Let me tell you a story...It is a story of compassion, a story of bravery and courage in the hearts of many, it is a story of magic, of science and religion, it is the story of the un explainable, a story that blurs the lines between fact a fiction, for what is fact but a concept of the way things are. and what is fiction but a concept of what things may be. The fact is, thogh things may seem physically immposible here in our realm of reality, what if they were not in another reality. one that could have existed but through some akward chang in the time stream was erased completly. Or maybe this world is the reality, and we are living the dream. This is a story of how all worlds of fantasy and wonder do exist, a story with its begining, but seemingly, no end in sight....a story of the interdimensional crossroads....
Series1:
Deadly Nightshade Society
D.N.S. presents
Genesis:Begginings
Part 1: Project Genisis
Scene opens: A woman is typing into her computer. The monitor has written on it "Danger zone computer files....File....Open....Deadly Nightshade Files....Open....Day one....Date 9/15/91....Open...."
Prologue:LiL'BraT
Scene opens to a woman walking alone on a street sidewalk. She's carrying a large black trunk with her, her only luggage from a trip that lasted four years. She does her best to ignore the passers by while they gawk in amazement at the short petite looking girl carrying a case that seems too heavy for most men her age to lift. The Woman's name and origins are unknown to even her, she is known to most though as LiL'BraT, a nick name given to her in her youth. A name addressing her most problematic attitude, however, she is not with out a serious side. Even she can show compassion, sorrow, and more importantly anger. Today she plans to begin anew, she hopes to find more of a future by seeking out her past. According to those she has known, she was found a babe on the doorstep of a orphanage about tweenty years ago. No note, no information, nothing linking her to any life before that. As a child she was shifted around a lot, never really settleing either place and always on the move. At about age tweelve she had settled in with an African American family which was unusual for a caucasian girl from Miami Florida, however it was the only stability she ever knew. Now she set out to find some reminence of her past before then. She turned into the building on the corner of mainstreet. Written on the door Dan Carter Private investigator. She held the trunk in one arm looking to see no one was around. With the other hand she jostles the door open and heads in. The stray door slams down a pedestrian who was standing on the other side. Quickly she grabs the door and drops the trunk. She turns around to expess concern apologetically. "I beg your pardon sir. I didn't see you there....A-Are you Dan Carter?" She extends her hand to help him up. He groans and takes her hand as she helps him up. "uh...No...I'm just working here temporarily...I" She takes a good look at him and asks "Do...I...Know you!?" "Excuse me!?" he replies. "You look so familiar, I'm sorry...I probab-*" She srinks back in embarassment. "Uh....no...I'm his assistant Joseph...I just have one of those faces, I get that a lot....Mister Carter, Dan, is right down that hall on your left." he says walking away and clumsily knocking into a box beside his desk. "Thank you." She smiles as she passes by and heads down the hall. That walk down the hall felt like the longest walk she ever took in her life, she recalls the phone call summoning her here as her trembling hand reaches for the door. "Ms.Kidd, I'm Dan Franklin Carter from the other day." She grasps the phone between her chin and shoulder struggling to listen as she puts the groceries in the cubboard. "Yes." She replies calmly. "This is about you original birth parrents..." Her tone shifts to anticipation. "Uh huh." "Well, I may have some information here if you would like to stop by later..." "Yes, Thank you...I'll be by at about eleven, eleven fiteen....Thank you." *Click* She finds herself out side his door again as her hand turns to open the door and she steps in. "Come in Ms.Kidd, you mind if I call you Mitchell, Ms. Kidd just sounds so formal..." "BraT will be just fine Daniel, thank you..." "C'm in, sit down....make yourself comfortable..." She does as he requests. "Alright BraT, I would like you to tell me the earliest memory you can recall...predating the amnesia, of course." She sits there cringing, holding her shoulder and squinting her eyes trying to recall. "That will be hard, Its mostly just bits and fragments, it doesn't even make sense most of it...I mean kids...taking out an underground operation...I uh...I'll try...I can't even recall most of the faces, they're still a blur...but...Here goes."
