"Finally, I have Tommy." Nikolai smooth his hand across a machine gun. "Now, I can be the Hood I dreamed of being."
She rolled her eyes. "Whatever makes you happy. Now come. Let us be on our way."
He put the machine gun back.
Within a few minutes, they got into the car and took off their masks. Nikolai removed the trophy he took off of Ron and placed the Glock 19 in the glove box.
"Let us hurry with our assignment." Natasha glanced out the passenger side window at the darkness surrounding the city. "I grow to hate this place."
Her brother pulled the car out into traffic. "Our final task is four days away. Once we have killed the Phoenix, we can leave Noir."
"Voice is as forgiving as you, my brother. Voice must never be crossed."
"Yes," her brother agreed. "We must always complete our assignments with no hesitation and with no remorse. Our hearts must not rule our minds or our actions. In our line of business, it can only bring death."
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SHADES OF GRAY SERIES
STARTING POINT QUADRILOGY
1. Noir, City Shrouded By Darkness
2. From Moscow, With Love
3. Cerberus Versus Pandora
4. Sisters
ZOMBIE TWILIGHT QUADRILOGY
5. Night of the Twilight- The Chimera Strain
6. Dawn of the Twilight- Outbreak
7. Day of the Twilight- Patient Zero
8. Land of the Twilight- Closing of Days
MYTHS AND DESPAIR QUADRILOGY
9- Rise of the Gorgons
10. (TBA)
11. (TBA)
12. (TBA)
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Glossary
A.C.S.: Apartment Computer System
A.D.C.: After Dry Clouds
Alpha: leader of the T-3s
Alpha Phase: Kat’s First Evolvement. When in this phase Kat can sense the presence of bio-mechas.
Arachnoids: spider bio-mechas
Argus: the Council’s operative who shadows Kat
barriercumulus: scientific name for the Dry Clouds
B.D.C.: Before Dry Clouds
bio-mechas: robots that resemble living things
Cerberus: an experiment of the Council
Corporate Senate: the world’s ruling body based in Noir
Council, The: a department within the Sphinx Corporation. Members consist of Mr. Morta, Ms. Nona, and Mr.
Decuma.
Crite: lemon-lime soda
Dark Half: the half of the planet that's covered by Dry Clouds
Dry Clouds: a barrier of clouds that appeared about thirty years ago that blots out the sun
e-field: electrical field
Etna Toys Plant and Warehouse: the place where Kat first awoke
Factory, the: a department in the Sphinx Corporation that created and tested the Un-Men
Griffin, Kimberly: a Life Closer known as the Phoenix
Griffin, Mr.: the Chairman of the Sphinx Corporation, husband of Theresa, and father of Kimberly
Griffin, Theresa: mother of Kimberly and wife of the Chairman
Grubby: nickname for a street air filter
H.H.C.: Hand Held Computer
Illicit Closer: an illegal assassin
Irynkissgthie, Ginn L.: composer of Unfinished Melody.
K-99: a bio-mecha modeled after the Irish Wolfhound.
Kat: a.k.a. the Pandora Project
Life Closer: legal assassin
Light Side: the half of the planet with no Dry Clouds
L-O: Liquid Oxygen Spray
Maxwell: Un-Men Tech One-twelve
Music Box: a small treasure chest shaped music box that is also a data storage unit
Natasha: a Life Closer
NBS: Noir Broadcasting Station
N.C.P.F. : Noir Civil Police Force
NicPhake: a synthetic tobacco cigarette
Nikolai: a Life Closer
Noir: a mega-city and capital of the world
Orthos: Sphinx Corporation Third Branch Office's Head of Security
Peters: Un-Men Tech One-eleven
Rogue: Type Four Un-Man discontinued because of malfunction
Sanctum: the Council’s headquarters
S.C.M.: Sphinx Corporate Military
Sphinx Corporation: a corporation in Noir that governs the Hellenistic Sector
Tainted Rain: black polluted rain from Dry Clouds
Thanatos: the Dark Half's Regulator
Transgenics: genetically modified organisms with an extra-genome
Ultra-Epi: genetically altered epinephrine hormone
Ultra-Epi Light Emissions or Ult L-E: the glow Pandora's eyes produce when the Ultra-Epi is in her blood-stream
Unfinished Melody: the name of the chime that Kat’s music box plays. It was composed by Ginn L. Irynkissgthie
Un-Men: a humanoid form of bio-mechas
Voice: the Light Side Regulator
Vulcan Station: a research outpost in Antarctica ran by the Factory
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