January 15th, 2021. Noon. Boise National Forest, Idaho. A few hours passed. Jason, Daisy, and Hideki all sat at a table, discussing a variety of things, now having caught up on the events of their lives. Jason looked at his daughter’s brown and red military uniform. Her distinctive red hat with a bright red star…
January 15th, 2021. 8AM. Boise National Forest, Idaho. Jason screamed. A thousand images roared into his brain. Flashes of events that played in and out of sequence. He remembered his original life. He remembered entering the Cryopod. He awoke to a pitch-black Labyrinth, hunted by a two-headed monster. He met a pretty girl who he…
January 15th, 2021. 7AM. Boise National Forest, Idaho. As he left the log cabin, Hideki donned his mask once more. He never quite felt comfortable stepping out into the world anymore without assuming the identity of Cat Mask. To those unaware, his actions might seem silly, but countless eons of learning how the minds of…
January 15th, 2021. 6AM. Boise National Forest, Idaho. Jason sat on the couch, listening as the adorable white-haired Persian cat, Sebastian, weaved a short tale for him. The other animals remained silent, allowing Sebastian, one of the ‘Five Great Ones’ to speak. "Father was a great man. He was known and feared by the demons….
January 15th, 2021. 5AM. Oregon Airspace. Cat Mask’s silver-colored quad-copter zipped across the skies, invisible to the naked eye, as well as conventional RADAR, LIDAR, and other ground-based detection systems. His expression remained easygoing, but his body always had a tense alertness to it. "So." Jason said slowly. "You’re my father. You can travel through…
January 15th, 2021. 4AM. Illuminati Haven. Two guards outside the Haven stood at attention, one on each side of the entry gate. The silence of the waning night had begun to fade, and the faint glow of dawn had begun to emerge. The two soldiers looked from left to right, always alert. With the arrival…
January 14th, 2021. 10AM. Illuminati Haven. Jason closed his eyes and focused. He found his vision drawn to an illusory world made by the power of an ancient Hero, Mad Madam Mildred. In this phantom reality, he stood inside a vast library filled with countless books, scrolls, tables covered in pamphlets, all of it looking…
January 14th, 2021. 9AM. Illuminati Haven. Jason Hiro awoke with a start. For five long seconds, he laid in bed, looking up at an unfamiliar ceiling, feeling better rested than at any other point of his life in recent memory… but also deeply confused. What a strange dream. He thought. Who were those people? He…
Inside the Labyrinth Core, the number of humans has dwindled significantly. Already, of the tens of thousands who were huddled inside immediately following the destruction of Tarus II, less than half remain. The others have already filed through one of the two Warpgates leading to Pixiv and Sharmur. Demon Barons and Dukes stand inside the…
Beelzebub flies around inside the massive void comprising the Cube’s internal world. Having lost his Cosmic power, he is unable to traverse stellar distances efficiently, but the Phoenix conjures a miniature incarnation to attach to his back and speed up his travels. Additionally, the inside of the Cube is oxygen-rich even outside the bubble-worlds made…
