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Book 4 – Chapter 51 – Tempting

  AnnouncementHello All!

  RavensDagger was holding another Stray Cat Strut contest this year, and the theme? Crossovers. Well, we're most of the way through, and quite a few have popped up. I've gathered them all into an easy to read list. If you see one that interests you, please give it a read!

  Also: I'm going to do some tests this week, and see if I can add the footer I use on RR here on ScribbleHub. The systems are a little different, and I can't make a completely different section, so I'll have to do some tests to see if I can find a good bance. We'll see!

  Unexpected Guests (TBoB x DD crossover) (by TheWackyWombat)

  Avaible on: [Royal Road] or [Scribblehub]

  You know what's worse than having to fight an alien invasion in order to save your city? Being sucked through a portal and dumped out in another world, as Evelyn 'Teddy' Cire and her crack team of teddy bears discover mid-incursion.

  Now they're stuck in a world of magic and mysticism where dungeon delving isn't a matter of survival, it's an organized sport!

  The good news is they may have a lead on a way home. The bad news is it involves the squad fighting their way through one of the toughest dungeons in the world.

  No problem, right?

  The Flower of Fire (Growing In A Field of Weeds) (PMoon x SCS Crossover Fanfic) (by Shadowm4ge)

  Avaible on: [Royal Road] or [Scribblehub]

  Fmes of regret. Deadly, rampant, yet deeply tragic.

  Yet, a voice from afar calls and offers a chance at a different path. As the tragedies of the past begin to bloom to the surface, so too does a new threat to the City: The Antithesis.

  Follow Hua Huo-Ryu, member of the Liu and one of the first Vanguard in the world of Project Moon, as she grapples with not only the new threats to her home, but also learns to accept the past and grow past it.

  That said: This is the City we're talking about. And living happily and free does not come cheap or easily. So get ready for a ride.

  Maniac's Tales Beneath the Dragoneye Moons (by Lividiea)

  Avaible on: [Royal Road] or [Scribblehub]

  Evelin Vance finally feels like her life is getting better. With her other half Maniac the masked Samurai she finely has enough freedom to do whatever she wants. Of course, nice things don't st and for Evelin, this change is a bit bigger than that she originally barged for and failed teleportation sends her all the way to a different word rather than to her home. Now she has to find a way back home together with her trusty AI lyssa.

  world.

  This story takes pce in the world of beneath the dragon eye moons by Selki Myth. It is a great story and i highly recommend reading it if you get the chance. I will try my best to make sure no prior knowledge of the world is required, but it will always be beneficial.

  Scrap Cat Spirit (SCS + Spirit Beasts!) (by Aliapanacea)

  Avaible on: [Royal Road] or [Scribblehub]

  Reborn into a Spirit Beast that thrives in the junkyards of the undercity after falling fifteen thousand feet to her death, [Null] must grow and learn how to use her new strength while also navigating a world ravaged by corporate greed and ravenous pnt monsters. Unfortunately for her, she is a valuable creature that is capture or kill on sight to the powerful samurai and spiritualists that roam New Montreal, and even if she manages to evolve into a monster with a humanoid form to gain her freedom from capture, there's probably going to be a price on her head big enough for everyone to want to kill her.

  Just what is a lynx girl to do?

  The Omega Gate (SCS/Worm Crossover) (by Jondera)

  Avaible on: [Royal Road] or [Scribblehub]

  Earth Bet is dying; supervilins outnumber the heroes, indestructible monsters stalk the world and shatter cities on a schedule, and the world's greatest minds cannot find a way out.

  Until four teenage girls find themselves pulled out of their lives and pushed through a portal to another Earth, where vicious, all-consuming pnt aliens threaten to wipe humanity from existence. Fortunately for them, opposing the vegetative antithesis are the Protectors, benevolent alien AIs with access to technology and resources beyond even the greatest Tinkers' fevered imaginings. By combining their own powers with the Protector's technology, the girls might just be able to turn the tide... and then go back and save their own home, for good measure.

  What’s a cultivator doing here? (A Stray Cat Strut Fanfiction crossover) (by JeffStoryFan)

  Avaible on: [Royal Road]

  Tian Wu is just a simple outer court disciple. He just is having a slight issue in cultivation. His divine sense distracts him with all the stress of current inter-sect conflict. So he takes a journey into the outside world to a remote temple, in search of peace and quiet.

  All is going well, until the conflict causing the stress comes to him. He is but a fly to the two Nascent elders fighting above. A stray shot causes the hidden power of the temple he is in to trigger, and the next thing he knows he is no longer in a world he knows. The new world is fighting pnts of all things.

