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FULL CHAPTER HERE —> AGAINST MY WILL 22 “R-really?” Janet Pym slumped forward over the board, both elbows resting on all the switches and keys as she tried not to cry. “All the lines?” Wet eyes stared at the screens, red reflecting back onto her face as she looked at what she’d been getting for the

FULL CHAPTER HERE —> AGAINST MY WILL 21D 11:00 AM NEW BRUNSWICK, NEW JERSEY Screaming filled the room, the TV loud as it could get. Some woman in a tube top was tearing across the stage, chair turned over behind her as she made for the back. The camera guy was earning the hell out of his paycheck hu

FULL CHAPTER HERE —> AGAINST MY WILL 21C “Hellooooo~!” It was amazing how some things just didn’t change. Birds fly, fish swim, and — even if it was located inside a state-of-the-art bleeding edge super-spy facility — hospitals were terrible with service. “Can someone hear me?” Janet Pym pressed at

FULL CHAPTER HERE —> AGAINST MY WILL 21B Eighteen hours out from New York and the clouds outside the forward windows stared back at him like cotton balls. It was a beautiful sight, every time he got the chance to take it in and the command deck of Helicarrier Alpha made it no less beautiful. Eyes on

FULL CHAPTER HERE —> AGAINST MY WILL 21A Come on… Thirty-six dollars wasn’t a lot for a room. Not for a nightly price, at least. Even if it only got you a mirror with a crack edging one corner and a bathroom light that buzzed loud enough to be just on the edge of annoying. Orin stood in front of tha

FULL CHAPTER HERE —> AGAINST MY WILL 20 THE TRISKELION UPPER BAY MANHATTAN …do it myself. Fury turned those words over in his head for the twelfth time since the clock hit the last hour mark. Honestly, it had yet to leave his thoughts since the moment he heard it. Even right now, standing in a lab o

FULL CHAPTER HERE —> AGAINST MY WILL 19 [DANGER] Green eyes snapped open in the dark, a word blaring past sound and straight into his brain before he even understood he was awake. No volume to it or direction like always, the thought sat complete in his head like he’d thought it himself, only his vo

FULL CHAPTER HERE —> AGAINST MY WILL 18 “—awl in normally quiet streets behind the Red Lion English pub in Chicago. Two of the Ultimates met in combat not against an external threat, but each other. The event is still fresh in the minds of the locals in this neighborhood, with residents describi—” O

FULL CHAPTER HERE —> AGAINST MY WILL 17 There were a hundred things Ricky Flanagan knew he was scared of. About a month ago, that became a hundred-one. The Hulk — green, gray or whatever else the fuck color he went with — was just another nightmare, though… “Shit—shi-shit!” This was a reality, and r

FULL CHAPTER HERE —> AGAINST MY WILL 16 How the hell is this line eleven deep? Eleven. On a Thursday. Eleven-forty in the morning and this many people wanted a hotdog. Do none of you have jobs or something? He wasn’t being hypocritical, of course, mostly because he didn’t have one. Not unless standi

FULL CHAPTER HERE —> AGAINST MY WILL 15B In the near-year since General Ross’s ‘death’ at the hands of Weapon X, General Nicholas J. Fury had come to appreciate a level of command that being SHIELD’s star-studded Level Seven hadn’t allotted him. Of course, he talked a big game about it — comparing i

FULL CHAPTER HERE —> AGAINST MY WILL 15A "—reen Lantern's got this!" Even with all the work done in post, the voice off the projected video came through distant and faded; a miracle of technology that anything could be made out over that distance. That drunken orbit SHIELD birds and news choppers ke

FULL CHAPTER HERE —> AGAINST MY WILL 14B The world rocked Clint entirely off his feet, the floor rising up to meet him as he went flying in one motion. His body was mid-air, already through the open stairwell door and spinning across concrete with a hard grunt. The agent landed hard, his sudden stop

FULL CHAPTER HERE —> AGAINST MY WILL 14A Parking in New York, I swear. It had only gotten worse since little Dr. Banner threw another of his big boy tantrums four weeks back — the second one on Fury’s watch. That one had gotten the man fuming mad. Not that he’d shown it, of course. Jolly Saint Nick

FULL CHAPTER HERE —> AGAINST MY WILL 13C The pipes were still banging and clanging and generally causing a ruckus, likely with more and more of the people in the building taking their needed morning showers. The heart of that plumbing work was centered somewhere not far from his room and all the pip

FULL CHAPTER HERE —> AGAINST MY WILL 13B Green eyes blinked open slow and bleary as Orin came up out of it the way he’d been coming out of sleep all week; mouth open in a yawn wide enough to hurt and one hand flat on the concrete wall beside the mattress. Even without a clock and the bulb above his

