Experimentals

"Rise and shine lad!" Atlas loud voice bellows into my newly acquired bedroom. I had apparently been passed out for a day after being rescued from the ocean. Atlas, Echo and Frost had been staying up watching for when i would wake up. Once i did and got free of the mess i got my self into with Frost everyone went back to resting, and i was given a room. It is now the next morning and Atlas is telling me to get up.
" *Yawn* what time is it?"
"4 lad time to get up!"
"4....... in the morning!?! wake me when it's 10!"
"OYE we start early around here! Besides we still have a lot to tell you"
"....... okay I'm up"
I walk with Atlas to a small room, Echo and Frost were both sitting eating something.
"Ah there you are here take this Blaze"
"Huh? What is this....."
".....Eat it, it's breakfast"
I look at what is handed to me. A small bowl of what appears to be a soup with fish, along side it was a piece of bread that was dried out. I can't really complain after all, these 3 saved me, gave me a place to stay and are now feeding me. I eat the soup which has a bland taste and take a bite out of the bread. It's so dry it causes me to start coughing.
"I know it ain't what your used to but it's all we have lad. Slums and ports of the city get the worst of everything"
"Slums? Eh never mind that, tell me who exactly are you people?"
"Well you got our names already, as for who we are..... to everyone else we are just another fishing crew"
"But to you and the others we are subjects"
"I seen that, you guys obviously have powers and know how to use them. Do you know your powers name or anything about the projects you were made apart of?"
"Aye, I know my power. Strength, strength so strong not even a bullet can pierce me skin."
"Sound manipulation, a simple but very useful trick, with many uses'
"..... You've seen mine first hand do you really need to ask?"
"Cryo-kinesis, yea i know. Actually you would be my opposite, the good doc told me I'm part of a pyro-kinetic tree"
"You got info for your Doc lad?"
"Actually i managed something better" I search for the files i stole from Doctor Toufin "EH where did they go? i had them against me the hole time"
"Where did what go?"
"I had files, they were about me and all previous subjects of the project"
"You mean these? The were soaked beyond belief, some even had blood and bullet holes in them"
I stare at the files Frost points at. The are warped and barely any of the information was still there. The photos damaged and ink all but bleed out this was no different than having a book set in the rain.
"They useless, only good as fire starter now"
"No, i can still use these..... they may not be readable and not everything is clear but let me keep them."
"They were yours to begin with lad, we ain't touching them"
"Thank you"
"We done yet?"
"Not yet, got any more questions lad?"
"Yeah, you said to everyone else your a fishing crew but to me and others you are subject who are the others?"
"Ah, the Resistance. they be the others"
"Resistance?"
"A small group of test subjects who escaped same as you and us. In fact your apart of it"
"Wait what?! I didn't sign up for this!"
"You didn't have a choice. we saved you, feed you, and are protecting you. You owe us so your in. Unless you want dropped back where we found you"
I remained silent at her remark. it is true, all of it but i don't like it.
".....What is your guy's purpose? How many of us are there?"
"Our purpose, to get back at those bastards that did this of course!"
"As for how many we are sitting at 2 to 3 dozen scattered around the city"
I think on what i've been told, i do want to get back at Toufin for this, but mainly i just want freedom. As for numbers considering the size of a city that's not even a 100th of a single percent. Then the 3 back at the lab come to my mind, the wolf-man's regen and ferocity would be very useful. As would a black hole but we don't even know if that girl had been able to control it. As for that Logan his wall trick would be handy. With this in mind i speak up

"I know 3 we can have join us"
"Really? where are they"
"Back at the labs"
"No can do lad, we ain't strong enough to storm the labs"
"Come on, with four of us we could do it"
"My question if they useful why weren't they with you"
"Because...... because..... because I left them"
"And you're expecting us to go back and get them? If you saw them as assets or friends why did you leave them"
"One couldn't control her power, but is very powerful if she does. the other two stayed by her"
"And why didn't you"
"Because....."
"Out with it"
"Because I didn't think we all would have made it. I barely know how to use my power or my limits, waiting around could have gotten us all killed so i took my path"
"I think...."
"Enough Frost, lad's head was in the right place he just doesn't know how it works. Look, we can't save everybody, we are out numbered and outgunned even with powers. We only pick up those that want to and can free them self's, Going in after them would be too high of a risk."
"However.... should i pick up a com from the labs saying there are experiments outside the labs, we will try to retrieve them. It's what we did to you and the others"
"Alright, it's about enough chat for now, we need to get our morning work out in before we head out to work, Echo, Frost, Blaze let's go"
"Right behind you"
Echo and Atlas head outside the room while Frost remains, I get up and start after them when Frost speaks
"....All i was trying to say was there is no use going after them, if they want out of the labs they will find a way.......Also.....you weren't wrong....... to leave them. The guards would have kept coming without end...... most don't realize there is a limit to our powers....."
With that said Frost headed out after Echo and Atlas. I follow thinking on what Frost said and what sort of workout these guys have

 

