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Unequally Rational And Emotional Thread; It's Negima with Everything Else Added!
Topic Started: Apr 15 2012, 06:40 PM (11,692 Views)
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This is going again?

WOOHOO!
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Yeah, although I've been spending the last few days re-reading the story so far so I don't make too many continuity mistakes. I honestly didn't remember Lala was engaged to Yue in addition to Rito...
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Yue probably would have preferred it that way.
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New chapter? What? A new chapter! NEW CHAPTER!
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Hooray! Time to read!
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Author's Notes:

It wasn't working.

It just wasn't working anymore.

Please please forgive me...

Like the old saying goes, the devil hides himself in the details. I was happy with the emotional core, the spine itself, of Unequally Rational and Emotional, the character evolution of the leads, and many of the little quirks and twists of the setting... but several clunks and unfitting minor pieces grew tightly close together, growing in number as well, until they started taking away my capacity to enjoy writing the story. I tried my best to fought that off, but alas. Hence delays. I began regretting things like my handling of the Grail War with all the goofy extra classes, and several of the family relationships. And while writing related yet different versions of Mahora in things like Side Conquests, I grew way fonder of some of those choices (sex aside) over my original ones. And so I grew stuck, and unhappy, and...

And then I asked myself, 'Well, what if I pull a DC?', which at first struck me as impossibly idiotic, since generally doing a DC Comics style continuity shakeup leaves you with a bunch of Hawkmen and their horribly screwed up continuity. And I told myself 'NO!' and I shelved that away, but then time passed and passed, and I began feeling like it was either that or getting stuck forever...

So here we are.

Let's join Ala Alba in solving the unsettling riddle of...

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Unequally Rational and Emotional.

Lesson Forty Four.

Secret Crisis of the Ultimate Paradox!

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Mahou Sensei Negima, Love Hina and UQ Holder were created by Akamatsu Ken and belong to Kodansha.

Oh my Goddess! and You're Under Arrest! were created by Fujishima Kosuke and belong to Kodansha.

Mai HiME, Mai Otome and Sora wo Kakeru Shoujo were created and owned by Sunrise.

Batman, Superman, the Justice League and all related elements belong to DC Comics.

My Little Pony and all related elements belong to Hasbro.

I make no money from this. If you do... well, please teach me your secret.

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Act One: You Only Die Twice, Unless You're Lancer!

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The morning after Kagurazaka Asuna's birthday, Hasegawa Chisame woke up with a heavy, groggy head and a thick taste of fetid breath in her mouth.

As usual of late, Negi slept hugging her midsection and Matoi was clinging onto her back, one of her hands firmly gripping Chisame's right breast. Hakase soundly slept at Negi's opposite side, hugging him, half of both her legs poking out of Chisame's bunk, a bunk that obviously was not made with four people at once, not even petite people, in mind.

As Chisame absently back-punched Matoi in the face to get her off herself, her mind vaguely drifted back to Kagurazaka's party. Iinchou harassing Negi, Negi annoyingly not realizing he was being harassed, Kakizaki and Saotome harassing Negi even more, Negi being even more of an annoyingly oblivious lost case, Kagurazaka creepily hanging onto poor Takahata-sensei, Konoe throwing blatant hints at the sack of nerves that was Sakurazaki all night long, having to lower Itoshiki-sensei from the ceiling fan thrice through the night, Hakase and Shiina being so messily lovey-dovey to each other, Negi mentally scarring everyone with his rendition of 'Happy Birthday To You'...

And then, Kagurazaka just falling on her face into the birthday cake.

Which, even to Chisame, looked just plain hilarious at the first moment or two... before everyone realized Kagurazaka wasn't moving anymore.

And then everything became oddly fuzzy and blurry after that.

But no, nothing really bad could have possibly happened, or else they wouldn't be there right now, back at home as usual, as if nothing had--

"ASUNA-SAN!" Negi suddenly cried, bolting up on the mattress, terrified and startling Satomi and Tsunetsuki back into full awareness. In his underwear drawer, Chamo also woke up with a perfect back flip through the air, landing on his face on the floor with a weak groan of pain.

Chisame shifted around on one side, watching her young teacher and Magister panting and wheezing, eyes wide. "Good morning," she deadpanned.

