General Loops

Jomasten

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#76
***

"No, get away!" Red made shooing motions with his hands, trying to will away his unwanted companion. He did not wanted to be reminded of Ash. Which reminds him of Ketchum Loops.

He hates Looping as Ash in Ketchum Loops.

"NO! We're not taking off until you tell us you're secret!" Misty said, still stubbornly following, while Brock wondered how he got involved in this.

Like Brock didn't know. ' 'Going the same way I am' my ass.' Red thought.

Reminded Red of Ketchum Loops SO BAD.

This situation was probably his own fault, Red was easy enough to admit. Sure, he could probably have used any of the 400+ Pokemon living in what he called his 'Hyper-Space Saffari', a little trick he learned from another Looper, but he decided to do something interesting when he Awoke before he got his Starter.

So, after annoying Green (Or was that Blue? Red wasn't sure, dude had a tendency to change names every Loop, just like Heatram's capability of changing his/her gender. Smug, gender-changing bastard/bitch.) by constantly poking him, he was able to borrow Green/Blue's Old Rod, stating his desire to eat sea-food to at least throw off suspicion.

Which was why was now the proud owner of a very powerful Pokemon called Gyarados. Oh, and a Pikachu who loves riding said Gyarados's head.

To anyone else, it didn't explain anything. Especially if people asked, Red would reply that Gyarados was his 'emergency food supply'.

That inspiration came after he was suddenly molested by a bubble blond looking for her 'Menchi'.

Pikachu had become more like a pet to the Party, with Gyarados becoming the front-fighter.

Brock, poor bastard, was the first victim of Gyarados's power. Well, first Gym Leader to be precise. The actual first victim was that poor kid who keeps thinking 'light-years' is a form of time, not distance.

When Brock asked how Red came across a powerful and rare Pokemon like Gyarados, Red just replied that he carefully 'nurtured and trained the poor thing from being sea-food platter to what he was today'. Apparently moved by this, the Rock-type Gym Leader decided to take on a training trip to make his Pokemon stronger. Which coincidentally coincided with the same way Red was taking. Red didn't believe that one bit. At least he wasn't dreaming to become a Breeder. Seriously, Ash's Brock creeped him out.

Then he faced Misty, who just creamed her swimsuit at the sight of the Dragon-like Water-type, and was now following him, bugging him to give her his Gyarados.

'Hmm', Red had a thought, 'What would happen if I bring a powerful Grass and Psychic type to Erika and Sabrina's Gym?'

After he got through with this crisis, he would find out.

He's just grateful there was no Team Rocket coming in to take his Pokemon.

...Fuck, he could almost see that 'YET' floating menacingly above him.

*****
 

Neodart

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#77
Jomasten said:
...Fuck, he could almost see that 'YET' floating menacingly above him.
THAT, was particularly amusing. One thing though: While I can still, if I try hard enough, remember the story of the first two games, I never really got into the anime (from which Ash Ketchum seem to come from). So my question is: What is so wrong in the Ketchum-loops? You got me really curious because, most of the time, what is horrifying to the loopers happen to be something that we, readers, find hilarious...
 

datenchi

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#78
I had an idea of a Black Lagoon loop thet is connected to the other loops but then I found I can't write a story worth crap so i'm asking someone to make a loop for me plez.
 

Jomasten

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#79
Neodart said:
Jomasten said:
...Fuck, he could almost see that 'YET' floating menacingly above him.
THAT, was particularly amusing. One thing though: While I can still, if I try hard enough, remember the story of the first two games, I never really got into the anime (from which Ash Ketchum seem to come from). So my question is: What is so wrong in the Ketchum-loops? You got me really curious because, most of the time, what is horrifying to the loopers happen to be something that we, readers, find hilarious...
Because Red, in any form of media, is so much cooler than Ash.

That, and, to Red, Ketchum Loops is his own personal form of Hogwarts Loops.

I'm not elaborating why anytime soon. Though you can think of it as my own personal bias.

I'm certainly not explaining why I am ragging on Heatran so much.

Smug gender-changing bastard/bitch, wherever he/she is at the moment.
 

Jomasten

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#80
More ME shenanigans.

***

It was a planet-sized auditorium that found almost thousands of people watching with disgusted fascination at the scene unfolding. Well, to be frank, it was more a good quarter of the audience, as the other third-quarter was primarily consisted of Geth.

"I MUST EXPRESS MY DESIRE TO RECEIVE CLARIFICATION UPON THE ACCUSATIONS SHEPARD IS UPENDING UPON SAREN.

A teary-eyed Jane Shepard looked up from where she was sobbing in her hands, croaking out, "All I'm saying, Sovereign, is that Saren IS the father of my son."