"Fresh Air.", said Locks.
Escaping was easy with his power. He needed to get further from the lab, he needed a new look so they couldn't recognize him. Locks stared at an ATM machine and at the very bottom an paper thin slit opened, revealed by a moving chain. Green chains streamed from the slit and reverted back to the form of money.
*Gulp*
"Stealing is wrong, right. But.... if it's to save my life..... it has to be okay. I mean, how could they blame me.", murmured locks
It now showed that those weeks of captivity and his recent psychological breakdown in the labs had caused him to loose his hold on reality. He cared for nothing but surviving, and knew no difference from right and wrong. He became like this when he used his power. It had..... corrupted him some how, He was completely as the mercy of his own self
Locks grabbed the money and ran. He bought a dark pair of jeans and a hoodie covered with pictures of chains. He received a tattoo of a lock on his chest wrapped in chain.. He dyed his hair, which was previously brown, to jet black with silver streaks shaped like chains strewn in different places.. He didn't need to worry about people from the lab recognizing him. He would never go into public again. Seen only when wanted, heard only when wanted. He would live in the shadows away from the public. Finally he bought a large amount of of metal and hauled it as far out into the woods as he could. All the metal formed chains and shot into the ground the buried themselves and reverted to giant metal walls. He slowly constructed himself a large underground bunker complete with a workshop filled with metal for him to experiment, training room, bedroom, kitchen, main room, and and a small stair case leading out of a large boulder. The only way to access the stairs was with his power to remove a specific part of the rock by turning it into chain. Of course even though the rooms had names specifying their uses they had nothing in them so the weren't worth much.
"I need more items" he said with a smirk.
Locks spent the next few hours stealing items for his bunker. From a bed to a TV. All the electrical stuff was hooked up to a large generator and the water to a well dug by locks. The wiring and plumbing was forced to be done by two servicemen against their will. Locks slaughtered them as soon as they finished. He buried the bodies and went into his bunker. He had a base he had powers, now all he needed was knowledge and expertise.

 

5 YEARS AGO
"Jackson you need to go outside all you do is play those games.", Jacksons Mother hollered
"No i don't want to the other kids are mean.", he replied
"I'm sure they're not threat bad now go out and play this instant."
"Fine", Jackson groaned
He much preferred the world of video games. He was better than everyone. No one antagonized him there. People respected him and the npcs were never programed to be mean. If they were he would kill them. Jackson walked along the side walk bored until several other kids came up to him.
"Hey Jackson, have any money on ya!", the largest one said intimidatingly.
Jackson replied quickly out of fear for he new what happened next, "Here take it this is all i have for mowing the lawn!"
He grunted, "This all. 10 Buks. I think that you need it beat into you that we want more!"
about ten minutes later the kids left. Jackson lied there in pain bruised and bleeding.
Jackson murmured, "If only I was stronger. If only had power. I would kill them kill all of them!"
Apparently they had heard him because they turned around and kicked him a few more times and said, "You could never beat us. You'll never be stronger so don't even dream"
PRESENT DAY
Over the next days several news stories popped up. 4 teenagers were murdered. The only connection was that they used to be part of the same friend group. The same group from 5 years ago.

 

Zach could see Leah sitting on the bed, along with a couple of others in the room. “I don’t have time for this crap!” Zach said as he kept hitting the door. It wouldn’t budge, and there was no lock for him to hack. Wait, my arm can morph into metal, maybe I can also do this

Zach pushed his hand against the door, and let it melt into it. He could feel the lock mechanism, and disabled it. With that, the door opened, and he also molded the metal into a blade.

As Zach walked into the room, he noticed Leah was on the bed, and it looked like she couldn’t move very well. Another man was by her, and there was a third man who looked almost like a beast, and he was snarling at Zach.

“Well, shit, this is not how I expected things to turn out. Hell, yesterday I was getting ready to do a presentation. This morning, I woke up and was strapped on a table, and I find out my arm can absorb and turn into metal. Oh, my name is Zach Ferrous, I know, last name is kinda ironic. Anyways, if your friends here will calm down for a bit, I can explain some of the stuff I found out here. But I suggest we get it done now, more guards are coming, and I have to say, those guns are a pain in the ass to get through.”

 

OOT: It looks like Heizen isn't getting back into this RP, so I'm gonna move on without him.


"It looks like I caught a lucky break. Who would have thought that he would be so cooperative, even in the state he was in?"
After Frank directed Claus towards the security room, the two of them decided that it would be best to go their own ways. Claus happily obliged and made his way to the security room, chuckling to himself as he thought of his new "friend."
"If those directions were right, it should be...yes, right about here."
Claus stopped in front of a large metal door. He took out his rifle and held it in his right hand, while placing his left hand on the door.
"I still don't have complete control of this power, but I should be able to at least do this much..."
The door started to shake, then creak, and then cracks slowly started to form all around it. Soon after, the sound of an explosion rang through the air as the door shattered into pieces, which blew into the room at a very high speed. The guards waiting inside were either severely injured from the shrapnel or at the very least dazed from the blast. Although he did not predict that his power would be this effective, Claus knew better than to waste a perfect opportunity and charged right in, taking aim at the soldiers and gunning them down one by one. He prioritized the guards who took the least amount of injuries and looked like they might regain their bearings the soonest, then he gunned down the ones with severe injuries, even if they showed no signs of resisting. After all, as far as he was concerned, he could not run the risk of letting any of these men escape alive. They would kill him in an instant if they had the chance, why shouldn't he do the same?
"Something is wrong here..."
He muttered this under his breath as he looked around the room. There were about 8 guards in all, and although he wouldn't have called it "easy" to get where he was now, he expected much more resistance. He wasted no time searching for answers and started hacking into the main computer in the room.
"For a project this ambitious, there should be more guards...more personnel...more security measures...more subjects and doctors. None of this adds up--"
Just as he said this, he discovered why none of this was making sense. The area that he was in was only a small part of a much larger facility. Not only that, it was a low-security area used mainly as living quarters. Although he was expecting the laboratory to be massive, he was still taken aback when he saw the layout of the full facility. As he went through more of the computer's files, he discovered something quite interesting. He was not the only one who had broken out-- not even close. Reports were coming concerning multiple security breaches, it wouldn't be a stretch to say that the facility was close to being in a state of chaos. Claus smiled as a thought came to him.
"It looks like they're having a tough time keeping all of us precious "subjects" contained. I wonder if I can make their lives even more difficult?"
Soon after, he found a way to start sending security reports from his section of the facility. He sent a massive amount of false reports all throughout the system, sending guards to various different places where there wasn't actually any security breaches. He figured that by sending out these false leads, the guards would become even more disorganized and would have a harder time responding to actual threats. This would not only buy him time, it would make his escape even easier. Having accomplished this, he went through the computer's files to see if he could find anything else of interest.
"Oh? What's this?"
He stumbled onto a file of a certain subject that was classified under the highest level of security. Of course, that didn't stop him for very long. He hacked into the file and read its contents.
"It says here that one of these subjects has an ability unlike any other. They're labeled under "Level 1 Threat," which seems to be unique to that person only. Very interesting...I'll have to pay them a visit after I finish up my business here."
He soon pulled up the information that he was really looking for. The location of all the doctors that he had seen since he entered the facility. A twisted smile crossed his face as he looked at Dr. Goldsmith's photograph.
"After all the times you so kindly visited me...I think it's about time I paid you a visit, doctor."
He got up and left the security room, making his way towards the doctors' rooms.

