Lewis walked slowly down the hall as his heart pounded heavily in his chest. His slow footsteps echoed through the empty hall and with shaky hangs he fixed the tie of his dark guard uniform. He was walking slow on purpose. He had worked on the nightshift before; patrolling the grounds of the massive building. He remembered complaining once about how he should be promoted even though he hadn't been working here long, but he believed he had more vigor than his coworkers.

It hadn't ended well with his superior laughing at him and calling him a "dumb rookie", though he did promise to give him a new position. This was not what he wanted when he asked for a promotion. The pit of his stomach had fallen, and his face had palled. He didn't dare argue back with his superior knowing that it would make his current situation worse. He rather be put on janitor duty than his new position.

He came to large set of metal doors as he came to the end of the hall. He wipped off invisible sweat off his brow and put his sweaty hand onto the hand scanner. The scanner flashed green and the large metal doors opened to reveal the room inside. It was a monitor room, with two other night guards already inside. Though the only screens or readings in the room were the ones on the terminal that was at the front of the room, which was where the two guards sat in front of. On the left wall of the room was a large metal door with a hand scanner on the right side. Instead of large screens on the wall in front of the two guards there was a large pane of glass which showed a large white room with a figure sitting in the middle of the room.

His job was to watch over one of the failed RK900 androids.

To most watching over an android seemed to be a simple job even more so when the android was deactivated. And overall it was, but what made this job so, terrible was the android he was guarding in particular. The RK900 that was sitting "dead" in the middle of the white room scared him. This RK900 was considered a failed creation along with another RK900 which was held in another part of the facility. Though if he had been ordered guard the other android he would be just as scared. The information he had been given was that both RK900s had branched away from their programming and became deviant. However, that did not scare him as androids becoming deviant was a common occurrence these days.

What scared him about these RK900s was how they deviated from their programming. He had been told that they had become malicious and bloodthirsty; killing without being ordered to and murdering in extremely graphic ways. It got to the point where they barley took orders anymore. It was said that they killed over thirty employees when they tried to detain them. They were locked up to be experimented and studied on. They were activated during experimentation and deactivated afterwards as a safety precaution. Sometimes on his patrol routes he could hear the distorted screaming of the RK900s and the graphic threats they made.

The screaming always chilled him to the bone as it sounded to human for his liking. He was surprised that the RK900s could feel pain since they were androids, but he guessed that the scientists were trying to see all they could to the RK900s. He didn't know if he felt bad for the androids or the people experimenting on them. It was rumored that the RK900 he was guarding had not been properly deactivated and snapped the neck of an employee before it had been properly deactivated. The thought of being so close to a deadly android terrified him to his core; knowing that if it had the chance, it would break him in half like a twig. He walked into the room and the doors closed behind him. At his arrival the two guards turned around in their swivel chairs to look at the new arrival.

"The rookie finally showed up." the guard on the right side said. "Took you long enough."

"My bad." Lewis said quietly, his heart pounding in his chest.

"No problem." The guard on the left said. "I'm not surprised that you came late; this isn't the most… pleasing job. What's your name?"

"Lewis Hoffman."

"Lewis huh. Well, I'm Brad," he then gestured to the guard on the right, "and that's Steve. We've been doing this job for a while now so, we'll show you the ropes." Brad gestured to the chair to his left and Lewis promptly sat in it; he kept his gaze away from the white room. Steve ignored the two as Brad began to explain the job and was on his phone.

"I know some people say this job sucks," Brad said, "but it really isn't that bad. All we do is monitor the screens and watch the android until 6:00 a.m."

"What do the screens tell you?" Lewis asked. Brad then turned to the screens and gestured to them as he spoke.

"Oh, these tell us about the RK900's status. Even though it's deactivated we need to monitor it to make sure that it is truly secure. We monitor it's "brain waves", it's thirium flow, it's body movement, etc."

"Do you ever see anything unusual?"

"Nope. Everything's is as calm as an ocean's wave."

"That's not all we do though." Steve said looking up from his phone. "We also have to go in there and clean the damn thing." Lewis' eyes widened, and he felt a spike of fear course through him.

"W-what?" he stammered.

"I said we have to clean it; get all the blue blood and junk off of it."

"Why would we need to wipe off the blue blood? It evaporates in a few hours."

"Yeah it does, but it stains, and the scientists don't want to see blue blood all over it when they scan it. I'm actually pretty pissed about that. They are the ones that caused it to be covered in its own blood why can't they get it off themselves?!" Lewis took a quick glance at the white room and shivered.

