Hope Like an Angel

Behind the Monster

"Well, we'd better get straight into Leo's office. Will be beaten again with Mordo." Yuda rushes out first, followed by Jennifer.

"Come, Raf." I held Raphael's hand as I advanced, so as not to be left behind. At first glance, the taste of his hands is very rough .. and fragile .. jeez, what are the things that have been passed by him ...? It seems so terrible ...

...***...

Leo's door opened as the four of us entered. Mordo is on the left, Leonardo is sitting behind his desk.

"Please come in." Leo waving.

I hesitated forward first, passing through Yuda, Raphael, and Jennifer.

"Leo .. i-"

"Don't say much! Stand beside me!" Mordo cut my words. His hand hit the wall hard.

The atmosphere suddenly quiet. I was standing next to him, still staring at Leo.

"A ... What are you calling us here, Leo?" Jennifer asked.

Leo turned on a small projector in front of his desk, making a light that illuminated the wall behind us. Everything was facing there, waiting for something to be witnessed.

"I was willing to come to the West so I could give this tape to the right person, Leo, and he asked me to settle down to see it together. I found this tapes underground. Near the Eastern cemetery. Suddenly there was a report from my subordinates who discovered this. No one's ever opened it at all, so we're the first six people who'll be watching the contents of this tape, hopefully some interesting information." Mordo said firmly.

Jennifer raised her hand. "But ... What about the results of the meeting, Mordo? That one of the commanders who betrayed secretly supported the monster side?"

He looked straight at Jennifer. "It can be taken care of later. My gut feeling is really suspicious of this tape, more than the outcome of that meeting."

"good. I'llplay. Beware of the content of the video, keep staring at what the projector shows, don't let your guard down." Leo presses a certain button, then, the video is played.

The projector light shows the place that .. looks like a laboratory. There are important tools I don't know the name of, which hold colored liquids. Then everything is connected to one tube, containing a human that looks motionless ...

'The 34th Experiment, Project Human Conjointly Amelioration. Subject, are you ready?' Said one man in a white coat. Beside him was a woman who looked doubtful.

"Subject" Raised his thumb.

'Honey, are you sure this will work?' The woman beside him asked.

'of course. It would be a very fitting gift for her if everything worked out.'" The man stroked his woman's hair. They are family, husband and wife.

"Interesting ..." Mordo rubbed his chin.

'Okay, on the count of three, I'll pull the lever. Honey, you can wait outside.' Men saying.

Wife nodded. He hurried his feet away from the laboratory.

'Hey, Sir.' The subject suddenly called out to him.

'Yes?'

'Why do you insist on doing all this for him? I mean, no one's kids want any of this. Maybe including my son.'

The Husband laughed. "'That's it, Alfred. 'Maybe'. What if he wants it? It could be the redemption of my sins on him.'

Subject chuckles. 'All right, let's get things done.'

"God! I don't understand anything!" Jennifer exclaimed loudly, her tone sounding lousy.

Mordo hit the wall, again. "Close your mouth! We don't want to miss out on important information!"

"Hey, look." Raphael pointed at the direction of the video.

Oh, my God, there was an earthquake there. The Husband and the Subject looked panicked and frightened. All the chemical fluids and tubes were destroyed and broken, scattered. The most terrible thing was Alfred's face, which was the face of his subject that looked very painful.

'Fred?! Fred! You're all right?!' The husband asked in panic.'

'AAAAAAAAAHHHGH!' Alfred screamed nonstop. The laboratory was about to collapse with many walls that looked cracked, almost destroyed.

The husband tried to go somewhere, but was blocked. He was constantly thrown back by something invisible.

She's terrified. 'Shit! I can't turn off the engine! ALFRED!!!'

'God ... Alfred ...?'

'AAAAAAAAAHHRGAAGAGAAAAAHHHH STOP THIS RAAA!!!' It was horrible, Alfred's body changed .. black ... hairy ... and scary ...

To his surprise, from the entrance, a small child came inside.

The husband looked at her, surprised. 'What are you doing here?!'

'Dad ...? What happened to him?' The boy looked at Alfred, equally afraid.

'Help Dad, Son! Pull the lever beside you! That will shut down this Project!' The husband exclaimed.

The little boy seemed to think. For a moment Alfred's body got worse, his eyes turned yellow, his black fur covered all his skin.

'No. .. I want to see what's going to happen.'

'NO, KID! PULL THE LEVER NOW!'

'But ...'

'PLEASE!!!'

The little boy shook his head. No matter how loudly the Husband yelled, he would not pull his lever which was his father's last hope.

Suddenly, all the laboratories just exploded. Making the room collide everywhere, crumble. The fire burned everything that could be seen. All broken tools and equipment scattered, destroyed already that place. The video shows the Husband lying down, his head pierced by glass from the tube of the former Subject, horrifying.

"Oh my goodness ..." I closed my mouth with my hands.

'ROOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH' So painful, deep and hoarse cries came from there. It seems to be Subject or Alfred who has now become ...

"Monsters. This video is an explanation of the origin of the monsters, the enemies we fought so far ..." Mordo lowered his focus, his arms crossed.

The tep! The projector's dead, the video's done.

No one is talking. Mordo has found a video that answers my life questions. A question that makes me want to live longer just to know the answer. And it's just an .. accident ...

...

Mordo chuckles. "I didn't expect. Ha. Who're they?"

"Don't know. Their faces are not clearly visible. For sure, there were four people there. Husband, Wife, Subject, and Child. The subject's name is Alfred, he is the first monster that anyone in the video has created. He's the most powerful monster, possessing all the power." Leo shook his head.

"Where is Alfred now? And why was the scientist allowed to conduct such a fleeting experiment?" Yudah asked.

Projection off. "There's no information about that. What is clear is that we have to give this tape to General Karlo. And we have to do some research on Alfred. Who he was, how old he was, where his last house was, and so on."

"Come, Mordo. Kids, thank you so much." They both want to leave.

I hurried to hold his hand. "Wait on! Leo! I want to apologize-"

"Shut up!" Mordo clapped my hand, hard, I was forced to retreat.

"You seriously think that Leo will forgive you?! After you insulted him in front of everyone?! Huh uh?!" He exclaimed loudly.

...

Silence, everyone is silent. Leo looked at me for a moment.

"Falisha, I .. I've never been mad at you. It never will. I'm angry with myself. I know that ... It's only a matter of time that you will realize the reason why your mother died. But after that moment, I became very hateful to myself. That's why I keep a diary most of the time, to distract myself. But jeez .. I remember the incident .. it was very painful ... Brother Bella, your mother, died of my carelessness ..." She wiped her tears, saying as smooth as possible. Leo endured this pain for many years while raising me, jeez .. I can't imagine his suffering ...

Not to mention the fact that she has to run her past as a teenager who is hated by her own family, and must survive at any cost. Leo ... has a worse past than me ...

...

Suddenly, two people dressed in black opened the door, entering. They are people I know very well ...

"Well, whoa, whoa. It's a fun drama, isn't it, Logan?"