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Ghastly Adventures: Cascade 2.1 (ch. 6)

Dinner was nothing less than pure chaos. Nine children of various ages, two sets of twins, all seated at a long table that could barely house them all as it was. I would give Flint this -- his genes were unmatched because there wasn't a shadow of a doubt in my mind that he was the father of them all. Those eyes were too distinctive. And their mother had been nothing less than a trooper.

Getting nine siblings to behave would be a feat worthy of Hercules. Getting them to be calm when thei...

Ghastly Adventures: Boulder 1.5 (ch. 5)

Terror wasn't anything comparable to fear. It was a lesson that I had already learned -- I used to get night terrors. The kind that leaves you frozen upon waking up, heart feeling like it was about to burst through your chest, and drenched in a cold sweat. Once you felt a taste of terror, there was no mistaking it for fear. Right now, what I and everyone else in the Gym felt at this very moment, was terror.

“Mimikyu!” Mimikyu snarled, hate dripping from the...

The Good Life: Civilization (ch. 37)

In general, things weren’t looking so hot for the human race, I could admit that freely enough. We blew ourselves to hell and back, and our refuge from a world bathed in nuclear hellfire was another world that had experienced the same a few centuries in the past. To be perfectly honest, the human race was in some truly dire straits if I was the best candidate to save us all from a self-inflicted annihilation.

Personally speaking though, things weren’t so bad, I decided, wat...

The Good Life: Old World Blues (ch. 36) (Fallout Jump Start)

“This place kinda sucks,” I observed with Yoruichi by my side as we drank in the sights of a whole new world. The excitement was a little undercut by the fact that everything looked vaguely the same -- dilapidated, neglected, and weathered from about two hundred years of being exposed to the elements after a nuclear apocalypse. Dead trees stood in the sandy dirt, the asphalt crumbling to pieces, and the only thing of note standing in any direction was the entrance to a theme park.

I...

The Good Life: I Don't Want To Set The World On Fire~! (ch. 35)

The world had gone kaput. The news couldn’t say as much due to the fact all the nukes going off had ended up frying any electronics with a circuit board, but everyone knew it was true. The nukes only rained down upon the world for around two hours total, starting with the nuke that went off in Berlin, but in that short amount of time, the world was bathed in hellfire and radiation.

As far as the movies had been concerned, that was it. GG. The only people that could possibly survive th...

The Good Life: Taking a Bow (ch. 34)

You know, I couldn't help but feel a little responsible for our current situation. Like… shit, things had kinda spiraled a little bit. I mean, even if I knew saving Homelander would end with a couple major cities being devastated and a nuke landing in Berlin I still would have done it, but I really hadn't foreseen the consequences of my own actions. We all stood in relative silence, our gazes on the screen that showed a mushroom cloud over Berlin. The first nuke dropped on a population cent...

Legends Never Die: Unwanted Attention (ch. 70)

Hadi Husain never put much stock in hearsay. He knew people. How they thought. What entertained them. A story could never be interesting enough as they heard it -- it always needed a little embellishment. A touch here, a touch there, and before you knew it, the entire story couldn’t even be recognized. It was inherently dishonest, especially when it came to matters that people wanted to be true. Regardless of what the truth might actually be, it would twist itself into knots to bec...

Legends Never Die: The Cost of Secrets (ch. 69)

I had never seen so many people gathered in a single place. It wasn't the first time I had that thought. It wasn't the second or the third either. The very first time I thought it, I had been a boy fresh off the family farm and Alabu had struck me as the largest city in the world. Then, when we rebelled against Francia, when our armies marched together. And again, in the final battle where there had been tens of thousands of men on the same field.

Yet again, I had that thought as I gaze...

Legends Never Die: The Nature of Intrigue (ch. 68)

Influence wasn't something that could truly be felt. It wasn't tangible. It didn't have a taste or a scent. It did, however, have a feeling and a sound, and almost immediately after the conversation with Dowager Irene, our change in influence had announced itself for all to hear. There was no announcement. There was no speech. Yet, all the same, when Morrigan and I returned to the party our presence went from something tolerated at best…

To us being so sought out that it felt as if &n...

Legends Never Die: Patronage (ch. 67)

Constantinople was no less incredible than I recalled, I thought as my lone ship sailed into a familiar harbor. For all the troubles coming to this land had brought me, despite all of the challenges, merely looking upon the city and its opulent grandeur reminded me why I was here in the first place. It was a testament of what could be accomplished with the right knowledge applied in the correct ways.

I stood on the bow of my ship, dressed in finery but in the distinct clothing of my peo...

