? zeroes??) i didn’t notice the giant-ass A on this banner

OwO what’s this for

~A~

also this which... looks like it could be an amara skill. maybe the one that releases elemental projectiles after an enemy is damaged? feel like we would’ve seen that one already tho.

thinking of this one, im pretty sure we should’ve seen this in one of the many, many gameplay videos (im so jealous) already available.

so if it is, baller, if it’s not, im not too surprised.

it does also seem to be targeting the double cause its shield becomes visible after being hit

i thiiink this is eden-6? in which case it may be that facility tina, brick, and mordy are in (the windows). which may, in retrospect, be that prison we’ve been hearing about

cool angle of the HBC. im pretty sure we’ve seen this shot before, too.

before we get to the actual best part of this scene

this looks very Athenas-like. possibly eridian? although the lights are throwing me off. i suppose the order or someone from the order could’ve built these structures... but what for??

heheheh

also this fucker has those rocks growing out of his head, too

the ones from the alien guns

somewhere outside the RC

back at it again in the space station

also this maliwan thing looks so fucking cool

duuuude looks like the cult got their hands on more than just maliwan hoverwheels, check out that dropship on the left!!! looking cool asf

the cars are STUNNING

holy shit this skin is amazing

very siren-esque

we’ve gone over this clip already but given now that we know the maliwan base thing is on the asteroid, it’s fitting to re-address it i think

a look at one of the metal bois (that im still convinced are jakobs lol)

i love the way this thing looks

the portal seems to be giving off the same blue sparkles we’ve seen on pandora

these

[edit] we also see them in the newest new trailer as Sanc-III zooms off into space. which is interesting.

dunno wtf that means, but yeah. they exist

probably some weird eridian/other dimension shit.

more eden-6

goliath looking amazing. not red and is wearing a helmet, so that’s interesting

looks like a part of the space station

biggggg hallway. im honestly loving how huge these maps seem to be

geniviv! i love her boss fight sooo fucking much.

honestly looks like so much fun

more c a r s

this fucker

probably eridian

i mean it seems to be absorbing the pink-ish energy from the moving stones so i assume its got some sort of link going on

also comparing the mask and arm bit to what we’ve seen rhys hand us on promethea

this thing???

but yellow instead of pink

u kno all this

then again it does sorta ruin the eridian tech so maybe... it’s not lol

honestly my other guess is this is part of that ‘experimental forest’ we’ve seen signs for during the eden-6 demo. dunno why it’s destroying the eridian ruins tho. maybe those pink b e a m s are hurting it? entirely possible. some sorta... life succ ability like Tyreen.

but i don’t think it’s coincidence this thing has shown up right on top of some Eridian ruins/buildings/whatever. the leftmost part though looks like it could be human technology, which is weird. maybe some weird sort of mish mash. human tech that trees/plants grew onto and eridian ruins accidentally powered up. iunno man. im tiored.

rhys’s implant is glowing orange/yellow-ish which is very new

this is from the dev trailer (not glowing at all in the darkness)

from the promethea twitter trailer

and honestly that’s pretty wild to me because in tftbl rhys’s implant glows blue

shown when he’s in the vault next to fiona

in bl3 during the We Are Mayhem trailer while using his ECHO eye

oh also since i just noticed

from the promethea demo

this scene

also from the promethea demo

they’re missing their monomolecular edge!

we’ll get back to zer0 in a secco

anyway you know who else’s head implant glows?

im not saying katagawa is replacing rhys because their implants are on opposite sides of their heads, but i am saying Katagawa WANTS Rhys in Maliwan and... well, Rhys’s forehead implant isn’t glowing yellow in any other shot we see of him

idk gamers i just think its sus

also rhys is holding onto that thing we see him handing to us in the Promethea trailer

this thing?? you know?

the eridian thingie majig

tho these look like two different areas... unless there’s like a very drastic wall change between angles (which there may be- these fans look identical)

which makes sense that Maliwan would want it (for the big laser thing maybe?? since we know they’re going for activating said laser)

... but honestly i get the feeling this is in some way related to... after the laser. especially since we know that that eridian thingie matches up with this one on pandora

in which case... wtf is the laser for? it definitely looks like its destroying stuff on the surface...

rhys also seems to have knowledge about the eden-6 vault key since he projects it during the dev trailer

me thinks someone got h a c k e r o n i e d

alright galaxy brain theory time:

rhys gets hacked by maliwan not only bc they want a merger, but also because he has info on the vaults/giant space laser, forces zer0 to be maliwan branded now since atlas is joining maliwan, zer0 finds out rhys is not willingly joining maliwan and is instead under maliwan control and tries to forcibly take the key away from him, we stop zer0 and save rhys from both the assassin and maliwan control

