"I want cooperation. I want your absolute loyalty, no matter what."

Laughing out loud, my whole body shook with amusement. A single drop of tear rolled down from the corner of my eyes. Something that would usually happen when I laughed too hard. It was a funny sensation. Finally, I forced myself to stop chuckling.

"What's so funny?" The doctor asked with puzzlement.

The inoffensive look ebbed from my face, which was soon replaced by a look of threat. I scoffed at the man's bafflement. "You think that I will follow your species' every order? I don't think so. You created me, yes? But that doesn't mean I am your slave..."

"Jake, you are wrong. You are not being created by u-"

"Shut up!" I yelled suddenly.

Jason flinched. His eyes blinking rapidly.

"I am tired of your lies. You are the same as the rest of them! What do you take me for? A fool?" I said with rage. "I saw what's out there. There are no cars, no people, no buildings, NOTHING! Nothing except some hovercrafts on some landing pads. Where are the stores? Where are the houses? Where are the office buildings? You lied to me. All of you!"

The physician gulped. He looked down at his laps. His hands wringed together with guilt and shame. I saw it all. Indeed, he had lied to me, saying that I was inside the famous New Hope Dome City. But I guessed that he was being given a specific order not to tell the newly engineered species -me- any truth. He couldn't tell the 'Jake zero zero one' that he was living inside a Military Complex, hidden within a small island that was located beside the City, perhaps? A place where there was nothing out there but a vast area surrounded by polluted ocean. I guessed the doc just had to make up some stories. I was sick of it all.

"Jake..." the doctor started. He didn't know what to say. The pressure among the room was too great for him to handle.

"Why did you guys wipe away my memory? Why?"

"Because... Because..." Jason shut his eyes forcefully.

I gritted my teeth. "Because you are afraid that I might use my powers to turn on you, is that right? For some reasons, you people have managed to implant some kind of 'powers' within me. You hoped that one day, you could use me as a tool, as a weapon."

Jason didn't say anything.

"Answer me!" I screamed.

"Yes! You want to know the truth? I will tell you the truth! You have no parents, you have no special identities, you have nothing, you are nothing! You are just a genetically engineered kid, a species newly development by us! Us, humans!" Jason's head slumped down to his shoulder level, as he grabbed his head while yelling with frustration. His face was deep red. Looking up and staring at his creation with bloodshot eyes, the doctor continued.

" We used different DNA and RNA patterns from all over the planets that we have explored, and inserted them with your genes. We have used special techniques to extract the faulty part of the genetic materials from you and embedded the newer and better ones. Then we used the Scanning Probes to alternate all the enzymes and all the chemicals within your cells. Creating you took us well over twenty years! Hours after hours of tests, lacking hours after hours of sleep, we painstakingly recorded the same information over and over again, non-stop. We wanted a new form of organism that has cosmic powers, enough to dominate any opponent existing out there today. And we have succeeded, but we need to make sure that you, are, PERFECT!"

Reaching out, Jason grabbed my shoulder with his hands. Grinning crazily, his voice softened. "You are our greatest achievement. But because your powers are too great, possibly too much for us to fathom, we had to conceal you from the outer world. No one must know of your existence. Anyone else beside us that knows about you will have to be eliminated. Even the President doesn't know. By doing so, we can safely continue our study on you."

I was struck speechless. My mouth hung slightly open. What I had thought was true. All those dreams of me being engendered were true.

"No... It can't be..." shaking my head, I back away slowly from the menacing man before me. My fists clutched firm together in front of me. Veins began to protuberance out of my well-developed muscles. "It can't be..."

Jason nodded his head. "Sadly, it's the truth. You are not one of us. You are alone. On this planet, with no one to care for you. But I, I alone can change all that. Join our cause! You serve a greater purpose as the ultimate weapon! Together, we can rule over all! We can extend our power all the way to the Eastern Lands! The President won't approve of our project, but once we have the power, he can't stop us!"

I felt tears gathering up around my eyes. No way was this my fate. No way was I to be enjoined by a bunch of low lives...

"No!" I shrieked. "It's not going to happen like this!!!" I felt huge amount of energies pushing against me from the inside. They were there, waiting to be set freed.

"Fool! What are you doing?" Jason screamed out in fear and shock. His eyes widened both in awe and in horror.

The walls around the room crumbled outward as an invisible force pushed against them. The floor tiles cracked and shattered, as I stood up in fiery. My restraints broke away from my legs and my hands. The area began to sink in while I continued to unleash my anger. The air encased around me wavered back and forth like tidal waves, as the temperature inside the cell began to climb substantially. The place began to tremble. It began to glow red orange. Deep groaning sounds of twisted metals began to flow throughout the area.

"I will not be used like this!" I bellowed while continuing my assault upon the already battered building structures. My heart raced as my vision began to blur once again, just like the first time when I had encountered with my hidden strength. My brain became increasingly numb.

The doctor withered in pain. He fell to the floor as he screamed with agony. His hand held Palm clattered onto the half-destroyed floor. It split in half as the screen exploded into millions of pieces of tiny little crystals.

The light on the ceiling started to flicker inconsistently. A few lighting tubes blew up with several bangs. The debris showered upon me. The entrance door opened up as guards began to pour into the room. I glared at them. With a yell, the force of my unexplained power slammed against their fragile bodies. More than half a dozen of their ribs were vaporized immediately. Casualties were high, but I cared not.

Then, it happened. A white blinding light consumed everything within its grasp. The screams and cries of the others outside in the hallway traveled into my ears. I shut my eyes close as I stopped breathing. The world became pallid. The world began to falter, began to break apart. The explosion of pipes, of pillars, of windows, of steels and hundreds of other electronic equipments were deafening. The Complex was detonated with one big boom...

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"Unit Twenty, please report."

The radio crackled and buzzed as Naiomi pressed the auto pilot button on her steering wheel. Sighing, she picked up the radio transceiver.

"Unit Twenty reporting. What's new, Ka'eo?" she talked into the mouthpiece as she stared straight ahead through her windshield. Everything out on the road was the same. Oh look! A pretty bird there! Hmph...

"Nothing's new, as usual. Bah, if you actually believed that... We have just picked up a report saying two miles away from your position, an unknown explosion had occurred on a deserted island. The Chief wants you to check it out, since the other nearest units are sixteen miles away from the destination."

Oh great, Naiomi thought unhappily.

"Roger that, Unit Twenty out."

Sitting back into her leather seat, with the air conditioner blasting away, she looked at the sky. Maybe she should quit this job. Being a police patrol was just so wearisome. She longed for a hot bath in her little apartment located on Sector Fourteen in the New Hope Dome City. She just wanted to sleep until the next morning. She hadn't rested ever since four-thirty at dawn that day.

"That's life for me I guess," muttering to herself, Naiomi shifted the control back to manual and took over the vehicle.

She hovered down the Number One Highway in full speed as she turned on her siren. Cars pulled over to the side as she drove across four lanes wildly. At four hundred miles per hour, with anti-gravitational police car, she could get to the place where the incident had transpired in less than an hour. She just hoped that no one was seriously injured, or even worse, dead.

The sea beside the freeway was sparkling with thousands of little specks, as the sun sank slowly down the horizon. The orange glow of the giant fireball in the sky had painted a mixture of indescribable colors upon the clouds. The waves lapped at the cliff walls beneath the roadway while they sang along with the seagulls in their own musical tone. The air was filled with the smell of salt water, as the wind gently blew across the land with its breath, making wild plants upon the ground moving slowly back and forth. The night slowly appeared, concurrently with the stars that flashed with brightness. Something that when people stared up into the heavens, they would say: "Wow..."