#things continue to happen here

[abronzeagegod]

Untitled YA Project Chapter 5: A Quiet Assault in the Dead of Night

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8:50 PM local time

1.4 Miles outside of the Training Barracks, House Kaiyantsh, Si Yátz

Hira sat bolt upright a few minutes later, the paralysis toxin leaving her body. Luckily for her, shrar toxins from their stingers are the least potent of the zlilfian’s defenses, but they could sting more than once.

That, however, was the least of her concerns at the moment. Something very bad was happening. There was a human on the island, Rafe attacked her, there was a human on the island, and there was that horrifying moment where all sound went away. But that last one was probably some weird side effect of the adrenaline of the whole attack and the paralysis. Right?

Hira quickly stood up. She didn’t know what she was supposed to do. There was so much wrong and it all just happened. She started to panic. This wasn’t just some test or prank. This was an attack.

Oh crap.

That thought clarified everything else and she knew what she had to do. She had to get back to the zone’s military barracks and warn someone, anyone, everyone.

At least she was a good and fast flier. She had that over Rafe and her new human best friend. Even if they did have a lead on her.

With a running start, Hira took to the air and flew as fast as she could. Dodging the limbs of trees and dangling tendrils or the leaves of the various giant flora native to her island. Hira would land on a thick tree branch only for a moment as she would use it to springboard to a jump at an angle and propel her flight forward faster.

It took her barely twenty minutes to get back to the barracks. Which she assumed would have been a record of some kind but that didn’t matter. Hira ran into the barracks and shouted for someone, anyone. But her voice felt empty and quiet, even to herself. They couldn’t have possibly beaten her here, could they?

She could feel the nervous flutter of her wings and the agitated sway of her stinger. Something was wrong. Very wrong. And for some reason that made Hira hyper aware of herself.

With that sudden, intense focus, she noticed a small circular device on the ground about halfway down the hallway. There were small whiffs of smoke coming out of it.

Smoke bombs!

The human, and possibly Rafe, must have planted them and then smoked the entire building. All of the zlilfians would be incapacitated within moments. Hira was only spared because she wasn’t here.

This was definitely an attack.

She couldn’t hear anything and that’s when something stirred in the back of her mind, from one of the books she read back a few months ago. The collapse of the Maya back in the early part of the 100’s CE. There were fears that the oldest enemy of the zlilfian people had come to finish the job. The Silence.

Hira was truly afraid now. It was the only thing she could think of. The thing that had destroyed the old ancestral home of her people had come back to finish the job.

But she also knew that she couldn’t just stand there, being afraid. She had to warn someone. If this was the Silence she couldn’t just radio for help. She had to get to the emergency broadcast system. A failsafe that every Great House in every zone had to maintain by law. She had been briefed on it several times, but she never really remembered what to do.

Hira did remember where it was. She thought a quick little litany thanking the sun for shining on her and giving her whatever small slice of luck she had.

Without sound, and with everyone presumably incapacitated, Hira didn’t even attempt to try and be stealthy as she made her way to the command office.

She flew as fast as she could through the wooden structure of the barracks, only stopping to secure a cloth over her face to try and reduce the fatigue brought on by the smoke bombs that were still spewing little clouds of smoke.

Hira slammed into the door of the command office, which should have been locked. The door opened so fast that it hit the wall and left a solid dent from the door handle.But it made no sound. Hira was breathing hard because of her flight, yet she didn’t move. Because already in the room were the mysterious human and Rafe.

The human was on the commander’s computer, and looked over their shoulder at the sudden burst of movement caused by Hira’s sudden appearance. Rafe aslo turned to look at her, but with a curiously flat expression. There was no subtle, unconscious movements of her antenna or wings. Nothing to suggest she was awake. In fact, she had that look across her entire being that she wasn’t really paying attention to anything around her, like she had zoned out during a boring lecture and had started to fall asleep.

Rafe turned to look at the human, who Hira had to guess was an adult, possibly in their early adulthood. She had little experience with humans so judging their ages was hard. But she also guessed he was a male by the facial hair, a close cut beard to match the close cut haircut.

The human made a few curt gestures to Rafe and the slackened zlilfian suddenly launched into a series of attacks on Hira.

This time, Hira was prepared. She dodged and countered where she could, listening to the little voice of Rafe in her head from earlier that day who was correcting her form.

But she couldn’t just dodge and defend. Something very bad was happening. And Hira needed to activate the alarm, which was of course on the other side of the room. She had to attack and get around Rafe.