🤷‍♂️

Alright but in all seriousness there’s only 2 ways this can go

1. that’s actually our zer0

2. that’s actually not our zer0

and there’s a lot of theories running around about that and i guess we ought to address them

so for 1 there’s a few possibilities:

1. zer0 is a robo/cyborg and got hacked by maliwan (i personally don’t like this one bc i don’t want to know what zer0 actually is. it is a ~m y s t e r y~)

2. zer0 got paid more money to eliminate rhys and is doing so

3. zer0 decided killing their boss would be the ultimate challenge and thus decided to try it out... by joining maliwan

4. they’re faking rhys’s death and/or zer0 is infiltrating maliwan

5. zer0 got the brainwashed/their bodysuit got hacked (i would be interested to see if the monomolecular edge tech caused them to get captured or smth. i mean if there’s a tracker on it, then zer0′s decepti0n wouldn’t exactly work cuz they turn invisible... but they’d still be seen)

6. rhys got the brainwashed/hacked and zer0 is attacking him to get the eridian thingie/key/relic/whatever back

personally i’m curious how they’d play off 1-3 given Zer0 and Rhys are both shown on sanc-iii and zer0 even has crew challenges

im saying idk if the crimson raiders would appreciate zer0 attacking/trying to kill an ally without very good reason.

which is why i’d imagine 4-6 are the more reasonable answers?

also given the explosion of Promethea (what we’re assuming is Promethea) is green and also the laser we see maliwan controlling is purple, i wonder if that’s some brainwashing juice instead of... other stuff. cuz like.

this is elpis’s giant space laser. very radiant and like... ribbon-y? and has all that blue stuff and orbs and mm.

THIS is Promethea’s very solid and has circles and just. looks straight up like a death laser.

and yeah again it could be modified by that human-looking (?) tech around it to be like a brainwashing b e a m or something

or just more precise. that too.

and honestly idk if this could destroy a planet like how we see the planet (that we are assuming is promethea bc of the asteroid belt) in the sanc-iii article

it’s a solid ‘yeah that’s more likely than my theory’. might take a lot of time tho. or maybe those energy rings power it up or deal more damage when they hit the planet...

oh also given Tina literally says “WE blowing up this whole mother humpa”

and the reason im questioning the human-looking tech around it is because

typhon and leda 100% noticed something here. i guess if it was altered by humans after typhon and leda found it then that would make sense?

we’ve also got this from the tree guy, so i don’t know for certain.

anyway number 2

(2. that’s actually not our zer0)

i love these ones

1. that’s 0ne (zer0′s assassin’s assassin from the son of crawmerax dlc)

2. maliwan made a/hired a copy of zer0 and it’s easy to copy their voice/way of speech bc of the modulator (that’s just a fake implanted into atlas to steal all their secrets)

and all of these have the idea that the real zer0 shows up to save rhys at the end of this scene (explaining the blue light)

this

i personally disagree on that being zer0′s sword. tbh it looks more like a maliwan weapon or a laser or smth to me. that said it could be a weird effect because they’re in decepti0n or smth.

most of these theories have the idea that the real zer0 is either off with Fiona or Lorelei or just off on their own and only show up later. i wouldn’t even be surprised, given their line at the end of Tales. you know the one where they diss rhys like “i was talking to her” lol

so i don’t really have much to add to these. personally i believe that’s our zer0 up there, but i wouldn’t be shocked if something happened with the monomolecular edge that allowed maliwan to create a copy of zer0. or brainwash/control them. whichever.

i do like the reintegration of 0ne into the story, that’d be a hilarious call-back, but i worry it’d be too obscure (a side quest in a headhunter dlc) for the majority of players. we’ll see

it’s weird if brainwashing or mind controlling thru the maliwan tech is the case bc the monomolecular edge isn’t present on their maliwan sword. or their future sanc-iii sword (but that part DOES make sense bc why would they keep that).

(alright also so i just took a bunch of nyquil cuz im sick as a dog so if this devolves into incoherent rambling im so sorry)

ah aurelia

i love her to bits but i don’t trust her because i mean... she worked alongside Nisha and Wilhelm and Alistair dislikes her. there’s like a 50-50 shot she’ll become evil

i would not be surprised if this is a boss fight (door looks frozen over on the left there) but also i would not be surprised if she’s helping us fight off waves of enemies given it looks like we’re in the jakobs manor

like i said 50-50

her attack does make the camera wiggle a bit, usually that happens if the attack injures the player viewing it (with the hud off) cuz it will give a stagger effect

so take that with a grain of salt. also we don’t see aurelia on sanc-iii when hammerlock and wainwright are both there in the group shot in the launch trailer

this fucker i already talked about a bunch in my reddit post on the eridium subject so im going to link that here. i might have already spoken about it on here tbh... i can’t remember lol

anyway here’s the copy and paste from there to here

you can see a huge Tink with Eridium growing out of his head and what look to be Eridium horns. And he's being elementally charged from an Eridian floor tile (in one of those temples, probably the Pandoran one but it could be Athenas, I guess). Kind of like how Bloodwing (also bigger) becomes elementally charged by Jack using element-throwers to change her element. i know it's a cultist tink because on his right shoulder (our left) he has those glow-y pink/purple tubes that are on the CoV guns and other cultists (like goliaths). and while i'm not sure if this is solely Eridian stuff (since they're in a temple) or because of the twins, it's definitely something that should be talked about.

