The Facility

Jared shook his head. "Don't apologize. You... probably don't notice me around much." Not that Jared wanted the hybrids to notice him. How would Krein react to knowing that he was a guard? Even if Jared didn't really participate in the usual... "activities" the others did, it wouldn't stop the other from wondering, thinking that he was one of those that enjoyed hurting others. And Jared knew that while he wasn't truly guilty, he wasn't all innocent either. Krein looked so worried about the fact that he didn't know Jared's name though, Jared couldn't help a small smile. "I'm Jared." After a split-second hesitation, he grinned and held out his hand, trying to set the other at ease.

Aellos buzzer alerted her more violently now that it was time to return to the facility, as tiny electric shocks pulsate through her body causing her to twitch uncomfortably. The only way to make the pain go away is to get closer to the source...and guess whos problably holding the source...those damn doctors She reluctalnty takes off and heads back to the white facility where she is caged.

"Aello," one of the doctors call out to her
"What the F*** do you want," she snaps back as she lands in her post.
"Bad girl," the doctor teases, wagging his finger at Aello.
She clenches through her jaw, " If you want to keep that finger, I recomend you get it out of my face."
The doctor laughs, " Oh be a good girl now, do as daddy says."
"Shut up," she shouts, scarling at the doctor, "you are just a sniveling pawn here, drunk on power." She finds herself crouching at teh doctor ina position that suggests she is ready to pounce...she would give anything to sink her talons into the mans shoulder...to feel herslf slice through the rough muscle tissue of his heart.
He raises a remote in the air, " eh, eh, eh you don't want to do that," he teases, " or you nkow what ill do!" He switched on the mechanism and intese ekectric shock surges through Aello. She loses her balance on the perch and falls to the floor. The shock disorients her magnetic field, leaving her unbalanced and noxoius.
The doctor crouches down next to her and runs his hands down her plume, "Now be a good girl and..." before he can say finish she reaches up and takes his hand clear off. Her teeth slide through the flesh like butter, adn his blood fills her mouth. She climbs onto the perch, still knawing on the doctors hand and says, "I warned you," with a devious little smile. She watches him scream in pain, and sees the rage fill his eyes as he cranks the ASM to its highest voltage. He flips the switch and she goes down...

She vaugly remembers some men strapping her up and binding her, they carreid her to her cage and tossed her in. More Doctors swarm all around her cage.... Fools, to think they can not simply be replaced...

Krein looked at Jared, nodding his head to acknowledge that he had heard his name, repeating it multiple times in his mind to try and remember, incase they were to meet once more. He looked at Jared's outstretched hand for a moment, he closed his eyes for a moment and took in a breath, he knew he needed to get used to interacting with people more, this was his chance. He pulled a hand out of his pocket and stretched it forward to shake, but before he could complete the task, a slight buzzing rang in his ears, as well as the vibration that came with hit. The collar around his neck had been activated to call him back. He truly hated the positioning of it, but the people in the facility knew that around his neck was the only area they could put the device without him being able to snake out of it. He tugged at it a bit, the vibration from the device tickling his neck felt far too strange for him. He sighed as he dropped his hand.

"I'm sorry" he said, as he turned away, "I'm being called," he put his hand back into his pocket as he walked off. He knew that if he didn't go of his own will he would be forcefully taken, he preferred not to exhaust himself with a meaningless struggle.

The irritating buzzing continues as he walks down to his destination, every-so-often he would put his hand on the collar and tug at it a bit. The only thing he wanted at this point was to have it stop, the irritating sound and feel of the item, but even through that he could not help but think that the conversation with Jared, was possibly one of his longest yet. He wondered if he could keep that up and interact with more of the people around him in the same way. He thought how he would do so if he were to come up on the others of his kind on the way back. He gave one last tug at the collar before stuffing his hand back into his pocket, he made up his mind, the next time he meets one of them he would try to interact with them. Maybe.

