#(we will all assume the kid just survives it all and is there with Ody even if other crew members aren’t)

[fluffypotatey]

I'm thinking about an AU where like...Ody picks up a feral kid from an island who stows away on the ship. It'd be good to get some whimsy on that ship and maybe things go better. Hope Penelope doesn't mind an extra kid + Telemachus having a wild child of a little sibling now. Very overly enthusiastic, half the crew is terrified, other half is like "yeah the kid has good survival technique ideas." Ody is like, "please stop gleefully mopping the bloodied castle" after kid decides to be helpful. Proceeds to kick a suitors head out of the hallway so OdyPen can walk around together peacefully.

excuse you, that child is helping!!! Ody, Telemachus, and Oebelope are reuniting and tired and this child, out of the goodness of their heart is cleaning the palace (with aid of course) 😤

they don’t need to bc by that point their an official ward of the palace, but it the thought that counts (they totally loot the suitor’s stuff in the process)

[jadewritings]

His Missing Piece Pt. 1

Request: Can you please write Shane x Reader where Y/n is Lori's best friend from high school and she reunites with her on the farm. Shane falls in love with her from the start, because of how fearless she's and how much she loves kids. She always looks out for Carl, because Lori is kinda a shitty mom. When Lori notices how Shane looks at her friend, she gets worried and overprotective of Y/n. But everyone notices that Shane is a better person since Y/n joined their group, because of her Shane lives. Ty

Pairing: Shane Walsh x reader

Warnings: Like with any zombie story, there will be details of blood and gore. Death of course and language is a definite too.

Word count: 1.2k

Life is unknown, it takes turns you’d never expect, it puts you in situations you never thought you’d be in. The apocalypse, now that’s definitely one for the history books. You would watch a movie with scenarios like that, but to actually be like that in real life? You couldn’t imagine.

I never once thought if I’d be the type to survive a zombie outbreak. But I’d be damned if I’d let anything happen to anyone I cared about. So, when everything started, I fought like hell to protect my family. But I lost my dad to the walkers. My mother passed years ago and left my dad and my brother and I.

Caleb and I made it on our own for a while. I tried looking for my best friend Lori. We went to her house but the place was empty. Albums were gone so I had a gut feeling she made it somewhere safe.

Her husband, Rick was like a brother to me. I’d known him since high school just like Lori because they were high school sweethearts.

I’d admit, I was a little jealous. But I was happy to see my best friend so in love and happy with a guy. He was the best thing that happened to her. Well, until little Carl came along.

It was at the baby shower that she asked me to be his godmother, to which I happily accepted. I cherish that boy and love him like my own every day.

My brother and I traveled for a while, never finding a good enough space for longer than a night. Walkers were everywhere and it seemed like there were growing numbers of them everyday. It got harder and harder to keep my little brother sane. He had nightmares almost every night now.

He told me he keeps seeing dad and mom like those things outside and he’s hiding in a shed and they bang the door down. He always wakes up right before they eat him.

I feel bad, we’re running low on food and I’ve given my rations to him to keep him strong and healthy.

“Goodnight Caleb.” I said to him, turning off the lantern. We’d settled into a small house we’d cleared just before the sun set.

“Night, Y/N.” He turned over in his sleeping bag but I knew he’d try to stay awake as long as he could. I sighed and tried my best to go to sleep. I could only comfort him so much.

After a while, I think I was just about to go into a deep sleep but something jostled me awake. I looked over and Caleb was gone. My heart raced and I started to panic. My heart ached already and my gut was twisted in knots.

I grabbed the hand gun I’d taken from our home when it all started and put on my jacket. I checked the house for any sign of him but there wasn’t any. Then, I looked through the curtains and saw Caleb walking towards a few walkers who quickly started walking to him.

My heart wanted to beat right out of my chest and I screamed his name but he just kept going. I ran out of the house, gun raised but I was too late. They tackled him to the ground and he didn’t even move to fight them. He... he wanted to die.