Said 'son' was a six-foot teenage krogan, who, at this moment, was trying very hard NOT to laugh. Grunt wasn't sure who this Shepard was, but if Okeer went along with it, hey, who was he to argue. No, fights, but he was damn having fun.

At her declaration, Saren suddenly jumped, pointing an accusatory finger, "I cannot BELIEVE the LIES you're spouting, human! I do not know what insanity you're trying to put down, but I will NOT be part of it!"

As if on cue, Shepard broke down into further sobbing, while Grunt tried to 'console' her.

"THAT IS ENOUGH, SAREN." Sovereign intoned.

"M-master." Saren began, but blinked when a Geth Colossus came 'onstage', 'holding' what appeared to be a giant, Reaper-sized envelope.

"I HAVE AT MY POSSESSION THE RESULTS."

Saren blinked, and tried to decide when the whole GALAXY had become mad.

Shepard looked up, her eyes red from crying. Well, she should damn get an Emmy for this. But seeing the look on Saren's expression was priceless enough.

"AFTER EXTENSIVE GENETIC TESTING, I HAVE DETERMINED, SAREN ARTURIUS...."

There was a long, pregnant pause that even most of the organic audience was sure made even the geth audience hold their breath in anticipation.

"....THAT YOU ARE THE PATERNAL PARENTAL PROGENITOR."

Saren cried out in baffled indignation, while Shepard 'stormed' out of the stage. It just wouldn't do if she was caught laughing at Saren's plight.

Watching from their own personal dressing room, Liara and Tali were making an effort of holding each other up, having broken down laughing.

The floating Reaper, meanwhile, had to admit at finding a form of amusement at Saren's dismayed look as Grunt tried to 'hug' him.

*****
 

datenchi

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#81
Jomasten said:
More ME shenanigans.

***

It was a planet-sized auditorium that found almost thousands of people watching with disgusted fascination at the scene unfolding. Well, to be frank, it was more a good quarter of the audience, as the other third-quarter was primarily consisted of Geth.

"I MUST EXPRESS MY DESIRE TO RECEIVE CLARIFICATION UPON THE ACCUSATIONS SHEPARD IS UPENDING UPON SAREN.

A teary-eyed Jane Shepard looked up from where she was sobbing in her hands, croaking out, "All I'm saying, Sovereign, is that Saren IS the father of my son."

Said 'son' was a six-foot teenage krogan, who, at this moment, was trying very hard NOT to laugh. Grunt wasn't sure who this Shepard was, but if Okeer went along with it, hey, who was he to argue. No, fights, but he was damn having fun.

At her declaration, Saren suddenly jumped, pointing an accusatory finger, "I cannot BELIEVE the LIES you're spouting, human! I do not know what insanity you're trying to put down, but I will NOT be part of it!"

As if on cue, Shepard broke down into further sobbing, while Grunt tried to 'console' her.

"THAT IS ENOUGH, SAREN." Sovereign intoned.

"M-master." Saren began, but blinked when a Geth Colossus came 'onstage', 'holding' what appeared to be a giant, Reaper-sized envelope.

"I HAVE AT MY POSSESSION THE RESULTS."

Saren blinked, and tried to decide when the whole GALAXY had become mad.

Shepard looked up, her eyes red from crying. Well, she should damn get an Emmy for this. But seeing the look on Saren's expression was priceless enough.

"AFTER EXTENSIVE GENETIC TESTING, I HAVE DETERMINED, SAREN ARTURIUS...."

There was a long, pregnant pause that even most of the organic audience was sure made even the geth audience hold their breath in anticipation.

"....THAT YOU ARE THE PATERNAL PARENTAL PROGENITOR."

Saren cried out in baffled indignation, while Shepard 'stormed' out of the stage. It just wouldn't do if she was caught laughing at Saren's plight.

Watching from their own personal dressing room, Liara and Tali were making an effort of holding each other up, having broken down laughing.

The floating Reaper, meanwhile, had to admit at finding a form of amusement at Saren's dismayed look as Grunt tried to 'hug' him.

*****
You have to explain how this bit happened.
 

Jomasten

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#82
How the whole situation in this Loop came about, or exactly what events made me conceive this?

Because one does not make sense, and the other less so.
 

datenchi

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#83
Jomasten said:
How the whole situation in this Loop came about, or exactly what events made me conceive this?

Because one does not make sense, and the other less so.
The situation in the Loop, I can guess you thought of the idea watching a soup opera.
 

Jomasten

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#84
Might as well tell you both.

In the Ranma Loops, It was mentioned that besides Shepard and/or Fem!Shepard Looping, Sovereign is also Looping. I can't remember which page it is, but basically, after looping the same 'year' over and over again, I guess you can say that it has mellowed out, even for a Reaper that could live for millions of years.

