Channel 7 — March 19, 2024

Earth is entering a new age of peace and high-tech. A world with holographic sidewalks, some basic holographic billboards, monorails and people movers in the inner cities, underground malls called “undermalls”, a computer in every home, though no flying cars, and firearms have been completely outlawed. An Earth where religion is on the decline, except for such things as “The Church of Freud” and “The Church of the Internet”, and some of the place names are a little different as compared to our Earth. The story begins from the differing points of view of our main characters as each begins their own journey in discovering the existence of a supernatural plot against their world before finally joining forces to uncover some answers. In Los Angeles Father Malakai is on his way to the Arch Bishop’s with a copy of the bible that he’s annotated; he has discovered hidden messages in the Book of Revelations. On his way he bumps into Black Jack, an LA cop with almost as much muscle as he has attitude (picture Vin Diesel with black hair); in a world where even the cops are permitted only low-caliber weak guns, he secretly packs the largest .45 he can get his hands on. While walking, the lights dim and they are attacked by creatures straight out of a nightmare- large tiger-sized cats with leather skins and immense black wings. Bullets even from ten feet away bounce off their hides; he ends up having to shove the barrel in one’s mouth to kill it. The priest is killed, Black Jack grabs the bible and runs, but the second he’s out of the alley all is normal– no sign of the fight or cats or anything. He makes it to a church to find an elven-like figure desecrating the altar; a person with magic able to put Black Jack to sleep. He wakes up in the burning church with a bulletin out for his arrest for the murder of the priest and destruction of the church. Anya Petrova is a Russian corporate assassin for Sony Corp (in this future a true megacorp, nicknamed Japan Inc.) with precognitive instincts later to become a full-blown psychic. While on a mission discovers that strange creatures have infiltrated Sony and now want her dead. She needs to get out of Japan and find the evidence that her latest victim hinted at to present it to the head of Sony, and so heads for LA. Agent Black is CIA, on a mission with his partner to investigate some “terrorists” only to discover they are actually pure innocents set up by known forces. While on a plane to track things down, his partner vanishes under his nose, thus starting Agent Black on a private quest to uncover a conspiracy of unknown magnitude and clear himself of his partner’s disappearance. While in LA, he gets in the middle of a chase involving actual werewolves that no one else seems to see– except for Anya who he encounters and joins up with. Doctor Rebecca Winter, aka “the Ice Bitch”, has the brains of a supergenius housed in a supermodel’s body with the sharp tongue of a cobra. At 19 she has a couple of PhDs and has already worked in certain hyper-secret government agencies. Now with some backing from her mentor Dr. Falvy, she has started up her own research company (Winter Research) with the goal of developing futuristic cyber-tech. A contact delivers the remains of a strange carcass for her and Dr. Falvy to analyze: a large paw from one of the cats that Black Jack killed, proof that these creatures are not of this Earth. Black Jack, Anya, and Agent Black end up getting to the Arch Bishop, along with a local gunsmith that Black Jack knows, the Arch Bishop calls Dr. Falvy, and they all get together to compare notes and see what conspiracy is afoot, and examine Anya’s evidence: photos of exhibits from a dig near Hartville Texas showing the usual collection of old bones, but these have fangs and traces of wing struts. As part of their investigation they head to the museum for a look at the evidence, collect Professor Leture who is the only one that has seen the bones and still lives, then go to Vegas to pull a heist for some money to invest in their project. There they bump into 18 year old Genner; a computer hacking genius there on his own caper who ends up falling in with them– and the only one who can see past Rebecca’s icy exterior to the beauty inside but he himself is too shy to admit it even to himself. Together they have discovered that the nightmares of mythology all exist: werewolves, faeries, vampires, wizards, and so on, and that they are all in on the same conspiracy– one that Father Malakai’s annotated Bible indicates has gone back 10,000 years. For Armagedon is not a day but a place in Texas where the Masters of “The People” will come through if the Eye is ever again opened; a place near Hartville Texas. Thus begins their journey in their recently commissioned “War Wagon” to see this Eye for themselves and what they’re up against, but not before Genner makes a frightening discovery: that a strange yellow computer chip can be found in every piece of technology around. A chip that marries technology with actual magic, its purpose being to hide the presence of these creatures and control what people see, as well as to track anyone anywhere. Suddenly it seems as there are supernatural conspirators everywhere, creatures such as vampires and elementals hiding behind respected guises of society, and no matter how paranoid anyone was before, it was not nearly enough. But that turns out to only be the beginning, for by the time they make it to Hartville, “The People” will have them on the run, Black Jack will be labeled as leader of a terrorist group, Rebecca struck by the horrorible loss of her mentor, and the Eye of the Apocalypse shown to not only be all too real but if it is ever opened then the world’s population may be consumed mere minutes afterwards. To stop them will take more than what a peaceful disarmed Earth has ready. It will take the new technology being developed by Winter Research, for this is the dawn of the Cyber Age, and these creatures and their conspiracy the reason why that new tech is needed.

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