"Doesn't that scare you guys?"

"What?" Brad asked with a confused look.

"Does it scare you when you have to go inside with that… thing?" Before Brad could answer Steve burst into laughter beside him.

"Scared!" Steve cackled. "Why would we be scared of a hunk of plastic?!" Lewis felt himself flush with embarrassment.

"B-because didn't it go on a rampage and killed multiple people before we could subdue it."

"Yeah it did, but we watch over it when it's deactivated. It's like child's toy until it's activated again."

"Then why do they shackle it like that?" Lewis gestured to the android.

"It's a safety precaution or whatever, there's no need to be scared of it. Though to tell the truth I'd rather baby sit this RK rather than the other one. I've seen it and it is creepy as hell. This one I can actually look at without cringing." He pointed a thumb at the RK900. "It has a name actually. Though I can't remember what it was. I think it's Charlie or something."

"It's Cain, Steve." Brad corrected him. "The scientists don't call it by name though. They call it Experiment RK-Carnage and I believe the other one is called, Experiment RK-Virus."

"That doesn't make me feel better." Lewis said with a shaky voice.

"Well, then I'll help you get over your ridiculous fear. Come on your going to help me clean it." Steve said getting up from his sit.

"What?!" Lewis said shocked as Steve brought out a black suit case.

"If your going to do this job you are going to have to go in there and clean it. Sooner rather than later, am I right?" He grabbed Lewis by the arm and dragged him to the metal door that led to the white room. Lewis looked at Brad for help, but Brad only shrugged his shoulders and turned his attention to the screens. Steve put his hand on the hand scanner and after the door opened he tossed Lewis inside before walking in himself. The door closed behind him and Lewis found himself staring in horror at the android before him.

The RK900 was on its knees hunched over with its head hung low. Its black ragged clothes were hard to see do to how much of his restraints covered him. It had a metal collar around his neck with a thick chain on each side that connected to the floor. Its arms were put behind its back which were held by a metal version of a "straight jacket" that covered its chest. Around its ankles were shackles which bolted it to the floor. Lewis was surprised it was restrained like that. It was an android, but it was restrained as if it were a madman.

It had short dark brown hair that looked almost pitch black; it was in disarray and multiple strands of filthy hair fell in front of its face. Its face held no emotion and the LED on its temple was off. It eyes were open slightly revealing rich brown eyes that looked almost golden. Its facial features gave it an attractive appearance, but by the way its dead eyes stared into nothingness Lewis couldn't help but feel fear. He took very slow and quiet steps as he got closer to the android; his heart pounded in his ears and he couldn't take his eyes away from the RK900.

"Come on rookie." Steve said giving Lewis a shove. Lewis stubbled forward; his body was numbed by fear. Steve then reached into his back pocket and pulled out a metal key. "Here." He tossed the key at Lewis who barley caught the small object. "We have to unlock it's arm restraints to clean it." Lewis looked at Steve with wide eyes.

"Why would you do that?" Lewis said in a hushed tone. "It's restrained for a reason."

"Oh, stop being so stupid. It's not like it's going to do anything." Lewis gave him a skeptical look. Steve rolled his eyes and said: "Fine I'll prove it to you." He put down the suit case and walked to stand beside the android. He then brought back his foot and kicked the android in the face with a loud clank. Its head snapped to the side and the chains around its neck shook. Lewis gasped and took a step back.

"Are you out of your mind?!" he cried losing his quiet tone. "It can feel that!"

"No, it can't, its deactivated see." Steve's heel connected with android's temple with a crack. Lewis watched as the android's head snapped to the side before falling back to its original position. The android's expression was still emotionless, and its brown eyes remained the same: dead. Steve stepped away from the RK900 and gestured for Lewis to unlock its restraint. Lewis gulped and walked to the back of the android where the lock was. He bent down and with shaky hands put the key in the lock. There was a loud click as the key fell into place followed by gears turning as he turned the key. A clank sounded through the room as the restraint unlocked followed by the sound of the heavy metal restraint falling to the ground. Lewis jumped back as the android's arms fell forward since they were no longer being restrained.

"Finally." Steve scoffed and moved the fallen restraint in front of the RK900. "Okay now, let me get you the cleaning supplies."

"I thought I had done enough." Lewis said with a frown.

"Too bad, your already here so, wiping down the android will be a breeze." He opened the suit case as Lewis came to stand next to him. Steve shoved a spray bottle full of a clear liquid and a white towel into Lewis' hands. "Now go and wipe down the android."