The buzzing became worse the longer Elesh flew in the air. The calling of the staff kept up the buzzing going. "What is it that they need so badly?" She wondered to herself as she landed again, this time on the ground. Her wings where folded to her back as she started wondering back toward the facility. Her makeshift hilter top and longish skirt shined somewhat from the reflection of the sun's light, her eyes closed from the discomfort it caused on her eyes.

Even then, she had little to no interaction with the other subjects. She knew what they looked like, but never actually communicated with them. She wondered sometimes what everyone else was doing or feeling, maybe she would get to actually talk to the others. Maybe that or wind up getting attacked.

Jared watched Krein walk away, frowning slightly. He had heard the buzzing and knew exactly what it meant. He saw Krein reach up and tug at the collar as he walked back. At that single movement, Jared felt the frown die down to a defeated tiredness that weighed down his body. If only I can do something... Jared shook his head at the thought. But what? He had tried. Several times, in fact. But he knew it was going nowhere.

For a moment, a familiar thought crossed his mind. As usual, he considered it and as usual he put it aside. Even if things got bad, could he really set the subjects free? They were dangerous. Too dangerous. They- it didn't matter. Jared cut off the line of thought. Sighing, he decided to make a note of the remaining subjects still outside. It was his job to keep an eye on them and standing in the middle of nowhere and doing nothing wouldn't help anyone. Jared checked his scanner probe which pinged the surrounding area and blinked a light in the direction of the nearest subject. Jared made a note of it and then began walking there.

I hope the ones called in for therapy aren't going through tests too horrible, he thought, but he knew just as well that he really didn't believe that.

Kylar watched as the people started to go toward the building, he saw that there were only a few guards left standing outside. Kylar thought that maybe just maybe he could escape, he had figured out a way to get the collar off a few weeks ago. Kylar didn't like hurting anybody, but at the same time the people he would be hurting, are they really people, they are letting these monstrous acts be carried out for no reason at all. Kylar decided to mentally flip a coin heads he runs, tails he stays. Kylar saw one of the guards close by, one of the "Nice" ones, to say any of them were nice was just plain stupid. The coin flipped and dropped, it was heads. Kylar decided to act. He called out to Jared, "Hey guard could you come here a second I think my collar is on the fritz, keeps sparking!"

Jared blinked in confusion when one of the subjects called him closer. He approached warily, for Kylar's height wasn't exactly reassuring at this point. In fact, the giant size and evident strength worried Jared about his ability to escape in case of some random rage attack. Jared might be confident in his strength and speed, but against genetically engineered super-powered giants? Ha, fat chance. However, wariness was not the only thing the other made Jared feel. The giant size also sparked a memory. Jared mentally ran over what he knew of him. Subject Kylar Blint, part elephant, extremely strong, and the researchers... had given up putting a collar on him several months ago. So how could his collar not be working? Jared's eyes widened too late as he stepped into Kylar's reach.

Kylar grabbed Jared by the skull and lifted him up by the head, He than flipped him around and said, "Lets take a walk." Kylar grabbed the key from Jared's belt and the pistol that he had. Kylar quickly dropped the pistol realizing that his fingers were to big to fit in the hole and he didn't have time to bend off the metal guard.Kylar ran to the metal gate. "Come on lets go, punch in the gate code." Kylar said as he inserted the key into the electronic scanner, the guards were already gathering, trying to get a clear shot on Kylar with the Elephant tranquilizers. If they hit Jared they would stop his heart in a second, so they were being careful. "Come on little man put in the code before I have to do something your not going to like!"

Pavel had snapped out of his trance, knowing this was something that had to be faced. But, when Kylar went up to the 'nice' guard, Pavel was now too curious to go immediately. He crept closer to the two, peaking behind the tree.

Pavel bit down on his lip as not to cry out. The ankle buzzer was sending jolts of hot electricity up his leg, it was starting to go numb.

