Once inside the facility The knight immediately had guns pointed at him from all angles as a figure in the shadow could be seen. The leader of the group of agents that had captured him saluted to the shadowed figure as she began her report.
"Boss! As you can see my team was successful in our mission to capture the suspect that came from the island of Manhattan. We decided not to interrogate them just yet and instead quickly brought them back here for you. What are our further orders?" The leader asked after giving a verbal report. The knight while this was happening started leaning over on one foot with a very laid back and lazy posture. His body language told everyone in the room he held no respect for them and was bored.
These actions taken by The knight quickly angered the agents who all had him surrounded and at gunpoint. The only thing that saved him from being riddled with holes and disposed of like a piece of metallic trash was a signal by the boss to be at ease and to put the guns down. The order was followed swiftly and efficiently yet each and every single agent there was still prepared to fill The knight with bullets if at any moment he took an action that could be seen as threatening their boss' life.
"Agent 372 welcome back and I must say job well done. You've indeed successfully completed the mission with precision and tact. Congratulations to your team as well you will all be rewarded with a week off, once that week is over however I expect you all back to be debriefed on your next mission assignment." The boss said finally coming out from the shadows that hid her.
The knight stared at the boss as she stepped forward to greet him with a handshake. Right when she was about to speak however The knight interrupted with absolutely no discipline or respect.
"Wait a minute! I have no clue who you are!" The knight said at first acting as if he knew her or had an idea of who she was. This shocked the boss and had her very puzzled on the way The knight acted and for what reason he acted in the way he did.
"Well I was fully prepared to introduce myself before you interrupted me just to ask who I was. Now let's get back on track here, my name is Sofi, however you can address me as-"
"Yo boss lady, what the fuck is this place ooh and why the fuck was I kidnapped from peacefully sitting on a park bench and dragged out here to the middle of fucking nowhere. Are you gonna kill me? Nah you wouldn't kill me or else you would've just had your little servants do it for you back in the city." The knight said very loudly once again interrupting the now named Sofi or as he calls her "Boss Lady".
The agent closest to him smacked him in the side of the head with the back of his gun for the non-stop disrespect of their boss. The other agents also started to act as they lifted their guns up ready to shoot him down. The boss lady once again signaled for them to lower their weapons.
"Now now we shouldn't get so violent at those who are, how should I put it, in need of educational help. Yes that should do it he just needs our help, now a little discipline here and there would gladly be accepted and of course is needed, but leave no lasting damage we do still need him in the end. I'll leave you all to it now I grow tired of being in this imbeciles presence. Bring him to the doctors so they can complete the necessary tests for data." The boss lady said before retreating back into the shadows away from The knight's sight.
Following the orders given to them by their boss, the agents lead The knight to the lab where he saw multiple ppl working and a zombie trapped behind a glass casing of some sort. The entire lab gave him the feeling of dread as if he was about to meet a mad scientist working on turning people into more zombies. There were jars filled brains and a weird green see through liquid. The zombie at the moment was strangely passive as if it wasn't bothered by the fact it couldn't get to the scientists in the room. None of the scientists had even noticed that the agents had brought The knight here till The knight got too close to one of the jars.
"Hey don't touch that! God why can't any of you muscle brained, guns in your head, simps for the boss listen whenever I tell you a very simple rule to my lab!" A bald old man with very big glasses ranted out.
"Wait a moment, you aren't one of those black suit wearing simps the boss calls agents. Who are you? And why have you been brought here?" The scientist questioned getting uncomfortably close to The knight as if he was trying to take a peek at his existence.
"Uhhhh-"
"Well I assume it doesn't truly matter as long as you respect the rules of my lab. Now you bumbling buffoons are you going to tell me what you came here for or am I supposed to guess?" The now realized head scientist asked the agents after stepping away from The knight and interrupting his thoughts.
"The boss ordered us to bring this captive here to get tests done. I assume you would know what tests the boss wants done so me and the others will take our leave now." An agent from the back stepped forward to say before turning around to leave the lab with the other agents.
