Hidden and Silent (SpyxFamily)

Ch. 19: Part Five

 'Location Four Expense Reports'.

'Location Four Expense Reports.'

Location four expense reports?!

There were more labs?! How many did the director have?! How was the SSS so ignorant to all these threats to their country?!

Yuri scoffed unbelievingly as he let it drop to the table and began to rifle in frantic outrage through the rest of the papers.

Another page of calculations. Another one. A progress report. Something about the scientists and agents. Page after page untill—

"Location Three Expense Reports' and two more following it for one and two.

Yuri didn't see any more like them.

Four labs.

Where were the other two?! Were they like this one?! What was the point of all these labs?!

Yuri was sickened. He was disgusted. They had found this lab weeks ago and there were still more, probably with more children being experimented on since then. The SSS wasn't done. They had to find them now. But where were they?

Yuri wanted to take a look through everything here, but that would take too much time. He should gather it all up and bring it to the SSS where he could properly study it.

The desk drawers were yanked open to see what they held and he found regular desk supplies and, in the the deepest one, a holder filled with organized, labeled folders.

Yuri was about to pull them all out when—

Wait a minute.

A bell went off in Yuri's head and he turned his attention to the desk once again and the papers scattered about. He dug around until he found it.

"Progress Report."

Yuri had glanced past this earlier, but he was too worked up to process what it meant. It could be written by an agent or scientist for the director to read, but somehow, Yuri doubted it. As he looked over it, he became increasingly confused.

Progress Reports:

Dear leader,

I am pleased to inform that Subject 007 has stabilized since she went missing, exceeding the timeline of development of Subject 001 and 004 by a considerable margin. Her previous lack of progress is no longer a concern as it seems her power has increased to the levels of 004, going by his latest assessment. At first, we assumed her nosebleeds were a result of her limited tolerance to the quantity of voices she hears, and this is partially true, but we have since realized her range has grown exponentially. The resulted nosebleeds are merely a symptom of too much power for such a young body, though it has not shown signs of breaking down. In light of this, I expect her abilities to continue to develop faster and stronger than the other subjects and if all goes well, she will be ready for you to receive her much earlier than we had ever anticipated. However, if her abilities extend, she will need additional training before she is ready. Neither 001 or 004 have reached our goals as of yet, but I am hopeful for 007.

Concerning the other subjects, I am most aggrieved to say we have yet to create more espers, though we have several new methods that will hopefully change that. Our scientists are constantly innovating and learning and the subjects have been surviving longer as a result. It is only a matter of time before we succeed.

Deepest regards,

Kai Forester.

Yuri read it again, unease creeping uncomfortably over him as he considered what this meant. Questions popped up and made the unsettled feeling worse and worse.

Kai was working for someone else? Who was this "leader"? The director was planning on sending the chihuahua to this mystery person? Why? What did the leader want her for? Well, for her telepathy, obviously, but what for?

Yuri hastily folded it up and stuck it in the inside pocket of his jacket. He didn't know why, he just did. Maybe Yor would want to see it.

A sense of urgency was slowly climbing into his skin and he rushed to gather the desk papers and haul up the thing of files. He hoped he would be able to carry it all as he began to pull off the binders from the nearby shelf. He proceeded to stack everything up to transport it in a manageable way.

BOOM!

Yuri jumped and shook at an explosion that shuddered the walls and quaked the ceiling. The echo was massive, firing noise in every direction and the floor clittered softly with falling dust and debris. But when the initial sound should have faded, something worse followed.

Yuri ran as the building began to come down on him.