#so now i have 2 identical hoodies lol. but i’ll keep one of them safe in its packaging bc im unwell like that ig

[deus-ex-mona]

series i’m gatekeeping from my family vs series i’m ✨ok✨ with my family knowing i’m into:

[gambissanctum]

PART 2 Black Lighting: The Book of Fortitude:Chapter one:Brandon’s Duplicity

Authors note: Here’s part 2 guys! I don’t know how long this “book” will be but everything within “ThebookofFortitude” will be tagged as such so you can find it.Ignore typos and weird wording I got kinda tired lol Enjoy!

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Brandon’s apartment 

“Aye, you got a hoodie?” Jennifer asks as she stands up ready to investigate. “Yeah” Brandon replies running over to his closet grabbing two hoodies. He throws one over to Jennifer. They both zip up and put on the hoods trying to conceal their identities. Brandon opens the door and its chaos.Residents in the apartment complex  are evacuating while Brandon and Jennifer are going the opposite way. Brandon nods his head directing Jennifer to a staircase towards the end of the hall. They keep their heads down as they rush to the floor above them.Once they reach the floor its completely abandoned. There’s debris shattered around the halls and broken light fixtures. Jennifer takes the lead and walks forward looking for the location of the sounds. Brandon follows behind her. She walks two doors down and apartment 301’s door was completely kicked in. 

Jennifer motions for Brandon to come forward. She sees soldiers sprawled out on the floor.” Yo, Jenn be careful” Brandon says as Jennifer gets closer to one of the bodies. A few of the soldiers have their helmets missing. Jennifer inspects their faces. Their eyes are completely black and there seems to be prominent black veins covering their faces.”Looks like Markovians”she says. “Maybe we should go” Brandon insists.”Hold on” Jennifer stalls as she squints to get a better look.”It looks like some kinda venom” she says turning to Brandon. “Jenn” Brandon says trying to get Jennifer to come back to his apartment with him. “You scared?” Jennifer asks chuckling. “No!” Brandon says unconvincingly. “It’s just not safe, how do you know they are really all dead?” Brandon questions. Jennifer lets out a sigh.”I can see electrical impulses, trust me I know the difference…...I can feel it”. Brandon looks saddened by that new insight. A vibration comes from Jennifer’s back pocket. She reaches back and grabs her phone. “ Ugh, it’s my dad” Jennifer huffs. “I gotta go but you think you’ll be okay without me?” she questions. “Come on, you’ve seen what I can do” he assures her. Jennifer rolls her eyes “uh huh”.

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Anissa’s Loft

Anissa and Grace are in the kitchen area. Anissa is holding Grace from the back as she cooks some breakfast.”Shonda, play Never Too Much by Luther Vandross”.Anissa tells to her smart house. The record starts to play throughout the loft. Grace chuckles as she places a lid on the food she cooked. Anissa starts to sing along to the track holding Grace’s hands. “oooooohhh my love....a thousand kisses from you is never tooo muchhh”. Anissa sings. They both start to dance and laugh. “Let me see what you got! Grace  says as she shimmies her shoulders.”You don’t know nothing about this!” Anissa breaks out the robot and turns around in a circle. “Woooowww! I hope don’t!” Grace laughs. Their gazes are fixed on one another while Grace bites her lip. Grace felt safe and happy....very happy.... so happy that at times she was scared to be so happy.She felt like as soon as she really got into the groove of being comfortable in the feeling, it might get taken away. But for now she was trying to just live in the moment. Anissa pulls her closer grasping Grace’s booty. “Don’t start nothin you can’t finish” Grace teases. “Oh you know I can finish it” Anissa says confidently while kissing Grace’s neck.

 The music turns down as there’s a knock on the door.” Gambi knocks on Anissa’s door again. “ Anissa, your uncle Gambi is at the door” Shonda announces. Anissa and Grace roll their eyes as their moment is interrupted. ”Shonda, pause music, open front door” she says. Gambi walks through the door with a briefcase and looks at them both. “Am I interrupting something?” Gambi asked. Anissa and Grace glance at each other and smile.They consecutively and sarcastically say “Nope”. Gambi gets the hint. “Sorry to interrupt but I have some important news but first Anissa how are you feeling?” Gambi asks. Anissa is looking much healthier than before her run in with painkiller. Anissa responds  “Honestly a hell of a lot better, between whatever it was you gave me and Grace helping me... I’m feeling a lot more like myself.” 

