I've always heard good things about it. Thank you!

Thus begins the descent into villainy

You should really really watch Cabin in the Woods. It's an excellent subversion of the teen horror genre.

Can any of OPs neighbors that coincidentally use reddit on here confirm? /j

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Oh man, this is great. I love that the monkey actually wins the fight. Yet, it does bring up questions. Like, where did the monkey learn to read, let alone speak the eldritch tongue? And what is there to the monkey that makes it more than it appears to be? This is a fun and idea inspiring tale. Thanks.

*laughs in Haruhi*

The ratio was about 80/20. That is to say the ratio of actors who are playing superheroes to the actual superheroes. The vast majority of the people are people putting on playsuits and playing pretend. I am one of the few in the League of Justice who actually has powers.

It was a big shock really. When I was joining the League, I was kinda confused as to all the secrecy and paperwork that was involved. It was pretty weird, I had to sign an NDA... I mean I guess there were definitely secrets involved in this, people obviously have weaknesses and secret identities and thinks like that. But it just seemed weird the way they were presenting it as official. And it turns out the reason was that they were not hiding weaknesses, they were hiding the fact that it was all big show-business production for the gods.

I can't say that I am not disappointed. Here I was stopping crime and fighting evil on the streets, and I always had this big goal of one day being worthy of joining the League of Justice, and it turns out it is a big jerk off. People playing pretend on ropes in front of greenscreens, shot to make it look like found footage. I always wondered why when I saw a battle in New York on the news, I would go there the next day and it looked brand new. I figured the clean up crew was just amazing.

I thought about exposing the whole thing. Letting the people know that the people they looked up to were all frauds. Lets live in a world where people knew the truth for a change! But then I thought about it... What would actually happen if the league disbanded? The gods would get bored and destroy the Earth... right?

I thought about everything I have done. Stopped guys with knives mugging old ladies. Punched bank robbers as they tryed to run away with giant canvas sacks of cash. What have I never done? Stopped eldritch beings from destroying every living human on the planet. Never done that. I guess these actors might actually be more hero than I am.

Doesn't stop them from being obnoxious narcissists though.

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Not familiar with that movie, but I was thinking Scheherazade.

It began with the Swiss of all people, when the Swiss ambassador presented the Prime Minister of Canada a Pumpkin Creme Swiss Roll cake. But it had a secret ingredient: Compound SCRaNCl-35, a poison so deadly that it kills in seconds following ingestion.

From there the Cake Wars began, as the world was plunged into chaos. Then Latin American countries formed the Tres Leches Alliance and assisted the US and Canada's Red Velveteers push back European forces. The richness of the tres leches hid more of the compound and was even mixed with many illicit compounds to expedite death.

In Europe, France and Germany were surrounded on all sides, their fragile alliegiance close to shattering when the tea and sponge cakes came from England. Trained pidgeons brought the safe consumption to French and German citizens while cake bombers released the deadly ones on their enemies.

In 2068, most countries had a ban on baking if the baker was not in the employ of the government. The war lasted for many centuries yet to come, ending on March 14, 2389. When world leaders sat together to make peace and eat cake.

I informally make threatening gestures towards you with my network crowbar to get you to make another part.

Please do not resist.

My head canon is that the names of the country's have been redacted by the network.

Absolutely fine

Oh, I will!

I don't think that's a bad thing tbh. Prompt is still cool lol

Thanks! I hope you gave the characters different voices!

I enjoyed this very much.

(And had the desire to read it out loud)

Wow thank you so so much! That is one of the greatest compliments I've gotten as a writer. I'm trying to be published and your kindness and support makes me feel like that dream is within reach. Thanks so much, truly :) <3 It is probably easier to read it on my profile, it's pinned if you want to read it there. Happy holidays!

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I know where you got this idea.

I formally double dog dare ya to write another one.

Year 4000

Cake. What is the first thing that comes to your mind when you think of it? Delicious, isn't it?

But should it?

You must thinking why is this author talking about cake all of a sudden. Dear viewers, put away your cakes before strapping in for tonight episode "Cake Wars," a show that sounds like a bake off but is actually a divine tragedy that took over a billion lives.

The year was 2020, the world was fighting something new, something unknown, the Corona virus. But unbeknownst to all another threat loomed ahead of the world. Cake.

First used as a weapon of destruction by a Country X to end cold war and start an actual war. A meagre cake. Yes, you heard it right. Just a small dose of poison and a sweet treat and an offer of peace turned into a horn of war.

It has been debated if that cake was exchanged and that the real cake was infact thrown away and the poisoned cake was used by Country X's opposition to start the war they desperately wanted but all this speculation bear no fruit as their has been little to no proof.

Soon, the world of dessert was the weapon of choice. It was easy. The recipies that could be tinkered with 90% success rate and virtually untraceable.

The horrors of war is the one thing that kept it from being funny. It wasn't Country Y dropped a cupcake bomb on Country A that every single thing resembling cake was banned. It's design, the dessert everything.

Poor bakers could not raise their voices because cake was the new weapon. And for almost half a century war raged on and cake remained banned.

It wasn't until peace was established in 2050 that the ban on cake was lifted. It took even longer for people to start trusting it again. In fact, Red Velvet cake, once a crowd favorite, was considered bad. Even now people are afraid to buy it because they think that the red colour comes from the blood of the innocents from the war.

Peace has resigned for centuries now and to think it could be broken by just another supposedly inconsequential thing like cake is truly scary.

On the next episode of That Happened we'll dive into the world of Oyster armies raging war on the found city of Atlantis.

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