Chapter 14 – Experiment 43
Red Valdez, Zaibatsu Pharmaceuticals Headquarters, Staunton Island, Liberty City, 2005
Red and Uno were standing in the car park outside the headquarters of Zaibatsu Pharmaceuticals.
"How on earth did you do it Uno?" Red asked him
"What, how did I manage to purchase Juank Air?" Uno asked
"Yeah" Red replied
"I just asked them if I could buy it, and they agreed, I don't know why they let me" Uno said "anyway, it means we don't even need Misty to smuggle coke in, we can just load as much as we can fit in the back of the plane, as long as the police don't see it, it's fine"
"So we don't need Misty anymore?" Red asked
"Well she can bring a suitcase full of cocaine with her as well" Uno replied
"So are we going to change the name of the airlines then?" Red asked
"Of course we are, I never liked the name Juank air, I always thought it sounded like it was an innuendo" Uno replied
"What innuendo is that?" Red asked innocently
Uno looked in surprise and sarcastically said "I'll tell you when you're older"
"I guess the clones are ready then?" Uno asked
"Yeah" Red said with some excitement "forty-seven clones that can help me"
"Who were they cloned from?" Uno asked
"They were cloned from us two, a gangster named Sweet from Los Santos, a Russian named Jerkov and a young Yakuza named Johnny Zoo, I chose these particular three for their particular skills, Sweet is good at hand to hand combat, Jerkov has superb weapon skills and Johnny Zoo has samurai skills" Red replied
"Wow, these clones are going to have everything" Uno replied
"I think it's about time we went in to see the clones" Red replied
They began walking towards the entrance. They were about in the entrance when a bald man wearing a navy jacket, black trousers and a navy wide rimmed hat stepped out of the door and brushed past Red briefly saying "Good morning".
"He must have dealings with Zaibatsu pharmaceuticals" Red said
"In what field is he involved?" Uno asked
"It could be anything, he may wish to buy Equinox 2.0 or he may be a distributor, who knows, let's go upstairs and find out from Dr. LaBrat" Red replied
"That man looked kind of familiar, I'm sure I've seen him somewhere before" Uno said
"Maybe you saw him in another life?" Red asked humorously
"No, I don't know, maybe I'm dreaming" Uno replied shrugging it off
They walked into the office where Dr. LaBrat was working at his computer. He looked up and smiled.
"Ah hello, how are you Red and Uno?" Dr. LaBrat asked
"Hello, we're here to see these wonderful clones you cloned for me" Red replied
"Yes, there down in the basement, it only took a year to get them to the age of mid-twenties thanks to that wonderful chemical that made the reactions speed up, that's the age when there at their best, they'll stay that way forever because I added a chemical that stops growing altogether, I also added a chemical in the brain that stops them thinking for themselves, they'll follow any order, you can shout any order to any particular number, and they'll do it without question" Dr. LaBrat said
"They're numbered?" Red asked
"Yes, they know their number inside their head, and they have there numbers stamped on their chest, you can even get them lined up in numerical order" Dr. LaBrat said
"And there have been no problems so far?" Red asked
"Well, there was one particular clone who the chemical that takes away thinking for themselves didn't seem to be working, he wasn't following orders, he even stole a packet of one of the scientists cigarettes, and began smoking them, we took them off him, but he refused to do anything if we didn't let him smoke, he's now a chain smoker, but he seems to respond" Dr. LaBrat explained
"Who was that customer we saw?" Red asked
"Which customer, there's been no-one this morning" Dr. LaBrat replied in confusion
"Well we saw a bald man leave the building, he had a navy hat and jacket" Uno confirmed
"Maybe he had the wrong building or something" Dr. LaBrat replied "he certainly had no dealing with me"
"Can we see these clones now?" Red asked changing the subject
"Yes, we shall visit them in the laboratory in the basement" Dr. LaBrat said standing up from his seat
Dr. LaBrat took them down the stairs to the front hall where the doorway they had came in was, he then took them down some dark stairs towards the basement, they opened the glass door that had a white frame. When they walked into the laboratory there smiles were cleaned off their faces. The laboratory was covered with blood and there were five dead bodies lying strewn across the floor.
"I'm sorry Red and Uno, but something unexpected has happened" Dr. LaBrat "I'm sorry"
They continued into a room where the clones were kept, sitting down holding his bloody arm which had been slashed with something.
"Are you okay?" Dr. LaBrat asked the scientist
"I've just been knifed by one of the clones" the scientist yelled
"What happened?" Dr. LaBrat asked
"We let them out for their breakfast, after they finished eating our nutritious breakfast we had set out for them we were putting them back into their cells, one of the clones suddenly found a knife in one of the scientists pockets, made a grab for it and ran for the lab door, anyone that tried to stop him got knifed, they're all dead apart from me" the scientist explained
"How did a knife get in here?" Dr. LaBrat asked "you're meant to be the head scientist"
"Sorry I slipped up, it's not my fault" the scientist replied
"You slipped up indeed; you're meant to check all scientists for any objects that are not allowed" Dr. LaBrat explained
"Yes" the scientist replied trying to stop the blood flowing out of his arm "but you were supposed to have put a chemical in their embryos which prevented them for thinking for themselves"
"You're right" Dr. LaBrat said in realisation "it's my fault, not you or the scientist that had the knife"
"I now recognize that man who passed us" Uno said
"Who was it?" Red asked
"The last time I saw it was when I looked in the mirror and when I look at you" Uno replied
"We passed one of the clones on the way in" Red said in realisation "I thought I recognized these clones when I came in"
"How was he wearing a navy hat and jacket?" Uno asked
"I think that's mine, he stole them off the coat rack" the scientist said
"We have to find out which one's missing now" Dr. LaBrat said
"Easy" the scientist replied "just check which cell is empty"
Dr. LaBrat scoured the cells until he came upon one cell and said "I've found it, this is where Experiment 43 is held; Experiment 43 has escaped"
"That's the one who began chain smoking and wouldn't follow orders" the scientist replied, now almost fainting
"I think you forgot to add the chemical that stops you thinking for yourself to Experiment 43" Red explained
"We have CCTV footage from a year ago when we were adding the chemicals to the embryos" Dr. LaBrat said "lets go back up to my office and see it"
"Will we take the head scientist?" Red asked
"No, I think he just died" Dr. LaBrat said checking his pulse "he definitely has"
Dr. LaBrat led them back upstairs to his office and found the tape inside his cupboard. He pushed the tape in the machine, turned the television on and pressed play.
"Right, this is the bit where we added the chemical that speeds up growth, so I'll fast-forward past this" Dr. LaBrat explained
After a few seconds he said "Now we're onto the part where we began adding the chemical that stops them thinking for themselves."
They watched as the scientists added the chemical one by one, as they got onto forty-two, they suddenly stopped.
"Oh ignore that, they must've gone for lunch in the middle of adding the chemical" Dr. LaBrat explained fast-forwarding past half an hour of video staring at an empty laboratory. After fast-forwarding long enough they suddenly came back to the scientists adding the chemical. They watched the forty-third space on the tray, and they watched as they suddenly went straight past it.
"There!" Dr. LaBrat exclaimed turning the video off "there's the proof, I forgot to add the chemical that makes them stop thinking for themselves"
"So what will happen now?" Red asked
"Nothing, we just have to hope that the government doesn't realise there is an extra person that wasn't here before" Dr. LaBrat replied "lets just hope he doesn't cause any havoc"