Death Butterfly Program

The Death Butterfly or Black Butterfly Program (**Russian:** Бабочка смерти), was a secret Soviet-American training program that consisted of taking young children and turning them into elite spies and assassins known as neo-militaries genetically altered by Nuclaxine-A9, this through brainwashing and psychological torture. Initially they used psychological conditioning to make the members obey. The program used numerous methods to manipulate the mental states and brain functions of its subjects, including the covert administration of high doses of psychoactive drugs and other chemicals, as well as electroshock, hypnosis, sensory deprivation, isolation, verbal abuse, and other forms of torture.

The members of the program were selected by its leaders based on their genetic potential when they were minors; Some of these children were created in laboratories of the Soviet Union and the New United States, created solely to fight, while others were literally taken from their families, either through negotiation or force. Children chosen for the program undergo intense daily training, including hand-to-hand combat training, acrobatics, weapons training and tactical skills. Occasionally, two children are chosen to fight violently with each other; weakness is not tolerated and the loser is killed by the opponent.

The children training also includes intense ballet lessons, where their instructor ordered them to repeat their routine over and over again, so that they can become unbreakable. Many times, when children are trained in the use of firearms, they use real people as shooting targets to practice. The training is so brutal that approximately one in twenty children in each generation ended up surviving to become full-fledged spies, due in part to the insistence that the program eliminate defects.

The majority of members submitted to the program were women, the first girls in the program were Natasha and Anna Romanov, artificially created for direct use in the program, but it is later revealed that they also admitted male members. According to Ava's own words, the project "was a continuation of work begun in World War II Japanese facilities and Nazi concentration camps to subdue and control minds in the Human Era, but now enhanced".

## Overview

The Red Wings High-Tech Special Forces Unit (Russian: Красные крылья) was a small and formidable elite covert operations unit of the army of the New United States and the Soviet Union that was established by its leaders, both legendary soldiers and governors of their nations. This group of Death Butterfly-trained soldiers specialized in covert and solo infiltration, dealing with local revolutions, regional complications, and global terrorist activities in "unauthorized" combat zones too politically sensitive to intervene by conventional means. Their agents were also trained to complete various missions that were assigned in secret, to the point that they were considered modern versions of the ninja.

Because of its status as a high-tech special forces infiltration unit, any and all members of Red Wings were heavily trained and rigorously taught a wide field of survival, martial, and operational skills; from a plethora of insertion and maneuvering methods, to skydiving techniques and underwater infiltration, in order to cover all possible routes of infiltration into an enemy nation; advanced outdoor survival skills, including scenarios regarding long period wilderness survival and a wide range of harsh environments; acute stalking, detonation operations, wireless communication, procuring and reusing enemy resources, gathering information, varying martial arts, emergency medical operations, languages, and high-tech devices.

## History

### Birth of the Snake sisters

During times of repression, the Iskra government, like that of Ava, was characterized by excessive military surveillance in search of saboteurs or opponents, to the point that it repressed with excessive imprisonments and executions. It is estimated that the number of victims is around two million citizens. It was during this time that the Americans brought the black butterfly program to the Soviet Union. Ava and Iskra created the test subject cloning program together, and from this secret Soviet-American program the Snake twin sisters were born. Using the latest in genetic cloning technology and a mixture of human DNA altered with Nuclaxine-A9, they created the first girl at N.E.X.U.S laboratories in Moscow through an amniotic tank with an artificial placenta. This success was the result of multiple attempts and the project only came to fruition after dozens of failures. Of the eight embryos created, six were intentionally aborted to promote stronger growth in the remaining two.

From the creation of the first girl, called Natasha Romanov, genetic modifications were made with the second, who was the youngest, called Anna Romanov. Due to their respective genetic expressions, the twins had a genetic difference of 0.43%, a difference small enough to fool almost all DNA identification procedures, exempting those that use precise scans. The goal of both nations was to turn these girls into elite assassins and mass produce them for their neo-military armies. Both girls would later be placed under the care of surrogate mother Yelena Ivanov, a Soviet scientist and member of the Death Butterfly program, who would be assigned to a covert mission to Japan to extract files from CyberCore. To make her facade more plausible to her, Yelena would pose as a married family woman. After that, the woman would be sent to Neo-Tokyo along with her adopted daughters, who would be raised by the fake family until they returned to Russia a few years later.

