#dino chopper face

[legionofplush]

As I said, those aren't all the designs I wanna make, that's just where I had to put a cut off cause One Piece has infinite numbers of pets and zoans and characters which just kinda look like one animal and such. So, I'm gonna list all the characters below and whether I plan to do them and why or why not so if you were hoping your blorbo would be in this series and they aren't yet, you can see if I plan to do them. If your love is not on this list, please feel free to reply or tag and let me know who and what. There's so many of these and I just keep stumbling upon them (my ass just entirely forgot about Yokozuna till, like, 2 weeks ago) so I'm sure I missed some ones I'd love to make. It's a long ass list though so it's under the read more link. Feel free to control F your character so you don't have to read the whole thing.

So, other little designs I'm planning to make but make no promises about written in the format of character - animal/item for onesie:

X-Drake - Dinosaur

Sabo - Dragon (American style so I can put little wings on the back)

Franky - Toad (Yokozuna!)

Robin - Tortoise (Banchi)

Iceburg - Rat (Tyrannosaurus)

Koala - Koala (I know it's just a name but I love her and I want her in my hands)

Shirahoshi - Shark (Megalo)

Bon Clay - Swan (Gotta get all the queers up in this bitch)

Yamato - Zoan Wolf Thing (If I can get the sublimation working to get that sweet, sweet ombre)

Chopper - Cotton Candy (Similar to Katakuri's donut)

Nami - Zeus (It's basically the cotton candy onesie with a face, let's be honest)

Gear 5 Luffy - Cloud (Honestly, if I were to do one of the japanese dragon designs, it would be to make Gear 5 Luffy emerge from Kaidou's mouth like Shirahoshi does but it's more a horror movie moment but my issue with those designs is below)

Corazon - A heart (Like, just in a big ole heart)

Onigiri as an extra onesie for Law!

Bacura as an extra Boa onesie!

Meat onesie for Luffy, I can make a little bone stick out of the top and everything

Not a priority but maybe if I get through all the others:

Ceasar - Axolotl (Smiley)

Conis - Fox (Su)

Two remaining Gorgon Sisters - Snakes

King - Pteranodon

Black Maria - Spider

Pell - Falcon

Bian - Pink Bee

Bellamy - Hyena

Brooke - Laboon (The embroidery on this would be hell so it'll likely never be done but god would it be cute)

Might see if I can do something with Minks and the Sulong form but that's a tad difficult to differentiate. I don't just wanna put Carrot in a Rabbit onesie, ya know?

I know the marine admirals are all linked to animals in their names and symbols and Garp's dog hat so I might do them but they're, like, at the bottom of my list.

Original warlords but in seraphim coloring with little black wings and fire embroidered on their backs (though croc’s would not have a cigar cause the kids ain’t smoking)

Characters I know fit the category but I don't want to or feel like I can't do for various reasons:

Doflamingo - I know he's very popular and no hate to anyone who likes him but I don't want that man in my house so he's not gonna be.

Gecko Moria - I don't think I can do his head in this style and have it work, I'm sorry. And he's not Gecko Moria without his weird shape.

Any equine character - I have not figured out the hooves nor the face and maybe I will but it's still a no for now. Cavendish, Stronger, Kaku, none of em yet.

The japanese style dragon zoans - It's a really complicated design which would be really hard so I don't really wanna do it.

All the other ancient/artificial zoan Beast Pirates - 1. I haven't hit Wano and barely know them and 2. trying to make, like, ten dinosaur designs which can all be differentiated in this really simple style sounds like hell and I like Drake best so he gets dino-priority. Kings is at least a very visually different dino and if I make him I can have him, Law, Ace, and Robin have a "the government wants us dead for nothing but having survived their horrible acts of violence" tea party, which I want and thus am willing to work for, so Drake and King are my dinos.

Surume - I haven't figured out how to do an octopus but I promise you, I'm trying to think of it

Robson, Hakowan - I don't wanna do Wapol, I'm so sorry for the fans I'm sure exist somewhere.

Nyashi - I haven't gotten to whole cake and thus have no real positive Vinsmoke opinions, sorry. And I'm not putting Sanji in a Vinsmoke onesie, I wouldn't disrespect him like that.

Funkfreed - Spandam is nowhere near my top but I'm somewhat willing to bend if there's a burning fanbase which there seems to be somewhere and maybe they'll find this post and come for me. Mostly cause one of my friends likes him.

Catarina Devon - I don't really want to but also my friend (same one who like Spandam) really likes the blackbeards so you might see her anyways.

Five Elders - Unknown devil fruits don't count.

Drophy, Chaka, Pierre, Jabra, Tamago, Morgans, Pekoms, Dalton - Just kinda don't want to, sorry to these Zoans

Fishmen - There's so many and I don't wanna fall on that sword quite yet. I promise, every few days I think of doing Jinbe cause a whale shark would be hella cute and I love him but that's opening up such a can of worms.

That’s my list. I know there are some characters who are associated with animals but don’t have the other form, pet, or any visual motif, like Zoro with Tigers but I tried to stick with ones which were crewmates, pets, zoans, or visual motifs. That being said, Sabo with his dragon themed attacks and Koala with her name are on my list so I’m hardly firm on that rule.

If I missed anyone or if you think someone really needs a onesie, please feel free to comment or tag, I might make them and I absolutely haven't thought of all of them. Like while typing the Zeus/Gear 5 section, I just realized I could also make Smoker in a cloud, just like, a slightly greyer cloud cause it's smoke. I could totally do that and unfortunately, now I might.

[spookyspaghettisundae]

How to Break It

Night still gripped the wintry woodlands. Clouds devoured the moonlight, and first rays of morning wouldn’t shine for hours.

Steam billowed from the helmets of the two black-clad operatives. Snow crunched under the boots of Chloe Grant and Max Carter. They trudged uphill, between the trees, off the beaten paths, following the trails of their colleagues.

This led them to a scene of carnage.

Both Future Proof troopers paused. The flashlights mounted on their EMDs swept the area, scanning it for any clues they could glean on the whereabouts of the missing Mischchenko and Ruiz.

Military boots and hiking boots alike had torn up the pristine snow. A chase had happened here, and ended here—in a killing. Bare feet of giant hominids had trampled down other spots, leaving distinct prints of their own. Blood had melted snow in several crimson spatters, where a club had caved in a human skull.

Beyond the humans and the hominids, something the size of a truck had plowed between them all. Something that dwarfed even the giant hominids: a dinosaur. Its reptilian footprints were huge.

A long tail had carved through the snow, and several trees had been cracked and snapped like twigs in its wake.

“Kill the lights,” Ruiz hissed at them out of nowhere.

His voice arrived tinny, over their headset radios, but Grant clocked it was coming from elsewhere at the same time. She aimed her EMD at the treetops, casting light skywards.

Ruiz was sitting up there, in the dark, lodged between several branches, and aiming back down at them with his flashlight off.

“I said, kill the lights,” he repeated.

Carter swept around them one more time with his EMD’s light, then flicked it off. So did Grant.

“What the hell happened here?” Carter growled.

“Croc,” Ruiz answered.

The branches cracked and he slid down from one set to another group of branches jutting out from the tree’s trunk, making his way down from the treetops.

“Huh?” Grant breathed.

“Dino. Looked like a huge fuckin’ crocodile,” Ruiz explained.

The two operatives backed up to the tree where Ruiz thumped down into the snow between them.

“And Mischchenko? Is she dead?” Grant asked.

“No idea,” Ruiz said. “I hit the trees when shit hit the fan. We just found this site—looks like the hominids attacked a hiker, another one got away. Before we could make heads or tails of anything else, this fuckin’ dino attacks from the shadows. Its forward movement is scary fast, lemme tell you.”

Carter growled again. “And the two of you couldn’t take it down, between your, what, Type-4 and her Type-5?”

He nodded his helmeted head at the rifle-shaped EMD slung behind Ruiz’s shoulder.

“Negative,” Ruiz reported. “That thing is tough. Reckon over twelve meters long, all mean killing machine. Mouth huge like a hippo’s, but with hunting knives for teeth. Tanked about four or five high-powered EMD shots and still kept on ticking.”

A shudder ran down Grant’s spine. Her entire combat experience had never involved fighting animals, let alone dinosaurs. She wondered if the sight of this dinosaur would simply paralyze her like her first contact in live combat.

“Mischchenko, she get… eaten?”

Ruiz clicked his tongue.

“I don’t think so. But no clue what happened to her. Radio silence, I was keeping quiet to hide from the dino, maybe she is too. She’s not responding now, though, so gotta expect the worst. Last I saw, she sliced that fucker in the eye something fierce, with her knife? It retreated. Maybe it got her, she never had a chance to scream.”

“Or she ain’t the screaming type,” Carter grumbled.

Static heralded a fourth voice, farther away on radio, hailing from their airlift.

Pruitt interrupted. “Keep looking. Maybe she’s stalking the dino. Containment dispatched a second airlift for the specimens.”

Ruiz emitted a coarse chuckle. “Better be a bigger fuckin’ chopper than your ‘lift. I’m telling you, that croc is ginormous.”

He lifted the dark visor of his helmet and revealed a face that surprised Grant. Far more handsome than she had expected, Ruiz possessed a chiseled face with striking dark eyes that would have lent itself to a career in modeling.

Almost as if he noticed her lingering gaze through the closed visor of her tactical helmet, he smirked. From the folds of his gear, he produced a thin cigarillo and brought a flame to it with a storm lighter. The tiny thing clicked and he put the lighter away while smoking.

“Great,” Carter growled again. “So it’s a giant crocodile that can shrug off our EMD shots. This is why I keep saying we need to pack live rounds, you know—actual weapons.”

Grant turned and continued searching the scene of the fight. The trails were a mess, granting her glimpses of the violence that had played out here in recent hours.

“Bullshit,” Pruitt protested via radio. “We don’t need no stinkin’ live ammo. EMDs pack more punch per weight. Did you really crank your guns to max output?”

“Negative,” Ruiz responded, exhaling a cancerous cloud of smoke. “Didn’t have time to react. We were expecting to subdue two hominids when that dino, that croc—man, it ambushed us.”

“Okay,” Carter said. “So, Anomaly is closed. Max Carter’s going for max output, bitches. Y’all should follow suit if you know what’s good for you. We need to stop fuckin’ around. This thing may not be a T-Rex, but—”

Their radios all crackled and whined with static, followed by a fifth voice who hadn’t joined the conversation all night.

Grant would later get to know her as Alisha Burch, resident paleontologist of Future Proof.

Burch said, “Purussaurus. Pretty sure from what I’m hearing here is, you’re dealing with a Purussaurus. Large hominids, large crocodile, my guess is, the Anomaly connected to the late Miocene, and this is a—”

“Who gives a shit?” Carter hissed, trembling with pent-up rage. “You can look at it under a microscope when we’re done with it. The fucker may have killed Mischchenko, have you not gotten the memo?”

Pruitt spat on the radio, “Enough, you knucklehead. We need to be very clear that this dino-croc needs to be taken alive, whether it killed Mischchenko or not. Grant already confirmed timeline damage when—who was it you said vanished?”

Grant paused from searching the perimeter. The huge dinosaur’s tail had whipped the trees and left a trail downhill, towards the sound of water in the nearby stream.

The whole team had fallen silent, awaiting her answer with bated breath. Ruiz tilted his head and locked onto her with an inquisitive stare while he exhaled another puff of smoke from his cigarillo.

