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Author's note: Originally posted by Anon e Mouse Jr. on 2018-01-05. This is the second of two chapters posted today.
Disney/Kingdom Hearts Loops, Chapter Twenty-Seven
27.1 (kingofsouls): [Danny Phantom] / [Inside Out]
Riley blinked. "Planeswalking?"
"Yea, I was a little curious about it." the half-ghost replied. He was sitting on his bed in his room, Riley in a chair opposite of him. " I mean, how cool would it be to do that?"
"Oh, it's really cool." Riley smiled. "I mean, I haven't really done it, so I'm not actually a Planeswalker, but I sort of am?"
"Not exactly sure what you mean by that."
"Well, five planeswalkers replaced my emotions for a Loop. That's how they taught me their magic. But... without the Spark I can't Planeswalk." Riley explained. "At least I don't think I can. But I've been practicing with making bonds with the land and using the magic"
Danny thought on that more a moment. "Can you teach me?"
"How to use Dominarian magic? One second."
-Headquarters-
"What do you guys think?"
"I think it's a bad idea." Fear quickly answered.
"Aw, don't be such a killjoy Fear," urged Joy. "It'd be fun!"
"It does sound like fun to me."
"You got me there," Fear slowly admitted, "But have we ever taught someone how to do that magic stuff?"
Joy blinked. Riley did as well. "Well… not really."
"Well, there's no time like the present in my opinion!" Joy rebounded. "Maybe we'd learn a thing or two ourselves?"
"I like that idea." Sadness spoke up (who was unAwake, but still around as she wanted to be moral support). "But Fear is right. What if we mess up?"
"Then we mess up." Joy reassured her fellow emotions. "And then Danny waits until that Sorin guy loops in here or Danny loops into Sorin's loop."
Fear didn't seem to be convinced. "I dunno..."
"Pleeeeeeeeeeeaseeeeeeeeee?"
"Okay, Joy, I'm in." Fear relented. "But if we can't get this teaching thing down, then we just tell Danny to wait, deal?"
"Deal!' Joy shouted, grasping Fears hand and shaking it vigorously.
"Sounds good with me!"
-Reality-
"Well?" asked Danny
To that, Riley cracked a playful grin. "I've never actually taught someone how to use magic, but I can always try."
Danny whooped in joy. "So, where do we start."
"I guess the first thing is to explain how the magic works." continued Riley. "Magic comes in five colors: White, Blue, Black, Red, and Green, and these colors..."
27.2 (Mirror Mage): [My Little Pony] / [Gravity Falls] (not compiled in MLP Time Loops)
Gravity Foals
Apple Bloom looked at the object, suspiciously. It was an ordinary-looking copier machine-granted, a bit battered and looking like it could sputter out at a moment's notice... But it was a special copier-given what she'd seen from it before. If it could make accidentally-copied hooves come to life... She carefully lay down on top of it and pressed the copy button. Several seconds later, Apple Bloom and her copy were scrutinizing each other, in near-perfect synchronization.
"Is mah bow really that large?" Asked the clone.
"Mah flank looks awfully bare..." Muttered the original.
"Well, there's always goin' out ta ta search for Cutie Marks..."
"It's Zap Apple season, though, an' mah family needs all the help it kin' get. Ah want to go out with the others, but a can't be in two places at... wait..." Bloom Prime paused, looking at the clone.
"You have all mah memories, right?"
"Eeyup."
"You won't try some sorta clone uprisin', will ya?"
"Nope. If'n ah do, yah kin' always use some sorta liquid tah dissolve me-like that conveniently placed apple juice when ya first found this thing!"
"Oh, right..." If'n it worked on that disembodied hoof... "Well, Double Bloom," she said, facing her copy, let's get tah work!"
"And when I finally get a look at the statue of Discord, well... Is he supposed to be a chaos-causing super-entity? 'Cause, well... It sorta looked like a dorito to me."
"I don't know, Dash..." Twilight replied to her Unawake friend. "Dorito or not, he still has the potential to cause some prob..." What the...? "...Are you seeing what I'm seeing?"
"The gathering mob of Apple Blooms? Definitely."
Twilight sighed. Great, another Mirror Pool or Mikasa Gli-wait a minute. "And are they going after a solitary Apple Bloom?"
"Eeyup."
"Let's fix this before it gets out of hoof."
27.3 (GMBlackjack): [Numenera] / [Gravity Falls]
The Aeon Priest grabbed the lever obviously designed for a being at least twice as tall as a human, or at least a creature with a truly absurd arm length. He pulled with all his might, straining his body, trying to activate the machine. He quickly found that his nimble figure, while good for running and avoiding dangerous weapons, was not good for pulling giant levers.
He panted. He had come too far to stop now! He had braved a tribe of murden, narrowly avoided death by a travonis ul, discovered many secrets of large numenera, assisted the people of the previous town in their horrid disease, and braved the Iron Wind itself! He was not going to go this far to have a simple lever stop him!
He took out a small object out of his cloak. It appeared to be an injector patterned with the designs of some cute, but obviously millions of years extinct, bear. He held the cypher in front of him, secretly cursing himself that he had to use the ancient relic now and not at a more useful moment, say, when something was trying to eat his thoughts. He pushed the needle into his skin, and got an instant boost to his strength. He roared, grabbing the lever, and yanking it down with ease.
The numenera device before him lit up, the central hole glowing a white color with a ring of rainbow lights around it. Columns of light shot up into the ceiling, flowing through the makeshift power conduits he had been crafting for weeks, just for this moment.
Everything was functioning flawlessly. He would finally figure out what the purpose of this device was, the strange circle in a triangle…
Through the circle he saw stars. His face lit up. A portal to other worlds! He had heard rumors that the previous eight worlds had such devices, but he had never seen one! Just wait till the Order of Truth got wind of this! He would no longer be mocked! He would… He would maybe even become a high Aeon Priest! He would become-
Was that a figure coming out of the hole?
The Aeon Priest quickly flipped through the ancient book he had found in the ancient ruin. There were a few diagrams of people being used next to the machine, but he couldn't read the language so they remained elusive to him. The images could either suggest people going in or leaving…
…or being torn apart by forces beyond his comprehension….
The figure walked out of the portal, slowly approaching the Aeon Priest. The Aeon Priest stood, transfixed at the tall humanoid figure before him, completely wrapped up in dark cloaks. It held out its hand, as if asking for something.
The Aeon Priest noticed the hand had six fingers. He slowly turned to look at the ancient boo in his hand, realizing the symbol on the front not only had six fingers, but it matched the size of the hand before him. He slowly handed the book to the figure.
The figure grasped the red tome, taking some of the cloaks off his face. The Priest noticed a surprisingly… human face, though its seemed a bit different from most people's.
Then the man spoke. "Well, this is new. You wouldn't happen to be named Stan would you?"
The Aeon Priest blinked. "You can speak the Truth?"
"Of course I speak the- oh that's the name of your language isn't it? Gosh that must be annoying. I have a mental effect occurring within my brain that translates anything outgoing and incoming automatically, and I doubt you could understand the physics behind it."
"I would be very interested in learning about this translation esotery." The priest said. "I am Falavil, Aeon Priest of the Order of Truth. Welcome to the Ninth World. Who are you?"
