Emmett went out on the rooftops of Belport earlier than usual that Thursday night. As per usual, he slipped into an alley, donned his mask, turned his hoodie inside out and wore it overtop of his b...
2023-03-19 13:13:59 +0000 UTC View PostA city is nothing without its foundation.
Beneath the bustle and gleam of Belport’s skyline lies a framework of concrete, steel, piping, and wires, subways, electricity, and plumbing.
“What about a utility belt?” Emmett asked.
He’d already wrapped up training for the evening and had basically dragged Clara to section 002. Now she stood across from him in one of the m...
2023-03-18 16:26:44 +0000 UTC View PostEmmet ran home across the rooftops of Belport Wednesday evening and spent the rest of the night hunched over his kitchen table, working on his radio locator project. It was the beginning of March n...
2023-03-17 19:46:26 +0000 UTC View PostDr. Venture strode quickly through the halls to wing 002 where Clara was waiting. He’d asked her to check on the analysis of Porcelain’s samples. Apparently, the results were compiled.
V...
“Let me get this straight… You’ve been a super for a little over a week, and you want to take another mutagen already?”
Dr. Venture’s eyes were narrowed and focused on Emmett. There...
2023-03-16 19:52:19 +0000 UTC View PostEmmett spent Saturday trying to focus on schoolwork. It wasn’t easy.
He topped off the mutagen vials with fresh ice and pushed them back under his bed. Even after Lock woke up and rushed ou...
2023-03-16 14:45:12 +0000 UTC View PostClara had found her father in the hub of section 006—the biomedical wing—staring intently at a cluster of monitors. He didn’t so much as turn when she entered.
“I have a lead,” she ...
2023-03-15 16:43:00 +0000 UTC View PostLock woke up Saturday afternoon to the sun peeking through a crack in the curtains. He wiped the sleep out of his eyes and sat on the edge of the bed. He winced at the headache and massaged his tem...
2023-03-15 13:50:02 +0000 UTC View PostEmmett jogged the rest of the way to his apartment, hoping that he looked completely normal—like a guy out for a jog at 11 o’clock at night.
Even though jogging was easier than it had eve...
2023-03-14 20:51:14 +0000 UTC View PostEmmett took a minute to stash his phone and wallet on the roof of a nearby coffee shop, hiding it in a crevice of the air conditioning unit. Then he backtracked to the warehouse roof, keeping an ey...
2023-03-14 12:04:16 +0000 UTC View PostEmmett took his time walking down the hallway to the training hub. His right arm still ached from the first time he tried punching Clara’s fiery robot. Now the rest of his body ached too...
2023-03-13 20:34:33 +0000 UTC View PostEmmett spent the rest of Friday evening in the Gray Room, struggling to find a difference between running and fighting.
Emmett still didn’t like running.
He blamed it on reading too...
It had only been a week since Emmett had gotten his new body and powers, and it was only getting harder to pay attention in his classes.
He spent most of engineering and machine design classe...
2023-03-12 23:38:20 +0000 UTC View PostEmmett rode the bus back to Eastside and spent the rest of Thursday evening trying his hardest to work on classwork and not get distracted by superhero stuff.
It mostly worked.
He caugh...
2023-03-12 18:08:48 +0000 UTC View PostEmmett napped on the bus to class and then dozed off again on the bus to the lab. He’d done homework until almost three in the morning before he finally gave up and went to sleep.
His older...
2023-03-12 13:54:07 +0000 UTC View Post[Truck-kun waking up in a strange forest]
Truck-kun’s engine rumbled to life, the revometer visibly trembling. The last thing it remembered was that rogue box truck barreling toward it… J...
2023-03-12 00:44:54 +0000 UTC View PostEmmett took the bus home Wednesday night.
Part of him wanted to run home across the rooftops of Belport, but his entire body was sore from training in Gray Room. Emmett sat down on an empty s...
2023-03-11 21:19:33 +0000 UTC View PostLachlan jogged the West End streets of Belport, concentrating on the steady rhythm of his shoes on the pavement.
He went right past Gnosis’s sprawling concrete headquarters, not stopping un...
2023-03-11 18:03:04 +0000 UTC View PostDr. Venture rubbed his eyes and adjusted his glasses.
He’d been watching Clara and Emmett train—
Clara and Emmett.
Venture still wasn’t sure if he was okay with tha...
2023-03-11 12:08:04 +0000 UTC View PostAfter two hours of combat training, the chest cavity of Dr. Venture’s robot opened, and it pulled out the long gray whip.
Emmett’s eyes widened. He’d been so preoccupied with training ...
Emmett spent most of Wednesday’s classes alternating between trying to concentrate and staring at the clock on the wall, watching it tick away—
Waiting for his time at the lab—
...
“You can relax,” she said again. “They’re not coming after us.”
Emmett had run another four blocks across the rooftops, and only stopped when they were definitively along the board...
Emmett was about to walk out of the lab when Dr. Venture stopped him in the hallway outside of section 003.
Venture stood ominously in front of Emmett, blocking his path. “Before you go, w...
Emmett spent the next two hours chasing after the blue robot.
At first, Emmett had doubts about how much he would enjoy training in the Gray Room, but after the first few minutes Emmett had l...
2023-03-10 18:44:11 +0000 UTC View PostEmmett followed Dr. Venture out of section 002 and to the door of section 005, carrying the pile of modifications in his arms. The whip dragged behind him on the ground.
Venture paused at the...
2023-03-10 18:43:53 +0000 UTC View PostEmmett followed Dr. Venture through a sealed door and into the next room of the lab, section 002.
“I’ve laid out several basic modifications for your arm. These are all pieces that would ...
2023-03-10 18:43:38 +0000 UTC View Post“You didn’t let me finish telling you about your new body.”
It was Tuesday, and the day had dragged on while Emmett waited for the afternoon to get there.
He was finally standing ...
2023-03-10 18:42:53 +0000 UTC View Post[Montage accompanies opening Narration]
What is a truck?
Is it more than the sum of its parts? More than its frame, its cab and wheels? More than its ability to haul boxes and ...
2023-03-10 18:42:41 +0000 UTC View PostThat evening, Emmett finished his commute home in minutes, running across the rooftops and then jogging through the Woods apartments to his block.
He felt like his head was swimming—this ti...
2023-03-10 18:42:27 +0000 UTC View Post