Since I was four, I did the same things over and over. Wake up, read, go to school, come home eat. Run, train in martial arts, read, eat, and sleep. That was my life for 8 whole years starting from when I was 4. I had no reason to stop, or feel the strain of doing things over and over. Most people would have been depressed with the never-ending déjà vu. Not me, I felt comfort. Knowing where I was going to be and what I was going to do always proving a blanket of control. All that came to a halt, one Feb morning my Life completely changed. I still remember it like it was yesterday. Running home from school in the pouring rain, excited to go home because today I was turning 12 and like all my other birthdays I knew my parents would be home. It was the only time of the year that they would come back home before I did.
Taking the steps two at a time to our apartment, I couldn’t help but feel excited. Even when I ran through the open door it didn’t register that something was wrong. I knew my parents would never leave the door open. No one would considering where we lived but I was too excited to notice such obvious things.
“Mom, Dad, I’m home.” I screamed as I ran into the house, but all I heard was total silence
Just as I turned the corner from the dining room into the Living room, I heard a shrill. It’s a sound that has haunted me for seventeen years. Have you ever had a moment where everything comes to a standstill? While you know everyone is going about their business in the usual speed, but your brain is so overloaded that it slows down time for you to grasp what is happening in that very moment. That how it was for me, turning into the living room. The first thing that registered was that something was very wrong. The living room was a mess. A man with black hair and glasses was talking to a pretty lady with long blond hair right by the television. And as I walked in he turned and look at me while smirking. That was when I noticed my parents. Both on the chair facing each other, both had their hands tied behind their backs.
“Max, RUNN!!” even as my mother screamed that. The tall guy who I had just now seen, 6ft with blond military haircut and a scar running from his right eye till it disappeared under his shirt was standing behind her, slowly took out his knife as if it were the most natural thing in the world and slit her throat almost as slowly as he took it out. All the while staring at me, as if daring me to go ahead and do something about it.
After that, all I remembered was a sharp pains on my neck while I watched my dad screaming my mom’s name over and over.. I was in and out of consciousness. And every time I would come to, my father was sitting in front of me bleeding and screaming. Oh, the screams. Every time the screams were loud enough to wake the whole neighborhood, but no one came to save us. No one had even bothered to call the cops. I had to watch as they cut off one piece of my father’s body one at a time. The first three times was hell. That continued for four days. By the fourth day, my father had stop screaming. It was as if he had exhausted all his strength. The only thing I could hear was a low moan.
It wasn’t till I was 25 that I finally understood that the neurologist my parents took me too to get my IQ checked had sold us out. He had gotten fired from his job and without money to feed his family, he had happily sold me and my parents to the highest bidder: Dezix Cooperation and they had in turn sent their three favorite assassins to kill my parents, both as a message and as punishment for hiding me. They were ordered to make me watch, as the butchered my parents in hopes of controlling me and breaking me so that I would be their perfect docile little scientist. Little did they know that would bring about their end.. I pretended to be obedient, and I vowed to myself that I would do so till I saw them all dead.
For seventeen years I worked for them, solving their little problem and being their perfect little scientist. Starting from when I was 12 to when I was 29. I was locked up in a bunker somewhere. I never was able to find out where. Mostly because I knew it would amount to nothing if I just left. I worked for them diligently. I produced many things that made them money. Both weapons and medical.
I knew I could escape whenever I wanted to. I always knew that. But what about the people that put me here? I could never get to them. They were protected 24/7 by their private military and they were spread all over the world. If I were to kill one of them, the rest would run to their little hole and never come out. The only time way I could kill them all was if for some reason they come together. It wasn’t until three years after I had been abducted that I found out what I wanted to know. That the only time the three Leaders of Dezix were ever to gather together, was if something world shaking had been invented and they wanted a front row seat to look at their precious money maker.
