Kill That Bastard Hiding in the Shadows

Beep... beep... The faint ticking sounds occasionally emitted by the laboratory equipment formed the main rhythm. The flickering blue lights resembled ghostly flames in a graveyard, illuminating pale, numb faces as lifeless as corpses. Click! Creak! Amid the deathly silence, the sound of the door hinges instantly shattered the calm. Several "Human Puppets" seemed to sense something. In perfect unison, they turned their heads and fixed their vacant gazes on the two figures standing in the doorway. "Heh.