Taylor Hebert, veteran of Brockton Bay, Gold Morning, and decades of what followed, finds herself back at the beginning, facing her biggest challenge yet.
She doesn't know what sort of alternate universe hellscape she is in, but there is no way she and the Undersiders were this batshit as teens.
Taylor Reginald Hebert. Self Insert. Wiki Warrior of a sort. Wanted Vigilante. Self-Professed Colossal Fuck Up. Traumatized Teenager. Absolute Disaster of a Parahuman. By all accounts, not someone who has his life together. So let's take this version of Taylor and drop him (and his Mom) in canon and watch as he tries his best to stop the local version from also becoming an Absolute Disaster of a Parahuman.
Murata Himeko and Taylor Hebert should never have met. Ideally, they would not have, but fate has a funny way of twisting things in her game. Now stuck in an unfamiliar world, and watching over people she can't help but see as reminders of those she left behind, Himeko must come to terms with much of the world she thought she knew shifting around her.
Taylor Hebert did not expect to wake up with superpowers or a woman who stares at her as if she is the second coming of the apocalypse...
Sophia isn't running, regardless of how much you might think so. She just - needs a fresh start. A new city, a new life, a new person; she just needs the space to figure that out. Promise.
As if.
A broken marriage; a vengeful heroine; a city unaware of the monster in its depths. New faces, new places, new enemies - same old problems. New York is shit out of luck, if they're counting on Private Investigator Sophia Hess to solve their problems.
After all - she's nobody's hero.
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An AU...
Trying to find for more Chinese WORM fans, if there are any on this forum. I've decided to do a different kind of Worm fanfic. Not just a fan poem, but a fan poem using classical Chinese prosody. Critiques are welcome and please leave reply if you have any comments. I'm a big wuxia fan, and I'm reminded a lot of wuxia when I read WORM.
Under normal circumstances, Lisa Wilbourn would have thought that being saved from a trio of mercenary thugs attempting to kidnap her on behalf of a sadistic supervillain mastermind would have been a mercy. When she instead gets hauled off to PRT HQ and pressed into service with the Wards, though, her appraisal of the situation quickly ends up a lot less favorable; Colin Wallis would have had to agree with Lisa's assessment, seeing as how the PRT ENE had managed to determine that the man...