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DrStein

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OOC: I just had this idea pop into my head earlier today, though it might be fun. Just submit a superhero or villain and wing it from there.

Raymond Cole was a private eye, one of the best in all of Triumph City. Until the day one of his clients turned out to be an old enemy in diguise. He doublecrossed Raymond, poisoned him, and would have left him for dead had fortune not smiled on Raymond enough for a police patrol car to be passing by at the time.

The doctors worked fast to save Raymond from the poison. During his recuperation stages, they tried new technology on him in an attempt to hasten the healing process. By some fluke of fate, the machines awakened in Raymond his latent psychic powers. When he discovered them, he kept them hidden. Only Raymond and his trusted doctor know his secret now.

These days, Raymond walks the city once more as a private eye. But what no one else save his doctor knows is that by night, he becomes the faceless hero, the master of deception and illusions, the nemesis of all that is evil and wrong, the mysterious Doctor ?!!

-x-

Raymond waited in hiding. He had gotten word that this location by the docks was a drop point for the local arms trade. He was determined to stake the place out until he got results. Especially since he had gotten word that whoever was behind the trade had recently been taken under the wing of The Robber Baron. Ray had fought with him once before. A cartoonish anacronysm if ever there was one, but a threat to innocents nonetheless.

Ray didn't have to wait too long. A small truck pulled up to the alley and a few minutes later was followed a non-descript pickup truck. Though Ray couldn't hear the conversation from his rooftop pirch, he could clearly see the money exchanging hands. Time to go to work.

His form blurred and seemed to split as if seen through double-vision before fading away. The process reversed as Raymond's form manifested itself on the roof the first truck. He now stood in the low light dressed in dark blue suit with black shirt and black-crimson tie. Black gloves covered his hands, and a fedora was pirched on his head. His face was covered by a grey cowl which had a specially designed mesh over the eyes that prevented anyone seeing inside, but allowed him to see perfectly well out of it, even in low light.

"Evening, gents!"
 
Name: Goldface
Height: 6'7"
Weight: 300 pounds
Description: Goldface general wears a gold masks with grey silk head covering, and well tailored, large italian suits. He wears grey gloves, and general wears a gold ring on his left index finger. He carries a golf plated handguns, and various gadgets.

Bio: The mysterious crime lord of Triumph City, Goldface seems a character diredtly out of a Jame Bond film. Malevolent to the extreme, he works tirelessly to bbring the whole of the noble city beneath his control. Possessing tremendously enhanced strength, and a plethora of unique weapons, he is truely a force to be reckoned with.

IC: Goldface sat in the cramped office of the warehouse, awaiting the arrival of the Robber Baron. His massive body barely fit into the small chair, and it creaked ominesly when he moved.
 
Sabra Burke - Triumph City PD

OOC:
Sabra, 27 TCPD for three years
almost six feet tall, short wild auburn hair, green eyes.


Patrolling the city at night has been the only job I've ever known, she thought, making yet another turn on street unusually quiet.

It had been almost a year ago that she'd found Raymond Cole, and was able to summon an ambulance in time to keep him from dying. Poison the likes of which doctors had no clues, but he survived.

After her shift once in a while, she had stopped at the hospital to check on him, just to see for herself that he was alive. She'd never actually gone in and spoken with him, and she doubted he remembered that awful night as he'd clutched her hands in agony. What little she could do for his comfort had been miserably inadequate. For that, she was ashamed.
 
It was almost pathetic how quickly they went down. Nothing but pawns in the games of the supervillains. These guys were just glorified thugs. A few illusions, some quick one-two punches, and a little creativity was all the Doctor needed to dispatch them.

He hoisted one of the thugs up by his collar and pinned him to the trailer of the truck. "Now... I have some questions, and you're going to answer them. Do we understand each other?"
 
Maybe it was the guilt about not ever going in to actually talk to Raymond that made her conscience nag her when she left the building sometimes, like he was asking that she go back, that he wanted to talk to her.

Toward the end, that nagging got so loud that she could hear it when she patrolled the streets at night, when things were quiet.

"Sabra... I just want to see your face... hear your voice. Once... please?"

How pathetic, she'd told herself. You're getting obsessed with a man just because he nearly died in your arms.

The one night that she'd finally scraped up the courage to stop and actually see him, he was gone. But occasionally, she still heard that little voice...
 
Name: Pheonix
descrip: short, 5ft5", bum length black hair, with red/gold highlights. Clothing changes regularily but usually always wears black cargo type pants and tight fitting tank tops. She is a master theif, and quite skilled with the bow and arrow.

It was early night, but yet she had already managed to steal the large diamond in display at the local museum.

She deftly turned the corner whre she met a man in a trenchcoat. No words were exchanged, but only a small parcel. Within a minute she was walking away, tucking a nice fat envelope in a pocket where the diamond had been earlier...
 
