"An inspector from the company will arrive today."
Jonah looked at the message on the computer and frowned. He was on the verge of a breakthrough. Rolling his neck from his overdrawn desk work, he stood up and looked at the cameras of both of his greatest possessions.
A genuine smile crept onto his face like pineapple on pizza, "You two will be my greatest creations, haha!"
Camera one had a blonde-haired boy sitting in a white cell, playing with blocks. Camera two had our main protagonist sprawled out on his bed, softly snoring after his tests. "These two 5-year-olds are my greatest inventions, but one is too soft, tsk tsk..."
Looking at the blonde-haired boy, Jonah sucked his teeth and remembered how much the boy wanted to please him with his drawing that looked like dead humans. How much Jonah wanted to laugh at the boy, but restrained his laughter.
Feeding him fake compliments and care, Jonah watched as his eyes grew bright, such a malleable soul. Two hours went by, and the inspector came by. Jonah greeted him at the front door of the base.
Wearing his typical doctor robe and round glasses, with hair that was barely hanging on his head. The inspector came in a helicopter, stepping down, he was dressed in a red suit with a black tie.
A black mask adorned his lower half as his sharp eyes took in every detail. Taking in every detail of the inspector, Jonah smiled and held his hand out, waiting for a sign of formal greeting.
The inspector glanced at the hand and looked at Jonah's eyes level, "I am not here to be friends, I am only here to inspect test subjects seven and nine."
Slowly shrinking his hand back, Jonah's eyebrow twitched in annoyance, but he put on a smile for the face of who was behind this scrawny b*tch. "Of course, come in, we welcome you..."
Gritting his teeth, Jonah opened the door to the lab, noticing his annoyance, the inspector barely acknowledged it and walked inside like he owned it.
Closing the doors behind them, Jonah led the inspector, who took out his clipboard and began noting everything of interest.
"These two test subjects have survived every test we have thrown at them so far."
Nodding in silence, the inspector's sharp gaze wandered to the cameras and how the defense of this layout was constructed.
Arriving at a red door, Jonah scanned his eye and fingerprint as well as saliva. The inspector chuckled a bit but remained calm.
The sight of the doctor failing to spit out any saliva was quite a scene. Walking inside first, the inspector found a glass cell that had test subject number seven.
"Brief me on this one's details."
The glass was only one-way, meaning only the inspector and Jonah could see number seven. A 5-year-old blonde-haired boy smiled as he broke several toys.
Jonah briefed the inspector on this test subject, "His name is John, he is soft and caring. He wants all the care and affection I give him. He seems easily manipulated and easily controlled if we feed him correctly..."
Nodding, the inspector looked at the tests they put John through, brainwashing, injection of diseases, and how he reacted to different temperatures.
"You doctors are a bit soft. Where is the heavy testing? We need results, not babying."
"I...understand. Do you have any questions before we meet test subject nine?"
"Vought is desperate for another icon; they put millions into this project, so if you don't give results, we might visit your family."
Jonah gulped heavily, and his knees felt weak. "I understand, but these two will be my best creations ever, I have no doubt!"
The inspector saw the conviction in Jonah's eyes and kept silent, walking out of the cell. Noticing the inspector's silence, he followed behind him.
Walking opposite John's cell was a long hallway towards a black door that wasn't too heavily guarded like John's door.
Jonah took out a key and unlocked the door like a normal house door. The inspector was confused, but he walked inside first.
The first thing that caught his eye was that the cell was like John's cell, but this boy had piles of comic books and action figures in his cell, forming a pyramid.
The boy had black hair with blonde stripes, making it a sight for the eyes. Jonah came behind the inspector and smiled a bit softly. "This boy is named Jin, that is what he called himself when he was four."
The inspector looked at the sleeping Jin and wondered how mature his brain had developed to be able to come up with a name.
"What are the tests you make him go through?"
Gulping a little, Jonah gave the list of tests that were like a brochure to the inspector. The inspector took the paper and had a question in his eyes, but he kept silent and flipped to page one.
Even as he flipped through the pages, the inspector wondered if this was fake, if they somehow tampered with the information, but it was recorded, and many people witnessed it. "H-How...is he still functioning as a person?!"
"He...is a monster...he can take out grown men at the age of five, using these demonic eyes that can read everything the men did..." muttered Jonah as he watched how Jin made those men cry out like animals.
Regaining his calm, he put the brochure on the desk near the wall and asked, "So, which kind of powers do you think he possesses?"
Jonah began to recall Jin's performance over the five years, "He definitely has immunity to almost every poison and gas, he has the same powers as supes. He has these red eyes which ooze off malice and hatred, he can put people in illusions, read their movements, and he even uses it with lightning."
"How does he have lightning?"
"I honestly have no clue. We tested his blood and compared it to the last one, but it was the same; it seems he can grow powers randomly as well, or it might be under conditions..."
"Mhm, what about this sonic screech?"
"Oh, he only used it once, has never used it, maybe by accident or something."
Nodding, the inspector asked the final question, "How loyal is he?"
Looking at the sleeping Jin, Jonah cleared his throat and gave a precise answer, "He is perfect, but not perfect enough..."
"What do you mean?"
Touching the glass wall made to sustain supes, Jonah said, "I originally wanted him to be the strongest supe in the world, but he has one fatal flaw."
The inspector came close to the wall as well, "Stop dilly dallying, what is it?"
Jonah looked at the inspector calmly, "He is not American..."
"Oh..."