But getting shot down by a disabled Seth Green might also have had something to it. It could be pretty much a humbling experience. So yeah, Sovereign and Fem!Shep getting together to pull this shit off? Possible.

As for why I made this Loop.

A few words: drunk off of so much eggnog that OPRAH TALKING LIKE HARBINGER.

I tried to sober up a bit, and tried to take a shower, BUT IT GOT WORSE with a Reaper Version of Maury and Jerry Springer.
 

Jomasten

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#85
***

Kaidan Alenko shifted uncomfortably as he listened to the person babbling behind the large, thick steel doors, the sound echoing from the small, caged window near the top of the door. Beside him, Ashley Williams was similarly unnerved, while Captain Anderson tried to look unaffected, but failed when the voice suddenly barked something out. Then the person inside suddenly broke down laughing, before it became incoherent sobbing.

"Um, Captain, are you sure we should be here? I just don't feel comfortable listening to," The muttering began anew as the sobbing died down, "that."

The Captain grimaced, before replying, "She asked for each of you by name, said that she isn't stopping until she hears from each of you personally."

Lingering behind them was four other people, the Krogan, Urdnot Wrex, the Asari, Liara T'soni, the Turian, Garrus Vakyrian, and finally the Quarian, Tali'Zorah nar Rayya.

Wrex scoffed, "Feh, I don't think you should be listening to the words of some psycho. Best to put her down."

Anderson gave the krogan a look, "Be that as it may, Shepard was our best, and behind all that chatter, she keeps mentioning something about Saren." Certain people gave him the equivalent of quirking an eyebrow.

"Yeah." A voice suddenly said, making everyone jump, "So back off, clanless. You're stinking up the Captain's groove."

The eight people turned towards the source.A

Former-Alliance Commander Jane Shepard grinned and waved at them from behind the bars. Well, as much as she could, given that her wrists were shackled together.

"Hey, Lieutenant, Chief~" Shepard chirped, looking as if making an effort to fix her wild red hair, "You're both looking okay." Kaidan and Ashley tried not to meet her look. "Can you convince the Captain to at least put me in a cell with a bit more tech?"

"That's enough, Shepard." Anderson said firmly, to which the red-head pouted at him, "The reason you're in there was because you could hack your way out of any cell with even a semblance of technology in it." The group with Anderson was sure this was also directed at them, as a form of an explanation why Shepard was currently behind the rather primitive steel-doored cell instead of the energy fields most cells used today.

"But they're so easy to get into." Shepard tried to whine, "You just had to tear out the..."

"ENOUGH."

"Eeep! The Captain's mad, mad I tell you!" Shepard scuttled back into the cell, the chains on her legs clanging noisily, but was drowned out by her amused laughter, her pitch mixed up and strange.

Garrus was the one to speak up this time, "Okay, so you said she has information about Saren. But how the hell are we supposed to trust the words of a madwoman?"

"Because this isn't usual C-Sec procedure, and you like going against all those red tape!" Shepard called out, and the turian blinked in surprise. 'How...?'

Shepard suddenly poked her head up again, making everyone jump as she had gotten to one side of the cell to the door without making a sound, "But that's enough of Garrus's kinks. God knows I know almost all of them the time I keep repeating this stupid year. You were called in here for a reason." The way she had said this made everyone stare at her. That...sounded coherent and sane.

"The fuck?" Wrex was the most vocal of these.

Anderson wanted to shut Shepard up, but something in her eyes made him hold off. There was...an intensity in her eyes. An intensity he had last seen a week before Shepard's break down, nearly two years ago.

He narrowed his eyes, "You...you had just been pretending all this time, haven't you?"

Shepard's eyes twinkled, giving him an amused grin, "Well, it took me all this time to get myself back together. So you could say I wasn't really."

He scowled at the imprisoned ex-Commander.

The group was entreated to Shepard's first, true, heart-felt laugh, less strained, less maddened, as if a great weight from her shoulders was either lifted off her shoulders, or had been placed on theirs. Something about that laugh convinced everyone present there was more to this than was lead to believe.

Or if it would be for good or for worse.

*****
 

Jomasten

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#86
***

Anderson tried ot to grimace as he finished listening to Joker's sudden report. Unbidden, Shepard's words suddenly began to echo at the forefront of his memories.

"A month from now, Eden Prime is going to get attacked by the Geth."

The collected people that had been present that day one month ago had different reactions to what she had said. Ashley, Kaidan, and Anderson himself all looked like they already doubted Shepard's words. Liara was suddenly nervous for some inexplicable reason. Wrex had been stoic, but had a tone of eagerness in his stance. Tali had looked ready to explode in anger at that. Garrus raised one of those cheek mandible things, the turian equivalent of raising an eyebrow.

