MAN FROM TOMORROW (EPISODE 100)

Martin was coolly listening to Norman. He was shocked so many times in the past so many days that he refused to believe that anything else could take him by surprise.

"Imagine Martin, what these Superhumans can do if they became trained soldiers to be deployed in War?"

It was Martin's time to be bewildered, again.Even though Martin dealt with terrorists and criminals on a daily basis, it did not occur to him that Kevin and his kind could also be programmed for War. Maybe He and Anita were put off this line of thought because of the benign and benevolent nature of Kevin. But now when he thought, it appeared to be an obvious and logical conclusion.

Martin had watched Kevin fight at close quarters."They would be perfect killing machines" said Martin without mincing words.

"Yeah, right. That's exactly what happened. There were as usual, hawks within the military establishment. Moreover, Project 209 had heavy military funding. There were some who were vociferous about using Superhumans for War. The most aggressive among them was and still is General Stanley Richardson. He is primarily responsible for the continuing drone attacks in the Middle East. The military would be a lot different in a positive way had it not been for this man."

"He is the ideal patriot, eh?"

"He is extremely violent and pompous. He is patriotic no doubt. But patriotic in the sense that anyone else not toeing his line is labelled a traitor.

"There was already a Power struggle going on between NASA and the Pentagon led by General StanleyRichardson. The General wanted NASA to engineer the Superhumans for war. But NASA did not relent.

Years into Project 209, our super humans were transferred from NASA to the Pentagon.They had completely different intentions. While NASA wanted to use the super humans to learn more about our universe, the Pentagon wanted to use the super humans for war. 

And of course, all that was standing in their way was the fact that the superhumans would die before they could be used as weapons.

"It was demanded of us that we find a way around the cancer, or best case scenario, remove the genetic alteration that caused it to happen in the first place. My team and I found a cure, but a sense of morality would not allow us to give it to the Pentagon. After all, the super humans we created were like children to us. They grew up in the lab alongside us and other workers.We could not bear the fact that they may be turned into killing machines with a small tweak to their Genetic system.

"Let me guess- central to this tussle was your DIOXIN LOCK" Martin chipped in.

"Yes. Just imagine, if Super Humans were let into earth's environment with the DIOXIN LOCK intact. Within a few months they would start dying like flies. No one would like spending millions of dollars to develop a Superhuman- only to lose the soldier after three months.That is bad investment. And a dead soldier is of no use in war. The General wanted me to remove the DIOXIN LOCK. And the procedure to remove the DIOXIN LOCK has been described in the‘Key' that you rummaged out of my drawer."

(To Be Continued Tomorrow...)

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