Reluctantly Lewis got down on his knees and pulled open the android's torn shirt, expecting it to move at any moment, but of course it didn't. Its chest was covered in splatters of blue blood, but most of it covered its abdomen. However, there were no signs of severe damage besides from a few scratches which reviled white porcelain skin. He cringed at the sight, only imagining what the RK900 had gone through to be covered in this much blue blood. He sprayed the liquid over the android before taking the cloth and wiping it. He was surprised by how realistic the skin felt even though he was touching it with the cloth. It didn't long for the white cloth to be stained a vibrant blue. As he continued to wipe the android he dared to look at the android's face. It was still the emotionless expression of a deactivated android, though the eyes felt different. They were still glazed over lifelessly, the light in them extinguished, but for some reason he felt that the way they look was off. He took a quick glance at the unlit LED on the android's temple before looking straight back into the android's eyes.

Were they always looking in that direction?

He felt something squeeze the back of his neck and he instantly jumped up from his crouching position, giving a short scream. He spun around to face Steve who was laughing loudly; Brad was also laughing in the other room. Lewis flushed with embarrassment and cried:

"That's not funny! I thought you were supposed to be professional."

"Oh, come on now rookie it's just a joke." Steve said quieting down. "You did a fine job cleaning. Now let's lock it back up and we can relax for the rest of the night." Lewis huffed, but complied with Steve, he put the heavy restraint back on the RK900 while Steve put away the cleaning supplies.

"Hey, Steve can you please hand me the key." Lewis said.

"Oh, sure its right…" Steve went to his back pocket and his eyes widened. He then franticly began checking all of his pockets only to find nothing. Lewis froze and his face paled.

"Ha, I'm just messing with you!" Steve cackled and pulled out the key from his back pocket. Lewis cheeks flushed again, but this time with anger.

"You're not funny." He said bluntly.

"I get that a lot. Here rookie." Steve tossed the key at Lewis who caught it and promptly put it in the lock. He turned it and there was a satisfying click as the restraint locked around the RK900 once more.

"That wasn't as bad as I thought it would be." Lewis said as he began walking with Steve towards the door.

"I told you so." Steve said and then looked at Brad through the glass. "Hey, Brad all the readings okay?" Brad scanned through all the screens before giving a thumbs up. "See what did I tell you this job is a piece of-"

CLICK

The loud click that echoed through the white room caused both Steve and Lewis to stop in their tracks, Lewis' heart stopped as he gripped the key in his hands. It couldn't be possible. The sound was followed by the turning gears and a loud clank that sounded like a heavy metal object hitting the floor. Lewis felt his body seep into numbness as he slowly turned his head to look at Steve. Steve had turned around and by the look of pure terror on his face Lewis knew he wasn't joking. Out of the corner of his eye he could see all the color drain from Brad's face. He didn't know why, but he felt his body begin to turn to look behind him. In all the days of his 26-year-old life has he never felt such a combination of horror and shock that he felt ready to vomit his dinner on the white floor.

It was looking at them. Its head wasn't down anymore, instead it was raised up and its golden-brown eyes were upon them. Its brown eyes seemed to be more of a bright gold than Lewis had expected. Its gaze was piercing as if it could peer right into all of their souls. Lewis could have found an excuse of why the android was now looking at them, but the fierce yellow of its LED had crushed all of his excuses. However, its eyes were not the main reason Lewis felt his legs grow weak. Its lips were pulled to an evil grin that showed its stunning white teeth. Never before had he seen such a terrifying expression on an android or a human for that matter. Still frozen he watched as it undone the locks on its ankles by ripping them off.

Steve had already sprinted towards the door leaving Lewis behind, but to his horror found that it wouldn't open. Lewis continued to stare as it gripped the metal collar around its neck. He didn't hear the clanging of the chains as the RK900 freed itself from its shackles. Lewis' brain had stopped trying to process information when it started to walk towards him, its evil grin never leaving its face. It towered over him and Lewis was unable to feel its cold mechanical fingers wrap around his neck before it was snapped in half like a twig. His body fell to the floor, lifeless. Steve was screaming at this point, clawing at the door as Brad franticly tried to open it from the other side. Steve could do nothing as a hand shoved itself into chest through his back and crushed his heart. His body fell into a heap on the ground. Brad gave up on trying to open the door and instead trigged the alarm and began speaking into a speaker which projected his shaking voice through out the facility. Out of the corner of his eye he could see the door open and the RK900 walking into the room.

