A/N: Sooo I woke up this morning, was reading Red vs Blue fanfics featuring Churboose and stumbled upon a music meme. For this meme the rules are:
1) Choose a character, fandom, pairing, friendship, what have you
2) Put on your music program on shuffle/random and start playing songs
3) For each song, write something inspired by the song related to the theme you chose earlier. You only have the song length. No pre-planning and no writing after the song is over. No skipping songs either.
4) Do 10 songs and post. Make sure to include the song name/artist.
So I was like, huh I wanted to try it out, see if I could actually write short drabbles without going over. I decided I would of course do bakugan (so I can pick and choose anything within the fandom ;D) and I have the most options in there.
Edit: So after I'd finished the first one, I quickly realized I was never in a million years going to pull off getting what I wanted out of one playthrough of a song so unfortunately I have to admit a lot of these had me replaying the song twice, and three times in a few cases. The first one was the only one to actually be within the allotted time, and it does kind of suck so forgive me. When I saw which one it was going to be I got excited… and promptly realized I had no idea what to write for it (that's what I got when I actually tried to write for a lot of these) and better yet who to feature. In the end I settled on my humanized Superior from Fighting Bakugan (or Skyler), in this story this preludes both Fighting Bakugan and Dancing Shadows and I'll just let the story speak for itself:
Locking up the Sun- Poets of the Fall
Featuring: Superior/Skyler from Fighting Bakugan
Is there a hero somewhere
Someone who appears and saves the day
The young android was holding his shoulder, luminescent purple blood leaking from his wounds and liquid gathering at his glowing optics. He didn't know what was worse, the pain in his shoulder, or the agony in his heart.
The sun beat down harshly on his back, purple blood dropping down onto the sand below leaving a trail of small dark circles in his wake.
It had all gone so wrong, he'd let his friends down. More tears in his eyes as the image of the three headed mechanical behemoth looming over him flashed across his eyes. He was supposed to be their hero, their last hope to escape the clutches of a madman. Instead-a flash of terror as he recalls the purple laser erupting from the enormous Hades mouth aimed right at him, making the android's glowing purple optics widen in terror as they gazed up at the monster.
Just when he thought he'd die a failure, he was saved. He didn't know how or why, but apparently some lady in a black cloak that covered her face and figure darted in at the right second and teleported him to the desert he was now in. The sun had just begun to rise when the mysterious women deposited him on the ground beneath a hill of sand. She hadn't said much, just told him that she'd saved him for a reason. But when he'd asked why she had merely chuckled and told him it was up to him to decide, before disappearing.
It hadn't helped. It only made it worse, he was a machine, he'd been built to be a weapon, to serve a madman. His friends had guided him to a different a path, one where he volunteered his abilities to help them fight through the madman's base. But it had gone wrong, it had all gone so wrong.
He dropped to his hands and knees the liquid sliding from his eyes down his cheeks and making contact with the ground. A young girl, slain saving him a small smile on her face as Hades' blast swallowed her up after she'd shoved him safely out of its path. Then his other friend, his mentor, the one who'd told him that his path was his own, and not even his maker could tell him otherwise, had fallen off a cliff, and it was unlikely he had survived.
He remembered the last words his creator, his father, a tall dark haired man with spectacles had spat as he sneered down at him beside his mechanical monstrosity, the three headed Hades, the first of his robots to activate its bakugan battle form.
He could envison the way the man's lips curled.
"You're inferior, you couldn't kill one human when you were told to, and you couldn't protect two when you wanted to, Hades dispose of this Inferior once and for all."
'It's true, I am an inferior machine, an inferior friend, and insufficient hero!' The young android thought as he clenched his fists and punched the ground the liquid coming faster from his eyes. 'My friends, please forgive me, forgive me for being inferior.'
He stayed like that for a couple of hours, the liquid dripping down his face while his processor continued to go around and around about how he was an inferior.
Then finally it stopped, the sun was beginning to set and the desert lost some of its heat. The android was silent the liquid finally stopped, and his internal repair systems had taken care of sealing off the wound of his shoulder. It was then he realized that all this being upset and thinking about how inferior he was.
Slowly he rose to his feet and took a deep breath turning his optics to the setting sun.
"You-" He said slowly. "You-you can call me an inferior all you want," He spat his hands clenching into fists as he straightened up glaring at the sun envisioning his maker before him. "But, if I was saved for a reason, then I'm-I'm going to make you feel what you made me feel today." He said. "And I'll start by showing you, I'm not inferior. I'm better than your stupid Hades, than the other SPD units, than all your other creations combined! I'm-I'm SUPERIOR!" He shouted and it was like a switch had been flipped inside of him. The android had been grasping for a name ever since he'd decided not to follow his makers orders and kill the blond male human.
The young android smiled slowly. "Yeah, I'm Superior, and I'll spend every day for the rest of my life, striving to live up to it. For the friends I failed today," His expression sobered up immediately. "And for anyone I should meet."
Then taking a deep breath the newly christened Superior turned and walked away from the setting sun, his shadow stretching before him, purple optics glowing brightly in the dim evening light.
A/N: Okay I dunno what it was, but I really do love this song, and then when it got to 'We need someone expendable' I thought of Supers, being an android he sees himself as expendable for the better good. There will be a more indepth back story in Fighting Bakugan to come but I couldn't resist this little drabble. I also kind of like how I actually referenced the sun.
I really freaking love this song and it goes very well with Superior (more so when we really get more into his story ;) ) so I recommend giving this song a listen if you get a chance!
I've decided that each of these 10 song based drabbles will be the first 10 chapters of Dimensional Shuffle, and if you guys like them I'll make more later on :D. So please review and tell me if you liked it!