It's 5am EST. I've been up all night editing and re-writing.
Here is the origin of my character, Darqueheart. Please, tell me what you think.
Thanks!
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Darquehearts Story
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Twenty-Six minutes... A choking scream. Darqueheart awakes with a start, obsidian black surrounding him. Innately, his infrared sensors compensate. It is the Lab. He is still theirs. The Major is dead.
Cables and sensors cover him; monitors display his every bio-function. Twenty-six minutes... rings in his head again, a faded memory of a faded man. The lights erupt as the scientist enters, sensors compensate again. The same emotionless voice interrupts his thoughts. Ahh, your sleep-cycle has ended. Let us resume the testing then.
The Ritki. Thats what The Major had called them. Everyone else had called them Master.
He was ordered to stay hiding. He wasnt good at following orders. In retrospect, the patrol had looked almost as shocked as he did when they found him. Normally hed be dead - the Masters didnt tolerate free-range humans - but he wasnt quite human. Yes, the Ritki were more than interested in that fact.
You are quite a remarkable young life form. Your cellular mutation, if I may say, is simply astonishing. There was almost emotion there. The truth was, the Ritki wanted his ability. They had never seen someone who grew an epidermis of bio-metal and fibre. They wanted to know how he managed to adapt to any situation they placed him in. To be truthful, he wanted to know too. It was all natural to him, hed never questioned the facts before.
He perked up as he felt it: a dulling of his mind, he felt his consciousness slip. Slumber.
Twenty-six minutes
That familiar choking gasp.
Our defenses never stood a chance
Brief, ragged coughing.
against their second wave.
The Major was the only one of them whod been there to see it, and he was only a child then. The Ritki had sent a scouting party to investigate a tiny blue speck. The resources found - and the destruction caused - by that small reconnaissance party told them of a planet ripe for the picking. Earth had barely fought off that first wave. When the Ritki Armada arrived
Earths defenses crumbled. In twenty-six minutes the leaders of men fell to their knees and were obliterated. Earth became the new Ritki homeworld.
The whirring of the scientists scanner brings Darqueheart out of his reverie. More DNA scanning must be done. Remain still. He waits for the familiar pressure in his head that keeps him from moving
only it never comes. The bolts slide back, his body is freed. A fist slams home - sending the Ritki skittering across the floor.
Run.
Synapse and motor become one, his bio-mechanoid body leaps into action and no door can stop him. A room flies past, his feet clanking down the metal hallway. Somewhere his sensors register the sound of klaxons blaring; Soldiers gearing up.
He knows he cant stop, they will catch him. A crackle of energy to his right. Quickly shifting his weight, his hulking body groans in protest - but accommodates - as he swings around the corner onto a balcony. His legs seize and he skids to a halt.
An army. An army of Ritki soldiers standing before a crackling portal, some other world visible on the other side. Without a thought his legs activate again, leaping off the balcony. Laser fire rings past his aural sensors, electrical devices shower him with sparks and flame. The portal starts to fade. STOP the command rings in his mind. For once his mind rebukes the emotionless voice.
NO!
One final compression of his bio-hydraulics sends him sailing into the air and through the diminishing, crackling field. The sounds of explosions and Ritki screams echo in his memory as his body collides with the soft, fertile earth.
The crackling ceases and he looks up, green grass and blue sky greet him. It is a strange vision, for he has never seen anything like it before. In the distance some sort of settlement breaks the horizon line. As he stands, a poly-fibre board greets him in cheerful white text:
Welcome To Paragon City!
Written By Brandon Laraby
Aka. Darqueheart on Virtue Server