"Asuna-san...!" Negi inhaled and exhaled. "Is she, is she--!"

"Unmmmm, Sensei..." Matoi yawned, smacking her lips together. "Don't worry, she recovered just as soon, remember? Everyone had a good laugh and we agreed Asuna-san should just start sleeping more..."

"Although I remember declaring her clinically dead as Iinchou-san and Konoe-san cried in despair," Satomi mused aloud with enough sang froid to make the others uncomfortable. "Funny, I can't remember much about that, or after that, but..."

Negi, who had just pulled Asuna's Pactio card from under his pillow, where he always kept his whole set, ran a hand down his coldly sweating face. The Card was intact and as colorful as ever, thank God. "Y-Yeah, I think... I guess the incident gave me nightmares afterwards, somehow. Sorry if I overreacted..."

"In any instance, it was a curiously abnormal event to befall someone as healthy as Kagurazaka-san," Satomi mused aloud. "Perhaps that's why it influenced our subconscious minds...?"

"Hey, whattsa matter?" the sleepy white ermine muttered from the floor. "Did someone wake up with the Bro's wee stuck into her--"

Satomi accidentally landed on her feet on him as she dropped from the top bunk. "Oh, my apologies! I must be still half asleep."

Asuna looked rather fine as ever when they met her in the hallway shortly after exiting for another day of classes, Konoka already moving on rollerskates at her side. "Last night?" the redhead asked, scratching her chin as they headed together for the front hall. "Oh, yeah, that. It's not like I remember a lot about it, but... I fainted for a second or two, right? Maybe Haruna poured something in my drink."

"Why must it always be Saotome-san's fault?" Negi sighed.

"I don't even remember that, how weird..." hummed Konoka, her cute thoughtful pout growing even more intense. And cuter. "Shouldn't it worry us anyway? For all of us to have such a big blank in our minds..."

"I don't have any blanks in mine," Matoi said, moving quite closely to a frowny Chisame. "I remember every minute of sticking close to Chisame-sama as we watched you cleaning Asuna-san's face, and then walking back home, and then asking her to share her bed with me, and then... Oooohhh, it's too embarassing and precious to share it like this!" she cooed, red-cheeked.

"Nothing happened!" Chisame roared. "You just fell asleep on my bed, that's it! I can remember that much!"

"Ah! Even while forgetting everything else, Chisame-sama remembers me in her bed! How sublime!"

"Gah!" Asuna gasped, looking at the Sempai. "You were there!"

"Yes, always," Matoi nodded.

"Asuna-san!" Yukihiro Ayaka gasped as she and Sasaki Makie joined them at the front hall itself, before most other students could have gotten out of their rooms. "Thank Heavens you're okay! I, um, I had the... strangest dream about you last night, and--"

"Ohhhh, hoo ho hoooo!" Konoka giggled/chuckled mischievously.

Ayaka blushed and recoiled while Makie walked up to Negi and cheerily greeted him and his roommates. "Konoka-san, please! A certain nocive company in that Library Cub must be rubbing off on you. Please do something about that immediately."

"Huh. Was it a dream about my death?" Asuna nonchalantly asked. "Looks like the brat and the Prof had those too. Shouldn't it have made you happy, Iinchou?"

Ayaka narrowed her blue eyes. "Do you think that lowly of me, Kagurazaka-san?"

"Do you want the polite answer, or the honest one?" Asuna asked back.

"H-How rude!" the blonde gasped. "And after I worried so much about you... just like I'd worry about any other of the students under my guidance!"

"Uh-huh," Konoka smiled. "Iinchou, you're so shaken over that dream, you haven't told Negi-kun his good morning!"

Reminded of that unforgivable mistake, Ayaka immediately whipped around to bow deeply to Negi. "Oh dear, she's right! I'm so terribly sorry, Negi-sensei! Please forgive such foolish transgression from your humble student and Ministra...!"

"Ah, there's nothing to forgive, Iinchou-san," Negi said, a big fat drop of sweat on his head. "Good morning to you, as well..."

"No 'M' word in public, Iinchou...!" Chisame angrily hissed.

