History Fanfic / OneMoreTrigger

''One More Trigger'' is a ''Literature/{{Worm}}'' fanfic by Tropers/{{ack1308}}, published on Website/FanFictionDotNet ([[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10072620/ here]]), Website/SpaceBattlesDotCom ([[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/one-more-trigger-worm-au.284428/ here]]), Sandbox/SufficientVelocityDotCom ([[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/one-more-trigger-worm-au.3830/ here]]), and Questionable Questing ([[https://forum.questionablequesting.com/threads/one-more-trigger-worm-au.874/ here]]). It is in progress as of October 2022.

When Emma Barnes and her father are cornered in an alleyway, before they can be rescued by Shadow Stalker, Emma triggers with powers of her own, and fights the gang members off by herself. [[ForWantOfANail As a result]], she's not impressed by Shadow Stalker's offers of friendship, and instead she holds even closer to her best friend, Taylor Hebert...

--> "How much power's running through it?" asked Panacea.\\

* LogicalWeakness: Mannequin's body is almost entirely an artificial shell around he actual organs and incredibly durable, making him very hard to injure at all, let alone put down. [[spoiler:It also means his body is extremely vulnerable to Vista since her power can be used on any nonliving object.]]

** [[spoiler:Hatchet Face is killed by Sparx pumping as much electricity as possible into him]].

** When the Undersiders end up fighting the Samaritans when they rob a bank, Sparx grabs Regent's taser-sceptre and shocks him with it.

* LogicalWeakness: Mannequin's body is almost entirely an artificial shell around he actual organs and incredibly durable, making him very hard to injure at all, let alone put down. [[spoiler:It also means his body is extremely vulnerable to Vista since her power can be used on any nonliving object]].

* HighVoltageDeath: When Coil sets traps in his base, dropping a grating to pin invaders in place, he electrifies the grating for good measure. Tattletale can guess he's done it, though.

* TogetherInDeath: [[spoiler:When he realizes that Noelle really intends to let herself be executed, Trickster decides to stay with her rather that keep living on without her.]]

* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: Lisa boggles at the realisation that the Samaritans have [[spoiler:used Vista's power to turn Mannequin into a toboggan]].
--> '''Lisa:''' Oh, you didn't. Oh, man. You did. You really did.

* DePower: [[spoiler:Bonesaw invents a prion powder that permanently disrupts a cape's control over their power. However, Panacea is able to study it and devise a cure.]]

''One More Trigger'' is a ''Literature/{{Worm}}'' fanfic by Tropers/{{ack1308}}, published on Website/FanFictionDotNet ([[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10072620/ here]]), Website/SpaceBattlesDotCom ([[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/one-more-trigger-worm-au.284428/ here]]), and Sandbox/SufficientVelocityDotCom ([[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/one-more-trigger-worm-au.3830/ here]]), and still in progress as of October 2022.

* TooDumbToLive: [[spoiler:Greg Veder stays behind at Winslow when there's an order for evacuation, thinking he can get a video for PHO, not realizing that there ''might'' be a reason why everyone's being evacuated.]]
** [[spoiler:He also took out his phone to post on PHO about the ABB hitting the dance, ''after everyone was told not to try to call for help.'']]

--> '''Ladybug:''' We're thinking we'd locate them with a flytrap[[note]]Plant bugs in people they know to be from the Empire, and tag anyone they interact with[[/note]], then start out with a Blind Man's Bluff[[note]]Use the bugs to determine who are the Empire's capes, while the latter don't know they're under surveillance[[/note]] leading on to Survival of the Unfittest. After we hit what we figure is a good number, we switch to shock and awe and steamroll the rest.

''One More Trigger'' is a ''Literature/{{Worm}}'' fanfic by Tropers/{{ack1308}}, published on Website/FanFictionDotNet ([[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10072620/ here]]), Website/SpaceBattlesDotCom ([[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/one-more-trigger-worm-au.284428/ here]]), and Sandbox/SufficientVelocityDotCom ([[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/one-more-trigger-worm-au.3830/ here]]).

When Emma Barnes and her father are cornered in an alleyway, before she can be rescued by Shadow Stalker, Emma triggers with powers of her own, and fights the gang members off by herself. [[ForWantOfANail As a result]], she's not impressed by Shadow Stalker's offers of friendship, and instead she holds even closer to her best friend, Taylor Hebert...

