Subject #901 (Human): Curtis Stahl
CASE FILE: CRIMINAL
His thrashings tore the legs of the medical table halfway out of the Martian concrete, rocking it violently from side to side. Curtis Stahl, a criminal condemned to execution on Earth for the mass murder of innocent women and children, laughed maniacally. Here was, Doctor Carmack thought, one of the centuries most prolific monsters, delivered unto us by the powers that be. Was it fate?
"Curtis Stahl" the Doctor began, halfway between his prisoner and a troupe of scientists, "you have been tried and convicted. Found guilty on multiple counts of homicides, you have been sentenced to death". The doctor smirked at Curtis who, fixed upright as much as his restraints would allow, locked eyes with his executioner. The murderer's expression narrowed; his attention moving around the room.
It was a medical laboratory. White human-like figures watched silently from one side, eclipsed by the fluorescent light of a surgical lamp hovering above, humming. The scientists stood in front of a mirror, motionless; Curtis could not tell the beginnings of one from another.
His vision faded, slowly. The doctor sedated Curtis, and began preparing for the procedure. His arms slacked, his head lowered. He slumped back to the cold metal table feeling nothing; lifeless to the world.
Subject #902 (Human): Faith Rayne
CASE FILE: CRIMINAL
She was sedated.
Little can be said for a human who is unconscious. Sleeping or otherwise, something is lost on observation of a person at rest. The C-24 had taken and that was all that mattered.
Over the coming hours the subject's body would begin to transform; description served no purpose for this act. Only the certainty, Doctor Carmack thought, of change.
She would gain physical properties: strength, speed, an inhuman recovery rate. At a cellular level he was bored to death of reminding others existed, they were witnessing a miracle. History had been made and unmade by the profound efforts of the few. What did the past matter?
When she woke, it would be to a new world. One still with disease, and war, famine, and death. But one with the hope for real change.
She would be part of a different world.