History Fanfic / TranspositionOrShipHappens

* RealityEnsues:
** Bullshit nanomaterial powers or not, [[spoiler: Tattletale was without oxygen for nearly ''10 minutes'' before Taylor got life support running. Brain damage was guaranteed]].
** [[TraumaInducedAmnesia Amnesia and memory suppression]] are expected in an aftermath of traumatic event.

In this universe Taylor's trigger event is somehow interrupted, and she has a vision of a white-haired girl talking to her in Japanese. When she awakens, she finds out that she has become a Union Core and Mental Model of the Fleet of Fog/Experimental Platform X-1, essentially an {{AI}} in a body constructed out of {{Nanomachines}} for the unaware. Preparing a costume, she goes out and becomes the hero Relentless, and Earth Bet will never be the same.

** Taylor is very careful to keep her full abilities hidden. She knows most if not all of it will come out eventually, but considers keeping her nature as a technically {{AI}} being more important.

* ProperlyParanoid: Taylor is being careful to keep her new nature as an {{AI}} secret, fearing how people will react. Given Saint's history of antagonism with Dragon, and how he is the one implied to be stirring up anti-{{AI}} resentment on PHO...

* SureLetsGoWithThat: Relentless does nothing to dismiss various rumours and theories about her since it helps her hide [[{{AI}} her true nature]].

* {{Transhuman}}: Transhumanism is a major theme in the work, given that Taylor wonders herself whether she, now that she's basically an {{AI}} in a body made of {{Nanomachines}}, can still be considered "human" anymore. [[spoiler: Tattletale's EmergencyTransformation is another example]].

** Panacea, as in canon.

''Transposition, or: Ship Happens'', is a a ''Literature/{{Worm}}'' fanfic, crossing over with ''Manga/ArpeggioOfBlueSteel''. In this universe Taylor's trigger event is somehow interrupted, and she has a vision of a white-haired girl talking to her in Japanese. When she awakens, she finds out that she has become a Union Core and Mental Model of the Fleet of Fog/Experimental Platform X-1, essentially an {{AI}} in a body constructed out of {{Nanomachines}} for the unaware. Preparing a costume, she goes out and becomes the hero Relentless, and Earth Bet will never be the same.

'''Official summary:''' Whatever she expected when she triggered, it wasn't meeting a short white-haired girl or turning into a hyper-advanced technological platform. Of course when you're Taylor Hebert, things frequently don't go as planned.

!!Tropes present in this fanwork:

* AbsurdlySharpBlade: Taylor manages to give her new {{BFS}} a mono-molecular edge, though she can dull it for weaker opponents.

* {{BFS}}: Taylor gets one made of Tinker produced metal from Uber and Leet to use against the Deathwing construct. She uses her nanomaterial to give it a [[AbsurdlySharpBlade mono-molecular edge]] and add her sigil to it.

* CuttingTheKnot: Taylor was ''supposed'' to attack the weak spots on "Deathwing", like in the game, to defeat him. Frustrated with the whole thing, she finally stabs the {{BFS}} through its head. Leet lampshades the fact that she's not fighting it "right", but the spectacle is enough that he can't complain.

** Glory Girl thinks that the PortalCut was caused by a Bakuda bomb [[spoiler: since no one actually saw Taylor destroy the black hole]].

** Purity renames herself Radiance after [[spoiler: helping the PRT capture Bakuda]].
** [[spoiler: Zig-zagged with Tattletale. She ''thinks'' her name is "Leah", when in reality it's a mash-up of her birth and assumed name]].

** Taylor, when [[spoiler: Vista asks her if she is a human]].

** [[spoiler: Vista notices that Taylor isn't protected by the Manton Effect.]]

* SureLetsGoWithThat: Taylor does nothing to dismiss various rumours and theories about her since it helps her hide [[{{AI}} her true nature]].

* ShownTheirWork: Ensou spent some time researching brain damage, amnesia, bits of neurochemistry and neurology, and checked ''the timing of tides'' on a specific date on East Coast to make [[spoiler: Tattletale's]] situation believable.

* BioManipulation: Taylor at one point compares her control over her nanomaterial to self-biokinesis.

