Chapter 8 - The Desperate Bargain
The tense silence inside the illegal underground clinic was completely shattered entirely by the high-pitched, aggressive whining of the primed thermal detonator.
Preston stared in absolute, heartbreaking disbelief at the highly trusted woman who had completely cared for him during his five years of agonizing paralysis.
“Elena, you have to completely listen to me right now,” Preston pleaded desperately, entirely lowering the heavy barrel of his plasma rifle.
“Marcus completely manipulated you; he engineered this dying boy in a secret lab, and he entirely caused the car crash that broke my spine.”
Elena's hands violently trembled, her highly conflicted eyes completely darting between the fully healed billionaire and the fragile, dying child on the steel table.
“Marcus completely showed me highly classified footage of you violently murdering innocent corporate guards,” Elena cried out defensively.
Preston slowly took a completely deliberate, entirely unarmed step completely toward the terrified nurse.
“Those weren't completely innocent guards, Elena, they were entirely monstrous, highly mutated bio-soldiers sent to entirely slaughter us,” Preston explained completely calmly.
He slowly gestured entirely toward his perfectly functional, completely muscular legs.
“Look at me, Elena, I am completely walking entirely on my own because this innocent child entirely sacrificed his own life to heal me.”
Elena finally looked closely entirely at Julian's terrifyingly pale, heavily bruised face and the unnatural, completely glowing veins beneath his skin.
The absolute, undeniable truth of the horrifying situation finally crashed entirely through Marcus's heavy web of completely manipulative lies.
She quickly deactivated the completely deadly thermal detonator, entirely dropping the highly explosive device entirely onto the dirty floor.
“If we don't completely get him directly into a heavily advanced stabilizing chamber within the hour, his internal organs will entirely liquefy,” Elena stated with absolute medical certainty.
Preston immediately grabbed the heavy plasma rifle completely off the desk, his jaw entirely set in a terrifying mask of absolute grim determination.
“We are completely breaking entirely into the main corporate laboratory right now,” Preston commanded entirely fiercely.
Elena quickly grabbed an entirely massive bag of highly advanced medical supplies entirely from the clinic's shelves.
They completely loaded the dying child entirely into a stolen, heavily armored black medical transport van parked entirely in the alley.
Preston aggressively drove the massive vehicle completely through the dark city streets, entirely tearing directly toward the massive, heavily fortified Vance Corporation headquarters.
He violently smashed the heavy transport van completely through the front security gates, entirely ignoring the deafening sirens blaring completely across the compound.
They aggressively charged entirely into the massive glass lobby, completely expecting a massive, highly lethal army of corporate guards.
Instead, the sprawling, highly expensive lobby was completely, entirely deserted.
An eerie, completely terrifying silence entirely blanketed the massive building as they desperately carried the dying boy entirely toward the private executive elevators.
They descended entirely into the absolute lowest, heavily restricted sub-basement level where the illegal laboratory was entirely hidden.
The heavy steel elevator doors violently slid open, completely revealing a massive, entirely pristine white research facility.
In the exact center of the completely massive room stood a highly advanced, entirely glowing glass medical chamber.
Preston frantically laid Julian entirely onto the chamber's metallic bed, aggressively connecting the highly complex life support cables.
“It completely requires the master override code to entirely start the cellular stabilization process!” Elena shouted entirely over the loud hum of the massive machines.
Suddenly, the heavy laboratory doors aggressively locked entirely shut, completely trapping them entirely inside the massive white room.
A completely massive, highly encrypted holographic screen violently flared entirely to life above the glass chamber.
Marcus’s completely arrogant, highly pristine face entirely filled the massive screen, completely looking down on them with absolute, highly malicious glee.
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“You are entirely too late to save your little science experiment, brother,” Marcus sneered entirely through the laboratory speakers.
“Because I didn't entirely just cause your horrific accident five years ago, Preston; I used your highly rare DNA to completely create Julian entirely from scratch.”
