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There are. A lot of teams to go over!! Why not?

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Forewarning: this post is LONG!!

SEASON 1!

Team names start off randomized by Announcer himself. Teams also have designated leaders based on challenges-- until Another Name, where Golf Ball volunteers herself with support from Tennis Ball.

Squishy Cherries

Founded and led by Pin after she and Leafy were the last two on the balance beam in episode 1 of BFDI. Bubble, Eraser, Blocky, Match, Pencil, Firey, Pen, Woody, and Spongy join.

Later on, Firey switches to Squashy Grapes and Blocky rejoins onto that team.

The classic alliance between Pencil, Match, and Bubble stays strong, even as they are eliminated.

Pen, Blocky, and Eraser are suuuper close. There's also Snowball but they aren't on the same team so they don't get to spend as much time with him. They probably have their own group nickname.

Not.. quite the best team out there. Sometimes they argue. It's natural but it's also part of why they lose so many challenges. Individuals who do have talents that can help may be overlooked on sheer accident.

Squashy Grapes

Founded and led by Leafy after she and Pin were the last two on the balance beam in episode 1 of BFDI. Needle, Ice Cube, Coiny, Snowball, Tennis Ball, Golf Ball, Coiny, Flower, Rocky, and Teardrop join.

Some highlights!!

Firey is picked to go from Squishy Cherries to Squashy Grapes. This is a great tool to further establish Firey's (rocky) friendship with Leafy and rivalry with Coiny.

Blocky rejoins on Squashy Grapes too. Ice Cube now has direct access to him and his shenanigans. She WILL start a legal battle over his deadly pranks, don't test her. (Blocky will do just that)

I want to give Teardrop some highlight in BFDI. She is HIGHLY COMPETITIVE and still perfecting her craft at this time-- and may fumble in the process, costing her team a challenge and getting her eliminated.

The team in general is dedicated to winning-- they have aligning skill sets that allow them to take the W for several challenges.

This forces the team to split, with members joining...

Another Name

Talk about a mixup!

When Firey is convinced that this team should actually be Squashy Grapes. Golf Ball says that they need to be another name and Announcer "accidentally" solidifies them as Another Name. Golf Ball does NOT hesitate to make herself team captain when Announcer asks who Another Name wants it to be. That sets of a trend for every team Golf Ball is in until TPOT.

Rocky, Firey, Golf Ball, Tennis Ball, and Coiny are split up from Squashy Grapes for the final 15.

Firey is argumentative and this does not bode well with Golf Ball. Coiny and Firey are constantly fighting.

When the team is locked in, they are a force to be reckoned. Golf Ball and Tennis Ball are the strategics, Firey is good at executing plans, Coiny is charismatic, and Rocky is... Well. Rocky can spit anything out of his mouth.

SEASON 2!

There are so many teams this season. This is because of season 2's gimmick: team swapping. Every episode, before the challenge wheel is spun, contestants are welcome to change teams as they wish.

The hierarchy in teams is demolished. Teams do not need a captain-- but it doesn't stop some from having leaders and it won't in future seasons.

Do note that I prioritize elimination order over who's on what team!! With all of the swapping that happens, some teams are bound to be removed or put up for elimination over others-- as long as the designated contestant is eliminated.

Team No-Name

The Golf Ball curse strikes again!!

Golf Ball also finds a way to make herself the team leader early on. You go girl!

No-Name starts off as organized chaos. They've got. Golly bear with me again: Bomby, Book, Dora, Firey, Fries, Gelatin, Golf Ball, Ice Cube, Match, Needle, Nickel, Pencil, Puffball, Rocky, Ruby, Spongy, Teardrop, Tennis Ball, and Yellow Face.

Golf Ball has a hard time assigning everyone to jobs. There's SO MANY PEOPLE. They don't need that many to win a cake baking challenge but people want the immunity. So Golf Ball just. Assigns everyone to groups.

As the team gets smaller, it's easier for Golf Ball to manage.

WOAH Bunch and No-Name form in the first episode. FreeSmart forms in the second episode.

This team. I have the least on I think. There's a LOT of dynamics and. I think it having so many people to start off with may be its biggest focus. Understanding balance!!

Beautiful Face Devotion Institute: Gone. Turned to dust. Reduced to atoms. What matters is Spongy getting eliminated in the episode following it's creation, so goodbye to this team!! Team No-Name just loses the challenge.

WOAH Bunch

This team starts off with just Donut. He thinks everyone being on one team defeats the purpose of there being teams at all!! Pin and Coiny get that reasoning and join him.

Teardrop joins WOAH Bunch. Needle joins WOAH Bunch. Yellow Face joins WOAH Bunch. Bomby joins WOAH Bunch. Nickel and Spongy join WOAH Bunch. Rocky joins WOAH Bunch.

Pin acts as the team leader and encourages supporting one another until BFDIA 11. From that point onwards, the team acts more as one entity. Without a head. Much to Pin's frustration.

The team falls apart as time goes on, allowing the merge to happen in BFDIA 18.

FreeSmart

Where bridges burn.

Formed by Pencil's alliance due to how large and chaotic No-Name was, FreeSmart starts off with Pencil, Match, Ice Cube, Ruby, and Book. Bubble is a spectator and host in BFDIA but she helps FreeSmart!!

The goal is, as the name implies, being free. Which makes for great irony with how controlling the team leader is 😋

Pencil acts as FreeSmart's leader for as long as she's in the game and works with the ideal of everything having a use and everyone having a part to play. Be resourceful.

Needle is an off and on member. Gelatin and Firey join FreeSmart with Gelatin leaving a couple of episodes after.

Going into IDFB, where there's no seasons, FreeSmart is still called FreeSmart, although it becomes more of a friend group.

Fries

Can. Can I even call this a team? This is just one guy trying his damnedest to make it through a challenge. Fries'll be getting his own character proposal eventually.

FriesMart

A duo with the parody name suggested by Fries to poke fun at FreeSmart. FriesMart didn't last long, but while it did, Needle and Fries get to have a fun dynamic!!

Fried likes working by himself and Needles likes working with a team. While Fries is a lone wolf, he won't hesitate to help a teammate out, and is ready to do just that in BFDIA 17.

Nickel

LITERALLY just the same case as Fries.

SEASON 4!

Section one: pre-split

To those not in the know: season 3, in canon and in the redux, is not a competition season and will not have teams! So we we are going directly to season 4. BFB is managed...? Kind of? By Four and X. Neither of them did background checks and Four was ambitious enough to host for 64 people.

Season 2's system of having no leaders and letting teams name themselves is kept. However, characters can no longer swap teams whenever they want.

(Note: I may change it to where X shuffles the teams together instead of contestant picking, X tries their hardest to note who's friends and who's not in order to keep teams compatible! It is not a perfect route)

A Better Name Than That

This just in! The Golf Ball curse is BACK.

A Better Name Than That includes 8-Ball, Basketball, Blocky, Golf Ball, Grassy, Robot Flower, Tennis Ball, and TV.

Golf Ball tries to be the team's leader but is thwarted. 8-Ball is elected and does not want the job. 8-Ball is not prepared or mature enough for it-- but hey. He has it now.

Golf Ball STILL tries to assert herself as leader with support from Tennis Ball when 8-Ball is eliminated. The team opts to work as a whole instead-- they want compromise.

They have a strong setup when they know what to do with it. Two strategists in GB and TB, a problem solver in BB, Blocky who's willing to do any dirty work, an organizer in RF, a sense of reasoning in TV, and-

A child. Grassy is five. The best A Better Name Than That can do with Grassy is protect him from Four. I did say Four didn't do background checks!!

Team Competitors!

Renamed from Team Icecube!, as Bracelety is now a huge BFDI hyperfan, not just fixating Ice Cube.

Team Competitors! includes Barf Bag, Bomby, Bracelety, Donut, Firey Jr., Gelatin, Naily, and Spongy.

Donut serves as Team Competitors!'s leader. They are a solid team even with their flaws. The entire team will have a strong bond in pre-split and the main focus will be how ignoring/dismissing someone can hurt their feelings.

Free Food

Free Food includes Bell, Eraser, Foldy, Fries, Marker, Puffball, Stapy, and Yellow Face.

The team has no captain, everyone chips in with ideas and strategies!

It's a random mashup but I think that's why it works so well! Almost everyone is a wild card and they're all unique personalities. They only lose once, costing them Stapy.

This team sparks the friendship between Fries and Puffball, as well as Foldy and Stapy!

Bleh

Bleh is the simple term for it. This team is actually every member's name at once and only algebraliens can pronounce it. Wonderful.

Bleh includes Book, Dora, Gaty, Ice Cube, Lollipop, Saw, Taco, and Teardrop.

Gaty acts as the team leader with backing from Ice Cube and Saw. There's a lot of conflict in Bleh during early BFB so they need a strong mediator at hand. Dora works really hard to carry the team to victory and Teardrop helps too.

The Losers!

The Losers! includes Cake, Clock, Coiny, Eggy, Firey, Loser, Needle, and Pin. Leafy joins The Losers! after being eliminated and returning, being declined by Beep.

Loser acts as the team leader until BFB 6. Needle takes over after. Coiny volunteers Pin without Pin's approval, saying that she is was a great leader in BFDIA!

