History Fanfic / ApexPredator

* ''FanFic/ApexPredatorMHA'': A ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' fanfic.
* ''FanFic/ApexPredatorWorm'': A ''Literature/{{Worm}}'' fanfic.

* FanFic/ApexPredatorMHA: A ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' fanfic.
* FanFic/ApexPredatorWorm: A ''Literature/{{Worm}}'' fanfic.

Apex Predator is a ''Literature/{{Worm}}'' fanfic by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/2246748/Beastrider9 Beastrider9]] the same author of ''Fanfic/BiomassEffect''.

At the moment of Taylors trigger the Queen Administrator shard is devoured by a darker than pitch black EldritchAbomination. Said EldritchAbomination then bonds with Taylor so she can aid it in the hunting of its prey shards.

Found on Website/SpaceBattlesDotCom [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/apex-predator.1012791/ here]].

The fanfic was completed on August 2022.

'''Beware, Literature/{{Worm}} Spoilers below!'''

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!! This fic provides examples of:
* AdaptationalAbomination: In canon Taylor was just a parahuman, here she is essentially the avatar of a EldritchAbomination that eats other {{Eldritch Abomination}}s.
* AllForNothing:
** Quoted word for word by Kaiser/Max Anders as he gave up in front of Apex/Erebus, who had dismantled the Empire 88's control of Brockton and depowered their powerful parahumans.
** All of Cauldron's efforts to destroy Scion has been for nothing after Apex appeared and usurped their plans and carried the deed. After the Golden Dusk, Doctor Mother has time to reflect over Cauldron's "ends justified the means" approach and every atrocities they committed to "save" the world were ultimately unnecessary, and making her [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone feeling genuinely guilty and awful]].
* AlternateUniverseReedRichardsIsAwesome: Without the influence of his shard, Armsmaster's "remnant" powers of knowing mundane nanotechnology allows him to can create practical nanomachines that can be fully understood and replicate by non-Tinker scientists. Armsmaster even hopes that his research will eventually allow humanity to create claytronics. After the Golden Dusk, Armsmaster, Dragon, Kid Win and other ex-Tinkers can make technology that can be understood and replicate.
* AlwaysABiggerFish: Apex is this to the shards, having evolved on the same planet Apex filled the role of an apex predator with the shards filling the role of prey animals, the author even compares the shards to krill and Apex to a whale.
* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: More like better to die than be depowered, Nilbog kills himself rather than let Taylor devour his power.
* BookDumb:
** Bonesaw reveals that she can’t read when Jack asks if she’s ever read ''Literature/{{Frankenstein}}''.
** Contessa reveals that she can’t read to Doctor Mother when she calls Taylor Apex instead of her official designation Erebus.
* BroughtDownToNormal: Ex-parahumans are devoid of their powers after Apex devoured their shards. However, it is later revealed that all the ex-parahumans retained little remains (or "diet versions") of their original powers. Though in a [[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway reduced form]].
* ButNowIMustGo: After the Golden Dusk and devouring the last shards on Earth, Apex part ways with Taylor and travel across the multiverse to continue its hunt for other entities.
* CloningBlues: A lot of the surviving Echidna undoubtedly have to deal with this, especially in regards to identity crisis.
** Burnscar’s clone especially has this problem, as she has to deal with calls for her death due to the actions of her original.
* DeathByAdaptation: Beyond the shards that Apex devours a few human characters who in canon never died do here.
** In canon Weld and Flechette survived all the way to the [[Literature/{{Ward}} sequel]], here they are both killed by the Butcher.
*** [[spoiler: Flechette’s death is semi-undone [[CloningGambit via cloning]] however, due to one of her Echidna clones escaping and reverting back to Flechette’s base personality. Said clone eventually joins the PRT/Protectorate under the name Foil.]]
** Citrine is {{Mercy Kill}}ed by Taylor after depowering her due to [[BodyHorror what]] Bonesaw did to her.
*** [[spoiler: Like Flechette, she gets semi-resurrected via a clone.]]
** Kamil Armstrong is killed during the Slaughterhouse 9’s attack on Boston.
** Teacher was killed by Glaistig Uaine.
** Nilbog kills himself to prevent Erebus from depowering him.
** Califa de Perro is killed by Glaistig Uaine.
** Marquis was killed to add his power to Gaia.
** Moord Nag was killed to add her power to Gaia.
** Spur kills himself seemingly to prevent Gaia from getting his power.
** Lustrum was killed to add her power to Gaia.
** Night is killed and [[TheAssimilator assimilated]] by Gaia.
** Glaistig Uaine is killed by Scion.
* TheDreaded: Taylor/Erebus quickly becomes this to parahumans of all alignments due to being able to permanently remove their powers, even the shards grow to fear her.
* EndOfAnAge:
** Taylor/Apex are the heralds to the end of the age of parahumans. After the Golden Dusk, no newborn shards are created and Taylor/Apex have been depowering every parahuman left on Earth, leaving only "remnants", thus superpowered people will eventually be no more in the future.
** For the group Toy Box their monopoly over tinkertech will soon end as ex-Tinkers can make advanced technology that can be fully understood by normal people and can be mass produced.
* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: Invoked by Labyrinth during the fight between Erebus and Faultline's Crew, and subsequently played straight for many subsequent chapters. ''Apex Predator'' also happens to have both a higher word count and more Dinosaur species than almost all other ''Worm'' fics to use this trope.
