Chapter 11: Flash Back
A/N: I'm posting this now, because i was able to find a working computer with internet in the hotel... i'll be back for real tommarow. I'm glad i decided to make these chapter before i left, because i am exhausted... I hope you like it.
Chapter 11: Flash Back
I walked down the sterilized white hallways; large blue double doors stood in front of me.
I opened them; inside the X-ray room were 6 large metal stretchers with X-rays scanning 6 naked mutant bodies, all unconscious avian human hybrids.
I slid my claws along the metal railing, walking down the line of mutants.
I walked by the one named Fang and Iggy, and then to Nudge and to Max. I stopped, I saw the scientist watching over them.
"So, what Doc? All these kids have porn stars as parents or did the plastic surgeon break out of his cage?" I said, in my trademark sarcastic tone,
He turned and looked at me, one eye brow raised; he looked impatient but calm.
"Ari…" he sounded like he was holding back himself from screaming at me;
"These experiments were genetically engineered to be created to be the best of the human race and the best of avian."
"So yes, these subjects are stunning examples of sexual selection at its finest and then tweaked. And… Ari? Ari!? Stop looking at the girls breasts!"
I decided to mess with him; while still keeping my eyes on Max; I said, as if distracted,
"Blood going… out… of… brain moving to… other…places… can't think."
I was going to laugh,
The white coat sighed, and said
"Don't you have some where to be?"
I looked at him, and then looked back at Max's unconscious body;
"No… Actually the head sent me in to get an update, so what have you learnt?"
He sighed again,
"Well, they are progressing through puberty at a normal if a little bit faster speed; they reach full adulthood at age of 25-ish."
"Uh-huh, and what are they're estimated physiological statistic to be at said age?"
"Well, it will vary a little bit; but we can safely assume that females will be around 5'10", while the males will be 6ft plus; showing signs that the sexual dimorphism of human kind was translated into this species. Both sexes will be able to lift a weight equal to about 1045-1180 kgs; 1 ton; basically they'd be able to lift a small car. Average female will weigh 47.7 kg at 25, males will weigh 59.1 kg."
"Well, then why aren't they skin and bones? They sound like they'd weigh as much as a severely anorexic person."
"Because, that is an average weight for their species; they have to be light to fly; speaking of which average adult wingspan will be in-between 5-6 meters."
"Ok, now how do we know they'll live that long? When will they expire?"
"Oh, now that's really were the breakthrough occurred." He said, sounded intrigued and excited;
he led me over to a large microscope."
"Now we have here a chemical that stimulated individual cells to age, via metabolism manipulation. And look and see what happens when we put the youngest ones cells in it."
I looked into the microscope, and the doctor placed some cells into the solution; I saw them age remarkably quickly, in the lower left hand corner of the screen I was looking through showed a estimated age, it was currently at 7 years old.
The cells swelled with age, stretching and grow and multiplying.
10 years old; they continued to age.
15 years old; still ageing, and extremely quickly at that.
20 years old, they were aging slower now.
25 years old, they stopped aging.
30 years old; still not aging,
35 years old; nothing still not aging.
I looked up,
"You mean these children stop aging when they hit 25?"
"Yeah, it's breakthrough in anti-aging technology!"
"Does that mean they won't die of old age?"
"Just look at the microscope."
255 years old; still not a day over 25 looking
I waited more,
907 years old; not aging more that 25…
"That's amazing so they can't die?" I asked, not looking at him.
"Not quite." He said, and he lit a cigarette and burned the cells off the slide.
"So they just can't die of old age?"
He nodded, and smiled at me.
I grabbed his clip board from him;
"Hey!!" he yelled indignatly;-
"Can I barrow this? Oh, to bad."
I ripped his paper off and wrote on a new one all the facts he's told me about.
"Ok, now let's talk fertility."
The doctor sighed,
"All of the specimens are fertile, and able to reproduce. But not with humans, the gap in DNA is just too great. Like you can't have human and chimpanzee, you can't have a human and one of these things."
"These species can only reproduce with each other; now from gender to gender we find some differences."
"This species; will just call them hybrids for now. Hybrids had a higher sperm count than most humans; however their mental need for sex is lower than in humans. They have a very controlled sex drive, for males that is."
"Uh-huh. And females?"
"Hybrid females, will hit puberty sooner than humans, but will not develop menstruation till halfway through puberty, only one of the females in there does." He said, nodding at the mutants,
"Now with that said, they also hit menopause sooner than humans; around the age of thirty, if not sooner. It's very difficult to tell."