The knight was shocked at seeing the agents leave before he remembered a very important detail that had left his mind when he entered the lab. He was still in handcuffs and didn't know if these scientists would have a key to unlock it for him. After finally noticing the handcuffs once again his muscles and joints began to cramp up and give him pain.
"Uhhhh hey uhh bald eagle you wouldn't happen to have a pair of keys for these handcuffs would you? You see it was like, aight so boom there I was just sitting peacefully in a park down in the bronx you know enjoying nature and all that shit when suddenly I notice this random ass motherfucker pull up to me with a huge ass crew of like I don't know 30 other motherfuckers. I swear to God all I was thinking at that moment was I'm boutta get jumped so this one as you call em black suit wearing simp walks up to me and I'm still sitting down even though I know damn well they got all these people here, so the simp puts their hand out for a shake I don't know I guess tryna be polite before kidnapping my ass, I stand up act like I'm boutta be polite back you know you know I probably deserve an oscar for this shit because immediately when I got close I booked it. I ain't never ran faster in my life not even when my mom would beat my ass, so I guess me running wasn't in they plans cause they was all shook standing there like some damn statues. I was over there turning corners and shit like a pro mother fucking Usain bolt had nothing on me in that moment. Sadly I was wearing this heavy ass fuck armor so you know that shit slowed me down a bit, but I was still booking it eventually mother fuckers caught up and I'll admit they had some great ass teamwork cause before I knew it one of em was in front of me. I planned to just run straight through em, but they had one of em little taser guns and I was wearing all metal so you know what came next I knocked the fuck out. Next thing I knew I'm surrounded by darkness and chained up like some common criminal boutta go to rykers. Now I'm standing here in front of you so mind helping me out cause this shit starting to hurt." The knight detailed to the patiently waiting and listening head scientist who had already grabbed the key to unlock the hand cuffs.
"Well now that is some story, but was entirely unneeded I was just about to unlock you from your chains before you started speaking and like the brilliant gentleman that I am I listened to your tale of how exactly you got kidnapped by those brutes." The head scientist responded.
After getting the handcuffs unlocked and stretching for a bit of time The knight thanked the head scientist profusely and swore to help him with the tests he needed done for his work. While all of this was going on the other scientists in the lab had finished preparing a part of the lab for the tests the head scientist needed to do on The knight. They had it set up in a small little corner nowhere near any of their important work. This of course made The knight feel a little bit unimportant to these scientists. On the bright side of things they did add a sleeping bag in that corner for him to rest in when it's time to shut down the lab for the day.
"Now I do have to warn you, tomorrow is our day off from work so none of us scientists will be here in the lab. Do not touch a single thing stay in this corner here and be a nice experiment okay?" One of the scientists that had set up The knight's corner told him once it was ready.
"Okay I guess I'll just fucking sit here in silence while the rest if you fucking bitches go ahead and fuck off. I'll be completely fine on my own it's how it's been for a very long time." The knight said in a very pouty tone of voice while watching the scientists all pack up their things and leave.
"It's just you and me now Edgar, all alone in this very dreary white lab. Shiiit, I swear it looks like this place came out of a King Stephen book. Now what the fuck should I do for an entire day and a half?" The knight spoke outloud after naming the lone zombie in the glass casing "Edgar".
The knight spent an entire three hours pacing back and forth in front of Edgar's encasement having a "conversation" between them. The agent that was tasked with watching the security footage of the lab and therefore The knight left their post after fearing that The knight's insanity was contagious and that they would catch it if they continued watching and hearing him for any longer. When The knight wasn't crafting an imaginary conversation between himself and Edgar the trapped zombie he was working out doing push-ups, sit-ups or whatever his suit would allow, and suicides which was him running back and forth across the lab in front of Edgar's home.
"You know Edgar maybe you should get some exercise in too, you're looking kind of skin and bones right now. Have you just not been eating a single thing?" The knight spoke to Edgar after taking some time to rest in between work outs.
