23rd
Excerpt from:
An Unexpected Connection
Joey
entered the pizza place. He looked around and saw that Jeffy and Jamie weren’t
there yet. ‘They probably won’t be long,’ he thought. He then went up to order.
“Joey?”
He
turned and saw Andrea Hecuba-Croft, a goth who had recently graduated from
Lawndale High. “Andrea?”
“Here
alone, I see.”
“Yes.”
“Without
your friends, or the younger Morgendorffer?” Andrea asked.
“Not
Quinn anymore.”
“Not
Quinn.”
“Like,
she’s a tease.”
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70
Excerpt
from: An Alternate Journey
“Prepare to fire phasers,” the leader ordered.
“Aye.”
The two vessels together approached the small starship.
“We're about to enter weapons range. Need I
remind you, that Kathiannah has a full weapons coverage.”
“I'm well aware,” Daniel said.
“So am I,” Katelyn said as an alarm sounded. They had
entered Kathiannah's weapons range.
“Prepare to open fire.”
Katelyn and Tuvok evaded the terrorists attempts at
swatting them out of space, then opened fire.
“Aft sheilds down to 92%.”
“Evasive maneouvers,” the leader ordered. “Drop out of
warp.”
“They're dropping out of warp,” Tuvok said.
“Dropping out of warp also,” Hawkins reported.
“Take my lead,” Tuvok reported.
“Aye,” Daniel said.
“Aft sheilds down to 75%.”
“Prepare to fire torpedoes.”
“Aye.”
“They are preparing to fire torpedoes,” Tuvok
reported. “Prepare to fire simultanously.”
“Has this ever worked?” Katelyn asked.
“Not very often,” Tuvok responded. “But we have
to attempt it.”
“Ready?” Daniel asked.
Words: 151
Excerpt
from: Genie Universe Continuity Reboot
Those
that did know had been preparing for months. It was an event that would
set off a chain of events that bring about massive changes to the city.
Only a minority of people knew what was about to happen
that afternoon, after school had finished for the day.
At 3:00 pm there was a secret meeting below Delroy High
School. “Are you ready for what is going to happen?” asked the meeting leader.
Everyone there exclaimed in the affirmative.
“Excellent! Now you can go back to class and set things
in motion” The teenagers in the room then left, going back to class via the
secret corridors beneath the school.
Jane
Johnson, an average year 9 student, did not know as she exited the
school’s front entrance what role she would play in the history making events
over the next few weeks.
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143
Excerpt
from: Mysteries of Aurora
Freya nodded. “I guess most are
too busy with their studies to do more than scratch the surface.”
“Four or more thousand years of
history,” Daniela considered.
Freya took out her tablet and
took a photo of the Library as seen from that vantage point. “Another thing to
sketch,” she said with a smile.
“So, you do a lot different
kinds of art?”
“Of course. I use all sorts of
mediums.”
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71
Excerpt
from: Ivy and Lily
“It’s
been something I have been wanting to do for years.”
Lily was
then silent as she took that in.
It was
then quiet as she unpacked and Lily sketched.
Ivy
finished unpacking. She turned to Lily. “Would you like to look around campus?”
Lily
paused her sketching and thought for a moment. “Maybe later.”
“I’ll
leave you to it,” Ivy said.
“Actually…”
Lily said as she turned a page. “I’ll come.”
“You
don’t have to if you don’t want to.”
“You
just caught me off guard.”
The two
soon headed out. Lily sketched a map as they went.
Words: 99
Excerpt
from: Spider Quinn
“The
fourth vigilante! I would have thought your name would be known.”
“I
don’t seek the spotlight as much as SpiderGirl! But I’m not giving my hero name
to you.”
“No?
Then I’ll give you my villain name,” Quentin said.
“So,
you’re saying you’re a villain?” the Enigma asked. ‘Protection!’ she thought
and raised a forcefield around herself as usual.
“Yes.
Call me Mysterio!”
“Mysterio,
sounds better than Green Goblin at least.”
“I’m
not like the Green Goblin!” Mysterio said.
“You
didn’t destroy the Historia, but you have disrupted it.”
