Fan Works / So What Do We Do Now

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In the After The Baptism, Elizabeth and the Lutece twins sheepishly realize they have no idea what they're going to do now that they've managed to end the threat of Columbia, and after a lot of embarrassed hemming and hawing, they're forced to admit they're going to have to think of something. The sequel, After The Burial reveals that a year afterwards, Elizabeth has spent most of the time slowly going to pieces, abandoning all her hobbies in favor of getting very, very drunk at any given opportunity. It's also revealed that the events of Burial At Sea were a massive hallucination on her part, courtesy of spicing up a binge-drinking session with a drug made of powdered coral.

In A.A. Pessimal's The Price of Flight, after the Ankh-Morpork City Watch Air Arm is deployed to fight in an actual shooting war ^note, its commanding officer Olga Romanoff is concerned about the effects it has on her girls. She is particularly worried as to whether they can settle down to being everyday Air Policewomen and working witches again, after letting their dark sides out to play, and seeing comrades killed in the fighting. The one thing she hasn't anticipated is that quite a few of her veteran pilots now want out. The oldest pilot in the force decides she simply doesn't want to do it anymore. Marina's close friend Kiiki decides if life is now going to be boring, she isn't going to do it by halves. She and Marina resign from the Force and move to one of the remotest possible places on the Disc, to start a Witches' steading. Another decides to embrace post-war boredom by going home to Fourecks to work for the Flying Igor And Witch Service.^note. Go to The Price of Flight for more.

Evil Belle: Princess Celestia asks Sweetie/"Evil Belle" this after she "takes over Canterlot". Her response is asking for another milkshake.

in dreams you follow (but I dream in the dark): Kiba runs into this issue after Akatsuki is disbanded, as he has no idea how to return to Konoha and reveal his status as a Fake Defector without getting himself killed by his fellow Leaf-nin. Ultimately, he lets Shino capture him and take him home.

In Long Time No See, Asuka reveals she never stopped to think what would happen if they won the War. But then the conflict was over, and the Angels and Evangelions gone, and she was feeling scared and aimless. Though, Shinji helped her see a life without the job she worked so hard for.

Ash's Return opens with this, as he's completed his Pokédex and finds himself at somewhat of a loss as to what to do with himself.

When Donut and Tucker's parole hearings come up in Murderer's Row, they realize they've become so dependent on the prison that it will be impossible for them to go back to the lives they led on the outside, and that they have no idea what they're going to do if they're released.

Reasons For Living has Jon Connington and Jon Snow discuss this after the Battle of King's Landing.
"The battle is over, aye. But what next, I wonder? Do you think that she will be content with ruling over a blackened ruin? She has the Iron Throne, aye – but Aerys had that, and he tore the realm apart all the same."

Steven Universe: Alternate Future: Little Homeworld Life focuses on this, as the Gems of Little Homeschool deal with the aftermath of Steven leaving Beach City.

A whole new world: In the wake of their forces successfully conquering the world, Rinzler asks Clu just what they're supposed to do next. Clu's answer? Set their sights even higher and set out to conquer the whole universe.

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