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differentfandomsandthings · 2 years ago

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(Tbb s2 e14 spoilers down below)

The thumbnail has Crosshair I already know it's going to be good :D

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No way! Is that...HOWZER!!!!!

Echo! And Gregor!!!

They are doing work! It's so nice to see Echo again ( looks like hes in charge as well)☺️ and we have two new names. Fireball and Nemec (let's see if they live).

Empire is trying to erase the ships data banks.

IT IS HOWZER!!!

They got away

Now thats how you start an episode!!

Ok. What are they about to do to Crosshair? All those clones held prisoner 😔

Dr Hemlocks assistant is so cheery and "caring" "How are you feeling Crosshair?" How do you think he feels!?😡

Hemlock's vioce is so sickeningly soft and sweet. I hate it even more than Rampart's because you know it's all fake and he's a scumbag. Shout out to both VA's they do an incredible job.

Hemlock wants Crosshair to tell him how to find clone force 99 and Omega. Crosshair says he doesn't know where they are but Hemlock fires back saying Crosshair knows how they operate.

Crosshair says he doesn't know anything.

There is the interrogation Droid we were so worried about! Dang poor Crosshair 😕

Back on Coruscant :D

Riyo Chuchi!!!

Yes looks like Echo is going to find Tech so he can figure out the encryption on the Imperial data

Wow! Crosshair broke free!! Doubt he'll make it far.

Hemlock's assistant actually seems to care a bit. Still don't like her but she might not be all evil. Somethings up with her at least. Some people think she's a clone, idk.

Why are they giving me hope like this!? I know hes not going to make it out😫

Gasp! He's sending a signal! Plan 88!?

Crosshair: You have to hide, they're after-" oh no he's been gassed! He was warning the batch to hide. I hope it got out before they cut the signal.

Hemlock is a sicko

Back on Pabu.

Lol looks like Wrecker caught a big one lol a big fish.

Oh My Gosh! Tech teaching Omega how to fly again! And she is flying lmao 🤣 😂 he looks scared 😭 "pull up Omega, Up, UP!"

She's about to do the "Tech turn"

She did it! I love this😭 she went from "I can't hold it" in s1 to perfecting "Techyo drift" lmao. Honestly I'm loving how this season is showing us how much of a baddass Omega has and will become.

Also, loving the Tech and Omega moment 🥰

Omega sounding so excited to see Echo

Echo: I see you've been keeping up your training. Race you to the landing pad!

Tech: that's not a-

Omega: you're on!

🥰🥰🥰

Omega almost crushes some people landing. Better get out the way lol!

The running jump hug!!🥰😭

Looks like Hemlock has a meeting with Tarkin at the summit....

The batch has found out about the other clones being held prisoner. Also, that Hemlock was kicked out of the Republic scientist division because he's a sicko

They also find out about Crosshair.

They got his transmission. Plan 88, The Seeker. They know they are being targeted now. Crosshair is still trying to protect them🥲

Hunter: or its a trap, like he did before.

Wrecker: how do we find out?

Hunter, what are you about to do? The opposite of what Crosshair told you too?

Hemlock: just tell me where the girl is. She means nothing to you.

Crosshair: 🤐

He does care!🥲

The episode ends with Crosshair being tortured 🥺💔

THIS EPISODE WAS A FREAKING 10 OUT OF 10!!

It had everything. Action, plot, comedy, downtime, bonding moments, characters we missed, and angst.

No Phee, Cid, or Nala Se this episode. Which is kinda surprising, mostly for Cid. What's she been up to?🤨

Also Omega did not get kidnapped this episode surprisingly.

I'm so scared for Crosshair right now. I really hope the batch can rescue him before it's to late. I have know idea what Hemlock has planned for him. Like is he just going to keep torturing him with the Droid, or is he going to get tired of that and turn him into whatever he's doing with the other clones?

What are the batch going to do? Crosshair sent out plan 88. They know they should hide but they also know he's being held prisoner. I don't want them to leave him behind again but at the same time going after him puts them in extreme danger. They have to get him out though, I just hope they all make it out alive and together.

I am so excited and scared for the season finale! One more week to go guys! 😫 😥

#the bad batch #star wars #the bad batch season 2 #tbb spoilers #the bad batch season 2 spoilers

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tech-depression-inventory · 3 years ago

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Hunter: We’re all in this together. If one of us falls, we all fall. Nobody is expendable on this team. Crosshair: Sounds fake but ok.

#incorrect bad batch quotes #incorrect star wars quotes #sw incorrect quotes #the bad batch #star wars #the bad batch hunter #tbb hunter #hunter #the bad batch crosshair #tbb crosshair #crosshair #havens work #we do be queuing

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incorrectclonequotes · 3 years ago

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Hunter: We’re all in this together. If one of us falls, we all fall. Nobody is expendable on this team.

Crosshair: Sounds fake but ok.

#star wars #tbb #tbb hunter #tbb crosshair #incorrect quotes

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rishi-eel · 4 years ago

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thinking (yet again!) about the differences between the bad batch story reels and the season seven arc and like... some changes just blow my mind because all it did, really, was make the bad batch less likable.

lets star with the whole “reg” thing. if i remember correctly, in the originals “regs” is said twice. the first instance is by crosshair when taunting jesse in the LAAT. the second is said by hunter: he tells tech (who’s hacking into the cyber center) that he and wrecker are going to “go get the regs” (i.e. rex and jesse). that is, hunter only used it among his squad when the others were not present (much like how cody informs that the bad batch are defective clones out of earshot. these words are descriptors, but there’s also an offense associated to being referred to by them). the idea that hunter has restraint referring to regular clones this way in their faces connects, i think, to how hunter was a tad more apologetic to jesse in the original script. “he means regular clones. don’t take it personal. it’s just that we don’t always follow protocol” carried an actual sense of hunter trying to convince jesse that it’s nothing to do with him.

it’s interesting, i think, that in a context where you have clones and defective clones, that the bad batch (as defective clones) would find a way to talk about other clones in reference to themselves in a way that normalizes their own existence. it also introduces the idea that the bad batch experience a level of disconnect, and even animosity, in regards to other clones. all that can be conveyed by only using the word twice. the season seven episodes added three more instances, and in all of them the bad batch members comfortably throw the word around the clones who “are regs.” the sense of separateness (which, again, was already established/achieved by using it just two times) is only made stronger (thus more needs to be done to portray a sense of reconciliation or coming together. the reels succeed this to an extent because that barrier wasn’t built up as high).

so yeah in the original... wrecker didn’t say “we always get shot down when we travel with regs,” he kept quiet as he helped people out of the wrecked gunship (in fact, wrecker lost a lot of subtlety going from the reels to the final eps, which i’ll get back to). hunter didn’t fake-compliment rex with a “not bad, for a reg”! and oh boy crosshair’s comment implying that echo is worthless and expendable because he’s a “reg”... yeah that was not in the reels either. in fact, not only does crosshair not call echo a reg, the meaning of his original dialogue was completely different.

in the original, after hunter voices his suspicions echo might be dead, crosshair suggests that if alive echo could be cooperating with the enemy, making him a traitor. rex takes this as an attack on echo’s character and crosshair explains that no, he’s not intending to insult echo, by saying: “oh i don’t blame him, if i were left for dead, i wouldn’t be so loyal.” and like!!!!! that’s such a radically different line of dialogue because crosshair seems to blame rex for having left echo behind, actually. if you betrayed the republic to survive, or even out of spite, i don’t blame you even if you now present a threat to myself and my family, is such an interesting, empathetic sentiment. and that contrasts with the lack of regard given to rex, making it read like he’s condemning rex for leaving someone behind. crosshair doesn’t seem to understand, as an experimental commando clone, the pressures rex as a legion captain is under, because he’s seen a less expandable (they’re a specially trained four man team, if one dies that’s 25% of the unit gone. is there a replacement for that member? you get the idea). so you’ve got a clash between different povs, but also crosshair being shown as having a set of morals, chief among them being that you do not leave anyone behind. so remember when rex says to move out and crosshair goes “commander cody is in no position to move” yeah i’d say that’s crosshair making sure cody isn’t being left behind. when crosshair saves anakin? that’s because he saw anakin go off on his own and followed him. because you don’t leave people behind. and like... the idea that yeah crosshair is an asshole. he’s unpleasant and that’s deliberate. he doesn’t care if people like him and he’s not trying to be liked. but that he values the lives of other people and looks out for them? that makes an interesting, flawed and multifaceted character. that got lost in the dialogue change because its no longer suggested that crosshair holds these values.

as for what i said earlier about wrecker: he lost subtle, nonverbal moments through the addition of lines that are either anticlimactic or only serve to make him seem loud or ditzy in an exaggerated fashion. he didn’t laugh when the LAAT came down. he was quiet as he helped people out of the downed gunship (no comment about regs!). he didn’t say “boom” when the ship exploded in the background after he flipped it over (the difference? a character moment that’s actually cool and impressive vs something that’s corny). when wrecker comes to crosshair’s aid by picking rex off of him, there was no quippy one liner. there was no need for anything to be said for it to be understood that wrecker is acting as a barrier and it trying to intimidate rex. when he’s afraid to get onto the elevator? that’s conveyed visually through camera angles and through hunter picking up on the fact that he’s scared. he doesn’t scream (if you can call a comical “aah what is that thing oh no its going to get me” a scream) when the organic decimator almost gets him. when they walk across the pipe? wrecker doesn’t whimper or talk to himself for comfort. he is scared of heights, that’s already been established, but he’s also a grown man and a soldier like he’s keeping that to himself? like we see wrecker hesitating to walk on the ledge but doing it anyway because he has to. in a piece of dialogue that was cut, tech said “does anyone want to know the odds of us making it across alive?” to which wrecker (who’s you know already having a bad time) interrupts with “don’t even think about it, tech” (if ur curious, this exchange was replaced with: wrecker: “keep walking tech!” tech: “that’s fine, but if you fall don’t take me with you” which???? uuh weird exchange). also, the fact that wrecker was mostly dealing with his fear silently means that when hunter tells wrecker to hold on because they’re almost there... that’s because hunter knows he’s scared and is checking up on him. basically... any kind of serious moment was cheapened by having wrecker talk in them. now i don’t want to say that DBB is a bad voice actor, but his expertise is making animal noises. he’s not able to do a realistic, deep voice, meaning that whenever wrecker talks he kind of sounds like a joke. it’s fine when wrecker is actual being lighthearted and jokey, but otherwise? the emotion just does not come across as genuine, which breaks the stakes or weakens credibility.

and god the whole plot point about the bad batch being suspicious of echo was nonexistent in the reels. the “don’t worry, echo says he’s got a plan”/”that makes me feel so much better” exchange between rex and tech is in the original, but tech’s sarcasm isn’t from doubting echo’s allegiance, it’s because they’re planning to land on admiral trench’s ship and echo having a plan (that he himself doesn’t know) doesn’t exactly soothe his anxieties. rex acts like tech’s being a big joker and playfully shoves him, telling him to get on board. which is an interesting interaction because these characters are kind of starting to bond?? as for tech and echo, they kinda become nerdy friends really quick. like when tech warns echo not to send the signal right away because he first needs to make it look like it’s coming from skako minor, echo’s like “oh yeah good thinking tech.” and when echo figures out a way to shut down all the droids at once tech is impressed and lightly shoves his shoulder. again there is none of that “oooh maybe echo’s a traitor maybe he’s with the techno union” shit. like i understand that the writers wanted to up the stakes but it falls flat because the idea of echo being a traitor isn’t credible. it does not seem like an actual risk or possibility. so all it did was make the bad batch seem like assholes, cutting away at some very nice character moments.

ok this is a long post and you might ask yourself “but tumblr user rishi-eel, why do you care so much about the story reels, this stuff isn’t canon now” and there are a couple reasons, first, i think it managed to tell a better story overall. so the question is: why is that? because you would expect that writers reworking the plot would add improvements and not downgrades. and to be fair, the s7 episodes had a bunch of upgrades, but not when it came to the characterization of the bad batch. another thing to consider is that changes were made in the context of setting the bad batch up as future protagonists of their own spinoff series (something the original arc was not intended to do because there were no plans for a bad batch series). were the characters made flatter and more archetypal to add to marketability? was the reg/defective clone rivalry (and dichotomy, even) amplified because this separateness serves a narrative in which the bad batch are heroes and the other clones villains?

#long post #clone force 99 #the bad batch #it's late and i haven't proof read so there might be typos and stuff but. here are my thoughts #rishi-outposts.txt

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deaconusdelirium · 3 years ago

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Um so I don't actually know how to submit a request so, I've never done it before, but I hope this is right.

So I read this enemies to lovers with Tech where the reader is the Batch's new mechanic/medic/pilot (y'know something like that) and Tech is constantly trying to outsmart the reader and is kinda rude to her. So I am requesting either that or Tech and reader are already together and Tech makes a comment that hurts the readers feelings but Tech doesn't understand why she's upset cause he was merely stating "factual evidence". Also can the reader be female or like no gender. I hope I did this right.

Time will tell

(Tech X F!Reader)

Oh yeah! Either way is good, but I prefer taking requests in DM’s. I’m originally from a different writing platform and I took requests directly in messages, but send in an ask like this is good too. I don’t mind either way. That goes for everyone else who doesn’t know how to send in a request!^^

I love the first one, and I have a little something for that

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“And that’s… Tech” Hunter sounded disappointed as he seen his brother not only did not look up, but didn’t say anything as he introduced you to your new team, Tech just gave a small wave without looking up and walking off. “He’s a busy guy, I presume” you spoke, watching ‘Tech’ walk off and into their ship. “You’ll get use to him, he’s not all that bad. The worse he could do is fill your head with useless info for hours on end” Hunter explained while putting a hand between your shoulders, guiding you into the Marauder. Ok, so it might have been a bit small but at least you were off Kamino where everything was too sterile and creepy looking. You were all alone in your room after all, no one ever really came in but a few clones, Nala Se and Omega usually handled them all though.

You gave another look around, making sure you tried to memorize everything. “We have a mission in a few hours, so I suggest you grab what you need from your place” “oh, no. I’ve got all I need, I’m going to head back and tell Nala Se we’re leaving soon” you walked out, Hunter nodded in agreement. “Well, we’ll tell you when we’re ready” you nodded, walking away from the ship and back into Kamino to Nala Se

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Tech had only ever heard your voice, and by the sound of it. He was already annoyed, since when was there ever another person who does exactly as he does? It was only him, but.. the thought of sharing ideas and thought with someone else ‘smart’ would be nice. But no, he wouldn’t take it. He had to see for himself, he was sure you were going to fail, and he surely wasn’t going to be pushed aside, especially for all he’s ever done for his brothers. You weren’t the one who upgrades their armor for them, you’re not the one who has a datapad much like he has, and you couldn’t possible know anything about mechanics. He’s never met anyone who knew as much as he did, and if he hasn’t within his life, then there’s probably no such thing as it.

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He thoughts were cut short, when you sat in the co-pilot seat next to him. Only Echo sat there, maybe Hunter on some occasions, he still didn’t look, and he grew annoyed as you tried to tell him what to do. “Do you even know what planet we are on?” Tech asked, finally looking at you, “what does that have to do with this? You haven’t told me where we are and I’m stuck with you. So if you could just focus on the task at hand then maybe we could actually try and get along” you spoke, his eyes widen at your words, he didn’t want you to know anything. It may sound selfish, but he thought of it as a training, I guess you could say. How would you go about in a situation where you don’t know where you’re at, and what you’re doing? What is your next steps for an unexpected change of plans?

His gaze was still hard on you, how could you know something about flying? “Tech, if you don’t help them, Omega and Hera could be shot down” you sounded desperate, but he was the one in charge. He was the one flying, you weighed your options, you didn’t know what to do. He only sat there, observing you like it was his job. “Forgive me” you apologized to him as you pushed him out the seat and took over the wheel. “Hey” Tech called from the floor, standing up, but soon holding onto your seat as he seen what you were going to do. “Hang on Wrecker!” You warned the man in the back, you pushed the petal as Tech almost flew back and Wrecker yell from the back. You turned the ship around for Wrecker so he could take out the cannons.

