Dr. Vixen is on the way to the reference room where he reunites with his fellow scientists. Today they have a final result of the experiments. Everyone hope it’s end well with the satisfaction for their extensive effort on the long-term work.
“Congratulation ladies and gentlemen!” Dr. Ohls said, he’s the scientist who in charge here “Our formula is work, 5 subjects with uncountable experiments have done well with positive result. The final conclusion I’ll let Dr. Kim to make a statement. Can you say something?” He asked to the man who sitting next to him.
“Well, yes.” Kim said “Like Dr. Ohls said. We have separated 5 subject to 5 different rooms. Their deliverance will take place tomorrow.”
“Can I ask how you distinguish all of them. How to know their difference?” Dr. Vixen asked.
“Very easy, we labeled them with color.” Kim said “White, Yellow, Blue, Black and Red, each different color represent for each of human emotion. You have anything to ask, Dr. Vixen?”
“I think not.” Dr. Vixen said “So I guess the meeting is over.”
“Before that,…” Dr. Ohls interrupted “I want all of you to sign those documents.” He said while throw a sheet of paper on the table “I have to make sure none of you guy will expose what we did to the outside world.”
The alarming sound is buzzling so intensive and repetitive, there is something wrong happen beyond of reference room’s metallic wall. Dr. Ohls standing up and calls to the patrol unit
“What is wrong? What that noise?” He asked.
He wait for the response in impatient manner. Then he hear a voice on the opposite line “We have bad news, doctor. The subject number 5 have escaped from his cage. A dozen security staff are badly injure, the defensive door open to the outer area have been crash.”
“What wrong, Dr. Ohls?” Dr.Vixen asked “What’s happening there?”
“A terrible incident, Vixen.” Dr. Ohls said in deperation “Subject number 5 have escaped, we are in the real trouble.”
“Call for striking unit, tell them sent a helicopter here.” Dr. Vixen said.
“What are you gonna do?” Dr. Ohls asked.
“Is it not obvious? We gonna track the subject down, as if it’s the last thing we can do.” He jumped out of his chair and walking across the metallic door. His sight soon to faded as the door closed.
With the vast development of technology and social media that lead our mankind to face with many problems. Issues concern with economy, gender equality, wars,….. is nothing new with our world. And now at the promising future of modern life, we have to confronted with a brand new type of crisis, the emotional breakdown. Science Department, an institute made by world government stated that human emotion can be the deadly weapon with all humanity, it’s the double-edged blade that can be harmful to all of it’s victim and it’s possessor (the subject who hold the emotion). The long-term research have been displayed with the association of first-class scietists, follow them is the huge invesment from the world government. A goal only to find an ultimate solution for this global issue. So the answear is, if human emotion can be separated and extracted like the chemical substance, human can choose what kind of character and response that they want in every human body. All of the emotions will be arrange in the proper order, human will have the power to control themselves better, not the mere instrinct reaction that can lead to the loss and damage for both of physical and mentally forms.
However, the revolution just not stop right there. The world government go furthur with instructment to the scientists. They send the order to open a series of secret laboratory. All of the information and research will be denied to the press, reporters, any individial without a permission from authority. Inside of those unknown laboratories, many of experiments with human emotion have taken place. The scientists soon to find a formula to help them achieve what they call the “great arsenal”.
However, one unexpected event that have happened at the laboratory number 26 that directed by Dr. Remmy Ohls. A subject labeled number 5 with the codename “Predation” have gone away to the world outside. The damaged consequence of this accident is uncountable. And one thing for sure, the world government don’t like this, they will find anyway to prevent anyone acknowled this incident.
Kurt Bravado, if it’s his true name. He see it written on his dirty uniform, wetted with blood and mud. Why he wearing this messy cloth is the question he have to find out. And who he is? He doesn’t know, the last thing he can recollect is all of violent images that keep flashing through his mind, make him feel unsafe and nervous. Why he has that images? Is he a fugitive? Is he just run away from the jail? And why he doesn’t remember anything?
