The Noise (Part 18)

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Marc Barham
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In a dark room, lit, with meager lighting, far below the surface of New Earth sit a group of people. They are battle-weary and smell of blood. Not human blood. A young warrior stands and places an old machine upon a roughly hewn altar inside this cathedral-like space. As the tape plays, more warriors silently and reverently join the gathering to hear the story. The young warrior reads from the disc,

“Case No: 037584 Tape 24 Interview with the Legend.”

(Sound of vid-machine being switched on) And the young warrior returns to the gathering who have now become completely silent.

“Agent A and Agent D commencing recorded interview with Project Epsilon survivor codename Duke.”

“I am Agent D and for the record are you the only survivor of Project Epsilon?”

Duke: “I am.”

Agent A: “Your full designated codename please?”

Duke: “I am an uber-kinetic enhanced dracule, what in common or garden parlance humans would call a Super-Vampyre. Duke for short.”

Agent D: “Created by Dr. Harker who was also the Vampire Queen and mortal enemy of humanity?”

Duke: “Yes. And my wife and the mother of my son.”

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Marc Barham
Promptly Written

Column @ timetravelnexus.com on iconic books, TV shows/films: Time Travel Peregrinations. Reviewed all episodes of ‘Dark’ @ site. https://linktr.ee/marcbarham64