Awesome / Communication

Worm

• Taylor managing to not only foil Coil's attempt to kill/kidnap her, she forces Coil to drop a timeline about eight times in just a few hours, one because she has just revealed what his power is, and the last five in rapid succession as she teleports into his office and breaks his neck every time, no matter the decisions he makes.
• After the investigation to the locker incident gets blocked, Taylor manages to get Carol Dallon aka Brandish to represent her for her case against the Terrible Trio for what they've done to her. Director Piggot's 'conversation' with Sophia is essentially telling the 'hero' she fucked herself.
  Director Piggot: Do you have a clear idea of exactly how much trouble you’re in? What exactly is going to happen to you? Let me spell it out for you then: Your lawyer, the man who convinced us to let you become a Ward is locked out of the case. You are being faced with one of the highest profile lawyers in the city. She is championing the case of a girl who was subjected to what can only be described as a premeditated campaign of torture thought up by you and your ‘friends’. Said lawyer is likely to not only successfully sue you and them, but will push for criminal court. The greatest charge you could be given there is attempted murder. At that point you would be sent to Juvenile Detention. We would not help you. Now, as much as I want to wash my hands of you, I can’t. The PRT are legally obligated to provide you with a lawyer. You will be meeting him after this. He will not be aiding you in your civil case. Instead he will be putting his efforts into trying to lower your criminal sentence to Community Service. However, we will be performing a full investigation into you activities. If there is so much as a thread out of place you will be out of the Wards. And out of the Wards means no Lawyer.
  Sophia: It’s not like he’s going to do anything now, is it?
  Director Piggot: Would you prefer to go without? [Sophia snarled, but turned her head away] Now get out of my sight.
• Taylor delivering an positively epic Curb-Stomp Battle to Sophia/Shadow Stalker after the latter gets sued successfully by the former and decides to try and murder Taylor in retaliation The WHOLE fight is EXTREMELY gratifying to read after EVERYTHING Sophia did to Taylor.
  Sophia/Shadow Stalker: HOW!? HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE! YOU’RE NOT A PREDATOR! YOU’RE WEAK!
• Danny Hebert loudly calling out the entire PRT for how they allowed Shadow Stalker (Sophia) to bully Taylor.
• After multiple posts of build-up, Taylor ends up killing the Endbringer Orion in about five minutes.
• Taylor defeating the three Final Bosses of the story AKA Robin Hood, Pandora, and MOTHERFUCKING MINATO NAMIKAZE!
  • The VERY last battle of the Quest actually deserves mention considering the fact that it outright turns into Massive Multiplayer Crossover that completely makes sure ALL bets are off.

