Here's the masterlist for all stories, comics, art, character info — everything! Eveything is sorted into Episodes
Art : Character list : World : Items
★=Main story : ✿=Filler : ♦=Extra/Non-canon ✪=Origins
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❘〣❘★Case of the pockets★❘〣❘
★ Case of the pockets:
Part 1 : Part 2 : Part 3 : Part 4 : Part 5 : Epilogue
★ Flowers for the Shadow Man
Part 1 : Part 2
✿ Hang out (bonus: In the need of tape)
★ Supply Run
✿ Sleep troubles
❘〣❘★Enemy of my enemy is my kid★❘〣❘
✪ The Professor
★ Nizorro Blimp News channel 📹😠🥰
★ Enemy of my enemy is my kid!:
Part 1 : Part 2 : Part 3 : Part 4 : Epilogue
✿ Tea on the rooftop garden ☕
✿ The Blunderer's Win
❘〣❘★???★❘〣❘
✿ Best Foe Forever
✿ Mender needs a Hug
✿ Kim… We Have a Problem 🍫
★ Rooftop Rendezvous
✪ Caught In The Storm
✪ A Little Family
★ The Haven
✿ Not Mender’s Night (New✨)
❘〣❘ ✪ Origins ✪ ❘〣❘
✪ Lukas
The Professor
✪ Kim
Caught In The Storm
A Little Family
It’s been a while since we've given any sort of update here, and there are quite a few things to update about.
Firstly altho the last snippet posted here was all the way back in July 2023 we never stopped writing and are currently sitting around 50k-ish words of unposted snippets (90k+ if we count heavy updates and complete rewrites). We have also worked on several rewrites to some of the earlier snippets and comics fleshing them out a bit. (only minor story changes nothing major)
Now some sad news regarding my co-writers.
Last summer @heroes-villains-side-blog aka. Codex decided that she wanted to leave the sidekick club project; as she wished to move onto working on more standalone stories.
Although it’s sad to not have to write with her anymore, she is still on our private server sharing memes as always. I wish her all the luck and writing motivation in the world.
When it comes to @tratieisdabest, with respect to her private life, I'll give as little information as I can. But the last time I heard anything from her was September last year. I know she has some health problems, but the last I was in contact with her she still wanted to keep writing the story.
I don’t know what has happened since then, but whatever is going on, I hope that she and her family are safe, and that I hear back from her soon.
This is what then leaves the current situation at hand.
One person has left, the other is missing and I really really want to start posting again.
Sidekick club is my favorite story. I love the characters, the world, the story and everything. But this is also Tratie’s story and I don’t want to take it from her.
So I’m going to continue posting, but as a semi-AU to the original work. (same story just an updated version) Then when/if Tratie comes back. She and I will go through the story and change/undo what we feel is needed.
To give Tratie as much time as possible I’m going to start with a few filler stories taking place in the time before Kim joins Vulcan and then work myself up through what we already have worked on/posted, and only after that will I continue the story onward. Thankfully I have a LOT of notes and discussions between Tratie and I to work off both for past and future work.
And finally as things are a bit unstable here on Tumblr, I will be re-posting all snippets and art onto my Pillowfort (sadly no side"blog" options (yet)) and also make a community for those that want to follow only the sidekick club story.
I’m not sure how long it will take before I start posting new snippet, but I do have one that is only missing two small-ish chunks following a younger Mender having to save Kim from a new and dangerous Supervillain that I try to get around to complete :3
This is my image for the @writeblr-art-trade Hobby Hangout, were I drew @piplupfluffwritingstuff2's OC Aurelis and my OC Kim! :3
Since Aurelis is 17 I decided to draw Kim at the same age. At that age Kim had longer hair, more energy, and also a HUGE LOVE FOR THE COLD! So if they were hanging out with Aurelis I can imagine them having a lot of fun outside in the winter together. Tho…. they may have gone a bit to far with climbing Nizorro’s highest mountain in the middle of a snow storm 👀
Bonus aftermath image bellow cut:
Do you think they learned their lesson after this?
This is my submission to the @writeblr-art-trade, with @just-a-space-rabbit’s OC Void/Kim and mine (Malice).
Since they are both villains (or at least can be seen on that side of the coin) I decided to make them meet in this context.
So Malice and Void stargaze together and talk under the moonlight. Malice manages to uncover Kim’s buried feelings with his songs. Afterwards, they hug (I didn’t manage to do something I was happy with).
