In Laboratory A4-13, doctors busied themselves with the patient. The woman giving birth screamed and howled. The doctors said nothing to her, only focused on getting her child out alive. The chemicals they had added to the child to help strengthen it made the birthing process even more painful and fatal, but they were vital to ensure the child would be able to survive and develop the new genes put into it.

For this child they had chosen the genes of a crab. The exoskeleton could prove to be useful in human developing. And while it wasn't likely the child would be able to live in water, the scientists said that it would only be deemed unnecessary after its Filter Test.

The doctors ignored the woman's screaming and crying as the child came out slowly. They worked very carefully, making sure the child wouldn't come to harm during the birth. The scientists had a hard enough time getting "willing" women as it was. They would be furious if the child died and they would have to restart.

Then the child's wailing accompanied its mother's and the doctors all breathed a sigh of relief. They took the child and wrapped it in a towel. It was a boy, with black eyes like a crab, and hard shell-like skin, which was clearly an exoskeleton, with a reddish hue. He had no fingernails, and his fingers were slightly hooked, like claws. The boy also had some black hair, just like his mother. But the doctor's didn't pay attention to his mother, and her life readings began to die down. But the doctors ignored her and cleaned the child.

By the time the mother had become eternally quiet the child was ready and sleeping. One doctor turned on his walkie-talkie. "Finished. Alive and healthy," he said. There came the sound of footsteps and the door opened. Professor Peixes stood at the door. She had power over everyone in the building except for her husband: the man in charge. She had even donated the first experiment: a child combined with fish genes. It had been so successful that they made another one.

The doctors handed the newborn child to Professor Peixes and she left with him. She took him down blank white hallways; past windows showing scientists and doctors at work. Her high heels clunk-clopped loudly on the hard floor.

She arrived at a lab door with a blank plaque above it. She opened the door and the nurse in the room stood up quickly and bowed. Professor Peixes gave him a scrutinizing glare before handing the baby boy to him.

"This is Experiment #11. Its name is Karkat. You are to care for it for four years. Do not let it die, or you will face the consequences. Is that clear?" The nurse nodded and Professor Peixes left the room, slamming the door behind her.

2 MONTHS LATER:

Another child was born: the twelfth and last of the Experiments. They would see which ones were best for the human race, and which ones were unnecessary and would be eliminated. The newborn child was a girl mixed with cat genes. She had brown hair and olive green eyes. Her teeth were sharp like a cat's, and she had small claws. She also had a thin layer of brown fur covering her skin, except for the palms of her hands and the bottoms of her feet. She also had a small tail.

She was given to Professor Peixes; who took her to another lab room. The nurse in there bowed when she entered. Professor Peixes handed her the Experiment.

"This is Experiment #12. Its name is Nepeta. You are to care for it for four years. Do not let it die, or you will face the consequences. Is that clear?" The nurse nodded and bowed. Professor Peixes left the room, slamming the door.

2 MINUTES LATER:

Professor Peixes stood before her husband. He was a tall, hulking man. He wore all green; except for a gold fake tooth and a gold peg leg. A large gun rested on the wall behind him. He would never use it on Professor Peixes, but she was still wary of it. He could have sudden explosive bad moods and he could always make a mistake. And he didn't much care for human lives. Professor Peixes knew for a fact that as a boy he had murdered his twin sister. He had told her himself when she had first met him.

"The final Experiment has been born successfully. In thirteen years we shall have all the necessary Experiments at the proper age and all the unnecessary exterminated," Professor Peixes reported, her voice calm and emotionless.

"Good. Then we can kill the imperfect humans."

"Yes dear."