Ray took the cell phone of the thug after finishing questioning him and used it dial the police. "Hello, TCPD? Yes, can you send a few squad cars and a van down to 245 Wharf Street?... Yes... This is Doctor Question Mark speaking... Thank you."

He hung up the phone and grinned behind his mask. "Well, boys... Guess where you're going."

None of them answered of course. They couldn't even hear the question, being unconscious.
 
"... come take them away..." I felt that guilty voice whisper, but the thoughts were interrupted by dispatch sending two patrols, a transport, and a lieutenant to 245 Wharf Street.

I pulled out into traffic, flipped on my overheads and acknowledged to dispatch I was enroute. I was first on scene, to find the now-common unconscious criminals laid out carefully on the curb for our pickup, something like the garbage service, give or take.

Per protocol, I simply drew my weapon and posted until backup arrived, in case one were to wake up. Though none of these thugs had been seriously injured to date, they'd been quite unconscious.

I looked around, hoping for a glance of the masked man the criminals had begun describing.

While waiting, I heard another dispatch for an alarm at the TC Museum, and several units go enroute to that location as well. The lieutenant changed his destination and headed there as well, leaving me with a responding patrol unit still some ten minutes away.

I could only hope that these guys stayed unconscious... until I had some backup.
 
Ray ducked out shortly after hearing the tell-tale police siren. Doctor ? could get plenty of answers right from the horse's mouth, but sometimes Raymond Cole could investigate in places the good doctor couldn't. That was one nice advantage to being a certified private detective and not just a vigilante detective.

He changed out of his costume and deposited it in his car, which he kept hidden in an alley. He donned his street clothes that included a full-length tan trench coat and a tan fedora. He had grown up on pulp fiction and film noir, so the classic Sam Spade look had always stuck with him. Perhaps a part of him simply couldn't leave the costumed hero idea behind.

No matter the reason, Ray drove through the area, working up an alibi as he went. As he turned the corner to the crime scene, he furrowed his brow. Only one squad car? There was plenty of time for other units to arrive on the scene. So what was going on here?

Ray pulled up and stepped out of his car. "Ma'am? What's going on here?"
 
A dark nondescript sedan pulled up, jangling what nerve she had left standing in the middle of the night with my gun on a group of suspects. Just what she needed - company of any sort.

"Sir," she yelled over her shoulder, "you need to just get back in your car and go on about your business."

But there was this buzz in her head, like when you've been driving for hours and finally stop, but the highway sounds keep ringing in your ears...

And so when he spoke again, she couldn't help but turn and glance over her shoulder. That voice... THAT was what she heard in her mind.

She recognized his face a moment after. "Mr. Cole, I'm waiting for backup to transport these men. I'd ..."

She would what... like to buy him coffee and ask about the poisoning and months of his hospital stay? Gawd, how pathetic would that sound...

Her thoughts were interrupted when one of the thugs moaned.
 
Ray stopped dead in his tracks. She knew his name? She did look very familiar. It was possible they had known each other at some point. But for some reason, everything was a bit hazy.

One of the thugs came to and Ray reached for the gun under his coat. "Who wrapped this little present up?"
 
Sabra's attention was split - 99% on the perpetrators, and 1% on the private investigator, who approached to one side, sliding his hand into a dark trenchcoat.

She smiled to herself at the Sam Spade image he seemed to enjoy.

Knowing better, nonetheless, she spoke to him. "This would be the handiwork of our mysterious Dr. Question Mark, who has been interrupting criminals and leaving them for us to pick up." This, too, amused her slightly.
 
"Oh, that guy," Ray muttered. "He gives me the creeps. You see the picture of him in the papers last week? How the hell does he see out of that mask?"

Ray turned his attention again to the thug who was coming to. "Out of curiosity, have we met before? You know my name, and you look really familiar, but..."
 
Sabra felt her face flush... really put her foot in her mouth this time, calling him by his name.

"I'm... you're... "

In her mind, she saw the scenario where she'd found him, suffering (really suffering!) the effects of the poison. Even as she held her gun, she felt the squeezing of his hands in the agony...

"The night you were poisoned, Mr. Cole. I, um... I was the first officer on the scene," she managed to stammer. And I know who did it..., she thought. I just can't prove it.
 
Satisfied with her nights work, she swiftly climbed a fire escape on a nearby building to watch the pathetic police officers scurry about. They wouldn't find a single trace of evidence that would convict her of the theft she just committed.

Pheonix, however, couldn't help but want to take the credit for it. So she pulled an arrow from her quiver, lit it, and notched it in her bow. Taking aim, she fired the flamming arrow into the open window of a squad car.


Grinning, she then moved to a seperate advantage point to watch the chaos that she so loved to create.
 
Over the radio/mike clipped to my shoulder, she heard the chaos at the museum scene, and the request for one ambulance for an injured officer. Still, she had her attention focused on the one thug, in handcuffs and already searched, but with an uneasy feeling in her guts.

