Transformers - PrioritiesMegatron's voice echoed off the mountains of purple debris, "Soundwave! Damage report!"Soundwave shoved aside rubble from the Decepticons' temporary base. The destruction was total, there was no way to calculate the extent based on initial scans. It would be more accurate to measure the damage in bodies if the energon radiation would give him a decent reading. All he knew at this point was that he was functioning and so was Megatron. He joined his leader in a clearing near the shattered remains of their computer's central console. "Base is.... unsalvageable.""Brilliant deduction, Soundwave." Megatron scoffed. He picked up a piece of machi
ME3 fic: SurveillanceA/N: To start with I want to unpack some exposition for everyone...I've been brainstorming Jame-Shepard related ME3 events ever since I finished Mass Effect2, but with the new trailer out, I was inspired to write them down... specifically one conversation for the wholly self-indulgent purpose of Wrex/Shepard Bromance. I love Wrex far far too much... sometimes I'm arrested with the compulsion to write about it.The setup for this little scene is that there was a huge war against the reapers in which Wrex led the krogan forces into battle and was gravely wounded. Most of his men died, those that survived were shipped to
MEFanfic: Morra pt03Part 3It was a long trip to Omega and Morra did her best to hide in plain sight among the roomful of posturing males. It was a tough crowd, all loud and a little stir-crazy, rubbing and bumping elbows in the tight space. Her femininity didn't make her immune from the urge to grab her neighbor and beat the snot out of him, but it gave her sense enough to suppress it. Instead of picking fights, she opted to lean arms-crossed against the back wall and watch the young upstarts sparring out their troubles and their boredoms. Two in particular caught her eye most often; Kargesh and Rukar. She wasn't sure if they were brood brothers or just clan b
SHFanfic Her Monster pt13Her Monster part 13When Claudia became active in the Otherworld, all of Silent Hill sprang to life. The calm horror of Alessa's reign passed overnight, dogs prowled the streets, bugs and creeping monsters swarming all the dark places, the few people left living in the town were eradicated; driven out only to be followed and consumed. The foul cancer spread to the neighboring towns of South Ashfield and Shepherd's Glen, taking root and growing, breeding more cults and strange deaths. Claudia conducted her orchestra with a sorcerer's grace, feeding off fears and finding new ways to torment anyone within the reach of her clawing fingers. A
SHFanfic Her Monster pt12Part 12: Hand-me-downThe Cult had come to calling her the Holy Mother. It made sense to glorify her with Claudia in charge – she'd worshiped Alessa even before she'd been given dark powers. Now she was more of a god than anyone in the cult imagined. Still it was not a glorified existence.Alessa could feel her flesh far off, growing and maturing without her beyond the fog. She could feel the satanic god Samael growing as well. His fetal form gestated within her womb the same way his monsters moved within the belly of Silent Hill. He was growing stronger, but so was she and she intended to stop him using the same methods her moth
MEFanfic: Morra pt2Krogan from all over Tuchanka were headed for Gatatog territory to catch the transport ship off-world. The Gatatog themselves watched the congregation suspiciously, but didn't snarl or ask questions. Sending this ship to space had made them wealthier than most the small clans combined; the piles of guns and resources behind the Gatatog toll-taker meant clan superiority and power for another hundred years – as long as they kept their rival clans from getting their own ships together.Still it never hurt to be cautious. The lure of violence and credits drew hungry, dangerous passengers to their lands. The host clan protected itself by lan
ReachSpoiler: Jorge - StrongerWe didn't have time, Six. I'm sorry for that. How long has it been? A week? Two? It doesn't even seem that long. Not that time matters anymore, it hasn't mattered since the Covenant landed on Reach. My home.I'm dying for her now. I can see her from here where I stand with my fist on the trigger. As I hesitate I have to ask myself – which her? Reach yes... I'd die for her. Dr. Halsey? I'd die for her too. Six?Six...You and I saved Reach, Six. We did it together. Our time togeth
MEFanfic: Morra pt1The Adventures of MorraPart 1"What do you mean 'no'!?" young krogan Khel Morra demanded, "I'm of age! I'm MORE than of age! My rite was delayed for years because of this damn genophage!""And it's delayed longer," Khel leader Harkh barked."But why!?" Morra insisted, "I want to fight! I've got all the passion and strength of my peers. I'm stronger than warriors my age who have been fighting for decades yet you refuse me my rite? For what reason?"Harkh loomed, casting his shadow over his dissenting subject, "the obvious one.""Thsi is bullshit!" Morra cried, "I refuse to accept it!""You got no choice, little girl," Harkh said, "I wo
