Futureworld 3030: Chapter 9
Dawn witnesses the horrors of Unicorp's experimentations. Although she wants to distance herself from the company, the man in blue shows her why noncompliance would not be a wise decision.
Tuesday May 28, 2744: Unicorp Laboratories
Screams rattle through the halls of the Unicorp Laboratories. Experimentation has recently gone underway for the masses and the results have been far from successful. The goal is to be able to synthesize a product that makes it possible for a human to survive without any water or food for life. However, this has been deemed impossible by researchers and scientists across Altera, but Unicorp would like to think otherwise. In the world of corporations, money can solve any problem. It’s just a matter of cost.
Dawn walks through the corridors of the laboratories peeking into different rooms. People writhe in pain on the ground with their skin blistering and hair shedding. The chemical makeup of the trial synthetics have caused a lot of the subjects to boil from the inside. No one foresaw the exact extremities of all this experimentation, although Dawn has an inclination that Unicorp had an idea it would turn out like this. Years of killing a countless amount of the masses and then flipping the switch to want to save them doesn’t seem like a plausible scenario in her eyes. Nevertheless, she is in the midst of it all and on the side of the aggressor this time around.
As Dawn gets to the end of one of the hallways she spots the man in blue talking to another Unicorp executive. She walks up to him and interrupts their conversation,
“What the fuck is this all about? You didn’t say it was going to be like this.”
The man shakes his head and responds,
“Well Ms. Hemmings that’s what experimentation is all about. Testing your hypothesis and seeing what the results will be. Whether positive or negative, it is all part of the process.”
Dawn looks at the other executive who is holding a digital clipboard close to her chest. It appears as if she is hiding whatever information she is relaying to the man. Dawn inches closer to her.
“How about you then, huh? Is this shitshow all going according to plan for you?”, Dawn asks.
“No, not at all. We are doing our best to find the quickest resolution, so that this…” The woman stops talking as an experimentee screams in agony at the top of his lungs. The woman winces and finishes her sentence,
“So that this does not happen again.”
Dawn puts her head down and closes her eyes trying to block out the overwhelming sound of people crying in pain. The woman executive says one last thing to the man in blue before walking away. Dawn gets closer to the man in blue.
“I want out. I don’t want any part of this anymore,” she tells him.
The man laughs.
“It’s not quite that simple, Ms. Hemmings. You can’t just walk away. Not at this point.”
“O yea what if I just leave and vanish from Altera for good?”
“Well that would be quite difficult considering we have you microchipped remember?”
Dawn forgot that during her interrogation sessions that they had knocked her out. They must have implanted a GPS tracking chip in her body. Unless she would be able to locate it and remove it, Unicorp would know of her whereabouts at all times.
“You sick motherfuckers,” Dawn replies to him with tears welling up in her eyes in frustration.
The man puts his arm on her shoulder, but Dawn shrugs it off.
“There is no need to worry about any of that if you cooperate and believe in this mission. There are some breakthroughs on the horizon that we are very excited about.”
“What breakthroughs could there be? Synthetics that make people shit themselves only twice a day?”, Dawn asks sarcastically.
“Let’s just say that we’ve discovered a blood type that is much more receptive to these new synthetics than the rest. AB negative to be exact.”
Dawn stands there silent for a second. AB negative is the rarest blood type on Earth and even more so now considering the world population has been decimated. Dawn prods further,
“So what then? You’re going to use these people for further experimentation and let the rest just die off?”
“It’s all a part of the process like I said. Darwin hit the nail on the head didn’t he. Survival of the fittest.”
Dawn wants to punch the man in the face, but knows it would not bring about any good.
“Unicorp plans to use those with AB negative blood type and breed them in order to increase the possibility of having offspring with the same type?”
The man nods his head.
“Well I don’t want to be involved in this like I said and can help out those suffering if need be.”
The man takes out his phone and shows Dawn a picture of a warehouse with glowing vials of the ‘fountain of youth’ synthetic and one of hundreds of water tanks in a secured facility.
“Remember there are plenty of reasons to comply here.”
Before she can respond, he then slides to a picture of Dawn’s young daughter playing with her caretaker at their apartment. The man grins menacingly,
“Plenty of reasons.”