wait no yeah i did talk about this because of the athenas post. i just remembered lol

uhhh whoops. double dipping i guess lol sorry

still not sure if this is Pandora or Athenas. kind leaning towards Pandora atm

i like how this guy is able to make a cryo wall thing

he goes to smash it but we don’t get to see what happens cuz it cuts to another rampager

dishing out corrosive/radiation (??) attacks while someone shoots it with a fire weapon

this bamf which i KNOW i discussed in that athenas post

also something i haven’t noted is that his roar seems to be activating something here, like a spiral light of dooooom. also more blue sparkles. maybe summoning an assist? or a debuff/attack aoe.

there is also this weird light near its legs that moves with the camera and sorta reminds me of the weird real-life face talky siren thing. you know the one

very curious as to what this is cause i haven’t seen it in any other scene with a rampager in it. maybe some sort of connection to the spiral/whirlwind thing it’s making?

oh wow im tired now lol

well bl3 is fully downloaded on my computer gamers, so we can officially say it’s happening!!!

#borderlands spoilers #spoilers #borderlands #bl3 #borderlands 3

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6 of the Wildest Anime Villains from the Go Nagai-Verse

In celebration of the Crunchyroll Villain Takeover, we have a slate of features all about our favorite villains! Stay tuned for a whole week about just how fun it is on the dark side of things, and keep an eye out on #VillainTakeover on social for more mayhem!

Manga and anime pioneer Go Nagai changed anime forever with the introduction of super robots, combining robots, transforming superheroines, and more. His heroes were always brash, bold, and larger than life—usually equipped with insanely powerful mecha or weapons. So how do you fight an over-the-top hero? With an over-the-top villain, of course!

Just as Nagai's heroes were on a whole other level, his villains were unlike anything even anime audiences had seen before. From mythical beings to bizarre hybrids, his Rogues' Gallery was an exercise in strange concepts and stranger character designs. Villains like Panther Zora and the Great General of Darkness gave heroes like Cutie Honey and Koji Kabuto a serious run for their money!

It would take us ages to outline every single off-the-wall baddie Go Nagai has ever created, so we've whittled it down to our personal favorite six. Beware of spoilers (even though most of these titles are going on half a century old), and prepare to meet your doom as we count down six of the wildest, weirdest, and most dangerous villains of the Go Nagai-verse.

Psycho Jenny (Devilman)

Fans of the recent DEVILMAN crybaby will be familiar with this particular demon. If you liked her, we have good news: she's been a part of the Devilman story since the very beginning!

Psycho Jenny is a loyal servant of Satan, and in fact much of what happens in the series across its many iterations is thanks to her mind-bending powers. Her stare can drive a person insane—though we feel like seeing a giant woman's head with arms and legs sticking out would do the trick on its own. She holds the cards when it comes to Ryo Asuka's true identity, and returns in the story's stealth sequel, Devilman Lady... though this time she's much, much taller.

DEVILMAN crybaby gave Psycho Jenny a slightly less horrifying form to walk around in. Did you spot her before the big reveal, Go Nagai fans?

Baron Ashura (Mazinger Z)

One of the Mazinger franchise's most constant baddies, Baron Ashura is the loyal right hand of the villainous Dr. Hell (yes, that's his real name). Unerringly devoted to Dr. Hell and the Mycenean Empire, they can't seem to catch a break against Koji Kabuto and the mighty Mazinger Z—a constant point of ridicule from Hell's other subordinates.

As ridiculous as Baron Ashura seems in action, their origin is heartbreaking. In the original manga and anime, they are what remains of a pair of Mycenean lovers. The two were in a forbidden relationship, and as punishment were mummified and buried alive in a cave. By the time Dr. Hell found the pair, a piece of rubble had fallen between them, crushing one half of each corpse. He built Ashura from the remaining pieces. In 2009's Mazinger Edition Z: The Impact!, the story is slightly more convoluted, but still involves a pair of lovers—Ashura even gets to meet their former selves during a flashback.

Emperor Gore (Getter Robo)

Not all Go Nagai villains are freaks of nature because of medical intervention. Some are just born that way. Take Emperor Gore, ruler of the underground Dinosaur Empire. Gore himself isn't a dinosaur, though. He's a cobra man... or has a cobra for a head. Or is a cobra whose chest just happens to be a full-sized man. We'll get back to you on how that works.