"Sex Drive?" I asked, not really caring, but it was here for me to ask.
"Uh, well since the hybrid females have a shorter reproductive gap (about 15 years) they actually have a stronger sex drive than human females (40 years); but still pretty controlled."
"Uh-huh, now these mutations."
"They pose no danger to them." the white coat said not looking at me;
"Now we have detected an odd genetic reaction from the oldest female, here."
Max?
"What does that mean?"
"Does it mean's she is mutating?" I asked,
"It means she's just recently mutated."
"What's the mutation?" I asked, now honestly interest.
"We have no idea; she's just shown increased delta brain wave activity."
"So what? She'll be psychic?"
"Not necessarily, we've seen Delta wave increases in a hybrid before."
"He ended up with the ability of Cryokenecisis, he could control ice."
"So she will too?"
"Not necessarily."
"We were able to link Delta Brain waves with psychic control of temperature."
"Ok," I said, writing the information down,
"Now, speaking of psychology. When was the last time they had an "evaluation"."
"6 years ago. The youngest female hasn't had one at all. I've scheduled them for one, immediately."
"Evaluation" was a psychological experiment done to the hybrids;
Basically we injected them with a powerful hallucinogenic drug;
That causes them to see their worst fears come to life, and we take note of what their worst fear is.
"Ok, now what's reaction time?"
"average 0.102 seconds, however a while ago we did have a female with an extrodanary 0.012 seconds." he said,
"Really? Then that must mean she can react about the momment something occurs...What happened to this girl?"
"She was killed in a car crash, about 4 years ago."
I could tell he was lying to me, but i'm going to play it cool... really cool, like smooth.
"YOU DARE LIE TO ME!!" I yelled grabbing his shirt and lifting him against the sid of the room; i was already half-morphe d and drooling for blood...
cool...very smooth...
he panicked,
"I-I it's confidential!! The head doesn't want anyone knowing about it..."
I threw him to the ground and turned;
I began to walk towards the door,
"One last thing doctor."
"Yeah?"
"Sensory information?"
he picked himslef off the flor, and was dusting off his lab coat; and said indignatly
"Amazing, they can hear a tank moving 15 miles away, they can track scents like a dog; they can see incredibly far and pick a nickel out a pile of quarters in seconds."
"Spectacular… I'll see you at the evaluation."
I left the room; and skipped all the way to the next room.
For the hell of it.
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Max's POV
I was dreaming;
It's weird how I knew that, because in most of my dreams I don't know I'm dreaming.
I'm dreaming of a memory; I don't know why my subconscious is showing me this memory.
It was six years ago, I was eight almost nine and Angel had just been brought to the school.
I was still at the school at this time;
I was seeing the world through my eyes; and I could feel my emotions at the time, but not control them.
I was feeling scared and anxious… really anxious.
I was pulled into the room; I could see through a window into the cell a boy of about my age, he had long blank hair.
He was an Avian-Hybrid just like me; but he wasn't Fang.
With a jolt of shock I realized it was Adam, 9 year old Adam.
He was being dragged out of the room; he was shaking and screaming.
I saw actual tears streaking across his face.
The glass was soundproof; so I couldn't hear him but he was upset.
And I became more frightened and more anxious…
"Oh no, oh no." I thought,
They pulled me into the room Adam just inhabited;
I was bawling at this point, begging.
"No…No please!"
"No… No… Don't… Please…NO!!"
They held me down, my tears dripping down my cheeks.
One of them pulled out a very large syringe filled with an odd yellowish green liquid.
"No…please…Have mercy…no…no…no…" I sobbed,
I was truly begging them, I was really really scared…
"NOO!!" I shrieked as they injected me with that syringe,
I felt everything become dizzy; then everyone left…
The room went darker; it seemed to shrink too.
I felt my rate of breath increase; and claustrophobia set in…
"No…please…"
A door opened and Jeb Batchelder along with three fully morphed erasers walked in…
"Max… I hate you; you worthless pile of shit!!" screamed Jeb,
I realized that the erasers were carrying cattle prodders and smiling evilly.
"Max… we will kill you now…" Jeb said,
"You're a failure Max, A REJECT!! Worthless, A MISTAKE! A complete waste of MY TIME…!" he screamed,
I cowered in fear;
"I can't believe; you actually thought I loved you… how can you be so naive… That's just it your stupid… that's why you're a reject Max; your stupid… you can't do anything for yourself… you're a defect, a failure."
