Bonus Stories -unedited-

-The men in masks-

By Michael James

Part 1 Born

In the lab...

“Where... where am I?” Joker looked around the room. Seeing several men wearing surgical masks. She was bare and embarrassed to be so. Yes she was a raptor girl, but still it was humiliating. “Excuse me, can I have something to cover myself with?”

“Success, the first of the raptor cards to actually survive.” She used her hands to cover herself. “My friend give her your lab coat. We cant have our hard work sitting there in the nude. His subordinate took off his lab coat. Joker was frail, confused and scared. The man in charge introduced himself as Dr. Decker. “We wont hurt you, I would swear my life on it.” Joker then asked where she was? “For now I will tell you that you are in a safe place. A secret lab where we will protect you.”

“Why am I in the nude?” He explained she had just come out of a flesh pod. If she looked to her right. The pod was still there. “Okay” she said being more fearful. Decker told her that they weren't sure if she was going to die. Just like the others that came before her. Had they been certain she would live. They would have dressed her. “What others that came before me?” Many had died, drowning in their pods.

“Sir, perhaps I should take her to get washed up.” Said a woman in the doorway. Decker told her this woman would not hurt her. She would take her to a shower and clothes.

A little while later...

“Do the clothes fit?”

“Yes, everything but the bra. I guess being a lizard woman. It would be near to impossible to get my waist size right.” The lady chuckled, then Joker gave out a bit of laughter.

“Please come, Dr. Decker wants to see you as soon as he can.” Joker walked down the halls. The environment was combination of lab and a shelter. “Sir, I brought her.” Decker dismissed her and invited Joker to eat something on the table. It was all he had to offer, sandwiches. She did not complain.

“I don't believe anyone has told you your given name. You are Joker, the future wife of the raptor card leader. She asked what her purpose was beside a wife? Was she to make children. “I'm afraid that level of development is beyond us. No, you are to to serve as second in command. You are weapons, who will conquer and destroy everything.” Joker became scared by these words.

Listen-

“Ace will kill the kings of the queens, to have Jacks and tens rule all.”

That phrase was her activation command. Her war frenzy and aggression surfaced. At that moment, she became a weapon. It as simple as entering a password on a computer. In a moment her personality changed forever. Joker first action was a wicked smile.

“I know what I was created for now. I welcome my career as an ultimate weapon. Do tell me, when will my mate be born?” Decker told her a while yet. Ace was the most important. His birthing must be the utmost perfect of all and had to be the last. Did she know why they wore the masks? “That way, when it comes time to act. I will destroy all, if I don't know your faces. I will not be emotionally attached.

“Very good, now I want you to strip.” This was a test to see if her fear of humility had dissolved. She stood there, bare with the same smile on her face. She asked if he was interested? “Go to your quarters, we start training you tomorrow afternoon. Oh, and put your clothes on before you leave my office.” Why?

The next day,

in a massive box canyon...

“She is perfect.” WHAT? Decker shook his head. Joker was flying from one end of the canyon to the other. Launching herself and making deafening noise. Her strength and combat skills were unmatched. Brutish prisoners were put in cages with her, with weapons. Joker just decimated them without fault.

In Decker's office...

“Yes sir, I believe you will be impressed.”

Part 2

You're A Fail Safe, Nothing More

A week later

in Joker's room...

“I see, this is what a man looks like.” Joker requested a certain magazine. She was looking it over with great interest. Decker knocked on the door. “Come in.” He walked in the room and it was very awkward. “Sir, what can I do for you?”

“The man funding this project is visiting us tomorrow. He is most eager to meet you.” She asked if she would be killing anyone for him? “Perhaps, he mostly wants us to prove the millions he's sank into this project. Are going to show results.” She was alive, wouldn't that qualify as a result? “A very big result, he just wants to know that you'll carry out his wishes. So yes, you will be killing many people.”

“Decker, I have a question.” Yes? “Do all men have this thing?” Decker looked at her and asked her to focus. “I'm focused, I now know I'm going to kill someone. This is very important and I will not make you look foolish. Now on to biology...”

The next day...

