CHAPTER 231: UNDER ATTACK

No sooner than Zack could finish his conversation with Lex, a very upset Madison relayed to Zach that he was en route to the Z1, headed to the clinic with three medical emergencies. One was minor, but the other two were a little bit worse.

"One is ours and the other two I have no idea where they’re from, but we’re going to find out," Madison said.

Zack thought to himself: when it rains around here it pours. First a block party to plan, all these calls to be made, and now I have three medical emergencies and an attempted breach into the security filesystem. I’ll need to get a hold of Ty and see what we have to do about security.

Before Zach could even call Ty, he was ringing his grandfather.

"Grandfather, if you haven’t heard already, we had an attempted intrusion into the sealed filesystem, but it was stopped and the perpetrator was locked into the room where he was met by a very upset Lex and two of the security team."

"Yes, I’ve already heard that. Just to let you know, Madison is on his way with three injured—one of them is ours, the other two I don’t know who they are, but he’s headed to the clinic so we need you over there also."

Madison pulled directly up to the front door of the clinic and was out of the buggy before it even stopped. He walked around to the passenger side and lifted his brother Mason out of the passenger side seat—he was as limp as a dish rag. In the back of the vehicle there were arms and legs sticking out. He whistled for the security team to come over and take possession of the two in the back and bring them inside.

Zack was very concerned when he saw the state of Mason. Madison walked in.

"What the hell happened to your brother?" Zack asked.

"Mr. Zack, he had just come out of the diner, was headed to the speeder when two goons walked up beside him and then he went limp. They grabbed him and attempted to cart him off toward their vehicle, but I didn’t let that happen. I kinda bashed their heads together then beat the shit out of them." Madison’s voice was tight with anger. "The security team is bringing them in and going to put them in an observation room. I picked up the syringe that they injected into his neck and brought it with me so Lex could have all the information that he needed. But I promise you one thing—if they’ve harmed him, they will not walk out of this clinic."

Zack put his arm over Madison’s shoulder and reassured the young man that his brother would be just fine. He needed to alert his dad and Tim that Mason was in the emergency area of the clinic after the assault.

A few minutes later, the automatic doors were not opening fast enough for Tim, so he rearranged them when he came into the emergency area. He was followed by Earl, both full of questions. Zack told them that they had to wait for answers—Lex was working as fast as he could and Chris was analyzing the leftover residue of the needle.

Tim looked at Madison. "I know he was in town with you and you brought him here. Can you please tell me what happened to him in the Township?"

"As I told Mr. Zack, we had been shopping. He stopped by Constantine’s, and as he walked out of the malt shop, he was headed toward the speeder where I was waiting when these two big goons walked up beside him and then he went limp," Madison explained. "They attempted to drag him off, but they didn’t count on me. They’re down in the other section receiving medical treatments after I got through with them. Security is there with them and they’re not going anywhere."

Tim started to walk away when his father called him back.

"Son, I know you want answers, but let’s make sure Mason is fine and I will get the answers that we need," Earl said firmly. "I don’t want you to be a part of what I have to do to protect everyone here at the Z1. The least you know, the better off you are regarding how I get my information. Right now, you need to be here for Mason."

The block party was in full swing already—no one was the wiser of what was going on at the clinic.

Lex had finished examining Mason and declared him sound. He would need to come out from under the influence of the narcotics that he was given—they were heavy-duty tranquilizers so that he would be no problem at all to the two goons, wherever they were taking him.

"Grandfather, about the other one that was trying to access the computer system, he’s part of this but yet he intentionally got caught. I feel a little pressure and he’ll sing like a songbird. I imagine he has a lot to sing about."

Zach opened the door to the office where the young man was waiting. When he slammed it behind him, the young man jumped. Zack pulled up a chair and turned it backwards and had a seat.

"Okay, young man, you’re here at the Z1 for an alternative purpose. It says on the manifest that you’re here to be bred, but I already know that’s impossible looking at you. What are you, three months along now?"

