The White House The President of the United States is used to being waken up in the middle of the night; it’s part of his job. But believing what his Chief of Staff is telling him is much harder. <What[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Null Tower, 47th floor Vesta pours coffee in a mug; her right hand is on fire, heating the beverage before she hands it to Todd Slate. The current head of the company’s public relations looks her in the eye. <So[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Noriko is walking alone, stroking her hands on her bare arms to warm herself. It’s too cold to wear a prom dress, and it looks like it will start to rain soon. Her feet are killing her; she could call[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For most of her life, Noriko has heard people her age whispering behind her back. Did you hear that the Japanese girl is the janitor’s daughter? The white guy. I hear he gets a different woman home every night. Poor[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
With only 50 floors, Null Tower isn’t the tallest skyscraper in New York. The only thing that makes it stand out is the big steel structure on top of it, shaped like the symbol Ø…Null’s signature. Todd Slate reaches the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There’s a seemingly empty room in the Tower, with only a chair in the middle connected to hundreds of fluorescent optic cables. The way Noriko Null sits on it, crossing her legs and placing her arms on the armrests, it[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Mumbai, India As he disintegrates the last of the Centurions, Max Black a.k.a. Quantum takes a moment to watch the destruction brought upon the city by the Empire of Shadows. Technically, this isn’t his first warzone… but the Myridian uprising[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado Springs The entire complex trembles, shaken by a fistfight on the surface. The masked woman in military uniform is the only one with permission to set foot here, but Blue Star is also escorting Noriko Null, Torn[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Project Silver, below the Cheyenne Mountain nuclear bunker The alarm is sounding incessantly, and everything short of grenades has been used to slow down Beautiful Cancer. But her body is only a mass of black smoke shaped like a female[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The world learns quickly that something big just happened. Even if they don’t live in one of the 25 major cities hit, people learn about the attack of the Empire of Shadows within minutes. The words of the Empress are[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…