"Sir, he seems to be responding well, read beyond what an ordinary six year old would."
"Anything that we should be worried about? Vitals, personalty anything."
"No, everything is fine with him, why you asking Sir?"
"Nothing [as he looks at the boy in the chamber.] Maybe it's just my imagination. "
***
In a large unknown lab in the middle of an island at the pacific ocean, a project sanctioned by the government to elevate the human mind, as the world's minds are devolving. As seeing humanity falling behind, in 2030 the world union banded together for the ODIN PROJECT, as how the all father sacrificed his eye for knowledge from the well of mìmìr. This led through the years the rewiring of neurons of born children to gain the results and failures until they got a near perfect child. Specimen number 379, name LOKI, title name, fruit of eden.
***
Scientists watching the monitor at loki reading.
"Loki seems to be going well with the tests, has his cognitive ability risen again?"
"Seems so, but why does he not feel, you know, human?"
"Which part?..."
"You know what I'm saying, he never complains, reacts express emotions and I could go down the line bur you he what I'm saying, right."
The guy sighs as he pulls out a book report on loki as he goes through the pages.
"Here [pointing at his report.] His IQ unlike the other test subjects holds above 240, born with the rare hyperthymesia or HSAM(highly superior autobiographical memory.), and to add a gift onto of a gift, his got photographic memory. He can memorize, understand and recreate what he has seen once."
"[Looking at Loki's room,] then why does he not feel normal, or am I just paranoid. "
"Nope, your not. He's a high level psychopath."
"What, you mean the serial killer type branding or something else."
"Nope, but compared to everyone, he is the least controlled. Given the name loki cause if let lose, he will start ragnarok, the end of the odin project."
"His still six years old, he can't do that much damage, can he?"
He remains silent, just as he looks at the monitor as loki is looking at the camera, as he imitates a smile.
****
Twenty four years pass, test subjects are still going through the process and forced to learn humanity's progress from the beginning of man to the present, adding the creations of myth to keep it less linear. Loki was the near perfect mind, but no-one really knew what he was thinking, maybe plotting or he was just that quiet, soon though it will get very loud.
***
[Sirens are blaring, scientists, security and other members scrambling around.]
"RUN, LEAVE QUICKLY, LEAVE EVERYTHING BEHIND. Turn on the escape sequence now... Find a way out now or will die here."
Loki was staring, seeing then run around like rats in his eyes.
"Running around won't solve the problem, but instinct of man to fear the inevitable can't be overwritten. "Monologuing to himself as he sits in his cube, a place he grew up in and it also seems, he will die here as well.
The world outside has has begun a war, world war. And it seems the countries want the research on the project, seening no other choice, they are nuking the place. You won't get anything if the place is blazing. One of the scientists while running to a protective bunker, saw subject 389 remaining calm, looking at the ceiling with not a care in the world.
"You seem rather relaxed when we're gonna die, why so."
Looking at him, expressionless. "Well, I don't feel it. You can say a form of the finale moments of life but I call it my finality, since the fall and blast radius will also cover the bunker your running to. You'll die a slow suffocating death or other possibility, it heats up and cooks you and the rest of your colleagues. "
He looks at loki, maybe with fear, regret, responsibility, he doesn't know but sits on the floor as he leans on the glass.
"Not going to the bunker."
"Yea, if I'm gonna die, making it quick is better, right."
"Mhmm, guess so."
"Loki, have you ever seen the outside world, feel the sun, the breeze of the wind."
"Dumb question to ask since you already know the truth. Can't say I've experienced the outside world, never seen it."
Sighs, "Guess it's our fault huh. Never really treated any of you as people."
"Don't try to be sympathetic on your death, hoping to see heaven, you shouldn't have done it in the first place."
T-minus 30 seconds and counting.
"Buzz kill, but, hope you get to experience it."
"We're about to experience something hotter than the sun, theoretically I will feel the outside."
"Your really bad at jokes, that's something to say I'm good at, but really there's a possibility a being from above look at you with pity, give you another chance. "
"Believing in divinity as a scientist, a moment of mortality is amazing to see."
T-minus 5 seconds and counting
"Well..." 4 "Hope you live good in your next life loki."
3
He looks at him and nods in agreement.
2 , 1.
Then a bright light appears, Incinerating all life on the island, living nothing but death on it, charred and blackened from shore to shore.
["CONFIRMED DEATHS, 276, SOUL CLEANSING PROCESS BEGINS. ERROR,
SOUL NAME, LOKI.
ACHIEVEMENT, NONE.
REAL NAME, NONE.
JUDGEMENT IN PROCESS....
JUDGEMENT DONE, AGREED CONDTION,
REINCARNATION.
PROCESS BEGIN, MEMORY ERASING.
PROCESS DENIED.
REINCARNATION PROCESS BEGIN. "]
A small baby, born on the day of the solar eclipse, given a new name, his own name, LUCIAN.