Category Archives: The Legion of Nothing

Arc 5.3: Breaking & Entering

Breaking & Entering: Part 3

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I digested that information in my head, and said, “I think the two of you should get out. Neither of you are immune to nerve gas, right?”

Jaclyn shook her head. Izzy looked down at me, asking, “But what about you?”

“The suit’s air tight, and the original Rocket fought gas using villains in the 80’s. Actually, he fought Dr. Madness as far back as the 50’s. So the suit should be able to handle it.”

“Should?” Jaclyn raised an eyebrow, and looked steadily at me.

“Will,” I said. Continue reading Breaking & Entering: Part 3 →

Arc 5.3: Breaking & Entering

Breaking & Entering: Part 2

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“Don’t move, or we’ll shoot!” Some kind of gun hung under each forearm of the lead guy—just like they’d hung under the forearms of Grandpa’s armor during World War 2.

On the one hand that could be a fanboy thing—Rook had said he’d admired Grandpa. On the other, it could just be more convenient.

The robot birds hovered near the top of hall, staying between us and them.

Filtering out the wings’ flapping, the Rocket suit’s newly enhanced ability to amplify sound turned noise into speech.

A tenor voice with a Midwestern accent said, “Teenaged girls? I’m shaking in my boots.” Continue reading Breaking & Entering: Part 2 →

Arc 5.3: Breaking & Entering

Breaking & Entering: Part 1

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Jaclyn punched too quickly for me to see her arm move, but the dome dented. She struck a second time as I registered the dent, and that time her hand went through.

She put both hands into the hole, and pulled back, tearing the roof like I might tear fabric.

I thought about reaching in to help, but I didn’t get the chance. Izzy reached in and tore it from the other side.

In seconds, they’d ripped a hole large enough for all three of us to jump through at the same time.

Izzy stared down into the gap, undoubtedly listening.

“They heard the roof tear, and they heard the jet. They’re sending people up.” Continue reading Breaking & Entering: Part 1 →

Arc 5.2: Here We Come

Here We Come: Part 6

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“Oh,” I said, looking over the instrument panel in preparation for take off, “by the way, we’re thinking that they’ve got psi-blocking devices all over.”

Alex said, “Well, that screws us over big time.”

“Yeah, we’re hoping to take them out, but if we’re lucky we won’t need to. Our first group’s got a good chance of getting Captain Commando out by themselves.”

“Good, because without teleporting, we’re not going to be much help. No one here can fly.”

So if we got in trouble, and couldn’t take out the psi-blockers, anyone coming to help us would have to do it the hard way. Continue reading Here We Come: Part 6 →

Arc 5.2: Here We Come

Here We Come: Part 5

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I thought about it a little more. No, my basic plan was still possible. We could have a rescue group and a distraction group. We just might have to join up afterward instead of having the distraction group get away quietly.

No, better yet, I thought—only risk the people who can take a lot of damage and whose powers allow them to get in and get out quickly.

“OK,” I said, “here’s the plan now that I’ve got an idea of what’s going on.”

Continue reading Here We Come: Part 5 →

Arc 5.2: Here We Come

Here We Come: Part 4

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Well, the gun shouldn’t become a problem, I told myself, not if Cassie’s around to control it.

On the other hand, I thought, you could argue that it might be even less of a problem if Cassie and every one of us completely ignored it forever. In fact, thinking about it abstractly, you could argue that Cassie’s very existence was a problem. If (as government scientists suspected) spliced in DNA caused the Abominator citizen’s mark to be written as a structure in her brain, reverse engineering it would open up the possibility of humans using truly horrible technologies.

Plus, what if aliens wanted it too for some reason? If anybody, they ought to have access to Abominator technology and the ability to remake it, right? On the other hand, Grandpa had implied that outside of their appearance on Earth, the Abominators had been gone for a while.

Then I remembered that Bullet said that the Nine had been infiltrated by aliens. Continue reading Here We Come: Part 4 →

The Legion of Nothing

My Publisher’s Giveaway

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Hey,

I know I mentioned this on the Facebook page, and in the comments here a few times, but I thought I’d directly mention this on the blog. My publisher is doing a giveaway for Legion of Nothing.

It’s run through Rafflecopter. This is how it works:

  • a “like” on the 1889 Facebook page will count as 1 raffle entry
  • a sign-up to my LON mailing list will count as 3 raffle entries
  • a comment on any of the blog tour posts will count as 1 raffle entry (readers can comment on each post once)

The prizes are the following:

Grand prize: Kindle + e-copy of LON for kindle
2nd: Hard copy of LON, LON tshirt
3rd: e-book bundle of LON and the Antithesis by Terra Whiteman (5 gift packs)

Essentially, you can enter 16 times, if’ I’m correct.

You can find all the places that it’s appeared here:

http://1889.ca/thelegionofnothing/

It ends in two days, and in an ideal world I would have mentioned it more obviously here, but, you can still win stuff, and it would be cool if someone who’s been following it here did.

UPDATE: It’s been extended for a few days and now ends in four days as of 8/26/12.

Plus, of course, there’s the Goodreads giveaway for the printed book (which also ends soon).

http://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/28765-the-legion-of-nothing-rebirth

Arc 5.2: Here We Come

Here We Come: Part 3

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Haley’s lips twisted. “Are you sure you want them to connect? Remember when we flew into space and that robot attached itself to the ship? I don’t want anything like that to happen. Especially not right now.”

I remembered it very well, and I could see her point. Technically though, the gun wasn’t anything like that robot.

Arguably it was worse. The robot had just wanted to escape while the gun (at least the way Cassie described it) took joy in destroying things.

So if I was going to use the ship to boost the gun’s range, I needed to start carefully.

I reached out, detached the gun’s holster from the clip on the chair, and picked it up.

“Gun, can you contact the ship? I’d like to ask you some questions. It’ll make it easier to get Cassie back.”

Continue reading Here We Come: Part 3 →

The Legion of Nothing

LoN Volume 1’s Cover (The Paperback)

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Hey everyone…

The Legion of Nothing: Rebirth (Volume 1)You’ve seen the Kindle/epub version off to the right, but if you want to see the front and back of the cover as it will appear in the printed version, you can do that now too. All you’ve got to do is vote for Legion of Nothing on Top Web Fiction. You’ll be redirected back here to see the image.

Why do it this way? Well, I just received a picture as a proof, and wanted to show it to people. I’ve also been curious to see if being at the top of Top Web Fiction’s list would result in more hits from the site.

This kills two birds with one stone.

So, click on the link above (and not the one in the sidebar) and you can take a look, and I’ll get to find out. We’ve got enough people reading to easily do that.

UPDATE: So far Legion of Nothing is in sixth place which is higher on Top Web Fiction’s list than before. Cool. I’m curious to see how high it can go.

UPDATE: It’s now at third place.

UPDATE: Whoa. Second place.

UPDATE: First (at 81 votes right now). Cool. Thanks, everybody, but keep on looking if you’re curious about the printed cover.

Arc 5.2: Here We Come

Here We Come: Part 2

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We let the telepathic connection lapse, and I concentrated on flying. Specifically, I thought about the route, and whether I ought to be getting special permission. The signal had come from Canada.

Theoretically dropping by without warning could cause an international incident.

Of course, Canada got along with the US pretty well. It wasn’t as if we were going to fly into North Korea, for example.

Still, Canada had its own supers as well as an air force, and I didn’t want to run into either of them.

Continue reading Here We Come: Part 2 →