Rezo, Filia and Xellos staggered back a bit.
"Ozer?! It was him?"
"Unfortunately yes it was. I guess it's not too surprising that the only person who had managed to break into STF was the worlds most notorious criminal mastermind." Blitz said solemnly. He seemed to be a mere shadow of himself. Depression had swept over him like a darken cloud.
"Blitz we might not have a way to fix Luna's condition right now, but I'm going to do everything in my power to find a way to help her." Rezo declared with a firm tone. He looked to Filia and Xellos in agreement. They both nodded.
"Thank you." Blitz said weakly.
In the Vald city center building the government officials were having another one of their meetings. They had been notified on what had happened at STF headquarters.
"This can't be happening! Ozer managed to break into STF headquarters without much trouble at all!" Senator Fibrizo exclaimed. They were all appalled on how Ozer had managed to do it. Many criminals had tried in the past to break into STF headquarters, they even had some of their most competent agents try, no had succeeded before until now.
"Well he managed to do it and that's all. We shouldn't right now be dwelling on how he did it, we should be dwelling on why he did it." Senator Cassandra said calmly. She was the one of the only people in the room whom hadn't been surprised about STFs breach of security. The simple reason was that she had expected Ozer to do it.
"He used some sort of toxin to poison Luna Inverse."
"Yes I know that, but why did he do it to Luna? What's the reason for putting her life in danger without much gain?"
"Quite simple, he's using it as a distraction." Lillian Greywers glared at Senator Cassandra with her cold blue eyes. The reason why Lillian took part in all these meetings was due to her abilities. Her methods of reasoning usually came out with the right answers to most of their problems. "In a way he's buying both himself and Vernas time to complete their little experiment. Considering how much the STF has managed to delay them so far Ozer needs to have a safety net of time to make sure that they have the time they need. And putting Luna's life in this situation is his way of doing so. He's managed to both boggle STF's best yellow agent's minds, as well as shake all the higher green agents. Do you think that Blitz would be able to think clearly and make good judgments knowing that his eldest daughter is lying on a bed possibly in the grips of death? And how do you think moral is in STF headquarters now that they know that their once thought to be impenetrable fortress isn't as safe as they once thought? Things aren't going to be good right now at STF headquarters, it's going to be chaotic so in a sense Ozer has succeeded in what he planned out to do today." Lillian's voice didn't waver all through her little analysis of their situation. She kept her cool and calm voice and demeanor. But no one doubted her assessment. They didn't need to go investigate to figure out that she was right.
"But what do we do now?" Senator Deep Sea dared to ask the question that was going through everyone's heads.
"Well perhaps Ozer is starting to think that he is invincible or he just doesn't care, but he left some valuable clues behind at STF headquarters. They might be useful or they might be pointless, we don't really know. But for now all we can do is go with our plans as we originally decided on and investigate more about the new clues we had been given. It will be difficult and we can't ignore what happened today but we'll just have to get everyone at STF to try to forget out these events temporarily. On the bright side though very few people know of the identity of the intruder. The only ones that know that it was Ozer are the ones who know that he had escaped."
"If they had known that then things would really be bad."
Ozer traveled through the underground tunnels of the laboratories that he called home. Most would make sounds walking through these dark tunnels but Ozer traveled through there soundlessly. Out of the shadows Ozer went to the main labs to go see Vernas but he wasn't in there. Things were scattered about and by the few broken items Ozer could surmise that Vernas had lost his temper again. Next place Ozer went was the kitchen to see if he was there. Ozer did find evidence that temperamental and estranged scientist had been there but now wasn't. Ozer was about ready to call out the scientist's name until he heard faint sounds of snoring. Upon further investigation Ozer found the source of the snoring. Vernas had fallen asleep in his chair.
"Vernas..." Ozer said tiredly at him. When he got response he tired saying his name louder. Then he pulled out the glass of ice water in his hand and poured it over Vernas' head.
"Huh? What?! What's going on?!" Vernas sputtered awake.
"Good to see that you are awake now." Ozer smiled smugly.
"WHERE THE HELL HAVE YOU BEEN?!" Vernas screamed at him at the top of his lungs. The veins in his head were popping out.
"Oh just making a little visit." Ozer darkly laughed.
"To where?"
"Oh no were special, just visiting an old friend."
"Who?"
"Luna Inverse."
"WWWWWWWHHHHHHHHAAAAAATTTTTTT?!?!?!?!?!?! You IDIOT! You went to STF HEADQUARTERS?!"
"That's right. It was kinda nice strolling around the place. I already knew the exact floor plans to the complex but I hadn't actually been STF headquarters before."
"How the hell could you get in there without getting caught?!"
"Well I was actually able to get in without getting noticed. It wasn't till later after being there for a little while that they actually noticed that there was intruder. But by then it was already too late." Ozer pulled out the bottle that had contained the toxin that Ozer had used in Luna's office's environmental controls.
"Wait that's the bottle for the that experimental toxin #32c that I made last week. What did you do with it? I hadn't been able to find a cure for the effects yet."
"Good, so then I don't have to worry about her." Ozer placed the bottle in the decontamination box.
"You mean you used that on Luna Inverse?!"
"Yes, I thought it would buy us some more time to play."
