Showing stories with the tag: Action
Worm
by Wildbow
An introverted teenage girl with an unconventional superpower, Taylor goes out in costume to find escape from a deeply unhappy and frustrated civilian life. Her first attempt at taking down a supervillain sees her mistaken for one, thrusting her into the midst of the local ‘cape’ scene’s politics, unwritten rules, and ambiguous morals. As she risks life and limb, Taylor faces the dilemma of...
Tags: Action, Alternate Universe, Anti-hero, Female Lead
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Battle is an Art
by Thomas Loud
Herah War Hej was many things: master artist, zealot teen, and unfortunate participant. One thing she was not, was human. Born in a universe where humanity never appeared, the artist is a Cendreux; a species of dragon-like, humanoid conquerors who’ve turned their backs on their god. She hopes to reverse this course so as to forge weapons for her race’s planet conquering needs in...
Tags: Action, Anti-hero, Fantasy, Female Lead
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Memoirs of Your Local Small-time Villainess
by Flameruner
An editor at the prime of her life—and with maybe just a little too much free time—finds herself waking up in one of her favorite RPGs with no clue as to what's going on or how to get back home. This might be the part where others rejoice over getting whisked away to a world of wizards and magic, but she certainly doesn't think it's anything to celebrate about. After all, she woke up in the...
Tags: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Female Lead
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Paladin
by Komikhan
When the first derelict alien spacecraft fell to Earth, humanity took what was found in it and propelled themselves to new heights. In their new Golden Age, humanity developed technology that they had only dreamed about. The following years saw hundreds more ships crash into the planet, spurring even greater technological leaps. An unassuming spacecraft, one of the dozens that fell yearly,...
Tags: Action, Alternate Universe, Science Fiction, Strategy
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Super Minion
by Gogglesbear
Fortress City has Super Villains, who have evil lairs, and in them they make super weapons. But when a bioweapon is granted super powers of its own, will Fortress City be able to handle the Super...
Tags: Action, Anti-hero
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The Gam3
by Ephemerality (Cosimo Yap)
The Earth is changing. The alien invasion brought social upheaval, advanced technology, and an armada of peacekeeping robots. But Alan, a college student pursuing a now-useless degree, cares little about all of this. He has only one thing on his mind: the Game. A fully immersive virtual reality, the Game appears to be a major part of the invading civilization. Alan can’t wait to play,...
Tags: Action, litRPG, Science Fiction, Virtual Reality
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The Legion of Nothing
by Jim Zoetewey
“You may kill somebody today. We won’t think anything less of you for it.” Nick Klein’s grandfather was the Rocket. For three decades, the Rocket and his team were the Heroes League–a team of superheroes who fought criminals in the years after World War II. But Nick and his friends have inherited more than their grandparents’ costumes and underground headquarters… they’ve inherited the...
Tags: Action, Adventure, Alternate Universe
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The Perfect Run
by Maxime J. Durand (Void Herald)
Ryan "Quicksave" Romano is an eccentric adventurer with a strange power: he can create a save-point in time and redo his life whenever he dies. Arriving in New Rome, the glitzy capital of sin of a rebuilding Europe, he finds the city torn between mega-corporations, sponsored heroes, superpowered criminals, and true monsters. It's a time of chaos, where potions can grant the power to rule the...
Tags: Action, Adventure, Alternate Universe, Time Travel
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Two Worlds
by BeamMeUpScotty
Two Worlds is a military sci-fi web serial set several hundred years in the future. It will follow multiple characters in an expansive universe as they fight to survive where things aren’t always as they seem; or they are and they’re just s@#t out of...
Tags: Action, Science Fiction
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