Interlude:
"I was about ten or eleven, there were a couple of other kids, I don't know how many. The ones I can recall though, There was a boy named Eric, his name sticks out like a sharp nail in the corner of my mind, he was the one we were sent to recover, he was lost while looking for another by the name of Terra Henrich, of the Manhatten Henrichs, the scientist, his wife and his first born daughter Terra. The bodies of the parrents were recovered by the Coast Gaurd off the bank of the Amazon after their boat was destroyed by cause unknown. There was word that the daughter had survived. So we were set out to recover the missing girl and Eric who was our headmaster's son. That lead to our discovery of some thing called the Genisis Project. A Operation lead by an excumunicated scientist who called himself "The Doctor" He was harboring young mutant and meta humans in order to fuel his pet project. He would take innocent children off the street, children in need of shelter an food, he would offer them a place and food to eat but a a high cost. He'd preform horrifing experiments on them all for the sake of his research in human evolution. Most kids would survive but they were sometime horribly mutated and mutilated. He ran things like a concentration camp down there. There was no escape even after you paid your dues he would keep you around for hard labor or breeding purposes. We, ourselves, were afraid that once we were in, there was no getting out. We were sent in as "Project Deadly Night Shade".There was about four or five of us, maybe more. It consisted of me, Nicole, Christopher, his older brother Sean. There could have been more I can't remember...Heh...a handful of kids, and we were about to stop a whole organization. Pretty stupid huh...still we were well trained beyond our years. Our orders were simple...obtain Eric and Terra, then pull out. But it wouldn't be that easy. It took us six months to get a good look at the system from the inside, in that time we were to blend in with the other children and we had to find out how their system worked. It was that of a microcasm of a society. The age groups ran from birth up to thirty years of age. These children would rarely live past the ages of tweenty and even more rarley ever see thirty. They were kept mainly for labor, others for research or breeding. Breeding ages were from tweelve and up. Children were taken away from their parrents after weened to cut any emotional ties with family. The children around me were barron of any emotion, they seem drol, lifeless as robots. If any tried to escape they would be put to death, tortured or lebotimised to break their wills. Among some of the most disgusting atrocities commited this one sticks out the most, I remember one day watching a child about three years of age, who had just been seperated from her mother, each taken to another side of a elecrified fence. The child screamed and wailed for her mother who looked to be about eighteen. Both mother and child were distrought she would cry out to her little girl to stay put, everything would be fine. The child did not listen, she fought and struggled till she finally broke loose of the gaurd that was holding her. She ran to her mother a full speed, her mother kept crying no stay back! But she just kept running, ignorant to the fence before her. She hit the fence at full impact. Her tiny body seem to melt like icecream in the sun, till there was nothing left but her chared remains and the thick smell of burning flesh in the stale subterranian air. I had not the tears for such evil, for what I had just seen was what caused me to go back on my orders and try to destroy this inhuman realm of evil. Our orders were to simply rescue the boy Eric and girl Terra. But my decision was clear, I was going to shut down Project Genisis once and for all."
Interlude:
"The scene was set, The others and I would lead the attack we would imobilize the guards while Nicole would shut down all main computers so we could get past the fences. Every thing was set and ready to get underway. We were able to find Terra and Eric, Terra joined us in the set up and Eric went to find the others and make sure every thing was in place. Terra and I were at our stations. The computers were shut down and their was a block out preceding. Everything was right on time, too bad the rest of the plan didn't go accordinly. We took out all the minor guards. Our one opposition was the head gaurd code name:Grimlord, kinda drol I know, but it was to be expected of a kid who grew up in the sewers. Every thing was going great Christopher and one of the other kids were leading the children out through the sewers while Sean and Eric were unlocking cells and setting others free. Suddenly the system froze and the computers started rebooting themselves. We knew some thing was terribly wrong. I tried to contact Nicole with no sucess, I feared the worst as that could mean only one of three things either she was being blocked, unconscious or dead. I immediatly headed to the section behind the med lab where Terra was said to have been stationed. By the time I reached it she just came around the corner as well. I looked at the wall closely and tried to contemplate getting through with out hurting Nicole if she still lived. I told terra the situation then I took a deep breath and fell back then gathered in all my strength and control a ball of energy that was strong enough to bust through three feet of reinforced steel. The experience took a lot of concentration and weakened me immensely. The force proved most effective as the ball blew a hole the diameter of tweenty feet. Once the smoke cleared found myself faced to face with my arch nemisis Grimlord. The son of the mad man who founded this little project and the psycopath who tried to keep me for him self. "You mentioned him before, wasn't he the man who was stalking you that week..." Yes but thats another story. I immediatly beggan pounding on him as Terra ran to help Nicole who was being held in a suspended animation cell called a detention pod. Each of my punches seemed to have no effect on him, he almost seemed to be enjoying it. I beggan to grow frustrated as I tore my way through him. I was able to get one strike at his face when he decided he had enough and with one singleswing he had me on the floor. I didn't even see it coming, appearently the suit he was wearing advanced his speed and strength as well as his super human capabilities. He had me penned as he went in for the final blow, he grabbed me by the throat fixing his gaze on me so I could not fight back. Then as he raised his fist to strike I heard Terra yell some thing. He turned to see her and was struck in the head. Theres more to that scene that I don't remember but anyways, I was so out of it that both Terra and Nicole had to carry me out, and Nicole who was weakened from the stasis was in better shape then me. They hurried out of there as the flames caused by the broken stasis pod began to grow. As we got away from the Med lab, for some reason I just kept looking back. It suddenly occured to me what I'd done. I had forgotten my first rule of conduct. "If you show no mercy to the enemy you become the enemy your self." It occured to me we just left that man in their to die. I quickly pulled away and headed back. Nicole grabbed me and pulled me back just before the place exploded. Both Terra and Nicole try to calm me down and convince me theirs nothing that can be done. I couldn't help it though. I know he was the enemy and that he was crazy, but I couldn't help feeling guilty for what I'd done. So I just sat there, my guilt and shame overwhelming me to no extent. I just let it all soak in, knowning their was nothing left from there on.
