Red Ice Detroit: Become Human Novels & Stories

--- Two Weeks Earlier – Dimitri The scene cut to a dimly lit room, somewhere in Prague. Dimitri leaned back in his chair, a glass of vodka in hand, his face half-hidden in shadows. The scar across his jaw caught the light as he smiled — a cold, lethal smile. “They think they buried me,” he murmured, swirling the glass lazily. “But the dead don’t stay dead.” On the table lay photographs — Alexander, Isabella, and… a baby. Dimitri’s fingers traced the image, his smile widening.

Hot Ice: “Where are they,” I think, flipping my left hand and forming a fireball. Throwing the fireball, I set a shopping cart on fire. As the people run, some accidentally step onto the ice and slide around. A man screams as he slides right into the cashier’s counter. “They’re coming,” the boss replies, speaking through the earpiece he gave me. “Be ready, and remember the plan. To retrieve the flash drive Nitro lost.” “Yeah, yeah, yeah,” I say, flipping my right hand and forming an ice ball. Throwing the ice ball, it hits and breaks a t.v screen.

He looked less like a hockey star and more like a wolf ready to snap. "You’re redlining," Val said, his voice a low, grounded fire. "Your heart rate is high enough to trigger a shift. Quit obsessing over the Icemen." Finn's boots crunched against the tile as he pivoted. "Burns didn't just take me off the ice, Cruz. He took my pack's territory. If we don't make the playoffs, the Miami Ice Dome is open season for every rogue south of the Blue Ridge Mountains." Val stood. He ignored the way his own pulse jumped at the proximity. Finn was a mountain of muscle and raw, unchanneled power.

"Teo, you are joking; this is all a joke, right?." "Cara, you don't understand. I should have been dead, and I wanted to be dead, but I was awoken again by Vlad. Every single day I lose my humanity; I become more like them; I can't even eat normal food anymore; I find myself craving blood and Cara; I do not want this." "No, Teo, give yourself a chance; give yourself a few years; find someone out there; start up a life; you will never regret it."

"Tell me this is a joke. You brought a ballet dancer to teach us how to play hockey?" A few chuckles erupted from the players on the ice. Liam felt a hot flash of anger burn through his chest, replacing his anxiety. He stepped onto the ice, his blades cutting into the surface with silent, lethal precision. He didn't slip. He didn't stumble. He glided smoothly until he was standing bare inches from Jaxson’s massive padded chest.

Back home, we had pancakes only in the mornings, hence my confusion. “I wish they do. Is like my presence causes them some kind of nausea. It's hard living there…and Denise? I called her attention. She looked up at me ready to listen to what I wanted to say. “They keep referring to me as “that human” what does that mean? Are they not human like me? I feel strongly in my guts that something is wrong with this place, it has this looming eeriness”. “Oh c’mon, they are just trying to scare you. Well, I don’t know about the eeriness but now that you’ve mentioned it, I’ll look into it”. Denise said so convincingly.

Ice’s startling blue eyes look at me with aww for a moment before he bursts into action, rushing through the opening in the barrier and heading straight for Kenji who stands slightly behind me to my right. A menacing growl erupts from my throat, roaring through the clearing in warning with the sound of my bones breaking and rearranging following soon after. It is as if a wolf burst through my skin, oblierating my human form and replacing it with the much larger one. One second I am my regular human self, and the next I am standing before Ice with saliva dripping from my fangs.

He held a piece of charred obsidian—a fragment of the Grid-City—and watched as a tiny, violet-gold vine sprouted from its center. "The noise is everywhere," he continued, his voice a low-frequency rumble. "It’s messing with their electronics. The 'Humanity-First' communication arrays are haywire. Their cars won't start. Their banks can't process digital credits. You didn't just hide us from the moon, Darlene. You De-Synchronized the entire human world."

But he is got a shit load of arrogance flowing through his body in the place of blood. I want to give him a strong counter, I folded my arms and said in a serious tone " Of course cars can be drivable on earth, not on Humans , actually not on attempting to humans for death " I said in a more mocking way to him. Focusing my eyes on his face. I guess it's worked, my strong counter made him to look at my face more seriously , he is watching my face, a bit more intense, it's like a staring competition between two people.

Denver, Colorado Ice Johansson jolted awake, a scream locked in his throat. He sucked a shaky breath into his broad chest, then another, felt his heartbeat go slow and steady. From almost three decades of hard-won experience, he knew that that implacable and menacing something was going to come to his rescue: it always showed up when Ice needed to regain control of a situation. Or of himself.