AU; A Meets AU; B

AU; A meets AU; B

Okay, so after writing the little story of @bigg-city-riders-au tugs meet my Giant!AU I’ve been semi regretting not putting my Mythic!AU in the mix with it to, but its also been giving me idea’s for my own AU’s. I love the idea’s of what if AU; A met AU; B, so I’ve decided to do a little thing in this post of what if one of my AU’s met each other, example- Giant!AU met Mythic!AU or Human Machines!AU met cannon. I’m even thinking about more than two meeting- Swap + Cannon + Human Machines. If people want to asked about which of my AU’s meets whom then I’ll post about it, but for now, lets start with Human Machines meets Cannon.

The first question would be which AU comes to who’s world? If HM (Human Machine) came to Cannon then they’d practically have absolutely free range of the place, converter’s aren’t a thing which would make them just super humans. If Cannon came to HM they’d be thoroughly confused and scared that every machine they see can turn human and even then they have what appears to be super powers. If the HM tugs found them (which would be very likely with no where to hide.) they’d probably call the Cannon guys doublegangers and have the authorities involved. Things could mainly only go south from there as they don’t do the normal things converters do.

For the sake because I actually like happy endings lets say HM is dropped off in Cannon. Star and Zero fleet.

Both fleets would see that their not in their own world and have a mini panic attack. Once they realised they have counterparts sailing about everyone goes full human and stays that way, not daring to use their converter abilities in public less they want the navy after them all.

I reckon both fleets would stay together for the time being until they can sort out a plan. The captains probably pulling their money they have on hand together to rent an apartment for a bit.

Both captains immediately send their switchers to do community work to earn money since I imagen that’ll be a lot easier for them to do than for the other tugs who would need resumes.

O.J helps everyone get some fake names and such under their belts as he had to do this when he was raising his son to earn money for food.

Once that’s done everyone tries for work or wanders around the harbor for a while until maybe they interact with their counterparts.

I imagen for the sake of story everyone gets a job as working close to the docks. 

Ten Cents, Sunshine, Zip and Zug I could imagen would work as paper boys or something of that nature.

Hercules, Big Mac, Zebedee and Zak I can imagen would work as dock workers such as lifting/moving heavy cargo.

I’d imagen Warrior would get a job working at the garbage corporation since there’s always a spot open there.

Top Hat I imagen would get a job with working with the railway and for the sake of maybe drama Zorran does to.

Grampus maybe would work at the city café for nostalgia sake and O.J joins him.

Star and Zero would have to use their converter abilities maybe a little to make themselves look younger as to not look like their counterparts, but otherwise I’d imagen them doing something in the harbor like with Hercules or at the railway with Top Hat.

That’s all I got for a beginning, if anyone is interested in more what if A met B then let me know and also what AU’s you would like to see interact.

I wonder if converter transformations can sometimes get painful...

Well, their human bodies disappear leaving a small bit of gold glitter behind in their outline, and when their machine bodies disappear it's in a flush of coloured smoke the same colours as the paint they have.

But I guess if a person were to have a heavily noticeable injury to their face then maybe the first few transitions from human to machine would be painful. E.g maybe being- Sea Rogue, Swap!AU Zug and Top Hat and maybe Captain Star because he has huge scar across his face but no eye missing.

i heard giants au. how big we talking

Grampus = 2.5m

Billy Shoepack = 3m

Zug = 4m

Sunshine = 5m

Zip = 7m

Ten Cents = 9m

Burke & Blair = 10.5m

Lillie Lightship = 13m

O.J = 13m

Boomer = 14m

Warrior = 15m

Zak = 15m

Bluenose = 15m

Big Mac = 16m

Sea Rouge = 16m

Zorran = 17m

Zebedee = 17.5m

Top Hat = 18m

Hercules = 26m

Izzy Gomez = 32m

Johny Cuba = 34m

I posted a ref awhile ago along with some art with a few of the tugs turned giants as well as some stories about how it happened. If yer interested everything is tagged giant!au on my page.

Cinder Scribbles - TUGS Giant!AU (Part 2)

Zorran was apparently the next tug to be runed over with the sickness. Before Hercules broke out of his own former boat body Zorran had been showing the same symptoms, he threw up a black tar like substance and had been preforming worse and worse every day. A few days before Hercules’s transformation he stopped moving entirely, he couldn’t start up his engine again and a few hours after that happened he couldn’t open his doors on his body or animate his ropes anymore.

Captain Zero sent him to Lucky’s yard with Zebedee as his tow and he told the tug he was in charge while he was gone. Zebedee was surprised but Zorran reiterated that he’d just be making sure everyone does their work, the fellow Z-stack nodded and sailed back to the dock when Lucky got Zorran up into dry dock, or at least, tried to.

 Zorran immediately screamed in pain when the racks lifted up from under him, he normally actually liked being out of the water but for some reason his hull decided to assault him with pain.

Lucky immediately called the racks off and decided to at least see how Zorran’s insides were doing, but apparently that wasn’t a good idea ether. The second Lucky held onto Zorran’s side to jump across the tug shrieked in pain so the mechanic recoiled when he noticed that when he held onto Zorran his body squished under his grip.