Interlude:
"The rest is pretty much history. We were able to get out through a back way sewer system and avoid the comotion above as somebody had tipped the press. We stood there discussing what had gone on and what lies ahead for us now. I invited Terra to come stay with us at our mansion in Miami and become one of the team. And thats how it started. That how we became the team known as Deadly Night Shade. So now, if you don't mind, I would like to hear the information you have on my parrents for me." He fumbles about with the papers on his desk. "Yes of course....Here..." Handing her the file he smiles and concludes, "So that explains that strange broadcast over tweenty years ago. "Come pick up your children."" She turned in puzzlement. "Sir, this is not the file on my parrents." He smiled back sarcasticly inadazed look. "Oh yes it is...That is the file of a George and Helen Detrich from Alabama. They discovered a baby in an open field three years prior to your being found on the steps of Saint Juddith's Orphanage." She beggan to raise her voice in disbeleif. "But thats over 500 miles away from the orphanage...and why would they go to all that trouble to ditch me?!" He retorted in correction. "They didn't ditch you....They found a female caucasian baby with red eyes, fitting your description might I add, in an open field. They took her in fully aware of the childs mutant abilities and took care of it till she was abducted three years later from their house on a farm...." She trew her hands up in submission to defeat. "Great! another family I have to go through to get some information on who my real parrents are." He states back. "You might want to stick with this one though...They have a pretty amazing story...and they've been looking for you for quite some time now." She looks again at the file and sighs. "Well then, maybe they will know some thing...and since they cared enough to look...I should go...I at least owe them that much." He resettles himself in his chair. "Alright then...and I'll let you know if I find any thing else on your other family..." She walks out the door with a look of tire and fatique. "Right...see ya around then..." Leaving the room she bumps into the young man from before. "AH!...We have got to keep meeting like this." She juts back. "Oh, I'm so sorry....I.." "Its quite alright miss...I been meaning to ask you...your the amnesia case that we've been working on aren't you..." She stutters, "Uh, y-yeah...I guess..." "Well I happen to be an amnesia case myself...Part of why I'm working here....I was wondering if...maybe...you'd like to step out for some coffee right quick!?" Retensively she says, "Uh..n-no thank you...I gotta meet my friends down stairs...thanks though..." Dissapointanly he says, "Oh, alright then..." She walks away slowly then stops, taking a deep breath she says, "W-would you like to...maybe go out...to dinner later..." He turns in anticipation. "I-uh...Oh, I'd love to...w-would you like me to pick you up..." She turns to him with a smile, "Sure...how about eight tonight...Heres my address..." She hands him a peice of paper. Unsure whether she is being a litlle too forward she just smiles and turns to leave. "I- uh I'll see you later tonight!?" She smiles and waves. "Sure, see ya then."
Epilogue:
Down at the corner outside the underground parking lot BraT meets up with her friends. She runs over to them tossing her trunk aside and embraces the tall young woman with curly dirty blonde hair. "Hey there!" She says "Hey! Its been a while!" She turns to the shorter blonde one and hugs her. Then She turns to the similar one with black hair, "No offense but if you try to hug me I'll bust your face!" She say in a humerous tone. "Whud'up bitch!" BraT says. They shake hands and Brat picks up her trunk. "C'mon then...Lets go home." That being said the girls head for the underground parking lot accross the street. LiL'BraT stops suddenly when a burst of light appears before her.
"What the FUCK!!!!?"
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