OOT: I'll meet up with the group pretty soon, I'm just gonna finish up this little story arc here. I'd appreciate it if nobody interrupted/trolled me while I'm working on it. If you do, you will officially be "that guy." Don't be that guy.

 

As a follow Frost, Echo and Atlas i get to see Kras City for my self. The part we are in is run down, most buildings have structural damage and there is a stench in the air. Atlas wasn't kidding this place really is a slum. How can they let the city get like this? Is all of the city like this? More thinking on the city and not watching where I'm going i fall into a pot hole on the ground.
"Ofh"
"Watch your step lad"
"Ugh were are we even going?"
"That warehouse over there" Atlas points to a worn down ware house less than a block from where we were taking shelter
"There? how do you workout in there?"
"It's the only place where we can use our powers and not be seen, besides it's our crews fishhouse"
"Fishhouse? there were do you keep them if you use it for training"
"....Frozen"
"Huh?"
"She freezes them and we ship the off to either market or other members. Or store them underwater in case we don't get a good haul"
"Don't get a good haul, HA. Echo with your sonar we damn near outfish a fleet of boats! we just don't sell them all to the damn city"
"Enough we are here"

After the short walk over and rather poor explanation of how they run things we arrive at the warehouse. Upon walking in I see a worn and almost battle scared place, something you wouldn't expect even in a warehouse bad condition. The ground is scared as well as metal beams stuck in the ground and ice spike stuck on the ceiling. They weren't kidding when they said they used their powers in here.
"Okay time to draw lots, seeing as we now have four hear got to make sure the matches are random"
"Matches?"
"Oh forgot to tell you we workout by fighting each other. Used to one person got away with doing nothing, but now we all have to."
"Also the loser has to clean this place up after words"
"Clean?!?! You call this clean!"
"..... Yeah, you don't"
I speechless at Frost words, if this is clean what does her room look like?
"Enough draw everyone"
We all pick straws. Mine has a red tip, Atlas's a black, Echo's a black, and Frost's ..... a red. Looks like I'm up against her.......
"Alright spread out so we don't get caught up in each others practice. Also i should tell you, its who ever knock the other down 3 times is the winner. Use your powers but don't aim not kill"
Like he needs to be telling me not to kill, try till Frost that not me! Echo and Atlas take up positions at the opposite end of the ware house. i turn and see Frost just standing across from me, showing no interest in fighting me.
"Begin!"

Atlas yells for the match to start, and instantly Echo and Atlas are at each other, Atlas work offence while Echo moves for defense and counters. I turn back to see where Frost was but to my surprise she was no longer across from me. Suddenly i feel my feet swept from me and an arm pressing across my throat, my back slams into the ground. Winded and coughing I try to grasp what just happened, Frost was in front of me, then gone, and now I'm on my back.
"1-0"
Frost says coldly. Still cough i pull my self up off the ground. Taking my eyes off of her was a mistake, which gave her the lead. This time I'll focus on her, she won't be able to do that again! As i think this Frost disappears from my sight. WHAT?! HOW DID SHE GRUUUUUUGH! Again i feel my feet lift from out from under me and an arm across my throat, this time my head hits first rather than my back.
"2-0"
Again Frost speaks to me while i lay on my back in pain. Urgh how is she moving so fast? One moment she is in front of me, the next gone, he power is cryo-kinesis not speed right? I a question this to my self i get up on shaky legs, two hard hits and almost no time to actually recover has left my body uneasy. I look at Frost, she still infront of me this time. I know i can't aim to kill but at this rate it will be done with zero damage done to her, i'll fire a fireball at the ground infront of her should get to back off instead of charging. Just as get ready to make a fireball she vanishes. Shit, not fast enough. I try to dodge but instead her arm lands on my chin rather than my throat.
"3-0 ....... Your cleaning"
"Oh tough break lad"
"Yeah, didn't think she would get you that easily"
Next to Frost where both Atlas and Echo, seems their match was just at 1-1 when mine ended.

"Okay, while we are off your in charge of cleaning. Once your done here go back to the house and work there"
"but don't worry about our rooms, each room is our own responsibility"
"...."
As they leave i look at the mess i am left to clean. Steel beam impaled into the ground, craters in the ground, ice spires everywhere. Better start with the ice, bout the only thing i can clean up. I start melting the ice spikes by holding a fireball directly on them, as I am doing so i notice something. Ice trails, those weren't there before..... wait, wait a minute! Yes, yes that could work. Yes going to have to test and see if the notes have anything that could help........ I just hope I'm right on this.
After cleaning up the ice i walked back to the house and studied the remains of the doctors notes. No, no, no no i need something else. how did i use the fireball to begin with or flash? I though, i though of what i wanted to do, how the fire could do it, and it happened. That's it! Got you now Frost.....