I shot every one of them. I didn’t care if it drew attention, I didn’t care if it was loud, I just needed my brother.

I ran to him and shoved the dead bodies off of him and cupped his cheeks, “Caleb! Caleb why?!” I shouted and tears streamed down my face. I just didn’t understand.

He gurgled on his own blood, “I-I nee...ded it to e-end.”

That only brought more tears. I couldn’t protect my own brother even from himself. He was always the stronger one, the one to comfort me when I was down and I didn’t even do anything for him.

“I’m sorry... I’m so so sorry.”

“You... did all y-you could.” He choked on his blood some more. I felt it splash on my face but I didn’t care. He placed a trinket in my hand and closed it around it, “Please... just... go. S-survive for us.” Those were his last words to me. His eyes seemed to fade and he was no longer shaking. It only seemed to hurt more, seeing that look.

I gently kissed his forehead before putting a bullet in his brain. I don’t think I could handle finding him as one of those things.

I heard a noise from behind me and turned. A hoard of them walking up the road. I took one last look at my brother then ran for it. Any direction, I didn’t care. I didn’t stop running, for Caleb's sake. He wanted me to survive, that’s what I’ll do. Till I can’t anymore.

It felt like I’d been walking for years. I never stopped, save for stocking up. I slept little but enough for me to get back out on the road.

I eventually got to this wooded area. I noticed a deer in the woods from afar. One good thing about the apocalypse is that nature could bloom and take over again. Animals walk anywhere freely without being hunted.

Then I heard it. The gunshot. Singular, only one and it took the deer down but then voices began shouting. Men. I was cautious but curious. So I looked through a clearing and saw a man running towards a farmhouse with a boy in his arms.

“Who the hell are you?” I felt the cold metal on the back of my head before I could even register anything. I put my hands up slowly like any rational person would do. But then, quick like lightning, I pushed it aside and skillfully took it from him and raised it at him.

“Y/N?” I took one look at him and lowered the gun. My eyes wide with tears, I flung myself into his arms.

“Shane! Oh my god! You’re alive!” I could feel his arms go around me, one fistful of my hair and the other supporting my back.

“As happy as I am to see you, we need to get to that house, now!” He grabbed my hand and we raced across the field. A man Shane screamed at with a fuller build struggled to keep up behind us. He had a rifle so I could only assume he was the shooter.

We got inside and my heart immediately dropped. I saw my godson laying on the bed, bleeding out with the others worked on him. It was then that the pieces clicked together.

A rage built inside me. That man shot Carl. Shane acted out on his rage, gripping the man's shirt tightly, wanting to hit him.

I pulled him back but glared at the guy, Odis, I think his name was. I realized he didn’t mean to shoot Carl. The deer had gone down before him, he didn’t know the boy was there. Even as he spoke saying the same thing, the anger just wouldn't go away.

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Only Human

Chapter 11: Panic In Evo City

Authors Note: I know I keep apologizing for the wait, but this time I’m really sorry. Three months between chapters is way too long and I’m sorry this one took us so long to complete.

The offices at HECU were in sheer chaos. Interns were running around hauling papers, tech people were working HECU’s servers to the edge of meltdown, and countless soldiers were being issued out to different parts of Evo City. Tyson had wrung himself ragged trying to keep the chaos under control, but no progress had been made.

“How are three teenagers so hard to track down?!” he shouted, staring at a huge collection of screens.

“I don’t know, sir!” A sleep deprived employee cried. “We’ve combed through every last bit of security feed available in both Big City and Evo City, but there’s no sign of them! All we’ve found are several new Freaks that just keep popping up!”

“New Fre- What do you mean, new Freaks?!”

The employee quickly pulled up security footage of an old motel, and the feed showed the disturbing sight of a group of choir students warping and transforming into twisted monsters.