To take back Earth from those pesky mammals who stole it from the dinosaurs (i.e. us), Gore lets loose robot dinosaurs known as Mechasaurs. Fortunately for us, we have the three bots of Getter Robo on our side! In the end, Gore has admitted defeat and chooses to die honorably at the hands of Getter—which he is prevented from doing when he's killed by the leader of the demonic Hyakki Empire. By the time we reach Shin Getter Robo, both leaders are living in the basement of the heroes' lab as ghosts and giving out really bad advice.

Archduke Gorgon (Mazinger Z/Great Mazinger)

Once again, we return to the Mycenean Empire. The bloodthirsty Archduke Gorgon is... uh... kind of a tiger centaur? But backwards? And the whole tiger is still there, it's just there's a man stuck to it from the waist up. Also, Gorgon and the tiger might be entirely separate consciousnesses, considering he whips the tiger when he needs to run faster.

As a character, Gorgon is far more confident than anyone else working with Dr. Hell, which may be why he makes it all the way to Mazinger Z's sequel before getting taken out. He views Dr. Hell's machinations as convenient for his own goals. And, according to Mazinger Edition Z, he conspired with the two Myceneans who went on to become Baron Ashura.

The Slum King (Violence Jack)

From ancient Greece to post-apocalyptic Kanto, our next baddie is the only guy tall enough to look Violence Jack in the eye. The Slum King, the main antagonist of Violence Jack, is a literal giant of a man, clad in samurai armor and sporting the sword skills to warrant it. He also wears a mask, which takes a variety of different forms over the course of the different manga and anime series. Regardless of the look, the mask is there for the same reason in each version: he literally has no skin.

This potentially Dororo-inspired monstrosity also keeps a limbless Ryo Asuka and Miki Makimura from Devilman on leashes. That's because, like so many Go Nagai series, Violence Jack is also a sequel to Devilman. This just keeps happening.

Gandal and Lady Gandal (UFO Robo Grendizer)

Our last villainous entry may not be Go Nagai's most fearsome villain, but they get bonus points for being possibly his oddest concept so far: a man with a tiny woman living in his face.

General Gandal of UFO Robo Grendizer fights for the Vegan (as in "from Vega") Empire, a brutal tactician and entirely loyal to his leader. Once in a while, his face pops open like a horrifying cuckoo clock and a red-haired woman comes out to have her say. This is Lady Gandal, and she has her own opinions on how things should be going. Later in the series when Lady Gandal's body is destroyed, the two work out a time share that involves a face-swap rather than the previous arrangement.

These are just a few of the strange and amazing villains you can find throughout the works of Go Nagai. Each new series—and each new adaptation!—introduces more unique characters to the roster. They may ultimately meet their defeat at the hands of the heroes, but they make the fight along the way so much more interesting.

Which of these bizarre baddies is your favorite? Any others we haven't mentioned that deserve some love (or fear)? Let's take it to the comments!

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Kara Dennison is the co-founder of Altrix Books and co-creator of OEL light novel series Owl's Flower, with writing credits across the Internet. She blogs at karadennison.com and tweets @RubyCosmos. Her latest book, Vanishing Tales of the City, is now available for pre-order.

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I'm gonna keep writing beginnings to things I like whoop ;;

((also does anyone even know about Giant Robo anymore? I friggin love it and highly recommend it if you like anime soap operas with robots and super powered characters that are never explained. It’s like only 7 episodes long, too! ;w; ;; ))

Silver never quite enjoyed the long drives it took to get to M2’s mansion base, having to traverse winding mountainside roads and usually in the rain, the only light coming from the passing streetlamps, but he’d admit that having Yellow there made it a bit more bearable.

“What do you suppose Red’s going to have us do?” Yellow asked quietly.

He could sense her apprehension easily, despite her sitting in the passenger seat beside him as he focused on the road. He raised a hand to rub at the side of his left eye, which was empty and a constant reminder of his inevitable, impending rematch with Kotone that was ahead of them. He flicked one of the buttons on the eyepatch screen covering the empty socket and smirked. “What else? Probably go after the final ball ourselves.”

Yellow sighed softly. “You’re probably right.” She glanced out the car’s window briefly as they continued passing by streetlamp after streetlamp. He hadn’t the faintest idea what she was hoping to see, as the dark night and rain was all that could be visible even in the flashes of light. “Just can’t trust grunts to do these important jobs nowadays.”

“I wouldn’t put too much blame on the poor, dead bastards.” Silver shook his head, his smirk turning bitter. “They ran into an unexpected complication.”

Yellow gasped softly. “You don’t mean. Has the IPO finally deployed Treecko?”