Jared gritted his teeth from both the pain shooting in his skull and the fear and adrenaline pumping through his veins. Two options, he thought as he reached his hand forward towards the pad. Get to my second gun or the taser. His fingers trembled slightly as they tapped random numbers. Even if he had wanted to put in the real code, he didn't know it. No secret facility was stupid enough to entrust every single exit code and key onto one guard.

Jared saw other guards come closer as he "finished" pushing in the "final" number. As he reached to press the enter key with is finger, his other hand slipped to his belt and grabbed the taser. He reached back with it and fired it straight into Kyler's stomach. It probably wouldn't completely shock him, but at such a close range it would be enough to loosen the grip and let him escape Kyler's grip and let the other guards fire.

The thought of trying to communicate with the others danced around in Krein's head as he walked, he mentally struggled with himself as to whether he would truly do such a thing or not. Before the inner struggle could come to a conclusion, the choice was placed infront of him. One of the subjects, like himself, managed to land themself right infront of him. Krein stopped in his tracks, what was he to do now? Would he truly go up and speak with her, but before that another realization came to mind. The person's name, what was it? He pondered for a moment, he believed it started with an 'E'

'Eli-, No, Ela-, No' He struggled for a moment and thought a bit deeper, 'Elesh...?' it sounded somewhat correct, but not so at the same time. With that his inner struggle was now whether he should truly go and speak with her. If he were lucky she wouldn't know nor recognize him and the conversation could start with an introduction.

He tugged at his collar, this time a bit nervous than irritated, he took in a deep, long, breath and held it for a moment, and finally started to walk forward, towards the girl, letting his breath out slowly. As he started to walk he realized several things he hadn't planned out quite yet. What were the first things he would say? Would it be an introduction or something other? How would he say it? How should he act? these things all managed to come into his mind at the last moment. He shook his head and tried to remain as calm as he could until he was at arms length behind the girl. He slowly pulled a hand out of his pocket and gently tapped the girl from behind.

"Um. Hello," were the only words he managed to force out, how it would go, or what else he should say did not come to mind.

Kylar's muscles tightened the second the shock was felt he heard a crunch, he must have cracked Jarred's skull (Not deadly as long as no fragments are embedded into the skull), Kylar dropped Jarred and slammed threw the close by brick wall it didn't lead anywere really just further into the facility, Kylar sprinted at full speed, which was close to thirty miles an hour, the guards had begun firing, but this was a compact facility which meant lots of twists and turns, Kylar realized that Jared was just a grunt he would have to find someone higher up. At that thought he turned a corner that was full to the brim of guards with stun batons. Kylar football tackled one threw a door, before he could do much else he felt a numbness in his shoulder, one of the guards must have fired a tanq and got him. "Got me." Kylar said as he fell forward crushing two guards standing below him.

Jared's eyes opened and he stared at the fuzzy blobs spinning somewhere above him. His head felt like it had just been run over by a truck and even the action of twitching his head slightly caused jolts of pain to shoot through him. "See? This is what happens when you trust 'em. You're too nice to them." A person said. "Should've just called for backup or shot at it first. Now-" Black was starting to creep in around his peripheral vision. The rest of the person's words faded away into a faint whisper and then nothing as Jared's eyes closed again.

Eden started shaking furiously. This was only partly because of the probe in her arm sending vibrations throughout her body. Something was wrong. She didn't feel good. Without even realizing it herself, she turned and ran deeper into the woods, clawing at any branches that got in her way. Eden crashed through the trees with reckless abandon.

A small part of her realized that she was nearing the barrier. But the majority of her brain wasn't aware of anything but the grass beneath her feet and the wind rushing past her ears. At last, she reached the edge, which she recognized from roaming the grounds so often, although she'd never attempted to cross over here. To her own surprise, she didn't slow at all. Ten feet... five feet..."

She crossed it with a small cry and she slid to her knees and waited for the jolt of electricity.

But there was none. No zap. Nothing.

Eden stood up and checked to make sure she was outside the boundary. She was. Why hadn't there been a shock? Was something wrong with this part of the barrier? Eden shook her head and dashed back over to the other side, where she was sure of things. Spooked, she backed away from the boundary.