Mysterio
turned away. “You’re distracting me! SpiderGirl and Ninja Talon are rescuing
the critics and Ms. Jane.”
“They
will take the credit, but that is, like, worth it for Jane and the others to be
rescued.”
“But
can you keep distracting me if you don’t know where I am?”
“You’ll
find that I have powers of perception,” the Enigma said.
At
the same time, SpiderGirl, Ninja Talon and Jane swung out of the cabin, and
onto the roof.
“I’m
glad to be out of there,” Jane said.
“But
now we need to get away,” SpiderGirl said.
“There’s
a boat nearby,” Dafoanairi called from down from the ground.
“Is
there?” Ninja Talon asked.
“I
saw it as I approached. We can go back to Lawndale, up the creek, in it,”
Dafoanairi said.
“That
will work,” Jane said, “Even in this weather.”
“No!”
Kalina murmured.
“Where’s
the fourth vigilante?” SpiderGirl asked.
“She
went inside. She’s distracting Beck,” Dafoanairi answered.
“Then
we need to get a move on,” SpiderGirl said. “I’ll bring you up here.”
“Sure,”
Dafoanairi said.
‘If
she is Daria, she could put me in a difficult position,’ SpiderGirl thought as
she swung down.
Dafoanairi
let go of the rope and held onto SpiderGirl as she swung them both up onto the
roof. ‘There’s something about her,’ she thought, once she had a footing. She
wasn’t sure what to make of that thought. ‘I’ll think about it later.’
Mysterio
had activated illusions in the cabin’s main room. But the Enigma refused to let
herself be disoriented. She closed her eyes, and listened and used her enhanced
perception to ‘see’ where Mysterio was. She could also tell that, the other
three vigilantes were on the roof with Jane and the critics. “I’m sure they
have escaped by now.”
“They
are on the roof,” Mysterio said in a pompous tone. “They haven’t escaped yet.”
“What,
you have illusions on the roof?”
“No,
but I can still catch them, and I have more than illusions to work with.”
“Not
if I take you down. I will do anything to make sure that they get away,” the
Enigma said,
SpiderGirl
looked at the boat and back at the roof she and the others were still standing
on, despite the intensifying storm. The trees between them and the boat were
swinging wildly.
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Total:
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24th
Excerpt
from: Connection over Literature
The dorm room door opened, revealing a whirlwind carrying
unpacked boxes. “Hi! I’m Emily!” she said in high pitched voice.
“Great, another one,” the girl who was already there
grumbled.
Emily was undettered and started chatting away as she unpacked.
“I come from a small town a couple of hours away. It’s mostly quiet but
interesting in it’s own way. If you came there, you’d be surprised by what’s
there. Anyway I like reading and writing and hope to be a fantasy author one
day…”
The other girl interrupted. “Look. I’m not interested in
your life story. I just want some peace and quiet.”
Emily was taken aback. “Oh, sorry.”
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110
Excerpt
from: The Alternate Anya
Startled,
she looked around the library and saw no one, except one who sat across from
her. She saw that she looked exactly the same as her, including hairstyle and clothes,
except that she had her eyes closed.
“Who,
who are you?” Anya asked, her heart pounding.
“I’m
you, but different. A version of you who chose a different path.”
“A
different path? What do you mean?”
“I chose
to live in the dark.”
Words: 74
Excerpt
from: Convergence on Lawndale
“Either way, it would take a while to find her,” Daria said.
“We need to split up,” the Doctor said. “I’ll search the
courtyards with Ron and Rufus, and everyone else can check the bathrooms.”
“Ron and I work best together,” Kim said. “But I agree,
this time.”
“I would be best if there was a girl looking in the
courtyards too,” Quinn said.
“Good point,” the Doctor said. “You can come with then.”
“Great!” Quinn said.
Thus Kim, Daria and Kaelyn went to search the bathrooms.
Words: 87
Excerpt
from: Mission with WOOHP
“Excuse
me! Get out my way!” she said.
“Sorry,”
Kim said.
The girl
just stormed past her.
“Reminds
me of Bonnie, a little,” Ron commented.
“Same
here.”
It didn’t
take them long to find the Seniors.
