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Gone Native: Reaching Out (ch. 29)

"None of this was included in the reports," I muttered to myself, finding my frustration with the whole situation growing by the second. Not just because Komand'r had subverted my checks and outright lied about the situation, but I was forced to wonder that if she had done so, then who else was? What else was being lied about? I knew that I couldn't be the single point of failure in my empire, but I had thought I had a better grasp over it. Yet, I was watching what resembled a riot back on Ea...

Gone Native: Painful Parallels (ch. 28)

It was an incredibly frustrating feeling, Tim Drake reflected, standing before Tarble, who poured over various cases that Tim had been developing over the past month. They were in the cockpit of the ship. A trip that had taken them less than a day had been stretched out to a week long. And they still had five days left before they arrived at their destination. Tarble sat in the command chair, lounging in it as if it were a throne.

It was an incredibly frustrating thing, he thought again...

Fool's World: The Star (ch. 18)

"What do you mean he just left with the Yakuza?!" Nobara heard Rin shout as she was getting dressed after a very long night. Her entire body was sore in a way that she never experienced before, but it was a pleasant soreness. Like she had just gotten a great workout and after the aches in her muscles faded, she would be better than ever. Though, when Rin's shouts reached her ears, Nobara froze.

That fucking idiot! It was like Majima wouldn't be satisfied until he got himself ki...

Fool's World: The Sun (ch. 17)

"Rider, stay here," I told Rider, looking at Goro Majima. Rider tilted her head at the order, sizing him up just as he was sizing her up. "This doesn't involve the Grail War at all."

"If that's your desire, then I won't argue. However, I am allowed to deal with threats outside of the Grail War. Any threats to my Master can be eliminated, regardless of who they are," Rider made a point, offering Majima a predatory smile. To that, Majima cocked an eyebrow, seeming to understand that Rider...

Fool's World: The Lovers (ch. 16)

"Oh…" I uttered as Nobara began to unbutton her shirt. She didn't look particularly embarrassed by the action either. "Are you sure?" I asked her, my gaze flickering between her and Rin. I wasn't an idiot. I knew what sex was. I also knew it was one of those things that had a whole lot of emotional context connected to it. As far as I knew, my past self treated sex casually. Or, quite possibly, he was using the same ritual that Rin had just described to take mana from the women that he slep...

Risk It All: Going Bust (ch. 34)

"This is a bad idea, and you need to sit down," Robin told me as I stood with him, leaning on the top of my longsword, treating the gift from Wonder Woman like a cane. My regen ability was working its magic, but that didn't mean I was at a hundred percent. For starters, I was still missing an arm. My hearing was back, though. However I still felt lightheaded from the blood loss, which still hadn't entirely stopped. Blood still leaked out of me in a slow trickle where my stump was capping off ...

Gone Native: Common Enemy (ch. 30)

In hindsight, I could admit to myself that this conclusion was blatantly obvious as a starbolt just barely missed my head and slammed into the dark orange, wind sheared stone, sending up a cloud of dust behind me. Things had started off decently enough. We arrived at the Pillars of Reconciliation. A sacred place amongst the Tamaranian people where disputes had been settled for generations.

The terrain was unique -- for as far as the eye could see, great pillars of orange rock stood tall...

Gone Native: Reaching Out (ch. 29)

"None of this was included in the reports," I muttered to myself, finding my frustration with the whole situation growing by the second. Not just because Komand'r had subverted my checks and outright lied about the situation, but I was forced to wonder that if she had done so, then who else was? What else was being lied about? I knew that I couldn't be the single point of failure in my empire, but I had thought I had a better grasp over it. Yet, I was watching what resembled a riot back on Ea...

Gone Native: Painful Parallels (ch. 28)

It was an incredibly frustrating feeling, Tim Drake reflected, standing before Tarble, who poured over various cases that Tim had been developing over the past month. They were in the cockpit of the ship. A trip that had taken them less than a day had been stretched out to a week long. And they still had five days left before they arrived at their destination. Tarble sat in the command chair, lounging in it as if it were a throne.

It was an incredibly frustrating thing, he thought again...

Gone Native: The Nature of Change (ch. 27)

"You almost blew up the planet," Kara said in lieu of greeting me as I stepped inside of the living room in Titan Tower. It was a spacious room seated at the intersection of the T-shaped building. A kitchen was tucked into one corner of the room, while directly across from the door that connected to the corridor was a large half circle shaped couch. Currently on display on a holographic screen were various news feeds that detailed the battle. Most of it was all second hand accounts, but while...

