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Updated: 12/6/09

Blood pooled around a body lying on the laboratory floor, a hail of gunshots spread across the room hitting anything exposed.

"Jack, what do we do!" shouted Daren.

"Try and fight back, come on." Said Jack as he lifted up a fire extinguisher and smashed it against a shooters head.

Disoriented, the shooter dropped his gun. Taking a chance, Jack grabbed the gun and opened fire on a group of shooters. One by one, the shooters fell to the ground. The remaining shooters quickly took their loot and ran from the lab, tails between their legs. '

'Not very good fighters,' thought Jack.

"Daren, what's the damage?" Jack ran over to the other Daren.

"They took all of them, except for that one on the ground." Daren chocked pointing to the body on the floor.

"Do you think we can save it?" Jack ran over and scooped up the body

"What! All of this trouble and you want to save one of the beasts that started it all?" Daren spat angrily.

"Daren, we've created a sentient being; I want to give it a chance to live." Jack said as he pulled open a drawer full of vials and syringes.

'I just need to jump start the healing process,' Jack thought to himself. He pulled out a few syringes and began injecting a few types of medicine into the creature's vein. Jack gently placed his hand over its heart, Jack grinned, 'the heart's started up again.'

"Jack, they're coming back with more people!" Daren yelled madly rushing over from the window.

"Come on, through the fire escape" Jack picked up the medical box and hopped out the window, Daren followed close behind.

"Quick, into the alley." Jack whispered.

"Crap, I think they heard us." Daren hissed. Their fears were confirmed, some of the straggling men started walking towards them.

"Here, take him and administer this serum, it's our only chance at stopping what we created." Jack whispered and gently placed the creature into Daren's hands.

"What does the serum do?" Daren asked, bending over to pick up the green vial.

"It gives him the most important thing of all, free will." Jack replied. "Alright, here's the plan I'm going to distract them, you make your way up to the fire escape, there is a hospital in the West District, drop him off there and go!"

Jack moved Daren out of the way and jumped into the shooters, tackling them to the ground. Meanwhile Daren ran for his life, careful not to drop the serum. Daren stared at the thing in his arms, 'are you really worth it?' He could kill the creature right here, right now. Daren pulled out a syringe and administered a vial. The deed had been done, Daren set the limp body on the ground and left it there.

"Jack, don't play god, you know what that does, look at what happened to Andross!" an elderly scientist shouted.

"But this is my dream, to learn the secrets of life. I want to bring something something pure into this world, to counter all of this evil. It's what Sophie would've wanted" Jack said.

"You know I can't stop you," the scientist said with a sigh, " but there are people in this world who want to use this for evils greater than anybody can fathom, know this, in creating life, you could possibly condemn all others." The scientist warned

"Project Alex won't fail Ben, I know it won't..."

Doctor, he's waking up!" a nurse shouted running over to a hospital bed.

"Now we're getting somewhere." The doctor smiled at the body on the bed.

"Whe..where, am.. I?" The young man spouted between sputtering coughs.

"You're at the West Katina Hospital, now just relax." The doctor's voice is calm and soothing

"Please…help…me, I..can't feel an..ny thing." The young man's coughs grew extremely violent, it looked like it was about to throw up its intestines. Slowly, the coughs sputtered out. The doctor took a deep relieved breath.

"That was weird." The young man said, no longer coughing "What just happened there?"

"I really don't know, I think your body was trying to clean out some of the phlegm or god knows what was in lungs, we found you half dead in an alley way you know." The doctor responded. "Do you have name?"

The young man thought hard for a moment, all he could remember was a dream about two scientists talking, only one name stood out in their conversation.

"Alex, I think my name is Alex, I think." Alex said tasting the name on his mouth

"You think?" the doctor asked.

"I can't remember anything before now, it's all just a jumbled blur." Alex responded

"Of course." The Doctor muttered something to the nurse, who nodded her head. "Okay, close your eyes and what do you see."

Confused Alex did just that, right before his eyes was a young man who looked about in his mid 20's, he wondered what it meant

"I see someone, I'm not sure who."

"Alright, maybe it's a relative you remember, let's get a DNA test and see what pulls up on the data base." The doctor said distracted, he pulled out a syringe and poked it in Alex's arm. After drawing some blood, he injected the syringe into what looked a cartridge and plugged it into a computer.

Within seconds, a huge list of people was pulled up; a double helix appeared on screen and singled out a few individuals. A young boy is pulled up; the word deceased is written across his picture. Next a woman pulls up; deceased is also printed across her picture. Finally the image of a young man pulls up, the young man he saw earlier.

"That's him right there." Alex pointed to the man on the screen.

"Okay, let's take a look, it says here that this is Jack Sorense." The Doctor read off some information after clicking the picture

"Where is he now?" Alex asked

"It says here that he disappeared a month ago, his whereabouts are unknown." The doctor replied "Wait, it says he was last seen heading here to Katina, maybe he's still here."

"Then I've to go and look around for him." Alex said sitting up.

"What! In the condition you're in, I think it's a miracle that you can sit up let alone get out of that bed." The doctor snapped.

"I feel fine though, I think I can do it." Alex slipped out of the bed, like none of the broken bones, cuts, or bruises had happened to him at all.

The doctor gasped, in only one night, the half dead mangled body they brought in was perfectly fine. The doctor sighed.

"Okay I'll help you out, I'll send someone to get some lost and found clothes for you, as for money, I'll take care of that." The doctor said as dug into his pockets. "I don't expect you to pay me back, just don't blow it on things you don't need.'

For the next ten minutes they waited for the nurse to go find some lost and found clothes for Alex. In the meantime, they tried to get a stimulus out of him. Nothing really seemed to work. When he tried to remember what happened the previous night all he could remember was the sound gunshots and muffled talking.

Finally the nurse arrived with a plastic bag with clothing in it. After changing into something more comfortable than the hospital gown, Alex received the directions from the doctor

"Alright, here's a map of the town." The doctor said handing him a small slip of paper. "Now, whatever you do, don't go to Downtown, that place is full of thugs looking to make a quick buck, and no offense, but you look vulnerable."

"Don't worry about me, I'll be careful." Alex smiled "And don't think this will go unpaid, there's gotta be something I can do."

"Just survive, or all of my kindness will go to waste." The doctor smiled back.

Alex began his walk to the elevator, not knowing what lay ahead.

A/n: I've sort of gone through and corrected some mistakes in this chapter, hopefully it looks a little cleaner.

P.S. the part in italics one of Jacks memories, I'll explain later in the story