At fifteen, Cadye Everest thought he was buying a game for the gear. He had already survived Hard Mode. He barely crawled through Survival II. When a hidden difficulty, Apocalypse Mode, appears, Cadye accepts without hesitation. The screen goes dark... and the game doesn't end. Cadye wakes in the Cascade region, one month before Deacon St. John and Boozer begin their story. There is no HUD, no reset, no mercy, only a quiet System that forces him to choose two abilities that will define whether he lives or dies. He chooses Herbalist/Doctor and Marksman, trading raw strength for knowledge, precision, and painful responsibility. In this world, Freakers adapt, bullets are precious, and healing others may cost more than it saves. Cadye is not a hero, not a drifter legend, and not prepared for the weight of real blood on his hands. He must survive in the shadows, learning when to hide, when to help, and when to pull the trigger while the world of Days Gone unfolds just beyond his reach. This is not a power fantasy. This is Apocalypse Mode, played for real.

Seventeen-year-old Drake Cadmus Ordo expected Comic-Con, cheap plastic armor, and maybe a blurry photo with a celebrity. He did not expect the unmarked door he stepped through to rip him out of Earth and drop him inside an Imperial Academy in 4 BBY, six months before his assignment to Darth Vader's flagship, the Executor. Forced to survive as a stormtrooper cadet, Drake blends in as best he can until a mysterious System appears, gifting him with a 25,000 midichlorian count, knight-level combat instincts, and memories the Empire should never discover. Then it vanishes, leaving him alone with impossible power in the worst place in the galaxy to have it. To make matters worse, Drake uncovers a truth buried in Mandalorian history: he is the grandson of Pre Vizsla, born of two ancient clans that once held Jedi relics. And the Force inside him is waking. But Vader senses something wrong aboard his ship. The Force ripples where it shouldn't. A presence hides where none should exist. As Drake tries to hide his abilities, clones begin to suspect the truth. Vader draws closer. And when a mission turns into a massacre, when Jedi Masters reveal themselves, and the battlefield burns, Drake is forced to stop pretending. Back-to-back with Darth Vader, Drake reveals the power he never meant to use. Now Vader knows. And the galaxy will never be the same.

When sixteen-year-old Drax Silverthorne falls asleep after a night spent playing as a Black Prior, he doesn't wake to a game; he awakens in the blood-soaked world of Game of Thrones. Thrown into Braavos as an unwanted orphan sold by his own family, he has nothing but a harsh survival system, the knowledge of a military nerd, and a sealed egg belonging to a forgotten line of dragons. There are no game shortcuts, no godlike powers, and no heroism waiting to save him. If he wants to live, he must earn every coin through cunning, every skill through pain, and every piece of influence through calculated risk. From the shadows of the streets to the vaults of the Iron Bank, Drax begins building foundations meant not for survival, but for conquest. Through steel, fire, manipulation, and strategy, he will not follow the game of thrones. He will rewrite it. A stranger to this world. A black shield in the dark. The first king who will build an empire instead of inheriting one. Welcome to the rise of the Black Dragon.

Hadrian Winter never meant to change a story, only to finish watching it. But after falling asleep post-Season 4 binge, he awakens in the woods of Hawkins, Indiana, three months before the first disappearance. With someone else's memories, a one-tomoe Sharingan, and a System hidden inside his phone, Hadrian becomes an anomaly in a world not built for him. Hawkins is headed toward monsters, madness, and tragedy. Now, a new piece has entered the board, one who refuses to watch beloved characters die, one who plans to survive, and one whose powers might be more dangerous than the Upside Down itself. Stranger Things: The Winter Arrival begins not with a Demogorgon, but with a boy who shouldn't exist... and who might rewrite the nightmare.

Before the first shot of the Great War is ever fired, a spark appears on Cybertron that should not exist. Tenebrix Prime, once Sam Witwicky, now reborn through the AllSpark and the Matrix, arrives in the distant past carrying the memories of a universe already lost. Sent by Primus himself, Tenebrix is a temporal paradox, a triple-changer forged with ancient power and future insight, destined to reshape history before it destroys Cybertron again. But this golden age is already cracking. Megatron rises under the whispering influence of the Fallen. Sentinel Prime hungers for power and fears any threat to his legacy. Orion Pax trains in hope but remains blind to the storm approaching. And from the shadows, scientists, soldiers, and schemers move, each sensing that Tenebrix does not belong. Unaligned to Autobot or Decepticon, Tenebrix becomes a beacon of hope to some, a threat to others, and a mystery to all. With battle instincts gifted by the Matrix, ancient wisdom flowing from the AllSpark, and an unexpected bond forming with the lethal and alluring Airachnid, he must navigate a world on the brink of chaos. To save Cybertron, Tenebrix must change the past even if it means becoming the Prime history never recorded.