"I'm skin and bones precisely because I haven't gotten a single piece of human flesh in a while. These people used to feed me occasionally, that or torture, but eventually I cracked the code on how to get them to give me food. Recently however they just stopped all of a sudden and began to ignore me as if I didn't exist to them anymore." The knight heard Edgar respond.
"Well maybe I can help you now my friend. I can't give you human flesh, but maybe I can convince these scientists to start feeding you again I am pretty good pals with ol bald eagle. Plus they need me for their- wait I can't just blackmail bald eagle like that. You know what I'll just go with the good old ask and see method." The knight said giving Edgar a thumbs up.
"Now Edgar you just wait here I'm gonna get back to my workout, you know it takes alot of work to be able to carry this armor around everywhere." The knight said before beginning his workout again.
"Then I'll leave you to it my friend." Edgar responded staring at The knight.
While all this is happening we can see the latest agent watching the lab look completely bored out of his mind, but also very confused. He was wondering why this captive would take moments to just talk to himself either in mutters or whispers. Not thinking further on it the agent just shrugged and began reading a book on a school of wizards and witches. Soon The knight took a nap and didn't wake up again until he heard some noise coming from outside the lab. Waking up to the noise he looked towards the lab's doors and saw the scientists begin to enter with bald eagle leading them. All of the scientists looked excited and were talking about the latest work they were going to complete which was about him although he didn't know this. He just sat there in his sleeping bag with a grin on his face that nobody could ever notice except for him, while staring at the people that would be conducting tests on him.
"Ahhh yes experiment 0 so nice of you to be here ready and early to start the tests. I see you listened to my instructions and kept the lab just as we left it." Bald eagle told The knight with a smile on his face and his arms wide open at his side.
"Hey fucker! I mean it's not like you gave me much of a choice in terms of being here early, you made me fucking sleep here you shitty bum. By the way me and Edgar had some pleasant chats while all of you were gone." The knight replied to bald eagle.
The last comment left the scientists all confused as they wondered who in the lab was called Edgar. None of them bothered to ask though as there was work to be done and tests to be completed. One of the scientists walked up to The knight and began attempting to remove the armor covering his right hand and arm. This action startled The knight as he reactively pushed the scientist away, but gently as he didn't want to hurt them just figure out what was going on.
"Experiment 0 calm down we just need to remove the armor covering your arm to draw some blood for the tests that we will be doing from now on. Trust me on this it won't hurt at all and the tests are relatively harmless too you will be just fine." Bald eagle stated calming The knight down slowly.
The scientists seeing that he was finally calm once again began to remove the armor that was required and prepared the tools to draw his blood. What none of them accounted for was just how long it would take them to find a vein to draw the blood from. The checked his upper arm, his wrist, and his fist and still hadn't found a vein. Ten minutes passed without finding a vein before they finally found one in his other arm.
"Heheheh my bad I should've warned you it did take quite a while to find my vein every other time I've gotten my blood drawn, which happened to be very frequent. They kept telling me I had some sort of rare blood so I was only able to take blood from myself. This shit meant I had to basically donate blood to future me all the fucking time shit was annoying as fuck." The knight stated mainly out of nerves due to the silence that had befallen all the scientists in the room.
With his blood finally drawn the scientists began to check his blood, but the entire process for this portion of the test would take a long time so they dismissed The knight to his corner as he was no longer needed at the moment. No longer being needed bummed out The knight, without being needed his thoughts began to race again as he had nothing else to do. Seconds turned to minutes, and minutes to hours as The knight just sat in his corner completely still and completely silent stuck within his mind and his thoughts. Seeing how he was sat still like a statue bald eagle decided to give The knight a piece of paper and a pen to write or draw to his hearts content.
"Thank you bald eagle, I was getting fucking bored as fuck here just sitting down with the thoughts in my head." The knight said as he grabbed the pen and paper to start writing down some of the thoughts that plagued him.