Tech held on as your flying was not something he was expecting, once you had all of the turrets down and Wrecker finished off the clones on the ground, you stood up, grabbing your helmet and gun. Tech grabbed your arm before you ran out, “hey-” you spoke, “careful with my ship next time” he glared at you, but Wrecker broke the both of you up by running through his grasp on your arm. “Your ship Tech? Or all of ours? She did great!” Wrecker said, hitting you on your shoulder as he laughed and ran off. “Still, we got what needed to be done, I suggest we drop this.. this argument and actually help. And for your information, we’re al Ryloth” you ran after Wrecker, and Tech stood there. You were stubborn alright, but that doesn’t mean you were better than him. No, he won’t allow it

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After Hera was reunited with her parents and uncle, you all took off. For their brother Crosshair was after them, maybe even you now since you were with the Batch. Taking a deep breath in, and letting it out, you continued to clean your helmet, a few new scratches, but nothing bad. “Y/n?” Omega asked you, coming up and holding your shoulder as she stood on one leg. “What’s wrong Omega?” You asked, looking at her leg, “I got a cut, and my legs hurting. Could you look at it for me?” She asked, sitting on the chair in front of you as she turned to meet your body. “Yeah, let me just grab my stuff, stay right there” you told her as you stood up, walking to grab your bag and come back. You pulled her pants up to her knee, seeing a small scrape on it, “hmm, you only scraped it, nothing too bad if we clean it. Glad you came right on time” you tried to lift her mood up. Looking like you did since she laughed and held Lula.

“This might sting a little, but it won’t hurt” you showed her the bottle, calming her down as she was worried what you had in hand. She gave a small nod, handing it back to you, you smiled and slowly poured the liquid over the cut. She winced, hugging Lula tighter as you grabbed a bacta pad and placed it over her knee. “Alright, that should be good. Come back later for another cleaning, I’ll remind you so don’t worry, and if the ache still continues after a few minutes. Tell me so I can give you some medicine, it might be from all the time you haven’t treated it, but be careful next time” you pulled her pants down, patting her lower leg as she set it down. “So you aren’t going to treat the ache she has?” Tech asked, datapad obviously in hand as he watched you, “Tech! She cleaned it up just now, I should be fine. I think it was just dirty” Omega spoke, Tech looked at her, the back at you, he walked over to another seat, making Omega face him as he turned the chair. “What are you doing?” Omega asked as Tech pulled her pants up again.

Taking the tape off and looking at her scrape, he almost nodded in approval, but stopped himself. “Oh come on, I’m not going just throw a bacta pad on there and say I’m done” you told him, “still, you could have left out an important part” he spoke, Omega watched, “and just because you’re a medic, doesn’t mean you know it all” he harshly said, you wanted to just leave, everyone’s been nice except for Tech, “yeah? Well just because your name is ‘Tech’ doesn’t mean you’re actually a technician. You can multitask yet I haven’t spoken one word about your work” you spoke up, gathering your things and leaving. Omega watched as it all unfolded before her, “that was a bit rude Tech, maybe try and be nice, she’s new. You’re probably making her feel bad” Omega defended you

Tech took his helmet off, watching you walk off and disappear down the hall. “Maybe we only needed one, medic aboard. That was only a small scratch Omega, anyone could treat that” he stood up, “maybe you think we only need one medic, but I think differently. You should respect her more, I came to her because you were busy making repairs, and I’m glad to have let you work while she wasn’t busy. She even helped us back on Ryloth” it wasn’t new that Omega put yet another one of her brothers in place. She was right, you did save them, and treat her. He bet, if she would have went to Wrecker, he would have only plugged it up with trash and dirt then throw a bandaid on it.

Omega walked out the cockpit, Lula in her hands as Tech was left alone. So what you knew how to fly and treat a small wound, anyone could do that… anyone who knew what they were doing. And he was intrigued at how much you knew and what you’ve done.

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Everyone sat in their seat, you sat behind Echo as he sat in the co-pilot chair. Your hands gripping the pen as you worked an equation out on a piece of paper. Tech heard you whisper quite loudly the numbers, so he worked it out in his head as he watched the stars go by while in hyperspace. “205” he said, you looked up, sighing in annoyance and putting on a fake smile, “thanks Tech, I’m sure me working it out and trying a different way of solving this problem was to easy for you. What a pity, me working with pen and paper as you have a datapad? What was I thinking?” You scoffed out, Echo laughed a bit at your bite back. Tech turned to you, “what do you mean ‘a different way’?” He asked, you threw the paper at him as he caught it then glaring at you for doing so.

His eyes scanned over the numbers, this wasn’t right. None of this was, “give me the pen” he spoke, you looked at him, “what for?” “Just give me the pen” he demanded as you shook your head no. Echo was curious to see what you both were arguing about, his head peaked over the paper and was met with messy writings and scrambled numbers. “How can you read that thing?” You heard Echos disbelief in his voice, “here, I’ll explain it” you reassured him as you clicked the pen. Tech watched as you began to explain what this new trick was. He was fascinated, he found himself looking up your arm until he watched your face as you spoke about something that actually interested you… interested him.

He continued to hold the board with the paper on it for you while you worked it out, circling the answer. He wasn’t sure why, but when you turned to Echo to talk about it, he was quite jealous. Echo wouldn’t understand, but Tech did, why didn’t you argue with him about it. He hesitantly tapped two fingers on your shoulder, you turned and faced him, “perhaps, we could further discuss what you put into motion here? I could teach you some new things as well” he offered, Echo had seen his frail to finally try and get closer to you. He stood up, “excuse me” he walked off, giving you and Tech the time together. “Not sure, I feel like you’re only going to insult me further while thinking you’re smarter, you also offered me something. Don’t know if I should take it that you want something or you hit your head” you crossed your arms, looking at him. “I assure you, I have something’s I would like to share” he lightly laughed.

You thought about it, “fine, but if anything” you threatened him, “there no need to get hostile with me now Y/n, I want to see just how much you know” he leaned back into his seat, arms and legs crossed as he eyed you down. But if anything did happen, the Batch was on board. You sat in the seat Echo sat in before, questioning your choice on agreeing.

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It seems Tech had underestimated you to soon, you we’re definitely smarter than he had thought. Was there actually someone just like him? Someone who he could rely on and wouldn’t have to explain too, mainly going into details. But you, oh you… you just gave him this feeling. He didn’t want you to leave the seat when you both sat, it was interesting seeing how you knew some things he didn’t. You both shared theories and facts about unusual things people would have probably brushed off and thought was annoying or just plain boring. He found himself moving ever so closer to you when you both started getting into.. deeper matters. What you did on Kamino versus what he does for the galaxy with his brothers. You told him how you wanted to get off the planet and explore while he suggested he explores all the time.

That was until you both found each other, knees touching while you both leaned forward. It was wrong, you abruptly stood up, “I’m sorry Tech, I shouldn’t have” you fixed your armor and set out. Just what happened there?

He didn’t have feelings for you, if he did. It’d most likely be jealousy and anger, for he didn’t want to be replaced for someone they had just met. He was their brother, you can’t just remove them from their life. Now you were off somewhere in the ship, probably have already forgotten about him. But his thoughts were stuck on you, was he too mean to you? Now that whenever he got close, you either brushed him off or you walked away. But what if he wasn’t, would you two have been closer? Together perhaps? It was like talking to himself, actually finding interest in the conversation. Feelings were never in his area of expertise, so he couldn’t exactly pinpoint what he was feeling at the moment. He was sure to keep an eye on it and write down anything he feels on his datapad, maybe even do some research.

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“Y/n!” “Coming!” You replied to Echo as he yelled for your assistance. Walking down the hall to to Echo kneeling before the console trying to fix whatever he was trying to. “Yeah?” You asked, “I need..” he trailed off, trying to get the control panel fixed. “Oh! I’ve done this plenty of times back on Kamino for the clones’ ship when they got back” you spoke while kneeling next to him, undoing the wires as he looked at you, “what are you doing?” “Relax, you can’t just keep the control panel like this, you have to make sure it clean, this this part” you pointed to the corner of the panel as there was dirt inside, “that’s blocking this part, from entering. So brush this aside, and put it back. Now you’re going to want to make sure all the wires and whatnot are still good. Some could burn out and that could ruin the whole thing, and then you’d have to replace it all. But other times, it just needs a little cleaning” you walked him through it, telling him what goes where and how to clean the board without ruining it, while still making it easy for him to understand without using the big confusing words

He nodded, understanding, “Tech would never say anything like this. He does all the repairs like this, the only time he needs help is when he needs tools or for us to hold something” “Ah, I see. I’m sure he means well. I never had anyone to talk to about this and it feels good to finally share some knowledge” you told him to screw the panel back on. He stood up, offering you his hand and helping you up. “Thanks” “no problem, you learn something new everyday” Echo laughed at your joke, giving you a pat on the shoulder and walking off. You kneeled back down picking up the tools and gathering them into a bag. Another pair of hands helped you, as you looked up, you noticed he had no thigh armor. Tech.

“Thank you Tech, you didn’t have to-” you were pushed on your back as Tech was on top of you. You groaned at the pushed, opening your eyes to see Tech giving you a kiss. Your senses finally returning as you felt the harsh action, making your lips hurt. He softened the kiss, making you now blush as you laid there under him. He pulled back, “T-Tech?” You let out the breath you held in, “Y/n. I’m so sorry about before” your brow furrowed in confusion. “What for?” “All those words, bringing you down. It’s wrong now and it was wrong then, but how could I have not appreciated your actions before?” He questioned himself as you now remembered all those things he said and what he did to try and put you down.

“I can’t let someone, so good and loving leave. I’ve seen the way you treat Omega and my brothers when I’m not there too, you’re smart and beautiful. Yet you’re ready for battle when you’re thrown into it. I’ve been thinking, about my feelings, and… and us” your eyes widen at the last part. About, you? Him? Together? You haven’t thought about it, maybe once but that was when you both were talking that night in the cockpit, he was rude and unforgiving when you were introduced and given a task, always saying he knew and could do better than you. And that your tactics were sloppier than his, and to be frank, he didn’t mean that. It was his feelings he was confused about, “Tech.. I actually don’t know what to do. While you say you’ve thought of us, I haven’t, maybe once but that was wrong. We could never work out” you confessed, his gloved hand on the side of your head as he stroked a few hairs out of your face.

He sighed, thinking. This time it was his heart speaking, not his brain, this has nothing to do with what he normally did. So he had to wing it. “Tell me. What do I need to do to show you, how much I appreciate and want you by my side? Tell me what’s making you feel uncomfortable about us and how I can help. I’m willing to give this a chance if you are” he sounded desperate, the first time you’ve heard him like this. But you had to think on it, he was just as smart, maybe even smarter, he was blunt which made you not have to worry about his opinions on others and how you feel. And he was strong, both mentally and physically. You’ve never met someone as close knowing and interesting like you.

“I.. I’m willing to give this a chance as well” your hand came up to his hair, then pulling him down for another loving kiss. All those problems and feelings he couldn’t explain and work out, have now blown away. If seemed like being close to you felt like ecstasy, your aura felt so welcoming and warm. His lips ghosted over yours before coming down for another. This new found feeling was something he could get use to, yours lips felt so soft against his, your fingertips slightly trailed along his jawline and cupped his cheek. “We, better get up before someone sees us” you suggested, he nodded. A quick kiss on the side of your mouth was given before he got up. Pulling you along. He wanted to see where this relationship would take him.

He was excited to have you by his side now, he knew you two could take on anything. The thought of having someone just like him by his side put a warm feeling in his stomach, someone he could protect along with his brothers. Maybe the jealousy before was telling him something, maybe you both were destined to be together since you both could agree that you’ve never met anyone like the other. And he was glad to have someone to return to every time he came back from a mission, or having you on a mission with him in general. He already had hundreds of reasons why he fell in love with you, and if that’s just the beginning, he wondered what being with you forever would he like. Only time will tell

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I hope you enjoyed, again! If you ever want to send it a request, I take it in DM’s for those who want to stay anonymous, but others can also go to my ask box. Either way is fine, I don’t mind!^^

#tech the bad batch #star wars #star wars tcw #the bad batch #tbb #tech bad batch #Star wars the bad batch #tech x reader #oneshot #requested

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blackgirlfandomwriter · 4 years ago

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Pregnant (Bayverse Optimus x Oc Reader)

Ok, so this is an old one-shot that I wrote starring my friends and me. This was back when I first starting writing on Wattpad and I thought it would be funny to share it with yall so enjoy!!

Lori's POV:

"People are so dumb in horror movies," Savannah said tossing popcorn in her mouth. "I know right," I said laughing as we continued to watch the film in front of us. Tonight me and the girls decided to have a movie night until the guys got back from their mission in Tokyo. "I just got a text from Ratchet, they should be here tomorrow morning," Nina said smiling at us as we all grinned. The movie had gone off so we just started talking about randomness. Kaitlyn started to crack jokes making me laugh uncontrollably. "How about a game of truth or dare," Savannah said with a huge grin that said she was up to no good.

"Uh-uh Savannah's up to something," Nina said shaking her head. "What? No, I'm not I just have a question" Savannah said still smirking evilly. "And what may that be," I asked raising my eyebrow questioningly. "Have any of yall....... you know.......... done it yet?" Savannah said as we all looked around at each other waiting for answers. "Duhhhh," Kaitlyn said sticking her tongue in a playful way. "I know that's right," Savannah said as she and Nina high-fived while laughing. I on the other hand sat there in silence

"I know Lori be getting it in with Optimus all the time," Nina said looking at me giggling. I slapped her on the arm and laughed. "No, we haven't done it," I said trying to hide my embarrassment. "Not yet at least," Savannah raised her eyebrows at me in a joking way. "Bruhh shut up," I said hitting her with a pillow. She looked stunned for a moment before she hit me back. "PILLOW FIGHT" Kaitlyn yelled as we all started to hit each other with pillows.

~Time Skip To Morning~

"Ow stop kicking me" I muttered moving around to get comfortable on whatever I was laying on. I opened my eyes to see me and the girls all spread across the living room floor. I laughed as I stood up from my position on the floor and stretched. I yawned as I headed upstairs to get cleaned up and changed. I washed my face, brushed my teeth, and threw on leggings and a crop top as I picked up my phone to text Optimus.

~~Messages~~

Lori: Hey, I thought you would be home by now 😥

Optimus: Sadly we are at the military base with Lennox discussing going back to Cybertron...... the government is starting to get a bit angsty

Lori: Oh is everything ok

Optimus: Nothing that needs to concern you. Everything will be fine

Lori: Um ok. I love you 💙

Optimus: Love you too. I'll be home soon❤

~~End~~

I looked down at my phone with a smile as I sighed. "I wonder how going back to Cybertron is going to work," I said to myself before shrugging my shoulders. I slipped my phone into my pocket and headed back downstairs. "Breakfast sounds good," I said while pulling out eggs, bacon, and pancake mix as I got to work. Once I was done with breakfast the girls were already awake and sleepily walking to the table. "Thanks for breakfast Lori," Nina said as Savannah and Kaitlyn grumbled through stuffed mouths of food. I laughed hearing a knock at the front door. "Who could that be," I said aloud as I jogged to the door. I slowly opened the door to find a few of the Autobots standing there in their bipedal forms.

"Oh my god! You're back" I yelled hugging them as they all chuckled. "What are you yelling about," Savannah said walking up behind me and freezing. "BEE" she yelled tackling him to the ground. We all laughed as Kaitlyn and Nina came to see all the commotion. They were so happy to see Ratchet and Crosshairs it was unbelievable. "Aww yall are so cute," I said taking out my phone and snapping many pictures. "Whatever girl your just jealous," Nina said sticking out her tongue playfully. "Girl you wish," I said with a playful eye roll. Before I could close the door I saw some more cars pull up. They all looked pretty familiar. They soon transformed revealing Jazz and the Lambo Twins (Sideswipe and Sunstreaker). "It's been a while, Lori," Jazz said walking up to me with a smile. "Nice to see you too," I said punching Jazz in the arm.

