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2.5. Prologue

  
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  "Mr. Kline, a visitor at the front gate. It's Ms. Kolvak, sir."

  One of the guards informed through the intercom.

  "So she has finally come to see my great invention? Let her in."

  The big front gate slowly opens apart to reveal a wide underground

  tunnel and an innocent woman in her 30s wrapped around a white lab

  coat.

  "I, Silvester Kline, the world's most genius, smart, powerful,

  God-like in the world have just made a small discovery, and now the

  Future Princess has come to visit me?" Silvester announces

  ecstatically.

  "We haven't met in 6 years, and you already want to start off

  being petty? Don't think I'll hold back when it's time for me to

  antagonize you." Eleanor Kolvak informs. Ms. Kolvak was

  appointed one of the fastest-growing entrepreneurs worldwide, she

  started by developing an Artificially Intelligent computer before she

  reached her 20s, capable of maintaining itself and working flawlessly

  through every scenario you would throw at it. Kolvak was no longer

  amused by the riches after her 20s and chose instead to retire at the

  age of 23 and continue her research of attempting to achieve

  immortality.

  "To be honest, I don't think it's possible—let me rephrase, I

  don't think it's practical to get to the point where the human body

  doesn't age anymore," Silvester claims while maintaining a grin.

  Silvester is 36 years old, and for most of his life, he too was

  attempting to achieve a medicine to allow someone to tremendously

  slow down or even completely stop the aging process.

  Kolvak pulls out a pistol and starts shooting at Kline. She shot

  around ten bullets, each with a high-pitched popping sound. "Ouch!

  Did you switch from Air-soft to BB guns now?!"

  "Keep talking shit and I'll

  switch to real guns soon." Kolvak talks playfully. "So

  let's see this new 'superpowers' you seemingly achieved out of

  nowhere, I thought you were trying to establish a system to edit

  DNA." Kolvak signs.

  "I was, but in the time of doing that, I discovered something

  that could change the world. For better or worse." Silvester

  explains while they both walk towards the Testing Facility.

  As they reach the door, Silvester

  taps his hand on the door lock scanner and exclaims, "Feast your

  eyes on this!" The door opens slowly, revealing many test

  capsule chambers, each with a different animal. "I know I didn't

  come all the way here to watch a zoo," Kolvak says unfazed.

  "Well, I was going to show you how we experimented with these

  animals and gave them powers, but if you're gonna be that impatient,

  let's just get to the main course." Silvester taps the door, and

  it automatically slides closed again. "This way." He says.

  As they walk longer, the more they feel heavy. "What the heck is

  that..." Kolvak expressed her discomfort. "Don't worry,

  you'll see now."

  This text was taken from Royal Road. Help the author by reading the original version there.

  Silvester turns to one of the doors on the side and opens it, and

  they both go in. Inside was a massive isolation chamber with what

  seemed to be 20 people peacefully sitting around and testing out

  their powers, one of them lit up his cigar just by snapping his

  fingers, and another was spinning objects around herself while

  levitating mid-air. Kolvak watches in amazement, off to the side was

  another warping the ground and environment around himself as if it

  were fabric, the one next to him was a woman who turned all like a

  ghost almost with particles resembling dry-ice mist coming out of her

  body, her ethereal form was astonishing to see as she moved swiftly

  with a flowing motion.

  "This is not what I thought you meant when you said

  'superpowers'," Kolvak admits that this new invention is truly

  revolutionary. "I know, right?"

  "This could start a whole new era of scientific warfare. How

  strong are these powers? What research have you done so far?"

  Kolvak expresses her concerns.

  "So far, they just recently started getting used to their new

  powers. But the most anyone has achieved is equivalent to destroying

  three whole mansions."

  "No way... how do you give them the powers? Injection? Pills?"

  "Simple, they just have to come in contact

  with this formula I developed, 'CM Formula,' the Command Module

  Formula. It allows the user to control their power after they come in

  contact with your Red Energy." Red energy was discovered by

  Eleanor Kolvak as a part of her mission to make faster computers, the

  red energy or electricity worked just like normal electricity,

  however, they could generate their gravitational pull and can be

  programmed to perform specific actions.

  They were initially used to help the CPU chip of

  the computer perform multiple calculations in a much faster time.

  However the project was postponed after they

  found out red energy can be unstable,

  similar to Solid State Batteries, they are more likely to destabilize

  and explode. Although they were revolutionary, they couldn't be used

  effectively due to their unstable nature, not to mention the amount

  of electricity and resources it costs to output, very expensive

  machinery is required to produce this energy since it needs very

  precise calculations and movements.

  Kolvak never thought of

  using red energy on humans. The CM formula theoretically would

  capitalize on the red energy's ability to perform

  these powers.

  "How were you able to stabilize it? Even my A.I. couldn't break

  through." Kolvak exclaimed. "I didn't."

  "There's no way they would be able to sustain

  that energy for long! They would die in less than a month!"

  "They’ve been here testing

  for 2 years already."

  "How is that possible?!"

  "All I did was give them a very truncate amount of red energy

  and CMf and they slowly started gaining powers. However, I found that

  if I changed the CM formula just a tiny bit to accommodate for

  navigating human blood veins, it spreads the red energy much faster,

  and just overnight the user will have full-on superpowers"

  Silvester claims.

  "I can't believe this... I thought you were just going to show

  some gimmicks after I saw your paper on the science board. I decided

  to come see you since I haven't for a while."

  "Would you want to join me in this research?" Silvester

  says.

  "Join you? You know I have my project I'm working on right?"

  Kolvak says while knowing that Kline's research would also benefit

  her research mutually.

  "Fine. I'll join, but I will also bring my assistants on this

  project." Kolvak exclaims.

  "Fine by me!"

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