Shepard was overall nonplussed by their reactions, and continued outlining all the major events within the next two months.

The group was suddenly then dismissed when Shepard suddenly began to babble, asking for dinner. Some of the group tried to get Shepard to say more, but she just gave them a level look, and continued banging on the bars.

A week later, Shepard managed to break out of the facility. The wardens and investigators were equally baffled as to how she managed to escape so effortlessly from a high-security, if a bit low-tech, prison. Up to now, no one had been able to pinpoint her location.

Currently, the eight people present that day had more or less scattered. Wrex was dropped off at a planet to pick up a job, while Tali was done much the same in a different planet, though only because she could continue her Pilgrimage. Liara was currently in some Prothean dig site in Therum, while Ashley had returned to her post in Eden Prime. Only Kaidan and Anderson himself had stayed on board the SSV Normandy as part of her crew.

As if called for, Kaidan walked up to beside Anderson, looking at the images of the once beautiful world of Eden Prime as it was assaulted by the geth.

"So...she's been right so far." Kaidan lamely began, then winced when Anderson frowned at this, knowing Kaidan was right.

"As much as I hate to admit it, she has been right so far." Anderson grimaced, before adding, "Though I kind of find it highly suspicious that she gave us a timeline for one month, only to break out a week later." He hesitated as he continued, "Loathe I am to admit it, but I think it wasn't Saren that was behind this."

They were fortunate enough that Nihlus had already gone to the Normandy's maintenance bay to suit up.

They were unfortunate though to not realist they were not alone in the audience room.

"Come on, Captain. Have a littler more faith in me. I didn't give you that timeline just to screw all of you over." Anderson and Kaidan jumped, then instantly whirled, Alenko already drawing for the side arm attached to his hip.

They instantly froze when they saw Jane Shepard reclining on two seats, her prison jumpsuit tattered and dirty. While she still wore the shackles on her wrists, there was a distinct absence of a chain connecting them, though two short links clattered on their respective loops, like some big, ugly piece of jewelry.

Shepard only laughed when the two of them laughed, Anderson only minutely tense, while Kaidan slowly lowered his pistol, but did not holster it.

The red-head only gave them a smirk, then stood up, dusting off some dirt off her uniform. "Well, then, "She began, "Give me a rifle and let's go save Eden Prime."

In her head, Shepard added, 'Again.'

*****

Next time, Shepard jumps off the Normandy. Meanwhile, Ashley is totally flipping her shit.
 
#87
Jomasten said:
In the Ranma Loops, It was mentioned that besides Shepard and/or Fem!Shepard Looping, Sovereign is also Looping. I can't remember which page it is, but basically, after looping the same 'year' over and over again, I guess you can say that it has mellowed out, even for a Reaper that could live for millions of years.

But getting shot down by a disabled Seth Green might also have had something to it.
<a href='http://z14.invisionfree.com/The_Fanfiction_Forum/index.php?showtopic=14162&st=3210' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>Page 108.</a> I wrote that particular snippet.

And I see <a href='http://z14.invisionfree.com/The_Fanfiction_Forum/index.php?showtopic=14162&st=3240' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>Disabled Seth Green</a> lives on as Joker's new nickname.
 

Jomasten

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#88
Thanks for the page, DKG.

Next snip's not part of the previous snip. Just something I needed to get out of my head.

***

Citadel was in ruins.

At this time, Shepard was not really that surprised as she had been the cause of that.

Idly, he picked up his pistol and shot some turian that had been trying to run away, all this without breaking his stride towards the Citadel Tower's elevator.

Above her, she could hear the rumbling of the Reaper docking at the top of the tower. Behind her was the humming of the Conduit. Around her was the smell of burning ash and debris.

Shepard idly wandered why she hadn't tried this before as the elevator doors closed, while Benezia settled herself at her side.

"The realization of our dreams." Benezia mumbled. her head ducked low.

Shepard chuckled as she heard this, then straightened up as the Elevator chimed, having reached its destination.

She absently patted Benezia's bottom, whispering, "We'll discuss other dreams later."

Benezia gave her an inviting smile as they both walked towards the main chamber, then adopted a neutral face.

Shepard grinned as the remaining contingency of C-Sec and Alliance Marines greeted the two of them with weapons at the ready, Anderson at the head with his own fire arm aimed at Shepard.

Shepard spread her arms, and laughed, making the last line of Citadel's defense tense, "All this for me, Captain? Why, you shouldn't have!" She took a step forward, then smirked as the gathered people all tensed their trigger finger.

Anderson tried not to let himself be affected by Shepard's taunt, "You were the best humanity had to offer, our chance to finally show what the Alliance truly had to offer. Why?"