 Gambi nods and brings the briefcase with a computer inside over to the table. “I’m glad to hear that because it seems that we might have a problem that hits close to home that we may need you to help with.” Gambi explains. “What do you mean?” Anissa questions. “Remember how I said the venom was ten times more potent than a sample I had before? Well it took some time but I was able to match the samples.” Gambi taps the screen revealing information about the sample and a digital photo of Khalil. Anissa hesitated with her response.”Why is there a picture of Khalil?”.“Khalil like your sister’s boyfriend that passed?” Grace furrows her brows. “That’s what I mean.... I was able to match the molecular structures with the sample I already had from one of his darts. Anissa it’s match.” he explains.” “But we buried him!” Anissa shakes her head in disbelief.“ And I know that, so heres the other thing.... I went by the graveyard Anissa... and.... he’s not there.The plot is empty.” He explains sternly. “Someone dug him up? Why would he attack me?” Anissa’s mind thinks of a million questions. “Not just someone, my thoughts point to Odell, and the why I’m still trying to figure out.More then likely with what he did to you, Odell has weaponized him to do his bidding.” He explains further.” “Does Jenn know? My dad? Mom?” Anissa asks. “ Your mom and dad know. I haven’t had it in me to tell Jennifer, your mom said she would talk to her today.I just wanted to warn you and Grace. Although Odell is still recovering I’m sure he has contingency plans so be very careful.

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Brandon’s apartment

Brandon sits at his computer desk looking at a map. He presses the escape button and there’s photos of Khalil and Jennifer. As if he’s been doing some research on them, particularly Khalil. He gets a text message from Jennifer.

 TEXT BEGIN

Jennifer: Hey, you good?

Brandon: I told you, i’m good.I can handle myself lol

Jennifer: hmmm Just checking. It’s been like a week.Didn’t know if whatever that was came back looking for you or something.

Brandon: Nope, I’m good. You still coming by today?

Jennifer: I can’t. My mom wants me to do something but maybe later if it doesn’t take forever.

Brandon: Aight, bet

TEXT END

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Pierce Residence:

Lynn walks in as Jefferson is headed down the stairs. The tension is heavy between them. He looks over at her wanting to talk. “Lynn-”Jefferson is interrupted. “Jefferson, if this is not about our daughter, I don’t wanna talk about it. I already have to have a very difficult conversation with her today. So this... whatever this is between us is gonna have to wait.” She snaps. She walks further in the house. “Jennifer!”she yells out. Jefferson rolls his eyes and throws up his hands. His face is almost healed from the beating he took at the school. He didn’t want to argue with Lynn at-least not now. She gets closer to the staircase and calls out “Jennifer” once more. Jennifer yells “coming” from her room upstairs. As Lynn turns to head back towards the door a small valve falls from her pocket. She doesn’t notice but Jefferson does. Jefferson reaches down to pick up the valve as Lynn is looking towards the door awaiting Jennifer. Jennifer rushes down stairs. “Ready?” Lynn asks Jennifer. “Lynn?” Jefferson says confused about all the recent animosity coming from her lately.Lynn ignores him and rushes Jennifer out the door. Jefferson looks at Lynn and Jennifer get in the car wondering how things got back to this point. He closes the door and bangs his fist angrily. His eyes illuminate and the lights in the house flicker.He inspects the valve with a green substance inside in his hand. “Is this....?”

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Car

Jennifer and Lynn walk towards the car. Jennifer see’s a figure in the backseat. “uh, mom?” Jennifer says. “It’s okay, it’s Gambi.” Lynn explains. Since Gambi is still thought of as dead to the outside world he is using the cloaking device he created allowing him to take the form of a ASA agent. “Mom, what’s this about?” Jennifer questions. “I’ll explain, just get in the car”Lynn says checking over her shoulder. They both get in the car and Lynn starts to drive.

 “ You guys are acting super weird, what’s going on?” Jennifer asks searching for a motive. “Well sweetie-” Lynn stops, searching for the right words to say. “What? Did someone else die? That seems to be an every day thing now. Just tell me I can take it.” Jennifer affirms. “Jenn, It’s not that.....”Gambi takes a breath.. “.Lynn you have to tell her.” “Well, you know I’ve been working a lot at the lab and how your sister had a run in with a meta trying to bring back Tavon. Well we connected the venom sample to someone.”Lynn explains .“Okay?” Jennifer shrugs. “We connected it to..... Khalil......The DNA matches..it took some work but Odell has been hiding him at the lab for some time now.I hadn’t seen anything like it before.” Lynn struggles to get it out. “What! Mom, Khalil’s dead! Is this a joke?” Jennifer snaps. “Baby calm down,I...know...this is alarming news but were being 100 percent  honest with you...I haven’t quite figured out how they did this but what I do know is Khalil isn’t like he use to be.There’s a chip thats been implanted in him and I haven’t figured out how to remove it without damaging his brain or whatever’s left of it. “So, he’s alive? I can’t handle this right now” Jennifer yells. “Yes and....I’ve finally stabilized him enough for him not to try to kill us”.Lynn expresses. “What?!”Jennifer eyes light up.”Baby girl, I know...I know... this sounds crazy. It’s like some Lazarus project, gone wrong but try to calm down, at-least until we get to the lab.” “That’s where we’re going? you’re taking me to him?!” Jennifer questions. “Yes, put this on, you may be his last hope. ” Gambi replies with an empathetic tone. He hands Jennifer a cloaking device.

