Cascades

"Because the World needs Heroes... Even when it doesn't want them....
The World's a Balloon..."


Are they evil? Or just trying to help? It may be too early to tell...

Dark Deliverance and his band of Superheroes are seeking vengeance on a hateful world. From destroying property to their run-ins with Detective Kurt Lobo, one thing is for sure...

The Copper Cascade mental facility may not be able to hold them!

You can follow the adventures in The Copper Cascade chapbook or listen to the interviews (transcribed below) on Audio Cascades on Audible or iTunes.

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SUBJECT: KARL KANE - aka CAPTAIN PHOTON.
Interview Tape 001


(SOUND OF DOOR OPENING)

DOCTOR: “Thank you, I can take it from here.”

GUARD: “You need anything Doc, just hit the alarm.”

(SOUND OF DOOR CLOSING)

DOCTOR: “Would you like to sit down Karl?”

DOCTOR: “Karl?”

PHOTON: “Photon.”

DOCTOR: “Pardon?”

PHOTON: “Photon. Captain Photon.”

DOCTOR: (SIGHS) “Oh, of course. I apologise. Would you like to sit down Captain?”

(SOUND OF CHAIR BEING DRAGGED BACK)

PHOTON: “Thank you….”

DOCTOR: “Now, that’s better isn’t it? Tell me Captain…do you know why you’re here?”

PHOTON: “Yes General… You obviously wish to debrief me after the Mykron case. Fire away Sir!”

DOCTOR: “I’m not a General, kar, err Captain. I’m a Doctor. Doctor Nyman. You can call me Paul if you wish.”

PHOTON: “Medical assessment? Thank you Sir but I’m sure you’re aware of my invulnerability?”

DOCTOR: “Yes Captain, The guards are all to aware of your invulnerability, Especially after this mornings events…Tell me Captain, Do you remember this morning?”

PHOTON: “ I remember waking up in the holding room, Sir…”

DOCTOR: “You don’t remember Detective Lobo bringing you here? You don’t remember why?”

PHOTON: “Lobo? A good man. The front line in our war against sin and corruption.”

DOCTOR: “You don’t remember?”

PHOTON: “No Sir… I do not.”

(PAUSE)

DOCTOR: “You’re here for your own good, Captain. There was an incident Captain. You have been accused of murder.”

PHOTON: “Murder? Never!”

DOCTOR: “A mister Mykron?”

PHOTON: “Mykron? Yes! An evil mastermind… He was planning to detonate a device under Ellis Towers.”

DOCTOR: “Traces of explosive were retrieved, This is true, Never the less you did…”

PHOTON: “I was fighting crime!”

DOCTOR: “You punched a middle aged man’s head clean off his shoulders.”

PHOTON: “Mykron always returns! Have your men secured him?”

DOCTOR: “The police have secured what was left of him, Yes…However…”

PHOTON: “Can I go now?”

DOCTOR: “Not just yet Captain… The Police would prefer you to stay here a while.”

(A DISTURBANCE- SOUND OF HANDS CLAPPING TOGETHER)

PHOTON: “PHOTON POWER!”

DOCTOR: “Captain…”

PHOTON: “PHOTON POWER! PHOTON ON!”

DOCTOR: “We’ve explained this captain…Karl…The inhibitors you are wearing have controlled your…”

PHOTON: “PHOTON ON?!?”

DOCTOR: “Karl?”

(SOUND OF ALARM)

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SUBJECT: KARL KANE - aka - CAPTAIN PHOTON.
Interview Tape 009


DOCTOR: “Karl? Are you calmer today Karl?”

PHOTON: “Mmm…Fuzzy.”

DOCTOR: “We had to medicate you Karl… Would you like to talk today?”

PHOTON: “Need to go…City needs me…Super villains.”

DOCTOR: “There are no more super villains Karl…You and your compatriots have killed them all.”

