shdoverse

[Shdo]

1. Assassin



Harry walked to the tall building, he loved tall buildings, all those floors…it's like you have many neighbors and that mean maybe you have friend, many, he didn’t had any.
Those buildings have boring security, a guard in the front with a metal detector and another x-ray machine for luggage, now with fresh mint flavor.
The security guy checked the middle aged man, he had a long leather coat with a lot of pockets, he was clear, "you can go inside."


"Thank you," harry smiled and entered the building and passed the x-ray machine. He then entered the elevator and pressed the top floor. As he got up there he thought to himself how annoying the elevator music is and that its propose was to drive workers insane so that they will kill themselves and others and thus allowing the companies to sue the insurance companies AND to keep circulation of workers in the workforce market, like old and new blood, like natural selection of *bing* he reached the floor.


Harry was 40+ years old, he didn’t remembered how old he was, but he was sure he was older then 40, he had gray hair and tired face. When someone looked on him they could know he was a rough person, maybe when he was handsome when he was young but now he was only a 40 year old guy who used to be handsome. The young girls didn’t gave him those looks anymore…bah! They are illegal anyway! He entered the staircase and went up to the roof.


The breeze in this height is amazing, he loved the wind, it's something you can touch but you can't take with you…especially harry who knew a lot about taking things. He raised his foot on the roof edge and leaned on it, "the target is on the 34 floor, second room to the left and he is old Japanese man," harry loved to shot Japanese men, he didn’t knew why, he thought that maybe it got something to do with their cute little wives who are single now.


With determination to earn another $25,000 Harry pulled from his coat the massive XM500 sniper rifle, aimed and sprayed the conference room with the color of red, brain red. He then put the sniper rifle back into his coat and left the building. Security stopped him 2 times during his leave but they didn’t found anything.


Been an assassin is easy when you have free access to hammer space, you don’t even need talent.



2. meets target



Harry entered the bio-tech complex, his next client is here. He entered the CEO office, "hi there, convenient money income, what can I do to you today," Harry used to do jobs for the company, usually assassinate CEO's of other companies but at least they were stable income. A lot of blood passed through this office. "So what have you got for me today?"


"The target is a mid twenty year old male, this is his picture and here you got his address," the CEO tossed the papers to Harry who gave a look at the picture.


"You are kidding me right?" he presented the picture to the CEO, "he got this leather jacket all over him? I can only see his head from the nose up!" the target was covered with black leather jacket, full of buckles and belts, leather gloves and leather shows, leather and metal.


"Don’t worry, he never take this off," the CEO looked quite sure about this.


"Wait, you know how he looks like, you know where he is and from what it seems he is a private person, he got nothing to do with any major company. Then why do you need me for? Why don’t you use your company security guys?"


"Because the target killed them all," the CEO presented the newspaper with the job ads; it said that the company is hiring security personal, no past experience needed? With great benefits and even an apartment once the old personal members apartments would be cleaned from personal belongings…Harry got the picture.


Later this afternoon Harry reached the target apartment complex and climbed the stairs of another house that happened to look at the target front entrance, Harry waited.


After an hour the target came out, there was no mistake, he had the weird leather suit. Harry pulled his sniper rifle from his coat and aimed at the target head. Another easy bag of cash to pay for Harry debts is on his way, or so he thought. Suddenly the target looked at Harry, which spooked him. He pulled the trigger and sprayed the target brain on the floor.
"SUCCE…" the target got back on his feet… "What da fuck?"


It was about to be a long day.



3. Which refuses to die



"What's wrong with the world this day," harry was pissed, his whole life philosophy got shuttered today, "people get a bullet in the head, they die, I get money, it's simple and its works," he looked at the rising target; the bastard just cleaned the dirt out of him and looked at Harry direction. "It worked until today anyway."
With those words another conception he had broke, the target ran to Harry position, "The world isn’t right anymore! Run away dammit!" the target ran and jumped at the building wall, sinking his hands and legs into the wall, he then started to climb by shoving his hands and legs into the building, fast. "Somewhere a pig is flying and swiping on unsuspected puppies…there is no logic anymore."


Harry turned away and returned his rifle to his coat and replaced it with a grappling gun, he fired it into the nearby building. As he looked back he could see that the target reached the roof, so Harry gave him the finger and pushed the button that drag him to the other building, "HA! You lose! I…" the target started to cling into the rope and to move across it so harry pulled a knife and sliced the rope, sending the thing into the ground, "win."