Loser initially soaks in a lot of attention as a celebrity. High chance what got him out when his team was up for elimination was a targeted attack by his haters.

They do well enough to pass challenges. Unfortunately, there is a lot of problems with them anyways. Needle tries to manage Firey's sudden attitude when Leafy rejoins, Eggy tries to help but ultimately fails to, Pin is acting mildly uncomfortable every time BFDIA is brought up and it's leaving Coiny concerned, and Cake is growing stressed and uncertain with every coming episode.

Iance

"We aren't all in your alliance." -Fanny, probably

Iance includes Bubble, Fanny, Flower, Lightning, Match, Pencil, Ruby, and Snowball.

The healthiest friendships on this team are probably Ruby and Bubble and Ruby and Flower.

Pencil leads the team in the first two episodes. She isn't on the team for long but while she is, she pushes her ideals of everyone having a use-- and mistreating the team. Match takes over after, pushing the same ideals before Bubble confronts her and she's eliminated. Bubble encourages Ruby to lead once Match is gone.

Fanny is dumbed down by her own teammates as "Really Fucking Hopeless". Lightning gets his insecurities and powers exploited. Snowball is ableist. Match overworks everyone. Ruby isn't quite done enabling bad behavior, that happens a bit too late. Bubble is about to burst.

Death PACT

Death Prevention and Creating Trust.

Death PACT includes Black Hole, Bottle, Liy, Pen, Pie, Pillow, Remote, and Tree.

Black Hole and Tree take turns leading the team or work together-- it entirely depends on the situation. While the duo focuses on both parts of the pact, they do lean into different areas; Tree with the trust and Black Hole with the prevention.

For team conflict: Liy, during her short time on the team, feels ignored by everyone but Pie. Death PACT also spends a lot of time wrangling Pillow. Black Hole, while it doesn't let this be known, is actively stressing over Four and Pillow's violence.

On the bright side, Death PACT gets along really well! Remote is determined to learn from everyone, Bottle and Pie are great emotional support, Pillow(although destructive) is skilled enough at challenges to help Death PACT avoid elimination, as is Pen, and Black Hole and Tree are great leaders!

Beep

Beep includes Balloony, Cloudy, David, Leafy, Nickel, Roboty, Rocky, and Woody.

Leafy acted as Beep's leader until her elimination. Balloony would take over after.

Balloony is the team dad, no doubt. Cloudy and Nickel act as moral support. David tries his hardest. Rocky is good at challenges and close with Balloon. Woody quit shows after BFDI and declined Four's invitation but. Four would NOT let that slide. Roboty sits out most challenges.

Part 2: post-split

Teams have been split depending on if they're closer to yellow or blue in hue. Except for Ruby because why not. Put her on the blue team.

I've got 14 episodes to work with and nowhere near as many characters to worry about!!

Have Cots

Have Cots includes Balloony, Bubble, Gelatin, Leafy, Lollipop, Ruby, and Teardrop.

A solid lineup!! Everyone gets along fine. The Have Cots have no leader, everyone pitches in equally.

Balloony continues to be team dad until his elimination. Lollipop and Teardrop definitely have romantic tension and involve Gelatin into their fun alliance. Ruby and Bubble are getting to the end of their FreeSmart arc: Ruby is finally being herself and Bubble is moving on.

Have Nots

They end up living in the redux equivalent of the BRB! A shelter Four and X made for eliminated contestants to stay at. Spinning people around at mach 10 24/7 is going to kill them constantly and I don't think Four is going to want to do all of that recovering.

Have Nots includes Blocky, Firey, Flower, Loser, Spongy, Taco, and Woody.

This team also has no leader!!

Blocky is getting into pranks again. Woody's been spending the whole season coming out of his shell-- and now his new team is treating him like a child. Taco has her rivalry with Blocky and, following her elimination, will be investigating strange occurrences. Loser is moral support. Firey is getting along with everyone, his main focus is Leafy. Flower is also getting along with everyone, especially Firey! The pair of them are growing close. Spongy doesn't,, really have long on the show. His arc is pretty much complete by post-split, so he'll be a tool to help further others' arcs-- particularly with Woody.

SEASON 5

TPOT follows pre-split's format of letting contestants choose and name their teams-- though there is a mixup thanks to One during the first(only?) team swap.

Just Not

Just Not includes Bomby, Book, Cake, Naily, Nickel, Pillow, and Price Tag.

Naily initially leads the team but after her elimination Just Not has no leader! They are a giant friend group.

Price Tag is learning how to balance their skills to avoid overstressing, they are also DMing a Goiky's Dragons campaign involving the whole team. Book is. Very much so acting as a shoulder for Cake while Cake's still in the game. They all get to deal with Pillow and her shenanigans during challenges and Goiky's Dragons sessions. Bomby and Nickel are going to have their own mini arc together. I think. Before One kidnaps Bomby.

Death PACT Again

Death PACT Again includes Black Hole, Fanny, Lightning, Marker, Pie, Remote, and Tree.

Black Hole acts as the team's sole leader going into TPOT. He tries his hardest to keep his cool and drills his focus into preventing death that he's becoming paranoid about it.

Death PACT Again's story is about finding the right balance. Fanny pushes hard for that balance, especially after Lightning is eliminated-- this being the turning point for the team. They lose Pie and Remote as well. The way they handle death also causes Tree to be stuck in the canal for several episodes and he HATES it.

The Best

Renamed from The Strongest Team On Earth.

The Best includes Basketball, Bell, Eggy, Foldy, Grassy, Robot Flower, and Snowball.

Basketball leads The Best. Snowball intrudes and shares the responsibility a few episodes in as Basketball busies herself with a thousand things.

Grassy is still a child-- being in BFB and TPOT is going to effect him in the long run. As Basketball becomes busier, he latches onto Snowball as a parental figure. Bell is working on establishing her boundaries. Robot Flower and Basketball are growing closer-- RF's kill maim tear arc starts on The Best.

Are You Okay

The Golf Ball curse has been broken!! If Tennis Ball hadn't interrupted Golf Ball, it would've been A Good Name.

Are You Okay includes Eraser, Fries, Golf Ball, Pen, Puffball, Tennis Ball, and TV.

Golf Ball acts as leader with Tennis Ball by her side.

Puffball is growing tired of being underutilized. Fries tries to be there for her!! Pen and Eraser chill together a lot-- Eraser's focus is a rivalry not on the team. TV's arc will transition into his next team but he's starting to be tired of being used. Like. There's a whole team to go for, Golf Ball!! Puffball actively wants to help more!!

Team8s

Team8s include Barf Bag, Coiny, Donut, Gaty, Needle, Pin, and Saw.

This team has a constant power struggle. Barf Bag, Donut, Needle, and Gaty are all fighting to lead, with Gaty eventually sitting it out as her focus changes.

The characters here share traits and it causes a LOT of arguments. Gaty initially tries to mediate, it doesn't go as planned. Saw acts as a listening ear to anyone who needs it. Unfortunately, Saw gets out before Barf Bag could really use someone to talk to.

The S!

The S! includes Bottle, Clock, Cloudy, Ice Cube, Rocky, Winner, and Yellow Face.

Winner is pushed to be team leader by Clock. They aren't against it but. Don't appreciate how Clock went about it.

The S! is very chill. A good group to be yourself in. Clock is actively pushing Winner's boundaries. Yellow Face is team dad. Bottle, Cloudy, Yellow Face, and Rocky are all very whimsical-- it helps Ice Cube let loose too.

Teardrop

Girl just. Switched from BFB after it ended. She has to try extra hard in order to avoid being eliminated-- as long as she's not in the bottom two teams, she should be fine.

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The teams are shuffled by One.

Team 2

Team 2 includes Book, Eraser, Grassy, Ice Cube, Price Tag, and Snowball.

Snowball leads Team 2 to the best of his ability.

Ice Cube and Book are basically forced to interact after years apart-- they become friends again and Price Tag gets involved after keeping Pencil from them. Grassy and Snowball are still a son and father duo and Eraser is like. A fun uncle.

Death PACT Yet Again

Death PACT Yet Again includes Black Hole, Fanny, Gaty, Marker, Pin, Robot Flower, and Tree.

Black Hole and Tree balance leadership again-- with Tree handling the main responsibility of the team as Black Hole prioritizes maintaining the RIP IN REALITY right outside of the hotel.

Pin and Tree already had good standing, as Pin empathized with Tree being stuck in the lake; now they're good friends. They had to wrangle Robot Flower for an episode-- then she was magically fixed? Somehow??? Fanny busies herself with research outside of challenges but during then she can be a voice of reason-- albeit on the more negative side versus Gaty's positivity. Marker is here to lighten the mood.

Bagged

Bagged includes Basketball, Bottle, Liy, Needle, Pen, Tennis Ball, and TV.

Tennis Ball leads Bagged. He needs a lot of moral support to do this.. she's used to working WITH someone and Bagged saw that and went "Yeah. She'll do." BUT HE WON'T. Without a second leader he is STREEEEEEEEEEEEESSED.

Needle was initially willing to lead with Tennis Ball but she was eliminated and disappeared. Gone with no explanation.

