Seven: that was the amount of bio-engineered kids that stood at the entrance of the research facility that had once been used for experimenting only on animals for man's own purposes. But it wasn't until about a decade or two that the scientists that worked there started experimenting on their own kind.
And those seven were the first and only successful attempts at creating a new race of humans.
At the front of them stood a girl, eyeing the cold steel building with seething hatred, the other six mirroring it in their own faces and actions: fists clenching, tense shoulders, narrowed eyes, and dark scowls.
These kids, all under the age of twenty, had gone rogue from their creator's purposes. They had revolted against them. Not wanting anyone else to face the torture those sadistic, white-coat scientists had once inflicted on the teenagers.
With ease, the girl stepped forward and ripped the metal door from its frame as if it was nothing, throwing it to the side and stepping into the cool white building, staring at the soldiers as they aimed dozens of guns.
And every single one of them was pointed at her.
The whole room was a standoff now, a battle of wills to not move, to hold the enemy's gaze. It was seven highly battle-trained and powerful teenagers against almost one hundred soldiers with guns.
Grinning, the girl turned to her six friends. There was no maliciousness in her gaze; she didn't want to kill these people. But they were in her and her friend's way of freedom of the facility that they had been fighting against for a year or two now.
"Well, what're you guys waiting for?" Her voice rang out in the silent room. "Let's get this show on the road!"
With that, shots fired, not one hitting their target.
The girl had suddenly teleported away, and when she reappeared, a boy with black hair that reached his forehead held her bridal-style behind the army of soldiers.
"Vennie, be more careful and don't get yourself killed, please?" He hissed to her as the leader, Vennie, leapt from his arms and began running at the mass of armed men.
"Don't focus on me, Liam!" She shouted back at him over the gunshots as the battle began to rage all around them as the other five teens began to attack the soldiers, taking them out with their mutant powers. "Focus on the task at hand, defeating this place once and for all!"
And with that, Vennie leapt into the fray, slamming her elbow into the head of one with her superhuman strength, knocking him out with ease and stealing his gun.
Shots were fired all around her as the girl slammed her gun into one man's kneecaps, knocking him down before shooting another, surprised to see her gun didn't have actual bullets, but sleeping darts.
So they want us alive, huh? Vennie thought before turning to look up at one of her teammates fighting on top of some sort of counter in the lab room, wrestling with two men before grabbing them by their heads and smashing them together.
"Milo, they want us alive, they can't kill us!" She shouted at the boy, and he turned to face her, his short brown hair swishing at the movement before giving Vennie a quick thumbs up before leaping from the counter to join the fight and tell the rest of their team.
Pain exploded in her back as a gun swung into it, forcing Vennie on her knees. She let out an involuntary huff of breath, looking back at the man to see him about to swing the gun at her head and knock the girl out.
"No you don't!" She snapped at him, ducking down as the gun rushed at her. She grabbed it mid-swing and dug her fingers into the metal, crushing it with one hand.
The man gasped when she let go, staring at his now useless firearm before looking back up at her with horror.
"You really are a monster, a freak!" He said with terror, backing up as Vennie rose to her feet and faced him with her amber gaze.
"Exactly, all because of the men who hired you!" She said, her voice light as she flipped her stacked bob blonde hair, the blue tips glowing in the bright lights of the laboratory.
"You've been used by the men who created us." Vennie went on, wincing as the horribly painful bruise on her back began to heal with her fast healing, any broken bones she had knitting together. "They just plan on creating even more of us.
"So I suggest you run and get out of here 'fore the going gets tough." She finished, watching as the man bobbed his head, eyes wide with fear before running away, dropping his useless hunk of metal.
Vennie watched his retreat for a moment before feeling someone touch her elbow; she spun around to see Liam grab her before teleporting into the midst of another fight.
In front of them, battling for her life stood a tall girl with tan skin and long brown locks of hair that bounced as she went invisible for one moment, appearing behind one soldier and knocking him unconscious before getting tangled in another fight.
Beside her was another girl, with pale white skin and hair so light blonde it looked white as she defended her teammate, her icy blue eyes narrowed with concentration as she froze any guard she touched, carefully avoiding their own attacks.
"Where is everyone else?" Vennie asked Liam, looking around to see the soldiers up and fighting had diminished by many, leaving a skeleton crew of their toughest fighters. But Milo and the rest of the group was gone
"It's just me, you, Kaila and Hailey left." Liam said, his gaze forlorn as he explained everything to her between slamming his fist into one guard before knocking another out. "They were shot by some other type of dart, it wasn't a sleeping dart. It- it paralyzed them somehow!"