“Sears,” she said. “I’m still kinda freaked out that only I remember him, when, I dunno. Most of you must have known him better.”

Hoping all the attention on her would fade away, she checked her EMD’s setting. She adjusted it to the final notch for maximum output, and the weapon’s battery whined in response. All bars turned red on the weapon’s backlit display.

Still, the others said nothing. A long silence lingered between them, almost as if they were all mourning the fallen—an unknown fallen. Though they had not lost someone to death, Sears has simply ceased to exist entirely.

Wiped from the timeline. For whatever reason.

Another chill wracked Grant’s spine. She wondered if she was to blame—for having entered the Anomaly, and seeing the prehistoric world beyond its glowing orb—had that somehow caused a domino effect through time, reaching all the way into the present, and erasing Sears from existence?

It made no sense.

She needed to tell herself that it made no sense.

Carter slapped his heavy Type-4 EMD and set it to maximum output, causing his weapon’s battery to whine as well. He punctuated the action by saying, “Fuck it. Let’s get this bread. Catch that dino.”

“This way,” Grant said.

She shone her light down the trampled path through snow and trees.

Ruiz flicked the cigarillo into darkness and flipped his visor back down to cover his face, then led the way.

The Purussaurus had left a trail of destruction in its wake. Smaller rocks had shattered under its weight. Its long body and tail had scarred the snowy landscape, exposing frozen grounds underneath nature’s white blanket. And splatters of blood here and there revealed that Mischchenko, indeed, must have wounded it with a knife.

With all that combined, it proved easy to track.

Until they reached the stream.

Their flashlights swept up and down the creek’s water, cutting through boulders and Rocky Mountain forest. Bereft of snow, none of them spotted any clues to the dinosaur’s whereabouts.

“Shit,” Ruiz said, clicking his tongue. “We could really use Mischchenko right about now.”

“What are we, stupid?” Carter growled. “Downstream, the Anomaly. Bet you the croc will be hiding there in the cave. This whole shit loops back on itself.”

Ruiz shrugged. “Makes enough sense, but you’re on for the bet. Twenty bucks says it went to hide somewhere else.”

“Anybody else want in?” Carter asked.

“Stay focused,” Pruitt said on radio. “Containment is closing in. We don’t wanna waste time, knock that dino out, so we can make a quick extraction.”

“And Mischchenko?” Grant asked.

“We’ll find her,” Ruiz said, ending with a sigh. “One way or another.”

They hiked downstream. Dozens of careful paces prevented them from slipping along the path nature had carved for them. Several sharp drops slowed their descent, forcing them to pause and hop down in single file.

Boots splashed in water where they could no longer progress outside the stream.

Grant speculated. “Starting to think the croc ate the hominids and hikers, tried to go back through the Anomaly. Well—”

“Pu-rus-saur-us,” interrupted Burch’s disembodied voice over the ether of radio, intonating every syllable with a condescending tone. “Technically, a caiman, it—”

Ruiz shushed her. He hissed, “You owe me twenty. Contact—”

Too late. They had all noticed it too late.

Scales and long teeth glistened in the cone of light from Ruiz’s EMD. Only one of its reptilian eyes shone, the other was slick with blood and clamped shut from a vicious cut.

And the dinosaur had been poised to pounce all along.

Its huge maw—capable of swallowing a grown person whole—gaped at them from the boulders above, only split-seconds before Ruiz pulled the trigger. The EMD’s electric blast lit up their environment in a bright flash of blue. The huge caiman recoiled from the shot landing between its nostrils.

Its massive body absorbed the electric charge.

But it did not collapse. Rather than falling unconscious, the Purussaurus hissed in response.

Angrily.

The Purussaurus leapt from the boulder at them before Grant or Carter could open fire at it. A living avalanche crashed between them.

Stone exploded. Water sprayed in every direction and bodies flew everywhere. Grant fell, and her armor absorbed most shock from her fall as she tumbled downstream, hitting several rocks on the way. Hectic, shouting, and panic shook the small squad.

Carter’s bone-curdling yell pierced the night.

Through the distortion of water sloshing off her visor, Grant acted on instinct, slipping and sliding until she braced herself from being washed farther downstream. She rose from the water, taking aim at the whipping tail, along the huge, sleek body attached to it, and dead center—

She pulled the trigger twice. Her Type-5 EMD felt as light as a handgun in her palms, so she acted upon long-ingrained drills, hoping a double-tap dead center would deal with their problem.

That’s when she learned the next important lesson on her new job.

Electricity inherent in the EMD’s shots—and its interaction with water’s conductivity.

The EMD’s blasts hit their target without fail, that’s where her discipline and prior training paid off. Unfortunately, nobody had briefed her on the side effects of the weapon, such as its electric charge being conducted through water.

Ruiz yelled in pain as both he and the Purussaurus above him were wracked and shocked with jolts of electricity. The ex-soldier’s back arched violently and every digit and limb twitched while he crawled from the stream. The dinosaur snarled and crashed on the opposite side—then rolled around violently, threatening to crush Carter, who was dragging himself away from the fight, with a leg that had bent in ways human legs shouldn’t bend—

“Great!” Carter yelled. “This is why we—”

The dinosaur’s tail, whipping around, accidentally struck him in the head, shattering his helmet before he could finish any more sentences. Pieces of hardened plastic splintered and sprayed in every direction and he was silenced on the spot, collapsing into a lifeless heap.

Thunder. The Purussaurus moved with lightning speed, and its heavy weight made the ground quake like thunder as it barreled past Grant. Hoping to dodge out of the way, she instead slipped on slick rocks and splashed back into the creek’s water. The thundering shadow shot past her, gone within seconds.

Once she emerged from the stream’s water, she frantically shone light up and down the stream.

The dinosaur continued fleeing downstream.

Towards the cave.

Towards the Anomaly.

Grant sensed it. Instinct told her she was right.

“Fuuuck,” Ruiz groaned. He collapsed onto the rocks, dripping with water like the rest of them.

Pruitt shouted at them over radio, “Sitrep!”

Ruiz still groaned.

Grant dreaded the thought of reporting on Carter’s demise until he emitted a baritone growl and groan of his own.

“Shit, newbie, you’re fuckin’ dense—”

“Shut up already,” Ruiz moaned.

“Sitrep!” Pruitt repeated.

Grant assessed matters fast.

This was why Spencer had hired her, after all.

Carter had collapsed into sitting, propped up against a boulder. Judging by his inability to stand up and how he was gripping his left thigh in both hands, rather than shooting at the dinosaur, he had broken his leg. His helmet had been nearly obliterated, exposing his face—and blood from a cut on his forehead coated half his face in crimson. Though it looked worse than it was, he might have been concussed from the blow to his head.

Meanwhile, thin plumes of smoke rose from Ruiz’s back and belt. His EMD, smoking alike, clattered onto the rocks. He gripped his helmeted head while breathing heavily—he’d be fine, but the circuits on his gear had been fried.

The thundering footsteps of the Purrusaurus had died down, having gained distance and given way to hiding. The dinosaur had met its match in these humans.

“Do you copy?” Pruitt asked on the radio.

Grant answered. Combat discipline kicked in. Pushing all the hectic and terror down, deep down; leaving another issue to unpack another day. “Carter’s got a fractured leg bone, Ruiz is down for the count temporarily, still no sign of Mischchenko, and the dino got away.”

Pruitt fumed. She couldn’t even see the pilot, but she sensed his frustration in the beat of silence that followed. She felt watched, as if the rest of Future Proof LLC was listening in now, awaiting their next steps, like an audience watching a TV show.

“Knock that dino the fuck out,” Pruitt said. “Got a lock on your position.”

“Copy that,” she replied.

Kneeling beside Ruiz, he flopped onto his back, breathing heavily. He lifted his visor, blinking against the flood of cold wintry air hitting his face. Sharp brown eyes studied Grant’s visor, as if he was seeking eye contact with her.

“You good?” she asked him.

“Nothing a bottle o’ bourbon and some juicy hazard pay can’t fix.”

He grinned with a set of perfect white teeth on display, befitting of an advertisement photo. Those brown eyes of his flashed with a devilish charm.

Truly, this man needed to quit his job and start modeling.

Grant rose and splashed through the stream over to Carter.

“What about you?” she asked.

Just as she arrived, Carter showed off how much of a badass he thought he was. Following a single and sudden, violent pull at his outstretched leg, accompanied by the sickening wet sound of the broken bone being set to where it should be, he growled out a long, drawn-out groan.

“You’re gonna have to leg this one without me,” he said. “Only place I’m walking next is out of physio at the HQ clinic, once this shit’s healed.”

“Copy,” she said.

“Shit,” Ruiz said, clicking his tongue again. “My EMD’s battery got fried.”

“Take mine,” Carter growled again.

He flipped his rifle over, extending it towards Ruiz for him to take.

“What if another dino comes for you?” Ruiz asked. He snatched Carter’s EMD from his hands.

Carter reached behind himself and produced a pistol. To demonstrate, he racked the slide and said, “Forty-five ACP. Fuck this EMD bullshit.”

“Really?” Ruiz asked.

Carter laughed.

“Please,” came Burch’s tinny voice from the radio. “Do not—”

“Would you all please limit the chatter?” Pruitt cut in. “Finish the job, Grant.”

Droning rotors hummed in the distance. Grant gazed at the dark skies. Lights blinked on the horizon, where several helicopters neared.

“Hard copy,” she said.

Now she led the way, and Ruiz followed.

Before silence could finally return to their radio conversation, a weak voice disrupted the short bout of peace.

“Shit… what the hell… h-happened?” she moaned into the radio.

Mischchenko.

Grant sighed in relief.

“Holy shit, animal control’s still alive,” Pruitt said, with music ringing in his tone. “Carter, activate your beacon. Mischchenko, please group up with him and standby.”

“Did I get its eye?” Mischchenko asked.

“Affirmative,” Grant said. Then she added, “Going silent now. Dino nearby.”

“Copy.”

She exchanged a glance with Ruiz, who could only see the black of her visor. She nodded at him, silently urging him to lower it.

He clicked his tongue. “Instruments are toast, visor’s more hindrance than help now. Gotta do this old school.”

“Okay, cowboy.”

They continued downstream until they reached the overhang of jagged stones above the cave’s entrance.

Something began beeping. Icy cold sweat beaded on Grant’s forehead. The tiny sound of alarm emanated from her belt, intrusive on every beep.

Also potentially alerting the dinosaur to their presence.

“Your Anomaly detector,” Ruiz whispered. “Is that…?”

She checked the small handheld device on her belt, tearing it from its Velcro strap. She blinked a few times and failed to make any sense of the futuristic device’s display. Numbers fluctuated and wave-forms on its black screen indicated something in front of them.

Close.

“Yep,” Ruiz said, answering his own question. “Anomaly’s open again, but unstable, still. Orders?”

The team stayed silent on radio. As if the chain of command had been broken, with a situation too chaotic and derailed for anybody to take control, more beats filled with stunned silence.

Then Grant realized his radio had been fried alongside his EMD.

“They can’t hear you on comms because your radio got fried,” she told Ruiz. Then she repeated his question. “Orders?”

Still sounding weak and squeezed out through physical torment, Mischchenko finally spoke and said, “Plan A for ‘always’. Drive that specimen back through the Anomaly.”