Pen is greatly upset after TPOT 15. He has a lot of unrevealed anger as his friends keep getting out-- and because of Two's bedrotting, it may be a long time before he gets to see them again. Liy strategizes with him to help him manifest and use that anger. TV is at his wits' end with being used. Basketball is having focused outside of Bagged-- Robot Flower, specifically. Bottle is still here to lighten the mood!! But the stress of others is starting to get to her. Empathy GO!!!

CloudYAY

I am debating changing the team name 💔 but I don't know what to

CloudYAY includes Barf Bag, Donut, Golf Ball, Pencil, Pillow, Winner, and Yellow Face.

There is a leadership struggle between Golf Ball, and Pencil. Most of the team would rather work as a whole, or have Donut take charge as he actually considers everyone. When Golf Ball or Pencil take the wheel, they can be controlling. While Golf Ball is learning to stop this behavior, Pencil isn't.

Pillow is having her turning point-- she's getting consequences for her murder spree(aka not a lot of trust from her team) and therapy !! Yellow Face is still trying to be goofy team dad but it's getting hard. Winner is there by Yellow Face's side so... It's not all bad.

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I THINK I SPENT A WEEK ON THIS. AAAHHHHH

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Unwanted: Chapter 29, Unarmed, Redux - Pt. 1

Pairing: Bucky Barnes x Avenger!Fem!Reader

Summary: When your FWB relationship with your best friend Bucky Barnes turns into something more, you couldn’t be happier. That is, however, until a new Avenger sets her sights on your super soldier and he inadvertently breaks your heart. You take on a mission you might not be prepared for to put some distance between the two of you and open yourself up to past traumas. Too bad the only one who can help you heal is the one person you can no longer trust.

Warnings: (For this part only; see Story Masterlist for general Warnings) Language, mentions of injury, death, human trafficking.

Word Count: 1.5k

Previously On...: It was the final showdown! And you died.

A/N: We begin to wrap everything up :(

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You crawled back toward consciousness with the unsettling sensation of deja vu. Bright lights, pain in your abdomen, the sound of machines incessantly beeping. You tried to pull the covers over your head, but your left arm didn’t seem to want to move.

Well, that was new, anyway.

“The fuck am I in the hospital for now?” you murmured to yourself. “One miscarriage wasn’t bad enough?”

“Ex-fucking-scuse me?” came Tony’s shocked voice from your bedside. “One fucking what now?!”

You slowly opened your eyes. “Uh… hey, Boss. How’s it going?” You glanced over at Tony; he looked terrible, eyes red rimmed and puffy. “What’s wrong? Why do you look like you’ve been crying?”

Tony barked out a laugh. “Are you kidding me? You had us all scared half to death, Kiddo. Pretty sure it took ten years off my life when word came in that Carthage fucking shot you. You know, you were clinically dead for seven whole minutes?! Longest seven minutes of my life– even longer than the Seven Minutes in “Heaven” I spent with Alice Seymour in 7th grade.” Tony shivered.

You blanched. “Seven minutes? Holy shit. I’m sorry, Tony.” You weren’t sure why you were apologizing; you hadn’t shot yourself, after all, but you still felt awful for making him worry.

Tony came to sit alongside you on the bed. “Hey,” he began, taking a hold of your hand, “you have nothing to be sorry for. At all. You warned us from the beginning that Carthage was rotten. We should have done a better job of protecting you from her. I should have done a better job of protecting you.”

“It’s not your fault, Boss,” you told him, squeezing his hand. “None of us could have realized how far gone she was until it was too late. Where is she, anyway? On a one-way trip to The Raft, I hope?”

Tony looked away from you, toward the door of your room. “Not necessary,” he said. “She’s dead.”

You sat up quickly, wincing in pain at the tugging in your abdomen as you did so.

“Easy there, Kiddo,” Tony said, helping you get upright. “You had major abdominal surgery just a few days ago; you’re gonna pull your stitches.”

You let go of Tony’s hand to gingerly prod at your stomach, flinching as you came into contact with the heavy gauze that concealed your incision. Looking back up at him, you asked: “What do you mean, ‘she’s dead,’ Tony? What the fuck happened?”

Tony cleared his throat and poured you a cup of water, as if needing to busy his hands while he considered how to go about saying what he had to tell you. “We pulled up in the Quinjet probably only a few moments after you were shot,” he said, handing the cup to you. You took it gratefully, not realizing until that moment how parched you’d been. “Barnes was holding you in his arms, just sobbing, and… God, Pocket, there was so much blood. We thought you were done. I’ve never– I’ve never seen him like that before. He wouldn’t let go of you. Cap and Point Break had to hold him off so we could get you into the jet’s onboard Cradle; he just didn’t want to be apart from you. Kept screaming it was all his fault, he should be the one who was dead instead of you. Can’t say that, in the moment, I disagreed. We ended up having to sedate him.”

As Tony spoke, bits and flashes of the event came back to you– Bucky offering himself to Jade in exchange for your life, seeing his lips on hers, the sensation of Jade’s bullet ripping through your flesh. 

“Once we got you stable, we went back out and found Carthage’s body. I’m not one hundred percent sure what happened, because Barnes still won’t talk about it, but, well, her neck was snapped.”

You blinked in shock. He’d killed her, for you. When it mattered, when it truly, truly mattered, he’d picked you over her. “Wow,” was all you could get out.

“Yeah,” Tony agreed softly.

“Where is he, Boss?” you asked, looking up at him desperately. You needed to see Bucky right away, needed to thank him for saving your life, to apologize.

“I’ve, uh… I’ve been kind of keeping him away,” Tony admitted reluctantly.

“Why?!” you asked, hurt and shocked. “Why would you do that, Tony?”

Tony looked at you defensively. “Because he admitted what he did to you, Pocket. How he hurt you, again, and again. All of it. I’m sorry, but I wasn’t going to let him come near you after everything he’d done. It was his fault you were in this mess to begin with. He’s lucky I didn’t fucking kill him. If he had stayed away from her, been faithful to you from the beginning–”

“Tony,” you interrupted, putting a hand on his forearm to stop him. “Please trust me when I tell you that the situation is a lot more complicated than it appears from the outside, okay? I’ve… I’ve seen things, things that showed me how badly she manipulated him, got into his head. I’m not saying he’s blameless,” you were quick to add when Tony opened his mouth to protest. “He’s got a lot to make up for– I know that; I’m just saying that the party who bears the most responsibility is dead. I want to see him. Please. I owe him my life.”

Tony pursed his lips as he assessed you, mulling over your words. “It’s against my better judgment,” he finally said, “but it’s your call. I’ll send him in.” He stood up, leaning forward to kiss the crown of your head. 

“Tony, wait!” you said, before he could go too far. “The missing women. The strip club. What happened with them?”

“You did good, Kiddo,” he said with a smile. “Once we got you outta there, we were able to retrace your location to find the Hydra base where they were keeping you and get into their files– they kept records of every woman they sold, who they sold to, and where they went. SHIELD’s already picked up several of the buyers and identified the key players based on what you’ve been able to get us. We’ve been able to recover seven of the women so far, but Nat’s optimistic we can track down even more.”

You let out a shaky exhale. Seven women, saved from trafficking, with your help. “That’s amazing, Boss,” you said.

“And as for the club, Kozlov’s been arrested on a slew of charges; don’t anticipate he’ll be breathing fresh air anytime soon. And your buddy? Dimitri? He was real happy to start cooperating with us if it meant he didn’t go down with his boss.”

You nodded, feeling a sense of relief, a weight being lifted off your shoulders. They weren't going to be able to hurt anyone else, you thought to yourself. You’d help make sure of that. Maybe you could make your amends to Chloe, after all.

An idea came to you then. “Boss,” you began, “how much money’s in my swear jar now?”

Tony gave you a bemused look. “Kind of a weird time to be asking about that.” He pulled up his phone and touched the screen several times before letting out a low whistle. “Well I’ll be damned, Pocket. You certainly have quite the potty mouth– there’s almost half a mil in there!”

“I’ve sworn half a million times in the last twenty months?” you asked, incredulous.

“Do you doubt it?” Tony answered, grinning.

“Abso-fucking-lutely not,” you said with a smile. “Do me a favor? Take that money and divide it up among the surviving women, okay? They’re gonna need resources for a fresh start.”

“That’s real generous of you, Kiddo,” Tony said, giving you a fond smile. “I’m proud of you.”

“Yeah, well, I learned from the best,” you half-shrugged, grinning back at him. “Gotta pay it forward, right?”

Tony nodded, then turned toward the door. “I’ll make sure it’s taken care of,” he said. “And I’ll send in Barnes."

“Thanks, Tony.”

“Oh, and if there’s one thing this entire ordeal’s taught me,” he said as he put his hand on the doorknob, “it’s that life is short. I’m gonna ask Pep to marry me.”

“Tony!” you exclaimed, delight coursing through you. “That’s fantastic! Congratulations! I’m so happy for you!”

Tony smiled at you. “Be flattered, kiddo. You’re number two to know.” With a wink, he was out the door.

