"To dust we came and to dust we shall return; we are all the same in the end, us humans and the mutants of our race. In the end, we all die mortal deaths. And life goes on without us." -- A doctor of 'The Facility'
Prologue: 'The Facility'
It was a normal day. Well, a normal day for a top-secret
mutant researching center located in Japan at least. And their normal days
were far from being 'normal'.
First off, a 'normal' day started at about four
in the morning for most of the scientists. Those were the scientists that
worked in the cloning, and experimentation sectors of the hidden base.
The experiments run mainly tested the resistances and the abilities of
the captured mutants of legal age. They tested the mutants' capacity for
pain, made them confront their worst fears, and forced them to endlessly
kill one another, as to only let the strongest survive for further study.
Not before there were sucessful clones of each and every single combating
mutant, of course.
The facility also included less brutal departments
as well. Child psychology, a nursing center for the infant clones, classrooms,
lavish bedrooms, fitness centers, and playrooms were all provided for the
younger mutants, whom had no idea of what was in store for them when they
reached a legal age. For all that it mattered to them, they were merely
the 'gifted' students of a special school for mutants orphans, and this
was all that they were told. They were never told that some of them were
clones, what happened to the mutants who became ill with uncurable sicknesses,
that some of their families were murdered by the scientist's hitmen, and
they were never, *EVER* told about what happened to those happy, surrogate
mothers that held the implanted mutant embryos in their wombs after they
became too old to bear children.
Those women, upon reaching the age of uselessness,
were allowed to be killed, raped, and brutally maimed by some of the more
violent mutants that were kept seperate from the others.
All the base operated under a shroud of secrecy,
which was sometimes good, and sometimes bad. The entirety of the base was
underground, and in almost city-like formatt. A glass dome around the buildings
kept the soil and rock from burying the inhabitants alive, and protected
them against bombing raids. And because of the depth in the earth in which
the base was situated in, it was undetectable by radar. But, unlike one
would think of an underground base, this one was far from being pitch black,
because the lights inside the buildings were not the only source of contrast
to the darkness of the earth.
Created by one of the scientists was a huge sphere
of light kept that put out rays as would the sun, but at a much lesser
frequency and power, due to differences in distance between the earth and
the sun, and the buildings and the sphere. It allowed lush gardens to grow,
and a variety of plants and animals to thrive in sealed off environments.
The many plants, some exotic and some domestic varieties, provided both
food and oxygen to the occupants. They allowed the scientists and mutants
to live without much help from the outside world.
In fact, the only way to reach the surface of the
earth was a single elavator near the edge of the glass dome. It was heavily
guarded, and could only be operated by passcodes, which had to be entered
in every 5 minutes during the ascent or descent before the alarms went
off. No one scientist knew all the codes, either, just in case if some
of them turned against the facility. And as another added percaution, a
fingerprint scanner, a retina scanner, and a DNA scanner all had to be
passed before even entering the elevator. There was a double set of doors
pressed up against the hull of the elevator, with each made of two feet
of titanium steel, and the second set of doors almost always had electricity
running through them.
Even then, there were still more percautions to
make sure the mutants didn't escape. With a passcode, the director of the
facility and a few other privileged members, could have the interior of
the elevator self-destruct. And with another, he could set off a volley
of machine guns which fired bullets of every metal encoupled with wicked
daggers, arrows, and dart coated with every poison known to man, both natural
and artifical. And one should not forget the small vents that could spew
out every deadly gas that man had discovered as well.
The scientists had to make sure that, under no circumstances,
the mutants could escape into the real world. The only exception were the
few, extremely loyal (almost beyond a fault) trained mutant hitmen and
kidnappers, that helped bring new mutants to the facility. These mutants
were the favorites of some of the more brutal of the scientists.
Others, prefered working with the younger mutants,
owing to the fact that they held the opposite opinions of their more brutal
collegues.
And yet others worked in midwifery, in the cloning
facility, in the hospital and medicine rooms, vetinarians to the animals,
and botanists.
Their best profession was determined by a complex
and excruciating testing process offered to a small amount of college students.
These students had been watched for years, as they showed extreme potential
in specialized scientific areas that the facility designated as 'useful'.
And only when the observers were completely sure that the students would
take the job, was the offer given to them. Even then, some still refused
it, and were subsequently killed to prevent any leaks of the facilities
existance to the rest of the world. Even though none of the scientists
but the director alone was intrusted with the real location of the base.
Only he, the hitmen, and the observers knew that information. And for even
more added secrecy, the lacked in possession of an official name and title.
To the inhabitants, it was just 'The Facility'.
The Facility was the beginning and the end of hundreds
of short mutant lives. Born only to be a part of a grand experiment before
their brutal deaths. The ones that failed to survive were in truth the
lucky ones, because they did not have to kill countless friends and family
in order to survive, and they, according to their beliefs, were welcomed
into heaven with opened arms. However, no one knew if that was the case
or not. Neither did they have definite proof that their heaven existed.
In the end, all they knew that their last days of their lives were hell.
And no one, no mutant or human, had ever escaped
'The Facility' alive.
Was it even possible?
Come... Come into the domed world were life and
death run in a never-ending cycle.. Come, and see the dream, the nightmare
of torture be shattered, as the impossible becomes possible and the team
of mutants known as the X-Men meet the two impossibilities of 'The Facility'.