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2) Like miniguns in real life, the dartling guns are belt-fed. Each belt of darts holds up to 100 darts, and the reloading process is fairly slow. Since machine guns with rockets as ammunition do not exist in real life (that I'm aware of), I have no clue how they would work. The reloading process would be very sluggish as well.

3) Plane drops nuclear bomb. Skadoosh. As for the contents of the bomb itself, it is hinteed in BTD5 that Bloontonium is inside the bomb. I don't plan to have a Ground Zero explosion in the fanfics, so I'm not really concerned about the properties of the bomb.

4) I still need to figure out how Monkey Villages work.

5) I was thinking of having a button on the mechanical arm that enables the ability. It only lasts for a minute and the recharging process would be about 5-10 minutes. The efficiency of the ability is somewhat limited due to the way boomerangs are loaded into the mechanical arm.

6) Rather than Bomb Towers behaving as if they're alive, they are instead controlled by monkeys. Similar to the way Mortar Towers work in the games. Bomb Towers must be upgraded to fire various types of missles. 0/0 Bomb Towers are similar to the cannons from the 1800's, while 4/2 and 2/4 cannons are futuristic.

To answer your question, Monkeys place missiles onto the Bomb Tower, then press a button which fires the missile. Various missiles have various costs, and the MOAB Assassin missiles cost a lost ot Monkey Money.

7) The way I had Phoenixes work was inspired from Final Fantasy X. This is the best way I can describe them.

Phoenixes would be very similar to aeons in Final Fantasy X. Basically, during fights the player has the ability to summon large and powerful creatures. In FFX, the creatures would last until the fight is over or until they are killed. Unlike FFX, the Phoenixes summoned will only last for 2 minutes, then they disappear.

Apprentices must cast a spell to summon Phoenixes. The Phoenix and the apprentice communicate telepathically, so the monkey can give orders to the phoenix at anytime. The area above the monkey must be cleared in order to summon a phoenix. The energy caused by summoning a phoenix drastically weakens the monkey, and it takes awhile for the monkey to regain the energy to summon a phoenix again.

9) In the games, a boat harpoons a MOAB Class Bloon, reels it in, then MOAB vanishes. In the fanfics, the harpoon has an explosive tip.

10) I am not sure if Bloonsday Devices will appear in the fanfics. If they do, this is how they work:

There is a control panel at the bottom of the device, which controls the entire thing. From the panel, a signal is sent to satellites orbiting the planet, which prompts the satellites to fire upon a selected location. The beam itself is very powerful, and penetrates through anything.

I will expand in this in the future.

11) Portable Pools will not be making an appearance, so I'm not concerned about this.

12) Not sure about Swarm! ability.

13) Sabotage Supply Lines will not exist.

14) Spike Factories will have many spikes in reserve; it just "spits" out spikes periodically. The ability will be triggered by a button on the Spike Factory. The ability will cause the factory to shoot out all the spikes at once. The downside to this is that the Spike Factory will overheat, rendering it unusable for a few minutes. There is also a small chance that the factory will break if the ability is used.

15) No clue.

16) While Ice Towers do exist in the fanfics, they will not be making an appearance, so I'm not concerned about the way Absolute Zero works.

17) Pop and Awe will not exist. The way several missiles appear out of nowhere and the way Bloons somehow get immobilzed is just too dificult to figure out how they could possibly work.

18) Glue Strike exists. Similar to Ground Zero, a bomb containing glue will be dropped onto the field. The explosion contains very thick and durable glue. It is impractical to use in many situations, therefore it probably won't show up in the fanfics.

19) The Supply Drop Ability exists for the purpose of gameplay. In the fanfics, the ability does not exist. It is very impractical to use during a conflict. Dropping money in the middle of a warzone? Not so smart.

20) Tack Shooters will not make an appearance in the fanfics, so I'm not concerned about the way it works.

21) The ability will not exist. However, the machine in Arcturus' rally in Global Conflicts serves a similar purpose, but the effects are permanent.

The BTD5 world is very strange. While things are rather easy to explain, some things are just downright impossible to explain, such as the Super Monkey Fan Club ability.