MAN FROM TOMORROW (EPISODE 103)

Martin fought mighty hard and sniffed back a tear. There was this knot in his throat and that heaviness in his chest that can only come from grief admixed with copious anger. No! I will make those bastards pay! Martin vowed silently under his breath. Martin lifted Norman's body and placed it in a nearby alley just beside the footpath. Nobody would notice until morning. A morning that Martin was not sure he would himself see.

Martin reached the place. He was out of the Jeep and walking toward the building where he would meet with Anita and the lunatic General himself. The front of the building was made entirely of glass, which reminded him of the glass window in his Director’s office. 

Despite it all being glass, it was tinted enough so that one could only see the shadows of everything inside. It struck Martin that NASA had this program right in the place where anyone would least suspect it to have. When Martin had first heard of Project 209, he had conjured for himself an image of a large isolated building in the middle of nowhere with high security barbed wire and all the works. But reality was to the contrary.

Martin reached for the silver handle of the glass door and pulled it open, walking into a lobby of pure white. There was a desk, but no one waiting at it. He knew that there wouldn’t be anyone coming to greet him.Martin briefly scanned the room, looking for anything of interest- there wasn’t much. He spotted the only hallway leading further into the building and paced towards it, eyeing the doors that branched out from the sides. There were no security men of any sort.Maybe they were inside.Yes.Definitely they were inside. They were watching him through unseen eyes, listening to his every move through unseen ears. Modern surveillance system negated the need of human presence to spy on their targets. Pity, that Martin was a target himself.

At the end of the hall there were a set of double doors, Martin push them open once he reached them.

He squinted in the blinding light that came once the door was open.Not waiting for his eyes to adjust, he pushed it all the way open using his arm to shadow his eyes. Martin walked inside, but stopped when he heard the doors shut behind him. There was no mistaking it- he was in a lab. Long, white tables were in the center of the room, some filled with trays and large pieces of equipment that he didn’t recognize, but others empty. Along the walls was what interested him the most, though.

He didn’t have a name for them, but what he saw as large, glass tubes lined the walls, running from floor to ceiling. Though he couldn’t say for sure, he assumed they were filled with some preservative liquid.They contained super humans in various stages of development.

Martin couldn't tell whether they were dead, alive, or still being made, but there were literally specimens from all stages of development. Starting from a fetus, they progressed along the wall until at the very end.There was a completely developed man floating in the tube. So this was where it all started, probably.

(To Be Continued Tomorrow...)

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