#and it feels a little bad when my project has brought me happiness and camaraderie

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Also speaking of my son Dism scrolling through windows help forums is so fun because yay :) that's my son :)

[stevetonyweekly]

SteveTony Weekly - April 11

I’m just gonna stop saying I read a lot this week. I apparently always read a lot. Here we go. Remember to comment/kudos if you enjoy! 

**Indicates my recent favs 

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It’s not the mountain we conquer by Darkyu (Ultimates/14k) 

Steve Rogers was known to be an honest man. And, really, he is. But even Captain America has his limits and Tony is well known for challenging them.

Steve, after trying it all, decides that he needs to try a different tactic to get Tony to quit stubbornly denying the love that they have for each other.

Luckily for Steve, he has some powerful friends in the magic field that could offer him a final solution to his problem.

crash love by s_hylor (Ultimates/21k) 

It’s just sex. Just sex between two consenting adults who don’t have feelings for each other beyond the camaraderie that comes from being on the same team.

It’s just sex. Until it isn’t. It’s not love. Until it is.

bros before by tsukinofaerii (Ultimates/8.8K) 

For a year, Steve and Tony have had a bromance of epic proportions, bonding over cheesy movies and long, dateless nights where they reminisce over love lost. But now something threatens to interfere with their precious Thursday Night Movies: a woman. Dun dun duuuuun.

there is no ‘i’ by jadedoll (MCU/20K) 

Summary: The reasons not to join the Avengers were many and varied. The problem was that when Captain America smiled at him, Tony had trouble remembering what they were.

bridge over troubled waters by vokosigan (Endgame fixit/5.8k) 

After Thanos is defeated, Tony throws a party, like one does. Steve is there, and Tony thinks it's an awesome idea to seduce him, for old times' sake. Things get... complicated.

scratching posts & love by talesofsuspense (MCU/7.6K) 

There’s a million reasons he can’t and shouldn’t get a pet, but his therapist apparently thinks they’re all just bad excuses and tells him as much.

Thicker than water by StarkatHeart (Superfamily/25k) 

 Neither of them would admit it, but blood does count for something.

When Peter Parker discovers his biological father is actually none other than Tony Stark, it's not exactly news that's well received. By either party. But they're Avengers. They're teammates. They'll just have to work through it. ...Or maybe just ignore it.

Five Times Tony Stark Misjudged Steve Rogers (and one time he didn’t) by sweatervest (MCU/5K) 

There’s plenty of weird shit to deal with after fighting aliens, like “How Does One Dispose of Alien Remains Without Poisoning the Water” and “Wow Insurance Companies Are Really Not Equipped for This,” but Tony suspects that “Steve Rogers is Actually Very Funny” and “Steve Rogers is a Stealthy Bastard” probably shouldn’t be as close to the top of the list as they are.

Timeline runs from after Captain America: The First Avenger to just after Avengers: Age of Ultron.

punch-drunk lust by jellybeanforest (A/B/O / 10k) 

The interpersonal chemistry between Steve Rogers and Tony Stark is undeniable, but both being alphas, they are not sexually compatible in the slightest. So, they come up with a method to determine who tops: a no-holds-barred wrestling match for dominance with Tony in his suit to even the odds.

Based on a Cap-IronMan Kinkmeme Prompt requesting Alpha Steve/Alpha Tony. For the Cap-IronMan Bingo 2019 Round 2 – Fist Fight.

***marty mcfly never had to deal with this by sweatervest (MCU/ 15k) 

Tony's latest project goes less "renewable energy" and more "slightly explosive time machine," and Howard Stark arrives from 1946.

Why, Steve would like to know, are time and space going to such lengths to cockblock him?

***side effects by elimymoons (Ultimates/ 29k)

"So what I'd like to propose," Tony continued on, "is for you to let me help you out a little, yeah? We'll work off some of this energy, some of this adrenaline, and you don't have to worry about hurting yourself anymore, okay?"

