Mist of Shadows

Dragon King Part 20

"This would be easier if I had a shrink ray and a time turner," Myst complained as he pulled yet another pair of magic sight goggles out of the coffin, looked at them with his upgrade ability and boosted them back up to where he'd boosted the original goggles.

Dawn shook her head. "That sounds like a good way to get lazy and leave a copy of the duplication coffin in a lab where the Forsaken can reach it."

"I'm not Andrew," Myst assured her as he tossed the upgraded goggles on the ...

Dragon King Part 19

Myst glanced up from his cider as he felt someone with an abundance of hatred, he quickly scanned the crowded inn and paused when he saw a black haired man in his thirties walking across the room with a dagger in his hand and a focused look on his face. "Weird." His confusion changed to understanding when a couple in the middle of an argument about the girl's mother stepped out of the man's way without hesitation or apparent concern or attention as the man walked between them.

Dawn pull...

Dragon King Part 18

"I'm starting to wonder if the quality…" Myst trailed off as he glanced away from the rather unimpressive left shoe that silenced your left foot and looked at the coffin-like box in his inventory and realized that he'd found something that was a game changer.

Hermione stuffed the cultist she'd been mentally interrogating back into her spatial ring and looked over at where Myst was leaning up against the bathtub with a smile on his face. "What did you find?"

Myst pulled the coffi...

Dragon King Part 17

Aginor glanced at the young woman's face and dismissed her as being a true threat when he didn't see the 'ageless' look the binder inflicted. He glanced at the strange items scattered on tables then focused on the child that was floating in the air. "Parley? I'm afraid this isn't a discussion, the Great Lord wants you dead."

Myst felt a shiver of ice run down his spine when he saw the cords of pitch black mana that ran from the back of Aginor and Balthamel's heads into the distance. 'Do...

Dragon King Part 16

Dawn smiled as she floated up to the balcony her minimap had labeled Elaida's balcony and realized the woman was cutting her roses. 'You're making this easy…' her thoughts derailed as she felt someone use magic in the palace and saw a man fly off the princess's balcony as if thrown by a catapult. 'That's new.'

Elaida spun to look in the direction she could feel the power, knowing she was the only Aes Sedai in the palace. "Elayne?"

Dawn reached out with telepathy and read the hal...

Dragon King Part 15

"Where's Constantine when you need him?" Myst muttered as he spent the mana to upgrade the hastily completed protection circle he'd scrawled on the waygate landing, turning it into something that might help against the Black Wind. "In DC, probably fucking Zatanna or selling his soul to a demon."

Myst opened his gacha menu and looked at his choices, 'Artifact of corruption, potion of change, twisted servant, creepy magical building, cursed crown, cursed jewelry? Is my menu reacting to th...

Dragon King Part 14

'How's the recruiting going?' Myst asked Dawn via telepathy as he watched a group of whitecloaks leave the tavern, more than a little drunk.

'Better than I was expecting," Dawn replied as she closed her eyes and enjoyed the heat from the hotspring. 'We managed to talk Mat's mother into helping supervise the girls and we picked up Egwene and her sisters along with a half a dozen girls from the village that couldn't sleep and needed something to keep their minds off the attack.'

'Pr...

Dragon King Part 13

"Spit it out, you look like you're sucking lemons," Dawn told the dark haired woman that was glaring at her while she worked on making bandages.

Nynaeve pulled her attention off the girl's green skirt that didn't even come down to her knees and was thin enough that she could see her legs. "Do you always travel in your night clothes?"

Dawn glanced down at her green silk shirt that clung to her body in a way the locals weren't used to. "It's comfortable and I'm used to the cold." 2022-09-20 07:11:59 +0000 UTC View Post

Dragon King Part 12

"Myst Targaryen, Lord of the Seven Kingdoms," Selena announced as Myst walked into the small council.

Oberyn Martell couldn't help the amused grin as his nephew walked over to the chair that would have reminded everyone that he was a child and casually spun it around then jumped up on the seat and leaned against the backrest so he could look down at the assembled council.

Myst frowned when he glanced around the room and noticed that everyone other than Oberyn looked grim or in the...

Demons and Botched Rituals Part 18

"I'm going to kill that bitch!" Merlin shouted as he stalked out of the hallway connected to his room, gesturing wildly and glaring at everything.

The dragon turned elf rubbed the bridge of her nose as she turned to look at the irate magic user as all of the wild animals that had been singing and dancing dashed away and vanished. "Inside voice."

Harry glanced at the angry old mage, glad that he'd talked River into letting him store the archmage's staff in his inventory so he could...

