Friday DE: Flash Fic

[bjornwilde]

1. Post in listing the pups you'd like to write for.
2. Get prompts.
3. Write something, anything, based on the prompt if it inspires. And I do mean anything. If a poem strikes you, write it. A haiku? Go for it. A sentence, sure. A paragraph, of course.
4. Repeat.

I will try to give prompts as I can, but this works best if more than one person is giving them.

[ETA: Also, in reading Crack Chat, I was reminded of a bit of erranta regarding the IMDB flu plot. Before the All-pocalypse, I had Jessica Drew get the flu and Amascut-mun and I had the flu mutate due to Jessica's energy powers to infect a robot. I think it was a LMD of Amascut, but I could be wrong. Anyway, long story short, there is precedent for robots to get the flu if you want.]

Comments

[bjornwilde]

OK...let's see...
Izana
Ahsoka
Scrapper (I'll try to steer clear of spoilers)

[thebattycakes]

I love Friday Fic! And aww, I miss Jessica.

Prompt!

Scrapper: Saturday Night Fights

[bjornwilde]

If canon would give me something I wanted to play with...

Don't get me wrong, I sort of liked her last comic, and really loved her new costume, but the tone felt a little off and I didn't like how it ended.

[errant_valkyrior]

On Sakaar, there is one big fight and countless smaller ones. Most made money in one way or another, either in bets or from the pockets of the loser afterwards. Scrapper only bothered with them when idiots thought they could take her or she needed drinking money. As the blue-skinned warrior from Kree lands a right hook, however, she pauses and grins through the blood dripping from her bloody nose.

It's been too long since she's had a good fight...and if the kree felt like it after, maybe they could get a drink and Scrapper could see if the woman was as good in the bed as she was in the ring.

[thebattycakes]

I totally understand about the canon.

And, EEE! This is great! Thank you! This says so much about her. I really need to tag Scrapper sometime, because I love what you're doing with her.

[bjornwilde]

Yes! With any of yours, but especially Logan or Red. Of course, my giving her an Ep would help a lot with this.

ETA: Actually, this ficlet might make the nice backbone to an EP.

[thebattycakes]

Yes please!

Haha, I'm glad it inspired! :D

[ceitfianna]

Ahsoka-too old, too young
Scrapper-blood in my hair

[errant_valkyrior]

Blood splattered her as she made her strike and everything slowed down. Shadows grew in the corners of her vision and the sounds of the fight grew muffled, until she lost who and where the was.

She came out of the fugue to the crowd booing. Looking around, she saw she'd won, as if there'd been any other outcome. At five to one, the fight was over when it started. Still, she'd failed to give them a show and that wouldn't do.

She carefully avoided thinking about how she lost herself or what may have happened while she was gone.

[ceitfianna]

Ooh, I love this idea of her as a berserker.

[thebattycakes]

I am so bad at being brief in writing, and often worse at getting all my prompts filled, but I shall try! More than one prompt is always appreciated to give my brain a chance to latch onto something, and I apologize now if it turns into a novel. XD

Let's stick with:

Cisco Ramon makes_the_toys
Barry Allen run_barry
Matt Murdock man_without_fear
Logan adamantiumloner

[oldmancreed]

Logan: Family, Fight, or Future

[ceitfianna]

Cisco-fitting in
Barry-my truth
Matt-cold hands
Logan-brother

[death_gone_mad]

*almost "well, actually"'s you*

Nah, you are right, hard-light holograms from the X-Men Danger Room are practically LMDs anyhow, especially after Jordan Kennedy started messing with them and made them more mobile? Oh god, Milliways enables such silly things.

Addendum: I just learned the hard-light holograms were Shi'ar tech added to the Danger Room by Hank McCoy. :D

[bjornwilde]

OH! I remembered they were Shi'ar tech in the comic, but I hadn't known Hank had installed them in the Danger Room.

(I hope Hank gets to play with Shi'ar tech in the upcoming movie.)

[oldmancreed]

I'll toss in Tess and Creed.

[errant_valkyrior]

Creed: Arm or thumb?

Tess: Wrestling

[thebattycakes]

(now responding to the right thread *facepalms*)

Creed: run to ground

[oldmancreed]

It's what he's built for, tracking. Running, finding, taking down. It's his nature to do it and hes good at it. The best, he'd say.

So no mater what - or who - he's tracking is going to meet with a rough end, because he never gives up and he never stops until the prey is his.

[thebattycakes]

AHH, my goosebumps, let me show you them.

This is great, thank you for writing it.