  Technomancer's Gardening Guide [A Stray Cat Crossover] (by Keron)

  Avaible on: [Royal Road]

  Elise should never have been introduced to mana...

  Emily and Elise have one thing in common: they both grew up thinking magic was myth.

  Fortunately for both of them, a rift in space decided they should talk about that!

  Follow along as in an alternate reality two very different minds meet, and the world is forced to suffer!

  What's a little madness for a lot of fluff?

  Sally Slime's Samurai Story: A little slimes isekai journey into the Stray Cat cyberpunk apocalypse!!! (by FullAutoAlice)

  Avaible on: [Royal Road]

  Sally was a cute orange slime that loved spending her days keeping her home dungeon running smoothly. Sadly not all slimes get to live the lives they want. A disaster in the dungeons core room rips Sally from her home reality, and drops her into another far more frightening, and potentially very tasty, new world.

  Here she will have to work with her new AI friend to help humanity fight off the herbaceous hordes of the Antithesis menace, as one of earth's guardians known as Samurai.

  Join Sally in her story, as she tries to make friends, and find her way home, all while devouring terribly tasty pnt monsters.

  It turned out that removing Bob from the street was a lot more difficult than expected. He was constructed from such dense materials that it was difficult for any of the other bears to move him, even in the most optimal conditions. Having him wedged in the ground just made things ten times worse.

  In the end it was easier for him to go down than it was to pull him up. It only took a couple of minutes for the bears to hack the street apart with their entrenching tools, slowly widening the hole until Bob finally slipped through.

  “I’m okay!” the big bear called a few seconds after falling.

  “How far did you fall? How deep is the tunnel?” I asked, sticking my head over the edge of the hole. I could just make out Bob’s silhouette in the gloom.

  “It’s only about five or six meters. You know, Twenty-Eight-sized tunnels.”

  “Great. That’s shallow enough that the bears can jump down and not take any damage. Get out of the way!” I shouted.

  “Ummm… I hate to be that guy,” Deadbeat muttered, stepping up behind me, “but do you have a pn to get us out once we’re down there?”

  “Nope! We need to get down there and destroy that hive ASAP. Once it’s taken care of, I figured we could spend a little extra time exploring the area and looking for the Antithesis’ access tunnels,” I said.

  “Or… we could spend thirty seconds now and check if there’s a dder in that hardware store over there,” Deadbeat replied sarcastically.

  I slowly raised my head, looked at Deadbeat, and then the massive building sitting not even twenty meters away.

  “Okay, sure, that’s an option too,” I muttered.

  “Do I have your permission to…” Deadbeat started.

  “Yeah, yeah,yeah, it’s gonna take a minute for all the bears to get down there anyways. Just don’t take too long.”

  Deadbeat disappeared into the building as soon as I’d given permission, and she was back before the rest of my forces had finished jumping down. Behind her there were four bears carrying an extension dder. I did my best to ignore the smug smile pstered on her face.

  “Thank you,” I said begrudgingly. “Now get that dder down the hole, and join everyone else down there. We’re falling behind!”

  Deadbeat just rolled her eyes at me before directing the others to lower the dder down.

  Even though there were only a handful of bears left to send down, the dder did make things a tiny bit faster. Not having to wait and confirm that each bear had cleared the nding zone accelerated the process, but I did notice the dder groaning slightly at the weight of all the bears scampering down at the same time. I made a note to make sure they took it slow on the way back up.

  I went down st, sliding down into the gloom. Once I hit the bottom, my helmet automatically swapped over to a low-light vision mode.

  The tunnel we were crouched in was very reminiscent of the byrinthine network I’d encountered under Jasper. Thankfully this one wasn’t covered in the same polymer goop that had disrupted our communications and obstructed our advances back then.

  It was, unfortunately, rge enough to allow an entire horde through. If I encountered any Twenty-Threes, or anything bigger, down here, it wouldn’t have any problems fighting.

  “Any suggestions on which way we should go from here?” I asked as I pulled up the map Angeline sent me in my augs.

  “Everything around here smells like Antithesis,” Bandit grumbled. “They’ve been here a long time, and they use this tunnel frequently.”

  I sent everyone a copy of the map. “This is what we’ve got to work with. The Antithesis have been intercepting Angeline’s scouts, so we’re pretty much wandering blind.”

  “I’d suggest we focus our search in and around the tunnels nearest to the river,” Deadbeat decred after a minute. “If they’re sending the big boys out that way, they’d need a connection in that area.”

  “The other team is coming in that way. So unless they call us for backup, we can leave that exploration to them,” I said, as I scrutinized the map.

