Prologue

23 September 2025

5:19 a.m., BUTTERFLY FACILITY

"Now..."

Instructions received by nodding. The syringe stabs the patient's arm. "Arghh!" The patient screams loudly which his voice vibrates in the air.

"What have you done to me?!" The patient asks angrily as his veins start to pop up. "Mr. Santos, you’ve already agreed to be our guinea pig, you should’ve seen this coming." A man in white, fully covered body answered his questions. "We guarantee you will be okay after th- " his word was cut off by his colleague.

"Sir, come here please.."

He nodded. "Okay, just relax. I'll be back" the man comfort his patient as he walk by. He follow his colleague to radiology room and look to the big screen that show his patient body system in that room, then his colleague say "We examine his body system. Seem like his pupil go bigger than usual." The man gets curious "Why?"

"We don't know, and look! The serum we inject goes to his medulla oblongata, start spreading through his brain, now what's the plan, Sir?" ask his colleague. “It wasn’t supposed to get into the brain, but his body isn’t in paralyzed now, right?” His colleague reply, “Yes sir, but I think, it’s a... fail...” The man open his eyes wide as the words flee to his ear, “Don’t talk nonsense. I’ve never fail, not in my lifetime!"

“But, sir-“ his word got cut off by the sound of the loud scream from the other side. "Wha... what is that?" said the other colleague in that room, scared. "I think it's come from the specimen room." they rushed to the room only found out that people in that rooms are gone. Blood all over the place and the specimen... are gone.

"What the hell?!"

"He's gone?" say the colleague. "Call HQ..." said the man with low voice. It's seem like, he's dead inside. This is the last chance to prove Butterfly Corporation was the best facility in the world and now, it's all gone. "Now?" ask his colleague. "Are you fu

"Okay... sir" his colleague rushed to the main room leaving the man alone, still standing on the spot.

"Buzzt... buzzt.. Sir? Are you there?" his colleague speak through his walkie talkie.

"Yea?" said the man, curious. "Sir, we found him..." said his colleague. After hearing that news, the man loudly said “Wait for me there, I’m coming.” He rushed to the place.

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23 September 2025

6:09 a.m., BUTTERFLY FACILITY

"How did he turn out to be like this? What happen?" Ask the female who watching the specimen go aggressive in a big cage. The man, spontaneously answer her questions, "I don’t know, I seriously don’t fu

“Don’t talk to me like that! You’ll regret it. Now tell me, did you really made sure that you pick up the promising bacteria in the DNA? Or did you pick the wrong one?” She snapped.

“I’m not the one who’s in charge of doing it, it’s our new researcher.”

“You passed such an important detail to some newbie? I told you, you must be the one who should’ve done it. One mistake, you’re bound to fail” She grumbled.

"I'm the one who in charge" Someone exclaimed.

She observed the person and agitated, “It’s you? Hey, Pete, don’t you think he has done such a big mistake? Don’t you think we need to do something with him?” Pete gives her a glare and looked back at the person that she mentioned, "Pedro, what have you done? Did you just change the chemical? You know why I give you in charge, right ?" asked Pete anxiously.

"But, sir, i did it according to your instructions, take one of the remaining 6 genes and a slight A + T bias of 0.04% of Takydromus Sexlineatus DNA" said Pedro quickly. “0.04% of A + T? I told you to take 0.4%!” She enraged. “Pete, is this blame on you, or him?”

“Wh-what? 0.4%? O-of course I told him to take 0.4%” Pete exclaimed.

"It's doesn't matter right now, listen here kid. I don't have a choice but to kick you out of here. I'm sorry, this is the order from HQ" She hissed.

"What?!" Pedro surprised by those words.

"Jessica?" Pete gives Jessica a stare. "I'm sorry Pete, i must do it. Your kid doesn't have an experience on this thing. I'm afraid it's happen again some day..."

"Miss Jessica... I-I’m sorry... please..." Pedro begged. "I'm sorry too, kid. Pack your thing, and go..." Jessica with the voice of disappointment. Pedro doesn't have anything to said, because of his ‘silly mistake’, he lose his job. He just walked by them.

"Listen, Pete. We can’t let the media know about this.“

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