2099: The Soldier Protocol

2099: The Soldier Protocol

"Break him, till he breaks free."

Sometime in the near future, paraplegic prison inmate Matt Mills meets "The Board" of Satoshi-Telefair Industries, who thank him for joining the Program. Under pressure and with a promise to make him walk again, Mills agrees to volunteer. He is injected with a synthetic nanomaterial and suffocated, only to wake up with restored use of his legs, yet alone in a steel cell in the first spoke of an experimental apparatus - The Wheel. A series of assailants inflict a multitude of damage to Mills' body and torment his mind, yet the synthetic nanomaterial not only restores his damaged organs, it re-engineers his strength. The experiment might be designed to kill, but Mills is determined to survive - and get back to his daughter before The Board finds her first.

portnoyz@portnoyz

July 20, 2021

Nothing new here: A mega-corp experiments on a prisoner while trying to come up with a super-soldier. The subject uses his new found abilities in an attempt to get free. All this and an unsatisfying twist at the end.