Shepard chuckled, "That a rhetorical, Captain?" She didn't wait for an answer, "Well, then, I'll answer with my own question: 'Why not?'."

Shepard giggled madly, unnerving a lot of the people there. Anderson tried not to be affected, "You can still walk away, Shepard. Give up and call off the attack."

Shepard gave him an amused look, before she busted out laughing, "Give up? Give up?"

An Alliance marine suddenly lost his head in a shower of blood and gore.

Many lost what was left of their courage as the shadow of Sovereign was suddenly cast over them, Shepard's eyes aglow with an unnatural glee, "There used to be an old human saying."

As geth suddenly descended from the ceiling, Anderson could hear Shepard's words, "Bros before hos. All of the Citadel is the hos, and Sovereign is my bro."

*****

Before anyone asks, was suddenly inspired by a mental image of Shepard and Sovereign bro-fisting. Further inspired by DKG's above page and snippets, and the comments that followed thereafter.
 

Jomasten

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#89
***

Captain Anderson braced himself as the whipping winds greeted him when the bay doors opened. Kaidan stood beside Jenkins, both in full gear, while Nihlus was in full Specter gear, making last minute checks to his weaponry.

"As soon as the last member of your team arrive, you can deploy. Alenko, you're in full command."

Kaidan nodded, while Jenkins raised an eyebrow, and Nihlus raised a cheek flange.

"Member?" Jenkins shouted over the wind, "We expecting anyone else?"

Nihlus took this moment to quip, "I agree with the soldier here. I did not know that we would have another team-member coming along."

Nihlus and Jenkins could see the grimace on both Anderson's and Kaidan's face. Anderson sighed, before answering, "She was a last minute addition, and very unorthodox at that."

As if on cue, everyone in the bay heard a gleeful, "WAAAAAAAHOOOOOOOO!" before a red-and-black figure rushed past them, then all of a sudden jumped off the Normandy.

There was a stunned silence, with the exception of the gales, before Kaidan suddenly said, "Oh my God, I can't believe she just did that."

Nihlus grimaced as he turned towards Anderson, "I can see what you mean by unorthodox." He seemed to debate something with himself, before he added, "Very well, though I work best alone, I will be joining your troops, until at least we can confirm the status of their...unorthodox team member."

Anderson tried not to look embarrassed, then coughed as the Normandy touched down, "The mission's yours, Alenko. Work with Nihlus securing the Beacon. The safety and survival of both the civilians as well as Shepard are both secondary."

Kaidan nodded, before he, Jenkins, and Nihlus jumped off, then didn't look to watch the Normandy take off before they all started sprinting towards their destination.

Somewhere Else

'This is her fucking fault. HER FUCKING FAULT!'

While not one to overly curse, Ashley nonetheless found herself cursing as she was chased by several geth troopers. She turned around to give a quick pot-shot, before diving behind a boulder, just in time as several shots bounced off the rockface where she had been.

'She damn well set me up for this, now I'm going to die, and this is all her fault damnitdamnitDAMNIT!'

She turned her rifle towards a geth trooper trying to flank her, popped off a few shots, then shouted, "I DIDN'T ASK FOR YOUR OPINION!"

When she lived through this, she was damn well going to kick the bitch in the face, she promised.

Somewhere Else Again

"Hello, Saren." A voice chirped.

Saren jumped, having expected Nihlus. He turned, then saw a red-haired human female in a Colossus Medium Armor.

"And who might you be, human?" He asked, disdain in his voice. Then jumped off to the side as the human fired on him.

"The person that's going to kick your's and Sovereign's plans in the teeth." The human said happily.

HUMAN KNOWS TOO MUCH. DISPOSE OF HER.

Saren did not grimace, but was damn well gleeful of getting rid of a human that simply stuck her nose where it shouldn't belong.

'Just like the rest of her species', Saren added in his mind as he unholstered his pistol.

*****
 

Jomasten

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#91
***

That had to have been the most hectic hour of Kaidan's life.

It started as soon as he, Jenkins and Nihlus got off the Normandy. That had been normal so far; as normal as the fact that they were still a bit shocked Shepard had jumped off like that, but they coped. What used to be blue skies was now a burning red, and the smoke was easily seen from their vantage view on the hill. As they were were going their way towards the dig site, as had been marked on their HUDs, they were suddenly assaulted by unknown drones. Luckily, Nihuls had been in front, so that his shields had taken the brunt of the drones assault. IF it had been him or Jenkins, those rounds would have shredded through their own weak shields.

Together, they managed to punch through several more drones, with Nihlus's Spectre skills, his biotic skills, and whatever training Jenkins did.