“Hard copy,” Grant cut in. To Ruiz, she said, “Cover my six, I’m taking point.”

He shook his head. His expression conveyed “it’s your funeral”, but he gestured to the cave’s mouth and instead muttered, “A’ight.”

Losing no time, Chloe entered the cave. This time around, she followed its winding path with a steadier and more daring pace. The Anomaly locating device, returned to her belt, now beeped erratically.

Little time remained before the Anomaly would collapse again. And the small beeping device would draw the dinosaur’s attention to her—but Chloe Grant was counting on it.

Once she glimpsed the glow of the Anomaly’s shimmering orb around the final bend, she switched her flashlight off. Ruiz did the same.

She did her best not to focus on the fascinating, hovering phenomenon in the cave. Its scintillating shards, where time and space had fractured, rotating and spiraling perpetually in place like a cluster of floating, broken glass—it flickered. Like an old light bulb nearing the end of its lifespan, the Anomaly flickered and blinked.

And the tinkling sounds it produced intermittently cut out every time it flickered.

Time.

Was time such a fragile element after all?

“Hold your fire and hang back here in case this goes south,” Grant said.

“In case what goes south?” Ruiz asked.

The Purussaurus hissed at them from the opposite end of the large cave. Its glistening maw widened, opening. From the throat of the beast came a low, baritone growl, shaking Grant’s insides like a low, rumbling earthquake in her bones.

She defied the fear this instilled in her and advanced towards the growling animal, EMD’s muzzle aimed at the dinosaur’s mouth. With a flick of her thumb, she adjusted the weapon’s power output down to the medium setting. Only one red bar remained.

Ruiz repeated his question to no avail. “What do y—”

She opened fire on the dinosaur.

Two bright flashes of blue light filled the cave, and the Purussaurus snarled.

She had made it angry. Very angry.

Very good.

Grant shot it a third time and the dinosaur charged at her.

Just as expected. Preemptively, she dove into the flickering Anomaly.

The world turned sideways, upside down, blinding light engulfing her entirely, and then all was right.

She had returned to that prehistoric age, that stunning vista of another world—their world, but from millions of years ago.

She had no time to enjoy the breathtaking view. She dove to the side yet again. Rocks in the sunny landscape crunched where she crashed into them and held onto them for her dear life.

The Purussaurus flew through the Anomaly in pursuit of her—

And it hurtled right over her, off the cliff.

The massive predator’s hiss trailed all the way down until bones cracked where it hit jagged stone, bouncing from first impact, then bouncing off more crags on the long way down.

With a cacophony of cracking wood, the canopy of trees beneath the cliff swallowed the Purrusaur’s form whole. A flock of prehistoric birds dispersed in panic where the dinosaur crashed into the trees.

Chloe Grant gasped when lightning struck her arm, where Ruiz slapped a hand against her wrist, then another hand against her other arm, and he tugged. Helping her back up.

Clambering up the steep cliff’s edge, the Anomaly flickered behind him and the detector on Grant’s belt beeped with menace.

Panic of being stuck in the Miocene gave them wings. The two ex-soldiers practically flew into the glowing sphere. It collapsed behind them on the other side—their side, stumbling back into the pitch-black darkness of the cave.

Grant broke out into crazed laughter. Ruiz clapped her on the shoulder and a nervous chuckle escaped his throat, marked by a crooked grin across his face when she blinded him with her flashlight.

“That the good kind o’ laughter I’m hearing?” Pruitt asked on radio. Crackling again.

Grant’s laughter died down.

“Yeah.” Catching her breath and with a sinking feeling in her stomach, she asked, “Now, what about Sears?”

Ruiz fell silent, deprived of any potential laughter to follow his chuckling.

The rest of the team stayed speechless on radio.

“Nobody of that name on record with our company,” Singh replied. She hadn’t heard his voice since the streamlined briefing at HQ, and nearly hadn’t recognized it through the static of distance. “Sorry, Miss Grant.”

Trading places with the sinking feeling, anger now bubbled up from her gut.

“What the hell? We sent the dino back! We did everything right, so why the hell is the timeline not fixed?”

Just like the surprise of hearing someone else’s voice on the radio she hadn’t heard since her tour cut short, Doctor Solomon answered her question, distorted by the same disruptions of distance.

“I believe Novikov’s theory is proving to be wrong in practice,” he said.

That went right over her head.

“What does that even…?”

When Grant’s helmeted head snapped around to glare at Ruiz, he averted his eyes and rubbed his forehead.

Mischchenko radioed, “We don’t know how to fix the timeline, only how to break it. Welcome to the team, Grant, good job. And sorry… about Sears.”

Grant swallowed any remarks.

She had never known him beyond the name. He had said two things in the little time she had known him.

Now, Sears was gone.

Ruiz produced the storm lighter from his pouch. He studied it and slapped it twice, rather than using it light anything on fire. Then he placed it on the ground near the Anomaly.

Grant stared at him, expecting an explanation.

“In memory of this, uh, Sears,” he said, shrugging anew. Once more, he averted his gaze, studying the rocks between their feet.

Grant’s head was spinning.

Ruiz sighed and walked past her, heading out of the cave.

She followed him out, oblivious to what he had really just done.

Once they were outside and the illumination from their EMD flashlights disappeared with the two operatives, a tiny red light at the base of the lighter left behind started flashing.

A beacon of its own—blinking, flashing, a tiny red light in the dark.

This beacon was not meant for Future Proof to locate.

Somewhere else, another team received a signal to investigate.

And for now, only Ruiz knew about them.

[ratttrap]

@dino-chopper-face

It was a hard night, Rattrap had been awoken multiple times by the raptor twitching and groaning in his sleep.

When the morning came rattrap awoke to his hub notifying him of many missed comm link attempts by none other than Primal, as he would of guessed. He tried to move to get up but found himself covered in the weight of the large metal dino practically laying on top of him.

"Uhhgg...come on, get off." Grouchy the maximal have the other shove so he could pull himself into sitting upright. He needed to call Optimus back, but first he needed to wake up and get rid of the throb in his processor. "Hey, you up yet?"

[dexters-bluemilkshakes]

i made “the 501st go to target” , “the disaster lineage goes to target” and “The Clone Wars Squad ™️ (+Satine) Goes To Target” and now i give you: The Rebels Go To Target

hera: got to relax for once. she found some magazines and read them in the asiles while drinking a coffee. she got the newest additions to book series she likes and bought a few DVDs for her and Kanan’s few and far between “date nights.” she bought chopper a cat toy.

kanan: does the shopping. finds all the groceries/ food staples that they are running low on. also buys plain clothing/ accessories to be used in disguises. he grabs many packs of hair ties because ezra and sabine were tired of him stealing theirs. when both he and hera were done shopping they walked around the store, hand in hand, chuckling when they heard laughing and screaming and everything in between from their kids, and were very thankful zeb drew the short straw.

ezra: mr.kleptomaniac steals little trinkets and whatnot by putting them his pockets or by making it look like it was already his. He is pretty smug about it at first but sabine saw the whole thing and a few days later let’s it slip that ezra shop lifted in a half-successful attempt to get the heat off of her for smth dumb she did. ezra sheepishly returned/ paid for all the items while a stern hera stood behind him. zeb could. not. stop. laughing. zeb got in trouble later bc he was supposed to be watching ezra.

sabine: ogled over the hair dye, graphic tees, and art supplies. Despite them not having spray paints, she finds a lot of different materials she’s never had the chance to use, or just materials most people wouldn’t think to put in a piece. she re-stocks on snacks and her preferred hair dyes/ purple shampoo/ products. it’s going to be a long time before they come back here.

zeb: was the Designated Parent for the day. He had to make sure Chopper didn’t destroy the whole store, make sure ezra didn’t steal anything (he failed miserably at that), and make sure sabine didn’t paint anything. he also had to make sure kanan and hera didn’t do the smooches in a quiet corner. (he failed even worse at that) he was very frazzled but during his running around the store he found a really nice pair of boots. he also jump scared ezra like three times and made weird noises in neighboring aisles to try and freak ezra out. ezra insisted it didn’t (it did).

chopper: pinched people’s legs while hiding under clothing display tables. eventually zeb put him in time out and he had to spend the next 10 minutes walking in (grumbly) silence with zeb until he could continue his chaos. repeat cycle. hera gave chopper the cat toy and that kept him very occupied for a while. despite his insistence that he doesn’t care for it, he now refuses to shut down without it nearby.

rex: ezra tried to get him to lift him into the ball crate. rex said no. (ahsoka then looked away for like five seconds and rex threw ezra in the pit with no hesitation. ahsoka saw and immediately face palmed.) he walked around with ahsoka, and they reminisced about all the times they came here with their friends during the rare downtime they got during the war. oh! there’s where fives managed to slip and bring down a shelf. oh! there’s where padmé and anakin were caught holding hands. oh! that’s the hair product obi-wan insisted he never used but he did. oh! there’s where this person and this person and this person and he and she and they and

they’re all gone.

ahsoka and rex tried not to cry.

(when they saw the still lingering stain from where the wolffe pack managed to burst 12 pens and get ink everywhere the tears began to fall)

ahsoka: she could hear the whispers of her friends still lingering on the shelves. she thought she saw obi wan and anakin and padmé and…

but it wasn’t them.

it’s hard going back to the places of your past when the ghosts still haunt you.

she and rex left before the rest of everyone else

all she got was a keychain of a dino that anakin swore he would get on their next visit

and he would have gotten it.

except there was no next visit.

hondo: no one knows how he got here. no one invited him. he mostly left people alone except to ask for them to pay for his things. no one did. he eventually just stole a cartful of random stuff. he got caught, so he flew away with bags of stuff falling out of his window while shouting “until next time, my friends!”. the rebels left soon after that.

kallus: (post getting stranded on a Geonosian moon w our favorite Lasat) was parent for the day with Zeb, even though he didn’t have to be. That is, until he found the hat section and spend the rest of the time admiring himself in different fedoras. he got a watch, despite never saying he needed one and no one even saw him near the watches.

bonus!

thrawn: does not shop at target. ever. but it was a late night and he desperately needed more coffee grounds so he had little choice.

tarkin: lol dude just sneered at everything and made haughty remarks about the state of the store.

he actually loved it and goes back with a black mustache taped on his lip.

[ugh-tsumu]

HAIKYUU BOYS AS LEADING MEN ON CLICHÉ WATTPAD PLOTS (Filo)

-> DON'T JUDGE 😭 I had a convo with my bestfriend, it's too good to miss.

-> characters. Bokuto Kotaro and Atsumu Miya

-> warning. sadly, this is mostly haikyuu x f!y/n kasi 'yun norm ng filo Wattpad before. unprotected sex. unwanted pregnancy. murahan. patay ang parents ni y/n

-> dedicated to. [ gen. taglist ] @nakizumie @kirakirasaku @gayerthanthee @mirakeul. to Miss Alya and bh13 @kerokenma @xxlightsaberxx kasi naaalala ko interactions ko sa inyo dito. And to Dino bb @dinosaurtsukki kasi naaalala ko kapitbahay hcs namin HAHAHAHA

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BOKUTO KŌTARO: BABYMAKER PLOT

Listen...

Corporate heir si Bo ng 69 chain of hotels ng Kōtaro Corporations 😭

Malapit na mamatay ang papa niya kaya naturally (no, not really. just patriarchal), dahil siya lang ang lalaki sa kanilang magkakapatid, siya ang magmamana ng LAHAT PERO

He needs to have a baby

Or else, hindi mapapasakaniya ang mana.

