Morning came, and the singing of birds woke Jason up. He got up leisurely and went down to have breakfast after a quick shower. Surprised to see there was Vanessa and Uncle David at the table but not Alex. Knowing Alex wasn't one to oversleep, he asked.
'Where is Alex?'
'Don't know. The maids said he left really early with someone.'
Vanessa answered while grabbing another piece of bread.
'And they just let him go?'
'They said the person had WS authority so there was nothing they could do.'
'Come on, Jason. Sit down, the food's getting cold.'
Jason couldn't eat while knowing that the superhuman he captured went off somewhere with someone who had WS authority. He ate enough to make him function throughout the day and headed to Headquarters.
'Who would take Alex with him, and from the looks of it, Alex went with him from his own free will.'
It would have caused a ruckus if they tried to take Alex by force. Not to mention more than 5 B rank WS agents who would be fully prepared. Alex was much stronger compared when he first met Jason.
Jason was on his way to the main room when he heard Professor. Richard/Richard faint voice in his lab. He decided to ask her first to see if he knew anything.
'Professor, pardon my intrusion, but have you seen--'
'Now, Alex. Are you sure you don't want to take a break?'
Jason found Alex on your classical metal chair used for execution. Alex's hands and feet were tied with chains and thick wires connected to a generator. Rei Rei didn't notice Jason come in.
'Don't worry, I can do this all day. Hi, Jason.'
'My, Jason. When did you come in?'
'What is happening?'
Jason couldn't think of any reason why this would be happening though he tried hard.
'Just a silly little experiment.'
Rei Rie said as if they were making an electromagnet by wrapping copper wire around an iron nail and connecting to a battery, but Jason's face questioned Rei Rei's humanity.
'I guess this explanation won't do. Very well. You see, Alex's body is extremely adaptive to any kind of situation. It's only a hypothesis, but we're trying to see if Alex's body can adapt to electricity and possibly make his own supply other than what the brain can already produce.'
Humans have the tendency to adapt to any kind of situation. Their body can adapt to any sort of environment. Alex's body can do that at a frightening speed.
It all started yesterday when Rei Rei was examining his body. Being a polymath, he had all sorts of weird stuff in his lab. The inventor of EMM was, in fact, Rei Rei. There was a wall on which weapons hung. Rei Rei had invented many things for WS, including firearms. The inventor of Jason's unique gun is also Rei Rei.
On that wall, a pair of silver swords were collecting dust among the other strange weapons. Alex was curious. Who, in this day and age, would use swords when guns have become the norm everywhere.
'Rei Rei, what's that?'
Alex pointed to the swords.
'Just defected invention.���
'What's wrong with it?'
'Nothing actually, except for one thing, its power source.'
The weapon in question was Rei Rei's latest invention. Ultrasonic Graphene swords. Graphene is a material that the world has found only recently. WS had discovered it in 2001 and, as such, has utilized it efficiently. Graphene is a material that is harder than a diamond. A material said to be 200 times stronger than steel. A substance that conducts electricity at a rate much higher than copper and is light as a feather.
It's also a material which could hardly be considered as expensive. Because the material from which it's extracted from is available in a never-ending amount, Graphite. Graphene is derived from the material which is used generally in pencils.
WS uses it everywhere. From their clothes to weaponry. WS agents need to blend in with society, requiring to wear casual clothes. But casual cannot offer protection from a 9mm bullet. A bulletproof vest is hard to move in. As a solution, graphene was sewed into the clothes. A white vest and a T-shirt above can offer undefeated protection from most guns that could be easily carried and hidden. No handgun can ever pierce those two layers except the one made by WS itself, whose power rivals the machine gun.