Soldier Boy. Soldier Boy. The first superhero. The one that started it all. The hero of War World II, the man who punched Hitler in the face and had the Third Reich bounce off of his shield. In the decades since, Soldier Boy was the tip of America's spear. The poster boy for what it mean...
2024-01-12 15:53:47 +0000 UTC View PostSomething was wrong, Cinder thought as she looked down at the message that Law had sent her on a burner phone. There wasn’t any reason to suspect that he suspected her. There hadn’t been any change in their interactions and he seemed to believe her excuse that she was kept entirely out of the...
2024-01-12 15:53:45 +0000 UTC View Post“You're a monster,” Asami Sato greeted me, her glare sharp enough to cut. I simply smiled, kicking my feet up on the coffee table with my arms open wide on the couch that I was lounging on. It was surprisingly comfy. It had taken a little finagling to get Asami in the same room with me -- as ...
2024-01-12 15:53:42 +0000 UTC View PostConstantinople was no less incredible than I recalled, I thought as my lone ship sailed into a familiar harbor. For all the troubles coming to this land had brought me, despite all of the challenges, merely looking upon the city and its opulent grandeur reminded me why I was here in the first pla...
2024-01-10 16:01:37 +0000 UTC View PostWinter came and went but, honestly, I could barely tell when winter ended and spring began. The winters were very different in this land compared to my homeland -- winter, a true winter, was when it was so cold you dared not step out of your home. When snow piled high outside your door to the poi...
2024-01-10 16:01:34 +0000 UTC View PostI couldn't help it. I was a little dumbfounded. “They retreated?” I asked, looking at Thorkel, covered in drying blood. I had rushed over, anticipating a fierce battle to contest the landing, only to see the ships that we were meant to be fighting sailing down the coast. “Or are they lookin...
2024-01-10 16:01:31 +0000 UTC View PostHadi Husain really wasn't sure how he ended up being important enough to be invited to a meeting of commanders under the watch of Admiral Mustapha Jabour. He came from a middling family of little acclaim, he was in his late teens and the only reason he was a commander at all was because of a favo...
2024-01-10 16:01:29 +0000 UTC View PostAdmiral Tacitus Orolus had been honored when he was selected to lead the punitive fleet. His career was a long one, but with dedication and diligence, he’d climbed the steps of the Turian Hierarchy -- he became a ship captain by the age fifty, a Rear Admiral by sixty, and now at eighty, he was ...
2024-01-08 15:58:11 +0000 UTC View PostToo fast. Far too fast. How long has it been? A couple of months? Half a year? That was no time at all when it came to these kinds of things. I was the abnormality with my ability to create functioning prototypes of advanced technology off the cuff. Figured Arasaka would need a year at the very l...
2024-01-08 15:58:07 +0000 UTC View Post“It was just a kiss. A kiss. You're walking like you got your gonk brain fucked out,” Johnny oh so helpfully remarked as I shot him a baleful look. The sounds of celebration hadn't faded as I made my way to my destination. A meeting with Yorinobu. It could probably wait, if I was bei...
2024-01-08 15:58:03 +0000 UTC View Post“Woohoo-wheee, now I know Nora ain't the only one feelin’ festive, so I'll try to keep this quick.
Operation Duck Hunt went well, and I hope we all bagged a couple birds before the end, but no one can deny who got the biggest one. L may as well stand for Looney Tunes cuz he...
2024-01-08 15:58:00 +0000 UTC View PostChildhood heroes had a far greater influence on people's futures than most realized. A kid could have many heroes growing up -- their parents, their favorite cartoon characters, even ones they made up inside the comfort of their own mind. However, there could only be one Hero, capital H. The one ...
2024-01-06 15:53:38 +0000 UTC View PostSoldier Boy. Soldier Boy. The first superhero. The one that started it all. The hero of War World II, the man who punched Hitler in the face and had the Third Reich bounce off of his shield. In the decades since, Soldier Boy was the tip of America's spear. The poster boy for what it mean...
2024-01-05 16:01:28 +0000 UTC View PostSomething was wrong, Cinder thought as she looked down at the message that Law had sent her on a burner phone. There wasn’t any reason to suspect that he suspected her. There hadn’t been any change in their interactions and he seemed to believe her excuse that she was kept entirely out of the...
2024-01-05 16:01:25 +0000 UTC View Post“You're a monster,” Asami Sato greeted me, her glare sharp enough to cut. I simply smiled, kicking my feet up on the coffee table with my arms open wide on the couch that I was lounging on. It was surprisingly comfy. It had taken a little finagling to get Asami in the same room with me -- as ...
