“Do you want to be my friend?”
The plushie’s words echoed in the corridor, while Ryan found himself trapped between two monsters. On one side was a ruthless abomination against nature, and on the other, Frank the Mad. Psyshock remained in the background, carefully waiting for an oppor...
2020-11-21 09:03:21 +0000 UTC View PostSix.
Ryan counted six future victims in the atrium as he opened fire, Sarin included. Some took cover, while others immediately charged at him. All were Psychos, and soon, they would be dead.
One was a featureless woman made of black ink, with a rather sexy silhouette. Bullets phased ...
2020-11-19 10:17:26 +0000 UTC View PostAfter attacking Ghoul with his car in all his previous restarts, Ryan thought it had grown a little stale.
So this time, he hit the Psycho with a truck instead.
Ryan couldn’t find a Japanese one, but the one he ‘borrowed’ did the job, crashing through the walls and tossing Ghoul...
2020-11-17 09:24:56 +0000 UTC View PostJulie Costa tended to her garden, hastening the growth of its wheat.
As a green aura flowed through the plant, it bore purple yields, full of nutrients. She had spent weeks tuning the exact ratio of protein, ...
2020-11-14 10:38:09 +0000 UTC View PostRyan thought his life was a role-playing game.
“Kill them all!” a druggie shouted from atop a roof, hitting Ryan’s car with a submachine gun, the bullets unable to pierce the shielding. Everywhere, the courier heard the sound of bullets flying. “Kill them all!”
But somewhere...
2020-11-12 12:08:06 +0000 UTC View PostVulcan’s workshop echoed with the sound of welding, while Ryan reviewed an armor sketch, ass on a chair and legs on the workbench.
Ryan’s job as Vulcan’s assistant turned out to be more desk work than anything exciting like target practice. She handed him designs for new armor, guns, ...
2020-11-10 12:59:10 +0000 UTC View PostIt was a bright new day in New Rome.
The sun was rising. Bullets were flying. Rats were singing.
Standing at the balcony of Jamie’s apartment in casual clothes, a coffee mug in his right hand, Ryan glanced at the rodents occupying the area. Ki-jung's rats seemed to be doing some str...
2020-11-07 12:21:35 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Vulcan said she had a second spot in her cockpit, Ryan thought he would have his own baby seat at the back. But as it turned out, the Genius was more fond of motorcycle designs than cars.
“People are gonna talk,” Ryan said, holding Vulcan by the waist with his chest against her bac...
2020-11-05 09:41:14 +0000 UTC View PostElection time! Nah, just kidding. Time to choose November's Past Fragment interlude.
1) Urban Guerrilla (Wyvern & Vulcan)
Before they became bitter enemies, the hero Wyvern and the villain Vulcan used to be an unbreakable team, sworn to defend the...
2020-11-04 10:29:51 +0000 UTC View PostAnd so, Vulcan’s biblical judgment was passed upon the heathens at Dynamis. Wyvern’s movie ended in rats and pestilence, like the previous Augusti loop.
It saddened Ryan to ruin Atom Cat’s first movie appearance, especially after befriending him earlier. His adorable feline sidekick h...
2020-11-03 13:25:46 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: from my nightmares to your eyes.
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I was driving when it happened.
I had just returned from abroad back to my home country of France, in time for Halloween. What should have been a normal vacation trip ...
2020-10-31 22:08:11 +0000 UTC View PostAll was well so far on the Augusti Path.
Ryan had met Zanbato as expected, beat up Sarin at the harbor, and now repeated the exact same conversation which would lead him to crash at Jamie’s house. All was well and good, to the sound of crashing waves against the piers...
“I have t...
2020-10-31 11:05:54 +0000 UTC View PostLen Sabino woke up on a mattress, the room cold, and chill. Water leaked from the wood ceiling, rain hitting the window. Thunder echoed in the distance, the storm getting closer. In spite of the noise, Ryan was soundly asleep next to her, snoring almost ...
2020-10-29 11:58:16 +0000 UTC View PostWhat a bright day. As Ryan drove towards the ship graveyard and Shroud’s warehouse, he felt utterly happy with himself. The courier had the intuition that everything would turn out well for him this time around.
“I feel like you’re my lucky charm, my friend,” Ryan told Ghoul. “Lik...