"Thank you Maximum; for showing us how awful you can be…WHAT A WASTE OF TIME AND REASOURCES!!" he screamed then, walked out of the room.
I was cowering; and in full blown sobbing mode.
The Erasers approached me; raised the cattle prods… and vanished;
Everything went back to normal…
The room became larger;
The lights re-brightened.
I was still sobbing and screaming; as they dragged me into the same room Adam was dragged into.
It was dark; I was crying my eyes out.
They dragged me into it; and left me there… in the dark.
As I cried, and cried and cried…
I felt a hand on my shoulder; Adam's; but I didn't know that at the time.
I had no idea who he was…
The arm wrapped around my shoulder, and began to cry on his shoulder…
We embraced for sometime really;
I remember myself feeling, sooo safe with him…
Like, at least someone liked me… at least some one didn't think I was a waste…
I didn't care that he was a boy and that I was a girl…
We were together; and that made me feel better…
I think I fell asleep in his arms; and that's were the dream ended and the nightmare began…
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Max's POV…
I woke up; from the cell-like room… into a cell-like room…
In fact the exact cell like room; as in the dream…
I was my 15 year old self again; I remembered the last seven years well; and just as I knew I was at the school and that this was the same room as in my dream…
I knew what was going to happen in here;
And I wasn't about to let it…
I stood up walked over to the door intently but just before I could get to the door; the door opened…
Ari was there with a stun gun in his hand; one of the stun guns that shot out little electric cords…
He shot at me; and they connected with my body…
Pain exploded inside of me!
And I fell to the ground…
Ari startled me; and injected me with the syringe full of that awful stuff…
Oh no
Once again; I felt everything become dizzy; then everyone left…
Oh shit…
The room went darker; it seemed to shrink too.
No; no, no, no… NO!!
I felt my rate of breath increase; and claustrophobia set in…
I fell to the ground again; and I stood up again…
Only I wasn't in control of my body…
I looked in the reflection of the window;
I was Eraser Max; I raised my hands up and expected to feel smooth skin like I always did;
My heart sank…
I felt fear embrace me…
I felt fur, in my hand… my hand? No my claw…
I was ERASER MAX!!
Just then the door burst in and Angel ran though the door in a rush…
I said, oh Thank god!! Angel! But it came out of my mouth as,
"Angel?" it was surprised but controlled voice,
And I realized in horror; I wasn't driving my body anymore…
Eraser Max was…
"Max!!" she hugged me, as only Angel could.
"Come on Max! I was able to escape! Quickly, we have to get the others, before they get back!" she said, pulling my hand…
This was Angel… it really was Angel… not a delusion; ANGEL!!
I tried to yell; RUN ANGEL!! RUN!! But it came out as;
"Ok Angel..." said, Eraser Max.
Angel obviously wasn't able to tell the difference between us…
Angel turned and was halfway out the door, when Eraser Max pulled out a pistol…
Angel turned…
I tried to fight… I really really did…
Eraser Max pulled the trigger…
BAANNNGGG!!
The bullet hit my baby right in the head, and a splatter of blood and gray matter exploded from her head…
I saw the light leave her eyes…
He beautiful baby blue eyes…
She was dead before she hit the ground;
"NO!! ANGEL!!" I screamed gain control of myself again;
I dove down to her, and scooped her lifeless six year old form into my arms and hugged her… and I was really bawling…
"Angel, no…no…Angel…no… not Angel…" I whispered,
I held onto her lifeless form…like it was my own life;
This was real!
I could feel her cold dead body, her warm blood… her smell… it was all real…I could feel her tiny wings on her back…
"No…Angel, please not my baby… not Angel… not my sweetie… not my sunshine…Angel…no…" I begged, and in horror I saw Angel's body begin to dissolve…
She was turning into sand…
And pouring onto the ground; as I screamed and cried for her…
Then her body was gone; and I was alone on the ground crying and screaming…
As two white coats dragged me into the dark room again…
I cornered myself against the wall; I could her someone else crying too,
Adam??
I looked through the darkness; my sight obscured by tears…
"Fang??"
No response,
Yeah it was definitely Fang;
I thought about going over to him; but it just seemed like it was useless…
I hoped, hoped he would come over and comfort me… like he used to…
He didn't…
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A/N: Hey guys… you miss me?
Hehe… anyway, here is a chapter…
Sorry about the entire medical BS; I watched Scrubs and House all vacation…
Anyway that should clear stuff up; if you have any questions about this chapter…
I know it can be confusing, please ask in reviews… and I'll be happy to answer…
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