* ChekhovsGun: In Part Nine, when Piggot decides to send Vista to become the PRT's liaison to the Samaritans, she mentions that she's not sending Flechette because she's in an outside relationship. [[spoiler:In Part Thirty-Three, posted '''seven years later''', Vista uses that exact comment to help Flechette leave the Wards and also leave the Wards herself.]]

--> '''Ladybug:''' We're thinking we'd locate them with a flytrap, then start out with a Blind Man's Bluff leading on to Survival of the Unfittest. After we hit what we figure is a good number, we switch to shock and awe and steamroll the rest.

* BlowYouAway: Madison [[spoiler:triggers when she's about to be raped by ABB members who had just kidnapped her. She can control nearby air, with enough force to lift herself off the ground (and passengers, for a short time), deflect bullets, and crush drone helicopters. She can also use fine control to protect herself from airborne contaminants. Her would-be rapists are promptly flung into a wall and knocked out.]]

** For Rogers, firing on a single target, from a prepared position with plenty of time to set up, at a few tens of yards, is effectively point blank range. [[spoiler:Too bad his target is ImmuneToBullets, and bugs jam his rifle before he can fire a second shot.]]

** Danny finishes off [[spoiler:Jack Slash, with a shotgun directly to his eye while he's lying on the ground. Jack's reinforced skull might have survived anything less, but his eye socket isn't as tough, and the bullets shred his brain.]]

* DidntSeeThatComing: Mannequin [[spoiler:has a shell sealed against bugs, insulated against Sparx's lightning, and too heavy for Aerodyne to lift, which makes Jack Slash think he's a perfect counter for the Samaritans. But being mostly non-living, he's a sitting duck for Vista's spatial distortions.]]

* FlippingTheBird: The Samaritans use hand signals, somewhat like sign language, to communicate when it's not convenient to speak, but when Lisa pretends she didn't understand one after being temporarily deafened, "Emma gave her a hand signal that was not in their official repertoire."

* KryptoniteFactor: Liquid makes Emma's hair collapse back to its unpowered state. It's not great for Taylor's bugs, either..

* MakeSureHesDead: The dad brigade take no chances after [[spoiler:some of the Slaughterhouse Nine escaped the first time; once Jack Slash and Burnscar are down, Burnscar is shot again [[BoomHeadshot in the head]], and Jack gets a CoupDeGrace to the left eye.]]

* NotSoAboveItAll: When Taylor and Emma suggest Vista to [[spoiler:use Mannequin as a toboggan]], Vista says she can't believe she's the youngest of the three... but she agrees [[spoiler:as long as she gets to steer]].

* PapaWolf: Danny Hebert, Alan Barnes, and Rod Clements are very protective of their daughters. This initially takes the form of giving them extensive training so they'll have the best chance of surviving. Later, [[spoiler:Danny hunts down Coil in a timeline where Taylor was killed by Noelle, and systematically beats him to death with a tyre iron, forcing him to drop that timeline.]] The dads also [[spoiler:kill Jack Slash with a shotgun after he took the girls prisoner]].

* PutThemAllOutOfMyMisery: [[spoiler:When Noelle gives up hope, she just wants to kill the whole world, and she has enough captured capes that she could probably pull it off. Fortunately that timeline ends with Coil's death.]]

* HoistWithHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:Riley's probation is enabled by [[DePower removing her powers]] with the prions she made for attacking the Samaritans.]] For bonus points, [[spoiler:studying those prions is ''also'' the key to Panacea restoring the powers of the affected Samaritans, using Bonesaw's work to undo her work.]]

** Emma gives one to Sophia when the latter causes Taylor to Trigger.

* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Danny [[spoiler:loses Taylor in one timeline due to Coil's plots, and proceeds to run Coil down with his car, then take out a tyre iron and break every part of Coil's body he can reach. Coil eventually closes the timeline when he's about to have his skull smashed in.]]
--> [[spoiler:Coil could not speak; Danny chose not to. He began to systematically, brutally, beat Coil to death. The only sounds that he made were the hissing of his breath through his teeth. He broke both of Coil's legs, shattered his kneecaps, and then his arms and collarbones. The fact that some of these bones were already broken mattered not at all to him.]]

* AcceptableTargets:
** InUniverse, when Aerodyne raises the possibility of using air control to suffocate Burnscar, she also points out that it's hard to make it reliably nonlethal -- but Danny points out that all the Nine have kill orders, so if she did kill Burnscar, there would be no charges laid.
** Director Piggot states outright to [[spoiler:Riley, formerly Bonesaw,]] that if it becomes necessary, she'll sign execution paperwork "with a song in my heart."