“We were sent this footage by the owner of the motel last week. We were sent a similar piece of footage from Evo Subway where a crocodilian Freak was spotted running across the tracks,” The employee explained, pulling up footage from a subway. “And this is footage of a new Freak that was just spotted earlier today.” The employee showed Tyson one last piece of footage from downtown Big City, where several mechanical Freaks were rampaging down the street.

Tyson sat down, shocked. “I want soldiers everywhere you get footage from here on out. Track these new Freaks down.”

“Yes sir.” The employee quickly left their post and hurried out, several documents on hand. As the employee left, Rudra headed into the room, a phone in hand.

“Colonel Tyson, there’s someone that wants to speak with you.”

Tyson nodded. “Thank you, Commander,” he said, taking the phone. “Hello?”

“Hello Tyson,” a deep, distorted voice replied. “Things are looking a little bleak over at HECU.”

“...who is this?” Tyson asked, suddenly guarded.

“You can call me Archsage.”

“Alright, Archsage. What do you want?”

“To help, of course. HECU has been overrun with news of new Freaks, and so far you haven’t been able to track down the Trio.”

“How do you know that?” Tyson asked, then got up and left, putting her on speaker and motioning for Rudra to follow and stay quiet.

“I know quite a lot. More than you, certainly. I’ve been monitoring the Freaks for a while now. I know what they’re planning to do, and I know why so many new Freaks have been appearing as of late.”

“Care to enlighten me?” Tyson asked. “It would certainly make my job easier.”

“The Freaks are planning to bring about a worldwide catastrophe called the Cataclysm, and they’re bringing more Freaks into the world to further their goals.”

“Worldwide catastrophe? Are they attempting to destroy mankind?”

“More like they’re attempting to replace humanity entirely with Freaks.”

“WHAT?!”

“That’s why they’re after those kids. Those teenagers have powers that can stop the Cataclysm from happening.”

“Motherf@cker... How do you know this?”

“I’ve been looking into this whole ordeal for quite some time.”

“And how do you know about us?”

“I happen to know someone from HECU.”

“You have an informant?”

“In a way.”

“How can I trust you if you’ve been spying on us for so long?”

“Because I have information that you don’t. Information that you need.”

"And I assume there's a price for that information?"

“There is. If I’m going to help you, I want access to HECU’s databases.”

Tyson sighed. "It seems like I don't have much of a choice, but if you use it, you do it here. So we can ensure you're not using it against us."

“Agreed.”

Tyson sighed as he hung up. "Of course this stuff happens to me."

“If this is what we must do to stop the Freaks, then so be it,” Rudra replied. “I’ll send my troops to Big City to keep watch for any new Freaks.”

"Thank you," Tyson replied. "And try to keep this from reaching the public. Chaos in the streets would make this worse than it already is."

“It’s hard to keep something like this secret when some of these new Freaks have already been rampaging down the streets in broad daylight,” Rudra deadpanned.

"Then make up something and bribe the media to say it."

Rudra squinted at Tyson. “No, I don’t think I will.”

"I could get Anita to. She'd probably consider it a social experiment."

“You know good and well the kind of havoc she could wreak.”

"I also know how hard it would be to keep the public calm if they knew this was happening. You remember the plague two years ago."

“You can’t hide things that are already in the public eye. You tried to hide what happened with Grave Manor, and instead it’s one of the most well known horror stories to date. It even has its own music album. You tried to cover up that plague, but you can’t exactly hide something that nearly destroyed two entire cities and decimated their populations. You tried to hide Dr. Grace’s invasion, but you can’t hide the fact that a giant armada of ships came right the f_ck out of nowhere and attacked Evo City. And you certainly can’t hide a horde of monsters running through the streets of Big City in broad daylight.”

"I'm not saying hide it this time, just come up with a believable story that's less serious than the APOCALYPSE!"

“And how do you expect me to do that!? Tell people that all the new Freaks popping up everywhere isn’t a sign that things are going horribly wrong!? We have people turning into Freaks left and right, the Freaks that are already around are becoming more hostile by the day, and we have a Trio of teenagers running around that are our only chance of stopping this apocalypse!”