He goes along the pavement of the road on the street that he doesn’t remember it’s name. His mind is empty like his stomach. He has not eat anything, at least for few days. Of course he has no sense of what happen in the past, he just predict by his worn out condition. He need food, he need energy, he need something to full fill his hunger. But he need money, he searching on the uniform pocket, hoping to find some loose change. Ah, now he see it, a pack of green paper on the breast pocket, too enough to buy some food. The money on his hand is stained with the blood too. Now he knows this is not his blood, both of that money and the cloth he’s wearing. Everyone on the road looking at him like he’s some grumpy old dog, an animal that no one want to take care and give attention to . But now he thinks none of it, the food is more important.
Starvation seem to be most troublesome issue, he eating like a predator chewing it’s prey like maniac. But he enjoy it, he enjoy when he chew on something so delicious, so tasty. It’s start to make him remember what happen last night. It’s so blurring but he can see it, the light, the yelling, the sceaming of people in agony. He remember every second of it, like he’s the cause for all of that unclear incident. Yet all those feeling soon to fading to the bottom of his mind, replace by his continuous hunger and desire for food.
His action and behaviour seem to startle some individuals, especially someone who has queer behaviour like him.
“Why so hurry, doggy?” An young lad with the jacket and the grinning on his face talk to him. Kurt ignores it and keep on his business.
“Hey, I talking to you, dimwit.” A lad continued.
“Excuse me, I don’t want any trouble.” Kurt said.
“Then I am trouble, and you have any problem with that, doggy?” He said. Kurt keeps ignore him, that annoy the lad so much. He fisted his punch right on the mouth of Kurt, make him shaking and fall on the ground.
“That’s will teach you a lesson of manner.”
Something raising in him, Kurt can feel it, it’s keep surging inside him. The same reaction when he chewing on his food. It’s not the rage, just the pure predator when confront it’s prey. He stand up and moving slowly to a lad, like a tiger sneaking on a deer.
“You want some more, huh?” A lad said.
“Oh, you bet it.” He said and jump on a lad with the unexpected wrestling. He clutch a lad’s jaw and bang it on the edge of table. Kurt keep hitting him, but not with the blow. He uses his hands like claws of carnivora, piercing it’s prey to smaller pieces. He’s not eating the lad literally. He just enjoy the blowing and hitting.
No one try to stop it. Who want to stop a beast from urge of hunger? Kurt keeps on his business, until he find a sudden relief that flowing to his brain, calm himself down. Now he see a lad, not totally fatal disfigure but damaged pretty bad. He begin to conscious of his condition and can sense of it’s presence is crawling on his skin.
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Dr. Vixen, who was gave the task to follow his escaped experiments, watching Kurt at the moment he step on the restaurant. Following him is some men from striking force, who took order to support Dr. Vixen capture the subject number 5. Kill the subject is too simple job, yet the goverment want to use him. They see Kurt and other subjects as the valuable asset, the worthy investment.
To find people who volunteer for this kind of anonymous experiments is sound impossible. Unless you know the right resource to take advantage. For example, the subject named Kurt Bravado, who was former convict, who in charge of several bank robberies and a murder in accident. Tracking back to his past, when Kurt is just accomplished his 4th bank job. He didn’t do it for sheer fun, but to support his sick mother who stayed in bed for nearly 10 years of her life. His father is gone long ago, when he just 5. He grown up with reputation as spoiled young man with no hope for the brighter future. Then one day, some sort of people call themselves the healthcare institute’s researchers visit his shabby home, offer him to volunteer the project which can save a lot of people. They tell him he can have the share in this business too, if he willing to do what they say. He can’t deny cause he needs money to buy medicine for his mother and because he’s stupid young man, who can’t smell of danger even when it whisper on his ears. Many things happened after that, it lead to this consequence, which he can’t remember anything. All he feel is the touch of sinister predator is penetrating inside him, blending with him to become the complete monster with the appearance of one normal person.