Steve's in a bit of trouble. Tony wants to help him out. Sexily.

breakwater by Captain_Panda (Civil War AU/ 18K) 

Captain America: Civil War AU.

When the helicopter hits the water, Captain America and the Winter Soldier both go under. Only the Winter Soldier escapes.

By the time Tony Stark and company find Steve Rogers, he's been dead for nearly an hour. Brought back from beyond the brink, Steve is a changed man.

Things will never be the same.

A breakwater is "a barrier that breaks the force of waves, as before a harbor."

***breathing at the same time by softanticipation (Endgame Fixit/47k) 

The dust settles and the stones are returned, leaving Steve more aimless than ever. In a world that doesn’t seem to need him anymore, he eventually learns that purpose goes beyond war and love is more than just a four-letter word.

Featuring two halves of a road trip, sidewalk chalk, and a man with whom Steve never expected to share a pull-out couch.

*

Steve sighs, and wants to bang his head against the cabinets. “You’re welcome too, Tony,” he says wearily. “I’m not trying to keep anyone away.”

“No,” Tony says bitterly. “You just left without telling anyone where you were going, without any way for us to contact you.”

It stings, but it’s not untrue.

falling into you by sabrecmc (MCU-canon divergent/53k) 

Tony and Steve end up as fuck buddies after the events of The Winter Soldier until Steve calls it off. When Loki's spell wipes all of Steve's memories since the last time Loki was in town, Tony decides it will be so much easier to just not tell Steve they had something of a relationship. Spoiler: It isn't.

Or, how Steve fell in love with Tony and forgot about it, and how Tony fell in love with Steve and realized it.

A thousand kisses deep by laireshi (Ultimates / 3.5k) 

Steve doesn't seem too happy when Steve Rogers of Marvel Ultimate gets transported into their universe. He seems even less happy when Tony and the new Steve get closer to each other.

The Best of Intentions by Sineala (Ultimates / 2.4k) 

Steve Rogers, Earth-1610, attempts to warn Steve Rogers, Earth-616, away from Tony Stark. Events do not proceed as planned.

***the word I use to describe by nanasekei (Ultimates/2.6k) 

“Here,” Steve says, in guise of explanation. Tony’s expression is puzzled. He takes his head off Steve’s shoulder, straightening his posture.

“Is that for me?”

“Yeah,” Steve breathes. His stomach is clenching in anxiety, which is ridiculous – it’s just a fucking ugly scarf, Tony knows so many people, he’s got to have gotten worse gifts before. “It’s, uh. A bit late.”

[maybeisthemoon]

MARRIEGE ARRANGED CHAPTER 3

It had been 10 days since you spoke with George for the last time, your mother kept sending owls asking if things were going well with you tow, and you only gave vague answers, you suppose George did the same with his mother, because if you knew Molly Weasley you knew she would do her best to see you two get along. Your work was very good, more than you had even imagined, getting along with your colleagues was difficult, not that you were antisocial or a hermit, or that they were rude to you, it had always been a bit difficult for you to make friends or start a conversation first, and now with your head in your 'commitment' or how to break it, and spend the nights remembering your childhood looking for some simple detail or clue that George was there, it was difficult to try to establish a relationship of camaraderie with your colleagues, except for one, Niles, is not that you completely disliked the guy, it was simply too heavy, always after you, wanting to talk, again it is not that it bothered you,but the fact that he stood too close invading your personal space, he touched too 'subtly', which made you feel uncomfortable, one day it was too far for your liking, taking as a pretext that you were standing having some coffee near the shelf where the others kept their cups put a reloaded hand very close to one side of your hip and with the other took a cup that was near the other side of your head , you smiled nervously and wanted to move but he did not take a step, you tried again moving the hand that was next to your hip but only took firmer the furniture.

