12.1 (Crossoverpairinglover)
"...Wait wait wait, run that by me again Zuko. You have got to be kidding me," the resident anchor/collector of trans-temporal boomerangs inquired as the scared ex-prince rolled his eyes
"No, I'm not," having just woken up in time to help the Gang fight off Azula in that old abandoned town though not without an injured Uncle Iroh, Zuko was completely serious as he continued "Last loop I found myself in an expansion part of Korra's timeline, and she will need therapy for it, and met Toph's younger daughter while I was there. She's a motherly art enthusiast."
Sokka was now on the floor, laughing hysterically as Toph looked horrified.
"First a police captain of a force I founded as my daughter, and now a art collecting mamma...it can't get any worse."
"...Don't say that Toph, I asked that once and found out that I apparently suck as a parent" Aang sighed in remorse as Zuko looked uncertain of if he should say what he was about to say.
"And your granddaughter...is sweet and adorable and everyone just wants to give her a hug."
That was too much for Toph to handle, thus she screamed into the sky in and fainted.
"...Really Zuko" Katara complained as she finished healing Iroh.
"...You guys asked what that part of the future was like, so I told you guys. It's not my fault Toph's family will have a member of the Fuzz, someone who would probably be a member of the local PTO boards in the hub, and someone huggable in it"
12.2 (Scorntex)
There were certain phrases a Looper never wanted to hear, certain choice words that could make some of the more battle-hardened ones break out in sweat. A lot of the time the word "pony" or "bat" tended to be involved. It depended on the Loop. Nicer, safer Loops meant these phrases held less danger, but in some, the ones that played hardball, the ones that forced their inhabitants down certain paths, or the ones that were just generally unsafe at any time, these phrases could spell doom for the best-laid plans.
Phrases like "we've got a situation", which was in fact a phrase that one such Looper had said to the Anchor of his Loop, and all but one of his fellow Loopers (said other Looper hadn't met up with them yet, and was likely taking their frustrations out of topiary and wrestlers.)
"A situation," Sokka repeated, slowly and carefully. "What sort of situation? Good situation? Bad situation? Appa's a muffin-crazed weirdo situation? Your sister's been replaced by someone who can beat your dad up in less than an hour situation?"
Zuko stared as deadpan a stare at the Anchor as he could manage, which even without centuries of practice would still have been impressively deadpan. "My father's been replaced," he stated.
"Replaced?" Aang asked.
"Replaced," Zuko repeated. Uncertain stares passed between the other three Loopers. Realising that vague wording wasn't helping, Zuko explained.
"I woke up in the usual place," which for Zuko meant the dingy little Fire Nation ship he almost always began the Loop in, "but apparently the reason I'm looking for the Avatar is different."
He paused slightly, staring at the small fire in front of them. "The Fire Lord's another Looper. He woke up some time ago and wants to meet the local Loopers. Which means us."
"And Toph." Katara interjected, on behalf of their absent friend and main powerhouse.
"Right. But he has no idea who they might be, so he sent me on a pointless quest to find the Avatar, probably because he knew as the son of the main cause of trouble I'd either be or know the local Loopers. But he didn't put it in that exact way, of course."
"Okay," Sokka said, "so the Fire-Lord's been replaced by a not-so-crazy guy this time around, who happens to be moderately smart as to how our world works. Great."
He looked about the room they were in, "though it is nice not having to fight our way off a Fire Nation ship for once."
Shortly after finding the Avatar, Zuko had requested to be alone with the Avatar and his travelling companions, even with his still non-Looping uncle, who had quietly made his discomfort with the notion known, but he'd still left anyway. Zuko had a strong suspicion that he was, or had been, listening at the door. He didn't like having to keep the Loops secret from his uncle, but he still couldn't think of the best way to tell him, not without sounding like he'd gone completely Azula.
"What's he like?" Katara asked, shaking him out of his ruminations. Zuko just shook his head.
"Most of my memories of him are before he Awoke. Still acted mostly like my father, but louder. Nothing on him after that. Whoever he is, he's cautious, though."