"Stanford Pines, though you can call me Ford. I've been trapped in a temporal knot for quite some time apparently." Falavil cocked his head. He sensed that the man - Ford - was speaking of more than one event. "Evidentially you have just saved me from that temporal knot by… Using a type of cheese as a power conduit?"
"We all have to work with what we can." Falavil said. "How did you come to be stuck within this ancient device?"
Ford laughed. "Why, I built it!"
Falavil's jaw dropped. "You build it?"
"Yeah. Though it used to be under my house and not in a cave… And usually it's still there…" He blinked. "You called this the Ninth World?"
"Yes…?"
Ford nodded, pondering. He pulled out a strange artifact from his cloak, also engraved with the six-fingered hand design. "Temporal readings… well i'm about a billion years in the future. Imagine that. It's a wonder this portal still exists. Most interesting…" He examined the various things Falavil had used to repair the portal. "These all appear to be from different eras and designs… Vastly different…" He turned to Falavil, grinning.
"I have a feeling this place is going to be most interesting. So, my dear Falavil, what do scientists like us do here?"
"We examine the ancient numenera left behind by the prior worlds in order to benefit humanity. Though we are called Aeon Priests and not scientists…"
"I do suppose interesting things do occur when science and religion combine. You'd be surprised at how effective it could be."
"What? Sur-"
"Nevermind, forgot who i was talking to." He grinned. "How about you show me around this… Ninth World?"
"Of course, ancient."
"I'm Ford. Call me Ford."
"Of course, Ancient Ford."
Ford let out a sound that was a combination of a groan and a chuckle.
27.4 (Masterweaver): [Zootopia] / [Watership Down]
"Okay. Okay. Let's go over this."
Judy Hopps pressed her paws against the dirt wall, curling and uncurling her claws.
"I am... apparently... a member of a nudist colony. A primitive nudist colony. With some bizarre religion that implies I'm in the savage era, except there are actually cars and we're too stupid to know what they are."
She stared at the dirt for a moment.
"...and my little brother is literally named Five and has just had some sort of doom vision."
Her claws clenched.
"What in the actual frick."
Judy Hopps, or Stormpelt as she was locally known, rapped her knuckles against the wall. She'd known ever since she found herself in this strange world that it would be different-waking up naked, with some odd muscular differences, had tipped her off before the Local Life Memories kicked in. But finding that she and her kind were basically brainless...
She'd freaked out a little.
More than a little.
Okay, she'd torn a tree root out of a wall and ripped it to shreds in sheer frustration.
"Right. Right. Just... okay, even if the world is completely crazy, it's only for one repeat. Right?" Judy nodded to herself. "Right. Just work with what you've got. So, doom vision. Obviously I've got to handle that somehow."
With a deep breath, she cracked her knuckles. She'd taken the weirdest and the worst criminals that Zootopia could throw at her; saving a single savage colony should be a breeze.
27.5 (Masterweaver): [Sailor Moon] / [Zootopia]
Luna nodded to herself as she peered through the window, reaching into her pocket and pulling out a cat-sized cell phone.
"Hello, Makoto? Yes, it's me. I was hoping you could handle Naru this time round. ...Well, the others are usually busy handling early-loop things-no, no, I'm not saying that. Look, I think we have a replacement anchor. No, I know she didn't ping, but does Usagi have silver hair and a push-up regimen-? Yes, actually, I do. ...Well, I figure the whole 'talking cat' angle will make her listen. Yes, yes, I know... yes. Thank you. Love you too. Bye."
She flipped the phone shut, rolling her eyes with a smile. "That girl, honestly... Right, time for a dramatic entry." Her entire body coiled tightly, and then, like a spring, the tension was released and she jumped into the bedroom.
"Eighty seven, eighty eight, oh hello." The silver-haired girl gave her a brief smile. "You're that cat, from this morning. Ninety two, ninety three, you must have, been following me, all day long. Ninety seven, ninety eight, ninety nine, one hundred!"
She collapsed to the ground, breathing heavily. "Okay, got... got that done." One hand raised in a vague wave. "Woooo. Ow."
Luna walked to the edge of the bed and sat down, clapping her forepaws. "Well done miss! A hundred push-ups on day one? With that body? I know what she usually eats, it really is impressive."
After a moment, the girl rolled her her head to look at her. "...you just talked."
"I did, yes."
"...you're a talking cat."
"For the most part."
The girl broke into a relieved grin. "Finally, something normal!"
Luna rose a brow as she watched the girl push herself off the ground. "Talking cats are normal for you?"
"Well, they're usually bigger. And wear clothes..."
"Ah." Luna smiled. "You're not usually human, are you?"
"No! And it's so weird, not having fur, and these tiny ears, and these random bundles of fat-" The girl's violet eyes snapped to the smiling feline and narrowed. "Wait. How did you know that?"
"Just an educated guess. Here's another one: Time is repeating for you, and maybe a couple of your friends, and there are times when things are slightly different or, like now, very different."
"You know what's going on?! Oh thank God." The girl let herself fall against the bed. "Me and Nick thought we were going crazy or something."
"No, you're not crazy. Well, not completely." Luna waggled a paw. "A little stir-craziness is inevitable, don't get me wrong. But the Loops themselves, well, they have an entirely rational explanation."
"Really?"
"Mmhmm. Reality is broken and all the pantheons have put us into the loops while they debug code."
The girl stared at her.
Luna's shoulders sagged. "Do you not have computers where you come from? I'm sorry, let me try again: There's this tree-"
"No, I... we have computers, I just... what do you mean, reality is broken?"
"Basically just that. The magical world-tree computer that underlines the multiverse has, for reasons unknown, suffered incredible damage. And to keep things running while they patch stuff, the admins set up the loops."
After a moment, the girl sighed and sagged against the bed. "Sweet cheese and crackers..."
"Yes, well, things are getting better... Oh, I'm sorry, I forgot to introduce myself." The cat cleared her throat, straightening up. "I am Luna, Guide and Guardian of the Silver Millennium, servant to the Sailor Senshi, eldest felinoid looper and third-eldest of this loop, general-in-command of the transdimensional moon army, member of the Original Seven Entourage, and part-time housepet." She chuckled, shaking her head. "And who might you be, dear?"
The purple eyes narrowed. "...Lieutenant Judy Hopps, Zootopia Police Department, Valedictorian, first looper of my loop, formerly high matriarch Stormpelt, and general all around bringer of justice."
"Zootopia, hmm. Not heard of that one before," Luna mused. "Hopps, Hopps... are you, perchance, a rabbit of some sort?"
"Yes."
"Ah, that explains it. The young girl you're replacing, Usagi... her name literally means bunny."
"Huh. Where is she, by the way?"
Luna shrugged. "It's a big multiverse. She could be anywhere."
"...You just knocked out a charging jaguar by throwing a crown at him."
"Tiara," Usagi corrected. "It's a tiara."
"That's not the point!" the fox protested. "Where did you learn to do that?!"
"Every girl has a princess phase. I just wanted to be the princess of police." Usagi twirled the tiara on one ear, grinning maniacally. "And now I am. Living the dream, baby!"