Before I could say anything to the twins I was engulfed in a tight hug. "We've missed you," they both said as I sighed. "I missed you guys too," I said as I kissed both of their foreheads as they went inside. Finally, the last three Autobots showed up, Drift, Hound, and Optimus. As soon as they transformed I ran over to Optimus and jumped into his arms. He caught me and spun me around causing me to squeal. When he set me back on the ground I smashed my lips into his as to which he returned the favor. "Eww guys get a room," Hound said in fake disgust. I only laughed as Optimus threw me over his shoulder and carried me into the house. "Optimus what are you doing" I yelled as he started to carry me upstairs. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Savannah making these symbols with her hands towards me.

I gave Savannah a death glare as I mouthed the words Fuck you. Savannah looked at me in disbelief and burst into laughter as me and Optimus made it upstairs. When we made it to my bedroom Optimus lightly threw me on the bed causing me to giggle as he crawled on top of me. "Optimus what are you doing" I wined playfully trying to push him off of me. He didn't say anything as he let his metal lips find mine in a passionate kiss. I kissed back as he let his hands wander down to my hips. He pulled away and nibbled on my neck leaving little love bites as I moaned lightly. After a few minutes, he pulled away and kissed my forehead. "You sure you wanna do this" He whispered as I smirked kissing him roughly. "Does that answer your question?" I said with a smirk as he proceeded with a low growl.

~Time Skip To The Morning After (Cuz I've never written a lemon sooooo..... Yea)~

I woke up to the sun beaming through my curtains as I groaned snuggling into the warm figure next to me. 'Wait' I thought as my eyes popped open. 'Did me and Optimus ..... noooo did we?' I thought while slowly looking under the covers and quickly putting them back down. 'Oh, shit' I thought looking up at the ceiling. I let out a deep sigh as I turned to face a still sleeping Optimus. 'He's so handsome when he sleeps. Ugh, but why do I feel sick all of the sudden'. For some reason, something didn't feel right as I rushed to the bathroom. I shut the door and hunched over the toilet immediately spilling my guts. "What the hell" I groaned as I grabbed my phone off the counter and texted Savannah

~Messages~

Lori: Savannahhhhh😫😥

Savannah: Yes big head

Lori: I need help 😥 Somethings wrong like fr fr

Savannah: Where are you???

Lori: The bathroom in my room 😭

Savannah: Ight hold on

~End~

I took a deep breath as I waited on Savannah's arrival. Soon I heard the doorknob jiggle and in came Savanah shutting the door behind her. "Did you wake Optimus?" I asked nervously. "No, but what's your problem? You look uglier than usual" Savannah stated smiling as I weekly kicked her. "Looookkkk," I said pointing at the toilet. Savannah looked in and quickly backed away in disgust. "What the hell! Are you sick?" she yelled as I shushed her sternly. "I don't know I woke up feeling weird then I threw up," I said laying my head on the bathtub.

"Wait did you and Optimus......" Savannah asked not finishing her sentence. "Not important right now," I said pointing a finger at her as her eyes went wide. "I'll be right back," Savannah said as she ran out of the bathroom leaving me confused. As I waited for her to come back I slowly got up from my position on the floor trying to steady myself. I wobbly walked over to the counter and looked at myself in the mirror. 'Ugh I look horrible' I thought as I rinsed my mouth to get rid of the smell of puke.

"I'm back," Savannah said while holding something behind her back. "What's that," I asked pointing behind her with a raised eyebrow. Without saying a word she pulled out a pregnancy test and my jaw dropped in shock. "Take it," Savannah said sternly. "Are you serious?" I said crossing my arms in disbelief. "Yes, now take it," Savannah said shoving it into my hands and walking out of the bathroom. I sighed as went through the process of taking the pregnancy test. I set it on the counter and waited. 'There's no way I'm pregnant...... am I? I mean it was only once and it was my first time! Oh god, why am I so anxious'. I started to get more nervous as I paced around the bathroom. 'What will Optimus think? Does he even want kids? Do I want kids? WHY DIDN'T WE USE A-'. My thoughts were soon interrupted by my phone ringing signaling that the five-minute wait was over.

I slowly picked up the test with shaky hands. I looked down at the test and immediately lost my breath. "I'm pregnant" I whispered while covering my mouth with my hand. Tears started to fall but I couldn't tell if I was happy or scared. I sobbed quietly as I slid onto the floor. 'What am I gonna do?' I thought to myself as I cried a bit harder. There was a knock at the door causing me to jump but I didn't say a word. "Lori are you ok," A rough voice said from the other side of the door. 'Shit' I scurried to my feet while wiping my eyes clean. "Yea I'm fine," I said fixing myself up. "You don't sound fine. Can you please open the door" Optimus said as my heart stopped. 'Here comes the moment of truth I guess'

I opened the door letting him in as he kissed my forehead. "I have something to tell you" I spoke as my voice quivered. "Are you ok, you look sick?" Optimus said looking at me with concern. "Yea I'm fine just a little morning sickness," I said putting on a fake smile. As soon as I said those words Optimus's eyes went wide. "Are you?" Optimus asked questioningly as he stared at my stomach. "Yea...... I'm sorry" I said bursting into tears as I felt a strange pain in my chest. "Sorry? For what" Optimus said trying to calm me down. "I didn't even ask if you wanted kids, it just happened! And I-" Before I could continue my ranting his lips gently smashed onto mine.

I calmed down as he wiped away my stray tears. "Hey, look at me," Optimus said while raising my head my his index finger, "I've always thought about starting a family with you. It just happened faster than I expected, but I still love you and our unborn child," Optimus said causing my eyes to water up again. "I love you so much," I said kissing him passionately. I felt him smirk in the kiss causing me to giggle. "You kiss me like that again and we might be making twins," Optimus said kissing my neck. "You horny hunk of metal," I said shoving him playfully and trying to walk away. But I couldn't get far enough before he scooped me up into his arms bridal style and carried me downstairs.

When we walked into the living room everyone was sitting there as if they were awaiting our arrival. "Soooooo," Savannah said with a huge grin. "You told them," I said looking at her with a shocked expression. "That's not important right now. What does the test say" Nina said jumping up and down eagerly. Optimus and I exchanged a look as we both smiled. "WE'RE HAVING A BABY!!" I yelled in excitement as everyone laughed and clapped. "It's about damn time," Crosshairs said with a smirk while I playfully glared at him. "Aww I'm going to be an auntie," Savannah said wiping away a fake tear. I laughed while hugging her tightly as everyone else started talking about baby showers and planning causing me to roll my eyes. "Wow can't believe I'm gonna be a mom," I said rubbing my still flat stomach. "I can't believe I'm gonna be a father," Optimus said kissing my forehead as everyone 'Awwed'. I took a good look around at the people around me, the Autobots, my friends, my best friend, the love of my life, and soon to be born child.

This is my family now and I love them

#transformers #transformers x reader #optimus #optimus x oc #optimus x reader #optimus prime #tfp optimus #transformers optimus #bayverse optimus #transformers bayverse #pregnant #humanformers #bipedal #bumblebee #transformers idw

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pra370r1an · 4 years ago

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Lost Santos Dreams - TOH/Fake AH Crossover

https://archiveofourown.org/works/29233251 TW: Blood, Violence, Death

New to Los Santos, the Beta crew dream to make it big. However, they're about to learn the hard way why the top gang has an almost mythical status in the criminal underworld...

“I’m not wearing that!”

“Oh, calm down. It’s cute!”

“I said I wanted a lion, Noceda!” Amity snarled.

“It is a lion!” Luz held up the lion mask, complete with a bright cheerful smile and rosy cheeks.

“I wanted a fierce one, not a children’s mask! There was a bloody lion mask there last week, why didn’t you get that one!?”

“Then you should have bought them! Besides this way we match!” Luz held up her own mask, a winking otter with a wide smile. “Back me up here Willow!”

Willow sat driving next to Luz, sunny sunflower mask already on her face. She turned and briefly glanced at Luz, who was half turned around to see Amity in the back of the van.

“This seems like a lot of arguing for something we are going to destroy later, since its EVIDENCE.”

“Oh, you’re both no fun,” Luz sat back and pouted. She tossed the lion mask into the back, “Just wear the damn thing, Blight.”

A voice crackled in her earpiece, “Are you guys done fighting each other? Cuz there’s still a job to do.”

Willow raised a finger to her ear to respond, “They’re fine Gus. Just how they are. Now we’re almost there so codenames people. Illusionist run us through one last time.”

“You got it Venus. The three of you go in. Princess kills security and controls the crowd while Luzura beelines to the tellers and stops the panic buttons.”

“Don’t fuck it up Luzura,” Amity teased from the backseat.

“SHHH, I’m trying to listen,” Luz whispered overly dramatically while pointing towards her earpiece.

“Quiet in the peanut gallery,” Gus deadpanned. “Meanwhile, Venus grabs the manager and grabs whatever she can from the vault.” Willow grunted from the front seat, too focused on driving in a mask to contribute. “All the while, I’ll work my magic and keep the alarms off and the cops off your backs. Simple.”

“It’s never that simple Twerp,” Amity grumbled as she put the mask on, and fixed her hair over it. The dyed green hair forming the lion’s mane around her mask.

“Why do you keep calling me that, Princess?” Gus groaned. “Alright I’m all set up here, ready to go when you are.”

“We’re here,” Willow pulled over outside of Grand National Bank.

“What’s that tag?” Luz looked at some graffiti on the bank by an alley, a green rubber duckie encircled in a green crosshair.

“It’s how gangs claim territory in Los Santos,” Amity double checked her rifle before cocking it. “It’s nothing to worry about. No self-respecting gang would use a rubber duckie,” She scoffed.

“You did check this place with Ed- er… the Owl Lady, right?” Luz asked Willow. “I don’t want our first official act in this city to be piss off a major gang.”

“It’s fine Luzura,” Willow double checked her body armor.

“Would you stop worrying?” Amity snapped. “We’ll be in and out before anyone is the wiser.”

Luz glared back at Amity, “Fine.” She grabbed her bat and opened the door.

The girls exited the van, and Luz took the three in. Willow had her usual trenchcoat on, hair cut short and combat boots, the sunflower mask a sharp difference from her outfit. Amity for some reason wore a bright pink outfit, skirt and all; which with the smiling lion mask gave a vibe of cheerleader at Halloween. Only the spiked bracelets and collar contributed to the danger of the AK she wielded. Luz had stuck with the classic, a striped shirt and green army jacket with a beanie. Of course, the winking otter mask sealed the deal.

With a quick nod, the three hurried up the stairs. Luz was the first to the door bodychecking it open and sprinting inside. Willow hurried in next and Amity strolled casually after, her assault rifle already leveling at the security guards.

Willow raised her pistol and let out a burst into the air, Civilians screamed and cowered away from them.

“HANDS UP AND GET DOWN NOW!” Amity threatened the under armed security guards with her ‘Blight’ voice. A tone which commanded respect.

Luz, running a fair distance ahead, raised her bat and slammed it into a lone guard on the other side as she passed. The man crumpled and Luz kicked open the door to the tellers.

“ALRIGHT HANDS UP! THIS IS A STICK UP!” She shouted as she threatened the tellers with her pistol. The tellers threw their hands away from the panic buttons and towards the ceiling.

“Oh my god, can you be more cliche?” Amity grumbled.

“No fighting,” Willow commanded as she hauled some well-dressed man up off the floor. “Ok, Mister Manager. Time to see the safe.”

“I-I don’t understand! We paid for this month, why are you here!?”

“Shut up and move!” Willow shoved him towards the back.

Luz meanwhile led all the tellers out of their room and had them lay with the rest of the hostages. Amity patrolled the room, her rifle just itching and a growl in her throat.

“Tellers secured,” Luz announced as the last person exited the room.

“Good work Luzura. How’s it going in the vault Venus?” Gus asked.

“This asshole won’t stop blabbing about the Fakes? Ever heard of them?”

“Sounds familiar, but I’m not too up on West Coast criminals.”

“The Owl Lady would know probably,” Luz said into her ear piece.

“Who cares? Let’s just get the money and get out,” Amity shook her head.

“Alright we’re good. Heading back upfront,” Willow gave the call after a few minutes. “How’s the street look Illusionist?”

“Looks good on my end. Wait…” Sounds of rapid typing filled their earpieces. “There’s someone else in the system. Fuck they’re good.”

“What? Who? Cops? Bank IT?” Willow sounded incredulous, as she tossed some bags to the others. Luz slung hers over her shoulder before turning towards the doors.

“Too good for them. Fuck, I don’t know what they want but you might not have too much time.”

“It’s fine we’re done here,” Luz shoved the door open with her shoulder.

“LUZURA GET DOWN!”

The van at the bottom of the steps exploded, knocking Luz on her ass in the open door. Looking around she saw a sports car parked a bit further down, the driver dropping an empty rpg tube into the backseat. He idly fixed his purple suit jacket (over an orange shirt? Who wears that?) and ran a finger along his white Stetson towards Luz with a smirk.

A lanky well-dressed blonde in gold sunglasses grinned next to the passenger seat, but it was when the trunk closed and two more people stepped around to the front that Luz moved.

She scrambled backwards, slamming the door closed and started shouting at everyone, “GET BACK! AWAY FROM THE DOOR! MOVE QUICK!”

She dove over the central desk as bullets started flying through the door, peppering it with holes. Outside the noise was unrelenting as the thick wooden doors were slowly turned to scraps. Luz thought she heard screams but couldn’t tell if it was civilians or her friends as she huddled behind her cover.

After what seemed an eternity, first one then another door fell off the hinges absolutely wrecked. The hail of gunfire stopped, though the ringing in Luz’s ears continued.

Gus’s voice was the first thing to pierce the ringing, “Guys!? What’s going on!? I lost visual feed!”

“I-I’m ok!” Willow sounded unsure for the first time since Luz met her. “Princess? Luzura? What was that?”

“That would be company toasting our ride!” Luz responded, using the lull to check her gun. “No way that was cops! What kind of bank did you bring me to!?”

“Isn’t it obvious? It’s a mob bank. A well-armed one. Ah Fuck!” Amity grunted in pain.

“You going soft on us Princess?” Luz asked with no small amount of concern.

“In your dreams, Luzura,” Amity snarled.

Luz went to say something else but a high British voice called out, “Now that is how you make an entrance Boi!” Gripping her pistol and bat, Luz slowly looked over the counter seeing the four enter the door. The lanky well-dressed man with golden shades was gesturing around with a golden deagle and a grin.

Next to him, a man in a leather jacket scowled at the Brit, “Yeah, that’s why I did it, idiot!” The man’s minigun still smoked from pulverizing the door.

“Aww, Mogar. Let him have his fun,” A redhead woman laughed as she draped herself over sunglasses.

“Can you guys focus?” The color clashing cowboy cocked his AK, “Hey Fuckers! You and your friends are dead!”

“Whelp. We’re screwed,” Luz whispered into her earpiece.

“Giving up already Luzura?” Amity’s laugh turned to a hiss.

“That’s it! I’m heading over! Where the fuck’s my gun!?”

“Chill Illusionist! There’s only four, and if it’s their bank they won’t use that minigun inside. They’re all bluster,” Luz could almost hear the gears turning in Willow’s head.

“They already used it on the door and Princess is hurt, we’re still at a disadvantage,” Luz shot back, trying to keep sight on the four without being seen. The three had started moving further into the bank, while leather jacket (Mogar?) stood guard at the door.

“It’s just a scratch,” Amity hissed.

“Ok, an AK and two pistols. AK is heading left of the doors and pistols are going right,” Willow must have a better vantage than Luz. “Princess move towards the AK and try to get a drop on them. I’ll go the other way and try to draw the pistols away. Luzura stay down and wait for an opportunity.”

“Copy,” Amity responded.

“What about the mini?” Luz asked.

“It’s intimidation Luzura!” Amity snapped.

Luz only grumbled as she checked her pistol for the twentieth time. She could hear someone just on the other side of her cover.

“Come out, come out where ever you are…,” The redhead sang softly. Luz tensed with her pistol, watching the lip of the counter.

Suddenly, Willow’s automatic pistol barked to Luz’s right. “Ahh! Shite!” The Brit’s gun fired twice, “Phoenix, a little help!?”

