The First Horseman (Spy Thriller-Area 51)

Chapter 4

4

-Rachel Nevada Area 51

21:00 hours

Dr. Klaus Von-Kleist looked at a digital blue LED clock at his workstation desk, it read 9pm. He was not nervous like he thought he would be, he knew what he had done, and he knew what was left to do. There was only one thing left that he aimed for. Down in the depths of this so-called military base was the reason a secret society had taken control to began with. Von-Kleist had been forced by the Disciples of Cain to work in underground labs for years. From their guarded secret he had produced such remarkable breakthroughs in foreign biochemistry. In hindsight, he felt he should have known they would seek to exploit his discoveries. He also knew that he'd had no choice in the matter. When the time came that the Disciples intentions where clear Von-Kleist felt his only option was to feign allegiance, until he devised a plan. Then, he met Michael Reaver and he knew that if there was a chance to disrupt the Disciples works, Michael needed to be part of it.

It was years ago now that they had appointed a team of scientists to work along side him. When he'd made his discoveries, The Disciples made sure they took them form him. The compliance serum, the virus he discovered when introducing a foreign DNA to a common virus already known to man, and lastly the cure to which they forced him tirelessly to create. Therefore when he made a countermeasure to reverse the affects of his compliance serum for Michael, he'd only made one vile.

Von-Kleist used his RFID chip to head through a series of secure glass doors to a lonely dim grey hallway. He had done all the Disciples of Cain had asked of him without resistance, except one thing. He knew his time was short now because Michael was free. The old Doctor suspected the Horseman would have had to abandon his cover by now to find out the truth and protect Stephen. Von-Kleist paced doubting himself for a moment. He thought, what if Michael was not the man he thought? What if Michael had not protected Stephen Ashcroft like he had surmised he would if freed?

The Doctor came to two large stainless-steel elevator doors like those in a hospital. He tapped his wrist against the controlled access RFID security pad and waited for the elevator to rise. Hearing it move from below he was relived that he still had clearance. Either Brian Ashcroft and his men had not found out about Michael and connected him to it all yet or they were about to. He didn't care, all that mattered to him now was ending the Disciples lust for power and control.

In one month, he would have turned ninety years old. He was tired, tired of the exploitation of the men and women in the facility by the few that really knew the end goal of what happened underneath Area 51. He was sick of the lies that had pushed him and the other scientists on his team to create a virus that they'd tricked him into believing would be used to help humanity.

For a little while in the beginning he really believed there had been value in what he had done. Perhaps the virus and the cure would be studied for breakthroughs in other illness', but it wasn't like that.

Von-Kleist knew the Disciples intentions were deplorable ever since he found out about the death of a fellow scientist, Julia Decker. He'd managed to see in the news that she had been found dead in her hotel room while on vacation. This after she'd whispered to him one evening that she'd discovered something concerning. She'd insinuated that their genetic discoveries pertaining to foreign DNA were going to be exploited. She told him she couldn't say much at the time, but she was going to flee while she still could. Klaus on the other hand was their prisoner. He could not run away to a Hotel nor could he flee. He had been tried and charged with war crimes he'd not even committed from world war 2, then they'd exploited him for his intellect forcing him to work in secret at Area 51.