“Rafe! Why are you doing this? What is happening?” she tried to ask out loud, forgetting that sound was a dead thing here. Even if she could get a response, Rafe didn’t look like she could share, with that vacant look in her eyes.

Hira flared out her wings and went in for a quick series of punches which caused Rafe to react and settle into a defensive position. Instead of following up with even more attacks to try and get around Rafe’s guard and press her advantage, Hira jumped up, flying a few feet up, and then like she did with the trees before, used her friend as a springboard to propel herself to the far side of the room.

Right to the alarm.

She landed and tried to do what she could to activate it. But she couldn’t remember how. There were so many buttons. So she just started pushing every single one.

The she felt the harsh stinging pain right between her big wings. She looked over her shoulder to see the empty expression on Rafe behind her, stinger stuck in Hira’s back. The concentration of the toxin would be much greater that it was the last time. She could already feel the numbness spreading.

Hira couldn’t hear herself cry out in pain as he friend attacked her so hard that the stinger was stuck in her back.

It was only then, that she remembered what she had to do. She pushed up on the small lever with her left hand.

It felt so hard to do. She was suddenly so tired, her muscles were sore from the patrol and the flight and the fights. Hira just wanted to sleep. She could feel the toxin and the pain spreading, the toxin amplifying the feelings of exhaustion. One leg gave out. She had to pull the lever back down to activate the alarm. Her arms felt heavy. Her whole body felt heavy.

Hira dropped to one knee. She couldn’t hear anything. Her vision was fading. She could smell and taste the smoke in the air. The ground seemed like it would be so comfortable. She just wanted to lay down and do nothing else.

No!

Part of her screamed. The adrenaline in her body spiked. She had to stop this! She had to set off the alarm.

Her hand lay on the lever, but she couldn’t convince her fingers to close. Everything had gone numb. She couldn’t keep her eyes open.

Pull the lever down, she screamed within her own head, and maybe out loud too, even though she couldn’t hear it. The paralysis was winning the fight.

Hira collapsed to the floor as she finally succumbed to the toxin, pulling the lever with her.

Suddenly, flashing lights lit up the office. It would have been bright and annoying but Hira’s eyes had closed. She could only still see hints of flashing lights behind her eyes.

She would have smiled if any of her muscles worked. Instead she passed out.

i have a kofi

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

The penisest of tunes.

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[technically-human]

Can you draw something with Doom Patrol!Edwin and Netflix!Edwin?

Maybe something about Dp!Edwin talking about his feelings for Charles with N!Edwin?

It's just something I've been thinking of, make it a little angsty?<3

Glad you asked

ko-fi

[gayori-boi]

Gif of Gamz stimming, because I'm projecting very hard on him

[egophiliac]

CROWLEY SSR THOUGHTS

there is zero basis for this, but I can't get this thought of my head

I don't know why I decided to draw it this way

[navree]

Incorrect, the fact that Biden has dropped out and a candidate with history of supporting medicare for all and being more receptive to a ceasefire in the I/P conflict has made me go from "I cannot morally support the Democratic nominee" to "I am voting for the Democratic nominee despite the fact she isn't perfect in every respect." I'm really happy this played out. The Dems for the most part abandoned the old Obama platform and it feels like its possible an actual progressive agenda could come to pass in my lifetime.

Kamala 2024!

If you weren't going to vote Democratic in this election before Biden dropped out you're a dorkass loser who does not care about any of the issues you're yammering about here and also a fundamentally bad person, and I hope you get run over by a bus.

But you got one thing right in all of this gibberish, Kamala 2024.

[babacontainsmultitudes]

AH. So that's why they put that content warning. I see!

[marimeeko]

*slams door back open and comes back into the room*

Ok you know what, no

You know what also doesn't make sense?? People are translating or clarifying the offer katsuki made and saying he was asking Izuku to be a SIDEKICK, and not open/partner at an agency.

But you know what, that doesn't really make sense either!

Bc they're also saying that in the MHA universe, sidekicks do not get hero ranked. And in the case of being katsukis sidekick, Izuku would be working under Katsuki.

So hold up!

You mean to tell me that Katsuki, who wanted to compete with Izuku, and race him to the top, who has long, LONG since gotten over his desire to put Izuku in his place/lord over him/boss him around,

You mean to tell me he wanted Izuku to be his SIDEKICK?

How can they compete like that?

Why would he want Izuku in a position where he couldn't compete on an equal ground? That was what he always wanted and worked for.

