“What the fuck do you mean, he's been captured?” Rumi blurted, a frown twisting at her lips as she regarded Taylor coldly. Another psychopath in Law’s merry band of them. The girl was young, around the age she would have started going to UA, and back home she already would have been a dange...
2024-03-29 14:51:15 +0000 UTC
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“So, you've been stuck here for around two hundred years trying to create the ultimate panacea… and you succeeded?” I questioned with a slight tilt of my head as I looked through the window of a lab. On the other side, there was a robot. A Mr. Handy, as the series was called. A ball shaped ...
2024-03-29 14:51:09 +0000 UTC
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“She's performing well,” Robin informed as I gazed out of a window, overlooking the portal as the various refugees and, more importantly, the scavengers that managed to return came through. The raids were a bit of a hit and a miss -- things had settled enough in the Old World that new powers ...
2024-03-29 14:51:02 +0000 UTC
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“Hey, don't look at me. Cinder is the one with the issues here. That's all her,” I held my hands up underneath a withering glare from Asami. It was a rare thing that she ventured to this side of the Dias. Partly because things on her side were an absolute shit show, but mostly because she hat...
2024-03-29 14:50:56 +0000 UTC
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"Hold on!" I exclaimed, before I dove down -- I didn't really know what was going on down there, but it looked bad. Really bad. That cannon must have hit the buildings with the force of a cruise missile or something because it looked like it took out an entire row of houses. Completely demolished...
2024-03-28 13:58:24 +0000 UTC
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I was pretty satisfied with how things had turned out, I thought, looking down at the sea of Abbasid soldiers that we had managed to pen in. It had been a challenge, but for weeks, I had been slowly setting the stage for this. It hadn't been easy and the cost was honestly higher than I would have...
2024-03-27 14:59:15 +0000 UTC
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Things were not going particularly well, Hadi acknowledged as he stared at the report written on a scrap of parchment. He felt an exhaustion deep in his bones, as in the three weeks since their landing, he had yet to sleep well. The most he had gotten was when he was unconscious and he was half t...
2024-03-27 14:59:09 +0000 UTC
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“If I'm dead, then Jahannam has a poor sense of humor,” Hadi croaked, laying on a bed in a tent, with Alim seated next to him with a book that probably weighed as much as he did across his lap. Alim looked up at him, blinking owlishly at the sudden address, before he offered a small smile. ...
2024-03-27 14:59:05 +0000 UTC
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Disembarking was a long and time consuming affair. The settlement of Fajr was in good order, as it had been when Hadi left it some months ago. Five thousand men remained in it to secure their foothold, and they welcomed their countrymen with open arms. Hadi found himself rather busy taking stock ...
2024-03-27 14:59:00 +0000 UTC
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The tender moment was abruptly cut short with the announcement that the base had three minutes left until it self-destructed. Taking out my GBM, I pointed in the direction of the docking bay, and fired a single shot that carved a long line towards it. It was a dangerous method, but given that we ...
2024-03-25 13:25:43 +0000 UTC
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“L… take them out,” Kaiden said as soon as I delivered the news that I had a bead on Arasaka's location. “We have everything locked down on Earth. Smasher was only a problem because we didn't know about him- about them. David's in for repairs and we'll start picking them off when he's don...
2024-03-25 13:25:18 +0000 UTC
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I didn't know what to feel as I stood in Yorinobu's office, looking at the blood that was splattered and pooling on his desk and window. That was one of the few hints of his death. The camera footage was scrambled, rendering it useless, and the identity of the killer a mystery. Yorinobu himself, ...
2024-03-25 13:24:30 +0000 UTC
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The fleet tried to scramble to save itself, but I took the time to hunt them down. I hadn't realized it then, with the chaos of the battle, but there were precious few Turians actually on the ships themselves. There were still some, of course, but just enough to have the fleet function enough to ...
2024-03-25 13:20:01 +0000 UTC
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I felt calm as we descended into the belly of the beast. There was fear there, pooling in my gut, but it was firmly in check. I controlled it rather than the fear controlling me. If I had to describe what I felt in a single word, then the word righteous came to mind. And if I was being honest, I ...
2024-03-23 15:01:03 +0000 UTC
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“Left, left, left, right, left,” I chanted, running next to Mankey and I had to admit, I was doing a lot better than I thought I would be after a solid three hours of running. Pokemon humanity seemed to start at a base level of Olympic athletes and only got better from there. My t-shirt was s...
