Villains Don't Save Heroes! (Night Terror Book 2)
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Better to pull an Aes Sedai where the truth I told someone wasn't necessarily the truth they thought they heard.
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“Y’know you might’ve defeated me a hell of a lot sooner if you’d used this sexy femme fatale routine to distract me instead of fighting me over and over again,” Fialux said.
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“Maybe he’s one of the guys from that Smash tournament. Honestly. A pretty girl shows up to their tournament and they thought they’d impress me by telling me girls don’t play video games? This is why nerds like that can’t get dates. They chase off the girls with their nastiness and BO,” Selena said, obviously working through some issues.
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The nerdling was trying his best to flirt, but the problem with talking to any guy in the Applied Sciences field was their idea of flirting was usually so socially inept that it had no relation with actual flirting as it was done in the real world. It didn’t help that most of their experience with flirting was theoretical. And tended to come from cartoons made in Japan which didn’t give them the best theoretical foundation for flirting with three dimensional women in the real world.
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"Well you don't have to be a jerk about it," he said, a hint of testiness coming to his voice. “You totally have to be a jerk with these guys,” Selena whispered. “I had a guy like him follow me around for a whole semester my sophomore year because he thought the professor assigning us together for one project meant we were going to get married and live happily ever after or something.”
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honestly a bogeywoman who jumped out of the shadows to terrify men who put down women in STEM might be a positive development in the field.
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he wasn't going to get very far with the opposite sex if he went around thinking he was owed sex just because he was nice, which seemed to be a problem afflicting a lot of young men with too little game and too much access to toxic Internet communities where they could swap pointers with other equally oblivious assholes who had no game,
Andromeda
Cough cough TRP
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“Y’know that might work a lot better if you told the people why they were being vaporized before you vaporized them,” I said. “Or, better yet, if you have someone around to see why the person’s getting vaporized so news gets out that they don’t want to fuck around if they don’t want to get vaporized.”
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She held her hand up and motioned for me to come at her. Which was a copy of a move from Keanu Reeves. Even when she was taunting me she couldn't do anything original.
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Several things happened in rapid succession. Not all of them were necessarily good for that whole plan to show her why I was the best villain in the world.
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I didn’t like it when my life’s genre of choice went from scifi to horror.
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Sure everyone thinks they're the hero of their own story, but I’d always been more than willing to call a spade a spade and admit that I was the hero of a story where I was the villain for everyone else.
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The university chancellors were going to be pissed. They might overlook Dr. Lana trying and failing to take over the world, possibly, but they certainly weren't going to overlook somebody fucking with the football program.
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The robot’s head flew back and it stumbled back into some of the bleachers. I would’ve winced if I was a football kind of person, but seeing as how I sort of resented the football program for taking away money from more important things I felt a sense of smug satisfaction as the falling bot caused a few hundred thousand dollars of damage.
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Don’t even get me started on how liquid metal Robert Patrick got sent back in time when he was made of fucking metal and only organic matter was supposed to make it through that portal, but I digress.
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Fialux was in serious danger because I’d treated this like something I’d be able to take care of no problem. I frowned. Looked down to my weapons. I had numerous options, there was no kill like overkill, and I decided fuck it. I fired everything I had.
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Honestly. Who punches out a freight train? My girlfriend, that’s who.
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It wasn’t the fall that killed you. It was the stop at the end.
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Whoops. Looks like I’d just given the university’s giant phallic symbol a bit of a circumcision.
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Then again nobody ever asked me or pulled me in to consult on those movies. Nobody ever bothered to send me a royalty statement for all those movies that were so obviously based on my exploits for that matter.
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Despite what the comic books and movies would have the general public believe, mutations didn’t work like that. Mutated cells gave people cancer, not super powers.
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I swooped in at just the right moment for a dramatically appropriate save. I hated that I was doing a dramatically appropriate save. Dramatically timed saves were the sort of thing heroes did. I was not a hero, damn it, no matter what Fialux said. No matter how much she kept trying to poke me and prod me into becoming a do-gooder.
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I was a villain, damn it, and I didn’t care about what public opinion thought of me as long as that opinion was that they should be terrified whenever I showed up!
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The emergency protocol kicked in when I was trying to escape from a sufficiently technologically advanced enemy. The computer sent me jumping around the city to several spots I’d scouted out for their emptiness. The locations were all set, but the order I teleported to them was at random. Though it would seem I needed to revisit a couple of locations since the abandoned office suite had been filled and what had been the dingy remains of a bar in the dodgy part of Starlight City had become a high end salon. Damn gentrification ruining my escape plan.
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“Estimated time?” I asked. “Several hours,” the computer said. “Unable to provide more detail than that at this time.” I grunted. “You’re worse than Windows Update.”
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Fialux was counting on me, even if she was unconscious in a med bay and had no idea she was counting on me.
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And yes, I know there are going to be some physics major pedants out there who talk about wind resistance and all of that stuff. Just let me have my smartass moment, please.
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Even when I’d been fighting Fialux for control of the city I’d never had the desire to actually kill and maim her. Dominate her? Yes… That brought a blush to my cheeks as I thought about some of the many ways I’d dominated her since then, but the less said about that the better. This wasn’t that kind of story.
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“I totally screwed that up,” Fialux said. I set my jaw. If I opened my mouth then I was going to say something we might both regret. Something that was the truth, but there was nothing that said the truth couldn’t be regrettable.
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The nice thing about the autonomous biological hunter killer units was all I had to do to keep them happy was give them the occasional cat treat and scratch them behind the ears and I didn’t have to worry about them suddenly learning to think for themselves and turn on their master. Though there was the occasional moment when a belly rub turned into a vicious mauling. That was a risk every cat owner had to take from time to time, though, and it was totally worth the visit to the medbay in my opinion because purr cuddles were irresistible. I don’t care who you are.
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I should’ve known Dr. Lana knew we were here. Why else would the robots target this building in particular? “Damn it Selena! Villains don’t save heroes!” I growled. Only that’s exactly what I was about to do.
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Clever girl. Not that it was gendered, robots didn’t have that kind of equipment, but that was the quote wasn’t it?
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“Over my dead body,” I said, taking a protective step forward. “That can be arranged,” she said. I hated that line, but I totally deserved that. I’d set her up and she knocked it out of the park. I couldn’t begrudge her taking the opportunity when she saw it.
All in a night’s work for the greatest hero Starlight City had ever seen! Wait. Villain. I totally meant to say villain there. Damn it!