He frowned. Well, Zuko's face usually existed in a sort of near-permanent frown, but at the moment it was frowning slightly more than normal. "Sorry, but I don't have much else about him."
"What's his name?" Aang asked. Sokka nodded.
"Good point. Maybe he's someone we've heard about." A dark look passed Sokka's face, "so long as it's not that bat-obsessed guy we got a few Loops back."
Zuko stared blankly. Sokka noticed it. "Don't ask," he groaned, "that was a long Loop."
"I wasn't going to ask," Zuko admitted. "But as for who his name is... it's a weird one. Smaug."
There was a sudden shift in everyone's mood, and not for the better.
"You've... heard of him then?" Zuko asked. This got an incredibly nervous nod from Sokka.
"Oh, yeah" he said, "we've heard of him."
"And not much of it good," Katara added.
"Are we in trouble?" Zuko asked. All eyes turned to Aang, the usual trouble-shooter for Fire Lord-related problems. The Avatar was staring thoughtfully at the fire.
"I think..." he stated quietly, looking around at the small group, "I think it might be an idea to hold off meeting him right away, just in case."
"Detour via Kyoshi Island?" Sokka asked, with all the subtle hopefulness of a not-at-all subtle thing. Aang nodded.
"I do believe the specifics of my mission were to bring the Avatar back," Zuko said, absently, "I can't be held responsible if he's a child that gets seasick occasionally."
"And what about Zhao?" Katara cut in, "any plans for dealing with him? Or the rest of the problems we usually deal with?"
"Good point," Zuko admitted, "but I don't know how this Smaug thinks about the war."
Sokka shrugged, "good thing we've got peace and quiet to work out a workaround if he's as big a jerk as your old man, then, huh?"
"I guess so," Zuko said, cautiously.
And with that, the group set to work, with a great amount of care to avoid saying anything about the Fire Lord and any plans pertaining to the Fire Lord too loudly, just in case.
Meanwhile, deep in the Fire Nation capitol, in the innermost room of the royal palace, Smaug the Golden sat on the throne of the Fire Lord, utterly bored out of his mind. Of all the Loops he had to end up in, it was one where the local Loopers weren't even anywhere nearby.
He'd heard there was some kind of Avatar, devoted to worldly peace, which sounded like the exact sort of being to distract him from the tedium. Regardless of whether they were a Looper or not, he noted to himself, they were certainly taking their sweet time getting to his palace.
Suddenly the notion of instituting radical social reforms sounded very tempting, just to see what reaction it would get from the humans...
12.3 (VS21)
When it came to the Baseline of his own verse, Double D had some that moments he positively enjoyed and some he loathed to the most extreme degrees...He obviously enjoyed the acceptance as a peer after the incident with Eddy's brother, but despite the injustice displayed to him and his fellow Eds in what they refer to as the 'Friendship Frame-Up', he viewed the 'raid' upon his educational supplies to be one of the most despicable moments of their Baseline from his point of view..Yes, they were in a panicked state of mind, not only because they had lost track of how close school was to open, but they could also have simply went off and purchased their school supplies in a safe and civilized manner...
Eddward had numerous ways to protect his supplies from the 'raid', from selling excess school supplies he kept in his Subspace Pocket to the other Cul-de-sacians, to fending them off with magic from the times when he Looped into Hogwarts...This time however he wanted to test out a security system he developed to see if the 'raid' upon his school supplies would still be successful..So when the time came, and he confirmed that he was the only one Awake in that Loop, he followed Baseline to the point where the 'raid' begins...
"Double D Ed-boy!" Rolf said as he grabbed Double D. "Rolf knows of your peculiar persnickety ways. Surely you have stored supplies for the upcoming months of instructional hardship."Rolf at this time turned his head towards Double D's house and to the rest of the Cul-de-sacians he said, "The Ed-boy dwelling! Of course!"
Thus the kids of the Cul-de-sac went forward to begin the raid, Rolf had brought forth his family's axe and went to strike the door down with it, and after many repeated hits brought down the door. The kids stormed in and then Jonny said, "Where is it?" Then Kevin turned and saw a closet filled with the school supplies and said, "There it is!" and then rushed to the school supplies but tripped a sensor and caused two guns to appear from the walls and began firing watermelon seeds at high velocity at everyone.
