“It still following us?” Logan grunted, reloading his rifle and pistol.
The truck jumped with an impact like an earthquake.
“I think it's still following us!” Bucky yelled back, leaning out the passenger's side and shooting a handful of bullets at the giant robot.
A mechanical whine filled the air.
“It's shooting again!” I warned unnecessarily as Steve swerved out of the way and off the road.
Immediately afterwards, a beam of coruscating energ...
2025-11-01 10:44:46 +0000 UTC
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And I Love You, Random Citizen!: Become a hero. Or, at least, get into hero school. Doesn’t have to be UA. In fact, if it’s not UA, we’ll give you double the rewards listed. Be original, why don’t you? Anyway, if you manage to get into UA and attend at least one full day of classes, we’ll let you upgrade your chosen Binding to the next level. Yes, we’re offering you something you don’t want for something you’re going to do anyway, suck it....
2025-10-28 02:40:06 +0000 UTC
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Back to school.
Oh.
Boy.
“You know, for someone who never really went out for sports, you're not bad,” Algernon complimented as I kept pace with him. “...and break!”
But first, exercise.
Astrid, on the other hand, took a few faltering steps and slid to the curb in front of the house we were passing, gasping for breath and grasping for her water bottle.
“Drink slowly,” Algie warned us both, “you really will get a cramp if you down th...
2025-10-24 10:59:53 +0000 UTC
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“Uuuuuuuuuuugh...”
I hummed and leaned back against the bar, flipping through the book I had open and reviewing its contents. It'd been a few decades since I learned basic magecraft, after all, and I'd need a refresher if I was going to not be a Kiritsugu.
“Worrrrraaaaaahh....”
This particular book had been written by the Atlas guild in Egypt. While they were usually more concerned with Alchemy, that was considered a higher-level discipline and, as a ...
2025-10-21 10:08:24 +0000 UTC
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“Dude... you sure you're okay?”
I hummed, staring listlessly into the camera and sipping an energy drink colored like toxic sludge through a crazy straw. Why did we have crazy straws? I didn't know. But it was a crazy straw kind of day.
“Random topic, chat.” My statement drew a blink from Buster. “Literally anything but how my day went, please.”
“Okay, uh... that's not good. Let's see... got a subscriber here who w...
2025-10-17 03:31:11 +0000 UTC
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I tore out of the backdoor of the house, running over the back lawn and past the warre, and was in the forest almost before my mother's voice could ring out-
“Be back for dinner, Arden!”
I would have called back an affirmative, but I was in the middle of hurdling one of the large rocks that peppered any landscape in this area that hadn't been properly developed. Barely stopping, I put my fingers to my mouth and gave an ear-piercing whistle.
I could have ...
2025-10-13 11:31:58 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 41:
May all the gods and demons above and below help me, but my worst fears were confirmed the very moment I stepped inside the classroom.
It was full of teenagers.
Worse, they were wearing uniforms.
Which, by the way, I hated.
Not the design of it, no. Visually, it looked pretty slick, I had to admit. And it took some skill to include green and red in a design and not end up looking lie a walking Chris...
2025-10-08 10:57:39 +0000 UTC
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I hummed thoughtfully at the magical newspaper.
“Anything interesting?” Sara asked, typing away at her laptop.
“Wizarding World losing its shit over Sirius,” I commented. “How're those subcutaneous tracker on the rat?”
“I've got it cued to set off an alarm if he steps so much as a single paw outside the holding area, much less the ministry building as a whole,” Sara chuckled darkly. “And I have the shock implants set to go off shortly after that unl...
2025-10-06 08:14:16 +0000 UTC
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Most of you know what's going on by now, but here's the deal...
Your choices for what I focus on for October are below. Pick whichever one you like most, the project with the most votes wins. Second-most gets second-most attention, third gets third and so on. I usually have a pretty good track record abiding by the results. Last month had Butler Boy go head-to-head with long time champ Mind Games and almost dethrone the king. Not sure what'll happen this time around, but it'll be f...
2025-10-01 10:27:31 +0000 UTC
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The green-haired girl skidded to a stop in front of me, her red eyes going wide in the dim light.
She was panting and her clothes were tattered and torn despite being of likely-decent quality once upon a time. What was left of her pants were riddled with holes, which couldn't have been that comfortable in the cool night air. Neither could the long tunic she was wearing, which had had its sleeves torn off. Her boots, at least, looked to be mostly in one piece, even if they were c...