"Ahem. Of course, it seems I forgot that as well," Ayaka apologized, tossing some hair back. "I'm still getting used to... well, you know."

"Ah, c'mon, guys!" Makie said, grabbing Negi by an arm and pulling him towards the door she was pushing open. "Stop being so fussy and let's just go out to enjoy another beautiful day at..." Then she actually looked outside, and her tone grew far weaker. "... Mahora...?"

Chisame looked abover her shoulders and Negi's to see what had left them so shocked all of a sudden, and the first thing she realized was the gigantic arc at the entrance of the academic grounds, past a new bridge separating them from the dorm grounds and their inhabitants. None of those had been there the day before, and most disconcerting of all, the main Academy building past the arc was considerably bigger and taller now as well, being far more of an imposing tower than ever before. It would have been somewhat intimidating even if it hadn't just popped into existence overnight like that.

"... well," Konoka finally said, "Either Grandpa just got himself some terrific architects, or something very odd is happening here."


To be Continued!
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Nah, it's all okay, Ai-chan. It's my own darn fault anyway.

It didn't have anything to do with your contributions, by the way. It was because of wrong concepts and developments I brought in myself.
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O-okay… sniff.

Maybe we can say Superboy-Prime did it...
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Skuld and Keiichi hadn't been having a good morning.

Sitting across the breakfast table at the large house placed next to the local temple, they stared, flabbergasted, at how Tatsumiya Mana calmly ate, sitting next to her much less elegantly eating disciple and apprentice Munakata Shiho. That, on itself, wouldn't have been too much of a terribly weird sight for Skuld, after the events of the last few temporal iterations. Having waken up in a temple room earlier, however, while something she had done a lot during her first few times on Midgard, had stopped being part of her routine long, long ago.

And now, sharing her home's table with not only Mana and Shiho, but priest Masaki Katsuhito, his grandson Masaki Tenchi, and Tenchi's father Nobuyuki, was a combination of bizarre factors that never before had come together in a single iteration.

Keiichi opened his mouth to ask something again, but Skuld discreetly kicked him under the table to keep him quiet until she could figure out what the Nifelheim was happening. Last thing they needed right now was yet another reason for their housemates out of nowhere to think they had gone slightly bonkers that day. They barely could remember anything between being invited to Kagurazaka Asuna's birthday party and waking up at the Mahora area shrine's residence that very same morning...

Then, after rushing out of his bedroom to find out where he was, Keiichi had run into the other boy, who was coming back from the carrot fields, and naturally asked him, bewildered, "Who are you, and what are you doing here?!"

"Eh?" the other boy blinked. "Are you feeling okay, Morisato-san?"

"And how do you know my name?!"

"... shouldn't I know it by now?"

It had been a very awkward morning after that. Eventually, Skuld, while forcing Keiichi to keep his damn big mouth closed, pinned it on having eaten some bad food the night before, or perhaps Saotome putting something in their drinks, and even Mana seemed to buy that, or at least let it slide without really caring one way or another at all.

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"-- so you too, huh?" Skuld frowned as her scooter raced Hakase's, Keiichi fearfully clinging to her as tightly as Chisame and Negi clung onto Satomi. They basically ignored the angry protests of Ayaka and Asuna from long behind them, as the two plus Makie and Konoka tried to keep up as best as they could in their way towards the gigantic, threatening even, school. Matoi was not currently anywhere in sight, but she would probably reappear right behind Chisame, somehow, any moment now. "Quite intriguing. It would seem the time space continuum has just suffered an axis alteration, probably while still reeling from the dimensional crossing around your class trip..."

"Negi still has all the cards, and our memories of the world as it used to be and Asuna-san's, Tsunetsuki-sempai's, Iinchou-san's and Sasaki-san's seem to all coincide with each other," Satomi reported, "so whatever has brought these changes up, doesn't seem to have affected our prior selves. Unless, of course, that's simply the way we are remembering it all, but..."

"Have you tried contacting the other cards' holders?" asked Skuld, as they zoomed past the other students, fast enough they couldn't really understand their conversation. "See if their memories also coincide with yours?"