### Arrival in Neo-Tokyo

Once in Neo-Tokyo, the identity of the mother and the girls were changed. Yelena changed her name to Maiko and entered the new country as a normal citizen undercover, soon working as a scientist for CyberCore Research Facilities. However, the girls' training did not stop there, Natasha and Anna endured education and indoctrination in the world of espionage and soon the older sister was considered one of the best students in the program. Shino Suzuki was another of the members who was in charge of these girls and was another infiltrator of the program, who previously worked for CyberCore but betrayed them and joined N.E.X.U.S. She constantly stole data from the corporation and gave it to N.E.X.U.S or SovietCorp Industries.

Natasha spent years being educated apart from others and underwent even more painful experiments in testing chambers while attending part-time school, grew up in a Neo-Tokyo Development Center, and was educated at a part-time school where she met to Akira, the family spent three years of their lives living a double life until Yelena married Yasuo Suzuki and they both took care of the girls for a long time, however, after Yelena's mission was completed and she was discovered by CyberCore, one night, when the woman returned home, informed Natasha that their mission had come to an end and that they must leave immediately. Natasha did not want to leave the life they led, knowing the future that awaited them, but she had no choice. Yelena was forced to murder her husband and take the girls to escape back to Russia as she had been instructed. After a chase, the family would escape to the Soviet Union on a jet.

### Back to Russia

In Russia, Natasha was raised in the Special Operations Training Center, where she would endure an education and indoctrination in the world of espionage. When soldiers tried to take her younger sister, Natasha came to Anna's defense and held the soldiers at gunpoint while Anna clung to her. When Natasha threatened to shoot the guards, Yelena tried to calm her down. The girl expressed her rejection of returning to the program and receiving indoctrination, saying that her sister was too young for that. When Yelena took the gun from her, she told Natasha that she and Anna would be fine and that they should take care of each other. However, at her signal, Natasha and Anna were sedated and placed on a plane headed to Moscow.

The girls were sent to the Red Wings Training Center in Moscow, where Natasha would fight soldiers who touched her younger sister and she was constantly stabbed and beaten. According to Natasha's stories, she was tortured and locked up multiple times, separated from her sister, and she saw multiple children from the program die, murdered by Soviet soldiers. She was subjected to psychological conditioning and physical training, while she surpassed her marksmanship skills. During one of her training exercises, she was forced to execute an innocent man.

Natasha spent most of her days serving in training, until one day Yelena stopped agreeing with the cruelty with which the girls were treated and tried to interfere. This caused Iskra to order her murder, so the woman was hunted down and killed by the Soviet armed forces in front of the girls. Later, Natasha and Anna, traumatized 12 years old, were sent by the squad of child soldiers to Central America, to Costa Rica, for two years, where they would infiltrate and murder a group of nomads, steal data from a corporation, and incriminate CyberCore. After that, they would be sent back to Mother Base in Belarus with the Russian Intelligence Agency. Some time later, Natasha would be sent to Alaska in the New United States to deliver the stolen data to the Central American corporation, handing it over to the American government.

The child soldiers did other missions during the War of Separation, led by the Snake sisters. Later, at the age of 14, Natasha would go to Europe with her group of child soldiers and commit terrorist attacks and data theft against the United Kingdom, France and Spain. The little terrorist received the name Venom Snake along with her younger sister, second in command of the terrorist children's squad. By then, the Romanov sisters witnessed how the child soldiers would be murdered by the Soviets themselves, considering them useless. Natasha deactivated the security of the mother base to escape with her sister and free the child soldiers, but Anna would be shot on the spot while both girls ran. Natasha stopped to rescue her sister, but the gunshots in the distance would not allow her to do so. The girl is forced to continue running and running without looking back, wounded in the leg by a soldier's shot until the scene finally ends.

