"Sir, we have a problem. The test subjects are not cooperating. The base is falling apart. We may need to shut the operation down."

"No! I started this project with great hopes for it, and till they have been completed this project will not fall. Cast out the test subjects, and bring new ones in. Find subjects who are willing to participate. Brainwash them, and bring them in to live in the complex."

"Very well sir."

Line Break – somewhere in a hospital

"Doctor the new subjects have been heavily sedated. I assure you they will not wake up during the process. You may begin."

"Thank you sir."

The doctor picks up a long thin scalpel, and, grabbing the first new subjects right wrist he makes a slight incision. Then, picking up the mold needed for the life bar, he places it carefully into the cut, and, laying number one's wrist back one the table he wraps it around and around with an Ace Bandage. He smiles. Only the mold is needed. The rest will come on its own. He picks up the scalpel once again, and moves to the next subject.

He has to admit his work, though satisfying once completed, is mind-numbing sometimes. He settles into a routine. By the time an hour has passed, he is already a quarter of the way done. 250 people, out and closer to the complex than ever. He picks up the scalpel for the 251st time when he hears a slight groaning noise. He turns, and realizes, that through the heavy sedation, a subject has woken up.

She is a girl, with dark brown hair, almost black with a red streak through it. Her eyes are grey, just like all the other subjects due to the sedation. He was told her name some time ago, but he does not remember it. How could her be expected to remember the almost 1000 names, like the recruiter does.

"Where the hell am i?" She says

"Nowhere, go back to sleep." He says nervously knowing that if all the sedation wears off she will regain her memories and the project will be ruined. The girl raises her eyebrows. Her eyes are starting to lose the gray hue, and he knows the sedation is close to wearing off. The girl starts to get up. She looks at the scalpel, then the mold and final the doctor's hospital mask. She gets up and starts to run. But the sedation makes her woozy, and she cannot run as fast. She stumbles, and the doctor grabs another dose of the grey medicine. She turns around just as he jams the needle into her arm. She falls to the ground, the double dose working instantly. The doctor finishes the rest of the operations in peace.

Line Break

"Sir, the subjects are ready. Is the complex repaired?"

"Yes."

"Then let us get them through the portal. The sedation will wear off soon."

"Were there any malfunctions?"

The doctor bites his tongue before responding, "No."

"I am pleased doctor. I will have the others bring the subjects through the portal. I appreciate your work. I assume all the old subjects have been evicted."

Again the doctor bites his tongue, all the citizens are dead, or "evicted" as the head likes to say. Well, all but one – his son, . The doctor nods anyway, and turns and leaves.

The head continues down the hallway. He would like to see the new age in this world. H climbs the stairs to the balcony, overlooking the portal room and watches as the subjects are ushered in on hospital beds, eyes opened, but not seeing. There is a zap as each one goes through the portal. The head smiles, and walks down the stairs. He does not notice that three girls eyes are flecked with color, two brown, and one hazel.