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Previously on Number 25…

…small bar code tattooed onto the back of his neck…

"Ryuzaki may I ask you a question?"

"I was seven."

"You must understand that anything I tell you must not be repeated to anyone. And the only reason why I'm going to tell you is because you're one of the very few people I actually trust."

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London 1986, ICA-HQ (International Contract Agency Head Quarters)

Dr. Ort-Meyer walked briskly through the halls of the large building. The entire inside of the building was either white or made of a shiney metal that made the man's light green clothes contrast against it. He flipped through the file as he entered a small room. The room conatined a white table with two white chairs and a large two way mirror. On one of the chairs sat a young boy that looked to be around the age of five or six, he wore a white shirt and tan pants. His hair was short and mussed. Dr. Ort-Meyer looked down at the file and saw that the boy was actually seven in age. He sat down across from him and smiled nicely at the boy.

"Do you know why are here?" Dr. Ort-Meyer asked. The boy glared at the table not looking up at him for many moments and did not answer. Dr. Ort-Meyer repeated the question. "Do you know why you are here?" The boy shifted his eyes up to him and stared at him.

"Because I'm a useless bastard that no one wanted." The boy spat. The man smiled.

"Yes well. As much as that case may be. We have a place for you here." Dr. Ort-Meyer said. "But first." Dr. Ort-Meyer pulled a sheet of paper out of the folder and handed it to the boy along with a pen. "Sign this."

"What is it?" The boy had a thick English accent that was slightly tinted with something else though what Dr. Ort-Meyer couldn't tell. The boy didn't pick up the paper, he just looked at it. Dr. Ort-Meyer smiled again.

"This my boy. Is what is going to keep you here." He said simply. "You will be tought and trained. You will finally have a place you belong. You can read over it if you wish." The boy continued to stare at it.

"I can't read." He said after may moments. Dr. Ort-Meyer pushed the pen closer to the boy.

"Stay here, and you will learn how. You will become something great. You will no longer know hunger, no longer know fear." The boy listened to what the man was saying to him and took in every word. No more fear… no more hunger…. No more suffering. What the man was offering him was unbelievable. The boy picked up the pen and signed. The man smiled at the boy as he took that paper back and put it back into the folder.

"My name is Dr. Ort-Meyer by they way." He said simply. "And you… from now on my boy. Are 25." He took the paper and pen and left the room as two guards came in and took hold of 25. The boy struggled against them.

"What are you doing?" He asked trying to get away. The man laughed.

"You're one of us now!" He said dragging him into another room.

(Ohhhh... what's going on? What's going to happen? Find out in the next chapter of Number 25! Oh and if you don't R&R L's gonna kick your ass! lol Mwahahahaha!)