You closed your eyes, smiling to yourself. Tony Fucking Stark was finally settling down. You honestly thought you’d never live to see the day. Fuck, you almost hadn’t. You felt a dull ache in your left arm. It had been strapped down in a sling to  your torso, preventing you from moving it, and you had the sinking suspicion there were probably pins holding the fracture in place. You were certainly in line for a long road to recovery.

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[tapwater118]

the first team of bfdi redux, BEEP Returns!

with team leader Balloony alongside Boom Mic, Clapboard, Clock, Cloudy, Discy, and VHSy

similarly to the original beep, beep returns is kinda just the “…and the rest of them” team, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t still some team dynamics to be had

obviously balloony and cloudy are a classic duo, but i feel clapboard and discy would also pair up nice just based on the recent tpot short

boom mic would be pretty nervous about actually competing, but i feel like with time they’d come out of their shell. clock meanwhile is completely out of his element without anyone to really latch on to. vhsy is just here for the ride

[denimbex1986]

'It’s been a long time since Doctor Who got to be outright goofy. Previous showrunner Chris Chibnall’s era was often an overly serious one, despite Jodie Whittaker’s 13th Doctor’s reputation for being a cheery iteration of the time-traveling alien. But with the return of Russell T. Davies as showrunner and writer, and with the (temporary) return of David Tennant in the title role, Doctor Who is back to being a silly, goofy old time. And that’s never been more clear than in the campy, bordering on ridiculous, anniversary special “The Star Beast.”

The first of three 60th anniversary specials airing this year, “The Star Beast” is Doctor Who in full franchise mode, with writer Davies and director Rachel Talalay (returning to Who after helming the best episodes of the Steven Moffat-Peter Capaldi era, and in perfect lockstep with Davies’ particular brand of camp), scrambling to turn the show back into the bona fide blockbuster event it once was. And they mostly succeed! Reams of fan service and transparent franchise-building can be forgiven because of how wildly fun the whole thing is — even if clunky resolutions and cheesy narrative choices mean the episode doesn’t quite hold together.

Fresh off his mysterious degeneration in “The Power of the Doctor,” the 14th Doctor lands his TARDIS in 21st-century London, where holiday celebrations are starting to be underway. He immediately runs into Donna Noble (Catherine Tate), the same mouthy and brash former companion whose memories he was forced to erase to save her life. That mind-wipe was a fragile procedure dependent on Donna not remembering the Doctor, which becomes a problem since the Doctor looks like David Tennant again. Something seems to be bringing them back together — but what?

“The Star Beast,” a jam-packed hour of television that drops us into the action and rarely stops to take a break, doesn’t give us much time to ponder this mystery. The Doctor’s shock at encountering Donna is interrupted by a crashing spaceship, which sets off a series of events putting them both on on a collision course with a cute, furry alien named Beep the Meep (voiced by the inimitable Miriam Margolyes) and an army of alien warriors chasing it across the universe.

It’s all so immediately campy it’s almost jarring after so many years of Chibnall’s plodding pacing, but that camp is — even if his interpretation of the 14th Doctor is basically just a redux of his 10th Doctor performance. Tate gets to stretch some of her dramatic muscles once again, particularly in scenes with her daughter, Rose (Yasmin Finney, warm and immediately likable in her Doctor Who debut), whose transgender storyline provides one of the episode’s more elegant narratives.

It could frustrate longtime Doctor Who viewers to learn that “The Star Beast” doesn’t bring anything new to the table. The special is almost entirely fan service, down to Donna’s quips, the Doctor’s catchphrases, and the many winks and nudges to Doctor Who history. But this is an anniversary special, after all, and it’s designed to look back, not go forward — even if its gaze backward falls disappointingly short.

But the special’s greatest shortcoming, but also its sneakiest strength, is that it is very much made with fans of the Tennant-Davies era of Doctor Who in mind. Apart from the plot, which is ripped almost verbatim from the 1980 Doctor Who comic strip by Pat Mills and Dave Gibbons (credited in the special as story writers), “The Star Beast” feels frustratingly limited in its celebration of Whovian history because it’s so focused on the “Tennant is back!” of it all. But this also feels like a calculated choice by Davies, who made clear his intention to turn Doctor Who back into the global mega-franchise it once was. Tennant’s Doctor was the closest the show had to a superhero, so if Doctor Who is going to reach Marvel levels of blockbuster spectacle, it needs to double down on the most dashing aspects of its hero.

The obvious franchise aspirations of “The Star Beast” might grate at those who have been feeling Marvel fatigue for a while. But its quippy humor, campy high jinks, and many ridiculous scenes of the Doctor saving the day with a flash of his sonic screwdriver all bring the show back to the baseline of what made the Tennant/Davies era of Doctor Who so successful: It’s in on the joke. Davies was, and still is, intensely aware of the inherent ridiculousness of a show where a time-traveling alien did battle with tin robots and calls attention to it in the most ludicrous ways possible.

Is there such a thing as too goofy? Doctor Who often does find that oversaturation point and some of its best episodes deftly walk that line between silly and serious. But “The Star Beast” doesn’t walk the line as much as it dances a merry jig over it. And in its silliest moments, it never forgets that this is a show about an alien with two hearts and twice as much capacity for compassion. Yes, it sometimes goes overboard, but 60 years in, the show has probably earned it. It’s TV as cotton candy — it’s never quite filling or satisfying, but darn, does it taste good.'

[dojunie]

what’s the inspiration behind the chapter titles for misdial? other than all of them being phone call related

to be so real: you've hit it right on the head LMAO, the biggest aspect is really just that it be phone call related. obv it's called misdial because the whole event that kicks off jenostar in the current day is an accidental phonecall on mc's end, and i thought the chapter titles being phone related would tie in nicely... i didn't really think about it much harder than that LOL

i at least tried to tie the emotions of the chapter to the events happening in the moment:

ring ring ring = the phone call that starts it all

call me, beep me = half a throwback to one of my favorite show as a kid (kim possible), and half just... a cute title 😭

like a morning call = jaemin's lyrics in beatbox + the whole big 'morning' conversation out on the balcony

pick up the phone! = a song that i've been listening to a lot lately... unfortunately this one does not have very much to do with the story LOL

voicemail redux = like a call going to voicemail, a disconnect between two people... mc being on the outs with jeno and essentially 'screening his calls' by pointedly ignoring him :D

and the next chapter title, DND, is pretty much just a placeholder until i finish with it and think up one that fits better!

since you pointed it out though, i do think that i'll start paying better attention to what i choose so that they do have more to do with whats actually happening...

THANK YOU FOR ASKING! I LOVE QUESTIONS LIKE THIS!!!!!

[pennzance]

Ghostbusters: Port Huron (Episode 17)

Episode 17: Avoca Redux

September 21st, 1998

Incident report by Eric

Ah, milk runs. That’s the name for the routine calls, a term we picked up from Amber. Simple jobs, the everyday work. And on familiar ground, no less. The house in Avoca, my first report.

Okay, so it turns out the big purple slime thing we caught here is what’s known as a ‘free repeater.’ In Ghostbusting terms, it refers to an entity that keeps coming back, usually because it’s a symptom of some other issue. Our purple slime guy proved to be one of those, driving the poor couple we… inconvenienced last time quickly out of the property. It helps that they got just a whole bunch of money from us for the damage we did last time. I never got a thank you note for that. I think they moved to Lapeer. Anyways…

The Avoca house hasn’t been big on our radar for a while. We visited it twice more after my last report, both times to bust the ghost again and try and identify the cause of its repetitions. Today, however, its going to serve a different purpose: a fine introduction to the job for our new part-timers.

This is great. I’ve been in a few D&D groups where we introduced new players to the group by revisiting old adventure locations and this is that, but in real life and no real physical danger. Big, purple and slimy is an unruly and rude little pus, but he’s not the ‘throw sharp objects’ kind of violent. Just to keep things simple, I left my Proton Gauntlet back in PoHo. Classic busting times.

Jason is a lot like I was the first time out; skeptical that there’s anything to this job aside from talking to some crazies and putting minds at ease. I’m looking forward to his initial reaction. Kelly is a different problem. To start with, she is constantly both distracted and distracting. I told her four or five times to zip her jumpsuit up all the way, and all that did was make her flirt with me. Not entirely unpleasant, but not what the day was about.

It was sort of sad to see the Avoca house be empty of human life. The last time I had been out here it was to trap the slimer so the young couple could finish moving out. He kept scaring them away from their kitchenware. I did that job solo, so this was going to be a cakewalk. I stayed by the Ecto-908 and showed them how to power up their equipment, and then sort of intentionally sabotaged them by handing Kelly the PKE Meter, almost exclusively for my own amusement.

“Go get it.” I said.

“I just wave this around until it beeps?” Kelly asked, and a small part of my dark soul sang with delight.

“Sure,” I told her with a smile.

Jason looked a little uneasy. Possibly my face had given away something, but they both went into the house, stepping a little less cautiously than they probably should have. I looked at my watch and made a bet with myself. Ten minutes before I heard a scream, and I’d buy them ice cream on the way home. Five and I’d buy them dinner.

Seven minutes and forty-two seconds. That’s how long it took.

