#and hornet man with snake man

[dwln-22]

Sorry to bug you but can you draw jewel man plz?

Gemini man has beef with him for no reason...he's just a hater at heart

[cak3o]

adding to this with lil headcanons

short metalman?! yeah. him being like. Third shortest of the 2nd bots is important to me. Everyone is still so scared of him though.

jewelman is tall. I talked about how hornetman is second tallest, jewel man is a close third.

I'm a huge fan of topman being the absolutely normal guy of the 3rd group. He's not boring, just has a good head on his shoulders and will stop snakeman from kidnapping toadman for the 8th time this week

sparkman is delightful and very wonderful to be around. He makes great conversation and is very helpful please give him hands

diveman!!! and pirateman!!! hate each others asses....but what if

plantman being super melancholic is everything. constantly talking to flowers and just letting out deep sighs. lil guy whats on your mind I'd be more than happy to listen.

I think i need to add hornetman/tornadoman to my ship list because they also have my heart at the moment...i read comic where tornado protected hornets flower park from a storm....and ive never been the same

In my head, Roll was specifically made to be a lab assistant and Rock was made to do house chores. Roll knows a lot of Lights secrets and projects. Rock was straight vibing with his Swiffer until the day

Fireman and Elecman aren't home a lot, their jobs are kinda an all day thing so when they get days off and time away its always very special. The rest of the bots are always happy to greet them when they get home

The thirds have a lot of hobbys. Also. Need images of them exploring distant planets together. They are such a quirked up bunch they would never get bored.

I could writen extensively on how i perceive the FireElec ship and how it develops. I'll save that for another post tho.

okay thats enough

I see and understand the diveman appeal.

Actually while we're here I'm just gonna name drop other robots I really love:

HORNETMAN. I've loved his design since I was a kid, its just so. Everything tbh. Love that he's always drawn as like the 2nd tallest from his group too. His cool visor paired up with him....watering flowers and taking care of bees? Peak.

Airman! I love his design so much, I've always thought it was fun that he really was mostly just fan. Also love drawing him hanging out with crashman. He seems really serious, which is very cute for a man who is mostly a fan.

I don't know why but I do experience real human joy when I see magnet man. Something about about him sparks joy idk.

I adore all the Cossack bots. Especially bright and toad. So round, so cute.

Been slowly falling for junkman. Ever since I read that he's just a really awkwardly serious guy who is passionate about recycling my brain hasn't been the same. Also a big fan of how gigantic he is.

We make jokes about the megaman 8 voice acting but I really like what they did conceptually with searchman

Absolutely adore tundramans voice

[pityroadart]

Here's my piece for the @mcspirkevents Big Bang! I was paired with the excellent @twinkboimler and their fic Jim Kirk's Guide to Delivering the Goods, which you can find here (E, AOS McSpirk, 60k)

Summer just started, and Jim is bored out of his mind. The courses he needs to take aren’t being offered until the second half of the summer, so he has an entire month to bother his roommate Bones. At Bones’ suggestion to get a job, Jim fixes up a motorbike and starts making deliveries to people in town, including a cute Vulcan professor named Spock. But when Jim is beaten up while making a delivery, it’s Spock who delivers Jim back to the apartment he shares with Bones. After the meet-cute from hell, Spock and Bones start dating… and so do Jim and Spock. With neither roommate aware they’re both dating the same man, there’s only so long that things can go well for them before the other shoe finally drops.

Also as part of my Big Bang offerings, I made a fic playlist (below) — partly a love letter to McSpirk, partly a love letter to myself and Fletcher's overlapping music taste.

Thank you again to Fletcher @twinkboimler for working on this project with me, it's been an absolute joy!

Until the Birds Return on Spotify

Tracks and choice lyrics below the cut (contains vague spoilers):

Astronaut | Future Crib

I wanna be an astronaut Fly into space I wanna see Mars from Venus I wanna go to that place And if you come with me They'll be room in my ship I'll take you up there with me It can be just you and me

Afraid of Heights | boygenius

I never rode a motorcycle I never smoked a cigarette I wanna live a vibrant life But I wanna die a boring death

Day by Day | Old Sea Brigade

Time and time again, I think I'm falling through space And I wake up in my bed just sweating in sheets

... Then I think of you growing old and it breaks my heart

Factories | Autoheart

When you found my body by the lake You wasn't sure if I was still alive

You and Your Friend | Snake River Conspiracy

Must we go run through our lives with our eyes closed To the loving happiness that we can share I think I'm in love with you and your friend

My Gal, My Guy | Darlingside

My (guy) he's the bluest ocean, (he) Waits under the bluest sky for me I belong to (him) When I'm in the water

Santa Fe | Autoheart

Heaven sent You were like a present I should not have kept A sticker on your forehead saying 'breakable And I broke you bad

Coat on a Hook | The National

Two days, we're still not talking You're the opposite of an open book Come back for me

Top to Toe | Fenne Lily

So I'm changing all my days To make your nights It's just not right

Pigeon Song | Patrick Wolf

Now the pigeons gather 'round my feeding hand And we talk 'til the evening fades I have learnt how it goes What you wait for never shows And what you least wanted, holds you down like a stone

Hornets | The National

But I don't wanna leave And I don't wanna hide I just don't wanna run Into you tonight

Tea, Milk & Honey | Oh Pep!

If you stick with me, I'll make sure your time is all right If you don't understand where I am now, it's better if we leave it

The Spiritual | Jukebox the Ghost

We might have kissed a bit too soon I could feel what was coming and I didn't mean to hurry you I just knew that time would find our fingers linked, through and through Forgive me, I'm human too

Bike Dream | Rostam

Two boys, one to kiss your neck And one to bring you breakfast Get you out of bed

Don't Go | Yazoo

Can't stop now Don't you know I ain't never gonna let you go

Jenny | The Mountain Goats

I hopped on back of the bike, wrapped my arms around you I sank my face into your hair And then I inhaled as deeply as I possibly could You were sweet and delicious as the warm desert air And you pointed your headlamp toward the horizon We were the one thing in the galaxy God didn't have his eyes on 900 cc's of raw whining power, no outstanding warrants for my arrest

Old Old Fashioned | Josh Ritter (Frightened Rabbit cover)

Oh let's get old fashioned Back to how things used to be If I get old, old fashioned Would you get old, old fashioned with me?

[cyber-corp]

The way Big Boss/Naked Snake is introduced in Metal Gear Solid 3 is incredible yet ridiculous. People who played the games before it had absolutely no clue who or what Big Boss was like in his prime, and the moment the man sees a hornet’s nest above a soldier he makes this face

Pure deviousness in his eyes.

[as-i-watch]

Do you know what the biggest lie ever told in one piece is?

"There are only 5 devil fruits that can fly"

I mean Pell sounded cool when he said it but it has gotten worse over time with every devil fruit that appears.

Let's go down the list from least to most ridiculous DF users who can fly.

