Infinity Smashed: Thomas Goes Home

Thomas Goes Home
Series: Infinity Smashed
Word Count: 2000
Summary: After a year and a half in Treehouse, Thomas returns to home in Texas, and has NO IDEA how it's going to turn out.
Notes: This story had no prompter, and was sponsored by the Patreon crew! More notes at the bottom.


Much as he’s grown to love Treehouse, Thomas has always ached to go back to Austin. Treehouse is lush and green, cool and damp. Austin is hot and dry, with oak and ashe juniper and limestone. Treehouse has monsters, friendly and otherwise, who all want in on your business, and he likes and loves a lot of them. But while they are his second family and Treehouse his second home, they can't replace his first.

So when Thomas gets to return home, after a year and a half in Treehouse, he's aching and terrified and set to blow with longing, all at the same time. What if his family has changed? What if he's changed? What if the intricate puzzle of his family, all the colorful, unique pieces, don't fit together right anymore?

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Giant Robots: Drown

Drown
Series: Giant Robots (Infinity Smashed/Pacific Rim crossover)
Word Count: 2000
Summary: The apocalypse hits, and no matter what happens, Biff and M.D.'s giant robot is going to be left at the bottom of the ocean. M.D. just assumes she'll go down with it, but Biff isn't going for it.
Notes: Title comes from a song by Nojahoda. This story wasn’t a winner of the poll, but its price was the same as the remaining money  left over, so here it is! This is the END of the Giant Robots series, and you’d be best served reading the rest first. Further notes at the bottom.


After so many years in the pilot seat of Whiskey Delta, M.D. is practically half-robot herself. She seems happiest strapped into the braces and the Drift, where there's no pills, no pain, and all the strength and power she could ever need.

“It's not being a gimp that bothers me,” she tells him once, unprompted. “It's all the baggage everyone else has about it. Well, that and the pain. I'd be okay without the pain.”

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