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Let me get a 3 chs up for the Platinum tiers, then Gold members will get the usual update. Give me 2 days. 🫡

Next chapter will be up by tomorrow for the Platinum members.

[Shazam] Ch: 24 [Ninja Turtles vs John]

Crackle! A lightning bolt crackled in the sky and seemed to hit somewhere... The Turtles looked up.

"Lightning in the clear sky? That's weird," Donnie mumbled.

A few minutes later...

John’s boots crunched against the gravel as he crossed the dim park. The pizzas balanced easily in one hand. The park was dead quiet except for the faint buzz of a lamp above the lone bench. On it, a rock pinned down a stack of bills.

From the shadows, a voice rasped low. “Place the pi...

[Shazam] Ch: 23 [TMNT in town?!]

[Two Months Later]

With the cash Harley “recovered” from her little stink-bomb heist, John had expanded the business. Three more pizza joints opened across the city, each buzzing with new hires running ovens and counters. Delivery scooters painted in the same bright red-and-white logo zipped down streets.

They rebranded the name from J&H Pizza to J&H&M Pizza. It wasn’t just John and Harley’s thing anymore. Maureen had earned her place. The girl who once looked ...

[Shazam] Ch: 22 [Glitter, flame, ice... Shadow?!]

John, Harley, and Maureen were suited up. Nothing flashy, just practical. Tactical black pants and jackets, plus masks. They looked ready to kick someone's ass.

Harley's mask was the standout, though. A scream mask, its white face twisted into an expression of eternal terror. It was simple, sure, but effective. It wasn't some piece of high-tech, stealthy espionage gear. No, it looked like something out of a low-budget horror flick. But that was Harley's style: a touch of flair, with a d...

[Ironman] Ch: 159 [The White Queen’s Gambit]

[New York City] [Late Night]

The bar smelled of booze, cigarettes, sweat of men who clearly hadn't bothered with a shower in a while, and cheap beer that had long since soaked deep into the floorboards. It was a small place in downtown, squeezed in between a laundromat and a pawn shop, the kind of spot where the regulars drop by to drink their savings away and try to forget about their troubles back home. 

Frank Castle was sitting over at the far end of the bar, slowly sippin...

Note

Sorry for the delay of Ironman chs. I'll upload the next chapter around noon. We will see a fan favourite character making an appearance.
Saving the smut for the next next chapter.

[Shazam] Ch: 21 [Glitter Bombs and Grocery Bags]

The week after the Winston Bank explosion, Dakota City had been plastered with headlines about one man. Francis Stone, better known by the street name Hotstreak, burned his way across half the city. Gas stations, jewelry stores, even a police cruiser or two. He seemed to light things on fire for fun, tossing flames around just to hear people scream.

Every night, the news replayed the same shaky phone videos. Francis laughing with that cocky grin, his hands glowing like molten iron, cops...

[Ironman] Ch: 158 [Vacation with the Harem]

[One month later]

The stability serum worked exactly as Tony had predicted. Within days, Rogue's mutation was no longer a curse. Under Tony's direct guidance she learned how to control it, turning it on and off at will. The first time she touched skin without draining life or power, and without the suppressor, she broke into tears. 

Tony still insisted she keep the nanite bracelet. It worked as both a suppressor and a protective suit, a safeguard in case her control slipped. ...

[Shazam] Ch: 20 [Truth]

AN: I read this one after writing and I am on 50/50 with this chapter. 🤔🤔

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The clock above the counter ticked past nine, and the streets outside had gone quiet. Harley had already dragged the mop bucket out, humming to herself while she swished water across the tiles.

Maureen stacked the last of the clean plates, glancing every now and then at the window table where Diana still sat. The golden-jacketed woman had not budged in hours. She ate six large pizzas and four...

[Ironman] Ch: 157 [Four Choices and No Mercy]

An: Slightly unedited, let me know if you find any mistakes.

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[Basement level] [Containment section]

In the cells were Mystique, Blob, Avalanche, Forge, Mastermind, and a couple of others. Alongside them, the earlier captives Magneto, Pyro, Toad, Sabretooth, and Azazel. Then there were the Hellclub duo, Emma Frost and Sebastian Shaw.

The infected was free now from Sublime’s grip. And Tony had made sure they remembered everything using his Mind Stone. Now, it was t...

[Ironman] Ch: 156 [Rogue's evolution: 48 hours]

[Horizon Island Base]

The storm of flashing cameras and political outrage faded quickly once Tony was back on Horizon Island. From the moment his shoes touched the glass floor of the hangar, he had already pushed the world’s noise into a box. Natasha, Melina, and his father could handle the talking heads. They had the patience for it. He did not.

