CLOUD CASCADE
- Reads 3,488
- Votes 230
- Parts 14
MatureOngoing1h 53m
Last published Sun, Mar 1, 2026
It's the year 398 of the Ninth Era, an age dominated by the Federation's authoritarian control and by the insidious influence of megacorps like Mercator Group. Human-piloted, mass-produced machines known as Frames define the battlefield, surveillance programs monitor your every move, and no one alive remembers what it was like before it got this way.
It's in this tightly-wound, bloody ecosystem that four lives collide. The Knife, a mob enforcer with the ability to bend matter, ends up a courier for a piece of tech she's been trained not to ask questions about. Angela, a Frame Pilot Specialist with the Ministry of State Affairs, fights for justice only to find deafening silence. Grey, her teammate, just wants to keep the squad sane. Major Falwin, their superior, investigates a crime scene and finds a Knife-shaped ghost.
Nobody has all the pieces to the puzzle-not until Frames drop, guns are pointed, and the nature of reality becomes a question mark. In this new, unrelenting conflict, there won't be any winners, only more devastation.
All Rights Reserved
Join the largest storytelling communityGet personalized story recommendations, save your favourites to your library, and comment and vote to grow your community.
You may also like
My Unexpected Bastet Clan
The contraband wasn't weapons or drugs. It was three tiny, mewling kittens, hidden away on a dead pirate ship. As the best scout in near space, Vinze Kees expected a bonus, not a life sentence of diapers and round-the-clock feedings. He certainly didn't expect them to be Bastets-a mysterious, reclusive race whose children are prized on the black market. And he definitely didn't expect their embassy to declare him their permanent guardian. According to their laws, the kittens had imprinted on him. For life. Now, Vinze-a battle-hardened, independent omega who never planned on a family-is on mandatory maternity leave. His world shrinks to the four walls of his apartment, dominated by three alien babies who grow at an astonishing rate, demand constant touch, and seem to think his primary function is to be their personal climbing tree and milk bar. But as his foundlings rapidly mature from helpless kittens into three brilliant, powerful, and fiercely possessive alpha males, Vinze's feelings begin to shift. The line between guardian and something more blurs. They are no longer his children; they are his protectors, his obsession, and they've made it clear they have no intention of sharing him with anyone. He saved them from the clutches of pirates, but can he survive the terrifying, all-consuming love of three Bastets who have claimed him as their true mate? I will be posting this story on RoyalRoadComplete
happy to be in your shadow // tim wright x reader
A self-indulgent Tim Wright x reader fanfic, I luff him!!! Possible slowburn, will have hurt/comfort :)) Two depressed people licking each other's wounds basically hehehe WILL CONTAIN SPOILERS FOR MARBLE HORNETS!!! I will try to make it easy for people that haven't seen the series to follow along :) Y/N works at a convenience store that cigarette smoking sideburns having Tim Wright frequents. Ever since Y/N first interacted with him, they have started to see things. Y/N is drawn into his world, whether influenced by The Operator or not. "Curiosity killed the cat." He says, but what happens if someone with a bit of brazen (and possibly foolish) curiosity is just what Tim needs in his darkest hours? I hope that at least one Tim Wright loving individual loves reads this :) If I fuel one person's love for him then my duty will be fulfilled hehehehahaha Also I don't edit the chapters much so expect misspellings
Why me? (CALL OF DUTY - ALTERNATE UNIVERSE)