27.6 (GMBlackjack): [My Little Pony] / [Gravity Falls] (previously compiled in MLP Time Loops as Loop 179.12)
Twilight was rudely awakened by Lyra and Ford bashing down the door to her bedroom.
"We know what you're up to!" Lyra yelled, holding up a corkboard with images Twilight recognized as being taken from many different Loops. Most of the images were accompanied by pins connected together with color-coded string, as well as many handwritten notes, half of which were in Ford's penmanship.
Twilight yawned, blinking. "What on earth are you talking about."
Ford took out a holographic projector. "We first discovered something was up during the last Loop in Gravity Falls. We discovered you sniffing a patch of cottage cheese flowers that you'd seen a dozen times before. We thought nothing of it at the time…"
"…but I saw you sniffing strange and unusual cheeses at the Star Wars market, drawing an unusual connection. You were also inquiring about Kyubey at that time, for an unknown reason. It was a minor coincidence until…"
"…I spotted Kyubey himself sniffing cheeses in the Ninth World, complaining about how his back had been hurting lately. He had found a large collection of back-pain healing cyphers, though we wondered why on earth he needed them…"
"…and we also noticed the exact same cyphers in the Minecraft Loop for some reason, a Loop where we found an image of you and Applejack building a town in ancient times. The cyphers were also located in the arrangement of a perfect triangle…"
"…which led us to Bill, who after much questioning did halfway mention that he had provided you with information about the structure of the Gurren Lagann Loop in exchange for allowing him to turn an entire planet into a playground for one day…"
"…On the said playground, the dream-construct known as Littlepip came into existence and mentioned something about how she felt the world was about to suddenly turn pink without warning…"
"…and with the spiral information form Gurren Lagann we were led to Pinkie, who we discover has been talking about a great cheesy party for an exceptional long amount of time."
The two of them pointed directly at Twilight. "YOU ARE PLANNING A MASSIVE PRANK ON PINKIE!"
Twilight was silent. Outside, an owl hooted. She blinked.
"How…?"
"Do not question the conspiracy theorist team of grandpa and granddaughter." Lyra said.
"But you aren't really-"
"DO NOT QUESTION!"
Twilight sighed. "Well, I've been found out. What exactly is your plan?"
Lyra grinned like a madwoman. "We want in. It's not easy to prank Pinkie."
Ford cracked his knuckles. "I've been working on many inventions to keep her attention away from her pinkie senses…"
Twilight shrugged. She didn't see why not.
Though she did wonder how they came to this conclusion from the Minecraft world… that had nothing to do with it…
27.7 (lord Martiya): [Winx Club] / [W.I.T.C.H.] (previously compiled in Winx Club Loops as Loop 20.7)
It had looked like a normal Loop to Flora. One with everyone Awake (meaning that Rachel and someone else would likely pick up the hunt for the Dragon's Flame and likely hire a mercenary army when they failed, Tritannus was dead or worse by Darcy's hand, and neither Lucy nor Aisha wouldn't take part to Miss Magix), but still normal. Then Miss Magix had come, and this time the one with the number 13 was a blonde with an uncanny resemblance to Stella, only blue eyed and taller. Who was dodging the Trix' attempts at tripping her while using a dance she had adapted from Earthbending, and had just started juggling with the lamps Icy had tried to throw on her head.
"Not her… Not now…"
And knowing exactly what was going to happen, Flora started panicking. If only had she found out earlier…
Well, if nothing else the Awake Trix wouldn't use hellfire.
As expected, Stella had lost to the newcomer, and was ranting as usual when the newcomer showed up.
"Hi, Flora. How is my favourite rival doing?" she said. In Icy's presence. Flora slapped her own forehead, as she and the others took a step back and put up a barrier.
"Rival?!" the witch shouted, not amused in the least.
"Well, we a-"
"Outside, now. I'll teach you not to claim my job."
Perfect: Icy was in perfect Cloud Tower-style posturing to check if she was a worthy co-rival, that to anyone who had not been at that school looked remarkably like bullying. The one thing the blonde wouldn't stand.
"As you wish."
After the witch and the blonde left, Tecna asked her girlfriend: "I take that's the infamous Cornelia Hale?"
"Her in person." Flora admitted.
"You know her?" Darcy asked.
"Yes, I-"
Icy's torso suddenly emerged from the wall, with the witch shouting in pain with a rhythm making clear she was being spanked. Literally. Then she was finally allowed to fall down, and Cornelia entered from a newly-formed hole in the wall-hole that closed itself immediately thereafter.
"As Flora was likely explaining, I am Cornelia Hale, from the W.I.T.C.H. Loops, that's an acronym by the way, there are enough similarities between our groups, our powers and even the reason I was the second choice as Anchor after the Heart that we've been JOKING about being rivals since she introduced me to the Loops, and I'm allergic to bullies." Cornelia said to the thoroughly humiliated witch. Then she looked at Bloom and continued: "By the way… I'm apparently replacing Diaspro, could you help me with some way for me to get out of her engagement without causing a diplomatic accident?"
"Sure."
As Cornelia and Bloom left to discuss that, Icy declared: "She's going down. Next time-
"She's SO going down." Stella said. Then noticed the looks from everyone but Flora: "What? She won Miss Magix, I can't let her get away with that!"
"Well, this went better than expected." Flora commented. "At least she didn't do too much collateral damage."
"Please, she only won because she caught me by surprise, what can she do?!" Icy protested.
A few months had passed since the fateful pageant, Bloom and Cornelia were on their way to switch the engagement peacefully, Rachel and her accomplices had been expelled from Cloud Tower, and their mercenary army was charging at Red Fountain. Then a fissure opened and swallowed the entire force, courtesy of Cornelia.
"THAT is what she can do." Flora said to Icy. "And trust me, that's more merciful than what happens when she uses the plants."
27.8 (Masterweaver): [Zootopia]
"Three hundred! Yes!" Judy Hopps pumped her fist in the air, taking a moment to glance at her watch. "And five minutes to spare. New record. Woo!"
She shook her head, quickly slipping a quarter into the meter next to her tiny, tiny cart-having to ticket herself was a little embarrassing, so she tried to avoid it. Actually, having the cart at all was embarrassing but, realistically, there wasn't any way she could avoid it. Still, this was around the time she first met Nick... or usually met Nick the first time, whatever. These repeats were messing with her head. And she still didn't have any idea why they were happening, which was frustrating beyond belief. But at least she could nip the whole Night Howler debacle in the bud with a simple anecdote told to a certain lion during her graduation ceremony.
"Okay, so... we have the hippo there, and the rhino, and... there you are, Nick." Judy smiled to herself, leaning against a street-side potted plant. "Look at you, glancing around... wait."
The fox was still kind of shifty looking, like he usually was at this time. But it wasn't the confident shiftiness she had grown used to. Nick looked... distracted. Not enough to avoid his usual thing, but it was clear that he was focused on something else.
Their eyes met for a moment. His widened, briefly. Then he shook his head and looked away.
Judy's own eyes narrowed. She'd dealt with a few strange repeats, but...
He actually glanced back at her as he entered the ice cream store.
"...Sweet cheese and crackers."