2025-10-01 04:52:37 +0000 UTC
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“-and, I'm uh... sorry, that it's taken so long to arrange this, Toga-chan,” Shinso Niko stated, coughing into his fist. “I've just been, um... very busy with work orders, recently.”
“That's okay! Father often has to stay late at work!” Himiko chirped happily. “I'm just glad I finally got to meet Hitoshi's otou-san! Hee-hee!”
A wave of crashing anxiety and relief swept over the room.
If you didn't know Himiko, which my father very mu...
2025-09-29 09:12:23 +0000 UTC
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The tattoo blinked at me.
My eye twitched.
I took a deep breath, pulled my underwear up, and resolved to shove the issue of my new brand as far into the back of my mind as I could. On one level, I'd tried testing things out by looking over some work I was supposed to do for classes next week and it had come a lot easier to me, but... I had a tattoo on my ass now.
A nasty tattoo that looked entirely like something I could b...
2025-09-25 08:01:07 +0000 UTC
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“-now punch!”
Izuku surged forward at my shout, his glowing fist crashing into a stone wall and sending hairline cracks through the material. Steam was coming off his body, light wisps of vapor as he breathed harshly with the exertion. Walking up, I examined not only the damage, but also the boy's quaking form, his muscles tense and taught as he struggled to keep the stance I'd taught him.
“Relax,” I stated.
Instantly, the greenette sagged an...
2025-09-22 09:21:10 +0000 UTC
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What it says on the tin, basically. Nothing huge changes about the chapter, but one piece of feedback said that it might read better if there was a reminder about who Ami was and what her relationship with Toga is, since she hadn't been in focus for a while.
Also, embarrassingly, my copy-pasta cut off the last two lines of the update. Probably a result of posting immediately after a writing binge and being a little bleary, my bad.
I also fixed one or two errors in the text while I...
2025-09-18 01:50:48 +0000 UTC
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Ami sighed as she sat down next to me, absently adjusting her long black hair over her shoulder. “I guess I should congratulate you, huh? You and Himiko got into UA. So... I guess you won.”
I reached up and rubbed my eyes tiredly as I stared at the people milling about in the shopping center. It was the same one Himiko had used as our first date, which felt like forever ago, but was just barely two months at this point. “I wasn't aware we were competing.”
Matsudair...
2025-09-17 12:50:41 +0000 UTC
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“I can't believe we had to help Drakken and Shego escape!”
Kim groaned, flopping back on her bed and rolling around in a fit of frustration and disbelief.
“Ugh! I feel like I need a damn shower after that!”
Me?
I was pacing.
“What's up, Ron? You'd usually be complaining right along with Kim,” Tara spoke up, shimmying out of her dress enticingly.
Normally, that would have distracted me, but now wa...
2025-09-14 08:37:46 +0000 UTC
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“-and I'm sure we'll all wish Shinso Hitoshi-kun the best in his endeavors at UA next year,” my homeroom teacher stated grandly, smiling widely.
The eyes of my classmates were wide, vacant with disbelief and shock, as they stared at me.
Which, you know... fair.
From their point of view, I was the weird kid with a villain's quirk that had no friends, barely said anything, and didn't even join a club. It wasn't exactly that I was anti-soc...
2025-09-10 11:12:23 +0000 UTC
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The precepts of my new life were as follows:
Stay under the radar for as long as possible; more time to grow means a stronger debut,more experience with my powers, and being in generally fewer life-threatening situations.
Get stronger by doing stuff to get more gacha tickets to get more powers/skills/etc...
Brainstorm ways to accomplish #2 without violating #1.
Don...
2025-09-07 10:29:09 +0000 UTC
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Honestly, I didn't know what I was more disappointed in.
I'd finally lost my temper. After all of the bullshit and bargaining and playing nice I'd indulged in to be a functioning member of society, I'd finally snapped. And, like most things, it was just a pissant little argument that had broken me. Teaching my new squad had already been something I didn't really want to do, at least... not in the manner I was being forced to conduct myself in, as a ninja, but it was the idea that I'd ha...
2025-09-04 11:15:22 +0000 UTC
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Okay, going to shuffle the voting options up a little bit this month and see how things shake out.
For those who don't know how this works, the project with the most votes gets preferential treatment for this month. The next-most votes gets the next-most attention, which admittedly didn't happen for August. I'll try to fix that by moving straight to an Industrious chapter right now and sneak in a New Ron one as well, though that will be iffy this week.
