The Failed Experiment

Mr. FX

It's the 8th of February 2037 now, Lars has fully recovered and has gotten used to using his prosthetics. He has agreed to meet up with Rachel Dars. In the late morning, Lars walks in to the police station. Rachel walks over "So Lars, here to help?". Lars just nods, knowing how he'll turn it around for his own benefit. The officer nods "Alright, come with me, I have a team ready", she says as she walks to a room with Lars following. In the room Rachel puts a small microphone under Lars' shirt and makes sure it's all hidden. "Remember, we're ready to move in whenever you need to. You won't get hurt". "Okay, and what will happen to me?", Lars asks. The police officer looks at him "We'll decide that when it's over, depending how it went". Lars rolls his eyes and nods "Fine". They walk out of the room through another door then the one they came in through. There are 2 armored cars with a group of 10 fully geared up special forces. "They'll all be on standby", Mrs. Dars says. "You know they didn't want me to survive right?!", Lars says, not with the worried voice he wanted. The commander of the special forces group walks over "Me and my men are ready to move out and take them out, we're trained for these kind of missions". Lars just nods, knowing it won't go as their plan. He already called Xander to tell him not to go to the place today.

After about a 20 minute drive they arrive at the agreed location which is actually the house of Mr. Durkens, yet Lars didn't mention that. "You know what you need to do, right?", Rachel asks as she looks at Lars. Lars nods and walks out of one of the armored car "Test 1, 2, 3", he says as he looks into the car where one of the soldiers wearing headphones sticks his thumb up confirming the microphone works. The brown haired teen puts the black hood of his hoodie up and walks into the house.

Lars walks in and already 2 guns are aimed at him. Both guards lead the young guy to a big and quite dark room, there's only one light. "I really hoped my men did a better job at killing you", a deep, sinister voice says, being a dark, 5'7 (170 cm) figure in the dark on the other side of the room. "It's not that easy to get rid of me", Lars says with a grin. The dark figure walks into the light revealing he's Mr. Frank Durkens "And you have the guts to show up here with police too, why shouldn't I kill you on the spot?". "I can make you a deal", Lars says as he reaches with his prosthetic hand into his shirt, pulling out the microphone before crushing the small thing between his fingers. Mr. Durkens crosses his arms "I'm listening, but not here", he says as he walks off. Lars walks after him with both guards following, guns aimed at him.

Outside the special forces just got out of their cars ready to move in after the microphone got destroyed. "What the hell was he thinking", the commander says preparing to move in with his team. Rachel sighs "I should've known this was too easy". "It's the kid's fault, not yours", the commander says as he looks at his men "We're going in". The special forces nod and stand ready to move with the commander at front together with officer Dars. They move in and check every room they can find but they can't find anyone. "Where the hell are they?", the commander says quite annoyed. Rachel looks around "They can't have escaped that fast". "Spread out, search the whole place and look for a secret way", the commander says to his men who spread around the house looking for anything leading to a secret way out.

"You better run", a deep, dark, sinister voice says which echoes through the house. The special forces aim around looking where the voice came from. The officer slowly starts to back away to the exit, knowing what happened before with these dealer guys. Then the commander sees a flickering light "Everyone out!". Rachel quickly runs outside as the house explodes with the special forces and the commander still inside. The police officer quickly pulls out her phone and dials the alarm number "This is police officer Rachel Dars... I need an ambulance and firetruck right now... yes right now... there was an explosion at my location... special forces and their commander were in the building when it exploded and it's burning now... yes, now hurry". She hangs up the phone and puts it away as she walks over to the remains of the house which are still on fire. The house is standing on its own on the countryside, but not far from the city.