So I devised a plan. I had to invent something that would appeal directly to the leaders of Dezix Cooperation. Something that they would not help but risk it all to come see. So I told my supervisors that I had a way to prolong life. Make someone immortal or almost close to it. You see the three heads of the Dezix had make all the money they could ever make but still they would have to die sometime and leave it all. What I proposed was a way for them to keep all the had forever.. It was effective to say the least. The very next day I got more than $200 billion worth of funds from them to run the research and I was to ask for anything I would ever need to make it happen.
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I had this idea that the only reason people died apart from accidents was their life force. Whatever people called them. Chi, Qi, mana. All that was energy which every human was born with, but slowly it would start to seep out of them as they grew older. Some had more than others. That’s was why some people were sick more often and some were never sick. The more you had, the better off you were. I told them I had a way to gather energy with the micro nanotechnology that I had improved on. It would be designed to take energy from everything else, be it the trees or animals even a little off humans for them. The more energy they had, they would never die.
It was a sensation, and I didn’t lie. I wanted to create something like this, but I would never give it to those bastards. I planned to overload the system with so much energy that the raw force of the energy itself would blow everyone apart. No messy radiation. In fact plants and animals would thrive there. I had effectively created the world’s first and only cleanest nuclear bomb but only I would know that.
For the next 12 years, I spent everything to design and create it. And I finally did, I had a breakthrough. I set the unveiling of the Phoenix Life (what I called my machine) to be demonstrated on my 29th birthday, the day of my parents death as a memorial to them. It was hilarious that the Leaders of Dezix would get to die on the same day they had ordered the deaths of my parent and they were absolutely clueless to it. It was the only joy I had known since my parent’s deaths and I was adherent to hold onto it as long as I could. And I had to in order to tempt them more and make sure every one of them would be there. I advertised that I was so confident in my work that I would be testing it on myself.
The day came like any other, I couldn't help myself. All I did on that day was smile, smile and smile some more. And what added to my pleasure was when the three heads of Dezix walked in with their respective armies and my favorite three assassins. They all took a seat. All the while looking at me and believing that I was so excited that my work was a success. They hadn’t the slightest notion that their greedy lives would end here and I would be the bringer of it. The one to serve justice and free the world of their corruption while they smiled and payed for the weapon of their own destruction. Honestly it was fitting.
Strapped in my machine, I felt like a guinea pig on display. I was in an oval room built like a stadium.. I was the only one on the ground floor, as I had instructed everyone to go up to the top floors to watch. It would be disastrous if they found out what I was doing. So I sent everyone up. Strapped in I injected myself with my improved nano, plugged myself in and turned on the Phoenix Life.
It took about 10 minutes for everyone to realize that something was wrong. I don’t know what clued them in first, whether it was the shaking of the whole building or the really bright light that emulated from my skin. But everyone began to run to the exits. Even as they ran people began to fall to the ground and immediately turned to dust one after the other, starting from the closest to me.
Shots were fired by private armies at people as they tried to get the three bosses out first but before anyone would reach the elevator they had slowly died and the last was the three heads of Dezix, turning to face me as they faced their imminent death. I couldn’t help but smile and wave at them. And at last when every single one of them was dead, all that remained was me watching the dust that filled the whole building drift down slowly like grey snowfalls.
As I stood there I was overcome with an intense itching which began on my hands, slowly spreading to my whole body. Wherever it went my skin began to fall off till the intense itching centered around my chest area and the whole place went dark just before a huge fiery explosion went off directly in front of me.. No pain, just pleasure from cleansing the whole lot of scumbags. The last thing I saw as I closed my eyes was the flames which were surprisingly blue being sucked into my body.
What Max and the people that were there didn’t know or see was that at the beginning of the show before people started dying. Pure energy being drawn from the surrounding, and from everyone else began drifting to Max, floating and slowly entering his body. All this energy or life force was being drawn to Max which effectively turned everyone else to empty husk void of any energy or life. And without their energy they all fell one by one to the ground and shattering into dust. At the same time, the strong pure raw energy that was circulating around Max and seeping into his body got so intense that his body not being able to handle that much energy began to melt, as his skin fell off piece by piece. But the most amazing thing was that more than half of that energy was absorbed by him.