History Fanfic / OneMoreTrigger

* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown:
** Emma gives one to Sophia when the latter causes Taylor to Trigger, pinning Sophia down and punctuating each word with a punch to the face.
---> "What." ''Smack.''\\

** 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.]]
* 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]].
** Amy returns from getting prion samples saying that she only has enough to heal either Emma or Taylor, not both. Just as Taylor and Emma point at the other to be healed, Amy grins and reveals she was kidding.
* NotSoDifferentRemark: Amy initially thinks that being a hero and a villain means she and Lisa are poles apart, but Lisa points out that they both got railroaded into teams with people they don't properly relate to, and saw the Samaritans as a way out.
* 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, Emma, and Madison were killed by Noelle or Coil's base's self-destruction charge, and systematically beats him to death with a tyre iron, forcing him to drop that timeline.]] The dads also [[spoiler:kill Jack Slash and Burnscar with a shotgun after they took the girls hostage]].
* PrehensileHair: Emma triggered with a mouthful of her own hair that the ABB cut off and was forcing her to eat. She gains the power to make her hair grow near-instantly to several metres long, moving under her control with enough force to wrap and immobilise an adult man, extremely tough and heat-resistant, and capable of emitting powerful jolts of electricity.
--> '''Aegis:''' Two words. Taser hair.

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

** [[The subsequent assault on Coil's base only ever ends badly for him. If he stands and fights (Universe B) he quickly founds out his means of doing so have already been neutralised thanks to Ladybug denying both his escape route and his armory, and the delay in getting out just gets him punched out by Glory Girl, forcing him to drop the timeline. If he flees (Universe A) he finds out that the PRT are already making theirown move against him and he gets arrested. Being led back into the base to disarm the self destruct presents him with an opportunity to try to sic Echidna on the invaders. If he's prevented (Universe C) he's carted off to prison without further incident. If he's allowed to (A) she goes on a rampage, he escapes and everyone is killed by either Echidna or the base exploding. Tattletale's attempt to stop him ends in a shootout that she loses, only for Coil to get murdered by Danny, forcing him drop the timeline too and accept being arrested.]]

* AdaptationalRelationshipChange: Taylor has never been a villain, so she and Amy get along just fine. As a result, Amy gives her not just enough relay bugs to cover the entire city, but all sorts of other potent variants, such as [[spoiler:glue bugs that gum up all Mannequin's joints, and leaf bugs that can camouflage themselves and survive pyrethrin]].

* BizarreAlienSenses: The Samaritans can communicate in quite unusual ways using their powers -- and their training forces them to practise doing just that. Such as Emma making a grid from her hairs and feeling how Taylor places bugs on it to mark the locations of assailants, and Madison senses the layout from the air currents, all in pitch blackness and silence.

* TheCavalry: Vicky is almost finished, but she continues to HoldTheLine until [[spoiler:her family turns up and burns three holes through Shatterbird's chest]].

* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Lady Photon doesn't like to kill, but she doesn't actually regret [[spoiler:nailing Shatterbird InTheBack to save Vicky. She knows Shatterbird would kill everyone given a chance]].

* NormalFishInATinyPond: Amy thinks Vista becoming a liaison to the Samaritans was a smart move, because she's moved from being the youngest member of a large team, to having a significant role on a smaller team. (And Amy wants to follow suit.)

** Vista doesn't want to believe that Coil has spies in the PRT. Director Piggot reacts similarly, and says it had ''better'' be a joke.

* AdaptationalRelationshipChange: Taylor has never been a villain, so she and Amy get along just fine. As a result, Amy gives her not just enough relay bugs to cover the entire city, but all sorts of other potent variants, such as [[spoiler:leaf bugs that can camouflage themselves and survive pyrethrin]].

* BizarreAlienSenses: The Samaritans can communicate in quite unusual ways using their powers -- and their training forces them to practise doing just that. Such as Emma making a grid from her hairs, Taylor placing bugs on it to mark the locations of assailants, and Madison sensing the layout from the air currents, all in pitch blackness and silence.

** Vista doesn't want to believe that Coil has spies in the PRT.

* {{Blackmail}}: Director Piggot [[spoiler:tries to pressure Flechette into bringing her girlfriend Parian into the Protectorate, by arranging to have Flechette transferred away unless there's a compelling reason to keep her in Brockton Bay, such as a relationship with another Protectorate member. The Samaritans help Flechette break free by proving that Director Piggot knew of their relationship before filing the transfer, and then lied about knowing, which entitles Flechette to resign.]]

* StalkerWithoutACrush: After telling her in no uncertain terms to leave her alone after sitting back and doing nothing during her Trigger Event, Sophia is still hellbent on trying to convince Emma to team up with her. Her refusal to even acknowledge her while being friends with the "weak" Taylor is the source of Sophia's animus towards the latter in this version of events.

* HoistWithHisOwnPetard:
** When the Undersiders try to rob a bank and end up fighting the Samaritans, Sparx grabs Regent's taser-sceptre and shocks him with it.
** [[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.]]

* HeroInsurance: A variation. A person can get insurance that covers property damage the occurs during cape battles. Blackwell can't believe Gladly somehow doesn't have it despite living in Brockton Bay for years.

* TotalPartyKill: [[spoiler: The timeline were Coil manages to agitate Echidna into going Berserk results in everyone either dying at her hands or being killed in Coil's base blowing up. Only Coil himself being [[CarFu run over]] and [[ExtremeMeleeRevenge clubbed to death by Danny]] stopped this from sticking]].

* AmbiguouslyBi: Madison. When Sophia tries to cause a scene when Emma kisses Taylor while trying to help her clean up after the locker incident, Mads is one of a few people claiming to be gay (or having a gay relative) to shut her up. She admits to Em and Tay that she was lying about it to show up Sophia, but later admits to getting a date with Lily (ie Flechette, though she doesn't know that at the time) despite still protesting to her two friends that she still likes boys.

* AmbiguouslyBi: Madison. When Sophia tries to cause a scene when Emma kisses Taylor while trying to help her clean up after the locker incident, Mads is one of a few people claiming to be gay (or having a gay relative) to shut her up. She admits to Em and Tay that she was lying about it to show up Sophia, but later admits to getting a date with Lily (ie Flechette, though she doesn't know that at the time) despite still protesting to her two friends that she still likes boys.