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    Emily Monroe is NOT the Chosen One: Unchosen
    Emily Monroe is NOT the Chosen One: Unchosen
    Emily Monroe is NOT the Chosen One: Unchosen
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    Emily Monroe is NOT the Chosen One: Unchosen

    By Erik Schubach

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    Emily Monroe may be a lot of things, but one thing is for sure, she is NOT the Chosen One.

    Now that the truth about Emily and the Chosen One has been revealed to them, they are reeling and things will never again be the same for Emily at Big Burger.

    The Chosen One rebels, learning the truth about her family and the Mayor strips her of the mantle of the champion of Big City.

    While the new hero of the city, Mega Girl, makes dangerous decisions, the Chosen One must learn to be a normal person and get a new job.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherErik Schubach
    Release dateAug 10, 2018
    ISBN9780463298275
    Emily Monroe is NOT the Chosen One: Unchosen
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    Erik Schubach

    I got my start writing romance novels by accident. I have always been drawn to strong female characters in books, like Honor Harrington. And I also believe that there is a lack of LGBT characters in media. So one day I came up with a story idea that combines the two... two days later I completed the manuscript for Music of the Soul.My writing style may not be the most professional nor grammatically correct, but I never profess to be an English major, just a person that wants to share a story. I maintain that my primary language is sarcasm.Each of my books features strong likeable female characters that are flawed. I think that flaws and emotional or physical scars make us human and give us more character than simply conforming to some "social norm".I have also started a SciFi series, The Valkyrie Chronicles which features a Valkyrie, Kara, who was left behind on Earth five thousand years ago to help the Asgard race escape the onslaught of the Ragnarok horde. With the aid of a human, Kate, she holds the line in battle to herald the return of the Asgard!If you like magic, paranormal romance and witches, then my new series Fracture might tickle your fancy. In the first book Fracture: Divergence, Alex King must stop magic from destroying reality. The problem is that Alex must solve the case in parallel universes where in one Alex is male and female in the other.There is even a modern shapeshifter paranormal series, Drakon. Featuring a fiery Irish woman with a sharp wit and sharper temper who finds out she is a dragon of legend.

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      Emily Monroe is NOT the Chosen One - Erik Schubach

      Chapter 1 – Lightning Bug

      I tightened my grip on the spatula in my hand. It had been two days since a bombshell had been dropped on me. That I was the twin sister of Big City's superhero darling, the Chosen One. Just a day before that, I was simply Emily Monroe, night manager here at Big Burger who looked so freakishly like the Chosen One that supervillains regularly attacked me here at work to make a name for themselves. It didn't matter how adamantly I professed that I was NOT the Chosen One.

      No... I am not the Chosen One, don't look so skeptical.

      I now know that I am just the unintentional leftovers from a secret grand experiment by Big City and Genesis Labs to genetically engineer the perfect superhero, or Prime, to combat the rise of super-powered individuals who chose to use their abilities for nefarious purposes. Supervillains outnumbered superheroes almost three to one in most cities and Big City had been no different until years after the experiment began and the Chosen One finally stepped out into the daylight to combat evil.

      I used to hate the Chosen One for looking like me, it had ruined my life. Nobody would hire me for fear that villains would hunt me down and destroy their business because I looked like the city's hero, even though I go through great pains to change my appearance. Dying my blonde hair dark, and changing my eye color, and hoping one day to be able to afford plastic surgery to take more drastic steps.

      That was before, but now... I didn't know what to think. I mean, she's my sister. I was the unintentional byproduct, the scum that floated to the top when they made her. They were going to destroy me when I was born when they couldn't detect any power in me. They would have 'terminated' with no second thoughts if it hadn't been for Doctor Maria Aki who had absconded with the bassinet with the EM1-LY342 label affixed to it, and left me at the doors of the Big City Orphanage.

      Doctor Aki had been the surrogate who had gestated the experiment and gave birth to the most extraordinary individual... and me. She has been hiding in plain sight from the people running the project, changing her name and running the same Big Burger I worked at. Imagine my shock in learning that the kind woman who hired me when nobody else would, and didn't seem to care that because of who I looked like, her business got trashed every few days, was... my mother, Mrs. Yamamoto.

      I'm still trying to process all that I have learned in the last few days. My life isn't what I thought it was. And even my girlfriend and my roommate have their own secrets. Violet, my best friend since our days in the orphanage, has been hiding that she is the city's biggest vigilante superhero, the Blue Canary.

      My girlfriend, Agent Heather Sams with Containment, had inadvertently exposed the fact to me that she was one of the three most powerful heroes in the city, Photon. She covertly works in Containment to make sure that anti-powered rhetoric and animosity doesn't corrupt the agency.

      The entire Containment force is made up of Norms. Normals are nonpowered individuals, though some powered people use the Zeroes slur instead.

      I myself am powered, though I may as well be a Norm for all the good my lame-ass powers do me. I have the capability to change my eye color and the color of my nails. On the Peltier Scale, where zero is unpowered, and fifty is what they call Prime, the most powerful people in the world, I'm a zero point one, the Chosen One is a forty-nine point nine.

      I feel bad now, knowing that I'm the reason my sister, Wendy, is not a Prime. When our egg split, I took that tiny bit of power from her. And she can manifest just about any power now, but she cannot change her eye or nail color when she morphs her form.

      Heh, just a month ago I would have relished knowing I was the reason the Chosen One was not little Miss Perfect like I thought she was. Now here I am feeling guilty for... well for existing. Just how messed up am I now?

      And I'm worried now. My sister, Wendy, hasn't been seen since the night a couple days back when a group of villains had converged on Big Burger to put an end to their nemesis once and for all. After a huge battle that almost leveled the place, we had learned that Mrs. Y was our mother and Wendy flew off.

      Nobody has seen her since, and a crime spree has ensued that is keeping Heather and Violet busy almost twenty-four seven to keep Big City safe.

      I stepped back, clearing my head and swung my spatula, batting away the small ball of electric potential that Lightning Bug had shot at me. The rubber handle insulating me from the high voltage charge. The errant blast hit the fryer, and the oil burst into flames.

      Awwww man!

      I pointed the kitchen utensil at him menacingly as he rubbed his hands together to build up another charge. Two, three, four. I told you, you static cling reject, I'm not the Chosen One... and that dumbass beetle suit makes you look like an idiot. Antennae? Really? Eight, nine...

      I dove as another orb of ball lightning whizzed past my head, hitting the grill behind me and dissipating on its broad metal surface.

      Ok, ten seconds between recharges, that's a huge window for me. Why do so many supers depend solely on their powers? They think they are unstoppable because of them, they don't think about what happens if someone finds out the limitations of their powers and has no problems being a little more, physical and proactive shall we say?

      Where the hell was Containment? I hadn't pressed the button on my ring to call Heather. Photon has been so busy lately, and she needed a rest. This third rate villain could be easily contained by, well, by Containment. I had the new waitress, Jayleen, call Containment after she cleared the dining area of customers.

      Normally, Vi would be here drawing the comic books that paid our rent, but she had to run off to the third bank robbery in eighteen hours. Her wondrous nanotech gadgets would have made short work of this ass clown

      I started my count again. Two, three... I surprised the man by diving at him as he rubbed his hands together once more. I hauled back with both hands on the handle of the spatula and slapped him across the face with the flat blade of it like

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