It was evening when They all arrived back at the house. Seems it was just Atlas and Echo who went on the boat as Frost came in alter than them.
"Ah there you are" i say with a grin on my face
"Lad has been asking for you this hold time'
"Yea seems he sore about losing earlier, but got to say he did a good job cleaning"
"....."
"I want a re-match!"
"....why, the chore was already done. And you'll be doing it again tomorrow"
"Come on Frost humor him a re-match, he seem pretty sure of him self"
"...If he hes he should bet something"
"Bet? I don't have anything'
"He's right"
"Dinner"
"What?"
"You lose, you lose your dinner"
"Sounds fair to me lad"
I got the re-match i wanted but had to pay a price should i lose

Frost, Atlas, Echo and I are all back at the warehouse ready to start. Seeing as bout Atlas and Echo tied earlier, but didn't want a re-match they are here purely for spectating. Frost and I are in the middle of the ware house instead of in just one side.
"Alright first to 3 wins"
"Begin!"
Frost vanishes as usual, this time i expect it so i move forward the moment she vanished. This time her arm hit my upper chest rather than the throat or chin, which seem to catch Frost off guard and require her to use more force. I lad on my back desipte my move forward.
"1-0"
As i am getting up i see ice trails from where Frost was to beside me now. Bingo i was right, now to see if it can only be done from one side.... I get up and retake my position. This time i anticipate her vanishing and make a move to my left, the side she has been sweeping my leg from through both matches. This time she appears on my right, sweeps my leg and again sends me on my back. So it isn't directional and it's on the open side, eh makes sense.
"2-0, some re-match.."
Ignoring her comment i get up again. And again she vanishes.........but as she goes to sweep my legs the aren't there, I'm not there. Frost's Face is one of utter shock not understanding what i had done. It's simple really i just used her own trick against her, the ice trails i saw earlier was what she used to 'vanish' she rode them at break neck speed. But couldn't one use jets to achieve the same thing? couldn't one just small fire jets to propel one at shirt burst of high speed? My theroy i had been working on paid off and worked, i was now behind Frost who is still in shock.
"Some re-match huh?" I say mockingly behind her as i use my legs to sweep her legs. I took very little force as she was already off balance from trying to do the same to me. Frost falls to the ground, but i grab her arm to prevent her from hitting her head or back on the ground.
"1-2" I say to her while holding onto her arm.
"3-1"
"Huh?" Before i realize it she uses my arm thats holding her and pulls it sending me to the ground face first.
"Oh, tough luck lad"
"That's game"
"......"
Shit

After the four of us made it back i gave my dinner to Frost. she then proceeded to pull out 3 shinny red apples
"Whoa Frost hoe did you get those?!"
"When to the market today, man said the were going bad in this heat so he threw them out but the just needed a little time to chill"
"Ah so that's where you went to today lass?"
"Yep"
I stared on as Frost gave an apple to Echo, Atlas and her self. My stomach growling at the sight of the food i head to my room.

Later in the night i hear a knock by my door. Eh i though everyone went to bed? As i walked into the hall there was a bowl of fish soup, a hunk of bread, and an apple in the hall by my room...my dinner. As i look at it a hear a voice behind me.
"...Eat it"
"Eh Frost?"
"Eat it, your hungry right?"
"But i lost remember?"
"Just eat it.... besides fighting tomorrow morning on an empty stomach would put you at a handicap"
I take the food and eat it rapidly because of my hunger, Frost just looks at me while i eat. After finishing the main meal i bite into the apple, it tastes as if frozen but gives it a unique flavor. After finishing the apple i put everything up and head back to my room for the night. Before entering i turn to Frost.
"Thank you"
"....."

 

A growl rippled the muscles on his taut frame, but he lowered himself back to a crouch, his eyes returning to scanning the room for anything that might prove interesting to him. He gave a low growl at the scent of the female's distress.
"Hrrrrr..." A peculiar scent caused him to look towards the door, Something was moving around outside. Lots of things. They smelled like him but not quite...
He knew the stink and his lips peeled back over his teeth rising to a roar.

 

OOC: *Resists being 'That Guy.*

Koneko slowly pulls herself up from the floor, her body aching in more ways than one as she finds the feeling of warm blood running down her body in small trickling trails. She reaches forward and tries to pull at the gate again, striking it in desperation as she seeks for a way out. The air is cold and the breeze makes her feel even colder, she shivers now that all the adrenaline from before has gone. Simple desperation as she strikes the gate again and again.
"Help me!" She cries out in a weak voice, "Someone please... Help!"

The chain link fence rings out with a dull tone every time it is struck, the vibrations moving along a few feet of the barbed wire above and then carried further by the wind.
"Help... me...", she says one last time before dropping to her knees, holding tightly to the fence, "Please..."

 

Zed woke up on a table with his vision blurry he could not make out where he was, all he could see was a bright flashing light. Zed turns his head and looks to the right and sees a wall with a sign, he can't make out what the words are yet so he just turns his head to the left. Zed sees a door and what seems to be glass covered in blood, he raises his body and while he was doing that he hears something.
"Please don't kill me, i wanna live! I have a family, a wife, a son! Please do-"
*Stab*
Zed hears a loud thud on the floor as the man stops speaking, Zed lays back down as he hears footsteps coming up to the door, but he does not close his eyes.
The door opens and a man with a scary looking mask comes in, he looks at Zed and for a while there was a long pause. The masked man walks up to Zed and he asks
"Are you alive?"
Zed nods his head
"Do you wanna live?"
Zed nods his head again
"Come with me if you don't wanna die then."
Zed raises his body once more and now his feeling pain in his heart, but he gets up anyways. The masked man walks ahead, with Zeds vision getting better he can see what the masked man is wearing. A black coat and standard boots, his hands seems to have blood dripping down it. Zed looks back up and sees that they are walking through a corridor with many doors on either side, some open and others closed, some with dead corpses in them and others empty with similar tables that he was on. Zed manages to say
"Did. . . Did you do all of this?"
"No, this district of the facility was wiped out by someone else."
"Dis. . . District?"
"You don't know? Hmmm. . . You must be new then."
Zed has many questions to ask the man but it seems like they are nearly out of the corridor, as they went out there was a bright light blinding Zeds eyes. As Zed opened his eyes he sees a road in front of him and tall buildings reaching to the sky. Skyscrapers, clouds, planes, streets, cars, lights.
"How. . . are we-"
"Were still in the facility."
"What."
Zed looks behind him to see if that corridor was still there, its not. A road is there stretching out all the way to the horizon with buildings and houses going out all the way until there was nothing else you could see. When Zed turned back around the masked man was not there, neither were the buildings, everything, every single thing he saw the building, skyscrapers, planes, cars, streets and even the clouds have disappeared. The walls and the roof starts disintegrating and shows a dark void all around Zed, the floor Zed was standing on disintegrates and he gets engulfed in the dark void that was around him. Zed can't see anything, can't feel anything, but he can still hear something. . . . something. . . . . someone. . . . speaking
"Were-. . . Test subj-. . . . . gonna die!"
"Im. . . going to. . . die?"
"Quickly! We need him alive!"
"GET A MEDIC STAT!"
"Were losing him! COME ON WE CAN'T LOSE ANOTHER TEST SUBJECT!"
"Another. . . . test subject? Why. . . do i. . . feel sleepy?"
"Rest Brother, you need all the rest you need."
"Sis? What. . . are you. . . doing here?"
"We can save him! Just give us some time!"
"Sleep Brother, i'll see you soon."
"Wait! Sis. . . . Please. . . . don't go!"
Zed closes his eyes and falls asleep.