I'm just saying it's fucking weird that thats what katsuki asked for, because that's not what Katsuki has been trying to work for.

Isn't Katsuki wanting him to be a sidekick under him kind of defeating the purpose of his development, of the whole 8 hear process he went through to get Izuku back out into the field? Is this not inconsistent?

[meamiki]

5% of a color headcanon.... two versions since b&w emphasizes the dagger more i think but i still like the warm tones ASFSADA

i am not biased towards rainbow daggers whatsoever i promise (lie)

((also friend is streaming now and im there too!! bit more info linked here, its rated mature tho))

[hunterxhavok]

Connor: Batman seems to be acting erratic. Shouldn't you check up on that?

Oliver: Batman has never not acted erratic. If he's possessed his actual friends will do something. C'mon, let's save my other son.

[royalarchivist]

Although this looks very similar to the original QSMP announcement video, this video QSMP Global just posted has a different (glitched) ending. Is this meant to be a soft reboot...?

[onebizarrekai]

argh

I wasn't gonna say anything but it's… yeah. my cat whom I've had since I was little, she's not well. she's going to be put to sleep on monday. it all happened so quickly; she's been struggling with various health issues over the year, has been sleeping almost 99% of the time and eating less and less so we knew it would happen sometime, but it got really bad really quickly. it was only a couple days ago that we found out actually how bad it was.

I won't go into detail. I know this is something most people go through, but I don't even know where to begin with processing it. avoiding thinking about it is all I can do, since focusing on it feels like a bad dream. it feels wrong to even try to be normal or to do anything, or to let myself think about other things to feel better. with each passing day it just feels less and less real.

I need to hold myself back from thinking about it too hard for now, I just wanted to be honest about where I'm at right now, I guess.

[theweirdestroller]

Y'all really like the Smokes and Magnus posts!

So obviously you're getting more!!

Due to Smokescreen coming into the picture later than in canon, the last key is kinda... Lost, to both factions. No one know who this guy in the last set of encryptions is. All they know is that this guy is very important and likely knows the location of the last omega key (how on earth does the rest of the omega key/lock plotline go if smokescreen isn't there?? surprisingly close to canon, but i'm still working out all the kinks)

Arcee and Jack get to meet Ultra Magnus, who Arcee knows and respects, and tumbling out behind him is- That's the guy from the omega key stuff!

Magnus is very confused as to how everybody seems to know his little buddy when his little buddy knows exactly none of them personally.

So- Breakdown and the phase shifter are kinda with Optimus at this point in time (no, breakdown does not get to steal the possible next prime position from smokescreen) But!! When Breakdown and Optimus later rejoin the Autobots, Smokescreen will get his preferred relic of choice. (in the meantime, magnus has a whole arsenal he can use as he pleases)

Oh, and, apparently, Wheeljack likes none of the new Autobots. The first is Breakdown, for very obvious reasons, the next are Magnus and Smokey. Ultra Magnus because he already hates him in canon and Smokescreen because Smokescreen is clearly very close to Magnus and respects him. They're besties! These new guys are not fun in his opinion. And he likes reminding all of them about this. (well, he enjoys reminding magus and bd. with smokes, well- smokes will look like a kicked puppy if someone is too mean to him. instead, jackie teaches the kid to gamble. it doesn't end well)

Does Breakdown want to punch Wheeljack? Kind of. Very much so. But he's an Autobot now and besides, some of Wheeljack's ire is deserved, they were enemies for a long time after all.

[batsplat]

random throwback to fabio's response to casey saying he should've been black flagged for the whole open leathers situation

[lightningbig]

jayvik post canon revival where they have a soul bond but they wake up separated. viktor hides himself but he can't push jayce all the way out of his head. the push and pull of having each other so close but not being physically together, not being able to hold. jayce desperately trying to find viktor, even amongst all the other duties and chaos surrounding the end of the war.

jayce wakes up alone in the ruins of the hex gate. he comes to groggy and disoriented but he's searching immediately, always, for viktor. comes up empty. but he doesn't doubt for a second that viktor lives, that he came through the other side with him, because jayce can feel him, an undeniable presence in the back of his head. a thrumming warmth that cannot be fully hidden, even though viktor is obviously shuddering himself away. he pokes and prods at the connection relentlessly, screaming inside their heads, pulling and tugging for any kind of reaction. begs, pleads - don't do this again. don't run away again. don't shut me out.

[carriesthewind]

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