* IAmNotLeftHanded: Taylor is very careful to keep her full abilities hidden. She knows most if not all of it will come out eventually, but considers keeping her nature as a technically {{AI}} being more important.

* ShownTheirWork: Ensou spent some time researching brain damage and amnesia to make [[spoiler: Tattletale's]] situation believable.

* AbsurdlySharpBlade: Taylor manages to give her new {{BFS}} a mono-molecular edge.

* BrokenMasquerade: [[spoiler:Danny ends up learning that Taylor triggered when she unknowingly crushes a fork in full view of him]].

* CoolShip: Considering the source material it was expected. [[spoiler: In Counterpoint 3.3 Taylor makes her first submarine]].

* EmergencyTransformation: [[spoiler: Taylor apparently did this to Tattletale to save her. She ripped out her brain and spine and built a new body from scratch]].

* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Taylor's reaction to learning about the info leak of the identities of various Bay villains.

* TraumaInducedAmnesia: [[spoiler: Tattletale suppressed her remaining memories due to all the trauma since her Trigger]].

* BrainInAJar: [[spoiler: To save Tattletale's life, Taylor rips out her brain and spinal cord, keeping it alive while she creates a new syntethic body for her]].

** People think that the PortalCut was caused by a Bakuda bomb [[spoiler: since no one actually saw Taylor destroy the black hole]].

* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: Kind of justified, as the Union Core removes safety blocks and restrains on various systems if Taylor meets required parameters i.e. gets into dangerous enough situation.

** Amnesia and memory suppression are expected in an aftermath of traumatic event.

* {{Antimatter}}: Taylor uses Squealer's power source to jumpstart her antimatter production, giving her a power source for her creations and her upgraded body. She's smart enough to use a dimensional fold to make sure that the containment unit won't blow up the city if damaged, of course.

* BrainInAJar: [[spoiler: To save Tattletale's life, Taylor rips out her brain and spinal cord, keeping it alive while she creates a temporary body for her]].

* CoolPlane: Taylor designs and creates a stealth fighter jet that can go ''faster than escape velocity'' as a test run for her nanomaterial.
* CuttingTheKnot: Taylor was ''supposed'' to attack the weak spots on "Deathwing's" back, like in the game, to defeat him. Not knowing this, and frustrated with the whole thing, she finally stabs the {{BFS}} through its head. Leet lampshades the fact that she's not fighting it "right", but the spectacle is enough that he can't complain.

* JackOfAllStats: Taylor considers her nanomaterial this, and eventually starts creating specialized material (like a diamond based spine and bone structure) to better protect her Union Core and increase her combat performance, at the cost of some of her VoluntaryShapeshifting ability.

** WordOfGod, [[spoiler: Tattletale is going to be vulnerable to EMP attacks due to her brain implants]].

* MeaningfulRename: Purity renames herself Radiance after [[spoiler: helping the PRT capture Bakuda.]]

** The construct itself is apparently made to mirror Deathwing's own toughness, save for the weak spots marked by lava. Taylor's {{BFS}} does jack squat until she ''really'' uses her SuperStrength.

* OhCrap: Talyor, when [[spoiler: Vista asks her if she is a human]].

* BizarreAlienBiology: Taylor constructs herself skeletal and muscle systems that are only close enough to human that they can pass for it from an outside perspective. She likens it to comparing the Wright Brother's plane to a fighter jet.

* FalseFlagOperation: [[spoiler: Since everyone assumes that Relentless is working with a Tinker due to her armor and the like when Tattletale/"Leah" joins the operation, they decide to have her pose as said Tinker, since Taylor's abilities are ''not'' Tinker-Tech, and her powers can help her understand it, as well as throwing everyone off]].

* LogicalWeakness: Taylor's inorganic body means that she's not protected from the Manton Effect, Vista is able to figure out that she's not normal because her SpaceMaster powers don't register the space she's in as filled with life.

** Taylor, with her new skeletal and muscular system, is insanely durable, to the point that a Deathwing construct slamming her into the ground with its foot fails to do any real damage. Leet even compares her to Alexandria.

