Crimson
Red Queen
- Real Name
- Rebecca Everhart
- Missions
- 38
- Ability
- Red Shroud Energy Abilities
Playing Her Hand...
The stars began to burn brightly in the sky as night cloaked over the sprawling hills of the French countryside. Down a long meandering road that seemed to lead to nowhere, a bright red ferrari could be seen racing down the path. Inside the car, Rebecca Everhart drove, her manicured red nails tapping on the steering wheel as she zoomed towards her destination. She was getting tired, but more than that, she was getting nervous. Rebecca had seen her fair share of power struggles within The Hellfire Club over the years, but this was something different altogether. No longer was somebody just looking to elevate their position via social politics and a little light manslaughter. These children were looking to turn the club on it's head, oust all in power and make a new set of rules...and after everything Rebecca had been working towards in the years that followed Jean Luc Dupont's death, she knew that it might be time to activate the last ace in the hole that she had.
Speeding like a maniac down the road, she slowly came to a large wrought iron gate with a security key code. She quickly keyed in the code as the doors began to slowly creep open, allowing her to drive forward, past the discreet "Meridian Industries" sign and down to a large facility that resembled something like a gothic psychiatric hospital. In fact, at the turn of the century it HAD been such a place. Now, it had a new purpose altogether. Slamming the door shut on her ferrari, the click clack of her stilleto heels could be heard on the cobblestone drive way as she pulled her red trenchcoat tightly over her body, wrapping the belt around her delicate waist before heading inside of the ominous looking facility.Jean Luc Dupont had purchased the location years ago when he stilled ruled as The Black King. This was where he did his "research" as a brilliant geneticist. This was also where he and the American Doctors of MysTech did their experimentation on Maxine, his daughter. Her padded cell still sat on the fifth floor of the facility, though nobody dared ever go to those floors without some kind of death wish.
Rebecca began to make her way down the halls and into the elevator, before keying in the access code and selecting the FIFTH floor as the large elevator began to make it's way between floors. When the American Doctors made their way back to the states, confident in the research that would help them create what MYSTECH, The European Hellfire Club seemed almost joyous and nonchalant in helping arm another branch of The Hellfire Club with so much potential power. It didn't sit well with Rebecca and it also didn't sit well with Jean Luc Dupont. Fortunately for the both of them, Jean Luc had taken precautions. He had stolen research, he had made copies of everything he could get his hands on, and he was the only person in the club capable of actually putting that information to use...to creating his OWN work in the same vein of Adam Chandler and Christopher Victory. He started Meridian Industries in secret, immediately bringing Rebecca into the fray. Her political connections were endless and she was just as intrigued by this "virus" and what it could mean for the future.
For years, Rebecca and Jean Luc worked together, halting the work of The Hellfire Club in order to give Meridian Industries the advantage it needed. Though the club tried to move forward for years with an actual agenda, Jean Luc and Rebecca knew that they were sitting on real POWER and that once perfected, the other members of The Inner Circle would have no choice but submit to them. When Maxine killed her father in cold blood and Evelyn Pierce secured herself The Black Queen position, things changed drastically. Meridian Industries was still up and running with several talented doctors and scientists throughout the world, but without Jean Luc's brain, progress became
stunted. They had successfully been able to manipulate the virus in animals, and even had successes with human test subjects, but the results were still highly unpredictable. What was more, Rebecca was now alone in The Courts. It was several years later that Rebecca approached Camille Rowe, The White Queen. Though Camille was not a scientist by any means, she was a stalwart ally and she helped those who helped her. Their business relationship was mutually beneficial both inside and outside of The Courts. The two blocked any voting that might impede on their plans and were able to keep their dealings a secret for many years...until Evelyn Pierce began to suspect something.
Rebecca pushed the thoughts outside of her head as the elevator dinged for the fifth floor as the doors slid open to reveal a long and grim hallway, accented with large steel locked doors every few feet. When the facility was a psychiatric hospital, these rooms were where the most clinically insane were held. Those deemed a danger to themselves and others. Walking down these halls always gave Rebecca a chill up her spine, particularly when walking past Cell #4...the one that housed Maxine during her experimentation. She remembered viewing the girl several times during the American/European effort. She watched Maxine, clad in a straight jacket screaming for hours and trying to claw her way out...her strength increasing by the day. She even escaped once...taking seven security guards and one hell of a thorazine drip to placate her. There was so much history within these walls. So much that those even in The Inner Circle and Supreme Council did not know. Now, these cells housed the human test subjects for the T Virus. Some of them successful, some of them kept here only because they could not be unleashed on the public in any capacity...yet. Booming growls and snarls could be heard as the residents of these cells began to BANG on the reinforced and MAGICKALLY protected doors as they sensed Rebecca making her way through the space...their hunger for her flesh compelling them into acts of insanity. The Red Queen remained silent as she made her way down to the last door on the left. This last cell contained the only card that Rebecca had
left to play...a card given to her by a mysterious and unlikely source.
The time was now. Rebecca nodded to the two night guards that constantly monitored this cell to go ahead and open the doors. As she walked into the room and towards the stasis tube, she wiped the frost from the glass to reveal the sleeping face of her only option left. She began to type in a series of numbers that would begin the re-stasis process and essentially thaw the weapon back into life. Rebecca waited with baited breath as life began to flow back into the body of the woman in the tube.
"Time to wake up, Jessica....We've got work to do...."
