In the facility....Location unknown...

“Welcome back Agent Scar” said the Scientist whose worn out lab coat said a lot about his experience...

“Why did you call me Dr. David?” said Agent Scar seriously.

“To give you a little birthday present.” Said Dr. David with a wink....

Agent Scar was in no mood for fun and he just looked at the doctor with a serious face....

“OK no jokes...show me your inhibitor...” asked the Doctor.

Scar stretched his left hand and David connected a cable from a nearby computer to Agent Scar’s Watch and after a few seconds all the info about the inhibitor was displayed on the screen.

“It’s an old version but don’t worry we will upgrade it in no time...” said the doctor cheerfully.

“First we need to inject you with an anaesthetic... Timothy, get an anaesthetic quickly” said David calling out to his assistant.

Timothy was a fresh college graduate and as he was new to work in the weapons facility he was naturally excited.

Timothy got the anaesthetic and gave it to David and the doctor asked him to administer it to the assassin.

When Scar lifted up his sleeve, Timothy was dumbfounded for a few seconds...

“You are Agent Scar Right??? I mean you are the youngest person to achieve the Legendry level status..I have read so much about you... I never thought I would meet you in person....”

Doctor David was a little annoyed and said, “Timothy, if your done with the star gazing shall we get down to work...”


Timothy got back to his senses and administered the anaesthetic and within a few moments Agent Scar went into deep slumber oblivious to what was going on around him or what they were doing to him....

After what seemed like hours to Agent Scar but in reality was less than 30 min. He woke up with a slight headache.

“What did you do doc...feel kinda different...” said Scar holding his forehead.

“Ohh nothing just upgraded the versions of all your nanites ... your optinites have been modified a little bit and now you don’t have to close one of your eyes when you activate the Eye of the Assassin...” said David.

“Then how am I going to choose between the two variations in it?” asked Scar a little doubtful.

“That’s simple...your inhibitor is now supersensitive to your voice commands...Eye of the Assassin Type 1 is the slow time one and Type 2 shows the altered perspective.” Said the doctor.

The Doctor continued...”We have upgraded even your medinites and now you heal twice as fast as you did earlier and finally your birthday present...we have kept a new type of nanites in you...the Arachnites”

“What do they do?” asked Scar a little curious.

“Ever heard of Spider-Man? “ asked Timothy.

“No who is he...” said Scar a little embarrassed.

“Well that’s not important...let me demonstrate it to you...put your hand on a wall and say the words Arachnites activate” said David.

Agent Scar followed the instructions and when he placed his hand on the wall and said those words suddenly he felt his hand tingle and a few moments later his hand was stuck to the wall.... It was a new experience for Agent Scar and he panicked a bit.

“Say the words Arachnites deactivate to return back your hand to normal.” Said the doctor happy that his new invention was working out properly.

Agent Scar quickly said those words and examined his hands and touched them again and again but they were not sticky at all.

Agent Scar asked “How does it work doctor?... I mean my hands feel normal.”

“Do you really want to know...you won’t understand it anyway” said Doctor David his ego filling him up.

Sensing that Scar was in no mood for fun the doctor continued “Actually I have designed those nanites in such a way that they lie just below the first layer of skin in your palms and as you know every atom is a magnet with two poles...these nanites emit small electrical charges and convert the atoms of the surface in this case a wall into the opposite poles and that makes the surface attractive to your palm....did you understand anything?”

“Ya somewhat....” said Scar.

Scar continued “ I have one more doubt... I always wondered how that slow time thing worked...it has saved me many times and its only natural that I would want to learn more about it...”

“You are in a chatty mood today Scar..what’s the news... you seem a little bit changed since the last time we met... I hope being with that girl hasn’t had an impact on you...” said David a little seriously.


“Nothing like that...was being a little curious thats all....” said Scar.

“Then it’s Ok...Timothy here will clarify all your doubts..I am kind of busy here...” said David and got immersed in his work.

Timothy came forward excitedly and said “Agent Scar I have researched a lot upon the Eye of the Assassin...its a complex biological process but I will put it in the simplest terms possible...The human brain can process images at a certain rate...but when agitated the body secretes some hormones and because of it the brain processes the images a faster rate and because of that an effect of slow time is achieved...”

“So what you are saying is that one second is still one second only but the way we perceive it is different...we feel it like more than a second...” said Scar trying to understand it.

“Exactly and these optinites allow you to secrete those hormones in larger quantities for an extended period of time...and as you are physically at peak human levels you can react very fast and for others it appears as if you are teleporting when you are just moving quickly.” Said Timothy.

“So how long can I be in this altered perception of time?” asked Scar.

Timothy thought for a while and said “ I think the maximum time you can be in that state continuously is 9 seconds...that should be more than enough to dodge bullets and sudden attacks.”

“Hmm yeah but anything else I need to know about my new eyes” asked Scar.

“ It might seem very useful but these optinites have a backdrop... they strain your eyes a lot.. I guess you already know that by now.... as you can use it with both eyes now...the duration is doubled and at the same time even the strain is doubled....and if you use them too much there is a chance of you going blind permanently...” said Timothy thoughtfully.

“So what you are saying is the Eye of the Assassin is like a double edged knife...it can be used to one’s advantage but at the same time it also causes disadvantage to the user....” said Scar with a wicked grin on his face.

Scar continued ,”Thanks Timothy, you were of good help.”

Timothy couldn’t believe his ears he said “Really was I helpful to you...I never expected you to be so nice...from what I have heard...you were nothing like that...I guess your reputation precedes you.”

Scar became serious again and Timothy became silent.

Scar thought,”What am I doing...is having a wish to talk a sin? But earlier I was never interested in talking to all these humans...Pooja are you really changing me... No, I cannot change... my name is Agent Scar and I am an Assassin.” He kept reminding himself.

Just then Dr. David came in and said “Scar, I need to run a few tests on you...to check if the Eye is working properly or not...”

Agent Scar accompanied by Timothy went into a new room where there was a glass chamber which had a gun like thing.

Agent Scar was instructed to go into the chamber and then Dr. David said,”Scar, we will fire extremely fast projectiles at you..Use your Eye of the Assassin Type 1...Ok...the test begins in 5 seconds.”

Scar’s mind was still disturbed with thoughts about him changing and all that.
He closed his eyes and just then the test began.

The first few projectiles he could dodge easily because of his acute sense of hearing but he had to try out his “new” eyes....

He muttered the words “Eye of the Assassin Type 1” into his inhibitor and opened them just to see the world go slow around him...the projectiles seemed so slow he could actually walk through them... and he was enjoying this feeling... but his happiness didn’t last long.

A few moments later he felt his eyes all burning up and his head felt like it was going to split into two...his eyes literally bled and he collapsed.

The test was terminated and David rushed to attend Scar.

After a few hours when Scar finally woke up for a few seconds he was not able to see anything and for a tiny instance he felt as if he had gone blind.

Then suddenly the world became clearer and heard the doctor say ,”The optinites haven’t had much testing...we had no one to test them on...” he continued “Don’t worry we have fixed them but my advice to you would be not to use them much...”

Agent Scar got up and was getting ready to leave the lab but Timothy caught hold of his hand and said ,”Hey you can’t leave now...we still need to run some more tests on you.”

“Leave me, I need to go, I have school tomorrow.” Said Scar seriously and left.

Dr. David said to Timothy “He is just a kid at heart...I think this mission is really letting him understand his human side a little more.”