Welcome To Arkham Academy

I think I've said is pretty much everything I wanted to say about the United Light Verse at this point. We're going to say goodbye to it for now and go back into the Vice World....well, kind of.

The Serial Formally Known As Blob Thing

 Arkham Academy is a story that has been in my head since I wrote Vice.  In fact I mention it's potential in the Vice FAQ. This story is basically going to be the story behind this particular scene in the 1st chapter of Compulsion:

“I totally called you getting kicked out of boarding school,” Minnow yells after Luce. I know she’s been waiting to give him a hard time since we heard the news.

“Suspended.” Sara scoffs. “Not expelled. Not yet.”

“It’s barely a suspension,” Luce adds. “Break starts tomorrow anyway—“

“Did you really hit a kid ?,” Minnow asks, her eyebrows raised.

Luce mumbles something that sounds like a yes.

“Holy shit, what did he do?,” Minnow continues.

“She was a total bitch.” He snaps “She hit me first--,”

“Luce. Go.” Sara orders and  turns back to the baby. “I’ll be right back, love.”

She kisses them both on the forehead before walking out.

Let's Recap (This is a long one)
Yes, Yes, I had to re-read Vice to write this and I also read the blog posts and you guys I was SO flaky about posting that serial. I'm so glad I've learned the art of the outline. Arkham Academy takes place in the time after Vice but before Compulsion so I'll catch us up and hit the high points of Vice.

Sara Grace's husband Derek Grace becomes obsessed with a secret project his company,Tempus, worked on called the Promethues Project. Derek learns too much and Tempus tortures him until he goes crazy, kills himself and puts 12 bullets in his 7-year-old son, Luce.

Luce barely survives the bullets and Sara asks for help from her friend Ivy, who is part of a Irish crime family. Ivy's family is broke but she connects Sara to Shy Cartel heir Rayne Washington, the man she is being married to to form an alliance. The doctors heal Luce by making him a cyborg. He's 57% computer and has a cyberntic leg.To pay for the surgery Sara hacks for Rayne, but soon he makes her kill too. 

Also, when Luce comes out of his surgeries 18 months later he doesn't remember that his father shot him and Sara keeps it that way. She just tells him Tempus did it.

Fast forward 7 years. Sara is a fugitive assassin and still working for Rayne and still  trying to figure out what exactly the Prometheus Project was that it got her husband killed. She wants to to go to the East to the Tempus headquarters and when Rayne gives her the resources to go he also tells her to ransom Allison Kyto, the Tempus CEO daughter while she is there to recoup some of the cost.

While trying to kidnap Allison at a party, a 19-year-old she knows as Alan Gray sees her face and scratches her, taking some of her DNA She should kill him, but he reminds her so much of her dead husband. She takes him with them instead and he eventually has to join the cartel because he ODs on chrome and gets some operations that Rayne paid for. Also, Alan is the android created by The Promtheus Project

Luce is upset at Alan's presence because he knows Alan is associated with Tempus, the company that killed his Dad.

*deep breath*

Also,

The Western Republic starts a border patrol that gets nuked by the  Eastern State. Upset, the Western Republic builds an army, the Republic Liberation Army and starts drafting.

Before they can go into full on war mode the leaders of the East and West meet for a peace summit. Rayne doesn't want this peace summit because he can make money using Sara to hack people out of the draft--he orders Sara to kill Julian Walker, The Republican leader, so the war and the draft will continue.

Sara decides not to do that. She's not risking killing a world leader. Instead she hacks all the government files and discovers that the Eastern leader, Cyril Porter, knew the bombs would kill people on the border patrol and that both Porter and Walker were paid by private coroporations , who had it in their business interests for the East to keep using the West's people as resources. (Re-reading this bit was...yeah)

Sara makes this information public, both leaders are stripped of their powers and peace talks end. The RLA is building up momentum and taking over the government and Alan is a part of the team.

*deep breath*

Also, right after this Sara finds out she is pregnant and Rayne is the father.  She keeps the baby because Rayne needs an heir and in 7 years with Ivy they've never been able to concieve. Rayne and Sara have kind of always had a physical attractions but couldn't act on it publically because Rayne was arrange married to Ivy, Sara's best friend. 

This story picks up a few months after Sara has her baby.

Arkham Academy Part 1 
Much like OLT, we are going to start with a small toe dip

Arkham Academy Part 1
Arkham  Academy Playlist
-1- Hollow Drum by Laura Welsh