Intata's Tall Tales

Godhood: for Dummies - Chapter 28

Nathan hadn’t been on the planet for fifteen minutes.

Fifteen minutes.

He only noticed after sitting down across from his teacher, but the world had already gone to shit. No wonder the Ancient One had been in full battle regalia and ready to throw down. She had no doubt been running around the entire planet putting out fires.

Once Nathan was in range of the planetary wards, it took a second, but the notification bombardment was impossible to miss. Demons were spaw...

Cobalt in Red - Chapter 10

The good news was that they didn’t have to backtrack all that far. Cobalt and his new… friends spent about twenty minutes going back to Cerulean’s pokecenter, not having made it far down the route in the first place. 

The problem for Cobalt was that he had to wait in the lobby for an hour for his new fishy friend to get looked at. Not that he was salty about the procedures, or anything - no, he was just bored out of his mind. 

The group made for an interesting sigh...

Godhood: for Dummies - Chapter 27

They didn’t laugh for long. Nathan’s was more a bout of insanity, rather than relief or humor, and Galacta’s was more awkward than anything. They weren’t friends, and Nathan didn’t have to remind himself of that fact. 

She was the equivalent of a wild tiger, and he was acting as the stressed out zookeeper trying not to die. 

It definitely didn’t help his sanity that she had basically just Hulked out. The only thing keeping him from running was the fact that h...

Cobalt in Red - Chapter 9

Got most of the next Godhood chapter done, just need to find time to edit it.

This one is a bit of a builder. Planning for a training montage type thing next - on the way to Pewter.

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“Hup!” Cobalt gave one final tug, pulling the knocked-out quillfish off the side of the gyarados’s corpse. Its barbs were stuck deep in the large, blue eel, and had taken a bit more force than expected to remove. 

He definitely hadn’t accidentally stabbed himself wi...

Godhood: for Dummies - Chapter 26

A/N - Sorry about the delay on this one. Work is going crazy. I think I'm going to stick with a once-a-month schedule for chapters, but if I have extra time for more, I'll do more.

Next chapter for Cobalt is almost done as well. Hoping to have that out soon.

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Nathan kept a wary eye on Galacta as she came back to herself. Her eyes, which had been beacons of light dying the void purple, had dimmed back down to non-blinding levels. A hand covered them after a moment...

Godhood: for Dummies - Chapter 25

She flinched. Bodily. As in she felt a violent shiver shockwave down her spine, and had to hold back her knee-jerk reaction of vaporizing the dumb idiot in front of her. 

Genderbent Galactus, he says? What kind of messed up doggy doodoo was his brain made of? And such a potty mouth, too. 

She specifically didn’t look at her reflection in the floor-to-ceiling windows. She totally wasn’t in denial. No sir. Her purple, horned helmet was an entirely original design, and ...

Cobalt in Red - Chapter 8

“Just so we’re clear, you’re talking about the little fish that’s hanging off the bigger fish, right?” Cobalt asked with a blank face. He wasn’t particularly sure if his body had caught up with the danger he was currently in, or if he was just done with today.

“Preciscely!” Easton replied with a jovial laugh.

Then they both had to run, since the ‘bigger fish’’s tail was coming at them like a wrecking ball. 

Cobalt was barely able to dive o...

Godhood: for Dummies - Chapter 24

I've had so much freaking trouble getting this out. Not because of a writing issue, or anything. I've just been utterly dead to the world for the past month. Caught two different strands of Covid since the new year, then got a kidney stone. Then I caught the flu.

I'm still sick.

Anyway, here's a bit of a longer chapter. This one will go out under the name of another Intata clone, with another snippet that I don't have the physical capability to w...

Godhood: for Dummies - Chapter 23

OK, so I've had a really rough couple weeks. Started off great, but busy. Lot of travelling. Then I caught Covid (again), so I've been out of it for a while. Sorry about the delay.

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“The hell you mean, yer leavin,’ lass?” 

