Kevin the Bored

68 Nothing Stays Buried Forever

After the happy reunion I decided to stay an extra day and leave the next morning so I can spend some more time catching up.

Though to be honest most of the time was spent in James' lab with him showing me all the fancy new drugs he's come up with and let me tell you, some of them are absolutely 𝘧𝘢𝘴𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨.

Like the one that straight up stops the body from regulating heat, causing the guy he used it on to show me to slowly overheat until his organ...

67 Helter Skelter 2 Electric Boogaloo

Little James is standing closest to me, holding a confetti cannon aimed right at my face that I think I am going to become intimately familiar with in a moment.

He is wearing an asymmetrical costume or reds and blacks with an elaborate joker mask and hat combo with those bits of fabric hanging off either side and above his head, each with a jingling bell at the end.

His mask also has a large cheshire grin on it, similar to my own except his isn't blacked out like mine is. Finishin...

66 On The Road Again 2 Electric Boogaloo

A/N: Anyone who laughs at my amazing MS Paint art will be shot.

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"Can't you stay just a bit longer?" May whines at me as I pack my belongings into my recently purchased motorcycle.

It's a Kawasaki KL something something numbers, I didn't remember what it was called, the guy selling it said a lot of words and most of them were new to me, so I kind of just blanked for a moment.

But it's a nice bike.

It's like a dirt bike but with less of the internals sho...

65 Interlude: Uppercrust

Uppercrust is a businessman.

Those of a lesser mind might equate him to just another gang lord, but they would be fools.

But he has always been a businessman. Back before the Elite was formed and they were just a collection of parahumans trying to make a living off of their powers.

Now, every single one of the original members of Uppermost, the group that proceeded the Elite, are dead, leaving only Uppercrust.

Now the group he is a part of, the Elite, is nothing like w...

64 Heart to uh, Mask? 2 Electric Boogaloo

"So where'd you find the brat?" Butcher asks me from my side.

We are both sitting at the edge of a tall building, well I'm sitting, he's standing.

We're too high to be seen by anyone on the street without them actively looking up which is good since everybody below thinks that we're off fighting again.

This is probably going to be the last time we fight, as he's already told me that he's going to be leaving for Boston in a couple days, but country to what Uppercrust thinks, ...

63 Polite Conversation

Opening my mouth, I answer with a sunny smile.

"Well, I think it would probably be easier to just show you.~"

Then, without giving her a moment to prepare herself, I bring my hands up to my head, putting one palm under my chin and the other on the back of my head.

And with a sudden movement, I 𝘱𝘶𝘴𝘩 and the next moment I find myself looking at the fridge behind me.

𝘚𝘯𝘢𝘱!

The sound of my neck breaking must have been deafening if not for the ...

lmao

So, I was asked for an image of Tear's mask and this is what I ended up drawing up in paint and holy fuck I never realised that it was so damn creepy.

I also added her outfit

62 April

Flip.

Flip.

Flip.

Shuffle.

And then it starts all over again.

One card turns over, showing that it can bo moved over another, starting a chain reaction that moves even more cards, flipping the ones underneath it, further allowing more cards to stack and more cards to flip.

The simplicity of the game is always enough to bring me calm.

To me, solitaire is like meditating.

It lets me relax, forget the world and simply enjoy some peace.

Then t...

61 A Love Story

A fist appears in front of my face with the concussive force of his explosion behind it and I twist around, raising my leg in a roundhouse kick that hits nothing but air.

My ribbons all snap into a triple X shape over my back just in time to block the pair of oversized daggers that come crashing down, pushing me to the ground.

I have almost no time to recover and have to use my wings to parry the next blow that comes for my neck.

My wings are the least durable part of me and...

Update 2 Electric Boogaloo

So i know I said I would do double today, and I nearly did, but I accidentally wrote an incredibly emotionally draining half of a chapter after the last one and had to sit down and just think for a while and now it's half 2 in the morning and I am tired again.

2 chapters tomorrow, for real this time, promise time 1000

60 Butcher XIII 2 Electric Boogaloo

It was a little over a week after my fight with the Butcher before I got the opportunity to see him again.