WHAT THE FUCK SAAN SIYA KUKUHA NG FUCKING BABY NA MAY FUCKING GENES NIYA?

Kapatid niyang di masyadong matino: kidnap nalang tayo ng bata?

Bokuto: Pwede pero masyadong magastos.

Ate niyang matino: Hanap ka ng babymaker

Bokuto: Tangina di ko naisip yan

AND SO HE MEETS YOU: A CONVENIENTLY BROKE COLLEGE STUDENT NA PINAALIS SA DORMITORY NA TINITIRHAN MO DAHIL WALA KA NG PERA AT WALA KA NG PAMILYANG TUMUTULONG SAYO KASI (headcanon lang po for the sake of plot) WALA NA ANG PARENTS MO AT WALANG SILBI MGA TITA'T TITO MO

You were on the streets nang malapit kang mabangga ng fucking car ni Bokuto dahilan para dalhin ka niya sa mansion nila (hindi sa ospital, ha?)

And that's where the proposal inserts...

Bokuto: Listen...I need a baby

Ikaw na literal na wala sa tamang pag-iisip kasi wala kang pera at walang bahay: 👁️👄👁️

Bokuto: Ah, pwede ka bang maging...nanay ng baby ko?

Ikaw (2): 👁️👄👁️

PUMAYAG KA SIYEMPRE KASI MAY PROS: SA KANILA KA TITIRA, AT IPAG-AARAL KA

Tapos as time went by magkakadevelopan kayong dalawa at sa hindi malamang dahilan, palaging napopostpone pag eut niyong dalawa kasi fluff > smut HAHAHAHAHAHHA

Getting to know ganern. Mas mukha kayong bagong mag-asawa kesa sa babymaker HAHAHAHHAHAHA

Hanggang sa bumalik ang ex ni Bokuto na buntis pala at siya ang ama dahilan para masaktan ka kaya lumayas ka only to find out na buntis ka rin boom animal nasingit ni author ang eut in discreet para plot twist kunuhay sana all brainy ano po

TAPOS AYAW MONG SABIHIN KAY BO NA BUNTIS KA KASI TAKOT KA NA DI NA TATANGGAPIN NI KO ANG ANAK MO KASI MAY ANAK SIYA SA EX NIYA LIKE DUH ANO BANG LABAN MO SA EX KALOKA

PERO SI BO, MAHAL NA MAHAL KA. At ikaw ang pipiliin niya forever.

Pinadala niya ang mamahaling choppers niya para mag-scout sa buong Pilipinas, my friend. 10 sa Luzon, 10 sa Visayas, at 10 sa Mindanao SANA ALL

HANGGANG SA NAHANAP KA NIYA AT NAKITA NIYA ANG CUTIE PATOOTIE BABY BUMP MO

He was so shock na nabitawan niya ang dala niyang roses (kasi akala niya nagtatampo ka HUHUHU MUST PROTECC) at naiiyak na lumapit sayo

Tapos parang gusto niyang hawakan tiyan mo pero baka masabihang bastos wag nalang

Bokuto: Y/N...is this our baby?

Ikaw:...

Ikaw: Hindi mo to anak.

AS TO WHY KUNG BAKIT NAGSISINUNGALING KA, HINDI KO ALAM T-T LITERAL NA HALATANG GUSTO NI BOKUTO PERO SIRA ATA MATA MO

Tapos ipagpipilitan ni Bokuto na siya ang ama kasi duh wala ka namang naka eut na iba kasi di ka palabas ng mansion pero dinedeny mo talaga dahilan para magkagalitan kayo.

Mag-aaway kayo tapos magwa-walk out ka sana tapos susundan ka ni Bokuto tapos paulan na.

Ikaw: Bokuto, umalis ka na! Hindi mo nga to anak!

Bokuto: No, I am only leaving with you! *Grabs you in the arm to turn you around, facing him. He hugs you tight as his face glued on to your neck*

Tapos uulan

Bokuto: Kahit hindi ko 'yan, anak. Tatanggapin ko, Y/N, dahil mahal na mahal kita. 'Wag mo na alalahanin ang totoong Daddy ng baby mo. Ako nalang ang magiging Daddy niyan, okay?

Tapos ipapaliwanag ni Bo na manipulative ang bitch of an ex niya na hindi makamove on sa kaniya (I mean??? Mood ate) at sinabi niya lang na buntis siya para mapabalik si Bokuto sa kaniya PERO SIKE IKAW ANG MAHAL NIYA KAYA UMUWI NA KAYO AT DOON MO INAMIN NA SA KANIYA TALAGA ANAK MO AT SA SOBRANG SAYA NI BO BAKA NAG ROUND 2 PA KAYO PERO SOFTCORE KASI MAY BABY KA NA TAPOS NAGPAKASAL KAYO YEHEY

ATSUMU MIYA: FAKE DATING

LMAOOOO ALAM NA NATIN HE FITS THE FAKE DATING

His Dad, Senior Miya has been nagging him na tumino na at ituwid ang buhay niya gaya ng kambal niya na si Osamu Miya

Atsumu: Whatever, Dad. This is my life. I'm gonna do whatever I want! *sabay inom ng alak tapos racing with his mamahaling race car kasi potangina lahat nalang ng characters sa wattpad pag lalaki mayaman*

Di na nakayanan ni Mr. Miya ang pagiging makulit ni Atsumu, he finally set up his own son to the heiress of a business partner.

Atsumu: What the fucking shit fucking fuck, Dad?!

Osamu: Kuya, your language!

Senior Miya: This is for your own sake, Son, pota ka! Ilang taon ka na? 26! And what? You're wasting your life on alcohol, girls, and that daredevil hobby of yours!

Atsumu: No, Dad, hindi mo ako pwede ipakasal...kasi...may girlfriend na ako.

Senior Miya and Osamu: W E H

Shit, ngayon kailangan na ni Atsumu ng babaeng kayang magpanggap na jowa niya fuck talaga si Dad pare

Atsumu pwede ako

Atsumu: Aray! What the fuck?! Watch where you are fucking going!!!

Ikaw na galit kasi natapon ang bagong biling milk tea: iKAW PA ANG GALIT HAYOP KA MILK TEA KO ANG NALAGLAG?!

CATS AND DOGS LOLOLOLOL THE ULTIMATE CLICHE TROPE NG WATTPAD AMEN

Hindi ka kilala ni Atsumu noon pero na-curious siya dahil doon. He started asking his friends about na surprisingly, ay kilala ka.

Suna: Si Y/N? Kilala ko 'yun. She was my friend, she was my neighbor, then the fire nation attacked.

What the fuck? Bakit hindi ka kilala ni Atsumu?

Then suddenly...gumana ang brilliant mind niya.

Atsumu: Hey, stupid!

Lumingon ka kay Atsumu na galit. "Ano na naman?"

"Be my girlfriend"

HAHAHAHAHA GAGO <- you

Pero sa hindi malamang dahilan, nakulam ka ata ni Atsumu dahil napapayag ka niyang maging fake girlfriend niya. Kaya ngayon, nanginginig ka habang pinipirmahan ang kunwari kontrata niyo na sinulat lang talaga sa yellow paper kasi walang budget lol.

Atsumu: Good. Tomorrow, sumama ka sa akin sa bahay ko. Ipapakilala kita sa Dad ko. Wear something decent, stupid.

Gago meet the family kaagad?! The look on Senior Miya and Osamu's face nang umuwi si Atsumu with you beside him.

Atsumu: Dad, bro, I told you may girlfriend na ako. This is Y/N, my girlfriend.

HAHAHAHAHAHA NGITIAN MO NANG MALAKAS SIST KASI NAKAKABA ANG DINNER TIME

Napaka meticulous ni Mr. Miya sa'yo. Para bang interviewer siya sa tapos ikaw ang interviewee

Taga-saan ka, hija? Ilang taon ka na? Anong kurso mo? Anong trabaho ng papa mo? Mama mo? Aso mo? May bahay ka? Ilang floors? Ganoon!

Pero in the end, Senior Miya sipped on his wine bago tinignan si Atsumu. "I like her for you, son."

Tapos medyo slight lang pero you see the slight softness in Atsumu's eyes na magiging dahilan para magkalapitan kayo.

Magkakakilala sa isa't-isa ganern. Tapos sa hindi malamang dahilan, magkakadevelopan na kayong dalawa UNTILLLLLL

Linapitan ka ni Osamu at ng ex-fiance niyang heiress ng business partner nila.

Osamu: Alam naming pinepeke niyo lang ng kambal ko ang relasyon niyong dalawa.

Ikaw na nagbobo-bobohan: Ha?

Osamu: Hatdog. Eto oh! *shows the yellow paper contrata niyo*

Heiress na extra lang talaga: Imagine what Tito will feel pag nalaman niyang niloloko niyo lang siya ni Atsumu, Y/N

Ah shet torn ka na. Sana all ganito lang problema. In the end, you asked them kung anong gusto nila para hindi nila kayo isumbong.

"Break up with Atsumu." sabi ng bitchesang heiress and so you did <///3

Nagulat si Atsumu dahil hindi mo na siya pinapansin. Kahit na inaabangan ka niya sa labas ng class mo, pinipigilan siya nina Suna at Aran (na hiningian mo ng tulong)

At sa hindi malamang dahilan, lapit nang lapit ang ex fiance niya tf

Atsumu: Look, ex-fiance. Kahit anong gawin mo, hindi kita magugustuhan. Dahil...may iba na akong minamahal.

Natigilan si Atsumu. Dahil shet...na malagket....fucking shet...mahal ka na niya

He ran as fast as he could papunta sa sasakyan niya. He swiftly turned the engine on and he drove towards your place. It was 2 in the morning but he did not hesitate to bang your door, dahilan para magising ka.

Ikaw: TANGINA MAGPATULOG KAYO- Atsumu....?

Atsumu: Y/N, please, wag kang magulat pero mahal kita

Sino kaya hindi magugulat niyan lol

Pero dinedeny mo. Kasi ang nasa isip mo, mapapahamak kayong dalawa pag ilalaglag sila ni Osamu at ng palaka. Kaya kahit mahal na mahal mo na rin si Atsumu, pinagtatabuyan mo na siya

Atsumu: What the fucking fuck, Y/N?! Bakit napakafucking duwag mo?! What's so wrong of us loving each other? It started wrong, yes, pero baby we can fucking work this out!!!

Ikaw: PERO ILALAGLAG TAYONG DALAWA NI OSAMU AT NG EX FIANCE MO. MAPAPAHAMAK KA ATSUMU

Atsumu:

Atsumu: they w h a t

BANG INAKYAT NIYA ANG GATE NIYO AT HINILA KA SA KAMAY PARA MAYAKAP KA NANG MAHIGPIT TAPOS SINUSUBUKAN MONG KUMAWALA PERO FUCKING SHIT MAS MALAKAS SI ATSUMU DAHILAN PARA MASUBSOB KA SA MABANGO NIYANG CHEST OH MY GOD-

Atsumu: no one's gonna fucking stop us, baby. they will pay. God, I swear to God, I love you so fucking much fucking fuck fuckery fuck shit (skl, bad boy = palamura noon no?)

He kissed you on your forehead. Whispering na kakayanin niyo to dahil jumbo hotdog kayo.