PHOTON: “Swore to protect…We swore…”

DOCTOR: “There is no need Karl, Not anymore. No one needs protecting…”

PHOTON: “People always need protecting…Always”

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SUBJECT: DARK DELIVERANCE - NO KNOWN NAME.
Interview tape 092


DOCTOR: “We were discussing your splice…Do you remember that?”

D.D: “I remember everything…You were discussing it…”

DOCTOR: “Would you like to share?”

D.D: “Your heart rate is slightly too fast. You’re on edge…Too much cologne…You want this to be over soon, You’re late? A date? You have a hot date Doctor? Please, Don’t let me detain you.”

DOCTOR: “Your splice?”

D.D: “Your questioning techniques are clumsy, Inept. You think yourself so clever but you’re no more subtle than the Giggler’s hired goons.”

DOCTOR: “Please. Mr Deliverance, Help us to help you…”

D.D: “I warned them you would come for us but they wouldn’t listen…Called me paranoid. I warned them.”

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SUBJECT: PLUTO BOY - NO KNOWN NAME.
Interview tape 042


PLUTO BOY: “I need the toilet.”

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SUBJECT: PROFESSOR GREEN - aka - BLOOD PUNCH.
Interview tape 024


DOCTOR: “Are you in there Professor? Can you here me?”

( GRUNTING / SNARLING)

DOCTOR: “You need to try Professor…You can do it.”

( MOANING / GROWLING)

DOCTOR: “ Yes, Yes…Speak to me Mr Green. Come back to us…”

BLOOD PUNCH: “BLOOD PUNCH! BLOOD PUNCH! BLOOD PUNCH TINY MAN…”

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SUBJECT: DARK DELIVERANCE - NO KNOWN NAME.
Interview tape 0148


D.D: “Lobo? Pah! A bumbling fool…No more, No less. You call him Detective? There is only one true Detective in this god forsaken place.”

DOCTOR: “I think that’s enough for today.”

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SUBJECT: THE CREEPING CREEPER - NO KNOWN NAME.
Interview tape 014


DOCTOR: “Please sit down Mr Creeper.”

( SILENCE )

DOCTOR: “Please.”

( SILENCE )

DOCTOR: “Mr Creeper, It is pointless to just stand in the corner…We can see you you know?”

( SILENCE )

DOCTOR: “Please?”

CREEPER: “Shit.”

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SUBJECT: KARL KANE - aka - CAPTAIN PHOTON.
Interview tape 0149


DOCTOR: “Your splice, Karl…Can you remember when and were you were spliced?”

PHOTON: “Splice?”

DOCTOR: “Yes. Your powers…Were did you gain your powers?”

PHOTON: “My origin? You are not aware of my origin?”

DOCTOR: “Yes…If that’s how you wish to describe it?”

PHOTON: “My god man! You must be the only mortal to be unaware of the glorious tale…I was born in the heart of a raging sun…The tragic child of a long dead empire…Fate brought me to your damaged little world.”

DOCTOR: (SIGHS)

PHOTON: “If only I had gazed just once upon the doubtless noble countenance of my parents, mayhap this dark and dusty world would be easier to bear…”

DOCTOR: “Karl…your parents live in Gamma Beta block…we have interviewed them countless times…”

PHOTON: “My adoptive parents…they rescued me from my burning pod…I owe them much.”

DOCTOR: “You were born in Trinity Hospital Karl…we have your Birth Circuits on file…”

(LAUGHTER)

PHOTON: “Do you not understand the concept of a cover story, Mortal? You disappoint me…”

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SUBJECT: DARK DELIVERANCE - NO KNOWN NAME.
Interview Tape 0184


D.D: “I understand why I’m here, you know. The smokescreen of Public Safety…your Superiors.”

DOCTOR: “We have no Superiors…we are a medical facility.”

D.D: “Happy with the lies you tell yourselves.”

DOCTOR: “Please…continue.”

