Albany, New York, April 6th, 19:54.
Wash isn't much of what you would call a 'thinker'. And not capital 'T' either, he finds thinking in any reasonable capacity to be little more than a chore at best, and a problem at worst.
Don't get it wrong that Wash is stupid, he isn't. He has a master's in sociology and a bachelor's in chemistry. In fact, if you were to ask him, thinking too much is exactly the problem.
It was always the problem. Every time he met someone, he'd be plagu...
2023-10-16 10:17:28 +0000 UTC
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A/N: The Number Man bit is still the exact same, so you might as well skip to the line-break
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Unknown location, Unknown time.
The Number Man clicks his pen, spinning over his palm once and setting it's tip back down on his desk as he focuses on his monitor.
A swipe here on the touchscreen, a tap there. Three point eight billion dollars. Another swipe and it moves across the digital world. His fingers work at the keyboard as the money keeps moving fr...
2023-10-15 15:59:02 +0000 UTC
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Unknown location, Unknown time.
The Number Man clicks his pen, spinning over his palm once and setting it's tip back down on his desk as he focuses on his monitor.
A swipe here on the touchscreen, a tap there. Three point eight billion dollars. Another swipe and it moves across the digital world. His fingers work at the keyboard as the money keeps moving from one account to another, splitting into smaller increments as it goes.
Money is the lifeblood of civilisation. People ...
2023-10-14 19:48:47 +0000 UTC
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 16th, 20:23.
Kiss/Kill. Clusters.
It feels like those two terms have slowly started to define May's life ever since she first heard them.
People know about Grab-Bag capes, capes with a whole bunch of powers, instead of just one, but those same people rarely actually know why some capes get a Grab-Bag.
But May knows. She's known ever since she got a peak backstage, and even more since meeting Tori, Megan and Jace, Megan especia...
2023-10-13 21:28:35 +0000 UTC
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Tampa, Florida, March 1st, 19:17.
"-Yesterday evening, at approximately five minutes past six, the city of Oakland declared an emergency evacuation, urging it's citizens to seek refuge in one of the available Endbringer shelters, or to simply evacuate the area. Initial fears that this was in fact due to an Endbringer attack were lost as time went by, until approximately fifteen minutes past seven."
Inside of a well lit, luxurious office, a women can be seen paying half a ...
2023-10-13 08:12:04 +0000 UTC
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A/N: final chap before epilogues of this vol, so it's a 9k word chap, that's over 4 in one :)
Ok, idk why patreon is being so fucking annoying, I assume it's cuz've the recent format change fucking shit up and them not fixing things, or maybe it only shows as a problem on my end, but when I look at the chapter in the editor, it has italics, such as the third word written 'instant'. That should be italics, but when I post it, both for mobile and desktop, the italics disappear.
This...
2023-10-11 09:05:52 +0000 UTC
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I'm writing chap 200, and I got 3.5k words in (cuz I'm lovin this, actually feeling good about my writing today, hell yeah!) and reached a point that is so perfect for ending the chapter that I automatically did the usual end of chapter stuff, only to remember that I rlly rlly want this fight to end on chap 200, cuz it's thematic and cool to do so.
(Kinda regretting doing an extra 'and Brace' chapter now) >:(
Soooo, I've decided that I might just finish things with a bang (cuz ...
2023-10-11 01:45:11 +0000 UTC
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Oakland, California, February 28th, 19:13.
Hovering under the night sky and above one of a series of large, recently created platforms in the mountain range East of Oakland, a gathering of Heroes can be seen finishing their preparations.
Every civilian within a hundred kilometre diameter has already been either evacuated, or directed to the Endbringer shelters. Most notably Bastard Son, who's hidden himself away in a private bunker.
The battleground to be has already been se...
2023-10-09 23:29:02 +0000 UTC
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Columbus, Ohio, February 28th, 18:00.
"It's not like I'm asking you to fight them, Bonnie, you don't even have to wait for the fighting to start so you can use it as a distraction to get what I want. You can do that for me Bonnie, can't you?"
James, reclining behind his large office desk, hears Bonnie sucking in a breath from the other end of the phone, psyching herself up, and he only really feels annoyed by it.
The fact that he even has to waste his time ...
2023-10-09 02:22:00 +0000 UTC
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Tampa, Florida, February 28th, 18:00.
Simultaneously, from one coast to the other, four hundred and eighty-nine bodies experienced the exact same full body twitch.
And John, in four hundred and eighty-six minds, has for the first time ever, only a single thought.
Fuck.
The thought passes and he sends thirty bodies to sleep, saving up some processing power to focus on the current dilemma he's facing.
That being the report now sitting on the desk of his bo...
