Tokyo, Japan Leiko Tanaka isn’t happy. Her limousine is stuck in traffic, but this is the least of her problems. First Null Towers disappears, then Artemis shows up in China killing thousands of people. The stock market has all but[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Hackensack, New Jersey Alejandro parks the stolen car in front of a rather anonymous warehouse. His sister Maria isn’t impressed with the destination. <You better have lots of money in there, for making us drive all the way to New[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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…
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…
4 A.M. The smartest girl in the world wakes up, her silver eyes shining in the darkness. After a long yawn, she stretches her arms and legs while she orders: <Lights on. Status report.> Neon lights illuminate the bedroom, which[…]↓ 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 Capitol, Washington D.C. On a list of the dangers of a congressional hearing, dodging bullets is pretty low. But the place has suddenly turned into a warzone: dozens of heavily armed mercenaries are taking control of the hall, despite[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Capitol, Washington D.C. The press has been waiting for this. The 24-hour news networks have been talking about this since sunrise, and now they can finally point their cameras at the action. The roar of the Phoenix NX-1 signals[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