### Separation of the Snake sisters

Time passed and Natasha was lost from the radius of the Soviet Union, she was reported missing and her sister, who survived the attack, was brainwashed and made to believe that her sister was dead. Natasha escaped to Japan, believing her sister was also dead, she ended up on the streets and was taken in by The Order.

## Nuclaxine-A9

### Toxicological analysis

The drug identified as Nuclaxine-A9 in blood tests appears to be an altered variant of Nucliulium designed after the discovery of recombinant DNA. A powerful and corrosive thaumaturgic substance, similar to a serum, capable of producing an incurable genetic modification in the individual. It was originally created with analgesic properties to function as a healing drug. However, under times of repression, it was used to convert super soldiers as part of a plan towards victory.

Unlike the original component, it is a bright red liquid that radiates a soft glow. It has been shown to be unstable and also highly flammable, producing bright pink flames as it burns. Although most of the subdued soldiers were injected into their bodies with syringes, it can also be inhaled in gas form, as demonstrated by chemical tanks.

In small quantities, the drug can speed up the healing process and improve the constitution of a living organism according to what its tests point out. In larger quantities, it can grant excessive levels of strength, speed, and durability, but the resulting transformation can be extremely painful, displaying negative side effects such as nausea, muscle spasms, migraines, and vomiting. In the worst case, it is estimated that it can cause alterations in the structure of the body, eventually leading to a complete shutdown of the organism due to its inability to function properly.

Nuclaxine-A9 is considered dangerous despite all this. People undergoing the surgical process receive irreparable neuronal and internal damage. They will go into neurogenic shock in which they will be practically unconscious. After a couple of hours, the brain cells will be identified as a tumor that must be eradicated, beginning the initial stages of conversion until the mind fades. Patients experience chronic joint pain, chills, and severe dementia. Eventually they lose muscle coordination and their lower body becomes paralyzed.

Despite the high incidence and severity of its consequences, the injured brain still has the potential capacity to reorganize its synaptic connections, modifying the biochemical mechanisms involved in its communication, being able to create new neuronal branches that compensate for the damaged areas. This allows recovery to be expected with minimal medical intervention before things become permanent. Unfortunately, the deterioration of the victim's mind cannot be avoided. Independent thought becomes progressively more difficult and consciousness dies. Symptoms may ease as numbness and lethargy begin to take over, but patients are usually given 6 months to live regardless of treatment due to neuronal damage.

According to studies by the WHO and the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, in most cases the treatment will be neurorehabilitation to restore, minimize or compensate for the damage as much as possible. You can have a great variety of consequences, which will vary enormously depending on the person affected, the intensity and duration of the injury, and the time it took to be treated at the Medical Center. According to the areas of rehabilitation that work on them, the consequences of the damage can be classified into seven large areas: level of alertness, motor control, reception of information, communication, cognition, emotions, and activities of daily living.

### Signs and symptoms

Patients may present severe psychological consequences and must undergo recovery from traumatic stress. They may constantly present repeated and vivid memories of the event. These flashbacks can occur for no apparent reason, and can cause physical reactions such as tachycardia or sweating. They also experience difficulty concentrating or making decisions, or become confused more easily. Just as they show alterations in sleeping and eating patterns.

* Some of the other signs and symptoms are as follows:
* Subconjunctival hemorrhages
* Brain dysfunction
* Tiredness or extreme exhaustion that does not improve with rest
* Fever or nights with sweats
* Vision or hearing problems
* Headaches
* Weakness
* Confusion
* Agitation
* Dizziness and loss of consciousness

Once clinical signs of drug infection in the nervous system appear, the case is almost always fatal and treatment is usually supportive. Less than 20 cases of survival of this clinical case have been documented. Only some of them did not have any history of pre- or post-exposure prophylaxis. Although it is a complex phenomenon that cannot be addressed exclusively from a medical perspective, this guide aims to provide an approach to the psychological and physical consequences that arise from this type of extreme suffering in order to facilitate the early treatment of survivors of this type of practices among refugees who are increasingly taken to Recovery Centers.