Judy grabbed her ears as the door swung shut. "He recognized me. He recognized me. He's-he's repeating too?! Why didn't he-no, no, he was confused. So this is his first time, maybe." She took a deep breath, holding her paws down. "Okay. Okay. I can handle this. I don't know how, but... what do I do? How do I signal him, got to signal him-wait."
A grin spread across her face.
"Oh. Oh my god. This is going to be hilarious."
Faking being conned was easy after all this time. She had the whole script memorized-the angry elephant owner, the warm-hearted 'father,' the health-code violation threat, oh whoops Nick left his wallet at home, here's a twenty keep the change. She'd kept her eyes on the two foxes-Finnick had played his role with the usual skill, but she couldn't help but notice how Nick kept looking at her in confusion. Still, she waited until he had hefted the jumbo pop and walked out the door.
"Thank you again, officer," Nick gushed, "I can't tell you how much we appreciate this. It means a lot."
"Well, I can't possibly break the heart of such a loving family," Judy replied. "You know, for a fox you're pretty handsome."
Nick blinked, clearly thrown off by her sudden script change. "Well, you're... not bad looking yourself." he rallied, quickly enough that she almost didn't notice.
"Toot-toot!" Finnick added.
Judy rose an eyebrow as Nick managed a pretty convincing blush. "Uh, I... I swear I don't know where he learned that-"
"Ahuh." She smiled and nodded. "It's so nice to see somebody willing to adopt outside their species."
"...Yeah, I get some weird looks sometimes," the larger fox replied, glancing between his partner and the rabbit.
"Well, it is a little surprising that a fully grown fennec fox goes around wearing diapers," Judy pointed out, "but I guess he's just a child at heart, right?"
She continued smiling as she visibly saw the pair's brains crash. Honestly, she was having the hardest time keeping herself from laughing.
"...well, uh..." Nick managed, "I don't like to mention it, but he actually has a severe mental disability-"
"Oh, I see." Judy replied, quite deliberately not noticing the glare that Finnick shot him. "Well, technically speaking, I can't really do anything about that. And, technically speaking, I guess you didn't actually do anything illegal. So, technically speaking, I can't possibly arrest you."
Nick narrowed his eyes suspiciously. "And... technically speaking, if you were to discover that somebody was faking a mental disability?"
"Well, technically speaking, that's only illegal if they attempted to obtain legal benefits or compensation. Which, technically speaking, you have yet to do." The rabbit's grin was wide and toothy. "Unless there's something you're not telling me?"
"...how did you know he was an adult?"
"You told me," Judy replied. "It's called a hustle, sweetheart."
Nick's eyes widened.
Judy, very dramatically, rose an eyebrow.
"...You," he said probingly, "are one sly bunny."
"And you," she replied with a small nod, "are one dumb fox."
Finnick pulled down his hood in frustration. "Okay, what the hell is going on?"
Nick and Judy shared a look.
"We dated once," Nick offered.
"When we were six," Judy countered.
"It was a dare," Nick explained. "Triple dog dare, you know how it is."
"Of course, I couldn't turn down a dare," Judy laughed. "So I went over to his place."
"You should have seen how she complained about all the mud puddles."
"They weren't nearly deep enough for proper mud pies!"
"Well, I didn't know you aspired to be a master chef at the time."
"It would have put me close to a lot of knives. And fire."
"I have got to say, I'm glad you grew out of your 'burn the world' phase."
"Yeah, I kinda figured that I liked beating up bad guys a lot better."
"Look, as much fun as it is watching you two bullshit up this shared past," Finnick deadpanned, "we've got places to be. So unless you're actually going to arrest us, can you get back to being a meter maid?"
Nick narrowed his eyes. "Hey, look-"
"It's fine," Judy assured him. "It's fine, really. I am still on duty. I'll call you later and we can catch up, okay Nick?"
He turned back to her, raising an eyebrow. "You sure?"
"We have... a lot to talk about."
After a moment, Nick nodded. "Yeah, sure thing Judy. Oh! I, uh, changed my number-"
"Yeah, that happens. I'll write it down."
27.9 (katfairy): [Doctor Who] / [Phineas and Ferb]
This… was not Gallifrey. So why was he a child?
The Doctor looked at his reflection in the window. He knew the face, but not like this: strong chin, delicate eyebrows, all in all rather rectangular. But that face had looked young enough as it was; it really was unnecessary to have made it even younger. He wasn't sure just how young, but it had to be under fifteen. Why had that ridiculous tree thought it was a good idea to make him a child? With one heart?
The Loop memories hit before he had a chance to work up a proper sulk. All right, so he was human for a Loop. Could be worse; at least he wasn't Sontaran. Or Vorlon; that had been a tiresome Loop. And he was Scottish, which was good for a laugh; he could just imagine what Amy would say about that. The name was a dead loss, though; he'd stick to the Doctor. Parents were decent enough sorts, which was nice. Over all, a decided lack of drama in his history; the biggest issue was his parents accepting jobs in the States, which led to his Waking up on his first day in his new home in Danville. That name was vaguely familiar, but he couldn't quite place it. Well, it would come to him. Or not. Either way, he had a new place to explore in a world he knew very little about; he couldn't wait to start.
He tried to skip breakfast, but his parents caught him trying to slip out the door. They were sympathetic, however, and didn't insist on his eating a huge meal; a quick bowl of porridge and some toast and marmalade, and he was free. Yelling a goodbye, he darted out the front door to get his first good look at his new neighbourhood.
It was very suburb-ish. The houses were all similar in size, style, and age, but not quite as cookie-cutter as some later developments would be. Not a lot of traffic on the street. All in all, while he couldn't say it was the most attractive place he'd Looped into, it wasn't too bad, either. Now he just had to—remember to Ping. He'd gotten distracted again; he really had to be better about that. He got a number of responses, and from the hesitation of the man stepping out the door of the next house over, he'd just found one of them.
"Hello, lad; good day to be Awake this early." The man had an English accent; a bit odd in such a stereotypically American locale.
"Best way to Anchor the day, sir," the Doctor replied; the man nodded.
"Right-o; you'll want to talk to my boys. They can give you the full story. You'll find them in the backyard; just pop right in. Cheerie-bye. Oh, I'm never saying that again…" And the man got into a car and drove off, shaking his head. The Doctor grinned and did as instructed, now suspecting he'd finally found a relatively quiet Loop. He hoped so; it would be good to spend some time not dealing with death and destruction.
"Hey, Ferb, did we keep any self-sealing stem bolts? I think they'd work better here. Oh, hey, hi! You must be the new kid from next door. I'm Phineas, and this is my brother Ferb, and… oh, they're not here yet. Never mind; I'll introduce them when they show up. We're building a giant mini-golf course; we did that once before, but that was more disco-themed and we didn't have access to good anti-gravity technology then. This time, we're adding that, going for a strathspey vibe, and adding some fifth-dimensional aspects just for fun. Wanna help?" The speaker was a boy about his own current age, small, skinny, with a shock of scarlet hair on top of a triangular head and bright blue eyes; his welcoming grin was contagious even to someone as practiced at avoiding that as the Doctor. The other boy, Ferb, just nodded, long face solemn under his own thatch of green hair. The Doctor recognized a natural stoic when he saw one and his own grin grew even wider; stoics tended to be a lot more fun than they let on. But before he had a chance to respond, Phineas continued. "I think Dad mentioned your name last night. You're Raibert Colquhoun-Farquharson, right?"
