The Dark Marshmello

Death Is Just A Process

Two weeks were gone since the fire incident at the Raven Labs, the lab had to shut down so no activities were going on in the lab, in the meantime doctor Bennard was no where to be found, she had done a pretty good job at hiding away from the world, she had bought a new house in a new city and only her brother knew of her where abouts, the house was a little bit bigger than her old house, it was big enough for her to have her own a private lab within the house, the lab was because she had to continue with project Alcatrez, she was so determined to finish what she started, for two weeks since she arrived at the house she spent most of her time in the lab, she had every information she needed to continue her work in the hard drive she had the other night, in the meantime forty eight was getting speech lessons from the ten year old Chris. Doctor Bennard couldn't risk anyone getting out of the house because she knew that the Question mark was looking for her, so she wanted Chris registered in a home school program so as he could continue learning, she knew if she let Chris go to actual school the Question mark would find them in no time, so she was taking every precaution to protect her family, making sure that the Question mark doesn't find them, in those two weeks she injected forty eight with blue chemical each night before she went to bed, and then afterwards doctor Bennard would go back to her lab and record everything on sound recording device, "day fourteen of injecting forty eight with Overdrenaline" she said to the recorder as she sat down on her moving chair, "Overdrenaline is supposed to heighten the secretion of adrenaline in her body" she took a little pause as she moved with her chair close to her computer, "it's known that a person's senses become heightened when they are in danger, the brain is also forced to make fast and accurate decisions, and the person becomes either highly powerful or absolutely helpless, I want to see what happens when the adrenaline secretion is high at all times", said doctor Bennard to her recorder, "i took her blood sample today, so let's see the results" she put the recording device at the table and then she took the blood sample that was on a small examining glass, she put the glass on a small machine rectangle in shape with a closing lid at the top, the machine was connected to the computer so was once she closed the lid the machine started doing it's work instantly, she moved back to computer to see the results, the computer displayed a comparison of the adrenaline secretion of a normal human being to the adrenal secretion of forty eight after injecting her with the serum, the results all looked the same, she sighed a little while looking at the computer, "experiment number twenty five, failed" she said to the recording device and landed it down the table, she woke up next morning and made breakfast for the kids and set it up on the table, "kids breakfast is ready" she yelled from downstairs at the kitchen table, and few seconds later quick footsteps were heard from the stairs, it was Chris alone who reached down the stairs, "where is forty eight" asked doctor Bennard when she saw Chris was coming alone at the table, "she's still upstairs I guess" he said, then pulled the chair and took a seat at the table, doctor Bennard left the table and went upstairs in fort eight's room, she got by her bedroom door but still she couldn't bring herself to open it, she stood right in front it and just looked at it for a moment, she sighed a little and then reached for the door handle and pushed the door, when she opened the door she saw forty eight sitting in the bed hiding her face between her knees and her arms crossed around her feet, she looked so scared, doctor Bennard went and sat with her in the bed, "what's wrong" she asked while looking at her, Forty eight raised her face and doctor Bennard saw that the pupil of her eyes had changed colour to blue, she was so shocked and suprised, she immediately carried her in her arms away from the room and straight into the lab they went, Chris was so shocked to see her mom running down the stairs and entering the lab with forty eight in her arms, in the lab she put forty eight in her chair, "when did this happen" she asked Forty eight while holding her by the shoulders
"morning, wake up" Forty eight replied,
"this morning" doctor Bennard asked again, and forty eight replied with a head node, she went and grabbed a syringe from the table and came back to forty eight, "hey close your eyes" she said while looking into her eyes, the little girl closed her eyes and doctor Bennard extracted a little blood from her body using the syringe, then she put some of the blood on a small examining glass just as last night and then put it on the machine, she bent over to the table and watched the adrenaline comparison from the computer screen, this time the level of adrenaline in Forty eight's body had spiked, it had increased by fifteen percent than a normal person's adrenaline level, she turned around to look at the little girl who has completely no idea what is going on, she then took the microscope from the table, carrying it with her two hands she landed it down on the floor, she then went over behind the girl, "hey can you do me favour and go pick that up" she said behind her ear  while pointing at the microscope, the little girl got out of the chair and went over to the microscope and pick it up with a single arm like it wasn't heavy at all, doctor Bennard was so shocked cause for her she used both of her arms and it was so heavy, "now bring it over here" she said and showed it with her hands, Forty eight started walking towards doctor Bennard, she reached and handed the over the microscope to her, doctor Bennard tried receive the microscope with a single arm like what Forty eight did, but it almost fell off because of how heavy it was to her, she realized that the serum had Increased Forty eight's strength.
