"The Flood" and "Traitors"
Title: The Flood
Fandom: Pinky and the Brain
Genre: AU, Romance
Couple(s): Brain/Pinky
Warning(s): None
Fic Status: Complete
Summary: While helping evacuate a village, Brain learns that his associate can't swim.
Notes: Challenge #01 (Natural Disaster) from Set C from 10_hiddenrealms. Same universe as Where the Land Meets the Sea.
Brain’s arms flowed to one side as he redirected the water, repeating the motion again and again as more and more of the muddy liquid surged down towards him and the village. He heard the earth mages hastily building some sort of rock wall as he worked.
He gritted his teeth. The dirt mixed in with the water only seemed to make it harder to move it. It was thick, soupy, and not ideal to work with. Ordinarily, he would’ve simply filtered out the bits of earth as he called upon the power the moon and tides had given him. There was no time today. People had to be evacuated, and if the water rose over their heads, they were doomed.
“Brain!”
He ignored the voice of the Earth Master he’d started to call friend. He had to focus on redirecting the flood.
Then Pinky moved into his peripheral vision, planting his feet and starting to mimic his motions. He felt the water start to loosen as the mixed-in rock moved more willingly down and away.
The Water Adept ignored the rising water as it, in anger, tried to reach up and sweep him off of the building he’d perched himself upon. All the while, rain pummeled him and his companion, making the rooftop slick.
Not too difficult for him. He was born and bred for the glaciers of the north.
“The new walls are in place!” came a shout from below after some unknown time.
The two elemental mages stopped though Brain kept an eye down on the rock wall the other earth mages had created. It seemed sturdy enough…
A cry from his companion as a wave of mud-saturated water splashed up. Brain adjusted his footing and lifted an arm to shield his eyes as it crashed down on him and Pinky.
But when the water went on its way, the Water Adept noticed it took someone with it.
“Pinky!” Skating on the wet surface, Brain moved towards the edge to look down.
The earth mage’s head bobbed to the surface a little ways away, its owner being swept towards the valley. “Help!” He paused to cough. Water must’ve gotten into his lungs. “I can’t swim!”
The water mage’s first reaction was a mental demand of how the other could go through life without learning to swim. However, he pushed it away. The Earth Nation people had a tendency to stay away from shorelines, preferring to remain inland with the rest of their beloved rock. Of course Pinky wouldn’t know how to swim.
With barely a thought, Brain jumped in after him, the stinging cold of the sluice burrowing its way to the very marrow of his bones.
He ignored it, swimming with every last bit of strength towards the earth mage. “Pinky!”
Fortunately, he managed to reach the other before he sank below the muddy waves again. Their hands met and, instinctively, Brain pushed all of his power into the joining. He felt Pinky do the same.
A rocky outcropping suddenly became a bit larger and steadier as the earth shifted from their combined magic. The flood waters surged again, slamming the two men onto it with a powerful wave before the water rejoined the rest of the flood.
The earth mage coughed, releasing him and gasping for breath. Water that had ended up in his lungs splashed down from his mouth onto the rock.
The water mage simply lie still as he breathed heavily.
“Thanks…Brain,” the sandy-haired man gasped.
“Don’t…mention it.”
Title: Traitors
Fandom: Pinky and the Brain
Genre: AU, Romance
Couple(s): slight Brain/Pinky
Warning(s): None
Fic Status: Complete
Summary: Pinky rules the world with Snowball, but he feels like he's betraying someone he can't remember.
Notes: Challenge #04 (Betrayal) from Set C from 10_hiddenrealms. Same universe as Heartbreak Hangar.
Was it possible to feel like you’d betrayed someone when you couldn’t remember anyone you might’ve betrayed?
Pinky wondered that quite a bit. True, he and Snowball ruled the world-he was the hamster’s “Vice Dictator”-but there was something…off. It felt like he shouldn’t have been by the other rodent’s side, like he should’ve been with someone else. Therefore, by aiding Snowball, he had betrayed that other person.
But he didn’t know who that other person was. It wasn’t that super-powered baby; the child would do wonderfully with those two nice farmers. And “Clark”-as his new caretakers had called him-possibly wouldn’t even remember him.
He sighed and played with the condensation on the window, idly drawing a picture of a large-headed mouse he barely remembered.
Whatever happened to Brain anyway?
Snowball gave instructions that a certain hangar in New Mexico was to remain out of the public eye, especially from the eye of his vice dictator.
After all, he had a feeling that if the two mice ever met, it would ruin everything.