"Argh!" "Ow!" "Shield me Plank!" "Kevin!" Kevin ran back and saw the guns were no longer firing at them. "Okay, now!" Thus the kids all rushed forward again but Rolf who this time was leading the charge tripped another sensor and caused a gigantic red boxing glove to knock everyone back to the living room of Double D's house, leaving quite a crater in the walls..."Gee, Double D really went all out with his security" Nazz said as she got out of the Nazz-shaped crater in Double D's wall..."Well we need to get our supplies, and this is the best place we can get them" Kevin said as he helped Jimmy and Sarah down from the wall. Rolf was staring at the hall that led to the sacred supplies that would serve as tools and protection in the upcoming months of institutional hardship. "Rolf has it, all we need to do is throw the lightest person like a Leather-coated foot-to-the-ball!" Rolf said happily, "Don't you mean like a football Rolf?" Kevin said puzzled, "Is this is a joke to you Kevin-Boy?!" Rolf exclaimed and then picked up Jimmy and prepared to throw him like a football
"Be gentle Rolf" Jimmy begged of Rolf, "No time for gentleness, now is time for power!" Rolf yelled and hurled Jimmy down the hall like a rocket, and for a moment the Kids though they had outsmarted Double D's security, unfortunately for them, they tripped another sensor to cause a metal door to come down in front of the school supplies and Jimmy hit it face-first..The sickening crunch caused the rest of the kids to wince as the boxing glove knocked Jimmy back to them...
At this time however Double D was now on the broken door to his home holding a box and said, "Oh dear, what will I ever do with this box full of back-to-school coupons I have so collected?" Double D went and dropped the box right to his left and said, "Oops! I seem to have misplaced it." Double D after saying that wisely got out of the doorway as the kids went and crowded the box to get the coupons and then rushed out of the house over to Lih's Supply Co. Double D smiled to himself as he entered his house and disarmed the security system, it sure felt good to succeed in protecting his possessions...
12.4 (VS21, edited by Kingofsouls and Evilhumour)
Another Loop in Peach Creek with every Looper Awake, another Loop in which Eddy's house was the host of yet another party, this time however after the events of what many referred to as "Hurricane Billy" the 13 Loopers of Peach Creek, were just kicking back and enjoying themselves, making sure to relate the stories of the Loops they were in to each of their fellow Loopers...
"Ahhhh! That hit the spot quite nicely, I might say." Double D said with a content look on his face as he had downed a drink and looked over to the rest of the Loopers who were dancing, talking, or otherwise finding ways to enjoy themselves.
"Hey Sockhead" Eddy said as he came over to Double D.
"Yes, Eddy?" Eddward replied.
"What was your last Loop like?" Eddy said to Double D.
"Oh nothing much really, I Looped into Hogwarts again." Double D said. "Oh really? Did you replace anyone this time?" Eddy asked. "Well, I did Loop in as a male version of Hermione, refreshed my magic spell repertoire, and because Harry got himself sorted into Hufflepuff, Harry, Ron, myself and Luna all ended up in a tetrarchy ruling all of Wizarding Britain by our 3rd Year. How was your last Loop though?" Double D asked Eddy.
"Remember the last time we Looped into the Hubverse and we ended up watching a movie called Now You See Me?" Eddy asked
"Yes."
"Well that verse is now Looping, The 4 Horsemen, their secret leader, and that hot chick in Interpol are all active Loopers." Eddy said.
"That's interesting, picked up anything from that Loop?" Double D asked
"Yeah, learned some skills from them, and picked up some money so I can use it in the Hubverse" Eddy said with a smile on his face.
"Wanna know my last Loop guys?!" Ed asked happily as he fell from the ceiling landing in front of them.
"Sure, what was your last Loop monobrow?" Eddy asked.
"I got to replace Pinkie Pie!" Ed said happily.