The traumatic events experienced by survivors of the death butterfly program tend to be stored as vivid memories, frozen in time, and manifest as they were experienced, influencing the patient's way of seeing things and therefore their behavior. The majority of these refugees have experienced psychological and physical torture before being subjected to the drug process. These acts of organized violence by corporate forces are emotionally traumatic situations responsible for mental disorders and physical consequences of various kinds that can sometimes take years. to recover, leaving irreversible consequences and generating significant personal, social and occupational deterioration for the victim.

There are few cases of survival to this process that is undergone with the drug and that is why the Snake sisters are considered special as they were directly born with that genetic alteration to handle the drug in their system.

## Selection and drills

As the American-Soviet Red Wings forces were formed in 52,060, the recruiting process was not fully developed, due to the circumstances of the time and the state of emergency of the War of Separation. However, those with abilities such as quick recovery, the ability to adapt to changing situations in combat (quick thinking), and a certain amount of combat experience were highly desired by the Soviet Union. After the squadron was organized into an official unit, very strict selection procedures were adopted over the months. Firstly, potential recruits were only chosen from various special forces with the exception of the Romanov sisters and other children created directly by the program. Recruits must also pass exams in three different aspects:

#### Physical

* Physical fitness test
* short distance running
* Uninterrupted performance of 80 push-ups
* Uninterrupted performance of 100 sit-ups
* 50 meter freestyle swimming
* Combat diving skill
* Cross-country walking (travel 64 km in less than 15 hours, carrying a 30 kg backpack)

#### Psychological

* Mental recovery, concentration, resistance, self-control and strength to overcome difficult situations
* ESP Expectancy Score
* Recognize and make decisions in emergency situations

#### Intelligence

* Foreign languages
* Foreign geography
* Knowledge of world events
* Advanced technology
* medical procedures
* Detonation operations
* Stealth communication
* Foreign weaponry
* Espionage

After passing all these tests, the children will spend years of their lives being raised on the Mother Base, being trained and undergoing medical processes to increase their efficiency. Where they practice guerrilla warfare, shooting practice, land navigation, combat medical skills, rebelling and ranger practice, weapons familiarization, nautical vehicle control and navigation, diving and underwater infiltration, canoeing and basic military parachute skills.

While conducting stealth missions, agents did not wear formal uniforms or possess anything that could reveal their identity or nationality (such as badges, military clothing labels, or instruction labels). The only equipment allowed was a radio and motion detection radar. However, there were other uniforms and equipment that were permitted when not on stealth missions (such as direct warfare or during military exercises). Most Red Wing child soldiers wore black neofiber suits with red insignia of the Soviet Union or the New United States. A clear example is Natasha's clothing, consisting of black suits with a black ushanka with the insignia of the Soviet Union.

## Code name system

A RED WINGS codename originally comprised the name of an animal and a former personal identifier to distinguish between those agents who bore the same name. Often this identifier represented the individual's weapon of choice or a particular skill in which he specialized, but sometimes these codenames were more ambiguous in nature. The code name "Red" was given to agents of high skill. In the case of the Romanov sisters, the names vary, but they are mostly known as Venom Snake and Death Snake. Other times, they were named the White Mambas in Central America.

The name "RED WINGS" or death butterfly itself could be used to identify any member of the unit.

## Trivia

* Members infected by the bioweapon Nuclaxine-A9 exhibit signs and symptoms similar to rabies. Rabies is a zoonotic virus that can be prevented by administering a vaccine. It affects the nervous system and, once clinical symptoms appear, is fatal in practically all cases. In up to 99% of cases, the virus is transmitted by domestic dogs. However, the disease can affect both domestic and wild animals. The route of spread to people and animals is saliva, which comes into contact through bites, scratches or direct contact with the mucous membranes (of the eyes, mouth or open wounds).