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Case File 37: Project F.A.T.E. - Fatally Adept Teenage Experiments

Have you ever wondered why some people live while others die?

Countless religions try to answer the question. Millions of people continue to ask it.

They live the question.

But the question they have to answer is, were they really better off alive?

It started out as an experimental drug. A miracle drug if you may. It was praised as such and it worked on everything from the common cold to a treatment of early stage cancer. It was as celebrated as penicillin, and every hospital wanted a supply. A few months before the drug was going to go mainstream to every hospital in the civilized world with enough money to afford the baseline price, it was already in use in a large hospital in an equally large city, both of which for the sake of the report, will go unnamed.

Six pregnant women, none with any traits to truly tie them together other than going into labor, approximately three weeks before their actual due date on the stormy night of August thirty-first and all of them attending the hospital in question. Said hospital had been home of the development of the drug, so it wasn't a surprise that they had it in use. The infant's were delivered smoothly, no ill-effects from premature birth were visible as the doctors weighed them and took their first tests, but then for no apparent reason, the vitals of all six children began to crash simultaneously.

Panicking, the doctors couldn't find a cause for the failing hearts, lungs and various other body systems. All they knew was that the disease worked fast and efficiently, just when it seemed that all hope was lost, one of the doctors ran and grabbed the miracle drug, which for reference sake we shall call Chemical X from now on, and administered it to the child in their care. The effects were immediate and the disease began to fade from their system.

The doctor notified the others and all six children were cured. However, Chemical X had never been tested on infants, and the side effects were, simply put, unbelievable, though they didn't show physically till long after the children had left the hospital, with their overjoyed mothers. Almost a year later their parent's began to notice strange things, or rather strange powers in their children. Each child had developed two extraordinary powers, super powers if you will, along with one more human talent that didn't really show until later in life.

The parent's were naturally pushed to their wits ends. After all, raising a baby is hard enough without having to worry about them doing something like teleporting halfway across the street or something of equal absurdity. With no other choices available, the parent's returned the children to the hospital, who promised to "cure" them. The parents were, compensated, heavily for their loss, and went about their business as the hospital identified the cause of the powers as Chemical X.

With the possibility of the powers being used for acts of terrorism hanging over their heads, the government quickly halted production, distribution, and use of Chemical X entirely and the children, then barely a year and six months of age, were all detained in a new facility, built on top of the hospital they were born in. They were raised by the government and the doctors and put through harsh physical training to help them master and develop their skills. However, one of the doctors was corrupt, they stole one of the sample bottles of Chemical X, and leaked the pills onto the black market. Now for an infant, one pill is more than enough to cause the super powers to appear, but for an average adult body it is theorized that it would take roughly, half the pills in a bottle to cause the occurrence, but since the pills were believed to have been sold individually, no one really took much notice of it. It's not like some super villain is going to suddenly appear after all.

The doctor's claim that it is all for the sake for the sake of them being able to control their abilities, so that they may be reintegrated into society and their families but from the way the government officials handle the children, putting them through public interviews from the early teenage years on, it seems far more likely that they intend to use the children as some sort of Superhuman Task Force in order to promote their propaganda and renew public confidence in the government. They talk on the interviews as if the accident that caused the children's powers was not even an accident at all, but instead an act by the government to help reduce crime and promote the general welfare.

Don't believe them. It was an accident, I assure you and one that ruined the lives of six innocents. How do I know all of this you ask? Because I'm one of them. As I type all of this down on my laptop in a file I had encrypted by one of my fellow prisoners. No one will likely ever see this, but myself, but recording it all helps. And I solemnly swear to tell you all nothing but the truth in these files.

Before I go, there is something that you should all know, a few days ago we all turned seventeen, and the doctors had something new to tell us. They wanted to start a new part of our training: reintroducing us to our families. Our families will now be allowed to visit us. If that wasn’t enough stress we’re now going to start some of the missions that we were set up to do. Let’s just hope we can survive the next couple of weeks.

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"Ray"