Given the nature of our agency, none of what we were doing could be allowed to leak, should something occur. Therefore we couldn't use the usual method of accepting a volunteer, nor could we trust to recruit someone out of the usual military branches. Families are damned inconvenient, sometimes.
So, we had to find someone without a family. We set our search criteria as follows:
Male
Good Physical Health and Condition
19-24 Years of Age
No Family Ties
No Close Friends or Acquaintances
High Intelligence
We checked through schools, police records, foster agencies, and the like. Finally, we found this man: Michael Thompson.
Absalom picture 23244: Thompson mugshots, profile and full.
A now unemployed student turned computer programmer, Thompson had no close friends, his family had died in an automobile accident three years before, and he practiced some martial arts to keep himself in shape. We deployed an extraction unit immediately upon settling on him. To our surprise, the team actually had a bit of difficulty in acquiring him, owing mostly to his resourcefulness, which pleased us even more.
Once we had obtained Mr. Thompson, we moved into high gear, as it were. Based on reported capabilities of these Guyver Units from the Chronos files, we placed our subject, sedated, into a titanium room, 13x15x12, reinforced with level 02 energy shielding. Once there, a small hatch at the rooftop was opened, and the first of our "programmed" Guyver units was lowered in on waldos and left at the center of the room. High speed cameras placed in the ceiling of the room were activated to log the activity, and we waited. It didn't take too long.
Our subject awoke about 34 seconds after the ceiling hatch closed. He immediately moved to examine the Guvyer unit, and at 48 seconds, placed his hand on the control metal. That's when things got interesting. The unit deployed a series of biomechanical tendrils which pulled the subject's face into its control metal. From there, the tendrils began to wrap his body and deploy levels of organic armor plating. In under 20 seconds, his entire body had been covered, and the unit had actually absorbed itself into his flesh. From there, we watched, quite fascinated, as the final form of the armor solidified into place, with the control metal appearing at his forehead. The full Guyver armor had deployed successfully, and it was time to see if the other half of our experiment was successful.
Meanwhile, our subject was not idle. Four bladed weapons, apparently extruded from some combination of the armor and the subject's natural bone material, extended. The longer blades went forward from the midforearm area, with smaller ones extending from just above the elbow. Our subject attempted to use these in various combinations to break out of the room, but was unsuccessful until we chose to lower the field and open the door, bringing him face to face with one of our researchers, Dr. MacIntyre. The subject stopped cold and came to attention, retracting his weapons. The subsequent order to de-armor was also followed, with the entire Guyver apparatus apparently subsuming into his body, the majority compressing within his stomach cavity. The only external sign that our subject was anything out of the ordinary were two tumors at the base of his neck, apparently where the armor extrudes itself from.
Absalom photo 45324: Tumors at rear base of subject's neck, 24 hours after "Guyver Process"
Our experiment had succeeded. We not only had activated one of the Guyvers, but it was now ours to control. Needless to say, the possibilities were breathtaking, and a testing regimen was planned to see just what he was capable of.