He smirked to himself. It really was too bad for his former friend.
Fandom: Pinky and the Brain
Genre: AU, Romance
Couple(s): Brain/Pinky
Warning(s): None
Fic Status: Complete
Summary: While helping evacuate a village, Brain learns that his associate can't swim.
Notes: Challenge #01 (Natural Disaster) from Set C from 10_hiddenrealms. Same universe as Where the Land Meets the Sea.
Brain’s arms flowed to one side as he redirected the water, repeating the motion again and again as more and more of the muddy liquid surged down towards him and the village. He heard the earth mages hastily building some sort of rock wall as he worked.
He gritted his teeth. The dirt mixed in with the water only seemed to make it harder to move it. It was thick, soupy, and not ideal to work with. Ordinarily, he would’ve simply filtered out the bits of earth as he called upon the power the moon and tides had given him. There was no time today. People had to be evacuated, and if the water rose over their heads, they were doomed.
“Brain!”
He ignored the voice of the Earth Master he’d started to call friend. He had to focus on redirecting the flood.
Then Pinky moved into his peripheral vision, planting his feet and starting to mimic his motions. He felt the water start to loosen as the mixed-in rock moved more willingly down and away.
The Water Adept ignored the rising water as it, in anger, tried to reach up and sweep him off of the building he’d perched himself upon. All the while, rain pummeled him and his companion, making the rooftop slick.
Not too difficult for him. He was born and bred for the glaciers of the north.
“The new walls are in place!” came a shout from below after some unknown time.
The two elemental mages stopped though Brain kept an eye down on the rock wall the other earth mages had created. It seemed sturdy enough…
A cry from his companion as a wave of mud-saturated water splashed up. Brain adjusted his footing and lifted an arm to shield his eyes as it crashed down on him and Pinky.
But when the water went on its way, the Water Adept noticed it took someone with it.
“Pinky!” Skating on the wet surface, Brain moved towards the edge to look down.
The earth mage’s head bobbed to the surface a little ways away, its owner being swept towards the valley. “Help!” He paused to cough. Water must’ve gotten into his lungs. “I can’t swim!”
The water mage’s first reaction was a mental demand of how the other could go through life without learning to swim. However, he pushed it away. The Earth Nation people had a tendency to stay away from shorelines, preferring to remain inland with the rest of their beloved rock. Of course Pinky wouldn’t know how to swim.
With barely a thought, Brain jumped in after him, the stinging cold of the sluice burrowing its way to the very marrow of his bones.
He ignored it, swimming with every last bit of strength towards the earth mage. “Pinky!”
Fortunately, he managed to reach the other before he sank below the muddy waves again. Their hands met and, instinctively, Brain pushed all of his power into the joining. He felt Pinky do the same.
A rocky outcropping suddenly became a bit larger and steadier as the earth shifted from their combined magic. The flood waters surged again, slamming the two men onto it with a powerful wave before the water rejoined the rest of the flood.
The earth mage coughed, releasing him and gasping for breath. Water that had ended up in his lungs splashed down from his mouth onto the rock.
The water mage simply lie still as he breathed heavily.
“Thanks…Brain,” the sandy-haired man gasped.
“Don’t…mention it.”
Title: Traitors
Fandom: Pinky and the Brain
Genre: AU, Romance
Couple(s): slight Brain/Pinky
Warning(s): None
Fic Status: Complete
Summary: Pinky rules the world with Snowball, but he feels like he's betraying someone he can't remember.
Notes: Challenge #04 (Betrayal) from Set C from 10_hiddenrealms. Same universe as Heartbreak Hangar.
Was it possible to feel like you’d betrayed someone when you couldn’t remember anyone you might’ve betrayed?
Pinky wondered that quite a bit. True, he and Snowball ruled the world-he was the hamster’s “Vice Dictator”-but there was something…off. It felt like he shouldn’t have been by the other rodent’s side, like he should’ve been with someone else. Therefore, by aiding Snowball, he had betrayed that other person.
But he didn’t know who that other person was. It wasn’t that super-powered baby; the child would do wonderfully with those two nice farmers. And “Clark”-as his new caretakers had called him-possibly wouldn’t even remember him.
He sighed and played with the condensation on the window, idly drawing a picture of a large-headed mouse he barely remembered.
Whatever happened to Brain anyway?
Snowball gave instructions that a certain hangar in New Mexico was to remain out of the public eye, especially from the eye of his vice dictator.
After all, he had a feeling that if the two mice ever met, it would ruin everything.
He smirked to himself. It really was too bad for his former friend.