"That's fantastic, you're a genus Ozer! Though I wish you could have told me earlier so I could have made a copy sample of it because that was our only one but that doesn't matter. Yeah no Luna Inverse to get in our way!" Vernas laughed psychotically.
"Vernas, would you be able to make another sample of that toxin?"
"Huh? Ah no if I still had the sample of the original toxin I might have been able to duplicate it. But the toxin itself was a fluke and the chances of being able to create it again are very slim."
"But does it kill the people it infects?"
"I really have no idea, I didn't really get the time to test it." Vernas mused. He did have something he was going to tell Ozer, but he was having trouble trying to remember. "Damnit now what was I going to tell you? Hmm... oh yes I remember! I did some testing and calculations earlier and it turns that we wont even need some of those chemicals after all."
Ozer raised an eyebrow. "You've managed to shorten the needed chemicals list? That's interesting..." He smiled an evil grin. Wont be long know, and soon chaos shall rein upon the world.
Rezo checked the computer scans again that was monitoring Luna's condition. Her condition hadn't change one bit since Blitz and the others had left. Rezo shock his head. This toxin had him completely baffled he didn't know what it was doing to Luna's system but the effects were just mind-boggling. It really made Rezo angry, here he was STFs most brilliant mind and couldn't even figure out a damn thing about the toxin. I just know that Vernas created this thing. Who else would make such a dangerous poison with such unpredictable effects?! Rezo sighed. There was still a chance that if Vernas and Ozer were caught then they could get the cure from them. But even then Rezo was doubtful. If it was Vernas who made this toxin then it's very much possible that he made it without having any means to cure it. Ever since this whole case started up Rezo had been scanning through all the information he could get on Vernas' theories and experiments. Rezo had quickly come to the conclusion that Elbor Vernas was a madman. His experiments and theories were so out of whack and dangerous that it made Rezo wonder how Vernas even got his medical degree in the first place.
As for Ozer now that was a completely different story. No one knew where Ozer came from or what his true intensions were. Investigators as well as many STF agents tried to track down his birth certificate, but no place had a record of his birth. Ozer had first appeared in Vald city five years ago when he kidnapped the mayor's eldest daughter and held her for ransom. Ozer got exactly what he wanted and let her go. He had only been fooling around testing his abilities. But that was the first incident. Ozer did lots more things, things that had been deemed impossible in the past. Like today, breaking into STF headquarters. But the weirdest thing was that the things he did in Vald were the only recorded crimes that Ozer had committed. No one knew if it was because Ozer had never been caught before or if he never did anything before he came to Vald. But one thing was for sure, no one had even known of Ozer's existence before he came to Vald.
"Dr. Rezo, take a look at this." One of the lower yellow agents hailed the highest ranking scientist. Since of the severity of both cases Luna had been placed in a room right next to where they were conducting the tests on the clues that Ozer left behind. This way the STF's most brightest yellow agents could work on both problems at the same time.
"What is it?" Rezo asked the lower yellow agent who was scanning one of the 'clues' Ozer left. What they meant by clues was that Ozer had left some of his DNA behind. Normally Ozer would be extra careful and make sure that didn't even leave a single hair behind. This case was different.
"Ozer's cell structures are far more advanced than I have ever seen. I doubt he is even human."
You can tell that much just by looking at him. Rezo grimly thought. Ozer was a mystery to everyone. He possessed strength and abilities like a demon and he had a physical body like a human. But he healed fast just like a monster and could summon up large amounts of power to shoot a bio gun like a dragon. "Yes I already knew that. And if that's the only reason you brought me over here then -- "
"That's not all, take a look a his cell structure." Rezo complied and looked through the computers scans. If he had normal eyes instead of eye implants then his eyes would be wide in shock. "This isn't possible! There has to be a mistake."
"That's what I thought at first too. But I double checked, then checked again. And then two more times. The computers are working correctly as well they are scanning the cell sample correct."
"Then the cell sample must be wrong." Rezo was in disbelief. He couldn't think of any scientific reason on how to explain it other then it must be a mistake. This has to be wrong. This can't be correct. It just defies logic, it's impossible.
"I checked that too. Everyone of Ozer's DNA samples all come out with the same results. Nor have the samples been tampered with." The lower yellow agent was about as reluctant as Rezo to believe what had been put before them. But he had been trying for almost two hours since he got results to explain it. He didn't want to confront Rezo with this until he could think of some logical reasoning. But he gave in and hoped that maybe Rezo could figure it out.
"But how can this be? Ozer looks at least twenty! How can his cell structure and properties show that he's only six years old?" Rezo whispered more to himself than to the other yellow agent.
"And gets worse then that." The agent pointed at another scan. "I was trying to divide his cell's to see if there is any human genetics in his DNA. There was and the computer could even find a close match to it within its' DNA database of STF personal."
"Who does it match too?" If Rezo hadn't already been shocked by the other cell scans he would have been very surprised upon hearing this. Could Ozer have relatives in STF?
"That's the problem. Every time it's about to finish the match up Ozer's cells start to mutate and then it messes up the scan. It's like his cells are aware of our scans."
"What happens to the cells after they mutate?"
"The return back to their original form. Tell me Dr. Rezo, can you make sense of any of this?" He looked to the highest-ranking yellow agent in STF with hopeful eyes. Only that highest-ranking agent was just as mystified as him.