Hope this finds everyone w...
2025-09-01 08:49:06 +0000 UTC
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“Okay, the votes are in,” Kirishima – Buster, currently – chuckled as he looked over the final tally. “Top two slots are another karaoke party and a test of courage for Golden Week.”
I sighed, bringing my hands up to rub at my face. “I reserve the right to blame both Buster and everyone who voted when this goes catastrophically wrong.”
Eijiro laughed. “C'mon dude, it won't be that bad! We can even time it so that we do the ka...
2025-09-01 08:12:22 +0000 UTC
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“So how does this all work?” Yagi Toshinori asked, cocking his head at the screens. “I've never been on this side of things before.”
Eraserhead sighed from the corner of the room he was leaning against.
Nezu simply chuckled, waving his paw at the banks of monitors before them. “Oh, it's quite simple. All of the tests are being recorded from multiple angles and will be reviewed in detail later. Our on-site evaluation right now is mostly a matter of the students' s...
2025-08-28 13:53:49 +0000 UTC
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So, to recap, I needed to make a split-second decision after being confronted with the consequences of my actions. In particular, these consequences manifested in the form of the princess of the forest elves and the daughter of the dark elves' chieftain fighting to the death in an encounter that was supposed to signal the beginning of the <<Elf War>> questline for a party.
Now, in theory, killing the princess could actually solve a lot of problems.
2025-08-24 10:11:14 +0000 UTC
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“Whoa, hey... are you a student here?”
I blinked, turning towards the white-haired man wearing a pretty standard blue school blazer. Decent semi-athletic build that told me he either didn't have a physical enhancement quirk, or it was entirely modal in nature. The lack of a casual outfit, too, made me want to disregard him entirely. There was a written test, yes, but the practical hero exam would almost certainly require combat, even if you knew nothing about the test itself...
2025-08-19 11:33:22 +0000 UTC
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I looked down at the remaining ticket I had, frowning.
Dinner had just finished and, even though the days were getting longer, the sun still set pretty early, especially with the mountains arranged like they were. I had... maybe thirty minutes of daylight left, all things considered. As had become habit, I rubbed the shiny paper between my thumb and forefinger, hesitating.
“At this point, I'm just asking for something to happen,” I muttered, shaking my head.
2025-08-15 11:12:30 +0000 UTC
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Unscheduled Update:
Okay, so a lot of people criticized Arden's actions towards the end of Chapter 5 as uncharacteristically/unnecessarily stupid/silly/problematic.
Let this be a testament that I can, in fact, take the hint when people raise valid critiques.
So I've revised the end of the last chapter and wanted everyone to know and/or have access to the new 'end,' so it wasn't a surprise.
*Also, while I'm here, a quick note.
2025-08-11 09:15:27 +0000 UTC
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I took another moment to make sure my cell was in incognito mode.
I stared at it, my fingers refusing to move.
There were better ways, I knew. Simpler, easier tactics to take at this point. But none that would ensure compliance from the hero I needed. Regrettably, Aizawa had refused Endeavor's invitation to put his agency through a remedial CQC course. If I'd had that time, I might have been able to work out a cleaner and more elegant solution to my problem. Instead, I was lef...
2025-08-10 00:39:45 +0000 UTC
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This is a compilation of all of the gacha stuff that Arden has pulled/rolled so far.
This document is set to Read Only due to its nature as a list and not a story post, so I'll be making it available to everyone with this post.
Hope this helps people who want to have a good reference document for Arden's shenanigans.
I'll be updating it as things go.
2025-08-05 10:47:04 +0000 UTC
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I had the week off from school.
As much as I enjoyed it, that also meant the week crept by without a reliable schedule or time sink. The only thing that mattered in any real way was the daily set of medications my mother thought I still needed to take and the movies or television shows I wanted to watch/record. Granted, both of my parents kept a pretty strong watch on my viewing habits, so South Park was not an option, but Daria had just started coming out this year.
That and ...
2025-08-05 10:41:41 +0000 UTC
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Here we go!
Another month down and another to go!
For those who are new, the system is pretty self-explanatory, but here's how it works in a nutshell. The project with the most votes gets the most attention in the next month. The project with the second-most votes gets second-billing, and so on down the line. The upper tiers get a second vote that will help decide everything and I'll tabulate things with the people on Subscribe Star as well.
I'm currently working on an up...
2025-08-01 07:50:39 +0000 UTC
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