"Not if I can help it," the Doctor grimaced. Phineas just grinned wider.
"Hey, you're talking to a guy named Phineas; I know from weird names. I guess you've got a nickname, though."
"Yes. Most people just call me Doctor. It's a bit of a long story."
Phineas froze. Ferb, who had been taking a drink in accordance with the laws of slapstick, did an epic spit-take. The Doctor was a bit taken aback by their responses, but then his memory kicked in. A bit late, but at least now he knew why the name Danville sounded familiar. He'd heard of this Loop before, and these two boys were always mentioned when people got talking about the best Looping inventors. Of course they'd have heard about him; they'd probably been him at some point, although he hoped not. He'd hate to think that these two boys would have had to survive even a fraction of what he'd seen.
"Wow. I mean… wow. You're really Looping? You're not Chrysalis trying to punk us again, are you?" Phineas held up a hand before the Doctor could say anything. "Sorry. It's just that your Loop was locked down so long that we all just figured it would never activate properly. I'm kinda glad it did, though, 'cause it means it's stabilizing. Have you been given The Talk yet? You know what's going on?"
"Long since. I take it you and your father are Looping; he sent me back here. I'm not that familiar with this Loop, though; anything I should watch out for? Oh, and no, I'm still the only one Looping from my corner of the tree." He shrugged at Phineas' and Ferb's raised eyebrows. "Everyone asks, if they know my Loop. I expect Sarah Jane or the Brigadier will start first, from what I know about what allows people to Loop."
"Makes sense," Ferb said. Phineas nodded.
"What he said. But this Loop's kinda quiet compared to some of the others out there. Well, there's that thing with Big Mitch, but both times are pretty easy to deal with, especially with Isabella around. And we usually let the cross-dimensional invasion happen, because nobody gets hurt here unless it's a dark-and-edgy Variant and it means that other world gets freed from a pretty nasty guy. We've got a group of Evil Scientists, but… well, they call themselves the League Of Villainous Evildoers Maniacally United For Frightening Investments in Naughtiness, so you can guess how much of a threat they are."
"That's quite the long—oh. Oh, no. They do not call themselves LOVEMUFFIN."
"Yeah, they do."
The Doctor started to laugh, getting the feeling he was going to enjoy this Loop. If that was the caliber of evil here, he could relax. Not too much, of course, in case the tree threw something unexpected at them, but for the most part, he was considering this his first Vacation Loop. He was about to ask about fifth-dimensional mini-golf when Phineas' phone rang. Phineas glanced at it, then hit a button, causing a small hologram of a lanky, slouching figure of a man in a lab coat to appear.
"Hey, Doctor D? Oh, man, that could get confusing. We've got a guest this Loop, and you're not gonna believe it—it's the Doctor! The one with the TARDIS!"
"Really?" The man had been looking a bit weary, but perked up at that; the Doctor gave himself a firm reminder to keep his ego under control. Well, more control than usual, anyway. "Oh, hello, Doctor. You look a lot younger than that one time we met. You weren't Awake then, and don't ask me who the Anchor was 'cause I never saw them, but I spent that Loop working with UNIT; started as an unpaid intern, which is usually more of Karl's line but whatever, but by the time you showed up with the more grown-up version of that face, I was one of the senior scientists. Then I got killed by a Zygon, which was just embarrassing. I mean, seriously? It couldn't have been a Dalek? But no, I get taken out by a clumsy starfish! And it wasn't even on purpose! It tripped and—"
"Uh, Doctor D?" Phineas interrupted, pretty clearly trying not to laugh. The other Doctor looked a little sheepish.
"Sorry. Got a bit carried away on that tangent; it wasn't even a traumatic backstory. Anyway, I'm Doctor Heinz Doofenshmirtz, and I'm usually the main Evil Scientist. Which is kinda why I'm calling. See, Perry doesn't answer his phone, and Major Monobrow and Karl aren't Awake this Loop."
"Is there a problem?" Phineas asked, now serious. But Doofenshmirtz just shook his head.
"Just a couple of annoying Loops. First I was in Sunnydale; that Xander makes a pretty decent nemesis. Took care of that nasty brat Warren, who's just an embarrassment to Evil Scientists everywhere. Dr. Walsh was a bit better—at least she knows how to make a proper lair, but she had no sense of humor, and no idea about proper care and handling of her nemesis. I mean, what kind of death trap is lying about a demon and giving someone a faulty weapon? No finesse, I'm telling you. But as if that wasn't bad enough, last Loop was here, and I was the only one Awake with a Stealth Anchor, only I ended up in that other dimension instead. And when I got here, this world's me had become a mime! A [B]mime[/B]!"
His audience winced; that was just uncalled for.
"Taking the Loop off?" Ferb asked, a note of sympathy in his voice.
"Yeah. I mean, if Rodney gets out of hand I'll step up, and I'll make sure we get to the other dimension so we can smack down other-me, but I think I just want to spend most of this Loop tinkering with some –inators and embarrassing Vanessa. It's getting harder to do now that she's not as interested in what that boy thinks, so I've gotta put some real effort into it."
"Have you tried traditional Druselsteinian garb yet?" Phineas asked, grin back in place. "Better yet, go back a few centuries and insist on doing it authentically."
"Oooo, I hadn't thought of that. I could even get her a full 17th Century court dress for her birthday… Thanks, Phineas; I owe you one!" The hologram winked out, and Phineas shook his head with a laugh.
"Well, you just met the founder of LOVEMUFFIN. Vanessa's his daughter, and he thinks he isn't doing his job right if he doesn't embarrass her."
"She's a teenager?" the Doctor guessed; at Phineas' nod, he continued, "Well, I guess he has a point. But that's really your biggest threat?"
"Oh, not even close. Even in baseline, he was a pretty decent guy at heart. No, our biggest threat is boredom. A day without trying something new, or at least seeing how we can take something and make it better. Oh, and that other-dimensional invasion. The zombie apocalypse only happens if Doctor D isn't Awake."
"…Do I want to know?"
"Long story. We've gotta get you up to speed, so why don't we start at the beginning, with the Rollercoaster. It was the first day of summer vacation…"
27.9 continued (katfairy): [Doctor Who] / [Phineas and Ferb]
By the end of the week, the Doctor knew he'd found his favorite Loop so far. Geniuses to work with who weren't likely to destroy the world, even by accident; genuinely nice people surrounding him; laughably evil bad guys; a teal platypus who led a double life as a secret agent. Even the invasion had been fun, as the Local Loopers treated it as a chance to cut loose. Nobody died and while there were some injuries, they were all fairly minor. The singing took some getting used to, but the tunes were so ridiculously catchy that he didn't mind. Well, maybe a little, but only because he was going to have a few of them stuck in his head for the next several Loops. On the other hand, he might use a few of them; he couldn't wait to see how Lethbridge-Stewart reacted to hearing the Quirky Worky Song as the Doctor fiddled with the TARDIS console during his third life. Liz and Sarah Jane would be exasperated, but Jo would probably join in, and he knew Benton would be whistling it within a week of hearing it. Yes, if nothing else, this Loop had given him several good ideas for pranks and a little good-natured trolling.