The stars began to burn brightly in the sky as night cloaked over the sprawling hills of the French countryside. Down a long meandering road that seemed to lead to nowhere, a bright red ferrari could be seen racing down the path. Inside the car, Rebecca Everhart drove, her manicured red nails tapping on the steering wheel as she zoomed towards her destination. She was getting tired, but more than that, she was getting nervous. Rebecca had seen her fair share of power struggles within The Hellfire Club over the years, but this was something different altogether. No longer was somebody just looking to elevate their position via social politics and a little light manslaughter. These children were looking to turn the club on it's head, oust all in power and make a new set of rules...and after everything Rebecca had been working towards in the years that followed Jean Luc Dupont's death, she knew that it might be time to activate the last ace in the hole that she had.
Speeding like a maniac down the road, she slowly came to a large wrought iron gate with a security key code. She quickly keyed in the code as the doors began to slowly creep open, allowing her to drive forward, past the discreet "Meridian Industries" sign and down to a large facility that resembled something like a gothic psychiatric hospital. In fact, at the turn of the century it HAD been such a place. Now, it had a new purpose altogether. Slamming the door shut on her ferrari, the click clack of her stilleto heels could be heard on the cobblestone drive way as she pulled her red trenchcoat tightly over her body, wrapping the belt around her delicate waist before heading inside of the ominous looking facility.Jean Luc Dupont had purchased the location years ago when he stilled ruled as The Black King. This was where he did his "research" as a brilliant geneticist. This was also where he and the American Doctors of MysTech did their experimentation on Maxine, his daughter. Her padded cell still sat on the fifth floor of the facility, though nobody dared ever go to those floors without some kind of death wish.
Rebecca began to make her way down the halls and into the elevator, before keying in the access code and selecting the FIFTH floor as the large elevator began to make it's way between floors. When the American Doctors made their way back to the states, confident in the research that would help them create what MYSTECH, The European Hellfire Club seemed almost joyous and nonchalant in helping arm another branch of The Hellfire Club with so much potential power. It didn't sit well with Rebecca and it also didn't sit well with Jean Luc Dupont. Fortunately for the both of them, Jean Luc had taken precautions. He had stolen research, he had made copies of everything he could get his hands on, and he was the only person in the club capable of actually putting that information to use...to creating his OWN work in the same vein of Adam Chandler and Christopher Victory. He started Meridian Industries in secret, immediately bringing Rebecca into the fray. Her political connections were endless and she was just as intrigued by this "virus" and what it could mean for the future.
For years, Rebecca and Jean Luc worked together, halting the work of The Hellfire Club in order to give Meridian Industries the advantage it needed. Though the club tried to move forward for years with an actual agenda, Jean Luc and Rebecca knew that they were sitting on real POWER and that once perfected, the other members of The Inner Circle would have no choice but submit to them. When Maxine killed her father in cold blood and Evelyn Pierce secured herself The Black Queen position, things changed drastically. Meridian Industries was still up and running with several talented doctors and scientists throughout the world, but without Jean Luc's brain, progress became
stunted. They had successfully been able to manipulate the virus in animals, and even had successes with human test subjects, but the results were still highly unpredictable. What was more, Rebecca was now alone in The Courts. It was several years later that Rebecca approached Camille Rowe, The White Queen. Though Camille was not a scientist by any means, she was a stalwart ally and she helped those who helped her. Their business relationship was mutually beneficial both inside and outside of The Courts. The two blocked any voting that might impede on their plans and were able to keep their dealings a secret for many years...until Evelyn Pierce began to suspect something.
Rebecca pushed the thoughts outside of her head as the elevator dinged for the fifth floor as the doors slid open to reveal a long and grim hallway, accented with large steel locked doors every few feet. When the facility was a psychiatric hospital, these rooms were where the most clinically insane were held. Those deemed a danger to themselves and others. Walking down these halls always gave Rebecca a chill up her spine, particularly when walking past Cell #4...the one that housed Maxine during her experimentation. She remembered viewing the girl several times during the American/European effort. She watched Maxine, clad in a straight jacket screaming for hours and trying to claw her way out...her strength increasing by the day. She even escaped once...taking seven security guards and one hell of a thorazine drip to placate her. There was so much history within these walls. So much that those even in The Inner Circle and Supreme Council did not know. Now, these cells housed the human test subjects for the T Virus. Some of them successful, some of them kept here only because they could not be unleashed on the public in any capacity...yet. Booming growls and snarls could be heard as the residents of these cells began to BANG on the reinforced and MAGICKALLY protected doors as they sensed Rebecca making her way through the space...their hunger for her flesh compelling them into acts of insanity. The Red Queen remained silent as she made her way down to the last door on the left. This last cell contained the only card that Rebecca had
left to play...a card given to her by a mysterious and unlikely source.
The Seer said:
The time was now. Rebecca nodded to the two night guards that constantly monitored this cell to go ahead and open the doors. As she walked into the room and towards the stasis tube, she wiped the frost from the glass to reveal the sleeping face of her only option left. She began to type in a series of numbers that would begin the re-stasis process and essentially thaw the weapon back into life. Rebecca waited with baited breath as life began to flow back into the body of the woman in the tube.
"Time to wake up, Jessica....We've got work to do...."
Karma
Damn! This is a good post! :nod: the set up & foreshadowing is great & i literally laughed @ rebecca's retort to the woman in shadow: "oh piss off you miserable bitch" LOL!