The next day, tinotoo nga ng mokong. maaga kayong umalis sa bahay mo at pumunta sa mansion nila. Masaya pa si Senior Miya dahil nakita ka niya ulit. Si Osamu naman, ofc galit kasi grrr bark bark kasama mo na na naman ang kambal niya

Atsumu: Dad, I have a confession to make

And BOOM THE TEA IS DROPPED SIST! THE LOOK ON SENIOR MIYA'S FACE? PRICELESS. At first, medyo galit pa ang gurang pero eventually kumalma ito.

Atsumu: To officially set things right...

Nagulat ka nang tumingin si Atsumu sayo. Tumayo siya at lumapit sa pwesto mo bago lumuhod sa sahig.

Atsumu: Y/N, will you be my real girlfriend?

AYIEEEEE SANA ALL

Ay lol jinombag nga pala ni Atsumu si Osamu pero okay na bati na sila. yung echepwerang heiress naman ayun natahimik na

COMING SOON: AKAASHI'S AND TSUKISHIMA'S ;D

[buzzerbot]

Waspinator never swapped out if his beast form as he scurried toward the maximal and practically clinging to the taller mech with his front limbs, “The Flezzhy-dotzz are leaving. Something about not enough food in the area, but that makezz no senzze to Wazzpinator! ThensmallFlezzhy-botzzazzkedHimifhecoming,Wazzpinatordon’twanttoleavebutFlezzhy-botzzwerenicetohimandlethimlivewiththem. Wazzpinator not sure what to do!!” Waspinator babbled, his words coming out pretty fast in the middle there.

Indecisive

@dino-chopper-face

Waspinator flew to the old maximal base located in the side of a inactive volcano with great speed, so much speed he practically rammed into the door’s and tumbled in to the cave with a clang.

It didn’t seem to phase the wasp too much as the giant insect got right back up rubbing his head with his front legs, “Dinobot?!“ Waspinator called out. He hopes the raptor wasn’t out on patrol or something.

[danwhobrowses]

One Piece Chapter 1007 - Initial Thoughts

Allow me to be the first to say

WHAT!?

Wh-what!? How? Why? Answers Oda, ANSWERRRRRS!

Chapter 1006 left us with an unnerving L session in the midst of Tropical Kickassery, but Oda continues the perpetual cocktease by moving to another for Chapter 1007

Spoilers for Chapter 1007, Support the Official Release as well

A Caesar cover page this time, though something did catch my eye; one penguin has ‘Senso Y...’ but I can’t seem to translate that, the nearest Penguin however has 401 written on his hat. You know what Chapter 401 was? Pirates vs CP9, and the color spread was the Straw Hats running from a Mammoth, foreshadowing maybe?

Unusual to recent chapters, we pick up where we left off with the lower floors, seems the Oniwabanshu were also defeated along with the Mimawarigumi, only Mega Forehead who dipped will remain then

Apoo is Ashook, but Drake throws Hyou some respect

Back to last week’s cliffhanger, Hyou and Omasa are close to turning and awaiting assassination by their reluctant Yakuza

Queen though has lost patience with his subordinates begging, noting how since there are no SMILEs anymore, their only purpose is now to die, but he also has a go at the Samurai, mocking them for trusting in Chopper - a pirate - to save them

Between all this I got a little laugh on how Drake in his hybrid dino form just kicked some nameless dude, like he dual wields weapons so he had to have chosen just to toe kick someone away

Just as Yattape is about to strike down Hyou though, Chopper comes in, blocking the sword with his hand/hoof as well!

Fresh faced cute Chopper is back, he did it in time!

Chopper Nuke to the rescue!

Knowing that he’d have to get to everyone, Chopper decided to administer the cure in a cloudburst counter-virus, using Cowpox to defeat Smallpox

Second Rate? Bitch you wish Queen, wait till you learn that he undid your Mummy virus too. Though I really wish Chopper just went ‘Because I am a doctor’ rather than ‘we had a timeskip to hone our skills’

Queen is reaping what he sowed as well, now the Waiters and Pleasures have turned on Queen in favour of Chopper, wanting to protect who saved them rather than the one who’s been letting them die

That’s more backgammon tiles turning as well, Chopper and Tama just single-handedly turned a vast majority of Kaido’s army against him, but it does serve to worry that the Tobi Roppo, Disasters and the threat of Big Mom’s crew and the Yonko themselves are a hefty threat, but the numbers advantage is turning around

Marco then in with the headlock, he seems to be using the arm that had its wing chopped off so likely means that he’s recovered

Monster Point finally showing up to smack some taste outta Queen’s mouth, Chopper is NOT a Tanuki - he’s a Reindeer with Tanuki-like powers

Ha the ‘Ohhhhh’ faces, especially Drake XD Dino boy is intimidated

Over with Yamato, Momo’s having a bit of a pity parade

Yamato you’re supposed to have a dragon in your pants not your tits XD Momo finally turns dragon form and even though he’s basically a pink version of Yamato’s dad he calls it an Eel

And coincidentally, CP0 have just started talking about Momo’s artificial DF, turns out it was made directly from Kaido and Vegapunk’s Lineage Factor and was going to be taking by the WG, but it was considered a failure

White-eye is on the money with the bombshell, the fruit was a success: Vegapunk copied a Devil Fruit, and Momo has it. Got two fish bois here

And then back to the Akazaya, they’re alive and treated but they don’t know who did it

But we would know that silhouette anywhere, it’s Oden! And we leave that on a break

But...I don’t buy it

We saw Oden die, Zoro is using one of his swords as we speak (those hilts don’t match either) and he hasn’t aged a second, so what’s the deal? The only way this could legit be a living breathing Oden is if Oden was sent to the future and then came back but how does he do the back bit if Toki can only send people forward

Oden also does not at all fit the shadow figure on that cliffhanger, so he can’t have been the one tending the wounds, and if he was outside in the open the Marys would see him, I’m sure someone would be like ‘WTF IS KOZUKI ODEN DOING BACK FROM THE DEAD!?’

So what’s the other options? Well, it’s not Oden, but someone’s posing as him. Cyborg Oden would lure them in to a trap, Kanjuro could be alive and made a paint Oden, it could be ninjutsu by Mega Forehead, Onimaru could’ve transformed too but I don’t see why, out there suggestion that Caribou can change shape too but he’s never demonstrated such an ability and he’s never seen Oden so I just wonder where he is in all this. There’s also the off-shot that since it’s the Fire Festival honoring the dead, this is Ghost Oden but that’d be hard to work - but if anyone could do it Oda can.

Overall, it’s a big BIG cliffhanger but one that renders me with worry over our Akazaya and now we have to simmer with a week break and possibly not even tread back on it for next chapter

We’ve replaced the questions of ‘can Chopper stop the virus’ and ‘is Hyou really gonna die’ with ‘What is Oden?’ and ‘How will people react to Dragon Momo?’ so the perpetual cocktease continues

but still, after the L session we got a huge W in Chopper curing all the Ice Oni and turning Kaido’s forces against him. While I don’t think Monster Point Chopper can beat Queen - he might have a decent go at it though - alone, anything Chopper does up to this point is a W over Queen so long as the Ice Oni has been remedied. Hyou survives for a bit longer but his strength and life force is sapped now, there is the chance he won’t last the end of the raid still.

It is worth reminding that things can still go very badly; Hawkins is nowhere to be seen (will continue to hope that he makes a face turn), Apoo is still on Kaido’s side and Perospero is still lurking in the chat, not to mention that things could still be going very bad at the top of the dome with Hybrid Kaido and BM vs the Supernovas, also the Island is still on course to flatten the Flower Capital

The questions ramp up but the raid is far, far from over.

[tsunflowers]

for no one’s enjoyment but my own I’ve painstakingly ranked my favorite sentai teams based only on the suits

44. battle fever - I just hate miss america

43. sun vulcan - I have no feelings about sun vulcan

42. goggle v - I dont really like the helmets

41. denjiman - I feel like when people draw generic sentai parodies they end up looking like denjiman

40. turboranger - workable but so basic. nothing stands out to me about turboranger

39. goranger - good start. capes are nice 

38. dynaman - this is like the first step to modern sentai

37. maskman - kind of boring but fine. it’s so wack that the women have earrings

36. gingaman - I’ve never liked these tbh. the stripes on the chest look like an ugly sweater. I don’t love the helmets either

35. zyuranger - these are very classic. I like the diamond motif repeating on the gloves and boots

34. ohranger - the helmets are, well. but I love the gold accents especially on the hems of the skirts

33. abaranger - I love abaranger to death but I think the suits are kind of ugly :/ abarekiller rules though

32. gogov - I don’t have much to say about gogov I just think they look good. my favorite part is the respirator appearing when they transform

31. jakq - love the capes and unironically love big one

30. zyuohger - I got used to these but I still don’t love them. I appreciate the idea behind putting a large animal face on the chest but if you were going to also have its eyes light up maybe rethink the position so it doesn’t look like they all have glowing nips. just a thought

29. toqger - they’re cute but very simple. the train track motif on the helmets is excellent but I wish the helmets were a little more different in shape and design

28. changeman - I really like the bodies of the suits but don’t love the helmets

27. jetman - this one was hard to place bc there are some things I LOVE like the wings of the bird on the chest extending into epaulets but I don’t like how kaori and raita don’t match everyone else

26. kakuranger - simple but they work. I wish the white accents were easier to see on tsuruhime but I’m also glad she doesn’t have pink accents lmao. I also wish the helmets were a little more distinctive but I appreciate the commitment to the ninja vibe

25. fiveman - cute! I love the little symbol on the helmets and the way the yellow chest stripe is outlined by a white chest stripe so they don’t have to change colors for yellow. also nice that the women have the same body pattern as the men with no skirts

24. kiramager - I thought these were ugly as shit at first but they grew on me. now I love the white accents on the helmets. kiramai silver is still ugly though

23. magiranger - cute. love the capes. the stripes on the men are a little overwhelming for me but I love the two women. magishine also rules

22. liveman - simple but cute. these really work for me

21. bioman - I love the bioman thigh highs and leotards. legendary

20. gaoranger - the helmets are like just goofy enough that I love them. the band across the chest with the different number of stripes is a cute touch. mostly I’m ranking them this high bc I love the asymmetry of the gaosilver suit

19. hurricaneger - love the helmets. also love that the hurricanes, gourais, and shurikenger all look different enough to be different teams but still like they belong in the same series

18. flashman - cute! the female flashmen are so good and the men are ok

17. timeranger - these slap. the colored visor and the different shaped arrows on the chest are the charm points. timefire is truly the cooler timered

16. megaranger - excellent. I’m a huge fan of the helmets which I think are simple yet classic and I really like the band across the chest with every character’s color

15. carranger - the helmets are cute and all feel distinct despite being car-based. I love the black detailing on the chest, arms, and legs. I feel like it really makes the suit stand out despite having a solid colored body

14. ryusoulger - the helmets are extremely cute and they say “dinosaur knight” 100%. the asymmetry is charming too. I still don’t know why the symbol on their chests is the ryusoul symbol though

13. ninninger - the shuriken helmets fucking rule. even now I can’t decide how I feel about the women having thigh high boots but I like the black arms and the hint of black between the skirt and boots on the women. starninger having a helmet that’s a star and a cowboy hat is legendary also

12. dairanger - love dairanger. the top of the suit looking like a little jacket is so cute. I also love the dairanger logo with all five colors. this might be the first season chronologically where I feel like they really went off with the helmets

11. go-onger - the tires around the wrists and calves are truly inspired as is the seatbelt accessory. what I really love is the little stylized number representing their respective engine partner. the go-on wings fucking rule also

10. gokaiger - they didn’t have to make the gokai suits so good when they transform into other teams every episode but they did that for us

9. gekiranger - love the main three to death, especially the helmets. the kageki powerup is also perfect. violet and chopper I don’t love as much but they look pretty slick and definitely went all out with the martial arts theming so I appreciate them

8. dekaranger - the helmets are good esp how they light up. the stylized numbers on the chests are excellent. and this was our last series where the women don’t have skirts when transformed!

