CHAPTER 2

“Defend yourself with a smile, attack with silence and win with indifference”...

After 7 years, the prestige and popularity of Dr. Patrick Tempus only grew, as did his contempt for women. In his soul there was nothing but darkness and the desire to continue developing the Hybrid project that he had started with Perry Nelson those 7 years ago, but which always failed, since her uterus was unstable and prone to aborting the fetus that was beginning to form...

“Sometimes we isolate ourselves in our solitude and because of that we could stop developing adequate social skills”

Failure is part of life; If we don't fail, we will never learn, and without learning, we cannot change and even less evolve in a society as decadent as the one we are used to living in...

Such were Patrick's thoughts, which permanently took control of his mind and body, while he observed how there were more and more "pregnant girls" than young adults, it had been a long time since anyone cared about the safety of finishing growing; and university professionals were increasingly scarce.

A new patient came into his office; and like the previous ones, she was a minor of only 15 years old who did not work and who had been abandoned by her boyfriend, that is, the classic of every day...

The day passed and with it the numerous women who came in and out, some excited, others repentant, some anxious to give birth and others anxious to abort...

"¡The cycle of life, some come and others go!..."

Patrick had arrived again at the mansion, the same mansion that Perry had burned seven years ago…

He had ordered the reconstruction of his parents' mansion, adding 2 underground floors where he could carry out his secret research.

Once again, Patrick began to experiment with Perry Nelson's body, who now felt no pain, cold or heat; he had medically induced her to lose all possible human sensitivity; meanwhile, he was anxiously awaiting the delivery of the first twenty-five women with whom he would begin the first stage of his project… all these twenty-five women had something in common:

¡They were all patients close to giving birth to Dr. Tempus!

While Patrick was performing a Caesarean section and welcoming a new life, Dr. Richthofen and Brianna Bardot were finishing transporting the first twenty-five women to the basement of Dr. Tempus' mansion, then moving them to the second underground floor where the pregnant women, unconscious, were stripped of their clothes and attire and hung from the ceiling in the form of a spider, where each one took a specific position and were at key points on the ceiling, being connected to pressure tubes through which poisons, acids and other substances passed to equate the body with the new environment to which each of them were condemned, without knowing how they ended up in that place, some professionals and other obstacles of society that few would remember, or even, no one would bother to ask what happened to them, simple worthless women...

So, cautiously and slowly, Brianna Bardot began to explore the underground floor where she was, but when she reached a much lower floor where the pressure and darkness reigned, Dr. Richthofen stopped her, because the third underground floor is where the initial "Perry Nelson" experiment was and who was forbidden to talk or mention, even Brianna Bardot herself; this impressed her,  but she did not insist further because she knew the fetishes of Patrick Tempus and Richthofen, since both had been carefully monitoring her pregnancy for two years and with whom she had full and irreplaceable loyalty, she was the only woman who did not betray him.

And although she knew that Patrick Tempus looked down on any woman regardless of her status or social class, she knew that he would not betray her trust…

When Patrick arrived at the mansion, he ran like a child straight to the basement and the underground floors, where he barely arrived and saw Brianna sitting drinking whiskey and admiring the unconscious women hanging from the ceiling, he let out a sigh, and at that moment, Richthofen, who was coming in, touched his shoulder in greeting and Patrick did not hesitate to thank them for bringing the women to their “new home,” because they were his new toys and he would have a lot of fun with this first phase of the experiment.

So Tempus, tell me how many deliveries I am going to make to this place so that I am clear when it comes time to move from one place to another, said Brianna, tasting the whiskey that slid down her throat…

I like how direct Brianna or the Shadow Woman usually are, Patrick answered, whatever so you call me now… I need 3 more deliveries, but all at discrete times, we can't afford to draw the attention of the public eye by moving a hundred women at the same time, that's why we'll do it in stages…

I understand what you're saying, said Brianna, I'll have everything ready to move the next loads when I'm told, you know that not even death in person could break the pact we have of absolute loyalty between us.

Okay, gentlemen, Richthofen intervened, since we have the points of this first meeting clear, we can confirm that the project has started, Brianna, I'll need you to accompany me to move some highly dangerous chemicals to this place, since the first phase is already ready.

Remember to make sure that no one sees you leave this place and keep your eyes fixed on your back, we don't need errors in this project, said Tempus.

Once Brianna Bardot and Dr. Richthofen left that place stealthily, Tempus began to activate a substance that accelerated the process in women to give birth, and then, cut off the liquid that kept them unconscious and without feeling pain, now they would feel pain and agony at the same time that they tried to give birth hanging from the ceiling at temperatures below zero.

Thus, Patrick activated this first stage and lowered the temperature to fifteen degrees below zero, while he went to the mansion to finish reviewing some articles and formulas to begin trying to create a select group of "METAMORPHS", which would be the union of chemical materials and animal DNA fused with a resistant human body.

An orchestra of moans and screams erupted in the air, sounding in the distance at the same time, which calmed Patrick's non-existent nerves and cried inside to quench his thirst to go even further...

