Stories tagged “villain”
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Not the Best Realization
In the mirror behind the bar Karl considered his own angular features. The chin was a bit prominent, and the eyes were a little dark. Even in a mood as he was, he wouldn’t call himself unattractive. No, there was another problem. Missy came to a ...
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The Last Villain
Dr. Sinister cowered as the thunder outside grew closer. They were gone. All of them. The Red Menace. Queen Bea. The Darke. Even his own army of henchmen, once legion, now decimated, its ranks captured, killed, or turned traitor against him. Dr. Sinist...
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Run
As Len’s sight returned the calamity surrounding him came into fuzzy focus. He rested slightly askew on one knee, papers fluttering airborn. The sun shone through dust kicked up by the explosion, hanging in the air unwilling to land. The murky li...
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The road to heaven
I did my part. My father used his position in the party to get me appointed to the SS. We were the elite. The best of our race. Given the task of protecting all that was good and pure of our people. I fought in that hell hole Stalingrad. A bayonet in m...
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The Unnamed Robot
My creator envisioned me to be one of his greatest. He wanted me to be of great help to other people. He had a lot of good intentions, reasons why he created me. But he was one foolish person. He gave me a brain, without even knowing its source. Now, I...
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Laughing Wounds The Ego
Dr. Dementia scowled, delivering another crippling blow to his array of action figures. Or so he thought. The action figure must have been made of some rigid polymer, because it wasn’t crumbling in his fingers and he’d had enough. With a mighty dra...
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Stockholm Syndrome
They were killing her, those three. They made her their slave. She was such a compassionate woman. She would give and give until she simply gave out. I saw the stress and strain wearing on her. She would worry about one of those three for a while, then...
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The Villain(?)
He sits there by the window, inside that dark, messy house of his. But the darkness wasn’t for dramatic purposes. The electrician just cut the electricity off earlier today. He can’t pay for it anymore. But let’s not dwell on that. :D...
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On Villainy
He looks at me as if I were a snake. A poisonous, precious snake to be kept in a cage. It is amazing how men change when the women that love them carry their child. I am not even showing yet but he is already of the opinion that if not I, the child wit...
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The Schlub and The Descent
Some people look at the depravity and atrocities of war and say, indignantly and piously, this is why we should not have war. Yeah, right. As if you could wave a wand and say there is no more war. Wherever there is want, fear, envy, lust, and all those...
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It really is an awful name.
“Fool!” Shrilled Cybronox, shaking his raised fist. “Charging so recklessly into my lair has only sealed your fate! Behold my latest invention: Slaughterbot Mark Two!” A pause. Bloodnaut’s twitching lips and barely muffled...
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The Dame Knows Robots
The rain spilled past my window like it had a personal grudge against my leaky roof. I had several buckets set out, but they were overflowing. I couldn’t be bothered to empty them: I was bent over the reactor, making the necessary final steps. I ...
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My Creed
I used to be like you. Sitting at home, drinking my name-brand soda with my TV dinner, watching the news. I used to slurp goopy mashed potatoes while watching politicians bang their podiums while telling me what to fear. Economic recession. Ethnic tens...
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Aureate
In the Lone Tower of the Nameless Land, amid the trophies of all the great nations of the world from the days when he still exulted in his power, stood Aureate. Like Auric his hair was golden and his features were delicately beautiful. But his eyes wer...
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Acceptance
Martin Cooke whistled while he walked. An unlit cigarette rested behind his ear and his long brown coat nipped at the heels of his boots and kicked up the dust of the road. His stride was long and steady, as though he could walk forever, and though he ...
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Tactical Agitation
Nausea gripped me and I turned to spit. Blood splattered on the ground. Blinking, I was amazed to find myself on my feet- leaning unsteadily against the shattered remains of some building, but on my feet. Realization was slow in coming. I still stood. ...
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Heroes of the Age: Initial Confontation
Name: Unknown Code name: Ashen Warlord He loved reading the file on himself. His men has intercepted a resistance courier trying to send a petition for aide to Britannia. Large amounts of rumour and speculation, exactly what every dictator cum super vi...
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Enemies of the Age: Opening Moves
The two men faced off, slowly circling each other like strange dogs, both interested in getting, not giving, information. Bill had frozen waiting for some kind of sign. He was a good security chief, a little too bureaucratic, but good non-the-less. It ...
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Heroes of the Age: Power Play
The Warlord held out his hands, as if submitting to Maxi. Seeing this, the Red Knight took a step forward. Unbeknownst to Maxi, Ash had been planning on this single motion since he first laid eyes on the red warrior. Bill saw the sign and whipped out t...
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Heroes of the Age: Time for a Close-up
Maxi’s left hand, clad in a beautiful gauntlet of a strange red metal, trimmed with gold, reached up and lightly gripped the ruby pommel of one of the twin swords on his back. The pommel was set in gold, at the end of a medium hilt, with a golden...
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The Indecisive Villain
In the Pit of Oblivion, the Chancellor said to the Underlord: “The Gray Invocation of the Spirit of Annihilation is all but ready. We only need gather some dragon bones, and…” “No, no, wait,” said the Underlord. “I h...