Overall I had fun trying to invent how they would interact and find similarities between them (like a boss that has mood swings or at least swings between gentle and violent, complicated feelings and a chill personality).
My submission for the writeblr art trade of terror!! 🧡🖤
My first time participating in this event aah! This piece was super fun to draw:) The character bio mentioned gardening and pumpkins immediately sprung to mind for me 🎃 🎃 🎃
35-45ish [He/Him]
Vulcan is an OC shared between me and my co-writer of the sidekick club.
The silent king of Nizorro’s criminal world, Vulcan is known for his cold, calculated demeanor. Gaining most of his influence from the theft of rare artifacts and art, as well as his huge weapons operations supplying gadgets, tools and weapons to villains all around the world.
He rarely picks a fight, especially against heroes, as he rather prefers threats and coercion. Though if a fight does come his way, few people would stand a chance against him; At most it would be a fight to escape, at worst it would be a lesson they'll never forget.
Only Shadow Wraith has been able to go somewhat toe to toe with him. But even then it often ends with a draw or a win in Vulcan’s favor.
[Alt/new] version:
Snippets:
Enemy of my enemy is my kid!(Epilogue) ┃
The Masked Mender was slowly walking through an alley on one of her day patrols. This was one she had without Lady Alexandria, so it had been fairly boring without the older hero's company. Mender yawned as she caught the last glimpse of the summer sun before it went behind the mountain. Turning left at the next corner, she walked further into the slowly darkening alley.
After turning another corner, this time to the right; as she often liked to make patterns when she did solo patrols to make things a bit more enjoyable; she suddenly spotted something ahead. Instantly, she was awake and alert… ish. She's more alert than previously, but still not fully awake. Moving closer, she sees that the item is just a random floating knife, with a small sticky note attached to it. In a messy scrawl, “hold on to me :3” was written.
Any other day, Mender would have laughed at it! But today… today had been too long. So she took it before even slightly thinking about it (maybe she wasn't that alert at all).
Studying it in her hand, she mumbled to herself “It looks like one of Hirra’s knives, what is this doing here—”
Her train of thought was cut off by surprise. Out of nowhere, the dagger had suddenly begun to move! Mender got dragged along by the knife as it shot up into the air, and then hit a nearby pipe with a loud twang! The echoes through the alleyways made the noises even more deafening, something Mender's exhausted mind did not appreciate.
As the sound faded, Mender tried to figure out what on earth just happened. But she was soon distracted by another sound.
Giggling.
There was a mad giggling close by, and Mender did not need to see the person to figure out whose it was.
“HIRRA!” she yelled, tuning around as steadily as they could.
Hirra was down on the ground, giggling like a child. “You should have seen your face!” was all she was able to say in-between more laughing.
“Hirra! Seriously, why would you?! Wait… ” It was at this moment Mender realised it, she turned back to the knife and tried to let go… but she couldn't… “You used superglue on your knife?!”
“Oh, don’t be so mad!” Hirra said, having finally got over her mad giggle. While starting to take a few celebratory selfies. “I just needed you out of the way for the bank robbery tonight!” At that, she began to move backwards, so Mender couldn't kick at her.
After a few failed attempts to break free, Mender finally processed what the other sidekick had said. “So… you are planning to rob the bank… again?” Mender asked casually, as if she wasn't currently trapped.
“Yeah!” Hirra yelled, clearly proud of herself.
“Huh…” was all that Hirra got back, making her turn her head back up from her phone, to the trapped sidekick. But by the time Hirra realised what was about to happen, it was already too late.
Mender had quickly and quietly taken her phone (only one hand was trapped) and dialled Lady Alexandria. “Hey, Alexandria. Just going to inform you, Hirra is planning a bank robbery tonight. She is currently at-”
There was a loud “HEY! That’s cheating!” from Hirra, but Mender just smiled at her smugly.
“Lady Alexandria will be here in 15 minutes so you get a small headstart.”
Hirra just stuck her tongue out, as she began running. “The other way!” Mender yelled, smirking. Hirra, embarrassingly, had to turn and run back the other way, Mender giving her a little wave as she passed by once more.
So, there has been a lot going on in our lives lately, and therefore this blog has become a bit of a side burner.
But we just want you all to know that we are still going and that there are things in the works. It's just going to take a while for us to get all our ducks in a row.
