Chapter Eighty-Three -
The backstage area was buzzing with energy. Trainers and Pokémon alike bustled about, preparing for the next stage of the contest. Some were practising last-minute adjustments to their routines, while others sat quietly, recharging f...
2024-11-23 06:03:15 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Forty-Six
It took them the morning to get to the main road. First a few detours, around a street blocked by a large, angry anomaly where the air was rent and shifting and felt like it was straining to hold back a wave of magic that stank of ...
2024-11-22 05:06:08 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Seventy-Six -
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I checked up on the newbies, just to be sure, but they really didn’t need the help.
The team had grouped up atop one of the defensive structures around the Big Gun compound and were pretty much j...
2024-11-22 02:43:47 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Eighty-Four
They returned to the Sappho. The ship was sitting, waiting for them, and even before they arrived, Ivil knew that Sonic was Spectre was by the entrance way, reading from a datapad and Aurora was in her room, doing much the same but cu...
2024-11-21 01:17:31 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Thirty-Six -
“Are you sure you don’t want to take the Cheezeburger perk?” Sharp asked.
“I’m positive,” I said.
We were currently both making our way across the city. Fenway was relatively safe n...
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2024-11-19 23:11:01 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Five Hundred and Seventeen -
I looked up, then ‘ooohed’ as a second firework went off.
It was a rather sad looking firework, to be honest. Just a little streak of light that flew up and then popped, sending sparks out ever...
2024-11-19 21:57:29 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Seventy-Five
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“Alright, you good?” I asked as Shy landed on the ground.
She patted her knees clear of dust, then shifted the hood of her cloak back up and over her head. Her clothes were... a bit of a mess, t...
2024-11-19 05:09:50 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Seventy-Four
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I tried to be somewhat subtle as I moved through the woods. Shy was ahead of me, and she caught one soon enough that my mech was on the wider side of things. That meant that she mostly picked out a route with fewer trees,...
2024-11-16 02:55:05 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Thirty-Five
It was a good thing that Sharp was a heavy sleeper, because otherwise she might have heard me pacing the room as I scanned through the list of options I had.
It hadn’t truly struck me at the time, but Sharp’s level five pe...
2024-11-15 03:47:02 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Eighty-Three
There were very few people who could stand up to her.
Nominally, the leaders of Mars could tell her no. At least on paper. They knew better than to try, however, because no amount of written rules would stop her mild an...
2024-11-15 00:43:18 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Seventy-Three
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“You good?” I asked before checking my mech’s scanners. There were a few living antithesis around, but they were flopped onto the ground, with hefty chunks of their bodies missing, and I figured that the whole ‘l...
2024-11-14 01:35:20 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Thirty-Four
We returned to the Bloody Bat just a few minutes before opening. Sharp clutched her hands together as she asked to talk to Paris, then she stuttered though an explanation that basically boiled down to ‘thank you for the job and the room, but...
2024-11-13 02:56:09 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Five Hundred and Sixteen -
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“Are you ready?” I asked.
Booksie nodded, then straightened out her back...
2024-11-12 21:55:08 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Seventy-Two
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The next twenty minutes were kind of boring. Even the constant drumming and thumps of multiple AA guns turning the sky into pin-cushion land was something I could get used to.
And then, on the twenty-first...
2024-11-12 02:39:33 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Forty-One
Asajj had never been one for art.
Pretty paintings, little sculptures. She had no use for these sorts of things.
She could appreciate some, of course. The tattoos of the Dathomiri were art, but they ...
2024-11-11 22:49:53 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Thirty-Three
We woke up early enough the next morning for Sharp to confirm with Mark that he didn’t need Sharp to come in that morning. He seemed used to his couriers being the sorts of people that dropped in and out of the job. We did get news that Der...
2024-11-11 20:11:33 +0000 UTC View PostEpilogue
Things were nice and quiet in the Wright household.
Emily had spent a week expecting... something to happen, but no. Things were calm.
Well, things were relatively calm. She was trying very hard to do...
2024-11-11 00:36:36 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Seventy-One
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“Myalis, what in the fuck is that?” I asked.
My mech’s targeting software had no issues locking onto the big flyer above, probably because it was the size of a literal barn with nothing between us an...
2024-11-10 23:26:02 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Thirty-Two
Jenny led Alyssa into a doctor’s office of a sort at the back of the building. It reminded me a little of the surgery room I’d just been in within the mega building the cult occupied, but this one had more posters of scantily clad women on ...
2024-11-09 20:53:10 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Seventy -
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I never considered it before, but the sky being on fire really was quite pretty. I think it was the red and oranges contrasting well with all of the deep blues. Then there were suddenly long streaks ripping through the...
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Chapter Thirty-One
“Y-you can let us out here,” Sharp said.
Jenny didn’t let up on the peddle, and we roared past one of the main entrances into Fenway. I sat up a little straighter, having relocated myself to Sharp’s arms... or more accu...
2024-11-06 11:45:42 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Sixty-Nine
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For all that Gomorrah wanted me to show up at the crack of dawn, and for all that I showed up... past that. There were still several hours to wait before anything actually happened.
I ended up sitting over ...
2024-11-05 14:55:03 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Five Hundred and Fifteen -
It was the big day, and everything was going alright.
“This is terrible.”
Everything was in order.
“Why did I agree to this? This is going to be a disaster.”
Chapter Eighty-Two
Torture was ineffective. That didn’t mean it wasn’t fun.
At the moment, Ivil was enjoying torture quite a bit. She was sitting on a simple seat in a nice enough restaurant a floor above the arcade they’d been...
2024-11-04 20:19:30 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Thirty -
The bear warlock moved out of the room while the others were still plotting and planning. He timed his exit to coincide with a pair of cultists walking past. It was probably for the best, because while the cultists were mind-addled and clea...
2024-11-01 11:37:31 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Sixty-Eight
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“Is it possible to be bored and stressed at the same time?” I asked the ceiling.
Lucy shifted next to me. Her nose pressed up against my arm, it was cold on the end. She pulled herself a li...
2024-11-01 10:42:29 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Twenty-Nine
Explosions were fantastic. They were also sloppy, loud, and governments and corps feared the use of them more than just about any other type of targeted attack, with the possible exception of biological attacks.
It was simple,...
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