Malcolm Tent

Greed God chapter 6

January 5th 2010 Gotham City 9:00 AM EDT

Riley  came through the next day as promised I skipped school because I didn't  feel like dealing with all of that and honestly I was pumped as hell to  start using my new costume. Seriously, I'd put it on like six times  during the night just to admire myself in the mirror. I kind of wanted  to call Sarah ...

Greed God chapter 5

January 4th 2010 Lord Mansion 8:00 PM EDT

I  headed back to school after my run in with Dinah. I considered texting  her to keep her thinking of me, but I decided the better move was to  wait for her to get angry with her boyfriend and text me, or at least to  give it a day or two. Haste makes waste and all that. So I contented  myself with a quic...

Wish upon the Stars chapter 6

We both froze as we were getting up. Well, I froze, Jessie sort of  stuttered, but still she was obviously shocked. I swallowed hard. "I get  to meet Nightstrike? Also Nightstrike is fucking G rank? She's like my  age!" Nightstrike was...well there's no real way to say it that doesn't  sound pathetic, Nightstrike was my celebrity crush. To be fair, she was  EVERYONE's c...

Sell you a Bridge chapter 144

New Genesis December 30th 2010 9:00 PM EDT

I  know I should have been surprised, but honestly, shit like this  happened to me way too often. Of course the natives were hostile and  decided to capture us. Because why not right? But unfortunately I wasn't  even remotely confident in beating all of these people. My clones were  glass cannons that cou...

Greed God chapter 4

January 4th 2016 Gotham City 12:30 PM EDT

The  system did not, of course, deign to answer any questions I asked it  while driving to the coffee shop. Zack had begged off when he figured  out where I was going, just tossing me the keys and informing me that I  "Would owe him a Porsche if I scratched it". Honestly I wasn't too  upset, having the tim...

Wish upon the Stars chapter 5

The time after we found Verdant's body was kind of a blur. I'd done  quite a few things since I got my powers. Going to the WCP, Vengiello's,  and The Night Market. I'd begun to think of myself as a pretty worldly  guy in most ways. Seeing that mutilated corpse brought that impression  of myself crashing down in the most dramatic way. I wasn't worldly, I  was a total ro...

Sell you a Bridge chapter 143

New Genesis December 30th 2010 8:00 PM EDT

Traveling  on the surface of New Genesis was weird. Half the time we were bored  out of our minds and had to entertain each other talking, the other half  we were running for our lives from horrifying freakish bug monsters so  terrifying even I didn't want to mess with them. I was still a ways out  from b...

Greed God chapter 3

January 24th 2016 Brentwood Academy 12:00 PM EDT

I  did not, as it happened, go to school in Metropolis. Not that I  wouldn't have preferred it, but the schools in Metropolis were all  garbage, so I commuted to Bristol Township to Brentwood Academy. Bristol  Township was in New Jersey, right over the river from Metro but not  actually IN Gotham. B...

Wish upon the Stars chapter 4 pt 5

Pack Rat was shockingly quick at designing my gear. By the time I got  out of the training room shower it was all ready for me to try out. I  wasn't sure what kind of costume makers the other branches used but Pack  Rat was aces at his job. He had me all wrapped up snug in perfectly  tailored armor within an hour or so of getting the order, and he didn't  even need to d...

Sell you a Bridge chapter 142

??? December 22nd 2010 12:00 PM EDT

I  should clarify. When I say giant, I don't mean giant by the standards  of a normal city. I mean giant like there was a fucking continent  floating off in the distance. The sun was massive and shining white, the  sky was the clearest crispest blue I could imagine, everything above  the skyline looked like a wo...

Greed God chapter 2

January 3rd 2016 Metropolis 9:00 PM EDT

I'd  been pretty excited to hit a local store and rack up some Greed Points,  but I'd run into a slight problem. I didn't know how to rob pretty much  anything. I knew, for instance, that everywhere in Metropolis had some  level of security, what with Lex Loser's whole "City of the Future"  schtick. I could ...

Wish upon the Stars chapter 4 pt 4

Once I had my name picked out it was time for next big portion of the  event. Captain Polaris was all smiles about this and clapped me on the  shoulder proudly. "You lucked out here kid, for a few reasons. First of  all because most initiates have to pay the guild back for their gear,  and second because most of them get their costumes designed at I rank. H  rank, as yo...

Sell you a Bridge chapter 141

??? December 22nd 2010 11:00 AM EDT

I  woke with a groan. My head hurt, my body hurt, my hair hurt somehow. I  was basically just a walking concentration of pain at this point and I  did not enjoy that. I shifted slightly, checking for broken bones, and  fortunately I didn't find any. I was surprised I'd even taken this much  damage with my frankl...

Greed God chapter 1

January 3rd 2016 Lord Mansion 8:00 PM EDT

I was bored. Which, you know, pretty standard for me, but still not  something I actually enjoyed. One would expect that being the son of THE  Maxwell Lord would make things interesting. They would unfortunately be  wrong. Metropolis in general was pretty stagnant most of the time, with  the exception of the cr...

Wish upon the Stars chapter 4 pt 3

The next day I arrived back at the Unity building as early as  possible. Which was about noon for me, I am not a morning person, but  hey, they never gave me a time to show up anyway. As the bus pulled up  to the building I'd hopped off energetically, excited to start work on  my cape identity. My name and costume were fundamental aspects of my  legend and of my path in...