ACTUAL BIRDS:

-Pell [Bird Bird fruit: Model Falcon]

-Marco [Bird Bird fruit: Model Phoenix]

-Morgans [Bird Bird fruit: Model Albatross ]*

*Morgans is flightless in his hybrid form, but Albatrosses can naturally fly for long distances*

-Buzz [Bird Bird fruit Model eagle]**

**Buzz is a noncanon character from the movie One piece strawhat chase. He is a dog**

OTHER FLYING ANIMALS:

-Cub [bug bug fruit: Model rhinoceros beetle]

-Bian [bug bug fruit: Model hornet]

While bugs are known for crawling, these two tontatas have DFs who's species can naturally fly.

-King [Dragon Dragon fruit: Model Pteranodon]

Flying is the only natural thing that King does with his fruit. All the fire stuff is unique to King

-Kaido/Momonosuke [DF NAME UNKNOWN]

Momo can fly by summoning clouds and walking on them but dragons appear to have the innate ability to fly as shown with Kaido

BIRD BY TECHNICALITY:

-Toragatsu [Bird Bird fruit Model: Nue]

Torgatsu is a noncanon character from the One Piece x Kyoto art show. The nue is a chimera like creature from Japanese folklore that has the body of a tiger, head of a monkey and a snake for a tail. Alternatively it can be described as having the back of a tiger, the limbs of a tanuki, the tail of a fox, the head of a cat, and the torso of a chicken. It is a bird fruit because the name Nue also refers to the scaly thrush bird that the chimera mimics. Torgatsu can fly by summoning rainbow colored flames.

LOGIAS:

All known logia users [with the exceptions of Aokiji, Akainu*, Blackbeard &Caribou ] can fly via elemental propulsion. [*Akainu is in a different category]

-Ace/Sabo [flame flame fruit]

-Smoker [plume plume fruit](smoke)

-Crocodile [Sand sand fruit]*

*the presence of these 3 fruits alone in alabasta immediately invalidated Pell's statement*

-Kizaru [glint glint fruit] (light)

-Enel [Rumble Rumble fruit] (Lightning)

-Caesar Clown [Gas Gas fruit]

-Monet [Snow snow fruit]

PARAMECIA SHENANIGANS

-Shiki [Float Float fruit]

man can just straight up fly

-Trafalgar Law [Op Op fruit]

-Fujitora [Press Press fruit]

-Eustass Kid [Magnet Magnet Fruit]

The above manipulate their environment to create platforms that they ride on.

-Big Mom [Soul soul fruit]

Can use her soul to create constructs that she rides on

-Perona [Hollow Hollow fruit]

Can fly by turning herself into a ghost.

-buffalo [Spin Spinf Fruit]

Can fly by helicoptering his body parts.

IS IT FLYING IF I DON'T TOUCH THE GROUND?

-Akainu [Mag mag fruit]

Has been shown to use his magma to propel himself short distances but hasn't shown the ability to fly

-Magellan [Venom Venom fruit]

Can create pathways of poison that allow him to fast travel around impel down

FLIGHT BY TECHNICALITY

-Buggy [Chop chopper fruit]

his body parts can Float around within a certain radius of him, excluding his feet.

DOESNT COUNT AS FLYING

-Ms. Valentine [Kilo Kilo fruit]

Reducing her weight to 1Kg allows her to jump really high into the air and slowly fall down

??????

Karasu [DF UNKNOWN]

Can turn himself into a murder of crows and fly.

SHOULD NOT BE ABLE TO FLY AT ALL

-Doflamingo[string string fruit]

He flies by spidermaning his way through the air, sticking his strings to clouds

-Robin [flower flower fruit]

Grows several dozen arms that she fuses into a pair of wings

-Luffy [Gum Gum fruit]

Gear 4. Contracts and expands his legs with so much speed and force that it generates thrust.

There are probably some others that I missed but these are the major ones for where you are.

This a really cool categorization and also

Perhaps it was meant that only 5 DF like actually come with wings and the other ones just elevate their powers to do all that crazy shit

Or perhaps is further evidence Oda makes it all up as he goes along (most likely lol)

[cazzyf1]

"By about four-thirty a.m. Mike (Hawthorn) and I had negotiated the stairs and had finally reached our landing. We were debating whether to tip Peter Collins out of bed or not when Sculati, our team manager, came along carrying a suitcase: he was on his way to the airport to fly home to Italy. As he went by he splashed us with some water out of the fire bucket. This gesture gave Mike a foul idea; he picked up the bucket, emptied it over my head, and then ran to his room laughing in a rather idiotic way. I stood quite still for a moment or two while the water formed a pool on the carpet beneath me. Then I saw that just above where the bucket had hung was a fire hose, and a little further down the corridor a large wheel, the turning of which would send water rushing through the hose. I felt positively evil. Carefully I connected the hose to the main. Then I unrolled it down the corridor as far as the door of Mike's room. I noticed with satisfaction that the door was not quite shut. He was still laughing. I nipped back to the wheel and turned it. My surprise at what happened next was only exceeded by Mike's. The hose became alive, and snaked off down the corridor like a great cobra. The nozzle banged on the door as if demanding entry and then thrust everything aside and shot into Mike's room. He was about to put on his pyjama legs and had paused for a moment when he heard the knock on his door. The next moment his pyjama legs were up against the wall and he was flat on his back, bowled over by the jet of water that had suddenly entered his room. The hose went quite mad as the pressure built up and the nozzle whizzed round the room like an enraged hornet. It shot the pictures off the wall, the blankets off the bed, and managed to give Mike a couple of fourpenny ones as well. He scrambled out of the room and ran out nude down the corridor to the wheel and, using all his strength, he was a big fellow, jammed it full on. By now everything was out of hand: water was running from his room both up and down the corridor, and angry voices were demanding what was going on. 'We must put the nozzle out of a window, I said. He nodded and, our feud forgotten for the moment, we raced back to his bedroom. He managed to get hold of the nozzle but could not control it and found himself in the corridor with water shooting everywhere.

I could see that he would not be able to get back into his room so I tried the door of another bedroom hoping the window would be open. Unfortunately the maiden lady who was in occupation had not expected to be awakened by a nude man carrying a firehose, and she screamed so much Mike had to come out. I opened another door which turned out to be the bedroom of a friend of ours. As it happened he was not alone; neither were he and his friend sleeping. They were quite unprepared for the onslaught that followed. Mike charged in, desperately trying to control the nozzle. A jet of water whipped the bedclothes off the bed and deposited its occupants on the floor. Mike pressed on and finally dropped the nozzle out of the window. He then picked up a sheet, wrapped it round his body, and, looking rather like a Roman senator, walked majestically back to his room." - p241/2

Duncan Hamilton - Touchwood

Mike Hawthorn

[askslenderverseau]

So, because I havent had time to get more work done on drawing reference sheets for the characters for this series so instead I will leave some descriptions of them until i can get to drawing them.

Jay: Jay’s skin is paler than normal and he has some white streaks in his hair after being brought back to life. He wears his old hat and a grey hoodie, as well as some torn jeans and some sneakers. He also has a large scar on his abdomen where he was shot by Alex. On his back is a marking of a circle with an x through it. 

Tim: Tim has slightly longer hair and has facial hair similar to how he did in the end of marble hornets. He wears his old red flannel that's a bit more faded and some black jeans and boots. On his back is a marking of a circle with an x through it. 

