Chapter 79 – Dark Past
= Holy Saber Main Fleet, Min's Resting Quarter =
Uriel Min, Mia's grandmother, sat on her sofa, examining the newly made containers. They were grotesque red tubes made of synthesized intestines with Mia's DNA.
Grandmother Min knew that the blood of all hydra infected was acidic, and it could melt any metal or flesh of ordinary humans. To store her grandson's blood sample, she had to create a special container that could not be dissolved by Mia's blood.
As a result, she created these tubes with Mia's cloned blood cells, hoping for the best.
'If this doesn't work, I will have to extract his real intestine to make the tubes.'
Min sighed as she leaned on her sofa.
Closing her eyes for ten minutes, Min got up and exited her living quarter. As she stepped feet outside of her room, two guards saluted at Min.
If Mia were here, he would have recognized these two. They were his classmate when he attended the child soldier program, and they had the same appearance as Mia.
However, both of them were girls!
Min stopped and gazed at them with a complicated expression on her face.
"Sasha, Natalie, show me your status."
None of them talked or replied, but they revealed their last inspected status attributes to Min.
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Name – Sasha
STR – 3,000
VIT – 3,000
AGI – 3,000
DEX – 3,000
INT – 1,000
WIS – 150
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Name – Natalie
STR – 3,000
VIT – 3,000
AGI – 3,000
DEX – 3,000
INT – 1,000
WIS – 150
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Looking at their status attributes in the real world, Min heaved a sigh of regret.
Min regretted sending Mia into this child soldier project. Every time she saw her emotionless bodyguards, she felt like murdering the superintendent of that project.
She remembered that day two years ago when MWG announced the child soldier project to the public. Everyone went crazy for this new event.
There were protests and resistance from the human rights organizations. However, they shut their mouth the moment they saw a new batch of money transferred into their bank accounts.
Once the resistance was gone, MWG released their propaganda in a full-swing.
Because this project accepted everyone without charging an education fee, a hundred thousand of children competed to get there. All of them hoped to improve their abilities as psychics or earn an opportunity to change their family status.
In the end, the Milky Way Government accepted only a thousand of them.
Mia was also included in that selection as he was a talented child. Mia's parents, including Min, had a high hope in this project, and they were looking forward to seeing Mia's transformation after graduation.
Unfortunately, the promise from MWG was a hoax.
When all children first arrived at Putinof Colony, MWG cloned them all, and they kept those cloned children as a backup.
The children went through an ordinary military training during the first year as the public doubted the MWG's motive. The second year, when the public's interest died down, MWG revealed their true color.
They injected a newly discovered DNA of what they assumed as "Dragon's Blood" into the children, engineering their genes and merging their DNA together.
The result was a disaster. Out of a thousand children, 108 survived. The MWG immediately sent all the backup cloned of the dead children back to their parents with implanted memories. They told them that these children graduated from the basic training, but they failed the test to enter the real military.
As for the surviving 108 children, a change occurred to their body. All of their skin, body, and their face transformed into the same appearance, the feminine girly looking with short wavy hair and the slender body of a young girl.
Out of 108 surviving children, 36 were young boys while the rest was real girls.
In the early days, everybody concluded that this experiment was a success despite the transformation of their body. All boys and girls showed improvement in their psychic abilities, reflex, speed, and physical power. Because of such development, scientists thought that this "Dragon's Blood" could increase human's capability and longevity.
They called the experimented children [The Golden Generation].
All girls showed exceptional talent as their physical power was stronger than the elites in the military. However, their temperament changed. They stopped talking or expressing their emotion.
The boys' improvement was slower, but they retained their nature and their temperament.
After another year of experiment and training, a new development occurred.
All boys behave more aggressively as they attacked other boys, killing others like they were nemesis from their previous life.
At first, scientists thought that the "Dragon's Blood" influenced their behavior. As all boys were in puberty, all scientists believed that the new DNA increased their alpha male instinct, causing them to attack each other because of their nature. Many also saw it as they were fighting to establish dominance over their territories or for the females like a pack of wild beasts.
Instead of preventing the children, the superintendent of the project pitted them together, allowing them to kill each other. He wanted to see what would happen if they slaughtered each other to the last man.
That day when the berserk symptom occurred, an agent inside the Putinof Colony reported the incident to Uriel Min that her grandson had gone insane.
Min took her special forces and raided the MWG training center on the Putinof Colony. When she arrived, the white hair grandmother was devastated.
