A Bolt From the Blue

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.

This work provides examples of:
"Emma: "He looks like he's cosplaying the Matrix."
 * You Are Number Six
 * Calling Me a Logarithm:

Sandra: "He's whatting? That'd better not be a dirty word.""


 * Catch Phrase: 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.