Harry approached the entry to the roof top when the thing smashed through the roof edges, "did the CEO sent you?" the voice that came from the target was very throaty, a imitation of human voice, "they never learn."


Harry pulled a sub-machine gun and fired a volley at the target dropping it on the ground bleeding, he then proceed to empty the rest of the magazine into the corpse. He then reached for his coat and pulled a second magazine reloaded and sprayed it at the corpse, "and stay like that."


Harry turned back to the roof entrance; he will go to the CEO and demand answers. As he exited the building and went to his bike, the resurrected corpse kept an eye on him. He will lead the corpse\target\horror to the CEO whereabouts.

[Shdo]

4. And follows him home.


Harry reached his crappy neighborhood and his crappy house with his crappy apartment. He sneaked in so that owner of the complex won't find him, there was this little thing about payment. Harry entered his apartment from the window, "I'm home!" he announced, he always announced that but no one ever answer…usually at least.


"About time" the throaty voice answered, Harry turned to face it, the target. A leather gloved hand grabbed him by the neck and tossed him at the wall, "how long does it take to climb the window fire escape?" Harry noticed that the door was broken to little pieces like it was blown off with dynamite.


"What the hell do you want?" Harry grabbed his neck, he was bleeding.


"To kill you before I kill the CEO, if you in my way you die," the strange person started to take his glove off when another person came in from the broken door, it was the complex owner.


"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING HARRY?! YOU BROKE THE DOOR! Do you know how costly this is? Where is my money?" he shouted and passed the stranger, completely ignoring him.
"And I want you evicted!" As he said that the target arm pierced through the owner belly as he disemboweled him, then it lifted to the owner chest, burring itself into his chest and ripping the owner heart, "my money…" he died.


"That’s enough for one day!" Harry ran to the window and started to get down the staircase in a pace fit for an Olympic champion, he reached his bike and started to drive away, there is no point in running away now…he will go and get his answers, "to the Company!"


The target finished cleaning itself up, he got off the window and looked at the escaping assassin, "take me to the CEO," he mumbled to itself.

[Shdo]

5. seeking truth.


Harry reached the company gates, they were breached. It seems that the creature is following Harry and when he guess where harry is heading he wait for him there.
The gate guards were massacred, shredded to pieces, the big sign of the company was sprayed with blood, symbolizing the dark projects the company had done and the life that already were lost for their advancement, "Omnicorp…even their name sound evil," Harry said to himself, "and now a greater evil came to purge them," he headed into the company offices.


The corridor was full with the second batch of hired soldiers; the poor fellows were killed for other men crimes, whatever crimes those were. Harry could hear the screams down the corridor. Then he noticed something, the creature is moving to the research area, which means that the offices are clear, there is still time to get to the CEO! Harry dashed to the CEO office.


"Harry…you came," the CEO was sitting in his chair with a revolver in his hand, "I was just about to shot myself, would you like to join me?" the old man added bullets to the revolver.


"I don’t plan to die, I came for answers," Harry reached to his coat ready to pull a gun of his own in case the CEO gets a wrong idea, "what the hell is that thing? Did you bring some kind of demon to this world?"


The CEO burst with laughter, "DEMON! Who the hell do you think we are? We are scientists! We will never associate ourselves with superstitions and fairy tales," he started to stare into the barrel of his revolver, checking how clean it is, "this thing is human, or should I say it is the essence of life."


"The essence of life?" Harry mumbled to himself, "what kind of experiments have you done here, explain everything."


"You know what the difference between cancer cells and normal cells? The cancer cells are immortal, the forever divide and grow, if you don’t kill every one of them they will spread again. There is another difference…they are out of control, a lump of flesh growing in your lounges, without order and consideration to the bigger self, will kill you because you are not immortal like them, you will die from a small hole in a main vain."


"I don’t understand," but Harry could guess where this is going.


"But what if every cell is immortal? What if creature doesn't abide to the Hayflick limit? What if the creature just can't die unless every cell in its body is destroyed? We used special devices to 'suck' the cancer from several patients, all the elements that will cause cancer one day were sucked out of the blood stream, and pushed into a lump of flesh that was a comatose homeless man."


"And the results?" like Harry needed to ask this question.