 "Niles if you excuse me, this makes me feel uncomfortable" he just smiled halfway and brought his mouth to your ear that made your get goosebumps feeling fear and disgust

   "Come on, don't say you don't like it" before you could say something he interrupted you "and don't come with the fiance's story, because clearly there isn't a ring in your hand" yes you had told Nilles that you were engaged, not that you have done it for pleasure, but as a way to make it go back in his attitudes towards you, but it was true you did not have a ring and it is not as if you wanted one and less of George, at that moment you felt his lips too close to your neck , you closed your eyes and just like that you appeared elsewhere.

   "For Merlin, you took the shit out of me" you heard George's voice and slowly opened your eyes, you were in an office, well it seemed like a small laboratory, you supposed it was where all the 'magic' behind their products was happening, but what were you doing there? Well you had been in the store but never in all the places of this one, you looked again at George who was waiting for an answer, so you stood straight and cleared your throat.

 "What? Can't I visit my ‘fiance’ at work? “ It was a lie, a vile lie but you wouldn't even tell him what had happened seconds before and that you didn't know why you got to where he was, he would probably laugh at you and bother you for Niles, George just shrugged and he turned to the potion he was doing before, George was not stupid, he knew something was wrong, but he did not want to make you talk, he had things to do and probably being the stubborn you are, it would all end in screams and frankly he was not for that at the moment, days ago he had slept very little, thinking about the matter, your subject, why did he remember that about you, why couldn't he remember more? The whole thing between both of you didn't leave him alone and it didn't help that Molly will ask him every hour of the day how things were going, sending owls or show up suddenly, to which George lied saying that they were better and you were getting along, what it seemed you also said because her mother seemed happy with the answer, although he did not know how long it would last, since when she came to the store or him apartment you was never there, he was lying saying that you had many things in your work, which seemed to calm her again, Fred, Fred didn't help at all, he just joked about his situation and said that George's lack of concentration was for love.

  "What are you trying to do with that?" Your voice took him out of his thoughts again, now you were standing next to him looking interested in what he was doing, your closeness for a moment made him nervous but he answered

   "It is a potion that we will put in this candy, and the person who eats it their head will inflate like a balloon"

 "Nice, but ..." George looked sideways at you "that's going to explode"

   "Of course it won't explode," he said angrily and indignantly.

   "It will, the potion is fine in itself, but the amount of ingredients is incorrect, give it to someone and boom! instant explosion" George was going to start arguing with you when Fred entered the room rubbing his hands

   "Georgie ready the test of the new ... y/n?" Fred frowned looking at you, you just greeted him with a gesture with your hand and kept seeing the potion, he look at George who just shrugged

   "Not ready, this will explode"

   "It will not explode"

   "Yes"

   "No"

 "Yes, you wanna hear it in spanish? si"

 "not"

   Fred just watched each other until George took the candy and handed it to him, "try it on" Fred looked at the candy suspiciously

 "I don't want to explode"

  "You won't, who will you believe your dear brother or she who doesn't know anything about this?" Fred looked fearfully at the candy and before he could do something you took it and put it in a jar where you put a solution saying a spell that turned it into a liquid similar to saliva and after 10 seconds boom, Fred and George looked at the action with surprise, and you look especially at George saying I told you

 "You were going to kill me," Fred said dramatically, George rolled his eyes.

   "You would not have died, maybe you would have lost some teeth" you said looking again at the potion and throwing things to make a new one "I told you, the potion is fine, but you did not pay attention to the ingredients"  said without looking to any of the twins and getting to work on the potion

   "Our George is very distracted lately" George hit his brother who had a mocking smile on his face, after a while watching you working, and then you happily turning to look at them and giving them the finished candy, Fred looked at George expectantly and then you

   "Come on, you think I would be able to blow you up, I've never had a bad idea," you said proudly.