But their next encounter proved to be much more worrisome: geth.

Oh, and Ashley Williams being chased by a group of the geth.

Well, the four of them had managed to destroy the group, but Jenkins had been critically injured at his leg. They left him on 'guard duty' with a small group of survivors they found barricaded inside a building. That had left the group down to Kaidan, Ashley, and Nihlus.

Kaidan and Ashley had a somewhat awkward catching-up session, before they both decided to just discuss it later.

Which had brought up another problem: where the hell was Commander Shepard?

They were en-route towards the space port when they saw the geth mothership, a massive squid-shaped thing. It was massive, hovering there over the colony. What frightened the group the most was the massive beam the ship shot towards the ground, right on the very place they were arriving at, the terminal, ifrom what Ashley said. When the dust cleared, a good portion of the terminal was a blackened crater.

"We have to investigate." Nihlus suddenly said. Kaidan resisted the urge to growl at the rather blunt suggestion, seeing as they were going that way, anyway.

As they tromped towards the ruined structure, they suddenly jumped when something groaned amongst the ashes. Aiming their weapons at the direction it was coming from, they saw a tuft of red...hair...

"Mo way..." Kaidan muttered as the figure dusted herself off.

Yes, her.

"Goddamn Saren, goddamn Sovereign. Can't take a good joke for shit." Shepard muttered, looking a bit roughed. Her armor was close to being in tatters leaving her virtually three-quarters naked, but her physical condition, and what a physical 'condition', Kaidan thought to himself, was she looked very much unharmed very much to the condition of her armor.

There was a moan of pain, and a man suddenly stood up, rubbing his head, wincing as he felt a bump there.

"...Holy fuck!" The man exclaimed, patting himself, as if unsure what was happening, "I'm alive. I'M ALIVE!" He threw his hands up. Then froze as he suddenly turned to Shepard, eyes wide in fear, as in suddenly remembering her presence.

"Urgh, just fucking go." The man didn't need anymore prompting and bolted.

The man passed the group, and the three heard him muttering about 'monster woman with balls of titanium, taking on geth like they were nothing, and taking on ship lasers with monster shields'.

Kaidan and Ashley were not sure how to take that, while Nihlus only raised a single cheek flange.

Shepard blinked, then noticed the three for the first time, "Ah. When'd you get here?"

The three blinked, before Ashley narrowed her eyes, stomped towards the former-Commander, then suddenly butted her rifle into her face.

"This is YOUR fucking FAULT!"

Shepard fell down, her nose bleeding, but her laughter seemed to echo around them.

*****

Will write what happened to Shepard later.
 

Jomasten

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#92
Thoughts are kinda disorganized. May not be up to my usual snuff.

**

Shepard ultimately started things off by taking a shot at Saren. The turian Spectre dodged it. She was lining up her pistol for another shot, when a flash at the corner of her eye notified her of something trying to shoot through her shields.

The geth was to be expected, really, as a group of them, formerly hidden in crates and the shadows suddenly uncurled and began opening fire on the one attacking their leader. The former Commander took a glance at them, then mowed them all down one by one with her pistol.

This proved almost disastrous, key being 'almost', as a grenade suddenly slid at her feet.

Saren did not have the facial structure to grin, but looked pleased as the human was consumed by the High Explosive grenade.

Said pleased look melted into an angry glare as the human seemed bored, standing nonchalantly, while her shields came into physical view, possibly from the impact.

"Is that it, Saren? I would have thought a high-end weapon like yours would be able to hit me." Shepard dusted imaginary dirt off of her shoulders.

Many questions filtered through Saren's thoughts: who is this human, and how did she know about Sovereign's plans? How was she able to survive that kind of explosion? No shield should have that kind of resistance. But stranger questions suddenlycame into his mind was: why did that human's shields look oddly reminiscent of a large, transparent blue krogan, and why was it grinning at him?

Said grin was mirrored by the human as she suddenly roared, charging at him, while the krogan-shaped biotic shields faded as she came at Saren.

Saren, understandably, panicked. Fortunately, a geth destroyer intercepted the human's charge path.

Once again, the shields flared into visibility, and Shepard began a short wrestling match. Her form was blurred underneath the almost opaque krogan-construct, her actions neatly mimicked by the construct itself.

Saren found this unnerving. And how could he not? Before him was a mere human wrestling with the most physically strong of any geth, which was known to be able to match a krogan's. And said human winning, then stomping on the geth's head before it could recover.

Several geth uncurled from their crates, and began firing on the human. Shepard looked around her, then gathered her energies, and unleashed it in a circular wave around her, shredding the geth near her, and managed to knock Saren down.

And that grin of her's was insufferable.

