This chapter I think came out a little blah methinks, it's a little short (due to lack of inspiration) I think this is due to the depressing fact that school for me starts on Thursday and I'm pissed off. I apologize for this affront of a blah chapter, this story has really gotten a lot of hits and interest (360 hits) with just three chapters. So R&R and let me know what you think! Here's a cookie!
Let's Begin
Sergio was taken by the soldiers who drugged him and Tear with ether to the medical bay. He was out cold. The boy was placed on a medical table and strapped to it with bonds. William came by and gazed at his subject with some warmness, Sergio could well indeed prove to be the break he was looking for.
William carefully grasped the syringe containing the Xenomorph DNA genomes and breathed deeply. This was the beginning of what his life's work was amounting to. The black liquid slithered its way from the base of the extractor to the small syringe that was already in Sergio's arm. To William's surprise, Sergio all throughout the injection and assimilation, he remained fast asleep occasionally twitching whist he dreamt. After the injection William and his assistants carefully monitored his DNA's assimilation of the xeno genomes. When the assimilation was complete and in the moment mutation would soon ensue they took a flask of his blood and placed it into a small machine that had a radiation emitter inside it. They had already drawn out the schematic on the main computer of what they wanted him to become. They took bits and pieces of DNA from all sorts of creatures and laboriously over three years prior to this, they had drawn out the genomes for the monstrosity, they simply lacked the opportunity to place this into practice, until now that is.
Hard exoskeleton, three times denser that a queen's own, a pincer like appendage at the end of the tail, poisonous saliva, venom sacs, acid sacs, and an altered frontal lobe that would in theory; allow for telepathic communication.
It all looked well and nice on paper, but they weren't 100 sure that it would work. But they kept one aspect intact; the mind's freewill. Without it, the creature would severely lack any if not all reasoning skills or common sense and would have to be perpetually guided in even the simplest of tests. Erasing memories was also something that had occurred to William as to ensure Sergio's loyalty, but once his mind would begin to take to the changes, his old memories would be erased and passed to the Hive mind and then passed back to him. So keeping Tear as a prisoner and a guinea pig was the course for now, as to keeping him in line.
William took the new vial of black blood and smiled. He looked at his assistants and said; "Let's begin", he waltzed over to the sleeping boy and injected the new blood into the boy who remained asleep. The DNA was to subtly guide the change in the boy's body over the rest of the DNA, all their hopes after more than a decade of work was amounting to this moment. The room was uncomfortably quiet, William hovered over Sergio like a vulture, the assistants feverishly monitored the change. The computer beeped, "Doctor!" one of them said with a happy tone, William looked back in an instant, the young assistant pointed his hand at the screen's update.
-Subject 36 has been injected with Xenomorph Matriarch Echo's DNA
-Subject 36's DNA has commenced assimilation of foreign genome
-Subject 36 has successfully bonded with xenomorphic genome
- Warning100 probability of mutation
-Subject 36 has been injected with altered blood and altered sequence of altered sequence of the DNA of the same
-Genomes of subject 36 areassimilating new DNA sequence
-…………….Assimilation of Xenomorph DNA and altered DNA sequence:
-100 Successful……..
There was a sigh from everyone in the room. Then all smiled, they did it, their experiment was a success, finally, after 35 failures; number 36 had been successful. They all cheered and smiled and congratulated each other on a job well done, only William noticed that Sergio, half conscious, gave him a malicious grin. William didn't mind, his predecessors, in fact, everyone even his research team, disliked him. While some might consider him seedy and unsavory, he thought of himself as a student of science, he was stronger than most and did what was needed, no matter what the cost.
Sergio was monitored for the rest of the day, his body was making the necessary preparations for its new DNA, in essence; it was getting ready to reflect on the outside what was on the inside. The boy was somewhat awake when he was taken back to Tear who cradled him protectively, she was worried sick after both were knocked out by the guards, she had no idea where they had taken him or what had happened to him. She cuddled him happily, he although groggy and nauseous couldn't help but smile, Tear was always there for him, no matter what. This fact was eclipsed however by the fact he was going to change, his mind began to race.
-Am I really going to turn into a monster?
-What about Tear…..
-If this worked on me it'll work on her…..
-If…No…..When I change……what will Tear think?
-Will she be afraid of me?
-Idiot! Of course she will be….
-I love her so much……
-If you love something set it free….phf…..
-I never thought I'd find myself saying that……
-I suppose the guy or lady who said that wasn't in my position……
-William, the guards…..I have no doubt they will use Tear to keep me in line….
-I have to figure out a way to kill them and set Tear free….
-Ripley….Ripley can help methinks
-She hates the guards and William…..
Sergio opened his eyes and looked straight at Tear who was cradled in his arm, sleeping. A single tear slipped from his eyes, hate seethed in his stomach, his pulse quickened. He began to fantasize almost involuntarily that he was one of those things in the lab and was hunting William in the base. He tore William in two, impaled him, maimed him, tore out his throat, disemboweled him, none of these things seemed fitting enough. He wanted to do something to William that was both terrifying and excruciatingly painful, something that would drive him mad with pain and only after he had extracted the last delicious drop of pain, when he had William literally begging for death, would he finally and slowly kill him.
His eyes widened in surprise; he had never had thoughts like these before he realized. Sergio had killed a few people back home, but that was different, that was war and he beat himself up over having killed those people, and he was over it now, he never wanted to hurt anyone. The feeling was stronger than him, he wanted to kill everyone, he wanted to hurt everyone, he wanted, he needed to protect Tear. He dismissed the thought as an effect of consequence, he was being experimented on and they were going to do the same to Tear, in turn he wanted to kill them.
He gazed at Tear once more, and looked at her with some anger swelling up inside him.
-I won't let them hurt you….
-I will not …….I'd rather die than let them do to you what they are doing to me….
-I'd rather die……
-I want to die…..
-I'll see what happens….. maybe fate will be kind enough to kill me in the attempt, but not before you are safe….
-I love you….
-Don't forget…
