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Challenge #00265: Pour Encourager Les Autres.

What finally prompted the start of assassination attempts on Fawn Jackson? – Wierdlet

“Sooner or later,” they said, “she is going to mess up.”

“The lure of wealthy living,” they said, “will make her one of us.”

“She can’t possibly rework the system with what little she has,” they said, “she’s going to crash and burn.”

And on the off chance that she might not act according to their sneering predictions, they put the regular obstacles in her way.

Two years later, she owned two mega-corporations and a significant portion of the largest continent on Greater Deregulation. She did not own a car. She did not own a mansion. What she did own was a large number of residential flats, which she had gathered incrementally, and used to make her next purchase. (Alongside fixing what was wrong with the buildings and lowering the rent.)

This time, it was an offer on Main Transit.

“If she buys Main Transit,” they said, “she could soon own us!”

They sent the first assassin the following week.

How dare she work to make everyones’ lives better! That just wasn’t the Deregulation Way.

Unfortunately for them, she had also purchased Main Security.

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Challenge #00264: Getting (Gender)Bent

A (relatively speaking, since we’re dealing with mutant hero teens here) typical day in the life of the Evo!X-Men.  The twist?  Everyone’s the opposite sex. Cue guest cameos by Magneto and the Acolytes and/or Mystique and the Bro– er, Sisterhood.  –Josh

Kit Pryde learned to keep his head down around certain times of the month. He, and the other boys in the mansion - Oro, Gene and Rogue - kept on their best behaviour.

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Challenge #00263: Moebius Repair

“We already fixed that”

“Wait, we fixed it too”

“We did it last night”

“How many times has it been fixed?”

*someone tallies the numbers*

“11 times, in the last 2 months”

Job #2984QEW8: Rattle in the air duct at Left Topsy-Turvy Town.

Rael’s Finder app had flagged it because it included a box of chocolates as a bonus payment. Nobody else had tagged it as theirs, so he leaped

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Challenge #00262: One Fine Afternoon at the Student Labs of Transylvania Polygnostic University

“Pull the lever, ____!”

“Wrong Lever!”

“Reanimation, of course, is a touchy subject. Unauthorised, unwanted reanimation has been the source of many problems. Of course, it’s easier with a construct, which is why we have our projects on the electrified slabs, today.”

Professor Kransky stoked the Lightning Engine and started the turbines. “NOW!” She shouted over the noise. “PULL THE LEVER!”

Oklitov, of course, reached for the

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Challenge #00261: Foiled Again

“Why do we even have that lever?”

It was painted toxic-red. With radioactive-yellow stripes spiraling around the handle. It was labeled, LEAVE OFF OR DIE.

Katie stared at Kev. “Ye ken how Hackmeyer loves tae twiddle, aye?”

“Uh. Whut?”

Honestly. They’d shared classes, lectures and projects for most of the year and he still didn’t understand her.

“Hackmeyer. The Professor.”

“Yeah?”

“He likes tae mess with the

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Challenge #00260: Bubbles in History

Since you like Adventure Time (and I hope you’ve seen some of the more recent episodes, minor spoilers in prompt)

Bubblegum: Journey from Irradiated Pink Ooze to the founder of a Kingdom.

[AN: Warning - Rampant headcannon ahead]

See…

A wrecked city. It used to be called Cincinnati, before the bombs fell. The survivors braved its depths for supplies. Useful things. Food. Metals.

Feel…

It hurt to be alive. She was alive. She couldn’t leave. She

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"Well, Sweetie..."

“Mommy, how did you meet Daddy?”

(#00259)

He blushed. “Uh…” He glanced over at Edi. Edi nodded.

“Well… I was naked at the time…”

“Da-a-a-ad….”

“No, he’s telling the truth. Daddy wasn’t wearing so much as one red stitch.”

“There was the band-aid. That was technically cloth.”

“It was on your left shoulder. It doesn’t count as clothes.”

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Challenge #00257: What a Wonderful World

When truly equity is nurtured upon Mother Earth between the genders (Again, because I’m thinking of MLK.)

“So… Mari. Is that one a he or a she?”

“Gram-MAAAA…” Mari blushed. “You promised…”

“I did, I did. I’m sorry. I forgot.”

“I only let you be my show-and-tell ‘cause you promised you wouldn’t do any of the old-fashioned stuff.”

Gramma nodded. “I

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"Why We Won't Stop Fighting For Our Right To Purity"

Someone with an ARTICULATELY RATIONAL reason for detesting Sara and waging futile jihad against mutants because of her. (Just because I’m feeling deep in my ‘Sympathy for the Devil’ phase today being the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington.) Something akin to what Luther did on the doorframe would be nice as well.

(#00256)

The photo showed a slightly-horsey girl with green-blue scales. She was smiling, but not looking at the camera. The resolution made it clear

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Challenge #00255: The wall and the Hypocri-sea.

The invisible fence, 15 feet high that divides the America that lectures others on “multiculturalism”.

It was a rich white girls’ party. Anyone watching the video could tell. It wasn’t in a house. It wasn’t even in a mansion. It was in a palace. The theme was multiculturalism.

She was wearing sexy lederhosen with a chinese shirt and Inca shoes. She also sported a rainbow sombrero and a necklace made of ‘fangs’.

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Challenge #00254: Honey, and Plenty of Money

Bees.

[AN: Any relationship between certain corporations in this fiction and certain poison companies is strictly imaginary]

Fantraxin did not kill bees. That was its primary selling point. It killed all other insects that may predate on crops, but not the bees. How it did so, of course, was a company secret.

A secret that made them the largest corporation on the planet, almost overnight.

Or, at least, it would have. If they weren’t already the biggest global power ever

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Challenge #00253: I'm Sorry, We Can't Help You

Greater Deregulation’s more esoteric moments.

“But I don’t have any of my papers. My house burned down.”

“If you had signed up for the TrakMe program…”

“I had. My parents signed me up just after I got a name. I’ve been trying to sign on with or without their help for forty years.”

“You can voluntarily sign up for the TrakMe program at any time,” recited the

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Challenge #00252: Be Careful What You Wish For

Agent Pertwee and the first moments he realized that his job sucked for reasons he didn’t expect.

[AN: Once again, it’s Jane Pertwee :) ]

The FBI had been covertly watching this school for some time. Now, with the Mutant Registration Act, it was watching more overtly. As in, agents in the field, tailing their respective suspects, and making sure that a bunch of teenagers with superpowers….

Well…

Didn’t wind up acting like a bunch of

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Challenge #00251: Terror Watch

Agent Pertwee and his take on watching the terror with the textiles.

[AN: Agent Pertwee is a girl :P]

Agent Jane Pertwee sighed. She’d signed up for Terror Watch because it was the fast-track past the glass ceiling and on to better things. She should have known that the dicks upstairs would have picked the one least likely to do anything worthy of garnering promotion by stopping it in its tracks.

Right now, she was holding up a wall watching

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