"What's wrong, Saren? Found out you don't like getting dirty, and had to send your toys to do it for you?" Shepard taunted, and Saren snarled.

Just then, there was a buzz, and another group of geth marched into view, lead by an asari wearing a rather appealing looking black dress.

'Benezia?' Shepard thought, 'But what's she doing he-...' Her thoughts were disrupted when a biotic blast suddenly brought both her and her shields down.

'FFFFF-AJKASJF!' cried Shepard in her head as she was suddenly put into stasis.

"Sovereign sends his irritation that a human became such a delay." Benezia suddenly spoke without preamble. Saren grimaced as he stood up, then took one look at the frozen human.

"She proved to be a much more annoying insect than the rest of their species."

Benezia did not react, but suddenly turned away, "We will secure the beacon. Sovereign will personally see to the human." She did not walk.

Saren raised a flange, then growled as he took the lead and left, Benezia following close behind.

Shepard suddenly stood up, her pistol aimed at the retreating group, but stopped as she started hearing voices.

"And...fucking Sovereign's messing with my head."

At her current status, disoriented as she was, the best she could do was make the Reaper's voice garbled in her head, instead of being able to effortlessly block out whatever it was he was saying.

Her eyes caught movement, and suddenly widened as a familiar dock-worker suddenly stumbled into view from behind a pack of ruined crates.

"H-holy shi..." He muttered, eyes wide with shock and fear.

Shepard's skin tingled underneath her armor, and her own eyes widened as well.

"Look out!" She shouted, then tackled the man.

And not a moment too soon, as she raised her shields to its highest possible, just as the Reaper above her suddenly fired at her.

It was a split second that seemed like ages.

For the dock worker, it was an image that would forever be burned into his mind: the image of the red-haired woman, looking up to the sky, while an outstretched hand was an opaque blue from the shields, blocking the beam of superheated particles.

It was like an image of a goddess of war in defiance to the heavens.

The moment was broken as the conflicting forces suddenly exploded violently, throwing the worker a few feet away.

He groaned for a moment, then slowly opened his eyes...

Then realized that the goddess he was throwing poetics about was VERY much like a goddess, as her body was thrown on top of his, her figure pressed onto his own...

"I think there's survivors!"

Fuck, the moment was over too, as the red-head recovered, and shakily stood up.

The worker endeavored to do the same.

That had to have been the scariest moment of his lif-

"This is YOUR fucking FAULT!"

-WHAM!-

Oh, look, that lady knocked out the goddess.

Shepard laughed.

*****
 

Cypher3au

Well-Known Member
#93
Even with the ruptured pressure seals of her hardsuit leaking precious air into the void, Jane Shepard still managed to sigh in resignation at having awakened just in time to see the original Normandy destroyed.

Again.

Still, before everything went to shit she'd managed to confirm that Joker at least had joined her for this loop, and also nailed down some specifics of her uniquely multiple-choice past; she had L3 implants, so she was some form of biotic, Ashley's presence on the Normandy meant that Kaidan had been killed on Vermire, and the absence of Liara meant that she would be happily guilt free in two years when she got around to trying to peel Tali out of that tantalizingly snug environmental suit.

With her lungs burning and her vision darkening, Jane idly kicked off of a drifting chunk of debris almost the size of the Mako, turning to face the icy planet below. She thought back to a time when she used to use her occasional biotic abilities to make it out of the Normandy's destruction with her suit intact, and even survive the freefall down to the planet completely unharmed. She'd stopped doing that a long time ago; Joker was one hundred percent right when he said the next two years SUCKED.

The Spectre flinched as emerald light exploded around her, and gasped as cool air flooded into her ruined suit. Panting for breath and blinking the spots out of her eyes, Jane glanced around, confused by this new development. "What the hell?"

Another flash, and when her vision cleared Jane reflexively grabbed for her throat, before realizing that she was still breathing comfortably despite the fact that her helmet was now gone...and that the usual red stripe down her right arm's protective armor was now a bright green color, a color that also covered her breastplate and greaves. A ring of white with a horizontal stripe above and below, engraved on her chest piece, tugged at her memory. "...why does that look familiar?"

'JANE SHEPARD OF EARTH. YOU HAVE THE ABILITY TO OVERCOME GREAT FEAR. WELCOME TO THE GREEN LANTERN CORPS.'

A final, smaller flash of emerald light at her right hand, and Jane found a simple (if glowing) green ring fitted firmly on the ring finger of her right hand. "...holy shit." For a long minute Shepard stared incredulously at the simple piece of jewelery adorning her hand, before a piece of debris bouncing harmlessly off of the back of her head snapped her back to attention.

Turning easily in space, the Green Lantern and Spectre quickly found the looming form of the colossal Collector Cruiser, and grinned evilly, her new power ring flaring with energy in response. "Oh...this loop is going to be good."
 

