Chronicles of the Darcsen Brotherhood
Chapter 35: The new version
"How rude of me! Forgive me. I am Dr. Boris, and you Mr. Neroh are my newest patient." The man said to me.
"What do you mean your patient? Were the hell am I?"
"You're in an underground bunker just under that empty camp you and your friends tried to attack. Fortunately for me my lab rats were able to get you back to me in one peace!"
"Your lab rats?"
As I said that Boris made a sign with his hand, as if he was calling someone to get in the room. I could hear man coming inside the room.
"Let me adjust the view for you, can't see too much from down there now can you?" Boris said.
I heard a sound as if he was turning a valve, the table that I was stuck to moved from the horizontal to vertical, and I could see them. The same man that attacked me and the others.
"Remove your hoods." Boris said.
They did and then I saw it. All of them were darcsen slave soldiers.
"What?! That's not possible! I've read the papers for the research! Clementia Forster stopped the research!" I shouted.
"Yes, it is true. In the middle of the process Forster saw the research as a dead end and left the research. But unlike her I wasn't going to quit so easily. I continued from where she stopped and obtained success!" Boris said.
He walked to a small table and picked up a scalpel. He then walked next to one of them.
"A perfect example of the perfect soldier. He does not question the orders given to him, completely subjective to his officer in command and has an incredible endurance against pain."
After he said that he pierced one of the slave soldiers in the chest with the scalpel. His face didn't demonstrated any type of reaction to that, not a single muscle on his face changed, he didn't even moved from the place where he was.
"Fascinating isn't it? The mind still feels pain though, but as long as the body doesn't answer to it, how really cares?" He said with a sarcastic smile on his face.
"Do you mean they still suffer even after being brainwashed?! You bastards are going to pay for this!" I tried to break free, but I had little success in doing it.
With that confusion I forgot about the flames! But no matter how hard I tried to summon them, they never came.
"Don't even try Mr. Neroh. We know what you are, and we already drugged you so that you can't summon your precious flames."
"How did you knew?"
"Our research goes even further than just creating the perfect soldier Mr. Neroh, but enough talking. You'll be ready for your initiation in a few moments."
"Initiation?"
"Yes. You see, my boss would like the idea of having a Guardian to his ranks, don't worry, it won't hurt too much."
"Wait, if you continued the research, that means that that thing we fought in the forest was your creation?!"
"Oh, so you've met patient 005? How is he?"
"Dead! We killed him for stealing little girls from a small village."
"That's too bad, he was one of my best specimen to my research, without him we wouldn't have discovered how to keep the body in perfect shape with the mind."
"What are you talking about?"
"The serum that we developed wasn't working very well, the subjects that were experimented with ended up having no self-control and attacked anything on their way. So we tried a stronger version of the same formula that was made to create the serum. It worked, but it also disfigured the body and after a while they go into a status irreversible of insanity. Patient 005 was strong to the effects of the serum though, he only gave up after we used the same serum on his little daughter."
"What?!"
"You should have seen his face when he finally saw her corpse! Ha ha! Hilarious, she was about what? Eight or nine."
"You bastard!"
"Don't worry. If you resist we'll just have to find a way to make you give up. Maybe a close relative for example." He said, with a malicious smile on his face.
I tried to bite him when he got close since it was pretty much the only thing I could do, but the bastard stepped back before I could reach him.
"When this is over I hope you'll be less aggressive towards your masters." He made a sign to the slave soldier that was next to me.
He hit me with his rifle and I blacked out.
When I woke up my vision was blurry and I couldn't hear right, all I could see was that huge strong light at my face. It was then that I noticed someone coming close. I couldn't see who was it, but I knew it by the voice.
"Let's begin the procedure now, Mr. Neroh." Boris, it was that bastard.
After he said that I felt something like a sting on my neck.
"Don't worry, this is just the first phase of the procedure, but it will hurt a lot…"
My body started to get warm. I didn't felt pain at first, it felt more like a nuisance, but after a couple of seconds the warming changed into a burning, it felt like I was in the middle of a fire. I felt the muscles and the meat under the skin burning, like as if I was inside a furnace. After that the burning stopped, but the pain remained. I screamed until I had no more strength to continue. Boris approached me and opened one of my eyes.
"The subject has survived phase one of the procedure. Prepare for phase two."
At this point I blacked out again.
He continued to toy with me, phase after phase and the levels of pain increased fast. I finally couldn't defend myself any longer. The only thing that kept me alive was the fact that I needed to stay alive for my comrades, my friends, my sister and Nannah. I needed to stay alive for them. They've done too much for me, I need to at least do this much for them.
After another number of phases Boris came back near me. He released me from the table and I dropped on the floor. If it wasn't for all those drugs he gave me I might had a chance of killing him, I could move my hands and arms, but very slowly and weakly.
"Don't worry Mr. Neroh, after this vaccine you won't be able to resist any longer and will join the ranks with the other slave soldiers, maybe you'll be put in a higher position due to your remarkable superhuman abilities. Maybe we'll even use you against your own warpack." He kept making jokes while I couldn't do nothing, not even talk back.
He grabbed a vaccine from a table and was walking to me when a explosion was heard and the whole facility rattled like as if it was a earthquake.
"What is happening?" Boris asked to one of his subordinates.
"The warpacks have found their way into the facility! They have breached our defensive systems!"
"Send the slave soldiers to meet them and begin the security protocol."
The subordinate ran away.
"Sorry Mr. Neroh, but the plans have changed." He walked back to that little table and grabbed another syringe.
"What I have in my hand is a concentrated extract of a deadly toxin retrieved from a series of different plants from the lands of the empire. It's quick and deadly and since there is no cure to it. Perfect to keep our slave soldiers away from the gallian forces. It's a shame really, you could've been one of the best soldiers at the imperial front."
He started to walk at my direction, I tried to move, but I couldn't do it fast enough. When he got close enough to inject that venom another explosion happened and he felt on me, that was my chance! I got the syringe and injected right at his heart, pushing down every drop of that venom.
"Your job ends here, you failed." I said to him.
He tried to speak with the last breaths he had on his lungs.
"I may have failed… But where I stopped, others will continues my work… *cough* You can't stop him… No one can…"
"Who's him?"
"The devil…"
After he said that I saw his life leaving his eyes. He died after all. I walked out of that room to find a corridor that had rooms just like mine. The scientists were nowhere in sight and as I passed by the rooms I saw the result of their "security protocol". Other darcsens like me, killed by the toxin. Many still had the syringes still stuck to them. Imperial scientists bastard left in a hurry. And when I reached the corner I could hear Zanna's voice and the others. I tried to turn it but I got weakened again and felt on the floor. I could see them and they saw me. They ran to me shouting my name but my vision started to get blurry again. I passed out.