The Genesis

In the Nevada desert laid a massive complex belonging to a company known as Cipher Tech. To the public they were known as an Antivirus and game making company which held some major shares in Instagram, Twitter, EA sports and Activision but what they didn't know was were they pumped most of their funds into. In line with the US government they struck a deal with them to engineer two genetically enhanced beings to help take care of national threats, perform espionage missions without leaving a trace, break-ins, and take down an entire terrorist base without a loss of life. At first they were septic about the offer as a game company wouldn't posses such technology to pull of such a stunt and would rather try to recruit an upcoming superhero that they could mold into handling such things but their minds soon changed when they saw a live performance. Their lead scientist Dr. Jackson Quetom preferably called Dr. Quantum who had a PhD in anatomy science and microbiology, had devolved a drug that allowed your regular human beings take on super human like powers like enhances speed or strength. The only draw back to this drug was how it rapidly deteriorated cells in the human body and accelerated the aging process in a human, symptoms won't be that obvious until constant in take of the drug for two to three months.

"As you can see gentlemen" the bald top grey haired, glass wearing average height man pointed to the screen before them.

"This everyday soccer mom now has the power to lift a school bus with ease and this house dad now has the speed to outrun our fastest bullet train now imagine if we combined this powers and more into one person" he explained.

"Like Superman?" A general with a bushy mustache asked.

"Yes like Superman but this time under your control. This could save thousands of lives and burials, budgets for weapons and thousands of our best spies from dying"

"But,..." the head of CIA operations spoke up.

"Who would volunteer for your experiments or are we going to start kidnapping people of the streets?" He asked.

"That's easy, with your funding we won't need to look for volunteers, we will grow them"

"Grow them?" Asked the minister of defence.

"Yes we just need to collect sperm and egg samples from fertility clinics and we can grow as many babies as we want and alter their DNA in the process to suite our needs. All we ask is for your support"

"Please give us a minute" the defence minister said.

Cipher Tech's CEO Clinton Brown and Dr. Quetom stepped out of the room as they began to deliberate. In fifteen minutes they were called back in.

"Gentlemen, we have come to an agreement. We have decided to take up your offer and will fund this project of yours given that we oversee and will have total control over the supers once they are ready" said the minister.

"That's fine with us" Clinton replied.

"Your three billion dollar quotation will be put into the defence budget for next month and you can begin your experimentation"

"That is nice to hear" Said Clinton with a smile.

The meeting was over and they returned to the lower levels of the complex to begin their work.

A month later specimens were brought in so that they could begin the mass growth of babies but before they could start, they had to start the DNA alternation sequence in each sperm cell with Quetom done rebuilding his own sequence which would bind to the normal DNA sequence of a human and alter it throughout the child. The first trials were failures with over a million cells rejecting the new sequence or got destroyed immediately after bonding, pressure was mounting as the government were expecting results from them within two weeks. At last one joining sequence prevailed after trying every possible means through steady integration rather than forceful binding and they began growing test tube babies in the hundreds. In the first five months of growing the children, half of them died with their bodies rejecting the altercations made to them while a quarter of them popped like a balloon within their tube leaving only a hundred left for them to experiment on. Winding down to the last month of their growth, ninety of them died for unknown reasons leaving ten left, a number Cipher tech were okay with. The ten began to grow with a synthesized formula Quetom created imbedded into breast milk to help accelerate their growth and help their powers activate quickly, out of the ten that drank the formula, only two produced positive results. From the other eight it was either they died, had their head explode or stop breathing.

As they ran tests on the surviving two, they noticed that their projects had a flaw, their powers were not active a hundred percent of the time but at the stage were in were activated through emotions with one getting activated when happy and the other when he is stressed or angry with their eyes changing colour to red. Clinton decided to name the black haired brown eyed baby Project Maverick and the Blonde haired blue eyed baby Project Sun.

In four months, the government decided to see where they have been putting their money into. They sent an envoy in the person of Alex Corsenik to take an evaluation of the projects, he found out that the boys now looked five years old after five years of growth, they have received combat training from the best trainers the CIA, Military and FBI had to offer. They were capable of withstanding bullets, missile strikes, could hold their breath for ten minutes.

"From the notes you have seen, you can only imagine what are specimens are capable of" Clinton explained.

"I have one questions for you, how did you give them their powers?" Alex asked.

"Well that's easy, Doctor if you please" Clinton said.