D.D: “The Super Villains were just sport…a sideshow to keep us and the City amused…we knew the real mystery to solve.”

DOCTOR: “We?”

D.D: “Don’t toy with me Medic…us…The Squad.”

DOCTOR: “Ah yes, The Vengeful Squad?”

D.D: “I showed them the true case that needed solving…I tried to train them for this PURGE…it was obvious that they, you, would come for us when we tackled the great secret…”

DOCTOR: “Which is?”

D.D: “Please do not pretend to be stupid Doctor Nyman…despite appearances you are moderately intelligent.”

DOCTOR: “Then humour me…The Great Secret?”

(PAUSE)

D.D: “Where did the Sun go, man? What happened to the SUN?”

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SUBJECT: SANDRA GIBSON - aka - SONIC SHRIEK.
Interview tape 082.


DOCTOR: “I apologise for the vocal shield miss Gibson… As you can appreciate, I’m sure, It is necessary, concerning your rather unique talents.”

( SILENCE )

DOCTOR: “Please feel free to use the word pod provided… It is important to us to know how you are feeling.”

( SILENCE )

DOCTOR: “And of course , we are very interested in discovering the nature and origin of your splice. Help us to help all of you, Sandra…Please?”

( SOUND OF WORD PAD BEING USED - PASSED OVER )

DOCTOR: ( SIGH ) “That isn’t really helpful miss Gibson… And to be quite honest it’s more than a little obscene.”

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SUBJECT: THE SHARP BLADE - NO KNOWN NAME.
Interview tape 0172


S.BLADE: “Dumb ass fucking shield!”

DOCTOR: “Please calm down Mr Blade.”

S.BLADE: “You try calming down with your arms in this shit.”

DOCTOR: “I’m afraid they are necessary.”

S.BLADE: “Can’t even wipe my own fucking ass!”

DOCTOR: “We’ve discussed this…After the exercise yard incident they are deemed necessary…Please calm down and talk to me..”

( LAUGHTER )

S.BLADE: “How is officer Jennings?”

DOCTOR: “I believe his wife is getting used to his, Ah, re-arrangement.”

S.BLADE: “Stupid punk ass…”

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SUBJECT: DARK DELIVERANCE - NO KNOWN NAME.
Interview tape 099


DOCTOR: “Nothing to say today?”

( SILENCE )

DOCTOR: “Are you unwell? Can we do anything to make you more comfortable?”

( SILENCE )

DOCTOR: ( SIGHS ) “In that case I shall call the guard and have him return you to your quarters.”

D.D: “Natalie”

DOCTOR: “Pardon?”

D.D: “Natalie…14 years old…Deer splice…Attractive little fawn…Loves the cyber-Zoo and the colour red. Loves her mother too.”

DOCTOR: “That’s enough of that…”

D.D: “Tell me Doctor Nyman…Paul…How is your ex-wife? Doe’s the wrench of seeing your daughter only twice a month interfere with your work?”

DOCTOR: “This is getting us nowhere…”

D.D: “Floor 3, Ellis Towers…The divorce must have really wiped your credit out…Purple hover car, New model…Custom job.”

DOCTOR: “Guard?”

( SOUND OF ALARM )

D.D: “Nights at the opera…A shared love of Psychiatry…Such a shame it went wrong.”

( SOUND OF DOOR OPENING - A SCUFFLE )

DOCTOR: “We will talk again in a few days.”