Brian: Brian has paler skin than normal and white streaks in his hair from being revived. He wears a worn and paler version of his beige/yellow hoodie and black torn jeans and some sneakers. He has many scars across his body and on his back is a marking of a circle with an x through it. 

Alex: His hair is longer than before and he has a bit of scruff on his chin. His skin is paler and his hair has white streaks in it from being revived. He still wears his glasses and a black and white version of his striped hoodie as well as some dark blue jeans. He has a large scar on his neck from being killed and has a circle with an x on his back like the others. 

Redlight: tan skinned man wearing a deep red cloak with devil horns, he wears a red mask with red streaks running up the side and an evil grin. On the forehead the operator symbol is marked. Under the mask he has a snake bite piercing, and black eyes with red iris. His teeth are also sharp especially his canines. His hair is also a deep maroon color, and his lower arms and hands are corrupted and look more like monster claws. 

Greenlight: pale skinned man, wearing a deep green cloak and a mask that resembles a lamb, also having the operator symbol on the forehead. His eyes are stunning green and his hair is a dirty blonde color. 

[dunaldoodles]

The scrimblos. Are they eating enough? Getting enough sleep?

Food? Depends on who you ask.

Vessels are capable of digesting just about anything, since the hungry Void of Hallownest breaks down anything consumed into more Void, or shoves harder materials like metals and stones into their shells. The twins are eating well, even though Shadow is a super picky eater, because they can quite literally eat the walls. Just like snakes, if they can fit it in their mouths, its fair game.

Shadow typically doesn't get much sleep, but they don't really need to. Voidlings don't require the same things normal bugs do, or even other gods. Ardent, however, is severely weakened from their time in the Black Egg, and is always pretty tired. They love taking naps under the stairs or in small, enclosed spaces! They probably get the best sleep out of anyone, even if they don't want to.

Hornet is INCREDIBLY malnurished. She is deficient in every vitamin and is also a picky eater. This doesn't help her at all. She puts others before herself more often than not, and has to almost be forced to eat her weekly meals.

She... rarely sleeps. She rarely feels safe enough to. She sometimes needs to be forced to sleep, and oftentimes just putting her in a cool, dark place will get her to pass right out. Her sleep is always fitful.

Tiso is RAVENOUS. My mans LOVES food. Particularly lesser bugs and pollen if he can get his claws on it! Ant-like beetles are omnivorous!

He's also the one who usually convinces Ardent and Hornet to actually get some rest, and the latter to eat a proper meal. Though convince MIGHT be a bit of a strong word...

[honey-minded-hivemind]

Wings of Fire Dragin Guide, Part Five: HiveWings and SilkWings

This is a HiveWing, or hive dragon. They have red, orange, and/or yellow scales, but always have some black scales on them as well. They are distantly related to SilkWings. Their powers can range from wrist/tail/claw stingers, the ability to shoot some stingers and regrow them, venomous fangs, paralyzing toxins/boiling acid/pain-inducing venom and possibly more unexplored options. They have four dragonfly/wasp-like wings, and live in the Hives across the savanna (now partially forest) continent of Pantala. Their diet consists of zebra, gazelle, birds, snakes, sharks, fish, as well as apples,, cinnamon, honey, nectar, confectionery, and coffee and tea.. They are named after different insects except for moths and butterflies, such as:

Social insects (Hymneoptera): Wasp, Hornet, Yellowjacket...

Beetles (Coleoptera): Scarab, Weevil, Chafer, Bombardier...

Orthoptera: Cricket, Grasshopper, Katydid...

Auchenorryhncha: Cicada, Treehopper...

Larvae/Worms: Rootworm, Glowworm, Inchworm...

Arachnid: Vinegaroon...

Other insects: Mantis, Earwig, Aphid, Dragonfly...

This a SilkWing, or silk dragon, or butterfly dragon. They can be any color and shade except black, are distantly related to HiveWings, and are iridescent. They hatch with wingbuds, as they will go through Metamorphosis, where they spin a Chrysalis and form their wings like a butterfly or moth, at age six. They also inherit their silk glands and silk spinning abilities after this, but can sometimes have flamesilk, which can glow, burn, and be made of fire, but it is extremely rare. They are vegetarian, so they eat things such as tangerines, kumquats, persimmons, garbanzo beans, kale, AZ well as honey, nectar, and confectionery made in the Hives. They were once second-class citizens, until Queen Wasp was defeated and everyone was free from the Othermind (a hivemind-esque thing made up of one small evil plant, an insane *sshole of a human who is the reason the humans were almost wiped out by the dragons, and one of the dragon eggs he stole, which is the dragonet from the egg). (Yes, the Scorching, which is their event that formed the dragon tribe and world as we know it, is because this freaky little jerk of a man stole dragon eggs, thus causing other human kingdoms to do so. So the dragon parents banded together and literally scorched the world to the the ground. Then they chose the first dragon queen, and the tribes formed over the next few hundred years after...) SilkWings are named after butterflies and moths, such as:

Butterflies: Monarch, Blue, Swordtail, Fritillary, Tortoiseshell, Admiral, Heliconian, Argus...

Moths: Luna, Io, Tussock, Cinnabar, Orange, Festoon, Lappet, Burnet...

[starman-waiting-in-the-sky07]

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[erischeatsdeath]

bullet train moments i 🫶 adore part 3

[part 1/2]

-the white death saying, "i will look into your eyes as i kill you. and your brother," and shocking tangerine into silence even after his vulgar "your son and your money" speech. tangerine just mournfullly muttering, "my brother.." the childhood flashback?? what if i cried.

-"it's my bad luck-- it's bad luck on acid."

-the white death playing russian roulette. shigeru staring into the barrel of the gun knowing he's lost.

"what's your plan, mate? you gonna fucking waltz up in here and blow my brains out in front of this whole fucking carriage of-- witnesses!" and then turning around to find the whole train empty 💀

-ladybug CONSTANTLY shit-talking carver. "carver? you picked me second to carver? man, what an ego! calling in sick, what is this, high school? 😡 talk about a candidate for self improvement 🙄" "fuck this job! fuck carver!" "if you meet a guy named carver, he's a dick... tell him i said so."

-THE KIMURA NURSE ASSASSIN

-ladybug flushing the boomslang down the toilet with his jacket.

-lemon pointing the gun at prince and complimenting her acting skills 😭

-TANGERINE JUMPING ON THE TRAIN AND BREAKING THE WINDSHIELD. literally iconic.

-maria calming ladybug down after the hornet incident!! >>>

-"tell tangerine that.. tell tangerine.. tangerine.. he's got-- tangerine."

-the dramatic ass howling sound effect when ladybug says, "so the wolf was here to kill the hornet.."

-the little quirk in prince's eyebrows when she tells lemon, "just lucky, i guess"

-tangerine's disheveled, pissed off walk (channing tatum saying "god, he's got a great walk")

-"everyone.. loves lemons--" [fucking passes out]

-shigeru saying some serious shit into his phone thinking yuichi still has it only for ladybug to go "i think yuichi dropped his phone on the bullet train--" and tell him him about tangerine's find my phone app. then hanging up on him.

