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“Well. If I had to guess, and of course I do. I’d say this is the work of a chump called Nightmare. Lives in the dream realm, kinda deals in nightmares. Hence the namesake, get’s his power from them too.”

Amadeus spoke nonchalantly, heading for the front of the classroom without a look back at Sam. They should go see Strange.

This could get serious if left unchecked, even he knew that.

He did look back once he got to the door, motioning for Sam to follow. “None of by business what you do in your free time. Now are you comin’ or what?”

Sam squinted a bit at Amadeus. At this point, he was convinced this guy didn’t even realize his slang was at least a decade out of style.

“Nightmare? Wow, what an original name. Bet this nerd rides a horse too, just for the pun value.”

Sarcasm dripped from his words, and he laughed. Might as well laugh at the guy now while he doesn’t realize what he’s up against.

With a mumbled “geez, okay, I’m going, I’m going”, he followed Amadeus out of the classroom. He looked up and down the hallway, just in case someone else was awake. Sleeping students littered the floor, and what appeared to be Stan was leaning against the inside of a door. Yikes.

“It’s my business that you know. I’m gonna get in serious trouble if you let this secret get loose. At any rate, I need to get to my locker. Wherever you’re taking us probably isn’t in the school, and I don’t think any buses are running right now. You can probably guess where this is heading.”

Amadeus’s eye contact didn’t falter, shrugging nonchalantly. Unphased by the questioning. Kind of expected considering how out of whack everything was right now. Especially considering the whole ‘dream’ thing.

“Chill dude, it was a dream. Well– a nightmare but you know, semantics and all that. Basically the same thing.” He stretched his arms out lazily, before getting to his feet.

He broke eye contact to look around, wondering vaguely if anyone else was going to get up. But kind of doubting it.

“Names Amadeus Cho, and I’m like 99.93% sure that it’s not just our history class that decided to take a group nap.”

“Yeah. no duh it was a nightmare. Not the first nor the last I’ve had. But that doesn’t answer my question. What’s going on? Who’s doing this and why?”

Then Sam recalled that, oh crud, this guy saw that he’s Nova. He took on a decidedly more sheepish expression and rubbed the back of his neck.

“You’re not gonna tell anyone that I’m Nova, are you?”

The only kid in the class who was significantly younger than everyone was wide awake. Leaning back with his hands behind his head and feet on his desk. Honestly relieved that somehow that’d worked.

Amadeus wouldn’t have been surprised if it hadn’t.

He waved to Sam, the omnipresent smug grin set on his face. While that had been pretty much terrible, at least it’d worked.

“Bout time, didn’t know how much longer we had before things got dicey.”

That is to say how much time they had before Nightmare’s hold on Sam’s mind became too much to break with his low level magic. Which would have sucked, big time. Because he’d have had to go to option number two.

Who happened to be his least favorite person in New York. Aside from Spidey.

“How-- What the heck is going on?!”

Sam twisted around in his seat to look at who was talking. Unsurprisingly, it was the same kid who had shown up earlier; he didn’t exactly remember the name of the other.

“Dicey? Who even uses that word anymore?”

He left his desk and stormed over to the overly confident 14-year-old. He slammed his hands on the desk and looked the shorter one straight in the eye.

“Tell me what’s going on, who you are, and why you were in whatever just happened, now.”

The rabbit was coming at him at roughly the speed of the truck it was the size off. He was able to position himself out of it’s line of attack. Made easier but it getting distracted by Sam actually saying something.

As nice as the distraction was, this was a nightmare for a reason. He had to wake the hero up before he ended up stuck in it.

Shifting to the side and holding out his hands, and generating a shield of magical energy in front of the creature. Hoping to at least slow it down before it noticed he’d gotten out of it’s way.

“Oh my god can you just wake up already?”

He’d never woken someone up from inside their own nightmare before. But you can’t wake someone up from a magically induced sleep from the OUTSIDE. If yelling at him didn’t work he was just going to start blasting at him. Screw tact they were probably running on a timer.

