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Alrighty then! First thing first. Everyone has probably forgotten by now, but there was technically still an open poll for this story :-p. Specifically the first in a set of shipping polls, that was meant to get an idea of how many girls people wanted to end up with Alyssa. I've closed that poll now, and it did a good job of giving me the feedback needed. Very few (12%) wanted a single pairing, with nearly as few (15%) wanting a large harem. Almost all the votes landed for either threesome or moresome, so the range is Alyssa+(2-4). Currently, I've decided to land in the middle on that, with the plan being for it to be Alyssa + 3. If enough people click with her and are desired by future polls, I may expand that to 4.

Exactly who will be in the pairing will be the subject of another set of polls, the first of which will go up either late tomorrow or early Thursday. Something I'll be restating in that poll is for everyone to please remember how big this Amalgam reality is in the way of options. Right now, Overwatch is operating purely in Gotham. For all intents and purposes, though, we're barely out of the prologue. Squashing so many fandoms together means there are a lot of options for Alyssa to end up with, not just the girls on her current team or even within Gotham.

The majority of characters (not all, but the majority) of characters from DC, Marvel, Worm, MHA, and a few extra from places like the Overwatch games are all crammed into this reality. So filling up all three of those relationship slots right at the onset might end up making you pout later when they start operating on the larger world stage. Just something to keep in mind!

Anyway, enough about that. The actual update this time is hefty, coming in close to 12,000 words, as there just wasn't a great place to leave off between sub 9,000 and that point :-p. So enjoy a slightly outsized update! One which starts dealing with the consequences of a new Hero Group proving they are the real deal, as well as some stage setting for the first true shipping poll...

As usual, the new stuff is attached here. A quick reminder, I'm only updating master files once both updates of a story are out in a month, as it would make an even more confused hash of all my Master File documents if I had to create multiples of each one, for four separate stories a month -_-. Author's notes will follow in the comments. For now, enjoy the first update of What Was There No Truck?! since May!

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This comment is for author's notes! Beware spoilers! And if you want to comment on one of them, please do so in a separate comment NOT nested here, in order to keep these orderly!

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Chapter 29: A/N 1: Hmmm, so hints of things that Dinah and Talia might just be into... A/N 2: Poor Cyborg, the O-Car just isn't as PG rated as the T-Car would have been :-p. For those wondering? Yes, it is essentially the same vehicle, if possibly a little more modern looking. A/N 3: Uh-oh. Both local and visiting Villains are poking their heads up...

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Chapter 30: A/N 1: Vermin might not be the most dangerous villain, but he's certainly dangerous enough when placed somewhere like Gotham. I decided he was a good option to show how the team can operate while split up between multiple crisises. Which also neatly gave me time to give Talia a bit of a chance to shine.

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Chapter 31: A/N 1: So...I read the Carnage 616 wiki-entry and oh boy is he all sorts of a nightmare. I picked him as a way to show that NO, Alyssa ISN'T powerful enough to just run roughshod over all the major villains in the city. So far, aside from Grundy, she's mostly been dealing with low-to-low-mid level enhanced. Carnage is much close to a mid-high, or even an outright high-level threat, depending on version. He can actually HURT Alyssa, with the potential to outright kill her if she screwed up badly enough. In fact, at this point, if she were solo she would likely be in serious danger of not measuring up, since Carenage is a lot more experienced than she is. Thankfully, she has a team to support her now.

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Chapter 32: A/N 1: Ah...and there's the Other, other shoe dropping. What? This is Gotham. Why are you surprised that the city mutated and has three shoes? There was no way the Crime Families were going to just LET a new Hero team that was hurting underworld operations go unmolested. Two Face is simply the first who had the big brass balls to challenge them openly.

Dominique Brassel

Right bevor I start reading...... As the Relationship poll was mentioned..... And a reminder of how many characters actually exist ..... And not to mention that you have cyberpunk in there as well....... I am incredibly surprised that harem and the horny is not winning..... I voted harem precisely because of how many characters and potential love interests there are as well as so much potential for side trusts for our futa mc ..... Also as far as I remember there was a mention in the beginning of this that there wasn't as much of a plan for this story and that meant that there would be more girls than in the other stories because of it....

Daemonioros

Well I'm certainly curious how Ghost spider ends up helping them with taking Carnage down. The fact there has been enough versions of Carnage for this to be a common concern is kinda worrying to me. I'm assuming the part of her powers derived from the force has the greatest growth potential. Some Jedi and Sith pulled of some utterly ridiculous things at times. And if she can be in that same ballpark I think the force will be what truly pushes her into the very top tier of metas. Though of course getting more experienced at using the Starfyre powerset and generally more combat experience will also play a part.