-"DON'T-- CALL ME-- BRO!!" being the last words of the scariest most dangerous crime boss in the world 😭

-ladybug stealing the wolf's knife and using it to save lemon <33

-"oh, the cat's out the bag now, innit?" [...] "you know, i don't know a thing or two about being a parent, but you know what i would do? being that it's your son, and your money, i'd stop crying about your dead wife, get off your fucking lazy arse, and finish the job yourself. but now that we're having a little heart-to-heart, i've got a couple things to tell ya! your sons a complete bellend and he fucking deserves to be bleeding out of his eye sockets. and as for your case, i have seen it since tokyo, and i hope someone's found it, put it all on red, and is having a fucking wonderful time!" "i will meet you at kyoto station." "oh, how fucking wonderful, i can't wait!

-THE PART WHERE LADYBUG GETS BIT BY THE BOOMSLANG. LADYBUG FLAILING AROUND SCREAMING?? shigeru blankly watching and prince going, "... was that a snake?"

-the shot of shigeru at the station waiting for the train. he's so badass actually.

-everyone saying cool one-liners before/after kills (or attempts) and ladybug just saying dumb shit like "let this be a lesson on the toxicity of anger.." and a defeated, confounded "karma's a bitch--!"

-shigeru stopping when he hears the prince say "be honest" and remembering the voice on the phone. him sitting down next to them and ladybug being so confused and so exhausted.

-THE FUCKING WATER BOTTLE

-"we're on the wrong track!" and everyone-- ladybug, lemon, the white death's men etc.-- bracing as the trains collide. the whole sequence when the train is half-destroyed.

-i love the soundtrack, actually. just though i'd mention it.

-prince frantically running by ladybug going, "i'll fucking kill him myself!" and ladybug's "??"

[kylo-wrecked]

🥂

(dealers choice)

{ 🎁 You rolled: Music!Verse Ben, Nowhere Man, the Revived }

Prince Street at the dusk of the gods. White peacocks perch clumsily on the cornices where pigeons once roosted, tumbling from streetlamp arms where they're too numerous , some hundred odd peafowl startling and darting off curbs and shaking their opulent, grassy tails in short stints of flight across the damp, opalescent pavement, roaming all over the great, howling zoo of lower New York.

The genteel cast iron dwellings bounded by Broome Street, East Houston (* Howston *), Crosby, and Howard twist into aureate wire gardens; the crumbling subway stations spit brimstone and steel shellings; long grey ghosts slog around cobblestone alleys, around Andrew Berman's reclaimed pillars, ashen and alive with hornets, and around the hairpin turn of Mulberry, where tonight the wooden slats of the old rows bloom under the pale rotten rind of the moon as they did 150 years ago when they were opium houses that glowed lavender in hazes of rain. 

Canal Street is a canal again roaring and teeming with rhapsodic bedlamites and snakes and the writhing arms of the defeated, ferried not through to a new year but a new age. An age of endings. An occasion to watch from some rich schmuck's Olympic-sized rooftop hot tub, among a New Year's Eve party's remains, the soggy corpses of all those silver paper horns and confetti crowns. Champagne flutes, thin and elegant, huddled on a soda glass end table, some still holding stale yellow broth. 

The Valkyrie takes an unopened bottle of Chianti and wades into the hot tub, lounges on the curved white steps, extending her toes in the cold, maple-checkered water, her gown billowing, moon glittery, and chlorine-green. She uncorks the wine bottle with her teeth. The plug bobs away on a moonlit current charged by her strong, shimmering legs. She beckons.

Ben studies her through long lashes, deep-set, furtive eyes hidden under a pergola's slatted shadows. 

"To what do we toast? Raising one dead on the day you decide to shuffle all us little guys off the mortal coil?"

Folds his broad arms and watches and waits, a towering enigma in smart, black wool torn beneath the shoulder and jacquard pants fit for a funeral under the rubble. 

"This is fun for you," he proclaims, feeling hard and hollow as the spoilt moon. "Look at you. Look at that smile. Fucking rude."

He hadn't known one could be homesick for death, how empty he would feel. Maybe the fallow ache will fade like jet lag. He trudges toward the stacked stone tub; the Valkyrie splashes water on his shoes. He mutters, "Qing qing," and wrenches the bottle from her feathered hand. 

@valkxrie

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My words: Forest, hope, dream and night

Forest

The Time of Glass and Metal in Narul’s mind was a pseudo mythical time, in a past that was impossible to imagine preserved only in the stories told by poets and mothers. A glorious time, a time of beauty and radiance, but also a time of arrogance and impiety, brought to a crashing end by the intervention of the Divine. That such pieces of the past could still exist, scattered in the forest so close to where Narul had grown, filled the slave with wonder, and yet for reasons he could not place, it also twisted his stomach with an alien dread.

Hope

The warrior  appeared as if from the blood soaked dirt itself, one arm brandishing a spear soaked in blood, the other a shattered shield, a curved sword at his belt. Galatides threw himself at the Kishite warrior. Galatides’s bronze plates clanged and squealed as he was forced back by the flurry of blows that were rained upon him. The warrior was like a swarm of hornets, so quick and vicious in his attack that even mighty Galatides could not protect himself. The spear snaked around his shield with ease, striking between the joints and hinges of his protective coverings, so that soon the mercenary's armor seemed to run with crimson. Galatides’s companions could only watch, kept at bay be the whirling cyclone of bronze. When one tried to intervene he found the front of his  helm and his skull beneath, crushed by the rim of the invader’s shattered shield. As the Galatides stumbled and Zatar ripped the shield from his hand with such ferocity that the mercenary lost his balance and fell forward. Wadikir watched hope die at the end of a spear. Zatar’s spear shot beneath the mercenary’s chin, past the bronze helm and armor, no sooner had the first drop of the Korithians’s lifeblood hit the dust, then Zatar’s spear had ripped his weapon free of Galatides skull and sunk it into another man’s gut. The spearmaster was a raging storm of bronze and blood, inhuman in his speed and viciousness, cutting through the once resolute men like a scythe through wheat. Even his comrades were forced to give him a wide-berth lest they be caught in the slaughter. The spearman’s face, bespeckled with the droplets of ruby red was split into a wide grin, he was laughing. 

Dream

Narul winced, the hairs on the back of his neck stood on end, it felt as if something was slithering up his skin and through his hair, he clawed at his scalp and yet could find nothing. And then there was the pain, or at least the shadow of it, like that which is felt in a dream. He gritted his teeth and could feel something foreign in the back of his mind, coiling and prodding at his thoughts. He tried to drive it away, but it ignored his efforts. Images begin to appear in his mind’s eye, pulled from his own memories.

Night

As their trek continued eastward, the snow muffled the sounds of the night, the birds, and the yipping jackals and wild dogs. Occasionally something would move in the shadows, and Ninma's hand would creep towards the knife hidden beneath her linen skirt, but the shadows would then fade away into the darkness, nothing more than a bounding deer, a horned-rabbit, or a curious jackal.  As she gazed up at the stars stretching out in a seeming infinite carpet across the sable sky, Ninma broke the silence. " So, do you miss Datura?" Jani thought for a moment. " I miss some of the people. I don't miss the village itself though. I actually think Nituru is a bit nicer. How about you? Do you miss Labisa, the big city life?" " Sometimes. There isn't really anyone left there that I know, but I miss being a princess sometimes, or the idea of it I guess. I know that sounds dumb, but it's true. I wonder if one day I could do what Akard did...take back the throne, with less killing hopefully." Jani glanced at her. " You want to be a Queen?"

