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Chapter 6 - Atlas & History

After her exchange with Captain Evans, Helen got in the car that was there to pick her up....

She sat back and asked the driver who sent them, and the driver replied with only one word... it being Senior Han. And that was an answer in on itself. With that exchange, the driver started the car and started driving away from the site.....it was a 30 minute drive to the Facility. Once there Helen got out of the car, and walked away from the car without a word towards the elevator door in the parking.

When she got inside the elevator, Helen double-tapped her left shoulder, this action turned a holographic projector on, which showed Helen her own cloths in a 3D holographic manner....

Helen just swiped right until she saw her lab coat within the list, when she did Helen only had to make a tapping gesture on the hologram, this action initiated a reaction on her uniform, which being the uniform turned into a slime like form, and only the top shirt shape-shifted into her lab coat, leaving the rest of the outfit the same just adding a separate layer of an lab coat on top with her name tag, and all the accessories which Helen usually carried during her medical working hour's. By the time Helen was dressed in her medical outfit, Helen had arrived at the observation station within the Facility, this also functions as the main office for Senior Officer Han....Now Helen, had to check the patient listings, and find which patients needed her attention, and if there were none that needed her, she was to assume her usual position which was that of an surgical assistant to Dr. Ren.

When Helen, entered the room it was filled with commotion for the first time ever all the patients and medical professionals were in extreme disarray, many-a patients were still not registered or worse were not even off the stretchers.

Looking at the chaos, Helen just turned her head towards the office and headed towards it, when she approached the door Helen stood there for a moment to take a deep breath, and let out a heavy sigh before she proceeded to knock on the door.

Instantly there was a reply, to be honest it was more a question rather than an reply.....

[Senior Han]

"Who is it?"

Asked Senior Han, in a boomingly deep voice, a voice than would give you the image of a 7 feet tall monster of a person with big brawly muscles and with a despicable look on his face.

After hearing such a voice one tends to imagine such things, and some times they turn out to be true, but luckily not this time, Senior Han sure was a scarry person who carries a persona of a war veteran....which apparently he was but that's beside the point, Senior Han was a sweet man bulky and huge in appearance of course but war had taught him one thing, kindness to your peers can take you above and beyond skies but too much of it will suffocate you....And so Senior Han did his best to be kind yet strict with everyone of his underlings, and yet most of them hadn't experienced what a terror he could be to his own children.

Some would call him a monster, while some called him a great parent, but in his own eyes he was trying his best to make sure that his kids would have the strength of a bull to stand up for themselves and the brains of a genius which would allow them to glide smoothly through highs & lows of society.....Which was also the reason, Helen had to prepare herself every time she had to see him, same goes for Dr. Ren.

So when Helen, answered with a stern and emotionless voice that it was her that came to see Senior Han, there was deeper reason behind it and not just respect for her superior.

[Senior Han]

"Come in..."When she did, Helen presented a standard salute with a stomp, even then Senior Han didn't face her. Then Helen spoke...

[Helen]

"Helen White reporting sir. The site of the incident has been swept clean, and handed over to damage control. I have traced the Flares path back to the stratosphere, of course the trail led further more but--"

Right when the word BUT left Helens mouth, the chair Senior Han was sitting on this whole time squeaked a little, which in turn made Helen flinch....and in the process a tiny whisper of a whimper left her lips perking up Senior Han's ears....

It was easy to hear a persons breath in Senior Han's office, which was made sound proof from inside and out, it was built to hold a granede explosion on the inside and vise versa.

So when Helen flinched Senior Han obviously heard it. Helen no matter how brave and sturdy she might show herself to the world, she was afraid of Senior Han to the point she couldn't show any signs of weakness in front of him, because she's always had this misconception about Senior Han that he disliked or even discarded of weak people. This was established in her mind through a firing incident which she witnessed with Dr. Ren as young children, but for Helen that fear buried itself in her heart and never really left even with time....

[Senior Han]

Sigh....."Major, I've asked you to relax a million times now and yet you still refuse to do so....either way you were saying something...?"

[Helen]

"Right.....Right....."Sigh "

The trail led us deeper into outer space, and we were not equipped properly for an astronautic mission"

[Senior Han]

"That's alright, we'll send a team up there to scan the remains of the flare, you did a good job now get back to your post major...you're dismissed."