Bald eagle now seeing The knight being productive and occupied went back to his fellow scientists to help them with the latest project. The blood work would take some time to get results so in the mean time just as The knight was doing work that didn't really matter, the scientists were working on pet projects and studies that weren't really needed and was just done for curiosities sake. Bald eagle began testing different blood samples to a small vial they had of contaminated blood containing the infection that has turned everyday working people into cannibalistic, undead, zombies. To no surprise at all every sample of blood that bald eagle had tested showed signs of being contaminated with the Z infection. This displeased the scientists as they thought that maybe they would have found a new reaction or outcome. The only vial of blood left happened to be The knight's as they had recently collected it. This time they expected the same results, but hoped for a change so that their experiments would be worth it. Bald eagle took the vial of The knight's blood and added half of it to a separate container before adding a drop of it onto a glass pane. One of the other scientists added some of the pure Z infection they managed to separate from infected blood to The container of The knight's blood. The result was definitely a welcomed shock to all the scientists there as they observed the infection sit on top of the blood rather than infecting it. It tried its hardest to be separate from The knight's blood which confused the scientists while exciting them at the same time. It seemed as if the infection and The knight's blood imitated the reaction between water and oil.
"Hmmm I do wonder what the difference is in that captive's blood compared to all the other blood we've tested. Well I suppose we will find out when the blood work tests are ready." Bald eagle stated in a very excited and hopeful tone.
At that moment a very dangerous idea came to Bald eagle's mind. He planned in his head to trap The knight with their captured zombie and study the results of this particular experiment for a few weeks. However, he wanted to wait for the results of the blood work to see if any possible information can be derived from it to explain the phenomenon of the water/oil reaction that the infection had with the blood. For the moment he would perform tests on the two liquids attempting to mic them together in numerous ways to see if the infection just took longer to contaminate the blood.
Seven minutes had passed with no change in the container cementing the fact in their minds, this blood won't be contaminated so easily. The next few days were spent on attempts by the scientists in mixing the liquids in the container to no avail. They used a toothpick, a blender, a high-speed mixer, etc. Anything and everything they tried ended with the infection sitting on top of The knight's blood. They even tried to change the infection into contaminated blood to see if the contaminated blood would infect The knight's blood, but it ended the same as all the other tests with the contaminated blood sitting on top of The knight's blood. Throughout all these tests The knight stayed in his little corner writing down his thoughts and humming random hymns.
After a week had passed Bald eagle had finally remembered that the blood work should be well completed by now and would give a plethora of knowledge that they need at the current moment. Seeing the results of the blood work gave Bald eagle another surprise, the blood of The knight seemed to have no RH antigens making it a RHnull blood type. Bald eagle's mind raced with possibilities due to this find and strive to study the blood and its reactions further. Now knowing what he knew Bald eagle told his fellow scientists to wait for when The knight was asleep and move him for the next experiment. It took no time at all for The knight to suddenly fall asleep as he was writing his thoughts on paper. As the scientists moved to drag The knight into the same container that held the zombie, Bald eagle decided to take a look at the pages of writing that The knight had completed. On the numerous papers were swirly lines meant to resemble letters and words.
"I cannot understand a single thing on these papers. Did this captive learn to write English? Because this looks like a completely new written language to my educated eyes. Oh well it doesn't matter in the long run anyway." Bald eagle said after taking a very long time attempting to decifer what The knight had written down and failing to do so successfully.
The knight woke up to the zombie aka experiment Z aka Edgar staring at him from the corner farthest away from him. The knight just then noticed he's now sitting inside of the cage they had Edgar in. The scientists were observing the two while scribbling away tons of notes for potential future experiments.
"Soooo uhhh, why the fuck am I sitting in here now with Edgar? Also why the fuck is Edgar not currently trying to rip me apart piece by piece to consume my flesh and bones?" The knight asked as he was confused beyond years.
"I'll assume that this "Edgar" you speak of is experiment Z, the reason why we placed you with it is quite simple. For an experiment of course! Now the other question is a tiny bit more complex to answer, to put it in layman's terms I came up with a theory that due to your blood being that of the unique RHnull type the Z infection may not be able to affect you. Essentially you are uniquely immune to zombies, they seem to have a quite interesting fear of you. Not enough to deter them away from any other nearby food options however, but enough that you will not have to worry about being ripped apart limb from limb as you say it." Bald eagle answered with an excitement in his eyes that startled The knight and kept him quiet for some time.