Out of all 36 boys, only one of them remained in one piece.
It was Mia.
He stared at the corpses in a daze with a smiling face as if this was the best day of his life.
When the securities moved in to subdue Mia, he attacked all staffs, killing everyone on his sight.
The more Mia killed, the more his temperament became warped. He started laughing as he slaughtered all the humans he found.
However, humans were smarter than berserking child. With Min's assistance, Mia was subdued in a few hours.
When Min called out to Mia, he simply looked back and blinked as if he was a newborn baby.
He said to his grandmother, "Who are you?"
The grandmother was infuriated. She was not angry because of Mia, but her target of hatred was the MWG and the entire human experimental project.
Min ordered her entire fleet to attack Putinof Colony and rescued all children in the project from the hands of the government. As a result, a fleet war broke out, and she almost caused a galactic war against MWG.
Three weeks after the series of battles, MWG's fleets backed down and surrendered as Min threatened them to reveal this inhuman project to the public. She also demanded the MWG to surrender all 72 little girls, who survived this human-experiment project, to her as well.
The higher-ups in the government could not sit still. They pulled the parents of all experimented girls to their side and offered them massive compensation in exchange for their consents. As a result, parents of 70 children refused to hand over the broken children to the grandmother Min. Instead, they signed a contract and gave their children to MWG.
Grandmother Min could only get two of the 72 [Golden Generation] under her cares as the two children's parents were members of her fleets.
However, the MWG offered an agreement that they would not pursue Mia, his family, or try to take him in by force ever again. They also compensated Min and the parents of the other two girls by adding 13 digits number into their bank accounts.
Min was not satisfied with only that offer. She extorted another agreement that her entire fleet would be an independent force as if they were a new country in this universe. No government agency could command her troops, and the MWG had to pay the maintenance of their fleet along with the salaries of her subordinates for the next 500 years.
As the loser of the war, MWG agreed in the disadvantageous terms. The truce agreement between MWG and Min was established, but the hostility between their forces continued.
After the conflict, the human-experiment project was canceled and replaced with a regular child training program, stopping the press and the space detectives from tracing the inhuman project's origins.
However, damages had been done. All girls in the [Golden Generation] had become empty shells and could only follow orders, becoming perfect tools for the MWG Army.
Meanwhile, Mia's aggressive behavior and bloodlust remained, which gave his parents and grandmother Min a headache.
Grandmother Min invested her times and her money to cure her grandson. All doctors said that Mia's brain was permanently damaged, and his instinctive behavior reverted to that of a psychopath or a wild animal. Sooner or later, he would start killing someone if he was left alone.
They offered many choices of treatment, including memory transplant and DNA engineering.
Mia's parents refused to engineer Mia's DNA again, so they searched for another way to heal Mia.
Unfortunately, Min took action before Mia's parents could find the right treatment. Hearing the analysis of many neurologists, grandmother Min took risks by implanting her ancient memories into Mia's brain, altering his instinctive behavior into that of a virgin maiden.
Ever since the memory implanting operation, Mia became confused with his gender. His memories about the berserk events disappeared, replaced with the event about him enjoying girls' activities.
His action and personality conflicted, and the cerebral cortex of his brain often malfunctioned.
As a result, the disabilities in his brain caused his thought, awareness, and perception to be slower than the usual when he was not in a combat mode.
It also happened frequently when he did not pay attention to his surroundings. Sometimes, he acted like his grandmother when he did not focus his conscience on his action, letting his muscle memories doing the work.
Yet, he was a happy boy in that condition. He came to terms with his complex and tried his best to live his life like an ordinary human being. It was as if Mia had not participated in the second years of training in Putinof Colony at all.
After the last relapse, Mia never displayed any violent behavior again. It made grandmother Min and Mia's parents relieved that he slowly returned to his human self. It made them even happier when Mia successfully enrolled in an elite school despite having a mental disorder.
And now, Mia got involved with another MWG's dark secret, and the MWG wanted him again.
Min grumbled, "They haven't learned, have they?"
She looked at her two bodyguards, who were once a part of the 72 dolls.
"Do you want to see Mia again?"
Sasha and Natalie remained expressionless. However, the tips of their fingers shook.
Min grinned, "I guess that's a yes. He's your pack leader after all."
Min patted the head of Sasha and Natalie, "Come with me. The inside guy told me that Mia has mutated again. I need to see his condition."
The two girls flinched and walked after the grandmother. Their eyes did not hide the anticipation to meet their old friend again.