The redhead groaned, “C’mon Golden Boy. You can’t take one pistol?” Luz saw her moving forward to take cover by the teller windows, not noticing the girl behind her.

“HEY FUCKER!” Amity’s AK barked on the other side of the bank, “ARE YOU COLORBLIND OR SOME SHIT!? I MEAN PURPLE AND ORANGE!?”

“SAYS THE GIRL WHO CAN’T DECIDED BETWEEN PUNK OR PREP!” More automatic fire rang out. “THOUGHT YOU WOULD UNDERSTAND!”

“Ok, OK! I’M IN! …and I’m out…” Gus called out, “Shit. This fucker is good.”

Willow’s pistol let out another burst, and Golden Boy’s gun shot back. The redhead leaned forward to peek over the teller window, and Luz lined up her pistol. As she was about to pull the trigger, Willow’s gun fired and bullets bounced off the bullet proof glass above Phoenix’s head.

The redhead ducked from the fire; her head turned to press against the counter. The girl’s eyes went wide as she met Luz’s stare.

“FUCK!” The redhead spun pulling her gun up. But Luz’s gun barked in panic unloading the gun into center mass.

Behind Luz a wail was heard, before the whirling sound of a minigun coming to speed was heard. Luz hated being right.

She shot up and ran to the left, as bullets started flying shredding her hiding spot. Running as fast as she could, hyper aware of the hot lead that seemed one step behind her.

“SHIT, SHIT, SHIT!”

Luz dove into an empty office just as the gunshots turned to clicking of an empty chamber. Mogar screamed again, and a large metal thud sounded as the empty minigun landed close to the office door.

“LUZ!?” Amity shouted in concern.

“Fuck that was close,” Luz kicked the wood door shut then scrambled behind the desk. Gunshots rang out outside the office, and Luz patted herself down looking for another mag. Finding one last mag she reloaded, “Bad news guys, I lost my mask. How are you?”

“Only you Luz…” Willow sighed.

“Dumbass,” Amity’s AK barked again.

“Love ya too,” Luz chanced a peek through the window. Mogar was kneeling by Phoenix, holding her hand. He leaned down and cupped her face for a moment before standing up and firing a bullet into her head. He turned snarling towards Luz.

“Shit!” Luz ducked back down, holding her bat and gun tightly. “These guys are fucking hardcore. He just executed his teammate!”

“Fuck!” Amity growled, “How are we going to get out of here Venus?”

…

“Venus?”

“Oh, sorry. Was that this lovely bird with the trenchcoat?” Golden boy’s accented voice came through the earpiece. “She can’t come to the phone right now. May I take a message?” He asked in good humor.

“YOU SON OF A BITCH! WHAT DID YOU DO TO HER!?” Gus roared over the coms.

“Nothing she didn’t try to do to me, I assure you mate. Besides, if you didn’t try to rob from the FAKES then this wouldn’t have happened.”

Gus continued to yell and rage but Luz was distracted by the gunfire shattering the windows in the office she was hiding at. Luz yelled in surprise covering her head from the glass.

“LUZ,” Amity screamed over the comms, her gun going off again. “JUST DIE YOU FUCKER!”

“Hey! Ottergirl!” Mogar yelled, “You killed my wife you Bitch!” He fired off a few more times with his pistol, “Come out coward!” His gun clicked empty.

“I’m no coward! Now eat this Sucker!” Luz shot up and unloaded her pistol at the man. He stood there calmly reloading as the shots flew by him, the entire time glaring at Luz. Luz slowly lowered her empty pistol, “So…Would you accept a heartfelt apology?”

Mogar growled, stuffing his pistol back into its holster. He cracked his knuckles and neck as he strode confidently into the office. Luz tossed the empty gun at him, then raised her bat.

Luz swung, keeping Mogar on the other side of the desk. He snarled at each swing, before grabbing a chair and chucking it at Luz. Luz yelped and swung her bat, smacking it away. This was the opening Mogar was waiting for, and he went low driving a fist into her stomach. Quick as a flash, his other fist connected with her face.

Luz’s head rung and she tried to get away, swinging her bat rather weakly in a vain attempt. Mogar easily blocked it and grabbed Luz, throwing her over the desk and back into the bank proper.

Luz rolled to a stop, using her bat to attempt to get up. She wiped some blood from her lip and glared at Mogar.

“HEY!” Amity yelled from the side. She stood there sans mask with a pistol under the cowboy’s neck, holding him hostage. “Let her go or this colorblind idiot gets it.”

“Again, it’s very insulting when you say that. I am not an idiot,” The man slowly reached up and took his hat off.

Mogar huffed and pulled his gun out.

“Hey! I mean it!” Amity shouted, forcing the gun into his neck even harder.

“I’ll see you back at base Rimmy Tim,” Mogar leveled his gun at the pair. Luz tried to stand but fell back to her knees.

“Just make sure you bring my hat this time. Don’t feel like another raid on the evidence locker this week,” Rimmy Tim smiled completely at ease as Mogar pulled the trigger.

Amity looked shocked as Rimmy Tim went limp, dropping his body and looking at the blood that smeared onto her hand. “What the fuck?” Several gunshots rang out and Amity dropped.

“NO!”

Luz drove her bat towards Mogar’s legs, knocking him onto his back. She jumped on top swinging. They devolved into an absolutely feral fistfight. Both giving as much as they got, as they rolled round trying to gain the upper hand.

Climbing on top once again, Luz slammed a fist into his face. In the daze she managed to get her hands around the man’s neck. Mogar snarled up at the girl, his hands trying to break her grip or punch her off. But in her rage, Luz was beyond caring of a few punches.

Pistol-whipping, however?

A shiny gold handle slammed into Luz’s head, knocking her off Mogar who gasped for breath. Luz’s vision swam for a second before clearing back up. Faintly she was aware of Gus yelling, seeing as her earpiece was knocked out of her ear.

“Now, now. None of that Love,” The Golden Boy’s voice casually said. “Too much killing already so I can’t have you offing my boi.” He shrugged as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.

“Fuck you and your Boy!” Luz spat out some blood. “He killed my Girl!”

“You killed my wife…” Mogar choked out between coughs. The Golden Boy rolled his eyes.

“So dramatic. Sorry Love, all’s fair and all that,” The Golden Boy leveled his golden deagle at Luz’s face. “That’s just how the milk crumbles the biscuit sometimes.”

“What the fuck does that even mean?” Mogar snarled at the Golden Boy.

“Oi! Don’t be rude, Micoo!” Was the second to last thing Luz heard.

BLAM

Luz shot up, looking around wildly before realizing she was in the bedroom of her new apartment. She winced at the horrible headache splitting her skull. Her sheets were covered in sweat and she panted from the scarily clear nightmare she had just awoken from. With a sigh of relief, she fell back onto her pillow to stare at the ceiling, cursing the throbbing headache that clearly influenced her dreams.

Unfortunately, her tentative plans to just go back to sleep to avoid dealing with said headache was cut short with a ringing phone. With a groan, she patted her pockets for her cell. Idly she realized she must have fell asleep without changing into her pajamas, as she pulled her work cell out and answered.

“What!?” Normally, she was more chipper but the headache felt as if it sucked all the life from her.

“Christ, Luz! Finally!” Amity snarled with a bit of relief. “Willow! I got Noceda!” Amity called into the background before asking the one question she never asked Luz, “Are you ok?”

“What? Yeah, just got a throbbing headache. And apparently, I slept in my body armor,” Luz’s free hand started unstrapping the Velcro on her armor. “That’d explain that freaky dream I had.”

“That we tried to rob Grand National Bank then were killed by a rival gang?”

Luz stopped, concern forcing its way into her thoughts, “How did you know that Amity…?”

“You should turn the news on Luz…”

Luz sat still for a second, before shooting off the bed. Scrambling into the next room, she grabbed the remote and flicked the tv on.

“-orning gang violence erupted down at Grand National Bank, as two rival criminal factions had a shootout in the front lobby. There are reports of numerous casualties as well as the criminals getting away with thousands of dollars. Eyewitness accounts claim several of the assailants fell during the shootout, but LSPD has refused to comment.”

The blood rushed to Luz’s ears and the news reporters’ words seemed to become distant as they showed pictures and grainy video of the shootout. There her and her friends reenacted the dreams events as they faced off against the FAKES. She slumped onto her couch and just watched.

Slowly she became aware of someone calling her name from far away. Looking down she realized that her cell was still connected.

She put it against her ear again, “What the FUCK happened!?”

#The Owl House #achievement hunter #Fake AH Crew #Luz Noceda #Amity Blight #Willow Park #Gus Porter #Betas #Michael Jones #Lindsay Jones #Gavin Free #Jeremy Dooley #Immortal AU #GTA AU #pra370r1an

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majorshiraharu · 4 years ago

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Echoes In My Mind; Chapter 4 - Familiar Faces - EchoxReader Fic

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Content Rating: Mature+ Warnings: Swearing Anxiety Trigger Warnings: Depression PTSD Nightmares Trauma Torture ; only references from the previous chapters

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Notes: Y/O/N = Your characters original name (before they went into hiding) Sorry this got a little long lol Taglist: @grand-admiral-luna

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They were right, after a few weeks and a lot of hard work you were walking again, your legs and arms were still weak at times, but at least you could move around without needing Echo to follow you like a lost puppy dog -- though you do miss having him around, you miss having him curled up at your bedside holding your hand as you fell asleep, you actually kinda miss having him feed you, mostly since it always annoyed Crosshair. It was nice having someone care for you, and it was nice to get to know Echo better over this time, though you didn't actually learn too much about who he was since he still didn't tell you anything about his past, and you fearing that if the man who captured you knew who you were, you didn't want to put Echo or the others in any danger by telling them about your past either, in case this guy ever found you guys, you couldn't bear the thought of Echo being hurt by that scum. - Though you really wanted to tell him, tell him everything, most of all, how you felt about him, you didn't want to waste this chance by repeating your mistake, but you can't, for some reason, you just can't bring yourself to tell him, not yet anyway. -------------------- You walk into the small area of the ship that Tech had all his things set up in, hoping to get an answer to a question you had. "Hey, Tech, about having questions, um, I have one..." you call out.

"Oh Y/N, sure, how can I help?" he asks, motioning you to come over. "So, uh, the guy who...tortured me...um..well he used the poison for more than just trying to kill me, he wanted to remove something, and I need to know if it's true, what he said, and if it worked..." "Ok, what is it? I can scan your body and blood again to check what you're looking for," he asked curiously, but almost like he knew what you were talking about. "Promise me you won't tell anyone about this, not anyone!" you say with a concerned look, worried about having just one person find out you're a force user. "Not even Echo" he teases "What...uh...no, why would you ask?" you shoot back trying to hide your flustered expression. "Oh....no reason....so, what is it?" he says smirking before looking down at his datapad. "It's um....for...uh....Midi-chlorians." "Hm, let me check" - he takes some blood from you and puts it into a slot by his holoscreen pulling up some graphs and numbers you don't understand. "So, what does it say?" you question, eagerly awaiting his answer. "Well, it shows normal levels," he says comparing it to other graphs and numbers on the screen. -"But, for some reason, it has increased since the last test I took, interesting, is this what you meant?" he asks turning around to look at you.

"Not exactly, he said he'd take it from me, but if they're increasing that means he failed, right, but....no matter how hard I try I still can't use it." "The Force? Well to my limited knowledge it's not possible to take it away, you can reduce the Midi-chlorian levels, but if a user is strong enough it will return, you would just need to reach a level closer to your original before it would fully return. This is the information I've gathered from some old Jedi text." "Wait wait wait, I never said anything about the Force, and I'm no Jedi, and why do have old Jedi text anyway, that’s forbidden under the Empires new laws" you say nervously.

"No, you're not, but you were a strong Force user that worked for the Republic," he said adjusting his glasses. "What, no, uh why would you say that?!" you're starting to panic, wondering how he could possibly have figured this out and if everyone else knew... "It was in your file - if you're wondering how I found it, - your blood is stored in the old files from the Republic I have saved, this includes some medical files and Jedi text, along with files on important members of GAR, when I input some of your blood samples into the scanner months ago your file popped up. Oh, don't worry I didn't tell any of the others, your secret is safe with me." "Ah, I thought those files would have all been destroyed, thank you for not telling anyone."

"The files were destroyed by the Empire and made illegal, but I have a lot of old stuff stored on this thing from back before the Empire took power, it's all saved locally so they can't remove or access it unless they get their hands on this, but I've got plenty of safety features to protect this information," he says patting a terminal next to the holoscreen. "Thank you Tech, so...then about the Force, it'll come back?" "It never left, your Midi-chlorians were taken down a lot, when comparing to your old records, but the more I study these numbers I think that not even this is true, I can't be certain, since I can't find the poison metal in your system anymore, but I think that is interfering with the Midi-chlorian count somehow." "What do you mean?" "You should be able to use the Force, based off of other records including our own, it appears that the only thing that can actually remove Midi-chlorians from the body is by losing parts of your body, an example would be Echo, he lost an arm and both legs, his count is lower compared to his old files, but that hasn't happened to you. My conclusion would be that the metal is somehow preventing the scanner from picking up everything." "But if I can technically use the Force, why can't I use it now?" "I'm not sure...the Force seems to be something that is based not only in the body but also the mind. You went through a lot, and since your body is mostly back to normal, I would recommend focusing on your mind. -Echo told me you have a lot of nightmares about the torture, maybe start with that." he says before hearing his name being called from the other room by Hunter. "Tech, get over here, we need you to review some bounty missions," Hunter shouts over the sound of his brothers chatting. "You should go, thank you for the help Tech, I appreciate it, hopefully, I can figure out what's wrong," you say looking down at the ground wondering how you were supposed to stop these nightmares and regain your abilities.

"No worries, based on your files I think this is something you can handle, but if you ever need help from any of us, --especially Echo would be happy to help," he says smirking while walking off to join his brothers. -You roll your eyes before heading back to your room. ---------------------------------------------------------------- You're sitting on the floor, trying to meditate. -You are back in the dark building, you hear screaming, - it sounds familiar, you move closer to the screaming. - The closer you get the more you realize it's you screaming, it's your voice. There's talking, but you can't understand what they're saying, suddenly you hear a voice calling your name, you look around and there is no one. The voice gets louder and louder until you're snapped out of your meditation. --"Y/N, hey, do you copy, Y/N?!" Hunter's voice comes in over your com. It takes a moment for you to realize where you are and answer your com, "Sorry, what is it?" you ask slightly annoyed that you were snapped out of your meditation.

"Come join us, we're discussing a potential bounty mission and we need your help."

"Okay, I'll be right there," you say turning off your com while you get up and head towards the main area of the ship. Requesting your presence at one of their meetings wasn't something that happened before, usually, you hadn't been included in the past ones because of your health, you're still not back to normal, now suffering more from mental than physical pain, but hopefully, you could be of some use. -- "You called for me?" you ask walking into the area of the ship they always held their briefings in. “Ah Y/N, yes we require your help on this mission, Tech decoded the frequency of the bounty request and it is coming from an Imperial base, we need the credits to stock up on our supplies and for fuel, but if the Empire finds out who we are we could be in some trouble. You're not a Clone so we're going to need you to accept the information from them and later on drop off the bounty, are you willing to do this?" Hunter said motioning you towards the table. They all look at you, clearly concerned, especially Tech since he knows you use to be part of the Republic, but none of them knowing if you might have a bad past with the Empire. You know they need these credits badly, you overheard Tech and Echo talking the other day about how low they had run on credits and supplies after tending to you for so long and not being able to take the more dangerous bounties which always paid better. You don't know how much Tech knew, if he found out that you use to work under the direct command of the Chancellor who was now the Emperor, you were a powerful force user, you were also a bounty hunter before that, you'd been found by him because of your skills, you were hired to be a military leader within GAR, taking dangerous missions all the time, you served alongside some of the best battalions and Jedi. When order 66 happened you were expected to fulfill your duty, to die, being the right-hand woman of the Chancellor now turned Emperor you were a danger to him and his new Empire, but you refused to accept that fate and after escaping you deserted the military, changing your appearance and never looking back. Even though a friend of yours helped you fake your death, you didn't exactly want to march into an Imperial base and help them, but you did want to help the people who saved your life and that you've grown to care for. After a long pause and their faces growing more concerned, you finally answered. "Yes! - I owe you guys for saving and helping me, I'm also starting to like it here so I gotta do something besides waste your credits and supplies" you say with a confidant but sad grin on your face.