2024-01-05 16:01:22 +0000 UTC View Post“Your bluff worked exceptionally well,” Robin remarked, seated at a table before she took a small sip from a steaming tea cup. We had ended up relocating to Queens since the island of Manhattan had essentially become a lawless state. After the fight, the military was arranging for a full on e...
2024-01-05 16:01:19 +0000 UTC View Post“Oh, shit, he’s fuckin’ dead,” I muttered, cupping my hands over my eyes to see some poor sap get launched into the air by a legitimate sea monster, shattering the raft that he had been trying to row away from the tiny island we found ourselves on.
The massive creature threw its bus...
2024-01-04 14:15:17 +0000 UTC View PostWinter came and went but, honestly, I could barely tell when winter ended and spring began. The winters were very different in this land compared to my homeland -- winter, a true winter, was when it was so cold you dared not step out of your home. When snow piled high outside your door to the poi...
2024-01-03 16:08:42 +0000 UTC View PostI couldn't help it. I was a little dumbfounded. “They retreated?” I asked, looking at Thorkel, covered in drying blood. I had rushed over, anticipating a fierce battle to contest the landing, only to see the ships that we were meant to be fighting sailing down the coast. “Or are they lookin...
2024-01-03 16:08:37 +0000 UTC View PostHadi Husain really wasn't sure how he ended up being important enough to be invited to a meeting of commanders under the watch of Admiral Mustapha Jabour. He came from a middling family of little acclaim, he was in his late teens and the only reason he was a commander at all was because of a favo...
2024-01-03 16:08:32 +0000 UTC View PostBy the end of the first week, most of the pirates had spilled their guts about everything they knew. The crew might not have a complete picture of everything, but there were few places more difficult to keep a secret than on a ship at sea. Eventually, someone would see or hear something. When the...
2024-01-03 16:08:28 +0000 UTC View PostToo fast. Far too fast. How long has it been? A couple of months? Half a year? That was no time at all when it came to these kinds of things. I was the abnormality with my ability to create functioning prototypes of advanced technology off the cuff. Figured Arasaka would need a year at the very l...
2024-01-01 15:56:44 +0000 UTC View Post“It was just a kiss. A kiss. You're walking like you got your gonk brain fucked out,” Johnny oh so helpfully remarked as I shot him a baleful look. The sounds of celebration hadn't faded as I made my way to my destination. A meeting with Yorinobu. It could probably wait, if I was bei...
2024-01-01 15:56:41 +0000 UTC View Post“Woohoo-wheee, now I know Nora ain't the only feelin’ festive, so I'll try to keep this quick.
Operation Duck Hunt went well, and I hope we all bagged a couple birds before the end, but no one can deny who got the biggest one. L may as well stand for Looney Tunes cuz he rod...
2024-01-01 15:56:39 +0000 UTC View Post“Here we go darlin’s, time to go on a duck hunt. This song I'm leaving you with ain't really got the tempo for a fight and sounds more like an emergency siren goin’ off than a country song, but trust me, it's perfect for what's about to happen.
Here's Indian Love Call. No...
2024-01-01 15:56:35 +0000 UTC View Post“Okay, we really have to think about this one. Use deductive reason and logic. Symbolism will have its role to play too. It has to make sense,” I stressed, poking a stick into the dirt with an oversized meaty and green appendage. “If red is to go fast, yellow is for booms, and blue...
2023-12-19 16:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostEveryone has a dream. A silent hope in their heart. The size varied, as did the scope -- some people had a thousand dreams across their lifetime, smaller and more realistic, and they managed to achieve them through diligence and hard work. Other dreams were beyond that. Some were outright impossi...
2023-12-16 16:10:07 +0000 UTC View PostThere were some fights that you just didn't want to step into the ring for. This was one of them, I concluded, as the building deflated like a balloon, folding over on itself. The Reality Stone was one tough cookie to break -- it's why I dismissed using it out of hand as soon as I realized what i...
2023-12-16 16:10:04 +0000 UTC View PostI was being interrogated. I'm sure that the Avengers would call it a more polite word, but I was essentially in an interrogation room as my butt was planted on a couch with the Avengers all around me. Thor, Captain America, Hawkeye, Black Widow, Iron Man, and War Machine. The full team, and, if n...
2023-12-16 16:09:58 +0000 UTC View Post"Hey now, no need to be rude. If you want to kill me, there's another me running around that I'm happy to direct you towards," I said, floating above the street and making no attempt to come closer to him. Honestly, I didn't feel comfortable being on the same planet as him, even before h...
2023-12-16 16:09:55 +0000 UTC View Post