Any ideas for what an awesome weapon would be?

Question

Just brainstorming at the moment, so any suggestions are appreciated.

I'm a writer with a series of 8 (soon to be published) books, that I started when I was 12. After finishing my 10th book, I've started to re-work a lot of the first book series, and one of the problems that I have is on the topic of weapons. Right now, the characters have standard pistol that fires bolts of energy, and yeah, it works great, but I don't want that to be the primary weapon through the whole series. So around the 5th book or so, I wanted to introduce a new primary weapon for them...except that I can't think of any?!

Basic guidelines for what I was thinking about:

-Story is set in near future

-Most anything is possible to engineer, so nothing is too far fetched

-Needs to be simple, and easy to understand

-Can't be big, something that a person could clip to their belt and (sorta) forget about

-Can't be too powerful, otherwise it gets boring.

-Doesn't have to follow basic weapon guidelines, if its something like a special glove, that's fine too

-Feel free to make it a physics/science weapon, I've been studying quantum physics / engineering since I was 6, so I'll have no problem understanding what you're describing.

Thanks in advance for your help!

Answer 1

A ring that when activated turns your body into something like fire, lightning, gold, steel, water, etc

Answer 2

a hairdryer and curling iron always works for me!

Answer 3

This is so fun!!!

How about a pair of gloves, one that absorbs plasma energy from the rays of the sun and turns it into fireballs or better yet he can use the energy absorbed by his gloves and shape the fire into any form he wants. While his second gloves allows him to pressurize the air around him to control wind. As a combination, he uses his gloves to create giant flaming tornadoes or a flaming ball of spiraling wind. Or merely engulf his gloves in fire and high speed pressurized air that can tear through flesh so when he punches someone, he either burns them or slash them to death with the air both!.

But as a set back to limit his weapon as to make it for emergencies only, the fire glove burns the hand that's wearing it, and the air glove causes pressurized air to become so sharp that wind remaining inside the wielder's glove will cut his hands. Over use of the gloves will burn the wielder's hand until its black and cause microscopic needles made of wind to stabbed and destroy all the skin cells of the wielder's hand.

Typhoon

Or...

A tiny stick that has a long needle inside it that can be protruded. Now the stick can be used as a saber. But thats not all, it absorbs the dark blue and orange light of the twilight sky at will to somehow generate physical blue light surrounding the needle that can slice through almost anything, like a light saber. This light saber feature can only be used during sundown or sun up (twilight). This way , the weapon can be used as a saber in the day and night and becomes even more powerful in the twilight. Too much of the dark blue light absorbed by the light saber causes it to be too heavy to be wielded. Too much of the orange light will cause the saber to be just a glow stick in the day.

Twilight Saber

Or...

A key with a button on top.......and when you press the button, it extends into a very long, huge, heavy whip. The whip is a connection of a bunch of small rods with teeth connected to the side of each rod. Its so heavy that only someone with god-like strength can use it. When the wielder even smashes it against the floor, it causes a fissure and giant boulder to fly up in the air.

Not only that, but if you hold the button for a long period of time, the teeth of the connected rods begin to be super heated to the point it is nearly molten. Can be swing at the enemy without the molten property because the teeth are so sharp that they can tear through skin. With the molten properties, the whip can tear through a burn the victim and considering that its really heavy.....

Although using the molten property even once will cause the whip to break after the teeth returns to its solid state. That and its still pretty d**n heavy so swinging it will take extreme control and strength.

Vulcan Whip

Last, but not least (a masterpiece that I have drew on pieces of paper) a giant black sword. But its not a normal giant black sword, its a sword that can transform into a black street motorbike with the touch of a button so when an enemy jumps in front of you while traveling, you can transform you vehicle into a sword immediately to slice off your opponent's head.

Not only that, but as a sword, when you turn on your bike's engine and increase the speed of your bike, the wheels of your bike will charge up plasma energy which embodies your sword which will give your sword plasma based attacks and when charged to full will allow you to swing your sword to create destructive plasma shock waves. Also the exhaust(when in sword form) can be used to increase your speed dramatically in order to charge at your opponents to the point where you will fly off the ground.

The downside is the sword will be just as heavy as the bike. Over extortion of the exhaust and charge while in sword form will overheat and burn out the energy of your sword (and your bike) or it will even blow up. so the exhaust (sword form) can only be used twice in a day while the charge (sword form) can be used until energy is released as a shock wave.

Answer 4

I dont know i just dont know stop nagging me !!!