Tyson sighed. "Look, I just don't want the public to panic. If they do, everything will collapse into chaos and it'll be even harder to track down those kids."

“Tyson, the public is already panicking. The best we can do now is try to keep them safe.”

Tyson sighed. “...you’re right.”

Rudra nodded. “And I suggest you get on that. If things keep getting worse like they have been, you might end up having to evacuate the city very soon.”

Tyson nodded. “Alright. Start a watch and tell the people to prepare for evacuation.”

Rudra turned on her heel and quickly took her leave, calling up a group of soldiers to her side. “I hope you guys are ready for another round of disaster. We have to be prepared to evacuate Evo City ASAP.”

“Yes, ma’am,” a soldier replied.

***

Meanwhile at Christian Pure Spy’s chapel, Polite Spy and Jester were watching a movie while Isa played with her dolls nearby.

“Have you heard from Spyper and Intelligent lately?” Jester asked, tossing a handful of popcorn into their mouth.

“Not since last week. They were supposed to come over for a get-together, right?”

“Yeah, they were. But I haven’t heard from them at all.”

Polite Spy lit a cigarette. “I did hear from Sny, though. Apparently he’s out of the country on a job.”

“Spy job or Sniper job?”

“Spy job. He’s looking into an organization.” Polite leaned back. “If you don’t mind telling, who was that on the phone?”

“A guy named Odi-Tron. He wants to help humanity and he wants me to help him do that! Isn’t that great?”

Polite tilted his head. “Is he starting a charity or something?”

“He didn’t really give me much info. All he said was that I had to look out for three kids that’ll be coming by soon.”

Polite hummed, opening his laptop. “So you’re going to help without the information?”

“Well, yeah. Nothing bad’s gonna happen if I look after three kids, right?”

Something flashed in Polite’s eyes, but Jester missed it as the Freak replied, “I suppose not,” and started typing.

“I do wanna know why I have to look after these three kids specifically,” Jester mused. “I hope they’re not in any danger.”

“As do I.” Polite looked up. “I’ve heard Brutal has three people in his crosshairs as of late. What do you think they did?”

Jester looked at Polite with alarm. “You don’t think he would be going after some kids, do you?”

“I certainly hope not. On the off chance that they are, however, if they keep up the diligence that made him fail the first time, they’ve got a shot at survival.”

Jester gave a long and worried pause, then glanced back at Isa. “I really hope he’s not after these kids…”

***

In a dark base, somewhere nobody would have ever thought was habitable, much less inhabited, someone got a call. “This better be good, 9.”

“It is. I just got an email from Polite. It’s about Count Jester.”

“What about them? Aren’t they too busy eating candy or something to be cause for concern?”

“That’s what I thought. But what Polite just sent me is more than enough to worry you. Jester’s apparently been suckered in by Odi-Tron. The guy in charge of this whole mess. He managed to sucker in Jester.”

“Of course he did. Of course he’d get in someone with access to a whole other dimension... Tell Polite to stay put. Be ready to knock Jester out if need be and bring the Aspects here if we don’t get to them in time.”

“Well...Here’s the thing. Maybe we can get Jester on our side. Jester may have a few screws loose, but they’re not malicious. If someone can convince them that they were lied to by someone like Odi-Tron, they might just defect to our side. Then we’ll be the ones with the reality bender.”

“Alright... Tell Polite to try and get Jester to contact Odi-Tron again. Have them pry deeper. We didn’t work this hard to lose now. And keep an eye out for the Aspects. All our agents in the States are at your disposal for this mission.”

“Yes Archsage. I’m on it. I’ll contact you again if there’s any major developments.”

“Good. And give Polite a bonus. Tell him to buy himself some stickers or whatever he can treat himself with.”

“Understood. Until next time, Archsage.” With that, 9 hung up.

The shadowy figure sighed and leaned back. “Of all the people to run this operation, why did it have to be me?”