Silver remained silent and Yellow had to sit back in her seat, reeling. They finally arrived at the mansion and were ushered inside by a cloaked, masked warrior. No doubt the personal bodyguard M2’s magnificent 10 had issued to Red for this plot. It directed them to a large dining hall where a fireplace was burning brightly, thrumming and the only source of light to the room. Red sat at the head of the table, idly swishing around the wine in his glass.

“We need that attaché case.” Red spoke directly, eyeing Silver and Yellow coldly. “Without the final Premier Ball inside it, the full extent of Elm’s Eye cannot be realised.”

Silver nodded shortly. Yellow, on the other hand, stepped forward and pressed a hand to her chest, gesturing outward with the other. “If I may inquire, what is M2’s plan here once the Eye has been fully activated?”

“What else?” Red smiled, a very chilling air to it as even his red eyes seemed to gleam with sinister delight. “M2 wants control of the world. Are you perhaps doubting the effectiveness of the plan?”

There was something else to this. Silver just wished he could figure it out before it all unfolded in front of them. The Tragedy of New Bark was a far-reaching and well-known event, after all. Still, unable to do much else, Silver stepped forward to place a hand on Yellow’s shoulder, to stop her from protesting unnecessarily. “Not at all. We’ll get the attaché for you.”

“For all of M2.” Red clarified as he stood and turned his back to them. “Wally will be going with you, since the IPO’s own Experts of Justice have gathered as well and insurance is always a nice, safe bet. Now, a toast.”

The masked warrior stood from where it had been resting in the corner and flew over to Silver and Yellow, handing them each a glass of wine. This part, Silver was very familiar with. They accepted the drinks and the three of them raised their glasses in unison, repeating their organisation’s motto.

“Together, allegiance or death, Mewtwo.”

Professor Oak ran along the top of the train as it passed through dark tunnels and emerged again and again, panting and holding an attaché case close to his chest. He couldn’t let them have it. It couldn’t fall into the wrong hands. But he had been running for too long now and his chest and throat were burning, his legs growing heavy in exhaustion.

“End of the line, Professor.” His pursuer, a masked individual who was clearly an executive of that M2 organisation, laughed haughtily as his shoes clicked against the metal tops of the train. Professor Oak stumbled and fell to his knees, nearly dropping the case but holding onto it for dear life. His pursuer, who was accompanied by another man in a mask and trench coat, continued advancing, far more relaxed than he had any right to be. “If you’d kindly hand over that case, we may even find it in our good hearts to spare your life.”

“Everyone will die if I hand this over to you.” Professor Oak spat the words out. “I’m no fool.”

“Trust me, I was counting on that.” The man pulled out a gun and aimed it down at the Professor, grinning cruelly. “Now, are you willing to sacrifice your own life for what you believe? Or will you play nicely and give us that case?”

Oak turned his back on them and held the case tightly, shutting his eyes and praying to dear Arceus, please let them not get this case.

A single gunshot fired and Oak waited. But nothing came.

He opened his eyes and glanced back to see that the other person had pulled out a gun and it was smoking. The executive whirled on them, holding his hand as it bled and gritting his teeth together. “What are you trying to pull here?”

“Obviously, we’re pulling a robbery on this robbery!”

A different voice shouted out and caught the attention of both Oak and the executive. Another train was passing by on a track just below theirs and, standing on top of that one, was a guy easily recognisable as Gold, the Gambling Whirlwind, one of the IPO’s own Experts of Justice.

Gold held out his arms and grinned. “C'mon, jump for it all ready!”

The person in the trench coat shoved past the executive as they threw their disguise off, revealing themself to be Crystal, another member of the Experts of Justice. She grabbed Oak’s hand and hauled him into her arms before leaping off the side of the train to land on the other one. Stubbornly, she hadn’t landed in Gold’s arms and instead shoved the Professor off onto Gold as she snarled, “Get a move on, we’re not out of danger until we’re back at base!”

Gold rolled his eyes, but then more gunshots rang out as the executive attempted to fire at them. They quickly took cover and Crys had fought too long undercover to let Professor Oak die here. She had no other choice. She grabbed both Gold and the Professor’s arms in hers and closed her eyes, concentrating on the IPO’s base.

“Hey, cut that out.” Gold snapped, yanking out of her grip and putting the Professor down in order to draw his own weapon of choice, a telescoping pool cue. “We’re not that hard-up yet that you have to resort to using that power.”

Crys ground her teeth in aggravation. “Well, what do you suggest we do, then?”

“Agent Crystal, Agent Gold, can you hear me?”

A boy’s voice she didn’t recognise came from the star ring communicator on her finger. She looked down at it in surprise, holding it up to her ear to hear it better. Gold, on the other hand, frowned down at it. “What d'you want?”