"Don't worry about that, but it's good to have you on board for this one," Hunter said giving you a datapad with the information on it. ---------------------------------------------------------

You all spend a few hours planning and going over all the information provided, you also decided to go over some details in case anything went wrong -- the autopilot dropped the ship out of hyperspace plotting its course for the planet where this meeting will take place, Tech takes over the landing of the ship, setting the ship down near the designated hanger of the Imperial base. --------------------------------------------------------- Anxiety rushes over you as you put on your armor, Echo comes over to your side looking concerned, "Y/N, are you sure you want to do this? We aren't going to force you to do this, clearly, there's something bothering you about this mission and -"

"Echo it's fine," you say coldly, cutting him off, causing a sad expression to fall over his face, "Y/N, you know you can tell me anything." "Not this Echo, trust me you're better off not knowing," you say putting on the last parts of your armor, putting on your helmet and activating the voice changer, hoping this will keep the Empire from knowing who you are, even with your change in appearance you rather be safe than sorry. Echo attempts to say something but you ignore him, making his sad expression turn into a frustrated one filling his face as you headed over to the main part of the ship, walking out the door as the others wish you good luck, Tech had connected their coms through your helmet so they could give you tips or information, and just in case anything goes wrong they'll know right away this time. --------------------------------------------------

You march over to the building housing the office where your meeting will take place, avoiding as many Imperial people as you can on your way there. -- You finally reach the office, knocking on the door identifying yourself as only a bounty hunter here for the mission they requested. "Come in," says the Imperial on the other side of the door, you push the button to let yourself in, walking in you notice a person standing off to the side of the desk, she looks very unfriendly her short black hair rounding her face in an unflattering way, the man behind the desk looked pretty standard, clean cut black hair with some gray showing, but when he turned to fully face you you noticed something -- he was a Clone!?! What the heck you thought...well good thing they sent you, otherwise, they'd be in a world of trouble, suddenly you notice on the side of his face there was a scar tracing around the side of his eye in a distinct cut, you'd seen this before, you'd seen him before. After you'd been tortured your memory had gotten pretty bad, not helped by the many sleepless nights caused by nightmares, but you know him you just can't place it, right as you think of who he is he introduces himself. "I'm Commander Cody, who are you?", you can't believe it Cody is working for the Empire, well actually you can, unlike Rex he wasn't one who defied orders, at least not easily or often, but you'd rather not think about this because you use to be good friends and now he's working for the ruling force in the galaxy that wants you dead, what would he do if he knew it was you? You notice just how miserable he looks, he always enjoyed being out on the front lines, not stuck behind a desk, you try to lighten the mood some with your classic sarcasm which always use to earn you a smile from him. "The bounty hunter you called, genius!" "You were able to track us, hmph, at least that means you're somewhat competent, what are your skills?" he asks coldly, not even attempting to play along with your sarcastic jab.

"Whatever you need them to be." you reply jokingly

--"You are a cocky one, show some respect" the lady standing to the side snorts out. "Pryce!" Cody snaps shooting an angry look at her, making her squirm with fear. "Anyway, what I need you to do is stop some terrorist forces that are attacking a mining company, our units have had little luck stopping them or finding their armories and leader, I need you to go there and stop them, destroy the armories, and any weapons you find, then bring me their leader, alive, understood?"

"So what you're saying is the Empire can't do its job and you need me? Well you’re in luck so don't worry I can handle this," you say crossing your arms. The lady named Pryce speaks up again, "You better not destroy or damage any of our mining equipment, understood??" basically yelling this at you, earning another death glare from Cody, before he reaches for a datapad on his table sliding it across to you. "That contains all the information you need, and don't tell anyone we hired you for this."

"Got it," you say quickly looking over the datapad scanning it with your helmet before getting up to leave, "Good to se-... um... meet you, Commander," you say hoping he didn't notice your slip up. Both of them just look at you not saying anything. --After you leave the room Pryce turns to Cody, "You think we can trust that one?' she asks.

"I trust her more than I do Stormtroopers that aren't Clones," he says with a huff.

"The Empire was right to decommission the Clones, they are old and aren't needed, not to mention most of them seem to be in bad moods," she says walking towards the door. "Well, when we have to deal with people of your kind it'll put us in a bad mood. Oh, and if you eventually want a position in the Empire I would recommend you try and get along with us, this mission isn't over yet so you'll be stuck with me for a while," he said leaning back in his chair folding his arm and smirking. "This isn't some mission, it's a simple job my father asked you to do, but since your Stormtroopers failed him, he made me come check in on you and you had hired this bounty hunter filth. If you still want us to work with the Empire might I suggest showing me some more respect Clone."

"Who are you going to work for Ms. Pryce? You don't even call the shots at Pryce Mining, your father does and I doubt he'd be pleased to hear about your behavior towards the Empire." Cody scoffs causing her to stop in the doorway, frozen with anxiety and fear.

"You're right, forgive me, it's been a long day. I will be in contact in a few standard days, otherwise, update me if you hear anything sooner from her," she said before walking out the door. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You're all sitting around a table looking over some holomaps and texted displayed on the holoscreen Tech had set up. "It seems these people attacking the Pryce Mining company are mostly angry locals, but, the weapons and tactics they are using are not their own, I can't trace any of the weapons, but I assume they are coming from a better-organized group with ties to the underground. Their tactics, on the other hand, are very similar to battle tactics used during the Clone Wars by the Republic Army."

"So what you're saying Tech is that these guys are getting outside help?" Hunter says hoping to get to the point Tech always seemed to drag out.

"Well yes, but I don't know who is helping them." "That doesn't change our objective, -- Echo you and Y/N go over the tactics some more, I'm having the both of you go with Crosshair to take out the armories in the southern sector, while Wrecker, Tech and I will take the northern sector."

"Are we sure Wrecker can comply with the stealth part of this mission?" you say jokingly.

"Just cause I hate em doesn't mean I can't do em," Wrecker huffs "All right everyone, cut the chatter, let's get to work, oh prepare yourselves, this mission won't be easy so you all better be on your a game," Hunter says before heading over to the cockpit with Tech. --------------- Echo and you look over the tactics some more, you notice them being similar to ones you had helped teach Saw and his rebellion during the Clone Wars. Rex and Anakin had drawn up most of these tactics. "Something about these tactics seems familiar," Echo says studying the information on the holomap you guys put together.

"They're similar to General Skywalker's and Rex's early battle tactics during the Clone Wars, I know cause I helped Rex and Y/O/N work on th---" suddenly he cuts himself off realizing he's just told you an important part of his past. You stand there in shock, realizing that the man sitting next to you has to be the same Echo you served with, no there's no mistake now, he is in fact the man you loved and served with on countless missions. You had spent some late nights together working on these tactics, and the way he says your name is the same, you can't help but let a shocked expression flow over your face, unsure if you should say anything, or if you should keep quiet... "Oh, um sorry, forget I said that," he blurts out quickly noticing your reaction. The room becomes awkwardly quiet, - filled with a stillness that was uncomfortable. You both look back to the information displayed on the holoscreens. Should you tell him, you think. Should I tell him everything...finally, -or should I spare him from everything, clearly he doesn't know it's you, how could he though, you don't act much like your old self and you look nothing alike. Even though it hasn't been all that long since the end of the war it was enough time to move on from the life before, not to mention Echo had died some years ago, or so you thought. You wonder where Echo's been all this time, how didn't you know he was back, that he was alive, how was he alive? -So many questions filled your mind, your breathing started to become as sporadic as your heartbeat, your brain was overloaded with all this information. Your legs started to tremble and you could feel a cold sweat breaking out across your body as your vision tunneled, you looked over to him for a short moment before everything went black and the only sound you heard was the painful crash of your head on the ground and Echo calling your name before calling for help.

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here-comes-the-moose · 6 months ago

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Omega: How do you want your coffee, Crosshair?

Crosshair: As dark and bitter as my soul.

Omega: …

Omega: He’ll have an iced vanilla latte.

#Crosshair: I’m a bad person my soul is black I am the night #omega: you literally cried when I drew you a picture #Crosshair: I’m bad #omega: sounds fake but ok #star wars tbb #star wars the bad batch #tbb crosshair #the bad batch #incorrect bad batch quotes #tbb incorrect quotes #tbb omega

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localrobosexual · 7 years ago

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so how about The Last Knight huh

HECKO I totally forgot to make that post about what I thought about Transformers 5 after I watched it whOOPS

so here they are now!! :0 it’s kinda long though. Sorry about that. Unlike my post about GOTG Vol. 2 that one time, for this one I just kinda wrote down some erratic notes about thoughts and reactions I had as I watched the movie, and then I kinda summed up my opinion about it overall down at the end?? so yeah. That’s how this one is gonna play out lol. Generalized running commentary style.

(fair warning: this WILL contain spoilers!! Like I can’t,,, , talk about it without giving stuff away lmao. If you haven’t seen the movie, and still want to and plan on doing so, I don’t recommend you read this!)

alright u made it past the spoiler warning so here we go!!

- Quintessa gave me a lot of G1 Unicron vibes with the whole "I made you, you are mine to command" thing

- "Why do we tell these stories, besides the fact that dragons are wicked" girl same lmao

- I literally cannot. CANNOT. Take Barricade seriously. With those ridiculous "punish" and “enslave” branded brass knuckles. Buddy. My dude. Please chill. You're literally trying to be so edgy man just. Turn it down a notch lmao - Optimus literally didn't sound at all like himself at first?? It sounded like he had a different voice actor for those first few lines he spoke?? That was weird. It wasn't until the second time he appeared on screen where Quintessa was telling him about where the staff was hid was I like "oh wait yeah there's Peter Cullen" - the "Cybertron is coming" shot looked sUPER fake and green screened to me for whatever reason?? like idk I think it was the lighting they had on him but it was reALLY FUNNY PFFFFTT

- Bee swinging his legs on top of that roof was sUPER CUTE THANK U IM BLESSED

- Mohawk. Um. Who thought turning Junkrat into a Transformer was a good idea bc that’s literally all this dude is lmao

- What kind of name is Nitro Zeus. Im cryin. PRETTY SURE HE HAS THE SAME VOICE ACTOR AS THE ONE TIGER ALIEN FROM BEN 10??? I DON’T REMEMBER HIS NAME BUT HE WAS THE ONE THAT ALWAYS WENT "LEMME TELL YOU SOMETHIN". WHY DOES HE HAVE SHOCKWAVE'S FACE. IM SO DONE

- I like how they had the whole holoform bike thing going on?? like how Prowl's was in TFA and Arcee’s was in TFP that was neato - I WILL NEVER GET USED TO HEARING BUMBLEBEE SWEAR I S2G but the Siri voice thing was pretty funny ngl. I saw that in a trailer on instagram and didn't actually think it was actually a real scene that they kept I thought it was just made for that specific ad but nOPE IT WAS REAL LMAO - Megatron musing over Starscream's decapitated head oh my god liSTEN MAN PUT HIM DOWN DONT BE LIKE THIS COME ON - HI CAN WE TALK ABOUT COGSMAN I LOVE COGMAN A LOT I LOVE HIM HE WAS REALLY GREAT EASILY A BIG FAVE HE WAS SO ENJOYABLE TO WATCH I love how,,, ok heck I don't know this guy very well bc I didn't watch Age of Extinction but it's the green dude with the trench coat built into him,,, Crosshairs?? I think it's Crosshairs yeah but the fact that he called him a C-3PO rip off was fUNNY MAN that also got a good laugh outta me and he totally rekt his heckin finger lmao. He was rlly short?? that surprised me kinda like from the trailers it looked like he was pretty average human sized but nope he’s super short - BEE'S DOUBLE CHEST POUND FINGER GUN "ayyy my dude" THING WAS ADORABLE THANK U - THEY ACTUALLY WENT THROUGH WITH THE WHOLE EARTH BEING UNICRON THING HOLY HECK now that,,, that was really interesting. Didn't expect that. AND the whole Nemesis Prime deal?? OP getting brainwashed?? THAT'S why he's heckin evil nO WONDER MAN GEEZ I didn't think OP would willingly do all that to the earth just because. That makes me feel a lot better actually lmao - Soundwave!! Shockwave!! u guys are famous!! wow way to go im so proud of u!!!! - Hot Rod tho,,,, , oh boy he was a mess lmao. I only really know Hot Rod through MTMTE and the 80s Transformers movie so,, , not too too much to go off of, but he just was so incredibly DIFFERENT and off-putting from what I was used to that I honestly didn't like him so much?? I mean he was alright. Grew on me a bit more as the movie went on I think. He was ok. That time warp weapon thing he had was cool tho!! nice!! seemed kinda overpowered a bit but cool!! - COGMAN SPINNING AROUND IN A CIRCLE WHILE HE WALKED THE DOG WAS ADORABLE THANK U - you know that movie trope where he background music will become like a song on the radio and then a character comes and switches it off?? YEAH THEY DID SOMETHING LIKE THAT IN THIS MOVIE WITH THE EPIC WORLD-CHANGING ORGAN MUSIC AND I JUST. COGMAN GOING HAM ON THAT ORGAN HAD ME CRYYYYYYYIIINNG HE WAS SO INTO IT MAN OH MY GO D. I LOVE COGMAN THANK U THAT’S ONE OF MY FAVORITE TROPES AND IT WAS HILARIOUS GOD BLESS - HE CAN SING OPERA TOO IM CRYYYYIINNNG MAN JUST. PLEASE LET HIM HYPE UP THE MOMENT HE'S DOING HIS BEST!!!! - THE TABLE WAS WRITTEN IN OLD CYBERTRONIAN yknow if you could get Cyclonus down there he could probs read that for you no problem. Or don't actually. Please don't drag him into Bayverse oh I s2g nevermind nevermind - HEY MAN I LOVED THAT ROBOT HYDRA WOO BOY THAT WAS COOL and it's like?? a Combiner?? but not really. Burton just said the twelve knights combined into the dragon but I doubt they can all unfuse from that form lmao it was probs just a one time thing. So not a Combiner. Still cool tho. Robot dragons. SICK!!!!!! - HEY they did the whole Unicron's a planet-eating god thing this time around too wow. Neat. Listen man all I'm saying is I glad I watched TFP and bits of G1 and that 80s movie bc if not I woulda had no idea why Unicron was important lmao. That was pretty neat tho!! Interesting. Interesting. - OK BUT COGMAN LAUGHING AND SINGING "MOVE B!TCH GET OUT THE WAY" WHILE DRIVING 200 MPH DOWN THE ROAD WAS HILARIOUS WHAT A BLESSING THANK U - Surprisingly Bee seemed to be ok in that open water??? Hanging on to the side of a submarine?? I mean. Salt water man. Buddy watch out ur gonna rust plEASE BE CAREFUL

- speaking of which didn’t they say there was gonna be a submarine transformer in this movie?? like didn’t they say that in interviews before the movie came out?? I mean. We never saw that. It might’ve been that the submarine WAS a transformer but it never spoke, never transformed, nothing. Didn’t give any indication that it was uniquely Cybertronian aside from Vivian’s magic touch thing. Idk. That wasn’t explained so I mean. Hmm.