Demons and Botched Rituals Part 17

"Sword?" Harry asked thoughtfully.

"That sounds better than sneaking through the land of the dead or dealing with a crazy archmage," River replied, not particularly confident in their ability to defeat the mage.

Harry walked over and picked up the wooden sword on the pedestal, causing the door with a sword to open and reveal an old fashioned knight in charred black full plate. “That’s new.”

The knight dipped his head slightly and looked down at Harry. “Welcome, I’m...

Demons and Botched Rituals Part 16

An: easiest method to find previous chapter(s) is to run a search for Demons and Botched Rituals... it's mildly horrifying how long it's been since I updated this... 

"Snape?" Harry sputtered, feeling a bit green at the idea of anyone willingly getting near his profesor. "Are you insane?"

"Just being thorough with my research," Willow said defensively.

Harry shook his head. "Sorry, that's just a horrible mental image."

"How long does it take to teach your blacksmi...

Boosted Villainy Part 28

Geoffrey Pellick walked out of the kitchen and froze when he noticed that his desk with his entire computer rig and more importantly Richter's device was gone, only faint marks on the concrete showing that anything had been there. "Fuck!" he screamed, trying to figure out how someone had stolen the desk in the twenty seconds it had taken him to grab a cup of coffee.

"What the-" Mischa tripped as he came running out of the hallway to see why Geoffrey was cursing, crashing into the concre...

Boosted Villainy Part 27

'What do you do for fun when you're not at the club?' Myst asked as he watched Riley spin around the pole.

'When I'm not studying for my classes, building or repairing computers, I mostly crush people in WoW, catch up on fanfics or work on my robot of doom,' S. Riley replied cheerfully as she watched Riley dance.

'Robot of doom?' Myst asked, wondering if she was joking.

'Ironman wrecked a bunch of robots in a fight with some aliens a couple of months ago with some type of EM...

Boosted Villainy Part 26

S. Amy shivered as she stared at the unconscious preteen she'd duct taped to the table on the off chance that she woke up before they’d finished double checking everything. "Just because I couldn't find anything doesn't mean she isn't dangerous," she warned, “she could have a plague hidden in some sealed module in her body and I wouldn’t be able to sense it. Listen, the only safe thing to do is to put her down.”

Myst glanced down at the laundromat token that was making sure the ...

Boosted Villainy Part 25

"This would be easier if the boss had let us bribe the inspector," Lisa complained as she watched the dockerworker run some tests on the electrical system that Uber had installed.

"Most of them don't stay bought," Henry replied as he finished testing the tinker enhanced batteries to make sure they weren't dangerous or at least weren't causing problems with the system. "Are you sure you don't want to just connect things to the grid? I can make a couple of phone calls and you'd be up and ...

Boosted Villainy Part 24

Despite the legitimate if unnecessary concerns about Night and Fog, it took less than thirty seconds to deal with them from the time Taylor and S. Rose flew out of the RV to the point where they were unconscious on the ground. "I'll keep my eyes on Night, open a portal."

"Working on it," S. Rose replied as she worked on selecting the right world. "How much do you think they'll have in their accounts?"

"No clue," Taylor admitted, not taking her eyes off Night as she didn't want her...

Boosted Villainy Part 23

Myst glanced away from the mirror that was showing the three capes sitting on a couch. "Any idea which apartment they're in?" he asked S. Lisa.

S. Lisa looked up from the apartment blueprints. "Not really, the blinds are closed and the coordinates aren't that precise as they don't give elevation which means it could be one of six apartments, you're going to have to go door to door and check."

"Inspector? City work crew?" Myst asked thoughtfully.

S. Lisa shook her head. "It's...

Boosted Villainy Part 22

Myst focused on the full-length mirror that he'd leaned up against the wall and pushed energy into it, changing it from a simple mirror with a brass frame into a magical mirror that would show people and provide their location. "Mirror, mirror, on the wall, show me… Bad Canary."

"Seriously?" Rose asked with amusement as the mirror clouded over.

"It's a classic," Myst replied as the mist parted and he saw a sad looking young woman curled up on a prison bench looking like she want...

Boosted Villainy Part 21 (edited)

An: This is the ended version of the chapter, including a connecting scene with Taylor and Myst that brides the gap a bit between the bar scene.

S. Rose froze when she saw a beer can in front of a hole in the wall bar. "I guess they have litter."

"Bound to happen eventually…" Leet trailed off as Taylor walked over to pick it up and realized it was bolted to the ground and about three times larger than it should be.

"This isn't litter, it's a public art display of litter,"...

