"Child, grocery shopping for a bunch a heroes should be labeled a superpower!" Ma Hunkle manhandles the cart like she's a NASCAR champion through the throngs of people in this place. The Christmas lights around town always cheer her up and make her glad to be here for yet another blessed holiday. Otherwise, it's average dark and dreary winter ( Read more... )

(Bendy-timed to August 17th)Lian's been distracted most of the day doing other things, but that doesn't mean she doesn't suspect there's a party being planned for her. She'd be right. Unknown to her (though Roy didn't put anything past his baby girl), there's been quiet setup for weeks ( Read more... )

Takes place 12/2008

Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning, and under every deep a lower deep opens. --Ralph Waldo Emerson ( Read more... )

The Monitors observe the various universes. One for each universe.

But then there's Hypertime. Hypertime, which weaves in and out of various other realities. Some of these shards of timelines are critical to the support of the crystalline fragile structure of some universes.

But there are many that are just plain silly.

Here are but a few.

( One week ago... Approximately... )

Cassie finally sighed as she sent in the paperwork. She'd crunched the number, looked at all her options, checked through the Financial Aid package, and scholarship offers, and finally come to her decision. It would kill her to move so far away from her mom and Kon, but at least she'd be closer to Donna and Tim. So sweet with the bitter ( Read more... )

Sand had placed the call out.   A celebration.

There was much to celebrate.  Two major disasters in a matter of weeks, plus other, smaller scale victories.

And it was Thanksgiving.

League, Society, Titan, Outsider.  Hero. Any hero.

Let the festivities begin.

 Because of the focus of the San Francisco branch of S.T.A.R. Labs - namely, the study and research of meta-humans - they were used to having really tight security.  And usually they've got enough to hold their own against an attacking bad guy...or one trying to escape.

They haven't really faced anything like this yet, however.