Abate
Chapter 1
Year: 2015
Place: Fair Oaks, Kansas
Town Preschool
It was sunny out, preschool was getting out at noon, and children flooded out of the preschool, shouting, cheering, and playing with one another. A boy walked calmly out, passing the laughing and playing children. His skin pale, his hair a bright blond, and his eyes a dark blue, his name was Sven McGregor, and by age 5, still had some baby fat on him. Compared to others in his grade, Sven was surprisingly calm for his age, and didn't like the roughhousing the others did to one another; he was an outcast to some.
"So these are the children?" A young woman asked an older man, the two seemingly partners for some company or something similar, both standing under the shade of a nearby tree. The woman, Victoria Myer, stood tall, skinny, with short dark hair, and active green eyes, which darted from child to child.
"Yes they are Ms. Myer; we do hope you find one you are looking for." The man, wearing a suit, with jet black hair and sunglasses that covered his eyes, giving him a mysterious look. Victoria crossed her arms and brought a hand up to stroke her chin, pondering, thinking, about which child she wanted. Yes, these children all had families, but thanks to an unknown source of duplicate cloning, they could switch without the parents knowing. Glancing from an athletic boy that showed off to others, to a jokester that was playing pranks on others, then to a group of girls acting older than they were and gossiping about nothing, and then a single boy, walking away.
"Hmm…who's that?" She asked, pointing toward the boy. The man looked at him, pulled out a notepad, flying through its pages until he came to a stop at Sven's picture.
"Sven-Tyler McGregor ma'am, son of Harry and Rebecca M…"
"I don't care about that stuff, what is he like?" Victoria asked.
"Says he's quiet, calm, and doesn't have many friends." The man concluded.
"Hmm…no one would be missing him much would they? The real one I mean." Veronica said, soft enough so passing parents couldn't hear her.
"I-I guess so. But are you sure you want to go through with this? The Committee won't…"
"The Committee will thank me for what I'm about to do." Victoria said and walked swiftly after Sven. "Excuse me, Sven?" She said. Little Sven turned around, and stared at the stranger.
"Yes?" He asked politely. Victoria stopped, squatted to his level, so they stared eye-to-eye, and smiled kindly, immediately gaining the child's adoration.
"How would you like to come with me somewhere?" She asked sweetly.
"Um…my teacher told me not to talk to strangers." Sven said, knowing even though she knew him, he didn't know her. Victoria's smile faded, then she brightened up again, this time in a wider smile.
"Please excuse me, my name is Victoria Myer, I know your parents and am quiet good friends with them. They asked me to pick you up." Sven nodded, believing in her words.
"Okay." He said softly. Victoria stood back up, and turned to the way she came. In a motherly manner, she grabbed Sven's small hand in hers and walked him to her car, where the man was waiting, ready to drive.
Sitting in the back seat together, Victoria and Sven sat quietly, while the man drove, also in silence. The car passed McGregor Life Insurance, where Sven's father managed the store, and Sven asked.
"Where are we going?" Victoria looked at the man, hoping he could have the explanation, but once again, was let down, so she looked down on the child, smiling, and said.
"We're taking you to a special place, where your parents wanted us to take you. You'll see them don't worry." She said. Sven nodded, and looked back out of the window. A window slid up between the front and back seats, severing contact from the man to Victoria. The man flipped open a cell phone, and pushed auto-dial. A voice came up.
"Hello?"
"Pete, it's me, deploy the flash clone of the boy named Sven McGregor."
"Yes sir."
After half and hour or so, the car drove out of town and into the country. It came up into the driveway of a small farm.
"Alright, let's go." Victoria said sweetly, opening her door, Sven doing the same. The young boy followed the woman up the gravel road, looking over his shoulder to see the man turn and drive away. He continued to follow Victoria up to the house, and when they walked in, the house was empty and deserted. "Come along Sven." Victoria said and led him to a door, opened it, and made her descent into the basement, Sven following. He managed to glimpse the dirty, rotting wood walls and floor of the home; he was actually surprised that someone would be here. At first, the basement was dark, nothing but brick walls and cobwebs in the room, until Victoria opened yet another door, this one opened into a vast white room, a laboratory, scientists conducting research on several things Sven couldn't even comprehend.
Victoria took Sven's hand again and led him down the white lab to a man in a white lab coat beside some sort of tube, one that could fit a person in it. He also held an oxygen mask in one hand, connected to the wall, where probably a oxygen container was held.
"Why you must be little Sven." The man said, his hair graying and balding. "My name is Dr. Herman Winchester." He extended a gloved hand and shook Sven's tiny hand. The man pushed up his glasses and motioned for the tube. "Could you please lay down in here?" He asked. Since Sven had the same kind of respect for this man as he did for Victoria, he did as he was told and laid down in the tube, he could feel the cold metal through his shirt.
"So my mommy and daddy said for me to be here?" He asked. Victoria nodded weakly, only she wasn't smiling, not at all.
"Now, would you mind to put this over your mouth and count back from ten?" Dr. Winchester asked next, handing Sven the oxygen mask. Sven again did as he was told and put it over his mouth, closing his eyes and counting back from ten. He hardly got to four before he was out cold, feeling a buzz over him and a glass case sliding over him.
Well, this is just the beginning of one long story, at least compared to my others. I hope many of you will like this series, since it will seem like Halo at first, but soon enough a few more familiar faces should come up, namely Neon Genesis Evangelion, with a character from Star Wars (Go ahead, guess, haha) and Hellboy.