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Chapter 230
Halloway hit the wall with a grunt, more surprised than anything. He hadn’t expected the man who had confronted him to be so quick on his feet, Or this strong. He thought as he met the man’s eyes. Craftsman was not a large man, he was thin, built like a desk jockey. He wore a pair of no-nonsense glasses and his hair cut neatly. To all the world he would look like just a humble office worker. But now Halloway was hanging, pressed up against a wall with one hand as Craftsman’s gl...
2025-01-21 17:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 229
SHRRRIIIIK
Ishtar knew the trajectory of the attack, all of her mental abilities working in concert to navigate the fight. Even so; He’s so goddamn fast! She thought, twisting to the right as the golden sword cut through the air to her left. She kicked off the ground and into a backflip, slowing her move with gravitic flight enough to reach down and tap her hand against his follow-up horizontal swing. She pushed off of it and threw herself into the air, spinning rapidly....
2025-01-20 17:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 228
Inches away.
There he was. The man whose actions in another timeline, another life, had been the impetus for her own creation. Ishtar could, in some way, credit her birth to the impetuous little man that stood before her. How many days had she spent in her early state, before she was fully a separate part of Sonya, imagining graphic ways of killing him. Peeling the skin from his body, roasting him alive, crushing one bone at a time. Now that he was here, before her, she felt doubt about...
2025-01-17 17:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 227
Above the widening melee, above the flames that Kerauna stirred with her ceaseless storm. Ishtar looked down from within a weave of illusions upon the heroes and cultists facing one another in battle. The cultists had formed up within what appeared to be a well disguised single-story fort. The walls glowed faintly as gunfire from the hero side peppered it. Ishtar narrowed her eyes, Pandora Committee soldiers, I suppose even Carla understands the purpose of fodder troops. She frowned,...
2025-01-16 17:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 226
The first wave of cultists Ishtar came across poured through the trees in a wave of rage and fanaticism. Screaming at the top of their lungs as they brought their weapons to bear against their unnatural enemies. Ishtar floated lazily above the Legion as it charged, some of them taking surface damage or even losing chunks of their marble bodies under the barrage of gunfire. Post-Pandora munitions, then, Ishtar thought as several bullets bounced off the hard light barrier she’d surro...
2025-01-15 17:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 225
Ishtar stood on the beach, the Atlantic Ocean crashing against the immaculate sandy shoreline. She was in her full regalia, helmet, armor-all gear prepared. Time was winding down and she was beginning to accept the fact that she would be going into this fight without her other half. She closed her eyes behind the screen within her helm and slipped into her subconscious. There, that little mote was still floating, the light within bright and vibrant but unchanging. Sonya’s presence had felt ...
2025-01-14 17:00:19 +0000 UTC View PostVillains 200, Henchmen 183
Patreon is fighting meeeeee sobs
Chapter 200
Side Story: Drums of War 3
Screams came from within the cave but neither person on either side of the entrance moved an inch to investigate. One trembled, his eyes downcast as the fog from his breath and tears obscured his glasses. He reached up and tugged on the scarf around his neck, trying to hold himself together as the agonized howling continued. The other leaned against the outer wall and relaxed, a smile dancing on her face as she took deep breaths. Black wintery air formed around her nostrils and drew up, filli...
2025-01-13 17:03:01 +0000 UTC View PostSide Story: Drums of War 2
CLANG!
Sword met hammer and the two weapons skittered off one another, sparks snapping out and dancing off the floor. Lillian stepped forward and swept her weapon low, pulling it down first and then to the right in a rapid change of direction that would have been impossible for an ordinary human. Cass hopped over the swipe, the initial exchanges force throwing her hammer up and above her head. Her eyes flashed as she brought it back down with terrible force.
Lillian grunted and th...