   "Of course and the idea of lighting all the Muggle fireworks that Dad had gotten us and that almost caused us to set the house on fire was the idea of one of us" George said rolling his eyes, before you could say something about that memory that came to his mind the moment George said it, Fred took the candy and put it in his mouth closing his eyes tightly, after 10 seconds and no burst, Fred opened his eyes and the other two looked at him expectantly, at that moment his head began to swell in parts, first the nose and his ears and after 1 minute Fred's head was the size of a medium balloon, the three looked at each other smiling, George and you got a high five

   "Great, how long will it last?" Fred's voice came out as if he had sucked helium

   "A half hour or so, if you want it to last longer you just have to add more quantity" you shrugged proudly

   “This girl is great Georgie, marry her”

   "I have no other choice" George smiled halfway and and you hit him in the chest, but this moment was not like the previous ones, it was almost pleasant, after a while looking at the next projects of the twins and while Fred's head It was beginning to deflate.

   "It's a bit late, I should go home," you said, as the twins closed the store, the afternoon had passed quickly and pleasantly in the company of George and of course Fred, before you could say anything else, you noticed how Fred hit with the elbow to George and muttering things, you watched them frowning.

 "You can stay," said George, "to dinner, I mean." Fred rolled his eyes and you looked at both.

 "you can stay forever" Fred say and received a hit from George

   "I don't want to be a bother"

   "You're not," George yelled a little too fast and too loudly, so Fred went to the rescue of his brother

   "Mom has been sending too much food, since your fiance says you spend time here, so we have too much and it would be worth not to lie to Mom for a change for once" Fred smiled at you, you looked at George

   "Ok" you said a little hesitantly

   “Great,” said Fred, who pushed you toward the stairs to get to the apartment that was above the store, where they lived, you saw George sideways and he had a small smile on his face. After eating a substantial dinner, and some beers later, you and the twins were sitting in the living room, chatting pleasantly.

   "I need to ask this," Fred said, looking at George and you seriously, "can't you really remember?" You looked at each other and then at Fred, you just shook your head

   "Not ring any bells" said George, "you thought we were lying when we said it", Fred shrugged

   "Well you were always a little weird among you when we were children, to be honest, I was somewhat jealous" they both looked at him with a frown "Both were my best friends, I had this special bond with George because he is also my brother and a bond special with you for being my friend, but I never had what you had, it was as if it could be a room full of people who are having fun who are happy, but there was always this bond between you two, nothing mattered ” the silence between everyone was obvious "well it's too late for me, I'll go to sleep" when Fred said this, you got up from the couch ready to go "no, no, you love birds stay, I think you have things to talk about" you slowly sat down again and looked to George "good night" you both replied quietly to Fred

   "Another beer?" Asked George, you just nodded, while he went for it, you walked a little through the apartment, without realizing it you came to a room where a piano was located, which you thought was weird, however you approached and you sat on his bank. "so now we like to snoop in other people's homes?" His voice made you jump a little

 "I'm sorry, it just seemed a little weird that this was here" George came over and sat next to you on the piano bench, giving you the beer you took it and had a drink

   "It was here when we moved," he said with a shrug, "Dad likes to play it every time he comes, he loves muggle things, even though it sounds awful" you laughed a little and put the beer on top of the piano, ran your fingers through the keys "can you play it?"

   "A little, my grandfather taught me a few songs" you said without looking at him and you started playing a song that you liked a lot when your grandfather showed it to you as a child, you didn't even realize that you did it, not even the way that George saw you.

   "Wow, that was great" you smiled a little and took your beer for a drink "what's the name of that song?"

   "Canon in C" staring into his eyes while he smiled at you, you asked "why?"

   "Why what?" Said George frowning.

   "Why can you remember things about me, but I can't remember a single thing about you, it drives me crazy, and I want to do something that drives me even more crazy"

   "What do you want to do?" You drank your beer in one stroke "hey easy tiger" you inhaled and released the air loudly and deeply, you took George's face with your hands and while he saw you weirdly, you kissed him, and you didn't know why you did and did not understand anything, only something inside you wanted it, and when you realized what you had done, you separated scared of him, you looked at him with wide eyes just like he saw you. "I'm drunk" was what you said before disappearing from there and appearing in your apartment.

