5 years later THUD!
The ground shook as the Eraser fell with surprising force at The Experiments feet. The white coats clapped their approval for the experiments display of superb agility and aggression as she defeated yet another group of Erasers single handedly. The white coat that created her stepped forward. He was a tall man with graying black hair and pale skin, not to mention a medical genius.
"You did well today Siobhan. We will set up another challenge for you tomorrow." Said the man.
The experiment now known as Siobhan bowed her head in loyal agreement. The Man felt a swell of pride at his creation. He called her Siobhan, for it was an Irish name meaning God's grace, and how perfectly it fit. This experiment was unnaturally graceful, perfectly balanced and a trained killer. She was the ultimate weapon and was worth more than money could buy. The other white coats watched with envy as she glided past. They had tried for years to create the perfect experiment and here it was, created by the head of the School himself.
The man led Siobhan to her vault in a special part of the school where she was treated like royalty. Siobhan turned in the doorway to look at her creator when a glint of gold caught her sharp eagle eye. That glint of gold belonged to a blond haired man in sunglasses and a brown suit. He was also wearing beat up steel toes boots. His name was Billy-Ray Sanguine.
She stifled a gasp as three years worth of memories came flooding back to her. Billy-Ray attacking her in an apartment, Billy erupting from the ground in an alley way, Billy ray dragging her under ground, Billy-Ray draging a blade across her hand in a church, Billy-Ray trying to slit her throat in a tall marble room, Billy knocking out her tooth in the same room, someone shooting Billy-ray in the leg, saving her. Her, cutting open Billy's stomach with a sword, who's sword? Billy ray dragging her under ground and shackling her. Billy dragging her onto a plane, Billy ray looking at her through cage bars whispering with a wicked smile "Say good-bye to your sanity."
Then Siobhan was brutally yanked back into reality, Billy smiled at her and walked away. She looked at her creator in confusion at the memories and he stared back, equally confused. She looked past him and he looked too, but Billy-Ray was no where in sight. So she just shook her head and dutifully walked inside her vault and laid down on her bed to ponder.
She knew him, he was against her. She filtered through her memories of Billy again, not one of them good, and all of those memories meant one thing. She wasn't meant to be here, that much was clear. She was just an experiment, a weapon to them, she wanted out. Siobhan sat up and looked at her massive wings that sprouted from her back, they were the coloration of a White Bellied Sea Eagle, white, slate blue, ebony black and an impressive 17 feet, tip to tip. She was once proud of these extensions, though she had never used them, she had never been allowed to.
Siobhan curled up on her side and tried to sleep. It was impossible to do when so many things were on her enhanced mind. So she pondered many ways as to how to escape this place, this prison she was never meant to come to.
A bolt slid back and Siobhan's eye's snapped open as her vault was flooded with light. She vaulted from her bed and stood before her creator with vigor. Today she would put her plan to action. He looked at her with surprise but she didn't let her features give away her hateful feelings toward this man, she concealed them well.
"Come Siobhan." he said in a clipped voice. Since when was he aloud to talk to her like she was a servant? That would have to end soon. She followed anyway to keep up the act.
" You have worked hard Siobhan," he began "I believe you have earned the right to roam this building on your own. I trust you, so there is no reason for me to accompany you. You are free to roam anywhere except the west wing, but you already knew that." He smiled at her.
He was right, she did know to stay away from the west wing, and she had obeyed with out question. Well now was the time to question why. He left her then, heading south and she headed west. She pretended to meander around aimlessly and smile when the Erasers shied away from her. Making sure she wasn't being watched, she covered the surveillance camera at the entrance of the west wing and walked through the double doors.
She couldn't see why it was so restricted until she passed a room full of cages. And she remembered that this was where she had endured terrible pain as she had transformed into the mutant experiment that the 'good doctor' had created. She hurried away from there as fast as she could and through another door and slammed it shut.
She turned around to see where she was and saw many file cabinets. She took them in quickly with her raptor vision and saw they were arranged alphabetically. Her eyes settled on the cabinet marked 'E' and something inside her told her to open it. So she did and she saw names, many, many names on many, many files. She thumbed through them looking for something, anything familiar though not expecting to find anything.
E, ED, EDD, EDGE, EDGELY.
She stopped when she saw the name and more memories hit her like a freight train. A girl, a dark haired girl sitting at a desk surrounded by other kids in desks, writing her name on a piece of paper. Stephanie Edgely. The girl looked just like Siobhan. The scene shifted and she saw the same dark haired girl wearing black standing with many other people in somber clothing next to a grave stone with a name on it. Gordon Edgely. She saw the girl look up and Siobhan followed her gaze to a man standing further away under a large tree in a trench coat and wide brimmed hat. Then she was standing back in the file room.
She took out the file and opened it. She stifled a scream of shock when she saw her picture looking back at her. Next to her picture was a physical description of her. Two names had been crossed out, Stephanie Edgley, Valkyrie Cain , Siobhan. Below that it had family members names.
Melissa Edgley: Memory Status - Erased
Desmond Edgely: Memory Status - Erased
Beryl Edgely: Memory Status - Erased
Fergus Edgely: Memory Status - Erased
Crystal Edgely: Memory Status - Erased
Carol Edgely: Memory Status - Erased
Gordon Edgely: Deceased
Siobhan didn't know what to think. What did it mean? Memory Status - Erased. Did it mean that her family doesn't know about her? Didn't know she existed? Seeing those words hurt. Her parents, her family didn't know her. She began to close to file when another name caught her eye:
Maximum Ride.
She had heard that name before, so she read on. The summary told her that Avian, Feline and Equestrian DNA had been grafted into her own DNA, leaving her only 94% human. According to the file, her bones had been infused with some sort of light weight metal to make her stronger so that she could destroy the people known as Maximum Ride, Fang, Iggy, Nudge, The Gasman & Angel who were 98% human and 2% bird.
She read their descriptions and found out that one of them was blind and could feel color, another had a funky digestive system (she'd bet that had to be The Gasman) One of them could reach insane flight speeds over 300 mph, one could blend in with their surroundings, becoming nearly invisible so long as he didn't move, another could attract metal and hack any computer. And there was one who could change appearances, talk to fish, control and read another's mind. All of them sounded as though they were each unique and beautiful in their own way.
And Siobhan had been created to destroy them.