Better still, he'd made friends in this Loop. Being the sole Looper back home got a bit lonely, and his handful of outside Loops had been educational, but he couldn't really describe most of them as fun. The Looping friendships he'd made were mostly based on shared experience and hardship, and some of them he honestly wasn't sure would last. Danville was different. After the initial shock of learning he was Looping, they'd all just accepted him. Not as a Great and Powerful Time Lord, not as The Oncoming Storm or any of his other titles. Just as himself. They genuinely liked him as an individual, and the baggage of being a Time Lord simply didn't exist to them. Well, Doofenshmirtz had invited him to be an Evil Scientist if he ever Looped back in as an adult, pointing out that he had enough traumatic backstories to use as excuses for as many impractical and doomed Instruments of Evil as he cared to build, but beyond that, nothing. It was a good feeling, and a memory he'd treasure when the Loops got nasty again. He liked being treated as just another person—
"Hey! Bowtie!"
All right, some bits he could do without.
"Yes, Buford."
"So you gonna take up Doctor D on that whole Evil Scientist thing next time you're here or what?"
"…" The Doctor turned to glare at the other boy, who remained unimpressed. As usual, Baljeet reacted before anyone else had a chance to.
"Buford! Are you seriously suggesting the Doctor turn evil?"
"Nah, man, I'm talking Evil Scientist. You know, like Doofenshmirtz."
"Oh. Well, that is different, I suppose. But who would be his nemesis?"
"Probably one of the OWCA agents we met during the invasion," Isabella said. "Although if we had another animal Looper here at the same time, Major Monogram would probably recruit them for the job. Well, if he's Awake."
"That could be fun to watch," Phineas grinned. "Can you imagine the Doctor facing off against Scooby? Or Pikachu?"
"Or Big Mac?" Ferb offered, mischievous glint just barely visible in his eyes. There was a moment of silence, then:
"Dibs on the film rights," Buford said. Baljeet protested, and one of their frequent arguments started. The Doctor just laughed, shaking his head and going back to calibrating the flux capacitor. The rest of the group, with the obvious exception of the bickering pair, also got back to work. After a few minutes, Isabella spoke up.
"Actually, Buford had a point. The Evil Scientist thing can be a lot of fun; I've done it a few times. The trick is to look dangerous while never actually doing anything that is. It's really just epic trolling."
"How can you be sure I'll Loop back here?" the Doctor asked. "From what I've been told, Looping outside of your own universe is incredibly rare, and there's a lot of other Loops out there. What are the odds that I'll be back here at all?"
"Pretty good, actually," Ferb said, and the others nodded. Isabella continued the explanation.
"Some Loops get repeat visitors more than others, and we're one of them. I guess it's because we're pretty low-key, so it's a good place to send someone who needs a break. Not that we get the ones with serious issues—okay, not usually; we have had Bruce Wayne here. But even he lightened up a bit once he met Doctor D, and after Ferb had a talk with him, I think he actually started to have some fun. We aren't a Sanctuary Loop, but, well, this entire Loop is summer vacation. We're pretty much a vacation Loop by definition. So if Yggdrasil throws someone at us once and they really enjoy themselves, we tend to see them again. They get a chance to just kick back and relax, and maybe get in on some shenanigans if they want to. They get a chance to play. And the Loopers we tend to see a lot of don't get much of a chance to do that in their home Loops. Like you. I think I'm the only other one from Danville who's been there; I replaced Sarah Jane one Loop. Oh, that reminds me—"
She nipped around the giant animatronic axolotl and smacked the Doctor upside the head. He yelped, and the others stared.
"Isabella!" Phineas exclaimed, shocked.
"I promised I'd do that to him if I ever met him when he was Awake and I keep forgetting to do it," she shrugged. "I told you guys about Davros, right? Well, that jerk had the nerve to accuse the Doctor of basically being the same as him—and this idiot listened!"
"Hey, was that the whole Children of Time thing?" Phineas asked, a frown starting to develop. "I've watched the series in a couple of Hub Loops, and I always wondered why you'd take his word for anything."
"Well, why would he lie to me?" Even as he said it, the Doctor realized how stupid he sounded. Having an entire yard full of young geniuses staring at him like he was wearing his pants on his head didn't help. Even Phineas looked exasperated, and turned to Isabella.
"Okay, I'll give you that one."
"Yeah, some guys just need to get hit with a clue-by-four," Buford sighed, facepalming. "Dude, seriously. This Davros guy thinks it would be cool to destroy all of reality; what part of 'this guy is a full-bore loony' makes you think he's got a good point about anything?"
"But I am dangerous."
"So am I," Phineas snapped. "Any one of us could destroy this planet without breaking a sweat. But we wouldn't. Well, not without a good reason, which has happened. And even in baseline, we had the capability to build machines that could have. And we didn't. Being dangerous doesn't make you bad, it just means you have to be careful. And you are until someone doesn't give a choice in the matter; not one you could live with, anyway. You blame yourself for all this stuff that happens around you, but almost every single time that I know of it was already going on before you got there. People just blame you so they don't have to admit they could have tried to do something and didn't, or that they didn't even know something needed to be done even though it was staring them in the face. Or because they know it was their fault and want to bring you down too."
"How can you be sure?" the Doctor asked.
"What you see in Hub Loops is usually an accurate representation of a Loop," Baljeet said. "And the formula for that show was quite obvious: you go somewhere and you find something wrong. People die while you try to fix it, but you do fix it. And then people yell at you for not preventing those deaths, even if you hadn't even arrived when they happened, or the deaths happened because somebody did something stupid that you'd already warned them not to do. And you go off accepting the blame."
"And for all your fondness for humans, you never seemed to get one fundamental aspect of our nature," Ferb said. All eyes turned to him, including the Doctor's; when Ferb gave a speech, it was best to pay attention. "You often decried our violent tendencies, and then you'd be shocked when your companions took up arms to defend others. Davros claimed you turned them into weapons, and you believed that. You were wrong. Humans aren't necessarily violent by nature, but if they see a threat, they will move to counter it. With violence, if necessary. You never traveled with anybody who would be willing to simply sit back and let evil have its way; why are you always surprised when they reach a point when they feel they have to take a more active role? I know I've done things I've regretted because I knew the consequences of not doing them would be worse, and most Loopers can tell you the same. Ask Martha Jones why she was willing to blow up the Earth rather than let the Daleks have it. Ask Rory why he kept his training as a Roman soldier. For that matter, ask Jo Grant why she married that environmentalist chap and joined his expeditions. I'll tell you what they'll answer: because you showed them that simply being a good person wasn't enough to prevent evil. That you had to act, even if it broke your heart. You didn't turn them into weapons, Doctor. You just showed them how to act instead of standing around wringing their hands."
"But…" The Doctor trailed off. They had good points, all of them. But they couldn't be right. It had to be his fault. Because… well, he couldn't think of a good reason, but he was sure there was one. He was just about to ask them why they were so convinced he was wrong besides everything else they'd said when a gigantic robot archaeopteryx kicked down the fence.