7. kyoryuger - love the helmets. they’re very stylized but still recognizable as dino heads. the little details that differ between characters like silver sashes on spirit rangers and sharp teeth only on carnivorous dinos are charming to me. there are so many dino heads on each kyoryu but they’re so stylized that you might not notice at first and I love that

6. go-busters - can we please have leather style suits again. they look so good helmetless as well as with the helmet on bc they’re almost clothes that people could wear. I can’t explain why but the colored gloves are a key element to me. beet and stag also look suitably different while still part of the team

5. boukenger - I love boukenger! the white stripe up the center of the body is so simple but it really makes them stand out. the helmets having built in headlamps which are actually used in the show is my favorite

4. kyuranger - the kyuranger suits are so good… the helmets are so fun and inventive. I love the subtle silver lines running along the body and the armored crop top. the unique details characters get depending on their species are good too except maybe garu’s fur. but they still look cohesive as a team

3. goseiger - highly cute. the look of belted high waisted pants/skirt really works for me. I love the helmets and how the animal motif is only visible from the side. my favorite is the emblems on the chest corresponding to each tribe which combine to form the goseiger logo

2. shinkenger - legends only!! the triangles along the sides imitating the line of a hakama are a subtle but essential element. the kanji helmets are also perfect. they’re so simple but they don’t need any extra decoration to work

1. lupinranger/patranger - they’re so cute! ever since the suits were first revealed I’ve loved the way the base suits for the lupins and patrens are just colorswapped versions of the same suit. the way the lupins have a bow tie on the chest is super cute and I like the patrens’ corresponding tie look too. the lupins’ helmets especially have personality to them while still clearly being top hats. lupinx and patrenx both rule also. noel hogging all the good suits

[matt0044]

A Fossil episode near Dino Fury?

What are you up to, Simon?

Mike Reeves meets up with Zoey with a dinosaur fossil sample of a potential new species, something that he broke his arm over. It’s a sure-fire for his scholarship application but he needs Grid Battleforce’s help analysis the DNA properly. His sister is more than willing to help, keeping her laundry girl cover.

Wishful thinking, I know, but it would be cool if this tied into Dino Fury somehow. Say that Mike goes onto his scholarship and proceeds to help uncover the next Power Ranger team. Considering the Beast vs. Dino team-up, it would be cool if this played a part next season. I mean, Super Ninja Steel opened with Sledge. :/

Zoey catches Nate giving Jax an maintenance check and decides to use the DNA Scanner on the fossil after using a cleaning solution on it to clear up the gunk on it. However, she pours acid on the table instead and pretty much destroys the bone entirely. I’m just surprised this wasn’t Ben and Betty’s doing.

Character growth? :P

So one thing I liked about this episode was that Zoey didn’t try to hide that she ruined the fossil with Mike with any convoluted lies and instead told the truth. He even takes it well for her sake but it still leaves her guilty for having dragged her brother’s chances down. As such, she heads off to the mountain where the sample was found in. We even get a cool zoom out shot of how big the thing is.

All the while, Robo-Roxy seeks to outdo Robo-Blaze when she hears of the new fossil find and gets Scrozzle to scan for any traces of it. I guess that the Robotars go out pick up things like magazines to keep tabs. It’s that or Evox has a weakness for the funny pages from when he was Mayor Daniels. She finds just the upgrade she’s looking for along with a Yellow Ranger to destroy.

Zoey makes it in time to find the dig site where another claw remains only for Robo-Roxy to crash the party. Thankfully, Jax arrives with the Chopper Zord and the rest of the team to even the odds. Needless to say, the Robotar gets her DNA essence scanned and retreats in order to make herself awesome-r.

Robo-Roxy upgrades herself with the Dinosaur DNA on-top of her Fauna DNA only for the entire thing to crash the robot chamber big time, cutting off their means of regeneration. In other words, it’s either them or the Rangers. I love how Evox bemoans how competitive his teenagers are like a reverse Zordon.

Zoey gives Mike his newest sample in time for a rematch with Roxy and Blaze. Devon takes on Robo-Blaze in what I believe was Hiromu’s one-on-one with Enter prior to the final episode while the other face off with Robo-Roxy in Escape’s grand finale. She gets the upperhand until Ravi and Zoey get Beast-X Mode to even the odds. Luckily, she takes a page from Ryjack and gets bigger.

The Rangers take her on with the Beast-X King Ultrazord and finally finish her off. I wish that we had Ravi transport the Cheetah X Blaster and initiate the finisher like Devon. Unless it’s a weird DNA thing. Thus Roxy is felled with no chance of regeneration. It’s a shame since she was always the real Enter of Beast Morphers with all the charisma and wit that came with it. Rest in pieces.

Zoey relates to how Roxy got too in over her head in trying to compensate for her failures but it still relieved that she got Mike her scholarship. Meanwhile, the Bumbling Burkes have been dog-sitting for their dad and seem to have trained the boy how to use a ketchup bottle. Bonus points for making Devon freeze up.

Next time... the end is near...

[buzzerbot]

“Sayzzz Bot that izz Frankenzzztein Dino-clone!” Waspinator counters back amused with the banter, “How Dinobot doing?” The question sounded odd to ask. Do they even consider each other as friends now? Ehh not like they have much choice for friends.

Dinobot Dork!

That earns an annoyed huff. “And Waspinator is a freak,” he grumbled.

[likemymask]

One Piece Daemon AU

Presented with only slight spelling corrections and some elaborations, the mess of a One Piece Daemon/His Dark Materials AU that would not leave me alone and would only let me work on it at 1-3AM.

Also now I’m writing snippets for it just like my Gundam Wing and Star Trek daemon AU. Because.

Luffy: sea king with Conqueror Haki so they can’t be controlled. Separated but not because that’s as free as you can get. Fuck yea, she’s in north blue chilling the fuck out (heh) half the time and being absolutely chaotic as shit the other half. Her attitude is diametrically opposed to what Luffy is doing at the time. LOL she runs/swims into Shanks when Luffy’s still barely a pirate so he has no idea (not that the marines do either) one time. This 2000ft tall monster is squinting at him, and he thinks he’s about to get ate and then she goes “oh you’re so much smaller now!” Cause of course she spent her formative years as a baby version of his daemon. The entire crew is goddamn losing it, cause what kind of monster is this that even Red Hair’s Haki can’t control it, until Shanks yells out her name and then everyone loses it further still. I have decided Eastern dragon aesthetic but water/earth theme as opposed to Kaido’s air/fire theme. Still blue, but blue-green, tiger stripes cause camoflage and also badass and maybe she settles after Luffy meets Zoro’s daemon *whistles*

Zoro: tiger obviously normal colors or green and black cause why the fuck not, Zoro is not into stealth really. ”The only one who can call me stupid is me. “ “.....stupid” Cat vs sword fight ensues. Can be found cuddling Chopper when Zoro’s tired, super sloshed, both.

Nami: monkey? Lemur: small, fast, quick hands, caring but only when you prove you deserve it. Absolutely torments Zoro’s when she’s pissed because tigers can’t normally climb fucking main masts but a) she parkours and b) when has that ever stopped Zoro/her? Likes to hang out in the tree grove, absolutely pick pockets people while Nami plays distraction.

Robin: cat some kind of cat not big CARACAL. Looks aloof but absolutely ready to be ridiculous at any opportunity.

Franky: dog or dolphin. Something excitable loyal ready to throw down Newfoundland? Big, friendly, over-excitable, likes water and sailing...yes.

Usopp: Corvid or monkey; curious, intelligent, stubborn, inventive, tool solving/using. Lives in groups/troops and cares for others. Probably corvid, too similar to Nami otherwise. Crow most likely.

Sanji: swan. Black, and absolutely a viper and very sorry about Sanji’s attitude towards woman cause she’s more refined about it. Same intensity though. Will bite the shit out of you. Tiger vs swan fight, GO. Do also groom each other though cause human affectionate displays are stupid sometimes.

Fishmen don’t have daemons its another conflict and excuse for racism.

Law: wolf but like starved and Eurasian crazy with it. LONG leggos. Spiky black fur around the head, grey black white speckled cause T R A U M A

Ace: was a fire hawk, no actual fire but red as hell and BIG tail and wings. Her species not liked on most islands cause they don’t leave once they’re settled. They stand their ground. More angst ha ha. Never met settled Luffys daemon because I’M A MONSTER.

Sabo: never settled until he learned Ace was dead and then she settled as fire hawk because trauma and angst and also he knows who he is now. Not being settled was useful for a while when he did infiltration etc but now they’re both happy/sad about it.

Garp. Big dog. Bull mastiff dog. Not good with kids only with attacking things and defending but very loyal. Also big. “ Bullmastiffs are also difficult even for adults to control, so they aren’t a good choice if your child wants to help walk the dog. They like to please and crave attention, but they’re so big that even a well-intentioned nudge can end up hurting small children. ” HMMMMM RINGS A BELL, THIS DOES

Chopper: also no daemon or if so then monkey because HANDS. OH BOI THAT MUST HAVE BEEN A FUN THING. EAT SOME FRUIT, WAKE UP WITH A SOUL. Wait no people think he’s a pet. No daemon then.

Mihawk: literally whatever Shank’s daemon is he insists this is why they’re friends while Mihawk wine aunts in the background. He’s more refined though than Shanks and his soul (this is not a challenge). Like absolutely cold as ice until he cracks a pun, but no one believes the victim cause no way Mihawk would do that. Soooo proud, regal, loyal but willing to have a good time. Some kind of dog or cat. Big and fast and POWER. Could do big cat to be more like Zoro or a dog/canid to foil it. Maned wolf?

Vivi: it’s lazy to say her bird Caracue I can’t spell it’s one am but imma do it. KAROO HOW THE FUCK DID I MISSPELL THAT.

Crocodile: big fuck off alligator cause fuck you that’s why. HOLY FUCK I FORGOT HE HAD THE BANANA ONES IN HIS CASINO THAT’S GREAT

Logias turn to same element so Ace’s daemon is now a literal actual fire hawk, fuck the history books I’m writing this shit.

Don fuck face Flamingo: is what it is but like Kipo And the Age of Wonderbeasts it got TEETH, cause anything that survived acid water and shit is not cool. In fact, you know what, she’s albino and thinks that makes her special, honey you just don’t got shrimp vitamins, you buffoon of a bird.

All the dino Zoans are modern descendant of those animals so chickens. Or birds. Chickens would be so goddamn funny especially the 3 foot tall fluffy ones...fuck what’re they called(Brahmas). Oh wait. Emus. Ohhhhhhh fuck emus as an option.

Mammoth Zoan can have a Mammoth daemon because I want to see that on a ship.

