Chapter One: The Beginning
The large laboratory was very dark, the only light coming from that of thirteen cylinder shaped pods along the wall. But only two of those pods were occupied. The door to the laboratory opened and the lights came on. In came two people, the first was the scientist who owned the lab. He was dressed in a white lab coat with a red scarf around his neck and had blond hair with a short beard, the other was in a black lab coat and had light sliver hair that ran just passed his shoulders.
The blond man walked over to a large computer and turned it on, then began to check the vitals of the two occupants in the pods.
"Riku, record this mornings levels will you?" The blond man asked.
"Yes, master Ansem." Riku replied.
Riku picked up a clipboard and walked over to the monitors next to pod 8 and began to write things down.
Ansem was the scientist with the assignment to create an ultimate human weapon to fight in the war against the creatures known as "Heartless". They were now in great numbers and mutating into terrifying things. They had started to destroy whole towns and villages now to satisfy their hunger for hearts. In the seventh year of the Heartless war, King Mickey gave the assignment to create the ultimate weapon to his most trusted scientist, Ansem.
Riku is Ansem's young assistant. Riku wanted to help anyway he could in this war. Both Ansem and Riku had worked on multiple human weapon experiments, but all had been failures due to simple mistakes.
All so far but experiments 8 and 13. 8 had been completed and awakened, but was too unstable and out of control to be of any use in the Heartless war.
13 had yet to be awakened, for Ansem had a few extra things he wanted to try and add to it. He had never before tried to give the experiment a high sense of self-awareness and intelligence. He hoped he could make his weapon more than just a weapon. He hoped to give it the ability to be a spy or an assassin.
Experiment 8 was in the form of a man in his early 20's. It had blazing red hair and a tall skinny body. Experiment 13 was smaller, the size of a teenage boy. This one had short spikey blond hair. Both experiments floated in clear liquid within the pod, in a deep sleep. They both had a mask that covered their noise and mouth, and a tube leading from the top of the pod to the mask gave them oxygen. Another tube appeared to be attached to the center of their stomachs, this gave them sustenance. The only thing covering them was a pair of what looked like underwear, the rest was bearskin.
"Hey master Ansem, isn't today experiment 13's creation day?" Asked Riku as he wrote down its levels.
"Why I believe so, today marks the third year of its existence." Ansem said as he walked over to pod 13. "He is almost ready to be awakened. I believe one more month of testing should let us know."
"And I can't wait, with those special modifications you've made to it, I think it'll be the best yet." Riku said with excitement.
"We mustn't get out hopes up, Riku. Though I do have much confidence in this one." Ansem said as he rested his hand upon the glass wall of the pod where 13 slept.
"Ansem sir, if 13 is a successes, then do you think it would be possible to apply it's modifications to 8? So it could be controlled this time? It's such a powerful experiment, it would be a waste not to try harder with it." Riku asked.
"Yes, the idea had crossed my mind a few times, but lets not make any definite plans until we have determined 13 a successes."
"Master, I have also wondered, exactly how much did to add to 13? What is it expected to be like exactly?"
"Well Riku, I have my ideas of what it will be like, but with the sense of thought process, self awareness and ability to learn I have added, its behavior could alter slightly. So we must be careful what we first expose it to. And I must warn you again, to not get attached to it. You know what must become of it after its purpose is served."
later that day
"Riku, be sure that everything is put away and you lock up before you leave for the night." Ansem instructed him.
"Of course sir, I wont be much longer."
Riku wanted to finished the book on the human weapon theories before he left for the night. As he finished it and put it back where it belonged, he started to clean the equipment and put things away.
The lights flickered a moment and the monitor screens jumped around. It lasted only a few seconds until it stopped and everything was still again.
"That was strange…" Riku said to the empty room.
But inside of pod 13, everything was not still. Experiment 13 had, on its own, awakened. It's eyes barely opened, it's vision too blurry to see anything but the colors of certain lights.
Immediately it's mind went wild with confusion.
'What…?'
'Where…where am I?'
'Who am I?'
The experiment could not move anything but it's eyes. It began to focus slightly on the moving object in the room.
'Wha…what is, who is that?'
Experement 13 had fallen back into a deep sleep.
The next morning
The day had been like any of the others in the past week. Ansem ran tests as Riku recorded them.
But unbeknownst to them, experiment 13 had occasionally awoken throughout the day. It was barely conscious enough to be noticed by the scientists.
Throughout the next two weeks, experiment 13 had drifted between consciousness and sleep.
'I hear those voices again…'
'Where am I? Who am…I?'
Another week had passed, one more until Ansem would awaken experiment 13. And King Mickey had come to visit.
"Good morning Ansem, Riku! How is it all going?" He said in his naturally cheery voice.
"Ah, my good friend, you came. All is going exceptionally well, I may be able to promise you a fully functioning weapon by week's end." Ansem had said.
"Oh that's perfect! I'm quite sure it will be well worth the wait." The king said.
'I hear a different voice this time, who is that now?'
"I'm sorry to leave so early, but there are so many other things calling for my attention, I'll be seeing you two later." The king then departed.
Not too long afterwards, Riku asked Ansem a question, while gazing into pod 13.