“Wake... up? This is a... what?”

The thing unceremoniously collided with the shield, and uncharacteristically whimpered, stopping and putting the front paws over its head and rubbing it with an up and down motion like a rabbit would.

Then everything started crumbling. The rocky terrain split and boulders from the tops of plateaus tumbled down. Entire chunks of the landscape were simply vanishing into a void, creating pitfalls with seemingly no bottom.

It was almost as if the area was connected to Sam’s mind, and the revelation that this wasn’t real was causing serious damage to it. Voices began chanting, trying to get Sam to stop realizing that this wasn’t real, and there was one voice mixed in with the rest that, if someone knew what the perpetrator of this sounded like, it would be all too familiar.

“Shut up, shut up, shut up. This isn’t real. This is just a--”

There was a flash of white, and the next thing Sam knew, he was face down on his desk in a tiny puddle of drool. He rose from it -- still sitting -- and wiped his face, looking around the room to see that everyone else was passed out, even the teacher. Well, almost everyone.

Okay so he wasn’t that great at magic yet. Strange probably {75% chance} could have blasted that thing out of existence with that hit! But given that his mind did belong to the realm of science, it was a miracle he’d gotten literally anywhere with any kind of magic in the first place.

His real advantage was the eidetic memory he’d been lucky enough to be born with. Made learning techniques a one shot deal, which was probably for the best given that magic was so finicky. Mistakes weren’t a welcome occurrence.

Attention momentarily diverted from the {40% likely some kind of demon??} rabbit to the so called superhero it was attacking.

Now, normal people might not have been able to recognize someone by half of their face. Especially when a monster was starting you down like it’d just found its mid-afternoon snack. But the aforementioned eidetic memory made picking out the familiar face from his memory all too easy.

Sam Alexander was Nova? Didn’t see that coming. Though in hindsight …

Magic, now proven to piss off giant nightmare demons. Exhibit A: the rabbity thing that’s just decided to aim itself at Amadeus and charge right at him.

In the midst of turning to position itself, a heavy paw put itself on Sam’s arm, causing it the bones to crackle, splinter, and ultimately break. He cried out in pain, and it was very much audible, unlike his previous attempts at saying things.

“N-n... No!”

He pushed himself to at least a sitting position, trying to get up to stop the lagomorph. He couldn’t just do nothing. The rest of his helmet tumbled off and clattered to the ground.

It turned its head, still running towards Amadeus, but now distracted by its original prey.

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Astronaut Scott Kelly is officially two inches taller! What are the other effects of spending a #YearinSpace?

Let’s Be Scientific, Y'all!

#((headcanon that sam has pains and is physically weak because he lived in space for so long))#((he compensates with his helmet))

Putting ones self into the dream world was easier than getting out of it. Amadeus himself wasn’t a fan of the place, given who’s territory it was. But that didn’t mean he didn’t know how to get there if he had too.

This was definitely a ‘had too’ situation.

Appearing in Nova’s dream wasn’t the hard part. The hard part was actually finding him. Dreams could be worlds into themselves and when said dream seemed to be little more than an endless black void. Thankfully, there was a clue to point him in the right direction.

When he actually caught site of the monster rabbit, he had to do a double take. Because that was some crazy junk right there.

Naturally his first reaction was to blast it with magic.

Sam assumed there was some kind of bad smell coming from the beast, but in actuality, he couldn’t smell anything. That, coupled with everything else, should’ve been a good indication that this wasn’t real, but fear wracked his mind and he couldn’t focus on anything else.

Moments after someone appeared -- he hadn’t noticed the other at this point -- a terrain started to morph out of the shadows, something akin to a desolated planet. It was lonely and barren.

The magic blast came in the nick of time, stopping the rabbit from impaling Sam directly in the chest with its long buck teeth. It looked to the side and screeched like some ethereal, demonic being at the newcomer. He followed the gaze, which fell upon...

