When he walked the halls of the huge spacebase, Hawk couldn’t believe that he was appointed as the personal assistant of the famous professor Khalcazar. As he thought about it, he should address himself now as Professor Hawk. The thought of that made him blush.

For now he had not met his master yet but he was well aware of what he needed to do.

The space station they were currently residing on orbited in space, close to sector 4 where the war was going on.

Hawk had heard from his master that they planned on making an army to fight and end the war. And that was where he was needed.

Hawk was tasked with checking the subjects as they were created to grow and become soldiers.

Hawk entered a long hallway to the main facility as he looked to the dark space outside the windows.

A few years back he was gathering information from little inhabited planets with creatures and now he was under the study of the famous professor Khalcazar. The professor he heard so much about in college and field research. It is said that the professor was used by the government to study everything in the universe. From advanced machinery to the origin of the universe.

All those thoughts made Hawk so excited that he made a little jump of joy.

He quickly looked around if no one had seen him do it and he quickly walked on.

He entered the main facility after typing the password he had received and when he came to the main hall which he reconsigned, he took a deep breath to focus on his work.

To the sides were cubes filled with water where the test subjects were placed.

Some cubes held babies while others had almost full grown boys.

They all looked the same, looking like a young boy but Hawk checked their vital signs and luckily everything worked according to the system professor Khalcazar had put up.

The last part he had to check was in a tube in the middle of the room. It was isolated because it was the main subject. The original donor of all the projects and the one he had to maintain at all times.

Hawk walked to the door and entered the personal code only he had.

The door slid open and he walked in. Inside was the boy he recognized as the subject.

He had dark messy hair and like always he had a big smile on his face when Hawk came to visit him. He had turned around in his white test suit and looked happy at Hawk who had just arrived.

In the middle of his chest was a bright light of a star shard that was stuck in his body.

‘Hawk!’ he almost screamed and it made Hawk smile.

‘Easy there,’ Hawk said and he stopped the boy from trying to jump in and hug him.

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‘First I have to check your vital signs and I have to take some blood.’

‘Again?’ the boy said with a sad face. He let out a huge sigh and turned around to his bed where he went to sit on the edge.

‘No big deal today,’ Hawk said as he checked the monitor.

‘Why do you guys keep taking blood? What for?’ the boy asked.

Even if Hawk wanted to tell him, he couldn’t because he didn’t know.

He was assigned to keep track of the test and the main subject and that was it. Orders were given in code and he had to keep doing them strictly.

‘Maybe the professor can tell you,’ Hawk said with a grin as he prepared the boy for taking some blood.

‘But aren’t you a professor?’ he asked.

Hawk laughed. ‘Assistant professor but I love the way you think.’

The boy looked at him as the needle went into his arm.

‘If you ask me, you are the professor. You keep track of me and that’s what a professor should do, right?’

Again, Hawk laughed. ‘Amongst other things,’ and the boy laughed back at him.

‘Can we go outside? I wanna play,’ the boy asked and Hawk looked at the communicator on his wrist.

‘Not today but I can check if we can do something in a few days.’

That was enough for the boy as he laughed with the idea that he would go outside soon.

That was how Hawk’s work would go on for weeks. He checked the test subjects and after that the main subject. Sometimes he was allowed to take him outside and play with him and that was all.

One night Hawk communicated with professor Khalcazar through a communicator. There was no hologram and the professor's voice seemed modified. Crispy almost.

‘So the test subjects are doing fine again. How about the main subject?’ the professor asked.

Hawk, who was drinking a little beverage at the same time, laughed as he thought about the boy.

‘He is doing great. He does sometimes wonder why we need so much blood.’

It became quiet for a moment and Hawk started to think about it. He even dared to ask why they needed so much.

‘For the test subjects of course. We need more and we need a reliable foundation to build them.’

Hawk thought about it.

‘Excuse me professor. I have checked the test subjects for weeks and sometimes some are transported and replaced with new ones. Do you mind me asking where they go?’

It kept quiet for a moment but the professor responded.

‘Of to the training facility. We can’t have soldiers who aren’t trained, can we?’

Hawk seemed to agree with that one. He took another zip of his drink and thought of something else.

‘Does the boy have a name? He didn’t tell me and I don’t even know it.’

‘Neither should you,’ the crispy voice of the professor said.

Hawk was a little shocked by the sudden change of tone in the voice of the professor.

It became silent again and Hawk feared he was too rude.

‘I’m sorry,’ Hawk said and he almost forgot who he was talking to.

It stayed quiet again for a while until the professor spoke again.

‘Don’t get too attached to the boy. He is a subject of our experiments. The experiments for the best of the universe.’

‘Yes, professor,’ Hawk said and he was nervous because of this sudden change of conversation.

The professor had nothing more to say and logged off.

Hawk took a deep breath and took another zip of his drink.

He knew he was just a starting assistent of the famous professor but he would have liked to know a little bit more of how the experiment would work in a bigger stage.

He drank his drink and thought about shutting down early today.

Too much data and his head felt like it could burst open.

A good night's sleep was what he needed and slowly Hawk got up and made his way to bed.