Jason looked down. "Yes, Sir, I’m almost 3 months along. The owners didn’t give me any choice in the matter—I was supposed to come here, gather information, get a code, send a file, and leave as quickly as possible. But when the first time I entered the code it was denied, I realized this was my chance, so I decided to enter it as many times as possible to throw an alarm. Boy, do you have a heck of an alarm system here."

He paused, then continued, "I don’t have any right to ask you this, but I need sanctuary. There were others that were also sent to kidnap one of yours and carry him back to the corporate headquarters, wherever they’re at. I was blindfolded, put in a room, restrained, and I was bred with this child by the evil one, as I call him."

Jason’s voice grew quieter. "I didn’t come out normal—my body is misshapen and they tell me I’m special, but other Genmen just point and laugh at me in the showers because my vent won’t cover itself. When I birth this child, they will take it and raise it just like they will take the other child from the other special one. When they’re old enough, they’re to be bred to bring about the occurrence of a Royal Queen."

"For some reason they want this to happen so that they can control all Genmen here on this planet," Jason continued desperately. "I wish there was something that could be done so this child would not be part of something so horrendous and evil."

Zack looked at the young man and felt sorry for him. He knew if the corporate machine had possession of this one and Mason, the Titan project would happen.

"Jason, I’m gonna leave you here amongst your thoughts, but I’m gonna tell you right now—you’re here to stay. I will fix your problem, but at the Z1 we’re family, and family only watches out for family. You and the child that you’re carrying will be taken care of. You’re to be set up with a new mate and you will serve him."

Jason looked at Zack. "Thank you, sir. I won’t let you down—I’ll prove myself worthy. I won’t let this child come to any harm, but I understand what must be done when he is born. Evil like this cannot be allowed to remain, so he shall be terminated at your request."

Zack smiled and patted Jason on the shoulder. "It’s not all that bad—I have my ways to take care of things. As far as this child goes, he’ll turn out okay when we have finished."

Zack walked out of the room, closed the door behind him, and told the guards to watch the young man. He headed toward the others in high security—these two would definitely be taken care of.

Zack entered the room. Handcuffed together to the table were two siblings—they were maybe nine months apart, approximately 23/24 years of age, and terrified.

Zack pulled up a chair and sat down, just looking at the two.

"Can you two tell me what you were doing in the Township and why you tried to kidnap one of my residents?"

Lonnie spoke first while his brother Donnie remained silent. "Sir, we work for the Corporation. We request that you call the Corporation and they are allowed to come pick us up."

Zack let out an evil laugh. "Boys, you belong to me now. You will never see outside of the gates ever again. I will have your bodies used until you can produce no more offspring, and they shall be hybrid offspring."

Donnie found this very amusing and started to laugh. "We can’t produce anything—why do you think we’re the goons? We do the work that no one else wants to do because we can’t birth nor produce a child."

Zack looked at Donnie and his brother. "And just who told you that? At the Corporation, they treat you as nothing more than pets. You’re their go-and-fetch boys."

"It’s true, Sir," Lonnie responded. "Every time we are supposed to cycle, we do—we feel sick to our stomachs, yes—but we don’t cycle and no Genmen wants to breed with us because we’re no good."

Zack looked at the two brothers and couldn’t believe what he was hearing. What had the corporate done to these two? He needed answers, and Lex would get them.

Zack got on his communicator and had Lex show up with a test kit for fertility for these two clowns—either they were damn good liars or just that dumb to believe everything that was told to them.

Lex took a sample of blood from each one of them, and then he made them turn around and drop their garments. When he inserted the probe for the sample into Lonnie’s vent, he showed a lot of discomfort, which proved that he was still intact even at his age. It was not any different for Donnie either—both brothers were still pure, and that puzzled Lex at first until he started getting some of the results of the blood samples.

Both young men showed a high level of a concentrated substance which stops cycling of Genmen. Lex arrived at his conclusion—these two were being saved for something further on in the process of the Titan project. He relayed all this information back to his grandfather, who was already thinking of a punishment for these two idiots.