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doubt about that today,” he said with a grin as he drove through the gate and into the parking structure underneath the large laboratory in front of him. This is the main GoD Laboratories building, the nerve center of their operations. It jutted up from the flat, desert landscape and stuck out like a DNA molecule, because that’s what it was built to look like. The main offices and floors were in the backbone of the molecule that twisted up into the air. The base pairs connecting the backbones housed the laboratories that differed on each floor. At the very top of the building was a large round structure that served as the CEO’s office. A couple spires were attached to the top of the building, they sometimes expelled mysterious fogs but nobody ever questioned it. A ten foot high, four foot thick, solid lead wall formed an impenetrable square around building.
    The only “weak” part of the entire set up was the employee’s primary entrance gate that was constructed with stainless steel and only a foot thick. It was made this way because the physics of anything heavier were not very time effective. The gate used to take about a minute to raise before and that was just too long since the gate had to open and close for each employee. However, they did (over) compensate with an extra battery of fully loaded defensive mechanisms.
    There were no chances taken with the security of this compound. It was the fifth compound for this particular company, the previous ones having been assaulted by heavily armed activists. The business being conducted was not kept secret at GoD, for the most part. The scientists who worked there weren’t exactly humble, but they finally took their spot atop society, so no one could really blame them. Even in a world that had shunned all forms of spiritual deities, morality was still a thing, despite many theories to the contrary. Without the pseudo-presence of a benevolent being looking down upon them, the majority of people still acted like decent human beings.
    However, any laws even closely resembling ones inspired by any religion had been abolished decades ago which opened up whole new worlds in science and scientific exploration. This allowed researchers to explore areas that were previously deemed taboo and controversial. While these subjects, cloning for example, were finally taken up, there still remained moral objectors to these practices. A whole new array of activists and protesters developed all over the world.
    Things eventually turned violent as there were no laws in place for what these scientists were doing which made any form of court proceedings irrelevant. When the protestors were not able take a legal, peaceful route, they quickly turned to violence and vandalism. Since GoD was taking on some of the most controversial aspects of science in the world, they were targeted very often by that violence. Many of the scientists were out right attacked or harassed at work and even at their homes, they could not escape it.
    The buildings GoD previously occupied were usually burned down at some point, once the activists discovered how to breach the security systems.  Not anymore, however, as this particular incarnation of GoD had stood tall for over a decade. The employees no longer had anything to fear away from work either as a special town named Abiyah was built just for them, complete with its own private military.
    The higher ups spared no expense when it came to the safety of their employees, plus expense was nothing to be spared since money was no object to GoD Labs. They also spared no expense when it came to funding research for their scientists, but that is because the higher ups were scientists, and Mr. Justice was certainly a higher up. He had a big day ahead of him. They were on the verge of one of the biggest breakthroughs mankind had ever seen.
    Dr. Justice exited his vehicle that he had parked in the executive lot at the bottom of the parking structure. He went to the