The Modern Prometheus
Mei Hatsume is a gifted scientist training under the deranged mad scientist Daruma Ujiko, who seeks to create life from the dead. Ujiko and Hatsume engage in grave robbing to find only the perfect body parts to create the perfect man. In Ujiko's lab, Ujiko and Hatsume stitch the body parts together. There was only one thing missing from the body to continue the experiment.
Ujiko: Now we need a brain for the experiment! But only the perfect brain will be needed to create life itself!
As Ujiko babbled on, Hatsume set her eyes on her mentor.
Hatsume: Only the perfect brain of a genius.
Hatsume set her eyes on her mentor and moved closer to Ujiko with unyielding eyes.
Ujiko: Exactly Hatsume! Only the brain of a genius can help create a creation so perfect!
Hatsume then lunges at her mentor and begins to strangling him. As his struggle weakened, Hatsume maintained eye contact with her mentor while muttering something to Ujiko.
Hatsume: Rest Daruma Ujiko. Your sacrifice will pave the way for scientific advancement!
Once he dies, Hatsume wastes not time in removing Ujiko's brain and places it in the body. Hatsume then sets up electrical equipment to help in bringing the creature to life. After spending sleepless nights, a powerful storm sets in.
Hatsume: Yes! Now's my chance!
Hatsume raises the creature on a operating table outside in the storm. As the lightning struck, the machines in Hatsume's lab begin to flash. She soon raises the body down and sees it's hand slowly moving.
Hatsume: It's.....it's alive! IT'S ALIVE! Oh in the name of God! Now I know what it feels like to be God! I DID IT! I CREATED LIFE FROM DEATH!
She releases the restraints from the creature and begins to move towards her. It's long black hair and it's grotesque green skin did not scare the mad scientist one bit. When it opened it's eyes, it revealed a glowing yellow eyes. All she could was marvel at the creation. But the creature soon lunges at her and begins to strangle her. But the sound of the lightning scares the creature as it lets go of Hatsume and runs off into the storm.
Hatsume: NO! WAIT! COME BACK!
Days later, the creature wanders around the forest without a goal in mind. The creature soon runs into a blind old man.
Old Man: Who goes there?! My name is Gran Torino!
Hearing the old man's raised voice began to frighten the creature as it lets out frightened groans.
Gran Torino: I say who goes there?! Reveal yourself!
Without thinking, the creature attacks Gran Torino and murders him. As he finishes killing the old man, an man rushes to their location and sees the creature holding the old man's body.
Man: My God! What are you?!
The man pulls out a pistol and shoots at the creature. The bullets go through his as the creature runs away in fear and hides. In the dead of night, the creature looks from his hiding place and sees an angry mob holding pitchforks and torches. Meanwhile, Hatsume is at a general store to resupply on scientific equipment. As she does so, she hears a newspaper boy speak.
Newspaper Boy: Extra! Extra! Monster terrifies small local village! Read all about it!
Hearing that news, Hatsume knew exactly that the monster she heard was the creature she helped create. Meanwhile, the creature is hunted by the townspeople. Angered by the cruelty of the town, the creature goes on a mindless rampage. It encounters an angry mob.
Mob Leader: There it is! Kill it!
The Mob then proceeds to attack the creature, but the creature kills the Mob. Meanwhile at a hotel room, Hatsume looks outside her window when she hears a strange outside. When she looks out the window, she sees the familiar glowing eyes of the creature outside her window. Feeling fear, she rushes to the hotel owner.
Hotel Owner: What's wrong?!
Hatsume: Something's out there!
The creature then breaks down the door and kills the hotel owner. Hatsume runs in total fear as the creature chases after Hatsume. She manages to lose it in the woods. A day later, Hatsume attends a town meeting where the mayor attends to a fearful crowd.
Mayor: Peace! Peace! The creature will be found and arrested!
Male Citizen: It's Hatsume's fault! Her ungoldly experiments with that lunatic Daruma Ujiko created the monster!
Hatsume senses trouble as eyes begin to go on her. She decides to leave as the crowd begins to follow her. She enters her as a mob begins to form. She closes the door and sees the creature waiting for her.
Hatsume: You!
Creature: Your.......fault.......Hatsume........
Hearing that voice stunned Hatsume into a deathly silence as the creature spoke.
Hatsume: You.....you spoke!
Creature: Hatsume.......your.......fault.......pain........your........fault.......PAIN.........YOUR........FAULT....
As the creature said this, the mob begins to pound away at the door to her lab. She slowly walks towards the stairwell to the roof with the creature pacing towards her.
Hatsume: No! Stay away! STAY AWAY!
As fear begins to set in on Hatsume, she reached the roof as the mob begins to ignite the lab. The creature slowly paces towards her.
Creature: PAIN.........YOUR........FAULT.......
The creature then grabs Hatsume and begins choking her. But from the crowd below, a man shoots at the creature's arm, causing the creature to drop Hatsume from the roof. The fall shattered Hatsume's legs. As the fire consumed the lab, the ground beneath the creature collapsed, sending the creature into the burning inferno. After this, Hatsume was in a jail cell in a wheelchair where a man speaks with her.
Man: So that's the story? The creature you created was consumed by the fire?
Hatsume: Yes.
Man: You do understand how fantastical that sounds do you?
Hatsume: I created that creature and with the brain of Daruma Ujiko.
Man: So you openly admit to murder not to mention all the suffering that your creation inflicted on others?
Hatsume: It was all for the advancement of science. Daruma Ujiko was a sacrifice for the cause. What happened after that was an unforeseen consequence. But I shall be forever known as the person who created life from death!
Man: Are there any final words before what happens next?
Hatsume is silent for a moment as she looks out her cell window to see the guillotine in the distance. She knew that her final moments were fast approaching. But where must would feel crippling fear and regret, Hatsume smiled.
Hatsume: I do know that for the sympathy of one living being, I would make peace with all. I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.
Those words sent chills down the man's spine as he wrote her final words in his journal. After that, guards came into her cell and wheeled her to where she would be executed. Despite going to certain death, Hatsume remained calm and at peace. Her only regret was not living another day to further humanity's scientific advances. Where one saw obsession, she saw a burning drive. For she truly saw in herself, the Modern Prometheus.
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