"Well I do think it fits him rather nicely" Double D admitted.
"Yeah, the big lug definitely can act as an Element of Laughter" Eddy added as well. "Hey everybody! What was your last Loops?" Eddy said rather loudly
Kevin was getting a drink as he said, "Baseline, we had a stealth anchor, so I just spent that Loop playing sports and fixing up my bike, with the 'standard' upgrades I now put on it."
Nazz was still dancing as she said, "Middle-Earth, Looped in as a female Legolas, just went with Baseline as I haven't been there in a while."
Jonny and Plank were resting on a couch as Jonny said, "Plank and I went to the Babylon 5 verse again, right buddy?" Jonny asked
"Indeed." Plank telepathically said in everyone's mind.
"All these Loops have come and gone and I still am not used to you doing that Plank." Double D said.
"Well only Jonny could hear me before in baseline, I needed to go to other places in the Multiverse to learn how to project my speech to everyone." Plank said to everyone's minds..
"Rolf had just gotten out of a Dungeons and Dragons Loop and managed to pick up new weaponry fitting for the son of a shepard!" Rolf said happily waving an enchanted spear in the air from where he was sitting.
"Me and Jimmy Looped into the One Piece verse" Sarah said while she was dancing with Jimmy.
"It was rather tiring, but it was actually pretty fun there as well" Jimmy said with a smile on his face.
The Kanker Sisters were all drinking as well as Lee said, "We Looped into the Twilight verse as the Volturi."
Marie continued that line of thought as she said, "We did the Ping and lo and behold, we had a Stealth Anchor and no one else was Awake. However, Edward and Bella were in Volterra right at that very moment"
May was outright smiling as she said, "As soon as they came in, we condemned them for letting the secret slip, and decided to exact the punishment ourselves!" Lee smiled as they recalled how they took out Edward and Bella that Loop.
Then Eddy started applauding the Kankers, and pretty much everyone was whooping and hollering. They, like other loopers, were always willing to celebrate at the misery of Edward and Bella Cullen. Double D had to smile at this and took out a drink he had and raised it in a toast to everyone present. Soon after seeing Double D do this, soon everyone was raising a drink in a toast, "To everyone here, to the countless adventures we've all had so far, and to the countless new adventures we'll be soon to have, to love, life and to the Infinite Loops!" Double D said as everyone made their toast.
12.5 (Evilhumour)
Rai looked at the note he found in his pocket, something that wasn't there last night before he went to bed.
Don't freak out when it happens when the next Wu reveals itself.
Love From,
Jack Spicer
Evil Boy Genius
With a grin, Rai crumbled up the paper. While Jack had proven to be a somewhat ok guy, his Anchor still needed to learn boundaries.
Rai shook himself loose of the smashed pumpkins, fighting against the vastly improved Jack-Bots from baseline were always a treat; it allowed everyone to really grow in skill while keeping things more or less the same for his non looping friends.
Then again, neither he or Jack really had a near complete collection of Wu to begin with and since Jack was on the 'evil' side meant he could use the copies he had more often than not. Otherwise, Omi would be riding his ass about stealing/hoarding Wu and shouting he should kicked out of the temple.
Granted, he did start grabbing the Wu when he could, hid them in his subspace pocket and did his best not to use them for the entirety of the loop even when some problems could have been solved. Like the last loop, if he pulled out the Mantis Flip Coin he took, so many problems would have been solved and he wouldn't have to deal with a truly evil Chase with Jack as his only ally. But still, the little cheese ball could get on his nerves from time to time, and Jack told him that in some loops he was not Awake, he had left to join the Halyin side with the others to get away from his ego.
Still, Omi was like a brother to him, and no matter what, he would always try to get him to act better in case he finally started looping so he wouldn't be a jerk to the other loopers.
Shuddering as what Omi might say to Twilight Sparkle or the other ponies in his macho mindset, he ducked and smashed another Jack-Bot into the ground and saw Omi and Jack fighting over the Helmet of Jong.
Jack was defending very well; apparently he had spent some loops as a member of their team and clearly kept up with his training as well as he could. Jack noticed Rai was watching, winked and then let Omi hit him the head with a kick.
