alternate universe

AN: For those who have a strong preference, there is a separate poll for which viewpoint (first-person, second-person, third-person, or the narrative vs. vote contrast seen in this OP) will be used for the quest. I’ll retroactively edit the OP to match the winner after a few days. EDIT: Annnd...

AN: Finally remembered to start cross-posting a story that's on SpaceBattles over to SufficientVelocity as well! This story is a bit different from my normal fare. Here we have a collaboration project between myself and deinspanjer! Along with my usual coterie of betas, we are hoping to have a...

Danny looked at the opened journal in front of him with trepidation. His hand turned the page hesitantly. Each word taunted him while the names angered him. As he finished the journal, he collapsed on his daughter’s bed. Three days had passed since they found the unconscious form of his...

Okay, so, this quest didn't go very far in my first try. Mostly because of RL-reasons. It has now been rebooted: you can find the new Chapter one here. Below you can find the old version of this post. Here is the first chapter of the reboot.

A/N: This started as an idle thought that crossed my mind while I was trying to write another original story, between sessions of online tutoring (because i needz monies), then became metastatic, taking over my brain so thoroughly I had to purge it in order to put my mind at ease. Not having a...

FMA Brotherhood Quest: The sun rose… a simple thing that carried so many meanings… so many wishes and hopes. That was not the case… for it only filled you with a sense of dread, and horror. The Day always meant new challenges... a new beginning. There was always something in the air...

“Byleth Eisner! Get down from there at once, young lady!” The sudden interjection from the mother of her little one caused Sothis to start, the spirit turning her gaze towards the ground over the shoulder of her lethargic charge. Byleth merely snorted, rolling over within the hollow made by the...

SOUND THE ALARMS Chapter 0.0: Unknown Twenty-First The First Conflict-Engine waited far underneath the planet's mantle, the Second Conflict-Engine waited far below in the abyss of the ocean, and the Third Conflict-Engine waited far above in the atmosphere. The remaining Fourth through...

Taylor can’t stop shaking. Her hair’s drenched with the blood of dead men. She keeps squeezing her arms together around her knees, trying to make herself smaller and smaller. She’s put her head between her legs because she can’t look anywhere else—it would be too terrible, too horrific. Her...

Okeanos | Chapter I Adam/industrious The island was a beautiful impossibility. A lush, tropical paradise the size of a stadium, with pale beaches and palm trees swaying in the slight breeze. The steady waves of the ocean crashed against the shore in familiar, hypnotic motion, darkening the...

You dream of steel and bloodshed. It’s not an ordinary dream for you, nor does it represent your waking life. You can’t find your breath; choking on thick dust and smoke, surrounded by nothing but allies and enemies, who you know nothing of. It’s difficult to really convey pain in a dream; and...

Queen Administrator's systems flagged a unique discovery from another dimension, one that warranted a quick scan and emulation. The sort of thing that would take mere seconds to do. This new discovery, this small communication from some far off dimension proved intriguing. Not only because...

Among the nations on the Zemurian continent, the mighty Erebonian Empire has been quick to outwardly stake its claim militarily; yet politically, ugly bouts of internal conflict between the upper class and commoners attempting to rise to power have been steadily intensifying day by day. The...

Inspired by the previews I (finally) saw for Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, and a long conversation I had with Tatsurou Kaos over in Fim:Fiction. It should be a given that this is an AU of the Ratchet & Clank setting, following an analogue of the new female Lombax in Ratchet's place in this...

[NERF GUN && DESKTOP COMPUTER] ??? 20 Build, 10 Silk, 5 ???, 40 ??? Not enough grist! I grit my teeth. [NERF GUN && KITCHEN KNIFE] ??? 200 Build, 200 ??? Not enough grist! It wasn’t working. Alright, fine, onto the simpler ones then. [KITCHEN KNIFE && PEN] ??? 10 Build, 10 ??? Not enough...

Are you doing Character Creation? Congratulations! You have 10 Social Points and 10 Power Points to spend. Who are you? [X] -7 SP: Taylor Hebert - 'surviving', for lack of a better word [X] -0 SP: Olive Ospizia - an enterprising high school graduate [X] -4 SP: Theo Anders - "Sharper than he...

Let's start in the middle, this time. You're the Goblin, and you're a hero. You've saved people, fought villains, and gotten to fly your rocket-board indoors. You're starting to figure out a healthy work/life balance, and your dating life is actually going pretty well. Even your fanboy at the...

Informational: Taylor in this fanfiction has a power that is strongly inspired by the manwha "Solo Leveling", it is based on a Korean light novel by the (English) name of "I alone level up". For all of you who don't know it a short summary of it: It is essentially a story about a...

This is an alt-power Taylor in the Worm* verse with butterflies in play before the canon locker scene. Things are changed beforehand and echoed through the dotted lines of the stations, but not tied to them. Like a winding river, it may flow past familiar shores or cut its own path through solid...

Synopsis: Grayson Carter. Legally blind, early twenties, Asian-Caucasian, adopted. Grayson’s life could be boiled down in such a way. When his life was destroyed all too suddenly, thrust from the comfort of home, he was forced to make a move. So where else would he move but his ancestral home...

WORLD GENERATION Prudence, Honor, Fairness, Justice, Heroism. What horse-shit; some of the most powerful self-proclaimed heroes in this world were resplendent in their idiocy. Each and every one of them willing to be led by their noses to slaughter like the most tenderly cultivated swine. Even...

Prologue Humanity Foundation Value: ??? AD.2011, Organization for the Preservation of the Human Order, Finis Chaldea First steps of the stargazer Humans can forge their own destinies. You read so in a book. That always made you question your own condition. If human beings were defined...

The-Boy-Who-Died Harry knelt on the forest floor. Wayward stones bite into the meat of his knees, a bitter wind whistles, chilling him to the marrow, and his scar was impossibly, horrifically silent. It was over. There in the Forbidden Forest, just a kilometer or two away from the hollowed out...

There was pain, and fear, and blood, and ... something burned. Not with smoke or smell or heat, but the way worked muscles burned. But without the possibility of anything good coming from it. And it was sweet. It was sickly sweet. It was rot and infection. Your skin burned with rot and...

A ruined city devoid of inhabitants was stripped of its modern majesty, with dark clouds shrouding the heavens was all he could see. Everything he could hear was nothing but deafening silence. Where he found himself standing alone in a square of insignificance. He knew where he was at; the...