* NoSell: Even though Taylor's not organic enough to trip the Manton limit, her new state does have a few advantages. For example, she's immune to Masters, her body being functionally an amorphous solid composed of particles that are mostly metallic and crystalline means that a lot of things that can hurt humans simply don't hurt her, and any powers that intentionally target humans don't affect her.

* HijackingCthulhu: [[spoiler: The Union Core connects with (barely restricted) Queen Administrator and ''permamently'' steals her from Scion. ]]

** [[spoiler: Once her Shard no longer has a time limit, Tattletale / Leah quickly figures out there is a conspiracy running in the background]].

** Her cape persona on the other hand she makes so impossibly attractive that no one would ever think that think she was Taylor Hebert. She knows that no one can really see it with her armor, but doesn't care.

Transposition, or: Ship Happens , is a a ''Literature/{{Worm}}'' fanfic, crossing over with ''Manga/ArpeggioOfBlueSteel''. In this universe Taylor's trigger event is somehow interrupted, and she has a vision of a white-haired girl talking to her in Japanese. When she awakens, she finds out that she has become a Union Core and Mental Model of the Fleet of Fog/Experimental Platform X-1, essentially an {{AI}} in a body constructed out of {{Nanomachines}} for the unaware. Preparing a costume, she goes out and becomes the hero Relentless, and Earth Bet will never be the same.

!!Tropes:

** The construct itself is apparently made to mirror Deathwing's own toughness, save for the weak spots marked by lava. Taylor's {{BFS}} does jack squat until she ''really'' uses her SuperStrenght.

* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: More like "I don't have a crush on her", said Kid Win regarding Relentless.

* SuperEmpowering: During her fight with Lung the Queen Administrator manages to properly reconnect with Taylor, which allows her the ability to consciously control her nanomaterial by taking over the brunt of the processing load, as well as unlocking her other abilities like her Klein Barriers.

Official summary: Whatever she expected when she triggered, it wasn't meeting a short white-haired girl or turning into a hyper-advanced technological platform. Of course when you're Taylor Hebert, things frequently don't go as planned.

* CanonDiscontinuity: The author has made it clear she did ''not'' like how Chapter 2.2 turned out, so she's completely rewriting it, [[spoiler:with the Bakuda fight being completely scrapped]].

** The construct itself is apparently made to mirror Deathwing's own toughness, save for the weak spots on the back. Taylor's {{BFS}} does jack squat until she gives it a mono-molecular edge.

* SpottingTheThread: [[spoiler:Danny ends up learning that Taylor has powers when she ends up crushing a fork while angry]].

Whatever she expected when she triggered, it wasn't meeting a short white-haired girl or turning into a hyper-advanced technological platform. Of course when you're Taylor Hebert, things frequently don't go as planned.

* BizarreAlienBiology: Taylor's skeletal and muscle system are only close enough to human that they can pass for it from an outside perspective, she likens it to comparing the Wright Brother's plane to a fighter jet.

* CuttingTheKnot: Taylor was ''supposed'' to attack the weak spots on "Deathwing's" back, like in the game, to defeat him. Not knowing this, and frustrated when the Tinker-metal {{BFS}} she got from Uber and Leet fails to do anything, she uses her nanomaterial to give the already sharp blade a [[AbsurdlySharpBlade mono-molecular edge]], and [[OffWithHisHead cuts the construct's head off instead]]. Leet lampshades the fact that she's not fighting it "right", but the spectacle is enough that he can't complain.

* GravityMaster: Taylor, as usual for a Fog Mental Model. She even manages to tear apart a ''black hole'' from a Bakuda bomb before it killed her.

* IdentityAmnesia: [[spoiler: She starts to recover more memories later, but Tattletale is missing a lot, mainly personal details when Taylor revives her]].

** When she meets Glory Girl, not only is she immune to her aura, but she seemingly managed to bypass her invulnerability field somehow when Victoria mistook her for a villain.
* OffWithHisHead: How Taylor defeats the Deathwing construct with her new {{BFS}}.

* PortalCut: Taylor can do this now.

* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: Kid Win regarding Relentless.