 Instead of grabbing Zorran he just ran his hand along his body and he noticed just how flimsy it felt, like worn weak leather, a far cry from Hercules.

Lucky hooked himself onto a harness and lifted himself across a pully system on the roof of the warehouse, normally this was used for building a tug or a tug that couldn’t be boarded by ladder or dock, but in this case, it was used so Lucky could have a look around without actually walking on Zorran.

 Lucky tried to open Zorran’s door to his interior but they were like Hercules’s after the mechanic tried to open the tugs door again from walking around in his interior the day prior, they were stuck shut and seemed to cause a lot of discomfort when he tried to pull them open.

So Lucky had a problem. He had no way to actually check Zorran over without actually causing him pain.

 The mechanic got off the harness and address the tug. “Okay, I’ve unfortunately got all bad news Zorran. What do you want to hear first? Worst news or bad news?” “Hit me hard here Lucky, what’s the worst of it?” the mechanic sighed. “I’ve had this nearly exact same situation with Hercules, his body was rubbery and awkward to stand on and he showed discomfort when I did. You have a similar thing except I believe worse. Your body feels really flimsy like there’s not much behind it to support it, so my worst immediate fear is if you get punctured by something you could quite possibly sink. That’s my worst news, so I might have to keep you here for a while because I’m not comfortable in letting you go out and risk it.” Zorran groaned clearly not liking this. “The lesser news is that I don’t even have a way to properly check you, your doors won’t open and I’m not about to go hacking into you to go check.” “So I’m up stacks creek without a paddle?” “More like you’ve sank but haven’t sunk.” “Seeping stacks.”

 Lucky then called Zero to have ether of his switchers come get Zorran and bring him back to dock for the time being. When Zug arrived Lucky warned him to make sure Zorran doesn’t run into anything, the little tug nodded and the two Z’s set off back to their dock.

 After Hercules transformed in the middle of the docks and had calmed down he took to just sitting at the Star dock until further notice, but he was so big now that even sitting down in the water he was big enough to look over to the Zero dock and it made Zorran really uneasy because he now knew what was in store for himself. Which was a lot sooner than he originally thought.

  About a few hours after Hercules changed it was around sun set when Zorran started to tiredly nod off and when his head started to droop into his body he freaked out and immediately righted himself causing him to stretch his body and water started flooding into his hull from a massive tear. “Ah!” Zorran shrieked causing Hercules to look over at the rapidly sinking tug. He stood up and leaned over the wall that separated the two docks and placed his hand under the tugs hull, Zorran squeaked when he saw the massive human move towards him but was glad when he realised the former tug boat was just holding him from sinking.

Zorran looked up to the office window of his fleet and tried to see if his captain was there. “Hercules, can you tell if Captain Zero is in there?” Hercules rested the arm that had the hand he was using to hold Zorran up with on the wall that separated the docks, so he would have balance as he used his other hand to gently as he could lift the window to the office up. The smell of something alcoholic and diesel fumes immediately assaulted his nose, Hercules roughly gaged and turned away from the office.

 “Bleh!” Hercules gaged shaking his head not to dissimilar to an animal. “Woah, watch it!” Zorran shouted as he was still being held by the ocean tug. “Sorry, but that smell is way to strong for me.” “Then don’t smell, look, you know, with your eyes?” the tug said sarcastically. “I could drop you, you know.” Hercules said looking to Zorran with an unamused expression. He looked back into the office anyway and found who he believed to be Captain Zero passed out at his desk. “He’s out cold.” Hercules told. “Stacks. Um, could you get me to Lucky’s then?” “Are you asking me to carry you?” the giant asked looking puzzled at the Z-stack. “If you drop me now I’ll sink.” “I haven’t got a good enough hold on walking yet to carry you safely… I could just place you somewhere on the dock for the time being and go tell Captain Star.” “Wait! When I went to Lucky’s before he tried to get me on to drydock with the racks but they really hurt, if you put me on some hard surface I believe the same thing will happen only a lot more painful.” “Well I can’t just hold you until someone notices. …And I’m holding you the same way the racks do, how come this doesn’t hurt you?” “Your hand is a lot more soft than metal.”

 Zorran looked around to assess the position he was in. “What if you hold me the way we are now and just move me around to your dock? Then you can tell Captain Star.” “Alright, but this may feel a little shaky.” Hercules said then doing his best to pivot in the position he was in to get Zorran around the wall and into the Star dock.

As Zorran was jostled he could feel his hull begin to ache, maybe being spun around to the Star dock wasn’t such a good idea but he was resting with the decision now. It was then that he heard a familiar horn belonging to Zak come into the dock.

 “Wha? Pfft! W-What is Hercules doing to ya Zorran? Using you as a toy? Haha!” the other harbor tug asked beginning to laugh. “He is? Hercules why didn’t you tell me?” Zorran asked with a load of sarcasm laced in his tone. “I’d thought I could get away with it, but maybe Zak will make a better toy than you.” The other tug suddenly cut off from his laughter and smiled sheepishly up at the giant before backing away.