 

OOT: Nocturnal Death, You're a god.

 

OOT: Thanks very much Serndipitous!

few days before, in a facility, a man with a lab coat is walking down a corridor. He has a pair of glasses on him and has a note book with the title
"Test Subject #10116 Dreams."
The man opens one of the doors, and in the room is a lady with brunette, glossy hair sitting on a mahogany chair, observing Test Subject #10116 through the thick glass pane in which she believed that she was safe. The thick walls laid as a barrier in which the lady had carried her observations, believing that it was a haven.
"Your late."
"Sorry Professor, I had to go do some few check ups on other Test Subjects."
"Ah yes, what was your finding?" she asked curiously.
"Astonishing actually! Our Test Subject code name beacon has shown supernatural powers in emitting light as bright as the sun from her body, the facility has harnessed this power to fuel the machinery here. Surprisingly the power is more efficient then nuclear reactors."
"Ahahahah, see never mess with females especially the ones with big shields."
"I'll make sure to write that down. So any signs with Zed waking up?"
"No luck, I have been looking through some old files from 5 weeks back and Zed said something interesting."
"What was it?"
"Zed said a dream was something that showed death, a signal to show who will die and when they will die."
"Then after that he fell into a deep sleep?"
"Yes he has not woken up for qui-. . . . . . did you see that?"
"See what?"
"His shadow. . . it disappeared."
"What!"
Zed who is on a table under a bright flashing light has no shadow, Zed starts to tremble and shake on the table.
"Nocturne! Nocturne! NOCTURNE!"
"How dos he know Test Subject #005!?"
"He's using his code name, maybe he knows who he really is. Quickly we need to record this! This may be useful in the near future!"
Zed raises his body from the table, he gets up and starts walking to the window. He opened his eyes and they were Red, dead red beady eyes. Zed starts to raise his fists and starts punching the window violently.
"NOCTURNE! NOCTURNE!"
"He's gone mad!"
"Maybe but there might be some connections to him and Test Subject #005."
"Are you my nightmare?"
The two Scientists are in shock, they are now frightened, who said those words?
"Come Zed, be my nightmare."
In an instant, he begins make the motion of movement on the spot, like he is marching. He raises his hand and places his hand in front of him like someone is there, he begins to shout
"WHERE IS NOCTURNE!? WHERE IS HE!? ANSWER ME!"
"Is he talking to us....?"
Then water in the shape of tears begin to appear upon his hand. Zed pauses for a second, he turns his head to the left as if he has found what he was looking for, and then he pulls his hands outwards like he is unbuttoning a shirt in a fierce manner. Then he turns to the left and begins to walk. Then the attention is taken by the overhead speaker
CODE YELLOW. CODE YELLOW AN OFFICER IS DOWN, I REPEAT AN OFFICER IS DOWN! PLEASE REMAIN CALM AND STAY IN YOUR STATIONS
Both Scientists stare at the over head speaker in shock, and then turn to Zed.
"Did Zed do that?"
"No need to ask questions his awakening we have to put him down! Grab the tranquilliser gun now!"
The man grabs the gun of the wall and looks at Zed who is currently walking to the door. The man ready's his gun.
"I found you. . . . Nocturne."
"Nocturne? What he is in a different district!"
The man is just standing waiting for the right moment to put down Zed, Zed stares at the door for a while. After a while he just sits down and remains silent for many minutes. A really long pause, it was quiet and the two scientists did not know what was gonna happen next. Zed then raises his hand and begins to move his fingers in the motion of typing. He then stands up in front of the door and begins to get angry.
"NOCTURNE!"
he exclaims, as he begins to furiously punch the window of the door. The man hesitates on pulling the trigger due to the sudden burst of anger.
"PUT HIM DOWN NOW, DO IT NOW"
The man opens the door goes into the room and looks at Zed and in a instant, shoots the needle, Zed begins to calm down and now was in a relaxation state.
*pant* "Is it over?"
"I think so. . ."
The scientists relieved that Zed was out and no more violent rampages, but o how foolish they were when they thought it was all over.
"EMBRACE THE DARKNESS!"

 

OOT: *Appreciates Joshier's efforts to not be 'that guy.'*


Doctor Goldsmith slowly regained consciousness. He opened his eyes and his blurry vision began to clear up.
"What...what happened to me?"
He mumbled incoherently as he looked around the room. The first thing he realized was that he was in the security room. The second thing he realized was that someone familiar was standing above him.
"Claus...? What are you doing here? How did you get out of your room?"
He let out a gasp and his expression turned to one of sheer terror as he slowly started to remember what happened. He was resting in his room when Claus somehow managed to get through the lock on his door-- he used his power to disassemble the lock from within-- and before he could even react, Claus bashed him over the head with a crudely made metallic club.
"But...this is impossible! You...your power...you shouldn't be capable of anything close to this! How?! The only power you ever displayed was magnetism! How did you make it all the way here?!"

