Next Chapter should be up tonight or tomorrow night (G-daughters graduation is tomorrow). But a little snippet of an alternate future. (in the main story the S9 won't be showing up.)
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2025-06-05 22:20:10 +0000 UTC View PostDanny sat in the living room. He was home early and Taylor was out. Maybe as the Investigator, but…
Curt and Lacy gone. Someone like fucking Gray Boy ...
2025-06-04 19:18:40 +0000 UTC View PostEmily Piggot stared at the screens. Victor was being interviewed. Othala and Rune were in the infirmary. Both had been given tranquilizers. She had authorized it when it was plain that any attempts...
2025-06-02 20:20:51 +0000 UTC View PostMy first TW for a chapter!
One insect, you could slap. Over one hundred million, not counting the ones around the house and my reserves? Jaws gripped other insects, forming a tight ada...
2025-06-02 06:03:53 +0000 UTC View PostVictor returned to his house at around 4AM. I was risking much, with the timeline shrinking, but…
The hammer blows had to come fast. Victor, Othala, Rune. Not the Empire’s ...
2025-05-31 06:56:06 +0000 UTC View PostI'm moving a bit faster, so my question is: would people here be upset if I released the previous chapter to spacebattles, when a new chapter comes up, even if it isn't yet hit it's official releas...
2025-05-30 05:34:35 +0000 UTC View PostTracking Lebensraum was easy. In the aftermath of the botched rally, I waited.
When the clock struck twelve, it was my second day. I would date the six days from the announcement I had just m...
2025-05-30 03:30:56 +0000 UTC View PostIt’s time. I was nervous. After this, there would be no going back in a number of ways. My bugs were ready. I’d tracked many of the workers of the Medhall buiding to their homes. MS. B...
2025-05-28 20:27:31 +0000 UTC View PostDay 1
I had to prepare. As much as I wanted to start now, I had to prepare. I was not a spirit of darkness, whatever I led people to believe. I was a very squishy teenager, and the E...
2025-05-25 22:52:44 +0000 UTC View PostI returned home later that afternoon. Armsmaster had warned me about going after the Empire myself. I agreed. “The Investigator is not suited for direct fights,” I had told him. He also mention...
2025-05-22 19:51:33 +0000 UTC View PostArmsmaster let me ride on the back of his bike, somehow pulling a helmet out of a compartment far too small for it. He didn’t say much, but I noticed how stiff he was.
He is infuriated....
2025-05-19 20:20:04 +0000 UTC View PostOne does not casually scream "Master!"...
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When Amy arrived, she was frowning. “I was helping Vicky,” she said. “But what is it?”
“There is a woman in there, suffer...
2025-05-16 06:06:55 +0000 UTC View PostArmsmaster met me at the hospital. I’d noticed a few PRT vans driving alongside the bus I took and once I detected Velocity, zipping around me. I’d called the PRT and mentioned that Orb Weaver ...
2025-05-12 03:33:45 +0000 UTC View PostKeeping my mind on my surroundings was second nature. So one day when I was walking through Arcadia, I heard a girl crying on a phone.
“I—I need another shift! I know that I’m over my h...
2025-05-08 06:42:27 +0000 UTC View Postnext chapter coming up this week, but the Gdaughter has a new after school class thing, as well as her surgery coming up this friday and getting the next chapter done to have the impact I want, but...
2025-05-06 05:37:36 +0000 UTC View PostTwo Years Before the Battle of Naboo
Trader’s Misfortune was named aptly. The pirate ship had been the misfortune of many traders, after all.
“What is it, Mios,” Jarrack said as h...
2025-05-06 01:42:49 +0000 UTC View PostA Long, Long, Time Ago…
The bioship was dying. It had drifted for thousands of years, cannibalizing its own bioforms, but now the time had come that the Mind understood that it wo...
2025-05-05 02:13:13 +0000 UTC View PostAs the first chapter, I decided to make this one free, the next chapters will all be released a day or so earlier.
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It started on Monday. That was what I forever remembered most. ...
2025-05-01 20:09:18 +0000 UTC View PostI vanished in 1970. When I came back, it was 1972, and I'd spent two years in the Fairylands. Adventures, scary adventures. Then I ended up betrothed to a prince, at 16. Then I found out that t...
2025-04-30 20:50:28 +0000 UTC View Post
I had a rpg bit on spacebattles: And I'm getting tired of leaving half fini...
2025-04-30 05:42:16 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Sheila Cho got to her apartment, she had her hands full of papers from the days work.
Big mistake, because just as she got to the door, it shot open and pair of plug-uglies grabbed her a...
2025-04-29 02:16:37 +0000 UTC View PostI returned to the PRT HQ with the Wards. We had to wait our turn, as most Protectorate Heroes needed to get back before the Truce ended and most villains, those willing to use Strider, were also ea...
2025-04-24 22:06:55 +0000 UTC View PostJason held the gun in his hands. He’d woken up in a hotel, with the gun, and a letter. Normal really, that was how you did things with a customer. You didn’t see them, and so you couldn’t sel...
2025-04-24 01:53:54 +0000 UTC View PostEmily Piggot treasured the times when the Bay didn’t feel like it was about to catch fire. But now wasn’t one of them.
We didn’t lose anyone. That was the good news. The bad ne...
2025-04-18 19:24:57 +0000 UTC View PostOphelia was organized. She had to be. She was 34, and Claire at sixteen had been born when she was 18 and just starting college. An accident, though she would never even breathe that word to Claire...
2025-04-16 01:29:28 +0000 UTC View PostCoil sat down in his office, watching the video. Not one he’d had to retrieve using his normal methods. No, the—soon to be unemployed—intern had blasted the video to several newsgroups, and s...
2025-04-15 01:51:02 +0000 UTC View PostReina went home early. Supposedly the Truce endured after the Endbringer fled, but there had been incidents in the past. She had helped Clockblocker, putting up structures of paper to let EMS worke...
2025-04-12 02:29:31 +0000 UTC View PostGiven the utter SHITshow in the real world, I'm thinking of something a little fluffier and lighter than Worm...
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Seventeen years old... Clair thought. She leaned again...
2025-04-09 06:49:08 +0000 UTC View PostEven as powerful as Leviathan was, once he fled, the weather quickly shifted back to normal, clouds vanishing into a blue sky.
I supposed it was comforting in a way, that even an Endbringer c...
2025-04-04 02:46:26 +0000 UTC View Post“Tenebrae,” I said. “I need you to cover the building, I don’t want Leviathan to see the people." Or hopefully, decide that there might be a trap behind Brian’s smoke. There was nothing k...
2025-03-31 21:09:41 +0000 UTC View Post