"...His pulse is beginning to return to stable..."

"...begin trying to wake him up..."

"Bruce...Bruce...Can you hear us?" Ashley said as she started to shake the recovering man. Bruce had just undergone his procedure and was still in the medically induced dream world. Dr. John Stimmer walked over to help with trying to wake up Bruce. Slowly Bruce began to come around and he couldn't remember where he was. He thought he could have been in Heaven because looking down at him was the face of angel. Ashley was leaning over him giving him little slaps on the face to bring him around.

"You don't have to do that...I'm awake!" said Bruce as he tried to stand up. However, the medical restraints prevented him from such movement. Bruce glanced around the room trying to piece together his per-procedure memory. He remembered the lab assistant by the name of Ashley and he remembered the doctor that was preparing another bag of saline. However, there was one face he didn't recognize. He didn't want to be rude so he asked her for her name.

"My name is Kalisa. I'm an intern of Dr. John!" She seemed a little to wake awake for this early in the morning.

Bruce continued to look around the room. His head was nothing but fragmented memories that he couldn't seem to piece together. He remembered volunteering for the procedure to test a new serum for the defense department, but after that it's all a blur. He wished he could get up and get something to drink. However, the restraints were holding him in.

"Are these really necessary doc?" Dr. John just walked over to the bed where Bruce was restrained and sat down to do paperwork. The doc was an elderly gentleman about in his 50's. He looked like a typical grandpa with his glasses and overalls on under his lab coat. He had the balding head to go along with his glasses. The only difference about this grandpa was that he held a PhD. in Bio-Chemistry and in Chemical Engineering. Oh he was also contracted by the defense department to build super weapons out of regular humans. Ashley was the chief lab assistant of Dr. John. She couldn't be no more than 25 years-old and still had that innocent look about her. She had redish-brown hair and was a stick figure wise. She was always on the doctor's heels and ready to answer his every wish. Kalisa was the newest face that Bruce didn't remember. She could only be 18 or 19 years-old. She still had that college freshman appearance. She was doing all of the chart recording of the vitals and the quarterly status reports. She always seemed to be smiling and she had to be genius in order to be an intern this early in her life.

"Doc, Can you please remove these restraints? I want to get up."

"In a moment Bruce, we still need to monitor your vitals a couple more times to make sure there is no adverse reactions." John walked over and made sure that the IV pump was enabled and pumping away. Bruce suddenly felt the effects of the saline entering his body. He just laid back his head and relaxed. The droning noise of the pump and the air-conditioning was enough to put him to sleep, but he was tired of sleeping.

"Doctor the vitals are all stable." Ashley said as she walked over and smiled down at Bruce. She has always been interested in Bruce. She always made sure to be the assistant that was assigned to help the doctor with taking care of him. You can say she had a crush on his personality and his looks. However, Bruce would always shut down any advances that she would try to make.

"Okay Ashley you can go ahead and let him get up." The Doctor went over to wash his hands and cautiously watched from a distance. Ashley motioned over to Kalisa to come help with Bruce. Bruce just watched as they slowly removed all of the tape from the tubes and undid the restraints. Kalisa made sure to slowly remove the tape to make sure it hurt Bruce. Ashley had a gentle touch and was careful to not harm him anymore than what she had to. After everything was removed, Bruce was finally able to stand up and consume some water. The water was so cold that it made him shiver from head to toe.

"So Doc...How did the procedure go?" Bruce said. The doctor was just standing there looking at him.

"Well Bruce... you tell me. How do you feel?"

"Well except for the fact I can barely feel my head and I can barely remember anything.. I feel great!" Bruce said with a smile on his face. He decided to try standing up and going over to the doc. He was stood up bracing himself on Ashley and slowly walked over to the sink where John was standing. Ashley smiled the whole way because he was finally letting her help him without being a complete Jackass about it. The doctor just looked over the rim of his glasses at Bruce.

"Well at least you can walk still!" The Doc said jokingly. "Kalisa go ahead and mark that down ." Kalisa made the note and went back to reading about mythology for her next class.

Bruce noticed that the doctor was holding a stack of papers that were a labeled with TESTS on top of them. He knew he had to go through testing to be selected for this procedure, but he didn't know what would happen now that the injection series was complete.

"So what do you have to do now Doc?"

"Well Bruce we need you to do a series of tests to make sure that everything was accepted by your body. If you are able to pass these tests, you will be moved on to the next stage."