2023-10-07 20:43:59 +0000 UTC
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Montreal, Canada, February 28th, 18:00.
Cherie has not been having a good time recently.
It all started with Lusia's visit.
At first, things actually got better. She and her siblings got closer from that night Lusia was here, somehow managing to make them all socialise without hating each other for the first time... ever.
As a direct result of that, they grew closer. Talked more, attacked each other less.
Well, not everyone. Guillaume is still a prissy little bit...
2023-10-06 19:56:16 +0000 UTC
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No chappy today, cuz I got distracted reading something and now I am both tired and definitely not in the right mood to finish the chapter how I want it to be finished.
Then again, I'll be up for another couple of hours, so who knows really, this might be premature.
Also, patreon has changed it's layout stuff and it's pissing me off
Also, I'm rlly tired
Also, kinda hungry, might scrounge for something to eat
2023-10-06 00:49:42 +0000 UTC
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Tampa, Florida, February 27th, 14:54.
Humming to himself as he makes some breakfast, a simple ham sandwich, Jinx considers his dear friend Madness and her current situation.
They talk fairly regularly, sometimes for business but mostly just because she likes to hear the sound of her own voice, and he's willing to listen. Though, he's pretty sure that the only reason it's him that she calls instead of one of the 'kids' is because she likes talking about her more... adult a...
2023-10-05 04:44:10 +0000 UTC
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South of the Kingdom of Laptalia's Capitol, even further south than the town of Lancilia, lies the village of Lurkia. An unremarkable border village, filled with simple farmers living off the land.
However, recently, this humble town has come face to face with a problem that they could not face. That of a Dragon.
Rare creatures though they may be, it is not unheard of for a Dragon to move it's habitat, and three months ago, that is exactly what happened. A Dragon, a Green Dragon, ...
2023-10-04 04:22:13 +0000 UTC
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Rome, Italy, February 27th, 14:23.
What do you get when you mix an incredibly competent and powerful parahuman, me, with a whole lot of free time and very little desire to be spending it fighting or engaging in otherwise high octane activities?
You get what local officials are starting to call a 'menace'.
I was just continuing my touring when I got to Rome, to visit the colosseum, which sparked another idea, when I got the sudden inspiration for a really really funny prank.<...
2023-10-03 01:12:28 +0000 UTC
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"Why. Are. You. Here." Leopold's terse voice brings a smile to my face as I recall the meeting three weeks ago now.
And so, ignoring the angry glares being sent my way, I decide to give the same response I gave then. "Oh that's easy.~ I'm here to ask nicely.~"
Predictably, my jaunty tone wasn't enough to placate them into jolly conversation, as the moment I finish speaking, the room bursts into action, many things happening at once.
First, a bubble of green light ap...
2023-10-01 22:12:16 +0000 UTC
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Gesellschaft base, Germany, February 22nd, 19:40.
"Guten tag, little Shinobi!~"
Shinobi does his best to hide his startled flinch at his teacher's sudden greeting, but he doesn't truly believe that his old teacher wouldn't have caught on to it, and he's all but certain that if he didn't have his butterfly mask on, that he would see that insufferable, taunting smirk on his face once more.
"We're on a mission, Butterfly, so do try to keep your voice down," Shinobi res...
2023-09-30 23:45:26 +0000 UTC
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Gesellschaft base, Germany, February 22nd, 19:45.
Annie thinks she's developing an inferiority complex of some sort.
It's hardly unexpected really, she used to be the Black Queen of Columbus after all. Even if she was never such a pompous jackass like her counterpart was, she still got used to being in charge.
People listened to her, because she was the big fish in the pond. Half the city's criminals feared her and the other half respected her enough hat they'd do anything s...
2023-09-29 22:42:14 +0000 UTC
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Gesellschaft base, Germany, February 22nd, 19:45.
"So, how did you meet Lusia?" The abrupt question catches Nutcracker's attention as her and Harlequin casually stroll down a wide hall, having entered it by simply walking through the outside wall.
"Why do you ask?" She returns, wondering what brought upon the older woman's sudden curiosity.
"Well, it's just that you were both in the Nine right? Like Cerberus, Diversity and Chibi." Nutcracker doesn't so much as flinch at the ...
2023-09-28 21:05:55 +0000 UTC
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Gesellschaft base, Germany, February 22nd, 19:44.
Rachel has always been adamant that Sting Theory doesn't do commissions. not unless it's to a Clown that she likes that is also still paying for it, because doing a commission is one thing, but spending her valuable time on someone else for free?
What kind of a joke would that be?
However, as she looks at the snow covered warehouses through her drone's camera, she can admit to herself that everybody really does...