“If you can, run to the end of the train.” The boy directed. “Backup has arrived!”

Gold scoffed and mumbled something, but that was all Crys had needed to hear. She hefted Professor Oak back up into her arms and, in the brief pause of the executive needing to reload his gun, stood. “Sorry, Professor. Gold, let’s go!”

“We’re not really about to let a kid bail us out, are we?”

Despite his protests, Gold took off running right beside Crys on this one. The M2 operative shouted after them and attempted to give chase atop his own train, but the tracks were diverging now and the two trains were heading their separate ways. Crys and Gold ran to the end of the train and, at the boy’s urgings, jumped off and into the city’s dark ocean.

Surprising all of them, a robotic claw shot out of the roof of the boat passing beneath them and caught the three of them. It held them carefully it its huge metal palm as the rest of its body slowly emerged, as if rising from the depths of the ocean itself.

“It can’t be!” They could hear the M2 operative shouting incredulously. “Treecko?!”

Sure enough, once the giant, towering robot had fully emerged, it was revealed to be the IPO’s secret weapon itself – Treecko. And there, riding on its shoulder, was the robot’s master, Ruby.

The boy, smirking so confidently, pulled up his wrist, where a PokeGear was strapped, and shouted into it. “Treecko, let’s go!”

Treecko let out an intimidating metallic trill, then began stomping forward and towards the train. Every step it took shook the city around it and Crys was sure she could hear the windows cracking and the signs rattling in collateral damage. The M2 operative jumped inside the train and Crys cursed under her breath, recognising its design to be that of a Caterpie fighter. They should’ve noticed that earlier. It transformed and turned to face them, its antennae becoming fearsome-looking horns and its treadmill legs extending out spikes for better traction and maximum damage.

Ruby, not intimidated in the slightest, swung out his arm towards the Caterpie fighter. “This shouldn’t even be a challenge, Treecko. Leaf Blade!”

Treecko responded again and swung its free arm out, the blade attached to it blocking the Caterpie from connecting. It shoved the Caterpie back, then grabbed its horns with its free claw and crushed them in its grip. Ruby pumped his fist out in a punching motion.

“Now! Finish it!”

Treecko pulled back, then launched its claw forward and sliced through the Caterpie’s body as if it had been butter, not metal. They could hear the M2 operative screaming as the Caterpie exploded in a fiery spectacle. Ruby, satisfied, looked down at Crys, Gold, and Professor Oak, safely in Treecko’s other claw.

“How are you doing down there? Are any of you hurt?”

“We’re fine, just fine!” Gold yelled up at Ruby.

Crys was too in awe to speak, a sentiment which Professor Oak seemed to share. She’d heard about Treecko, the IPO’s greatest weapon it had managed to reclaim from M2, but this was the first time she’d ever seen it in action. And to think it was being controlled by such a young child!

Their mission had been a success. With a quick command, Ruby had Treecko extend the wings on its back and rocket out of their and then they were flying through the sky, on their way safely back to the IPO headquarters.

#BOY MECHAS ARE MY SHIT #totally gonna watch this when i get some time #mii getting fan stuff #submission

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always-stay-in-arms-reach · 6 years

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Do you think any of the fighters give eachother little affectionate (or insulting) nicknames? If so, what do you think they would be? I feel like Spring Man, Ribbon Girl and Kid Cobra probably just get shortened to Spring, Ribbon and Cobra respectively for simplicity's sake

Yep! This got a little bit long, sorry! (I constantly forget there are so, so many people now lmao)

Spring Man’s nicknames: Spring (As you said, for simplicity. All the fighters call him this.), Bouncer, Colgate (Jokingly given to him by Mechanica. His hair does really resemble toothpaste)

Ribbon Girl’s nicknames: Ribbon (simplicity), Rib (Also for simplicity), Princess (As a cute nickname, just in reference to how her appearance is typically on the more formal side, even on casual days. She’s always wearing a dress or skirt. Also in reference to how she’s a sweetheart who deserves to be treated well, like a princess.)

Mechanica’s nicknames: Mech (simplicity), Munchkin (Given to her by Twintelle and Min Min. Twintelle calls her it because she’s adorable, and the youngest of the fighters, along with Helix. Min Min calls her it because she’s super short lol)

Other nicknames relating to her height: Short-stack (Given by Min Min), Bean sprout (Given by Ninjara. She was messing with him, and they have a sibling-like relationship, so he jokingly referenced her height to that of a bean sprout.), Pikachu (She’s loud like Pikachu, and she’s adorable, and super short, and they both wear yellow.)