So, in the meantime Space Rabbit has gathered some of our memes we have made on our Discord for you all :3
Lukas’s cheeks were already blushing as he read the message from Alexandria. They had been texting here and there since the night she had broken into his base. But, today, she had agreed to meet him on the roof over the old theater. It was just going to be him and her for at least an hour or two, just talking; even if Mender had been subtly (she literally told him what the perfect date was) trying to get him to ask Alexa out, he didn't want to rush things. The two had agreed to take it slow, and he didn't want to go against that… even if every time he learned something new about Alexa she seemed even closer to perfect.
He contemplated going in his super suit, but decided that a mask was enough. Quickly, he stuffed it in the pocket of his pants and pulled on a light sweater for the fall air, checking his reflection in the mirror before heading out of his room to the hidden door leading outside.
But as he rounded the corner to pass the living room, a voice startled him just as he was reaching for the door.
“And where are you going?” Hirra asked suspiciously.
“Hirra! I thought you had gone to sleep!” He needed to come up with an excuse. “I’m going out for a long walk and some fresh air.” he half lied.
But Hirra’s eyes only narrowed suspiciously, which he couldn't blame her for. She seemed to still be amped up about the whole battle against Dragonfly some weeks ago.
“Okay! I’m just craving some half moon pizza, and just get out a bit. I’ll be back in an hour or two.”
“Promise?”
“Yes, I promise. Do you want me to bring you some?” he smiled, but Hirra just shook her head (he knew she would since she only liked his homemade ones, but it never hurt to ask), before saying that she'll be on her way to bed.
Once Lukas got out and was out of range of his security cameras and mics, he breathed a sigh of relief. Hirra didn't suspect a thing! Normally, he would've told her, but with the whole sidekick club thing, he didn't, since, well… he'd really rather avoid being constantly spied on by 3 very nosey supers.
He really did need the fresh air, that wasn't a lie; he was incredibly nervous. So, instead of shadow-leaping, he chose to take a walk that passed far too fast, reaching the historical theater after what felt like a few seconds. Taking a couple of deep breaths to steel himself, he placed his mask on (the two trusted each other but decided to keep them on due to cameras), and climbed up the side of the building to the roof.
"Hi, Shadows!" Alexa said without looking away from the sky. She was on the other side of the roof, her legs precariously hanging off the edge.
He moved to sit next to her before replying softly. "Hi Alexa, what are you doing?"
She turned to look at him then and smiled involuntarily. "Stargazing! I like looking at the stars, my first sidekick loved space and taught me a bit about it. I don't really understand it to be honest, but she likes it and that's what matters. Nowadays, she even works in the Explorers branch of the GPEA doing… space things. So seeing the stars always makes me think about her. "
Sometimes when the two talked about the past they shrunk into themselves a bit, falling quiet, but neither one minded. But it didn't take long for the silence to break.
"What have you been working on lately?" Alexa asked after a minute of quiet.
Lukas narrowed his eyes playfully. "Oh, you think I'm going to tell you all my plans just because you're cute?"
Alexa pouted at that. "I'm just being polite!" She protested, trying to seem upset through a smile (it didn't work).
"Sure, sure. Well, I’ve just been taking it easy. Hirra has decided for me that I needed a vacation, or at least a break, after everything with Dragonfly, so we’ve both just been chilling. So, what have you been working on lately? Sidekick Day is coming up, got anything planned for Mender?"
Sidekick Day was the anniversary of the end of child sidekicks in Nizorro, and was celebrated every year through a parade and gifts organized by the agency and mentor heroes.
Alexa immediately grew excited at the question. "Okay, listen. I'm building her a book nook." She paused dramatically, "But that isn't the best part! I'm also teaming up with a few other heroes to build a mythology themed float, since all our sidekicks are that brand of nerd. It's very loose, and is really just gonna look like what Mount Olympus might; bright white, gold accents, pillars, all that stuff; but I want it to look like it's floating!"
"That’s very cool, but not accurate —"
"— Yes, I know,” Suddenly there were blueprints being shoved in his lap, “but it's cool enough that they won't even care. And, Lukas, think of the puns! A float… that floats. It's literally perfect. Here, look — "
She grabbed the blueprints and began explaining every little detail with excitement. Lukas was already impressed by the professionalism of it all. He was more of a simple pen and paper kind of guy, only making detailed blueprints when absolutely necessary, but hearing her be so passionate and thorough with her design almost convinced him making the tedious prints was worth it.
"And then we'll — why are you looking at me like that?"
Lukas smirked, immediately noticing a chance to fluster her. "Well, you see, I just fell for you a bit more. You're very passionate about this design and, I mean, don't get me started on the blueprints! When did you even learn to make those?"
