In a secret research laboratory in a fenced area of Xectar City, two scientists are taking experiment on a computer virus.
"Experiment subject, Virus AC-23. Day 59 of experimenting the dangerous virus."
The chief scientist nodded his head. The other scientist plugged a flash drive into a machine
The flash drive glowed, it sent a computer virus into a system. The virus is very powerful, it corrupted the system, took control over it, and rearranged every code in it after they destroyed it.
"Experiment is surprisingly successful."
The other scientist jotted down the observations, the chief scientist plugged out the virus and kept it in his pockets.
"Is the virus good to be used for UTD?" asked the other scientist.
"Not yet, although it is very powerful to be used against glitches and system viruses, it is still unstable. Pretty dangerous if they fall into the wrong hands."
The other scientist sighed as he slurped a cup of coffee.
"There is still a long way for this virus to go before it reaches the same level as the virus Harry invented."
"Yeah."
The 2 scientists sat on the chair in the lab and sighed.
"Oh yeah, the next experiment requires a Corrupt Splinter, go take it from the glitch research section." the chief scientist ordered the other scientist.
"Roger."
The other scientist walked out of the lab. He walked to a research room with the door written 'Glitch research'. He walked into the room, but then, he realized something is off. He smelt gore, he cautiously walked into the lab, then, what he witnessed terrified him. A co worker of his, lying on the ground, with a pile of blood next to him.
"What? Rov! Rov! What happened to you?"
The scientist rushed to the dead scientist, then, he saw a figure. A cloaked figure in the labs, he have dark a blue cloak, spiky shoes and blue eyes with cyan pupils, searching cabinets. After a few seconds, the cloak stood up, holding the box which contains a corrupt splinter.
"Finally, took long enough....."
The cloak inspected the splinter. The scientist was terrified, the cloak noticed the scientist's existence. He kept the box, then, he drew out a blade from his waist, the blade is covered with blood as well. The scientist shrieked, and ran away, while yelling in fear. The cloaked figure ran towards the scientist. The chief scientist came out from the experiment lab.
"What's with all this noise?"
The chief looked around, then, he saw the scientist, screaming for help. But then, a blade penetrated the body of the scientist from his chest, it killed the scientist. The chief panicked, he immediately pulled the warning alarm. The whole building was shut down, red lights painted the white building red.
Scientists begun evacuating. The cloak smirked as he pointed the blade at the chief scientist. The chief panicked and ran away. At a T junction, he found the janitor's room and hid in it, hoping the cloaked figure won't notice him. But, he wasn't alone in there, a short man with a top hat and a tragedy mask wearing a black jacket in a red suit with bowtie noticed the chief was in the same room as him. The chief saw the man and yelled.
"Woah, dude, chill, you scared, me. I'm just here to borrow a mop."
"W-w-w-whh--at?"
"You know, mop the blood on the floor there, or might as well here."
The man took out a small knife, the chief screamed as he ran out of the room. The cloaked figure who just slaughtered every scientist saw the chief, he drew his blade and rushed towards the chief. He ran again, and fortunately, he lost the cloaked figure. After a few minutes of running, he found the lab's evacuate exit. He quickly rushed towards the door, but the door is jammed and couldn't open.
"No! No! No! This can't be!"
The chief panicked. Suddenly, out of no where, he heard a music box lullaby. He looked behind him. He saw a scarecrow, with clown face, clown shoes, clown clothes. But oddly, a grin, the color of the grin is too red to be paint.
The chief was confused, but then, lights flickered. The scarecrow vanished, the chief was terrified. He tried the handle again, but after a while, the sound of banging the door is replaced by a scream with some disturbing noise. The chief is no longer alive.
After a couple of minutes, the door of the lab was busted. A squad of UTD agents entered the facility, each wearing explosion-proof armor and helmet with laser rifles.
"This is Alpha squad, we entered the facility through the front entrance." an agent took out a walkie talkie and reported.