Claus smiled, sat down in a nearby chair and calmly started to explain.
"That is what it looked like for the longest time, wasn't it? In fact, I had believed that to be was the extent of my power as well. What a surprise when it turned out I could do so much more. But I decided that it might not be a good idea to...volunteer that information at the time. So I made you all believe that all I could do was act like a human magnet. It worked like a charm. In fact, I might not have made it this far if you hadn't put me in this conveniently low-security part of the facility."

Dr. Goldsmith's eyes went wide.
"You lied to us. You...you wanted us to believe that your power was useless."
He wanted desperately to run away. But he soon discovered that his hands and feet were bound by a set of crude metal shackles that were attached to the floor and wall.
"How long have you been keeping us in the dark? It couldn't have been too long...you underwent the memory-erasing procedure!
He gasped again.
"No...unless you..."

Claus stood up and cleared his throat.
"Where am I?! What...what's happening to me?! I don't understand...please...please, I just want to go home!! How did I get here?! Who are you people?!"
He lowered his head.
"Wait...who...who am I?"
He chuckled as he looked back at Dr. Goldsmith.
"Does that little performance sound familiar?"

Dr. Goldsmith put the pieces together quickly.
"You pretended to have amnesia...you made me think that someone else had already performed the procedure so that we wouldn't actually put you through it."

Claus clapped his hands a few times.
"There it is, you finally got it. Now that you've had your chance, I think it's about time I start asking the questions."
He walked over and hovered right above Dr. Goldsmith.
"Do you, by any chance, remember signing a certain document recently? Oh, what did that man call it? A termination order?"
He could clearly see Dr. Goldsmith's face go pale as his expression went blank and sweat formed on his brow.
"It seems you do remember. I will excuse that for now, but only because I have something else to ask you. How can I move around this facility freely?"

Dr. Goldsmith was hesitant to answer.
"I...I can't tell you. You must know that. This project is far too important to be compromised in any way...they'll kill me if I breathe a word about it."

Claus took a few steps back, his face turning into a scowl.
"I expected as much. But I'm afraid I'm going to have to ask you to reconsider, given the circumstances. Take a look around, doctor...as you can see, your life isn't the only one in danger."

Claus took a few more steps away and Dr. Goldsmith looked around the room as Claus told him to. He was so focused on Claus that he didn't even notice it before.
"Oh, no...no, this isn't happening...!"
There were corpses scattered around the room, but even that wasn't the most alarming part. He saw many of his friends and colleagues as he looked around the room, shackled to the floor and walls just as he was, very much alive but frozen in fear.

 

“Yeah, guards have this entire facility on lockdown. When I came to, the alarm was going off, and I managed to steal some info from the network. We are experiments in human genetic engineering. It was disguised as a voluntary vaccination, but then some of the participants began experiencing strange side effects, which basically led to how our abilities have manifested. Right now, we have to get through the facility, and to the roof. It is the only place with almost no security. Leah, if your friends over there can help to support you, I will clear a path through to make sure we get out of here.”

Zach then took the blade he molded from the door, and let it fuse with his arm. Remembering the way around the facility, he led the group to a corridor that had a sign, “ROOF ACCESS”, and pointed that way. He started going that way, but stopped dead in his tracks. Bodies lay scattered around the corridor, but these had something very peculiar about the blood pooling around.

“This is not normal, for any human being. The blood is spreading out like tree branches, and then it starts dissolving, no coagulation or anything. Even from what I read in the files, this must have something to do with the blood coming in contact with the vaccine.” As Zach said this, guards had caught up to them, and they were prepared to fight against his group. They were armed with assault rifles, as well as a weird looking gun. Zach raised his arm in preparation of attack, and one of the guards fired a bullet from the weird gun. Once it hit the blade on Zach’s arm, the blade dissolved, and a searing pain shot through his arm.

“Shit, what the hell was that?” Zach screamed as he clutched at his arm.

“That is a special bullet designed to counter the abilities that each of you experiments have. We developed it only a week ago, and it seems to work quite well, given this is a test round. I suggest you give up, or else you will die here.” The guard said, as the others readied themselves to fire.

“There is no way I am going to let that happen!” Zach said as charged at the guards. He managed to get one down, and knock the gun out of another, but one of the bullets grazed his metal arm, sending more pain up it, and he noticed the metal was starting to corrode.

“I don’t have time for this!” Zach grabbed one of the guns, and he melded it into a blade. He attached the blade to his arm, and managed to cut through the throats of several of the guards. That left the guards with the bullets that could counter his ability. He charged, barely missing the bullets, and got all but the main guard. He then stabbed the guard, and knocked the gun out of his hand.

“Why is this happening? We know nothing about this place, yet we supposedly pose a danger to it. What is this place really?” Zach said as he held the blade to the guard’s throat

“Heh, like you could ever understand this project. Even if it comes at a cost of a few lives, what is better for the many will always win,” the guard said, and then Zach slit his throat and killed him

Zach picked up the weird gun, and they proceeded down the corridor to the roof.

“I figure that if I can analyze the bullets in this gun, it may give me a clue as to what the scientists in the facility have been doing. Right now, let’s get out of here.” The group got to the roof, and they took in the fresh air of the outside.