- Cogman can make sushi!! dang!! wow!!! bravo!!! - OP'S HECKIN INTERDIMENSIONAL BOOB POCKET OH MY GO D dang wish I had one of those lmao - THAT FINAL FIGHT WITH OP AND BEE THO AAAAAAAA OH MY GO S H HECKO MAN!!!! OPTIMUS RIPS OFF BEE'S DOOR WINGS MAN!!! GEEZ!!!! what I wanna know is like since when did Bumblebee have a hammer lmao. Like,, , is it supposed to the the Forge of Solus Prime?? When did he get that?? How and why?? I don't know and it was never explained but I mean. Why tho. - OH MY GOD BUT BEE'S VOICE!! IT ACTUALLY WORKED!!! DANG!! WOW BUDDY!!! AAAA!! IM GLAD HE'S OK!!! and that's all it takes to snap Optimus outta his brainwashed phase lmao ok then. Cool. Wasn’t what I expected him to sound like either but then again I really don’t know what I expected in the first place lmao - I feel a LOT better knowing Optimus didn't willingly wanna destroy the earth like. He was brainwashed. And when he snapped outta it he felt absolutely awful about what he did. I mean it felt like that whole plot point was rushed, a lot of this movie felt very rushed, but it makes me feel better at least lmao. Optimus I'm sorry man can I,,, , give u a hug or something man it rlly looks like u need a hug - "YOU CHOSE THE WRONG SIDE" OOOOOH BOY FLASHBACKS TO THAT CAPTAIN AMERICA CIVIL WAR BIT IN PRI.ME(3) LMAOOOO - CADE. BUDDY. YOU CANT JUST BLOCK A SWORD LIKE THAT. THAT WAS A KILLING BLOW DEALT BY A GIANT ALIEN ROBOT I DONT CARE HOW SPECIAL THAT MEDALLION THINGY IS U CANT JUST DO THAT LMAOOOO. And then as soon as he whips that sword out the rest of the knights are like "oh wait yeah let's stop killing this guy we're chill now let's all point out swords together" lmaooooo - Crosshairs' "Love that guy. Goosebumps every time" line after Optimus gives his mandatory speech lmAO DUDE SAME - "You were by far the coolest" alright Cogman you ruined the moment a lil bit but man I still love u hecko - OK THIS IS GONNA SOUND REALLY STUPID BUT LISTEN MAN I'M GLAD THERE WAS,,,, , a lot of hand holding going on towards the end. Like fr. Cogman to dying Burton and Vivian and Cade as they were gonna jump outta that plane onto the Cybertronian tendril whatevers. Just. Small bits of physical reassurance and comfort in times of real great distress. I appreciate that a LOT more than like, watching two characters make out right before the big climactic final showdown lmao. Thank u movie wow I really didn't expect that - SO THERE WAS A COMBINER TEAM!! A COMBINER MINOTAUR!!! DANG NOT EVEN GONNA LIE THAT THING WAS NEATO!!! - Ok forget what I said about Hot Rod at the beginning he redeemed himself at the end. I didn't like him and first but now,, , now we chill. Granted I still can't see him as being HOT ROD bc he's just so different from what I know him as Rodimus but I can still appreciate him as his own character. Cool cool. - OPTIMUS RIDING THE ROBOT HYDRA INTO BATTLE AND BLOWING EVERYTHING UP WAS GREAT. MAN THAT WAS GOOD. "DID YOU FORGET WHO I AM" WOOOO BOY CHILLS MAN!!!! - OH COME ON they still made out. Lmao. Dangit. It was inevitable but I mean come on man. Alright. They kept it short and quick thank you tho if u had to put in a make out scene at least u kept it to a minimum. Thank you. Can we get back to the robots now pls. - AAAAA BUMBLEBEE'S "STING LIKE A BEE" LINE AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA - that ending was pretty sudden lmao. A lot of this movie was sudden and fast. They just jump cut STRAIGHT to those credits man not even an ending panorama or clean slow zoom out shot or anything lmao - AND OH BOY THEY TEASED UNICRON’S GONNA ACTUALLY COME BACK AND APPEAR IN ANOTHER MOVIE AAAAAAA OH NO OH BOY NOT AGAIN GOSH DARN IT LMAO

All in all, surprisingly, I actually ended up kinda enjoying it!! Like it really wasn't as bad as I thought it would be!! Tbh for me it might even be second best in the series!! (First being the first movie from 2008 lmao) Honestly I was really REALLY surprised at how much I didn't hate it. Like. I still dislike it to a degree because it's still Bayverse, and I probably won't watch it again unless I'm with friends (like I do with the rest of the transformers movies) but it honestly wasn't too too bad! It really exceeded my expectations as far as plot, and I wasn't hardcore cringing for most of the movie so hey that's a plus!! The movie had a lot of genuinely funny moments, especially with Cogman, which got some pretty good laughs outta me like I was really having fun at those parts!! Optimus’ absence for most of the movie didn’t sit well with me for some reason. Like it just felt strange. But it kinda had to be for the story to move forward so I guess I can forgive that lol. The pacing was REALLY whack and way too fast though. Like they were REALLY trying to cram a whole lotta stuff into a relatively short amount of time. The movie's almost two and a half hours long but it really didn't feel like that because of how fast the pacing was. Some of the dialogue felt really forced because of this issue too. It didn’t feel genuine sometimes. But that has to be like, pretty much my only specific issue with it?? surprisingly?? wow. I'm honestly super shocked lmao dang man I didn’t think I’d like this movie at all but I was very much proved wrong!! I hated those old ladies tho and their obsession to get Vivian a boyfriend and the whole innuendo thing. Yeah. No. Don't do that. Stop. I'm too ace for this.

anyways yeah those were my thoughts sorry that was so long lmao whoops

#transformers #bayverse #tf5 #transformers 5 #transformers the last knight #words of meg #long post

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MRKZ Chapter 2 The Bear And The Wolf

{5 Days before meeting Maxy at the Black Claw Island Base} Black Claw Assassin: {female in black tied up to a tree wakes up} Uuuuh...huh? Where...where am I? Ricky: {sitting on a pile of dead bodies that were Black Claw Assassins while eating a sandwich} Mmm, sometimes when you kill you get really hungry Black Claw Assassin: Grrrgh! {struggles & tries getting out} Ricky: Now be straight with me, what are doing in our house in Vale and also how did where we live, tell me and I promise you won't turn into a human banana peel {takes another bite on the sandwich}...go on Black Claw Assassin: Like I would tell you anything heretic! Ricky: You know you're guy here said that before slit his throat {picks out 1 of the dead assassins waving his hand about} you see? Black Claw Assassin: {looks nervous} I would rather die than tell you anything! Ricky: {sighs as he gets his blade out} Typical femme fatales Black Claw Assassin: That is sexist! Ricky: Well it's what I always encounter in my previous life, though I'm kinda happy you're resisting {grins evily} I have an excuse to go sadistic Black Claw Assassin: S-Sadistic? Ricky: See the Grizzly Huntsman is tough, powerful and owned your Boss before, me I butcher everyone who is an enemy, I love cutting things, and you cute girls make lovely sound each time I slice a bit of skin off each time Black Claw Assassin: {whimpers} Ricky: {cuts a part of her top off revealing her midriff} Especially the navels! {pokes her stomach with his blade} Black Claw Assassin: Stop! We knew where you lived through the G.R.I.M.Ms and Atlas Networks! We found out you and your brother was alive 3 years ago! We tried to pick our moment for revenge unti Lord Ryzen's recovery! Ricky: Ryzen?! Ryzen is dead! Don't lie to me! Black Claw Assassin: Lord Ryzen was resurrected 5 years ago but the damages the Grizzly Huntsman inflicted on him has ceased his regeneration, Lord Ryzen is immortal! Ricky:...So Maxy was right, damn I wish I never said he was paranoid, thanks for the info babe {sheathes his blade} oh and I was bluffing about my sadistic side, I would never damage any sexy navels, even from scum like you Black Claw Assassin: You tricked me?! Ricky: Yep, hehe, when you return to people tell them 2 brothers will kill them all, not 1 Black Claw Assassin: Grrr! Damn you Thunderwolf! Ricky: I'm go hunt down your Generals and help out Max, sayanora {teleports with lightning} Black Claw Assassin: Wait you can't just leave me here! {hears some Grimms coming by}...Oh no... {5 days later in Hawe Village} Mama Laark: Boy you are lucky to be alive, most of those cuts were fatal, why you gotta gamble with death all the time, you wanna leave your Mama behind so badly Maxy: Mama I don't wanna leave you, these guys are just as much of a threat as Salem, just wondering whether they are workin together Ricky: {sitting on a chair leaning} They're not, they're actually hoping she gts what she wants Maxy: Wait if Salem gets those Relics she'll end mankind, the Claw wants to take over Remnant, why would they let her be? Their plans differ Ricky: I don't know but General Tier told me that with Salem's help they'll get what they want Maxy: Tier? You found him? Ricky: And killed him, him and General Schlange Maxy: Schlange as well? How did you know about them? Ricky: I found your board Maxy:...Dude you went in my room? Not cool bro Ricky: Hey I needed to find out the truth ok, I had some doubts on the Claw's comeback, but it's true, Ryzen is back, he's plotting something Mama Laark: Well you boys better be careful Maxy: Mama? Mama Laark: I know you boys well, you fixate on somethin you never let go until it's dealt with {puts her hand on his shoulder} Max you're a Protector and Guardian just like your Pappy, you're strong and determined like him, you were a born a Guardian Maxy: Thanks Mama, I won't dishonour the the family Mama Laark: And you Rick are Guardian, I don't care if you ain't Faunas or blood related, you my baby and that's that, you both guard Remnant from scum like Salem and Ryzen, the Gods are gonna be standin and watchin you boys, they'll guide you Ricky: We won't disappoint you Mama, we'll kill every last 1 of them in the name of the Laarks Mama Laark: Then you have my blessins boys, show them what happens when you unleash the Wrath of Hawe, you brothers stay close and protect each other no matter what, don't you dare think about dyin out there Maxy: We won't Mama, it'll be their graves you'll see soon Mama Laarks: And it won't be cheap gravestones either I hope {in Maxy's room} Maxy: {checks his door} Man you broke my lock? Ricky: The window was caged, so I used our mini bomb gadget from G.R.I.M.Ms for the door Maxy: Dammit Rick, you use them like toys Ricky: Speak for yourself Mr Yang-Cam Maxy:...How'd you know about that? Ricky: I know a lot of things Max, nothing escapes these ears Maxy: Shut up man {looks at his board of Black Claw Targets} So I've just killed General Bär- Ricky: And I got General Tier and Schlange Maxy: So that's 3 Claw Generals, but how many more is there? Ricky: Well thanks to a informant I got info saying there are 2 left General Hund and Katze, although we don't exactly know who General Katze is, we do know of Hund Maxy: Really? What do you know? Ricky: Well you know that Garrison outside of Hawe? The 1 leading is General Hund, he's currently trying track me down and he's hoping to ambush you on your comeback Maxy: Meaning he doesn't know I'm back in Hawe, he won't expect me Ricky: You wanna go get him him now? Maxy: The sooner the better, then we can start searching for Katze Ricky: Cool, I'll go scout ahead {walks off} Maxy: How's Kalista? Ricky: {stops}...We...broke up Maxy: What? Why?...Oh is it because of the Captain? Ricky: Partially, I mean he would rip out my spine if anything happen to her but...she was the 1 for me, 1 and only Maxy: Then why did you give her up? Ricky: I nearly lost her at Beacon, I nearly lost my mind, it doesn't matter what her Dad thinks, if I lost her I'd break, I love her so much, I've never felt like this even in my previous life, being a killer and assassin took many emotions out of me, stopped me being a human and more of a monster, but she...made me feel human again, that is why I can't be with her, I don't want to endanger her ever again, I can't protect, I'm only good at killing, I'm no Protector like you Max, much as I want to be Maxy: Hm, you are Protector Rick, after all I'm still here thanks to you, plus you made sure Mama Laark was safe, you may not feel it now Rick, but soon you'll realize {taps his back} Now come on, we got a dog to kill Ricky: Right, err you mind opening the window? Maxy: Can't you use a door like a normal person? Ricky:... Maxy:...{sighs as puts a code in his scroll that opens the window cage} Ricky: Thanks bro {leaps out & teleports} Maxy: Hm {picks up his Staff & puts it on his back then slowly picks up a picture of MRKZ at Beacon}...Kali...Zal, sorry for bringing you guys into this {puts it down & walks off} {at An Atlas Garrison} Maxy: {top of a hill overlooking the Garrison} Hmm Ironwood stopped the Garrison system a long time ago Ricky: Yet there's 1 right next to Hawe {passes the binoculars} look over there Maxy: {looks with the binoculars} Aww man Ricky: Those are the successors of the Paladins, they're the new Valkyrie Units, they're a lot more agile and they can fly, the leader is manned while the others run by an A.I Maxy: How man "Atlas" Soldiers are here Ricky: 24, there are 3 Ursas and a pack of Beowolfs in cages, we could use them for a distraction, as for the Valkyries, I'm not sure, their detection is too good even I had time trying to avoid their crosshairs Maxy: Hmm and where's Hund? Ricky: Couldn't find him, but my informant says he should be here Maxy: Hmm, than that means he's in the manned Valkyrie, that's our target Ricky: What about the other Valkyries? Maxy: If they're run by an A.I then there's no doubt there is an airship running them, Rick you find that Airship and take it down, I'll release the Grimm on the troops Ricky: Got it {puts his mask on} good luck killing Hund {teleports} Maxy: Hm, you wait Hund, you'll be joining the other 3 soon {leaps off disappearing} {on the Atlas Airship} Fake Atlas Soldier: {walks through a corridor}...Hmm? {looks around}...Must be my imagination {turns around} Ricky: I get that a lot {grabs him & flips him to the ground putting his knee on his back while locking his arm behind him & holds a blade to his neck} Fake Atlas Soldier: Gaaargh! What are you- Ricky: {whispers} Ssshhh, I'll cut your throat open {checks the tattoo on his neck} Well-Well, you guys are really coming out of your comfort zones aren't you? Fake Atlas Soldier: I don't know what you are talking about Ricky: Come on, your tattoo is from the Claw dumbass, don't play me Fake Atlas Soldier:...Hm, you damn heathens will die soon Ricky: Hm cute, never heard that 1 before {stabs his neck covering his mouth} Fake Atlas Soldier: Mmgh! Mmgh...{drops} Ricky: {inspects his body & pulls out his scroll} Bingo {takes a picture of him with his scroll & then his outfit uses a hologram mimicking the fake agent} Thank you G.R.I.M.Ms {walks off hiding the body} {back at the Garrison} Maxy: {sneaks in the bushes speaking quietly} Come on Rick, take down that ship already General Hund: {in a Valkyrie} Any news on the Laarks? Lord Ryzen demands a report! Maxy: Oh we're here, you'll know soon enough {dashes to a Fake Atlas Soldier fast behind a tree snapping his neck} Valkyrie Unit 01: {detects movement speaking in a feminine voice} Unknown movement detected, searching {moves near the tree} Maxy: {hiding} Damn {pulls up the soldier & leans him out the tree} Valkyrie Unit 01: Friendly detected, resuming guard mode {walks off} Maxy: Heh {sneaks off stealthily taking out other soldiers} {in the Airship} Ricky: {walks into the control room} Jackpot, now where are the controls? {more soldiers were roaming around} Ricky: {walks past them pretending to be 1 of them} Ah geez, new model {pulls out his scroll} wonder if I can still hack it? {tries to use the hacking app}...ah screw it {leaves a bomb underneathe it} Hey you know where the bathroom is? Fake Atlas Soldier: Ugh, damn newbies, go down the corridor 2nd right, you can't miss it Ricky: Thanks buddy {walks off} Fake Atlas Soldier: Don't get lost...idiot {at the Garrison} Valkyrie Unit 02: Warning, unknown substance detected, scanning for possible harm Maxy: {hiding behind a cage} Heh, oh don't worry, it's harmful more than you think tin can Valkyrie Unit 02: Warning, system malfunctionzzzzzzzzeeebeezzzzz! {goes berserk} Maxy: {holds up a pen that had a substance in it for machines to go haywire} Gods praise the future Valkyrie Unit 03: Valkyrie Unit 02 has defected General Hund: Huh?! Take it down! Valkyrie Units: {blasts down the berserk Unit} Maxy: {dashes & breaks the cages of the Grimms} Fake Atlas Soldiers: Wha-what?! Grimms: GRRRRR! {all start attacking} Fake Atlas Soldiers: Gaaaaargh! General Hund: All units! Take down the subjects! {suddenly the airship blows up in the sky} Maxy: Heh, nicely done Rick Valkyrie Units: {all shut down & fall} General Hund: Huh?! What is going on?! Maxy: {walks out of hiding} What do you think General? General Hund: Laark...when did you comeback? Maxy: Yesterday actually, unfortunately for you my brother can teleport around Remnant easily General Hund: Curses...well even so, I am in a new type of mech you can't beat Maxy: It's no Paladin Angelica that's for sure General Hund: Grrr, for Lord Ryzen I will bring him your head! Maxy: That's ok! I'll send him yours! {pulls out his Staff spinning then goes in a stance} General Hund: Laaaaark! {fires the huge beam cannons from the Valkyrie} Maxy: {leaps away & bounces from many trees like a pinball dodging the shots} General Hund: {locks on him & fires many missiles} Dodge this! Maxy: Heh, don't need to! {goes in an open stance as his body flashes yellow} Come on! {all the missiles hit him but bounce away blowing up everything around him} General Hund: Grrrrr! {right hand summons an energy blade} Time to die Laark! Maxy: After you! {bounces fast towards him} Haaaaaar! General Hund: {flies towards him about to strike} Rrrraaaaaaar! {clashes blades with him} Rrrrr! Maxy: Grrrrgh! {struggles getting pushed back slowly} General Hund: You do not stand a chance! Maxy: Grrrrgh...{grins} Oh really? {eyes go black & yellow} Rrrrr! {starts pushing back} General Hund: Grrgh! What?! Maxy: You should have learned from your Boss's death, even in a toaster you can't beat me! {deflects him off} General Hund: {flies in the air} We'll see {starts firing a laser chaingun at him} Maxy: Huur! {stabs the ground as he summons dome kinetic forcefield around him with his Staff deflecting the shots} General Hund: Grrr! Just die already! {dives down with his blade} Rrraaar! Maxy: {smirks as he instantly dodges side} General Hund: Grrr! {tries to strike him rapidly} Maxy: {instantly dodges each of his strikes without much effort looking like he isn't moving much} General Hund: Grrr! Hold still you little rat! Maxy: Correction {eye flashes as he instantly cuts his blade arm off} I'm a bear General Hund: Grrgh! Dammit! Maxy: {disappears} General Hund: Grrr! {gets out his cannon} Come on out Laark! {his other arm gets cut off instantly} Wha?! {leg gets instantly cut off} Waaaaah! {trips & tries flying off} You! Maxy: {leaps on his back} Grrrrrr! {grips his wings} General Hund: W-What are doing?! Stop! Maxy: Rrrrrrrr! {teeth sharpen as he his muscles tense} Rrrrrrraaaaaaaar! {tears off his wings} General Hund: Why you-waaaaah! {falls on his back} Aargh! Maxy: {lands on him & starts cutting into the door repeatedly with his staff} Rrr-rrr-rrr-rrr-rrr! General Hund: No-No-Nooooooo! Maxy: {breaks open the pilot door} Grrrrr! Here's Maxy! General Hund: {gasps} Maxy: {stabs him as he squeeze the Staff's trigger & causes a kinetic explosion within the Valkyrie} {in dark & smokey realm} Maxy: What the? Where am I? General Hund: {standing behind him} You Maxy: Where are we? General Hund: This is how we survive the centuries, when we are killed we transfer our soul to the nearest person, since you were the 1 to kill me I transferred my soul to your body! Now it will be mine! Maxy: Grrrr! You'll never have my body! You've cheated death but this time you won't comeback! General Hund: Too late for that Laark! At least you will joining your old squad soon {appears bigger & shadowy} this is the power the Claw possesses, not even Salem can pull this off! Maxy: Well there's a 1st time for everything {big yellow Ursa appears behind him} your mistake was trying to take over me General Hund: {gasps} Giant Ursa: RRRRRRRRR! {lunges at him chewing & ripping him apart} General Hund: Waaah! Waaaaaaaargh! Maxy: When you see the God of Destruction, tell him Maxy Laark sent you to his realm! {back to reality} Maxy: Hm, have fun in the underworld Ricky: {sitting on a tree} Wow, looks like I missed the party, you ok? Maxy: {looks back at the wrecked Valkyrie with General Hund}...Oh yeah, never felt better, let's get outta here Ricky: Right {grabs him & teleports them both back to Hawe} {back in Hawe Village at night} Maxy: {crosses out Hund's name from his scroll} Now it's you Katze Ricky: Hmm, we still don't know who or where she is Maxy: She's in Vacuo currently Ricky: Huh? How do you know? Maxy: I had Silent investigate for me a bit, he told me a possible clue in that Kingdom Ricky: Silent? Dude didn't he try to kill you years ago? Maxy: Well now we're good friends, is that a problem? Ricky: {sighs} You make friends with anybody don't you Max? Even people trying to end your life Maxy: It's how you make a network Ricky: Yeah well if she's actually there we best make a move before she moves out, we need to identify her Maxy: Then we head there tomorrow, Terror is still with Al so we can't fly there Mama Laark: It's cool Max, you can use your Pappy's truck Maxy: Really? You want me to use Dad's truck? Mama Laark: You're gonna need to travel there, I ain't sending my babies walkin Ricky: But I can teleport there Maxy: You can't teleport supplies Ricky: Oh yeah...well if it's a truck let's make sure to pack a lot of things Maxy: Yeah, especially the beer {opens a can} Mama Laark: Uh-Uh baby boy {snatches it off his hand} you're not 21 yet Maxy: Aww Mama I was 43 Mama Laark: You were 43 before you turn us younger boy, you're barely 18 Maxy: Aww man Ricky: Hehe, oh well, least we can smoke again Maxy: Yeah, had to wait for a while though, alright, best we rest then tomorrow we make our move Ricky: Cool {walks off} Maxy: Where are you going? Ricky: I...just need to do something before I sleep Maxy:...You can't stop thinking about her can you? Ricky:... Mama Laark: Rick if you want her, stay with her Ricky: {sighs} I can't do that Mama, much as I want to {teleports} {at the Prince's Mansion} Kalista: {eyes a blacken from not sleeping for days trying to make the perfect armor} Pasu: {in his bedroom smoking a cigar}... Belle: Sweetie if you're not careful you may choke on your 10th cigar today Pasu: {coughs} Sorry Belle {sighs} I'm just thinking... Belle: Hm, you really miss your place at G.R.I.M.Ms don't you? Pasu: Oh I can live with that, I just wonder what my snake of a brother will do with my place Belle: You worry for your men? Pasu: They were a family I created within G.R.I.M.Ms, thanks to the Laarks I have lost that respect Belle: Hmm...tell you what, why don't we go out and get something to eat? Pasu: Oh I don't want you to- Belle: It's ok, I'll be paying, it's best we live like people there and now or else we may end up like the Schnees Pasu: {pictures himself with Jacque's moustache then shivers} Good point, being like Jacque is the last thing I want, Clockwork, go call Kali, we're going out Clockwork: Jawohl Kapitän! Pasu: Clockwork I'm not your Captain anymore Clockwork: Oh...my mistake Ca...umm Master Prince {goes off to Kalista's room & knocks} Miss Prince, your Vater is calling for you Kalista: Not now Clockwork Clockwork: Miss Prince you Mother and Father are going out Kalista: Tell them I'm busy Clockwork: {sighs} Miss Prince you've been in your room for a very long time now, your Mother and Father worry for you...I worry Kalista: {remains quiet} Clockwork:...{goes off} Kalista: {injects some devices in her body} Ngh...ok, this should be it Justice: Lady Prince the probability of Full Synchronisation with armor are 43% successful, it is very risky trying to become 1 with the Maiden-Slayer Kalista: If I don't try now more Kingdom and cities like Beacon will fall, I have to synch with this armor no matter what, activate Armor Materialisation Justice: Materialising... Kalista: Please work...{slowly starts floating & as her eyes glow bright neon blue}...Yes {armor starts appearing around her} It's working! {armor starts disintegrating} No-No {armor explodes damaging everything around her} Pasu: {feels a shake} What the?! {runs up stairs} Belle: Kalista! {runs up} Pasu: {breaks open her door} Kalista! {coughs from the smoke as he goes in & picks her up} Kalista: {badly burnt & wounded} {few minutes later at their dining room} Kalista: {sitting their staring at nothing while she has bandages} Pasu: This is getting out of hand Kali, I get it, things have gone crap for us but that doesn't mean you should endanger your life trying to do...whatever you do...say something! Kalista: I'm sorry Daddy Pasu: No-No-No-No-No, it's always "I'm sorry Daddy" Belle: Kali do you not care about your life? 3 months ago you tried this and you nearly killed yourself, you had to be put on Life Support for 6 weeks, you're still recovering now Kalista:... Pasu: This is getting out of hand, I'm taking your gadgets away Kalista: What?! No! Pasu: Til you clear your mind Princess I can't let you tinker anymore, I use to love seeing my Princess be creative but if that creativity is going to kill you then I got no other choice Kalista:... Pasu: I'm sorry, but unlike that douche Jacque I actually care about my family {walks off} Belle:...Kali...I know what happened has made you feel Kalista: What Mum?! Useless?! Weak?! I could have saved everyone but I was easily knocked and many died, Ricky left me and Zal is likely dead because of me! I failed everyone I cared for and been friends with! Bad enough the White Fang gave our race a bad name but...but {starts crying} Belle: {hugs her} I know sweetie...I know... Ricky: {outside far away looking}...{looks away & teleports} END