It was a new day again in the city and Mary was back at work to try and figure what  meaning could the numbers possibly have, she had just arrived at the station and found the front desk was empty, no one was there, it  was weird because she always finds Lucy at the front desk, that didn't surprise her so much so she decide to go yesterday's investigation room, on her way there she saw Lucy talking to Henry, and they all seemed to be on edge like something terrible had happen, so she got closer to know what was going on, "you guys look terrible this morning" she said as she made a stop close to them
"Well that's because we have terrible news" Lucy replied, and lowered her shoulders down,
"what happened" asked Mary with a concerned face,
"You want to tell her or should I" asked Lucy while looking at Henry, Henry nodded his head indicating that she could go on,
"Mr. Dion got robbed, am talking completely drained of his money, not a single penny is left in his account, its just reported as cyber crime this morning" said Lucy
"Who else knows about this" asked Mary
"Just us and Claire, but the chief will find out soon" Henry replied, Mary stood and gave it a thought for a few seconds,
" Wait what's Mr. Dion's last name"asked Mary
"Uh.......Rembousy , why" replied Lucy
"Aha" she shouted and she snapped her fingers with her left hand
"What" asked Henry
"He is the killer's next victim" she replied as she started walking fast towards yesterday's investigation room,
"What makes you say that" asked Henry as he joined her on her left,
"Think about it, every victim before they die, they claim to have lost their most prized possession" she said as she kept walking
"What makes you think Dion is the one" asked Lucy who was walked with on her right,
"I don't, I just think the numbers will tell us" she replied
"So you are saying those numbers are alphabets" Henry asked
"Exactly, and within those numbers we may get a name" replied Mary, they arrived at the investigation room and they found Claire alone still staring at the board with no clue to what the numbers could mean, Mary went and grabbed the marker from her, "move" she said as she pushed her aside,
"Hey, not cool" she replied back, the numbers written on the board were,13-5-13-5-14-19-15_13-15-18-9, Mary wrote the alphabets from a to z on the board, then she assigned each letter a specific number from one to twenty six, "what is she doing" asked Claire,
"Shh" said Henry with his index on his mouth "just watch" he added, she started correlating the numbers left by the assasin and the numbers assigned to the letter, in the end she came up with a sentence that read "Memento Mori"
"What the hell is Memento Mori" asked Lucy,
"I don't know" Mary replied as she took a step from the board,
"That's Latin for remember you must die" said Claire, they all turned around to look at her,  it was a big surprise to them that she knew that
"What, I paid attention in history class" she added in high pitched voice, then Mary went and wrote the sentence remember must die on the board, "so I was wrong, it's not a name" said Mary with a little disappointment on her face
"Wait a minute '" she said as she looked closely at the board again, and with the marker she started selecting random letters from the sentence on the board, "what are you doing" asked Henry,
"shh" said Claire with index finger on her lips, " let her finish, pay back is a bitch right" she added with a smile on her face, she selected letters from each word in the sentence till he came up with the name Dion Rembousy, "it's hard to see it but its there" she said as she moved away from the board, "okay that couldn't possibly mean anything" said Henry, "the odds are like a million to one" he added,
"May be yes may be no, but either way we can't ignore this" said Claire
"This isn't the first time the killer left a message like this, right" asked Lucy, "there must be the one that showed that Mr. Bhode was next" she added,
"Yes, and we can use that to get our proof" said Mary,
"Claire would you go and get it" said Henry, Claire then left the room to go and fetch white Marshmello helmet that the assasin left before Mr. Bhode's death, she went to the evidence room took it and came back, they went through the same same process and the numbers this time brought a sentence Morior Invictus, "death before defeat" said Henry
"looks like someone paid attention in history class too" Claire replied as Mary was writing the sentence on the board
"Oh grow up" he quickly replied, again she selected random letters from each world in the sentence till the name Bhode Daret appeared, "you believe her now" said Lucy who was looking at Henry, "ok fine, let's go get Mr. Dion" said Henry, "oh and I want you to go to pull out everything on Mr. Dion and send it to me" he added while pointing his finger at Lucy, " you two grab your coats you are coming with me" he continued while pointing his finger at Claire and Mary. Mary, Claire and Henry took a car and headed to Mr. Dion's building, Lucy was on her computer on the front desk looking at every file that they had on Mr. Dion, soon as she saw the file she called Henry's phone, but Henry was driving so he couldn't pick up, he told Mary to pick up instead, "hey I think I got something" she said as she maneuvered the mouse on the table,