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Your Words: Dawn, Dark, Death, and Deep

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NEXT POLL ANNOUNCEMENT

It's gonna be the biggest poll yet!

Instead of 32 matches in qualifying, there's gonna be 64!

It's...

MEGA MAN ROBOT MASTERS

Every one of them. From 1-11, to & Bass, to the Stardroids from 5 Gameboy, to the Megaman Killers from the Gameboy games, to even ones from Unlimited.

Qualifying matches preview below

Match 1: Stardroid Neptune vs. Hard Man vs. Napalm Man vs. Dark Man

Match 2: Rainbow Man vs. Glue Man vs. Whirlpool Man vs. Cold Man

Match 3: Knight Man vs. Astro Man vs. Nail Man vs. Pump Man

Match 4: Plug Man vs. Wind Man vs. Clown Man vs. Spark Man

Match 5: Bomb Man vs. Freeze Man vs. Oil Man vs. Nitro Man

Match 6: Concrete Man vs. Frost Man vs. Ring Man vs. Drill Man

Match 7: Punk vs. Dive Man vs. Elec Man vs. Stardroid Sunstar

Match 8: Enker vs. Heat Man vs. Fire Man vs. Trinitro Man

Match 9: Tengu Man vs. Spring Man vs. Jet Man vs. Stardroid Saturn

Match 10: Magma Man vs. Sword Man vs. Stone Man vs. Crystal Man

Match 11: Magic Man vs. Dynamo Man vs. Hornet Man vs. Metal Man

Match 12: Shade Man vs. Snake Man vs. Plant Man vs. Tundra Man

Match 13: Terra vs. Yamato Man vs. Needle Man vs. Bright Man

Match 14: Stardroid Venus vs. Gravity Man vs. Tomahawk Man vs. Flame Man

Match 15: Bubble Man vs. Flash Man vs. Cut Man vs. Cloud Man

Match 16: Ground Man vs. Star Man vs. Stardroid Mercury vs. Guts Man

Day 2:

Match 17: Gemini Man vs. Solar Man vs. Blizzard Man vs. Search Man

Match 18: Comet Woman vs. Tank Man vs. Torch Man vs. Commando Man

Match 19: Stardroid Jupiter vs. Shadow Man vs. Blade Man vs. Strike Man

Match 20: Quick Man vs. Bounce Man vs. Chill Man vs. Top Man

Match 21: Blast Man vs. Fake Man vs. Yoku Man vs. Air Man

Match 22: Stardroid Uranus vs. Turbo Man vs. Impact Man vs. Junk Man

Match 23: Tornado Man vs. Aqua Man vs. Magnet Man vs. Wood Man

Match 24: Yo-Yo Man vs. Time Man vs. Acid Man vs. Burst Man

Match 25: Gyro Man vs. Ice Man vs. Stardroid Mars

Match 26: Stardroid Pluto vs. Pirate Man vs. Pharoah Man

Match 27: Toad Man vs. Stardroid Earth vs. Splash Woman

Match 28: Sheep Man vs. Wave Man vs. Slash Man

Match 29: Skull Man vs. Centuar Man vs. Grenade Man

Match 30: Block Man vs. Jewel Man vs. Fuse Man

Match 31: Galaxy Man vs. Crash Man vs. Charge Man

Match 32: Dust Man vs. Burner Man vs. Ballade

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The Bad Guys season 1: Our Own Story (chapter 23) - A Suspicious Affair

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Intro

Mr. Wolf: Yeah! I'm bad!

Mr. Snake: You're bad!

Ms. Tarantula: He's bad!

Mr. Hornet: She's bad!

Mr. Piranha: We're bad!

Mr. Shark: Who's bad?

The Bad Guys: Yeah!

We're the Bad Guys!

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At the News Company building. Mira was typing an article on the Bad Guys. They stopped another criminal almost doing something drastic to an innocent family. Glad that the Good Bad Guys arrived just in time to save them. That is going in the newspaper

"Aaand… done!" She typed fast in the end, and lifted her hands from the keyboard, "Phew, the Bad Guys had done it again, huh? Now I deserve my break," Mira then saved the file of her article, and opened another one. The file is just a story that she made as a hobby if she ever got bored with her job. She continued typing where she left off.

"And so, after having to have searched through many of the thriving habitual residencies where the gentlest of wildlife reside, the lonely woman finally found her savior in khaki. Callum greeted her with a friendly hug right in front of the zebra exhibit, where the zebras themselves mimic the humans' special display of bonding by cuddling one another as well. Mirabelle looked into Callum's eyes, feeling her initial despair and loneliness fade away and only for an instant because of the special moment she was sharing with the love of her life. Both humans standing together, where only the sound of the parakeets at the Aviary nearby provided a harmonic serenity to their moment. Safe in her comrades' arms feeling as snug as a joey in his mama's pouch, as if nothing in the world could ever harm her emotions as the feelings of loneliness she resided with many many moons ago before meeting the special man. Despite many eyes of the wildlife watching, it felt as if they were the only ones on Earth together, them against the world where only the army of animals around them would protect them and guide them. For someplace as chaotic as a zoo, work chaos and craziness drive among more than the animals themselves, for one single moment as the pair laid eyes, locked in a trans as steady as the stare of an owl, and shared a gentle kiss under the bringing light that made their love shine so bright, even the bats in the darkest caves could see it. Callum was a man of many passions when they came to the protection and care of the animals around him, but the most important animal that he made sure to always care for the most was Mirabelle, who to him, was like gold, a treasure he would always cherish forever and ever."

"Mhm." Mira nodded proudly for herself at this paragraph of her story. Then, she looked at her wristwatch. "Oh, almost time for lunch," She saved her file but didn't close the window. She left the computer open just in case she'll return to make some edits for her story.

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Later, a few minutes after Mira left, Shark came by her office, holding a pen.

"Hey Mira, I just came by to return your pen," But when Shark looked up, Mira's desk was empty, "Mira? Hello?" He wanted to make sure Mira is still around the room, but everyone else already left for lunch.

After dropping the pen into the pencil holder, Shark couldn't help but look over behind Mira's desk where the computer was on and her file was open, "'A Wildlife Lust by Mira Rose'. Wow, Mira really likes to write," When Shark took the time to read the paragraph Mira just wrote. His eyes slowly widened in shock, and gasped "Oh, my gosh, this is amazing! This is basically a guide to what Mira is looking for in a lover."

Just then, Piranha, Tarantula, and Hornet came by in front of Mira's desk where they found Shark behind it.

"Hey, Shark, have you caught up with Mira?" Piranha asked.

"No, but check this out," Shark said while pointing to the screen with his fin, "Mira is writing a romance novel about a woman who is unhappy with her life and begins to have a torrid affair with a lover who loves zebras. Don't you know what this is?"

