A/N: I seriously love all of you. You've given me enough for a tenth chapter! For those of you who didn't read the reviews, I DID post a response to all my anonymous reviewers. Actually, it was my dormouse secretary, but I dictated everything. Anywho, I want to call attention to two special reviewers. One is Inkblood, who has so kindly fed me so many tantalizing ideas to run with. I have managed to distract poor Inky from earning a degree in the meantime. My bad. And a big shout out now to one intrepid reviewer who goes by Dr. Incrediblastic. I now give you:
Dr. Incrediblastic on Inspiration…
"Seriously, does anyone know how to change my name? This is getting ridiculous!
Since the omnipotent fanfic author wants advice on how to run my universe (seriously, how often does that happen?)
Plot idea 1: Jim Shannon is trapped in a volcano and watches the lava rise slowly until it reaches the ledge he's on, and then he dies an agonizing, painful death, and nobody dares to touch my rover or hack my account again.
Plot idea 2: Jim's widow marries me.
Plot idea 3: After Taylor refuses to tell anyone how he broke his arm except to say he tripped, someone anonymously posts a video of him getting tackled and owned by a five-year-old on TerraNovaTube, and the video goes viral.
Plot idea 4: Break the 4th wall again by having everyone freak out at Malcolm's requests to a certain fanfic writer.
The last two aren't my ideas; a lurker gave it to me because she says she doesn't post reviews, so priority on the first two, and put the last two on the back-burner (I would personally prefer that we keep my wish-list confidential, can we do that?) Said lurker also wanted to let you know that she's really enjoying the fic.
Now…how do I change my name?
So a big thank you to Doc Incrediblastic and the lurker, because I nearly died of laughter reading the review. And thanks, of course, to all my other AMAZING reviewers who never cease to amaze me. If I could, I'd marry you all! Actually, that's creepy so never mind, but you get the point! Onwards…
Elisabeth Shannon: Malcolm Wallace entertains some rather severe fantasies. I'm concerned.
Jim Shannon likes this.
Malcolm Wallace: Shut up, Jim. Shouldn't you be in a volcano by now?
Jim Shannon: Eh. If I died in a volcano, at least I'd die like a BAMF.
Mira: BAMF is a registered trademark of my blog. I'm going to have to request that you either remove your post or pay me 150 terras in royalties.
Jim Shannon: If you can get through the gates of Terra Nova to meet with me, we'll talk.
Maddy Shannon to Josh Shannon: Did you see what Malcolm Wallace wrote in a review to the author?
Josh Shannon: What author?
Maddy Shannon: You know, the one who's writing all of our statuses.
Josh Shannon: WE are writing our statuses. There is NO author other than US!
Maddy Shannon: There is too! And he has a dormouse secretary!
Josh Shannon: I'm slowly relapsing into "Fourth Wall Rage."
Maddy Shannon: Guess what, Josh! This is a STORY! With people reviewing it! Sorry if that's an "Inconvenient Truth." Get it? Environmentalist joke :D
Josh Shannon: I. Will. Slap. You.
Jim Shannon checked into "Volcano."
Malcolm Wallace likes this.
Malcolm Wallace: This can't be happening! I must be dreaming!
Jim Shannon: Sorry, Malcomus, but it isn't happening. I'm just messing with you :P
Malcolm Wallace: I hate you, Jim. I'll hate you forever!
Zoe Shannon: Oh no! The people in the science department are saying there won't be any more apples for a long time because of the mold!
Elisabeth Shannon: Oh dear. I guess we'll buy as many as we can then!
Skye "Bucket" Tate: Agreed!
Dunham: Apples are a commodity now? Time to turn a profit! I mean…no apples. Boo.
Alicia Washington: Dammit, the apples are moldy again. There's been a run on the orchards today, everyone grab 'em while you can!
Elisabeth Shannon, Dunham, and four others like this.
Malcolm Wallace: Going to the orchards to get some apples before they're all gone.
Jim Shannon: Too late. They're all gone.
Malcolm Wallace: You're kidding again, right? :0
Jim Shannon: Nope. This time I'm serious. Sorry Malcomus…
Malcolm Wallace: If you'll excuse me, I'm going to go home and weep. Bitterly.
Jim Shannon: Have a good time :)
Maddy Shannon to Casey Durwin: Hi Mr. Durwin, I was wondering if I could maybe trade you a wheel for some apples?
Casey Durwin likes this.
Casey Durwin: Sure, I could always use more wheels, my damn power chair is always breaking.
Maddy Shannon to Mark Reynolds: Can you help me get another wheel, perhaps?
Mark Reynolds likes this.
Mark Reynolds: I don't know…I think you'd have to pay me…
Maddy Shannon: With what?
Jim Shannon: The payment better not be in the form of…
Maddy Shannon: DAD! Stop creeping on my account activity :/
Mark Reynolds: If you let me have some of the apples, we have a deal.
Maddy Shannon: Fair.
Malcolm Wallace: So, since everyone is trading for apples, I was wondering if anyone would like to share apples with me? I'm sure I could come up with something to offer you in return…
Alicia Washington: No.
Jim Shannon: Nope.
Casey Durwin: Them apples are mine.
Elisabeth Shannon: Sorry, Malcolm.