"Ok what do you got" Mary replied
"Mr. Dion is into some really weird stuff" she said while trying properly observe the file,
"Like what"asked Mary, asked Mary
"First he's got some really serious problem with sixteen year old girls, he had a three big cases of molesting them, and for some reason he walked out free" said Lucy,
"he was also involved in three different murders and still managed to get away with them" she added
"What the!" Mary replied in a shock, "that guy sounds like a real jerk" said Mary "and where was the police in all of this" she asked
"It turns out the witnesses never showed up so the court had to let him go" Lucy replied looking at the records on the computer
"All six murders" she asked, her voice sounded so confused and angry
"Yep, seems like it, i think he's got the system wrapped around his finger" said Lucy
"oh here is a real juice one" she added, "he is also a member of the black market" said Lucy
"this guy is at whole new level" she added with a surprised face
"Wait are you serious" asked Mary with a surprise on her face,
"Oh am damn serious" she replied, then clicked his picture on the computer and code name came up on display on the computer, "and they all got codenames, his is Red Oak"
"Red oak, what kind stupid name is that" Mary replied while looking at Henry
"I know right, it kinda sound like some weird monster throwing up" Lucy replied while imitating the sound of someone throwing up
"What else you got" she asked
"That's all, most of his files are classified you need special password to access them" Lucy replied, " all I can see are records from year 2013" she added.
They had reached at Mr Dion's buildings where he was running his company, they found a woman sitting at the front desk as a receptionist, "sorry we need to see Mr. Dion" said Henry who had his hand on the table
"Do you have an appointment" asked the woman, the reply got Henry so mad that he reached his pocket and pulled out his detective badge, but before he could put it on the table Claire grabbed his hand and stopped him, Henry turned around and looked at her with a big surprise on his face while Mary got close on the table and said, "tell him Red Oak is here to see him" she said to the woman behind the desk, the woman without a reply she took desk phone and called Mr. Dion's office, Mr. Dion saw the phone and picked it up
"Red Oak is here to see you" she said as she looked at her new guests faces
"Red Oak" replied Mr. Dion with a little surprise on his face
"Yeah" she replied the phone still in her ear
"Let them in" he replied, he sound so excited, and the put the desk phone down on the table, in his mind he thought it was the people from the black market, because no one knows about his codename except for them, he thought that they heard about the gold being stolen from him and they were here to help, "top floor, and then take a right" said the woman, giving them instructions of where to go,  they got to his office and they found him in his chair making some call on loan procedures, once they got in he put the phone down and hung up, "good am so glad your here" he said while looking at them, "I think it's one of your girl's responsible for theft on the gold" he said as he got up from his chair
"What girl" Henry asked
"Why am I getting the feeling that you are not who I thought you were" asked Mr. Dion with a shock on his face
"Well appearances can be deceiving" Mary Interrupted
"We are just concerned detectives who came to ask you a few questions about the cyber crime you reported this morning" said Claire with a smile on her face
"How did you know my codename" he asked with a little stammer on his voice
"Oh same way we knew that you make deals in the black market, and can I see that" replied Mary while pointing at the black Marshmello helmet on Mr. Dion's office table,
"So we're not here sue you or anything, but instead we're here to make you a deal" said Henry, at mean time Mary went at the table and grabbed the black Marshmello helmet as they kept talking to him, she turned it over upside down and inside she saw a piece of paper, when she pulled it out the piece of paper had a date written on it, "guys I think we're too late" said Mary with a disappointed face and the piece of paper on her hand,
"What do you mean" asked Claire
"He dies today" she replied back
"What!" Henry and Mr. Dion shouted together
"What do you mean I die today" continued Mr. Dion as Henry came to look at the piece of paper on Mary's hand
"There's a pattern left by two people working together, a thief and a killer" said Claire explaining to Mr. Dion,
"the thief steals your most prized possession and leaves you a black Marshmello helmet, it has a date that shows you when the killer will come for you" Mary joined in the explaining
"And then killer comes and makes sure that on that date, you're dead" said Henry with a little dispaire  in his eyes
"And again the killer leaves us with a white Marshmello helmet to tell us who's next on his kill list" said Claire
"So am going to die today" said Mr. Dion his voice sounded disappointed,