Never Fade Away: Code Red Initiated (ch. 57)

David knew he was faster. Probably stronger. But Biotics were one hell of an equalizer, he thought as missiles exploded around him and the surrounding area became nothing but fire, dust, and shrapnel. Kaiden and Panam would be okay -- nothing short of the wrath of God would be getting through that tank's armor, but the rest of the invasion sure wouldn't be. The plan was enacted under the impression that the Turians didn't have a solid answer to their ground forces. Or, to be more specific, to...

Never Fade Away: Extraction Action (ch. 56)

Kaiden was increasingly convinced that the very worst part of war was the waiting. Waiting when you knew something was going to happen, that within minutes or hours everything would become a chaotic mess in a life or death struggle. Time seemed to warp as seconds felt like minutes and minutes felt like hours. Perhaps it would have been a good thing -- a calm before the storm, time to take a breath and prepare.

Some managed to. They talked, played games, some even prayed. Kaiden...

Never Fade Away: Trouble Finds Trouble (ch. 55)

Charges spent over timeskip:

Black boxing -- 5 (5)

Predator: Cloaking -- 4 (2)

Fallout: Energy Weapons -- 4 (2)

Fallout: Autodoc -- 5 (2)

Starfield: Grav Drive -- 5 (3)

…

“You've changed,” Kaiden accused me as I looked over the schematics I was developing for one of my many projects. We had gone to ground in the past month since I shot down the Turian ship. In a rather ironic twist, we ended up staying in the Arasaka Tower basement because it wa...

Never Fade Away: When It's War (ch. 54)

Admiral Tacitus Orolus had been honored when he was selected to lead the punitive fleet. His career was a long one, but with dedication and diligence, he’d climbed the steps of the Turian Hierarchy -- he became a ship captain by the age fifty, a Rear Admiral by sixty, and now at eighty, he was the High Admiral, braving uncharted space. He was the iron fist of the Council, tasked with reaching out to bring an upstart race to heel.

A year ago, a Turian patrol fleet discovered a race now...

A Fun Time, Not A Long Time: Skull Island 1.3 (ch. 3)

‘Scary! Scary! He's so scary!’ The thoughts rang around Hitori Gotoh -- henceforth dubbed Bocchi because Momo startled her when she tried to give her name. She stared up at the figure, trembling like a leaf and feeling faint as he sat on top of a veritable mountain of monkeys after he beat them all up. Even the cute ones! Heartless! A heartless monster!

It was a really big shock to see him at the front of the crowd. Even if they were monkeys, it was her first live performan...

Ghastly Adventures: Cascade 2.2 (ch. 7)

“Poltergeist!” I called out, Litwick before me with her flame burning brightly as she grabbed hold of my opponent’s Butterfree. I didn’t need to say anything more before Litwick slammed the bug pokemon into the ground on the battle court. The guy across from me, who was a few years older, tensed as he sensed the conclusion of the battle rapidly approaching.

“Use Psybeam!” He countered, and the butterfree’s eyes glowed.

“Spin!” I shot back, making Litwick spin the...

Ghastly Adventures: Cascade 2.1 (ch. 6)

Dinner was nothing less than pure chaos. Nine children of various ages, two sets of twins, all seated at a long table that could barely house them all as it was. I would give Flint this -- his genes were unmatched because there wasn't a shadow of a doubt in my mind that he was the father of them all. Those eyes were too distinctive. And their mother had been nothing less than a trooper.

Getting nine siblings to behave would be a feat worthy of Hercules. Getting them to be calm when thei...

Ghastly Adventures: Boulder 1.5 (ch. 5)

Terror wasn't anything comparable to fear. It was a lesson that I had already learned -- I used to get night terrors. The kind that leaves you frozen upon waking up, heart feeling like it was about to burst through your chest, and drenched in a cold sweat. Once you felt a taste of terror, there was no mistaking it for fear. Right now, what I and everyone else in the Gym felt at this very moment, was terror.

“Mimikyu!” Mimikyu snarled, hate dripping from the...

Ghastly Adventures: Boulder 1.4 (ch. 4)

Marnie was an experienced trainer, I quickly noticed as the two of them both began shouting out orders for their pokemon. Brock took up the position of defense, leaving the initiative to Marnie, who was happy to have it as her impidimp hopped from boulder to boulder with surprising speed to close in on the geodude that was squaring up. With a final leap, she closed the distance and the pokemon clashed to a roaring crowd.

“AND IT BEGINS! TRAINER MARNIE GOES ALL IN ON OFFENSE, DELIVERIN...

The Good Life: Old World Blues (ch. 36) (Fallout Jump Start)

“This place kinda sucks,” I observed with Yoruichi by my side as we drank in the sights of a whole new world. The excitement was a little undercut by the fact that everything looked vaguely the same -- dilapidated, neglected, and weathered from about two hundred years of being exposed to the elements after a nuclear apocalypse. Dead trees stood in the sandy dirt, the asphalt crumbling to pieces, and the only thing of note standing in any direction was the entrance to a theme park.

