Chapter 1
She wondered what they had done to her now. She awoke feeling groggy from the anesthesia and sore at the surgical site of yet more implants, but those were both things that she was used to by now. The thing that was bothering her so much right now was that she could hear the thoughts of the mammals inhabiting the cells to her left and right. She could accutely sense their emotions; which were just as desperate and anxious as her own usually were. To her suprise, she felt completely calm and perhaps more aware upon waking. She was aware of her surroundings in the cell; it was ten feet tall and twelve feet wide. The concrete was solid and cool to the touch; fifty-three degrees ferenheit to be exact. She could hear the water as it raced through the pipes in the ceiling of her cell, hear the flitter of the wings of fruit flies buzzing in the large dumpster behind the research facility that was their prison. The only home she had known. Ever.
" You're almost ready 723. You know that don't you? You feel the changes inside of you, you can hear better, see better than ever before. You can speak, you walk on two legs now, they've even been able to give you some human characteristics with my assistance; the longer hair on your head to give you some feminine qualities for instance. Can you feel the others? Can you feel their suffering here? Their pain? Isn't it all so very exquisite?" Ego asked her enthusiastically.
"Ego?" 723 asked softly, staring at the ceiling above her bunk.
"Yes?"
"Fuck you." She replied, extending her telekenesis outward, breaking the flourescent bulb in her cell and pitching them into darkness.
Ego laughed at her brashness, she had so much spunk to her! It was so clear now why the Kree and Terran scientists on Negamite Prime had begged for his involvement in her evolution. She was a breathtaking creation to behold; and a smidgeon of his DNA had been just what they needed. That and Meredith's singing voice, just so Ego could hear his sweet River Lily sing once more! It had been one of the only demands he had really made of the Scientists; free rein to give her a few extra abilities of his own.
"You can laugh all that you want you twisted Son of a bitch, because when i'm free and your DNA mutates me into that weapon you're all working so hard on; i'm going to kill all of you. I'll be the one laughing then," She said with a dark smile, her tail twitching in anticipation at the thought. She would kill Ego and all of the Scientists and then she would set all of the Subjects in the laboratory free; all 722 of them.