At last, she remembered that she was being summoned for. Most likely, she was just going to get poked with a few needles and be released into a room to kill something while the researchers watched and scribbled on paper. At least she knew what to expect. Out there, she had no idea.

Thoroughly frightened, Eden began her sprint back to the Facility buildings. She resolved not to speak of her discovery. It would be her own secret.

Pavel looked down from where he stood behind the tree. Kylar lost. The guard was probably dead, but not that he particularly cared. He should have known it was a pointless attempt in the first place; the Facility doctors were smarter than that.

The pain in his leg was now unbearable, and he couldn't take a step without feeling like a dagger was stabbed into his ankle. Sighing, he limped towards the facility, finally deciding it was best to get the therapy over with.

A buff, red haired doctor... Wilkinson was his name, Pavel recalled, was waiting at the doors. Grabbing him roughly by the arm, Wilkinson shoved him into the Facility, heading through the winding hallways. And Pavel doesn't put up a struggle, he never has.

Skyler stretched more standing up within the tree listening to the distant commotion, he only wondered if Eden was alright for the rest of the experiments did not mean much to him. But whatever had happened over there was completely stupid in his opinion they made a unnecessary risk by playing so close to the eletric border. Jumping out of the tree forcing the brittle oak branch to snap upon his jump, Skyler landed on his palm flipping forward into the prickly grass. Standing tall yawning, as he walked forward moving toward the facility doors, turning the cold steel door knob pushing the door open. The testing room was already prepared for Skyler he quickly noticed the one way glass windows and laughed.

"Mister Skyler, you are ready for your testing" A voice echoed from the intercom system, Skyler responded clearly with annoyance "If I wasn't ready I would not be here sir, now get on with this before you waste more of my time". The voice stayed quiet as four large overly mutated humans were released, each of them about 6 feet tall covered in white fur, copies of the same genes that Skyler had. "Have fun sir, try not to get blood everywhere" The voice spoke one last time as each beast charges on all fours towards Skyler. Extending his claws, charging forward at the first beast jumping forward into a front handspring shooting of his palms kicking his feet into the face of the beast pushing all of his body mass with the kick. Knocking the beast on its back, Skyler ripped his claws in to the windpipe stopping the beast from breathing continuing on to the other three killing them in the same fashion. Standing proud covered in blood he lets out a beastly roar, "FINISHED" Skyler screamed removing his blood soaked shirt shredded from the battle.

"Well good work Mister Skyler, you finished 10 seconds faster than normal I see vast improvement with you child" The voice rang out, "now shower and get clean you look repulsive". Feeling ashamed of his animal like behavior, Skyler hit the showers allowing the hot water spray all over his body calming him down. Only thoughts of Eden ran through his mind, her beautiful and cute face, how different she is... Slaming his fist into the wall he finished his shower redressing, walking out only to bump back into her. "Hello again" Skyler said smiling, hoping to be responded to this time

"Well. This is new. Usually you subjects run away from people like me."

The deep toned voice broke Joanne's headache. She realized who she bumped into. One of the guards stationed at the East Watch tower.
I ran that far... I can barely see the main building.
She realized the man she knocked into was still on the ground and looking dizzy, but he was sober enough to speak.
He's not hurting me, like probably every other human here... I should probably go back, before other guards see what I did here.

Without hesitation, she begins to start building her speed, when her path was suddenly obstructed. Another person dashed in a similar direction. Joanne recognizes this subject. It was the one who shouted earlier.

"Hello everybody!" Echoed once more in Joanne's head. Now might be a good time to finally answer her call.

What was her name? Judith? No... Edith? Closer, but not....Eden? Well, it's worth a shot.

"Hey! You, sprinting in front of me! Edith is it? Or Eden?"

