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Downfall Part 1 Running For The Answers
Date: 3 April 2004, 6:46 PM
Part One
Downfall
Chapter 1
Running
The year 2235, January 10, 4:52 P.M
Evan crept quietly through the half opened doorway on the second floor of his house, towards the man crouching on his bedroom floor. He had seen this man before at a park in New Churchill. The man had seemed friendly enough then. That was until he broke into Evan's house and ransacked through all of his belongings. There were two things that Evan could do. First, he could blindside the man and throw him to the floor, or he could ask the man who he was and why he was there. Before Evan could decide, the man saw him. Evan was so startled that he instinctively kicked the man in the chin, nearly shoving it through his skull. Evan turned and ran, not thinking of the condition of the man he had just injured or how he was going to get away, but what the man wanted and why he would risk getting caught by an ex-Special Forces soldier just to get it.
You see, Evan was a lot more than just an ex-Special Forces, he was a 34-year-old failed Bio-Soldier, the next breed of genetically enhanced super soldiers. Of course, not many people knew this. This project was a highly classified attempt to strengthen the USA's defenses against radical terrorist groups. With many factors compiled together, the government decided that Evan would not be useful in battle. Unfortunately, Evan's body did not accept the chemical modifications given to him, coded to his genetic structure. The new government, code named BASE sent him to a rehabilitation center on Whidbey Island, Washington with hopes of Evans body finally accepting the changes. While Evan was there, scientists ran many extensive tests and came up with a cure for his incompatibility. The scientists did not tell BASE that he was fixed. The scientists at Whidbey Island were not in favor of genetically changing humans. They hoped for Evan to turn on the government. The scientist sent Evan back to his modification laboratory on the outskirts of Old Nevada. When they found out that he had broken out, they compiled all of Evans background history and test readings in one very secure location deep within the Whidbey Island outlet in hopes of him not finding out his true identity and his horrible past.
Nevada was the sight of Evans creation. He was kidnapped at the age of 17; his parents were murdered the same year. He was then subjected to five years of rigorous tests of his physical and mental capabilities. At the time of the tests, Evan was the perfect match for the task at hand. He was admitted to the Human Augmentation program. For the next ten years, Evan lived alone in countless labs. Test after test reeked havoc on Evans mental status. He slowly withered away into a useless spec-ops soldier. What Evan needed was freedom. That was the only thing on his mind. He broke out of his modification laboratory on the day of January 3, and took up a new alias as a Richard Cooper. This was enough to fool the everyday public but not the highly trained military. They were after him the day he was discovered missing.
Evan new he was in danger of being captured. He just didn't think they would be looking for him this quickly. After all, he was a failed experiment. How important could he be? Evan already knew the answer to this question. On January 3, when Evan had broken out, he had taken some very valuable information from the database of the main security outpost of the Nevada lab. It had something to do with another out of control human associated with an augmenting experiment. Evan didn't quite understand it all but the one part he did understand mentioned something about how the human was designed to correct another fatal mistake. If this information leaked to the remaining Earth population, there would be a definite uproar.
Evan wondered what this mistake was and if it had anything to do with him. Evan also was an augmented human. If the other super soldier had found out some more undisclosed information though, Evan thought he might like to meet him. Evan turned around and headed back to his house hoping to find an identity chip embedded somewhere in the robbers body. That was the way it was in Evans time. Everybody had to know who you were. You couldn't trust anybody. Not even your own mom.
There had been a few cases of identity theft involving women that disposed of the real mother and took care of the child. The court had no tolerance for this, thus requiring everyone to conceal an identity chip somewhere on his or her body. Evan ascended the stairs that led to the second floor. He hoped that he had permanently paralyzed or injured the man so he wouldn't have to deal with him again.
The body wasn't there. Evan couldn't believe his eyes. Usually one punch in the stomach from Evan would kill a man. This guy had survived a swift kick in the chin. The only kind of person who could survive that kind of a beating would have had to have the same super strength as Evan. Was this guy biogenetically altered also? If so, Evan knew he would have to be a lot more careful because his kind of people were out looking for him. Evan rounded up all of his important belongings. He was preparing for a long trip away from the safe city of Onez, formerly the city of Alamosa, Colorado on the Rio Grande River.
The name of this city along with many other continents and states were changed by BASE over the simple matter of dislike towards that places name. Of course, some of the original names stayed the same like Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, the Dakotas, and a few more. Surprisingly, all of Washington (the headquarters of BASE) retained its original counties and cities. No names were changed.
While Evan was on the street, just outside his home, he called for a taxi to take him to the newly formed Old Nevada City, which is where Evan vaguely remembered was the location of his underground modification laboratory. He was going to find out a little bit more on the mysterious man that invaded his house. He hoped they would have the info he needed.
Chapter 2
Unexpected Arrival
January 10, 2235, 5:37 pm
Evan expected to get out of the cab quite a ways away from the lab. The taxi driver thought Evan was crazy for getting out in the middle of nowhere. He didn't know anything about where Evan was going or who he was, so he kindly took his pay and drove of into Old Nevada City.
He slumped low in the bushes half-expecting to see a military helicopter deploying troops to his location. There was no such thing in sight. Evan gave a sigh of relief as he crawled on his knees with bags in each hand toward the entrance to the underground laboratory. This was going to be a lot easier than he'd thought.
Evan quickly darted toward the partially hidden tunnel and slid open the air locked gate with a quick push of his arm. "Is anybody home?" Evan murmured to himself as he slid down the piercing white hall cautiously on the look out for cameras or armed personnel. He placed one bag on each side of the door. As if in the blink of an eye a door opened and a senior looking officer with an M-16 assault rifle stepped into the hall not expecting the welcome he was about to receive. In pure instinct Evan slid his hand around the officer's neck and twisted. The body fell limp in his massive hands. He quietly slid the body into an empty room under an unoccupied desk. Evan knew that he could overtake this place with pure strength, so he didn't take the gun. ''Don't go telling anybody about me''. Evan said in a sarcastic tone as he exited the room.
Evan resumed his search for the main security outpost, the same one he previously barrowed some info from. He peeked his head around a corner and concluded that the hallway was clear. With deafening steps he strolled down the hall not caring what officers might notice a very large, strong man walking defiantly down their walkway. Almost on queue a squadron of 25 heavily armed marines turned the corner and saw their assigned target.
Evan dodged around a nearby corner as a few bullets nearly missed his head. ''That was close''. He said to himself. Then came the squadrons reply. ''Sir, come out now. You are the property of the United States Government. You will not be penalized for your actions if you desist of the killing and injuring of the United State's citizens and come back into our custody.'' Evan didn't even give a second thought to these remarks. Besides, he hadn't killed any civilians. Evan could sense the marines moving closer to the corner where he lay shielded from their bullets. He knew their little speech was just a distraction. He decided that he would take them by surprise. Evan jumped out from behind the corner and made a swift uppercut into the nose of the first and bravest officer. The marine's body fell silently to the ground as his M-16 glided into the hands of Evan.
The hall erupted in a spray of three-inch armor piercing bullets. Most found their targets and some whizzed by the heads of the soldiers. The M-16 ran out of ammo, Evan let go and it slowly dropped to the ground. He watched the soldiers bleed to death from wounds that were no longer healable. Evan was surprised that this facility was using obsolete weaponry. They really should have kept up with the times. Nowadays the government was testing such weapons as the M-24, the updated version. In fact this new gun was already in use by the Elite Special Ops. Evan had eliminated the first challenge of infiltrating the modification laboratory, and that was to dispose of any major threats to the operation.
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