Chapter Nine

The pounding of her soft soled shoes on the highly polished tiled floor competed with her breathing as she raced from room to room, calling for the doctor.  She found him in a room at the opposite end of the facility.  He was observing an unusually tall, half-naked man in a glass cubicle that was similar to the one in her own laboratory.

Chloe was so taken aback by the sight of his perfect body and handsome face as he moved closer to the glass upon her arrival that she nearly forgot why she was there.   She also forgot to make note of the fact that he was shackled at the ankles and clearly being held prisoner. - It wasn’t until she lay in bed, later that night, that the memory came to mind.

It took the doctor demanding to know why she was there for her to come to her senses and tear her eyes off the gorgeous specimen of a man.  She breathlessly explained what was happening. He said something to the attendant in the room and then quickly headed out the lab, insisting that she follow him.

They made it back to the lab in record time and he headed to the sink to wash his hands and arms.  “Scrub up. I want you to assist.”

“I’ve never…” she began.

He bellowed “scrub up” once again in such a forceful manner that she didn’t dare argue.  He handed her the soap before rinsing his arms and hands free of the suds and she followed suit.  When they were both scrubbed and had been assisted into surgical coverings, they entered the small cubical where Sadie lay moaning in agonizing discomfort.

Blood and amniotic fluid coated the floor.

“Dear God, clean this up!” he bellowed as he side stepped the disgusting puddle.  “Move the table over here.”

One of the goonies who’d boldly taken advantage of the unsuspecting, drugged women right in front of her quickly - and meekly -  moved the table to where the doctor stood while the other grabbed a bucket and rags to clean the floor.  Chloe couldn’t help grinning at their reduction in status.  It was a small consolation for what they’d done, but she’d take it.

She stood behind the doctor and awaited her orders.  He pulled a table with instruments close and quickly explained what each one was used for; expecting her to remember when the time came.

Sadie let out a piercing scream that sent shivers through her body. Chloe was just wondering if the doctor, who seemed free with his drugs, would give them to the woman when she actually needed them when he picked up a syringe from the table and inserted it into her vein.  Sadie calmed almost instantly.

“She’ll be out for a while.  It would be better if she was awake to help with the birth, but, these things can sometimes prove traumatizing.  It’s better to take the infant with the mother never being the wiser,” he explained.

“She doesn’t get to hold her baby?” Chloe asked with surprise.

The doctor chuckled, “I doubt she’d want to.”

Chloe was about to ask what he meant by that when the head began to creep from Sadie’s vagina.  Dr. Sudnik took a scalpel and cut her to give the head more room.  She handed him the forceps and he aided the new arrival into the world.

Her peripheral vision failed her as she watched the doctor bring life to the still creature that looked to be a blend of feline and human.  Its animal-like cries were the last thing she heard before blackness consumed her.

She awoke in the prone position of a recliner in a room she’d never seen before.  Distant cries of babies - both newborn and older- met her ears as she slowly brought her surroundings into focus.  “Where am I?”

“You fainted,” said Antoh as he pulled up her eyelids and inspected her eyes.  “I don’t blame you.  It had to be a shock.  I could choke human resources for not better preparing you.”

“What was that… thing?” she asked as she remembered the birth she’d just witnessed.

“I want you to stay here and rest,” he said as he took her pulse.  He nodded to a male attendant that she’d never seen before as he wheeled a television into the room.  “I want you to watch a video. When you are done, we can talk.”

“Am I near the nursery?”  she asked as her ears focused on the cries once more.

“I will take you there after you have watched this,” Antoh said as he put a DVD into the player that was built into the television. “Pay close attention.  I will be back when it is finished.”

The door closed behind him just as his face appeared in the video on the television screen.  He spent the next ten minutes explaining his vision and his goals where genetic research was concerned.  He talked about the successes and failures of the Atlantean peoples and how he planned to continue their fine work and perfect it; having researched their mistakes and learning from them.

Chloe stared in disbelief at the handsome face on the screen as she realized he was certifiably insane.  Through careful analysis of his word usage, she concluded that he’d drugged many of the women she’d been inseminating with the sperm of creatures whose identity she hadn’t a clue.  Only a few, like Sadie, were there willingly.  He’d been careful to, somehow, get the kidnapped women’s signatures to cover himself in the event one of them got free and remembered the ordeal she’d been through.

He stood calmly before the camera and attested to the necessity of his research for the survival of mankind, insisting that, very soon, a day of reckoning would come and the meta-naturals would rise to the planet’s surface to take over.  It was necessary for the survival of mankind to intermingle with creatures who could stand up to the meta-naturals with abilities and powers that mere humans just didn’t possess.  He chose his subjects carefully. Injecting only the sperm of creatures who had outstanding features, such as lions, gorillas, alligators, etc.  Most of the time, the insemination didn’t take or the pregnancy didn’t go full term, but, on the few occasions when it did, he was rewarded with outstanding specimens.

The video showed the coupling of human females with male creatures as well as human males with female creatures as he went on to explain the various methods he’d tried to produce the desired results.  A few women were impregnated in this manner, but the human males were unsuccessful impregnating the female beasts.  Antoh found this a topic that deserved further investigation.

Videos of the births of the creatures conceived through bestiality were recorded and included in the video; as were births that were a result of insemination.  By the time it was concluded, she was dizzy and nauseous, yet fearful of letting her insane boss know of it.  Instead, she calmly followed him to the nursery where he proudly introduced her to his success stories.  Although they all had the predominant genetics of a human, each also carried traits of his beastly parent.

“This is not simply a sick fetish of bestiality,” Antoh said as if reading her mind.  “Science is already implanting DNA into animals to grow organs for humans.  If I can perfect this integrating of humans with other strong and virile creatures, just imagine the possibilities.   We’d be a new and improved human race that is untouchable.”

“Untouchable?” she asked.

“Are you aware of the meta-natural creatures who live beneath ground?” he asked in a hushed voice.  “They truly do exist and they are not all superman and wonder woman. The majority of them want humans gone. They consider us a nuisance and a threat to the planet.  It is only a matter of time before they do something about it.  When they do, we will be ready.  They will be expecting to battle weak humans.  We will make them face an army of our own type of meta-humans.  They won’t know what hit them.”

They parted ways shortly after her tour of the nursery.  Considering the events of the day, she was allowed to return to her quarters early for a much-needed rest. 

Tears saturated her face as she considered all she’d seen and learned.  She was in the hands of a mad man with no visible way to escape.  She still hadn’t found a way to contact Jim and wondered if he’d placed her on the missing persons list with Sara Martin and the others.  Had he drugged them at the nightclubs?  Or, had he lured them into his sexy limousine and drugged them then?   Either way, with the exception of a few misguided and uneducated females, such as Sadie, they were basically prisoners being used as lab rats.

She suddenly remembered the gorgeous male prisoner she’d seen at the far side of the facility.  What could he possibly be doing with him?  She had to find out.