“I’m like, a super free spirit, mister McHenry.” She pouted. “I can’t stay in one place too long, or I’ll like, totally die.”

The old, grumpy drunk scowled up at her, his face lifting...

Cobalt in Red - Chapter 7

This one's a little shorter than usual, but it the cut-off point just kinda... fit. Next one should be a bit longer, I think.

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Cobalt didn’t feel particularly great about mugging children for their lunch money. He still did it, of course - because he was cultured - but he didn’t feel good about it. 

No, he felt far more befuddled.

He and Kong had just finished up their second battle of the morning. The first of which had been a somewhat challenging f...

Godhood: for Dummies - Chapter 22

Nathan stared straight ahead, numbly. Utterly dumbfounded, and enlightened at the same time. He both fully understood, and was completely baffled by the words that came out of his mouth. Every syllable was deliberate and measured, yet seemed to come from some deeper place in the depths of his being. As if he wasn’t the one that spoke them, and at the same time, was. 

“A builder and guardian, then?” Odin said with a frown. Though Nathan wasn’t paying any particular attention...

Cobalt in Red - Chapter 6

Cobalt blinked the morning sun out of his eyes, his face scrunched up in displeasure. At first he had been excited to learn that pokecenters had rooms for trainers to sleep in overnight, however that had been ruined immediately by the snoring. 

Pokecenters apparently worked like hostels, or some other communal rest spot for travelers - in that they had a few large rooms filled with bunk beds. So long as someone had a trainer’s licence, they could reserve a bed for free. There wer...

Godhood: for Dummies - Chapter 21

Nathan had only the vaguest idea of what he was doing. Every sense was turned inward - Celestial, magical, and even his new synesthetic ‘vision.’ With the latter of which, he expected to be able to view his own concepts, but where they were decidedly difficult to grasp. As if his new, ethereal existence was a blind spot - a vampire, trying to find himself in a silver mirror. 

It didn’t help that four, extremely powerful people were watching him like a bunch of hawks. (Flock o...

Piece of History (-ical fiction)

This is something I wrote as an exercise. It's mainly practice for accuracy and such, when I'm including things that pertain to the real world. I did a lot of research, and all the sources are listed at the end.

Be warned: if you are Christian, my take on these characters may rub you the wrong way. I didn't go into this thinking that I would paint the religion in a bad light, but if viewed from certain angles, it can be seen that way.

I went to school for historical theology, so ...

Godhood: for Dummies - Chapter 20

Odin’s words bounced around in Nathan’s head like a cat that had just been spooked from his house fucking exploding. Eternity? The literal embodiment of all life in the universe? The personification of Time? The bronze metal of omnipotence in all of Marvel? That was the being that brought him here? 

Why?

Nathan sat on a weirdly comfortable log by Hestia’s campfire, contemplating every aspect of his existence while staring into the fire. Every lick of f...

Cobalt in Red - Chapter 5

The rest of the morning flew by in a blur. Poli had to separate Cobalt and his partner before they started pulling hair, but not before they were both left with a few bruises. 

The picture his mother managed to take made it seem like they had just gotten trampled by a herd of tauros. Both of them were smiling under obvious duress, Cobalt had a black eye, and both were utterly soaked from their time in the lake. 

The ten year-old didn’t protest the picture much, though....

Godhood: for Dummies - Chapter 19

The mountains of (probably) Colorado were absolutely gorgeous this time of year. The tail end of December still brought all the autumn colors, and with winter starting up soon, the chill in the air wasn’t quite at its peak.

Not that the cold was any particular problem for someone like Nathan. Temporary enchantments, the ability to heat up molecules on a whim, or spawn a thick coat out of nothing really made the environments of Earth child’s play for Nathan to traverse. 

T...

Godhood: for Dummies - Chapter 18

Nathan felt weird. Everything seemed to be in the right place. He had two arms, two legs, unfathomable cosmic power, his eyebrows didn’t turn into caterpillars, etcetera. Nothing was where it shouldn’t be. Everything was where it always had been. He still had his vibranium bones. He still had access to his celestial energy. He could still feel the eldritch powers that inhabited all of existence, just a word, or a twist of his wrist away. 