“Isn’t that the geek?”

Unfortunately, as much as Sam wanted to have said those words, and he did mouth them, no noise came forth. Partway through the statement, a half of the helmet came off on the side facing Amadeus, at least partially revealing his identity.

@ofhelmets I’m excite ngl

So today hadn’t been going that great. Scratch that, it’d been going pretty much catastrophically. Then again that was what you expected when waking up from a nap you didn’t remember deciding to take in class.

Only to find out that everyone else had fallen asleep too. At the same time. Yep. Nothing suspicious there at all.

Now, Amadeus had a pretty good assumption of what was going on. But first things first. He needed to wake someone up. He had a whole school to pick from, though he’d prefer one of the avengers. Time was short and there had to be SOMEONE in the area worth putting in the effort.

The first results of his methodical spell work pointed to a figure that had him clicking his tongue in distaste. Parker? Really? Yeah not happening.

–and so the next best option was…

He didn’t remember how he got there. Hazy memories told him that he was in class a second ago... maybe. Nothing made sense, he could hardly recall anything that had happened before that moment.

That moment being one which involved a giant, hideous rabbit. Eight limbs, several eyes, saber-like fangs for buck teeth, and all the size of an 18-wheeler. Even to someone who wasn’t completely terrified of rabbits -- which Sam was -- this was a horrifying sight to behold.

All around him was an inky void, but the rabbit was in high detail. He turned around and started running, hare hot on his heels. He could tell that he was wearing his helmet, but the gold of it might as well have been dull, because either it didn’t work or his dream self simply wasn’t responding to it, wasn’t using it.

Slowly the void started echoing with laughter, haunting whispers of “weakling”, “not so tough now are you?”, and “you don’t deserve that helmet”. Then he tripped over something, and twisted around to face the monster. He attempted to fire, only for it to fail and his armor to start falling to pieces.

Worst. Day. Ever.

#((I mean there's a movie where black male gay aliens invade earth and kill off all the women because they believe women to be evil))#((but I dunno if I wanna witness that trainwreck))#((oh I could probably do something on curve! I mean it has empowerment stuff in it but it also has sexist shit))#((if anyone has a strong opinion on something and can help me with essay material feel free to ramble at me))#[ ✦ || SHORT FOR PENCIL : ooc ]

((guess who gets to rag on ultimate spiderman for an essay

I might not do usm if I can find another movie/show that has either themes of racism, sexism, or some kind of discrimination. I know usm doesn’t really have this too much but there’s moments where people of color are villains, even if only for the moment (see the team turning into goblins, the various times we had an evil fury, amadeus fighting spidey, cloak being possessed into villainy, ect) that I could use))

fun fact that might make this hydra cap situation at least somewhat better: it’s confirmed that the disney XD (aka avengers assemble/ultimate spiderman) captain america isn’t hydra, so there’s at least that cap to fall back on

#[ ✦ || SHORT FOR PENCIL : ooc ]#((this is okay to reblog if anyone wants to))

((so for those wondering, I’m not switching blogs just yet. I mean, I am gonna do it, but I need to finish making it first because I don’t wanna officially release it until every page is 100% done

so this blog is still active but it’s mostly gonna be ooc because it’s gonna be awkward starting threads on here and then continuing them elsewhere

speaking of threads, I’m probably gonna drop most of them, and keep the ones I wanna continue (like the one with farmworld finn and that starter from outsmartiiisms that I have yet to respond to among other threads) ))

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guess my 10 faves - updated

((I’m still accepting!

Marvel Comics

Marvel Comics - Nova

DC Comics - Jaime Reyes

Generator Rex - Rex

Steven Universe - Peridot

Team Fortress 2 - Pyro

Team Fortress 2

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Donatello

DC Comics

hint: some of these are my muses, and my fave character types are the asshole, the nerd, and sometimes the weirdo))

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