(Please note, not edited/checked/PR-ed. You may run into a questionable grammar or two. If you happen to spot them, please let me know in the comments below. Thanks in advance!!) A few months had passed since that day. Jack exited the hospital, unable to lift up his mood whatsoever. He was here to visit Nick who had been moved from …

(Please note, not edited/checked/PR-ed. You may run into a questionable grammar or two. If you happen to spot them, please let me know in the comments below. Thanks in advance!!) Jack expected the sound of ferocious explosions to ring out from behind him but no such event unfolded. Only the crisp echoes of the hurried footsteps pouncing on the metal …

(Please note, not edited/checked/PR-ed. You may run into a questionable grammar or two. If you happen to spot them, please let me know in the comments below. Thanks in advance!!) The declaration of their intent was made and the six remaining, breathing men and a woman stared at the endlessly tall Tree of the End. Beyond it, the ethereal, otherworldly …

(Please note, not edited/checked/PR-ed. You may run into a questionable grammar or two. If you happen to spot them, please let me know in the comments below. Thanks in advance!!) The arrival of help in the form of a squad filled with Supers was unexpected but not unwelcome in any measure. Honestly, Jack thought he was all alone here on …

(Please note, not edited/checked/PR-ed. You may run into a questionable grammar or two. If you happen to spot them, please let me know in the comments below. Thanks in advance!!) (Edit: Oops, this is what happens when you don’t have an editor or a proofreader reminding you of missing parts of your story. I edited in a handful of paragraphs …

(Please note, not edited/checked/PR-ed. You may run into a questionable grammar or two. If you happen to spot them, please let me know in the comments below. Thanks in advance!!) The impressive flying squadron consisting 24 helicopter gunships were approaching the deathly silent island of Manhattan under the cover of darkness. A pale half-moon illuminated the night and a spattering …

  (Please note, not edited/checked/PR-ed. You may run into a questionable grammar or two. If you happen to spot them, please let me know in the comments below. Thanks in advance!!) (Whew, finally done!! Took way, way longer than I thought. Well, here it is. Please enjoy and comment if there is a mistake or some such.) Jack’s time immediately …

(Please note, not edited/checked/PR-ed. You may run into a questionable grammar or two. If you happen to spot them, please let me know in the comments below. Thanks in advance!!)   Inside the red pyramid, a different type of struggle for survival was unfolding, involving a boy and monsters. Lots of monsters.   At first, it was the bear/wolf hybrid …

(Please note, not edited/checked/PR-ed. You may run into a questionable grammar or two. If you happen to spot them, please let me know in the comments below. Thanks in advance!!)     Min-jung was reliving the nightmare of all those years ago.   She was watching her younger self staring at a computer monitor that showed a test being run …

Please note, not edited/checked/PR-ed. You may run into a questionable grammar or two. If you happen to spot them, please let me know in the comments below. Thanks in advance!!) This event happened some time before that sudden explosion of light. A small team consisting of five Peacekeepers and led by Blast Storm, rappelled down from a gunship helicopter. To …