Legionaries

Dr. Edward Schumm

November 22, 2007

At 22:45

"REsearch OBJECT: A teenager. Gender: Male. Age: 15 years. Personality types: introverted, imaginative, creative. History of psychological disorders: had suffered severe shock due to the death of his father which led to dissociative amnesia, allegedly had experienced social dysfunction at an early age."

Carefully, I tried to listen to my own recorded voice heard from the music player device in the hotel room. In addition to the poor quality of the recording, the sound of heavy rain falling outside the hotel made me have to put my ears well. Even though it sounded slow, at least my voice that changed in the music player was still able to understand in its entirety. While hearing the tape, I kept thinking about the scientific research I was working on. The research so far has not yielded the expected results.

The success of a scientific study involving a living object always depends on the level of resilience of the Object itself. In the field of neurology and psychology, the level of endurance of the Object is of course closely related to the endurance of the brain and nerves of the Object. Speaking of the object of this research, actually I do not mind the physical endurance of 15-year-old youth who are fully in top condition. What concerns me is the extent to which his psychological abilities can develop during the 15 years he lived a new life.

In a few hours, the age of this study will step on day 34. The project of implanting a new identity into the subconscious This object is indeed quite complicated. Unfortunately, until this moment I have not been able to formulate careful planning. I have not dared to determine what steps to take against the Object. The only thing that became the biggest problem of this study was the lack of information I received about the psychological history of the Object, especially related to its childhood in the age range of 6-10 years. I need complete and valid data about it before presenting the initial diagnosis of the psychological condition of the Object.

So far, from the results of observations and implicit interviews submitted against Object, I have found indications of a massive social dysfunction disorder. However, some of the expert staff on the research team who made direct contact with Object have not been able to ascertain whether the disturbance that Object had experienced at an early age could have a major effect on his current psychological condition.

One factor that makes it difficult for them to extract information is the inability of Objects to remember events that occurred at a young age. Based on these facts, I have great suspicion of the intelligence who submitted it as an object of research. I suspect this object I'm researching has been a guinea pig before.

Recently, I tried for the umpteenth time to send some of my staff to hold implicit interviews with Objects. Maybe it was the last interview we could do. Whatever the outcome of the interview, the intelligence services have requested that the project be executed as soon as possible, regardless of the level of difficulty. That means they won't give me any extra time to complete this research. They prefer to ignore the safety of the Object rather than delay the project and look for other objects that are much more potential.

The phone in the hotel room suddenly rang and broke the concentration I had so desperately built. Although somewhat upset, I had to turn off the sound player and approach the phone device at the bedside.

"Mrs. Edward Schumm's. There's a phone call for you. Would you mind?" said a hotel lobby officer across the phone.

"Yes, please."

"Please, hold the line, sir."

After a few seconds, there was a beep on the phone and ...

"This is Mona, Doc. Sorry to interrupt your break at nights like this." On the phone, a woman spoke German, which was actually a mother tongue to me. Dr. Mona, a young doctor from Bonn, Germany, was deliberately brought to this country to help me in this research team.

"What's the development, Dr. Mona?" I asked in a soft voice.

"There's new information about the boy, Doc."

"Report."

Sayup-sayup, heard the sound of Dr. breathing. Mona seemed pretty excited. "I just got the full data and the latest information about the past This object of our research, Doc. His full name is Angga Panorama, the only son of a famous businessman, Hendra Panorama who was killed in a plane cabin seven years ago."

"Hendra Panorama?" I'm trying to remember something, "Panorama Cellular? That company provider that went bankrupt seven years ago?"

"Traumatic disorder syndrome?"

"To be precise, this is a pretty rare case, Doc. There are strong indications that this object of our study has post-occurrence dissociative amnesia disorder."

"How did you know? Do you have any other data and facts to support that conclusion?"

"I just received the latest MRI and CT scan, Doc. There is an unusual situation in the hippocampus, just below the cerebral cortex of his brain."

I was stunned to hear the explanation from Dr. Mona's. As he said, this kind of case was indeed extremely rare. Generally, the effects of trauma caused by tragic events only cause symptoms such as severe shock that is temporary. The recovery process can also be done through psychotherapist methods periodically.

Knowing the phenomena experienced by Objects, it seemed like I had to turn my brain harder to find a solution. To carry out the process of planting a new identity in the consciousness of the research object, the existence of the original identity of the Object is needed as a facilitator or, you name it, as a foundation for the new identity later. Meanwhile, after experiencing events that trigger amnesia, Object practically only has seven years to build a new consciousness. Identities that are formed from the new consciousness are still very vulnerable to being used as a focus. The biggest risk is that if the project is forced, the object could potentially experience brain and nerve dysfunction.

"There are other proposed plans, Dr. Mona?"

"There's no other way, Doc. In order to run this project, we will have to wait a few more years while hoping that his memory will recover soon."

"You know, don't you? The intelligence services could not wait long. Earlier this month, the project was implemented immediately. Whatever the condition is."

"But, you yourself certainly know the risks that will occur, Doc."

"If I had any other solution, I wouldn't ask you, would I?"

There's no response. There was only the sound of Dr.'s breathing. Mona was no longer excited. However, not for a minute, the soft voice of my former student was again heard.

"I want to tell you one strange thing. I don't know if this could help our research, but I think you need to know this."

"Whatever it is, just tell me."

Start with a gentle breath, Dr. Mona said, "Actually the information I just conveyed was not from the intelligence. There was someone outside the intelligence body who told me about it. A German born and raised in this country. A dozen years ago, he decided to move to Bonn. Not long after, he managed to obtain asylum to change citizenship. My assumption is, it's more likely that the person knows more about things related to the past of our research object, Doc."

Again, I was stunned for a moment. "Can you get me to him?"

"I'll try to contact him again."

"But don't let the intelligence know about this."

"Of course, Doc. I understand."