[Big]
A lot of people thought Big was stupid. They looked at him and his big belly and beady eyes, and heard his dopey-sounding voice, and they made up their minds about him pretty quickly.
Big thought that most other people were the silly ones--silly, not stupid, because he'd never think something like that about anyone--because they spent all t...
2025-02-07 16:16:48 +0000 UTC View Post“So rings make you faster,” I said, as we walked back towards the cape. “And Robotnik--”
“Eggman,” both Amy and Humi said at the same time.
“Whatever.” I rolled my eyes. “So Doctor Mustache uses the rings in his robots to… do what? Do they generate power?”
“Fweet! Twee!”
Amy held up a hand for the bird to sit on. “Birdie says that Flickies lik...
2025-02-03 00:34:19 +0000 UTC View Post[Eggman]
Metal Sonic was already as fast as current technology could make him. Well, no, that wasn't quite true, Eggman could conceive of ways to create a faster robot, but the engines it would need wouldn't fit in a Hedgehog-sized machine. Maybe someday. No, Metal Sonic didn't need any further speed upgrades as of yet, and so the testbed mod...
2025-02-03 00:32:31 +0000 UTC View Post----------------------
[Amy]
Amy dropped down from the balloon with a worried sigh. "That was a close one, but we finally gave that b...
2025-02-03 00:30:10 +0000 UTC View Post[Fenton Works]
Runerigus’s head popped out of his body like a periscope, taking in the area with one sweep. Four--no, five humans. One of them was the girl that tricked him. All dressed… bizarrely. Jumpsuits?
Pointing weapons at him.
He unfolded, his stone arms slamming into the ground and cracking the tile. His tail pushed off the floor, flippi...
2024-12-23 18:29:50 +0000 UTC View Post[A Little Earlier than That]
“It was, it was September
Winds blow, the dead leaves fall
To you, I did surrender
Two weeks, you didn't call…”
“Tucker, will you turn that schlock off?” Sam groused.
She reached out to grab his PDA, but Tucker avoided it. “Lay off, Sam, it’s a good song.”
The two of them lef...
2024-12-16 01:39:53 +0000 UTC View Post[Meanwhile]
While Hala was organizing cleanup and Danny was meeting Corsola again, two particular individuals retreated away from the threat of being put to work, and ended up in an alley behind the rec center.
It was a frequent hangout for Team Skull, though it was only the two of them today; a minor mismanagement of construction and renovation had resul...
2024-12-16 01:38:05 +0000 UTC View Post[Melemele Sea]
Kukui’s Empoleon looked over the wrecked tugboat with a frown. “Hard to believe he just did that.”
“Honorless cur,” Hala’s Poliwrath agreed. He placed a hand on the wounded coral supporting the boat and sighed. A few bubbles drifted to the surface. “Such pointless violence.”
He chopped ...
2024-12-09 01:30:33 +0000 UTC View Post[Hau’oli City Harbor]
“Hehehe… Take that, Captain. This is what you get for kicking me off the boat tour… Bothering the tourists, am I? Well what do I care about a bunch of hokey tourists hanging around where they’re not wanted?”
Yoma muttered to himself continually as he defaced the tour boat. So far, he’d painted the Team Skull logo in thr...
2024-11-25 02:26:23 +0000 UTC View Post[Melemele Island]
“...and that’s when I found a magic puddle, and a big scary snake popped out and dropped Danny in front of me and told me to take care of him, so I got the Professor. And that’s that.”
Zorua yawned. Technically, he was nocturnal. As much as he liked to stay up past his bedtime, he wasn’t really adjusted to staying up all d...
2024-11-18 00:52:06 +0000 UTC View Post[The Black Keep]
“I want to watch a battle!”
“No no, let’s spy on the Champion, he’s funny!”
“Which Champion, dearest, there’s several,” Dragapult asked calmly, placing a paw on the mirror. The image warped, again and again.
Forest. Desert. Open ocean. Ocean. Ocean a third time, there was a lot of ocean...
2024-11-18 00:50:03 +0000 UTC View Post[Melemele Sea]
“Corsola!”
“Cor, cor!”
“Laaaaa~”
The seas around Alola were brimming with life of all kinds. From the schools of Fish Pokémon, to the Staryu and Starmie, the Crabrawlers trying to catch a nap, the Krabby, the Tentacool, and so many more besides, the shallows were just as lively and colorful as the jungles beyond the...
2024-11-11 02:00:44 +0000 UTC View Post[The Black Keep]
Bad. Bad. Everything was bad.
Rotom immediately lost its way after fleeing the castle. It had no idea where it was, but it knew that it wasn’t anywhere good.
It knew it had been several days since it fled, but the sky had not changed. There was neither sun nor moon, just an endless expanse of thick, swirly clouds, in eith...
2024-11-04 01:03:43 +0000 UTC View Post[Alola Route 2]
The Route 2 Pokémon Center wasn’t far from Verdant Cavern, but the road got much busier as you got closer. Busy enough that there was a line for the counter as they entered, so they went to the café first.
Danny settled down with a cup of the excellently named Tapu Cocoa, and was given a small biscuit and some fist-sized ...
2024-10-21 02:45:11 +0000 UTC View Post[Verdant Cavern]
Rattata were among the lowliest of Pokémon. They were too common to be prestigious, too weak to be sought after, and too rat to be considered cute. There were always trainers who caught them anyway, as a stepping stone to greater things, and even a rare few who loved Rattata as they were and tried to make them great. But by and l...