“Hello sir, its a pleasure.” This man was 4ft 5inch, a physically challenged man. He looked Joker over and gazed at her chest a bit. Not saying a word to her. He asked Decker if the demonstration was ready. “Yes, I'm ready to kill for your entertainment.” He snapped at Joker, telling her only to talk when spoken to. As he walked past her Joker looked at Decker. “Am I to service this man?” Decker told her that was unlikely. “Because I don't mind.”

In the booth,

in the box canyon...

“I specifically asked for a mindless pawn Decker! You created a girl with a thought of free will. I am most disappointed already. Pray I am not disappointed further.”

Joker stood in the canyon center. Prisoners with guns and blades were all around her. Several dozen men and women. Not knowing what they were up against. Begin...

Everyone with a gun opened fire. Joker shot up through the air. Killing man in the blast. As she fell she did a nose dive. A dozen prisoners shot her from the distance. Joker rushed them and killed them flying past. She picked up a machine gun on her way by. When she reached the canyon wall. Joker opened fire on them. Her shots were extremely accurate for her weapon. A man holding a sword was soon. The only one left. She walked up to him picking up a batton.

They stared each other down. Then he charged and Joker met him half way. Without a use of her powers, she cleaved off his head. Hitting him at the neck with the rod.

“You see sir, she is a perfect weapon.” The short man told them he wanted her bound. “Yes sir.” Joker didn't even resist as they strapped her to a wall. In her state, if they decided to kill her. She couldn't do anything about it. The short guy told the staff to leave.

When they were alone...

“You were a very expensive endeavor. Every time they failed to make one of you. It cost me over a million in currency. I could have bought a small country. For the cost of having you made. I must say I am most disappointed you were the final result.”

“You use precision, skill and honor. I wanted something that will destroy anything like a mad man. No sense of honor or precise movement. As far as I'm concerned your still a failure.” Joker opened her mouth to talk several times, no words came out. “Speak, you obviously have something to say, out with it!”

“Sir, I will serve my purpose as your doomsday weapon. You can count on me to bend the world to your will.” He took a taser out of his pocket. Asking if she thought that was his wish. “I assumed it was. Was that not the reason for my creation?”

He jolted her in the stomach saying “you do not assume anything! You were created to be a fail safe, nothing more. I have a terminal cancer and I'm doing everything to screw over the world. When I die, your kind will destroy the world. Killing everything ion your wake. DO YOU UNDERSTAND!” Joker asked him to please stop hurting her. She would carry out these orders without question.

2 days later,

still strapped to the wall...

“Decker, may I please be set free?” He told her as he stuck a syringe in her neck he was sorry. “What are you doing?” His orders.

Part 3

Insanity

Beyond over night...

“Hey can you please let me go. I need to stretch my legs.” The man told Joker that she would be set free soon. “Why not now?” He didn't have permission to let her go. “Come on just let me move one hand.” He didn't see the harm in letting her move her hand a bit. He let loose the restraint and she grabbed him by the neck. With an immediate notion she dented his skull with her fist. He fell to the floor. Just not before she claimed the key card. Following which she released herself.

In the short guys office...

“Don't tell me you are feeling compassion for that creature? You will finish her treatments.” Decker told his employer that it wasn't love for a woman. It was a love for a sister. He refused to finish what he started. “That's to bad” he said pulling a gun on him. During this tense moment. A worker barged in.

“Sir's, the weapon has escaped. We must get you out of here.” Decker charged the short man and he shot him in hip. The guard pulled out his gun and shot the employer.

“Do not... harm... her.” Decker said falling to the floor in pain. Soon after that Joker walked into the room where Decker was. The hired hands didn't attack her. They just let her wander where she pleased. She looked at the 2 men.

“What happened here?” The guard told her everything. Joker put her foot on the short mans head. He went everywhere in a single second. “I want to be alone with Decker now.” He was in a lot of pain, and was treated. It was illogical to think you'd go to a hospital. In their line of work anyway. “Decker, I sense loyalty to me here.”

“Joker... I have a reversal serum. Its... in my... office. My... last... service to you. It... will make... you...” Decker died with his head on her lap. Joker seemed upset, and yet overjoyed.

