Robert Meta

First Mettle, Metal, Meddled interlude:

The first interlude for MMM will be full chapter length, and you get to choose who's perspective its from! Keep in mind this will happen organically, different choices might happen sooner, others later. 

The Conceptual Deck - Chapter 40 - Heads

Unknown Location - Alexander Pierce’s Home - Subterranean Communications Room

“Fury called him in as a favor?” Alexander Pierce asked in disbelief. “What happened to him not showing up until the next day?”

The Hydra leader was currently sitting behind his desk, going through reports and information. It had been a few hours since he had watched the disaster of a mission unfold.

“Apparently Fury came to the conclusion that if Maker's healing amulet could fix woun...

Lair Divers Tale - Chapter 11-15

Hello again, it's time for the monthly drop of Lair Divers Tale. Please let me know what you think of it in the comments!

The Conceptual Deck - Chapter 39 - No Russian

All three of the trained women immediately stood up straight, their hands going to their hips in search of weapons. Natasha smirked and deployed one of her new pistols while Ema and I looked around as if expecting something to come from the vibrating walls.

“That was an explosion…” Natasha said, seeing my confusion. “Around a dozen or so floors up.”

Hearing her explanation my eyes went wide and I quickly activated my armor.

“Where is Steve being kept?” I asked,...

Mettle, Metal, Meddled - Chapter 13 - An apple a day

M’gann and I came back from our lunch and shopping trip a few hours later. After that, rest of the day was quiet, with M’gann putting off baking for another day. I gave her some space, though we remained psychically connected. She would occasionally mentally bump against me, and I would respond with a smile and a mental bump in return. Still, she had a lot going on in her head and wanted some time to think everything through, including what she was going to tell the team. I insisted that ...

The Conceptual Deck - Chapter 38 - On the young

Fury led us to the elevator, stepping in and to the side, letting Ema and I step in behind him. The emergency phone, which I was carrying in my pocket, vibrated once. Confused, I pulled it out, only to find that Ema had accessed it and was showing me search results for Carter. I quickly read through them, nodding my head. As I suspected, her history was vastly different from her comic counterpart. She helped found Shield rather than join it after it was created, and had done so at a time when...

The Conceptual Deck - Chapter 37 - Youth is wasted

I took the next morning easy, waiting until noon to go grocery shopping. I pushed building and concepts as far out of my mind as I could, managing to mostly succeed. After I got home and unpacked everything I sat down on the couch, kicked up my feet and turned on the TV. I felt calm, the stress from the past few weeks bleeding away as I watched a few mindless TV shows. I was heavily armed, I had my dangersense and I had a quick way to escape should anything bad happen. It was a lot easier to ...

Mettle, Metal, Meddled - Chapter 12 - True form

The next day started with a large delivery. A nondescript moving truck buzzed in early in the morning, dropping off the metahuman rated work out equipment I had asked for. We got the treadmill, the bench press and a half dozen other machines that were all rated for more intense workouts. Superboy and I spent two hours getting everything into place, celebrating with an actually satisfying workout, something I didn't think I would ever be able to say.

“Do you know what your top speed is...

The Conceptual Deck - Chapter 36 Inspiration File

The Conceptual Deck - Chapter 36 - Guns, lots of guns

It took a few minutes or so of planning, mostly because I was nervous about wasting diamonds, but I ended up making see-through magic super metal by adding two diamonds to each one. When I was done reinforcing the windows, Ema and I spent fifteen minutes unloading all of the green crates from the shed, before she started to put the truck back together and I cracked each crate open, going through everything. There was a lot of firepower in these boxes, not to mention ammo, attachments and afte...

(MMM) Eventually I will be adding more members to the Team.

Should I create my own characters, or should I pull from already existing DC lore. (If I pull from existing lore I reserve the right to shift and twist characters to make them fit better.)

The Conceptual Deck - Chapter 35 - Tingling

Hello Everyone. I added some edits to chapter 34. It was nothing major,  just a few details and a ending that flows better. I am attaching the new version here, as well as editing the original post. Thank you for your support!

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After I was done fixing a glaring hole in my armor I started upgrading everything else. I made a second pair of my armored underlayer, this time adding a bit more breath-ability and flexibility through added types of cloth. I also doubled ...

Mettle, Metal, Meddled - Chapter 11 - Endurance

I couldn't help but smile at Robin's response. They were interested, and now it was time to sell the details.

“Well first, I think it needs to be said that we would do this openly.” I explained. “We aren't doing anything wrong and I doubt we could really hide it for long anyway. We are doing what they want, we are just taking it several steps further than they might have expected.”

“Right, Batman probably already knows something is up.” Robin said, shrugging when we lo...

The Conceptual Deck - Chapter 34 Inspiration File

The Conceptual Deck - Chapter 34 - Magic

This has been edited.The original version is still attached, as is the new version. The changes are minor but large enough that I felt this was necessary. Thank you for your patience and support!

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Chapter 34 - Magic

The next morning was spent on one long shopping trip across multiple cities. I jumped from store to store buying makeup, clay, masks and everything else I needed to make three face changing masks, two for Natasha’s and one for Ema. After that...