With that said, Helen took a bow, turned on her heel, and walked out of the door. Even though this interaction was a very smooth and a common one, for Helen it felt like she had turned into Atlas for the entire time she was in the office. As if the entire worlds weight was now being bestowed upon her shoulders and every word that she spoke and heard from the Senior without seeing his face felt as if they were adding to the weight on her shoulders....

When Helen stepped out of the office she was on the verge of collapsing because that little interaction between them had taken all her strength, and i mean come on feeling like you just replaced atlas even for split second should give you the idea of how scary it must be. Any person who knows the pain of atlas knows the pain of the world, in my opinion at least anyway back to Helen.

[Helen]

*This might be how i die, my blood pressure's through the roof.....* sigh......*Anyway gotta get back to Ren*

As she walk's away from the door, Helen lightly taps the heels of her boots, which start to glow and float, making helen glide on the surface. Similar to ice-skating helen made her way to the operation theater and before opening the door, she took a deep breath to calm her mind, once helen reached the operation theater there's a strip of LED lights marking the threshold of the room, crossing which deactivates the glide function in the boots....and with the next step she was in a silent room occupied by Dr. Ren, one assistant (Mary) and the three patients lying on their respective tables.

[Helen]

"What's the progress report on the patients?"

[Dr. Ren]

"Since...sigh...when do you.....sigh...ask such questions huh?" Dr. Ren asked with a light chuckle, but even it sounded exhausted and quite forced.

[Helen]

"How long have you been at this?" Helen waits for a answer but nothing comes from Dr. Ren so, she turned to face the assistant Mary, who reluctant but answers....

[Mary]

"5 hours and 45 minutes"

[Helen]

"Great, well now let me assist you. And before you refuse, we both see that your exhausted"

[Dr. Ren]

"Fine....join inn"

Then Helen went on to grab Dr. Ren' shoulder's, in doing so, Helen was able to share her life force with Dr. Ren, giving her a boost in strength, stamina, and endurance. Which in turn provided Dr. Ren with more power and focus for healing her patients Just like Captain Evans, Dr. Ren and Helen have a unique set of abilities unique to only them.....

this has been a very old and long held secret of the UNO, a secret which if ever found out by common folk, it would wreak havoc everywhere.

The secret being, there are people who have supernatural abilities, but not in the sense your imagining, these abilities aren't supernatural in the sense of magic and voodoo, but rather more mutational in nature, these abilities have manifested in solar flare burn victims, people who had suffered burns of had been present in the environment of a solar flare, reaching the earths surface.

I know confusing right....? well this all apparently started back in the year 1900 on Mount Everest, India. The first ever recorded supernatural event had taken place here, one of the locals had suddenly gotten super light...as if all the weight in his body was suddenly just gone and when asked by the local physician the man simply said, there was a bright flash in the sky coming from the sun itself, while he was on his daily morning routine of bringing water from the river. In his testimony the man had claimed that he suffered from light burns on that very day, and that the weightlessness' first signs were noticed after 2-3 days of the flash incident.

After the first incident the second one hadn't happened till the first world war half way through the war in July 1916. Where the second incident didn't give anyone abilities but had apparently made an entire platoon of 50 rangers had disappeared, only some survived out of the 50, who's testimonies provided information about the incident through a journal entry.

The entry mentioned a similar incident to Mount Everest, but this time nobody gained any abilities or so was presumed, according to the local life, after that flash in the sky, the woods became haunted, with screeching sounds and battle cries. These incidents kept happening again and again, slowly decreasing the gap between the flashes the first two incidents had 16 years of gap within them, while the third one only 11 years apart presumed date being 1927, this time the flash had been brighter and darker in colour according to the surrounding folk. They even claimed that the people had gotten burnt by this flash, and those few that had managed to recover had shown promising strength, stamina, and speed unnatural at times even....My guess is those who had received these abilities, were trying to hide them, thinking they would be persecuted for showing them, because fear of witchcraft and wizardry was still in the air. These flashes slowly but steadily transformed into the solar our modern world knows today.

While this is the true history the governments started to notice these incidents, and saw how the people with abilities were being treated and so, this was another unofficial reason for the formation of United World Organization, UNO for short.

As for the matter of how Major Helen and Dr. Ren received is a bit of a complicated situation, because they were test subjects of an experimental german experiment in search of solder enhancement program.

It was Senior Han, who had busted the operation and rescued hostages, in doing so the Senior decided to adopt the only two children in the entire camp. Only two as in the only two who were left alive.