[ceitfianna]

Creed-fanged
Tess-high heels

[aaaaaaaagh_sky]

Ellen or Quicksilver.

[bjornwilde]

Quicksilver: Time After Time

Ellen: All helmet, no head.

[whiiiip_laaaash]

Peter hasn't gone to the movies with another human being since he was nine years old. When it takes a lifetime to make it from one end of a second to the other, and the only things that move as fast as you do are the things you carry with you, being forced to sit still in a room full of a hundred other people while a machine completely out of your reach ticks images by in front of you at a whopping twenty-four per second is just this side of torture. Also, movie popcorn sucks.

The key is going without other people. Completely without other people. Like, after the theater shuts down and everyone's left and the lights are out because the janitor went home. Because once they've all left and closed the doors behind them there is no way anybody outside is going to see the lights come up in the projectionist's booth. He just has to thread the film properly and keep an eye on the sound switches, and as long as he's got his hand on the projector he can watch anything they've got at a speed he can tolerate.

"My name is H.G. Wells. I came here in a time machine of my own construction. I am pursuing Jack the Ripper, who escaped into the future in my machine..."

Waiting for the VCR to be invented is for chumps.

[bjornwilde]

Nice! ETA: And that goes for Ellen's as well.

[aaaaaaaagh_sky]

"You know, I've always wondered - if someone gets ashed when we hit them with enough laser bolts, or gooped from plasma, how come it only seems to be them that gets it? What exactly is it that stops the energy from a massive energy weapon strike from destroying a person's possessions, and just shakes apart the molecules of their actual body?"

"... I left goop in that helmet I issued you last week, didn't I."

"I didn't find it until it was dried into my hair, Kaur."

"I'm sorry, Paladin."

[iprotectyou]

Ahahaha! This is the best interpretation of that prompt.

[configuration_birdwatcher]

This is great. Poor Ellen.

[thebattycakes]

Quicksilver: sugar crash

[ceitfianna]

Ellen-shiny
Quicksilver-the right music

[ceitfianna]

Ooh, I completely missed this and hopefully I'm not too late.

Cassian Andor
Quentin
Charles Xavier
Sameth
Moist von Lipwig
Demeter
Ivan Vorpatril

[thebattycakes]

Charles: hope of other worlds

Demeter: spring thaw

Cassian: building trust

Dangerous ground

[childofrebellion]

Trust is built on shifting sands that sometimes becomes solid ground. One wrong word or look can destroy it all and it all comes down like an avalanche.

Cassian's learned to never expect trust, creating it takes time and he does his best to never promise more than he can give. His life is full of hopes destroyed by the Empire, he trusts in Kay, blasters, what he knows he can do and what he knows the Rebellion can do.

Re: Dangerous ground

[thebattycakes]

OMG, I'm so sorry it took me to reply to these. They're great, though!

Aww, Cassian! It's of course practical and smart for him to limit who/what he trusts in, given what he does and where he's at, but it also leaves him rather alone and that's sad. *hugs him*

[balancingminds]

Sometimes Jean would go somewhere else and talk of stars burning and worlds reborn. They were not alone and no one was alone while there were new allies and new worlds.

[thebattycakes]

Ooo, I love what this alludes to, and the hope Charles finds in it.

[wheatencrown]

Her feet were covered in mud and kind hands kept reaching to help her. She smiled at them but didn't mind. This was land she knew and loved and her every step left behind a promise of growth.

[thebattycakes]

Lovely imagery, and perfect icon match. <333

[errant_valkyrior]

Cassian: Saving instead of killing
Quentin: Delicate protocols
Charles: Building a new team
Sameth: A new court dance
Moist: Learning something new
Demeter: Burnt bread
Ivan: Peaceful negotiations

Safe

[childofrebellion]

The little Wook's hand was tight in his as they ran down back alleys, "We're almost there. I have a droid, you'll probably like him. He's almost as tall as your parents and we'll get you safe to them."

The child smiled at him and he returned it while he scanned the rooftops for snipers and listened for patrols. He would be her hope because he'd seen the Pathfinders liberate the rest of the Wookies. His mission had been different but today he could get a child safe.

Re: Safe

[errant_valkyrior]

I love this.

Putting the pieces together

[balancingminds]

He missed Sean and Alex, he'd known how to move them towards what was needed. This was just a long day, he'd figured out how to help Kurt and Scott. Jean could help, she listened and was closer in age to them. Was this ever easy or did it feel that way with Erik at his side?

Re: Putting the pieces together

[bjornwilde]

Awww, poor Charles.