“What your plan, doc?” The man on the black suit sit next to Dr. Vixen ask him.
“We wait, until the perfect chance, then we’ll act.” He said.
“Tell me when your perfect chance appear.” He sound impatient.
“Don’t be too hurry, captain.” Dr. Vixen said “We don’t want a subject smell of our presence, sneaking is the best option at the moment. And remember, try as hard as possible not to hurt it, the agency still have business with a subject.”
“Might I ask what kind of business?”
“That’s not the thing you have to concern about, captain.”
“I have the order directly from the agency. I and my team have the mission to support you with our best. I believe I have the authority to know what is happening.”
“Ok, I guess I was too harsh on you. What you want to know?”
“First, I want to know what kind of subject we chasing. Second, the purpose of this secrecy experiment.” He said.
“To answer your first question, I want to ask you this, captain… What your’s name please?”
“I’m River.”
“Captain River, I want to ask you…..Do you ever think our unconscious emotion is quite a lethal arsenal?”
“What do you mean? People emotion is define our character insight. It’s not something like arsenal.”
“Then you have to look back to the historical past of the world, do you know what is the cause of the most dangerous crises in this earth?”
“What I can think of is poverty, desire for power and wealth,……”
“Your answer is not wrong but distant to absolute correctness.” Dr. Vixen shook his head.
“So what it is, tell me.”
“It’s the emotion, captain, always about the emotion. We scientist and academic scholars be taught to rely on conscious decisions and logical ideas. But then we found the flaw of this mathematical quotation. We forget the fundamental factor that leading to the human decision of historical events, that always about emotion or instinct. Despite of how intelligent we are, we humanity can’t act without emotion.”
“I understand. But what do it concern to your researching?”
“That leading to an answer of your second question of this subject, the purpose of all this experiments. Now you understand how grave danger of our feeling is, I want you to see the furthur point. Emotion is the thing control people, it start to make me and other scientists to asking ourselves if, in the slightest chance, we human can select emotion by willing instead randomly.”
“And how the hell you can do that?”
“We hire the most professional psychologists, combine with the advance technique of physique science. After few years labored restlessly at the labaratory, we consider ourselve to find a way to solve the profound human crisis.”
“That’s sound the scifi story.”
“It’s the scifi story, captain. And we make it come true. Now you let imagine how powerful we have when we can have possession of human emtion. There will be no suffering, no deparasion, no mentally breakdown. We have choice to make who we are, without the interfere of unconsciousness.”
“What I can see is the harmful it make.” Captain River said.
“Do you have any scientific proof for that bold statement?”
“Well, I don’t own license in any scientific academy, I don’t have vast knowledge for both of social science or physical science. I’m just a plain guy who enjoy in phylosophy and literature, what I say is limited and in your own word is ignorant. But the very sure thing I see in all of this task is how dangerous and ambitous it is. Human emotion is the thing come naturally, we don’t have right to decide what’s the most useful emotion. In other word, we are not gods, doc.”
“You don’t see a beauty of it? Now humanity will have the power to live the absolute happiness, without any trace of sorrow, sadness,…….”
“Or maybe your thoery of absolute happiness is not true. We can’t never be absolutely happy, there always have obscurity, stressful feeling that exist in our mind. We can’t avoid it, we have to live it.”
The battle between Dr. Vixen and Captain River seem come to no end, until when an accident happen in a pub. The number of patrol cars is swarming the restaurant area, civilians from both outside and inside have been released, except for Kurt. He standing there conscious of the crime he made, even without any intention.
“Raise your arms in the air and bent down your knee.” The man from uniform said into his loudspeaker.
Kurt can see a dozen of men in police outfit start crossing the lawn and come near the background of the restaurant. He see there’s no way out except for the back door, and it right behind him for 5 meters.
