Fan Fiction ❯ The Tales of Lady Midnight and Jason Dark ❯ Chapter 8

"Boy. Tonight I have a special surprise for you. All I need to complete my plan of a master race is not an army, but a single person. Only this person shall be a young woman. The drug company next door has put out an advertisement

for the testing of their new products. The trials are tonight; we shall pick our ‘volunteer’ from there." NO. He could not. There was to be no more suffering, this would definitely put a damper on my plans.

She was the first woman I had ever seen. Thoughts and emotions that I did not even know existed started bubbling up within my very being. It hurt me down to my soul when he took her out of that alley. The worst part was when she backed into the table and I had to hold her down. As the doctor was giving her the first set of injections that would activate and alter her DNA I walked over and picked up her bag. Nothing much was inside. Many unpaid bills with the names marked out, and a wallet that was empty save a crumpled picture I.D. that was so tattered I could only make out the first name: Melissa. I alone knew the flaw in the doctor’s methods and all of his evil would be stopped tonight.

I came back in and began to watch him work, like I usually would. Only this time I took the vial holding the last injection and hid it away. This time though he did not seem to notice. It was almost as if he was doing things slightly different from usual. I sat for a while, watching, wondering why he was doing things so differently. At one point she began to wake, shaking her head slowly from side to side.

"Ah, I see you are awake. Now to perform the behavior modification." This was the time, his flaw. I jumped up and cut of the power just as the beam hit her eye, I just hoped that I was not too late.. "No! She is unstable." Dr. Linux screamed. I grabbed her and ran. I laid her down in an alley. I told her that I would come back for her, but I did not know if she heard me. I headed back to the lab to pick-up the final injection, and to clean up some of the mess that I had left behind with the doctor.

As I landed back in the lab I came face to face with the evil eye of the extremely perturbed doctor.

"What has snapped in your head?" he ranted.

"I know your flaw." I began to plead.

"Oh! Enlighten me Mr. Expert. I also found the flaw it is my research. Why on earth do you think that I changed my order of procedures?"

"It was not the procedure sir, it was their brains. The adult brain is too complex and hard-wired to ever reprogram it without some type of repercussion; the most common one seems to be that your ray cooks their brains, causing unimaginable damage."

"Well, whatever goes on you better bring her back for the final injection or her body will slowly succumb to the deteriorating effects of the unfinished procedure." I ran back out of the lab and to the alley where I had left her. There I found a group of screaming people and an ambulance fleeing the scene. I ran back into the alley and transformed. I then scaled the building and began jumping roof to roof. I kept pace with the ambulance until it pulled into the hospital. I had not been out of the lab in a long time and had no clue on how to get back once I grabbed her. I looked in each window until I found the one she was in. She changed broke the straps on her bed and collapsed to the floor reverting to her human form. I jumped into the open window; this was my chance to grab her. As I landed I heard a scream and the sound of someone running away. I went back to human and donned the strange green garment that hung in the corner. I picked up Melissa and placed her back on the bed there was a phone in the room. Sheepishly I called the doctor and told him that I was at the hospital and had no clue on how to get back to the lab.

"Just stay there and I will come get you both." He abruptly hung up. I then heard a large noise come from behind me. Fearing discovery, I hid inside the closet. Soon, I heard the doctor’s voice. "I told him that she was unstable." I cracked open the door just in time to see a large slam a metal table over the doctor’s head. I knew that from the blood pouring out of his depressed skull I could not help him. Another man joined the other in the room and helped him take Melissa away. As they left the room I walked out of the closet and to the window. I looked down just as the black van pulled out of the ambulance port. I transformed and jumped out the window. Since it was nearly midnight, no one noticed the dark van being pursued by an even darker figure.

Two hours later the van pulled into the garage of a quite huge and

extremely secluded house. I found it quite weird that a house like this would be in the middle of the woods. Even stranger, was the size of the yard this place had. The walls of the building were covered in a thick layer of shamrock ivy, which it wore like a familiar winter coat. Boxwood shrubs entwined with plumb tipped heather lined the space between the windows and the ground. The grass spread across as an expansive jade fur carpet. Tall oak and palm trees substituted the missing weeds in the emerald shag. I watched the house to see what they had done with her in the hopes that I would bring her with me. It was when the first vermilions of sunrise began to appear that I decided I should attempt to find my way back to the lab. There was nothing that I could do here without the final injection anyway.