2024-10-21 02:43:37 +0000 UTC View Post[Hau’oli City]
“Tell me, Danny, what do you know about the Normal type?” Ilima asked from the opposite side of the battlefield, out behind the Pokémon Center.
Danny frowned, thinking. He’d done some more research on Types, but there were so many and it was like Rock Paper Scissors on steroids. “Uh… immune to Ghost and vice versa… weak to fi...
2024-10-06 22:40:30 +0000 UTC View Post[The Black Keep]
Jazz Fenton was, to her frequent embarrassment, her parents’ child.
Sure, she didn’t share their sheer, overwhelming, horrifyingly intense enthusiasm for ghosts, but she planned on going into the sciences. She was intelligent, logical (thanks Mom), driven (thanks Dad), and most importantly: when she had a goal, she put e...
2024-10-06 22:37:38 +0000 UTC View Post[Amity Park]
The wind blew through his hair. Real wind, that didn’t chill the bone or make him look over his shoulder. The roar of his bike didn’t echo oddly, or sound dull like the noise died as soon as it left the engine; it just roared, like a lion set free from its cage. Even the sun, the sun, oh it was glorious. The light of day ...
2024-09-23 01:39:17 +0000 UTC View Post[Melemele Island]
Danny was well aware that he didn’t have a normal life. His parents were scientists in a field they might as well have made up, and they spent every waking moment working on something that, now that it was working, might upend the science world as a whole for all the different avenues of exploration it would open up. Assuming Mom and Dad tho...
2024-09-23 01:37:27 +0000 UTC View PostThis story already had seven chapters up, and can be read here: SB | Ao3
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2024-09-23 01:34:23 +0000 UTC View Post[Forgotten Shrine]
“Test 113, Temporal Reversion, commencing.”
Queen Administrator smashed the brick into five pieces, cracks radiating from the center of mass. Smaller castoff detritus was noted and determined negligible.
It reached inside itself for the esoteric energy that Ally: Sloth referred to as Chi....
2024-09-08 23:11:48 +0000 UTC View PostThese were unsettling times for Kamiki village.
And the rest of Japan, Mister Mikan supposed, but he only really concerned himself with this small slice of it. His entire world consisted of what he could see from the top of the Peach Tree Hill, and while the hill was mighty it wasn’t that much taller than the ones surrounding the village. Mister Mikan had been born in Kamiki and he had ...
2024-08-25 23:40:38 +0000 UTC View Post[Jade Palace]
Crane balanced on one leg, keeping his hat low over his eyes. He jumped from one pole to another without using his eyes, making a mental note to rearrange them later so he couldn’t rely on his memory of where they were.
He felt the slightest breeze on his tail feathers, and kicked his free leg out behind him.
Mantis landed in the pal...
2024-08-12 01:57:38 +0000 UTC View Post[???]
The rabbit was a simple man. Not even a man, not truly; he still looked up to meet his father’s eyes and he still had the spark of youth dancing in his eyes. He was a farmer, born to farmers, and he took pride in his work.
He rose with the sun, and worked in the soil and mud. He pulled the plow, he carried water. He slept with the sun...
2024-07-29 01:36:28 +0000 UTC View Post[On the Road]
Fung had to take a moment to rewind the previous few seconds before he could understand what was going on.
First, he was getting angry at Michi, and she was teasing him, and okay, it was kinda on him; it wasn’t her fault they got left behind, and she wasn’t obligated to escort them. Then Jiang lost his patienc...
2024-07-15 00:48:10 +0000 UTC View Post[Temple of Inari]
The Valley of Peace was a truly beautiful place. On clear days, from the top of the mountain where rested the Jade Palace, the rolling green hills and brilliant rivers weaving between the massive stone pillars that rose up from the landscape, all of it framed by high-rising peaks. The Heavenly Peach Tree’s children dotted the valley, lesser ...
2024-07-01 01:32:49 +0000 UTC View PostSpacebattles Thread | Ao3 Link
(Be kind; I'm still getting back into the swing of things with this one.)
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2024-06-17 17:46:40 +0000 UTC View PostDren settled down on the top of a hill and shook out her wings. There were only a few miles to go, but she just needed a rest. Lisiin was big.
And it could be surprisingly easy to get lost out here. All the trees looked the same to her from above, and they were dense enough in places that she lost sight of the paths underneath.
Dren held a hand over her eye ridge and looked...
2024-06-03 01:47:02 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Amy came to, she was under a heavy blanket that didn’t cover her feet. Slightly further above her was a loosely-woven roof of grass and sticks, with lines of sunlight streaming through gaps in the construction. She groaned, trying to sit up, and instantly regretted it as pain lanced across her midriff.
She fell back with a thud, sighing. Whatever she did to mess herself up this bad...
2024-05-20 03:02:36 +0000 UTC View PostLife as a goblin wasn’t great, all told. The entire world was against you, and you always knew it. Enemies were on every horizon, constantly closing in--to be a goblin meant never being able to put down roots, always on the move, always being chased away, never having a place to call home.
Some of them liked it that way. He was the odd one out, he guessed.
Despite all that, it was...
2024-05-05 22:52:17 +0000 UTC View Post