...I love him... A single word that has just locked my heart in a tangle of thorns, a heart that grows together with this feeling, but is stung by thorns because it is daring... and in this daring it grows and grows, not caring for the pain that will result from being forced into thorny chains. CALL OF DUTY - ALTERNATE UNIVERSE ❤️Mariam = original character and protagonist of the story ❤️Julian = Makarov with the name of his new actor 💀Simon Ghost Riley = Simon ❄️Andrei Nolan = Andrei 🌼Milena Romanova = Milena 🥞Veronika = original character ⚠️⚠️⚠️LATE CHAPTERS WARNING RAPE⚠️⚠️⚠️ (Please do not use or publish my story without my consent!)Complete
BORDERLINE (18+)
ᴡʜᴇɴ ʜᴀᴘᴘᴇɴꜱ ᴡʜᴇɴ ʏᴏᴜ ꜰᴀʟʟ ɪɴ ʟᴏᴠᴇ ᴡʜᴇɴ ʏᴏᴜ'ʀᴇ ꜱᴛɪʟʟ ʙʀᴇᴀᴋɪɴɢ? 𝐉𝐮𝐧𝐞 𝐄𝐝𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐬 is officially at rock bottom. Her moods are unpredictable, her impulses reckless and healing feels like a mountain too steep to climb. She's forced to leave her wild and carefree university student life behind. June struggles to come to terms with her diagnosis. Finding herself living with estranged mother in a quiet and unfamiliar seaside town, where the silence makes everything louder. 𝐎𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐞 knows what it means to lose someone slowly, and then all at once. Grief sharpened him into something rough. His tattoos are his armour, humour and charm his defences. He learned the hard way that loving someone sick can destroy you. Together they are a wildfire. Intoxicating and comforting, finding refuge in each other. As their lives collide, the line between love and self destruction blurs. Healing and falling into old pattens are balancing a tight rope. And some wounds refuse to heal quietly. "By the time you are reading this, I'm gone." 𝐴𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑖𝑡 𝑎𝑙𝑙, 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑖 𝑐𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑠 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑑? A story about loving someone at their worst, and what that might cost. - Slowburn angst - Smut warning (and kink) (𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬 𝐝𝐞𝐩𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬, 𝐚𝐝𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐯𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐚 𝐬𝐞𝐱𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞). 🏅2 in Moving Forward 🏅5 in Love & Loss
The Bright Room | 18+
* currently undergoing significant edit, I would not start reading it right now, wait a couple of weeks :D* A deconstruction of dark romance set within a psychological thriller, wrapped in an erotic horror story, inside an urban fantasy setting, infused with sci-fi elements, and sprinkled with plenty of nerdiness. I can't guarantee you'll like it, but you definitely haven't read anything like it before. Fair warning - the erotic horror elements are pretty hard. ------ Samantha is ambitious, determined, and strong - a habitual overachiever. But happy? Never. She returns to her hometown and her old best friend, hoping for a weekend of respite, perhaps even a fresh start. Instead, she finds herself thrown into mortal danger, left hovering one breath from death. But survival is only the beginning. Saved by a man whose intentions are anything but clear, Samantha undergoes a procedure far worse than dying, losing herself, layer by agonizing layer. She awakens in the Bright Room reborn - a mystery, both to her captor and herself. To reclaim her life, she must confront impossible questions. Is freedom worth becoming a monster? Can she exact vengeance on the one who saved her? And does she truly want to? For you if you love: Strong, complex women who never back down; moral ambiguity; intense psychological drama; power struggles; trauma explored deeply; twisted relationships that make typical love/hate dynamics look tame. Not for you if: You're young or easily triggered - this story doesn't look away when bad things happen. Note: the cover is temporary, working on a proper one (though similar). ----------- If you are reading this story on any other platform other than Wattpad you are very likely to be at risk of a malware attack. If you wish to read this story in its original, safe, form, please go to https://www.wattpad.com/user/paleverse . Thank you.