"Very good! We cured cancer! And created an immortal monster that is drived by the same instincts that make cancer grow, we created a perfect creature, without any consideration to the Hayflick limit!" the old man opened the drawer and pulled a little box, "and now it want this, you see…no matter how much he can grow and become stronger he is still human, and because of that he still got 2 legs and 2 arms and so on, his DNA still wants to be in this form no matter how deformed he can be…unless he gets this, with this he will become a perfect cancer."


"Why the hell would you create such a thing," like he didn’t knew the answer.


"So we will know we can! Without trying there would be no advancement. Do you think that those men who tried to create a mega flew and instead cured it had good intentions? Harry…you should know this already.
By taking this he can break his human DNA to shreds, all that will remain from him is pure cancer and then…every bit of biomass he will get his hands on will become part of him, he will grow…into a massive blub of flesh, bone and cancer!"


"Again why?" this just didn’t make any sense to Harry, "why the hell would the company try to make a giant blub of cancer-bio-mass? Never mind…'because you can'?"


Harry grabbed the box and turned to leave. he cannot give this to the creature. but there was one problem, IT was standing at the entrance.




6. conclusion part 1



"give me the DNA deconstructer," the menacing creature demended, the blood of his victims still dripping from his hands.

"wha…this box? Sure you can have it, ill just put it in my coat and give it to you…" Harry did that as fast as he could but it wasn’t fast enough and the creature grabbed him by the neck, pinning him down the wall, "or I can give it to you now…but do you really want this? You will lose your human form."


"people are attached to their humanity way too much, does it really matter if you look that way or another? Like its so special. Humans created me to be who I am, now you will all die."


"Run," the CEO started to empty his revolver on the creature head, causing him to release Harry neck, "take the box and run!"


Harry didn’t planned to stay from the start, he started to run to the corridor as soon as he got up. Meanwhile in the room the CEO and the creature were at a standoff, "do you hurry to die? Old man."


"does it matter? Everyone here are about to die," the CEO pulled his left hand from his pocket revealing a small controller, he pushed it. The room was engulfed in flames incinerating both the CEO and the creature.


Harry kept running as the flames started to pour from the room and race across the corridor, they will reach Harry in a matter of seconds so he did something he really hoped he wouldn’t need to, he concentrated his 'hammer space effect' and plunged himself into his own coat. For a second he reached his inner world, its was like drowning in a sea of transperant quicksilver with various items he had stored them earlier. He looked franctly for a item he stored there just for this, an oxygen tank, he found it.
Through the endless sea he looked for another exit point, he had to find one before his oxygen will run out. Finally he found one.


At his apartment there was another coat he kept for this case, he needed coats to use his ability, leather ones. He exited from his backup coat, throwed away his oxygen tank and breath the sweet air, then he looked to his left and noticed that the corpse of the complex owner, "you poor fat, egocentric asshole…you got yourself too deep into this crap…" he then heard the sirens of the police, he had to leave, he had to find a new place to live in and a new client.

[shinikage]

I thought it was some kind of robot ^_^ , so it's a cancerman? And what the hell is harry anyway? Nice fic, shdo

[Shdo]

harry is a human with hammer space ability.

[Shdo]

in gratitude for Shinikage, both in replying and rep, i putted him inside.
Part 2. I, maniacal-homicidal-crazed-robot



Shin entered the 'Omnicorp mechanic' headquarters, he hated this place. But he needed money, money to operate his private businesses. He didn't know that right then but it would be a long day.


"Huh, shin…I am so happy that you are here, I have important news for you," the CEO grabbed Shin arm from behind and pulled him into his office, "please have a seat."


Shin hated the CEO, just like this all company he was corrupted and greedy, "if you don’t mind I need to go to the lab, our big experiment is starting today."


"don’t worry, it will only take a minute," the CEO smiled at Shin, "your grandfather, the CEO of 'Omnicorp biotech' passed away," it really was short.


"wh-how?" that really got Shin in surprise, he wasn’t really close to his grandfather but still that isn’t really something that just flow under the bridge.


"Well the details are pretty vague but they include a man made of cancer and the whole eastern lab being destroyed," he crossed his fingers, "we will talk about the inheritance later."


"You don’t seems to really care," Shin could see that the CEO was gloating, "Father."


"it's something we have in the family, the sons hate their fathers," the CEO turned his back to his son, "don’t you have an experiment, (that will give me money), to do right now?" shin left the room and entered the elevator to the basement.


Shin entered the lab, the big letters shined brightly above his head, 'S.H.A.D.O project', his last two years work, so close to a finish.
"Shin! It's about time you get here!" the head programmer and Shin assistance, Van, was already at his post checking the S.H.A.D.O data base for anomalies, "get yourself strapped in, I want to finish early today."