Malcolm Wallace: Great. Guess I'll just be alone and apple-less.
Jim Shannon: How 'bout them apples? :D
Malcolm Wallace: The bad apple puns aren't helping.
Jim Shannon: It's ok, Malcolm. You'll always be the 'apple of my eye' :D
Malcolm Wallace: Seriously. Stop it.
Jim Shannon: Oh, don't let a few bad apples spoil your bushel :D
Malcolm Wallace: I swear to God I will kill you in your sleep.
Jim Shannon: Aw, Malcolm, don't be such a crabapple :D
Malcolm Wallace: JIM!
Jim Shannon: Ok, I'm done now.
Malcolm Wallace: Thank you.
Jim Shannon: You're welcome. APParently, they weren't APPreciated anyway. Oh come on, that was golden…delicious!
Malcolm Wallace: Strongly considering employing the use of a poisoned apple…
Jim Shannon: See? Now you're getting it!
Malcolm Wallace: -_-
Alicia Washington: I was just OTG, and I can now confirm what we suspected all along: slashers are some NASTY mofos -_-
Jim Shannon, Nathaniel Taylor, and six others like this.
Mark Reynolds: Agreed :)
Slasher: Uh, hey? Guys? I have feelings too, y'know!
Alicia Washington: WTF? A slasher that can social network?
Slasher: You've never heard of evolution?
Jim Shannon: SLAY THE BEAST!
Slasher: Ya'll are REALLY rude to company! :/
Malcolm Wallace: You'd make an interesting experimental subject in my laboratory…
Nathaniel Taylor: He'd make a better coffee table to go with my desk. Then I'd have a matching set!
Elisabeth Shannon: Jim did ask if we could get a dino-runner for the foyer…
Maddy Shannon: GUYS! What are you saying? We should be removing its brain to study!
Josh Shannon: I don't know. I like the idea of teaching it stand-up comedy and making it perform for us on Saturday nights…
Slasher: Yeah, that's cool. Nobody ask ME what I want to do with my life. You people are just like my parents…
Zoe Shannon: Dinosaurs need love too :( Be nice to the slasher!
Slasher: Yeah, what she said! I'm the reason your show even exists! Without the dinosaurs, you'd just be a bunch of people standing around in the wilderness for forty-five minutes on Monday evenings!
Josh Shannon: Wait, so even the DINOSAURS break fourth wall now?
Malcolm Wallace: To add insult to injury, someone put a whole bunch of apple peels into my rover! What kind of person would do this?
Alicia Washingon, Jim Shannon, and two others like this.
Maddy Shannon likes the pages "Landon Liboiron" and "Dean Geyer."
Josh Shannon: Wait…that guys looks…just like me. And the other one looks like Mark Reynolds o_O
Maddy Shannon: Maybe because they play you and Mark respectively on the television show?
Josh Shannon: O_O
Josh Shannon: If anyone needs me, I'll be in the panic room screaming…
Maddy Shannon likes this.
Josh Shannon to Maddy Shannon: Okay, I'm confused. So there was a television show about us back in 2011 on FOX? And it accurately portrayed everything going on here? HOW?
Maddy Shannon likes this.
Maddy Shannon: Time fracture. They sent all the video recordings through it and…wait, I might be spoiling the next season's plotlines. I'm shutting up now.
Josh Shannon: There was more than one season?
Maddy Shannon: I'm not sure…more stuff happened after Terra Nova got destroyed (look at us now) but I don't know if all the people of the past got to see it yet…Hello viewers!
Josh Shannon: But…but you can't just tease all this stuff and then NOT show it! There has to be more! I need to know how I end up!
Maddy Shannon: All in due time. There's like a huge fan movement to get a second season. They sent petitions to FOX and everything.
Josh Shannon: Send me the link. I'm signing that petition!
Josh Shannon: I can't stop watching old episodes of Terra Nova. It's like déjà vu and I know EXACTLY what's going to happen next but it's still so thrilling!
Maddy Shannon likes this.
Lucas Taylor to Zoe Shannon: Hey, Zoe…
Zoe Shannon: Who are you?
Lucas Taylor: I'm just a kindly neighbor. I was wondering if you'd like some free candy?
Jim Shannon: Zoe, we are changing your privacy settings as soon as I get home.
Zoe Shannon shared a link with Lucas Taylor: "Dinosaur" by Ke$ha.
Lucas Taylor: Well then…
Skye "Bucket" Tate: Way to be, Z! Lucas, you just got REJECTED by a six year old!
Lucas Taylor: But what about a sixTEEN year old? Hi Maddy Shannon :)
Maddy Shannon: O_O Mark Reynolds, please take care of this problem for me.
Mark Reynolds: Anything for you! I'm going to enjoy this…
Lucas Taylor checked in to "Sixer Camp Infirmary."
A/N: And there's your tenth chapter milestone update! This is mostly a mish-mosh of ideas from my awesome reviewers, mixed in with some of my own insanity. Please leave a review with any further ideas you may have if you want there to be an eleventh chapter. I've introduced some new direction to take this story in, but I'm still starved for ideas. Only you can fix that :)
PS: If you didn't get the Ke$ha song reference, google the lyrics. It'll make much more sense to you then :)