The first scream came from the second floor, generally the slimer’s preferred hangout so I had sort of expected that. What I didn’t expect was for Kelly to come crashing through the window and onto the roof trying to get away from it. I caught sight of the thing as it came to the window, slime pouring out of its mouth, and I think it saw me because it instantly darted back inside. A minute later Jason came sprinting out of the front door as Kelly sobbed on the roof.

“We found it,” Jason told me, his face a few shades paler than before.

“So I see,” I replied, trying very hard not to smile. I was failing.

“We left the traps in the car,” Jason said.

“Oh, no, did we?” I feigned shock. “I’m SO sorry. Here, I’ll get the trap ready, and you go help Kelly off the roof.”

“Um,” Jason said, looking around, “do we have a ladder?”

“Ladders aren’t standard equipment, I’m afraid. You’ll have to go up there and get her from the window.” I was so happy I had turned around, fake rummaging in the Ecto-908 for the trap because I was grinning so hard my face hurt. I took a few deep breaths to contain myself as Jason went back inside. For a little while, the only noise I could hear was Kelly’s manic, hyperventilating sobs.

I sauntered inside the house myself with the trap, powering up my own pack just for show. The floor was a mess. The slimer had been all over the house in the absence of living tenants, and the place was a mess. I heard a thump from upstairs as Jason brought Kelly back inside.

Then there was another scream that got muffled. I heaved a sigh and went up the stairs. The upstairs hallway was full of activity, with Kelly on the ground thrashing around while the purple slimer drooled all over her, and Jason frozen in terror, just watching this all unfold. I put the trap down, kicked it over near Kelly, and zapped the slimer with the Proton Pack. I talked through what I was doing as a learning experience, guiding the ghost over the trap with the confinement stream, opening the trap with the step-pedal, and taking off the stream as the ghost was sucked up.

Jason helped Kelly to her feet. She was covered in slime. I cracked a smile as she complained that it was seeping into her underwear. “That’s why you zip the jumpsuit up all the way,” I told her. “Come on, we’ve got towels in the Ecto-908. I’ll get you guys some ice cream.”

I called the realtor on the sign in front of the house when I got back to the office and told her about the ghost. Her tone of voice on the phone with me told me she was aware, and when I offered our services to investigate the cause of the repeater she declined. She mentioned that she might take us up on that later but heading into October she wanted to monetize the property as a haunted house. I wished her luck and filed my report.

End of report.

ADDITIONAL: I’ve had a talk with Kelly about what kind of undergarments are appropriate and preferred for Ghostbusting. I’ve also had a long talk with her about makeup, which kinds are ecto-soluble and which ones aren’t. We also spoke at length about appropriate behavior on the job. She might have heard some, all, or none of it, but I at least tried. I also spoke severely with Eric about forgetting the camera he was supposed to bring on this job. For official reasons, of course. – Amber.

[katkalis-the-fanartist]

Me and @nova-dragonbound-redux were playing around and he flicked my lip with his finger and at the exact time he did, it had just hit 2 am, cause his watch did its little hourly beep

RIGHT as he did it

I cried a little I laughed so fucking hard-

[game-boy-pocket]

Broke in the everdrive with Mario, following it up with Zelda only seemed natural. No deaths, naturally... though I came pretty close.

Much like with Mario though, I didn't play the vanilla game, I played a rom hack. This one is called The Legend of Zelda Redux... it changes a lot more than what Mario did, but unlike Mario, it also ha a lot of optional patches. You can even undo some of the changes the hack makes if you don't like them.

For example, this hack makes all the bomb-able walls and burn-able trees visual cues so you can spot them easily. I don't like that, and there's a patch to keep the secrets hidden. The game has new graphics, but you can choose to keep the original graphics, which I did. If you think the low health beep is annoying, you can remove it, or replace it with a low pitch heartbeat sound. There's lots of options.

It also adds a new diagonal slash move like how the sword works in the gameboy, instead of just having the single thrust attack... I was skeptical of weather it would work with the game, but I actually think it works very well. It doesn't leave Link wide open, it doesn't feel too broken while still enhancing Link's attack... I really like it.

If someone has a hard time getting into the original legend of Zelda, this hack is the best chance of winning someone over to the game, but I still don't think it's a sure fire thing that it will win over young/new fans of Zelda who grew up with the 3D games or are just getting into it.

I have one more major enhancement of an NES game to play but I've got work tomorrow and it's 1AM. But i'm very happy with my NES and Everdrive... promise i'll play something new again eventually, but... probably not soon, lol, gotta revisit old faves, still wanna beat BOTW and that Zelda 64 hack, and then i'm gonna lose myself in Tears of the Kingdom.

[bbuzzle]

Another Beeping Legacy Glow-Up | Generation One

My main family redux!

 I miss this save, I haven’t play in a while and I’ve been thinking about playing it again but I don’t know if I should start over with the freshly baked made sims or I should continue playing my old save and just give my sims a makeover

[shaineybainey]

“Noble Intentions”

Lab Rats [T]

The Lab Rats and Mighty Med teams face off with the greatest threat to humanity yet: The Incapacitator, a supervillain bent on becoming the most powerful in the planet. …Which makes things super awkward for Leo, considering that their newest nemesis is his father. AU. Lab Rats vs Mighty Med redux.

** DISCLAIMER: SEE CHAPTER ONE FOR DISCLAIMER **

tagging: @vcnting @clockradio93 @breanadaveport-mendel @lettersandwhiteroses @serpent-princess @verified-dumbass @weareoutofmaplesyrupdave @aaaaahhhhh1234

IV: Disaster Med

Kaz flinches when Chase’s laser bo staff slams against Gray Granite’s staff. The superheroes are currently locked on a heated battle against the bionic trio, and while he knows this could result into someone getting hurt, he doesn’t feel inclined to clear out the misunderstanding that started it.

“We should tell them, Kaz,” Oliver says worriedly as they watch behind a pillar. “What if someone gets hurt?”

Leave it to his best friend to know exactly what he’s thinking of not doing. “Dude. Do you—”

They’re both knocked off their feet as Adam’s blast wave missed Tecton and hits their hiding place instead. Stars dance in front of his eyes as his left arm, exposed from the pillar, feels like it had been run over by a truck three times over.

He groans, struggling up to his feet. “You want to get in the middle of that?” he asks Oliver quietly as he pulls him up his feet.

Oliver says nothing, only winces as he retreats even more to safety.

They startle when Gamma Girl crashes against Tecton after Bree tackled her. The two superheroes are left dazed while the bionic teenager uses her free time to help Adam with Gray Granite.

Kaz grins. This is definitely a lot better than going to any comic book store in Amsterdam.

– Ϟ –

Leo knows he’s come just a tad bit too late. Running towards the quarters, he could hear his stepfather screaming as blasts boom at a regular rate inside. When he finally arrives, he sees he’s right: the place is a mess, his stepfather is on the floor looking up in fear at the superpowered trespasser, and The Incapacitator holds close the container bearing the energy transponder.

He frowns. He knows he really should be worried about other, more important things, but - has his father’s suit gotten tighter or is he just imagining things?

Noting his presence, Donald looks his way. “No,” he says fearfully, especially when The Incapacitator looks his way, too. “No. Leo, get out of here!”

Leo doesn’t move. He only stares at the supervillain defiantly. “Incapacitator,” he says neutrally – a greeting of sorts.

“The Incapacitator.”

He almost rolls his eyes. “Are we gonna be hung up on that ‘the’ the whole day, or…?”

The Incapacitator only chuckles.

He’s suddenly reminded of the fact that he lied to him. “Why are you here?” he says as he stares him in the eye.

“Mr. Davenport tells me that the only way to open this box is by getting past this retina scan,” The Incapacitator says. He sits the container on top of the overturned coffee table and grins superciliously. “I can’t decide: should I take an impression of his eye, or should I just take the whole eyeball out?”

“Please don’t.”

“Leo, don’t,” Donald orders, stopping him from coming any closer. “He’s not bionic. You can’t escape this like you escaped Marcus or Krane.”

Leo’s jaw locks then unlocks as he looks at his stepfather then his father. He was able to escape from Marcus due to a series of good opportunities that opened up and some quick thinking.

Krane, he didn’t escape.

The Incapacitator killed him.

He could see from his dad’s eyes that there’s no stopping him. From what he can piece together, he knows the energy transponder is necessary for whatever new plan he has. So, hating himself for what he has to suggest, he asks in resign, “If I open it for you, can you promise not to do any of those things?”

“It depends. Some people, I just can’t stand these days. I don’t know if I can promise.”

I don’t think you know how to promise either, Leo thinks bitterly as he makes a move towards the weapons case.

“No, Leo!” Donald stops him. “We can’t just give it to him. He’s going to drain the whole world of power. He can’t have it!”

Leo hesitates. It’s not his father’s first world domination plan, but it sounds a lot deadlier than the other ones.

The Incapacitator charges up energy in his right hand. “Tick tock,” he softly presses.

Leo glares at him. He said he would never put him in a spot where he had to choose between doing the right thing and making a decision as his son. “I feel like you’re breaking something here,” he says in disappointment.

The grin on The Incapacitator’s face remains, but a small spark of recognition has gone off in his eyes.

However, it doesn’t stay long. An idea comes to mind, and a new, wolfish grin comes up to his face. He constructs a lasso of green energy then throws it.

