I sat in the chair nearest the primary presentation node, the cold air of the warm room settling around me, waiting on the participants of the next briefing to arrive. The risks.....the risks of loss were extremely high, but the chance of success, while limited, the rewards could be immeasurable. I needed help. “I …
Category: Mutants & Masterminds
The Flight Home
It was always the same......It was always different. Sitting in the pilot's seat, he didn't need to, not really. It was obvious William didn't want to allow him to pilot Alliance Two, always issuing orders over whatever weird internal communications link he had, even if Brett was actively engaged in a maneuver. It was annoying …
The Sins of the Past
Frustration burned as he walked through the hallway towards his quarters, his home. He tried to bring up the security breaches in a logical way, but lost his temper. He hadn't meant to, but no one wanted to take security of the base seriously. They refused to listen, William especially refused to listen. Whenever …
A Search for Peace
The swells of the Pacific crashed against the western walls, surf lapping over into the moat-like interior waters, disturbing the peaceful waters as the sea foam glinted in the light of the waxing gibbous moon. An alert viewer might have seen the shadow swim across the wall in one of the bigger waves, splashing …
Dampening Affect
Allison's touch on his arm reminded him that some people needed space and time to work out their anger and pain. He understood that, and frankly, Barbe's punches hurt like hell. He wasn't really sure how to explain what he could do when he got hit, some sort of battery charge from blows, the …
Masażystka
Things were just getting hot with a more than willing Holly when Allison and Barbe drug him away from the brunette. He'd been super pissed off and lashed out about everybody having sex with each other but cock blocking him......even after their bullshit story about making sure he was safe, and not wanting him to …
Skinned
He walked along the top of the bastions around the base, before breaking into a run....trying to find the peace of mind that had led him through many a long march or pack march, or even a damn warmup of a ten kilometer run. Balance was automatic.....even along the wall parapets, although occasionally one crumbled …
Suppression
It had never before seemed strange to walk through the base in clothing that was soaked in something; whether that be sweat, blood, water, mechanical fluid, none of it mattered. After years of moving around, or at least not remembering where he'd been, Tempest Point had finally become.......home. Since he almost always healed any wounds …
Quiet Judgment
He let the water spray over him. A few months ago, Shawna would be in here and they would have figured out how to make this narrow shower their playground. Given that she'd changed her hair to the same sea blue as that first vacation to Cancun, and.....well, there had been a lot of firsts …
GHOST VENOM
GHOST VENOM Art Commission by Lorenzo Lizano
Shimmers of Truth
The blood and gore had been difficult to remove. A shower long enough to scrub and scrub and scrub again would have gone long cold in a regular home. And yet, still the scalding heat poured down on my body, the steam condensing into clouds barely piercable by normal eyesight. After the water no …
Loneliness
He moved around the greenhouse, mixing some fresh fertilizer for some of the vegetable plants he had planted a few weeks ago. It was never going to be massive treasure trove of fresh food, but, a couple of meals worth of each vegetable, maybe enough corn to last several days when it got here, and …
A Nightmarish Truth
The monstrous former grizzy bear roared as it spun, far quicker than something of that size and weight should be able to move, and as it did, the electro-metallic parts piercing its bloody chest swung into few, complementing the metallic gleam of its unnatural claws. Perfect, his landing had distracted it from the …
Last Dreams 