( SOUNDS OF A COMMOTION - A CLOSING DOOR )

D.D: “A WEDDING GIFT DOCTOR…AN OBSIDIAN SWAN WITH RUBY CRYSTAL EYES…”

( SHOUTED )

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DOCTOR PAUL NYMAN - CASE NOTES.
Chapter 23


“We appear to be making little progress, despite working with most of the inmates for over 8 months. I begin to suspect that they are not being evasive and actually retain no memory whatsoever of the origin of their splice…Indeed, The somewhat contrived origin stories appear to be believed 100%.
We have had some small measure of success concerning PLUTO BOY, thanks to extensive D.N.A cross matching we traced his splice to a back street mod shop, also well know for other “illegal splicing” - Most noticeably the highly unstable “Mythic procedure.”
With the assistance of Detective Lobo the establishment has now been closed.
The others, however, remain an enigma. The stable nature of the splice is intriguing. In a controlled experiment we replaced the daily ReGen tablets with a placebo - All to no avail. Their bodies now seem to replace the need for our “Wonder drug” with their own chemicals.
Physiology wise they all have increased strength, Agility and invulnerability as well as their own unique gifts.
In other avenues we are running with the hypothesis that THE SHARP BLADE may once have been part of a military unit. His martial arts skills and evidence of a partially “Acid removed” Army tattoo all add credence to this theory.
DARK DELIVERANCE continues to be an unsettling subject.

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SUBJECT: DARK DELIVERANCE - NO KNOWN NAME.
Hypnosis session 001


DOCTOR “Now, Just relax. Let the images come back to you.”

D.D “Uh.”

DOCTOR “Are you relaxed?”

D.D “Yes.”

DOCTOR “Can you see anything?”

D.D “Yes.”

DOCTOR “Good. Good… Now, Your powers, Can you remember how and where you got them?”

D.D “I can see a door.”

DOCTOR “A door?”

D.D “Yes. It’s closed… Should I open it?”

DOCTOR “Yes, Yes! Please do… What can you see?”

D.D “My parents… I can see my parents… Dark street… There’s something else…”

DOCTOR “Go on… Please. Something else?”

D.D “A man . In the shadows. A man. A clown…”

DOCTOR “A clown?”

D.D “Yes. He has a gun… A big gun. He’s raising it…”

DOCTOR “Your parents? What are they doing?”

D.D “They are dieing, Doctor. They are bleeding.”

DOCTOR “Err… Focus… Try and remember your splice…”

D.D “They are dieing, Right here, Right now on this filthy street…”

DOCTOR “You must concentrate… Please.”

D.D “Bullets coated with anti - ReGen… Twenty three minutes to bleed out… Can you hear their gasping?”

DOCTOR “Please… We’ve discussed this before… Look deeper.”

D.D “Wait… I see something else…”

DOCTOR “Good! Good… Go on… What can you see?”

D.D “A man… I can see a man. A sad, Little career whore of a man… Locked in an institution he abhors… Interviewing people he despises and does not understand… I see barbarism and medical voodoo… I see years of failure stretching before him…”

DOCTOR ( SIGHS )

D.D “Truth be told Doctor, Paul… He looks a lot like you.”

DOCTOR “You’re not hypnotized are you?”

D.D “No Doctor… I never was.”

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SUBJECT: PLUTO BOY - NO KNOWN NAME.
Hypnosis session 009


DOCTOR “Where are you now?”

PLUTO BOY “Circus.”

DOCTOR “The circus?”

PLUTO BOY “Can I have a balloon?”

DOCTOR “A balloon?”

PLUTO BOY “I love balloons.”

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SUBJECT: KARL KANE - aka - CAPTIAN PHOTON.
Hypnosis session 021


PHOTON “… Burning sun.”

DOCTOR “Try to focus, Karl… We’ve discussed this… It’s just a cover story… Look beyond the sun…”

PHOTON “My parents?”

DOCTOR “Beyond, Karl, Beyond the sun… What can you see?”

PHOTON “Dark… It’s dark.”

DOCTOR “Yes?”

PHOTON “Stinks… Like a med unit… So dark.”

DOCTOR “Uh huh”

PHOTON “They are bringing me something… Something shiny… There’s a light… Somewhere there’s a light…”

DOCTOR “Who is bringing you something Karl?”

PHOTON “White coats…”

DOCTOR “And?”

