Laurence Jones, an ordinary soldier at Valour International Military Organisation, had expected to fight a war against some humans to defend others. He had never expected to go against a whole alien race to protect mankind. * * * This more comedic yet darker counterpart and spin-off of Voltaic tells the story of Larry, Enrique, and his newfound acquaintances, Jennifer, Veronica and Tara, as they fight to survive a horrifying indundation of extraterrestrials as they flood Chicago with their kind. Larry leads the group in ensuring that they will live to tell this story to others, although they don't know one thing-that he had known about the attack beforehand. Valour had reiterated it just before it had all happened, that a mass casualty event would occur in the city. They called it the "Calamity of Chicago". ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Word Count: [[37,500-42,500 when complete]] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1st Place in the Luna Awards 2023 - Mystery/Thriller/Action Genre 2nd Place in the Hibiscus Awards - Action Genre 2nd Place in the Rose Gold Awards 2023 - Adventure Genre 2nd Place in The Crown Awards - Adventure Genre 3rd Place in the Literary Book Awards - Adventure Genre 3rd Place in Dazzle - Below 500 Awards - Action/Adventure Genre 3rd Place in The Magic Book Awards - Best First Chapter Category

WATTYS 2022 SHORTLISTER!!! ★━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━★ 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐬𝐮𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝? ★━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━★ Born in a world where people are segregated based on their abilities, twenty-six-year-old Veera Solace lives her life in the small country of Liquiord as the minority group - the disabled; or the differents, as the people like to call her. With an anonymous president and hostile community, Veera relishes her moonlit activities as Void, the shadow villain. Emotionally terrorizing her victims in hopes that they change their ways, Veera lives by burying her feelings and being what society wants her to be - teacher by day, vigilante, or villain, as the world calls her - by night. But with every villain, there's a hero and the hero to Veera's villain persona calls himself Spotlight. Their battles could rival the squabbling of a newly married couple, yet both Void and Spotlight are nothing near being a couple. They're strangers, enemies - people on different sides of the law. That changes, though, when a picture with no context is released to the public, sparking a worldwide debate about the relationship between Void and Spotlight. And as if that wasn't bad enough, there's a new hero in town - Infinite. To Void, he's nothing more than another nuisance, but to Spotlight, he's a mystery; an enemy. When havoc falls onto the city and eerily corresponds with Infinite's arrival, Spotlight, and Void have to put all feelings aside to solve the mystery that digs so deep in the past that they may never recover from it. ~*~ Featured on @antiherosgalore "Wicked Women": 12/19/22 Featured on @crime "Like a Woman": 5/28/23 Featured on @superheroes "Anti-Heroes and Awesome Antagoni