Blowing off steam

Blowing off Steam

Bay 66 was a dimly lit Amphitheatre deep within the bowels of the Umbrella Corporation's underground facility, the walls were reinforced with tinker made super materials to ensure that the only way in and out was via the two entry points located at opposite sides, far above hung the observation room, it was hard to spot from the floor of the amphitheatre due to the spot lights placement but it allowed an unimpeded view of the entire testing ground. The Room was often use for live fire weapons testing of various Enhanced Organic's, Hard to kill enhanced Reptiles [HTKER's] or the latest batch of clone trooper security.

Dr Kharnivore had always found it easier to vet the employment history of the company's security forces if you simply vat grew your own.

How ever at the present moment the room was sitting in a state of absolute carnage, blood and gore splattered the room like a Jackson Pollock painting with there being a few smears and smatterings of flesh on the roof where a HTKER or two narrowly missed the observation room only to impact near it with enough force to make the poor lizard pop.

At the epicentre of this carnage stood Dr Kharnigore, her usual lab coat and glasses currently absent her breathing was hard but measured and steady as steam seemed to rise off of her form as it tried to cool down, blood and viscera slowly dripped from her form. Her hands matted with her creations viscera, clenched and uncleanched slow as her tail and muscles slowly ceased their twitching and began to uncoil and relax.

Her eye's where closed, her was head raised as though to look at the heavens as the ocean like roar of her twin beating hearts calmed and the roar subsided to a rhythmically engine like thumping as the blood rushing through her veins finally calmed to its usual pace.

When ever Dr Kharnigore needed to clear her mind or calm her emotions she would come here and exert her powers until all feeling went numb and her body would automatically, almost mechanically perform the acts of extreme violence it had originally been designed to perform.

Momentary fragments of the past few hours blurred together would flicker through her mind, a reptile torn in half, the spray of blood as she pulled another from gnawing on her neck, grasping it by by the head and proceeding to use it like a weapon to club its own kin to death as they swarmed around her, The rush of her adrenaline as she bobbed and weaved amongst the creatures and trading blows with some of the larger beasts, the taste of their blood as she bite into-. "Yo Doc! Doctor? Paiging doctor Gore? anyone home!" Her thoughts where interrupted by an anxious voice over the intercom system.

"Hellooooo, Dr Gore? Ma'am can you hear me now?. Hey is this thing really on? Yes the light is on but she's not res-." The voice of her employee Fractal that had been coming through the speaker system cut off suddenly. Kharn's enhanced eyes spotted her rather entertaining employees high above in the observation chamber who had turned to gesture at someone outside of view, Kharnigore took a moment to take a breathe but before she could speak she was interrupted by the speakers.

"Oh she's looking at us now, great!. Hey Doc you uh, you ok down there?" Fractal asked her voice tinged with concern.

"Qui, no serious injuries to report, how ever" Dr Kharnigore gently tensed and relaxed her muscles. "I fear this short bout has once again increased my grip strength."

A scoff came over the intercom "Short, Doc you've been down there playing with the lizards for the last 11 hours and have been non responsive to the boys up here for the last 5. They ran out of the HTKER's and you've just sort of been standing there unresponsive for the last half hour" That, didn't seem right to the Doctor, surely it hadn't been that long, had it?.

"Sorry about that, I had made a batch of compound 4209 for..." she paused for a moment, she couldnt really recall why she had made a dose of it, something bubbled at the back of her subconscious and she felt that what ever was trying to rise to the surface needed to be pushed back down into the depths and best left forgotten.

"Well regardless of what it was for, was there something that needed my attention? Don't tell me something escaped and we need to replace yet another wall" Dr Kharnigore felt a sigh should have been appropriate but after using her powers for so long she, didn't feel much of anything, these serene moments were perfect for drafting new designs for future projects, usually the kind that left the ethics committee working overtime.

The voice over the speakers chimed in "Well, you have a meeting with the directors in 3 hours but, also watching the footage of your little.." Dr Kharnigore had raised an eyebrow and was looking at fractal with an otherwise emotionless expression. "...training, montage?" Fractal ventured cautiously.

 After not getting a negative response she continued, "I think we might have a new method of making money AND getting more combat data on the HTKER's".

This is why Dr Kharnigore hired Fractal she was always thinking outside the box and was a veritable font of ideas while miraculously being very liberal with what many would consider, an unethical business model. "Well you have my complete attention" The doctor stated as she stepped through the gore as side doors in the amphitheatre opened and clean up crews entered to collect data while cleaning up the viscera.

Dr Kharnigore moved into one of the connecting rooms activating the oversized shower so she could clean herself of the remains of her HTKER training partners. "So I was watching some of the feed to the end there, the way you where bouncing around the room it was kinda hard to follow what you where doing some of the HTKER's towards the end there just fucking exploded when you hit it and that summersault heel kick was incredi-"

Dr Kharnigore knew if she didn't interrupt this might take a while so she cleared her throat "And your concept at seeing such a spectacle?". "OH!, Exactly doc, Spectacle! So have you heard about the UFC, cage match's with mixed martial arts?"

Dr Kharnigore shut off the shower and shook off the majority of the water still clinging to her. "Not sure what martial arts have to do with the HTKER's" She interrupted as she moved to the donned a spare lab coat and affixed her her reading glasses back upon her snout.

"We-ell, I was thinking, what if we contact a few people and arrange for a similar deal, how ever its parahumans Vs monsters, or even just monsters vs monsters, I am sure people would pay top dollar for this sort of thing especially in the underground circuits."

Fractal turned from one of the many monitors displaying the recent bloody event and the captured data as the door to the observation room slid open and a newly cleaned Dr Kharnigore stepped into the room and smiled.

"I think you might be onto something great here."