Institute of Apotheosis Research Ch. 29

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Sincerely,

Deidre Icke, Esq.

President of The Institute of Apotheosis Research

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Alex Icke -- Gemini

I blinked, my mother's words echoing through the locked store room. "What?"

"Why did you do it?" she asked, her voice sounding tinny through the speaker.

Through the haze I realized what I'd done. What I was. I stared up at the camera in the corner, rising to my full stature. "Why not? Dr. Blavatsky was wrong about Ulrich. You know it. What else was he wrong about?"

"So, you think you could decide who got the Halo?" my mom asked, her words incredulous. "That you were worthy of the power?"

I smiled. "You'll understand when I see you in person. Now let me out of here."

"Not until the Protocols are finished and the facility is evacuated," she said. "Then you'll be free to..."

"To be a God?" I arched an eyebrow. "To reshape the world, Mom?" I flexed my fingers. I knew what the nanites had done to me. I wasn't sure why I passed out, maybe it was a side-effect of the Gemini halo.

I'm scared, Alex, Alexis's word whispered in my mind. I'm all alone. Where are you?

"You locked up Alexis, too?" I demanded.

"I had no choice," Mom said. "The Protocol isn't done yet!"

Anger flared through me. I threw myself at the door, putting all my weight into it. The metal door groaned. My shoulder throbbed, but it didn't hurt as much as it should, the bruise already fading as the nanites healed me.

I wasn't human any longer. This door wouldn't hold me.

I threw myself against it again and again while my mother begged me to stop.

To be continued...