Ninjara’s nicknames: Nin (simplicity), Jara (simplicity), Ninja (Presumably for simplicity, but it was actually given to him by Mechanica, because she thought it was cool that he’s a ninja. She also likes to playfully mess with him to get him to laugh or smile, since he’s normally stoic and quiet), Mosquito (Given to him by Mechanica after she found out he gives away his hiding places and stealth positions when swatting away Mosquitoes, and she found that hilarious)

Master Mummy’s nickames: Mummy (simplicity), Dad (He’s the dad of the group, so some of the fighters address him as that, though some do it as a joke and others accidentally genuinely address him as it), Grandpa (Given by Mechanica, as a playful jab at his old age)

Min Min’s nicknames: Min (Simplicity), Minnie (Given by Spring Man. He just thought it was cute. She acts like she hates it, but lowkey likes it), Red (Red’s her favorite color, and most of her clothes (at least, the shirts and dresses) are red.) Little Dragon (Given to her by her parents, in reference to her temper. She’s always had a big attitude, even as a baby. Her temper tantrums were nightmares.)

Helix’s nicknames: Squishy Boy (Given by Mechanica, since he’s made of goo), Little One (Given by Twintelle and Lola Pop, since he’s the youngest of the group.)

Kid Cobra’s nicknames: Kid (simplicity), Cobra (simplicity), Skater Boy (Given by Mechanica), KC (simplicity)

Byte and Barq’s nickname: Cops (Given by Mechanica, for obvious reasons)

Lola Pop’s nicknames: Lola (Simplicity), Bubbles (Given by Twintelle in reference to her cheerful attitude. She’s always bouncing with energy, and smiling), Candy (In reference to her sweet personality, and the fact that her ARMS are made of lollipops)

Twintelle’s nicknames: Twin (Simplicity), Mom (She’s been called this by multiple fighters, both on accident, and jokingly on purpose, in reference to her Mom-like personality) Queen (She’s the queen of the silver screen)

Max Brass’s nicknames: Brass (Simplicity. You’d think it’d be Max, but some of the fighters are a little iffy about addressing a high rank fighter like him by his first name, out of respect), Dad (Dad of the group), Knuckle (In reference to his mask being a giant knuckle)

Misango’s nicknames: Misa (Simplicity), Sango (Simplicity), Mediator (He’s good at understanding others, and peacefully helping them work through issues and arguments)

Coyle’s nicknames: Witch (Given by Mechanica and Min Min, in reference to her mean personality and scary intentions)

Springtron’s nicknames: Robo-Spring (Given by Mechanica)

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#Giant Robo #ジャイアントロボ #Giant Robo OVA #ジャイアントロボ OVA #ジャイアントロボ THE ANIMATION #Giant Robo The animation #Yuki #Yuki the twilight #Doki #Doki the direct #Red mask #My art

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Caffeine Challenge 23

Dialogue Prompt: “Their job wasn’t to save you.”

Alright, I confess-this ran a little bit over an hour (I started early). I...got a little carried away.

“Oh, sir, thank you, thank you for saving me from those awful men!”

Lillie very nearly winced to hear the words even as they came out of her mouth. That had to be laying it on too thick. If she'd done any acting that bad back in her brief sojourn into college theatre, her own classmates would have dragged her off the stage. But the man in the mask and goggles didn't seem to notice. Supervillains generally didn't, she'd found; it was like you weren't speaking their language if you didn't ham it up as much as possible.

“Save you? My dear, I'm afraid you misunderstand the situation.” The man in the mask chuckled darkly. His smug declarations could have benefited from a deeper voice and probably a British accent, but he actually wasn't doing too badly with a slight Midwestern drawl, and Lillie had to admit, he did have a pretty good dark chuckle. Not the best she'd heard, but better than she would have expected for essentially an amateur.

“You've mistaken the intentions of my Robo-Raptors,” the man went on, reaching out a gloved hand and fondly stroking the exposed metal cheek of the nearest raptor. “Their job wasn't to save you. Their job was to capture you. And they've done it admirably well, if I do say so myself.”

Inside, Lillie sighed. Oh my goodness, the giant red-eyed dinosaur deathbots weren't on an errand of mercy? Who could have guessed??

But she had a job to do, even if it was getting to be a highly irritating one lately, so instead of saying that, she pulled a look of utter shock and gasped, “What-what do you mean?”

The masked man clapped his hands, and one of the raptors reached out and lifted her up by the back of her coat. There were going to be some impressive tooth-marks in that later, Lillie mused; fortunately she'd long since learned to not wear any clothes she especially cared about on missions like this.

“I understand you're a person of some importance to Captain Comet,” the man said, gesturing casually at the raptor, which obligingly swung her up onto the back of another raptor. Lillie stifled a faint sigh of relief at this. She had not been looking forward to being dragged all the way back to wherever they were going. The neck pain alone was a terrible prospect. “He'll come looking for you, no? And then we shall have...a talk. Oh, yes.”