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 and that's it for now folks I hope you reach my references of teen wolf and mulan hahhaha and again sorry for my grammar, english is not my first language lots of love

[megamanxfanfics]

S.IV Episode 0 is done.

YES!!

I finally finished a 1st draft of S.IV Episode 0.  Gonna give it a full read today and make any necessary adjustments.  Then I’m going to post it!!

Further commentary will be added later.  In the meantime, look forward to reading “S.IV - Episode 0:  A Different World”  soooooon.

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It’s later.  Let’s talk about the episode.

Starting off with the very beginning of a Season III Flashback was a risk, but it ended up being a very smart one to take.

By chance, Shield Sheldon’s death, which ties into Gate’s slow motivation toward his X6 disposition, featured Dragoon and his unit.  Which ended up being perfect regarding his major turn of events by the end of this episode.

Writing a nice, peaceful, happy conversation between Gate and Alia about the Sky Lagoon felt like a perfect way to set the new time-frame of X4 while also re-introducing them.

This was another thing I was unsure of, because if you read Xtreme 2′s Epilogue, I planted a seed there that Alia was about to go after Ground Scaravich.

For quite a while, I was mulling over, “How do I do that death scene without it coming off as completely random.”  Then I decided to play the slow build up to that with these Pre-bumper scenes.

You can count on seeing Alia take down Scaravich, but you’re gonna have to be patient and wait for the flashbacks to catch up to current time.  (Which won’t take long, really.)

But yes.  As of this peaceful conversation with Gate, you can surmise that she has taken care of Scaravich, gotten over it and then brought up this new exciting news to Gate.  Perhaps even as an ice-breaker.  Who knows?  =)

Moving on.  We get to the actual episode.

That somber Cain Funeral took forever.

Don’t ask me where I got Edwin from.  It just rang so well that I had to go for it.

Jonathon Crowne was a sweet name that I pulled out of my ass for the pastor as well.  Definitely wanted to make this funeral service sound as authentic as possible and I looked up sermon formats and stuff and everything.

I found a great poem, that almost fits in with Cain’s life-style perfectly, so I had to quote it.

I already wrote a whole thing about how I made great progress on the funeral scene, but then it got botched up when transferring data to different computers.

Regarding the planning process, I definitely wrote short dialogue or near-full scenes for later stuff too, first.  So when this botch up happened, the silver-lining was that it only affected the Funeral.  Which at the time, definitely seemed like the hardest part to re-create.  However, there was a tiny bit of General/Colonel stuff that remained, as well as a very different, but still semi-decent set up scene for Dragoon who was about to teleport to Burn Dino-Rex.

So anyway.  After the Cain Funeral, I had fun introducing our Mystery Narrator.  It turned out way better than I thought it would, but I wonder how well it will be received.  [Can you guess who it is??]

The Narrator was the perfect person to guide us through the non-transitional things like giving us quick exposition about Xtreme 2, which just happened.  Retelling this became necessary because the Repliforce was involved.  It served as a re-introduction to them.  Then, it served as a great transition to Sigma’s continuity, which I’m actually very proud of.

Do not want to forget to mention the camaraderie between Colonel, X, Zero and Iris.  I really enjoyed that peaceful, sad/silly talk between the 4 of them.  Establishing a rapport right now is huge at this time, because then we’re gonna really feel it later when these guys inevitably have to fight each other.

I also really liked being able to delve into X’s psyche regarding the absence of Marty and his recent tryst with Berkana.

So.

With the aid of our trusty Narrator, we were able to recall the events of Xtreme 2, the immense help that Repliforce was, and I was even able to squeeze a quick cameo of Red recruiting people in there.