"Now then I assume you no longer have any further questions, so I will be continuing with my work and experiments. Do continue to behave yourself, it is much appreciated." Bald eagle finished before turning his back to The knight to continue his work.
Along the next few weeks all the data that was collected by the scientists about experiment Z and The knight were transfered over to the boss in which she used said data to plan her next couple of moves. A sudden visit by the boss and her few elite agents occurred while the scientists were concluding their experiments dealing with The knight. The scientists all stopped what they were doing except for Bald eagle as he didn't notice that his boss had entered the room. He finished up his work on sending the last bits of data to her before turning around to see her standing there suddenly with her elite agents. A bit of fear ran through him as he wasn't aware of the purpose for the surprise visit to his lab by his boss. Nonetheless he put on a wide smile on his face and welcomed his boss to his lab for the day.
"Ahhhh boss I wasn't aware that you would be visiting my lab this fine evening. If I had known I would've arranged it a lot better in terms of my work and all. Just now I finished sending the last of the data you required from on the experiments we've completed." Bald eagle said silently panicking more and more as the seconds passed.
"Wonderful wonderful a job well done, now agents escort the captive to the truck outside I'm afraid we will no longer require his services to us. He will of course be reimbursed for his time and his cooperation with us." The boss said after applauding the scientists' work thus far.
Half of the agents escorted The knight out of the lab and outside of the facility while the other half stayed with the boss inside of the lab. As the agents outside escorted The knight through the forest to where the trucks were the boss' smile fell.
"I'm afraid your services are no longer required as well, now I must thank you for the brilliant work you've done, but ultimately it was for naught. I've given you all these resources all this time and you've continued to disappoint me when all I wanted was a measly cure for this... Z infection ugh such a boring name you scientists give things. Well I suppose it's time for us to move on now, agents dispose of them." The boss said before turning around and waving her hand lazily to the agents.
Before any of the scientists could react to their boss' sudden betrayal and firing of them the agents picked up their guns and followed orders. The bullets hit the glass casing in the back of the lab as well killing the zombie inside with precision. None of what proceeded to happen was known by The knight as he entered the back of the truck and was driven away. The only thought going on in The knight's head was that he was finally going home after such a long time. He wondered about what the old man would say when he came back with the stories of how he accomplished his goal and was right this whole time. He felt bad for leaving Edgar and Bald eagle behind, but sadly he was forced into leaving by these agents in the truck with him. He was severely tempted into annoying these agents like he did to the ones who brought him here, but it seems he was talked about by his previous drivers as they all wore noise canceling headphones almost as a way to mock him by preventing his ability to annoy them. The drive back to the bronx took less time than the drive to the base as traffic was extremely low due to the manipulations of the boss. When they arrived near the bridge that The knight had come across the agents got out of the van and escorted him to the edge of the bridge.
Pushing him forward the leading agent for this particular mission told him "get a move on now, we don't have all day here" with annoyance and hurry saturating their voice.
"OK OK I'm going damn no need to get all pushy now." The knight stated in response to the shove forward which almost pushed him over the edge.
The knight took the same route going back into Manhattan as he took leaving it albeit on opposite sides of the bridge. The agents saw the other connection which had helped him cross over the last time or at least the remains of it compared to the still intact connection on the other side of the bridge. All of this being watched carefully by the boss as she had concluded her business in the lab and had returned to her office to observe the mission and give occasional orders if they happened to be needed. One such order she saw fit to give right now seeing that The knight had gotten safely across and was now waving goodbyes to the agents before running into the Manhattan streets.
"Agent 582 I have another task for you and your team. You are to destroy any and all remaining connections there are from Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and long Island to the bronx. Once you've completed your new mission you are to report back to base for debriefing." The boss barked out into the agents earpiece.
"Understood boss we'll get the job done. We'll you heard the lady split up into groups and make sure we're all safe from those infected bastards stuck across the river." The leading agent told the group before turning around to get to work.