Sell you a Bridge chapter 140

Arkham Asylum December 22nd 2010 12:30 AM EDT

The  massive sucking energy vortex in the middle of the room was,  unfortunately, a bit distracting as we tried to fight. The Amazon's had  been swarming my team and the sidekicks as we fought Circe, but even  they were kind of frozen in terror at this point. I was pretty sure,  however, that we didn't...

Wish upon the Stars chapter 4 pt 2

I stepped up to the door, leaving Stricture behind as I knocked, and  before I even touched it the door swung open. I jumped a bit at the  sudden motion, but Stricture caught me by the arm and gave me a  reassuring nod. With a loud gulp I stepped forward into the office of  the guild master. When I first stepped in all I saw was smoke, it  billowed up around me, filling...

Sell you a Bridge chapter 139

Arkham Asylum December 22nd 2010 12:00 AM EDT

There  are some times in life where you go into a situation perfectly  prepared. You execute a flawless strategy and demolish your enemy,  establishing a well deserved reputation for excellence and frightening  all your enemies into being way too scared to ever think of crossing you  again. This, sadly...

Wish upon the Stars chapter 4 pt 1

My destiny did await, but it had to stand in line. There was only one  of the scanner devices so as we went down the line the rest of us  talked to Beaker. It turned out most of us had heard of Beaker, or at  least his accomplishments. The eccentric Enchanter had apparently  created several products that were in regular use in the Conglomerate.  Beaker explained that cr...

Sell you a Bridge chapter 138

Arkham Asylum December 21st 2010 11:00 PM EDT

Getting  everyone together and helping them slip off to the boiler room took  hours. Specifically I had to go and help several of the justice bros  disengage with clones to get them here and Superboy actually got lost.  Finally, after running around getting ducks in rows, we got everyone  gathered toge...

Wish upon the Stars chapter 3 pt 5

Jessie and I followed behind the humorless man in the suit as he led  us further into the back of the first floor and then up some stairs. As  we began walking up I noted that the stairs looped around and that the  steps beneath us were crystal clear. I doubted they were glass, since no  one seemed to be looking up at us, but still looking down on the  various floors as...

Sell you a Bridge chapter 137

Arkham Asylum December 21 2010 8:00 PM EDT

I  exhaled a cloud of frozen mist from my spot in the closet, opening my  eyes as I exited the Outer Body trance. I'd spent the last week in here,  occasionally communing with my friends but mostly just pouring my focus  into training with my new body. It had been excruciatingly painful for  most of the t...

Wish upon the Stars chapter 3 pt 4

In the end, I did manage to get enough with my final three wishes to both get the obfuscator and buy the ruby, and even had some left over.  The ruby ended up being a million flat, and only that because I made a  deal with the guy who was selling it, Simon, that he could contact me  about any future Ascended materials. I figured even if I couldn't buy  them I could set him u...

Sell you a Bridge chapter 136

Arkham Asylum December 14th 2010 10:00 PM EDT

The  actual pain from the transformation hit me after I repeated the words,  but suffice to say it wasn't as bad as I expected. Somehow I got the  feeling my devil transformation had made this easier, like the two were  especially compatible or something. Still, there was a wave of freezing  energy inu...

Wish upon the Stars chapter 3 pt 3

I hadn't expected to see a rock with stats. I knew that other  ascendants had them, but I'd kind of expected them to be human specific.  I reached down to open the case, picking up the ruby to feel it's  smooth surface. Vengiello's wasn't the kind of place a thief could get  away from easily, so touching was allowed as long as the goods weren't  too delicate. The man in...

Sell you a Bridge chapter 135

Arkham Asylum December 14th 2010 8:00 PM EDT

I  had to admit. I was annoyed. I had expected searching Arkham slowly to  be a bit of a grind sure, but I expected it to take a few hours even at  my current speed. However, I had neglected an important fact. The person  who designed Arkham BELONGED in Arkham. The entire place was a never  ending loop ...

Wish upon the Stars chapter 3 pt 2

Naturally the first thing I did after this storm of revelations was  go and talk to Benny. I texted him to meet me at the park and hopped a  bus down there, stashing my suit and mask in the bag. I would eventually  need to get an actual costume once I did the intake, but establishing a  brand now (so to speak) was going to link me to my current actions and  might give t...

Sell you a Bridge chapter 134

Arkham Asylum December 13th 2010 2:00 PM EDT

Climbing  out of the car I glanced up at Arkham. The Silver Ghost had been parked  at the old penthouse and we'd driven over from there. I'd expected the  roads to cause trouble but Jim appeared to have made some modifications  to the thing because we drove right through most of the barricades when  we ...

Wish upon the Stars chapter 3 pt 1

The trip home was shockingly slow to me. With so much information  forthcoming and with all the action I'd just gone through my adrenaline  was singing, and sitting on a bus like a chump waiting was basically  torture. Still, I closed my eyes and took a deep breath to center myself  as the bus pulled into traffic. I'd taken my first big step down the  path of an Ascenda...

Sell you a Bridge chapter 133

Doomhollow Hall December 13th 2010 11:00 PM EDT

The  next morning was...quiet. Artemis didn't seem to hold my decision  against me, nor did Reggie, but from their auras I could tell they were  giving me space after the ordeal. It would have been a much bigger deal  without Zee there to keep me grounded and I was grateful for my girl.  Sex was only...