“Do you hear me, pretty boy. I said kneel down on the floor and let me see your arms, without any weapon of course.”
Kurt focus his eyes on the back door, he glaring the officer for few seconds then come back to it. The officer with the loudspeaker can read what Kurt is thinking, he shake his head and said:
“It’s not a good idea, boy. Listen to me and everything will…” But Kurt doesn’t let him finish the warning, he turn behind and rushing to the back door.
“Goddamnit! Chasing him, you guys.” He order to this staff.
Outside, Dr. Vixen and Captain River observe the scene with the mark of astonishment.
“If we don’t do anything, the guy will be busted.” Captain River said.
“Don’t have to worry, the subject is capable to get out of tough situations.” Dr. Vixen said.
“Why you so sure about that, the guy is gonna visit the icebox without any permitted lawyer.”
“Because we make him durable for this kind of issues. And again, he is the subject number 5, don’t call him Kurt or some other names.”
“What are you guys really done with him in those damn lab?” Captain River said, shaking his head in both way of disapproval and frustration.
“It’s classified.” Dr. Vixen said gravely.
“Oh, of course.” Captain River said sarcastic. He darn sure there is something fishy about all of this business. And this snobby doctor still not answer his question: What kind of subject number 5 is?
Captain River give the signal for his men to take action, they following those cops and Kurt closely. The chase is take over nearly 30 minutes. Captain River follow the Kurt’s trace by the defector machine given by Dr. Vixen. He decide to separate with Dr. Vixen and his team. River want to testify the situation, make everything clear with his own counciousness, and he can’t do that when Dr. Vixen is around. He has the bad feeling about this task, the nonsense idea of emotion selection make him sick. Control human emotion to make the world a better place? He spit on that, go to hell with it. All of those authorative snobs want is always the power in first place. And they have find a way, by control the human behavior, they have select the most negative aspect of people like anger, rage,…..and to absorb it human brain. All of men like Kurt will be they victim to be trained to become the arsenal of milltary affair. They are most fierce predators on the planet, with they existence only to hunt and kill, to make the dream of corrupt goverments come true.
He can hear the gasping around here, it more and more clearer when he walking deeper inside this deserted building. River takes more few steps and approaching the big white wall, where he spot Kurt sitting there, lying his back on the wall. All he can see is the hopelessness in the face of that poor man. Who was used to be a man, until he be taken everything and be transform to a confused and guilty monster.
“Help, please help me.” Kurt said.
“What’s wrong, young man?” Captain River ask.
“My mind go crazy, all I see, hear, sense is begone to sinister images. What’s happen with me? Who am I?”
“Calm down, I will pick you up to the hospital.”
“No, I don’t want to. Stay right there, just stay right there. All I want in this moment is someone beside me and talk with me.”
“Ok, I’m here for you.”
“Sorry I don’t know you. It’s just, I want to hear voice of other people. It help me to distract those….”
“What?”
“An inner voice inside me, it’s keep tell me do things, the bad things. All of the emotion I don’t know where is come from but keep assault me. Please stay!”
Captain River say nothing. He observe the man named Kurt Bravado, who now staying in the deperate situation, and he sure his before-life is not even better. And if Kurt come back to the laboratory, all waiting for this man is infinite hell. Unless he put an end to all of this.
“Don’t worry kid, you don’t have to worry for anything right now.”
Kurt still sobbing, he take no notice of everything around. He use both arms to hug his face tightly.
Understand the situation clearly, Captain River take the revolver out of his holster and poiting it slowly to Kurt forehead. He have to be soundless to not wake up the predator inside this young man. Now the gun is loading, he aim right on the target, ready to shoot it out.
“Let’s me put you out of this misery.” Captain River said. He takes the shot with one bang only. Just like that, to end up every suffer that one single man can take.
Captain River standing up, walking out of this building. He looking back to see a figure lying on the white wall. Someone is a human, or was.
The End