Alexa looked away bashfully. "Well, I've always been fascinated by architecture, so I just kind of… figured it out. Watched a couple videos to help refine what I deduced on my own, and then I took a class in college on it, so… yeah."
Lukas nodded. "May I see them?" He asked, gesturing to the prints.
She nodded, handing them to him carefully. After carefully inspecting them, he gave her a few notes and ideas, which she got adorably excited about.
"How is Mender, by the way? She looked pretty beat up after everything with Dragonfly."
Alexa sighed. "She’s doing a lot better. The problem with always bouncing back after bad injuries is that you don't really give your mind a chance to rest. Like, her life was at risk, she thought you two were going to die! But now we're back to work like normal, and she insists she's fine and everything, but I worry about her."
Lukas frowned. "Surely the healers kept her for a bit just to be safe, right?"
"Yeah, she was there for a couple of days, but that meant she missed work. So now she's trying to make up for missed time, since I did start work on a couple of cases. So, now she might burn herself out after just experiencing severe emotional distress! It's not like we've never been in a life or death situation, but this was the first one she had to handle without me."
Lukas nodded in understanding before Alexa continued.
"She did say your puns helped, whatever that means?"
Lukas stifled a laugh, instead smiling mischievously. "Sorry, it's an inside joke."
Alexa glared at him. "You can't have inside jokes with my sidekick!"
Lukas clicked his tongue. "Sorry, we have shared trauma now, so we've become best friends. In fact, after this, I'm going to go talk to her — "
"Are you really? Don't you dare tell her about my plans for Sidekick Day! I don't care how cute your little ponytail and sweater are, if you mess this up — "
By now, Alexa was standing over him, so he had to look up to snarkily reply, "You think I'm cute?"
All the fight immediately left Alexa, replaced with annoyance. "You know I do, I'm sure you read all those sticky notes even if I told you not to!"
Lukas scrunched his face up in false confusion, standing up, so he could see her better. "What? What sticky notes? I don't know wha — "
Alexa huffed. "Don’t play dumb with me, Shadow Man. It doesn't suit you."
Lukas grinned at that. "Oh, am I back to Shadow Man now? Not even Shadows? You know that isn't even my actual villain name, right?"
Alexa whipped around in confusion. "It's not?"
"Nope. The agency is just too lazy to change it in my files, no matter how many requests I send in!"
"What's the actual one, then?"
"Shadow Wraith."
Alexa blinked, taking in the new information. "So you're telling me I've been calling you by the wrong name this whole time? What kind of nemesis am I?"
“Like I said, you’re a cute nemesis, and you usually call me Shadows anyway. That name’s allowed because it’s a nickname Kim gave me way back in the day. Though, it’s mostly just them and Hirra who call me that. The only one that I ever allow to call me Shadow Man, is Mender.”
“Ah, yes… Mister Shadow Man.” Alexandria smiled, remembering how her sidekick always politely calls him that, though more recently shortened to Mr. Shadows. Lukas also smiled at the name. “So, you’re telling me I’ve either been using the wrong name, or a nickname?” she asked him as they both sat back down.
Lucas nodded. “I don’t know why they’re so strangely stubborn about a name, there have only been a few other times that something similar’s happened, and they resolved that so easily, so I think someone in the agency just don’t like me… which, honestly, is probably the case.”
“What? Who in the agency would do that?” Alexandria asked.
Immediately, Lukas pivoted, “Um… Did your first sidekick teach you all the constellations?” he asked. Alexandria just shook her head, and he laid down, looking up at the stars. “Kim taught me way back! I can’t remember all of them, but I know that one is Aries, which has something to do with a bull that got sacrificed into the golden fleece. And the person who did it is someone they saved, like, what the heck? Over there's Perseus… is that the name of the constellation, or just who it's about? I… don't know, but, hey, at least after everything he goes through, he gets a happy ending! Oh, and that one is Leo, the lion constellation, its story is —”
" — Pyramus and Thisbe, star-crossed lovers. It killed one of them, right?"
Lukas hummed in agreement. It really was a tragic tale, and hopefully not one he and Alexa would experience in any way.
At this point, Alexandria had laid down next to him, and now they were both stargazing. “I didn’t know Kim was interested in the stars.”
“They used to love them a lot, back in the day… I remember whenever we had fun making designs for our dream base, Kim insisted on having an observatory. Granted, they also wanted a spaceship and pet dragons, so, you know…” he smiled.