"Ansem sir, I know what must befall 13 after its purpose, but I don't think I fully understand why. Why can't it be used for other things after the war is over?"
'They said '13' again, are they referring to me? Is that my name?'
"I hope your not developing any sort of bond with it, Riku. I've warned you against it many times already."
"I know sir, I know, but I can't help but wonder."
"Well, it's purpose is solely to bring an end to the Heartless war, and to do that it will be incredibly if not frighteningly powerful. And if in the wrong hands, it can be used against us, and I don't think I'll be able to create another weapon powerful enough to even math this one."
'Weapon? I'm…supposed to be a…weapon?'
"At this point, there's not a doubt in my mind that experiment 13 will be a successes. But unfortunately, all my hard work will have to be taken apart in the end, to avoid anyone taking it and using it for their own purposes. So in other words, I will have to destroy 13 when this is all over and done with, along with all of the research and data, don't want anyone repeating this."
'Destroy? Destroy me? I, I don't want to be destroyed, I, I want to…to…'
"So that's why you mustn't get attached to it, I don't know what other things this experiment will be capable of, it might even try to manipulate us into thinking it has a conscious and a heart. But never forget, this thing is not, and never will be, human."
'I want to…live!'
The lights in the laboratory began to grow incredibly bright, and then break, the monitors began to cut out and the level readings went wild and the computers crashed. All electrical devices were short-circuited.
"What is this? What's going on!" Riku exclaimed.
Then a huge crack appeared down the center of pod 13's glass wall. And experiment 13's eyes shot wide open; they looked like orbs of blinding blue light.
"It's…it's awake, but how?" Ansem stuttered in surprise.
Just then the whole front of the pod burst open, spraying glass and water everywhere. Experiment 13 now sat on the bottom of the pod that held it for three years. It tugged at the mask on its face that covered its mouth and nose. After the experiment tore it from its face, it tore the tube on its stomach off as well. 13 was now resting on all fours, face pointed to the floor of the pod, taking large gulps of air as water droplets fell from the experiment's blond hair.
There was only one light flickering at the end of the laboratory, all other lights were broken and all the computers and monitors were crashed. The only sound was the small traces of water still dripping out of the pod and 13's heavy breathing.
Ansem slowly stood up, Riku standing beside him.
"Sir…?" Riku began, but Ansem cut him off with a "Shh!"
Ansem took two steps forward, now standing only a few feet away. 13 slowly looked up, meeting Ansem's gaze.
"Get…get away for me." The experiment said to its creator.
"I have no intentions of harming you." Ansem said in a quiet voice.
"No, you're lying, you have plans to destroy me! I heard you!" 13 yelled out, now attempting to stand.
"You heard me say what? I can assure you it was a misunderstanding, you will not be destroyed." He continued to talk in a calm voice.
"Don't talk to me like I'm stupid! I know what I heard." 13 said, now standing upright, glaring at its creator. "And I'm getting out of here, right now."
"Oh no, go out there and you'll surly be destroyed. It's a dangerous and unforgiving world out there." Ansem said to it.
"No, that's what it is in here, now, get out of my way! I know what I am, and what I can do. Now move!" It yelled.
The experiment attempted to run towards the door, but just as he reached it, he felt an arm wrap around his waist and drag him down to the ground.
"Please don't make me have to resort to force to keep you in here where it's safe. I only have your well being in mind, trust me." Ansem said to his creation.
"Stop lying to me! I'm never going to believe a word you say! Get off me! Let me go!" It cried as Riku kept his grip on him.
As more and more rage filled 13, it found new strength and threw Riku off it. Then turned to face Riku and charged him. Riku and the experiment were then engaged in a brawl in the middle of the broken laboratory.
Ansem then released his older creations he called "Dusks". They were merely human shaped creatures he used for a guard. He set five of them free to restrain experiment 13.
But in the fray, the experiment slipped from their grasp and it bolted out the door and into the dark cold night.
"Riku! You must get it back! At all costs, you must get it back! Take the Dusks and hunt it down. I'll get the computers back up and running here." Ansem said to his assistant.
"Of course sir, I'll have it back soon." And Riku took chase.
Experiment 13 ran down street after street, confused, cold, hungry and scared. Not knowing what was going to happen next. All it knew it wanted was to get as far away from that laboratory as possible, and so that's what it did.
Hours into the night it ran and wandered, until it could no longer ignore it's exhaustion. So 13 took refuge in an underground tunnel system that ran through the whole town. Feeling that it had hidden itself well enough for the moment, it fell asleep while thinking about its first moments of existence.
I just get these random ideas :3
So as you've already guessed (I'm sure) that experiment 13 is Roxas and experiment 8 is Axel.
To give you a better idea of what the pods Roxas and Axel were in look like, think about the beginning of the first Pokemon movie with Mewtwo. It's nearly the same to what he was in.
And so now 'experiment 13' is running around on the loose and all he be in is his undies X3
But soon he'll meet the Twilight Town group. Both Hayner's and Seifers' gangs and also he will meet Namine soon too.
I hope this boring first chapter kept your interest.
Dragon's Blood