* GoMadFromTheIsolation: Bakuda wind up becoming utterly lost in the forests of New York and eventually going further mad without human contact until she met Cherie Vasil's still living head, whom she dubs her "Wilson".
* HeroOfAnotherStory: Fafnir takes responsibility in looking after Ellisburg and its inhabitants after Nilbog's suicide.
* HopeSpot: In the chapter “The Tide Turns” one of Taylor/Apex’s minions kills Gaia and for a moment things look like they’re improving then Eidolon starts screaming with [[VoiceOfTheLegion many voices]] showing that he has inherited the mantle of the Butcher, [[FromBadToWorse then]] he is killed and the mantle claimed by Glaistig Uaine.
* LivingShadow: Taylor in her Erebus form is described as being so dark that she appears 2 dimensional.
* NamedByTheAdaptation: Faultline's full name is Melanie Fitts.
* NoSell: A side effect of Taylor depowering a parahuman is that the former parahumans gain an immunity to striker and master powers.
* PrimalFear: Victims of Apex are induced with [[HatesBeingAlone monophobia]], [[DarkIsEvil nyctophobia]], paranoia, and PTSD.
* ScaredOfWhatsBehindYou: Doctor Mother became aware that Legend is compromised by Apex and deliberately arranged to have Legend's shard be devoured in order to meet Apex/Taylor this way: distracting him long enough for Apex/Taylor to appear behind him.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere:
** [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/apex-predator.1012791/page-45?post=85183502#post-85183502 The author]] reveals that after Erebus showed up many independent capes fled Brockton Bay.
--->'''[=Beastrider9=]:''' A couple of independents left the city when it became known a power eating monster roams the streets. This includes Spitfire, Circus, and Trainwreck who all GTFO'd.
** After Erebus devoured Scion most parahumans don’t even try fighting her and just run.
* ShoutOut:
** Velocity describes a Hadrosaur as "[[WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime Ducky]]" before Triumph corrects him.
** Bakuda dubs Cherie Vasil's head [[Film/CastAway Wilson]].
* SingleSpecimenSpecies: Apex is a one of a kind being.
--> He was truly unique. As far as Apex was aware, there was only one example of his ‘species’ if such a term could apply to whatever he was at all.
* TookALevelInKindness: After their exposure to Apex, Sophia and Emma are turned much nicer and humble, making them to feel repentant for all their awful actions. Even the latter [[AintTooProudToBeg begged on her knees to Taylor for forgiveness]].
* {{Twinmaker}}: A number of Echidna clones who managed to escape Boston end up eventually reverting back to the original’s personality while Echidna’s hold over them evaporates. As a result, a small number of characters killed in Boston effectively get resurrected through their identical clones.
** Doubly so in the case of Burnscar, who has a clone created and is given a new chance at life while the original is still alive and causing chaos with the Slaughterhouse Nine.
* VillainousBreakdown:
** After Apex/Erebus depowered the Empire's prominent parahumans, Kaiser/Max Anders had no idea on how to battle Apex/Erebus and eventually decided that there's no point in fighting the entity, willing to let it take his powers. But Anders then freaks out when Erebus tells him that she also planned on exposing his identity to the public, thus destroying his reputation and losing Medhall.
** When Apex confronts Coil, he is reduced to a simpering wreck.
* WhamLine: Tattletale learns to her horror that Oni Lee's power was never teleportation, but SelfDuplication, which made him a [[BlankSlate blank slate]] due to having experienced everyone of his duplicates dying.
-->"His power… it… it wasn’t teleportation. It was… copies."
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The side stories focus on what happened to other prominent characters that were not in the main story, such as Bakuda.
* WhatTheHellAreYou: Faultline's reaction to properly meeting Apex itself.
-->'''Faultline:''' What the hell is that thing anyway?
-->'''Apex:''' '''[[VoiceOfTheLegion {[I aM]}]]'''
* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: Ex-parahumans retained little leftover of their original powers dubbed "remnants". Some of them are barely useful, such as [[{{Sizeshifter}} Menja and Fenja]] being 8-9 feet tall without the health problems that usually affect people that tall, Kaiser's basically a metal detector, and Armsmaster has an encyclopedic understanding of mundane nanotechnology.
** That said, some ex-parahumans have moderately good versions of their powers, as [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/apex-predator.1012791/page-52?post=85368188#post-85368188 the author]] explains that the more powerful a parahuman was, the better their remnant is.
** Armsmaster's knowledge of nanotechnology turns out to be quite useful as he can make practical nanomachines whose designs and science can now be understood by ordinary scientists.
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** StockDinosaurs: ''Brontosaurus'' is mentioned, while ''Charcharodontosaurus'' and Hadrosaurs appear on-screen.
*** UsefulNotes/StockDinosaursNonDinosaurs: Brian has his car flipped over by a Woolly Mammoth and sat on by a Giant Ground Sloth, Tattletale encounters a Pterodactyl, and Rachel tames some Dire Wolves.

