Worm Chapter List
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Insinuation |
Agitation
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Hive |
Tangle
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Buzz |
Extermination |
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Parasite |
Infestation
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Snare{{#if: 12 | | Chapter Count || 12 }} {{#if: 60,541 | | Word Count || 60,541 }}
SummaryThe Nine's tests begin. After Burnscar turns a narrow but decisive victory against Mannequin into a mutual retreat, Taylor persuades the Travelers and Undersiders to change tactics and attack the Nine directly rather than risk weeks of attacks without rest. The plan is a success, resulting in the capture of both Shatterbird and Cherish, but the remaining members of the Nine take Grue captive in return. After the Protectorate refuses their request for help, the Travelers and Undersiders mobilize to rescue Grue (and possibly Imp). They distract most of the Nine by giving their location to the city's other villains, but Bonesaw still manages to capture the strike team, plus an enraged Parian. She's considering a selection of fates worse than death for them when Grue has a second trigger event. He kills Burnscar, heals his captive teammates, and forces Jack to cut Bonesaw's hands off at the wrists and abandon the battlefield. In the aftermath of the mutual rescue, Taylor attempts to support Brian emotionally. He explains his new power- the darkness he generates has always slightly hampered the powers of other capes inside it; now, that effect is magnified, and he can access some of the abilities the affected capes lose. Chapters
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Prey{{#if: 13 | | Chapter Count || 13 }} {{#if: 73,498 | | Word Count || 73,498 }}
SummaryThe Protectorate's attack on the Nine is a success, eliminating Mannequin and Crawler and putting the Siberian on the defensive for the first time. But the string of victories by the heroes prompts Bonesaw to release the penalty she prepared for the Nine's game: a bioweapon that destroys the ability to recognize other people. Unable to identify friend or foe and severely hampered by the resulting isolation and paranoia, Taylor manages to contact Panacea and get her to release a cure, but in the meantime, Jack learns of Dinah's prophecy. Intrigued by the future it promises, he and his remaining teammates leave Brockton Bay with one new recruit- after a quick stop to punish the traitor in their ranks. One donation interlude: Legend meets with the top tier of the Protectorate regarding the results of his stay in Brockton Bay, including the new information about the Siberian. Closing interlude: Sierra, Taylor's employee, continues to manage day-to-day life in Skitter's territory, until her boss returns from the campaign against the Nine. Chapters
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Colony{{#if: 14 | | Chapter Count || 14 }} {{#if: 78,154 | | Word Count || 78,154 }}
SummaryThe Slaughterhouse Nine are gone, but now Taylor is convinced that Coil has no intention of releasing Dinah. The Undersiders agree to back her up when she's ready to move against him. She even recruits a new ally in Parian, after donating money to cover treatment costs for the rogue's family members who were altered by Bonesaw. Her day takes a turn for the worse when Coil orders her, Trickster, and Genesis to deliver a message to the mayor. Intimidating a public official at dinner with his family would be uncomfortable enough, but Tattletale also gets a strong impression that Coil intends for Skitter to be killed in action. And then the Protectorate shows up... Chapters
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Monarch{{#if: 16 | | Chapter Count || 16 }} {{#if: 91,947 | | Word Count || 91,947 }}
SummaryThe Travelers and Undersiders are on track to have the city under control by Coil's deadline— until seven of Dragon's suits descend on the city with orders to capture them. Coil volunteers the use of his assembled resources to deal with the problem, and offers additional incentives including a promise to honor the condition Taylor proposed. Now all she has to do is make sure the two teams come out victorious against seven times the firepower ever deployed by the best tinker in the world... and then find out if Coil intends to keep his promise. Chapters
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Migration{{#if: 8 | | Chapter Count || 8 }} {{#if: 52,506 | | Word Count || 52,506 }}
SummaryThe origin of the Travelers- all seven of them. We learn how they met, how they got their powers, the nature of their common goal as capes, and why they came to Brockton Bay. An all-interlude arc, similar to Sentinel, but with a single perspective. Chapters
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Queen[[Category:{{#switch:|File=Files|Template=Templates|articles}} in need of completion]] {{#if: 13 | | Chapter Count || 13 }} {{#if: 77,070 | | Word Count || 77,070 }}
Queen is the eighteenth arc of Worm. It is preceded by Migration and followed by Scourge. SummaryThe fight with Noelle begins. In one corner, the Undersiders, the Brockton Bay Protectorate and Wards, and a dozen or so heroes from out of town, including Eidolon. In the other corner, Noelle, with access to Circus, Über, Leet, and one local hero. It doesn't go well. Chapters
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Scourge[[Category:{{#switch:|File=Files|Template=Templates|articles}} in need of completion]] {{#if: 10 | | Chapter Count || 10 }} {{#if: 66,684 | | Word Count || 66,684 }}