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EXECUTION SQUAD GIGGLES ~ Marcos Oro

Seeds of fire and light, crackling logs, quasars, confusions of candy-colored raindrops and black moss fingernails make it something fiery in your eyes unknown in this world most heightened, sentient candle light haze november fuschia century.alone in this world — one sentient circuit. Feather on skin, droplets of rain flashing wet glowing amber blinkers. Glasses ping in the sea-tang background of a hallucinatory black shadow puppet eyelash. Radio: ...day and night I sit at home and I cry, (1234), wonderin' maybe if this is all just a lie...babybaby I — ((( grit silt undergroundcomix city street laces tied tight, rainstorm soundtrack ))) ...well, maybe u know if u had been around some: as some would say, and then stand around, looking down we are stretching out into two outward directions on the outskirts of night city deluge regression looking down onto the vision path of the distant glittering vine city that makes one or two cry tonight. solo bassiest sitar floated out from the open window, curtains flapping softly in time. you & i process time differently today. i here, u there. without the filmic boundary of universe knife-edge time, timelessness evolves into the new desired seasonal color, the new magazine cover rolled up to hit a rat — meandering mass malfunction tremor gaping swallows. vacuum. blackhole. microcosm. more rapid imagery. helicopter. red propeller hard-flung repetitive sound, blue siren screeching fast, flying fists, siezure of vehicle & chocolate-yes time machine — I went to the show instead of sitting around, Joe The Kug kicked out an alright rocknroll show that was alright sonic loud retro rocked on over and over, around and around, whistled spilt a bucket of harmonica, amplified the blues guitar warped bent heavy s o u n d: up here on the fourth floor the wind is awhippin' up & ahollerin loud rain and deep fresh thunder matrix outburst: crowd. Black and white storm drain gush, widens e x p a n s i o n x perfect disaster movie (((still))) behind frosted glass — the sky clouds mountains luminous, suffused planetary trickery — space opera e x p a n s i o n z — you spent an ominous delusional deep eye-unravel, a walk through the clear stilled cut stone gazebo of timely caricatures. Of cut stone time. No time behind bars. Handling blurred black polka dot conveyor vertigo screams; official institutional business paranoia office politics are veering out to you, girl / girl / girl girlyouknowthat busdriver he KRAY-ZEEgirl? he just say: "i'm a po' boy hmmm lost run up into the wind a while fly up hmmm to the moon fixin' to go anywhere's I pleases, sistah yezhmmm...mmm" nawnawnaw don'tcomewiththat it takeone to know one blasé blasé He is actually fuckinG de-fucking-ranged ominous delusional deep eye-unravel, i am a very practiced, precise, dark sycophant; thus having left many with a deep amazement, and such an addiction to the elaborations of my highly esteeming fizzing fervor over such sloppy sorry dupe fucks; No! Well just retract renege whatever the fuck! day or time, but mostly distracted, celebratory and important in the q u a n t u m i l l u s i o n of filmic derivatives in elitist lingo, craving for some peripheral excitement tonight. some feral excitement. Choppers swoop down low with a searing spotlight blasting white rays of simple pure technology propeller hums loud yes, i think "being hard on yourself" is a staged fake-out very quietly not making too much noise. too much white noise. too much scratch selfhelpbook many please yes 451...451...451 the siren shuffled its screech around the rusty tectonics of the foggy rainy city. M: Can't you see? I can't think straight with your graphics splattered all over the kitchen, I'm sorry but they are too wild and stark, I — M: — well myself for a long time now. I ((( uh ))) actualize myself in the artistic endeavor program you see. "I" feel more genuinely human. Having the same thoughts come clear to me, as well. This delicate skill is rather enhancing, I find. Distracting oneself from the quantum illusion, you are an illusion, so I will display all of my pieces in the livingroom instead of the chocolate crunch time machine. I am a very technique-heavy practiced, precise, dark sycophant; thus having left many with amazement, and an addiction to the perfect "interviewee", "media-ready", "mindless"... yeah so the rock show's on then? we gonna do the Nutley gig eh? yeah next week right? ok straight off somethingweirdiswrongwith the phone. no no problem. no problem...no es problemático. The Artist as Servant to the Taskmaster: Art or, "Up in Here" - location finder of the psyche. AS SEEN ON TV. you are talking to yourself constantly, and everyone else as well is speeding up, this is too telling of the Pomegranate Program bank...uh real parchment documents...written up legal cases, dark crates of bristling oily tarantulas, these comments/moments.repeating fruit reds ...would you like the egg soft boiled? The spy motions with his long 24K pinky nail. Dry constraining skills, of bad mother persona place bitch's shelter, don't gimme no mama. Noir : That's place-fight risk forged ahead very practiced, celebratory and enjoy "quicksand" sure. Sure, the neon prickly cactus place (zone) is quiet "media-ready" and I of course just flipped out! No more clowns and vagrants on TV. Get it? — ...these comments are under smoky lasered scrutiny in the tricked-out surveillance clown center of the sociopathic sheltered elite urban mutation basement sector composite. Do not find me there please tonight no. Not ever! Cigar touting clowns, in formal barbed wire attire, and fiberglass Bow-Ties. Entire walls and windows covered in aluminum foil glaring eye of metallic skin; a searing metallic light, that is seen as it pours out smoke from whole gaps and cracks; from afar the prolonged vibrato of one syllable — A distant gaurantee of otherwordly nano-visions. donuts dunked in a coffee pool. Sauntering in, vivid pristine holograms of nocturnal mutagen beasts lumbering, climbing down to sleep in their warm centered world something is very odd and ((( off ))) the sky clouds mountains luminous, suffused the old lake with warm light: i'm a po' boy hmmm-hmmm lost run into the wind a while fly up hmmmyezmmm to the moon the immediate earth artificial gelatin intelligence resists rendering my Möbius Loophole, is contiguous manic nihilism perpetrating plagiarism. Time loophole escapee loot party gone way wrong, man. The turmoil of the money-craving zombie industry brand, with its truly myriad iterations, a million jealous flashbulb moneyshots of dry-ice frozen three dimensional strobes pulsating on grinding grin trashcan collage alley moneyshot font/color graffiti to boot grind down to grey ash, silt slides off of the cracking inset lines around the zombie's gluey opening eye. Who wants a birthday cake to be a conceptual unraveling inversion of rampant unrelenting candleflames? Flashing a quartz stilleto badge, running through artficial fiery ebbing mobs of protesting automatons. Yanking out drawers filled with heavy coins, and throwing slinging them all over pillow fight showering flecked thick coins (cracked a window with a corner of the flung drawer)...jagged glass made our room now seem much more serious, unfinished. Distracting, disturbing. No blood though... This is the very same earth of eyes blurring out of the picture into vivid blades of green country grass under brown cattle sinew, focus bright white razor-sharp clouds entitled gradually to the false artifice of data vicinity night — The quintessence of mile-down mountain valley drop is catching quick down my attention Running on auto pilot as projection of sparkling dust motes, in bright beams of day: no no I've ate already officer — did you know I'll read them, yeah, red passing laden glare of a red light beam splash head on into the please remember that I never lied crosshair eyes of execution squad giggles.