Boosted Villainy Part 21

S. Rose froze when she saw a beer can in front of a hole in the wall bar. "I guess they have litter."

"Bound to happen eventually…" Leet trailed off as Taylor walked over to pick it up and realized it was bolted to the ground and about three times larger than it should be.

"This isn't litter, it's a public art display of litter," Taylor said as she stood up and looked at the bar, noticing that the window looked artfully dirty unlike the rest of the shops in town. "Hole in the Wa...

Boosted Villainy Part 20

"Rise and shine," Leet said cheerfully as he knocked on the RV's door for the third time.

"I'm awake," Myst complained as he opened the door and looked at the pair of villains that were wearing normal street clothes. "I'm surprised that you're awake considering it's not even ten."

"Coffee?" Uber offered as he stepped up into the RV, holding out an extra cup of coffee.

"Thank you!" C. Squealer replied cheerfully as she stole the extra coffee on her way past.

Leet stared...

Boosted Villainy Part 19

‘Do you have eyes on Trainwreck?’ Myst asked as he watched the snow fall on the derelict warehouse the merchants had used for their Christmas Eve rave, the early morning light giving it an almost innocent feel.

'He's currently in the trainyard,' S. Coil replied over the mental connection, having already checked to make sure he wasn't going to lose any of his assets.

'Good, I haven't had a chance to copy him,' Myst replied as he pulled his remote out of his inventory, brought u...

Boosted Villainy Part 18

Rebecca Costa-Brown wasn't sure what to think about the cape sitting on one of the officer's desks, mostly because things weren't lining up. She'd only caught wind of his healing spree because she'd set up alerts to notify her of any new healers and because the same report had flagged him as possibly having some tech that could nullify powers. 'This would be easier if Contessa wasn't in Mexico dealing with a cape that could turn into a problem if given enough time.'

She paused when the ...

Boosted Villainy Part 17

S. Vicky smiled as the last scene finished and the credits started rolling. "Stitch is pretty awesome for an alien engine of destruction."

"Yeah, he's adorable," Myst agreed as he pulled his phone out to check the time.

"I was expecting a bit more bloodshed," S. Amy admitted, thinking about some of the other movies she'd seen or heard about with bio-tinker villains. "How much time do we have?"

"Fifteen to twenty minutes," Myst replied with a yawn. "Just enough time to break ...

Boosted Villainy Part 16

C. Squealer frowned as S. Rose pulled into the snow covered parking lot for the recycling center and slid a touch before the tires managed to get enough traction. "Remind me to upgrade the RV with an antigravity device."

"I'll put it on the list," Myst replied absently as he used his remote to set up the spatial field he was going to use to expand the loft area.

"Any idea why someone is parked next to the office on Christmas Eve?" S. Rose asked thoughtfully as she drove towards th...

Boosted Villainy Part 15

T.S. Noelle walked out of the RV's bathroom after pulling on socks, a sweatshirt and sweats that did a pretty good job of making sure someone wouldn't accidentally touch her skin. "Do you have an actual plan?"

"Not really," Taylor admitted. "I'm still trying to figure out how I'm supposed to tell my family that I'm a cape."

Myst looked up from the map of the city he was using to try and get some idea of the layout of the bay. "You could always try, 'would you still love me if I ra...

Boosted Villainy Part 14

'Stay together!' Kid Win mentally ordered his hoverboard, hoping it wouldn't fall apart before he managed to disengage from the insane blender of death. He fired off a couple of blasts at the insane lunatic that was chasing him, trying to distract him or get him to disengage. 'Fuck! I need better weapons, fucking regs!' he mentally cursed as he tried to get a bit more height so he could get over the RV in the way, mostly because he didn't have the time to swerve around it without getting caug...

Boosted Villainy part 13

Thomas Calvert pulled his attention away from the news reporter that was talking about the amount of drugs the police seized on several raids when someone knocked on his door and a collection of male voices started mangling a Christmas carol. He glanced at the clock in the timeline that he was preparing to head to his base. 'Six forty seven in the morning and you're singing fucking Christmas carols?'

He grabbed his pistol off the table, stalked over to the door, flipped the safety off t...

Boosted Villainy Part 12

Myst tumbled off the bench he'd fallen asleep on and hit the ground when his cellphone's alarm startled him awake a couple of minutes after midnight. "That was annoying, I need to grab Vicky's shield."

'That's what you get for falling asleep on the bench rather than crawling in bed with me,' S. Rose teased him.

Myst got to his knees then stood up and manifested Rose when he realized she wasn't around. "Decided to vanish?" he asked as he grabbed the cellphone from the bench and tur...