Scourge is the nineteenth arc of Worm. It is preceded by Queen and followed by Chrysalis. SummaryThe fight with Echidna continues, secrets and hidden agendas are revealed. Skitter steps up and turns the tide. Showing herself to still be a hero. In the concluding chapter Emma's history is laid bare. Chapter
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Chrysalis[[Category:{{#switch:|File=Files|Template=Templates|articles}} in need of completion]] {{#if: 7 | | Chapter Count || 7 }} {{#if: 43,508 | | Word Count || 43,508 }}
SummarySettling into her position as Warlord of Brockton Bay Taylor wakes up in her house, having returned to her civilian identity. She is called back to deal with a situation in her territory, where she dispenses harsh justice. She is then called to Arcadia High to deal with a situation there. After dealing with it, she gets into a confrontation with her former best friend. After a capable administer handles it, Taylor is informed that heroes are coming to arrest her. She tries to sneak out but is eventually herded into the cafeteria with everyone else. Realizing that she had been pushed into a situation where all of her credibility would be destroyed if she tries to escape, Taylor instead reveals her identity and appeals to the students there. They help her escape and Dragon helps, mentally crippling herself in the process. Later, news crews come to find out what happened. A few days after that, Accord and his ambassadors arrive at a truce meeting with several other villainous groups. This meeting is hosted by the Undersiders and they lay down the law, showing how things have changed in Brockton Bay. Later, Accord proves that in the grand scheme of things, nothing has changed. Chapters
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Imago[[Category:{{#switch:|File=Files|Template=Templates|articles}} in need of completion]] {{#if: 9 | | Chapter Count || 9 }} {{#if: 56,560 | | Word Count || 56,560 }}
SummaryTattletale's portal has attracted several new cape groups to the city. As de facto crime lord of Brockton Bay following Coil's downfall, Taylor sets out to get her house in order. She and the Undersiders fight off the Teeth and the Fallen and forge a treaty with the Ambassadors. Chapters
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Cell{{#if: 8 | | Chapter Count || 8 }} {{#if: 58,640 | | Word Count || 58,640 }}
SummaryHaving surrendered to the PRT, but still holding a number of other cards in reserve, Taylor tries to bargain for the chance that things will change, either in Brockton Bay or the world at large. Director Tagg, naturally, has other plans. Unexpectedly, so does Alexandria. Chapters
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Drone{{#if: 6 | | Chapter Count || 6 }} {{#if: 45,308 | | Word Count || 45,308 }}
SummaryFinally entering the ranks of the Protectorate, but not yet placed on a team, the newly christened Weaver splits her time between jail and a series of deployments while she tries to find her footing as a hero. The first local she is sent to is New York where she is evaluated by a jury of her peers. Ward captains of various major teams. She participates in an action against the Adepts. and as usual our protagonist is instrumental in defeating them. She is later part of a squad sent to Las Vegas along with Rime, Vantage and others. They try to stop the kidnapping of a Prisoner but instead find them caught up in a large web of intrigue including the boogeyman. Weaver later confronts the PRT's Image Director who has been handicapping her in her missions in an effort to be "politically correct". This turns out to be part of the very compromise that got her into the wards of the first place. Weaver finally has her meeting with Jessica Yamada who is able to take her to Boston. Against all odd things actually look to be going well. Then she gets word of New Delhi. Weaver gets ferried by Dragon and Defiant who were en route. Defiant gave her a gift in part of the righting of past wrongs. She mentions her future team and makes an important decision regarding how she'll deal with the endbringers. Chapters
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Edit: Flaired this as 'up to Drone'. Keep spoilers in mind, please, for anything beyond that point. I don't care that the OP has read fanfic and probably been exposed to 1000 variants on the idea. It's just good etiquette. - Wildbow on Reddit</ref> References<references/>
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Crushed[[Category:{{#switch:|File=Files|Template=Templates|articles}} in need of completion]] {{#if: 7 | | Chapter Count || 7 }} {{#if: 56,206 | | Word Count || 56,206 }}
Crushed is the twenty-fourth arc of Worm. It is preceded by Drone and followed by Scarab. SummaryWeaver's part in the battle against Behemoth in New Delhi brings her into contact with various factions, from the Undersiders and the Chicago Wards to Cauldron, the Yangban, and the powerful and ruthless parahumans that move through India's underground like shadows. Chapters
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Scarab[[Category:{{#switch:|File=Files|Template=Templates|articles}} in need of completion]] {{#if: 7 | | Chapter Count || 7 }} {{#if: 55,233 | | Word Count || 55,233 }}
SummaryHaving found a place as a hero with the Chicago Wards, Taylor begins to prepare for the end of the world. Along the way, she encounters the Directors of the PRT, representatives from more shadowy factions of capes, and the Endbringers' retaliation for Behemoth's death. The last chapter jumps forward nearly two years: Taylor makes a return visit to Brockton Bay on her eighteenth birthday, before her induction to the Protectorate. Chapters