"Copy that, Beta squad and Gamma squad approaching the roof top."
"Delta squad reporting, guarding the underground entrance."
"Epsilon squad and Zeta squad reporting, we surrounded the whole building."
The Alpha squad walked further into the laboratory, some of the squad members scanned the building.
"Sir, there are no signs blood anywhere. But there are no scientists that came out alive." a squad member reported to the leader of the squad.
"What? There isn't?"
"No ash, no flesh, nothing, in fact."
The captain thought for a while, he took out a small device and clicked it.
"This is the leader of Alpha squad reporting to the headquarters, we found no survived scientists in the lab, but there are no ashes, no blood or any sign that showed they are killed, not even signs of fights or struggles."
"Wait, there is nothing there?"
"Not even a bug."
"Be cautious! It must be the Deadly Circus!"
The captain broke a sweat upon hearing the name.
"Everyone! Defense mode! Its the Deadly Circus!"
Every agent entered defense mode. They pointed their laser rifles at each direction. But suddenly, they heard a glass breaking sound. They rushed towards the source of the voice, and found the same short man the chief saw previously in the experiment room, next to him is a shattered boiling tube, holding a pure red mop that is dripping blood.
"Oh shoot, my bad."
"Freeze! UTD!" the agents pointed their rifles at the man. The man dropped the mop and raised both of his arms. But then, a blade penetrated 3 agent's chest, killing them. The cloaked figure appeared again. The other agents fired their rifles at the cloak but he sliced and blocked the bullets using his blade. But suddenly, the lights suddenly broke. The whole building turned dark.
Outside the facility, Epsilon squad and Zeta squad looked at the facility, confused.
"Epsilon leader speaking, Alpha squad, what's happening?"
The walkie talkie had no sound except for static noises.
"Alpha squad! Please respond!"
Still no answer.
"Delta squad! Something is wrong! Alpha squad isn't replying!"
"Copy that, Delta squad entering the facility."
"Beta squad! Gamma squad! We must back up the Alpha squad now! They aren't replying!"
Both Beta squad and Gamma squad didn't reply as well.
"What the....." the leader of Epsilon squad was confused.
"I'm so proud to see my 5 star team grew this powerful."
A voice is heard. The leader of Epsilon turned around, they saw someone walking towards the facility. He is cloaked and carries a staff with a skull on it with a purple gem inside and characteristics of a ringmaster stick.
"Excuse me sir, this area is currently in danger situation, please follow our agents to leave this place immediately."
The cloaked man raised his head, the Epsilon squad is terrified. The cloaked man have a very familiar face, he is no one other than the world's most wanted villain, The Cruel and Gory killer. The whole squad was flabbergasted.
"Its the Cruel and Gory killer! Open fire!!!!"
The squad fired their rifle at the killer. He smirked, he took his staff and summoned a barrier that blocked the laser bullets. He then teleported around, wasting the bullets of the squad. The Zeta squad arrived to the scene and fired their weapons at the killer as well, but they all missed. The Cruel and Gory killer cackled demonically, he took a few steps back.
"Ladies and gentleman, boys and girls! Folks and toddlers, humans and animals! Prepare for the final show of the DEADLY CIRCUS!!!!!!"
The killer raised his staff, the wand glowed a bright pinkish purple light. The squad suddenly realized something and stopped attacking, they dropped their weapons and started running.
"Retreat! RETREAT!" yelled the leader of both squads.
"LIGHTS! CAMERA!!!!! THUNDER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
The gem on the staff glowed, the staff then summoned enormous purple lightning, the lightning wiped the whole area, it scorched the ground and killed everyone. No survivors.
The Cruel and Gory killer chuckled as he cool walked into the facility. He looked around, dead bodies of the Alpha, Beta, Gamma and Delta squad members are everywhere, the atmosphere is filled with the smell of gore. He is pleased by the performance. He walked further into the facility. There he saw the 3 members. The cloaked figure, the tragedy mask man and the clown scarecrow. The Cruel and Gory killer bent down and looked at one of the dead bodies, he inspected it, and even tasted the blood.