 Once Hercules finally got Zorran over to the Star dock and after Zak got over his fear he decided to follow and watch from afar. Zorran wasn’t feeling any better as he began to feel more sick like he would throw up again. “Ugh… I feel like I might spew Hercules.” Zorran warned as he was brought closer to the dock. “Thanks for the heads up.” Hercules reluctantly grit out through his teeth semi regretting helping the Z-stack now after the scene they’ve made.

Hercules gently tapped the office wall of the building to get Captain Star’s attention. When the man opened the window he was surprised to see what Hercules was doing and why he was holding Zorran. “What are you doing Hercules? Why are you holding Zorran like that?” the captain asked through the megaphone causing Hercules to back away and cringe. “Please don’t use that sir, it really hurts.” The captain did as asked and placed his megaphone back into the office before just peeking his head out. “Why are you carrying Zorran like that?” Star repeated.

 “I saw him begin to sink so I grabbed him. Captain Zero is out cold so I carefully brought him over here.” “Is there a hole in him or something?” “I can feel a tear under my bow.” Zorran answered.

Star expected to need to use his megaphone to talk to Zorran since normally the tugs couldn’t hear him otherwise, but it appears something was happening to the tugs hearings.

 “Hercules can you lift him to see what it is fully?” Star asked. “Okay… Sorry Zorran you told me this may hurt.” Hercules apologized then using both hands to attempt to lift the tug completely out of the water. “Wait-wait-wait!” Zorran shouted before he was lifted. “AH!” The no.1 Z-stack cried out as he was lifted up by under the hull.

Zorran could feel panic and pain writhe in his hull as he tried to wiggle and squirm his way out of danger, his mind running on complete auto-piolet and instincts. He did end up getting free but not in the way he wanted to.

 Arms and legs broke out of his body flailing, making Hercules stumble back from the sudden added weight he had above him and making him fall backwards into the water.

The former ocean tug was quick to push Zorran off him so he could lift his head out of the water but when he saw Zorran he was actually rather surprised by the sight. The now former harbor tug turned giant was an odd sight to see to Hercules from an outsiders perspective, but one thing that stuck out to Hercules was that Zorran looked rather thin compared to what he believed humans should look like under their clothing. His ribs were showing and he over all looked rather gangly.

 When Hercules realised that Zorran wasn’t sitting up from out of the water he lifted the poor tug out himself to which Zorran took a deep breath in as soon as his head was out. He heaved and coughed as Hercules lifted him up and held him close so he would have something to rest on. Once Zorran was breathing normally he looked up to Hercules weakly before his head dropped back down and he promptly passed out unconscious.

“Zorran? Zorran?!” Hercules asked moving the new giants head to look up at him when Captain Star spoke to him. “Calm down Hercules, I think he just fell asleep. It may be best to let him rest for now, can you hold onto him just in case until he wakes up?” Hercules looked back down to Zorran and positioned the former tugs head to rest on his chest, Star took that as a silent yes. In Hercules’s eyes, just because Zorran was a grade A jerk didn’t mean he deserved to perish, and the tug now looked so vulnerable and fragile. If it was one word Hercules would never describe Zorran as, it would be defenceless and weak. He honestly wasn’t despite what many others would lead to believe.

 Hercules rested his head back onto the dock and held Zorran strongly to his chest so he wouldn’t slip off and back into the water. The newly transformed tug was so frail and thin, like all it would take was a strong breeze to knock him over if he were to stand. Whenever Zorran did get to standing, Hercules assumed he would have to be the one to help him, the former ocean tug believed he was going to be in for quite the ride.

He then felt something brush his leg. When he looked it was Zak with Zorran’s hat on his front deck and a worried expression on his wheelhouse. Hercules nudged to the right to make room for the still current tug and he watched carefully as Zak pulled up alongside his side just barely tickling his ribs. He carefully moved Zorran’s hat to next to Hercules’s head and took one finale look at the now giant tug before backing out.

Hercules could tell Zak was maybe a little worried, or maybe the sight of Zorran creeped him out, either way, he believed there was going to be some concern going around the Zero dock for a while.

SPOILERS! So while writing the first chapter for the Human Machine Swap!AU (I’m going to be calling it the HMS!AU from now on) I’ve officially made it so that, that worlds Hercules is completely smitten over Zebadiah and is competing with his twin sister Goliah for his affection. The guy is basically a high school girl with a crush, unlike my OG HM!AU Hercules who knows how to talk with people he likes. That’s honestly all I got, but the mental image of someone with Hercules’s face struggling to get a confession out is rather funny to me. 

I might wonder if someone in the giant au might reenact the lake cannonball scene from movie The Iron Giant?

I immediately just had a brain child of all the tugs going to ether the local sea cliffs of bluffs for like a fun day out, and the captains teach the tugs how to cannonball but they almost immediately regret it when they end up flooding a few places. Especially when Hercules has a go.