2024-03-23 15:00:58 +0000 UTC
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“Lickitung,” Larry said, bringing out his fist pokemon. I had a plan to deal with him, but given how he had crushed Brawly, I had to assume that he planned around my planning. Which meant I needed to plan around his planning… or, I could flip the board on him.
“Mimikyu,” I decide...
2024-03-23 15:00:53 +0000 UTC
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There were a lot fewer people on the beach at night, making it perfect for me. I paddled out on my stomach, the waves rising and falling in a rhythm while the moon shone overhead. Light pollution thinned out the number of stars overhead, but they were still quite a sight, enough to distract me un...
2024-03-23 15:00:48 +0000 UTC
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“So, you've been stuck here for around two hundred years trying to create the ultimate panacea… and you succeeded?” I questioned with a slight tilt of my head as I looked through the window of a lab. On the other side, there was a robot. A Mr. Handy, as the series was called. A ball shaped ...
2024-03-22 14:55:23 +0000 UTC
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“She's performing well,” Robin informed as I gazed out of a window, overlooking the portal as the various refugees and, more importantly, the scavengers that managed to return came through. The raids were a bit of a hit and a miss -- things had settled enough in the Old World that new powers ...
2024-03-22 14:55:17 +0000 UTC
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“Hey, don't look at me. Cinder is the one with the issues here. That's all her,” I held my hands up underneath a withering glare from Asami. It was a rare thing that she ventured to this side of the Dias. Partly because things on her side were an absolute shit show, but mostly because she hat...
2024-03-22 14:55:12 +0000 UTC
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Taylor Hebert ran for her life, her lungs burning, her legs aching, each breath coming as a desperate gasp. A loud crack before the sound of something whizzing by her ear made her breathing hitch as a plume of dust from the sandy dirt went up a dozen feet ahead of her. It was nothing short of a m...
2024-03-22 14:55:07 +0000 UTC
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Things were not going particularly well, Hadi acknowledged as he stared at the report written on a scrap of parchment. He felt an exhaustion deep in his bones, as in the three weeks since their landing, he had yet to sleep well. The most he had gotten was when he was unconscious and he was half t...
2024-03-20 14:25:43 +0000 UTC
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“If I'm dead, then Jahannam has a poor sense of humor,” Hadi croaked, laying on a bed in a tent, with Alim seated next to him with a book that probably weighed as much as he did across his lap. Alim looked up at him, blinking owlishly at the sudden address, before he offered a small smile. ...
2024-03-20 14:25:28 +0000 UTC
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Disembarking was a long and time consuming affair. The settlement of Fajr was in good order, as it had been when Hadi left it some months ago. Five thousand men remained in it to secure their foothold, and they welcomed their countrymen with open arms. Hadi found himself rather busy taking stock ...
2024-03-20 14:25:10 +0000 UTC
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Hadi's father couldn't have been more happy even if Allah himself parted the skies and proclaimed him a prophet. A royal advisor. A direct connection to the throne. A position of great influence, even if it was to the second son, as a prince was still a prince. It was more than his father could h...
2024-03-20 14:24:46 +0000 UTC
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“L… take them out,” Kaiden said as soon as I delivered the news that I had a bead on Arasaka's location. “We have everything locked down on Earth. Smasher was only a problem because we didn't know about him. David's in for repairs and we'll start picking them off. You handke Arasaka and m...
2024-03-18 14:54:28 +0000 UTC
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I didn't know what to feel as I stood in Yorinobu's office, looking at the blood that was splattered and pooling on his desk and window. That was one of the few hints of his death. The camera footage was scrambled, rendering it useless, and the identity of the killer a mystery. Yorinobu himself, ...
2024-03-18 14:54:23 +0000 UTC
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The fleet tried to scramble to save itself, but I took the time to hunt them down. I hadn't realized it then, with the chaos of the battle, but there were precious few Turians actually on the ships themselves. There were still some, of course, but just enough to have the fleet function enough to ...
2024-03-18 14:54:18 +0000 UTC
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This was going to be one hell of a test drive, I thought to myself as the Turian fleet began to move. Portions of the fleet that I'm guessing didn't have an army on them began to converge on my location. There were a thousand ships, and even if a hundred of them remained behind, that was still ni...
2024-03-18 14:54:11 +0000 UTC
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“My lord, a man of the Night’s Watch has arrived,” Maester Wallys informed, stirring Rickard Stark as he gazed out upon the battlements of his home and castle, Winterfell. Cold winds made his dark brown hair whip at his cheeks, intermingling with the last winter snow. Winter itself had yet ...
2024-03-17 14:46:17 +0000 UTC
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