094 A FATHER'S LOVE- A MONSTER'S CREATION
Damen shoved a limp scientist aside, yanked a headset from the unconscious man's ear, and shoved it on.
A crackling voice came through. "Damnit, we found you at last," Zairgid said over the line.
Damen grabbed the mic, his breath still ragged. "Buddy, were you the one who saved me? How?"
"It was us, idiot," Dorin spat, amusement and relief bleeding through. "Do you think you weren't already in trouble enough? You have to get into even more trouble coming to a monster lab like this."
"It's not my fault this time," Damen muttered, still furious and still aching in many places.
Lander's voice cut in, sharp and controlled. "What's your status down there? Give us the situation."
Damen told them everything.
"Kaiser and Stacy Qiltera's are running hybrid experiments using human as subjects creating alien-synth organisms, they tried to tear my DNA apart in the process", Damen explained.
He kept nothing back… almost.
Silence weighed for a moment, then Lander's tone became businesslike. "You've done more than enough. Get out of that building. We'll trace the rest from here. Move now."
Damen laughed, a harsh, short sound. "Get out? I don't think so. I'm not leaving until I make that woman—Stacy—pay for what she tried to do to me."
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Damen kicked open the steel doors.
Sparks flew from the hinges, and his body glowed faintly blue under the emergency lights. Each breath crackled with static as he stepped into the corridor—a labyrinth of flickering panels and shattered glass tubes, each one containing organs suspended in fluid.
"Where are you, you monster?" he muttered.
A distant scream echoed back.
He followed it through the main laboratory hall—then froze.
Dr. Kaiser Qiltera stood before the Genesis Core, a massive spherical reactor pulsing with deep, electric blue light. Inside it, Stacy knelt, trembling violently, blood dripping from her nose and eyes. Her veins shimmered like molten mercury.
"Father—it's too much pain! I can't hold it anymore!" she screamed.
"Stay still! The process isn't complete yet!" Kaiser barked, his fingers flying across a control pad.
"You're still running experiments at a time like this? What the hell is this damn machine?" Damen shouted, stepping into the chamber.
Kaiser's eyes widened, fear flashing across his face. "Stop… please."
"Stop you? Why?" Damen asked, his voice low but curious.
"You don't understand! Stacy's body—the alien strain—it's killing her. Her heart is rejecting her. That's why I needed your fusion heart that can survive inside a human body!" Kaiser cried.
Damen's gaze darkened. "What the hell are you doing to her now? Tell me, or I'll break that machine."
"Please—I'll tell you," Kaiser stammered. "Before you came here, we were developing the Genesis Core. It was my last resort to save Stacy—but it's not ready yet."
"Then why put your daughter in it if it's not ready?" Damen demanded.
"She's dying!" Kaiser roared. His voice cracked, and raw with anguish. "She's my daughter! I have no choice. The SIA are already here—once they discover this lab and what we were doing here, they would arrest me. Even if I'll be released eventually, it would be too late to save her…. She's dying… This is the only chance I have …. to use the Genesis Core on her!"
At first, Kaiser's plan had been clear: create a human–alien hybrid out of Damen and using his fusion heart, then transplant it into Stacy.
In theory, her body would accept it—it was the perfect heart immune to rejection. She would live.
But the plan had failed.
Damen had shattered that hope, and now the SIA were closing in. Kaiser faced losing everything—his research, the Genesis Core, and his daughter.
But the Core itself, was an untested miracle of science… it was only half-finished.
"We have no choice," Kaiser whispered, almost to himself. "We have to take the gamble."
This was his last resort.
He would never have risked Stacy's life like this if there were any other way. But time had run out.
The Genesis Core roared to life. Blue lightning burst from its frame, arcing across the lab like furious veins of energy. The air crackled, lights exploded, and the floor trembled beneath their feet.
Then the Core cracked open.
Stacy's body lifted from the floor, her veins erupting out from her body transforming her into a radiant form of a butterfly. Her skin flickered between human and alien textures, her eyes burning gold.
When she opened her eyes again, she was something else… something terrifying.
Her hair floated as if weightless, and her voice layered over itself—she was now human and alien in perfect, chilling harmony.
"Stacy…your vitals are great", Kaiser screamed in joy as he checked his control panels.
"Hell, you actually made it…. turning human into hybrids", Damen marveled.
The experiment was successful.
The cancerous mutation inside Stacy's heart was cured. But Stacy had already transformed into someone. No…something else.
"Damen Dark," she said. "I can feel your blood inside me….Argghhhh."
Stacy's mind was being controlled by blood lust again and this time the lust was aimed straight at Damen.
Stacy turned towards him, "Die…"
With a wave of her hand, the lab exploded outward.
Invisible force sent Damen crashing through a wall of reinforced glass. The impact cracked the floor beneath him, but he rolled to his feet, energy swirling around his arms.
"Fine. Let's finish this," he growled.
Stacy darted forward, faster than light.
Damen's senses barely kept up with her. Her fist sliced through the air, generating shockwaves that tore apart lab benches like paper.
Damen countered, slamming his palm forward—Sonic Wave!
The air detonated between them, throwing sparks and fire in every direction and the floor cratered.
Stacy didn't even flinch. Her hybrid skin rippled, absorbing the sonic blast. "Your sound tricks won't work on me anymore," she hissed at Damen, her voice splitting in two.
"Let's see about that," Damen replied.
The next moment Damen was upon her, his leg swirled into a kick that landed on her chest. He unleashed it—Momentum Collapse! The kinetic crunch broke Stacy's chest and everything behind her.
"Stop! You'll destroy everything in here! Everything I've ever built," Kaiser screamed as all his research and work was destroyed in a moment of battle.
"There can only be one of us alive with this blood!" Stacy screamed at Damen, lunging forward.
They collided in midair, their fists clashing like thunder.
Damen's arm shattered under the pressure.
"Damnit… this bitch is strong," he muttered.
But his meta energy surged, knitting bone and muscle as fast as it broke. He flexed his newly healed arm, and in a blur of motion, dashed toward Stacy again, slamming into her with another powerful strike.
The attack tore through her, or so he thought—then wings of liquid metal erupted from her back. She screamed, and the walls of the chamber buckled and collapsed, revealing rows upon rows of glass tanks.
"What the hell are these?" Damen cried in horror.