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Valorant tips and tricks for Riot’s hardcore tactical shooter • Eurogamer.net

A collection of early advice and explainers for players new and old.

Valorant, Riot Games’ new tactical shooter, is finally out in the wild, which means it’s time to put together some quick and easy Valorant tips.

Our advice here includes a super quick rundown of the absolute basics for beginners, as well as a good handful of more intermediate, advanced or just a little sophisticated tips that players coming from CS:GO – or those who got familiar with Valorant through the beta – should hopefully still find handy.

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Valorant tips: the basics explained for beginners and new players

1. As a rule of thumb, always walk, by holding Shift. It silences your footsteps and makes it miles harder for the other team to know where you are and what you’re doing. Save running for the start of the game, emergencies, or when you know for sure that you’re far enough away to not be heard.

2. Shooting is most accurate when standing still. As soon as you move, the cursor widens – if you’re moving and the enemy is standing still, you’ll always lose the fight.

Target practise is there for a reason – it’s worth taking the time to use it!

3. You can only go so far with a mastery of just weapons, or just abilities. The best players will master both, and how they can combine.

4. Learn location names – even if you’re avoiding voice chat, which is totally understandable, being able to quickly call out locations in text chat (and understand what teammates mean when they do the same!) can make the difference.

5. Communicate, coordinate, and work together. That means doing the basics, like making sure all lanes are covered by at least one of your players when defending, but also the more advanced stuff. Learn how to bait opponents, fake attacks, rotate, and try to get your team on-side to do the same, if you can. Strong team play can make up for a spot of potato aim.

6. Sound is hugely important. Listen to footsteps and think about where they’re coming from and going to. There’s no excuse for a player running up noisily behind you and still catching you off guard!

Bonus tip: take the time to set up your communication options at the start of the match. If you don’t to use voice, you don’t have to – don’t be afraid to mute players or just downright turn it all off.

Valorant tips: more advanced tips to give you an edge

7. When shooting, try to not just stand still but crouch, after the first shot. This helps for two reasons: weapon recoil means bullets will tend to end up higher and higher with each consecutive shot. So if your enemy is shooting you, crouching makes it harder for them to keep their shots landing because the recoil is taking their aim higher. Likewise, it lowers your character while you’re shooting, basically helping you manage recoil and keeping your aim low enough to land.

8. Use the shooting range and training facilities – they’re worth it! Try to beat your personal best in the timed target practice round. Aim for 30+ kills in the time limit and keep going. Good, fast aim is half the battle and will make the difference in most low to mid level games.

9. Pick the gun for your role. If you’re going “long”, to a long sightline alleyway down the side of the map, taking an SMG probably isn’t very helpful because you’ll be up against a sniper at the far end. That is, unless you’re going for rapid gap-closing with someone like Jett, which could be a great counter. Likewise, pick closer-quarters weapons if you’re heading for smaller, more confined spaces.

Similarly to target practise, use the practise arena to toy with abilities. It should go without saying, but be sure to learn an Agent properly before you start using them in competitive action.

10. Learn which weapons can shoot through which walls. Some walls look impenetrable but actually aren’t, especially if you have a heavy enough weapon, like the Odin LMG. If you know someone’s hiding behind a wall, this can be a great way to pick them off when they think they’re safe.

11. Always plant the spike! Even if you wipe out the enemy team and are about to get the automatic round win anyway, still plant it – and as quickly as possible. Your team gets extra money for successfully planting the spike, and that bit of added cash can make all the difference.

12. Keep your crosshair at headheight at all times – even if you’re peeking to look at a distant, raised window, try to get your crosshair as close to where a head would be in that window as possible before you peek. This makes a dramatic difference to your aiming!

13. Think about the economy – if you lost a round, you won’t have much money for the next one, so even if you buy weapons in that second round they won’t be as good. Often it’s better to spend as little as possible (“econ”) the round after a loss, so the next round you’re guaranteed the money to level the playing field. Try to talk to your team and all get on the same page with this too!

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14. When you’re attacking in a single group, ensure there’s always one player guarding your flank or rear. Say you’re attacking A, it’s very easy for the enemies located at B or C to sneak around to surprise you, once they realise you’re all at A, so keep someone on rear guard and make sure they communicate if the flank is coming.

15. The spike takes 4 seconds to plant, 45 seconds to detonate, and 7 seconds to defuse. The final, fastest beeps start when you have 5 seconds left, the second fastest beeps start when there’s 35 seconds left, so you need to start defusing within 2-3 seconds of the second-to-last beeping phase to have a chance of defusing it! (Fantastically helpful tip via lunepassage on Reddit.)

16. If you know you can’t defuse the bomb, it’s completely OK to run away and save your gear and money for the next round. Say you’re the last attacker standing and there are 5 defenders alive still, with 30 seconds left on the clock, it’s better to just run, hide, and save money than it is to give them a free kill and more money themselves.

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Valorant is here! Check out the first season’s Battle Pass skins and our best Valorant gun recommendations to help you climb the ranks. If you’re looking for technical advice, make sure you fit the required, minimum, recommended and high end specs and know how to solve any Valorant error codes.

17. Double peeking, or “repeeking”, is especially dangerous in Valorant because there’s no “peeker’s advantage” – no lag that works in favour of the one doing the peeking. So if a sniper knows you’re behind a wall, and is sitting there waiting for you to pop back out again, it’s better to just find another route than it is to keep trying to peek again. Really, the only reason you should stay there is to bait the sniper while your teammates do the flanking elsewhere.

18. Objects can go through teleporters – a cool one to know! You can throw abilities and the like through teleporters and they’ll trigger the doors opening on the other side too, which can cause major havoc if timed right. (Source: jackattack99 on reddit)

19. Be nice! Please. After all, studies show teams with toxic players have a significantly lower chance of winning the game.

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How the symbiotic relationship between Trump and Fox News has fundamentally changed American politics

Gabriel Sherman reported on Fox News' former head Roger Ailes and his sexual misconduct.

Sherman believes Fox News has changed after Ailes and that current head Rupert Murdoch hates Donald Trump.

Gabriel Sherman says Fox News has an aging demographic and is clinging to Trump because its keeping their viewership strong.

On this week’s episode of my podcast, I Have to Ask, I spoke with Gabriel Sherman, a special correspondent for Vanity Fair. In a recent piece for the magazine, Sherman reported that people in the White House were concerned about President Trump’s mental health and wondered whether he was in a state of decline. He is also the author of The Loudest Voice in the Room, a biography of Roger Ailes. Sherman’s reporting on Ailes’ conduct helped lead to his downfall at Fox News for sexual misconduct.

Below is an edited transcript of the show. In it, we discuss whether Trump’s behavior is really getting worse, how Fox News has changed since Ailes’ departure, and why Rupert Murdoch secretly “loathes” the president.

You can find links to every episode here; the entire audio interview is below. Please subscribe to I Have to Ask wherever you get your podcasts.

Isaac Chotiner: We know each other a little bit, and I think the reason is because about five years ago we were probably the only two people in our extended social circle spending hours every day watching Fox News. You were watching Fox because you wrote a very informative book about Roger Ailes, and I was watching Fox because I’m a sad, pathetic person who wanted to make myself more depressed. And then we started text messaging and talking about Fox. What got you so obsessed with Ailes and writing about Fox News?

Gabriel Sherman: I’ve covered media and politics for the better part of my journalism career, and I had written a series of pieces for New York magazine about cable news. Reporting in that world, I realized that Roger Ailes, through the founding of Fox News, had just fundamentally rewired the way politics was practiced in America.

I looked and talked to my book agent and realized that there had not been a real rigorously reported and authoritative biography of Ailes. So I thought it was a great subject for my first book, and I naïvely didn’t really understand that the reason there had not been a book about Ailes is that he is—or was, now that he’s passed away—one of the most vindictive and paranoid people that have probably ever lived.

He did everything he could to thwart and attack and demean reporters who wrote about him, and I found myself for about three years in his crosshairs. He hired private investigators to dig into my past and commissioned right-wing websites to smear my reputation in not-so-veiled anti-Semitic ways.

But I think [my book explained] how Fox News worked from the inside and revealed it to be a real cult of personality that functioned as a megaphone for Ailes’ paranoid and really eccentric and bizarre worldview filled with Islamophobia, racism, and really extreme political viewpoints that a lot of people perhaps thought were just cynical ways to market a news network to an audience, but were in fact real expressions of his extremism.

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Do you feel that you had some sort of insight into Trump early on because of this?

Without question. We should remember that Ailes gave Trump a weekly call-in segment on Fox & Friends, which is the id, the ideological core of Fox News. It’s where the talking points that Ailes wanted to inject into the bloodstream originated. Once a week, Trump would call in for unfettered, freewheeling discussion to put out his worldviews, and that’s where Trump really pushed a lot of the birther and racism ideas and the anti-immigration positions that became the bedrock of his candidacy.

You were saying that Ailes was not taken seriously as someone who actually had this frightening worldview, and I think aspects of Trump are made for TV. But I also think that one thing we’ve learned in the past two-plus years is that many of these views that he expresses are probably more honestly held by him than people assumed when he rode the escalator in Trump Tower in June 2015.

Without question. We all need to remind ourselves that Donald Trump has been a race-baiter pretty much for most of his adult life. In fact, going back to his early years, his father famously was tried by the Justice Department for housing discrimination in their middle-class housing developments in Brooklyn and Queens. Donald Trump in the 1980s took out a full-page ad after the notorious Central Park jogger case.

What is your sense of how Fox News has changed since Ailes left the network?

In some ways, it’s changed a lot. The culture of fear that he presided over with the PR department functioning like an internal security service—spying on employees, leaking damaging info to media about it, wayward employees—that’s mostly gone by the wayside.

The lockstep talking points that emanated out of his second-floor office have also subsided. The network does not function as a pure expression of one person’s worldview. What I see now is more of a business. And Rupert Murdoch, who privately loathes Donald Trump—I think it’s a little bit of a false narrative that’s been out there in the press that Murdoch and Trump have forged this bromance. I think this is purely a business decision.

You think actually “loathes”? That’s a strong word.

I know from my reporting that people who have been in private settings with Murdoch say that he makes dismissive comments of Trump and tells him to stop tweeting, which is something that Trump will be doing till his last dying breath. Yeah, this is not a close, personal relationship. This is, from my reporting, a business relationship, and Murdoch was smart enough to know that the audience Ailes had assembled are die-hard Trump voters, so it doesn’t make sense really to shift the network ideologically.

You say that Murdoch may loathe Trump, and it’s clear that his sons do not like Trump and do not like the ideas Trump is putting into the country.

We should point out that James Murdoch’s wife just recently tweeted comments about sexual assault and harassment being wrong on both sides, which people took to be a veiled swipe perhaps not only at Donald Trump but at Roger Ailes.

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OK, but while I get that, and I get why the Murdochs are not going to turn Fox News into a left-wing or centrist network because it’s incredibly important part of the business, it does seem that they could do something about things like Fox & Friends, which is full of conspiracy theories and fake news and seems to influence Trump in a negative way. We often see him tweeting ridiculous things that he clearly has seen minutes before on Fox & Friends. I’m surprised that there’s been no effort by the Murdochs if this is how they feel to at least clean up some of the crazier stuff on Fox.

No, I agree. I don’t think you would perhaps dramatically lose their viewership if they dialed back the conspiracy theories by even 25 percent, but I think Rupert Murdoch’s philosophy since he replaced Ailes after Ailes was fired in July of 2016 has been to do no harm. Murdoch has, with a light touch, removed the internal fear and paranoia that presided over the network, but externally the programming on air has largely remained intact. I don’t think there is a necessarily compelling reason for that other than they know that Fox News is the profit center of 21st century, and they don’t want to mess with it.

You have these surreal moments where the Wall Street Journal editorial page—which Murdoch owns and which I think a lot of people see as being close to Murdoch’s actual views—will write something about Trump is doing this well, but he needs to stop tweeting crazy things, and then that morning, he will have tweeted something crazy that he saw on Fox.

It’s a hydra-headed beast. We should also mention Sean Hannity. I know you talked about Fox & Friends, but Hannity, who Trump just gave an hour sit-down interview with, is perhaps the most influential outside adviser to the Trump administration. I was talking to a very prominent Fox person recently who was telling me how often Hannity talks to Trump. Trump calls him almost every night after Hannity’s prime-time show just to give him feedback and bat around ideas and gripe about all the people who are sliding him. Between Fox & Friendsstarting the day and Hannity ending the day, the network is really book-ended by the most pro-Trump media. It’s something much closer to the way Putin’s media and Russia state-run media functions than it would be historically an American media institution.

One of the points of your book is that Ailes was a brilliant showman and made great hires, including people like Bill O’Reilly, who people may find distasteful but are incredible television personalities and talents. Now you see people like Tucker Carlson, who has failed at basically every TV show he’s ever had until now and who I do not think is a particularly skilled broadcaster. You see their 9 p.m. hour, which has been a mess, and they can’t quite figure out what to do with it, and they’re still getting great ratings. Ailes obviously was a television genius, but it also seems like we’re at this point with the right-wing audience in America—not to sound condescending—where you can put anything on the air and you will get extremely good ratings. It almost reminds me of the fact that the Republican president can do anything he wants and still have a 35 percent approval rating.

There is something to that. Ailes used to joke around the office that the Fox News audience was aged 55 to dead. And there is a kernel of truth to that joke. But the Fox News audience is really an actuarial game at this point. They get older ever year. I believe some of the statistics I saw were like 68-something years old for the [average] age of the Fox News viewers.

These are people whose habits are set, and they come home or they sit at home—a lot of these people are shut-ins—and they click on Fox in the morning and they just keep it on all day. It doesn’t really matter the content of the programming, except it has to remain reliably conservative and somewhat conspiratorial.

At this point the audience is baked in, and it’s a very stable audience. But we should point out that it’s not a growing audience. The ratings still dominate the cable race, but it’s a very static, set number. This is not a growth industry, and we’ve seen in fact, in online media, the growth and explosion of sites like Breitbart, which have tapped into this new generation of the younger, Gamergate kind of guys. That is the more dynamic part of the ring-wing movement.

To turn to Trump: Do you really sense that he’s declining in noticeable ways, and is this a widespread fear in the White House?

One thing that I reported this week in my Vanity Fair piece is that one of the reasons Trump has cocooned himself inside the Fox News bubble—granting basically his only live television interviews to Sean Hannity, Fox & Friends, and Mike Huckabee—is that, if you talk to Trump advisers, they’ll tell you he has lost a step.

Recently, he was supposed to appear on the season premiere of 60 Minutes, and Trump declined to do the interview, but it was discussed, and Trump advisers breathed the sigh of relief that that interview didn’t happen. The idea of Trump being in an adversarial live TV interview where the audience and viewers could see him flailing and rambling I think was cringe-worthy to his inner circle.

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When I hear usually secondhand from people who worked for Trump or talk to reporters who talked to these people, there seems to be almost nobody in the White House who has anything other than contempt for Trump—no one who really seems to believe in him, and everyone seems to treat him like a child. Is that a fair accounting, according to your reporting?

I think that’s generally fair. There are a few exceptions—some of the campaign loyalists, like Dan Scavino and Hope Hicks, and some of the longtime Trump confidants who he’s brought into the West Wing.

I think the best way to put it is that these men and women say, This man was democratically elected. This is the system. We had the Electoral College for better or worse. The American people wound up with this president, so they are doing their best to serve the country even if they see on a daily basis things that are completely illogical.

So when they express dismay over Trump’s mental state or his managerial abilities or lack thereof, do people talk about him like he’s like an uncle who says embarrassing things? Are people actually scared of where the country is headed? Did they not care because they’re nihilists? I think it’s all of the above. I can’t speak, obviously, to the calculations that I’m sure anyone in the West Wing is making about why they’re there and why they’re working in this administration.

I had a very senior Trump adviser tell me this week that Trump’s lost a step. This adviser said that Trump reminded him of his grandmother when she started to lose it a little bit in her later years. This is the man that people who work with him see. People are there for their own ambition. People are there for the safety of the country—Gen. John Kelly and James Mattis and people who genuinely want to protect the national security of the United States. I think this will be a storyline that will continue to play out.

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