(Makino) Bartender lady I can’t remember her name starts with m capybara cause she’s chill as shit and friend shaped. 

Dadan: is not friend shaped but is friend. Big fuck off bear or buffalo or wildebeest

Brooke: Laboon, Lampoon whatever Moby Dick. There’s some trauma, they had to leave him, but they didn’t want to and Brooke offered to stay but Laboon thought he’d be fine. Spoiler alert He Is Not. No one is fine.

Ohhhhhhh fuck bad good idea: Rogers daemon also a Sea King but the marines never goddamn figured it out, hoooooo my gods Shanks is having goddamn flashbacks. 

Momo and Kaido both have Eastern dragon daemons cause fake fruit.mythical zoan fruit but Momos is the size of a gecko and black so she’s hide-able. Kaido’s isn’t as big but is still Fuck Off huge. Red because I said so. 

Beastmen also do not have daemons because fuck the amount of significant characters in One Piece

Cora(zon): also had a wolf, because yay trauma and repeats and trauma bonding!But she was like, pretty yellow white and dog-ish up until the moment she ripped your throat out for offending her/harming her pack. Law learned much from her about appearances, being underestimated, and then for the most part did the exact opposite.

Slime man: *Aka Trebol* has a hagfish cause fuck him and Doflamingo

Boa: her snake weapon thing. Big noodley boy. The skull is for A E S T H E T I C

   Ace's daemon named Picaro: Spanish for naughty/badly behaved and that is a synonym for rogue cause MOMMA'S BOI and I keep misreading Rouge as rogue cause PIRATES, and this way it's a little better than naming the fire hawk Red though Ace does call her that sometimes .          You know what, he has the same daemon as Rouge/mom actually cause stubborn enough to not go into labor for 20 months is bonkers and that shit deserves recognition. Also because FUCK the number of characters in One Piece.              Celestial Dragons don't have special daemons but they do splice/separate cause they're fuckers that's why              AU of AU        Luffy's daemon close enough to WRECK MARINEFORD'S SHIT THAT'S RIGHT BABEY ACE LIVES, ASL REUNION AND SUCH          Sabo's daemon settles as a dog but one of the CRAZY breeds, like poodle or husky.

AU OF AU PART TWO: originally when thinking about a One Piece daemon AU Luffy was gonna have a cheetah; long, fast, use recoil to increase speed and change directions, males live in groups with their brothers and are highly affectionate. Tendency to run into walls. Has a fur pattern presentation named King Cheetah, looks like a more Armament Haki version.

[ayma-nidiot]

In the White Light - Prideshipping Chapter 15

Also on AO3.

Author’s note: From here on out, there will be small bits of Shrimpshipping, especially since I believe Rex and Weevil deserved so much better in the anime. So I apologize to those of you who don’t ship it. I promise that the overall fanfic and remaining chapters will primarily be Prideshipping still, and the Shrimpshipping will be relatively minimal.

Chapter 15 – For Sure This Time

When Yami Yugi and Kaiba nearly made it to ground level, the pharaoh noticed a giant portal open up on Atlantis, which Joey had no problem passing through. Before Yugi could do the same, Yami shouted, “Yugi, wait! Don’t go yet!”

���Pharaoh!” Yugi noticed a weak Kaiba before he saw the pharaoh. “What’s wrong with him?”

“Dammit, pharaoh, you made me hold on for nothing,” Kaiba groaned, weakened by the battle and the thin air, as he changed back into a human. He would have landed on top of Yugi, too, had Yami Yugi not caught him.

“What happened up there?” Yugi asked.

Not bothering to get up from his prone position, Kaiba replied, “I think I fought too hard… again. It took all I had in me to fight Leviathan’s seal on my powers.”

“I see… But then why do we need to stay, pharaoh?”

Yami Yugi pointed to a man hobbling towards them. “That’s why.”

“Sorry, did you think I was dead?” Dartz laughed while he held onto his injured right arm, and Leviathan once again appeared.

Yami Yugi gave Kaiba a pained look. “Kaiba, get out of here! This battle is for me and Yugi to fight.”

“Ngh…” Kaiba could only crawl an inch before his back radiated in pain. “I… can’t… And even if I could, I’m not leaving you, not during your most important battle yet.”

“Luckily for you, pharaoh, I no longer have any interest in your boyfriend,” Dartz spoke while Leviathan reared his spiky head. “Your soul is so dark, so full of hatred and evil, that it is the only one I need!”

“That’s not true!” Yugi interjected.

“Oh? You have something to say, you insignificant runt?”

“He’s beaten the darkness in his second duel against Rafael!”

“Hmm, you just gave me an idea…” Dartz cackled again, motioning for Leviathan to attack Yami Yugi.

“Aaaaargh!” Yami Yugi could feel the remnants of Leviathan attempt to tear at his soul. Too tired to stand anymore, he fell to his knees.

“If he’s really beaten the darkness as you say, then he’ll be able to resist the great beast! But if not, his soul will be no more, and Leviathan will have all the power he’ll ever need!”

“Ngh…” Yami Yugi managed to very slowly get up again.

“It’s futile, you know. You’re just prolonging your suffering, pharaoh. But if you give in, I can assure you it will be over soon enough!”

“This isn’t the first time I’ve had to face my own darkness.” Yami Yugi looked back to Yugi. “Even before my friends and I had to endure your war, we fought together at Duelist Kingdom. Just when I felt ready to give up… Just when Pegasus had my soul on the brink… It was my friends who saved me. See, Dartz? This is why you can never beat me. You don’t have the love and support of friendship.”

Dartz winced as Leviathan’s influence over Yami Yugi grew weaker. “Y-You think your friendship speeches will work on me?”

Yami Yugi fully stood up now, and the Millennium Puzzle began to glow. “They can… and they will.”

“Don’t tell me… You’re going to use the forbidden magic?”

“Etirihc irakih ukaway, uohsius ustihies uatu!”

Yami Yugi’s dreamy baritone voice echoed far enough for Mokuba and the others to hear from ground level. “What a beautiful voice… Could it be the pharaoh?”

“It’s working!” Yugi spoke with hope in his voice. “…Whatever it is. But what’s happening to Dartz?”

“Uwaaaaa!” Despite how Leviathan quickly began to fade, Dartz apparently looked healthy.

Yami Yugi had finished the Incantation at last. Having spent most of his energy, he fell to the floor and now sat on his feet.

Incidentally, Kaiba felt so refreshed after the song that he could get up again. He decided to direct his newfound energy towards Dartz. “Dartz… You’ll pay, you bas-”

Yugi pulled on Kaiba’s coat. “No, Kaiba, look at him!”

With a perplexed look and two golden eyes, Dartz looked at the short high school student. “What… What is going on?”

Even Kaiba could tell that Dartz’s personality had done a complete 180˚. He looked down to Yami Yugi and asked, “Pharaoh, what did you do?”

“Ngh…” Yami Yugi braced himself against a nearby boulder to sit up straight. “I used the power of the Pharaoh’s Incantation – and my friendship – to free Dartz of Leviathan’s influence.”

“So… A friendship speech saved the day.” Kaiba rolled his eyes.

“Indeed it did!” exclaimed a happy girl’s voice from behind Dartz.

Dartz couldn’t be more delighted to see the familiar faces he thought had abandoned him. “Chris! Father! What are you doing here?”

“Is there something wrong when a daughter misses her dad?” Chris frowned.

“Dartz… Come back,” Ironheart, Dartz’s father, requested. “Atlantis still needs you.”

“No, Father. Not after all I’ve done… I’ve caused my people undue suffering.”

“It was the Orichalcos’ fault, not yours, Dad! Now that it’s gone, everyone really misses you! Especially me.”

“So… this must be what the power of friendship is like.” Dartz shed happy tears when he looked to the chosen duelists again. “Thank you, pharaoh, for getting rid of the evil influence that drove me mad. Now before this city descends into the sea again, I suggest that the three of you make yourselves scarce.”

“Goodbye, pharaoh, and thank you!” Ironheart spoke as the images of himself, Chris, and Dartz began to fade. “Perhaps we may meet again.”

“Up you get, babe.” Kaiba, with Yugi’s help, got Yami Yugi back on his feet, though the pharaoh still felt weak. “Now that that stupid Leviathan is no more, you can rest after all you’ve done today. Then we can duel again.”

“Oh come on, Kaiba, is that all you ever think about?” Yugi whined.

“As a matter of fact, yes.”

“Wow, at least you’re honest.”

The three finally reached the portal and now stepped into it. “I just might start planning another tournament.”

“Hehehe… Hopefully Rex and Weevil won’t rig it like they nearly did in Battle City.”

Almost as if by chance, the two short duelists had just woken up in the hospital room they shared. No longer were there monsters in Domino City; nevertheless, construction crews didn’t waste any time in working to fix the immense damage.

“Ugh… Where am I?” Rex spoke, closing his eyes halfway at the bright sunlight.

“I dunno, where do you think, dino brain?” Weevil sat up. “This is a hospital room! And in case you forgot, we ended up here because you failed to defeat Joey!”

“What do you mean, I failed? You failed because you still couldn’t beat Yugi in a duel!”

“…” Weevil had no comeback for that.

“And what I’d like to know is, how did we end up in the same room together?”

Weevil’s devilish demeanour dropped for a spell as he looked away. “How the hell should I know?”

To Weevil’s dismay, Rex had noticed this change in behaviour. “Weevil? You’re acting weird. I mean, more than usual.”

Weevil broke the tension with, “A-Anyway, I think I want to give that stupid Yugi a piece of my mind!”

As Weevil jumped out of bed, Rex soon followed. “Now we’re talking! This time… This time for sure, I’m going to beat Joey!”

“Now let’s blow this taco stand and get our revenge. For sure this time!”

While the pair headed into the heart of the city, so too did Kaiba and the companions he did not yet want to call friends. Still reeling from the epic battle with Leviathan, Kaiba had no desire to fly and instead ordered Roland to fly them around in the chopper.

“Mr. Kaiba, we’ve searched all of Domino City and still haven’t found Yugi Muto,” Roland spoke over the intercom. “It’s possible that he could have moved.”

“Or worse…” Duke thought out loud. “He might have drowned!”

“Ugh, stop being a negative Nancy all the time!” Tristan scolded. “It’s good to have some positivity every now and then. Why don’t you try it?”

“Um, guys?” Téa tried to alert her friends to the lone figure who stood on the beach, staring into the sunset.

“It’s called being a realist.” Duke tried to resist the noogies Tristan gave him. “Why don’t you try that?”

“Guys!” Téa’s shout silenced everyone. “It’s Yugi!”

“Huh?” Joey glued his face to the window to get a closer look. “You sure about that? If so, then he’s a little taller than I remember.”

Hearing this, Kaiba stopped nodding off and also took a look outside. “Pharaoh!”

“Roland, over there!” Mokuba got into the cockpit and pointed to where Yami Yugi stood.

“All right, we’ve finally found him!” Roland took a look to the back of the chopper and noticed the door was open, with Kaiba about to jump out. “Mr. Kaiba, what are you doing? You don’t even have a parachute!”

“Hehehe…” Mokuba smiled as Kaiba already began his freefall. “You’ll soon find out that he doesn’t need one.”

A thousand feet later, silver-and-sapphire wings sprouted out of Kaiba’s back, amazing his third-in-command. “Wh-Whoa! Mr. Kaiba can do that?”