I...

The Good Life: I Don't Want To Set The World On Fire~! (ch. 35)

The world had gone kaput. The news couldn’t say as much due to the fact all the nukes going off had ended up frying any electronics with a circuit board, but everyone knew it was true. The nukes only rained down upon the world for around two hours total, starting with the nuke that went off in Berlin, but in that short amount of time, the world was bathed in hellfire and radiation.

As far as the movies had been concerned, that was it. GG. The only people that could possibly survive th...

The Good Life: Curtain Call (ch. 34)

You know, I couldn't help but feel a little responsible for our current situation. Like… shit, things had kinda spiraled a little bit. I mean, even if I knew saving Homelander would end with a couple major cities being devastated and a nuke landing in Berlin I still would have done it, but I really hadn't foreseen the consequences of my own actions. We all stood in relative silence, our gazes on the screen that showed a mushroom cloud over Berlin. The first nuke dropped on a population cent...

The Good Life: Explosive Finish (ch. 33)

Homelander screamed. It was a scream of loss. Of pain. A wretched sound that barely sounded like it could come from a man. A hand hovered over Stormfront as if he was looking for a way to put her head back together. And I could only stand and watch as Homelander broke down, tears falling from his cheeks. He sounded lost. He sounded broken.

It hurt to hear. It hurt to see. His face was splattered with blood, tears left trails through it down his cheeks. He hunched over his dead ...

Ghastly Adventures: Boulder 1.4

Marnie was an experienced trainer, I quickly noticed as the two of them both began shouting out orders for their pokemon. Brock took up the position of defense, leaving the initiative to Marnie, who was happy to have it as her impidimp hopped from boulder to boulder with surprising speed to close in on the geodude that was squaring up. With a final leap, she closed the distance and the pokemon clashed to a roaring crowd.

“AND IT BEGINS! TRAINER MARNIE GOES ALL IN ON OFFENSE, DELIVERIN...

Ghastly Adventures: Cascade 2.1 (ch. 6)

Dinner was nothing less than pure chaos. Nine children of various ages, two sets of twins, all seated at a long table that could barely house them all as it was. I would give Flint this -- his genes were unmatched because there wasn't a shadow of a doubt in my mind that he was the father of them all. Those eyes were too distinctive. And their mother had been nothing less than a trooper.

Getting nine siblings to behave would be a feat worthy of Hercules. Getting them to be calm when thei...

Ghastly Adventures: Boulder 1.5 (ch. 5)

Terror wasn't anything comparable to fear. It was a lesson that I had already learned -- I used to get night terrors. The kind that leaves you frozen upon waking up, heart feeling like it was about to burst through your chest, and drenched in a cold sweat. Once you felt a taste of terror, there was no mistaking it for fear. Right now, what I and everyone else in the Gym felt at this very moment, was terror.

“Mimikyu!” Mimikyu snarled, hate dripping from the...

Ghastly Adventures: Boulder 1.3 (ch. 3)

I figured that I had gotten the better end of the deal. I got to live out in a fantastical world filled with pokemon and adventures and what have you. I felt bad about the original Blair, but that mostly stemmed from the fact that I just assumed that we traded places. Because… why wouldn't we? I got pulled across the multiverse and deposited into his body that had a hole in its heart. Why wouldn't Blair find himself in my body back on earth, patched up after getting hit by a truck to live o...

Legends Never Die: The Cost of Secrets (ch. 69)

I had never seen so many people gathered in a single place. It wasn't the first time I had that thought. It wasn't the second or the third either. The very first time I thought it, I had been a boy fresh off the family farm and Alabu had struck me as the largest city in the world. Then, when we rebelled against Francia, when our armies marched together. And again, in the final battle where there had been tens of thousands of men on the same field.

Yet again, I had that thought as I gaze...

Legends Never Die: The Nature of Intrigue (ch. 68)

Influence wasn't something that could truly be felt. It wasn't tangible. It didn't have a taste or a scent. It did, however, have a feeling and a sound, and almost immediately after the conversation with Dowager Irene, our change in influence had announced itself for all to hear. There was no announcement. There was no speech. Yet, all the same, when Morrigan and I returned to the party our presence went from something tolerated at best…

To us being so sought out that it felt as if &n...

Legends Never Die: Patronage (ch. 67)

Constantinople was no less incredible than I recalled, I thought as my lone ship sailed into a familiar harbor. For all the troubles coming to this land had brought me, despite all of the challenges, merely looking upon the city and its opulent grandeur reminded me why I was here in the first place. It was a testament of what could be accomplished with the right knowledge applied in the correct ways.

I stood on the bow of my ship, dressed in finery but in the distinct clothing of my peo...