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The lab

“While agent Odell is in the hospital I have a little more free rein in the lab.We still have to keep this under wraps though.” Lynn states to Jenn and Gambi. “This hall is secret and the only area that I know the ASA agents don’t have access to without Odell.With him in the hospital I made sure the cameras in the room aren’t functioning.”

Gambi and Jennifer turn off their cloaking devices.

Lynn takes Jennifer to the side briefly. “Are you sure you can handle this?”.Jennifer nods taking a deep breath. “I just wanna see him.” Lynn gestures okay as she presses a button on her lab pad opening the door. 

Painkiller is laying down in a relaxed state wearing nothing but grey shorts.They walk in and he sits up. It was like he was in a trance. “Dr.Stewart” he says nonchalantly.

Jennifer couldn’t believe it. The initial sight of him sent a surge of feelings through her. It was like she was seeing a ghost. She felt like she was waiting for her heart to catch up to her eyes .Her heart was in a dark place and she wanted to make sure this wasn’t a dream. She didn’t know if she could handle it if it wasn’t.Jennifer and Khalil stare at each other briefly. His glare was cold and almost lifeless.Jennifer gets teary eyed as she approaches Khalil. “Be careful” Lynn warns her. “I gave him something to subdue him but the chip is still functioning,” she explained.Even the way he blinked was robotic. Jennifer touches his face. “I can’t believe this” Jennifer cries observing his face. Lynn and Gambi look at each other empathizing for Jennifer.Jennifer’s tears flood her face. “What did they do to you?” Jenn voice cracks. Khalil looks puzzled at the emotional reactions of Jennifer. Khalil stares at her trying to gather any memory of her. “Do I know you?” Painkiller asks with a slight attitude. Jennifer’s heartbreaks at his words.She knew he wasn’t himself but this was a lot to handle.The disappointment read strong on her face. She had hoped maybe their connection was strong enough to trigger something for him. “You really don’t remember me?” Jennifer inquires.

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Will Jennifer be able to help Khalil? Is he gone forever? What’s Brandon up to? find out in part 3.

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[new2otomelol]

Silver - A KBTBB superhero fanfic - because, why not?! - Part 2

Lol, I love adding a little bit of a Lovetruck twist to this.... enjoy! ;-)

The ride back to the hotel was a blur to me. “Sorcha, look at me, stay awake…” Soryu would call out to me and Eisuke held me tight. “Damn it all, what the hell did we just witness? Come on, stay awake, you don’t have my permission to doze off…” I laughed and hissed at those words.

In my next ‘aware’ moment I open my eyes and see Luke hovering over me. “Wow, the princess, she’s so beautiful… I’ve never seen hair that color before…” I hear Baba in the background chit chatting with Ota. “Guys, she’s awake! Okay Sorcha, look at me… focus…” I make it a point to focus on Luke as he checks my eyes. “Good, I have you back. Listen to me, you have internal bleeding and I have to operate.” I shake my head… “nnn… no, where am I bleeding? Show me” Luke rolls his eyes and holds up an x-ray to me. “Woman, do as Luke says or you’ll die!” Eisuke commands, but I ignore him. “Here sexy bones, the pole hit you hard in this area and your liver is in trouble.” I sigh and look at Luke. “Stand back, I’ll fix it.” I hold my hand over the area where my liver is and I focus my power on it. My eyes roll backward as I shift my energy inside of me and I locate the open wound forcing it to close, generating enough heat to seal it.

“What the hell is she doing?” Soryu almost yells, probably at the sight of me possibly looking like a possessed woman, slowly hovering over the table and body shaking a little. “Guys, I don’t know what is going on, this is all new to me and damn fascinating.” Luke stands back and I feel him walk around me. I focus more of my energy on my body and as soon as it feels healed enough I let go and fall flat on the gurney. I open my eyes once again and look around. Just as I figured, all of the guys are there with me and the look of shock on their faces is priceless. “Explain, NOW!” Eisuke demands.

