David Cooper watched from the shadows as the three teens fused with the Dino Gems. This might develop into a problem for him later down the line, but he couldn't bother himself with that for the time being, he had more important things to care about.

Those other entities that engaged the teenagers, they seemed to be the real enemy. He'd need to handle them as soon as possible. He just didn't know where to find them. That is why David Cooper spent all night driving through every ally he could. He was looking for some kind of secret entrance, somewhere he could slide into the enemy's base.

The Riotroopers wouldn't be operational for another week at least, so David took it upon himself to try and disengage the monsters before they were needed. It was through this thorough search of the city that allowed David to find the secret compound.

The entrance had been built into a long abandoned phone booth. When David entered the claustrophobic space he had been met by a strange sight. The keypad didn't display numbers, instead, it was simply the alphabet in bronze letters. The next move seemed automatic to the hero. He pressed in A-B-C. The wall in the far corner opened to reveal a hidden chamber.

David should have brought his gear, he realized this as he descended deeper into the musty compound. The air was chilly, not enough to cause his breath to smoke, but enough to seep into his bones and leave the hero strange and shaky.

The concrete stairs gave way to a dimly lit hallway. There seemed to be some recent human activity in the compound. Half eaten cans would occasionally pop up, and the entire place smelled like sweat and filth.

David continued down the narrow path. He could tell what this place was already, it was a former Alphabet Soup compound. They were hidden all over America, creating the biggest and best technology money could buy. Every so often something would go wrong inside the compounds and force them to evacuate. David just wondered what.

"He-help me…" A man said as he limped out from a closet. His lab coat was drenched in blood, and his left leg was nothing but a slab of raw meat.

David rushed over to the man and helped him stabilize himself. "What happened here?' David asked.

"Dr-Dr.N…" The man muttered.

Dr.N David thought back to his basic debriefing over all major Alphabet Soup personnel. "Dr.N is dead."

"Not dead…" The scientist said, "Changed." The man quickly died in David's arms. The hero set him down and moved further into the lab. Whatever attacked the scientist, whether it was Dr.N or not, seemed to have left.

David approached a monitor that was buried deep inside of one of the side room. David powered it on and examined the data it contained. It seemed that Dr.N hadn't killed himself, he had used himself for the final part of his genetic experiments.

There were records indicating that other people were involved with this final experiment, but David couldn't find any names. Only one consistent theme kept appearing in the files, and that was the continued mention of an organization called MercerCo.

MercerCo. was still a functioning cooperation, it was a pharmaceutical company that had its roots heavily ingrained in Reefside. He wasn't sure how much they were involved in Alphabet Soup, for all he knew they were simply selling him the supplies.

That is what David intended to find out.

A/N: Another short trip with David Cooper, I really didn't realize how short these were until now.