FULL CHAPTER HERE —> AGAINST MY WILL 13A JULY 18, 2025 SHOWCASE SUPERLUX CHESTNUT HILL BOSTON, MA THEN Priya was still talking in his ear, going on and on about the AC in the Superlux and how it was way too high. AC is kinda doing too much. Orin couldn’t deny that fact but it wasn’t even all that wi

FULL CHAPTER HERE —> AGAINST MY WILL 12 …goddamn, this is good. It might have just been the long-term starvation talking but it was definitely top-tier. Third one of the morning and Orin was absolutely wrecking it, neon yellow mustard and crisp diced onions vacuumed up with each bite. He’d never tas

FULL CHAPTER HERE —> AGAINST MY WILL 11 "—EEN LANTERN'S LIGHT!" The monitor was stuck on green, the whole monitor lit up like that night had been from the windows of the Triskelion. The speaker grille sat there buzzing and rattling, that sound amplified so much even SHIELD systems had issues when it

FULL CHAPTER HERE —> AGAINST MY WILL 10 Laughing. He was laughing. Too much and too hard, and he couldn’t stop. Not that he was really trying all that hard when the laughing was coming out of ribs that hurt so much less than they had seconds ago and a body that felt light and strong instead of weak

FULL CHAPTER HERE —> AGAINST MY WILL 9 Not even a full twelve months I’ve had this seat. There was only so much Fury expected to handle as the head of SHIELD. Not a full twelve months yet. The job had already taken a few steps into high gear with the mutant problem, Xavier’s little idiots and Magnet

FULL CHAPTER HERE —> AGAINST MY WILL 8 “...blackest night…” Rollins stopped what he was doing, one hand on the gurney. It had taken a bit — longer than he liked — but the med team had gotten Subject Jade off his feet and into a wheelchair simply to get him through the long narrow hallway and onto th

FULL CHAPTER HERE —> AGAINST MY WILL 7 The pad beeped under his fingers, the agent punching the last digit out of six into the locking system. His keycard came free from a pouch as the red light switched to yellow and he swiped it through the available port. The air was silent, a total of six extra

FULL CHAPTER HERE —> AGAINST MY WILL 6 “My God… ” The voice boomed into the command center, rotor wash not doing much against the resonance of lungs that easily stood taller than Shaquille O’Neal himself. “Did Banner really do all this?” If not him, then we have a bigger problem on our hands. Fury’s

FULL CHAPTER HERE —> AGAINST MY WILL 5 Bodies were coming out of every door, the entirety of the operations deck full with uniformed bodies moving at a dead run — enough of them to almost shake the too-solid floor by the time Fury exited the elevator. His first few steps into the Triskelion command

FULL CHAPTER HERE —> AGAINST MY WILL 4 JULY 10 8 AM EST THE TRISKELION It just wasn’t fair. “-ogers quarters were breached? Who do they think was stupid enough to even try, Bruce?” The seagull perched atop a junction box was loud in the early morning, the sound almost blending into the water around

FULL CHAPTER HERE —> AGAINST MY WILL 3 He liked silence. Not like in an autistic way or nothing, but, Orin Hunter Kelly enjoyed his peace and quiet. It came with being by himself a lot of the time, a solitude he chose. No matter what his mom had to say about it, it wasn’t weird or anything like that

FULL CHAPTER HERE —> AGAINST MY WILL 2 He didn’t even grunt as tape came off his arm, the triple-layered adhesive ripping off some hair with it. The cannula was pulled quick, the white-coat not even bothering to press down after as a bead of red came out of his elbow and trailed down onto his cot. …

FULL CHAPTER HERE —> AGAINST MY WILL 1 He woke to nothing under him. Nothing around him either. The world was simply empty for a good six or seven seconds while his brain kept trying to understand why he was in such a dark room. For another second, he wondered if the power was out, a dead breaker or

“-ere is ultimately, albeit not technically a scaling problem.” The not-so-good doctor adjusted his glasses, the pair halfway to broken the way they kept sliding down his nose. “The part everyone keeps getting wrong and refusing to listen to me over is that it’s mass, really, and the mass needs its

SIX YEARS AGO NEW YORK OUTSKIRTS Thirteen years old and he had the smallest kit in the van. That was always the funniest part about it — at least top three — because he just didn’t really need like seventy-five percent of it. A belt full of washers, screws, ball bearings and a couple roll of quarter

Rex was in the air, charged splinters sent flying into the fray as he kicked off a wall, and threw himself over a shoulder. Wood chips went off behind his back as the big one coming right at him took a bunch of blasts to the back of his neck. “Gotta be quicker than that, Minotaur!” “It’s Monitor!” T

“RAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!” Brick was used to a lot. As that old guy in those insurance commercials said, he knew a thing or two because he’d seen a thing or two. And, at this point— “RAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!” — he’d seen more than a couple things. Kaiju every Tuesday? Nothing that would even make him blink.

