The Traveler's Council Excerpt
Hi! Not sure whether you're still on tumblr or not, buuuut I guess I'll try this thing out. So, I first read your fic a while back and instantly got so obsessed with the main team dynamic and all that bonding, I...wrote a fanfic about it! That is still in the process of being written! Anyway, I wanted to share some excerpts with you, but I'm not done with the fic yet. >.< Anyway, getting a bit rambly, so here are four out-of-context excerpts!
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“W-we’ve been, we’ve been hunting for a treasure, too, actually,” Lulloyd spoke up. Everyone looked at him in surprise.
“Wait, really?” Monty raised an eyebrow.
“I’m parroting myself.” Harumi shook her head. “What’s the treasure?”
“It’s, uh…well, the uh…title is kinda…long.”
“Oh, come on!” Mage protested and slumped over the table. “Don’t leave us in suspense like that!”
“...The Super Mildly Awesome Treasure of Unexpected Secrets and Unrelated Plot Twists At the Worst Times.”
Everyone cringed simultaneously.
“Oh, yeah, okay, forget I asked.” Harumi choked out a cross between a groan and a laugh.
"I I’m going to regret asking this.” Monty sighed. “Does anyone else feel like we just set ourselves up for something by asking that question?”
“Oh, uh, probably,” Lulloyd replied. “But don’t worry! The Super Secret Ninja Force are on it. We, we’ll find it!”
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“T-that’s pretty important, Monty.” Lulloyd laughed.
“Yeah, in an anime.” Monty grumbled. “Not in real life when it involves me having to deal with the Walmart version of the Super Sentai Rangers.”
“The…Walmart version of…what now?” Over blinked repeatedly, trying to process what Monty had just said.
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“Lloyd,” Lulloyd began slowly, then tilted his head to look at the ninja in question. “That…was…”
“Bat-shit insane,” Monty said bluntly, getting a warning look from Lulloyd and Over alike.
“I killed the mood,” Lloyd groaned into his hands. “I’m sorry.”
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“Well, what is it?” Monty asked impatiently. “Spit it out, already!”
“We got a new Elemental Master in town.” Harumi said simply, taking everyone at the table aback.
Lloyd almost jumped out of his seat. “What element did they have?!”
“This is gonna sound stupid, but it’s sand.” Harumi said. “The glass broke because they were trying to harness the sand from before the glass was materialized…which is kind of stupid, but Olive pointed out that the particular type of glass that was broken each time was important. It’s very expensive glass for a reason - it’s made by a company that somehow figured out how to make the glass where the sand remains a separate material from it. Techno Bandit here must have figured that out and so tried to use his sand powers with the glass. Maybe to make it easier to carry the equipment and tech that he stole? I don’t know, but either way, we were able to figure out that the Techno Bandit was an Elemental Master of Sand.”
“You’re right,” Monty said. “That is stupid.”
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I tried. T^T
I let my mind wander a little too far with the fic ideas annnnd these excerpts are from a story called The Traveler's Council, which is a precursor to Rewrite the Ninjaverse...which is basically an idea from Across the Spider-Verse. XD
Traveler's Council sets up a group of universal counterparts(those that aren't necessarily of Lloyd specifically, but all have the green power or something similar etc to stay sorta within the rules) that have ended up in the same situation as Over, only they kinda wanna crash other universes and transform it into the ones that they lost, by the promise of some crazed Time God.
Rewrite the Ninjaverse thus far is probably the more self-indulgent of the two. It's basically that Time God from earlier accidentally dragging Lloyd into their business and a kind of reversal of Enter the Ninjaverse happens, where instead of Lloyd starting out the fic hunting down the people who took his powers; he's being hunted by the person-Time God-whose powers he had accidentally STOLE. And he has no clue how to use them, so he lands himself in infinite loops that either clash with his own universe's timeline, and most frighteningly, the events of Enter the Ninjaverse. Obviously, changing the timeline is probably not a good thing, and in Lloyd's case, it's just really awful every time loop - so the story is basically him scrambling to fix the timeline back to its rightful place and uh...well, as you can tell, it's a bit...messy.
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...by the way, I didn't use this "Show Me Anything You Have!" submission box incorrectly, right...? Or misunderstand what it means? Cause if I did, I sincerely apologize for my crazed ramblings. XD
(I always get this nervous talking to fave fanfic authors I appreciate a lot-)
Anyway, uhhh happy early new years! X3
