THE EVIL ONE

Curiosity kills the cat....

Marty was a normal teenager with a not so normal family. His mom was a housewife, while his father was a scientist. Neither of his parents were successful in life. They were just living off the money earnt by their parents. But in Marty’s eyes, they were successful people. The father, Hardy, was working on a top secret project. It was situated in the attic. No one except him was allowed to enter the attic, for he was afraid that someone might mess something. However, Marty was one of those typical curious kids who, when thought of something, there was no stopping them. He planned to find out what mysterious, peculiar project his father had been working on. Obviously, he didn’t think of the consequences that would follow.

That night, when his father was out on a business trip(vacation), he decided to have a small glance at the article. He slipped out the door, and into the darkness of the stairway leading up to the attic. He couldn’t stand the suspense. He took a deep breath, and pushed the door wide open. He took a step in. His hand ventured about to find the light switch. He clicked it on. In the middle of the room lay a bedsheet covering something. He tip-toed along towards it. He snatched the bedsheet and yanked it towards himself. He gasped. Beneath the bedsheet lay a cabin. The door sign read: Cloner_6831. Bemused, he stepped inside the cabin.

There were a lot of buttons and repeaters, but there was one red button at the top of them all, that read, “Create”. He looked at it for a second. Then he floored it. The whole cabin started shaking, and a red fog ejected through some open pipes. Marty screamed for help, but alas! The cabin was soundproof! He started banging on the door as hard as he could, but in vain. He looked around for some button to make it stop, but, all he found was one button which read “LIVE”. Without doubt, he pressed the button. The cabin stopped shaking. The smoke vanished. Marty rubbed his eyes. He saw a mirror appear right in front of him. His reflection stared at him. He raised his hand, and the reflection did too. He blinked his eyes, and the reflection did too. He sighed. It was alright. He took a step toward the door and screamed. The reflection hadn’t moved!!!

The reflection came out of the mirror and slammed Marty at the glass. It shattered into a thousand pieces everywhere. Marty landed on his back and screamed. The reflection grabbed Marty’s neck and pressed hard. Marty struggled to break free, and while doing so, came across the button. It wasn’t “LIVE”. It was “EVIL”!!! The machine had created an evil clone of Marty!! He punched the clone on the face and got free. He took a rope from nearby and tied the clone. He dragged it over to his room, and slammed the door shut. 

The clone was a physically identical, but mentally different replica of Marty. You couldn’t tell the difference between them. There were only two differences. One, Marty was a righty, and the clone was lefty. And two, Marty was sane, while the clone was insane!!! Marty kept his clone tied up in his room for the next few months, after which the clone broke free. 

Coincidentally, the following day, Marty had a school field trip to the adventure park that had just opened. The clone wanted to go, but Marty couldn’t allow that. Unaware of the fact that the clone had broken free, Marty took the registration form up to his room. Then, there was a huge fight between Marty and the clone. There was a lot of bloodshed, followed by screams. The mother heard this, and came upstairs. She opened the door to, blood. There was blood everywhere, and Marty was found in the middle of all of it.

“What happened?”, the mother asked. 

“Nothing.”, Marty replied. 

Then, he grinned, and signed the registration form with his left hand.