"We are not done with this conversation," Phineas said, rolling his eyes. "Okay, guys, I think this one's the Skitacook Gambit. Shouldn't take too long, but don't get cocky!"
They never did get back to the conversation. They were too tired after that fight, and after that, the rest of LOVEMUFFIN decided they had to one-up Doctor Diminutive's android anachronism; every day for the rest of the Loop they had to deal with a different extinct species. On the last day of the Loop, they all gathered in Phineas' back yard for a final party.
"Okay, we're not going to dogpile you at this point, but I just want to ask you: do you try to do the right thing, even if it hurts?" Phineas gave him a look rather like the ones Donna gave him when she thought he'd been unusually thick.
"Yes."
"And when you mess up, do you try to make it right, or at least apologise?"
"Yes."
"Then you're a good guy. And you're our friend. Now let's party."
They did. One moment the Doctor was playing Pin-the-Tail-on-the-Llama ("Llamas don't have tails!" "And your point?"), the next he was back in his own Loop. The conversation had given him a lot to think about, but above it all, one thought stood clear.
Next Danville Loop, he was totally doing the Evil Scientist thing.
27.10 (Masterweaver): [Zootopia]
Judy let out one last, final, annoyed breath. "...and that," she managed, "was my last repeat. Loop. I mean, at least I know what's going on now, but it was just... weird."
She turned to look at Nick, who was... rubbing his chin thoughtfully.
"...What?"
"So," he said slowly. "This Luna."
"What about her?"
"She was a cougar. About as big as you are now. And she spent the whole loop naked."
The rabbit blinked.
"And she lived in. Your. Bedroom."
Judy sputtered, suddenly very glad she had fur again. "Oh, grow up Nick! It wasn't like that-I, I was like the size of a regular cougar, and I didn't have any fur and she was like a trillion years old-STOP SMILING. STOP IT NOW."
27.11 (wildrook): [Zootopia] / [Naruto] / [Robin Hood]
"I take it this Kurama guy didn't come up with the name?" Nick asked Naruto, who represented the Bijuu's position in VIXENS.
"The fact that it's mistaken as a Charlie's Angels super-squad might have been our first clue," he replied. "But no one's complained. Either way, we have meetings, and today's a bit... well... weird."
Nick then sat down. "What's it about?" he asked him.
"Turns out Robin Hood had found something on his person, and we're trying to figure out what the heck it is." Naruto turned to Robin who brought up a green eye-like capsule and tossed it over to Naruto.
27.12 (Luna Gale): [American Dragon: Jake Long]
"Jonathan, you're sure you're not mad that I hid this from you?" Susan looked to her husband worriedly, convinced that any second he would snap, yell, or do something other than smile with such an accepting expression. Both Jake and Haley looked to their mother, both having identical expression of horror, as they shook their heads furiously at her. Haley waved her hands in front of her frantically, mouthing 'stop! no! no! please!' while Jake kept muttering 'just drop it!' under his breath in a very disgruntled fashion.
Clearly, the siblings didn't want Susan tempting fate.
"Well," Jonathan started. The other three Longs froze in dreaded anticipation, "I know I should be mad, but I have my own confession to make."
Haley smiled up at her dad, but even the sugary sweetness of her perfected little girl smile, couldn't hide her nervousness. She fluttered her eyelashes 'innocently', "What is it, Daddy? Did you have a secret stamp collection you've always wanted to show us? Because I would love to see it!"
"Oh, Sweetie," He said, ruffling his daughter's hair with a smile, "It's nothing like that, though that is a good idea," Jonathan looked thoughtful for a moment, but then shook his head, "Anyway, Sugar Booger, it's something much more important than any stamp collection."
"Don't leave us hanging, Dad," Jake said, as he stuffed his hands in his pockets, "What's the big surprise?"
Jonathan smiled widely at the lot of them, "Well, family, you may be dragons, but I have a super secret life of my own!" He said, surprising Susan and Haley. Jake just thought to himself that of course this wasn't just a baseline Loop. That would be too simple.
The family man continued with a waggle of his finger, "Now, this may come as a shock, but don't blink twice, or you might miss it."
And suddenly, to everyone's surprise, Jonathan started glowed softly. Slowly, he started to lower himself to the ground, back straightening, as hair started growing rapidly all around his body. He fell to floor, but when he landed, his hands had transformed into deep brown, heavy paws., claws stretching over the rug in scratches. His body grew brighter and brighter until, the three couldn't even see fur started and human ended in this sudden, and very surprising realization that, yes, Jonathon Long was not entirely human, he was... something else as well.
As quickly, as it started, the glow gently died down until there was nothing left to see.
Well, nothing left to see, but a humongous, brown haired wolf, at least, the creature shaking his head with powerful whirls of his head.
It was silent for a moment. The now, wolf, looked up at them, Jonathan's eyes staring up where blank animal like ones should be. He had an impressive set of teeth, with sharp canine, and an even sharper nose that Jake heard could smell fear off their prey. The three prepared for the worse,
...Only for their father barked happily, and pad up to Susan to rub his head lovingly against her leg.
"A wolf..." Susan finally muttered numbly. She scratched behind her now wolf-husband's ears, her brain partially short-circuiting at the news, "My husband is a wolf. Of course, why not? It's not like we're normal... right?"
"Actually, he's a werewolf," Haley corrected, she too going to pet her wolf dad. Jonathan whined happily when she started scratching under his maw, "Once werewolves are old enough, they are able to control their transformations, so it isn't entirely surprising that Dad could hide it from us."
Jake couldn't bring himself to speak. He simply followed their lead, and started rubbing his father's fluffy back.
The three silently petted their wolf father, as the canine cooed at their touches. It was odd to think that this was their father. Though, it was probably not the weirdest thing they had ever done (in this Loop, was left unsaid in Jake's mind), but it was definitely in the top ten. Arguably. Probably.
Suddenly, Haley stopped petting him, eye widening almost comically.
Jake frowned at her, "What's up? What's with the bug eyes?"
Haley pulled Jake away from the... family time, the two being ignored, as Susan studied her husband's wolf form with a small smile. After a few grumbles and protests on Jake's part, Haley hissed under breath, "Think about it, doofus, if Mom is a dragon..."
"Yeah..."
"And if Dad's a werewolf..."
"Aww man, I don't like where this is going," Jake groaned, "Just stop, please."
"Does-"
"Stop it."
"-Does this make us werewolf-dragon hybrids?"
Jake groaned loud enough for Jonathon's ears to flicker, "Think about that later! Now! Go pet Dad or something before my brain explodes!"
Haley, the little imp, started snickering, "It's just simple biology, Jackie. No need to get so worked up about it."
"Go away. I don't need yet another complication in my life. Well deal with this later, so go away! Shoo!" He couldn't help but shudder in slightly disgust, as he saw his wolf dad lick his mom's face like some puppy.
"Alright, big brother. I'll leave you to wallow," She finished with one last quip, turning around on the tips of her toes. As Haley practically skipped back to their father, the American Dragon sighed heavily and rubbed his hands over his face,, just to calm himself down. Just a little bit.
Once he felt like he could breath without screaming, Jake removed his hands from his face, one of his eyes twitching, as the saw the too long, too thick black hair, he'd never taken notice before growing on his fingers, "Danny is so never going to let me live this down..." He muttered under his breath, stuffing his hands back into his pocket with a huff.