2020-10-27 10:04:00 +0000 UTC View PostRyan dived towards the servers, dodging flailing wires while the glass windows shattered around him. Outside, someone had opened fire on the garage, bullets piercing through the walls and damaging the computers inside.
“If it’s the paparazzi,” the courier complained, raising his coil ...
2020-10-24 10:39:34 +0000 UTC View Post“It can’t be them.”
Ryan searched inside his car’s trunk, finally putting his hands on his secret weapons: his coil gun, and a bag of flour. “What do you know of Leo Hargraves’ Carnival, my feline friend?”
“That they’re wandering heroes fighting marauders, warlords, ...
2020-10-22 10:55:57 +0000 UTC View PostRyan hated hospital rooms. Even if useful for sanitization purposes, the constant whiteness made him feel sick and isolated.
Hours had gone by since the orphanage battle, its occupants evacuated by Dynamis and moved to one of the company’s hospitals. Psyshock’s victim had been put in an...
2020-10-20 11:03:42 +0000 UTC View PostRyan had been shot at more times than he could count.
Unlike Psychos or special cases like Augustus, all of the courier’s abilities, from his save point to the time stop, derived from a single unifying power. It was only through training and experimentation that Ryan discovered its multip...
2020-10-17 11:05:05 +0000 UTC View PostNo matter how many times he would visit it, Ryan would never get used to Rust Town. The whole place reeked of misery and despair.
Atom Cat seemed to share his sentiment, as both drove through the slums with the Plymouth's windows closed and the air cleaner on. “It’s even worse than I th...
2020-10-15 10:52:01 +0000 UTC View PostIt was bound to happen, the Perfect Run submission has been reviewed and posted on Royal Road. The Perfect Run is thus now freely available for everyone!
https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/36735/the-p...
2020-10-14 19:39:56 +0000 UTC View PostHell existed, and it was a corporate seminar.
Ryan had thought his first day on the job as a Little League member would involve superhero training, maybe a routine patrol with Wyvern. Something practical. Instead, the courier received an assignment to a boring, weeks-long corporate internsh...
2020-10-13 10:27:44 +0000 UTC View PostNever Die Twice was sponsored by you.
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Ragnarok had been prevented.
As he sat on his throne, in the golden halls of Valhalla, Odin didn’t know how to feel about this. His body ached in pain ...
2020-10-10 12:15:58 +0000 UTC View PostIl Migliore’s HQ, the Optimates Tower, was the most luxurious place Ryan had ever seen.
Most of Dynamis’ properties were located northeast of the city, on the far opposite of Rust Town. Unlike its neighbor though, this district catered to the supreme elite of New Rome. Il Migliore’s t...
2020-10-10 12:15:20 +0000 UTC View Post“This is stupid!”
“Lanka…” Jamie trailed off at the back of the car. “Calm down.”
Ryan listened to their bickering while peeking through his car’s window. Dynamis’ Star Studios—which won a prize for name originality—spanned roughly two and a half square ...
2020-10-08 10:48:13 +0000 UTC View PostChapter sponsored by you.
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The moment of truth had come.
For eons, Asclepius, Grandmaster of the Pale Serpents, had toiled to reach this stage. He had served under his god as high priest of Nastro...
2020-10-06 13:10:32 +0000 UTC View PostIt had been a while since Ryan drove a group in his Plymouth Fury.
He often transported one or two people, especially when on a bender or working as a getaway driver, but rarely a group like this one. Jamie wore his power armor in the back, while Ki-jung dressed with a green hoodie at his s...
2020-10-06 13:10:25 +0000 UTC View PostChapter sponsored by you.
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A dance of dragons.
Few of these creatures could fly, but when they did, they often danced in the skies; which was a pretty way to say they fought to the death. For territo...
2020-10-03 10:47:02 +0000 UTC View PostIt was May 8th 2020 for the fifth time, and Ghoul once again had a car accident.
As he climbed down from his Plymouth Fury after hitting his favored undead maniac, Ryan took the time to look at his beautiful partner. The car he had rebuilt from the husk he had found in the ruins of Florence...
2020-10-03 10:46:56 +0000 UTC View Post2016, Venezia, Italy.
They once called it the city of canals. They said it was the most beautiful city in the world, with tourists all the way from China coming to visit it.
That was before the Wars.
More than a decade later, Venezi...
2020-10-01 10:41:06 +0000 UTC View Post