Before Vennie could even show the horror she felt at losing her teammates and friends, a baton suddenly slammed into Hailey's head at full force. The pale blonde girl stared at Vennie with wide eyes before falling to the ground with a hard thump!
"No!" Kaila shouted out as she fell to her knees beside her friend just as Vennie lunged at the man who knocked Hailey out. Her sheer weight and strength as she slammed into him knocked the man to the floor, and she shoved the dart gun into his chest, glaring at him as she pulled the trigger.
Lifting her head, Vennie gasped in horror at what she saw: the soldier's reinforcements arrived; something she was expecting but thought her team was ready for.
Now, they were severely outnumbered, surrounded, and supporting an unconscious member. But Vennie refused to give up, and with a glance at her teammates, she could see that they, too, refused to give up, no matter how much of a dangerous predicament they had thrown themselves into.
The two girls, Vennie and Kaila, stood, and the three friends got into a triangle, facing the circle of enemies they were surrounded by, their gazes filled with determination.
Fighting down the dark power that rose in her chest, threatening to take over and let killer instinct control her body, Vennie let out a loud "whoop" and ran at the circle of men, throwing punches and kicks at anyone she could reach, fending off any attacker and losing sight of her team.
She dodged one man's gun as it swung at her head, and slammed her hand into its barrel, smacking it into his face before ducking under another's fist, causing it to collide with another's face. She slammed into one man, knocking him to the ground before picking him up with her herculean strength and throwing him into the surrounding men, throwing them to the floor and causing others to trip over them.
Getting half a second of rest, Vennie swung her gaze around, searching for her teammates, only to find they were gone.
She was alone in a sea of enemies.
The battle was now over. She couldn't take them on by herself. She had to escape, find a place to rest, and make a plan to save her friends, and get them out of there before any scientist could experiment on them.
Turning, Vennie made a dash for the exit, throwing any enemy near her out of her way before vaulting over a line of them and landing in front of the exit.
She threw one glance at them, seeing them charge after her before running out through the hole she made in the building. She grabbed the metal door she had ripped off and put it in the way as a barricade, knowing it would buy her a little time before-
Bright lights flashed overhead, the whirring blades of a helicopter sounded overhead, forcing Vennie to cover her ears from the painful sound and squint up at the light, seeing two helicopters filled with soldiers hovering above.
Everything clicked in her brain. Why the attack failed, why all of her team was captured with such precision, why she was the only one left.
This was all a trap made by them. And they had fallen right into it.
Panic took over, and Vennie took off into the nearby woods, hoping it wood provide some cover from the helicopters, but they followed overhead, tracking her movement through the tree cover somehow, probably heat sensors.
The only way the teenage girl knew how to avoid heat sensors was to get out of range, or enough cover to block it. But that meant going underground.
Sprinting through the woods, she stumbled upon a tunnel entrance, which was barely big enough for her to fit her body into and hopefully lead down deep enough to mask her from the helicopters.
But there was also the fact she would get trapped down there, the soldiers would find her, and she'd be captured, just like the rest of her team.
Heaving in a breath, Vennie pushed the thought away and crawled down into the tunnel, the inside was dark with little light coming from the entrance hole. It was barely big enough for her to crawl on all fours.
Vennie slowly made her way through the tunnel, feeling the wall grow taller and wider as she went down until she was finally able to stand up and feel her way through the tunnel, wondering where it led to.
Then, she suddenly slammed face-first into a wall made of stone, wincing as she fell back and put a hand to her bleeding nose. But the blood slowed to a stop as her broken nose fixed itself.
A light suddenly flickered, and the whole tunnel was illuminated in white, revealing everything to Vennie.
It was a tunnel, but instead of stone, as she thought, it was steel, and the stone she had run into that blocked her path was actually bulletproof glass.
She had once again fell into a trap of theirs.
Spinning around, Vennie turned and began running back the way she came, only to find the entrance was blocked by a new steel wall.
"No…" She whispered, horror-struck, before pounding her fist into the steel, barely making a dent in it and bloodying her own fist as the skin broke.
All of the sudden, a hissing sound started, and a white gas filled the room she was trapped in. And as soon as Vennie breathed it in, her knees began to weaken as she fell, pounding on the wall as hard as she could, making a tiny hole.
Coughing, she kept trying to break her way out, but the gas weakened her. Her hits became less powerful, less frequent, her eyes fought to stay open, and she breathed less and less.
Then, Vennie's whole form fell to the ground as she went unconscious.
Interesting start to my first full story, right? Introducing the Genesis/ First Generation. Yes, I know that I haven't introduced all of the characters, (the two others in their little band of mutants), because that is for an upcoming chapter. Please like and review, all criticism is welcomed since I want to make this story the best I can. And I plan on updating once or twice a week, depending on how much work I have to do.
