Intimate Strangers

Meet Ghost, the enforcer for his family's lucrative drug business. In a world of nightmares, he's one of the worst. They call themselves the Ring Of Fire and they control a huge section of Baltimore City. This shadowy world erupts into warfare. Tango and his enforcer, Outlaw, want to take over the ROF's territory. Outlaw has heard of Ghost and wants to test his own skills against his. Normally Ghost would gladly take his challenge. He would be right at home with bullets and bodies flying all over the place but things have changed. His dark world is hit by a ray of light.

Her name is Ebony. After saving her from an abusive boyfriend, Ghost has fallen for her, hard. Unwilling to leave his family high and dry in their time of need, he vows to leave the game once the Tango situation is resolved. However that may be. Tango starts off by trying to buy the ROF out. When that doesn't work he unleashes Outlaw and his soldiers to take it by force. Ghost meets them head on. While out on a dinner date he's ambushed in the restroom. When he takes too long to return to the table Ebony goes looking for him and finds herself staring down the barrel of a gun. During the confusion Ghost disarms the gunman. Ebony is shook up. She breaks up with Ghost and moves out of his house. He's heartbroken and uses his grief to fuel his rage. Tango and his people are engulfed in pure violence. They begin to lose the taste for fighting.

While Ghost does what he does best, Ebony does some soul searching. She decides that her place is with him. She moves back in. She's in for the long haul. Ghost wants to end this war so he really turns up the pressure. Mysteriously members of the ROF are almost killed in places where they should be safe. Ghost is almost killed by Ebony's old boyfriend and another member's girlfriend is killed in his truck. There's a traitor in the ROF. Ghost sends Ebony and everyone else's girlfriend to a safe house with orders not to contact anyone. He flushes out the traitor. They then kill Tango's lieutenant. Tango tries to run for the hills. Ghost finds him and Outlaw. They turn a hotel parking garage into a battle zone. Tango is killed. Ghost and Outlaw have their showdown. Ghost proves he's the best but loses an eye in the process. It ends with Ghost and Ebony on a row boat in the Harbor. He has an eye patch, she has a bun in the oven.

Savage Kingdom

The year is 2055, major cities around the World have constructed cities over them called, " Domes". These Domes house the rich and the wealthy as the lower cities become cesspools of death and violence. Huge corporations use armies of cyborgs called, "Prowlers" to enforce and enhance their criminal empires. Prowlers are five times stronger than a regular human and that much deadlier. Local law enforcement, backed by State and Federal agencies are overwhelmed and out gunned. Private security firms are contracted by the government to hold things together. They're better trained, better equipped and better funded then the locals. They only protect Domes. The poor unfortunately are on their own.

Enter Badger, who as a child loss his parents in a boating accident in the South Pacific. He washed ashore on an island near Japan that houses a ninja training school. Tadashi, sensi of the school takes Badger in, raises and trains him in the ancient art of Ninjitsu. When his training is complete he returns to America. He leads a rag tag Army Special Forces unit against big business. Despite the odds against them, they make a dent in the crime rate in the lower city, putting holes in the pocket of some very powerful people.

The big crime bosses notice. Mongoose, a ninja assassin who trained along side Badger is hired to kill him. He rigs Badger's house to explode, killing his Girlfriend and fatally wounding him. To save his life the Army uses him as a human Guinea Pig. They repair or replace his missing or shattered bones with synthetic ones made from a compound called, liquid bone". Making them stronger but just as light. His eye is fitted with a state of the art micro computer, equipped with various imaging features. Badger doesn't care for any of it. He's consumed by grief and anguish. He wants to end it all. His father comes and puts him back on the right path.

Once his head is on straight the Army tries to take him off the streets and into an assassination unit. He quits the Army. He's rehired by Henry Drake, head of Military Advanced Tactics, the M.A.T's. A private security firm that actually wants to help the poor of the lower city. Badger and his team are given the latest in crime fighting equipment. They're also given a new call sign, "Urban Strike". They decide to put a real dent in the flow of Prowlers entering the city by destroying the bridge that connects the city to many Prowler factories. During the attack Badger comes face to face with Mongoose. They fight. Mongoose is no match for him. Badger is distracted and Mongoose slips away. Badger's revenge will have to wait. They blow up the bridge. It ends with Badger standing up high looking over his new city. His work has just begun.