It wraps around Leo’s torso all too quickly and all too tightly.  “What are you doing? Let me go!” he screams, struggling against it as he’s lifted up in the air.

“Please! Stop!” Donald asks, horrified.

“What about it, Mr. Davenport?” the supervillain says. “The energy transponder or the boy?”

“Big D, don’t!”

“I can take energy from other things around me, or I can take energy from him.”

When Donald hesitates, The Incapacitator pulls Leo closer until he’s hovering just above them.

Then Leo feels it, the energy lasso closing in tighter around him. It presses his arms against his body, the growing pressure squeezing out his breath slowly. His heart panics like a spooked bird in a cage.

Doubt suffocates him even more. His father is not going to kill him, right? He loves him, right?

“Okay, okay!” he hears his stepfather yell as dizziness has begun setting in. “I’ll open it. Just – just let go of my son.”

As the restraints eases and the sudden rush of oxygen makes his head swim, he sees an outline of movement towards the container. He’s slowly let down on the ground. Once the scanner emits a beep, the energy lasso vanishes altogether.

His stepfather crawls towards him. “Are you okay?” he asks.

Leo nods.

They watch helplessly as The Incapacitator holds the invention up as a test. Lights flicker and technology crackle all around the quarters as the transponder draws power. It keeps taking, taking, taking – siphoning too much power into the wrong hands.

Once he’s satisfied, The Incapacitator powers off the transponder and smirks at the device.

It’s then that they hear a rush from the hall. Not a moment later, the room fills with the very people Leo both wished he would and would never see. “Don’t move, Incapacitator,” orders Tecton.

“You’re too late, Tecton,” the supervillain says. “I already have what I need to make you and the entire world bow down at my feet.”

He draws a super charge of energy and encases Tecton, Gamma Girl, and Gray Granite within a sphere before they can act. With the powerful superheroes imprisoned, he sends them out through the roof.

Spackle and debris spray around them. As destruction lies all around, Leo realizes that for the second time in his life, he’s truly afraid of the darkness his father holds inside.

“That’s it,” Chase says, furious. “I got us into this mess. I’m going to get us out.”

“No! Chase,” he tells his brother, staggering up to his feet. “He’s too powerful!”

Fueled by a sense of duty, Chase activates the laser bo staff. Then, he comes at the supervillain.

The more experienced of the two, The Incapacitator blocks the attack easily. He overloads the bo staff with energy to anchor Chase in place.

Chase freezes, the surge of electricity locking him to vulnerability.

With this advantage, The Incapacitator charges a deathly blast of energy to finish him.

“No!” Leo screams. When the supervillain looks at him, he shakes his head pleadingly. “Please. Please not my brother.”

The Incapacitator considers it a moment. Then, he sets off an energy blast similar to Adam’s, knocking Chase out and knocking the others off their feet. “Nice doing business with you, Mr. Davenport,” he says, smiling at the inventor.

Donald only glares at him.

It surprises Leo when he grabs him by the arm. As he looks into his eyes - wearing that suit, knowing to what extent he’d go just to get what he wants, and seeing just how little he valued the lives of others, he realizes then that he doesn’t want to be like his father.

He doesn’t want to be a villain.

Before he could shake his hold, though, a surge of energy hits him. It overwhelms his brain for a long, agonizing second.

Then, everything fades to black.

– Ϟ –

“Leo!” Bree screams as The Incapacitator takes her little brother on his shoulder.

“Let him go!” Adam demands.

“You got the transponder already,” Donald says. “Let him go!”

The Incapacitator smirks. “I spared your kid,” he says. “This is only fair.”

“No!”

A neon green cloud swallows the supervillain and the teenager, and in a moment they are gone.

Bree feels as if her heart has fallen into a hole. She’s shaking with nervousness and adrenaline. Prompted by instinct, she staggers to her feet then comes to Chase’s side.

She checks his vitals, hoping for a beat, a breath, anything.

She sighs of relief when she feels a pulse. She tries to wake him, but to no avail. “Chase,” she persists, “you have to wake up.”

“Mr. Davenport…” Adam looks to their father as he sits beside her, the same look of urgency and loss on his face.

“He must have fried his whole infrastructure,” Donald says, rising to his feet. He shakes his head. “I don’t have the equipment here to fix it.”

“Chase…”

“Well, we can’t just let him die,” Adam protests.

“You don’t have to,” Oliver, now back up to his feet like Kaz, says. “Mighty Med. We have the equipment there. It’s a superhero hospital, and Kaz and I are doctors. We can help.”

Donald thinks it over a moment before nodding. “Okay. Adam, Bree, go with them. Make sure that Chase is okay,” he says. Then, to Oliver and Kaz he asks, “Please. Save my son.”

“We will,” Kaz says.

At that moment, Tecton flies into the room. He helps Gray Granite to the ground and asks, “Where’s Incapacitator?”

“Gone. He took the transponder with him,” Oliver reports. “Worse yet, he took their younger brother as hostage.”

“Hiding behind a child, huh?” Gamma Girl asks as she lands beside Gray Granite. The anger hidden under her unaffected expression is searing. “He must be desperate. He’s changed his MO.”

“I don’t like this,” says Tecton. “We need to find that kid.”

“I’ll call my brother and have him assist me,” Donald chimes in. “We can locate him faster if we have two sides searching. For the meantime…”

Oliver nods, taking out the wormhole transporter from his pocket. “We’ll do our best to get Chase back to you in good health.”

Donald nods appreciatively.

“Okay. Kaz? Everyone, hold on,” Oliver instructs.

Bree’s heart races as she holds onto Chase and Adam. They’ve dealt with many nightmares and many near-deaths before, but she doesn��t think she’ll ever get used to them.

What gets to her this time is the uncertainty of where Leo is and what’s going to happen to him. Is he hurt? Will he be okay? Will he be able to come home?

Her chest aches as she realizes that she couldn’t even protect her little brothers.

“Bree.” Adam nods. “It’ll be okay.”

As the five of them vanish into a wormhole, Bree wonders if it really will be.

[sunnydaleherald]

The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Monday, April 12 - Tuesday, April 13

JUSTIN: Dawn! DAWN: Get off me! JUSTIN: Dawn, wait! Wait! I thought we could, you know, like hang out or something. DAWN: Hang out? JUSTIN: Yeah. I mean ... you're not like other girls. You're different. There's something special about you. I knew it the first time I saw you. I just wanna be close to you. Shh. It's okay. It'll only hurt for a second. GILES: I bet you say that to all the girls.

~~Buffy Season 6 Episode #106: "All The Way"~~

The Sunnydale Herald is currently looking for a few good editors! Contributing to the Herald is a great way to get your Buffy on! For more information, send us an ask (on Tumblr) or post a reply to this post (on Livejournal or Dreamwidth)!

[Drabbles & Short Fiction]

Hers: The Demon in Her Desire (Buffy/Spike, M) by NerdyNikki94

Hers: The Champion in Her Heart (Buffy/Spike, M) by NerdyNikki94

Hers: The Angel in Her Dream (Buffy/Spike, M) by NerdyNikki94

After the Flood (Buffy/Spike, Angel, G) by BloodyThorn

Right on time (Spike/Reader, Faith/REader, unrated) by prose-for-hire

[Chaptered Fiction]

You're the One Ch. 1-7/? (Buffy/Spike M) by BloodyThorn

Bound by Purpose Ch. 1/? (Buffy/Spike M) by BloodyThorn

A Switch in Time Ch. 1-5/? (Buffy/Spike M) by BloodyThorn

Giles and Anya Ch. 1-5/5 (COMPLETE) (Giles/Anya, E) by DWEmma

Season 7 Redux (Tara/Faith, T) by uffyBot3000

Death Would be Kinder [ch.1] (Ensemble, Reader insert, T) by killian-spey

UC Sunnyhell: Part six () by prose-for-hire

Souls Unbound, Chapter 39 (Buffy/Spike, E) by Touchstoneaf

These Violent Delights, Chapter 51 (Buffy/Spike, E) by Touchstoneaf

Broken Bridges, Chapter 22 (Buffy/Spike, E) by Dusty

Child of Shadow, Chapter 15 (Buffy/Spike, E) by Sigyn

Skipping the Stone, Chapter 65 (Buffy/Spike, M) by sandy_s, Badwolfjedi

The Warlock's Nephew, Chapter 6 (Buffy/Spike, E) by AlloSpoike

Out of Our Minds, Chapter 8 (Buffy/Spike, E) by AlloSpoike

The Future is Ours , Chapter 27 (Buffy/Spike, ) by DarkEternity96

Something Entirely Different Ch. 5 (Xander, T) by Manchester

[Images, Audio & Video]

Artwork:Spike () by thesunsetsandsheappears

Fanmix: Willow and Tara playlist by Maya_iandicaprio

[Reviews & Recaps]

Anyone else think that the Big Bad for the final season should’ve been The Council? by kristos-nikos