Antimatter

Well-Known Member
#94
oh shit...green lantern Shepard...

has that ever been done?
 

Jomasten

Well-Known Member
#95
...BRILLIANT! :yay: :yay: :yay:
 

kingdragon

Well-Known Member
#97
"See? Told you you're not alone," said a vindicated Ichigo Kurosaki to his silent companion.

"..."

"Look, even if you have tried to kill them at one point or another, relax. This is neutral ground. They're not gonna hold much of a grudge."

"..."

"Okay, just recite what I told you, and you'll be fine."

"VERY WELL."

The no longer silent companion floated up the stairs and behind a podium which was greatly dwarfed by his bulk. He surveyed the audience one more time, mentally preparing himself for what he was to say.

"I AM SOVEREIGN."

"Hello Sovereign!" called back the crowd.

"AND I HAVE HAD SEX WITH ALMA WADE."

"We feel your pain," said (the sapient viral Blacklight entity taking the form of) Alex Mercer in unison with the rest of the audience, wincing at the particularly disturbing memory.
 

MastaofBitches

Well-Known Member
#99
You know, wouldn't "New Game+" make a better title for a Game Loop Thread?

xXx

æUgh, what happened?Æ Cole Macgrath attempted to groan out, but due too the pain his body was feeling, it came out as just a regular groan.

ôHey! I think thereÆs someone alive down there!ö Now why did that sound familiar...

Pushing himself to his feet, he took in his hazy surroundings.

ôHuh, looks almost likeàö A cold feeling seeped through ColeÆs body, as if Kuo had just blasted him with her powers.

ôàEmpire City?ö Well, if it could be called such. He knew where he was, the images of this site had been burned into his mind since the moment he first saw them.

Ground Zero. The site where he had accidentally triggered the Ray Sphere.

But how?

æWaità WasnÆt one of KesslerÆs powersà? But that was impossible, ColeÆs power had diverged almost completely from KesslerÆs, so how had he managed to activate KesslerÆs final power?

And for that matter, why had his mind been the only thing sent back, when KesslerÆs whole body had been brought back when he had done it?

xXx

The first Loop of Cole Macgrath, of InFamous.
 

Leonite

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Well we have loops for Red, and they mention him in Ketchum loops... what about Ash, in a Red loop?

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ôYou can just fuck off!ö Ash shouted, trying to storm past the two. He thought things had been suspicious the moment he left Pallet Town, the fact that Misty hadnÆt shown up yet or that BrockÆs dad was nowhere to be seen was fine with him, common enough variables in his own loops, and at least he had Pikachu (Who he had learned long ago, was also looping, using Iron Tail on Onix was always fun.)

It took the fact that Team Rocket were only coming after him NOW, in Mount Moon, that tipped him off to the changes. This was a Red loop, or more accurately, a Pikachu Red loop. He HATED looping into RedÆs world, say what you will, but at least his adventures from Kanto onward lead to a lot of exciting adventures. RedÆs loops? One big adventure taking out Team Rocket, then stand at the top of a mountain for a few years to be molested by Legendaries (especially Heatran, that smug gender changing bastard/bitch.) And while Mew and Celebi might be fun for the occasional fling (not that Ash exactly lacked pussy to get, Misty, Erika, Sabrina, Jessie, Whitney....) it got really creepy for him when Entei, Lugia and the many other legendaries that he, in one form or another, came looking for some sexy time.

Of course, he didnÆt have to stick to it... but he had made a bet with Red last time they had met, he would try to do RedÆs loop the exact same way that Red usually does it. Which was boring!

ôYouÆre not going to escape from Team Rocket!ö Jessie shouted, throwing her pokeball ôEkans, wrap attack!ö

At least thatÆs always nice, competent Team Rocket before Unova, even if they stand absolutely no chance. ôPikachu, Thundershock, low voltageö he said, Pikachu sighing, a small bolt of electricity colliding with the Ekans, who collided with the two trainers behind it, sending them flying into the wall. With a sigh, he walked out of the cave, fossil in his bag, Pikachu just walking along side him, that was the one disadvantage of Pikachu, he was much too strong for any Pokemon, aside from an extremely high level Ground, Dragon or another Electric Pokemon (Or a legendary, but that goes without saying) to challenge them anymore ôcome on Pikachu, letÆs see if we can set a new time record for beating MistyÆs gym without a single Electric attack.ö

ôPi-pika-pika-pikachu?ö

ôAlright, no Iron Tail eitherö Ash replied, enjoying the sun as they exit Mount Moon ôbut I expect us to be done in less than a minuteö

Pikachu just responded by rolling his eyes.
 
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