Fired

The Nocuous Men

In Ronald's Labs*

Everybody seemed panicked, even Ronald, Patrick came inside Ronald's office.

"Sir all the alarms went off",said Patrick, looking alarmed.

"I know! Just find the damned source!", shouted Ronald, banging his fist on the table.

"Yes sir! It's the testing room!",said Patrick.

"WHAT?!", shrieked Ronald,"What happened there?!"

"Apparently sir, the subjects that you were experimenting on, have woken up,and they are-"

"HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE?! KUSH GAVE ME THE REPORTS , THEY ARE ALL DEAD!",shouted Ronald,with horror.

"Sir, we need to get you out of this building",said Patrick

"No"

"But-"

"I said NO! Accompany me to the testing room!", ordered Ronald.

Patrick helplessly had to obey and he opened the door for Mr. Ronald .

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*In S.T.A.R Labs*

"I am sorry Sam..... I tried so hard to figure out this device. I ran the device recognition throughout the history. No reference has been made of this very object, ever",said Hugh.

Sam and Oliver just nodded their heads and Diana said,"It's alright Hugh, you tried your best, maybe this device was just ....umm....not there in old times. You did your best,buddy".

Hugh just sighed and went out of Oliver's lab, murmuring.

"Hugh doesn't take failures well",said Diana.

"Clearly",said Sam, smirking.

"So,now that Hugh couldn't find it. What do we do?",asked Oliver.

"I think we need to consult Mr. William",said Sam.

"Oh, no,Not Mr. William, he has got enough on his plate right now",said Diana," We will need to figure this out on our own"

Sam nodded his head and turned around and left the lab and Oliver and Diana behind.

"Sam!",called out William,"Have you seen Mark around?"

"Umm...no ,I haven't",said Sam.

"Funny, I haven't seen him for like, a day",said William,frowning.

"Have you checked his room?",asked Sam.

"Oh yes I have , but he is no where!",said William and went away murmuring.

Sam found this strange, but he knew that if Mark was actually working for Ronald,which Sam had forgotten, then, Mark must have been gone for something, there must have been a purpose.

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*In Ronald's Labs*

Those creatures looked horrifyingly dangerous. Patrick couldn't help but sweat...a lot.

"Ummm....Mr. Ronald?",said Patrick," Should I leave you alone to do anything you want here?"

Ronald looked at Patrick,smirked and said,"Patrick,Did I say so? I know you are scared but they are harmless. They haven't harmed anyone-"

"Yet...they haven't done anything yet",said Patrick.

The alarms had gone off that had caused restlessness among those creatures.

Once Patrick turned on the alarm. The creatures went quiet.

They were behaving wildly. Their eyes, were completely black, and their mouth, they had blood in it, probably their own, because they hadn't feasted on anybody,yet. Their canines had grown till their chins,which made them look a bit like vampires. Their body was bigger, so were their arms. Their nails, were black, and green nerve structures had formed all over their skin ,on their face and hands and everywhere. They were thrice the size of a normal human and looked a million times as dangerous. They were behaving wildly, making creepy and highly eerie noises, which could keep anyone awake at night.

"Isn't it amusing Patrick?",asked Ronald

"What's amusing ,sir?",asked Patirck.

"These creatures,they respond to sound! Which means that they have perfectly capable ears, and I think that they might not be able to see, because it seems that they rely on their ears too much.",said Ronald.

Patrick didn't care what Ronald meant, he just couldn't take his eyes off those creatures. He wouldn't give a guarantee that the glass could hold all the creatures inside of it.

"Listen Patrick",said Ronald,"Assemble the whole team, of doctors, bio-engineers and everyone and the guards, and ask them to bring those big guns. Tell them that I want a meeting up here right now!"

"Okay Dr. Ronald,but,all of them are very scared of these creatures right now and many of them are in the ground floor, prepared to run if something happens, they are all in panic",said Patrick.

"So what?",asked Ronald,"Ask them to come back!"

Patrick hesitated but did as Ronald said.

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In S.T.A.R. Labs

Sam was sitting in his room, his luggage on the floor. He wasn't specifically thinking about something. He bent down and opened his luggage , his eyes fell on the piece of paper. The paper that Sam had received on the last day in Ronald's Labs, from himself. He had seen himself dropping that piece of paper and Sam suspected that it was his future self , who had time travelled to the past to give himself this note. Obviously, it must have been important. Sam opened the note . The same things were written on it, just as he had seen earlier.

Don't go

Don't trust

Don't be fooled

Don't let confidence blind you

Sam knew that those things meant something, he just couldn't make out exactly what it meant. Where shouldn't he go? Who shouldn't he trust? By whom shouldn't he be fooled? And, he thought,' I am never blinded by confidence! Infact I am never confident enough !'.

That was enough clue for Sam to figure out that there was more to the note than he thought. Maybe a secret note inside the note. He had seen those movies where inscriptions come upon paper when brought over flames. But then he thought,it would be too dramatic. And he made up his mind to tell Diana and Oliver, as it was clear that he couldn't solve the mystery by himself.

But again,..... Oliver would be outraged to find that Sam had again kept something from him. Still, Sam decided to tell them.

And ,he got up from his bed, and made his way downstairs.

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*In Ronald's Labs*

"So , now that we are all here, I have something to tell all of you",said Ronald," You see these creatures behind this glass barrier? I want you to investigate them"

There was no describing the 'paleness' of their faces after Ronald said those words.

"Firstly, I will provide you all with excellent devices and all the things that you will need. And,secondly, you don't need to be afraid, these creatures will be unconscious . I have ventilators up inside this glass cubicle. They will release chloroform , enough to make them unconscious. Then,they will be chained , and you all will have enough plenty of time to examine how their body works and everything you can. Is that understood by everyone?"

There was slight murmur and a little nodding of heads.

"IS THAT UNDERSTOOD?!",shouted Ronald.

"Yes sir",they shouted back in return.

Ronald gave a satisfied smirk and said,"Everybody get to work, and Kush! In my office!"

One couldn't say that Kush wasn't expecting that.

He believed that it was his last day to live, for he had also sent his wife and daughter, in India, a very long emotional paragraph describing how much he loved them.

Ronald opened his office gate and motioned Kush to enter.

"Have a seat Dr. Kush",said Ronald, respectfully.

Kush sat.

"I just have one thing to say to you",said Ronald.

'Kill me already',thought Kush.

"EXCELLENT WORK!", exclaimed Ronald.

One couldn't say that Kush was actually expecting that.

"I am sorry , sir, what did you say?"

"I said Excellent work!",said Ronald

'Maybe he says it to everyone he kills',thought Kush.

"I know that those subjects had died there , and you put carbon monoxide in their systems and forged the reports. But, what you did ,made those things down there. And I cant praise you enough",said Ronald, with genuineness," You found a way to bring back the dead, and we just need to figure out how to restore them! You are promoted "

Kush was too startled to say anything but he managed to stammer,"Tha-thank you s-sir!"

Kush got up to leave, and Ronald said," And listen, don't call them ' the creatures' , i have a name for them, call them 'the Nocuous Men'."