I'd hardly call him an archenemy.
He is ten.
I'd argue it's still the Reach. Or, I guess, that thing OL said a while ago where his nemesis is technically some Reachian commander or something he'll never personally meet.
So, something went lopsided with their nanite testing? The 'extract harmful substances from derelict buildings' concept they came up with, I assume. But from the lack of worry, it's not a grey goo scenario. Not likely with the Serling-series nanotech anyway... Let's see what it was.
Well, that's frustrating, but not a fatal issue for their project. It's all replaceable, given time.
Someone sending a message, then. Or taunting them...
Ah. Well, then. The boy is just making himself a nuisance now.
Temper, temper, Leonard. You'll be needing that in one piece, after all.
Good to see he's controlling himself better. back before OL, he would have been reaching for tools to make a Cold Gun... Go looking for the person responsible and give them a real cold shoulder...
Ooof. they are that fragile, after all.
Or force someone to take more responsibility for assisting in clean-up than he'd like to.
Probably with a click or two of stress-tightened joints... I can't imagine this whole project hasn't been a hassle.
Maybe he discovered you were hiding something from everyone? Or feels you're coming off a bit dictator-ish, in the old Roman sense.
Big fish versus little minnow, effectively. In Anarky's view, anyway.
Probably remembering a few times he caused this sort of trouble for others...
And now the 'desire to strangle' urge is replaced by a bit of shame and concern.
Even he didn't get started until his twenties or so.
Yeah, jut a little terrifying, isn't it? What one disturbed little mind can accomplish even at that age.
Honestly surprised he didn't have some manner of backup plan. Then again, they didn't really expect this kind of trouble.
And these days, he's being very careful about that sort of thing, now that he has a legal goal to work towards.
Very careful about it.
Power Ring, remember, Leonard?
I suspect that if it happens again, Leonard won't be as willing to consider his parole, ten-year-old or not.
And he can't hang around here all day, putting your wonderful gadgets back together.
Since Lonnie can and has used concealment magic to hide stuff form his scans, after all.
Could just as easily be someone trying to frame him. Though who even knows he exists outside of the League's command group, and for what reason. No, more likely he's up to something.
Saves him a few hours of banging it back into shape, at least.
Impressive. I bet part of the design is tiny warding seals all over the pattern.
...Well, that was anticlimactic. Now to see where it points.
He's also a super genius extremist. An extreme solution that is effectively an exaggerated scared straight experience would hopefully be the least violent way to get him to stop messing around with things.
He was able to murder or talk down most everyone else
While Mr. Atom is running the world? Even for a superbrain I doubt he'd manage anonymity.And seriously, kid, you could just have sent an e-mail or something if you wanted attention...
Scared Straight does not work and in fact is actively counterproductive.
In that case, maybe we can say it's a way for him to see that what he thinks will cause what he wants doesn't actually achieve the result that he want.
I'm going to be real. I just think it's messed up to dump a pre-teen in some anarchy hellscape like you're suggesting.
I know, but a person can dream. Also, I don't think Anarky is the type to listen to anyone unless he realizes for himself how foolish he's being. Unfortunately, he's both smart enough and arrogant enough to disregard most arguments.
And honestly, he's already alone in a post-antilife Earth. Hub City might be better for the experience, but before that it pretty much qualified on its own. Unless it's like, Qward, the only real difference in dumping Lonnie on a different planet is that he'll have to spend a week learning the local language.
I doubt someone that wants to be in control like Dox would work all that well with a guy that dislikes control like Anarky.
I have no idea who that is.
The first time I read Anarky I thought it was deep and interesting. Now, I realise that despite his obvious intelligence and honest desire to help his fellow man, he's massively arrogant.
That's the name of an SI in a YJ fanfic called A Subtle Knife.
You saying this makes me hopeful Anarky will be massively humbled in the future. Trauma is optional.
Agh, and I actually read that, too. It was good until he got put in Belle Reve for no reason.
He's ten. Gently prodding him in the right direction would be more appropriate.
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Thank you, corrected.
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It's not anarchy in the political sense. Armed groups enforce a sort of order around wherever they make money. As far as Anarky is concerned, that's the same as government.
That time Paul ran into Buddy Blank, the guy that gets turned into OMAC.
Does he even know what he wants? Or will he think anything that even hints at one group giving another group orders as a government? He's reminding me of Havik from Mortal Kombat, who says he wants to free people from order but is seen mostly as a crazy mass murderer. Anarky isn't as bad as that, but he also similarly doesn't understand that what he says and what he does aren't exactly the same thing.
