Before the villain known as Mockingbird terrorized the modern world, Tomas Althaus lived in constant fear of having to talk with strangers. During the late 1980s, Tomas is just like any other college student albeit his introverted self tends to skip out on parties most of the time. Regardless, his life takes a drastic turn when a girl from Scotland and a man from Germany both arrive unannounced into his life-each wanting something different from him all the while hiding their true natures. While letting himself be caught up in a romance with the Scottish lady, Tomas is inadvertently introduced to a world of intrigue and lies when he begins to work under the man who now calls himself 'Uncle'; a place where even his younger brother, Alexander, can't be trusted to dabble in. Every criminal mastermind starts out somewhere, alas for Tomas, his turn to the dark side wasn't really his fault. At least not completely. Mockingbird's Origin Story from World Gone Mad! Prequel to World Gone Mad and set in the GEAR Universe.

A human being beats 7600 liters of blood in the body on average every single day. I counted myself as one among the humans. Until I learned I wasn't. May Competition Short story prompt Tied to the GEAR Universe, origin story of character in Still Standing and male protagonist in Charm. Cover by hayakiu, Necrocommunity.

With great glasses comes... great responsibility. And no one knows that better than Marcus, the black sheep of his family and the laughing stock of an entire criminal organization known as AoE. His first day in junior high is coming soon and he is determined not to give up his glasses. This is what happens when supers don't wear masks and reveal how they're just like all of us-striving to be normal in a world that doesn't welcome being the odd one out. The Loser: short-story based on a prompt for The Loser Writing Competition (Set while Marcus is in middle school, not yet a villain) Story featuring the main antagonist of WGM and protagonist of Imposter: Book 2 of GEAR Universe, set before WGM. Cover accredited to @avadel.

Sequel to Master's Apprentice. It's all fun and games when you're a superhuman, technically. However, for Maria, it's been nothing short of tragedy. Which gets worse when she's kidnapped from her school and ends up in an asylum. Then she meets him, a strange boy with answers to some of her questions and powered as well. That's when the real fun begins and the chase is on to avert a super assassin from her tail. For James, life's been a piece of cake, literally. Unfortunately, he doesn't want it to be that way. At a very haunted warehouse, he encounters this girl who can do extraordinary things. He follows her back to her family and even befriends her. The fun doesn't last as his life is thrown back in his face and he ends up running for his life. Did he really think he could escape destiny? Only time will tell...In GEAR: Book 1-World Gone Mad. Member of #ProjectSuper project. Member of #ProjectHero.

The rest of the world blurred as I ran. My heart thudded as my legs strained to keep running. Why was I running in the first place?, I wondered to myself as I just kept on accelerating. I spotted a shadow behind me and this motivated me to not give up. How long had I been running? Trying to evade the mad man at my back? It seemed like ages ago I had sported a fine bed. Through dark alleyways and endless turns, I realized I had moved a great distance, but my displacement was nil. I was back to where I started. Then and there, I finally just plopped on the ground from exhaustion and let defeat swim over me. The Shadow finally spoke after the long silence, "You can't keep hiding from me forever. _______________________________________________________________ Marcus wakes up like Jason Bourne, no memory of how he got there and chased by men on his heels. Why are people after him? And how come he can't remember anything? It seems that the more he runs from his pursuers, the more the answers get dicier. At the end of the day, does he even wanna know what he was before the TBI...or what he could become? Book 2 in GEAR Universe: Imposter. *Imposter is in the same universe as the other GEAR stories. Follow up sequel to World Gone Mad.* NaNoWriMo 2018 story.

"You're an angel and I'm a demon in disguise," Marcus stated bluntly. Is that what he actually thought of himself? No wonder the poor guy was depressed. "No. I'm a dragon and you're the hero." "Timekeepers aren't always heroes," he said nonchalantly while pacing the sidewalk. "You are." __________________________________________________________________ Long BaiMing is a Korean citizen by chance, not by birth. Her Chinese heritage makes her an outcast in a country known for the never-ending Korean War and at its best-ambivalence towards its Japanese and Chinese neighbors. Moving to the States for her uncle's job, she doesn't expect anything different from living in California other than American customs and their less than lackluster education system. He takes her by surprise though. Marcus is clearly the unexpected boy with dark eyes she thought she'd never meet. However, her world comes crashing down when she learns her life's a lie and that through her family legacy, she is to become a Dragonwalker. Too bad that forces are conspiring on the horizon to overthrow the world and everyone around her including her crush knows more than she does on what's going down. But myths always start somewhere right? Book 3 in GEAR Universe and Part 1 of Dragonwalker Saga: The Dragonwalker Sequel to Imposter.