Bruce just shook his head yes. Any prospect of being able to get back his life was good enough for him. The Doctor motioned Bruce towards the door and slowly opened it. Bruce went out into the vast white hallway. There was doors on both sides of the hallway. It was packed with scientists, doctors, nurses, and people just like Bruce. The Doctor, Ashley, and Kalisa all walked out behind Bruce and began leading him towards the East end of the hallway. There was a sign that said "Testing Chamber -". Bruce couldn't help but look around at all of the people. It looked like a busy sidewalk in Chicago, but confined to just one hallway. After about three minutes of twists and turns, they finally arrived at the security desk for the testing chamber.

"Welcome to the testing chamber Bruce. This chamber was constructed back in the era of WWII when Steve Rogers came through these very halls." The Doctor said signing his name on the sign in form. Bruce was led to a separate room from the other three. Bruce was led to the actual chamber by several security guards. He kind of had an idea that he had been here before. The room he was put in was very simple. It was dark except for a single light above of a chair in the middle of the room. He could see the silhouettes of the Doc, Ashley, and Kalisa in a window way above the chair. The guards led him to the chair and strapped him down. First they strapped his ankles in and then his arms. They rolled a TV monitor to a spot in front of the chair and turned it on. The Doctor looked at Bruce through the glass and was ready to see if his magical serum would work.

Prior to the experiment being performed, Bruce was subjected to a battery of psychological exams. The Doctors knew exactly what made Bruce tick, and they knew how they could break him.

"Bruce...This test is simple. We need you to just watch the images on the screen and react naturally to them." The Doctor said through the loud speaker. Ashley knew what was going to be done and couldn't watch. Bruce just waited in the chair until images of his family started appearing. He smiled as he remembered his childhood. Those were great times. He was shown more images from his life. He was actually enjoying this test to the point that he was kind of suspicious. The Doctor and Kalisa were making notes of each response. The Doctor then decided it was time to test another response. The monitor started playing a video. The video was a fake home invasion where Bruce's parents were involved. It showed the buglers breaking in, torturing, and killing Bruce's family. Bruce face just went flush. His fists found themselves in a death grip on the arm of the chair. Then more movies started to play showing his friends and relatives all being murdered. After the last video, Bruce couldn't control himself anymore. He kept thrashing in the chair trying to break free of the restraints.

"HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO ME?" Bruce yelled towards the window. Suddenly, a violent feeling starting to cover his body. He started shaking with rage, and he noticed that he was slowly changing color. The Doctor forced Ashley to help start taking notes and watch Bruce. Her face was nothing but pure pain and disgust. Bruce was shade of dark green and this made him even more angry. What was happening to him? What exactly did they do? His anger was flowing like lava through his veins. The more he thought about those images the more he got angry. He kept lashing back and forth trying to break the restraints. He finally broke the arm restraints and then the ankle restraints. He noticed that his body had almost tripled in size. But he didn't care.

"WHY DID YOU LET THEM KILL MY FAMILY? WHAT DID YOU DO TO ME?" Bruce got angry at how the doctor wasn't responding. He went over to the chair, and started to lift it up. The bolts on the bottom broke away from the floor. The chair was now the perfect throwing projectile. Bruce heaved it towards the glass of the experiment room. The glass shattered into a million pieces. Revealing the Doctor and Kalisa staring with absolute astonishment. However, Ashley's face revealed a different story. Her face was twisting with fear and agony. Why could they do this to him? She left out through the door.

"Bruce calm down...It's not what it seems..." The Doctor tried yelling at Bruce, but it didn't do any good. Bruce started pounding against the walls and trying to break down the door. The Doctor decided they had seen enough and pressed a button in the control room. A mist started to fill the room where Bruce was. Bruce realized what they were doing, but it was to late. He fell over and was out cold. The gas was a knock out agent designed especially for Bruce. There was nothing he could do.

"Well he should be out for about eight hours...Kalisa go ahead and have them remove him to this recovery room." The doctor left with great haste. His experiment finally proved to be a success. Bruce was the ultimate weapon, and they could easily trigger his powers. He had to rush to his bosses to relay the good news. Kalisa just looked down at the limp body of Bruce and chuckled to herself.

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Ashley was pacing on the roof of the building. She couldn't believe that she had been part of this. She questioned what she really believed in, and what she should do. These experiments on Bruce were wrong. This whole damn process was wrong. She took out her cell-phone, and dialed an old friend that would be able to help her clear her mind.

"Yeah Tony... Do you have time to talk?" She said looking towards the sunset.