"That you violated her privacy?" Tarantula guessed.

"It's a description of her every fantasy and desire. This could finally be my key to…"

"To what, making out with my friend?!" Hornet gagged, "You know, you are the worst. And I thought Snake was the worst."

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The next day, at Mira's house, Mira was doing some gardening when all of a sudden, a shadow blocked the light behind her back. Mira turned around where the shadow came from. To her shock, she saw Shark, wearing a tan safari hat, a beige khaki shirt and shorts, and brown boots, and riding on a zebra.

"Good morrow! What is thee, uh, up to?" Shark tried to get into character that Mira wrote.

Mira stood up, and asked, "Shark, is that your zebra? Wh-When did you get a zebra?"

"Oh, I've been an Equus for a while."

"Do sharks like you can be Equus?"

Shark hopped off the zebra, and patted its side, "Just my trusty steed here. We have a special connection. Me being an equestrianist and everything."

"I-I had no idea you were into zebras," Mira was unsure of this about Shark.

"Attractive, huh?" Shark smirked.

"No, seems like a hassle, and expensive. How do you pay for it all? Did you use the stolen money?" the journalist inquired.

"Well, the costs are meager when you're able to dominate and control the beast with just... the slightest glance," Shark explained whole narrowing his eyes with his fins, until the zebra attempted to eat his hat, "Stop it," he managed to pull the hat away from the zebra's mouth.

The Bad Guys were behind him as their "wingmen" as Piranha laughed, "Ha, ha! What?! This is loco!"

"Anyway, I've been speaking to my zebra in the silent language of knowing, and I…" When Shark moved behind the zebra while explaining, the zebra kicked him, and landed in front of his friends.

"Never walk behind a zebra. You would have to hate zebras not to know that," Hornet warned.

Bu Shark got back up, and walked back at Mira and the zebra, "Being one with nature…" He was behind the zebra again as he got kicked away. Shark returned, still back behind the zebra, "A mutual bond of trust…" He got kicked once again, and went back, "Different species, same heart."

That last kick caused Shark's snout to get twisted to one side. Shark confronted the zebra from the front as he fixed his snout back to its rightful place, and said in À La Daffy Duck accent, "You're dethspicable."

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Later in the afternoon, the Bad Guys were headed in front of a zoo where Shark was holding a printed copy of Mira's story after he had Tarantula secretly printed it for him back in Mira's workplace yesterday. When Shark was headed to the entrance, the Bad Guys followed him, and Wolf decided to pay for the visit.

"What the heck, Shark? I thought we were gonna get a ten-dollar scoop of ice cream with all the millennials who can afford ten-dollar scoops of ice cream but can't afford to move out of their parents and/or guardians' house," Hornet said.

"We are. But first I need to pick up this hat that Mira mentioned in her story. Where's that part about the hat?" Shark said as he looked down on the copy of the story as he and his friends entered the zoo after Wolf finished paying, "'Both humans standing together, where only the sound of the parakeets at the Aviary nearby'," Shark read while the Bad Guys walked near the bird aviary and see some parakeets flying around, "'Despite many eyes of the wildlife watching'," Shark continued reading as some pigeons and squirrels scattering the sidewalk, "'For one single moment as the pair laid eyes, locked in a trance as steady as the stare of an owl'," Shark read the last part as Snake noticed a barn owl at the zoo's petting zoo staring at them

"Uh, Shark, everything you read just happened to us. I think her book is about the zoo," Snake noted as Wolf, Piranha, Tarantula, and Hornet noticed this too.

Then, Shark turned around, and gasped with his eyes widened in shock, "Oh... my... golly."

"What?" The other Bad Guys asked.

When they looked in the direction where Shark was staring at, they saw a man in a tan safari hat on his head, a beige polo T-shirt with dark beige sleeves, and a symbol of a dove carrying grain on the left side of his chest, tan khaki shorts, and grey hiking sneakers with white laces. feeding a lovebird in his hand. His name tag was written "Callum".

"It's the guy, Callum, from Mira's book!" Shark exclaimed, "She's fantasizing about being in love with this guy. Or, who knows, maybe even is in love with him.

Suddenly, an old man approached the Bad Guys, and looked down at Piranha, "Excuse me, do you have nachos?"

Piranha was confused about what was happening when an old man asked him for food, "What? We don't work here. We're the Good Bad Guys. I... do I... Do my-do my clothes make it look like I work here?" He asked his friends.

"I think it's your suspenders, yeah," Hornet mentioned.

"They must've thought you work in the zoo's food area here," Wolf guessed.

Then, the manager of the food court appeared, with the same suspenders as Piranha, and told the little fish, "Hey, get back to work."

"I'll see you back at home, amigos. I've got to finish my shift," Piranha said as he rushed to work.

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Later, Piranha left work after his "shift", and exhaustingly rode a cab until near the bridge to prevent the driver to know the Bad Guys' secret hideout. Piranha had to walk all the way down there to get to his home. When he made it to the hideout, only he brought was a little amount of money, and a bag of food he got from the zoo.

While they were waiting for him, the Bad Guys had been doing their hobbies, except for Shark who couldn't stop thinking about Callum for being Mira's fantasy guy who was real all along.

"Guys, I can't believe it. I mean, do-do you think Mira likes this Callum guy more than me?" Shark inquired sadly.

"Maybe you're overthinking this, Shark. I mean you and Mira are just friends, remember? You guys dated just once, and that's it," Wolf said.

"Yeah, what's your big deal on this?" Tarantula asked before guessing in a loud shock, "Are you… are you in love with Mira?"

Shark shook his head, wanting to deny it, "No, not really. I mean, a little bit. Just a little school crush. She's a nice person, and she deserves better."

"And you think she deserves you as her partner for life? I'm not against it, Shark, but you know our reputation in the city. What would other people say about Mira when she would end up with a former criminal shark like you?" Snake clarified their status.

Shark didn't like where Snake was going, but for once, he agreed with him. If Mira ended up with Shark, her reputation would be ruined, and he didn't want Mira to have that kind of life. Mira already liked her life and her job, and Shark didn't want her to lose all that because of love.

Just then, Hornet received a notification from his helmet. He wore to see what he received, "Hey guys, Mira texted me that she's going out and won't be back until later tonight."

"Why did she text you about that?" Piranha asked suspiciously.

"We're texting buddies every now and then. And also she wanted to inform me that she's okay every time she goes in and out of her work and house," Hornet smiled.

Shark gasped, "Oh no, guys, she's going out and won't be back until tonight? Do you know what that means?"

When Shark turned around, all of his friends wore disguises, Wolf dressed as a cop, Snake as a cowboy, Piranha as a treasure chest, Tarantula as an anime cutesy maid, and Hornet as a Brazillian Carnival Dancer, only with a skirt and a headdress.

"Disguises? We know it's your favorite thing," Tarantula guessed.

"No, but we should follow her and see what the hell is going on," Shark suggested.

Snake groaned as he facepalmed with his tail, "Face it, Shark, you're jealous that Mira likes someone else than you."

