#kuno writes

The alarms wailed loudly as Nero led Laura to the data center. 

“Doctor, where are we going? We have to get off the island,” Laura said, out of breath as she struggled to keep up with Nero.

Nero shook his head as he opened the door and led her inside. “No, Miss Brand.”

Laura didn’t think she’d ever seen him hesitate to speak before. Now, his composure wavered for just a moment before he continued. 

“I have to stay here. You are the one that needs to get off the island.”

“What? Doctor, there’s-”

“Stop. Don’t ask questions. We don’t have much time.”

Nero strode over to the large column in the middle of the room and started typing commands. Blue lights around the room began to glow softly as something began to boot up. Laura hadn’t seen a label for this room on the maps before, so she didn’t know what it was. 

Nero finished typing and turned to face her. “Laura. I need to talk to you.”

“Um, yes sir.”

“You never wanted to be here for your first three years as an Alpha, but you chose to stay. Why?”

Laura paused for a moment. There were so many reasons. 

“I always thought of this place as terrible. After… after the Glasshouse, I know what ‘terrible’ really means, and this isn’t it.”

Nero nodded. “You’ve changed, in your time here. You’ve learned about the world. When I first met with your parents, I knew you were a child who was raised in a home where you were loved. You didn’t see ugliness.”

“But there’s ugliness in the world, even if I didn’t see it.”

“It’s everywhere. In the disorganized, misguided, and evil governments, in the way problems go forgotten or ignored for years at a time. Left alone, the world is controlled by people with the wrong priorities, who don’t know what they are doing.”

Nero looked at Laura, waiting for her to respond. “That is the role of the supervillain. To see the world the way it is, and take control.” It was something they’d talked about in class for years, but she’d finally started to take it to heart.

“And what of Anastasia Furan?”

“She’s…” Laura looked for the phrase. “She’s not a supervillain. She’s a monster. She doesn’t limit herself, or take care of the repercussions of what she does. She only takes. She’s a black hole.”

Nero pulled a chair close to her and sat in it, so that he could look at her in the eye. His suit had been scratched and torn, and he had blood and soot smudged all over him, but he held himself the same way. “Knowing this, what is the role of GLOVE?”

After years of study at the HIVE, something finally clicked into place.

“To press back against the oblivion. The people in charge out there don’t know what they’re doing, and we want to rule in their stead, but there are truly evil people who threaten the very existence of the world. A supervillain can’t rule over ashes. If we’re going to take over the world, we have to protect it.”

Nero put his hands on her shoulders. “Those are all of the right answers.”

The alarms continued to blare in the background. The island was going, and soon.

Laura was very afraid, but she didn’t shake, and she didn’t break eye contact.

“Laura, you have learned so much. You came from an innocent family, but you’ve seen the worst of what the world has to offer. You’ve done terrible things. Once, you were manipulated into doing those terrible things, and now you know better.” 

He took a breath, and continued. “I remember when you shot young Malpense to save us from Overlord. I know it was hard, but I also know now that you’re a person capable of making those difficult decisions. You’re capable of great love and care, but you’re also capable of knowing when to cut your losses, and letting go.”

“Doctor Nero, what is this?” Laura asked, a knotting feeling growing in her gut.

“I’m not making it off the island,” he said simply. “I don’t know if I made the right decisions, in my time here. The HIVE was something I cared about very much, but I don’t know if I was right to rebuild it in the first place. That decision, and many others, is in your hands now.”

“What?” Laura shook her head slowly, but stopped, beginning to understand.

Nero stood up and walked back to the column in the middle of the room. He placed his hand on a palm reader and began to speak. “HIVEmind?”

“Yes, Doctor Nero.”

“I need to transfer all of my credentials to Laura Brand.”

There was a pause. “All of them, sir?”

“Yes, HIVEmind. All of them. Do it quickly.”

Long seconds passed. The blue lights that illuminated the room turned a forest green, and Nero pulled a large device out of the center column. 

He handed it to Laura. It was like a Blackbox, but much bigger.

“Files. On everything there is to know. Don’t share them.”

Laura looked up at him, gulping. 

“Are you sure, sir?”

“Absolutely. Now get out of here. Don’t look for anyone. I’ll stay behind and make sure everyone makes it out. Take care of that box.”

Laura only nodded. She didn’t have the voice for words.

She turned and walked out of the data center, the weight of the world on her shoulders.

Nero watched her leave. 

Summary: When the Todoroki and Yaoyorozu families arrange to marry their children off to strangers, the two students seek alternative solutions. Dealing with Endeavor, bratty basic white boys, teachers who assume the worst, and overly nosy classmates could eventually bring two people together pretty darn well. Very long, definitely TodoMomo endgame. T- language, vague suggestive comments.

Chapter 1 FF.N link: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12469092/1/The-Effects-of-Special-Relativity-on-Sublimation Chapter 1 AO3 link (edited to be slightly better version): https://archiveofourown.org/works/10972851/chapters/24431028

Decided to get back into writing for HIVE. Taking on this medium length project for the next few weeks. I'm really excited about it because it's the kind of thing I wish had been in the series, but I understand why it wasn't.

Summary: When the Todoroki and Yaoyorozu families arrange to marry their children off to strangers, the two students seek alternative solutions. Dealing with Endeavor, bratty basic white boys, teachers who assume the worst, and overly nosy classmates could eventually bring two people together pretty darn well. Very long, definitely TodoMomo endgame. T for language, vague suggestive comments, and lots of blood later.

Chapter 1: Metathesiophobia - http://archiveofourown.org/works/10972851/chapters/24431028

Chapter 2: Deadlock - http://archiveofourown.org/works/10972851/chapters/25414005

I wanted to write a story about farming and finding peace in a simple life but I've written a hell of a lot of romance in my day and Mark Walden only gave me so much to work with post series and I have never really had the opportunity to write an entire longfic with an established relationship before so the end result is that roughly half of the pagespace in this longass story is Ottra. I had a nice time writing it.

Ok, so I know the purpose of this blog was to make those cute JustHIVEthings pictures, but I haven’t made those since the first week and I made this blog two years ago, and we all know this is just my excuse to write fanfiction now. 

I used to write for the FFN HIVE archive (please don’t look me up, and I’m sorry to all of my followers that I never finished anything. You probably know who I am, I’m the one who had a bajillion running stories and never finished any of them. And yes, one of them was the dumb next-gen story where all of the casts’ kids had superpowers. I’m really sorry. I was 13.)

But I understand Archive Of Our Own is the hip thing now. Do you guys actually read it? If I post things on there, will you actually see it? I have so many new fics that are only posted here, and I don’t really know.... where to put them.