The Dark Match

Round One

Colder than it has been in months this is the worst night for this. Danny Chaoflux is walking very fast and turning into an alley that he knows has a utility door that is always open. A faded 23 marks the door. Inside a hallway of bare utility lights illuminates a dirty white walls that lead to a apartment lobby. Slipping out the lobby doors, Chaoflux flips up the furry collar on his coat and dashes across the street to a pay phone outside a liquor store.

A phone rings in the Unruh Manor, a distinct ring tone. At the same instant the same ring tone is alerting the members of the Front Line Alternative Reality Enterprise (F.L.A.R.E.)

Chaoflux slips into an all night dance club, sees one of the "flowers" and retires to the private dance chamber. "Is everything all right Danny, you look like shit. You are all sweaty from running around. What is going on?" The smell of baby oil wafted into his nostrils as he looked into Bea's purple eyes "trouble, I just nearly had my ass handed to me by an oversized ape with my face. called him self "Dastardly" Danny,you ever heard of him?"

"I know of the brute, famous wrestler, he beat up one of my best girls... he did not realize he was attracted to transsexuals and then tried to beat his shame out of my girl. He is a real tool, and acts as muscle for some shady types. They turn people into zombies who cross them... you are lucky if you get killed with this group."

A black sedan pulls up behind the dance club and out step Chris Titan, Mystery X, and Vargr. Ducking into a green door they step inside a dimly lit hall behind the dressing rooms and back stage. Titan nods at a large bouncer as they pass into the main room and take a table in the corner.

Vargr is at the bar speaking to the woman serving drinks she nods and then points with her head to the private dance area. He hands her a wad of bills and she wanders off. Moments later Danny Chaoflux emerges from the private booth and is escorted to the car by the F.L.A.R.E.

Sitting in the war room at Unruh Manor, Danny Chaoflux recounts his story.

"I was Drifting with Deleuze <amazon>0816614024</amazon> working my my latest hypersigil when out of no where I was slammed across the head and dragged into an alley. I was shocked that I did not sense this coming... and he was able to beat my head a good four times before I overcame the shock. When I did I was so pissed I hit him with a finger strike to the third eye peeling back the skin on his forehead. That is when I realized he had a face very similar to mine. I climbed up a pole and made a quick escape. I am still upset that he was able to catch me off guard and was so similar on appearance to myself."

"Well there is some damage to your head but we will can fix that with a Radionics treatment." said Titan. Titan was examining the wounds and taking some notes into a notebook. Titan speaks into the intercom. "Wes, do we have the Gallimore 2012 functional?"

Wes replied, a remote speaker-phone voice, "I have been getting the Lab ready and the Gallimore Unit should be ready to serve Chaoflux."

Vargr making use if his SpikeVision is able to comeup with a Profile on "Dastardly" Danny. Mystery X suggests we do a DNA sample from the skin underneath Chaoflux's fingernails...he has a strange hunch about this.

Before the gathering has departed they have figured out that Chaoflux has been targeted by an agent that just happens to be his twin brother, his dark twin. Fraticide weighs heavy on Chaoflux's mind. A strange mixture of hate, pity and confusion swirl around in his head. This is total chaos... and that realized Danny settled back to enjoy the ride as much as possible. There is the dim chance that he can create a reformation in his long lost brother and if not...who else should put down a bad dog then a family member.

Round Two

A filthy sink. Bare bulb hangs flickering from long cord from ceiling. Yellowy brown globs of blood stale and drying in the sink. Dastardly Danny is passed out on the sofa with an empty bottle and a half spilled bottle of whisky in his hand. Short gash on the hand just above a wasp tattoo. Dastardly Danny was not injured during the escape of Chaoflux but when he returned empty handed his manager beat him with a board until he passed out. Dastardly Danny limped home and stole the liquor from his neighbour who started keeping a bottle hidden...so he smacked her till she gave him both of her bottles. Passed out cold but something deep inside his consciousness tears itself loose, spreads sinister wings and starts to move inside the drunken oblivion. This sliver off of the consciousness began to merge with a hive consciousness and a very distinct change of energy and vibration occurred.

A vast insectoid mind unifying its collective and then scattering its agents into the broken crevices and cracks of human hosts. In glimpses of unnatural light it can be seen to be quasi-physical and have the form of a wasp and a centipede. It sort of appears and disappears as it moves about...and wavers in and out when set in the center of the hive.

A sharp punishing signal is broadcast to the wasp like entity entity that inhabits Dastardly Danny. There is a frenzy of activity behind the his closed eyes and in an instant his eyes open wide from the depths of a dead drunkenness...a yellow gold glow on his forehead that turns to blackish red and in a flash the wasp like entity emerges from between his eyes. his eyes cross and his passes back out cold as this wasp thing flys through the walls as if it were a ghost.

Peppermint flavoured water to cleanse his spirits before bed, Chaoflux dreamt of a messy bedroom while also within one. There was a faint buzzing that grew louder in a flash, flying past his ears, a giant yellowjacket.

Flashback during a Dreamspace Non-Sequence: the counter-clockwise wasp sting.

Chaoflux smashed it with a giant version of the peppermint flavoured water bottle. The point of attack was against the window panes, thru the light drapes. Once in hand, he could see that its body was almost long and rotund enough to actually have been some sort of robot, and its eyes were unnaturally red. What did this mean?

Chaoflux understood upon waking that he may have acted in error. The only reason he attacked was because he was still afraid, after all these years, even though he told himself he was over it. Malicious only out of his ancient cowardice, or where else did it stem from, who sent that robot? His head still felt sore from the encounter with "Dastardly" Danny, but it reminded him more of the pain he felt in his organs of the second chakra after being oversexed to a ridiculous degree. It was soothing.

Round Three

Wasps tear tiny bits of flesh from a rotting squirrel that lays beneath a giant oak tree outside the Unruh Manor.

Inside the smell of bacon and eggs opens a new day and one my one the team assembles for a debriefing. Mystery X is the first on the scene, but only because he has fallen asleep on the vast oaken table again. Images of pulsing venom sacks attacked to razor blade wings fades as his metabolism kicks in and his eyes focus on his papers. gathers them together and sets them aside.

Hassan enters from the laboratory... red eyed, hair shaggy, face with dark stubble.

"The Darkstar Nework has some interesting information... MX, were you up all night as well?"

"I dunno most of it, till I passed out...weird dreams too. What do you know about wasps in all of this?"

"What makes you ask?" Hassan asks with a faint surprise. "Did you come across something in your reading?"

"Naw, it was this weird dream I had... being probed by a deadly wasp intelligence. It was almost mechanical though but with a deadly beauty...like nothing I have ever seen."