It Gets Worse [Worm AU Fanfic] Complete

Looking at some of the comments made on various Ack-related threads on this and other sites, there are a lot of people who want It Gets Worse to be added to the voting list.

Why? This story is being updated whenever Ack feels like working on it, which is much faster than if it was being updated whenever it won a voting round. Even the most popular stories being voted on have months between updates. I could understand if It Gets Worse only had one update posted like Yet Another Way, or only one chapter like Are You Afraid of the Dark?, or even if the updating rate had lost steam like Another Way, but as far as I'm concerned this story not being on the voting list is a good thing.

 

I second that opinion, if this goes on vote, it'll be a long time until Taylor's shard can try giving Burnscar pyrophobia

 

That could actually make a good comedy fic of it's own.^_^

 

Then L33t demands "Where's the Planet of Blackjack and Hookers?!"

 

Uber: A thousand years from here

 

They both get into one of those poker games that grab the characters from other videogames (i think Telltale makes them?). Leet decides that he and Uber can totally get in on that, and makes a dimensional rift opener that drops them in. The two then proceed to follow interesting characters around in their home games.

Leet's shard is super happy and starts giving him all the cool shit it'd been hording.

 

then I like to imagine L33t goes too far for his shard, reversing their situation

 

I think TanaNari used that in 'Amelia.' It was super-effective, but caught more than him.

 

*rubs face*

That was canon.

Canon killed him with a glass bomb. There were some AU elements in amelia, but it was pretty much straight out of canon.

 

Eh, they did it in canon. P

EDIT: Imp'd

I'm thinking that this time around, Crawler is going to catch about half a dozen of those KK satellite-fired rods that they've never quite dared try on Behemoth (and that Leviathan moves too fast to target with).

 

Oof, rods from god can kill cities.

 

if taylor's power is doing it, it'll only kill crawler (and remind coil to be a good little supervillain)

 

"ANVILS!"

 

Wonder if Coil ever liked Heavy Metal music

 

Not any more

 

and if he had dinah.... (pretty sure her power would prevent that)

Coil: What are my chances against Taylor?

Dinah: -100%

Coil: You only do 0-100

Dinah: That's how bad your odds are

 

This... This was amazing. I was really enjoying this even before the e88 incident. It only got better from there though.

You know how people say 'lol' but didn't actually laugh out loud at home? I know I've certainly used 'lol' before just to indicate general amusement/merriment. I do not use it figuratively in the following. I literally LOLed during the Anvil scene with Calvert. I mean.. I.. hahah. It was just amazing.

I cannot state how much I await the next chapter/update. Will need to find the thread on a site that properly alerts me only on OP updates.

 

New sport: Coil-bating!

Piggot: Calvert.
Calvert: Director. Joining us for lunch today?
Piggot: Oh, I just thought I'd see how you liked the new background music I had them put in for the cafeteria today.
Calvert: Ah?
Piggot: Yes. It's the-
Music: *CLANG! CLANG! CLANG-CLANG! CLANG-CLANG!*
Piggot: - Anvil Chrous.
Calvert: *twitch*

Guard 1: Did you see last night's episode of Darkia High?
Guard 2: Yeah. The anti-bulling message was kinda blunt.
Guard 1: Eh. Some anvils need to be dropped.
Coil: *twitch*

Doctor: Have you been forgetting your hearing protection at the firing range, commander?
Calvert: No; why?
Doctor: You've got some volume-related damage to your ear. Usually this is caused by brief, very loud noises.
Calvert: Is it permanent?
Doctor: No, it'll clear up. It's just some minor irritation to the anvil.
Calvert: GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!

 

PRT Desk Jockey: Commander, beware the ceiling tiles! Another could fall on you.
Calvert: Why does everyone keep doing this!
PRT Desk Jockey: Director Piggot gives us a bonus for every reference we make.

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Technical Support: Be careful turning your new computer on, don't want you getting another *snickers* shock.
Calvert: *facepalms in frustration*

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someone puts some new music on his computer... it's by Anvil (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anvil_(band))

 

You mean this thing?

I think that's a bit of an overkill. Also hard om everything else in the city.

 

In real life, they would be no more destructive than micrometeorites.

 

Extremely precisely targeted micrometeorites. Designed by Tinkers.

 

Coil: "What are my chances against Taylor Hebert?"

Dinah: "One hundred percent ..."

Coil: "That good?"

Dinah: " ... if you surrender immediately and pledge to spend the rest of your life making her life better. Otherwise ... well, it's not quite zero percent, but I'd have to use scientific notation to describe the number of zeroes between the decimal point and the first non-zero digit."

You're welcome.

And I like your avatar. Sydney is hilarious.

 

Dinah: Please don't ask for me to say all those zeros, we'd be hear all week if I had to

 

She could always list off the hyperoperation approximation.

 

(Dinah has a math based secondary parahuman ability)

Dinah: That would involve many googols of zeroes

Coil: How many is a googol?

Dinah: *irritated* 100, doesn't anyone know basic math?

 

Ah, that takes me back to a nice book.
Although I think the hyperbole is becoming a teeny bit too much even as a joke if you call for several googols.

 

nah, not hyperbole, those are his chances, any plans he makes have been foreseen and countered days/weeks/months in advance

 

Not true at all.

At the size of, say, a car, it would never hit it's target. The real world "Thor" design uses very large tungsten rods:

That is a shit ton of energy. Maybe not city killing, but certainly enough to kill a block or 5. And it's not explosive energy either, so you'd have problems throughout the city, esp. damaged foundations.

Hell, even the small ones at a mere 100 kg would be around a half ton of tnt in energy.

Fuck, the lazy dog bomb was dropped from a plane and did the equivalent of machine gun fire!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazy_Dog_(bomb)

Put simply you do not fuck with orbital mechanics and kinetic bombardment.

 

except when Taylor's power is behind it.