Evil Unleashed

Deep within the laboratory’s basement, a disgruntled scientist named Mark had finally achieved the breakthrough he had been looking for.  They had called him mad for his theories on harnessing the full power of the pituitary glands and adrenal cortex in men and animals. Mark’s experiments had led him to achieve success in a branch of cognitive psychology that other scientists of his school had been saying would not be reachable for another thousand years.  They were wrong, so very wrong, for now the scientist who had been banished from practicing medicine due to his inhuman experiments, had finally discovered something that could give him control of the entire planet.  Now he could exact his revenge not only on the medical community but on the entire world.

Throughout his medical career he had indeed killed many animals, but he’d had no other choice. There’d also been top secret experiments done on certain institutionalized people, but those experiments had been absolutely necessary. It was quite unfortunate that all except one of his human subjects had died.

When somehow the public got wind of brain experiments being done on humans, the group of scientists who’d sponsored and encouraged Mark then betrayed him to the media.

Mark was tipped off before the police could catch him. When they went to the hospital he was gone, along with the lone surviving patient, whose name was Karana.

Mark’s house was empty as usual. Only an army cot, some crushed pizza boxes, and a few scattered notes could be seen in the now deserted space.

When the police went to the hospital to look for Mark, the head of the group of scientists went to Mark’s house, to look for anything that could be useful in his own private attempts to tap into the powers of the pituitary gland.  His name was Wayne, quite a brilliant scientist as well.

After breaking into Mark’s house, Wayne thought to himself “He must have some kind of notes here. I must find them.”  After saying that, Wayne noticed the pizza boxes, and then he went over to them.  He kicked them out of the way and saw nothing but a tile floor.  As Wayne was about to leave, he glanced at one of the crushed pizza boxes.  There was some kind of writing on it.  Exuberantly, he picked up the crushed pizza box.

As he straightened out the box, he said, “This is it.  I have found the key to total power.  I cannot believe it’s this easy.  The answer was always this simple, and I couldn’t get it. Thanks to that fanatic, I have the answer. I will be invincible.”  Following that statement, Wayne laughed and walked out.

When the police arrived, the house was empty, and apparently, Mark had no basement. The group of scientists who’d betrayed Mark thought he only worked at the hospital lab or his house.  But they had no idea of his secret lab, which looked like an abandoned warehouse on the outside.  On the inside was the most advanced scientific mind that ever walked on the planet earth.  Normal men thought him to be mad, but time was about to tell the truth.

Back at the secret laboratory, Karana had opened her eyes.  After willingly being subjected to Mark’s experiments, she had awakened.  Over the years, Mark’s theories had always improved Karana slightly, physically and mostly mentally.

When he’d performed his first surgery on Karana, she was a twelve year old vegetable.  After his very first brain experiment on Karana, she had been able to talk, her I.Q. was 100, and her strength fluctuated from that of a toddler to that of a woman bodybuilder.

Mark knew theoretically what would happen if he could somehow completely control the functions of the pituitary glands and the adrenal cortex.  Now he’d found the answer. He was now able to use his process for successfully opening the pituitary gland and adrenal cortex and stimulating them into secreting whatever amount of steroid hormones he, the experimenter wanted.  He also knew that by bypassing the adrenocorticotropic hormone which controls the secretion of steroid hormones by the adrenal cortex.  Yet Mark’s techniques made this hormone non-effective with no danger to the person being altered by the process. By using his process he had control of the pituitary gland, but he liked to use only the parts dealing with adrenaline secretion from the adrenal gland.

Karana just got a chip implanted in her brain, and she was none the wiser.  It prevented her from becoming enraged with Mark.  Mark was going to adjust the computer chip in Karana’s brain so that she could not disobey him, but he figured with the chip like it was she would never think about a computer chip in her brain.  If the chip had been different, Karana would have become smart enough to know Mark had implanted something in her brain, and in knowing that, she would probably have destroyed  Mark.

“Karana, how do you feel?”

Karana touched her bald