Close to the Marx

Entry 13

21 Krishna

 So, the boys brought me something quite interesting as I said. Probably the most interesting thing that anyone had ever shown me. Even more interesting that seeing the Colonel with the wings earlier, which was saying something.

“So…if Hunraken is involved with something with these girls,” I said. “What the hell could it be? I mean the guy was working on synthetic things from what I remember. Androids he called them.”

“He is also a geneticist,” William said.

“My thought is that Hunraken created this M parasite,” Vinnie said suddenly.

I nearly laughed and thought he was off his meds again. However, as I stood there, I realized that Vinnie was totally with it. I wondered why, I almost felt that he knew something, and he was not telling me about it. I wanted to ask him but decided otherwise.

“For what purpose?” I asked putting my hands together and in front of me.

“Maybe to create some sort of Super Soldier, you heard about that program.” Vinnie said. “The one that the Black Knights were treated to.”

“So, you mean to tell me that the Black Knights could have been purposely exposed to this M parasite and they could have had some sort of genetic enhancement?” I asked.

“Have you seen the ad for that s**t?” Vinnie asked.

I had, but it had been a while ago now. I remember it was some stupid thing where this deep voice did a voice over and said something like:

“Do you want to be the ultimate soldier, sign up now for the Super Soldier program.”

Or something like that.

“Here let me see,” Vinnie said as he walked towards my desk and started tapping on the console on my desk. “I am sure I can find it.”

“Sure, help yourself.” I said sarcastically.

A moment or two later I saw the commercial I remember seeing.

Are you tired of the mediocre life?

The video started with these bunch of people looking very sad and empty looking.

Are you lost on your purpose and your dreams?

The video continued and showed a young woman just swinging sadly on a swing set, a guy driving down a street in a vehicle looking very sad.

Do you want to be the best you can be?

Suddenly the black knights came onto the screen. The whole lot of them. There were twelve in total. All of them looked like they were small tanks. They all were covered head to toe in black, including these intense looking black helmets. The only one who was not wearing a black helmet was the guy who was narrating the ad.

Hi, I am the Tiger, leader of the Black Knights, if you want to be a super soldier like us sign up for Project Rho today!

I stood up when the fucker said that.

“Woah…” William said.

Eugene looked shocked.

“Did you know about that?” I asked Vinnie.

“That he said Project Rho?” Vinnie asked.

“No that he was f*****g a cow,” I said sarcastically.

“No, I hadn’t seen that in a very long time,” Vinnie said.

I believed him.

“But what the f**k does that have to do with these girls?” I asked pointing at both files on my desk. The three of them looked at each other as if deciding which one would be the one who would tell me something. “You fuckers know something, what is it?”

It was Eugene’s turn to pull a file out and toss it on my desk. It had CLASSIFIED: CAPTAINS AND HIGHER RANKED OFFICERS ONLY. Stamped on it like 9 times.

“My mother found this looking into Hunraken.” Eugene said.

I c****d my eyebrow and picked up the file.

All this file said on the tab was a name: Alinam.

I looked at the name a couple of times before I looked up at the boys again.

“You boys look at this?” I asked.

“The Colonel didn’t let us.” William said.

I carefully grabbed the file as to not let them see what that was.

It was a girl.

Well…an odd-looking girl.

She had these small blue horns growing out of her forehead. She had the most beautiful blue eyes I had ever seen. They were so shiny and so blue that I could call it sapphire. I realized that the name Alnilam was a fakir word for sapphire. She had this almost reptilian look to her skin, it was extremely pale looking so was her hair for that matter it looked like it was silver.

I flipped the page and saw the girl inside of a weird looking glass chamber full of strange liquid. She was floating in the middle of the air, her horns were much bigger in this picture. Her silver hair was floating in the strange liquid. She had a breathing apparatus on her, and a waste disposal thing also was on her.

“Quarantined data 32 Vishnu Era (redacted).” I was annoyed when I saw the big black line on the file that I had gotten. Then I realized that this was the only sentence in this ten-page dossier that was not redacted.  There was one other sentence that made me wonder what the f**k it meant.

The 21st Cherapakah, approves of this development of this female. She is the first hybridization of the Divine one, and a fakir female that was chosen. However due to circumstances she will be quarantined for the time being.

What in the living f**k was this thing now? The 21st Cherapakah? I typed it into my computer, but nothing came up. Not even anything close. I tried different ways to spell it too. Nothing, not even something remotely close to being spelled like that.

“Krishna!” I swore.

“What is it?” Vinnie asked.

I looked up at Vinnie and I decided not to tell him. Last thing I needed was show him a girl with horns he’ll probably have a boner for and masturbate right in front of all of us!

“Its something that they quarantined.” I said grabbing the file and putting it in my drawer and locking in. I could see the disappointment in their eyes. “It mentions something called the 21st Cherapakah.”

“What the hell is that?” Vinnie asked.

“f**k if I know,” I said. “And it mentions something called the Avatar of Avadhut.”

Hybridization of the divine one and a fakir female. What the s**t did that mean?

“My question is still what does this have to do with those girls?” I said.

 “This,” Vinnie finally said after looking at the other ones.

William put a set of dog tags on the counter. I looked at them and picked them up. I scanned them over and saw that on the front of the tags was the “P”. The symbol for the moon Rho. I looked at them and then back down at the tags. On the back was a name:

Sargent Samantha Andromeda White

Mounted Division

Subject # 3821

I c****d my eyebrows at a series of 0’s and 1’s at the bottom.

“Those numbers translate a weird passage,” William said.

I put them on the center of the console and scanned them. A projection came up and it, it sure as hell did look like a passage.

“Behold this sire, she who shall seed the breed of a new age of evolution,” Avatar Avadhut, 19th Avatar of Lord Shiva. Era of Avatar Avadhut, year 485,000.

I looked at this and up at the boys.

“What in the god damn hell does that mean?” I asked.

“Look at the other one,” William pointed out.

I did look at the second dog tag. This one read:

CPO Samuel Blanco

Science Section, mounted division

Subject #3822

Again, another series of 0’s and 1’s I had to translate.

“Behold this womb, he who shall bare the breed of the new age of evolution.” Avatar Avadhut 19th Avatar of Lord Shiva era 485,000

 “Okay, now that is weird,” I said.

“Ready for the showstopper?” Vinnie asked.

“Sure,” I shrugged.

Vinnie pulled out another dog tag on a chain. I looked at it and saw the same Rho symbol the same sort of design except this one read:

Sargent Cassandra “Cassie” Casium

Mounted Division

Subject# 3219

Then another series of numbers that translated to:

“Behold the stud, she who will seed the life of the new race.” Avatar Avadhut 19th Avatar of Lord Shiva Era 485,000.

“Why do they all have that similar quote?” I asked and they shrugged “Who the hell is Avatar Avadhut?”

Well I was wondering when this thing was going to start beeping. Well I will keep going on the next track.