 

Zed wakes up on a bed, not knowing what happened to him. All he remembers is a masked man, everything disintegrating and his sister telling him she will meet up with him soon. Zed looks to his left he sees a door and thick pane glass, he can't see whats pass the window so he just stares at it.
"How. . . . am i. . . . alive?"
The door opens and a man with a lab coat that has glasses comes in, followed by a lady with brunette, glossy hair.
"Hello Zed, how was your sleep?"
". . . . . . ."
The man with glasses walks towards Zed, he grabs a chair that was near the wall.
"So Zed i just wanna ask, do you remember what you did a few days ago?"
"A. . . . few days ago?"
"Yes do you remember anything? Anything at all?"
"I was. . . . still asleep."
The scientist looks like he is disappointed, he looks down on the floor and looks like he is about to cry. The lady with brunette hair also looks depressed.
"Well we might as well show him, what he did."
"What. . . . i did?"
The man with the lab coat grabs a tablet that was in his pocket, he finds a video file and starts playing it. The man shows Zed what he did a few days ago, Zed himself was in shock, he did not know that this has happened.
"We just need to ask you some questions."
". . . . . . . . ."
"What did your dream about?"
". . . . . A masked man. . . . a district wiped out. . . . . everything disintegrating."
"Do you remember anything of the past?"
"I have a younger sister, a father and . . . . . and. . . . . thats all i remember."
"Tell me Zed, do you remember your real name?"
". . . . . . No. . . . ."
"I see."
"Hey, show him the other clip its also his fault."
"ah, yes i should show him."
The man once again with the tablet, opens a video file and shows it to Zed.

*Few days ago*
A dark figure is roaming around the corridors, it goes left it goes right, it goes around aimlessly. A lady with a note book is walking through the corridor while reading her notes, the dark figure looks at the lady, lets her past. The figure turns around and goes right behind the lady, raising his arms up then placing his hands on her mouth and her head. The lady starts crying her eyes out the dark figure starts whispering
"Wheres Nocturne? Where is he? Answer me."
"Nocturne? He's um. . . . in the first district. . . . Please don't kill me, I have a boyfriend an-"
*SNAP*
The lady's body falls down onto the ground and a loud thud is heard throughout the corridor, the dark figure looks at the body for a moment, steps over it and walks onwards to the first district.
CODE YELLOW. CODE YELLOW AN OFFICER IS DOWN, I REPEAT AN OFFICER IS DOWN! PLEASE REMAIN CALM AND STAY IN YOUR STATIONS
The overhead speaker has warned everyone to stay in the stations, and the dark figure can now walk freely without getting disturbed. People are screaming in the corridor where the lady died, many people are crying, many are asking why? The dark figure stops at a door, he turns to face it and whispers
"I found you. . . . Nocturne."
The dark figure slips under the door like a shadow and appears in the room were Nocturne is, one scientist is there taking notes while monitoring Nocturne. The dark figure goes into the scientists shadow and posses the scientist, he moves the scientist to the security lock and types the 5 numbers to the door 15397. The door unlocks and the dark figure comes out of the scientist, the scientist falls unconscious and hits the floor really hard. The dark figure is looking at Nocturne and starts to grin
"NOCTURNE!"
The dark figure runs to the capsule where Nocturne is being held, and he starts punching it violently and repeatedly. Then after a while the dark figure stopped punching, and started to fall back on the ground but disappears before it touch's the ground. Nocturne's capsule is now broken, blue little shiny lights appear in the capsule. The capsule door goes flying across the room with a single kick, Nocturne walks out the capsule looks up at the roof with his eyes closed and arms spread out, he breaths in and exhales. He opens his eyes, his blue eyes, his blue piercing eyes, he smiles and says
"EMBRACE THE DARKNESS!"

*present day*
After watching the video Zed's eyes were wide open, his arms trembling, his mind racing, Zed manages to say
"I did this?"
He looks at the two scientists who are still looking at the floor depressed
"Well, we think you did it."
"We think that we mig-. . . . Zed your eyes!"
Zed's eyes changed to the red eyes he had on that day
"Who are you!?"
". . . . . ."
"Zed?"
Zed smiles and looks at the two of them
"It seems like someone woke me up. No bigie, o it looks like Im being held captive."
"Who are you?"
"I think i will ask the questions for now on, scientist."
Zed gets up quickly, the man reacts to slow for him to doge Zed's hand which is reaching for his neck. Zed holds the man up in the air
"Professor. . . . . go get. . . . Vi."
The Professor runs out the door quickly and tries to find the person named Vi.
"Answer my questions and i might spare your life."
The man nods
"Where am i?"
"Your at. . . . . Pandora. . . . . laboratories."
Zed loosens his grip a little
"Why am i here?"
"Because. . . . you were. . . . selected."
"Selected?"
"You. . . . have power. . . . . we need."
"My power will not benefit yo-. . . hmm?"
The door near Zed explodes and it flies across the room and is heading towards Zed. In a split second Zed goes into his shadow that is in the ground dropping the scientist, the door passes and Zed comes right back up. A lady with huge gauntlets on her hands is ready to punch Zed in the face. Her hair is brown with Aqua eyes.
"Move and i will punch your face in Zed."

 

Dr. Goldsmith stared up at Claus, his fear showing clearly on his face.
"How...how did you do this? What kind of power do you really have?"

Claus thought for a moment about how to explain it.
"A fair question. If I had to describe it, I guess I would call it a form of transmutation."
To demonstrate, he walked over to a nearby chair and put his hand on it. The chair started to change from the many materials it was composed of into a solid slab of metal.
"It seems that my power can freely manipulate and transform objects on a molecular level. I can change what they're made of, their shape and size...put simply, it seems that I can turn anything I touch into anything I want. Well, that might be an overstatement at this point since I have not yet mastered this ability, but in theory I should be able to. At first, I could only manipulate metallic objects and substances. But now it seems that the list materials that I can use and change is growing by the minute."
He smiled at the doctor.
"Quite handy, wouldn't you say? I seem to remember watching an anime one time where the protagonist had a similar power. I have to give credit where credit is due, you people do good work."
He then approached the doctor again.
"Now, back to the matter at hand. Tell me how to get around this facility."

Dr. Goldsmith shook his head and said nothing.