TMNKrogan fic ME2 spoilers"Absolutely not.""Aw come on! I've got a whole krant totally into it.""No. Veto."Grunt growled, "you don't have the power to veto!"Wrex leaned forward on his throne, "I give myself the power to veto. Veto.""Just hear me out," Grunt appealed, "I saw it on a vid on the Normandy. Joker had it. It's called Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles."Wrex rubbed the back of his crest, "this already sounds stupid.""No it's awesome," Grunt insisted, "they are mutant earth reptiles that used to be slow but then they get radiated by snot or something and become ninjas." He gestured widely to conjure a shred
SPOILER ME1 - A Safe PlaceShepard's final battle with Sovereign left the Citadel broken into both a physical and political shambles. The immediate threat had passed, but not even a flirt with extinction could change the Council's mind when it came to the Reapers. It was beyond Shepard's logical comprehension how the leaders of all intelligent life could possibly deny the impending threat that had literally bitten them in the face. When she returned to the Normandy, she was in utter physical and mental exhaustion.The war hero changed into fatigues at the airlock and took the elevator down to the crew quarters. Kaiden was there; she co
SHFanfic Her Monster pt11Part 11: Restless DreamsSmoke.She was fog. Floating. Drifting. Settling in corners, seeping through cracks in decaying walls, filling basements. She was an essence housing weary thought and malicious memories. She couldn't call herself by any certain name anymore, she was merely a casual resident of this world lording over an abandoned resort town conducting affairs in her own subtly detached way.There was no distinction between light side and dark side. Dahlia Gillespie was dead, the Flauros was gone and the cult had all but vanished into the prison spaces and sewers under ground. She reached for them, but her smoky tendrils cou
RvBFic - Tex and SargeWhen Tex's alien captors took her in, they had no idea she was in possession of the most malicious and aggressive AI construct known to man, and when she and Sarge were tossed unarmed into a remotely-monitored prison cell halfway up a forty story tower, they had no idea how close they were to their own destruction."Tex, it's been a long time..." Tex had all her attention focused on the metal walkway just outside the confines of their cell. Sarge was busy somewhere beyond her field of vision but all she cared about was trying to ignore the Omega AI. For the most part it was working but still couldn't stop h
Things Deviants Should KnowA couple things I've been meaning to say to DA at large. Unfortunately I can't tell the whole world at once so you poor saps who watch me are going to have to deal with my misplaced frustrations.1, When you comment on your own comment (ie a correction or an afterthought or something) I don't get it. The same goes for commenting on other peoples' comments on my deviation. It doesn't alert me about your comment unless you reply to me or leave a fresh comment straight on the picture. That's how the message center works2, Fandom, "Canon" means truth, "Cannon" is heavy weaponry. Misspelling the first makes me want to use the second on you.3,
SHFanfic Her Monster pt10Part 10: The GardenWhen Alessa's coma was disturbed, her mind was broken like a fallen mirror. She could practically see the glittering pieces of it strewn about before her as her eye-line shifted haltingly from the body seated on the ground to the body in the wheelchair nearby. Dahlia was nearby. A woman approached. She heard Harry's voice, and Kaufmann's. Whether these were real or images from a dream Alessa could not tell and did not care. Swimming in her head were three sets of memories and three trains of thought all weaving in and out and nearly missing each other on
SHFanfic Her Monster pt09Part 9: PsychoAlessa had never expected this war. It was hard-fought but not with the Order, within herself.In the last seven years the good half of Alessa Gillespe's soul had been living on her own, Cheryl'd grown a very unique and individual ego of her own. Alessa was older and stronger as far as metaphysical power was concerned, but that didn't make Cheryl any less of an ego. The girl entity that was left after the two of them fused was a baffled and frightened seven year-old creature running randomly through Silent Hill.Alessa still had the Order on her mind. Despite the disorder, the soul
