”…six, seven.” Better turnout than I expected. It could’ve just been me and Fleff, and he didn’t get a
The count was split between the two squads. Four of them were from Pike-Two, and three from Iron-Four. Johnson, the Grenadier, Fleff of course, a lanky woman with antiarmor...
2026-01-13 23:04:01 +0000 UTC View Post
AN: I’ve got a temporary cover. It’ll definitely change at some point, but for now it’s better than nothing. I haven’t had much spare time to work on it.
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Someone kicked my leg. I froze to keep myself from lashing out and kept my eyes closed. I cracked an eye open. ...
2026-01-08 23:04:01 +0000 UTC View PostWe spilled out the back of the museum into a narrow loading dock situated in a bay. Hard to miss the Rekon Arcology once I stopped checking for things trying to kill me. It was towering, ugly, and had lightning flashing ominously around it.
Black Dog snorted coldly and shook his he...
2026-01-06 23:04:01 +0000 UTC View PostI cautiously peeked out of the subway’s entrance. A chilly breeze blew over me, though it was pushed back slightly as Black Dog moved up next to me. He pressed into my side right in a gap between my armor and undershirt.
The rain had backed off at some point. Not stopped—at least ...
2026-01-05 04:22:56 +0000 UTC View PostI wasn’t the only one to take advantage of the break. The others scattered around with silent discipline. They settled into cover like they didn’t know the meaning of rest, and gnawed at ration bricks. Nobody talked much. The few that did kept it low and near silent.
“How big were the...
2026-01-01 21:01:35 +0000 UTC View PostNeon signs still flickered overhead in places. The advertisements brokenly looped to no one and drained what little of the power grid was still alive. They were few and far between. For the most part, the only light came from the storm up above and flickers of lightning.
We moved slowly thr...
2025-12-31 05:19:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe group holding me at gunpoint didn’t immediately open fire. After a few long moments, one of them called out. “Flash?”
A wave of relief washed through me. It looked like I would live to see another day after all. What joy. “Thunder.”
“She’s one of ours.” The man cal...
2025-12-30 16:10:32 +0000 UTC View PostI woke up in a fire, surrounded by a broken building, and my lungs rapidly filling with smoke. To be fair, I’d been in worst situations.
Later, someone tried to come loot my corpse. Jokes on them—I wasn’t dead yet. I was really starting to wish I was, though. The drop went bad...
2025-12-25 20:55:50 +0000 UTC View PostI awoke to incredible warmth pressing from all directions. Not my bed—it felt too hard for that. Water lapped against my skin, colored with a faint unsettling pink. “Ugh—“
”Hey, hey.” Hands pressed me gently back down into the bathtub before I could thrash around much. “Easy, ...
2025-12-03 23:04:00 +0000 UTC View PostI left the clinic’s room several hours after that. Luna was a fitful sleeper at best, and she barely got four hours before waking and getting back to work. I tossed her my auto-pilot program and then left. If she could get that up and running, as well as some solid ICE, I’d be set to start ma...
2025-12-01 23:04:01 +0000 UTC View PostMy time out at the overlook hadn’t fixed anything. In hindsight, it never really did. Standing out and looking at the city only made things quieter. With some music and calmed emotions, it let me think things through. Irritated and aggravated as I was, it just gave my thoughts room to stack and...
2025-11-28 23:04:02 +0000 UTC View Post“Hey, Shiro, what’s this?” Mira called from my bed in a drowsy voice. Sleep radiated from her sing-song, like she’d just stumbled upon something that startled her awake.
I looked up from the couch, fingers still hovering over my deck in frustration. The autopilot program I’d been ...
2025-11-26 23:04:01 +0000 UTC View PostI fell asleep in Mira’s arms shortly after we left the subterranean tunnels. I was already tired from the happenings of the night, and there was no need for me to stay awake much longer. I was better off just sleeping to heal as soon as possible.
I awoke in my own bed the next morning, fu...
2025-11-24 23:04:00 +0000 UTC View Post