Meanwhile Lars, Frank and the 2 guards are underground, safe from the explosion. Mr. Durkens grins as he hears the explosion "That was easy", Lars just nods, but he feels bad for maybe hurting officer Dars, she wasn't that bad of a person and was actually very nice to him, maybe she was like that because of what happened to him, but he can't know for sure. "What now sir?", one of the guards asks his boss. "Doing this benefits me, but how does it benefit you?", Frank Durkens asks while looking at Lars. Lars simply grins without saying a word. Durkens looks at the guards who had their guns holstered to get in the underground bunker, but quickly put their hands on their guns again. "What're you grinning about Fixerton?!", Frank asks. "It's time to change things up, the group has been failing, the competition is getting stronger. I'm here to take over from your failure, and bring us back to our former glory", Lars says with a grin on his face. Mr. Durkens looks at the guards "End him!". Yet the guards don't move which shocks their boss. The partly prosthetic guy chuckles "Don't bother, they're on my side", he says as the guards take out their guns and aim at their old boss.

"You'll regret this!", Durkens says angrily. Lars shakes his head and punches Durkens hard in the face with the partly metal prosthetic "I'm pretty sure I won't". The young guy turns his back to his old boss as the guards pull their guns out and shoot Frank Durkens multiple times, making sure he dies. At first Lars had the idea to do it himself, but he knows it would be too hard for him, he's in it for the money, not killing.

Over the years, Lars indeed grew out his drug empire with his friend Xander at his side. But he also got more competition. After the war more competition started to appear around. Since 2049 they started to lose more of the area to their competitors, but at that time Xander got in contact with Brian and Henry about the experiments. They made a deal, Mr. FX, which was now the nickname of Lars Fixerton, would provide them with money and possibly materials in exchange for the scientists to show their progress to them and have big results after the first year.

Lars, in comparison with his former boss, was more flexible on results, and doesn't mind waiting a bit longer for great results. The scientists would send letters to the villa he was living in at that time, since emails were too risky with the government getting better at chasing down cybercrime. The letters would contain whatever they needed at that moment, and the progress they made in the meantime. Mr. FX was happy to provide what they needed, just because he know what they were doing, creating superhumans.

The years they have been in contact, Brian and Henry provided good progress on their experiments, but they needed to work faster. The drug lord was losing too much of their area and couldn't afford to lose much more, so he himself wrote a letter, the letter stating the location of his biggest competitor which needed to get taken down as quickly as possible.

On 5th of June 2056, the day E258A had her first mission, he was watching the news on his 80" tv while he was wearing a hoodie and jeans. He saw about the interview with the commander with the villa of his competitor in the background and grins "Xander, get over here, you have to see this!". Xander runs over wearing a similar outfit as his friend "What is it?". "Just look at this, I think they finally showed the result we wanted", Lars says as he points at the tv. The headline is 'Villa attacked, no survivors found'. Xander grins "About time, this is live?". "Yeah it is, seems like we won again", Lars says, being very happy about the news. At that moment, E258A appears on the screen, just walking through the gate. Both friends look confused at this. "I told them to show no mercy, not even for a little girl!", he says angrily, but he quickly calms down. Xander is confused by the reaction of his friend "How did you calm down so fast? They failed!". Lars shakes his head with a grin, realizing what happened "That isn't an survivor, that is the murderer". "A murderer? That little girl which doesn't even look like she's older than 7?! Are you out of your mind?!", Xander says shocked about Lars' reaction. "Don't you know?", Lars starts his explanation with, "They create superhumans, no human can be born full grown, they need to grow". He points at the girl on the screen "We've been in business with them for just 7 years, that girl has to be one of their experiments". Xander is shocked, but that quickly fades "That is genius, no one would suspect a kid to do something like this, and it looks like she's able to blend in well, she has taught reactions to something like this happening". Lars simply nods "Yeah indeed, this will make us unstoppable".

Later that day they get the letter Brian sent about the prosthetic. The drug lord himself reads it first and then gives it to Xander to read it. "What do you think?", Xander asks his boss and best friend. "Provide them with what they need, we cannot lose someone so strong and unnoticeable because of something we can fix", his boss replies. Xander nods "I'll make some calls". "Do that, and do it fast, she needs to be ready to move out again soon", Lars says. His right hand man nods and walks off while Lars keeps grinning, thinking of how easy it'll be to destroy his competition.