Talking to SnakeEyes -GIJoeficTalking to Snake Eyes“Sick?” Scarlet rose from her seat and stalled Duke mid-sentence, “what do you mean by sick?”“Uh,” Duke looked to his fellow Joes assembled behind a panel of computer consoles with their fingers hovering over scroll-bars, “the general definition of sick? Don't get excited, Snake Eyes is human too...”“But - no,” Scarlet frowned in confusion, “Snake Eyes doesn't get sick. He's never been sick before.”“Sure he has,” Flint told her, “he just doesn't talk about it.”“It'll be fine, Scarlet,&
SHFanfic Her Monster pt07Her Monster part 7When a person is sick, they are taken to the hospital. Perhaps this knowledge guided her on some subconscious level because despite the obvious danger, Alchemilla hospital was exactly where she and her Monster ended up. Luckily enough the basement of the Order’s center of operation was about the safest place they could have been. The floor where her body lay had long been cleared of all patients and staff, leaving only the members of the Order and a handful of trusted medical staff to traverse the halls. None of them ever thought to search for Alessa so close to the prison they intended her to stay in, and they ne
poem - Sudden ClaustrophobiaAirborne there are mountainsvistas vast unseen from landrange and distance wide – inspiringGod's sight – scene majestic soaring among the clouds and thensuddenlywhamlike vacuum sucked towindows whitea sudden walla rooma spacethe instant erasure of the whole world to a blank canvas with all the speed of sleep when in the plane is all you are and what's outside could cease to be and none of us would even knowI see a scatter and a wispand through the window breaksa weatherless blue so bright and perfect it must go on for miles
SHFanfic Her Monster pt06Her Monster part 06Alessa slipped into a self-inflicted semicoma of misery and despair in the prison deep beneath Silent Hill. Years passed like phantoms through the darkness while she sat seeing nightmares in the dusty corner of her cell. When she closed her eyes she saw the raging anguish she'd left in her body and felt the pull of the Order's spell meant to draw her back, but she'd resigned to this cell like a lifer waiting out her sentence wondering if she would ever truly die.She envied the half of her soul she'd freed from this torment. Where was that child now? How old was she? Three? Five? Was she happy? All Alessa could s
Federation of April FoolsRick switched off his wireless phone, shouldered into his corner office and locked the door.It was April the first, and somehow all the practical jokes in the world never seemed to make up for the joke that simply was this day. It seemed like every year April 1st marked some kind of cosmic misalignment that equaled to him getting his karma screwed over. He unloaded the pile of paperwork he was holding onto his desk and took the phone off the hook to keep the annoying ad man he'd just hung up on from calling his other line. So far he'd managed to piss off the marketing people, forget his headphones, get crapped on by a bird and staple his
DDS Arrivals - SerphVarnaSerph//Varna~~~Not Nirvana~~~Serph awoke dazed.He was laying face down in a pile of hot dust, the intense heat of thenaked sun beating down on his back. Everything around him was bakedbrown like dried mud and caked in the same heavy dust that now filledhis nose and eyes. Serph shook it out of his silver hair as he roseto his knees.This was not Nirvana, he was certain. He knew what Nirvana looked like.He'd never told anyone the vision he had of Nirvana. All the KarmaTemple had shared with them was the promise of 'paradise' in all itsambiguity, but from the start he'd had an image of what this magicallocation was
DDS Arrivals - HeatAgniHeat/Agni~~~Hurt~~~Heat awoke between the burn of the white cement sidewalk and the broil of a coal black sun. His head was pounding and the constant demon hunger was overwhelmed by thirst. He scraped his nails across the rough surface and shoved himself up to his knees. “What the Hell...”The place around him was extremely clean and glaring white, a dramatic departure from the dreary gray chill of the Junkyard. He’d figured Nirvana was probably warm and dry, but not excessively so. He squinted and waited for his eyes to adjust but they never fully did.As far as he could tell he was in a shopping mall of some s
DDS Arrivals - ArgillaPrithiviArgilla/Prithivi~~~Drive~~~Argilla was weak and sore. She stumbled through the filthy streets ofa dark city completely lost. Nothing looked or felt familiar, and shefelt it was beyond her ability to understand why.She'd come from a self-contained world; a place she knew intrinsicallynot matter where she was. She couldn't explain it, and she didn'teven notice it when she was there, but her life in the Junkyard hadbeen subconsciously and intuitively familiar. No matter where she'dgone within those borders she'd retained a sense of peace that nomatter what happened, at the very
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