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"Emmy, I'm sorry. I looked as hard as I could, but I just can't find another job for you." I nodded across the table to Danny Hebert. "I understand, Mr. Hebert. Thank you." I was turning to walk out of the office when it hit me just how fucked I was. I was two weeks out from eviction at any...

Parts of the dialogue were taken from Shell 4.8. A Flung Light Consequences Friday, 15th April 2011 – Brockton Bay, Storage Yard My neck itched. The sea breeze swept through the aisles of the storage yard. In the distance I saw the Protectorate Headquarters. It's force field scintillated...

It is the start of 2011 and it has been almost thirty years since Scion’s first public appearance. Since then, parahumans have risen and society has fallen. Africa and South America are in chaos and the rest of the world is in little better shape. Endbringers roam the planet, periodically...

Your single, functional eye is focused on a framed, black-and-white picture; the original photograph was scanned and digitally expanded, to better depict the faces of the Howling Commandos. They were first in line to inspire the Initiative, your pet project and Great Work, if you can make this...

Life of Highs, Lowes, and Super Villainy Its 2006, things don't suck like the 90s. Let's be fair here if you were starting out back then it was a miracle you got through it all. Sure the mess that happened back in the day may have calmed down, but things are not as serine as you think. Lost...

Today is November 9th, 1940. Your name is Bruce Wayne and you are eight years old. Last night, you went to the world premiere of The Mark of Zorro with your parents, Thomas and Martha Wayne. Last night, your father decided to take a shortcut back to the car, through a dimly-lit alley. Last...

Mud is in my face. That sort of wet and sticky type that is only made when salt and soil mix. I try blinking away the ruddy exhaustion from whatever just happened to me. Pushing up and away from the ground I see a waterlogged city around me, the whole street coated in mud and silt while...

It is the start of 2011 and it has been almost thirty years since Scion’s first public appearance. Since then, parahumans have risen and society has fallen. Africa and South America are in chaos and the rest of the world is in little better shape. Endbringers roam the planet, periodically...

Picture this, I'm driving home from seeing the optometrist for the third time, the second time because the new machines at the office measured my face and the worker wrote down the wrong information so I had to go through the test a second time, and the last time to get new lenses. It was...

So! There's a whole collection of stories about super heroes and super powers that aren't as widely recognized or as widely popular as some other works. Comics like Astro City and The Tick, Movies like Glass, books like The Institute, and whatever one shot manga is currently focusing on super...

Yi Wen's eyes fluttered open as consciousness came back to him. Pain, as if waiting for him to wake up, lanced through him, and he grimaced in response. His ears buzzed, but he could hear laughters in the distance. The scent of blood and flames clogged his nostrils, overwhelming his senses...

Freedom City has long been home to the unusual. Super-powered individuals have soared across the skyline, fighting villains for decades, starting all the way back in colonial times in fact. And you, are a bearer of this proud legacy. What is the source of your powers? Vote for one. [x]...

Issue #1 - - - What is a hero? It's a question we all have different answers to. Someone who follows the law? Someone who wins no matter what? Someone with a strong sense of justice? Maybe. To me, a hero always does their best to help someone in need – no matter the personal cost. So that's...

A guy Self-Inserted into the DeathLand books at the beginning of the series tries his best to use the powers he's been given to fix the world. This Rad-blasted world hasn't had anything worth saving for a hundred years -000- Just wanted to do a little Preface here. I probably won't be able...

Hi, I may or may not be familiar, I just want to say I've been struggling for a while to write stuff I'm proud of. I can't make any promises regarding length, but the massive Marvel Universe is something I'm really fond of and I've tried to do a lot of Writings about it. Lots of writing in...

Silly Things - Chapter 1 Gabriel Bettelheim felt happy to be in the land of death rays rather than the land of gas ovens. He adjusted his tie, and his waistcoat was a bit outdated as fashion went. He then cleaned his round glasses and took a puff of his cigarette. Across from him in that...

For generations, the twin cities of dawn and dusk have stood on either side of the sunlit river. Dawn City has been a place of prosperity and wealth while Dusk City has been a dark place, where the less fortunate strike out a living. Now a new era is coming to two cities and the rest of the...

So, here we are. The awaited reboot of Mosaic. I'll be taking this one in a different direction than before from the very beginning, as you'll see soon. I don't plan on often retreading much ground from the previous story. You may see some elements that pop up, but this is ultimately its own...

Ever since you were a child, crammed in your room reading the weekly comics, you had always dreamed of becoming not a paragon of virtue, but a SUPERVILLAIN!!! (CRACKATHOOM!!) Why? You don't really know, but those fine details don't really matter in the long run, so you can ignore those for...

On July 8, 2012 a massive event would rock the very foundations of the world. Autoville a massive city of over 60 Million People are suddenly transported from their reality to ours. With it arriving approximately along the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers. Coming not from a...

Thirty years ago, the world stopped making sense- that's what everyone says anyways. The way things are is all I've ever known, so I couldn't really understand. The day my world changed was completely different to all that, but hopefully I don't sound too pretentious thinking it felt similar...

In 1920, the supernatural and extraordinary returned to the world. Magic stopped being a thing of myth and legend as it slowly returned while individuals found themselves manifesting superhuman abilities. With their new powers, some became heroes, others became villains and some blurred the line...

The beginning months of superpowers, they were a mess in all honesty. The world is starting to turn back to ‘normal’ despite the fact that everything was still ramping up. It was interesting to watch. On one side the crime rate had gone up 200-500% depending on the area for an entire two...

They made themselves known on the Eve of Blood. When twisted parodies of nature and humanity first made themselves known as the world celebrated the dawn of the twenty-first century. They slaughtered without regard to whom their victims were. Corpses piled as high as the skyscrapers of New York...

Denis mused to himself, cleaning the tables. He was working in a small café at the edge of Olavia. It was way past midnight, and only a few people were present inside. Mostly truckers, hungrily devouring meat and coffee, trying to keep themselves awake in anticipation of an early shift. Olavia...