In a brief movement, Patrick changed the temperatures and now they were not dying of cold, on the contrary, the heat was unbearable, burning and dehydrating the twenty-five bodies that hung, some suffering even more from the pain of being connected to an umbilical cord, which pulled their vaginas tensing their muscles to the extreme... the babies were not worthy of living and their genetics were weak, so they would not contribute anything to society, and for that reason, those who had managed to get out and were hanging in the air were thrown by a machine to the fourth underground floor, where a sentence much worse than death awaited them.

The fourth underground floor was inhabited by genetically crossed animals, machines to kill living beings, so the smell of blood that flooded the fourth floor woke up the beasts that slept in that place, where the women, who were weak, tried to survive and take care of their newborns, but were brutally attacked by these species of "HYBRIDS," who mercilessly made the sound of bone crunching, while fiercely devouring the flesh of the women and their fetuses, which were now only particles that disintegrated thanks to the poison that those beasts never known transpired ...

There were still 3 women who had lost consciousness and two of them were dead, they could not endure the process and their body was not suitable to give birth ...

There was a girl who caught his attention because her body began to convulse in the air and her eyes were dry, her jaw was tense and although she was dilating, the fetus refused to come out, so the torture was much worse ... the pain of the contractions were stronger, something that the unfortunate woman had never experienced before… Patrick dropped the two dead bodies straight to the fourth floor, but he decided to leave this other woman on the third floor in a kind of hibernation state and in a cubicle separate from Perry Nelson…

Patrick, after sedating the woman and giving her a medicine specially prepared by him, to modify the DNA of the fetus through the umbilical cord, managed to calm her contractions; and thus transform, and possibly, derive the state of the fetus to an unknown origin, completely changing the human genetics that grew in Adelainne Claire's body...

Once the review and the implantation of genetic material in the fetus was finished, Patrick closed Adelainne Claire's cubicle and returning to the mansion, he enjoyed a steaming cherry tea, which he accompanied with semi-cooked beef steaks in twenty-five-year-old red wine in the mansion's gardens, just as a vehicle was passing by carrying some of the most acclaimed journalists of the Whistler showbiz, known for telling and narrating nothing but the truth in any article they were exposing...

With the sound of the TIC, TAC, of ​​the clock hands, Patrick Tempus resumed his main job; and while he put the cold gel to proceed to review the fetus of another patient who was a little older to give birth, because after forty-five years of age it is difficult to stabilize a fetus in the womb without a spontaneous abortion occurring.

The patient, named Olivia Rodriguez, a divorced banker by trade, had managed to get pregnant thanks to a meeting with a stranger on the Internet, who after picking her up left and did not contact her again.

Olivia was accompanied by a thirty-three-year-old woman named Ami July, who was irritating Dr. Tempus with her questions and the annoying sound she made with her heels when she stepped on the floor several times… Olivia had no idea how Dr. Tempus could still be single; and with how handsome he is he could easily have the queen of Amtar as a partner if he wanted to, but of course, she was completely unaware of the kind of monster that was hiding under that manly and beautiful appearance…

At the end of the day, Dr. Tempus finished organizing some documents and filling out some forms and leaving his office he met Ami July again, who was a gossip reporter and wanted to have an exclusive with the most famous gynecologist in all of Whistler… Excuse me for bothering you Dr., but I would like to interview you for the new concept of the magazine “THE NAKED TRUTH”, and with your collaboration we could both benefit, since you would gain more popularity and I would continue to grow as a journalist, Ami July told him.

Miss July, right now I cannot give an interview because I am still busy with some trips that I have to make throughout the territory of Whistler, in the various offices that are in my name.

I promise to be brief and not to inquire too much into your privacy, but I really need this interview with you, Dr. Tempus.

Excuse me journalist, but while you continue to waste my time with your insistence, there are patients who are waiting to give birth and if you continue to hold me up I will not be able to do my job properly.

Of course, doctor, I understand, you must be very busy due to all this controversy that has arisen from the fact that twenty-five women, all pregnant and about to give birth, disappeared.

I ask you to be a little sensitive regarding the subject because it is a little delicate, Miss July, and also, it is a pity, the disappearance of these women, for my part, I will continue to pray that they can soon appear... Of course, if it was not that these women ran away with some lovers, Miss July.

You know something Dr. Tempus, they were all patients of yours, they were in different parts of Whistler when it happened, none of them had a clear or close connection, but they were all registered as your patients, so I am aware that you must feel very distressed.

I ask you please not to make statements that could harm your career and ruin mine, although it is true that they were all registered in my offices, it does not mean that I personally attended to them, I have colleagues who are in charge of managing those offices.

Leaving Ami July with the word in her mouth, Patrick left, getting into his car in style and putting on the speakerphone, he made a call to his colleague Richthofen, who listened attentively to Patrick's instructions, where he told him that the next twenty-five women would have to be delivered as soon as possible, because of the first delivery only one seemed to have a little potential; and that he had already discarded the rest of the project, but that he had asked him to bring one in particular called Olivia Rodriguez.

Just as Richthofen was telling her there was no problem, Brianna Bardot started talking to Patrick and Richthofen, telling them that in order for the disappearance of women to remain a mystery, the rest of the cargo would have to be from within the borders of Whistler and other sparsely populated areas, and that at least six of said women would have to come from other medical offices, meaning other gynecologists so that they could not link the victims to Dr. Tempus…