He turned his hands over, scanning for ...

Cobalt in Red - Chapter 4

The next morning came a bit too slowly for Cobalt’s liking. Likely because the ten year-old was staring at the ceiling of his bedroom for hours, struck by insomnia brought about by intense scheming. He had to stop himself from bursting out into evil, cackling laughter more than once, imagining the mayhem that he and Kong would bring. 

It wasn’t until he woke up from a measly three hours of sleep, that he realized he had never retrieved Kong from Archie’s tender care. Too caug...

Godhood: for Dummies - Chapter 17

Odin sat on his throne, Gungnir clenched loosely in his fist. He and Heimdall were the only ones in all of Asgard that were still looking for his wayward son. Lost in the void, as he was, he could feel it in his bones that this would not be the end of Loki. Just another trial for his family, in the end. A trial that he might have prevented, if he had been strong enough to avoid Odinsleep just a little longer.

But no, he reflected. Thor’s trial on Midgard was expedited due to his faili...

Cobalt in Red - Chapter 3

Cobalt absently tossed a berry into Mankey’s mouth. The punch-monkey was nearly too tired to chew, starfished and panting on the ground as he was. His latest opponent, having been knocked clean unconscious, was buried too deep into a tree for the ten year-old to try and fix up. Not that he wanted to, mind. The little bastard was nuts, but he wasn’t trying to leave a trail of knocked out pokemon behind him.

He couldn’t remember if metapods spawned on Route 5 in the games, but he su...

Cobalt in Red - Chapter 2

Cobalt knew how to fight. He had taken karate lessons back in his old world, and kicked someone in the dick, once. A true, verifiable pro. 

Well, OK. Maybe not, but he did spend a good bit of time with his father’s Machamp over the past couple years. He ran laps around the Kent Orchard, studied footwork and form, and sparred every so often with a wild tyrogue that had somehow made it into Kanto. 

He was still only ten years-old, though, and was currently blaming that f...

Fogwalker - Chapter 2

Pulling up to port was always an exercise in dexterity and strength. Less so when one had access to reality bending powers, but more so when doing it alone. Carve, like most of the floating islands in the Lornian archipelago, had a raised port. Suspended high above the Godsfog - to prevent ships from crashing against the island or ragdolling in the surf - a system of pullies, cranes, and ropes held hundreds of ships aloft. Thousands of thick cords of rope hung down around the island, stretchi...

Cobalt in Red - Chapter 1

The world of Pokemon was supposed to be fun. He was supposed to make friends with magical creatures, and travel to parts unknown. He was supposed to overcome champions and gods. But dammit, it’s just so… stupid. Cobalt’s gonna do it all anyway, just to spite the porn industry. (Semi-SI insert into Kanto)

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Cobalt stared at his mother from across the dining table. Or, more specifically, at the book in her hands. His face would have contorted in rage, or possibly desp...

Godhood: for Dummies - Chapter 16

Tony stared down at the holographic screen in front of him. More specifically, at the security camera photo he had forwarded over to Fury’s… secretary? Second in command? He supposed it didn’t matter for the moment, all told. 

“Jarvis, I really don’t like what I’m looking at.”

“Neither do I, sir.”

He ran a hand through his hair. “Dad was convinced Hydra was gone, but I guess they really stuck to that ‘two heads for every one lost’ thing, huh? Eit...

Godhood: for Dummies - Chapter 15

Steve Rogers woke up, and was extremely confused about that. The last thing he remembered was crashing a plane into the ocean, then darkness. Now he’s waking up to what? A new ceiling, no pain, and the game was on the radio. It was surreal, and felt inherently wrong.  

He sat up slowly, trying to decide if this was a dream or not, while the announcer called out… something he had seen with his own eyes back in ‘41. 

He had been to that game.

An a...