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Part 3 From then on, Kat practically lived at my apartment. She was there nearly every night, and only really went back to her own to get clothes and things when she needed them. We spent nearly every moment that neither of us were working together, and it was incredible. I never grew tired of…
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Part 2 I woke up the next morning to the smell of toast. I sat up in bed and my head throbbed. I looked to my side and Kat wasn’t there. I felt a surge of disappointment, but it quickly faded when I heard her voice from the kitchen area of my apartment. “Good morning,…
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Part 1 Kat half-walked, half-dragged me down the street. I was terrified. My heart was in my throat, my cheeks were flushed, and I felt like I could barely breathe. I was so afraid of what would happen when I inevitably was dragged away from here, away from her, and that I knew I would…
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My eyes snapped open, and I felt the now familiar rush as my mind adjusted to this new reality. Once I calmed myself down, I sighed and forced myself to sit up and look around. It looked like a rather typical, if somewhat cramped, studio apartment. It was a bit messy, but considering the depression…
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There once was a small village in the hills. Her residents tended to their farms and their flocks and for the most part, life was fulfilling and simple. But everything changed when the dragon arrived. A great red beast, the dragon named himself lord of the land. He demanded tribute from the villagers, taking their…
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Libra addresses the world at an ASALEA press conference on February 15, 2041: the day after the Valentine’s Day tragedy at Philadelphia. Yesterday was a tragedy. I don’t think that I need to tell any of you that. Millions of lives were lost. Though we at ASALEA managed to prevent the anomaly from spreading across…
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On the horizon, the city burned. Leo watched the flames rage and bit his nails. He wasn’t sure how the fire had started. Kaiju didn’t make fire, only steam, and there were plenty of pyrokinetic supes in the fray, but nobody who could start something on this scale. Maybe some electrical lines went down, or-…
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The woman, glowing with a pale golden light, floated above the city of Fukuoka and looked down over it, surveying the destruction. It was horrifying. At least a quarter of the city was completely leveled. You could visually trace the path the monster had taken: it had broken shore a ways west of the city…
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CW: animal abuse, child abuse Kyle Fredrickson looked down at his hands. They were not particularly interesting hands. They were boring, even: lightly calloused from his years of work as a bartender, a few freckles on the backs, and some wispy brown hair on the backs of the knuckles. He clenched both hands into a…
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Delivered at the United Nations Headquarters on July 12, 2031 in response to the public emergence of Heracles as the first hero and the fallout from the Switch. This speech announced the creation of Aegis and would become (in)famous as the start of the first Age of Heroes. People of Earth, I am sure that…
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