issue #5
"Are you sure about this, striker" asked a man
"Yes, one of our psychic mutants has been looking for boys between 10 and 12 years old with good gen-x, we make sure that each and every one of the targets will not raise suspicions if they disappear, besides that some are orphans, it will be easy get to them" said a slightly overweight man, with some gray hair on his head
"Okay, but from what I see here they are not mutants, they just have a good chance of waking up the gene in a few years, but there is an equal chance that they won't wake up, I'm not against using children, but I don't see any point in using children who are unlikely to awaken the x gene" spoke a woman in a black suit, while looking at the file in front of her
"That's exactly why I need these children, I've been developing some ways to awaken people with the x gene, and if it works, it means we can have legions of them, easier than capturing a few of them every month" said striker with excitement for his new experiment
The people sitting at the round table looked at each other, before nodding.
"Very well, you have our approval, what will the name of the project be?" said one of the many people sitting at the table
Striker just smiled and said "Project Z"
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In a house you could see two people, a man and a woman sitting in front of a child, next to him was a dark-haired woman in a suit
"I'm sorry, but we can't keep taking care of Arthur, he doesn't want our help, since he arrived he has run away more than 8 times, we can't go on like this" said the woman sitting next to the man as she shook her head.
The woman in the suit just sighed and said "Okay, thanks for trying to take care of him, I'll take care of all the paperwork."
The woman left the house with the child, they got into the car and didn't say anything the whole way, the nile just looked out the window
Upon reaching the building where the children were waiting to be adopted, the child ran downstairs and went to his room.
the woman seeing this just sighed, however before starting. walk towards the building, a man came out of it
"Miss Connor, someone is looking for you..." said the man approaching the woman
When the woman hears the name, she simply nods and goes to the meeting room.
Entering the room, Miss Connor ran into a middle-aged man and woman, who seemed to have a lot of money seeing how they were dressed.
"Nice to meet you, my name is Lisa Connor, what can I help you with" Lisa said with a professional tone.
"We came here because we want to adopt a child, you see, we can't have children so we want to adopt" said the woman making a face of pain for not being able to have children, the woman was totally normal, black hair and not that tall
"Of course, however this process takes time, you can't adopt a human being as if it were a puppy" says Lisa, since this meeting was very sudden, besides that she had not heard of anyone like these two people in front of her from any of his colleagues
"Of course we know, but in fact we have already gone through all the filters, even one of his classmates already introduced us to many children a few months ago, and in that time we had finished with all the processes" said the man taking the floor, like the woman, he was a completely normal man, brown eyes and black hair
"I'm sorry, but I hadn't found out about any of this, could you tell me which of my classmates you talked to to corroborate everything" Lisa said, not convinced at all with what was happening
"Of course, we talked..." the man couldn't finish as a woman ran in. the boardroom, with panic and anxiety
"Lisa, there has been a leak, 5 children have disappeared" the woman said with anxiety in her voice
Lisa jumped up from her chair, and she didn't say anything before running out of the room.
The man and the woman just looked at each other, before putting his hand to his ear and saying "The target has been neutralized for the required time, leaving the area" the man said before getting up and leaving with the woman following him.
outside you could see how Lisa and all her colleagues were running, she couldn't understand, all her colleagues had been in the same situation as her, two people asked for them and a few minutes later, 5 children disappeared, this can't be a coincidence, She thought
When she arrived with all her companions to the part where the children stayed, one of the guards who was in the place spoke
"Not found, Clarice Harpert, William Brown, Jon Smith, David Sincalire and Arthur Knight"
hearing the last name, Lisa seemed to lose all color and fainted.
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Inside a black van, 5 unconscious children could be seen lying in the trunk, most of them appeared to be 12 years old, and only one seemed a little younger, this was Arthur
The truck stopped in a clearing in a forest, where the entrance to a bunker was located, the truck entered the bunker and stopped next to many other identical fire trucks, a group of people in lab coats approached and opened the doors. rear, they were taking out all the children who were unconscious
there were more than 30 vans, and in each one you could see an average of 5 children, they were being transported in trucks to the interior of the bunker
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Arthur woke up sitting in a chair, I instinctively he tried to stand up, but he could not because he was bitter to the chair
In turn, all the children also began to wake up, going through the same thing that Arthur went through
"Everyone will ask, why am I here, well, let me tell you, you are here to become the best weapon that humanity will have against the disgust called mutants, be proud of this opportunity" Striker said in front of more than 150 children
"You will become a soldier, and fight for humanity" Striker said with a smile on his face.
"But first, they had to go through some changes" he says as all the children looked at him, most of them had started crying, calling for her parents, but before they could continue, they all went back to sleep.
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Artur got up for the second time, but this time he was strapped to a hospital stretcher, while some people around him were walking and saying some words that he did not understand due to the daze
"Name of the patient, Arthur knight Davis, 10 years old, orphaned for 6 months, father in the military, killed in the field, mother killed by a villain in front of the Nile, blood type A-, black hair and blue eyes , 1.50 tall" said a man with a white vata and a sheet in his hand, which seemed to be reading, everything seemed to be being recorded by a camera on one side of the room
"Attempt number 24 with the next patient on the list, so far only 4 of the previous test subjects have lived and shown satisfactory results, the rest have died from not being able to acclimatize to the serum, some side effects it causes are, heart attack , lung failure, the veins and arteries of the body disintegrate causing almost instantaneous death, cerebral hemorrhage, among others, none of the previous patients were given a ninisedative for fear that it would affect the results in some way" said another man in the room , looking directly at the camera
"Starting with the procedure" he said before the other man injected Arthur with two syringes, one green and one red.
A few moments after the fluid from the two syringes was injected into Arthur's bloodstream, Arthur, before a little confused and out of place, suddenly opened his eyes.
"AAAAAAAAAAAA" he started to yell this, as hard as his lungs would let him, he started to jerk on the gurney and have a convulsion
The two men just stood to one side watching how this happened, without any reaction, meanwhile Arthur just yelled and yelled, stopping for a few seconds to breathe, but he couldn't do it much, since the pain was so strong that he couldn't do it. let me do nothing but scream
pov arthur
IT HURTS IT HURTS, IT HURTS A LOT, IT BURNS ME
It was all I could think about, there was nothing else in my head but the pain, I just wanted it to stop
I felt like my blood was very hot, and my whole body itched a lot, I couldn't breathe because it also burned me, all I felt was pain
"AAAAAAAA" I yelled again with the same intensity for the twelfth time, it felt like years had passed since the pain started, and it wouldn't stop
I wanted my mom, I want my mom, please, I just want my mom
It was the last thing I thought before losing consciousness
Pov third person
After 15 minutes of continuous screaming, Arthur suddenly fell unconscious, the machine that was reading his heart, showing how it was reaching over 150 beats per minute suddenly went silent, before displaying a large 0 and beeping continued, his heart had stopped
"Time of death 16:45 of the year 2012, cause, total failure of all organs after 15 minutes of fighting against the serum, moving on to the next patient" said one of the two men while the other approached Arthur to disconnect all the machines that showed the health of his body
However before he disconnected all the machines, his heart rate reader began to beep very faintly again, showing how his heart rate was increasing before stabilizing at 80.