"Why? Do you have something to do at home? Is it a girl?" Van smiled and dismissed Shin words with his hand, "oh so is it a guy?" now Van was just slightly pissed.


"Get your ass to the tank already," he pointed at the project prototype, the metallic construct at the end of the room, Shin walked to it, he touched the surface of the machine he was creating for so long. It resembled a large metallic larva, with a single optic sensor at the end of its oval head.


"S.H.A.D.O, activate, Shin voice clearance," the sound of metal touching metal filled Shin ears, as the metallic creature started to stand, reaching to the height of 2.5 meters. The body itself was made of metallic plates on the back, back of the limbs and at the head, making the model impressive and warlike just to impress the buyers. The 'inside', belly, palms, torso, was soft rubber, for the comfort of the user. Shin stepped in and placed himself with his back to the machine torso; it looked like the machine was hugging him. "S.H.A.D.O, lock me," metallic straps comes from the back of the machine and from the back of its limbs, strapping Shin firmly to the machine.
"let's start," Shin made a single step and the machine followed perfectly.


"it's good, the sync ratio is still good, the machine will follow you perfectly," Van smiled, "start."


Shin made a few more steps and jumped with his hands forward, grabbing the floor and keeping himself suspended in midair. "stop fooling around, we know you can do that with one hand so move your ass to the training arena," Van was pissed, he wanted to move to the next part of the training and finish this day.


"Grumpy…" Shin walked on his arms to the arena and flipped back on his legs, "you can start," Van started to enter the commands to the computer and the holograms of small white discs, Van signal Shin to start.
Shin punched the first target in an arc downside, and as his arms touched the ground he lifted his legs and hit another two targets, he then continued to create more and more complex patterns of attacks, "look Van! I know Kong fu!" Van dismissed him with a nod of his head.


"Ok, you had your fun, can we move to the real deal now?" Shin sighed and moved to the next exercise.


The two guys lay back on the sofa and watched TV, eating chips from a big bowl and watching TV, "this is stupid."


"You know that S.H.A.D.O brain learns directly from your actions, even this is training, by grabbing that chip without breaking it you teach it something."


"Sure, when we started it couldn’t even grab something so small without breaking it but why are we watching TV?" Shin asked, this wasn’t really a action after all.


"Oh, that because the N.B.L.D is on," shin eyes widened.


"What?! For how long?"


"For the last 4 months," as Van said that Shin threw the bowel of chips away and stood over his teammate.


"Are you kidding me? We don’t even know what it can do!" Van stood up and patted on Shin shoulder.


"that is why I did it, don’t worry, let's just keep on watching TV, and then you can help me to repair my car," Van sat again, "we are creating here an AI with such a revolutionary method, your anger only damage the final product."


Shin followed and sat back on the sofa, "so what's its level?"


"Around a 5 year old boy, but something is weird at the reading, I mean when it comes to size and complexity of data I would say 5 years but in reality it's more like 2, but only a small part is used so I really don’t know."


The show on the TV was ended and a commercial was starting, the two men recognized the woman in the commercial, "not that again," shin grumbled.


"Hey man, it's your wife!" Van seems enjoying himself as he watched Shin agonizing himself. It was the ordinary commercial with her talking about green energy and how her company tries to bring a better future for the children and so on. The commercial was a little different than the usual but that’s it, Shin felt like seeing her in person again when the main terminal started to make noises and blips. Van walked to see what was is about.


"What's the problem?" shin asked without stopping to look at his wife commercial.


"This…I really don’t know what this is," Van started to go through the information that filled the screen, "it's like the AI unpacking itself."


"Unpacking? Into wha…" Shin stood up, "what the hell was that?" Van looked at Shin, not understanding what he is talking about. "The machine just stood up, on its own!"


"Yea, right," Van returned to the data stream, "just go back to the recharge pad, we need to make sense of all this data," Shin started to move, but it wasn’t to the recharge pad, it was to the exit, "stop playing and move to the recharge pad."


"I don’t have control?!" Shin yelled at Van as he marched to the exit.


Van moved to block his path, "stop this game, Shin."


"I don’t have control!" Shin arm grabbed Van at the neck and threw him at the wall.


Van could feel his arm break, he spit blood and in his blurred vision he could see Shin, or rather S.H.A.D.O, ripping the metal door and marching outside. "God, help us…"