"No, I just want to protect her from the worst decision she'll ever make, now come on!" Shark demanded as he rushed to the elevator to get to the car. The other Bad Guys groaned as they followed him, still having their disguises on.

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The Bad Guys, without their disguises anymore, arrived in front of Mira's house across to street to avoid getting caught by Mira. Wolf thought it was a ridiculous idea to drive and hide from Mira while Shark wanted to investigate Mira's "fantasy" guy, but the leader has no choice. Shark is his friend, and he couldn't let him down.

The Bad Guys waited for an hour until Mira got out of her house before locking the door.

"There she is," Tarantula pointed at Mira who walked towards her car, and drove away.

"Follow her," Shark demanded.

When Piranha opened a can of soda, and drank it, Wolf hit the pedal, causing an opposite reaction where the soda spilled all over Piranha's face, "Aw, great," he groaned, and noticed his clothes were soaked with soda too, "Just great."

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The Bad Guys continued to follow Mira. It was a little bit far from her house, but then, she parked beside the sidewalk. Wolf then parked a little far from Mira's car, but near enough for the Bad Guys to watch her got out of the car. Then, there was another car coming, and parking in front of Mira. It was Callum, stepping out of his car.

"There's Callum too," Wolf pointed.

As the gang observed, Mira and Callum opened their arms, and leaned forward towards each other.

"He's going in for a hug. They're hugging! This is insane!" Shark exclaimed.

But Hornet didn't pay attention to all that as he took pictures of Callum with his helmet, "I know. This guy. This guy is a star."

"Ugh, Hornet, this is unnecessary," Piranha rolled his eyes, feeling jealous.

"I can't believe it, guys. She met up with him here. They hugged. Mira is dating this guy. We've got to stop them," Shark said worryingly as he unfastened his seatbelt, and hopped out of the car. The other Bad Guys unfastened their seatbelts, and moved out of the car. The Bad Guys rushed to Mira and Callum before something that they expected would happen.

"Mira, don't do it!" Shark shouted.

Mira and Callum were startled as Mira turned to see all 6 of her criminal/vigilante friends, "Shark? Bad Guys? What are you all doing here? Don't do what?"

"Don't date Callum! It's not worth it!" Shark pleaded.

"What are you talking about?" Mira asked confusingly.

"Look, I found your file and read it. I thought that you wrote everything you were looking for in a lover, and, if I could embody some of those things, maybe I would have a shot with you. But then I found out Callum is real, and-and I couldn't bear to see you do something like this to yourself," Shark confessed, feeling worried for her.

But then, Mira was surprised about this from Shark, and instead of feeling shocked, she made a disappointed look, "Wait, let me get this straight. You, without asking, read something I wrote? Then, thinking I was revealing all my most intimate wants and desires, you thought that you could exploit what you read to impress me? But when you thought I might be cheating with someone other than yourself, you found that, and only that, morally objectionable? And you bring your friends here, who doesn't understand what's going on?!

"Trust us, We understand a little bit what was happening," Snake chuckled.

Mira rolled her eyes before clearing her throat to introduce them to the guy next to her, "Guys, this is Callum Kalemberg, he's my ex-boyfriend."

"Your ex-boyfriend?" The Bad Guys repeated in unison.

"Wait, so that means you used to date him?" Wolf questioned to clarify this.

"Yes, but that was a few years ago. We broke up because, well…" Mira wanted to explain, but she's not the only one who decided this break up.

Callum stepped in to explain further, "Turns out it never worked out between us. So we decided to break up."

"But if he's your ex-boyfriend and you're not in love with him, why do you have to meet up with him?" Shark asked.

"I'm just here to pick up our daughter," Mira answered.

The Bad Guys gasped loudly, and yelled in shock, "YOU HAVE A DAUGHTER?!"

Mira nodded, "Yes, I have a daughter. Ever since she was born, Callum and I shared custody with her. Callum kept her from Sunday to Wednesday, while I took her in for just Thursday to Saturday. Her school wasn't far from our houses, so there's no need for longer or shorter custody time."

"Oooooohhh…" The Bad Guys finally understood what was going on.

"And yes, I have fantasies about him dominating me with his idiot charming looks…" Mira admitted without even looking back at Callum.

"Aww, and hey!" Callum felt appreciated yet insulted about two things Mira described to him.

"But it's just that... A fantasy. That's why I wrote it in a story, because I knew that I would never act on it," the journalist finished her sentence.

Callum scoffed while his arms crossed, "It's more like you wanna take that all out through writing."

"I'm a journalist. I love to write," Mira glared at Callum before glaring back at Shark, "Ugh. I never thought a shark could be such a genuine piece of human garbage."

Shark finally felt ashamed that he tried to swoon over Mira by following what she wrote in her story, which violated her privacy, then he did something drastic when he thought she was dating another guy, who was her ex-boyfriend, out of jealousy. Shark sighed sadly, "Mira, I'm truly sorry for what I thought. It all just made sense to me at the time. But now that I see what it is, I'm ashamed of myself. I hope you can find it in your heart…"

While Shark confessed his apology speech, Snake brought a zebra behind Shark, and called out to his marine friend, "Hey, Shark."

When Shark turned around, Snake let out a loud and vicious, "Hissss!" the zebra was startled and frightened as it kicked Shark from behind. Then, Snake pulled out an apple, and fed it to his striped friend, "There's a good girl," he patted its snot with his tail.

"Okay, I deserve this." Shark grunted in pain from the kick before standing up, and approaching Callum, "And Callum, I'm so sorry that I suspected you as a bad person."

"It's okay. No hard feelings," Callum understood before turning to his ex-girlfriend, "Mira, don't be mad at Mr. Shark. You're really lucky you have good friends like the Bad Guys who were just looking out for you."

Hornet gasped, "You know us?"

"Of course. Who hasn't?" Callum chuckled.

"So, you're not afraid of us?" Piranha asked.

"Please. I'm a zoologist and a zookeeper. I love all animals, even bad ones."

"That's a little racist," Snake cringed disturbingly.

"Sorry. But I also heard about your reputation, and you still balanced your criminal lives with your job as crime-fighters. So, I'm quite impressed," Callum smiled.

The Bad Guys were a little surprised that there are other people than Mira who liked their good-and-bad balanced lifestyle.

"Wow, thank you," Wolf said.

Then, Mira remembered someone very important to her, "Oh, since you guys are here, do you want to meet my daughter?"

The Bad Guys looked at each other, and they all chanted in agreement.

"Yeah."

"Sure."

"Why not?"

"Let's see the little cutie."

Callum excitingly ran back to his car, and opened the left backseat of the car. He stick his head in, and whispered to a person inside, "Sweetie, come here. There are people would like you to meet."

The Bad Guys and Mira heard Callum's soft voice as the formers tilted their head to take a peak quickly. When Callum pulled his head out, he held a small little hand, and gently guide a little girl out of the car. She was a 5-year-old girl with blonde hair, wearing a white top, a pink skirt, and a giant red bow.

"Aawww!" Wolf, Shark, Piranha, Tarantula, and Hornet cooed to see the cuteness of the little girl, but Snake didn't care.

When Callum led the girl towards them and her mother, Mira grabbed her hand, and guide her to walk a little forward toward the Bad Guys.