I swish my hand and the bed I’m on lifts me up a little so that I can see them all. I hold out my other hand and a glass of water that had been set to my side on a table steadily flies to it. I drink the water and exhale. “Okay, so, explanation time. Call me Silver, Optimus made sure to erase all traces of my real name long ago and unfortunately, I had to fight hard to forget it in order to move on. On the short guys, I’m a genetic freak; call it human evolution or whatever, but it happened to me as a teen and I’ve had to cover it all up since then and pretend to be… human. I can move things with my mind, summon atmospheric changes, even storms, I can fly, and I can read minds.” The men all look at each other trying to process what I just told them.

“I had to keep you all in the dark to avoid Optimus locating me, but somehow they found me. Soryu, you just killed one of their generals, it might take them a while to figure out what happened, so that gives me time to recoup. And, thank you because that man was responsible for my parents’ deaths.” Soryu’s eyes widened and suddenly gave me a warm smile and a nod. “I know you all, perhaps more than you know and appreciate what you did to save me from that creepy bastard that night. But the toying around with me is just a pain in the ass.” Baba smiles and Ota keeps staring at me a little dumb-founded. Eisuke seats next to me and suddenly stands up. “So what is our next step?” I lower my head and look to the window and see that the sun is coming up. “Now, I take care of this, I don’t want any more blood shed because of me.” I turn my head to face Eisuke.

“Kid, I’ve checked these Optimus guys and the company has grown. Soryu and I checked the bodies and brought back some stuff with us. Looks like nobody else but them knew about ya. They mighta been acting on their own.” I smile. “That would make sense, Saber always wanted me to be his queen, even if he had to go against numero uno’s commands to stop searching for me. But no matter Mamo, I’m going to trace this back to them and find out what is going on.”

I feel a hand hold tightly to mine and a strong voice suddenly invades my mind. ‘I’m NOT letting you Sorcha. I’m going with you.’ Eisuke somehow figured out how to connect with me. ‘I will not lose any of you; you don’t know what these people can do.’ I take a deep breath and look at the guys “I’m in need of rest and I’m sure you all are as well, let’s call it a late night?” The guys all nod and begin to head out “It’d be awesome to design a superhero outfit for you! So cool!” Ota states, Baba follows him “make it sexy!” I roll my eyes and wave them goodbye, but Eisuke stays behind. “I know you are pushing me away, but you’re mine and I’m not letting you go.” I smile at him. “How about this, you can only accompany me if you have a mask to hide your identity and leave things up to me.” He grunts in frustration. “Fine, but I’m in charge of schematics, and DON’T read my mind anymore.” I hold up my hands like an innocent angel. “Why, I would never…” Eisuke gives me a death glare and walks away. Man am I exhausted… now I have to add these guys to the mix.

Days pass by and the bidders have been working hard on gathering research on Optimus. We discovered through the dragons that Saber was working on his own and that there was one other person discovered by him that has powers; she is known as Futura. It seems that she has the power to see into the future, it may have been the way that Saber found me. “Ready to go?” Eisuke comes in my room as I finish putting on my hoodie. “Let’s go.” We’re on our way to see if we can meet this woman.

An hour later we arrive to an old apartment building in the outskirts of the city. I manage to convince Eisuke to stay behind as I make my way through the building and have some of the ice dragons on standby. I reach a door on the third floor, but before I can knock I hear a woman’s voice call to me. “Come in!” I gasp but do as she says and slowly enter. In front of me is a beautiful woman holding a baby in her arms. Her skin is pale and her long black hair fell neatly to her back. “Silver, you’re finally here. I… I’m sorry that you had to go through that, but, Saber, he threatened to…” tears trailed down her face and I immediately held her by the shoulders. “Please calm down Futura. I’m not sure what is going on, but I’m sure you know why I am here. Plus, you’re like me!” I smile and she looks down at her baby… “and so is he…” I look down and see a beautiful baby boy with white hair. I caress his cheek only to feel it cool to the touch. “My son, his name is Duke… Silver, please, do me the favor and take him with you. I’ve seen his future and he has a huge burden ahead of him. The man that is in love with you, he’ll be able to arrange it for Duke to be taken in by a family, it is his destiny… please… I… I’m dying.”

Isit there patiently listening to Futura about her incredible life and how her genes weren’t able to take the full transformation. She told me that Eisuke and I were her only hope and I knew that he had heard everything through the intercom. Tears threaten to escape me as she hands me her child. “In a sense you are my sister, Silver, so, please, sister mine, take Duke and ensure his future for me.” She gives me a kiss on the forehead and kisses her child goodbye. I watch her stand by the window as her form steadily dissolves to dust. I look down and stare at Duke “I promise you little one, you’ll be safe.”

To be continued...