Broderick's upbringing wasn't what any child should go through. His parents found him more of a nuisance more then anything else, but thought in time he could be of some use to them. Your parents lived in a very questionable neighborhood, but they were hardly home and owned very little. At the age of five you were either left at home or put on a leash as they treated you more like a pet then a child. When you were left at home you were locked in your room.
You didn't own anything, and your room laid bare. Life was tough and you were fed scraps that your parents threw in from time to time. When you reached the age of six you found out how to sneak out using a hole in the wall that you manage to conceal. You grabbed discarded items when you did get out and tucked them in another wall in your room. You had a blanket that was full of holes of different sizes, but it was better then nothing.
Life didn't get easier as your parents forced you to steal alcohol from stores while they distracted anyone in view. You've also pick pocketed people at airports and other busy public locations. They gambled the money away and borrowed money from loan sharks and other shady individuals. Though as you got older and tried to steal items you were more often times caught, thrown out of the location or beaten for the actions. Your parents were not happy with this and called you, "useless."
Eventually at the age of ten the loan sharks were breathing down your parents necks about the cash they borrowed. There in front of an ally area with a barely working street light they waited. You weren't sure what was going on, scared and hungry, shaking like crazy from the cold, and someone approached. Your parents talked to the man in low whispers and soon handed the leash over to him. You watched as the man handed them an envelope and watch them leave not even taking a second glace your way.
You soon found yourself in a room with so many computers and lights. Screens flashing, men looking at clip boards, and then you were handed off to someone else. You enter another room where you were asked to remove your clothes(more rags then anything else) and then he walked out. Lights flashed and the whole room began spraying you down with liquid. The person re-entered the room after the cycle was done and handed you a towel telling you to dry off.
Your leash was grabbed as you were escorted still naked to another room with a large platform with a glass cylinder above it. You were lead up the stairs onto the platform and told not to move. Everything was moving so fast and your mind couldn't understand what was happening. Then the glass cylinder lowered down, surrounding you, and now you really started to panic. You started yelling and pounding on the glass begging to be let out, but your cry's fell on deaf ears. Tears began to well up as you didn't know what was going to happen.
Then liquid began dripping on you head from above and the cylinder is being filled at an alarming rate. Your heart is beating like crazy as you tried once again kicking, pounding, and screaming to get anyone's attention, but again to fall on deaf ears. You're now completely surrounded by the gel like substance you're able to breath, but are unable to move your body. Your eyes dart around, mind racing, as you see a syringe lower to your arm it moves forward and then injects something into you. Pain, that's all that you remember before blacking out.
When you awaken you look around and noticed you were in a small room with a bed, sink, and toilet. You were wearing a outfit that is a gray shirt and pants with the numbers zero-zero-one. You weren't sure what it meant, but then saw something moving behind you. You look back and notice a...tail? You stand up and examine it, you tug on it, and feel a bit of pain as you do so. You look over at your reflection in the mirror above the sink and noticed... cat ears? You reach up to touch them and they twitch in response.
Your hair color is now an alternating purple with white stripes. The fur on your ears purple with the tips being white, and your tail the same. Your fur on your chest, back, arms, and legs are purple with some of the points at the tips being white and if brushed downward look as though it forms a solid stripe in the middle. The fur on your arms and legs ran down to the top of your feet and back of your hands. The fur on the arms only on the top, the front of your legs, and a V-shape pattern on your back and chest.
Your appearance is now that of a human that has features of a cat. Your normal ears were gone and your finger nails were missing as well. Though you saw what appears to be slits in the tips of you fingers. You examine them and pinch your left index finger in-between your right thumb and index finger. You see a claw extend out, and let go as it retracts back in. You try to recall what happened, but everything is blank after you got that injection.
The door to the room opens, three people step inside, and explain that you are the first to undergo an experimentation to create a genetically altered human and survive. They take you to different rooms were your hooked to many different machine where they begin taking different readings, talking, and nodding to each other saying things like, "Results look promising and He may be able to proceed to phase two." You were then lead back to your room and told someone will bring you something to eat soon and then it would be lights out for the day.
Weeks fly by as they begin to give you drills in which to perform. One of which was to learn how to extend and manipulate your claws. You could extended them up to three inches and shape them to be straight or curved. You could also widen and narrow them, it was a very odd feeling, and hard to get the hang of at first. You were then told to attack a steel dummy they had set up and you cleaved right through it with ease.
A year went by and you were now 11, and you used your claws to mark the passing of each day on the wall next to the bed. You later hear talking outside your door, "Yes, you are to remove the experiment and take it to that location and everyone knows the rumors." Then the door opens as a big hulking man over six foot tall walks in and grabs your arm. He then injects you with something and your begin to feel drowsy as your eyes close. The last thing you hear is, "Alright little kitty, it's time for you to disappear."
You wake up and feel you are defiantly moving, you try to stand up, but your body feels numb. Through the window in the back of the van you can see the sun setting. Later you feel as the van comes to a stop. You hear foot steps heading in your direction, your ears twitch, and the doors to the van open. You were picked up by the man as he takes you from the van and walks for a few minutes into a small cavern with you under his arm and he stops a short distance in.
In front of you lies a large hole which he dangles you out over by your arm. "Well little kitty end of the line. This is one tale of a tail where the cat won't come back." He grins and then lets you go, and time seems to slow as you watch him get further and further away. You hear the air rush past your ears as you plummet to what you can only image is your death. You think to yourself, "Maybe I can finally find what I could never find in life in death." You close your eyes as you feel the impact of what is the ground at the bottom of the drop and you black out as darkness washes over you.
You stir as you open your eyes and look up to see where you fell from, light pouring in from the opening. You just lay there looking up and then begin to laugh as you think, "Seems even death doesn't want someone as pathetic and useless as me. So I'm to rot away down here slowly and alone." You sit up and attempt to stand only to feel pain in your leg, "Oh great, and now I can't even leave from here and explore what is to be my grave." You say aloud to yourself and give a pitiful sigh.
A few minutes pass by and your ears twitch as you swear you hear something approaching. You take up the best defensive posture you can and ready your claws. Though the sight of what you see makes you freeze in surprise. Your now looking at what appears to be a child about the same height as you, but looks like a... goat? He doesn't seem to take notice of you at first as he's got his back to you as he walks in and is looking around. You try and move only to flinch and make a noise from your reaction to the pain in your leg.
Well that did it, he was now looking at you, head tilted to the side, and then starts walking towards you. As he get within arm length of you he stops, "Howdy, I'm Asriel Dreemurr. Are you okay, you look like your hurt." He then slowly walks around you and then stops at your left side, "Are you a human? You kind of look like one, but you have a tail and cat ears. I never heard of a human having anything like that."
This was to much and the pain in your leg was only getting worst. Whatever you were injected with before the trip here must be wearing off. You then hear more foot falls approaching from the eastern arc-way to your location. What you now see is another goat like creature, but much taller. "Asriel how many times have I told you to not run off like that." She looks over to both of you, she walks over, and bends down to be level with you.
"Oh my child are you okay? Did you fall down here?" You were going to say something, but the pain increased and you were having a hard time keeping your eyes open, because of it. Asriel spoke up, "Um, can you tell us your name?" Before you collapse you manage to a reply, "Broderick." As you slump forward Toriel catches you as you slump forward and gently scoops you into her arms.