4/7/13 The first test.
I looked about, a horrible feeling in the pit of my stomach. I pushed on the door.It creaked open, and I stepped into the white room. Everything seemed normal today. The test subjects had been ‘delivered’, and were put on sleeping medications. I didn’t like doing this, but it was for the good of our country, hopefully the spores would effect at least one of these subjects. The people were of three ages. One was 19, one was 33, the final around 62. Their names went as followed, Jack, Robert, and Doctor Zoun, my assistant. They hadn’t vollenteered, other than Zoun. The government had decided that these should be used. The man, at the age of 33, was from a government agency, and had been assigned to follow out his orders. Zoun had always been fascinated by my work, so he happily vollenteered. The boy though, something was wrong about what the government had said, ‘It won’t matter if anything happens to him.’ Those cold voices, they frightened me, as they echoed in my mind. What did they mean by ‘Won’t matter’?
Nonetheless, my research would not be halted by any thought floating through my mind. I moved to the three people, placing a medical mask, usually used for sleeping medication, over each of their mouths. I hooked the tubes on the masks up to a large, silver machine, with a swirling gas in the middle. The gas flowed to each of them, but I did not see any reactions. But then, something caught my eye. The boy, his hand, it was twitching slightly. His skin was beginning to look lighter. Then, small chunks of something, it looked like rock, but, something was off about this rock. It wasn’t rock, it was tree bark.
My gaze shifted to the older man, and my assistant, no visible side effects were detected. Then, I remembered about the boy. He was now flailing about, as the tree bark came from his skin. It was beginning to tear apart his long sleeved shirt. His torso was extremely thin, and I could begin to see his rib cage, it seemed as though it was bursting from his chest. His face, it looked as though his skull was moving outward, through his skin, just like his ribs. Then, I clearly could view the rib cage, it was made of the same tree bark that had earlier been protruding from his arms. I turned off the machine, my goal had been accomplished. I had created a super soldgier, well, not at the right age that the government had wanted, but oh well, the machine would just need a bit more tweaking. “Ok, they should be awake within minutes, if my calculations are correct.”
The calculations were correct. First, Zoun awoke. I had unstrapped all three of them after I recorded my results. A smile danced apon my face as I walked to him. “Zoun! Wake up! Our tests were a semi -sucsessful!”
Zoun was quite excited about this, but then, his excitement turned to, what seemed to be, worry. “What do you mean, semi-sucsessful?” He asked in his usual scratchy voice.
“Well, the thing is, it only affected the child that the government gave us… Not you, obviously, and not the other man. Just the boy. Stand, and I’ll show you.”
Zoun stood. But we both stopped. The Boy, Jack, had completely disappeared. There was nothing in the testing bed. But then, as our gaze quickly shifted about the lab, we realized that our super soldgier spore machine had been wrecked. And the lab had many slash marks scattered about.
A small sound came clearly into my ears. Laughter. First quiet, then louder. But it didn’t sound like it came from the child… But from my assistant himself. “Zoun! What in the name of science do you find so funny about this? Our only test subject escaped, and the machine is ruined!”
Zoun looked at me. “You don’t get it! Do you!? You were but a pawn in my master plan! Now the world will be mine!” Zoun just kept laughing.
“Zoun, have you gone mad! Listen to what you are saying! World domination! It’s impossible!” I was yelling just to break through the sinister cackle of the man I had worked with for over 27 years. “I don’t understand any of this! What are you even thinking? Are you even thinking!”
“Oh, yes… I am thinking! But I won’t tell you what I’m thinking. You’ll just have to figure it out yourself, Dr. William Jursom.” He sprinted out of the room quickly, without another word, the sound of his laughing trailing off still haunts me to this day.