"Oh," Raymond said, as if that explained everything. He kept the hand just inside his jacket, and he knew she knew he had a gun.
 
"So that was you trying to keep me conscious until the ambulance arrived, huh?" Ray asked rhetorically. "At the time, I thought I was just delirious from pain. I owe you."

Ray kept one eye trained on the other thugs, waiting for the back-up. But by the sounds of it, there might be an unfortunate wait. He knew he should have tied up these schmucks when he had the chance.
 
Her cheeks burned when he mentioned remembering. At least he didn't mention seeing her at the hospital...

She wanted to say something, but everything that came to mind was just... wildly inappropriate. Way past the coffee invitation. There was no reason for him to acknowledge anything more of her than he just had, and yet, she desperately wanted him to -

You want him to do WHAT, Sabra? You've made him into someone who should feel something toward you, and he obviously does not...

"I'm glad you're doing well now," she managed to say to him. "That must have been a horrible ordeal."
 
She soon grew bored of the chaos below. She scurried down into an alley and blurred herself into the forming crowd.

Walking away from the scene she made her way to a little used back alley a few blocks away. Walking quickly, and making sure nobody was following her, she dissapeared into a set of stairs that sunk into the ground. The door the stairs led to was grungy, dirty and looked as if it were about ready to fall off. However, she flipped a hidden panel and pressed her palm against the computer screen. Something clicked and the heavy door swung open.

Moving inside she shut the door behind her. It was like entering a different world. Inside it was lavishly decorated, spacey, and overall quite comfortable. In one corner was a polished sports bike, gleaming and ready to be lifted on its ramp should she want to use it.

However Pheonix chose not to. The city was stirred up enough as it was. Instead she chose to help herself to a nice hot bath...
 
"A wide-awake nightmare," Ray muttered. "I don't think I caught your name. Like I said, I owe you. I should know your name."

Ray spared another glance over at the thugs. Some of them were starting to stir. Shit. He flexed his fingers lightly around his gun, knowing damn well he couldn't risk using his powers without his mask on.
 
He wants to know my name? she thought...

"Yes, I can't imagine how much pain you felt, just seeing you like that. I'm Sabra Burke," she said. "I followed the investigation on my own, and I'm sorry they weren't able to make any arrests in your case."

Of course, that doesn't mean no one knows who did it.... she thought.
 
Ray frowned slightly remembering the day the police informed him the case would have to be dropped. "Miserable luck. I think I know the bastard who did it, too. I just never had any evidence. So he's off scot-free."

Ray had to continue stalling. The cops were sure taking their sweet time getting here. "Incidentally, do you know what the creepy Doctor busted these low-lifes for? If it's what I think it is, I have a client who could use some info."
 
"A client," she echoed. "Actually, I don't know what the call was for, that's why they send the lieutenant. They always give that info over a secure link to the command watch for the arrests. It's some ... deal, I guess." More likely it was so the upper echilon officers could get the big arrests, she thought to herself.

"I guess that could chap you a bit," he said.

Dispatch radioed her that backup was diverted to a crime in progress.

"So, ask your questions when they wake up. I may need the assistance to get them in my car..."
 
"Trying to cram the four of them into the back seat should be interesting to say the least," Ray muttered.

"Well maybe you can help me out. I could use a contact on the inside. You see, I have a client who has made it his mission to dig up dirt on the Robber Baron and expose his identity. It seems personal, and the work is pretty rough, but I figure it's for the greater good." What a pack of lies that was. All Ray knew was that the Robber Baron may have had some connection with the man he believed poisoned him. There was no client involved at all.

"When do you get off duty? We can talk about it over drinks."
 
Name: simply known as "The Madness"
Age: ???
Description: Around 6'9", yellowish-red eyes and pale skin


The Madness watched from the rooftops above as The Doctor's ailas Raymond Cole and Sabra engaged in their conversation. He knows and understands Sabra's unusual affinity towards Raymond - he was tasked with planting a little seed of obsession deep within her psyche that would later blossom into something romantic but then a little more... sinister.

Knowing about Raymond's psychic abilities, he keeps his presence to a minimun lest he brings attention to The Doctor's talents. But he continued his watch, making sure all would go according to plan. His tall stature covered by the all black cloak and hood.

"Goldface should be pleased - so far so good" he says to himself with a slight smile - the enlarged, wolf-like canines making themselves slightly visible underneath his grin. "By the time The good Doctor notices how deep-seeded my little project has burrowed into Sabra's mortal mind it will be too late... and my task shall be done."

The "seed", known to those who dabble in the forbidden black arts, is known as a psychic symbiote - an "entity" that lives in one host and drains the psychic abilities of another when in physical contact with the unfortunate psychic. But this seed is just a child - it needs further contact in order to grow...
 
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