I will fully admit, this recruitment scene is absolutely gratuitous and unnecessary.  It actually messes up the pacing of the Narrator’s recap.  But...  I always pictured doing SOMETHING with Red in the first episode of X4, since I started this project.  So I simply Had to put it down.  With the way I formatted this thing, that was kind of the only place for it.

..Either way..  After the funeral was concluded and I was able to show everyone Leaving the place, we finally got to Sigma’s big bad re-introduction.

This was a scene that took a short bit of motivation to write, because the only idea I had was just that Split Mushroom and Isoc do something sciency to bring Sigma back to the physical plain.

One thing that was awesome about the Xtreme 2 Epilogue, was that I didn’t exactly have to show how Cyber Peacock brought back Sigma in Cyber Space.  It can just sort of be assumed that Sigma’s virus form was already in Peacock’s programming, as we already saw him turn Isoc in the very beginning of Xtreme 2.

...That said, I enjoyed concocting this ‘energy converter’ machine and imagining that his ‘DNA Signature’ was being shot into a physical body.  Furthermore, I liked the idea that he always had that grim-reaper cloak design ready to go at all times.  [I want to sort of keep it a mystery as to what he really looks like, until the end.  Not that his design underneath the cloak is really all that great.  It’s very X-Men if you think about it.  (Think short-haired Bishop circa 1998)]

Anyway.  I always love Villain behind-the-scenes stuff.  I feel like I didn’t do it enough for Doppler in Season III.  But now in this moment, I could have our guys establish a rapport, and set out a new plan in real-time.  I also loved being able to name-drop Doppler once more, regarding where Cyber Peacock came from.  This was another wonderful tie-in to the flashback at the very beginning of the episode.  The idea that Cyber Peacock was truly his last contingency plan.  Its an incredible thought.  Especially since Doppler was around for Xtreme 1, and absolutely knew about the Maverick Hunter’s troubles in Cyber Space.

So.

They make their plan to create Dark Necrobat and plot a bit while they study the Repliforce.  And then its finally time to set up that meeting scene between Sigma and the General.

To make the General not seem so dimwitted, I had him already know he was Sigma.  Just not intimidated by him.  Because there’s no way in that scene that General wouldn’t be suspicious of an ominous forboding grim reaper type figure. 

I was handicapped by the Canon dialogue, to not be able to have the General ask how Sigma came back.  But sometimes in life, things happen so fast, you don’t get to say what you wanted.  So, this is something I’ll get to play with in the future I think.

At this point...  I didn’t know where to go.

I knew that Dragoon was gonna fight Dino-Rex, but I needed a good way to get there.  I had thought about X and inserting a training scene way earlier, and then I realized there was no room for it, so I dismissed the idea.

But now, I realized this was the perfect place to put it.  1.  It refocuses us on our Main Character.  2.  It shows us where he is at physically & potentially.  The whole point of that scene was to show that, he’s beginning to explore a new form, but he literally can’t get there yet due to the limitations of his Third Armor.  3.  It shows us where X is at mentally.  He is dry-eyed and focussed once again.  I got to name drop Doppler & Berkana once more, realizing that at this time, in November, Xtreme 2 only happened 5 months ago in June and that Season III ended in April.

Its been a shitty year for X where a lot of friends died, and he had near-death experiences himself.  Not only that, but Doppler made him realize he has some wicked dark potential within him in the form of iX.  Something that he vows never to become.

Giving X this dark edge definitely opens up the character to new possibilities.  The Manga infers that his new X4 armor has a dark power within it, to which grants him the power of the Ultimate Armor, but at a price.  I really like that a lot.

I want to adopt something similar, but not copy-cat it completely.

So anyway.  This Training Scene was the perfect transition to shifting to Maverick Hunter business, and finally getting to that Magma Dragoon/14th Unit scene that I wrote as early as the planning stages.

I’ll admit, it runs a little long, but it absolutely tells us why he has to investigate Burn Dino-Rex.  And I’d like to think I did a good enough job to explain why he had to go it alone.  Dragoon felt that he’d get NO information if they all went as an intimidating group.

