Thicker Than Blood 16

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4:15 AM my time. Latest update I've ever done. Its because this has been a painfully long page for reasons nobody is even going to notice. But those last three panels took 4 hours alone. :/ But that was because the pencil sketch of those panels was unusable from all the erasing and I had to redraw draw them 100% digital.

Here is what those two pages say.

Subject name : Berserk

Operation:Sober Dissection (Exploratory)

Synoptic Details:

First of three exploratory sober dissections of the three legally non-living animated criminal children known as the Powerpunk Girls. This is an exploratory sober dissection in order to learn the mechanics behind the production of Chemical X. After strapping her limbs to to the table and administering the antithesia she woke up from the sedative she had been administered during transport. She immediatly began crying and begging for her life. As we opened her chest she screamed in agony and her pleading became more fervent in between her screams and sobs. It was at this point we had to pause, her imitation of a child was too convincing for our own emotional stability and we had to administer a cocktail of stimulants and depressants that put us into a emotionally catonic state, without compromising out alertness.

Returning to the surgery we were able to easily ignore her screams, cries and pleading. After revealing the heart we stopped to take notes and and set up the high resolution video camera to keep track of her heart beat. Her screams subsided at this time.  We then began cut open her stomach, her screams were subdued, out of exhaustion most likely. But they raised in volume as we began to remove her organs replacing their function with mechanical substitutes. Exact order of organ removal will be noted in the extended notes.  Her screams were of expected intensity and she began to  cough up blood. A quick examination proved that this was due to soft tissue damage to her throat from the screams and no unexpected complications. Once all soft organs were removed we started to cut a piece out of her now visible inner spine. However as soon as we began cutting there was the expected increase in her scream intensity, accompanied by an unexpected surge in her heart rate and chemical X levels then immediately her screams, heart and all brain function ceased. An instantaneous death.

 I  hypothosize that Chemical X is produced in the bone marrow. Post mortem dissection showed that all trace of chemical X had dissipated rapidly. We will discuss, then continue with second sober dissection on the next Powerpunk Girl. One named Brute.

Subject name: Brute

Operation: Amputation (Arm)

Synoptic details: Any extracted bone marrow would enter into an inert state. Disallowing any attempt to observe the process of chemical X production. So in an attempt to analyze the living bone marrow without the subject's death, The subject's right arm was amputated while large amounts of  anesthesia were administered in hopes to slow any reaction such as the one that occured to the previous subject. The operation seemed a success, the arm was attached to an artificial heart and kept alive while we began dissection. However, once the bone was penetrated the arm fell to pieces, reducing itself to base component. One component was absorbed by a nurse driving her insane with fear and after grabbing a scalpel, she injured two aids attempting to restrain her then cut her own throat. She survived but is in critical condition. Clean up was time consuming. More importantly, any attempt to study the marrow of this arm was rendered impossible. I recommend a full sober dissection on Brute's body then brain to see if there are any potential clues to help us get around this problem, while careful to avoid penetrating the bone. Afterwards only low risk procedures on the last Powerpunk Girl. The one named Brat.