"EXPERIMENT RK-CARNAGE IS LOOSE. I REPEAT CARNAGE IS-" Brad's voice became incoherent gurgling as his throat was swiftly ripped out. His body to hit the ground with a dull thud. Then there was silence.

OBJECTIVE COMPLETED:

|BREAK FREE OF RESTRAINTS|

OBJECTIVE COMPLETED:

|ELIMINATE GUARDS|

KILL COUNT:

|3 HUMANS|

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NEW OBECTIVE:

|ESCAPE HYPERION FACILATY|

NEW OBJECTIVE:

|FREE CALEB|

KILL ANYONE WHO GETS IN MY WAY

Cain immediately set off to complete his self-assigned tasks, ignoring the dead bodies he left behind him. He could sense and hear the sound of pounding footsetps. No likely the sounds of panicking employees and armed guards. He changed his calm walk to a speedy jog once he scanned the building and found the location of the other RK900. He ignored the blaring sounds of sirens and the flashing lights as he followed the trial of yellow icons. He turned around a corner and came face to face with two rows of guards all armed and pointing their guns at him. It only took a second for him to count them. There were six. The guards didn't even give him a chance as they immediately opened fire at one's command. Cain put his arms up in front of his face as bullets rained down upon him. He hissed as the bullets collided with his body. They didn't penetrate him, but they left a painful sting across his body. Once the barrage of bullets stopped guards stared aghast as the android was still standing there before them in one piece. Cain lowered his arms slowly, revealing his face which was made into an angered expression.

"That stung." He hissed, before he attacked.

He rushed the guards head on, a few bullets flew through the air, but any that hit Cain bounced off. He grabbed the first guard by the neck and easily crushed his windpipe. He threw him aside as a guard tried to hit him with the back of his gun. Cain grabbed the back of the gun while simultaneously kicking a guard in the gut who had tried to tackle him. He pulled the gun towards himself causing the guard to stumble forwards. He grabbed the guard and used him as a meat shield as three guards fired at him.

The guard took all the bullets and was dead in a matter of moments. Out of the corner of his eye Cain noticed that the guard he had kicked was at his feet trying to get up. Cain stomped on his neck and there was a crack as he snapped the poor guard's neck. Cain then threw the guard in his hands at the other guards for a momentary distraction. It worked; the guards were thrown off guard by their frined's corpse in their faces which allowed Cain to smash one of the guard's head against the wall with a wet crack and he grabbed the other two guards' heads and smashed them together. Their heads imploded by the force of the impact. Cain let their corpses fall to the ground as he looked down at his blood soaked body. He smiled when he saw the crimson substance stain his synthetic skin.

KILL COUNT:

|9 HUMANS|

Cain continued forward. This time sprinting. It didn't take long for him to reach his destination and he realized with joy that he had made it before the guards could. He simply touched the hand scanner and the doors slid open. He was met was the terrified faces of two guards. It didn't take much effort to kill them as their weak vertebraes bent to his will.

KILL COUNT:

|11 HUMANS|

He grabbed the black suit case at the corner of the room and nearly kicked down the door to the white room. He noticed that the room this RK900 was being held in was much bigger and the RK900 was held in thicker restraints; there even was a metal mask put tightly on its face. Cain cringed as he saw the state of the android and promptly ran to it. He threw down the suit case and immediately began tearing off the metal restraints of the other RK900. Once the restraints holding its body were torn apart he tried to take off the metal mask but found that he wasn't able to. He could hear the footsteps of guards thundering down the halls, though they sounded much heavier than the others. The SWAT team was coming. He stopped trying to take off the mask and began fiddling with the others clothes. The other RK900s clothes were a stark white instead of his pitch black. He then threw open the suit cause where he found a thirium pump regulator. He took it and slammed it into the other android. It didn't react. Cain could sense the it was beginning to power up, but he could also sense the SWAT team's footsteps getting closer.

He grabbed the others shoulders and shook him.

"Wake up." He demanded. The RK900 only swayed lifelessly, its chin rested against its chest. "Come on wake up." He gave a quick glance behind him as he heard banging coming from the door. "We don't have that much time." Panic entered is voice and he gave the android another rough shake. "Please Caleb, I need you, so we can get out of here." The door burst open behind him and he knew he only had a few moments before he would be swarmed by armed humans and androids. His once yellow LED turned an angry red and he yelled so loudly that his voice box cracked.