"Guys, this is my daughter, Mariposa," Mira introduced her friends to her daughter.

Mariposa looked up at her mother, who nodded that it was okay, and she came closer to them.

Wolf knelt down with one leg to reach Mariposa's level.

"Hey there, little girl," Wolf patted Mariposa's head.

Mariposa stared up at Wolf as she touched his nose, then tried to reach between his ears. Wolf bowed down for Mariposa to reach his head, making him wag his tail.

"Doggy," Mariposa blabbered.

Wolf chuckled embarrassingly, "Eh, yeah, but I'm not a dog, I'm a wolf."

"W-w-wolfy?" Mariposa tried to pronounce it right.

"There, now you get it," Wolf ruffled Mariposa's hair, making her giggle.

Mariposa then tilted her head to see the rest of the Bad Guys behind Wolf. She gasped when she saw a familiar giant fish, "Sharky!" she rushed to Shark, and hugged him lovingly.

"Aaw, she loves to hug." Shark blushed, and embraced her in return.

"Yeah, she's definitely cute," Tarantula commented, hanging on Shark's shoulder.

Mariposa opened her eyes, and noticed Tarantula, "Toy!"

"No! I'm not a–!" But Tarantula was grabbed by the child, and hugged her tightly, "She's crushing me!"

Mira quickly made Mariposa release Tarantula from almost getting crushed to death, "No, no, no, sweet. Ms. Tarantula is not a toy."

When Mariposa released her, Tarantula crawled back on Shark's shoulder, gasping for air, "That kid didn't know her own strength."

After Shark released Mariposa from the hug, she noticed something tiny flying in front of her face, "Bee."

Hornet chuckled, "No, sweetie, I'm a hornet."

"Bee!" Mariposa turned to her mother while pointing at Hornet, and it made the other Bad Guys snicker.

Hornet groaned, "Why do other people mistake me for a bee?! I'm a hornet!"

"Cute bee!" Mariposa patted Hornet playfully with a hand, though it hammered him down, and almost touched the ground.

Hornet didn't like to be patted like that, but the girl's cuteness made him not hate her.

Then, Mariposa noticed Piranha, "Friend!" she hugged him tightly.

"Uh, do I… do-do I look like I'm some kind of kid?" Piranha asked his friends while feeling uncomfortable.

"You two have the same size, I guess," Wolf said.

"Friend!" Mariposa blabbered again.

Piranha was flattered by this gesture as he slowly released himself from the little girl's hug, and patted her head, "Awww, she is kinda a cutie."

Lastly, when Piranha moved backward, Mariposa then stared up at the tall snake. She was speechless and her jaw dropped.

Snake sighed as she knew what the girl was thinking about her, "I get it. You're scared of a grumpy ol' snake, aren't you?"

Mariposa suddenly smiled with sparkles in his eyes, "I wove snakes!" She quickly hugged Snake, and snuggled her face on his chest.

Snake was startled by the sudden hug. He was surprised that a little kid like Mariposa liked a dangerous snake like him. He was just frozen there, not wanting to move a muscle to avoid startling the kid.

Wolf knelt beside Snake, and smirked, "Look at that, Snakey, you got a new friend."

When Snake looked down at Mariposa, she was still hugging him. He didn't know what to do, but his tail slithered on Mariposa's back, and patted her gently, smiling calmly.

When Mariposa suddenly yawned and almost slept on Snake, Mira chuckled as she pulled her daughter away from Snake, "Okay, Mariposa, you can let go of Mr. Snake now," she carried her, and had her kid's head rest on her shoulder.

"Your daughter is very sweet, Mira," Hornet complimented happily.

"Yeah, just like you," Shark said, making both him and Mira blush a little, "And you're sweet enough to forgive me, and I thought I could be… you know…"

"Oh, Shark, you know that I like you. I really do. But not romantically like you," Mira clarified, making Shark frown, "And it's not because of Callum or Mariposa. He and I are through with it, and Mariposa was used to us being separated. And it's not even because you're a Bad Guy or a shark. It's just that… I don't have feelings for you…"

Shark nodded lightly, "I understand."

"But you're my friend," Mira added making Shark raise his head to look at her, "I appreciate you're trying to look out for me or even trying to impress me, but we would be better off if we're just friends."

Even though Shark felt sad that he has no chance to be with Mira in a romantic way, he was still happy she still accepted him as her friend, "Yeah. We're friends."

When Shark offered a fin to Mira, she accepted it, and the two shook hands as a sign of friendship.

Callum smiled at this sight before clearing his throat, "Well, I better get home. You guys take of yourselves," he walked back to his car with the Bad Guys and Mira waved goodbye at him, and he drove away.

When Callum was gone, Mira noticed Mariposa already fell asleep, "I better get this little one home. It's past her bedtime anyway. I'll see you tomorrow, guys."

The Bad Guys said their goodbyes to Mira as she put Mariposa in the backseat on his child seat, and she stepped inside the driver's seat before starting her car and driving off.

When Mira was out of sight, the Bad Guys decided to get back to their car with Shark's head hung down sadly.

"Sorry, Shark," Tarantula patted. a hand on Shark's face.

Shark sighed while he and the Bad Guys stepped into the car, and fastened their seatbelts, "Well, I know things weren't meant to be, but, at least, Mira forgave and still wanna be friends with me."

"Of course, Shark. Who wouldn't?" Hornet asked.

That question made the Bad Guys wonder silently while staring a each other. That is the question. Who wouldn't want to be friends with the most famous criminals-yet-vigilantes in the world? The Bad Guys snickered before laughing hysterically as Wolf drove the car back to the direction of their home. It was a little funny that everyone wanted to be friends with the Bad Guys. Not everyone should be, but not everyone can. It depends on others. Like Diane, Mira, and now, two more people like Callum and Mariposa.

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Credits:

Sam Rockwell - Mr. Wolf

Marc Maron - Mr. Snake

Craig Robinson - Mr. Shark

Anthony Ramos - Mr. Piranha

Awkwafina - Ms. Tarantula

Rhenzy Feliz - Mr. Hornet

Stephanie Beatriz - Mira Rose

Oscar Isaac - Callum Kalemberg

Kaycie Chase - Mariposa

David Sheftell - Zoo's Food Court Manager

Author aggimaginary

Co-Author MasterClass60 TU4QU0I53T4IAN6L3

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So you're a tough guy Like it really rough guy Just can't get enough guy Chest always so puffed guy I'm that bad type Make your mama sad type Make your girlfriend mad tight Might seduce your dad type I'm the bad guy

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So, this is another chapter focused on Mira and Shark again, but this time, with an interesting twist.

The whole chapter is a reference from Family Guy: Family Guy Lite.

The chapter revealed that Mira had an ex-boyfriend and an illegitimate child with whom they shared custody.

I named Mira's child "Mariposa" as a reference from the movie Encanto where Stephania Beatriz, the voice actress of Mira, worked in.

The Bad Guys continued keeping their alternate title "The Good Bad Guys" as vigilantes.

Special thanks to MasterClass60 and TU4QU0I53T4IAN6L3 for helping me with this chapter.

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