Fool's World: The Sun (ch. 17)

"Rider, stay here," I told Rider, looking at Goro Majima. Rider tilted her head at the order, sizing him up just as he was sizing her up. "This doesn't involve the Grail War at all."

"If that's your desire, then I won't argue. However, I am allowed to deal with threats outside of the Grail War. Any threats to my Master can be eliminated, regardless of who they are," Rider made a point, offering Majima a predatory smile. To that, Majima cocked an eyebrow, seeming to understand that Rider...

Fool's World: The Lovers (ch. 16)

"Oh…" I uttered as Nobara began to unbutton her shirt. She didn't look particularly embarrassed by the action either. "Are you sure?" I asked her, my gaze flickering between her and Rin. I wasn't an idiot. I knew what sex was. I also knew it was one of those things that had a whole lot of emotional context connected to it. As far as I knew, my past self treated sex casually. Or, quite possibly, he was using the same ritual that Rin had just described to take mana from the women that he slep...

Fool's World: The Moon (ch. 15)

"Hnngh...ahhh…" I groaned, clenching my already closed eyes in discomfort. My last memories slammed into me like a brick to the face. Which made it so startling that I was resting on a soft bed instead of the hard stairs that I had passed out on. Forcing myself into a sitting position, my eyes only opened when my forehead collided with someone else's.

"Ah!" I heard Rin cry out in pain, clutching her head as I looked around. "Why is your head so hard?"

"What happened? Where's Shi...

See No Evil: Round 2 (ch. 75)

"Revy? I need your help," I said, reaching out to her through my contacts. "Cassandra's been kidnapped by the League of Shadows." I told her, my voice decidedly calm. Perfectly even. It didn't at all reflect how I felt inside. My thoughts were tainted red by an all consuming rage that refused to be restrained. Like a pot that had boiled over. Red hot anger surged through my veins… I could only compare it to how I felt when I realized that the Joker had taken Jack.

All consuming wrath ...

See No Evil: Bigger Fish (ch. 74)

"We have a notice from Concerned Citizen," Barbara informed the Team, catching Jason's attention as he lowered his gloved fists, prompting Dick to do the same. They were in the training area of the Mountain, doing group workouts for the first time in what felt like forever. Something they were able to do thanks to Vergil pulling about a dozen teams of super heroes out of his ass and sending them out everywhere that was affiliated with the UN.

And, through Concerned Citizen, Vergil had a...

See No Evil: Heroes (ch. 73)

Time was a fickle thing. A second could feel as if it lasted an hour while an hour could pass by in a second. It all came down to perspective. Time flies when you're having fun, and all that jazz. That saying also applied to being utterly swamped with work from every end, and with so many things going on that I barely had time to blink, much less pay attention to the time, it passed all too quickly.

A month had passed by in the blink of an eye. I honestly had no clue where the time went...

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Risk It All: More the Merrier (Omake 3)

Zen was kinda a funny thing, I realized in hindsight as I listened to Kid Flash run his mouth. We stood on the rooftop overlooking one of the Yakuza safehouses. Super speed was oddly fitting for him given how much he liked to run his mouth at me -- snide remarks about the wardrobe malfunctions earlier when my clone popped into existence naked, remarks about Zatanna's continued absence, and so on. I won't say it wasn't a little annoying, because it absolutely was.

However, the remarks th...

Gone Native: Reaching Out (ch. 29)

"None of this was included in the reports," I muttered to myself, finding my frustration with the whole situation growing by the second. Not just because Komand'r had subverted my checks and outright lied about the situation, but I was forced to wonder that if she had done so, then who else was? What else was being lied about? I knew that I couldn't be the single point of failure in my empire, but I had thought I had a better grasp over it. Yet, I was watching what resembled a riot back on Ea...

Gone Native: Painful Parallels (ch. 28)

It was an incredibly frustrating feeling, Tim Drake reflected, standing before Tarble, who poured over various cases that Tim had been developing over the past month. They were in the cockpit of the ship. A trip that had taken them less than a day had been stretched out to a week long. And they still had five days left before they arrived at their destination. Tarble sat in the command chair, lounging in it as if it were a throne.

It was an incredibly frustrating thing, he thought again...

