Underground Labs

By constantly denying that it exists, the U.S. Government has successfully covered up one of the biggest, and most lucrative, research and experimenting facilities in the world.  The underground labs at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C. do not exist.  The scientists that practically live in those labs do not exist.  The experiments that are performed in those labs do not actually happen.  The vast underground network that lay only about twenty feet under the National Mall is simply a large storage facility that houses the thousands of museum displays that did not make the cut to show up in the actual museums. 

That is what the government would like the people to believe.  In fact, the scientists employed at the Smithsonian Institute laboratories are sworn to secrecy before they are allowed to enter the facility.  Those fortunate enough to escape the labs long enough to have families are not even allowed to tell their spouses about the labs.  There story is that they are just regular workers at one of the museums that make up the Smithsonian. 

Of course, there has to be some way to enforce this secrecy.  Therefore, those scientists are under constant surveillance even when they are not in the labs.  If the secret slips, then they are... 'dealt with' accordingly.  In an effort to reduce the need for these extreme measures of enforcing secrecy, the labs have been designed to make the scientist feel at home.  Each scientist is given their own private living quarter and bigger living quarters are available for those scientist that decide to get involved with another scientist.  The living quarters come complete with their own bathroom and kitchen.  Stores are available to purchase anything they may need so that they never have to go up to the surface.  The less people they have returning to the surface, the less chance there is that one of them will slip up and have to be dealt with.

Dr. Emia is one of those scientists that practically live in the underground facility.  He used to live in a nice home with his family, however... things changed.  His family was ripped apart and he left his home and his wife and moved down into the labs.  Sometimes he longed to see his wife again and apologize for what he did to her, but she was probably not living there any more.  He wished to hold his son again and tell him that he loved him, but that was impossible now, for he is gone, taken by Dr. Emia arch-nemesis.  His death is what drove Dr. Emia and his wife apart.  Cancer took him, and now, he has devoted his life to curing the horrible disease that ruined his family.

The underground lab is where he has been working on his 3-phase experiment.  In Phase 1, he created a single cell by splicing a human cell with a cancer cell.  In Phase 2, he made that cell go through the process of mitosis and divide into more identical cells.  The result of phase two is now imprisoned deep within the maze of hallways and labs that is the underground research facility.  By playing God, Dr. Emia created a being with both human and cancerous traits.  Now, his created son, Luke lives in prison-like conditions and is growing very tired of the endless testing and experimenting that is being done on him.

As Dr. Emia grows closer to achieving Phase 3 of his experiment, he grows more and more guilty and ashamed of what he has put Luke through.  The government's big secret is about to be unveiled and the country it on the verge of turmoil.