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Sting[[Category:{{#switch:|File=Files|Template=Templates|articles}} in need of completion]] {{#if: 10 | | Chapter Count || 10 }} {{#if: 85,143 | | Word Count || 85,143 }}
SummaryWith over 200 Slaughterhouse Nine clones at his disposal, Jack Slash creates a trail of deadly scenarios across America while continually baiting Theo to try and kill him. Still concerned about Jack sparking the end of the world, Weaver and the Protectorate launch a measured response, enlisting as many heroes, villains and other allies as possible, while prioritizing a quarantine between Jack and anyone with the power to create the outcome Dinah warns of. The Slaughterhouse '9000' carry out a rampage across the United States and probably North America. Trapped in Gray Boy's time bubble with Jack, Scion recalls his life. Listening to Jack's words, he comes to a decision and blasts the UK off of the map. The heroes' efforts have been useless. Chapters
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Extinction{{#if: 7 | | Chapter Count || 7 }} {{#if: 44,723 | | Word Count || 44,723 }}
SummaryAs the world reels from Scion's initial attacks, Taylor returns to Brockton Bay with Rachel to help with search and rescue. The apparent futility of her best efforts over the past years nearly sends Taylor into total despair, but Tattletale intervenes at a key moment by inviting her to a council of war. In the face of an enemy who's never been defeated, the assembled representatives of the world's cape factions agree to desperate measures, including the release of strategic parahuman criminals from the Birdcage and other prisons. Together they stage an initial offensive, and achieve some successes, but at a high price. Chapters
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Cockroaches{{#if: 7 | | Chapter Count || 7 }} {{#if: 49,838 | | Word Count || 49,838 }}
SummaryTaylor wakes up in hospital, fully healed, but finds humanity in a much worse state than she left it. After the disaster at the oil rig, defending forces have more or less given up on defeating Scion, and new problems have arisen, ranging from infighting among refugee groups to the presence of multiple Endbringers. Determined not to let humanity go out with a whimper, Taylor assembles a small squad of known assets, starting with the Undersiders and Defiant, to find and apply solutions wherever possible. In the process, however, they discover new assets as well- ones whose power serves to rally the remaining parahumans to try again. Chapters
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Venom is the twenty-ninth arc of Worm. It is preceded by Cockroaches and followed by Speck. SummaryTaylor Hebert, Tattletale, and the Simurgh travel to Earth Gimel. There, Tattletale helps Vista and others organize transport routes across Earth Bet. Weaver banters with members of the Undersiders and the Chicago Wards. News breaks that Scion is hitting Earth Samech (A Cauldron controlled Earth), but almost immediately, Scion appears over Gimel. Scion begins decimating the defending force. The Simurgh enters the battle, further terrifying and demoralizing everyone. Through a confluence of events the capes on the battlefield see and remember their trigger events. Taylor forms a strike team from members of the Chicago wards, Undersiders, and people like Lung, and even Shadow Stalker, parahumans she is familiar with. Making their way to Cauldron's complex, held up by Nix and Spur of Vegas Dark. Walking through the wreck of the complex and cauldron plans they encounter the Irregulars and escape with the aid of The Custodian. Discovering that the base has been breached through Mantellum's help, Canary is able to make sure they don't get caught, Imp rescues Sveta. The Strike team encounters the remnant of Vegas Dark and finds that they, too, are on a mission, to rescue Pretender. The teams fight, and the Strike Team wins, being forced into the secure chamber that Cauldron's leadership fled to, just as Scion arrives, tearing apart the complex. There they find five Harbinger Clones, the Number Man, Doctor Mother, Manton and Pretender. Doctor Mother has Taylor's team subdued by the Harbingers, and prepares to imbibe a particularly powerful vial in order to hold off Scion. She also explains the purpose of the extreme deviants; their damaged shards were intended to confound Scion's senses and hold him off while Cauldron prepared other measures over the years. As the combined group make their way into the chamber, Scion enters. He shatters every vial, including the one Doctor Mother needed, and damages the complex. It also destroys the Sveta's container freeing the case 53 and her uncontrollable body. Sveta kills Doctor Mother, as the body has to kill something and crushes Taylor's arm when the hero warns her of the collapsing ceiling. Sveta flees into central chamber and inadvertently brings Taylor along, bringing them into the central chamber. Where Eden's corpse lies. Traveling across the body Taylor meets up with her team who has survived. Scion comes to the central of the garden of flesh, where Eden's partially-formed avatar rests. The golden man ends Eden's life and immolates the remains, and begins to collapse the entire complex. Enacting a final gambit Taylor's team coordinates with Sveta and the Cauldron survivors, the Case 53 throws pieces of Eden's still burning corpse at Scion to distract him. The golden man leaves, distraught and angry for the first time. As the ceiling collapses, Golem creates a barrier around the group, and Manton uses the Siberian to make it invulnerable. And pretender carries the result out. They make their way back to Gimel, seeking medical attention for her battered group. The strike team settles in debriefing with Tattletale and talking with Marquis. Taylor asks for Panacea or Bonesaw to perform some kind of alteration to her Corona pollentia, so she can return to the baatlefield. The chapter ends with Taylor undergoing apotheosis. Contessa, previously thought dead, reviews her life as she returns to the ruins of cauldron, her life's work. She meets some questionable new allies and learns about the new yet familiar threat. Chapters