The tap on Elesh's shoulder made her wing slightly move, just a harmless reflex in its' self but told her that there was someone behind her. She looked back, ears perking up in attention. For a slight moment, she thought it was a guard about to drag her in before quickly realizing that it was someone like her. Eyes shifted from left to right, confused somewhat at this male. She never really thought that someone would come up to her to talk, none the less greet her. She turned around adjusting her wings behind her and tilted her head to side.

She recognized him, seeing around during testing but never really talked to him due to the environment and the very good chance that they would kill each other. However, she didn't know his name. Just his face.

"Hello...?" She said, scratching her head as she tryed to come up with a name. Her wings dropped in thought, his name started with a 'k', that was all she knew about this one other then what he looked like, but that was it.

(Sorry about the wait, it's still the middle of the night here. XD)

"Oh," said Eden upon  bumping into the mystery subject from before. "It's you..." she squinted, trying to remember his name but coming up with nothing. Her paws were still shaking from the unsettling discovery and her furry clawed foot was tapping anxiously. "I don't know your name," she said simply, as was her style. 

I guess she didn't hear me... Oh well. I might as well focus on getting back quick.

Joanne felt a slight frown. She might have actually made good conversation with this subject. But that doesn't seem to matter now.

She continued her run back, and made it before her personal curfew. Joanne likes to wonder about, but always returns to the area closest to the main building before late afternoon. She never knows why she does that, though. She's not afraid of the dark.

Strange...No one's here. Have the tests begun already? Joanne stared at the tracker on her ankle. It hasn't buzzed at all.

Am I not needed?

Skyler's brow drops, as he laughed painfully at the remark "My name is Skyler, not much to be remembered I know... but how can you forget such a beautiful face" he said forcing himself to make the joke. So many thoughts flashed through his head, from this encounter he knew something important must of came up like Eden was startled and running away from something. Tapping his foot Skyler went on to say "It looks like someone seen a zombie or somethin" He normally was very good with conversation extremely articulate, but with this girl it even seems like his second attempt to start a conversation would end badly as well.

Eden turned slightly red. She stopped tapping her foot and she lowered her head. "Um... I need to... Bye Skyler," she mumbled and she squeezed past him and making her way to her destination. She didn't bother to ask what a zombie was, even though curiosity was gnawing at her. She continued by without another word.

The guard has his rifle up and poised to spray the back of the big young man's head. Kylar Blint was big and tough but a burst from an assault rifle at point blank range just might do some damage. Or at least it would have if the guard managed to get a shot off. Before the guard pulled the trigger webbing appeared out of nowhere and stuck to the gun before the weapon was yanked out of the guards grip. The guard looked up in shock just as Shane dropped down from the ceiling and landed on his chest. Pinned beneath the spider hybrid the guard struggled to reach his shock stick. Shane wrapped his hands around the guards head before expertly twisting, cracking his neck and ending his life in a flash. Shane looked up just as two more guards came running in with guns. The spider hybrid leapt into the air and shot out a web line to swing and kick one in the chest sending him slamming into the wall before spinning around to fire two web lines at the other guards ankles. The guard skidded to a stop and looked down at the webs in surprise just before Shane gave them a good yank and sent the guard sailing through the air to land next to his fellow unconscious guard. Shane already had his trademark black suit in a backpack he was wearing but he needed some guns. He grabbed two pistols off the unconscious guards and found that one had a knife on him. After liberating the blade he slit both their throats before concealing the knife and turning to the massive hybrid who had initiated the escape.

"You must be Kylar. I heard you were big but... damn."

Shane said in obvious awe.