That dialogue could use some polishing, Lillie thought absently while she gasped in horror. It's just not quite his style, but a few tweaks could really make it work for him. A better way to control the raptors would probably help, too. Hand clapping just isn't in vogue.

Of course, no one ever asked her about these things.

“Oh, no!” she wailed, as the raptors took off at a run.

It had all started so sensibly.

Alright, so she was, essentially, a secretary. But there was nothing wrong with that, and she was a good secretary. She kept things in order for the entire Sanctum Tower, home base for the League and waystation for a good twenty superheroes coming in and out on an average day-sometimes more. That was no small task. And she'd didn't blink at any of the weird stuff: not when Feral had one of his rampages and needed new pants and a quiet cool-down room afterward, not when one of Cold Steel's many volatile devices malfunctioned and filled most of a floor with some noxious chemical, not when Fusion casually called up and mentioned that he needed a new shipment of uranium by this afternoon, not even when the nefarious Doctor Lobo had somehow managed to fill the entire tower full of sheep.

So when someone-she didn't remember who-had come up with the brilliant idea of luring out Starshooter's adversary by having her pose as the superhero's hapless girlfriend, well...it didn't seem that bad at the time. Starshooter and Subterfuge had been stuck in a deadlock for months, getting nowhere, and the pressure was mounting every day; Subterfuge, as befitted his name, was a little too good at infiltration and hacking and various other things that made the government very antsy about him being loose for too long. But he was also something of an old-school nostalgic, the sort that probably wouldn't be able to resist a good kidnapping and ransom-holding. So what was she supposed to do? Say no? There didn't seem to be anyone else to do it; all the female heroes were far too well known for the ploy to work. (And the fact that, for total realism in Starshooter's instance, it wouldn't be a female hero at all wasn't well known enough to work.) And, oh, everyone said, Lillie was so brave and tough and capable, she'd be excellent at it. She didn't even flinch when the Crusader broke in and had her at raygun-point the other week. And she'd be perfectly safe, they all assured her; the minute Subterfuge tried anything, the entire League would be on top of him.

So she'd agreed. She hadn't realized she was setting a precedent.

The problem was that it had worked. It had worked really well. A few mutually uncomfortable just-public-enough dates, and then one clear afternoon while she and Starshooter were enjoying a nice walk down Valentine Bridge, Subterfuge's drones had snatched her up and were flying her downtown while she screamed helplessly and Starshooter shook his fist and raged. That time she hadn't really had to act too much on the whole screaming-in-terror thing; truth to be told, she'd never had much of a head for heights, and those drones had enjoyed showboating a little too much.

The tracking device she wore in one earring led the League straight to Subterfuge's lair. He was in custody inside of an hour, and somehow, in the ensuing press avalanche, no one quite got around to mentioning that the whole thing had been a ruse. Which was alright with Lillie; she didn't much want the publicity.

And because it had worked so well, it made sense to try it again. It was another desperate situation: Nightfang had escaped from prison again, and he had a particular habit of going after civilians. Especially young women, so didn't the whole scheme make even more sense this time? And didn't it make sense to do it soon, before someone could really get hurt? After all, she'd done so well last time. We can count on Lillie, everyone said. She's dependable.

At least that time she didn't have to pretend to be anyone's girlfriend. She just had to wear more revealing clothing than she was used to, and hang around in the area where they were pretty sure Nightfang had gone to ground. By the time he showed up she was actually rather relieved. Alright, so he was a vampire, and pretty creepy in his own way, but he was still more gentlemanly than most of the other encounters she'd had that evening.

The problem wasn't doing it once or twice. The problem was that they kept asking, and the more times she did it, the harder it got to say no. After all, she'd done it all those other times, how could she object now? And it still made sense. In a way.

But it was frustrating.

They could at least give me a raise for this, she thought, wincing as one of the raptors hit a pothole hard; there was no padding on those things. Overtime. Hazard pay. Something. But then, what kind of selfish jerk would demand to be paid to save the city?

She wondered how long this was going to take. She really wanted to go home and take a long hot bath.

The especially annoying part, if she was being totally honest with herself, was that it got less and less, well, important. Helping Starshooter take down a national threat was one thing, but Captain Comet? He was barely anybody. She wasn't trying to be a snob, really, she wasn't, it was just-she did have other things to do, and quite frankly the kid could have used the practice winning a few battles on his own. He hadn't even tried to have a good showdown with his newfound nemesis, just jumped straight to the fake-girlfriend gambit. Wanted to really get the jump on this new villain, apparently, put him down before he could become a real threat at all-and before he had any chance of making Captain Comet look less than captainly.

Of course, the way he'd posed his so-called request in the first place hadn't exactly helped matters. “Hey, can I use Lillie?” Like she was the company car. Honestly.

#caffeine challenge #caffeine challenge 23 #writing #one-off #superheroes

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