“Ah! Kim
Possible,” Senior Senior Senior said.
“What are
you up to, Senior?” Kim asked.
“Preparing
a scheme here in Beverley Hills.”
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from: Mysteries of Aurora
“So, you do a lot different
kinds of art?”
“Of course. I use all sorts of
mediums.”
“Very versatile,” Daniela
commented.
“I’ve had to be adaptable,”
Freya said as she headed off towards the Library.
Olivia looked out over the
university and the city from the rooftop café after finishing her meal. ‘I have
called Urbs Aeterna home all my life, and yet I hardly understand it.’
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Excerpt from: Spider Quinn
“We
have to make a move, now,” she decided.
“I
agree. It’s risky now, but we have to do it,” Ninja Talon said.
“I don’t
see any other way either,” Jane said.
SpiderGirl
looked at Jane, and she knew Dafoanairi was looking at her too.
“What?
I’m not only an artist. I run for fun too, and sometimes climb things,” Jane
explained.
“Got
it,” Dafoanairi said.
“Right,
Talon and I will fire a zipline and a webline to the same tree at the same time,”
SpiderGirl said. “Do you have more rope, Dafoanairi?”
“One
more loop, just as well I prepared for this” Dafoanairi said.
“Spidey
can take Kalina and Oliver. Dafoanairi can take Jane and I’ll take the other,”
Ninja Talon said.
“That’ll
work,” SpiderGirl said. “You two go first. I think Kalina’s going to take some
convincing.” She looked at Kalina, who still was huddling with her eyes closed.
“She’s
had it the worst,” Jane commented.
At
the same time, Leung and his fellow officers arrived. “Report,” he said to Peterson.
“Most
of the vigilantes are there,” Peterson said.
“Which
ones.”
“The
fourth vigilante is confronting Beck. SpiderGirl, Ninja Talon and Dafoanairi are
in the process of rescuing the abductees, but the storm is making it difficult.”
Leung
grabbed the binoculars and saw Ninja Talon shoot a zipline to one of the trees behind
the cabin. “We’ll give them another ten minutes. Then we’ll go in.”
Mysterio
tried to tackle the Enigma, but her forcefield held. “I might not be able to
take you down, but that doesn’t mean I can’t stop the rescue.”
“I’m
sure I can take you down, but I’m not sure what my powers will do to you.”
“Heroism,
funny how morals get in the way.”
“Antihero,
but morals are what’s between that and being a villain. I may want to confront SpiderGirl
sometime, but I don’t want to take her out,” the Enigma said.
“You’re
all talk,” Mysterio taunted.
“I
could squeeze that fishbowl helmet of yours, but I won’t. I could also tear
this place down around you, but some of the others are still on the roof.”
“You’re
still holding yourself back.”
“I don’t
want to join you,” the Enigma said as she broke the windows, letting the rain
and wind in. “That will disrupt the illusions.”
Mysterio
turned around and started walking away.
The Enigma
smirked and caused him to trip.
Ninja
Talon and the critic swung up to a tree.
“This
is dangerous!”
“Better
than staying there,” Ninja Talon said.
“We’re
next,” Dafoanairi said to Jane.
“I
know,” Jane said as she looked at where SpiderGirl was trying to sooth Kalina.
“Just
as well I can do this,” Dafoanairi said as she lassoed one of the trees. She
pulled and the rope held. “Ready?”
“As
I’ll ever be,” Jane said.
“Let’s
go.”
Jane
grabbed hold of Dafoanairi and they then swung into the trees next to Ninja
Talon. ‘Dafoanairi is just using wits and a staff. She’s ill prepared for
something like this,’ she thought.
“Kalina?”
SpiderGirl said. “I’m going to need you to hold on again. Can you do that?”
“I
think I can. You don’t know what it was like. He wanted me to critique his own ‘plays’.
He is all sparkle and no plot.”
“Like
some of Hollywood?” SpiderGirl asked.
“Wors,”
Kalina answered as she stood up. She still didn’t open her eyes.
SpiderGirl
sighed and stepped closer. “I’m right here.”
Kalina
through her arms around her.
“Now
you, Oliver,” SpiderGirl said.
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Total: 963
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