Veterans of the Psychic Wars
When the invasion came, no one was ready. Humanity faltered. We died by the thousands, then by the millions. Nationals fell before them before the survivors could begin to hold them back.*
When the invasion came, no one was ready. Humanity faltered. We died by the thousands, then by the millions. Nationals fell before them before the survivors could begin to hold them back.*
Spencer and Ryan looked at each other for a moment, and Ryan nodded. (It’s always Ryan’s call; everything about the project has to go through Ryan first because at this point, Ryan basically is the project. His entire life has been leading up to this, he thinks. This is his life.)*
In which various members of FOB, MCR, The Used, P!atD, TAI, GCH, and Various Others are students at Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters, complete with typical high school hookups, Bad Ideas, Really Bad Ideas, and a wee bit of telekinesis, amongst others. Part one of a series, but can standalone if you like.*
A geneticist, a paleontologist, an advertising executive, a geologist, and a doctor all walk into a bar. Or rather, a tropical island. What do they all have in common?*
Superpowers AU in which Ryan Ross can’t help reading people’s minds, Jon Walker absorbs energy (and usually controls it perfectly), Spencer Smith shoots ice from his hands and saves melting refreshments, and Brendon Urie sometimes bursts into flames.*
Most of the other penguins would roll their eyes at the little kid sliding happily over the ice and singing wordless songs at the top of his lungs, but Patrick didn’t care.*
When counting down all the best parts of being a rock star, no one would really put ‘makes it easier to beat off’ on the list. Or at least Pete Wentz would have told you that, if you’d asked him yesterday.*
The Ancients’ genes didn’t just confer the power to activate their technology. For ten percent of Earth’s population, like John Sheppard, the ATA gene also gave them Gifts: special abilities that made them admired, envied, and feared. Sheppard was a Charmer, one of the feared ones, whose particular Gift let him create faith whenever he needed to be trusted or believed. But Sheppard didn’t trust himself not to destroy what he loved most. And somewhere along the line, amid the terror and chaos of the Expedition’s first year in the Pegasus Galaxy, what Sheppard loved most had become Rodney McKay. McKay didn’t trust anyone. As soon as you started trusting people, you started counting on them, depending on them, and that was when you became vulnerable. And vulnerable things didn’t survive. So just when, exactly, had he started trusting Sheppard? And what was going to happen, now that he did?*
“Sometimes,” Jensen said, grunting as he sliced into his skin, “I get the impression I’m better off not dealing with people. It’s a real pain the ass being human.”*
Jensen disappears without a trace and Jared finds himself in the middle of a conspiracy that he couldn’t have imagined on his best day.*
Gerard looks up and sees Frank’s head poking around the corner of the door to his office.*
They’re just superheroes trying to save the world: How Frank convinced Bob to run.*
Rodney is sort of angered beyond all possible comprehension at the new batch of scientists.*
The beat is muted, almost non-existent, and the loss hits Bob hard. He’s used to living his life in a constant thrum of sound, sensing those around him, the rhythm of the universe a constant companion, but here there’s almost nothing. He can feel the sound that’s been pulling him for weeks now, but little else. This place is dead, almost silent, and Bob aches with the feeling of being cast into nothingness.*
In the year 2030 The United States is a third world country and Chicago is divided into sectors that strain relations between the social classes to the breaking point. Pete is a member of an underground movement; Patrick is the sheltered son of a rich business man. They’ve nothing in common but when circumstances force them together something that was missing in each of them clicks into place.*
There’s a pirate hiding in the C-deck stairwell.* In the same universe as Behind the Sea.
On his way to sit his final exam, Jared comes across an escaped genetically engineered, injured man who soon turns his ordinary life upside down.*
Jensen Ackles flies transport all by his lonesome – until the goddamn government agency that was supposed to find him Someone Special ends up finding him Jared Padalecki.*
Spencer and Ryan looked at each other for a moment, and Ryan nodded. (It’s always Ryan’s call; everything about the project has to go through Ryan first because at this point, Ryan basically is the project. His entire life has been leading up to this, he thinks. This is his life.)*
Eleven years after the end of the war, Heero returns to L2 to visit Duo with an unbelievable secret, but what he finds there changes everything.*
His name is Adam, and like his namesake he was the first of his kind. A true pinnacle of cyberhuman evolution. An exemplar of the most creative technology ever conceived. A mesh of metal and meat, perfect in every way. Except one. He is uncontrollable. Even now, teams of our finest hunters are tracking down even the vaguest of rumours. But until he decides to step into the daylight, we may sit and wait.
The problems started with permission, or the lack thereof. Our scientists presented hours of testimony, studies and deductions to the relevant authorities but the Ethics Board turned down all our proposals. But that one single denial should stand before the march of scientific discovery was anathema to us. Completely unthinkable. We knew better than they. We were Cerberus. We would not be constrained by their cowardice and superstition. But now, I fear that the history books will hold the judgment. And that it will not be in our favor.*
The planet shone outside the viewing deck, red-orange-jeweled under the swirls of violet cloud. Kris stood staring out at it, deceptively calm; they hadn’t started the landing yet.*
Cadet Kris Allen fiddled with his uniform, trying to press away a possibly imaginary wrinkle with his fingertips.*
Adam wakes up in a body that is strangely familiar. Twice.*
Bill, a mutant who absorbs memories, thought patterns, and abilities with a simple touch, finds himself in the sewers of New York, searching for others like him. He finds them. *
When a serial killer murders three marines on Atlantis, NCIS are called in to investigate. However, their arrival brings complications for everyone – revealing a lie, a prophecy, a secret and a nemesis. *
Marengo Tower was the Tower for wayward Talents, those who had been sent to the edge of the galaxy to rot. It was a punishment duty, though of course no-one ever called it that. So how on Earth or off it did they get assigned a Prime? And a member of the legendary Jonas family at that? What could he have done to merit Marengo? (An extension/AU of the Tower & Hive series of books by Anne McCaffery.)*
When Kevin Jonas and his brothers on the Lovebug encounter a mechanical problem, they aren’t expecting an injured stowaway to be responsible. The last few years have been tough on Card, and he wasn’t expecting to find anyone who’d take a chance for a scarred nobody who won’t even tell them his real name. Escaping was only one step, though, and Card can’t keep running forever. Eventually he’s going to have to stop and face his issues and his past. He can only hope he’ll have someone to stand with him.*
What will the boys’ lives be like once the war is over? What are they like now that they’re all grown up? What are they going to do with themselves? Who the heck is Kailyn? What better way to find out than to ready about it?*
It’s his dream job; a chance at revenge and a payoff that will buy him the life he always wanted in one once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Adam ‘Silverfyre’ Lambert knows he’s the best merc money can buy but for this job, he’s going to need the very best systems-hacker/datarunner in the game. Lucky for him, he knows exactly who he’s looking for…
Once upon a time, Kris Allen wasn’t afraid of anything. That was then, this is now and Kris has resigned himself to a quiet, discreet life on the right side of the law. He thinks he’s buried his past; right up until a big bad merc calling himself ‘Silverfyre’ comes crashing into his life. He wants Kris’ help and he just won’t take no for an answer.
One last job and they never have to see each other again.
They’ve just got to last that long…*
Eliot was created in a lab, a cybernetic soldier. Now he’s trying to learn how to be human, finding a family and falling in love along the way.*