** SeldomSeenSpecies: ''Giraffatitan'' (a Sauropod often confused for the stock Brachiosaurus) is the first Dinosaur to appear on-screen, Miss Militia encounters an ''Ambopteryx'', Armsmaster encounters a ''Titanoboa'', and Regent Masters a ''Zuniceratops''.
** Director Piggot does not share in the audience's relishing of this trope, considering the dozens of Dinosaur species living in and around Brockton Bay to be a nuisance.

* ButNowIMustGo: After the Golden Dusk and devouring the last shards on Earth, Apex part ways with Taylor and travel across the multiverse to continue its hunt for other shards.

* AllForNothing: Quoted word for word by Kaiser/Max Anders as he gave up in front of Apex/Erebus, who had dismantled the Empire 88's control of Brockton and depowered their powerful parahumans.

* EndOfAnAge: Taylor/Apex are the heralds to the end of the age of parahumans. After the Golden Dusk, no newborn shards are created and Taylor/Apex have been depowering every parahuman left on Earth, leaving only "remnants", thus superpowered people will eventually be no more in the future.
** For the Toy Box their monopoly over tinkertech will soon end as ex-Tinkers can make advanced technology that can be fully understood by normal people and can be mass produce.

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/apex-predator.1012791/page-45?post=85183502#post-85183502 The author]] reveals that after Erebus showed up many independent capes fled Brockton Bay.
-->'''[=Beastrider9=]:''' A couple of independents left the city when it became known a power eating monster roams the streets. This includes Spitfire, Circus, and Trainwreck who all GTFO'd.
* ShoutOut: Velocity describes a Hadrosaur as "[[WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime Ducky]]" before Triumph corrects him.

* VillainousBreakdown: After Apex/Erebus depowered the Empire's prominent parahumans, Kaiser/Max Anders had no idea on how to battle Apex/Erebus and eventually decided that there's no point in fighting the entity, willing to let it take his powers. But Anders then freaks out when Erebus tells him that she also planned on exposing his identity to the public, thus destroying his reputation and losing Medhall.

* TookALevelInKindness: After their exposure to Apex, Sophia and Emma are turned much nicer and humble. Even the latter [[AintTooProudToBeg begged on her knees to Taylor for forgiveness]].

** All of Cauldron's efforts to destroy Scion has been for nothing after Apex appeared and usurped their plans for killing Scion. After the Golden Dusk, Doctor Mother has time to reflect over Cauldron's "ends justified the means" approach and every horrible things they committed to "save" the world have been amounted to nothing, and leaving her feeling genuinely guilty and awful.

* AlternateUniverseReedRichardsIsAwesome: Without the influence of his shard, Armsmaster's "remnant" powers of knowing mundane nanotechnology allows him to can create practical nanomachines that can be fully understood and replicate by non-Tinker scientists. Armsmaster even hopes that his research will eventually allow humanity to create claytronics.

* EndOfAnAge: Taylor/Apex are the heralds to the end of the age of parahumans.

* ScaredOfWhatsBehindYou: Doctor Mother became aware that Legend is compromised by Apex and deliberately arranged to have Legend's shard be devoured in order to meet Apex/Taylor this way.