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Speck[[Category:{{#switch:|File=Files|Template=Templates|articles}} in need of completion]] {{#if: 7 | | Chapter Count || 7 }} {{#if: 54,841 | | Word Count || 54,841 }}
Speck is the thirtieth arc of Worm. It is preceded by Venom and followed by Teneral. SummaryPanacea modifies Taylor's brain in an attempt to give her power more of an edge in the ongoing battle against Scion. The range of Taylor's power is reduced to sixteen feet and she loses the ability to speak, but she gains the ability to completely control anybody within her range. Marquis, Tattletale, and Lung, believing that Taylor is now too dangerous to be let loose, attempt to apprehend her and keep her on an alternate Earth until the fighting is over. After a brief scuffle, Taylor manages to gain control of Canary and uses her power to sedate the others and escape. On the battlefield against Scion, Taylor attempts to use her new power to fight Scion with a small contingent of capes. She struggles to obtain a handle on some of their powers and does some minor damage against Scion, but uses a teleporter to escape before he can retaliate. She is met by Glaistig Uaine, who notices Taylor's deteriorating mental state and warns her to hold onto an anchor of her humanity. Taylor seeks out Dragon in order to find Teacher, The Yàngbǎn, the remnants of the Birdcage, and other large cape groups, and realizes she has lost the ability to read and is slowly losing her comprehension of language. Dragon understands something is wrong, but trusts Taylor enough to give her the information. Taylor returns to the camp, seizes control of Clairvoyant and Doormaker, and sets off after Teacher. She finds Teacher and confronts him after subduing his group. He offers to use his power to grant her the ability to speak, but she refuses, not wanting to subject herself to his influence. She takes control of his group, using Doormaker to build an overlapping array of portals to extend her range, and takes control of the Yàngbǎn before traveling to the Birdcage. She finds Dragon still guarding the Birdcage and destroys a large number of her suits before targeting her datacenters in an attempt to shut her down. Dragon eventually feints defeat and withdraws, allowing Taylor to break open the Birdcage and retrieve the remainder of the capes within. She uses Clairvoyant to look for capes on alternate Earths, and controls several Slaughterhouse 9000 clones, the Travelers (except Oliver), Goddess, Ash Beast, and most of the capes from the camp. She focuses her army on Scion, doing considerable damage but resulting in the deaths of Ash Beast, Othala, Trickster, Revel, Lady Photon, Alexandria's body, and others. She assigns her contingent of tinkers to build a huge interdimensional weapon to destroy Scion's real body, but the attack fails and Doormaker's power runs out, resulting in Taylor losing control of most of her capes. Realizing that Scion, not used to the emotions of his human body, can be harmed when distracted by visions of his dead partner, Taylor struggles to convince the Undersiders and Glaistig Uaine to work with her. In the meantime Scion kills Leviathan and fights the remaining Endbringers. Taylor taks control of Scrub and Labyrinth to replace Doormaker and enlists Oliver and other Changers to create huge replicas of Eden's corpse to distract Scion. Foil is able to shoot him twice with projectiles imbued with her power and Defiant activates the interdimensional tinker gun. Scion, his physical defenses destroyed by Foil and his mental defenses destroyed by the facsimilies of Eden surrounding the battlefield, is finally killed after the interdimensional tinker weapon destroys his body. Taylor loses control of the majority of her capes and returns to New York through the portal. Having lost all comprehension of human behavior, she prepares to fight her way through the hundreds of capes she thinks are fighting each other, not realizing that they are actually celebrating the victory. She eventually calms down enough to release the remaining members of her swarm and leaves through the portal provided by Glaistig Uaine. Days later, she wakes up and is met by Contessa, who can understand Taylor. Contessa gives Taylor a chance to reflect on her actions and then shoots her twice in the head. Chapters
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Teneral[[Category:{{#switch:|File=Files|Template=Templates|articles}} in need of completion]] {{#if: 6 | | Chapter Count || 6 }} {{#if: 46,564 | | Word Count || 46,564 }}
SummaryThis arc consist of five donation interludes, followed by a final chapter. They each covered some of the various characters that had been seen throughout Worm. The final chapter answered a pertinent question left over from Speck's conclusion. Chapters
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