"HOT COCOA! MORE HOT COCOA! I DEMAND HOT COCOA!" Milo Greyson had very little need for sleep but the effects of caffeine offered a different effect on him. It made his drive to work hyperactive. Like humans and their excessive abuse of caffeinated drinks to stay wired and alert Milo enjoyed hot cocoa as a stimulant to achieve goals. Let's not get started on...
All characters 18 or over. Chapter 1 Day 1 "Welcome, test subjects, to your new home in the stars!" The alien man addressing us was the head of some kind of scientific mission, and he had abducted my class, our teachers, and the other people who had been on the bus with us. I figure they timed it to the very end of our final term so they could kidnap peo...
Gotham City- once rated as America's capital of crime and the den of gangsters and supervillains alike. In the years since Batman first took up the cowl, it has fallen silent. Things feel... normal again. For many, it's the first time the city's ever felt normal. It's not perfect, sure... new eccentrics always rise up to cause havoc but the really bad ones?...
To call the past week surreal would have been the understatement of several lifetimes. Vidya had been there when Captain DuPont -- for reasons that still baffled her -- split the research team into two divisions. One, the larger, would be sent down to the surface of Arcadia, to continue researching magic in safe environment. This had struck her as odd. While...
Raia's world was one of abject suffering. The past several days had brought her to new levels of understanding concerning the meaning of the word; every manner in which she could have imagined herself being brutalized (along with a few she couldn't) had been made a harrowing reality in that short span of time. But she had managed to escape, and if she hadn't...
The paramedics were loading the still unconscious Georgina onto the ambulance when the call came through. Without telling them anything much about the reasons, Room 42 had given the Cheshire Constabulary a list of key-words to look out for in incident reports, something that they would want to be informed about. And one of them had just scored a hit. The wo...
Billy talks to Ike about ni-uzu "What the hell you mean?" Ike had been told about the Leska link Billy had with Satasha. It had been the same evening Teo had proven telepathy existed. He couldn't remember if why it had happened had been mentioned. It had been a long time ago and so much crap had happened he could easily have forgotten. Billy kept looking s...
Ike, Amanda, and Teo arrive on earth Ike settled down at his desk on the Barque and started sorting through everything in his inbox. It might be all computerized but it was still considered an inbox. When he found the video of the Grand Marshal calling he watched it. It only to a few moments for him to call back, "I'm Admiral Demopolus and need to talk to t...
How it all started: I had recently been laid-off from a tech job and a fellow co-worker and I decided to start up our own company doing IT consulting. It just so happens that my business partner had already gotten a lucrative customer in his hometown which was what he depended on to pay his mortgage payment. In order for me continue in the business with h...
My screams echoed off the walls of the science facility as I was dragged upwards to the roof. The two cloaked figures were different species, judging from their hands. One appeared to be human, while the other had a feline appearance to his hands. They seems unconcerned about my screaming. From the lack of reaction in the Wren'kt around me, they had little t...