“Pet dragon? Kim wanted a pet dragon?” Alexandria laughed. “How old were they when you made the designs?”
“They were twelve at the time,” he said, making Alexandria freeze as she heard the words, before she sat back up.
“Twelve? Kim joined you at twelve?!”
She knew that Hirra was fourteen when Lukas had taken her into his home, not that she knew where Hirra had come from, or anything else about her past for that matter. But that Kim was only twelve when joining him was news to her. She now had so many more questions about both of them.
“Where did you find Kim?”
Lukas did not answer right away, choosing to sit back up as well. “On the streets of Boreas… it was the middle of winter. They were alone and looked halfway to death. No parents, no money, just the thin clothes covering them and a tiny stolen sandwich in their hands…” he stopped. It had been a while since he had thought about when Kim was young… the betrayal still hurt. Lukas still struggled to understand how Kim could leave Hirra, leave him! After everything they went through together, he would have never guessed that Kim would choose Vulcan…
Alexa noticed that now was not the time to talk about this, and while she didn't like tiptoeing around Kim, especially considering her sidekick's friendship with them, it was clear Lukas needed a new subject. Kim would probably come back as a topic for another time, but not now.
"And what about Hirra?"
Lukas paused, trying to think of the right thing to say. This was more Hirra's story to tell, but he didn't want to leave Alexa without an answer.
"She was… mistreated by her family, and then sent far away from home to… somewhere when they discovered she had powers. Then I, and a few other villains, found her and several other kids during a heist.” He grew silent for a moment, thinking back to the horrors he saw that day. “We rescued her and the other kids. Hirra refused to go to an orphanage or anything, insisting on joining Kim's family. Luckily for her, we were already smitten by her, and, well… the rest is history."
‘If Hirra was fourteen at the time, then that lines up with the sudden destruction of… that place.’ The thought sent shivers up her spine as the memories of the horrible rumors came back alive.
Lukas paused, a warm look on his face as he thought back. "She did take a liking to Kim quicker than me, though. The first two weeks, she only talked to me while hiding behind Kim. It was adorable in the start, but it did make things hard. But then Kim was out one day, and I was suddenly one-on-one with the biggest spider I had ever seen."
“What? The great Shadow Wraith was afraid of a little spider?” Alexandria teased.
“Little? It was at least 4 cm! Anyway, I was cornered, but then Hirra saw me. She jumped into action and took the foul beast down. Guess she wasn’t very scared of me after that…”
Alexandria was not able to hold back her laughter at the mental image of Lukas scared of a little bug. And Hirra saving him from its clutches.
He blushed a bit in embarrassment, but brightened when he remembered something. "Hey, guess what?"
"What?" Alexa said, slightly suspicious.
Lukas huffed. "You have to guess!"
"Hirra stole something from Sa — um… Mender?"
Lukas smiled at that. "Good guess, but no. I made you a present as a thank you for the flowers!" He brought out an orb, inside was a light so beautiful it looked as if Shadows had plucked the most beautiful star from the night sky and placed it gently in her hands.
“How…” was all she could say.
“It will burn like that for over 500 years… I could go over the technical part of it, but honestly it isn't as interesting as the item looks.” he smiled.
"This is way more than flowers, Lukas… I can’t accept this." She tried to give it back, but he had vanished into the shadows, now near the ladder leading to the ground.
"Well, I guess you'll have to give me more flowers then. What a shame." He then asked nervously, “I hope I can see you again? Sorry, but I promised Hirra I'd be back soon and — "
"Lukas," she began softly, illuminated by the orb in her hands, "of course I want to see you again."
"Okay, great! Um, bye now."
She snorted at his less than graceful goodbye and walked over to him. After a moment of contemplation, with the two awkwardly staring at each other, she placed the orb into her pocket and gave him a quick kiss on the cheek.
"Bye! And same here. Mender will have my head if I'm not home soon."
And with that she ran off, jumping off the building and somehow landing with grace.
Shadows looked towards her slowly disappearing silhouette, frozen and flustered, a red blush going from ear to ear. When he could no longer see her, he turned and climbed down the ladder in silence. Only when his fluster finally wore off, minutes later, did he remember that he can teleport home.
He doesn't though, because he needs the fresh air… again. Spending time with the most amazing woman on Aiga can make you really nervous, okay? Especially if she kisses you on the cheek.
On the way back home, he received a message from said amazing woman.
Hey, forgot to ask you this before. But was thinking, since the trio and their club is going to spy on us, why don’t we start a club and spy on them? >:)