“You there, take me to this serum.” Joker was escorted to his office. The serum was easily attainable. When the syringe was in her hand. She sprayed it into the air. Everyone was anxious around her. Joker was a multi million currency weapon. What caused more confusion was what she said next. “Put me to sleep. When I wake I expect to be able to destroy. With my mate by my side. I don't see the point in destroying this world alone.” Joker willingly walked to a stasis pod prototype.

	“Initializing deep sleep status. Keep all away from the closing door” said the automated voice. Joker looked at everyone as it closed on her. Thinking these guys are were going to destroy her, but who cares.

-The Peace Gene-

By Michael James

Part 1 Wrong Resume

19 years, after she went to sleep...

	Alert pod is now opening...

	“Mm, well I see I still have my clothes on. I guess that's an improvement to the last time I became aware.” Before her was a man in a surgical mask with dark black skin. Beside him were men with tasers. “I assume you're going to jolt me?”

	“I wasn't sure if you would be hostile when I woke you up. There is no need for violence from either side.” Joker smiled with her teeth grinning. Turn off the rods and she would play nice. “Disarm yourselves. We woke her up for her help, not to hurt her.” Joker had one immediate request. She needed to use a toilet. “I'll fresh clothes brought to you. You may find difficulty removing your old ones.”

In the lavatory...

	“The guy wasn't kidding, Its like their glued to my body. Hey, whoever is out there. I need help.” A young man walked in seeing her chest exposed. He quickly turned his head. Telling her, if she took a shower. The old fabric would come off easier. “Have you never seen these things before?” He said he had been castrated. “That's got to suck. Please take me to the shower. Just give me your coat.”

After her wash...

	“Next time I go into that thing. I'll be nude. I feel like I just shed a second layer of skin. The same guy wearing a mask was standing outside the door. He was waiting to take her to his boss. “Hey, did you peak?” No! “Do you want to take a peak?” He muttered no again only softer. “What happens next?” He was to take her to Lung.

In Lung's office...

	“Joker, please come in. Can I offer you something to eat or drink?” She'd like a hard beverage. “All I have is whiskey.” That would be most excellent. He filled a full glass, and she shot it in one gulp. “Now getting to business.”

	“Yes well, the last time I was in this office. Both my provider and employer died. I would prefer not to be in this room long.” Lung asked if there was somewhere else she'd like to talk? “Anywhere else is fine. Do tell me, were the others created?”

	“This way...” Lung took her to the capsule room. There she saw Ace through the glass. Joker was most pleased with how he looked. Then asked when she got to meet him? “I would like not to wake him. He is reacting negatively to the peace gene.” What was that? “Its a retro virus, designed to make him less hostile.

	“I'm confused, aren't you going to release us to destroy the world?” No, he wanted them to save it. “YOU MUST BE JOKING!” “I know this wasn't what you were designed for initially.”

	“Lung! Did you not read my resume?” He said that he woke her for an assignment. That was why they risked waking her up without the gene. “Who else has the gene implanted?” 2 through 9, the strongest ones were reacting with tolerance to the virus. “Who is it you want me to kill?” There was a dictator destroying the world with bombers. “Okay that sounds like fun. Where do I find him?”

	“This locator is linked to his privet aircraft. He stops and raids airports for fuel” he told and her the device. “He hasn't destroyed much yet, but I've been trying hard to get this elite unit approved. If you succeed, I would get permission to set all of you free.”

	“I want to be with my mate. Promise me I'll be with him and I promise to take this guy out.” He swore the first after her to woken up, would be Ace. “You got yourself a deal. How do I get out of here?” Lung told her, that he had body armor for her and weapons.

Part 2

Seagull Air Harbor

3 weeks,

after being deployed...

	“You know how pretty you are little flight attendant?” She begged him not to hurt her. And as he leaned in for a kiss. His radio blared, followed by gunfire in the distance. “What the hell is going on?!” The guys shouted they were under attack by a dinosaur. “You must be joking, a dinosaur?!” They repeated there was a raptor firing at them! “Uhg, how long until all my planes are fulled?” 20 minutes or less!

In the airport...

	“I can say I like this weapon, except it's slowing me down.” Joker was armed with a high caliber LMG. Which was to heavy for a human to use. She discarded it and pulled out blades.