  “Why don’t we just follow the oldest traces?” Bob asked. “The older they are, the more likely that they will lead back to the hive!”“How, in the fuck, did you come to that conclusion?” I asked the big bear.

  “The longer they’re here, the more tunnels they’ll dig, the more pces they can go!” Bob said.

  “He’s not technically wrong,” Deadbeat muttered after a second.

  “Maybe, but I think this hive is far too old and established to have smells from that far back,” I grumbled.

  “Then we just go down the busiest tunnels. Even if we don’t find the hive, I’m sure we can find something I can whump!” Bob decred.

  “I, surprisingly enough, can’t come up with any better ideas,” Deadhead whispered.

  “Sometimes simple ideas are better,” Bob said, with a nod of his head.

  “Fine. Bandit, lead the way. Follow the forks with the strongest concentration of Antithesis activity. Even if we don’t find the hive, we’ll likely find a biomass collection pool, or as Bob puts it, something we can whip,” I said.

  “Whump,” Bob corrected.

  I slowly lowered my head into my hands. “Can we please go now?”

  As soon as I asked, Bandit shot to the front of the column, slowly leading the troops forward. It took us a couple of minutes to come to an intersection with a simirly sized tunnel heading south. Bandit didn’t even hesitate, immediately heading that direction without pausing.

  Once we stepped into the new tunnel, the Antithesis made their presence known. They dropped from the roof, unched themselves from various nooks around the tunnel entrance, and came charging from the deeper areas.

  As far as Antithesis attacks went, it was fairly pitiful. A single wave of single digits, backed up by a handful of Twelves, Fifteens, and, surprisingly, a pair of Thirteens.

  I think the shock of seeing the Thirteens did more to slow me down than the entire rest of the attack wave. It caused me to pause for just a moment. Unfortunately for the Antithesis, the bears didn’t care what was being thrown at them. They mulched the attacking pnts long before most of them got into range to attack. The only damage we took was a single spine from one of the spiny hairball bolos that the tens fired, embedding itself in one of the head of a moose. I don’t think it even noticed.

  Once we dealt with the ambush, things went quiet again.

  “Okay, what gives? Where’s the slow but steady wave of Antithesis trying to keep us back? Where’s the rampaging pack of Twenty-Threes performing a suicidal charge, or the wall of Twenty-Eights using their bulk, trying to dey us? We haven’t even seen a Twenty-Eight yet,” I hissed. “Even if they emptied the hive to attack us earlier, there should be fresh Antithesis here somewhere.”

  “The attack on Okotoks was orchestrated by a Seventeen, right?” Deadbeat asked. “If so, it would make sense that there’s probably another one running around down here, coordinating the defenses. That would expin why there was a horde sitting there, guarding this tunnel, instead of running blindly at intruders.”

  “Ugh… I fucking hate that idea,” I muttered, knowing she was right. “Having a Seventeen directing everything is like a worst-case scenario. They’ll just make everything completely unpredictable. Ambushes, fnking, only attacking with sufficient reinforcements…”I paused as I thought about it.

  “Not that it’s going to actually make a difference, what could they possibly throw at us that has even the slightest chance of stopping us?”All three of my squad members turned to look at me. “You do remember what you faced only a couple hours ago, right? A Thirty-Two and a Thirty-Four? They threw a wrench in your pns,” Deadbeat said.

  “But we took care of them, no problem. If they wanted to stop us, they’d need to do a lot better than that,” I replied.

  “Don’t say something like that; you’re tempting fate,” Bandit excimed.

  “Please, I make comments like that all the time, and even though I’ve had a few close calls, I’ve never encountered a situation I couldn’t handle. Tempting fate? What’s the worst that could happen?” I decred.

  Bandit took a step back, Deadbeat covered her muzzle with both hands, and Bob shuddered.

  “We’re doomed.”

  TheWackyWombat

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  Teddy Bears On Brigade

  Evelyn "Teddy" Cire is a street kid just trying to make ends meet, in the slum deep under Calgary Megacity. That is, until the Antithesis attack, and she's given the power to fight back.

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  Tarnished Honor

  Reina and Skyler, long term girlfriends, fight Alien invaders in the Cyberpunk City of Vancouver.

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  The Wicked Witch of the Wild West (ON HIATUS)

  A young outcast witch tries to find her pce in the world by traveling the remote wilds in the wild west

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  Duelling Dungeons

  A story about Talia, an Arachne girl, finding her pce as a floor boss in a competitive dungeon. Half cozy slice of life, half action.

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  Unexpected Guests (TBoB x DD crossover)

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