Fanfic Recommendations: The Next Generation

[Bob Schroeck]

I just stumbled on this one and while I'm not yet done with it, I'm enjoying the hell out of it. It's a Worm AU, called How to Train Your Endbringer and it's just as cracky as it sounds:

The Simurgh dipped out of the clouds and came rocketing down towards the group. At the very last moment she slowed her dive, just in time to come to a stop an inch from the ground.

Legend jumped backwards, both hands raised as if to fire at the Endbringer.

The two stared at each other while the wind shifted around them. The parking lot was deathly quiet for a few long seconds. "Simurgh, stop antagonizing Mister Legend," Taylor said. "Mister Legend, please don't laser my friend."

Legend slowly lowered his hands and loosened his tense shoulders a little. The Simurgh nodded at him as if they'd reached an understanding of sorts and floated backwards to stop near Taylor's side.

"Come on, there's no reason we can't all be friends!" Taylor said.

[Initiate Friendship Protocols?]

"Exactly!"

[Preparing for Orbital Bombardment.]

"What!" Taylor spun towards the Simurgh. "No, that's not how friendship works!"

The Simurgh tilted her head to one side. [Contrite. No Friendship Cannons? Sadness. Wasted Preparation Time.]

Taylor buried her face in her hands while all the--mostly--normal humans around her took in her one-sided conversation with the Endbringer. "No, Simmy, no orbital friendship cannons. Where did you even learn about those?"

[Anime!]

"You watch cartoons?" Taylor asked as she started walking towards the park again.

[Not Cartoons. Anime.]

"What's the difference?"

[Exasperation.]

Behind the little group, Legend felt as though he had made a very big mistake somewhere along the line.