Then came the Dino-Rex scene.  This was new.  I only wrote it the day I posted this entry.

I think I might’ve felt the pressure of being at 35 pages into the script at this point.  I was WAY over my usual page count limit.  But I had to keep this going. I had a lengthy Season III Ep. 0 too.  And probably the same for Xtreme 2.

So, I did my best to move their quarrel along w/o making this a major be-all end-all fight.

Cutting to the 14th Unit was the perfect move for me, but perhaps at the expense of the reader.  We see their reactions to the fight and then their feed gets cut off.  [That was the whole point of the scene.]  But then, dialogue wise, it opened up this new avenue at a discrepancy between Freeze Alopex and Blaze.  This was an opportunity I had to explore, because I was planning on having Alopex & Frenzy switch units anyway.  [I always had this planned for after Dragoon turns.]

So...  I had them tiff for a second, before cutting back to Dragoon’s fight.  And because the feed was cut off, I had to decide how Sigma was gonna intervene. Was he gonna talk to both of them?  Or just one.

I was happy to be able to give Dragoon a win.  It shows us that things were actually going according to plan before Sigma threw a wrench in the works.

When making Sigma tempt Dragoon with his Scythe/Virus slash, I tried something a little different.  This sort of gradual, influenced turn.  Rather than having Dragoon immediately sound evil and out of character.

I liked that it was Sigma who made him look into himself, or possibly even influence his own thoughts into this deep rooted envy for X & Zero.

And then, I finally resolved my Repliforce conundrum by having it be Sigma’s idea that these two DO talk and actually completely cooperate with one-another.  He guarantees that Dino-Rex will let him into Repliforce and share his secrets with him, so long as he keeps his operation a secret.  And the affected Dragoon doesn’t care about allegiances with the Maverick Hunters at this point, because all he wants to do is fight X.  So he had no problem with playing a Double Agent now until that time.

The scene was getting kind of long, so I loved being able to have Cyber Peacock cut in and tell Sigma that he’s gotta wrap this up soon if they’re to make his feed cut-off look authentic.

At that point, I was surprised that it happened this way, but once Sigma left there was nothing else to be done!

The 14th Unit got their feed back.  It looks like Dragoon had a major win with a little damage to the chest.

Dino-Rex had not woken up yet or cooperated with Dragoon yet.  So the best I could do was to have Dragoon tell them that he’s got this and he’s closing off communication.

[This may or may not be the best idea, because we all know what’s going to happen next.  We don’t necessarily need to END this issue with Dragoon jumping on to the Sky Lagoon.  We already know he’s going to attack it.]

I did want to have Dino-Rex talk and cooperate first before the feed came back, but the pressure of time and length hit me.  It felt more authentic this way.

So closing off communication gives me the idea that, maybe they could see him from the Satellite, but they certainly couldn’t hear him.

Especially if they both talk in a warehouse off-camera.  Then Dragoon really has the opportunity to plot his own way.

...But, that’s all he wrote folks.  And it was a lot!

It took a while to get there due to a move, a new computer set up, re-syncing issues and then figuring out a new rhythm to finding the time to actually dedicate to this thing.

I’m happy with it though.  I’m proud of it.  It’s very different, but certainly not boring.  I knew Cain’s Funeral was gonna take a somber toll on the episode, but being padded with Gate continuity, and exposition about Doppler, Berkana and Sigma’s return, it really made for a nice reset button.

Now at Episode 1, we’re gonna know where everyone is.

Ending Episode 0 with that Narration was awesome.  I’d like to always have our guy talk about the Maverick Hunters AND the Repliforce if I can.

This episode took a very long time to drop, but I certainly hope it was worth the wait.  I definitely had a lot of fun writing it.  Now that we’re getting into the actual game I should be able to dole things out a little sooner.  Maybe.

I’m gonna have a lot of fun plotting Episode 1. =D

Stay tuned for updates on that next month.