The door was all heavy steel and pneumatic seals, several inches thick and built for damn near anything you could throw at it. Unfortunately, Rex was more than most. "Knock knock, assholes." Two weeks of sleeping his ass off in a hospital gown and this was the kind of shit the GDA had him doing firs

"Meet the new and improved Rex Splode!" The hangar bay doors were already open, despite a little bit of a slow start, Rex’s arms wide open and waiting for his return party. Nobody was in the hangar. Cool. That much made sense, at least, considering they were probably in the main hall. He’d just been

TEN DAYS LATER (HOURS AFTER THE GUARDIANS BRIEFING) “-as the enhancile stack managed to layer rather cleanly over the steroidal base you received in pre-adolescence, which was honestly the part we had the least confidence about going in. A layered synthesis with your existing physiology proved to be

REX. It wasn’t a lot that people asked him about personal stuff. When they did, though, his name came up sometimes. Not his ‘hero’ name, just his name. They assumed it was short for something half the time, like Reginald or Rexford or something like that. Dumb name, honestly. As if his parents were

“Not intelligent.” Unfortunately, murder was off the table. It was entirely off the table given that Brick was forced to question the alien for more information on the new threat. Fortunately, the Martian knew plenty on what the sequids were and how they worked. “You said…” Unfortunately again, that

“...so we’re fighting Martians again?” The screen took up half the north wall off Guardians HQ, a still image staring back at every single one of them. It sat there in the black of space, in the middle of it all — a giant shape with too many angles and lights — its position updated every second with

“So, you went to a planet of giant purple people eaters?” The rice in front of him had gone cold about wenty minutes ago, but that didn’t stop Mark from swallowing another spoonful. He’d probably have been done eating by now if he could get done answering questions, and those questions would be prob

He’d run out of excuses a while ago. To avoid going home, at least. Whether it was out of a desire to spend more time in the place where his dad had chosen to run too or just to keep away from the place where he'd already been ordered to go to... Well, he wasn't sure which. The healing had been his

"I was fourteen when they shipped me from Dublin to Rome.” The brownstone was a three-story coffin left to rot in a neighborhood that was already half a graveyard yet Keane walked through it like he owned the deed, a black-clad ghost in a house full of monsters. He moved, and Ken just… followed a co

"He died." The two words might as well have been eggs cracked on asphalt for how quickly they dropped between the both of them. That… Ken’s eyes went wide, breath locking tight in his chest as he stared back at the father. That’s it? His mouth turned down in a frown. That can’t be it. Whole tragic b

Tap. Tap. Tap. The cracked asphalt under the man’s feet didn’t do a thing to slow or stumble his measured pace, worn leather shoes steady and staid. Ken’s own steps were more of a shuffle, his legs a restless counterpoint to Keane’s own. Tap. Tap. Tap. His tongue worked inside his mouth, poking at t

"...s where you want to be?" Cracked vinyl stuck to the back of his thighs, peeling away with a wet sound every single time the cab hit a pothole. “Kid?” Which, considering they were heading into the Narrows, meant that ugly little noise was pretty much its own soundtrack. “Kid!” “Huh?” Chance blink

“Coming in hoooooot!” A silver streak shined bright as it tore through the bleeding clouds above Illinois, shredding space and atmospheric friction. Displaced air flattened the nearest patch of terrain as the self-guided missile decelerated with a shockwave and straightened up. “Sorry for being late

The sky opened with a glitch. Literally. Squares of neon blue and bright magenta light materialized out of the teleportation grid, forming a familiar shape with a familiar face. A teenager, maybe fifteen years old with light brown hair and bad complexion, dropped out of the sky on violently-bright w

"OMNIPOTUS REMAINS UNBROKEN!" The air outside Chicago trembled. So did the ground, because apparently Omnipotus couldn’t say his own stupid name without making tectonics everybody else’s problem. Also his breath smelled like spoiled milk. Somehow. “OMNIPOTUS REMAINS UNBENT!” Maybe it was cosmic hali

"...hey b-boss." His tongue fought him, a stutter forcing its way into his jaw as fear made his heart jump. Man up, bro. People respect strength. Sure, people did, but Chance didn’t really think the odds were good that someone who had already slapped him around was gonna have all that much respect a

Flash Grenade [Common Ability] The fuck do I need a flashbang for? One green eye twitched at himself as the name of the power popped into his head, the awareness of what it could do settling into his bones. The name pretty much said it all. I’m a human bomb right now. I can flash and bang alredy. Fl