Claus let out a heavy sigh.
"Somehow, I knew you would insist on doing things the hard way."
He walked over to one of his captives, a young female scientist. Claus' expression clearly displayed his resentment towards her.
"Doctor Rosemary, if I'm remembering it right."
The doctor averted her eyes, clearly terrified and looking like she was on the verge of tears.
"Did you really think I never noticed? That despicable way you looked at me...with those lustful eyes and that twisted, sickening smile of yours. You were always a little too eager to perform those precious "examinations" of yours...how many of them were really necessary to monitor my health? For that matter, how long ago did you install that small camera in my shower that you thought I would never see?"

Dr. Rosemary finally spoke up.
"No...it's not like that! It w-was all in the name of science, I swear! I, um...I only did as many examinations as was required, it was necessary because of your unique circumstances! And that camera...yes, it must have been your imagination! A woman of my stature would never lower herself to such crude behavior. Whatever you think my intentions were, you're mistaken!"

Claus grabbed the shackle that was secured around her neck.
"...Liar. Do you really take me for that much of a fool?"
The metallic ring started to tighten, cutting off her air supply. She flailed around and managed to weakly ask him to stop, but of course he refused. It continued to tighten until a sickening crack was heard, and Dr. Rosemary's body went limp.

After that, the whole room went into a panic. The other scientists were screaming, begging for their lives. All except for Dr. Goldsmith, who was too horrified to even do that much. Claus stared coldly at Dr. Goldsmith and walked over to him again.
"As you can see, I have no problem killing everyone in this room. And would I feel justified in doing so? Of course I would...in fact, a quick death is more than you people deserve. Your worthless lives were forfeit to me from the moment you laid your hands on me. But if you give me what I want...I might be inclined to let you go free."

Dr. Goldsmith opened his mouth, trying desperately to force words out. He finally managed a whisper.
"My right pocket...there's a keycard. It will open any door except for those with the highest level of security."

Claus smiled and retrieved the card he mentioned.
"Very good. Do you see how much easier it is when you cooperate with me? Now, I just need one more thing. Your research funds, if you wouldn't mind."
Dr. Goldsmith responded with a blank, confused stare, so Claus began to explain explained.
"It's only natural, isn't it? When a hunter takes down its prey, it devours that prey and takes everything away from it, adding that prey's strength to its own. Symbolically, I'm doing the same thing here. In this modern world of ours, money is strength...the lifeblood of both hunter and prey."
He let out a laugh.
"Sounds quite grandiose, doesn't it? But to be honest, on a more practical level, I'm thinking of the future. Once I leave this place, I'll need to find food, shelter, transportation, that sort of thing. Your research funds would give me a fantastic start on that."
He handed Dr. Goldsmith a paper and pen from a nearby desk.
"You can write the account information on here. Of course, once I get it, I'll route it through some offshore accounts somewhere so it won't be traced. It'll be a pain, but I'm sure it'll all be worth it in the end."

Dr. Goldsmith hesitated for a moment, but soon decided that he had no other choice.
"Fine...you can have it. A little bit of money under the table shouldn't hurt our research too much. Besides...what's a few million dollars between old friends, isn't that right?"
He wrote down his account information down, which Claus picked up and put in his pocket with a smile.
"Now...you're going to let us go, right?"

Claus said nothing. He simply smiled...then that smile turned into a chuckle...and before long, into a full blown laughing fit. Dr. Goldsmith's face went pale again.
"My good doctor...whatever gave you that idea?"

 

The air chilled his bare scalp.
He chewed on a mouthful of dead guard, musing on the tough taste.
He felt himself shiver, having long forgotten what other temperatures felt like.
"Srsrsrsrsrsrs..." he mumbled, more blood oozing down his chin as he waited for either new actions or new meals to wander past.

 

"Lad get up!"
"yeah.. yeah.. i know. morning work out *Yawn* im on it"
"No, we got something more important, seems we have some escapees"
Escapees, other subjects! I spring up out of my half-wake stake and jet-step my way torward the boat.
"Easy lad, we got to get wake Frost, Echo picked it up and woke we"
"Lass get up, we got some others who are trying to leave the labs"
"On my way.."
With the four of us up we make our way to the boat, Night is just about to end as i see the moon low in night sky but no glow of a sunrise. Atlas takes the wheel of the ship while Echo runs navigation. Frost is sitting on deck looking out while i am on the bow looking ahead, looking for the labs but they aren't in sight yet.

On our way riding the sea i ask Echo some questions.
"So how far are the labs?"
"Not entirely sure, From the city to the closet point they let us get to the labs is 5 miles. We assume they keep a 500 yard perimeter no-boat area but aren't sure. we also don't know if the labs are centered around this or just a point in a larger area"
"How did you pick up these signals?"
"My power. Every radio wave runs on a certain frequency, find that and you can listen in on anything they say. however the farther you are the weak it gets, unless you have a signal booster or com array. I've jerry ridged one that when used in pair with my powers can hear all that goes on in the labs"
"Who or whom are escaping?"
"3 males and a female. The female has a retrieve order and has yet to actually show her power, they aren't talking about her power either. the 3 males have kill orders, one appears to be able to form metal to him and make blades. Another seems unkillable and animal like in nature. The last one was seen walking through walls but they are unsure if it actually happened"
"Ah so the wolf man and that Logan are there, i wonder if that means the female is her? also i don't remember there being a fourth."
"These the ones you were talking about the other day?"
"maybe we shall see"
I leave Echo and head back to the bow, I'll have my answers soon but for now we sail to the labs

 

He passed a group of guards that did not bat an I at him in this uniform. After a few more minutes of searching he decided to try and find away out. After awhile he found what looked like a break room area for the doctors and other staff. He looked around for a bit and found a map of the buildin. He fallowed a route that lead him out the front door and onto a street. He fallowed the streets but there was no one else besides guards roaming around. He kept walking farther and the more he walked the older the buildings began to look and the less guards there where. He started to hear a loud dull sound ringing in the wind as it grew closer he could here a faint voice calling out for help. He reached a gate with a young girl on the other side "where you the one calling for help?" He asked the girl.