Instead, he turned his focus to the real work.

Holographic reports floated around him in the central lab. Each feed carried a di...

[Shazam] Ch: 19 [Maureen's new life]

AN: I went a bit too much into slice of life. It looked good to me.😬😬 Words: 2.7k

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Snow clung to the cracked windows of the small house. The place was never warm enough, even when the heater rattled through the nights. Maureen sat cross-legged on the living room carpet, her hands folded neatly in her lap, staring at the wrapped boxes stacked under the tree. The lights on the tree blinked in uneven rhythms, a strand shorting every few minutes, but to her eyes it was magic....

[Shazam] Ch: 18 [Bang Baby Blues]

AN: Quick Note: Bang Baby: Metahumans. In Static Shock, metas are called Bang Baby

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The girl across the street lingered like a shadow that forgot how to fade. Harley leaned against the doorframe, chewing gum, squinting through the neon glow of J&H Pizza’s sign. The kid looked no older than nineteen. Oversized blue hoodie, ripped jeans, beat-up sneakers. Her skin had a pale bluish tint, not like makeup or a bad night’s sleep but like frostbite trying to live on a human...

[Shazam] Ch: 17 [Citizen-ish of Dakota City]

AN: Been a while. Big chapter. 2.5k+ words.

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Life in Dakota City was almost suspiciously good. For Harley Quinn, “good” usually meant something was about to explode, catch fire, or crawl out of a sewer with too many teeth. But here, things had calmed down. The kind of calm that made Harley itch, but in a good way.

She and John had their little pizza joint, J&H Pizza: We Knead You. Harley had hand-painted the sign herself, complete with a cartoon p...

[Vol-4 END] [Ironman] Ch: 155 [Aftermath]

[AN: Think of this as an interlude chapter. Basically a press conference.]

The battlefield still smelled of scorched metal. Forge lay unconscious in containment, his armor reduced to inert fragments sealed in a secured vault. Across the ruined plaza, Brotherhood mutants and hired mercenaries were shackled, escorted into reinforced cells by the Shield agents. None resisted. Without Sublime whispering in their heads, they were hollow, confused, some even weeping.

Ma...

[Ironman] Ch: 154 [Apocalypse & Doom]

[Egypt] [Night]

At the base of a half-buried pyramid, floodlights illuminated a dig site buzzing with activity. A team of archaeologists moved carefully among ancient stones, their voices low but filled with awe.

Dr. Rashid Al-Karim, the expedition leader, adjusted his glasses and studied the hieroglyphs carved into a newly exposed chamber wall. The torchlight flickered across depictions of gods and warriors, but these were different. The figures were distorted, their bodies tall ...

[Ironman] Ch: 153 [Technopathy]

"Humm..." Tony looked at the timer. 1 minute to go. "Well..." His energy suddenly skyrocketed as his body began to glow brighter and brighter with each passing second. "...Playtime is over."

He raised one finger and pointed at Forge.

Forge smirked, preparing another tirade about Stark's arrogance. The smirk froze.

With a faint hum, his armor buckled. Plates shifted against his will. Lines of energy shorted out like faulty neon signs. Then with perfect, surgical precision, ev...

[Ironman] Ch: 152 [Forge vs Ultimate Tony Stark]

The explosion scattered fire across the night sky, but from the flames a hulking machine emerged. Its joints screeched, molten fragments dripping off its armor as it pushed through the wreckage.

The giant metal fist slammed into Tony with the force of a missile. He was hurled backward several hundred feet, his body cutting through the sky like a comet. He stopped himself midair, the golden aura around him flaring brighter. Not a scratch.

"Big swing," Tony muttered, rubbing his jaw...

[Ironman] Ch: 151 [The Healer’s Shadow]

Mystique’s body rippled, her form shifting until she became the blue-skinned mutant, her yellow eyes were gleaming. She smirked, clearly believing she could talk her way out of this.

"You're not really going to do this, are you, Lorna?" Mystique's voice was smooth, almost coaxing, as she took a step toward the younger mutant. "You know we can do so much more together. Join me, and I can help you... free your father. Free yourself. Don't believe what they say to you about your father. ...

[Ironman] Ch: 150 [The Ultimates vs Sublime]

[One Hour Later – Tony's Lab] [Shield base]

The hum of Tony's equipment filled the lab. Robotic arms moved across the workbench as he layered chemical agents with cosmic radiation. He was building a bio-weapon that could tear Sublime out at the cellular level without harming the host. His visor lit with streams of calculations, hundreds of simulations running per second. Still, every few moments his gaze flicked to the surveillance wall.

Outside, war had broken ...