“I know it’s cool to watch my brother half-shift, Roland, but you need to fly over there, too.”

“Um… Right!” Roland sharply twirled the steering wheel around as the chopper approached the shore.

Yami Yugi dug the toes of his leather boots into the sand and enjoyed the sound of the sunset breeze. He didn’t want to get up yet, however, as Dark Magician Girl’s last encounter with him stuck in his mind.

I’ll see you when you return home, pharaoh. And no matter what happens, I’ll always be in your deck.

“Back home, huh…” The sea water in the sand started to soak into Yami Yugi’s boots. “After everything that’s happened, am I really prepared for-”

Before Yami Yugi could continue his thoughts, the breeze suddenly got stronger, thanks to the beating of Kaiba’s wings. “Kaiba!”

“Pharaoh…” Kaiba’s tone started off angry as he landed. “Where in the FUCK have you been?! Do you have any idea how long I’ve searched for you, only to find you chilling out on the beach like the loser you are?”

“I… I wasn’t ‘chilling out,’ my love. I was thinking about how I should continue my mission.” Yami Yugi stepped a bit further into the shore. “Now that this world is in peacetime, it’s about time that I go back to my own world, ancient Egypt. But now… Now, I’m not sure how I should go about doing it. It also bothers me that despite how much I remember about my past, there are a few things I’m forgetting. Not the least of which is my real name.”

“Hmm…” Kaiba gave Yami Yugi’s concerns a few seconds of thought before saying, “How about you join the KC Grand Tournament to get your mind off of things?”

“Oh come on, Kaiba. You know how much I love dueling, but I don’t have the time while my people are suffering.”

“Are they, though? Back when we first time travelled, you said you couldn’t travel before my… past self’s death. But you can travel to any time after, right?”

“Well, yes.”

“Then we’ve got all the time in the world.” Kaiba gently hugged Yami Yugi from behind, twirling the golden bangs with his index finger. “Is it so weird for me to want to spend more time with the man I love? I miss the days when we had epic duels, when we were in love with one another before either of us knew. We’ve got so many memories to make together, and what better time to start then now?”

“Seto Kaiba…” Yami Yugi took on a playful tone that Kaiba hadn’t heard. “Are you asking me out?”

“Erm… Uh… I suppose you could say that.”

“Hahaha!” Yami Yugi laughed so hard that Kaiba had let him go. “It’s so much fun to listen to you flounder your words.”

“Sh-Shut up! You know I’m not good at this kind of thing.”

“And did you honestly expect me to say ‘no?’” Yami Yugi stopped laughing and took Kaiba’s hands into his own. “I’d love to go out with you, anywhere you’d like.”

“Then… how about that fancy restaurant by the ocean?” Incidentally, this restaurant was so close that Kaiba could see the multicoloured lights shooting out of it. “I know it’s very popular, but at this point, I don’t give a damn. If everyone finds out that the president of KaibaCorp has a boyfriend, then let them find out.”

“So bold.” Yami Yugi held a hand to Kaiba’s face while the taller man still held his other hand. “Just one of the many things I love about you.”

“Mm.” Kaiba could only hum into the kiss that Yami Yugi gave him.

“And another thing.” Yami Yugi brought Kaiba’s ear closer.

“Hmm?”

“I’d certainly love for you to feel me up with that tail of yours again.”

To Kaiba’s horror, he couldn’t form a response before this tender moment was broken with a, “Phaaaaaraoh!”

“Téa!” Yami Yugi broke the hug but still held onto Kaiba’s hands.

“Oh…” Téa could tell from Kaiba’s expression that she nearly walked in on something interesting. “Sorry to crash your date, guys.”

“Mr. Kaiba!” Roland got out of the chopper, only to find his boss holding hands with another man.

“What, Roland? Got something to say?”

“N-Not at all, sir!”

“Good. Because even if you did, I would have just told you to stuff it.”

“Hehehe…” Roland laughed nervously, not wanting to say another word after what he just heard. So he changed the subject. “So, about this new tournament… It’s going to have competitors from all around the world, isn’t it?”

“What, rich boy’s holding another tournament? I’m down for that!”

“Maybe I’ll enter too,” Tristan pondered out loud.

“If all my friends are in, then so am I!” Téa happily proclaimed.

“You’ll all lose before you can get the privilege of facing me, you know,” spoke Kaiba.

“Then how about I use you as target practice?”

“No, Wheeler, I don’t feel like dueling today.” Kaiba began to walk back onto the street, with Yami Yugi close by.

“You’re going to blow off dueling? For what?”

Kaiba took Yami Yugi’s hand into his own, eliciting a curious reaction from the nearby mini crowd. “A date.”

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Author’s note: The next chapter will begin the season 5 arc. Unlike most of the fanfic so far, this arc will mostly feature original material, and will not cover the KC Grand Tournament.

[elite-tracker]

MEET THE MUSE

(Repost please, don’t reblog!)

TAGGED BY: @kingasaurusrex​ TAGGING: @ham-stor @dino-chopper-face @explosion-prone-engineer @rustedservos

◉ NAME: Me Slash ◉ ARE YOU SINGLE?: ...? Me not understand. That dumb question. ◉ ARE YOU HAPPY?: Yah! ◉ ARE YOU ANGRY?: Yeah, Data-pad broke >:c ◉ ARE YOUR PARENTS STILL MARRIED?: What Marry? What Parents?

NINE FACTS:

◉ BIRTH PLACE: ... Me Slash not know. ◉ PLATING COLOR: Hmmm... Red, yellow, black, and Grey. ◉ OPTIC COLOR:  Red ◉ BIRTHDAY: Me Slash not know. (September 12) ◉ MOOD: Me Slash bored. ◉ FRAME TYPE: Dinobot! ◉ SUMMER OR WINTER?: ... What Summer? What Winter? ◉ MORNING OR AFTERNOON:  ... This question dumb too! Me Slash not understand!

EIGHT THINGS ABOUT YOUR LOVE LIFE:

◉ ARE YOU IN LOVE?: ...What that? ◉ DO YOU BELIEVE IN LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT?: WHAT LOVE? ◉ WHO ENDED YOUR LAST RELATIONSHIP: ... This Question dumb! ◉ HAVE YOU EVER BROKEN SOMEONE’S SPARK?: No? ... Yes? Me Slash not remember all fights. ◉ ARE YOU AFRAID OF COMMITMENTS?: Com-... Comit-mint? Me Slash not Afraid of anything!  ◉ HAVE YOU HUGGED SOMEONE WITHIN THE LAST WEEK?: Him Ratchet gave me hugs. ◉ HAVE YOU EVER HAD A SECRET ADMIRER?:  What that? ◉ HAVE YOU EVER BROKEN YOUR OWN SPARK?: That dumb Question!

SIX CHOICES:

◉ LOVE OR LUST: Me Slash not know what Dumb Questions mean! ◉ LEMONADE OR ICED TEA: UGH! ◉ CATS OR DOGS: ... ◉ A FEW BEST FRIENDS OR MANY REGULAR FRIENDS: Me Slash have Dinobots and creators! ◉ WILD NIGHT OUT OR A ROMANTIC NIGHT IN: Wild night sound more fun! We smash and burn stuff! ◉ DAY OR NIGHT: Night! Me Slash like sneaking in dark!

FOUR HAVE YOU EVERS:

◉ BEEN CAUGHT SNEAKING OUT: Nope! ◉ FALLEN DOWN/UP THE STAIRS: No Me Slash not dumb! ◉ WANTED SOMETHING/SOMEONE SO BADLY IT HURT: Maybe? Me Slash not remember. ◉ WANTED TO DISAPPEAR: Me Slash found Dinobots! Why me want to disappear?

FIVE PREFERENCES:

◉ SMILES OR OPTICS: ... Dumb Question! ◉ THICK OR SKINNY: Ehhh... Me Slash not skinny like him Swoop, but me not big like other brothers. ◉ SHORTER OR TALLER: Me Slash not short!! ◉ INTELLIGENCE OR ATTRACTION:  Me Slash smart! Me just confused. ◉ HOOK-UP OR RELATIONSHIP: ... Ugh why questions dumb!

FAMILY:

◉ DO YOU AND YOUR FAMILY GET ALONG?: Me Slash fit in! Me Dinobot like others! ◉ WOULD YOU SAY YOU HAVE “MESSED UP” YOUR LIFE?: No! ◉ HAVE YOU EVER RAN AWAY FROM HOME?: Nope! ... Me Slash not think me did. Ehhh... me Slash not Remember. ◉ HAVE YOU EVER BEEN KICKED OUT?: ... Me not re-nugh! NO! THAT DUMB QUESTION! ME SLASH DONE WITH DUMB QUESTIONS!

FRIENDS:

◉ DO YOU SECRETLY HATE ONE OF YOUR FRIENDS?: ◉ DO YOU CONSIDER ALL OF YOUR FRIENDS GOOD FRIENDS?: ◉ WHO IS YOUR BEST FRIEND?: ◉ WHO KNOWS EVERYTHING ABOUT YOU?:

Slash has left.

[chiaroscuros-void-archive]

What Is Your Tragic Flaw?

You got: Indecision

You think and think and think. You torture yourself with every option, and then you usually get forced into decisions because you waited too long and your choices have faded away. Remember that you are more likely to regret what you haven't done than what you've done. Next time you are given a choice, make it and move on. Regrets are inevitable.

Tagged by: @dino-chopper-face

Tagging: Anyone who wants to ^-^

Quiz

[ratttrap]

"Maybe not all the time, but once in a while can't hurt. If yah not spending yah money on livin' what's the point ah makin' it in the first place, right?"

Rattrap put his hands up in defeat when the pred once again growled and fussed about the subject. As tempting as it was to keep teasing him, since this topic seemed to bother him, he wouldn't press it anymore. The goal was to get Dinobot to get out and have a good time, not storm off and leave him drunkenly stranded in this seedy bar.

"What?" He was about to snap about being able to hold his high grade but something caught him off guard. His name. Dinobot didnt use his actual name unless he was serious. This got a small snicker out of the rodent. "D'aww, yah worried bout me, Chopperface?"

A Night Out

@dino-chopper-face

They entered the bar and immediately the type of establishment it was became obvious. Loud, rough, not exactly clean in appearance or reputation, the clientel was a heavy mix but more maximals than preds. It was dark and the lights that were there were dim and disorienting, even so you could tell servers were walking around with minimal armor over their plating, exposing more sensitive areas. Certainly not some place most would call classy, but it defiantly wasn’t far from the sort of establishments they had been for jobs before.

That was what he’d told the big guy this was for, a job. Dinobot had accompanied him a few times before, just when they required him to be more out in the open. Chopperface made for a good deterrent for anyone trying to kick him out or question the rat on his snooping in places, but unknown to him that was not what they were here for today.

They grabbed a table and Rattrap made an order for two drinks and a two shots, strong stuff , not the type he usually had when working. The shots arrived and he pushed one over towards the large clone.

“There yah go.” Before Dinobot could even question it the rodent threw his back with a gulp and a hiss at the taste hit the back of his throat. “Whoa, could fry a circuit with that!”

[buzzerbot]

"You look exhausted." ~dino-chopper-face

“Dinobot’zz face lookzz exhauzzted!“ Yes best come back ever, Waspinator nailed it.

Don’t mind him he going to take his victory else where!

Like on the ground! He totally meant to collapse onto the ground!