PHOTON “It’s my gauntlets… There are bringing me my gauntlets… Holding my wrists…”

DOCTOR “The people, Karl… Who are the people?”

PHOTON “Closing them now… Locking them… Shit! Shit, Shit, Shit, It burns… My skin… Oh my god…”

DOCOTOR “The pain isn’t real, Karl… Isolate the pain…”

PHOTON “Like fire in my arms… My hands… So tight.”

DOCTOR “The people Karl? Can you recognise where you are?”

PHOTON “Something else… There’s something, Someone else… In the shadows… Oh… Oh no…”

DOCTOR “Karl?”

PHOTON “Oh oh oh… No! No!… Get it away from me… No!…”

( SCREAMING )

DOCTOR “For the tape, The subject has spontaneously exited the hypnosis state.”

( SOBBING )

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SUBJECT: DARK DELIVERANCE - NO KNOWN NAME.
Interview tape 0196


D.D “My identity”

DOCTOR “Pardon?”

D.D “You are obsessed with my identity.”

DOCTOR “Well it would help us to find out what it was that happened to you… Help us to help all of you.”

D.D “Then why have you not coded my D.N.A?”

DOCTOR “You know it has been changed beyond recognition…”

D.D “Then my mask… Why have you not simply removed my mask?”

( SIGH )

DOCTOR “Your mask is fused to your face Mr Deliverance… To remove it would entail removing your face…”

( LAUGHTER )

DOCTOR “What is so funny?”

D.D “You worry about my identity? Dear Doctor, You have answered your own inane question.”

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SUBJECT: PLUTO BOY - NO KNOWN NAME.
Interview tape 076


PLUTO BOY “Where’s my brother?”

DOCTOR “Your brother?”

PLUTO BOY “Yeah, my brother. I haven’t seen him for weeks.”

DOCTOR “You don’t have a brother…”

PLUTO BOY “Yeah… My brother.”

DOCTOR “You’re getting confused… Would you like medication?”

PLUTO BOY “Karl?”

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SUBJECT: DARK DELIVERANCE - NO KNOWN NAME.
Interview tape 0206


D.D “I heard them last night you know.”

DOCTOR “Pardon?”

D.D “Your Lords and Masters… I heard the screaming.”

DOCTOR “I’m afraid I don’t understand?”

D.D “2.30 Am… One floor down from my containment cell… 5 of them I think and one of the others…”

DOCTOR “The others?”

D.D “The Shades, Doctor… The spiders…”

DOCTOR “You’re growing confused. If only you would concentrate and co-operate we could get to the root of your paranoia.”

D.D “I can hear the heartbeat of everyone in this place Doctor… At least one person is missing…”

DOCTOR “No one is missing…Believe me.”

D.D “I believe only my senses Doctor… They, at least, have never betrayed me…”

DOCTOR “We are simply going round in circles. If there’s nothing else you wish to share then I will terminate this session.”

D.D “Interesting choice of words Doctor.”

DOCTOR ( SIGHS )

D.D “Go look for yourself Paul… One floor down… Your Masters have taken another sacrifice… Under your very nose…”

DOCTOR “I will not become complicit in your delusions! This session is at an end.”

D.D “The pyramid casts a long shadow, Doctor. Even in this endless, filthy night…”

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SUBJECT: SANDRA GIBSON - aka - SONIC SHRIEK.
Interview tape 0142


( SOUND OF A WORD PAD BEING USED.)

DOCTOR “May I see that, Sandra?”

( SOUND OF PAD BEING PASSED ACROSS THE TABLE.)

DOCTOR “Thank you.”

( SIGH )

DOCTOR “For the tape, Miss Gibson has drawn what appears to be a spider, followed by a list of quite tasteless obscenities.”

DOCTOR “Thank you Sandra. It’s a start I suppose.”

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SUBJECT: DARK DELIVERANCE - NO KNOWN NAME.
Interview tape 01203


DOCTOR “Nothing to say today?”