2025-01-13 17:02:01 +0000 UTC View PostSide Story: Drums of War 1
Carla marched down the hallway, her heels clicking against the marble floor. A small crowd of men and women followed her, doing their best to match her brisk pace. She wanted to leave them behind and escape the sea of bureaucrats and sycophants left over from her predecessors regime. She felt no small amount of resentment for their appointments, how many of them had been picked in spite of Sonya’s efforts to create a body that could lead the world into the future.
She turned to ...
2025-01-13 17:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 224
Ishtar rounded the corner, dipping low in the process, her hair fluttering up behind her. The axe swung across the spot where her throat had been just a moment before. She turned her head sharply, looking up into the blood-red eyes of the emerald skinned humanoid, its muscles bulging with the powerful swing. The eyes on her helmet flashed and she pushed off the ground, driving her knee into the monsters chest. A sickening crack of ribs proceeded the towering creature’s sudden departur...
2025-01-13 17:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostMinor Release Error
Soooooo... haha, funny thing.
I maaaay have gotten a little teenie bit overzealous this weekend with those side-story releases. Got excited about sharing them with you all and somehow got it into my head that the friday chapter for supervillains was the chapter that is actually coming out today. So I'm going to be re-releasing those chapters in order to make sure they appear in the correct order. That's entirely my bad.
Fortunately, the only thing really affected here is flow of p...
2025-01-13 16:50:01 +0000 UTC View Post222 Improved
After some suggestions I went back to make 222 feel even better. Hope you enjoy!
2025-01-10 19:20:24 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 223
Ishtar pulled her hand away from the mote with a jolt, her brow furrowing in consternation. For a moment there she felt Sonya’s mind reach out to her, offering reassurance, but the message was indistinct. She couldn’t make out much beyond the vague sense that Sonya had faith in her. Ishtar frowned, hovering in that vacant space that served as a representation of their inner mind. She regarded the threads that weaved around the mote and watched as they moved and shifted position, reasserti...
2025-01-10 17:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 222
The void wrapped around her, spreading out in an endless expanse. The silence was deafening. The pressure, incomprehensible. The crushing weight of eternity pressing down on Sonya like a mountain. She held herself as steady as she could, floating in that place that seemed like the space in her own mind. She knew, though, that this place was not her territory. She heard her voice, echoing across the vastness of it all.
“Finally.”
Sonya spun and looked up, finally spotting the s...
2025-01-09 17:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 221
Thunder rumbled overhead, it was still muted, but it felt closer, more insistent. It nearly drew her attention but the man before her reached forward to rap his knuckles on the table. She looked back at him, possibilities and questions bounding about in her head like so many pinballs. She shifted in her seat as the compulsion to answer his question become too much to bear. She didn’t have the precise answer he wanted, but the fact that she had any form of answer was enough to trigger the fe...
2025-01-08 17:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 220
Sonya stared blankly down at the snow crunching beneath her feet as they passed through the silent forest. She wasn’t entirely sure where she was in comparison to Titania’s court but based on the rules of this twisted world, she wasn’t far away. The wind picked up, whipping between the trees and sending her hair fluttering around her face. She brushed it back absently, glancing towards Pandora while she did so. The woman she had just been forced to torture for months walked alongside he...
2025-01-07 17:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 219
Um…
Sonya cleared her throat while Pandora stared up at her, slack jawed and her brows raised in disbelief. The woman didn’t move an inch to take her hand, she didn’t even look at it.. Pandora’s eyes were fixed solely on Sonya’s face with an expression that made her wonder if she’d grown horns or something. I… don’t have a power that does that, right? Oh man, am I losing track? Do my powers even work properly in this place? Her thoughts flitted about wi...
2025-01-06 17:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 218
Pandora?
In between the decades of senselessness that came and went in this terrible place, Sonya had rallied herself to take stock of the mysterious world around her. She was keenly aware that it wasn’t real, but it also seemed to obey many of the rules of reality. It had other rules as well, other truths that she’d slowly, painstakingly uncovered in her efforts to cling tightly to a sanity that this place seemed hell bent on stripping from her.
The first was t...
2025-01-03 17:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post