The Kassar file 3

Earth 63 2048 2:00 PM

Olivia's POV

I was typing on my computer as fast as I could, looking back at forth at the screen and my newest project behind me. Three weeks after starting my job I was given an artifact directly from the excavation site to study, it was the hardest thing to decipher I'd ever worked on. A 10 foot tall obelisk within a large glass box was situated at the center of my laboratory. The box was large enough to walk around in, but it had to be sealed to keep the obelisk sterile. It was made from solid obsidian, the glyphs were cut so deep that they must have been made as the molten rock was cooling. The ancient people of Sinnoh were known for occasionally making carvings like this, they used psychic Pokémon to hold the lava in place while it cooled. Strangely enough though I estimated this obelisk to be at minimum 5,000 years old, based on the carbon dating I ran on a small piece of obsidian they found in the same rocks near the obelisk. This was odd to say the least, Spear Pillar was only around 4,000 years old, that meant that the temple in turnback cave was at least 1,000 years older than what was believed to be the oldest man made ruins in the world. Translating the glyphs was no small task, they didn't match any of the glyphs I had gotten from spear pillar. However I noticed a resemblance to some glyphs found in the Tanoby ruins on a nearby part of the Sevi islands. After running the glyphs through the Tanoby Ruin's language I got what seemed to be gibberish. I thought I had hit a brick wall but after closer inspection I noticed the gibberish looked life a cipher key. I was entering all the symbols from the obelisk to then run it through a translation software I had developed. I was finally about to get some answers.

Unbeknownst to my employers, I had an alternative reason for wanting to translate the obelisk. While I was cleaning it off about a week ago I noticed a symbol was upside down, it was the same as an earlier symbol so I knew it was off. I cleaned the symbol and then pushed on it trying to see how a solid carving could possibly have rotated. The symbol glowed blue for a moment then delivered what I would describe as a shock of static electricity into my hand. Ever since then I had been having nightmares, and hearing what sounded like whispers in my ears. Most alarmingly however whenever I was around someone else I was able to feel something unusual, their emotions. As crazy as that sounds I knew it was true, I could even occasionally hear people's thoughts. I knew I wasn't crazy, but I hadn't told anyone about it. I would be fired on account of possibly mental instability if anyone found out. Hopefully, once the translations were done I could get some answers about what the obelisk did to me.

I had just begun the software when Veronica spoke up behind me, causing me to jump in my chair. I hadn't had hardly any sleep in the past few days, and it was showing.

"You look exhausted, why don't you come with me? Mr. Rapt has something he wants to show you, and you need to get out of this lab for a little." Veronica offered.

I nodded and stood up, she was right and it would look all the more suspicious if I refused an offer from Mr. Rapt himself.

As we entered the elevator Veronica pressed a button on the elevator that said 20th floor. We came to the top of the tower only to be met with Mr. Rapt waiting right at the elevator door. As soon as I saw him my stomach dropped, his emotions seemed calm, but it seemed as though there was some kind of aura surrounding him that gave me the chills. He entered the elevator and pulled out a keycard from his suit pocket.

He inserted the card into a slot in the elevator panel and spoke up in an official voice, "CEO override, Rapt, Edward, sublevel six please."

The elevator's electronic voice responded almost immediately, "confirmed, elevator going down."

I was on edge, and I probably wasn't doing a good job in hiding it. I didn't even know this tower had a basement floor, let alone 6 of them. There were rumors among the lower level employees that there were tunnels beneath the entire complex, but I didn't believe any of them. That was until now.

As the doors opened, we went down a long hallway, you could go left, right or straight ahead. We walked straight down the hall and came to what looked like a massive blast door. The kind that lead to mining bunkers designed to survive collapsing rubble.

Both Mr. Rapt and Veronica walked up to two card readers on both sides of the door, they looked at each other for a brief moment then nodded at each other simultaneously. They inserted their key cards and stepped back, the massive door lurched open, I was too awestruck at the extensive security measures around the door and on the ceiling. Multiple security cameras and motion sensors were at every angle up and down the hall.

As soon as the door was opened, I saw a massive lab, with centrifuges and microscope tables everywhere. Not to mention the massive fossil restoration machines that were in the four corners of the warehouse sized room. The restoration machines were five times the size of the one at Nacrene university's lab. All that however was nothing compared to the creatures within the large glass tubes in the room. They looked like a mix of a Scolipede and a Houndoom. They were twice the size of a Houndoom with bug like armor plating that glowed with a red light in places. They had red glowing eyes with mandibles on their mouth that surrounded a mouth full of razor sharp teeth. Their entire bodies were pitch black with the exception of the glowing parts of their skin.

"Magnificent, aren't they?" Mr. Rapt said in a proud voice.

I wanted to throw up, I could feel the malice and hate these creatures gave off. What the hell were these things?

"We call them Betas, the DNA we recreated them from predated Aerodactals by over one million years." Veronica explained.

"This is wrong!" I yelled, not bothering to keep my voice down.

All of a sudden the creatures in the cages went silent and began to stare at me. They didn't look scared or mad, their expressions were blank, almost as if they were waiting for something.

"Interesting, they seem compelled to listen to you, we may have to explore their behaviors more than I thought.." Rapt mused.

"I have to get out of here, maybe I can find an emergency exit and then-" I was snapped from my thoughts by Rapt sighing.

"Pity, I was hoping that you would help us willingly, but it seems your morals have already decided for you, don't bother trying to run, there is no emergency exit that doesn't require a Level 7 keycard" he explained as he signaled something by raising his hand.

I was shocked, Rapt couldn't have known that specific idea without reading my mind, he wasn't a shifter was he?

Four Gallades appeared around me in an instant, teleporting specifically to block me on all sides. I turned around to face Rapt only for him to place his hand on my forehead and say "Sleep."

My mind became fuzzy, I could feel my mind shutting down along with my motor reflexes failing. I was unconscious before I even felt my body hit the ground…

Author's note

Thus ends the Kassar Files, we'll be back to the main characters in the next chapter. Unfortunately that ties into my bad news.

I've officially started college, as of writing this it is the Friday before I start class. Rest assured I WILL NOT ABANDON THIS STORY. I however cannot guarantee how many chapters I will be able to put out, if I have spare time I will write as much as I can.

Thank you all for your support :)

Chapter Edited And Proofread By FXCF.