Author Daecrist

Villains Don't Date Heroes! 8: Post Mortem

“So do you have anything else you’d like to say? A message for the people of Earth?” Rex Roth asked.

I wanted to punch him in his smarmy face. I wasn’t sure if it was because punching was the usual reaction I had to seeing his face or because the jerk was getting up close and personal with Starlight City’s newest hero and I wasn’t.

Huh. Jealousy. There was a new one. At least where the fairer sex was concerned.

“Yes, I do. Your world has a new champion. No long...

Villains Don't Date Heroes! 7: Perp Flight

I’m not ashamed to admit that I screamed like a hero who just realized they’d completely overestimated their ability to go toe to toe with the great Night Terror. Though after this encounter that was an analogy I was going to have to reconsider even though it was one of my favorites. 

It’s not like I was afraid of heights or flying. I did it all the time with the antigrav built into my suit.

The problem was flying with those antigrav units used technology I could unders...

Villains Don't Date Heroes! 6: Curb Stomp

This was going to really hurt if she made contact. Alarms were going off all through my suit. All the major readouts in my heads-up display were in the red, blinking, or had gone dark entirely. 

I was on the verge of a critical systems failure. I’d designed the suit to take on anything this world could throw at me, but I was starting to have a sneaking suspicion this beautiful heroine was not of this world.

And her out-of-this-world fist attached to an out-of-this-world bod...

Villains Don't Date Heroes! 5: Unfair Fight

My entire body reverberated with the recoil from her hand slamming into my fist mid-punch. It was only thanks to the inertial dampeners I installed on my suit that I didn’t get a serious case of whiplash as my entire body came to a severe and very quick stop.

Physics. It’d get you every time if you didn’t think of a way to counteract it. Movies where heroes took massive hits or survived massive falls without turning into mush because they had armor on were particularly amusing. 2025-04-05 15:22:40 +0000 UTC View Post

Villains Don't Date Heroes! 4: New Challenger

I stared at the goddess in her high boots and a skirt that molded itself to a body that looked like it was sculpted by the gods. A bare flat stomach ran up to perfect breasts encased in a tight shirt that didn’t have a symbol on it.

Whoever this was, she was new enough in the city that she hadn’t even taken the time to brand herself yet. And that face. Deep green eyes you could get lost in. Beautiful soft features framed by flowing light red hair that whipped dramatically in the win...

Villains Don't Date Heroes! 3: Goddess

A hail of bullets flew towards me as soon as the force field dropped. Of course the cops might as well be firing blanks for all the good it was going to do them. 

I held up my hand and a wide dispersal force field sprang to life. I made sure to give the field a little give. I couldn’t stop that many bullets outright, but I could slow them down to the point of being useless.

It stretched wherever bullets hit but none made it through. The field sprang back and the bullets fel...

Villains Don't Date Heroes! 2: The Useless Blue Line

I stepped through the vault door and put up a force field behind me with a casual wave of my hand. My force field generator really only worked in small directed bursts, good for things like deflecting those bullets the guard shot at me with his little pea shooter, so if somebody really wanted to get in here while the field was spread across the entire entrance they’d be able to. 

Only who would be silly enough to try something like that? They just saw me blow the vault door aside...

Villains Don't Date Heroes! 1: Distractions

“Night Terror!”

I smiled as the dust settled around me. I had to admit that was one of my more dramatic entrances.

I always figured if you were going to do something then you should do it with style, and a focused energy blast on a revolving door leading into a bank that wasn’t designed to handle anything like a focused energy blast was always suitably impressive to the normals.

Tellers and patrons alike looked at me in terror, shying away as I strolled through the ban...