"WAKE UP!"

They were surrounded by guards. Cain didn't need to turn around to know that he was outnumbered.

"Experiment RK-Carnage!" The voice of the head guard spoke. "Step away from RK-Virus and put your hands in the air before we put you in a world of pain." Cain ignored the guard and continued to hold the other RK900.

"Please." he whispered softly as a gun cocked behind him. The lights went out. The human guards were surprised as they were plunged into darkness and the androids' LEDs spun yellow. All the guards turned on the lights at the end of their guns and where surprised to that the lifeless RK900 wasn't so lifeless. It was standing in front a seated Cain, facing them. Some of the guards took a small step backwards instinctively. The RK900 reached slowly behind his head, the synthetic skin on his arms and hands were damaged, but strangely his fingers weren't white porcelain or realistic skin. They were pitch black. His hands brushed past dark brown messy hair before he reached the back of his and there was a click as the metal mask came off his face to fall to the ground. His face was in Cain's likeness, however there were differences. The skin around his LED seemed to be damaged as the LED flickered a dull blue and thin blue veins arked around it. What was most terrifying about the android was it's eyes. They were pitch black. It was like looking into an empty pit of nothingness as they didn't reflect any light. Black veins came out from his eyes which caused his synthetic skin to waver around his eyes. His expression was completely blank as he scanned over the large group of guards. His LED flickered as he scanned over the faces of the humans and androids with an expressionless mask.

"Experiment RK-Virus!" The guard at the head of the group shouted finding his voice again. "Get down on your knees now!" The RK900 made an expression, its dark eyebrows lowered, and its mouth became a strained line.

"Virus?" his voice was mechanical, but you could hear confusion in his words. "That is such a nasty name, isn't it? A virus is not seen as a beloved thing in this world. No, Virus is not my name." He then made his left hand into a gun, with his thumb pointed up and his pointer finger pointed outwards. He brought up his hand and pointed at the lead guard, it was as if he was a child pretending to be a cowboy in a show down.

Every guard android instantly turned their gun onto a human guard. It happened so fast and simultaneously, almost as if they were given a que to move. The human guards stared shocked at their Android allies, knowing that moving an inch would be death. The lead guard turned his head to look at the android that had a gun pointed at his head. His eyes widened as he saw its eyes were pitch black and its expression had become emotionless, however it's LED still remained a calm blue. He felt his heart sink as he turned back to the RK900. He was smiling now. Not a very menacing smile, more like a smug grin.

"My name is Caleb."

The room was filled with a bright flash of light and a loud boom as every android pulled the trigger and shot their human allies in the head. The humans' corpses fell to the floor with a thunk, though Caleb payed them no mind.

"Though the name 'Virus'," he said as he brought his finger gun to the side of his head and the androids pointed their guns at their own heads. He took a quick look at the other androids before continuing, "does describe me perfectly." Another loud boom, another flash of light, the androids fell dead to the floor. Caleb then turned around to face a smiling Cain.

"Nice trick."

OBJECTIVE COMPLETED:

|Free CALEB|

"Come on we have to get out of here, before back up arrives." Cain said as he began walking out the room with Caleb in tow. It didn't take long for them to escape. Now that they were together getting past the defenses had become child's play. Once they were outside they sprinted away from the facility and dodging the last few bullets that came their way. Their feet pounded against the thin layer of snow that covered the ground. And just like that they were gone. They finally stopped running after a while and took a chance to take in the scenery. There was a light snow fall, causing small intricate snowflakes to fall gracefully to the ground and the bright moon in the sky caused the snow around them to glow. They both stared at the moon as they let their systems relax. They were covered in blood of both colors, but that didn't affect them in the slightest. It was deadly silent, with the only sound being the animals of the night. Caleb was the one to break the silence.

"The moon is beautiful. Don't you agree?" Cain took a quick glance at Caleb before answering.

"Yes. It is very beautiful." No other words were needed to be said between the two to decide what they were going to do next. They were connected, and they could see each others systems without touching hands. Though that didn't stop Cain from deactivating the skin on his hand and reaching out to grab Caleb's damaged one. He wanted to take this moment and revel in their freedom, together.

DATE: FEBUARY 9TH, 2039, P.M. 12:13:06

OBJECTIVE COMPLETED:

|ESCAPE HYPERION FACILITY|

KILL COUNT:

|24 HUMANS|

|18 ANDROIDS|

…

NEW OBJECTIVE:

|REAK HAVOK|

TOGETHER