Can I have S, C and F from the fluff alphabet for spike? by council-of-readers

very quick thoughts about #24 by ifeveristoday

Buffy rewatch: S02E11 by three-blogs-in-a-trenchcoat

20 Year Rewatch - s02e04 "Untouched", s02e05 "Dear Boy" by Ohigetjokes

Angel (re)watch: Season 1 - Episodes 6 (Sense & Sensitivity) and 7 (The Bachelor Party) by lorZzeus

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My Review of Season 5 of Buffy by CalvinValjean

PODCAST: 5.10 – "Into the Woods" by If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me

PUBLICATION: Pangs S4 E8 by Buffy and the Art of Story

PUBLICATION: Indie Comics Review: Buffy the Vampire Slayer #24 by DC Comics News

[Fandom Discussions]

Giles in Buffy 3x06 by enchantedpersephone

we never got a young willow, cordelia, and xander flashback… by lqvewillow

Buffy/Giles in 3x12 Episode “Helpless” by enchantedpersephone

oH BOY do i have a possible fic title for YOU by prose-for-hire

i’m wondering if the buffy comics are gonna do the same bait and switch as the show did for s6. by ofstormsandwolves

Is it over? Really? That's a shame...I think... Does Angel finally becomes a human at the end? by buffythecomicslayer

Tales of the Slayers & Vampires by buffythecomicslayer

Is there an active reddit sub or forum somewhere where people discuss the new comics? by Multiple Authors

Dark Horse commissioned some wonderful covers. It's a shame the comics never lived up to those. by ifeveristoday

Buffy Headcanons by Anonymous

some people are so harsh on the teenagers in buffy by faithlehaneapologist

buffy sobbing while doing the dishes by kingofsilverandgold

the way btvs will have a talking shark on land as the monster of the week by lqvewillow

What’s The Worst Monster?! by Moggin

Different Country, Different Perspective? by Multiple Authors

Discussion of 1.03 "In The Dark" by Multiple Authors

Who Do You Have No Sympathy For? by Multiple Authors

Discussion of 1.04 "I Fall to Pieces" by Stake fodder

If the Mayor knew Faith would be on the good side again. by spikenbuffy

Defend your favourite characters worst moments by Multiple Authors

Buffy and Angel Book Discussion Tales of the Slayer vol. 2 by wolfpuppy

Discussion of 8.32 "Twilight Part 1" by Stake fodder

Discussion of 8.33 "Twilight Part 2" by Stake fodder

Best twist they stuck with. by darkspook

Discussion of 1.05 "Rm w/a Vu" by Stake fodder

Discussion of 8.34 "Twilight Part 3" by Stake fodder

Discussion of 8.34 "Twilight Part 4" by Stake fodder

Spike's Soul: Character necessity or Writer necessity by Multiple Authors

If Buffy episodes were named like Friends episodes by Multiple Authors

New YA Buffy Novel Series Announced by Multiple Authors

BtVS rewatch: SEASON 7 by Clavus

What do you think about the characters that just drifted off never to be seen again? by LightBlueSky55

Anyone think it's funny that Willow killing Rack is kinda brushed over? by precita

Just realized Tara was the only person not depressed in Season 6 and she got the worst of it by precita

After I watch an episode, sometimes I'll go by IMDB and see what people thought. I'm noticing a common theme. by Brandon_SMU

Watching season 5 by keeganb2000

Who would you want for a teacher in demon knowledge if you were a new Slayer? by jdpm1991

Spikes hands? by pavlovasavage

Why didn’t they just re-ensoul more vampires, like Harmony is S5? by theconfinesoffear

The Nature of Souls in the Buffyverse by Nostromo87

Dark Willow threatening to turn Dawn back into a ball of energy by precita

The Unkindest Cut of All by caldude1985

If there are vampires and demons all over the world, why was there only 1 slayer for thousands of years? by precita

S3 E13 The Zeppo by DarthHepburn

Just a few observations and question from my rewatch of Buffy by avandoorslaer

There is nothing wrong with Xander's interactions/comments toward most women in the show by precita

Why didn't the First do more? by LightBlueSky55

Angel the Series 1x08 by halloweenscarecrow

Do you think Dana could ever get better or function normally? by LightBlueSky55

Season 3 is regarded as the best Buffy season and does not have Spike? by grandfell

For fans who watch both Buffy & Angel, does it make it hard for you to rewatch from the beginning of Buffy knowing that most of these events (according to Skip) happened because they're all part of Jasmine's plan? by jdpm1991

Buffy is truly a good person even without the Slayer abilities. by jdpm1991

This is the moment where I knew Cordelia Chase was more by jdpm1991

Xander's character by frauleinsteve

The Council of Watchers by visit-the-interior

Would fans ever admit that The Key Storyline made no sense by grandfell

Are there any vampires stronger than the slayer? by Carrierunnaway

Just found out that apparently in one of the episodes of Buffy, this writing in Irish is actually about a new bus lane opening in Dublin by StunningChemical

Does anyone else kinda wish Anya had kept her demon powers? by umadeabear

How I'd improve Faith (scenario, where she remains evil): by Proud3GnAthst

Favourite and Underrated Characters on Angel? by CalBrahz

Let’s be honest... by Theejuju26

Why did Anya know so little about being human when Halfrek seemed to be just fine? by precita

They should have done more evil-Xander stuff by LightBlueSky55

Giles giving Buffy that check in season 6 is nice and all by venificas

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Another Top 5 Favorite Sanders Sides Videos (3/5)

In honor of the one-year anniversary of me watching Sanders Sides for the first time and becoming a Fander, I’ve decided to count down ANOTHER Top 5 Favorite Sanders Sides videos! If you didn’t see a video you think I should have discussed, be sure to check out the first list!

#3 is... “Putting Others First - Selfishness v. Selflessness Redux”

GENERAL THOUGHTS

This one ranked a little lower because of two reasons. First, I was kinda missing Virgil, but that’s just me being picky about wanting my favorite Side to appear. And second, I had a bit of trouble processing everything after the video was over. So much has happened, and I couldn’t register everything from the first half of the video as I watched the second half. XD

However, despite that, it was such a great episode! A lot of emotional moments will likely be addressed in future episodes, and from my understanding, there’s only a couple left in this second season. I really did admire the fact that some of the scenes were parallels to SvS. Just overall, one heck of a doozy!

FAVORITE PARTS/LINES OF DIALOGUE (in no particular order)

That 8-bit video game art. John Stratman, that work that was put into this video to bring the video game aspect of it to life was AMAZING!

All the cameos of Leslie Odom, Jr. Now, I’ve never seen or heard Hamilton, but I think it’s cool that Thomas got him to be featured in this video.

All the “F” jokes and f-bomb teases. Also, I like the gold coin as the censor beep.

“I don’t want Thomas to croak! That’s my job.” *croaks*

Janus’s name reveal. Not something I saw coming, but what kinda threw me off was Roman’s reaction. But that was because I didn’t realize that it was “Janus”, the two-faced Roman God, and not “Janice”, the Friends character portrayed by Maggie Wheeler.

Janus snapping back wasn’t any better, but it was still an impactful moment.

“We should start looking into ways to PREDICT THE FUTURE!!!” “No!” And then whatever Roman said in that voice.

“Video games mean so much indoor time, that they should cause a little OUTDOOR time! Don’t you think?” “Ehhh…”

Patton hopping aboard on the “taking terms too literally” train after Roman asked Thomas who “gave him the jump” when his car broke down.

“Okay... I understand, now, that I have been.... a little-.” “Much?” “The mayor of Much-kin Land?” “... Sure.”

Patton and Janus’s interaction at the endcard scene.

Janus’s  “Ah, d-d-d-d-DOY!”

“Jesus Christ Superstar!” That just reminds me of my Dad, because he likes that musical.

“Roman... I only mean well when I say... that is the stupidest thing you’ve ever said.”

The 8-bit video game music. From the theme song, to the main score for the characters. I love that detail.

“He’s the actual snake on the plane! And I, for one, am tired of this MORALITY-FIGHTING snake on this METHAPORICAL plane!”

Patton calling out Thomas for not getting up sharp by calling it, “6am dull”.

“By the liquid lipstick of William Shakespeare...”

Roman’s cat-filled apartment scenario.

“Especially to Mrs. Snuffles. More like Mrs. Sniffles! Because of the allergy...”

Just the overall video game theme in this video. I got a few of the game references, but not all of them. I don’t really play video games. :P

“I mean... there’s an obvious right answer here.” “Please don’t tell me you’re going to wrestle Tony award-winning actor Leslie Odom, Jr. for a hot dog.” “What?! No! I’m going about my day!”

All the callbacks and references to Thomas’s works and the little cameos of his friends!

“Well, when is it enough?!” “.... Trees?” “No! Selfishness!”

Patton having his eyes closed when he says that “doing nothing is worse than doing something good for the wrong reasons”.

“Like, you’re such a Dad that it’s too much to handle sometimes.”

Janus’ entrance/reveal in this video. I think it’s my favorite entrance of his of the series.

“Ooooh! Ooooh! Reptilian Rapscallion! Reptilian Rapscallion! We got a Code Yellow!”

Patton misusing “factoid”.

“People are being hurt by this reptilian with scallions.” “No.”

Janus before he sank out. I am still a little wary about him, but oh my gosh, he was a complete DORK in that scene.