Echoes
Vida Mehr has killed her employer after years spent under his control and, with his death, established safety for those in her territory. It's only when someone she doesn't particularly want to help asks for safety that she questions how much of her former boss she is going to mirror in her own leadership. As months pass into years, Vida is faced with forming and breaking alliances based on her decision and is left wondering if she made the right choice with one Lucas Bradley's request for amnesty. --- Before he was handed the keys to a collapsing kingdom by one Vida Mehr, Lucas had his own plans to climb as many ranks as he could. The sacrifices made along the way couldn't have mattered more than taking upper echelon positions...could they? In the aftermath of their alliance, Lucas wonders what he will need to do to both keep from stepping into his former commander's footsteps and keep his own medical condition from damaging the progress this truce has made. -- Vol watches the world change around them after Vida and Lucas's alliance solidifies, but is forced to balance their own life's changes while observing the new peace. -- (A short story in three parts)Complete
Tethered Through Time- {10th Doctor x Reader}
All I wanted was to come home to my family-the one I built with the Tylers and Mickey. Instead, I came home to aliens, a blue box that travels through space, and a man with centuries in his eyes and a warmth I can't explain. He says he's just the Doctor. But the universe seems to bend whenever I'm near him. Just a warning, this story was thought of as a plus size Reader. Also some of this story will follow cannon episodes, but most will be original. I hope you enjoy! Feel free to comment, comments give me more motivation:)
The Caretaker He Bought
"You're not here to fall in love." "Trust me, sir... I don't even know what that means." She was sold like a possession-traded away by the very people who were supposed to protect her. At just seventeen, she finds herself in a cold, unfamiliar mansion owned by a powerful man known for his silence, strict rules, and a heartbreak he never talks about. His only condition? Take care of his one-year-old daughter. Don't speak unless spoken to. Don't enter his study. Never touch him. For her, following orders is nothing new. Obedience has kept her alive this long. But the baby's soft cries break something inside her, and her tender touch begins to warm a house that forgot what love felt like. He tells himself she's just a caretaker. Just a temporary solution. But night after night, she shatters rule after rule... And soon, his heart becomes the final one to break. 🎯 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐫𝐞 Genre: Romance / Drama / Slow Burn / Hurt-Comfort Age rating: 16+ (emotional abuse themes, mature emotional content)
Little Light (GxG)
In a world that moves too fast, she's learning to breathe slowly. To feel again. To let someone touch the parts of her she thought were long gone. There are no crowns here. No thrones. Just the quiet war of learning how to be held without flinching. She doesn't beg for safety. She creates it in silence. And when she kneels, it's not for weakness- it's because she trusts. But trust has a pulse. And it just might be hers. A story of shadows softened by light, of control given, not taken. Of healing whispered through touch, and love written in silence. This isn't where the pain begins. It's where it learns to rest. ⚠️ WARNING ⚠️ : EMOTIONAL INTIMACY SUBSPACE SLOW-BURN HEALING TRIGGERING THEMES (VULNERABILITY, TRUST, PAST TRAUMA) 🔴 Tops: 🔴 1. Save haven 8/1/2026 1. Cozy vibes 8/1/2026 1. Soft dark 8/1/2026 1. Trustworthy 8/1/2026 1. Soft dominance 19/1/2026 1. Healing through love 19/1/2026 2. Wlw 3/1/2026
These Vengeful vows
They were promised to each other before they could even speak. Heir to an empire. Daughter of a legacy. Bound by a deal neither of them asked for. She's learned to live with the panic that shadows her nights, the anxiety that claws at her chest when the world becomes too much. He's learned to bury the ghosts of his past under power, wealth, and a name that opens every door. But the marriage contract changes everything. One bed. One future. No escape. And just when they begin to see beyond the walls they've built around themselves, a message arrives: I know who killed your mother. The sender? A man the groom once called brother. Someone who lost eight years of his life while he walked free. Someone who wants revenge, not just on him, but on the family that destroyed everything. Lies will surface. Loyalties will shatter. And in the middle of it all, two broken souls will have to decide if they can trust each other... or if love is just another trap waiting to break them.
The contraband wasn't weapons or drugs. It was three tiny, mewling kittens, hidden away on a dead pirate ship. As the best scout in near space, Vinze Kees expected a bonus, not a life sentence of diapers and round-the-clock feedings. He certainly didn't expect them to be Bastets-a mysterious, reclusive race whose children are prized on the black market. And he definitely didn't expect their embassy to declare him their permanent guardian. According to their laws, the kittens had imprinted on him. For life. Now, Vinze-a battle-hardened, independent omega who never planned on a family-is on mandatory maternity leave. His world shrinks to the four walls of his apartment, dominated by three alien babies who grow at an astonishing rate, demand constant touch, and seem to think his primary function is to be their personal climbing tree and milk bar. But as his foundlings rapidly mature from helpless kittens into three brilliant, powerful, and fiercely possessive alpha males, Vinze's feelings begin to shift. The line between guardian and something more blurs. They are no longer his children; they are his protectors, his obsession, and they've made it clear they have no intention of sharing him with anyone. He saved them from the clutches of pirates, but can he survive the terrifying, all-consuming love of three Bastets who have claimed him as their true mate? I will be posting this story on RoyalRoad
More detailsContent Guidelines