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Honestly, the Marvel Wiki for 616's Carnage is the same sort of concerning. He's been killed a ridiculous number of times. I didn't make that cloning thing up, it's something Carnage apparently does in 616, recreating the long-dead original Clestus as a clone just so it has him as a host. You're correct about her knock-off Force powers having the greatest growth potential. Given enough time, she can absolutely replicate some of the insane things Jedi and Sith pulled off. Part of the reason I selected that option for her power set was to make sure she could keep growing to face new challenges, without overpowering her completely from the start.

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Remember, I do not write one night stands and such. I try to make every story have an actually believably stable relationship, and that sort of thing is death on on that. With the exception of Final Error, all my stories are plot first, porn a distant second, not the other way around.

Daemonioros

Great to see that my theory was correct on why you picked the force powers. Especially precognition is something that still has so much growth potential. Shes using it to react like 'standard' danger senses and to be fair thats the main thing Jedi use it for too. But the truly skilled users of combat precognition could use it to determine how their opponents would react to their own action and pick the best options to catch them in a feint/score a hit. To the point that even those stronger and faster than them could get utterly taken apart. Of course that much skill in combat precog takes a ton of practice and potentially years of in combat use to master.

Dominique Brassel

I do remember that it why I voted harem as if it's not a one night stand and a more long-term casual relationship at the beginning...... As well as trying out if some relationships can work and then amiably splitting up if it does not.... It than can result in a larger group of more committed people and such..... But than again its your stories and your writing so all depends on how you want it to happen mostly..... All us patrons here are here for your writing not our own....... Even if some of us and I myself have some opinions and what we want to see you write.....

Serina Tsukaya

Agreed to an extent. People want different things at different points in time. So even though her manysome might be 3-4 peeps, actually getting there could be an interesting journey of quite a few friends with benefits that come and go, alternatively if you want story long relationships then generally that's established fairly early no? At which point it kinda boils down to chemistry more than anything else.

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Absolutely. Precognition and Telekensis both. Right now, she's only maybe 'gifted Padawan' level with those two powers, but the High end of both are ridiculous. She'll take time, years probably, to get there, but it means she won't be truly out muscled by even most of the big names in the long run. Though Endbringers, of course, are another matter.

Camille

Just finished binging this story, and I’m really enjoying it so far! I’m going through your entire catalogue of stories since originally I was only following Halfway Broken, plus less religiously Confused Pokemon Adventure and Pandora’s Box. After reading Misfit System I realised that was a mistake xD It would be nice if we could eventually get a more in depth look at how Alyssa is training to further develop her powers. Although everything is pretty busy in Gotham at the moment so I understand why you haven’t done so until now. Also I see you’ve already started with polls for shipping, but I wanted to add my two cents in case it’s not something that’s been brought up yet. Since Alyssa is only going to be with 3 girls in total, I personally believe that permanently filling two of the slots with Dinah and Talia would be a mistake especially so early on in the story. The fact that Alyssa’s lifespan is measured in centuries instead of decades would make them a weird match on the long term. Someone like Wonder Woman with an immortal lifespan would make more sense for example. Alyssa having relationships before these slots are locked in is obviously no problem though. And I guess one of her relationship slots being taken by a woman with a normal lifespan would be ok if it’s a perfect fit otherwise since love isn’t logical, but 2 out of 3 would be a bit much. Just my personal opinion, although I guess it wouldn’t matter overly much since your story probably won’t last long enough in world for it to become a huge problem, but it would impact the reader’s ability (or at least mine) to imagine a long-term happy ending for Alyssa once the story concludes. Thanks for sharing this story, and looking forward to whatever comes next!

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Currently, Alyssa hasn't been advancing her own powers much, as they needed time to train as a team more than she needed more power. Once they get the spike of activity in Gotham under control, she'll resume working towards more...including an opportunity to refine her fighting style that will pop up in the release on the 20th ;-). The lifespan thing isn't something Alyssa is really considering. She's not yet used to thinking in those terms, since she didn't originally have that sort of lifespan. Even if she did stop to consider it, it still wouldn't bother her much, as she'd aware there are plenty of ways to extent lifespans available within the various universes she's in an amalgam of. Just her own powers alone would likely allow her to extend a human life to several centuries if she studied the healing/rejuvenation aspects of the 'Force' part of her template seriously enough. Let alone seeking out a Quirk like Eri's from My Hero Academia, or any number of magic options from either DC or Marvel. Even just Super Science, in the form of a half dozen different super soldier formula's floating around. The original Captain America formula (rather then the nerfed MCU version) dramatically expanded his lifespan, without any known side effects, just as one example.

Ixammaxi2 schmal

I love the chapter You called Star knight, Star Night in the beginning of chapter 31

The Foreign Traveler

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