Chapter 75: Fellow Humanisms
Jack set about showing the disguised, dubiously-humanish Neex around — he could not think of her as ‘Ira’ in private, disguise or no — starting with the immediate living room. She ...
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Chapter 74: Stars of the Show
The supernovae floating before Jack’s perceptions contorted into discernible code, which Jack rapidly read with burning excitement.
Long Bomber
...
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Chapter 73: Decompressing
After the nurse took a moment to disconnect him from his IV, Jack was soon digging into piles of food, eating furiously from a metal tray suspended over the bed. The nurse was pretty much in ...
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Chapter 72: The Lesser of Terrors
As Jack ‘stared’ as best he could through the peripheral vision of Shreddy’s dreamscape, he suddenly felt a certain trepidation or reluctance. It took him a moment to realize th...
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Chapter 71: Mere Shreds Within
As Jack began struggling to ‘will’ himself forward, he paused and marveled at what he saw ahead. Great activity.
The tendrils surrounding the ‘amoeba mind’ struck out, wrap...
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Chapter 70: It Ain't Over till the Blob Sings
What a damn mess. I hate The Dreamer.
Harvesting various sources of metal around the apartment, Jack thoroughly restrained the compromised Agent Lopez over ...
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Chapter 69: The Mettle of Training
The trio of agents Lopez, Sato, and Jack slunk up to the apartment door. It was in an annoying spot — right smack at the end of the middle of a ‘T’ hallway, which was strange a...
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Chapter 68: Men In Black
Being processed through Operations was indeed a rush, nearly a whirlwind, but he was led by the hand the whole way. The disguise-making was conducted in rows of chairs vaguely like in a salon,...
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Chapter 67: Quirky Allies
As Jack stared, he heard murmurs and groans from around the room, but also laughter, which revealed that the majority of it was sarcastic — various utterances intended to take the piss out ...
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Chapter 66: Task Force Homebody, Operation Kettle
InSite was one of the minority that didn’t clap. He glanced at Jack briefly, and then the ACKBOSS gestalt flared with the comment, <You’ll have to excuse me, Ja...
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Chapter 65: The Asset, Agent Steel
The chocolate cake, emblazoned with the text, ‘Congratulations, Jack, The Unstoppable Stallion of Eden and Slayer of Bratzilla!’, was a beautiful, beautiful thing sitting on the ...
2025-07-14 15:00:10 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 64: Execution
After his extensive R&R, Jack’s first order of business was Calibration. It was only slightly different in routine thanks to the Bondmaking Imbue increase… he was aware of outside
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Chapter 63: The Last Anchor
Memoria’s silence persisted as her eyes were cast off, a mild frown on her face.
Jack felt a pang of impatience. His heart was beating faster, in suspicion, in worry, his mind both ...
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Chapter 62: Indulgences
Screamer was quiet and still for a while, keeping hold of Jack’s hand and content to enjoy the moment of peace.
Jack asked, “So, how do you feel?”
“Empty,” she replied. ...
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Chapter 61: A Rising Cry
Tendrils whipped and reached out, ensnaring his soul, and Jack was swallowed by the depths and the void.
I am the guide. I will see and I will face it, too. I should. An allo...
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Chapter 60: Redressing
Jumbled-up masses, the weights of dreams turned into nightmares; he resisted the terrible stresses of memories, which turned them into jagged fragments. He refused, he refused, he refused...
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Chapter 59: Choice of Three Mutations, Go!
He was within the starry void of space, that place of meditational Calibration conjured for him by Memoria. She was there before him, brighter than the stars and seemingly ma...
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Chapter 58: Don't Doze on Him
Jack tossed the flail forward hard in time with the whistle, slinging it through the air-
Wham. As soon as it left his fingers, he staggered as he felt a wall of grogginess hit hi...
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Chapter 57: Don't Let it Go to Your Head
“The mind,” Jack repeated as he blinked a few times, trying to parse it. Right. The word ‘Phantasmal’ can’t be for nothing. He sat back down and took a deep breath....
2025-06-16 15:00:12 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 56: Spooks and Lies
True to Lindsay’s claims, the day did not have any meetings or training with her. Instead, he had a training guide plan via Mini that he could follow, or alter if he desired, and was to u...
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Chapter 55: Accelerated Substance
Shaper of Metal
Material Controller (Metal)
Primary Mutation: Channel Memorite
Governing Attribute: Create
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Chapter 54: Spicy
Jack’s classes proceeded steadily. He memorized laws and procedures and attempted to help Highfive do the same with after-class studies, bridging things between the dry deliveries of their pr...
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Chapter 53: Leaps, Bounds, and Parrying Bullets
Jack trained like mad in the days that followed, honing his basic power operations and expanding his combat applications hour by hour and day by day, together with the g...
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Chapter 52: Not Quite Drowning
Neex swam ahead of him to the little cave entrance in the mass of false coral, making a few clicking noises. Two clownfish could briefly be seen, but just as quickly, they darted away, likely f...
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Chapter 51: Abode of the Octogirl
Beyond the noisy airlock was a shockingly spacious area much like the inside of a furnished house or large loft, made out of a combination of steel support structures and hardwood. There was an imme...
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Chapter 50: A Satisfying Grind
No sooner than Jack saw black in front of his eyes from the rig than it was removed by a nurse. He sat up, feeling a ghost of real fatigue, though for the most part he hadn’t strained ...
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Chapter 49: Superpowers Dueling
Jack was fast to move the sphere — but Boiler went into a whole new gear, arcing just outside of its range at a ludicrous speed. His entire sphere whiffed it, and th...
2025-05-27 15:00:21 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 48: HRVR
As Jack got up to shower, he asked, “So, Mini, want to tell me what the interaction involving Hardiness is?”
“Because it is a raw physical expansion, the effectiveness...
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Chapter 47: Market
The meetup was in the park, but in an area he’d usually avoided in his routes due to more traffic and less forest cover. But it did have way more drinkable water fountains, as the more ‘official...
2025-05-23 15:00:12 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 46: Laugh Maniacally With Me!
Jack settled right back into the grind of physical training and exercise over the next day and a half. He’d been quickly assessed as good to go for power training right after hi...
2025-05-21 15:00:12 +0000 UTC
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