"Negi thought it best to discuss that personally, at the school!" Satomi said. "Given the incredibly high amount of variables to consider, I agree that would seem the best course of short-term action! And... what the..." she said as she stopped the scooter to an abrupt halt, ignoring the muffled cries of Negi and Chisame as they slammed against her back. And the pain on her spine, for that matter. Looking up, way up, at the giant arc over the bridge's entrance, they saw a badly beaten young man, in nothing but boxers, tied up to the arc's surface. "How shockingly... barbaric...!"

Skuld had also brought her own scooter to a more elegant stop, and she and Keiichi looked up as well. "What the Hild," the young goddess clenched her teeth together. "Don't tell me--!"

Finally, the panting Asuna, Konoka, Ayaka and Makie came to a halt behind them as well, and the masses of students all around them were slowing down too, gathering in a tight crowd to look up in fear and uncertainty. The nervous, rapid chattering and gossiping began in full force.

"I wonder what did this one do..."

"Oh, I just got texted, Hikari-chan's telling me he stole a Gokou and was caught with it--"

"Is he still alive...?"

"I think I see him twitching...!"

"I wonder if he was working for Kurokami...?"

"... okay, who is grabbing my ass now?"

Negi, terribly pale and bug-eyed, whispered in utter confusion and dread, "What is going on here?! That, that poor boy...!"

"Oh dear!" Ayaka placed a fist on her own mouth, gently nibbling on her knuckles.

"I think," Asuna stated categorically, "we definitely owe someone a good punch in the mouth."

"... I wanna go home, to good ol' safe Nekomi!" Keiichi gasped.

"Don't worry, Chisame-sama, I'll protect you from this random chain of shock value events!" Matoi stated, appearing right behind Chisame as predicted.

"Ah! You were here?!" gasped Keiichi.

"Yes, always," Matoi patiently sighed. "You know, generally I don't do this more than once before actually getting to the school..."

And then, there was a powerful voice from way above.

"Fear is Freedom! Control is Liberty! Contradiction is Truth! That is the reality of this world!"

Looking way, way, way, even higher than the arc, across the bridge, Makie wrinkled her nose up. "Maybe we still can call it a sick day?" she asked in a tiny voice.

For she, they, had just laid eyes on...
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Arkham.

No, they hadn't just laid their eyes on Arkham. I'm just being a dick and stalling that for another scene. We're, for the time being, cutting across the sea and back to the Elizabeth Arkham Home for the Emotionally Troubled, which is a more politically correct name than Arkham Asylum for the Criminally Insane, even if everyone still called him the later.

It was fascinating and curious, the Joker reflected as he paced back and forth within his padded cell, rubbing his long, pointy chin with long, bony eyes tipped with emerald nails. One day, you are in the run across Japan with your pesky girlfriend, her girlfriend who just won't be your girlfriend her loss, a tykebomb powerhouse with flame powers, a Loli albino hacker, Killer Croc, the Ventriloquist, and a weird super hacker Loli from the future with an irresistible charm and fake cat ears and tail, after helping to save the world from a giant-ass demon and a blonde incarnation of a Moon goddess or something.

Next day, you were back in the same old padded cell.

Intriguing.

It might have been, Joker supposed, a hallucination, except because he knew his hallucinations, and that hadn't been one of those. Rather, it had been yet another of those annoying things he experienced every once in a while, where he would remember a prior life that was later rebooted into his next one. You know, like it can happen to anyone.

He looked again at his wrist, which lacked the Kampfer bracelet, and pouted whimsically at it. Maybe that had been for the best after all, he supposed, but even so...

Well. He forced himself to grin and bear with it. Never mind, that was just as good. Now he had a decent idea of what to do next, and that was what mattered. Since he hated leaving things half-done, he'd just have to go back to the drawing board and finish what he had set out to do in the first place in a better, more streamlined and efficient way, which in no way no sir was a reflection of what another sick mind currently writing these lines was feeling at the time, either. Purge the cumbersome barnacles out of his path, approach it all with a fresh twisted mind and a new, proactive attitude to guarantee victory! Anything for a laugh!

Now, to get things started, he needed another escape. He hated to reuse material, but maybe, what had worked last time would work this one as well...?
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I think I am gonna rethink this whole reboot thing before I actually post anything I regret later.
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