2023-09-27 23:40:59 +0000 UTC
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Somewhere in East Germany, February 22nd, 19:33.
Hidden away in the snowy forests of Eastern Germany, an impressive estate can be seen, with a lakeside mansion that is half way to being a palace, just screaming 'old money' with it's aristocratic design and well maintained greenery, still visible even under the snow covering everything in sight.
But it is clearly not some quite rich person's getaway, as the grounds are fully active, with trucks driving down a well paved road to a n...
2023-09-27 03:57:36 +0000 UTC
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Olympic Mountains, Washington, February 1st, 14:41.
Inside of an opulent hall, one filled with masterful murals and engravings, covered in the golden shine of wealth, a strange scene is taking place.
Around the hall, various decorations have been haphazardly hung up, from cheap birthday banners to Halloween pumpkins, piñatas and everything in-between.
It looks like the decorator was told to decorate for a celebration, without specifying what celebration specifically, leavin...
2023-09-26 01:38:08 +0000 UTC
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Louisville, Kentucky, January 28th, 13:31.
Jinx is annoyed. But that's not really anything new to him. Whether it's due to his shitty luck or his asshole friend, there's always something happening to cause him a a migraine or two.
He thought that things were going too well recently, but it's like his power suddenly remembered to be a dick. Well, he says that, but it's not too bad in the grand scheme, just annoying for whoever has to actually do all the work.
Oh! Would you lo...
2023-09-25 01:05:29 +0000 UTC
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Northern Border of Namibia, January 20th, 17:35.
Wandering through empty deserts is a strangely enjoyable thing.
Some nice scenery, or at least it makes a change from the towering cities of the world. It makes a good place to think. Nice and quiet, peaceful.
My god am I getting bored.
Granted, it's not all bad. For one, the wildlife is adorable.
Case in point, I found a couple of leopards fighting not long back and decided to intervene, and...
2023-09-24 00:26:20 +0000 UTC
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Columbus, Ohio, January 16th, 20:30.
"Bye bye Miss Cranial!"
Riley's words receive only a friendly wave in return before the woman in question fiddles with a device on her belt, and the next moment, she simply disappears, a minor fluctuation of space the only evidence of her teleportation.
Cranial was an unexpected guest for Riley, but a pleasant one nonetheless. The only forewarning they got was when her mommy called them a few minutes before Cranial's arrival, telling them...
2023-09-22 21:13:28 +0000 UTC
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It's never a good day when one has to work with a Villain, least of all when said Villain is o reminiscent of that woman.
But Mr Scripcaru seems to favour this Tear's chances against The Blasphemies more than he does the actual Heroes that came here to help.
But for all her bravado or faith in both her abilities and that of her fellows, Elizabeth can't deny the beads of sweat that fell down her face when the woman's crimson orbs locked onto her as she delivered her ...
2023-09-21 21:11:18 +0000 UTC
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With the Bleach chap I posted, I was wondering, do y'all want Hana to be a Hollow or a Shinigami more?
Pros and cons to be considered are;
For Hollow: it's just better in most conceivable ways, but there will be less interaction with shinigami characters and some of them will prolly die
For Shinigami: Bankai. Everyone knows Bankai is fucking awesome, and there would be a much larger pool of romancing options, but there will prolly be a lot less wanton murder than as a hollow...
2023-09-21 16:23:27 +0000 UTC
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Brașov, Romania, January 15th, 13:24.
Sitting in a room full of heroes that aren't actually planning on fighting me is certainly a new experience. A fun one too, I think to myself as I flash another glaring hero a sunny smile, making him turn away with a scowl.
It's amusing, they are all either looking at me with contempt, fear, or a mix of the two. But I suppose that's fair enough considering a lot of them are from countries that are having to deal with the aftermath of...
2023-09-20 22:32:49 +0000 UTC
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New York, New York, January 10th, 19:20.
Uppercrust is in a good mood, and once again, the cause is a certain investment that he made a year ago, almost to the day.
Lusia Abel.
It amuses him greatly when he sees people discussing her, for they speak of her like she is some raging beast with no thought, simply roaming around and causing chaos, which, in fairness, is something that she does a lot.
But Uppercrust is one of the few people who know just how much mo...
2023-09-19 23:15:21 +0000 UTC
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San Francisco, California, January 9th, 19:10.
John can't say that he was surprised to find out that someone out there had a power so incredibly similar to his own, and he'd be lying if he said he wasn't interested in meeting them.
Especially considering just who they are.
Gabriella Vargas, CEO of Estrella Co.. Except that's not the only name she's known by, as she is also a cape known as Entourage; a member of the elite under The Gentleman, who himse...
2023-09-18 21:17:44 +0000 UTC
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