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AI Sada vows to be the mom Arven never had, but when the heinous Mastermind of Deception rises from the future, the young android must do everything she can to stop them from taking her humanity.

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It has been a month since the events in the Great Crater of Paldea, and Arven is still struggling to accept what AI Sada told him and his friends. A chance encounter with the Legendary Pokémon Miraidon encourages him to use its powers to re-open the time machine and send him back to the time of Paradox Pokémon, where he finds the mysterious android.

All Sada wants is for Arven to have a mother's love. After a trip through time to the future, she is given the gift to bring her son to her; only this gift proves to be nothing more than something that wants to steal her humanity.

At the end of the day, Sada's fate does not rest with the human emotions but Arven's struggle against his infrared. Will he accept Professor Sada's fate, or will the Mastermind of Deception pull him and AI Sada apart before they can call themselves mother and son?

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*Shout-out to my dad, who helped me plan the story and create the Mastermind of Deception!*

*Written in honor of my older brother (September 1989-August 2021).*

* Genre (s): Fanfiction/Dark Science-Fantasy/Coming-of-Age/Drama*

Part 7 of the "Sign of the Timez" Series.

Now I was sent to Ireland in 1847. There was a famine and everyone was so hungry and sad. The people have given up hope and I knew it will be hard for me to have hope

Sarah remembers being reborn with amazing gifts. She knows why people were gifted their fantastic powers. She knows why women with powers were fewer and why their abilities were stronger. Sarah remembers how it all started. But she doesn’t know why she has other people’s memories.

Reality had cracked. With her found family, Sarah tried to stop an enemy unbound by time and save a girl from becoming something dark and sinister. All the while she was keeping darkness from taking over her own body.

Fate was against them and failure meant the end of the world and possibly the unraveling of reality itself. Were these things destined to happen or was there a plan even their enemy could not see? Sarah didn’t know if this was the end of her life or just the beginning of the next one.

This is a finished novel. For now, a new chapter will be posted every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Comments are welcome, just please be constructive. This is the first work I've posted and it's still very much in the still needs work phase.

The background cover image is an edited version of a photo by Maksim Romashkin, found on Pexels.com. The logo is my creation.

Meeting the man you were made for is always an exciting experience, right? But what if you meet him while running from the people who created you, the very people who want to take you back so they can begin their freak show again. Then the meeting becomes a bit more complicated.

Throw in the fact that you're running through a planet controlled by an alien empire and you have the setting for a very strange relationship. But when your heart wants something bad enough, it will find a way.

Year 500 The Meiji Restoration

This was the day the world fell into darkness. The day all humanity knew was twisted and contorted into something unstable and evil. The Capital city of this dark time Ōkoku was a town like others where the people lived their daily lives but this night was the night all would become none of what it once was. On a nearby boat fishermen were doing their job trying to catch big fish for the city and their own families so they could make their living and be done with it. But one fisherman spotted something across the sea. It was getting closer and closer, a creature at sea and it was speeding across the water as if it were on land! The men shouted at each other to ready the guns and cannons as they began firing at the beast; the bullets and cannonballs bounced off like pellets. The demon charged lightning in its mouth and fired out a blast setting the ship ablaze and leaping over it rushing into Ōkoku, burning and killing civilians. Just as that demon entered Ōkoku other demons began to follow shortly. They all rushed into the city, birdlike creatures flew in and fired waves after waves of searing flame down onto the city, torching people. Demons ran through the streets eating people, swallowing their souls and breaking buildings as their commander made himself known among all the chaos.

"Such beautiful suffering, I can't believe it has finally come, to think I almost missed the end of the world. Such pure pure ecstasy." His wings spread as he motioned for all the demons under his command to attack.

"The demons have shown themselves to the world, now we have no reason to hide ourselves. Kill as many as you can without worry of being spotted." A man's voice echoed through the heads of many. A man stood on a roof with his rifle aimed at the lion looking beast that destroyed and killed those people at the harbor. He lined up his shot and took fire, sending the beast flying and crashing down dead. A comrade of his used her Naginata to cut the legs off of one of the many giant demons before spinning around and slashing its head clean off. Another warrior tossed his chain onto the wing of a flying demon, sinking the blade in using the momentum of the demon's flight he launched into the air, zipped around, and came down slicing its back open, killing it in a single strike. It came down with a screech crashing to the ground as the man landed on it. These were the rays of hope that these citizens needed, allies who were just as powerful if not more powerful than the demons. So much so they could be considered demons themselves but not just any demons. These were The Fiends, Demons who kill Demons! They came in full force following the orders from their capital, known as the Divine Mountain. They all stood together strong and with wills unbendable and emotions incorruptible and with them came their captain. A warrior who graduated to the top of the Divine Mountain in mere weeks, a record unheard of by any Fiends known to record. Known as "The Tyrant Of The Battlefield", they called him a Warlord and One Of The Divine Mount's Greatest Fiends.

Dani was an apparently typical twenty-something barista and amateur movie critic when she befriended Toru, a man claiming to be from the future.

Toru said he was skipping through time, to find writers like George Orwell, whose fictional worlds were transforming the Earths found in thirteen parallel universes into actual dystopias.

Now with the help of a military code breaker, Dani is trying to stop a sociopath who is also aware of this power to design and reign supreme over multiple versions of our world.

A group of teens find themselves caught in time with only each other. Each one has their own scars and secrets. Each one has a flair that they must use to escape the time prison. The group begins to follow the only leads they have, which may end up leading them across the earth. With the seconds ticking down, will they be able to find the reason behind everyone's disappearance, or will they all be lost in time forever?

When 14-year-old Aurora discovers a hidden portal in her book, she's thrust into a world where her choices shape reality. This novel takes young and older readers on thrilling adventures through new worlds, offering multi-level educational values for children and young adults.

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Prodigies, the protectors of time. Without them, the concept of time itself would be destroyed. Catherine was selected as one of those Prodigies. So when the Fabric of Time is ripped by mysterious forces, she has to rally up three more Prodigies of different Time Periods to return it to it's original state while also stopping the obstacles that stand in their way. With their newfound Gifts, they might have a chance.

Selara is a child born of Elemental and Dark Majik.  To some in the kingdom she is an abomination while to others she is hope for a peaceful tomorrow.  She is sent into the past in order to protect her from certain death from assassins.  When she returns on her seventeenth birthday she  is immediately attacked and must seek refuge with her parents in the last Elemental holdout.  She seeks out mentors to help teach her to control the Majik raging within her.

Bree has spent 113 years living in an abandoned mansion for a crime she never committed, and she only has 387 years left before she's free. Miraculously, she's given the chance to prove her innocence but she only has two years to do it. The world has changed a lot in the 113 years she's spent in prison. From encountering different gangs, space pirates, and old frenemies follow along to see what happens to Bree!

Sometimes or Most of the time I feel the loose of myself

Gotta figure it out what is the closed door behind it

Don’t know why but the reason can be laziness of myself

What I’m gonna do and what I’m going to become trickle me down always to the ground

I’m standing, Can’t lift myself up no matter how hard tried

Because of the heaviness, I got thinking and waited long enough

Someone will come sooner to rescue me out

Seems like only I can do the escaping along the way of the path

Everyone was here and there did the right thing since the start

No more can’t give out or passes the weight of continuation of the journey we got

The cure was inside the head all the time trying to spill out

It split apart and choose to go on a different path

One was easy and the other one like always a hard one

Please gives me opinions to choose the correct one

On the way, it’s a very hard and dark one

Forget to learn how to cross the line

Jaywalking on the lines got us nearly seen by the red lights

Saying time is an act against us