Troper Jewelleddragon's 2010 NaNoWriMo effort. The first half is a time-traveling cyborg romance novel, the second half (called The Shadow Army) is a cyborg spy adventure story, and the whole thing is just as silly as you'd expect. You can read it starting here
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This work provides examples of:
- You Are Number 6
- Calling Me a Logarithm:Emma: "He looks like he's cosplaying the Matrix."Sandra: "He's whatting? That'd better not be a dirty word."
- Catchphrase: Sandra's perennial advice to Emma is "Drive safely, be wise!"
- Cool Gate
- Cool Old Lady: Sandra
- Crash-Into Hello: With a car.
- Cyborg
- Dissimile: "He snapped the handcuff as though it were a handcuff-shaped twig."
- Disappeared Dad (for Emma) and Missing Mom (for David)
- Genre Shift
- Healing Factor: A cyborg power.
- Hipster: Dashiell and Lennon.
- Hypocritical Humor: "Don't yell between rooms!" Sandra yelled.
- The Metric System Is Here to Stay
- My Dad Can Beat Up Your Dad: The two dads actually fight.
- Nanomachines: Used as Applied Phlebotinum.
- Papa Wolf: 2181 steps up to the plate when necessary.
- Paranormal Romance
- Parody
- Purple Prose: For the sake of parody.
- Shout-Out: "Don't you dare get her pregnant. I don't care if her son grows up to save the world!"
- Stable Time Loop
- Super-Strength: Cyborgs have it.
- There Is Only One Bed: Sandra jokes about making David and Emma share a room.
- Time-Travel Romance
- Totally Radical: "That was deck!"
- Trapped in the Past
- Valley Girl: MacKenzie.