Jack went sailing in the pumpkin patch with a loud girly shout, crying about the pain, loosing his head, getting dirt on his fac-
"WAIT WHAT?!" Rai shouted as he watched Jack's body, sans head, groping around for his head. And from what all four of them could see, it was not a robot this time.
Clay looked close to puking, Kimiko was holding her stomach and Omi was pale as a sheet.
The body picked up a pumpkin and then it happened.
The pumpkin began to laugh demonically, with blue fire exploding out in a horrific smile with pointy eyes glaring at the group.
"I AM FREE!" He then glared at Omi, spinning in a tight circle, breathing a beam of ice at Dragon of Water, who was more than freaking out. "TIME TO BEGIN MY REGAIN OF TEN THOUSAND YEARS OF DARKNESS!"
12.6 (Evilhumour)
Mandy trotted into the bar with a tired look on her face.
Big Mach raised an eyebrow at her, wondering what she was planning before she collapsed onto the counter.
"I- I -" Mandy gulped for air before reaching for mug of beer Mac placed down.
"Bad loop?" He watched her carefully as she poured her drink down he mouth.
"I looped in as the Beast Planet." Mandy snapped before going back to drinking her glass. "All that power, all that knowledge, everything I ever wanted, I had!" She looked happy for a second before deflating. "And it was all pointless. I couldn't control myself; I had to devour other worlds to stay together mentally and my mind was already split into three fools that prevented me from doing anything." Mandy shuddered before folding inwards. "It was horrible."
Big Mac looked at the so called evil looper before passing her another drink with a hidden smile to himself. Finally, there was something that could make the girl step back in horror.
12.7 (VS21)
They were in trouble the moment they Awoke, when the Eds Awoke they immediately took notice that they were wearing the Ed's Hive-Bee-Gone coveralls and unfortunately Double D and Ed couldn't stop themselves from knocking off the beehive, and then came the bees storming out of the hive attacking everything within their sight leading Ed to break out the shields from his subspace pocket..
Double D paled as he saw the size of the bees that came out of the beehive, their Loop tended to run on Toon physics, but seeing numerous bees fly out of the beehive that were around the size of Spike from Equestria and more bees were flying in from around the area, some of them even larger than the bees that were coming out of the beehive...
"Save yourself guys!" Ed said as he used his shield to try to protect themselves only for the bees to fly around the shield, leading Ed to start running as the bees hit an invisible barrier courtesy of Double D who was giving them more room to run away from the bees
"There's more of them Double D!" Eddy yelled as he saw more and more bees coming in from all angles as he was using playing cards as a weapon to slice bees in half
Eddy looked over the cul-de-sac and saw the others were dealing with the bees in their own ways
"Confound yourselves, yellow and black instruments of demonic intent! The son of the shepherd shall defeat you with the power of the Queen's Javelin of Hasterbrook!" Rolf said as he fought off the bees with an enchanted javelin.
Kevin had a shield spell active on his bike and was using it as a ram to attack the bees but also to protect him at the same time
Nazz had cast a bee-repelling charm on herself and was using the skills gained from Looping in as Legolas, by alternating from shooting bees with her arrows and using her long blades to take down more of the bees
Jonny and Plank were using PK abilities mainly PK Thunder to kill and repel bees on their end of the cul-de-sac
Sarah was utilizing Wolverine's claws to fight off the bees, while Jimmy had finished his transformation into a Sailor Scout and began using his powers to fend off the bees
Whereas above the main action on the ground the Kankers were fending off the bees that went for them in the air, fending them off with eye laser beams and various other powers they picked up from their various Loops...