D.D “Did you look Doctor? Did you look Paul?”

DOCTOR “This interview is not about me…”

D.D “As I thought… A fool AND a coward.”

DOCTOR “Please, can we at least once try to make these meetings fruitful?”

D.D “There’s a storm coming Doctor… Can you taste it? Can you feel it dancing in the ozone?”

DOCTOR “You know this is impossible. There hasn’t been a storm in decades. The weather station is fused and locked. Broken.”

D.D “Broken things can be fixed Doctor… Even you.”

DOCTOR “Why are we discussing the weather?”

D.D “There’s a snake in the wires Doctor… Can’t you sense him? Can’t you see him?”

DOCTOR “This is getting bizarre… Even for you.”

D.D “There’s a secret in that cell Doctor… Go look… The snake’s here and I fear time may be running out… For me… For you… For us all?”

DOCTOR “If only you would concentrate… I could help you…”

DD. “Sshhh!”

DOCTOR “What?”

D.D “… I hear thunder… I hear thunder… Hark don’t you?”

DOCTOR “Really, this is getting…”

( LOW RUMBLE OF THUNDER. FAR AWAY.)

D.D “I told you…”

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DOCTOR PAUL NYMAN - CASE NOTES.
Chapter 32


( POOR AUDIO QUALITY. SOME PASSAGES ARE OBSCURED BY THUNDER.)

“… Unsettled today. It started on my drive to work. Streets full of partying fools. I’ve never understood the carnival of the dead. It says something about our collective mental health that we celebrate the disappearance of the sun… The broken state of our own dirty world…….. Is getting to me again. I know a good doctor shouldn’t let his patients get under his skin but there’s something about the man. Something in his eyes. So I decided to go and investigate for myself……………. Empty room, everything gone. How can this happen in my own institution? …….. Any of the guards but one did take me to one side and whisper something very unsettling to me. He seemed terrified. “They take them for the void.” He said and that was all. Despite pulling rank he refused to be drawn any further.
The void?
The pyramid here in my own facility?

( BROKEN AUDIO STREAM )

………………………… 23 missing and I didn’t even notice?

( BROKEN AUDIO STREAM )

….. News feed. Apparently a huge crowd has descended on the place vapour park used to be ……………. Just standing there in this pouring rain. Like they’re drugged. I fear for their safety, rumour has it that the police have called in the spider shades………………….

( BROKEN AUDIO STREAM )

…………… So damn hard. It’s like a wall of water. And the wind! Looks like I’m stuck here till it’s over. I can’t actually recall a storm like this before. Not even in the early days of weather control. I’m trying to access information on those old ODIN STORMS but my terminal is messed up. Random number strings keep appearing on my screen. The whole network is………….

( BROKEN AUDIO STREAM )

…………….. A goddam snake staring at me from the screen!! Someone has hacked the system! I’m trying to contact maintenance but the com lines seem to be down too….

( BROKEN AUDIO STREAM )

……………………..Flashing. Such incredible lightning……….. Lights flickering now… As long as the back up generators hold out we’ll be fine…..

( BROKEN AUDIO STREAM )

………………… Totally dark. That last strike must have hit the power room. I pray no one was down there. Trying to call for help but nothings getting through….

…………. The door? Oh my god, I just realised. The damn doors are electro - locked! That means…..

( BROKEN AUDIO STREAM )

………………… Who’s there? Is it you Wilson? …. Can hear you you know. Come on. Who is it?

“Can’t see me now can you smart ass.”

Creeper? Is that you Creeper?
And someone else? I know there’s two of you………

( SOUND OF SOMETHING LARGE BEING OVERTURNED. A DESK? )

“Now then Doctor…. I think it’s time we had a little talk…. Don’t you?”

( FEED ENDS)

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The Cast of CASCADE will be back soon in the main VIRULENTBLURB story....stay tuned......

Oh, and DARK DELIVERANCE?

His story has only just begun....

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