"Thank you. As you see every human being has a genetic code which gives us our physical and mental characteristics. By altering that code were able to give our specimens the powers you see written down" he explained.

"For the eye code we increased their range of sight, enhanced his vision to the point of seeing on am atomic level and allowed them so see on an infared spectrum in the dark, pretty impressive I'd say"

"We came to the part of their strength and we cranked it up to our satisfaction though we are not clear on the numbers yet but they possess enough to carry Mount Rushmore with no struggle at all. We tampered with the skins integrity allowing them to withstand missile strikes, and the pressure exerted by cells to withstand gravity within the body can now be increased if they want to allow them fly at two times the speed of sound" he narrated.

"Are there any weaknesses because I didn't see one in the book?"

"As of yet we have not documented any weaknesses and have exposed them to different scenarios like radiation instances and have found no set backs" Dr. Quetom lied.

"Dr. Quantum with how they were engineered there's ought to be a radiation set back" Alex insisted.

"So far we haven't experienced anything. The only weakness we may document would be down to their individual characters as they grow" Clinton stepped in.

"What about the code word aspect?"

"As for code words, for project Maverick the Barney house song will calm him down and incase he is caught and are going to try to extract information out of his memories, Shutdown crankshaft tiger will lock his memory and making forget everything he knows but can be reopened thanks to our device" Clinton explained as Alex took notes.

Before Clinton could start telling him about the code words for Project Sun, an employee burst into the room.

"Sir there's a problem, the boys have started fighting again" he stated.

"What's the problem this time?" Clinton asked.

"We don't know, they were given instructions and shortly after they started fighting".

"Okay, let's show Mr. Corsenik how we handle the boys" said Clinton.

They walked into the training area where the two boys were hard at fighting each other in the air.

"Extraordinary" Alex said under his breath.

"Yes take it in" Clinton said.

"Now boys, why are you fighting?" He asked with the two grappling each other.

They looked at Clinton and flew down slowly to meet their so called father.

"He started it" Maverick said.

"That's because he refused to follow his orders" sun lashed back.

"And why is that?" Clinton asked the black haired one.

"I don't want to destroy anymore" Maverick said looking at the ground.

"You know we cannot have that, take him to The Room to 'SLEEP'" Clinton instructed which was the code word for them to reprogram him.

"As for you, you can continue with your training" he told the other and he flew to his trainer to get back to work.

"Clinton, that would be the third time this week I'm not sure his brain can keep up with it and then he would forget all he knows" Jackson warned in a whispering tone.

"I don't care...." Clinton said as they began to argue.

During this time Alex slipped away from them and decided to rescue the boy seeing as they tried to eliminate the human compassion within him which is not meant to be so, he ought to have a choice. He trailed them to the reprogramming room where he took pictures and watched as they put a cube like structure on his head and the reprogramming begun, the boy squeezed in pain as his memories began to be altered and his brain couldn't handle the stress it was going through. The scientists in charge of reprogramming him knew something had gone wrong as he was not to be in so much pain forcing them to stop the process. The boy was carried by a guard and instructed to be sent to his quarters, Alex took this as his opportunity to get the boy. The white haired man ran from behind and hit the guard with a fire extinguisher in the head knocking him out. He picked his ID card and carried the boy and put him in a towel bin, he rolled him to the elevator and grabbed a white glowing stone put on display on his way out. He managed to enter their postal department and mailed him to one of his distant relatives home in San Francisco after getting a box about his size and wrote on a piece of paper to protect him and he would visit them soon. After he finished writing he put it in the box and let him roll down the line but he hadn't gone unnoticed, Clinton had watched him put something into the mailbox but wasn't sure what it was as his specimen also went missing at the same time as well. They called him in for questioning be he didn't crack and they trailed the large box to the address written. They watched them take the packet and heeded his warning and hid the boy as operatives working for them searched the house but couldn't find anything and wrote them off. Alex was interrogated and fired from his position in the CIA ruining his career and name but now he could focus on that glowing white Rock he snagged from the complex which would change his life.

Project Maverick's growth returned to normal and all his memories were wiped clean and he couldn't remember who or what he was. The gracious Bill and Lizzy Taker took him into their home like their own son as they didn't have any child and loved him like he was theirs. The slim red head woman with a gentle spirit and black robust man of jovial nature gave him the feeling of a family and he grew up for thirteen years believing that but all was about to change.