In the mean time I've only been in a couple of fights, twice against the heroes, which was boring as hell since they couldn't hurt me and I wasn't allowed to hurt them.

Though I did get to meet that woman who was with Prism again. Turns out she's called Astrologer and she basically calls down meteorites from the sky which are pretty easy to dodge, not that the damage they cau...

Update.

Alright, so I am currently behind a chapter cuz've my fucked up sleep schedule and I' just writing this to let you know that it's not an omen for anything bad, like me losing the will to write or anything, I'm just tired and dumb.

With that in mind, I am going to go to sleep rn, but I will do my damndest to write double chapters when I wake up to make up for the delay.

Thanks for being here regardless, it seriously means so much to me.

Love you all,

Kevin. <3

59 Interlude: Clara Williams

"-with that all being said our profit margin 𝘩𝘢𝘴 taken a hit, but we knew that would happen anyway and I am happy to say that our losses are actually barely one tenth what we expected them to be."

Satisfied murmurs spread throughout the conference room at the unexpectedly positive news, from everyone except for a certain someone who continues to stare into space, a lot on their mind.

"Good." Begins a stern, authoritative voice, "now, I believe that is the perfect segue to...

58 Party Poopers

Of the two of them, the only one I recognise is Prism.

A somewhat new member of the Protectorate, graduating from the Wards program just last year and the only reason I know anything about her is that she is one of the capes that Legend himself has taken under his wing as quasi protégé.

You can see it in the way she walks. The calm assurance that she will be fine no matter what happens. Clearly she is being groomed for some kind of leadership position.

He must clearly alre...

57 Friendly Spar

Ow.

Wiping the remains of my prop glasses from my face I get to my feet and scan the line-up facing me.

I think Butcher has realised that the others aren't going to be able to do much as other than the couple of people who are trying to wake up Animos, I guess the bult up momentum was enough to knock him out cold, everyone seems to be forming a half ring, looking for all the world like they are just here to watch a street show.

All except Butcher of course, he is walking men...

56 Butcher XIII

𝘚𝘭𝘶𝘶𝘶𝘳𝘱

"Must you drink so loudly?" Sighs Elevator Girl, who I now know is called Hideout, from my side as I loudly suck my drink through a straw.

As it turns out, it 𝘪𝘴 possible to turn people into slushies and I have been thoroughly enjoying the fresh flavour.

It's been a few days since my meeting with the Elite, time which I used to advance my culinary repertoire, and the Teeth finally showed themselves yesterday.

Thus, my contract has off...

55 Meeting

The room is wide and well lit, like a CEO's office, only with less decoration.

The spartan look to the room tells me that this is only a temporary meeting location, rather than somewhere that sees much active use, which makes sense.

No need to invite an unknown parahuman into your house after all.

At the opposite end of the room from the elevator is a large mahogany desk, I don't actually know if it's mahogany, but I would assume it is.

The desk itself has a few files ...

54 Too Tired to Think of a Title

The question of finding something to do is actually a whole lot easier to solve than you might think, thanks in no small part to the Teeth.

You see, the Teeth are a gang of anarchists and sadistic psychopaths, mostly edgy teenagers and young adults really, lead by the Butcher.

And while the Teeth themselves aren't really too much to write home about, the Butcher certainly is, as their power is simply that should they be killed, their consciousness, as well as any powers they have,...

53 Don't Do Drugs

Naturally, I am not simply going to walk up to the mystery cape, that'd be boring.

Not to mention, I don't want to just ditch Claire if I can help it. Not because I'm nice or anything, it would just feel like cheating.

No, it would be more fun if I manage to keep Claire around. Plus, she is kinda cute, so I don't really mind.

That just leaves the question of 𝘩𝘰𝘸.

Then again, I don't think it'll be too hard. Claire doesn't exactly seem the most... decisive, sha...

52 Making Friends Again 2 Electric Boogaloo

I've never been clubbing before.

The thought comes to me as I walk down the dark streets of New York, still filled with the same hustle and bustle despite the sun having set, though to be fair, it's not like it's at all dark, what with all the lights everywhere.

As I wonder around, looking for anywhere or thing interesting enough to catch my attention, I continue to mull over my thoughts.