Puella Magi Madoka Magica

• After having to deal with Walpurgisnacht for loop after loop, with it seeming like the ultimate Hopeless Boss Fight that cannot be passed, Homura DEFEATS Walpurgisnacht in the simulation despite the monster having five forms from hell to contend with this time around, ending the whole fight with a Boom, Headshot! as the last layer lays in total defeat.
  • The above final layer deserves special mention with how the final phase proceeds. How does Homura decide to end things? Why by WILLINGLY jumping into Walpurgisnacht itself before fighting and killing its core.
  • The fight against the core of Walpurgisnacht with every single magically-powered gun Homura has vs all of the twisted magic at Walpurisnacht's disposal. The lead-up to the showdown itself is just as epic:
  Again and again she tried to replicated her success with the weapons, shivering as her hands ran counter to the mandala on her back and paying for the distraction with pain. If she could only do it again, she was sure she could turn the tide-
  And then, three hands ran trisecting lines across her back and she knew it worked.
  Homura (internally): YES!
  Homura (outwardly): DIE!
• Homura using her True Wish to add in the Doppel System, completely solving the problem of Witching and saving every Magical Girl from their eventual fate.
  Homura: I wish to add a modified Doppel System to the current Magical Girl system!
• After getting into an argument with the magical girls of the WCAA about the claims being made, how does Homura decide to resolve things properly? Why, by holding a mock battle with the Americans...all twenty-five of them. The fight itself has to be read to be believed.
• In the lead-up to the final battle against the Ultimate Witch, Homura gets up in front of all the gathered Magical Girls that have shown up to fight Walpurgis to give a Rousing Speech, and it gets absolutely EVERYONE cheering. It's beautiful.
• When Loyalty (before apologizing) Kicks The Dog by reminding Taylor that she's the EX-bearer of Consensus, Amy directly tells Loyalty to her face -no, that is not a name, not an exaggeration, THE CONCEPT OF LOYALTY, and everything that implies- to Get Out!...and then every single member of the Battle Harem appears at that exact moment, standing and ready to help enforce that demand.
• The whole fight against Walpurgisnacht is this without a doubt, providing a much needed Catharsis Factor for our dear protagonist. Those first four stages? 'COMPLETELY AND UTTERLY ANNIHILATED''''' by the BadassArmy of Magical Girls assembled throughout this whole Quest. [[FinalBattle The last stage itself features said army of Badass Adorables throwing down against THE Ancient Evil of the setting that's taking the form of a HUGE FUCK-OFF DRAGON.]] What more can you ask for?
  • And how does this end? Why, by Homura JUMPING INSIDE OF HER NEMESIS AGAIN!
• In the epilogue The noninterference clause has been run out and the Incubators are going all out on destroying our protagonist and their home; warforms, turning the sun off, and turning off telepathy to stop enemy communication making it clear they aren't fucking around... and yet, ALL of it it rendered mute by True Wish #2.
  • And what was said True Wish? Summoning Taylor Hebert, Amy Dallon, Lisa Wilbourn, Teresa/Dragon and Selene/Simurgh. You can guess what occurs in the following events.
  • Taylor herself shows how far she's came since we've last been with her, by summoning the future versions of Homura and Madoka to possess their present selves and deal with the threat. The sheer...majesty of what transpires needs to be read to be believed.
  Taylor: Let Me Flex Some Magic!
• Homura's Badass Boast to the UNITED STATES CONGRESS when they try to restrict and control Magical Girls. It is quite glorious to bare witness:
  Homura:The Incubators, the monsters that attacked our world, the aliens that I destroyed have always been here. Making meguca and twisting them and their desires to their ends. For millennia we have fought and died to protect you from witches; monsters born from our broken souls. The world you know is built on our blood and sacrifice. Or pain and suffering. Our dead and lost. I have freed us. First from the curse of witching, where despair would take our souls and we would be lost forever. And second from the Incubators, the monsters that sealed away the stars. And now, when we are finally free after twelve thousand years...you want to kill us. I am here for a single purpose. To announce to you and to the world the formation of the International Meguca Sisterhood. We claim dominion over all of our kind for both their protection and yours. Behind my words are tens of thousands of our kind and we say No. We are not weapons. We are not experiments. We are not criminals. And we will not stand for the barbarity you call law. Know this, Government of America: My Name is Homura Akemi. By my hand I can slaughter armies and slay nations. Time itself turns only at my command. The Incubators, a race with millions of years of technology and magic at their side fell to me. This is not a promise. This is not a threat. This is a fact. Meguca are to be given the same rights as any other citizen of your country. Or I will come after you.