“Don’t make me regret trusting you! I don’t want to be stuck with an evil snake boy!” “You’re not stuck with an evil snake boy.... You’re just stuck with a snake boy.”

Roman trying to read the text on Logan’s Lowdowns, but it goes by too quickly. Every gamer’s struggle.

“Sometimes, we get this.” “A bagel?!” What?! No. Maybe.” I didn’t realize it was a parallel to the Valentine’s Day video, but it’s still silly.

Logan’s Nietzsche impression.

“He does have a stu-uper duper unique mustache.”

Every time we get to see one of “Logan’s Lowdowns”. Felt kinda sad that he feels like he could be a bother, but it was still cute to see an 8-bit Logan (and Janus disguised as Logan).

“I think I understand what it means... Deceit being a part of me.” “That’s cool, talk about me like I’m not here.”

Roman’s exit is HEARTBREAKING!!!

Logan’s “I’m so f**king done” face when Thomas said he “wouldn’t be wrestling Logan for a hot dog”.

Patton’s breakdown. The entire scene and the transtitions.

“So, that rule trumps the other rule?” “Roman!” “Eh?!” “You know we don’t like to use the “T” word in this house.” “Oh, sorry!”

Roman mouthing, “behooved”.

“Three out of four of those are normal for me... Do I have hypoxia right now?”

Thomas’s score (80085) and time (limited/being lost/poorly spent), and the 8-bit portrait of Janus.

“I don’t want to make you think you’re some-.” “Stupid, dirty, rotten, filthy-silly, billy, no-good for nothing, uh, white, urgh, rat-scandrel b*tch!”

We can all agree that the “Rhythm Redux” was a bop. The visuals were amazing to look at, and man, Thomas’s vocals were on point.

Thomas screaming at Lee and Mary Lee and shutting the door at their faces.

“Leslie offers up a reward.” “What’s the reward?” “Leslie’s famous cake!” “Phrasing?” “What? Leslie’s literal cake that he baked! Oh my gosh!”

Roman reaching over the text bar and selecting “ignorant”, and him slicing through the giant text box after it hit Patton. That editing is just well done!

“He didn’t mislead you on purpose, Thomas. I don’t think the little guy-. Or the big frog is capable of that sort of thing.”

Thomas realizing his neck was stiff when he turned to look towards Janus.

“In my head, I’ll just feel this way.” “What way?” “The way a groom might feel if he just watched as his bride ran away.” “... But you’re gay.”

Janus laying down the severity of Thomas’s mental health and the overall message of self care.

Patton’s high-pitched “Right?” sounds like a little dog bark.

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Art of the Day #347: Bellwether Redux

Art of the Day #347: Bellwether Redux

Leggy Bellwether by Borba Source [1]

Beep! Beep! Sheeza Sheep!

Greetings, fans of Zootopia. Today’s Art of the Day focuses on Assistant Mayor Dawn Bellwether, recently voted on of the top ten Disney surprise villains on Ms. Mojo.

Like many a great screen heavy, Bellwether was a villain with a righteous grudge; Mayor Lionheart really didtreat her like dirt.  Had she taken her revenge…

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MISDIAL; LJN [ONGOING]

[★]; YOU'VE ALL HEARD THIS STORY BEFORE. The brothers best friend, the little sister, the googly, starry-eyed crush for the one guy she can never have. In the movies, her years of emotional turmoil are always rewarded with the romance to end all romances— spur of the moment declarations of love, whirlwind 'i've loved you all along's... but for you, your crush on Lee Jeno more or less fizzled out like the aftershocks of a seltzer in milk. When you don't talk to someone for a few years that's bound to happen, you guess; it only makes sense that those feelings dissipated into nothing but an embarrassing memory the moment you grew up a little. But old habits apparently die pretty damn hard. And as you're about to learn, one accidental misdial is going to remind you just how long a first love can last.

info;

lee jeno x fem!reader

college au

chaptered

very slow burn

genre/about; not-quite-friends to lovers, older brother mark lee, brothers best friend lee jeno, light angst, mc is a menace to society (chapters 1-3 edited and rewritten on 12/20)

warnings; chapters will have all warnings as they're posted! but general warning for cursing and other college-aged shenanigans, drinking and such

current posted wc; 66k

PRE-READ EXTRAS

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READ HERE:

chapter I: ring ring ring

chapter II: call me, beep me

chapter III: like a morning call

chapter IV: pick up the phone!

chapter V: voicemail redux

chapter VI: dnd (new!)

chapter VII: signals, signals, signals (coming soon!)

••• [more to be added later!]

LAST UPDATED: [01/01/25]]

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━━ 🇺🇸️┊SC.┊STEVE ROGERS & PATCH HAMILTON.┊@bloomlover​

based -- you work at the tattoo parlor next door to my flower shop and the first time you came in i thought you were going to rob me bc holy shit that’s a LOT of tattoos and wow you just look really scary but you’re actually pretty nice??? and every time you come in you just buy a single flower and then you leave and that’s literally the only interaction we have for months until one night it’s super late when i close up and you pull up on a harley davidson and ask if i need a ride home??? uh sure thanks i guess??? and i get up the courage to ask you what you use the flowers for and turns out you use them as a reference when making flower tattoos that’s super cool tell me more (and gee whiz your helmet hair is really freaking hot wtf) au

         That damn new alarm system. 

    Sure, updated security features were neat and the hassle free aspect was what had sold him on it in the first place, but for the second night that week Steve found himself having to leave his apartment and explain yet again to the new guy at the tattoo parlor how to make the intrusive beeping turn off. 

         ( That’s what happens when you forget to shut the backdoor after a smoke break. ) 

    Once he’s sure that Sam’s come to grips with it -- for now -- he’s bidding him adieu and leaving in what feels like a redux of the exact action he had performed when his shift ended hours beforehand. Keys already in hand, he takes a minute before he starts his bike, holding it and himself upright with a foot planted against the curb as he checks his phone. It’s only then after opening a message with an image attachment for a tattoo idea that he realises he’s not the sole person on the street at that late hour. 

         Glancing up, he notices the flower shop girl exiting, the very same one who seemed to always be working whenever he wandered in on his break to buy a new flower for inspiration. 

    “Hey,” He calls over, head nodding with the sound before he realises that yelling over to a woman at night from the seat of a parked Harley might have been a little intimidating. 

         ( More so when he recalls that his extensively storied arms bore more inkings than he could count, which usually interested or concerned those who saw him in short sleeves. ) 

    When he speaks again, it’s accompanied by a half wave that he’s sure Sam would call dorky as hell, man. 

         “Do you need a ride?” 

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WAMH Redux: Chapter One

Kyzil Plateau, Veldin: 1:30 A.M

Silence... And the faint rustling of covers could be heard. The occupant in the bed couldn't stick with one position, so he miserably moved about, trying to get comfortable and get some sleep. But it seemed impossible this night... "C'mon..." He whispered uncomfortably. "Let me sleep." Everything was fine earlier, he ate, took a shower, and even FELT tired... So why couldn't he sleep? None of his limbs or body ached.... Wait, something did hurt. Really bad... It was... His chest? Gazing at the blonde fur that was hidden under a very light brown tank top, Ratchet put a hand to his chest to feel the drum of his heartbeat. Why did it feel off? Letting his hand fall, the Lombax rested his head on his pillow again and closed his eyes, praying that sleep would overcome him, but it never did....

BEEP BEEP BEEP

Clank's internal alarm clock rang out, causing the little robot to open his eyes tiredly. He yawned loudly and stretched his arms, bringing his hands up to rub his bright green optics. "Good morning, Ratchet." He said to his friend. Clank got a annoyed moan for a reply, rolling his eyes in annoyance, the defect jumped off the nightstand and marched over to his friend's bed. "Really, Ratchet." He said. "Must we do this every morning?" When Ratchet didn't say an annoying comeback or retort, Clank got suspicious. "Ratchet...?" He said unsurely. Going to the side of the bed, he gently lifted the blanket Ratchet was hiding under and peeked at him. "Ratchet?" He peeped. The Lombax shut his eyes tight, "Get the light, would ya?" Clank sighed in relief and annoyance, "No, 'I will not get the light', especially not after you drank an entire jug of  coffee at midnight again!" He paused, "Did you not?" Ratchet eyes opened as he decided to buy into that lie, "Yeah..." Clank crossed his arms, "Look at those bags under your eyes, I swear you make reckless decisions sometimes." Ratchet sat up tiredly and stretched, incidentally causing his chest to sting. "...Yeah, yeah." He said, hiding his pain. "You go on down, I'll be with ya in a moment." Clank nodded begrudgingly and hovered down to the first floor from the loft's entrance, Ratchet waited until he was alone to put a hand to his chest. "A-ah..." He moaned. "Why is it still here?" He gazed down at it for a few seconds, before slowly standing, and needing to sit down again thanks to the lightheadedness that overcame him. Taking many deep breaths, he finally said, "No..." He glared at his chest, "I will not let whatever it is you're trying to do beat me." Ratchet stood up again, catching his breath for a second, and got dressed. Before he was about to head down, he paused. "Was I just talking to my heart?" He rolled his eyes and used his swingshot. "One thing at a time, Ratchet." 

Phew! Made it!