The Conceptual Deck - Chapter 33 - New order

Gradually we went through my questions, starting with how often Clint resorts to violence, then moving on to his belief in Shield’s values, then if he had ever accepted a bribe. Apparently, it was pretty common for field active agents to be offered bribes even when not undercover and depending on the situation, they would sometimes accept to get proof someone was legitimately offering a bribe. Hard to say you were only joking when you're standing with a briefcase with twenty thousand dollar...

Mettle, Metal, Meddled - Chapter 10 - Foundation

The next few days was a combination of hanging out around the cave, practicing my earth bending and trying to get in contact with my team and Black Canary, the latter of which eventually did respond to my message. Unfortunately, it was only to apologize for taking so long to do so and to explain she would be around “soon” to start our training. I wanted to give her the benefit of the doubt as she had been very nice during tryouts, but “soon” felt an awful lot like “When I don't have...

The Conceptual Deck - Chapter 32 Inspiration File

There isn't much but I figured what was is worth posting it. Enjoy!

The Conceptual Deck - Chapter 32 - Delivery

I spent the rest of the day relaxing, watching Star Wars and occasionally writing ideas down in my notebook. Eventually I wanted to try and make a lightsaber, though in reality I would probably end up using it more as a tool for cutting than as a weapon. I also needed to try my hand at shields or some sort of conceptual ablative plating. When the second movie was over I spent a little while going over the guns I had gotten from the last raid I did. While I couldn't give them a proper cleaning...

Lair Divers Tale - Chapter 6-10

Hello again! Here is the second early viewing of Lair Divers Tale, Chapters 6-10. I would love to hear your feed back and I hope you enjoy!

The Conceptual Deck - Chapter 31 Inspiration File

The Conceptual Deck - Chapter 31 - Shocking

When I got back home I immediately started working on Ema’s bow to distract myself from the now too quiet apartment. I got the old bow from my room and laid it out alongside the two new ones. I compared the two new ones and the old one before deciding I wouldn't add the old one into the new version as it contained a few negative concepts like old, used and worn. I put it away and started going through the extra parts that I bought. As I suspected when I bought them, they all had concepts of...

Mettle, Metal, Meddled - Chapter 9 - Pancakes

The next morning I woke up early and immediately headed to the mountains gym and worked my way through some light exercises, which felt like nothing to my enhanced body. Honestly it was hard not to smile when I was bench pressing twice my old body weight and not even struggling. I was thinking through the plan for the day while running on the treadmill when I noticed Superboy coming into the gym. He nodded and headed for the benches, racking up pretty close to what I would consider my maximum...

The Conceptual Deck - Chapter 30 - I can see for miles

After a quick morning start up, Ema and I sat down and started planning our next project, Clint's glasses.

“You keep saying you have a plan for these, but you haven't explained anything.” Ema pointed out once I sat down on the couch with my notepad.

“Well it all starts with a base of those color changing glasses. I’m pretty sure you can get normal sunglasses that transition between clear and shaded.” I explained. “

“You're pretty sure?” She asked, her tone sk...

The Conceptual Deck - Chapter 29 Inspiration File

The Conceptual Deck - Chapter 29 - Travel Solutions

It took an hour of planning, research and preparing for me to finally leave the apartment after that revelation. In all honesty I had planned on taking an actual break on my first day back instead of jumping right back into everything, but it was impossible to ignore the potential my new cards held. So off I went, leaving the apartment and heading down to the parking lot… only to realize I still had my truck carded. With a curse I headed back inside and back up the stairs, grabbing my bicyc...

Mettle, Metal, Meddled - Chapter 8 - Quartermaster

Packing up took even less time than I had anticipated. Most of the clothes I had bought during my first few months were second hand and already on their last legs even before I started wearing them. I had been incredibly sparse with personalizing my tiny apartment, and even the tv I was using to watch the free channels wasn't worth lugging anywhere. I was already looking forward to getting my own clothes with the money Batman was setting up for me. I was even going to be able to get my licens...

The Conceptual Deck - Chapter 28 - Home again

It didn't take long for Agent Coulson and his cadre of Shield agents to arrive at the Bifrost site. He tried to cart off Jane and her friends for a debriefing but she refused to leave, forcing him to debrief us there. It took a while for everyone to talk about what had happened, but eventually we finished. By the time we were done Shield agents had already set up a much smaller quarantine area around the Bifrost site, already putting up a temporary fence. Jane still refused to leave, even as ...

The Conceptual Deck - Chapter 27 - Fighting chance

It didn't take long for us to run out of road in the direction we needed to go. The desert was sparse and thankfully empty, with scraggly bush covered hills. The ride was bumpy but due to the truck's upgrades it was nothing too severe. I could hear Volstagg whoop from the back as we actually caught air of a small bump, landing easily.

“How much further?” Thor asked loudly, leaning forward in his seat. “We should have-”

I slammed on the brakes and pulled the truck to the le...

Lair Divers Tale - Chapters 1-5 +Prologue

(I have decided to make these chapters open to the public so that people may read the beginning and get a sense of what the story will be about. All following early chapter releases will be exclusive to patrons.)

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 Hello!

Here is the first series of chapter for my first book, Lair Divers Tale (working title).  In case you missed it, I will be releasing these five chapter chunks on the first of every month. Eventually I will be posting the full book on here as...