The Familiar of Zero/Zero no Tsukaima

• Louise's summoning of Consensus. This can be considered quite the Catharsis Factor for Zero herself due to the fact that her summoning, which was already being dismissed another failure by all of her peers, caused EVERYBODY to be sent into a complete and utter Stunned Silence.
• Steve vs Guiche aka the first Curb-Stomp Battle the former delivers in this Quest.
  • And that's even getting to the absolutely flaying, verbal smackdown he is delivering the whole way through, which starts after breaking down and absolutely destroying the first set of bronze golems:
    Steve: "It seemed a fine metal to most...but it was found that, when needed most, it would break! And, in the face of your own lies coming to light, it seems you do too. And when your embarrassment comes to a peak and your treachery is laid bare, do you contemplate your failings as a man and your disloyalty? No! You choose to lash out at one you see as your lesser! Tell me, Guiche de Gramont,” Steve continued as three more foes rose from the dirt, “what is the measure of a man if not his loyalty to his lord, his lady, his people? And what does it say about you that you would so callously disregard but one of those three! So, Boy Gramont, tell me: is it I who needs respect? I who so nobly chose to raise your problems in such a way that you could not hide from them, rationalise them through some misplaced pride in your own sin? Or is it you, who has tainted yourself in betrayal? And more importantly-
    Points sword under Guiche's chin
    Do. You. Yield?"
• “I HAVE MAGIC!”
• Louise's epic chewing out of Kirche for her role in making her school life such a miserable experience thanks to her actions in unintentionally dragging Louise's name in the mud.
  Kirche:I never mocked you because of your failures. That was never my intent.
  Louise: Then whatever your intent was, it was lost in the face of your actions! I have spent near the entirety of my schooling here mocked by my peers, ensuring that I will never be respected for most anything once we graduate and You, an enemy of my family, have done nothing more but exacerbate that! And I have been left unable to refute it all! Unable to do anything but bring further shame on my family, their name and legacy in the trying! ...But no more. I have summoned a familiar. I know my affinity. I have cast spells...and now the two of you are here, discovering my secrets despite my best attempts to hide them. Do you expect anything other than anger from me?
• In the first sparring session for Louise's army, Steve goes on to deliver a Curb-Stomp Battle to four Dot Mages!
• Before allowing Poor Communication To Kill this discussion, Louise, after summoning a Dot Magic right in front of her, delivers a Badass Boast to the face of her own mother, Karin Désirée le Vent Fort, Duchess de La Vallière, managing to completely SHOCK the normally unflappable matriarch.
  Louise: This is what I have to tell you, Mother: I am a Void Mage, capable of casting spells that can devastate armies. My familiar is a spirit capable of creating men and women, animals and weapons, soldiers and mages, all of whom are entirely loyal to myself alone. In two weeks Albion will fall to rebels who will set their gazes on Tristain next. My best friend is to be married off to the pig that sits on Germania’s throne for an alliance that we no longer need. Please, Mother, we know how absurd this all is but can you simply listen to us!
• The Fire Team's well-constructed plan that results in them killing a village of over FIFTY Orcs.
• In his duel with Karin, Steve JUMPS INSIDE THE OF HER STORM SPELL TO DRAIN IT FROM THE INSIDE!
  • There also so the fact that this impresses Karin so much that ''she yields the duel out of respect.
• When she returns to the academy, Louise only has one thing to say to the gathering crowd of students - the same students who dismissed and mocked her for so long: "Move."
• Louise, in the middle of a high security vault and with her own social skills, manages to recruit Fouquet of the Crumbling Earth to her cause while the thief was in front of the very thing she infiltrated the academy for so long.
• Louise's execution of The Plan to deal with Wardes once and for all.
• Louise, after summoning her first army, gives quite the confident Rousing Speech, showcasing how far she has come so fast.
  Louise: My people! she declared with voice and mind, a flash of nerves coursing through her and temporarily silencing her voice. There were so many eyes on her, watching with eagerness. She could do this, make a single speech. “My army. We stand now in Albion, a country filled with traitors and rebels that would extinguish our way of life! Even now they stand at the gates of Newcastle with the goal of extinguishing the line of Tudor once and for all- but we will not let them! Tonight my assassins will cut down their leadership and tomorrow you will march on an army crippled by strategy and finesse; I expect the same from each of you. Though you will not carry my name into battle, you will carry my pride and my hopes for the future! And while I cannot fight at your side, I will stand in your hearts! And we will march for a tomorrow unmarred by treachery and rebellion! For the Princess! For the King! For Albion!

  The Army: For the Princess! For the King! For Albion!
  • This moment is proceeded the newly summoned Scáth and his band of merry assassins completely sabotaging the enemy forces with anyone knowing about it until it was too late.
    • Special shout out to two of the bugs used in the secret assault, Web and Wazz, taking down solider and advancing into heroes as a result.
• The Second of Battle Newcastle:
  • Louise, lacking the foresight of Consensus throughout this whole situation, proves her worth a The Strategist without losing her cool once.
  • Steve, his Fireteam, the many other soldiers under his command running ransack against all of the enemies in their way, and Derflinger laughing the whole time.
  • The Void Whisper, a third-rate ship vs Brimir's Thunder, a first-rate. Even with these odds against her, Lynette manages to keep complete control of the air battle with quick but effective thinking before her and her team boarding the enemy ship, deliver a Curb-Stomp Battle to its crew, and taking it over.
    Rapheal: Do be careful, mon amie!
    Lynette: That’d defeat the point Rapheal!
    • The end result of this whole scenario? Louise's army, only receiving fourteen casualties, completely overwhelm the enemy in their very first battle in warfare!
• The Third of Battle Newcastle:
  • With only five ships on her side, Lynette and her forces manage to completely wipe out twelve airships without losing one of her own.
  • Scath, by himself, in the middle of the enemy's army, steals the Ring of Andvari by cutting Cromwell's hand off! He manages to finish the job by personally assassinating Cromwell in his own room with anyone noticing.
• Tabitha managing to deliver a Curb-Stomp Battle to whole team of triangle mages with little to no damage on her end when escaping with her mother.
• Connie, with her new Rhyme Dragon Raracoric, thwarts an assassination attempt by on King James by Sheffield. This quickly leads to an awesome Wizard Duel between the two!
• Fireteam One, with their new elemental staves and Rhyme Dragons, manage to subdue and capture the Mind of God herself!

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