"See ya" Skyler said silently with a forced smile walking in the other direction towards his room, "God damn it" he thought "Another failed conversation... how the hell should I talk to her next time? God I suck at this" and with that last thought he laughed. Continuing to walk down the dark and damp feeling hallway heading into the dormitories, opening the door to his warm room Skyler smiled. He loved the warm temperature and atmosphere, something in how the air felt was soothing. Skyler's room was dimly when he walked inside and on the bed layed his reward for clearing the record for slaying wearbeasts. Although Skyler hated the facility and everyone inside it, he had the best behavoir only for accommodations and a relaxed life style, over the years gaining his own library, mini fridge, queen sized bed, and a nice view of the forest from his room. If his life would be hell he might as well make the best of it. Laying on his thick queen sized bed relaxing in the black silk sheets, and nabbing the vile reading the label carefully "Part three to your mutation Mister Skyler, you'll be able to increase your size, mass and raw physical power through these rough transformations. You won't be as mindless nor as physically strong as the Alpha Werebeasts but you'll become more werewolf like on command, get a goodnights rest Mister Skyler its going to hurt."

Shaking his head, Skyler sighed in annoyance drinking the vile laying back for a few minuets griping his bed digging his claws into the bed frame. Pain washed through his whole body as if he was being smacked in the face with a steel pipe repeatedly his head pounded, Skyler's heart raced thumping quickly and hardly as he screamed again. More silver hairs sprouted from his body, his muscles and body violently grew Skyler screams turn into roars as he snaps the wooden bed frame throwing it across the room. Not before long Skyler's transformation was completed, he was 4 inches more taller than before his body mass and shape changed, larger muscles but still keeping the athletic tone his body held before. Most of his body was covered in a thick silver fur, his eyes glowed a silver color, the hands he had became pure claws, even his fangs extended out of his mouth a little. Laying back on the bed, Skyler tried to calm his new body shape slowly transforming back to normal exhausted and nude, pulling his blanket over him laying awake. Thinking about how the day made a turn for the better, glad but afraid of his new form Skyler relaxed again drifting to sleep

Pavel dug his hands into his eyes, trying to rid his exhausted mind of the lights that flashed into his eyes all around the room. Combined with the absolute chaotic noise that came from all directions, the boy felt as if his mind was being split in two. He sat in the corner of the room with his knees drawn to his chest, rocking in a little ball.

Suddenly, a new sound enters the noise... more than one... 3 heartbeats.

Pavel looked up in time to see 3 large men with clubs approaching him at a steady pace. The boy reacted mindlessly. Kill them...With a snarl, launched himself at the man in front. The victim wasn't prepared for the attack, and emitted a small yell before he was hit around the head with his own club. Unconscious, he collided with the tiled floor. Pavel felt the other two coming. Jumping up and over one of the men, he grabbed the victims hair in mid air and pulled it down with him, effectively snapping the man's neck. Last but not least. He felt the swoosh in the air that signified a club coming, and stepped back to dodge it easily. Picking one up from the ground, he swung it baseball bat style at the man's head, his brains splattering against the side of the wall.

Pavel blinked, coming back to himself. He looked at the bodies around him indifferently, but the noise and flashing lights never ceased. The subject fell to his knees, his eyes squeezed tight and his hands clamped over his big dog ears. Why don't they stop it? They always stop after I kill them...

He slowly let go of his ears, letting them take in all the noise. He was shaking, the pressure felt like it was building behind his eyes. But, he heard what he needed to hear. The first victim still breathing. He moved towards where he lay quickly, and without even looking at him, pressed down hard on his windpipe. He heard the satisfactory *crack* and the breathing ceased, as well as all of the flashing lights and sounds in the room.

Pavel let out an exhausted sigh, the pressure in his mind slowly ebbing away. He was sweating and shaking, but he knew his shower time wasn't until tomorrow morning, so he was going to have to sleep like this. The door opened again, and Wilkinson grabbed for his arm again. Panicking, Pavel swung at his face, but it was a weak swing, and was only returned with a shock from a tazer.

"You were sloppy today, Pavel. Make sure not to do it again."

He shoved him out of the 'therapy' room, and he stumbled along, barely able to see straight from exhaustion. He was shaking, and twitched every time another beam from the florescent lights hit him. Beside him, he noticed a familiar pair of golden eyes passing through the same hallway.

"Hi, Eden," he could barely managed to whisper, and could only hope that she had actually heard him as Wilkinson shoved him forward. He stumbled, but still managed to stay upright.