Breaking News. Breaking News

March 6, 2023

Fox News

"Breaking News, the good old and powerful USA has plunged to the dark ages. We have regressed to the old times where human beings are hanged on trees, on lamp posts, on makeshift posts. In the early morning today the first hanged man was found in the borders of Mexico and mind you this isn't a single case. A total of 1056 such men were hanged near the borders of New Mexico and California. And the police are now actively trying to find out if there are any more such men who had been thrown to the jaws of death...."

"... The initial reports suggests that all these men that had been hanged were either drug dealers or had taken some kind of drugs in their lifetime. We have all but avoided the fact that the borders are the most dangerous place to distribute drug throughout USA and something or maybe someone came and just thought of dishing out some kind of God's judgement on these men. The poloce are trying to find out more of what had happened because until no witness had come forward explaining what the hell, pardon my language, happened..."

"... So many men were killed and nobody saw it. How is that possible? Who are these men? Is there a pattern. More reports will come in the next few hours but from my perspective all I can say is if you have dealt drugs then you must be careful because whoever did this has some kind of vendetta against the drug dealers."

Such news was blaring all the new channels of USA and even on the international news because this was a very huge thing. More than a thousand men were killed in one night and even portrayed as some kind of trophy for all of the public to see. This was a challenge to the sovereignty of USA as this could easily be termed as terrorism.

White House, USA.

"Mr. President, this is the report we have at the moment." A Secret Service agent came forward and provided a file to the President who was sitting at the Oval office. The President looked particularly stressed after what he had heard early morning. He took the file and went through some of the key points written.

"So this guy or should I say guys just killed so many people and nobody noticed anything. Not even a gunshot?"

"No Sir. All of the dead people were either shot in the head or on the chest. Almost all of them were killed immediately or in a matter of seconds."

"Almost?"

"There are 8 individuals who are probably killed by a sharp cold weapon and one person killed by a high temperature bullet which we suspect to some kind of laser gun in the head. The inside of the head have singed due to the high temperature. According to the initial reports their body seemed to be high levels of stress which indicates that before they were killed they were in some form of immense fear."

"So 9 individuals are the only weird thing in this whole operation? Is that all we have? We are supposed to be a super powerful nation with billions spent on weaponry and logistics. Give me a concrete information of who is behind this. I don't care if it is ISIS, Al-Qaeda, North Korea or Russia. I need answers. Someone invaded our land and we can't let that happen. They not only killed so many Americans in American soil but also had the balls to hang them to dry for the general public to see. Is this what America is now? Get me a proper answer by evening." The President was fuming at the other officials.

Meanwhile the culprit who was responsible for this had just woken up from sleep. He was going through the news and he could already see the outrage and fear pouring on the social media.

"JARVIS, what is the status?" Robin asked.

"Sir, the cartels are in panic mode. They just lost the men who is responsible to take their drugs across the border and now the main supply chain is broken. They still haven't gotten the full picture, but statistics suggest that the cartels will delve into insanity due to the fear of what you have done."

"That's better. They have operated for years with almost no checks. Whatever was done to bring them in check proved to be useless. Fear is a great motivation. Let's see if one of the prime human emotions can bring the cartel down."

"How is the check on the new drug going on?"

"Sir, they have tested the drug on mice and suffice to say they have been blown away by the results. It will take a few more days but we can expect positive results." JARVIS replied.

"So we have some free days with us. Why don't we have a mini vacations. I saw that the Washington state is very beautiful filled with mountains." Robin said. When he learnt Spanish in his early years he had an online friend who lived in Washington.

From that person, he saw many beautiful places that Washington had and now that he was here he wanted to roam around a bit. The next day they were on their way to Seattle and just like previous time, JARVIS had sent a car for the trip only this time JARVIS had sent a Humvee. This car was massive and was made for any terrain transport.

"JARVIS, it's really a boon to have you around. You know that right?" Robin said as he sat on the driving seat. He was excited to the max. Never in his life did he think that one day he would be able to drive such an expensive vehicle and that too in such a different country.

"Happy to be of service, Sir."

"Don't give him too much ego boosts or else his emotional meter might just change."

"That is incorrect Miss Sigret, my emotional quotient had been fixed by Mr. Tony Stark a long ago."

"And he still managed to kill someone like Ultron."

"But that's just fiction." Myrene chimed in.

"Look who is talking." Robin countered because at the end of the day Robin's life was now surrounded by the bridge of imagination and reality.

"By the way JARVIS, did you acquire a gaming studio like I asked you to?" Robin asked. Robin had once asked JARVIS and Sigret to make games for him. Both JARVIS and Sigret gave the 'excuse' of no sort of creativity in their programming so at the end he had asked to acquire a studio.

"Sir, the Darkstar Investments had just acquired a 51% stake on a gaming studio named Nien Gaming based of Frankfurt. And Miss Sigret had asked for a small game that will be like Aladdin from the old ages. Miss Sigret suggested that we do a test run and see if it works or if your power will consider this as cheating."

"That's a great idea or else it will be just an waste of an investment." Robin also accepted that trial run. The mods were already a huge no no from his powers so he wasn't sure if a game that was made with his own money would be considered as cheating by his self conscious power. Robin and the duo were on their way to Leavenworth since he had heard so much about this place.

Though this place was called to be mini Germany, he wanted to see if there was some kind of similarity between the two places or was it just an exaggeration. It was already evening when they reached the place and since they had booked an AirBnB, they were welcome with warm bed and food.

As Robin was enjoying his small time in vacations, different scenarios were happening simultaneously in different places in America. Labcorp was having a nightmare at the moment. The researchers didn't think much of the tablets that Robin had brought. They tried it on mices which had broken claws or legs which were broken, and even a mice whose skull was bit pierced.

The tablets magically healed them. This was something that they had never seen before. So they wanted to know what the tablet was made out of and this was where their nightmare started.

There were ingredients in the tablet that they had never seen before in their life and from the starting research they could already tell that even if they gave it few years, they might still not be able to replicate or make the ingredients artificially. They could already see the hidden brick wall in front of them and no amount of explosives was going to destroy the wall.

Of course, the head researcher didn't believe it and asked all of the researchers to pull their knowledge and come up with replication of the ingredients of the tablet, because if they did so, their lab would just skyrocket through the roof and reach the sun.

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