His other eye started twitching when he looked up, only to see Haley and his mom rubbing their father's wolf belly, the girls making cooing noises at their dad.
Nope, Jake definitely did not want to overthink this. He liked his brain intact, thank you very much.
27.13 (Harry Leferts): [Zootopia] / [Welkin Weasels - not looping]
Walking beside Judy in the fog enshrouded dusk, Nick raised an eyebrow as he looked her over. "I have to admit, Carrots, you don't look too bad in that uniform of yours."
There was a slight smirk on Judy's face as she twirled the baton in her paws. "Thanks..." Then the helmet she was wearing tilted a bit and she had to adjust it with a scowl. "Except for this damn helmet."
As he slightly laughed, Nick shook his head as he looked over his own clothing, which were something well off men from the Victorian Era might wear, except made for animals much like how Judy's uniform belonged to the same era. "I got to admit, this Loop is really odd, but I do like the clothes. Preeetty snazzy."
Snorting, Judy nodded a bit as she tried to peer through the fog, ignoring the various animals lighting the gaslights on the side of the road. "Yeah, I've been putting some in my Pocket. If nothing else, they'll make for good costumes." The rabbit then waved a hand in front of her face with a scowl. "I just wish that this fog would go away. Carrot sticks, it makes it hard to see and we're trying to catch a murderer."
His paws in his pockets, Nick nodded as his ears rotated in every direction. Neither would say it, but both of them were rather nervous. So much so that Judy didn't comment when Nick joined her on her patrols. In fact, Judy took a little comfort from the fact that he had her back, even if the other officers didn't know why she let him join her. Grunting, Nick just nodded. "Yeah, it takes one sick freak to prey on people and drain their blood."
With a frown, Judy nodded a bit, once more swinging her baton around. "No argument from me. I just hope we catch him soon and before anyone else gets killed."
At that moment, both of them stopped and stiffened as they heard two sets of paws running toward them. Sharing a look, Judy and Nick got ready for a possible fight when two weasels came into view. When the weasels spotted them, the male of the two smiled and tipped his hat a bit. "Ah! Good evening Jis Judy, Jal Nick. It's a good thing that we've found you, we could use some help you see..."
Nick just raised an eyebrow as he recognized who he was talking to, the great weasel detective Montegru Sylver and the doctor Bryony Bludd. "Don't tell me... Spindrick is up to his usual tricks then? Hopefully not involving enough explosives to destroy the city."
However, Sylver shook his head with a grimace. "If only, dear chap. No... the city has bigger problems then my dear anarchist cousin."
After a moment, Judy narrowed her eyes as it clicked. "Something about the murders then."
Slowly, Bryony nodded. "Unfortunately so. And..." A sound caused everyone to turn and look in the direction that the two weasels had come from. "And here they come."
While the shadows began to materialize out of the gloom, Nick glanced at Judy before twisting the top of his cane, some steel showing that it was in fact a sword. "So, what are we dealing with then?"
One of the shadows came out with blood red eyes and hissed as it showed two massive fangs at the same time Sylver got into a stance. "It seems that Muggidrear is being threatened by swarms of vampire voles..."
That only caused Judy and Nick to look at each other and sigh before they spoke at the same time. "Of course..."
27.14 (wildrook): [Zootopia]
Nick had no idea that he'd be involved in a Government Conspiracy involving predators being involved in racial cleansing. Then again, he had no idea that Judy stocked the Meter Maid with excessive firepower... and blueberries.
She then walked out in front of the rams of Bellweather and said the one thing that broke the tension:
"Morning."
That's when the guns started firing. Nick had to ask her where she got that many guns at once as soon as this was over.
27.15 (Evilhumour): [Danny Phantom] / [American Dragon: Jake Long]
"So Jake..." Danny Fenton asked as he sat on the bed of his friend and fellow Anchor. "You know that I got dragons powers here, right?"
"Ya," Jake frowned as he tried to focus on repairing the wheel to his skateboard. "And?"
"Well... I've found myself kinda... hoarding stuff," Danny blushed, scratching the back of his head. "I once made a nest of Nasty Burger boxes before I realized what I was doing...So does that happen to you?"
Jake blinked and slowly turned his head towards to his friend. "Promise not to tell anyone?"
"I made a nest out of greasy hamburger containers," Danny narrowed his eyes at his friend. "You've got dirt on me, so share."
Jake narrowed his eyes back before hitting the wall. With that, there was a crash as hundreds of skateboards started to fall from the ceiling onto the ground, Danny going intangible out of reflex.
Danny stared at his friend, mouth open wide at the sight in front of him.
"Yeah, hoarding is a thing," Jake grumbled as he would need to fix his nest up now.
27.16 (Hvulpes): [My Little Pony] / [Gravity Falls] (not compiled in MLP Time Loops)
Twilight was curious why the two visiting unicorn loopers were seeking her help.
"So Twilight, we don't mean to be rude, but we were wondering if we could get help collecting unicorn and alicorn hair samples for an experiment." said the pine hat wearing unicorn with the unfortunate name of Dippy Fresh Pines.
"What kind of experiment?" The Princess of friendship was curious as expanding knowledge was a one of her favourite things.
"As you know, Bill invades our loop. As such, I use a magic spell to put up a barrier around the Mystery Shack. One which uses things like moonstones... and unicorn hair. But the unicorns in our world just have the magic to light up their horns and such. Nothing like true magic..." continued Strange Minds Pines, the only two horned unicorn Twilight or anyone had seen.
"Which is why you want to see if Unicorn hair from Equestria could change the spell's power and/or nature. The same with Alicorn hair which has to be more powerful with four different types of magic. I hadn't thought of the mystical possibilities such a change could make." Twilight's mind went spinning, as her experience with magic and the experimentation of magic were feeding her hunger to know. To know how this spell would change with the ingredients.
"I'll help," continued the purple Alicorn, "Even see if I can get the other Ascended Alicorns to help... but only if you can give me a copy of the results of the various results for my own records."
"Of course, nothing makes me happier than sharing knowledge with a respected intellectual mind. Now, Dipper and I should check on my brother. He was trying to con the Flim Flam brothers and it's giving me a bad feeling have the three of them together." continued the bi-corn.
27.1: Riley's actually a good teacher when it comes to this kind of magic.
27.2: Eeyeah.
27.3: Not being familiar with Numenora, I really don't know what to say.
27.4: Little does she know, Watership Down is actually Looping...
27.5: And Judy gets the speech.
27.6: I don't know how their train of logic led to that conclusion; I don't want to know.
27.7: Inter-loop rivalries ca be interesting.
27.8: This actually takes place before 27.5. And welcome to the Loops, Nick.
27.9-27.9 continued: Danville is one of those fun places to Loop into.
27.10: Apparently a continuation of Nick's introduction to the Loops.
27.11: The item found was the Robin Hood Ghost Eyecon from Kamen Rider Ghost.
27.12: There can be... interesting hybrids in the Loops.
27.13: One of their odder Loops.
27.14: Rabbits with superior firepower.
27.15: Yes. Yes, it is.
27.16: And another chaos entity manifests in Equestria.