[Ironman] Ch: 149 [Sublime]

Sublime was the self-appointed name of a sentient bacterial life-form that arose during the beginnings of life on Earth. With the rise of multicelluar lifeforms, Sublime found endless numbers of hosts it could infect. However, mutantkind, immune to its infection, eventually arose and multiplied, becoming the first threat to its domination.

The very hatred and fear of mutants was caused by Sublime itself. But the bacteria took more direct actions in order to ensure that the mutant popula...

[Ironman] Ch: 148 [The Weapon and the Leash]

Tony crossed the room, stopping just a few steps from her. His expression shifted from casual to something sharper, more deliberate.

"I heard what you did out there," he said. "Holding off Shaw like that, especially when you just figured out what you can do… That’s not a small thing. Most people in your position would have panicked, burned out, or gotten themselves killed. You didn’t. You held your ground, and thanks to you, Wanda bagged two key players in the underground crime wo...

[Ironman] Ch: 147 [Trio siblings]

Lorna had a dream. It was hazy, like she was watching it through frosted glass. She was on a plane with her parents. She knew they were her parents in the way dreams simply give you knowledge, but their faces were blurred as if they were made of smoke.

The sound came in bursts at first, the deep rumble of engines and the murmur of voices, until an argument broke through the haze. Her father’s voice rose. He was angry. He accused her mother of having an affair with a wanted criminal na...

[Ironman] Ch: 146 [Crimson Reckoning]

[Back to Shaw]

Emma Frost stepped out from the shadows, her white coat catching the moonlight. Her expression was composed but her eyes lingered on Shaw’s torn sleeve and the faint dust clinging to his jacket. “Are you alright?” she asked.

Shaw rolled his shoulders with a sigh. He said, “I'm good. She was stronger than I expected. Far stronger. And she does not even know what she is yet.”

Two black SUVs rolled up behind them. The vehicles stopped in perfect unison....

[Ironman] Ch: 145 [Shaw vs Lorna]

Lorna stared at Sebastian Shaw for a long moment. Her heart was beating so fast that she could hear the beats. Every cell in her body screamed to either run or fight, but to her at that moment, finding out about her father was more important than running away. She wanted the truth more than she feared what might happen if she let go.

She closed her eyes. That strange hum she had always felt in the background roared forward. It was like opening a door that had been locked her whole life....

[Ironman] Ch: 144 [Lorna Dane]

[Meanwhile] [Pennsylvania]

Lorna Dane was twenty-one years old, living a life that, on the surface, looked completely ordinary. She shared a modest apartment with her aunt and uncle, the Dane family, who had raised her since she was a child. They told her her real parents had died in a plane crash when she was very young. She had no memory of them, just vague dreams and the occasional flash of unfamiliar voices that made her question the story she had been told.

S...

[Ironman] Ch: 143 [Sue: Submissive? or Masochist?]

AN: Ok. I might have gone a bit too far with the sensual scene. 😬😬

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[Horizon Island] [Day: 4 since the massage] [Nighttime]

Tony leaned back in his chair and glanced at the clock. It was 2:37 a.m. He has finally synthesized a beta serum for Rogue, but he needs to test it further with Rogue's DNA. He needs her to touch someone without the suppressor to see the changes in her genes when she absorbs others' lifeforce and powers. He tried it with her DN...

[Ironman] Ch: 142 [Blushes and Realizations]

Tony was sitting in the living room, his feet propped up on the table in front, and a bowl of fresh fruit on his belly. Before his eyes were multiple holographic screens. He was doing a side research on his own DNA, checking the changes. He popped a slice of pineapple into his mouth. 

The door slid open behind him. He heard the footsteps. Without looking up, he murmured, "You know, I've been telling you for days to take it easy."

Sue walked over and slumped onto the couch opp...

[Ironman] Ch: 141 [Rogue and Janet]

AN: Think of this as an interlude chapter.

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[Horizon Island – Main Research Wing]

Tony stood at the central console, holographic displays flickering around him. He was deep in thought, eyes scanning strands of DNA unraveling in midair. He adjusted the magnification, highlighting rogue segments of genetic code linked to unstable X-gene activation.

Rogue sat nearby on a medical platform, her sleeve rolled up. A small sample of her blood spun inside ...

[Ironman] Ch: 140 [A Perfect Failure]

[The Brotherhood's Base] [Surveillance room]

Mystique stood in the center of the room with a worried expression. The unexpected attack by drones took everyone by surprise. It was supposed to be a simple grab and run, instead it turned out to be a mess. Her yellow eyes narrowed at the flickering monitors. She tried to contact the team, but their comms are dead.

Blink paced back and forth behind her, holding her hands out and attempting to open a portal to their las...