In fact, I've never even actually been to a party before.

A proper party that is,...

51 The Inevitable PHO Interlude

A/N: Just an FYI, but idk how this site is going to take the formatting for this chap, so if it looks wild just give it a minute or two for me to fix it and then reload it :)

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Pulling in to New York, I can't help but be struck by just 𝘩𝘰𝘸 many people there are.

I knew, intellectually, that the Big Apple is the biggest, most populated city in the US, but that doesn't change the fact that I've grown up moving between small towns, like Utica, which had a popu...

Fool

Just an FYI, but this is basically what Fool's mask looks like, though I prolly should have made the nose smaller so that the lack of mouth is more jarring, but eh

50 Magic is Fun

Waking up, I feel refreshed and ready for another long drive, but I decide to walk around a bit first, to see if there's anything I want to buy with this bag full of money that I just so happened to find in my room with me.

With that plan in mind, I get my backpack that has all my stuff, with my costume buried at the bottom and I get dressed in a nice rosy red sundress that matches surprisingly well with my re-dyed auburn hair.

Not my usual style I'll admit, but a sundress takes u...

49 On The Road Again

From Columbus Ohio to New York is about an eight hour drive, so to pass the time I have been musing on my power.

It really is far more malleable than I ever thought it would be.

For one, I have found that I don't explicitly have to have my extra's come out from my back. I can just as easily, say, bring my ribbons out from my stomach instead.

It's actually pretty easy to do too, though I think I'm going to try and keep that under wraps, because it would be funny as hell if so...

48 Corruption is Easy

"P-please don't eat us" Mairon whimpers under my right arm as the embers of Redemptions fires, that only touched me in an impressive display of control, dissipate into nothingness.

"My my Little Red~ what have you been telling your friends about me?~" I tease, utterly ignoring the growing fear I can smell on the pair, "shouldn't you be introducing your friend and I?~ I don't believe we've met~"

From the way both of them twitch, I figure that someone in their ears just told them so...

47 The Last Supper

I know intellectually that the heartbroken look mini James tries to hide should make me sad or regretful or something, and while I certainly don't 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 seeing it, I find myself not really caring all that much.

I guess that's just the kind of fucked up I'm at now. But it all really boils down to the truth of life that Jason helped me realise.

Life is a circus. It's all just meaningless entertainment.

Feeling sad, guilty or otherwise negative emotions isn't enterta...

46 Changes

Starting with what I know, I pull out my faithful ribbons, enjoying the ease in which they manifest, now numbered six. Then I move lower and start to pull again. This time the feeling is slightly unfamiliar, but just as natural as a tail as thick as my waist sprouts out of my back, forcing me to stand up from the sofa to accommodate it.

With that done, I move up this time and focus on the 'source' between my shoulder blades, except this one doesn't so much as pull out as it 𝘣𝘶𝘳...

45 Moring After

"With the death count at thirty six and rising and the number of injured still being counted, the PRT still refuses to give any comment on the health of the injured Heroes in yesterdays disaster, but it has been confirmed that Epic and Tiamat are among the number of the deceased. A loss that will surely be felt across the whole city as we all mourn their passing.

"This disaster has been unlike anything our fair city has ever seen before and with the number of capes in the city dropping ...

44 Fight! 7 Final Phase

In a blink, the monstrous new form of Tear disappears, reappearing upside-down above Dynamite.

Held in place by a pulsing violet ribbon each, Dynamites limbs are spread wide, with the other two ribbons piercing the ground in front of and behind him in order to hold Tear up above him, alongside her hulking arms standing either side of him.

As it hovers above him, it's head looks straight down, bending at a 90 degree angle that hurts to look at, making it's brown hair that is showin...

43 Fight! 6 There's a Second Phase!?

Looking at the trio in front of me, I can't help but lament that maybe getting Tiamat out of the picture skewed the balance of the fight a little bit more than I first realised.

Really, I thought that doing so would lead to a long and close battle, but from the time Tiamat's powers shut down to all the heroes being out of commission must have been less than a minute.

Still, I have no regrets. If I am to die here then I will die happy, having just witness the greatest show of my li...