"Body not yet harden, freshly killed, non dry blood. Well done folks."
The cloaked man handed the box to him.
"The corrupt splinter is in there, as you requested."
"Splendid, this last one will be enough for our power source. But where is the AC-23 virus? "
The cloaked figure looked at the tragedy mask man.
"Shy, where is the chief scientist's dead body?"
"Oh, uh, I don't know, Scar is the one who killed him."
The scarecrow slowly turned to the cloaked figure, its grin widen.
"Where is the body?"
The scarecrow looked at a dead body sack nearby. The cloaked figure opened the sack, he searched the dead body of the chief scientist and took out a purple flash drive.
"I believe this is it."
The Cruel and Gory killer took the flash drive, he chuckled, and turned to cackling.
"Finally, the last ticket to the Grand performance, this will be fun....."
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In a dark wet alley, a circus tent sits there. Broken, holes are all over it, colorless.
The team of criminals entered the tent, inside there, is a capsule that is around 3 meters tall. It is silver colored and hade cyan lines on it. A progression bar is seen on it, currently 99% progress.
"When will that Wilton guy finish that stupid upgrade?" asked the cloaked figure.
"Art takes time Juggler, you can't rush true art...." said the killer.
"....." smiled the scarecrow.
"Cyborg transformation completed, capsule opening."
The capsule glowed, it opened its hatch. Strong wind blew from it. The killer grinned as he looked at the capsule, pleased.
From inside of the capsule, a cyborg walked out from it. A cyborg around 2.4 meters with a body with characteristics of a juice vendor. The head of the cyborg is a human, with a robot mask wrapping his mouth and a cyborg ear patch on his right ear. He is none other than the previous escaped villain, Wilton Notlim.
"Ah, my newest member aka partner in performance, Wilton."
Wilton looked at his body, his limbs are fully robotic and he could analyze things.
"Huh, this is what it feels to be being Johnson." Wilton's voice sounds metallic.
"Uh, boss? Why does this guy look like a juice vendor?" asked the tragedy mask guy.
"Oh what would a performer be without the look of a circus member?" asked the killer.
"Oh."
The cloaked figure looked at Wilton, he flinched.
"This is the new member you had been talking about?" asked the cloak.
"Yes, boy does he look amazing..."
"...." smiled the scarecrow.
"I know right, I added that detail to him." said the killer.
"So, remember our plan we discussed earlier?" the killer asked.
"Oh, yeah, that was like, one month ago?"
"Yep, roughly 3 months after the defeat of the mighty Commander Glitch."
"You promised me that if I gave you the support you need and the info you want, you will give me...."
"Power, respect, dominance, of course I remember."
"Alright, by the way since we are working together, I need a name to address you, I can't call you the Cruel and Gory killer every time. "
"Ah, of course, my name is Cluster, Cluster Goberton."
"Ok."
Wilton looked at the 3 servants behind Cluster.
"They are....."
"My splendid servants. Their performance always reach 5 star. Each one plays a huge role in the circus."
"You call killing performance?"
"Why? Can't take it already?"
"No, no its just...quite a disturbing hobby."
Cluster chuckled as he raised his staff. Then, Wilton's eyes glowed a faint purple light that have the same color as the gem on Cluster's staff.
"Wait, why do I feel something in my mind?"
"Must have been the wind."
Wilton shook his head.
"Anyway, your mastermind plan is very comprehensive and great. I'm in. Its a pleasure working with you."
Wilton offered his hand for a hand shake. Cluster grinned as zapped his hand with his staff. Wilton flinched.
"Its a golly pleasure to work with you as well."
Wilton scoffed.
"Now, I gave you power as you requested. Should you give me the information I want now?"
Wilton cracked his knuckles.
"Tell me, what do you wanna know?"
Cluster grinned, the gem on his staff shimmered a faint light.
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