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2022-07-17
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2022-07-17
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Sliding Doors

Summary:

You are Ben Hargreeves, a sixteen-year-old superhero.

Today, the choices you make on this mission will affect the world. Lives are at stake, including your own.

(The Jennifer Incident, told across timelines.)

[Incomplete]

Notes:

The format of this fic was stolen from katplanet's Gen June fic last year, be kind, rewind. The title was stolen from a Gwyneth Paltrow movie in which the main character's life goes down two different paths depending on whether she catches her train one morning.

For this fic, do not click on Next Chapter to advance. Chapters are out of order. At the end of each chapter, there will be links to the next path to take. Sometimes, you will be given a choice between multiple options.

Depending on your choices earlier, some paths will be blocked off to you later on.

For now, this is just a teaser. Afterwards, I'll keep updating until I get to the first convenient stopping point. Unfortunately, writing five versions of the same scene isn't conducive to staying under a word limit, so the conclusion may have to wait until the event is over.

Chapter 1

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You are Ben Hargreeves, and you are no normal sixteen-year-old.

Adopted at birth by an eccentric billionaire, you and your siblings have been told all your lives that you're extraordinary. (Between your robot mother and chimpanzee butler and gruesome stomach tentacles, you can't exactly disagree.) You were raised for a higher purpose, one that matters more than your own happiness: to save the world.

Your earliest memories are of martial arts drills, electrodes taped to your chest, laps around the courtyard until you passed out in the hot sun. Before you learned to read, you were taught how to kill. And twice a week, you and your siblings head out the door to fight crime, wondering each time if you'll come back alive.

But on the other hand, you get to be a superhero. Isn't that what every teenager dreams of?

It's all in a day's work at...

--> [☂U] the Umbrella Academy

-->[🐦S] the Sparrow Academy