Gone Native: The Nature of Change (ch. 27)

"You almost blew up the planet," Kara said in lieu of greeting me as I stepped inside of the living room in Titan Tower. It was a spacious room seated at the intersection of the T-shaped building. A kitchen was tucked into one corner of the room, while directly across from the door that connected to the corridor was a large half circle shaped couch. Currently on display on a holographic screen were various news feeds that detailed the battle. Most of it was all second hand accounts, but while...

Gone Native: New Normal (ch. 26)

"These provocations were expected," I told Ada'la, sitting on what I could only describe as a throne. It was too grand to be called a simple chair.

I only had one at her behest, because she went through the trouble of having over a hundred designed for me. The look that she gave me when I picked the simplest one wasn't one I would soon be forgetting -- a white stone slab that had a place to sit carved into it without so much as a cushion. It appealed to me more than the floating thrones...

Risk It All: Cashing Out (ch. 33)

"What did you just do?" I breathed, an image flashing in my mind of the last creature that had gotten their hands on the venom that was now raining down from the sky in fat drops. Killer Croc had gone toe to toe with Superboy, who could bench near fifteen tons for a workout. Who could hit harder than anyone on the team. Who could get knocked through half a forest worth of trees and brush off the splinters like it was nothing. That Superboy. And before him was Mammoth, the user back on Santa P...

Fool's World: The Lovers (ch. 16)

"Oh…" I uttered as Nobara began to unbutton her shirt. She didn't look particularly embarrassed by the action either. "Are you sure?" I asked her, my gaze flickering between her and Rin. I wasn't an idiot. I knew what sex was. I also knew it was one of those things that had a whole lot of emotional context connected to it. As far as I knew, my past self treated sex casually. Or, quite possibly, he was using the same ritual that Rin had just described to take mana from the women that he slep...

Fool's World: The Sun (ch. 15)

"Hnngh...ahhh…" I groaned, clenching my already closed eyes in discomfort. My last memories slammed into me like a brick to the face. Which made it so startling that I was resting on a soft bed instead of the hard stairs that I had passed out on. Forcing myself into a sitting position, my eyes only opened when my forehead collided with someone else's.

"Ah!" I heard Rin cry out in pain, clutching her head as I looked around. "Why is your head so hard?"

"What happened? Where's Shi...

Fool's World: Temperance (ch. 14)

The odds weren't lost on me. I knew damn well that the only thing I would manage to accomplish against the hulking mass of muscle clad in dark leathery skin was to break my fists on him. At best, my blood would be difficult to wash out from his skirt, but he didn't strike me as the kind of guy that minded bloodstains. There was just a stunning lack of fear. A complete absence of it.

It wasn't like I was above running. I was willing to at the drop of a hat if things looked bad. We fled t...

See No Evil: Bigger Fish (ch. 74)

"We have a notice from Concerned Citizen," Barbara informed the Team, catching Jason's attention as he lowered his gloved fists, prompting Dick to do the same. They were in the training area of the Mountain, doing group workouts for the first time in what felt like forever. Something they were able to do thanks to Vergil pulling about a dozen teams of super heroes out of his ass and sending them out everywhere that was affiliated with the UN.

And, through Concerned Citizen, Vergil had a...

See No Evil: Heroes (ch.73)

Time was a fickle thing. A second could feel as if it lasted an hour while an hour could pass by in a second. It all came down to perspective. Time flies when you're having fun, and all that jazz. That saying also applied to being utterly swamped with work from every end, and with so many things going on that I barely had time to blink, much less pay attention to the time, it passed all too quickly.

A month had passed by in the blink of an eye. I honestly had no clue where the time went...

See No Evil: Legacy (ch. 72)

"Hhhnnnghahhh…!" I groaned, stretching and feeling every joint in my body pop. A satisfied sigh escaped me as I rolled my shoulders, glancing at Cass who was looking at me with an expression of disgust. So, I turned my head and popped my neck, making her nose crinkle.

"Bad. Gross," Cass remarked, crossing her arms as she looked away from me. Feeling refreshed, I took a sip of the coffee that was resting on my desk. The strong flavor washed over my tongue -- I had released my blend of ...

See No Evil: Heroes (ch. 73)

Time was a fickle thing. A second could feel as if it lasted an hour while an hour could pass by in a second. It all came down to perspective. Time flies when you're having fun, and all that jazz. That saying also applied to being utterly swamped with work from every end, and with so many things going on that I barely had time to blink, much less pay attention to the time, it passed all too quickly.

A month had passed by in the blink of an eye. I honestly had no clue where the time went...