	“Whatever the hell it is, its out of ammo. Lets take it out!” Joker was offended she was referred to as an it. Now she needed to make them pay. While she was in combat. Lung was watching her with his boss. On the video feed from the airport cameras.

	“Lets rock!” She shot herself at them. In one charge, she killed 12 of them and wounded 3. “Oops, I didn't mean to let you live? I'll correct that mistake.” Her next charge, she killed the wounded and 5 more. This was when she got creative with her movement. The best way to describe her attack. Was looking at a super fast pong game. She was aiming for walls and killing every chance she got.

In the main plane...

	“Why are there so many explosions? It sounds like a tank battalion going over a mine field in there!” That was when he saw Joker shoot up through the roof. “Okay, that does look like a dinosaur. GET MY FLEET IN THE AIR!” His men asked about the hostages? “Throw them out of the planes. We need to get out of here!”

In Lung's office...

	“Alright, I approve of the use of these weapons. You will have your funding ASAP. I just ask that you keep a leash on her. She a most dangerous and beautiful weapon.

On the runway,

in a massive plane...

	“That thing is coming for us?”

	“Impressive that it can keep up with us.” He put a gun to the pilots head saying be in awe later. Right now his job was to keep him alive. “I understand sir.”

	While they were lifting to the air. Joker was in fact gaining on them. Like a bullet gaining ground on a ball shot from a bebe gun. The guys plane lifted off the ground. Followed by 11 bombers. They thought they were in the clear. Except the rear craft lost sight of Joker. These bombers were able to seat 5 men. All sitting down

	“I don't understand, how could you have lost sight of it?!” Very soon they heard a banging sound above. “You have to be joking. It attached itself to the hull?!” This was the last thing they heard before the craft blew up. In the explosion, Joker caught a ride like a rocket to the next. From one bomber to another. Until all that was left was the dictators craft. Which was the size of Air Force 1. Rather than just blow it up. She thought she should have a little fun.

	“You protect me you hear. I don't want this thing to kill me! Protect me with your life or by god help me...” As soon as the word me left his mouth. A door was ripped off the plane. “I AM MORE IMPORTANT THAN YOU!” He ran to the planes lowest level and hid like a child. There was a great deal of gunfire going off. When he started to cry the shots stopped. Joker walked down the stairs.

	“I smell urine. Why not come out and talk to me me, man to woman. He had a pistol in his hand. A 6 round revolver. He pointed it at her as he stood up in soiled pants? “There you are.”

	“I... I have cash. I'll give you all I have, just don't kill me. Wait I know, why don't you come work for me. Yes, together we can bring this world to its knees.”

	“You think I need your help to do that? Don't worry though, I'm not going to kill you. I'm just going to rip your limbs off. That way I can take you to my employer. I'm sure he'd love to meet you.” The guy put the gun to his temple and pulled the trigger. Unfortunately the chamber jammed. “Bad luck for you sir.”

	“I want my mommy...” less than an hour later. The plane crashed into a mountain side. With a guy with no arms and legs strapped to the pilots chair. Screaming at the top of his lungs for his mother to come save him. Joker broadcast his last words to Lung.

	He was scared of her malicious behavior to say the least.   

Part 3

The 4 Suits Object

When Joker walked,

through the front door...

	“Joker, you are to follow me to the canyon area” said a soldier. She didn't have a problem with this. In fact she would enjoy a little demonstration. As she walked into the canyon. Lung was there with general who was funding the project.

	“I was most impressed with your work. I see a bright future ahead for you” said the general. Lung congratulated her as well. She wanted what was promised to her. “I was made aware of the deal Lung made with you. I just would prefer it just be you for now.” Excuse me? “You see letting you all loose might steer a sign of stupidity. I mean you were more than enough to take out a terrorist on your own. Think of how much we can save just funding you.”

	“I was promised my mate!”

	“And he was not in a position to grant that request.” Joker started to growl at him. “I see, I knew you were going to be difficult.” 15 men standing in the canyon. Pulled out stun guns shot enough voltage in her to power a small town. When Joker came out of it. She was restrained in arm and leg locks. Her feet in a position where they couldn't touch anything. There were 5 men ready to jolt her if she escaped.