"No you are not, that doesn't have to happen if cooperate with us" said Henry,
"hey Claire, Mary, quick side bar" continued Henry, and pulled them to a corner in the office to talk in private
"I have an idea, what if we use him as bait" said Henry
"What do you mean" asked Claire
"I mean we get people from the station for a protection program, just so as we can catch the killer" he replied looking back at them both,
"I think it's a great idea cause he was going jail anyway" Claire replied, they all returned back to talk to Mr Dion,
"Me and my friends were just talking and we want offer you a deal we was supposed to take you back to the station, but instead we're going offer you freedom and you're going to help us catch the killer how does that sound" said Henry
"Can I get a second to think about it" he replied
"Sure" Henry replied back
"So you think he's going to take it" asked Mary
"He's a desperate man he doesn't want to go to jail, of course he would" Henry replied, Mr Dion turned around back to face them he took a little deep breath before he started talking
"Fine I'll take that deal, but I have one condition I get to keep my driver and my family is not be involved in this" he said
"Sure" Henry replied
"Ok, I want you two to go back to the station, Mary you a going to tell Lucy to prepare a squad that is going to protect Mr Dion" said Henry while facing Mary, he the turned around to face Claire, "Mr Dion's money got stolen, You're going to go back to the station and find it we find wherever it went we find the thief" said Henry
"Two birds with one stone" she replied while nodding her head appreciating Henry's plan,
"And you tell your family to leave the house and close all the doors and windows" said Henry pointing his finger at Mr.  Dion, Claire and Mary took the car back to the station, Mary informed Lucy what they were supposed to do and she then went back to her lab, Claire went to investigate on Mr. Dion's stolen money to make sure they find the thief too, Henry had to stay back with Mr. Dion to protect him before the protection calvary arrives, he had to make sure Mr. Dion wasn't dead before they arrive. Night had fallen on the city and Mr. Dion was still well and alive, wherever he went he was escorted by at least two people to protect him, in short there was no possible way that the killer would manage to kill him without being caught, there were many police around his house and Henry was instructing them on what positions to take, he even had prepared shifts for them, everything was going according to plan, Henry was standing in front of the gate waiting for Mr. Dion to show up from his work, because the doors to the house were still closed and he was the only one who could open them, he wasn't worried that anyone from his family could get hurt because they had prepared them a cabin faraway from the city and a lot of people protecting them as well, Henry took out his phone and called Mary
"Did you catch the killer" said Mary soon as she answered the phone, Henry chuckled a little
"No we didn't, who ever they are they haven't showed up yet" he replied
"What about Mr. Dion's family aren't they going to get hurt" asked Mary
"We took them to one of Mr. Dion's old cabin far up in the north, they are well protected, they will be fine" he replied
"Everything is going according to plan huh" she replied while swirling some chocolate in a big bowl
"Yeah, what are you doing" asked Henry
"Making a chocolate cake" she replied, Claire came up to Henry and interrupted the phone call, "hey Mr. Dion is coming" she said while tapping Henry's shoulder, Henry turned around and looked at Claire,
"get everyone to position" he said with his phone away from his ear, he then went back on the phone to talk to Mary,
"Am sorry Mr. Dion just showed up, am going to have to call you back" he said and then hung up the phone, Mary was at kitchen sink back at her house, she put the phone down and sighed a little, she was worried that Henry might get hurt, and even far worse that they couldn't catch the killer, back at the house Mr. Dion was showing up in his car, he had two people inside the car protecting him, the car through the gate it went in the house and parked, Henry and Claire went to receive him to assure him that nothing will happen and he was going to be fine,
"Ok these guys are going to protect you where ever you go except in the bathroom of course" he told Mr. Dion once he got out of the car
"We are going to have people in the house too, we are doing everything to make sure this killer doesn't get to you" Claire supported the conversation, Henry turned to Claire and pulled her away from the place to talk to her, "you take charge inside the house, and I'll be outside" said Henry
"Ok fine how many men should I take" she asked
"I think six is enough right, I don't think it such a big house" he replied as he looked at the house, and Claire replied with a head node, and went to appoint six men to help her guard inside, while Henry turned back to talk to Mr. Dion
"My friend Claire is going to be with you inside, she's just picking up men to protect you" said Henry with a smile on his face
"Everything will be fine you don't have to worry, we are going to make this work" he added.