Lost Rain

Stormfall - Chapter 8

”…six, seven.” Better turnout than I expected. It could’ve just been me and Fleff, and he didn’t get a 

The count was split between the two squads. Four of them were from Pike-Two, and three from Iron-Four. Johnson, the Grenadier, Fleff of course, a lanky woman with antiarmor heavy weapons, and a rifleman. The other squad just had three riflemen show up. 

“You—“ I pointed toward the rifleman from Pike-Two. 

“Collins, Ma’am!” The rifleman ...

Outrun - Chapter 355

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Stormfall - Chapter 7

AN: I’ve got a temporary cover. It’ll definitely change at some point, but for now it’s better than nothing. I haven’t had much spare time to work on it.

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Someone kicked my leg. I froze to keep myself from lashing out and kept my eyes closed. I cracked an eye open. “What.”

“Fleff’s awake.” Morose looked down on me curled up beneath the arcade cabinet. Her helmet was off, giving me my first true look at someone from Pike-Two. 

As I expect...

Outrun - Chapter 353

Stormfall - Chapter 6

We spilled out the back of the museum into a narrow loading dock situated in a bay. Hard to miss the Rekon Arcology once I stopped checking for things trying to kill me. It was towering, ugly, and had lightning flashing ominously around it.

Black Dog snorted coldly and shook his head. “Looks right out of a cheesy slasher movie.”

“Let’s hope it doesn’t follow the same plot. I really don’t want to be the final girl.” The lightning probably just loved tall thin...

Outrun - Chapter 352

Stormfall - Chapter 5

I cautiously peeked out of the subway’s entrance. A chilly breeze blew over me, though it was pushed back slightly as Black Dog moved up next to me. He pressed into my side right in a gap between my armor and undershirt. 

The rain had backed off at some point. Not stopped—at least not entirely. It just retreated enough that it could pretend to have manners once more. It wasn’t that black fluid anymore, though.

The sky hung low and heavy. It was a single, solid sheet of ...

Outrun - Chapter 351

Stormfall - Chapter 4

I wasn’t the only one to take advantage of the break. The others scattered around with silent discipline. They settled into cover like they didn’t know the meaning of rest, and gnawed at ration bricks. Nobody talked much. The few that did kept it low and near silent.

“How big were the rats?” I shuffled slightly ahead of the group with my rifle held low once ten minutes passed. 

“Nothing on the ones in Bloodharbor,” My faithful hound answered with his deep, gravely...

Outrun - Chapter 350

Stormfall - Chapter 3

Neon signs still flickered overhead in places. The advertisements brokenly looped to no one and drained what little of the power grid was still alive. They were few and far between. For the most part, the only light came from the storm up above and flickers of lightning.

We moved slowly through the ruins of what looked like it used to be a major street, following the path of a Titan. Major roads were usually resistant enough not to get pulverized by a Titan, but decades of weathering ma...

Stormfall - Chapter 2

The group holding me at gunpoint didn’t immediately open fire. After a few long moments, one of them called out. “Flash?”

A wave of relief washed through me. It looked like I would live to see another day after all. What joy. “Thunder.”

“She’s one of ours.” The man called out. Most of the lights blinding me flicked away and scanned our surroundings. They were still alert, though I was out of any immediate danger from the squad. 

The sight of the Stormfal...

Outrun - Chapter 349

Outrun - Chapter 348

Stormfall — Chapter 1

I woke up in a fire, surrounded by a broken building, and my lungs rapidly filling with smoke. To be fair, I’d been in worst situations.

Later, someone tried to come loot my corpse. Jokes on them—I wasn’t dead yet. I was really starting to wish I was, though. The drop went bad. Command went silent. The ‘dead’ city? There was more than one joke being told.

I’m low on resources, high on adrenaline, and stuck playing merc in a city that grows weirder the longer w...

Outrun - Chapter 347

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Outrun - Chapter 340

Outrun - Chapter 339

Outrun - Chapter 338

I awoke to incredible warmth pressing from all directions. Not my bed—it felt too hard for that. Water lapped against my skin, colored with a faint unsettling pink. “Ugh—“

”Hey, hey.” Hands pressed me gently back down into the bathtub before I could thrash around much. “Easy, Shiro. Don’t sit up. You’ve lost a lot of blood.”

I blinked several time to try and bring my focus back around. My head swam with the worst head rush I’d ever experienced. The bathroom s...

Outrun - Chapter 337

I left the clinic’s room several hours after that. Luna was a fitful sleeper at best, and she barely got four hours before waking and getting back to work. I tossed her my auto-pilot program and then left. If she could get that up and running, as well as some solid ICE, I’d be set to start mass producing my hover bikes. Just as soon as I got a production facility set up, ‘course.

Saint had already left at some point. The reporter sent me a message about a potential lead, though as...

Outrun - Chapter 336

My time out at the overlook hadn’t fixed anything. In hindsight, it never really did. Standing out and looking at the city only made things quieter. With some music and calmed emotions, it let me think things through. Irritated and aggravated as I was, it just gave my thoughts room to stack and overlap until I couldn’t tell which ones were worth listening to anymore.

I did what I always did when my head got too loud. I buried the problem and went to work on something I understood. I...

Outrun - Chapter 335

“Hey, Shiro, what’s this?” Mira called from my bed in a drowsy voice. Sleep radiated from her sing-song, like she’d just stumbled upon something that startled her awake.

I looked up from the couch, fingers still hovering over my deck in frustration. The autopilot program I’d been trying and failing to work on blurred. My focus forcibly snapped away toward my mikata at her sudden call.

She was upright, blanket pooled around her waist, with a revolver dangling off her inde...

Outrun - Chapter 334

I fell asleep in Mira’s arms shortly after we left the subterranean tunnels. I was already tired from the happenings of the night, and there was no need for me to stay awake much longer. I was better off just sleeping to heal as soon as possible.

I awoke in my own bed the next morning, fully recovered and restored. Err—mostly restored. I was still a fox, though my limbs and body felt like they were back to a hundred percent. I stretched—

“Yip!” A crushing weight pulled m...