The Karma Study

Chapter 22 - Patty Hearst

Participant X

Did they honestly think they wouldn't be noticed? Basically a whole band of mafia trained soldiers rushing a property that was believed to be abandoned years ago? Sure not every vehicle is obvious but they have to be totally self-centered and naive to believe that nobody would tip Khal off.

To be fair I've been right under their noses forever now, so I guess they wouldn't expect for the Cambions to be notified of Karma's latest plan. They don't even know I exist beyond my "normal" interactions with them. They have no clue I'm a human weapon trained in the same way as Zoe and yet— yet here they are once again looking right over me.

I'm tired of it.

So of course I let my boss know the Karma boys were heading that way and about to take over the entire study and completely ruin his experiment.

My boys, my Max. It's unfortunate it had to come to this but I refuse to be the in the shadow of a fucking bird for the rest of my life.

At least the boss sees my potential, he knows I'm good, and he knows I'm better. I know he'll reward me for the intel I've been able to get for him over the last couple weeks.

H-he hasn't yet, b-but I know he will. I know he will, he promised I'll get a reward this time. When I didn't let him know fast enough about how they could see her through that camera in her r-room the punishment was lethal.

No.

I deserved it.

I owed him.

It was just a shock and I was bad. I was bad. I was bad. I was bad. I was bad. I was bad. I was bad.

No.

Now I'm good, he said I can be good so I know this was good. He is going to reward me this time.

Good. GoooOOd. Good. God. God. I might be one in the making.

I would kill that insipid fucking bird if I knew it wouldn't be my own death sentence.

I long for the day that he lets her and I take to the mat.

Sure she might be stronger, and she might be lethal in her attacks, but I'm calculated. I'm faster. Boss has almost moved me to level Z.

Well, I suppose I need to get to Y first, but I'll breeze through those trials. I made it to X in the matter of no time. NooooOO time. No tim. Tim. I've never met a Tim before. Timmy Tim Time Timothy, Tim, Temporary. Temporary. That's all she is, that's all the fucking sparrow will ever be. Temporary. Good luck little birdy, because there's a cat just waiting to gobble you whole.

It took Boss a lot of work to get me to where I am today, that's why I owe him everything. Even my life— Even the Karma's lives.

He did something to my brain I think. He buzzed buzzed buzzed it so many times that now I sometimes think I really am a machine. Or a robot.

An unstoppable super-human robot with tunnel vision for the purpose of this experiment.

The purpose to serve. The purpose to be his, and his alone. To do as he says because if I do as he says, then I will get everything I ever wanted. He promised.

I'll have Max, and the others I suppose. But I'll have Max. Max is mine, and I'll have his heart whether it's beating in his chest, or sitting cold in my hand.