"Man where did all these bees come from?" Eddy asked as he had emptied the deck he was using and decided to settle by using a katana to get the bees that came for him
"I think the Admins have a bug acting up in the system" Double D conjectured as he was using various spells in his repertoire to fend off the bees, namely an Aeroga spell aimed to blow the bees away from him
"Hey Eddy, how long do you think you can go with these bees?" Jonny asked Eddy
"I haven't had to fight like this for quite some Loops Jonny, but I'm prepared to keep fighting like this until the End of the Loop!" Eddy said as he continued to slice and dice the bees with his katana
"Well, considering those bees that keep coming after me, that may very well come true sooner than you think Eddy" Double D said as he used a wind barrier spell on him to keep the bees from stinging him but there were some definite bee stings on his body
12.8 (VS21)
Waking up in a new Loop sometimes tends to be disorienting, but some Loops were more soothing to wake up in more than others, the fact that most of them tended to be Safe-Mode Loops was not lost on anyone. For Ed, Eddward and Eddy, waking up in such a Loop was just a matter of Awakening, checking Loop memories for anything specific they needed to know, and simply doing what they wanted to get done in such a Loop. Once they got their memories of the Loop however Eddy grew a smile on his face...
"Looks like you've been waiting for a Loop like this for a while" Double D said to Eddy who turned to him and said, "How can I not! We can effectively run Hollywood from our own movie studio! Think of the money that can be made here!" Eddy said almost euphorically as he looked at the empty lot that they would transform into a movie studio that would stand the test of time...
"Well it all depends on how well we run this business, the film business can be extremely cutthroat, not to mention one specific movie studio that seems to have all the luck in the world in this Loop..." Double D said
"Death to Creamboat Creations!" Ed yelled out as he went into the empty Lot
"Ummm, Ed we need to hire builders here" Double D said to Ed as he pointed towards the line of people looking for a job with the studio
"Well then let's get started and start building up Triple E Studio!" Eddy said as he was hurrying over to the employment office to hire their first employees
12.9 (Scrontex)
Sokka Awoke to the gentle lap of the waves, a spear already in hand as he and his sister had once again woken up in the little boat they found Aang in. He quickly sent out a ping, getting two back. Which probably meant Toph was Awake. And given the lack of a response from Zuko, he wasn't.
He turned around to see Katara sitting there, her eyes closed and her brow furrowed as she concentrated. The boat slowly began to be pushed along by the waves, as the water began to churn violently.
Guess Katara really wanted to see Aang again, Sokka thought, as he held on to the side of the boat.
After a few scant seconds, the massive iceberg, illuminated from inside by an obscured figure inside the Avatar state. Sokka remained cautious, remembering the times they'd encountered such wonderful Avatars as Avatar Toph, Avatar Lee, and that weird guy with the wolf-bat obsession.
With some patient waiting, the light burst out of the iceberg. Cautiously, the siblings approached. As they came into sight of the crater, Katara gasped.
Sitting in the exact middle of the iceberg was not Aang. Instead, it was a young woman, dressed in what looked like Southern Water tribe garb, her hair kept in a warrior's wolf-tail.
"Who's that?" Sokka asked, hoping Katara's gasp was one of recognition.
"That's Korra." Came her reply. Sokka stared at her.
"... Aang's successor." His sister said, quietly, and with a small and sad sigh. Sokka looked down again at the unconscious bender. Katara had mentioned her, once or twice. He had been expecting someone... less asleep.
"So that's Korra." He mused. Then he saw the distant look on Katara's face. He knew that one. It was the look Katara had when she was thinking about people who, for whatever reason, weren't there. Without a word, Sokka gently laid a hand on his sister's shoulder. For an instant, a tiny, fragile smile appeared on her face, before she too looked back towards the slumbering Avatar.
"It's just for one Loop." She said. "I can manage."
She sniffed, and nodded. "I can manage. Really."
She motioned toward Korra, who was still asleep. "We should probably try and wake her up. Korra's... never been a morning person."
12.1 Talking about your future from a first hand experience.
12.2 Firelord Smaug... still not as bad as Ozai.
12.3 Yeah we can't figure this one out either.
12.4 Catch up time.
12.5 You would all do the same thing if given the chance.
12.6 Mandy can be cowed back...
12.7 There was a bee bug going around Yggdrasil a while back.
12.8 Some things never really change.
12.9 It's not that Katara doesn't like Korra, it's that for her to exist Aang usually has to be dead.