	“Oh I'm going to love to hear an explanation for this.” The general visited her a little while later, she was not impressed. “When I get free from these cuffs I'm going to kill you.” He smiled and told her that when she was submissive. She would be set free. “I don't think you understand. You killed my trust. The only thing you had to control me with. Now I'm going to lay siege to your world.”

In a research room...

	“That Decker guy was so far ahead of his time. He managed to create the set of them. Just using his last will and testament.” Lung asked why he was called down to the lab? “Yes sir, their cores for their explosive powers are completely flesh made and eternal. The more they use their powers. The longer life span they will have.”

	“Now, this device I'm holding that is the size of a large marble. This is beyond impressive! It fuel their cores and as long as it is exposed to explosive energy. The raptors connected to it will never die. The only draw backs are. Its a one way street, once exposed it cant be reversed. The other thing is, if its destroyed those under its protection will die.” Lung felt there was something else. “It would probably cleanse the peace gene. Meaning we cant use this for or against them.”

	“I think we should destroy her” said the general walking in. “Take our chances with the model.” Lung told him she was dangerous, but alive versus dead. The organization could learn volumes more with her alive. Besides, they were the ones that betrayed her. “Yes... and?” What did he mean and? “You're on the government payroll. Taking more time to study a new weapon. Means a longer amount of paychecks.”

	“Lets put her to sleep. I can still learn from her while shes in a sleeping state.” When he stopped talking the alarm sounded off. “General, a small army, and a fleet of bombers couldn't stop her. I doubt we could stop her ourselves.” What would he suggest? “Give her what she wanted for the time being.”

	“You're insane. You think we should release another one!?” Lung told him that she would eventually find them. It was only a matter of time. He put a gun to Lung's head “find another way.”

	“Its to late... she's behind you.” He jerked his head seeing nothing, before he knew it. Lung broke his arm and took the gun. “You may have destroyed our world general. I call this mercy, you would be sentenced to torture, for damning us all.” After the shot was fired. He told the staff to go hide.

When Joker found him...

	Putting the gun to his head he asked “do you want this?” Joker had pretty much killed everyone. She could smell him and saved him for last. Joker laughed...

	“You think your death would mean anything to me. The only thing I would ask is for you to have a slower death.” If she allowed him he would wake her mate. “I pretty sure I can figure that out on my own. When we all are awake. We will destroy this entire planet. We will use your kind to hunt for sport. Almost like cattle raised for slaughter.” Lung was scared to death of her, still he had a plan.

	He pointed his gun to the ceiling. Attached to the ceiling, were several electric grenades. Joker didn't have time to look up.

Part 4

She Will Wake Up

In a hearing...

	“Lung, you are charged with insubordination. As well as the murder of a general. Granted you were in your rights to kill him. Had you not silenced the threat and stopped your commanding officer. We all may have been destroyed. I am ordering the termination of the raptor card project. At least for the time being.” The time being? “They are to be kept in stasis, for one day we will call on them again.”

In the facility...

	“She could wake at anytime. All she needs to do is pull the same stunt” one scientist said to the other. Lung walked into the room. Telling them they were putting her back in her pod. “We better do it quick.” The sedatives they were using  would wear off soon.”

	“She deceives you. She is already awake.”

	“I was hoping I could get the drop on you Lung. I wanted you to be my first victim after I escaped my bindings. Lung held up a dead man switch. With a combination lock to disarm it. “What is this?” There was a vial of toxin implanted in her head. The switch he held would break the vial. “You're lying.”

	“My general burned you for no good reason. I feel tremendous guilt for it. If you weren't hostile to my country, things would be different. I'm a patriot, I serve my country before myself.”

	“How noble.” Joker touched the claws on one foot and detonated them. Lung broke the vial with the switch. Instead of slowing her down like was intended. Joker's brain went through a deformity. Making her far more insane than she currently was. Her words didn't even make sense. Spouting like a toddler learning mama.

	“Don't just stand there. Carry her to the pod!” Joker was aware of what was happening. She fought all she could to get free. Struggling to the last as they locked her in the pod. Following the notion to put her to sleep. Her last word was...  

	“Revenge!”