Note from Selskia
So the good part begins...*evil grin*
Mystic Destiny Chapter 5-History
Klein walked into the dorm hallway, Selskia trailing behind, balanced precariously on the mini AC's hover board. He looked back at her before walking to the manager.
"Hey, could I rent a dorm for this new raven?"
"Well, sir, that would be-"
Klein cut him off. "Take it off my account"
"Erm...Ok, here. Have a nice day."
He grabbed the keycard from the man, motioning for the mini to follow again. Room 485...Great, it was close to his room...She would probably visit him at least 10 times a day now. Sliding the card on the identification slot, and pressing Selskia's limp hand on the pad, he slid the door open. A new room, just like he had asked for.
Sliding to the bed, Klein helped the small AC to lift Selskia on the bed, covering her up before he got up and sat on a nearby chair. Selskia really shouldn't have tired herself out so much...
*Flashback*
The battle was finally over. Falling to her knees, Selskia slumped over onto Klein's lap, exhausted. Magic and physical exertion had finally gotten to her. Klein, of course, jumped up, letting her head lay on the seat rather than him. Why did she always have to do that? She should've gotten more sleep...
He got up and piloted the AC back to the nearest city, which was a fair distance away by now. Everyone but him was asleep, leaning on each other, or in Selskia's case, leaning against the chair. Strangely enough, Klein himself wasn't very tired. Sighing, he woke the other men and sent them off to their rooms, while he checked his rewards for the mission.
Mission status: Success 20,000 credits accounted for Klein 20,000 credits accounted for Selskia 10,000 credits accounted for Retiff 10,000 credits accounted for Perth 10,000 credits accounted for Gailin
Only 20,000 credits!?!? That wouldn't even cover some of the cheaper stuff. His entire AC was destroyed, for goodness sake! Only Selskia's was in relatively good shape, and it still needed extensive repairs. And HE wasn't gonna pay for her, either. Good thing he had a good stockpile in his account, otherwise he'd be dead...
Turning, he shook Selskia gently to wake her, muttering to himself. She wouldn't budge. He poked her.
"Wake up..."
Still no movement. The little mini AC Selskia called her own walked over, and picked her up with its hovercraft, displaying bright red words in Klein's face.
She needs rest.
Sighing, he got up, and climbed out of the AC, still muttering about prices and repairs...
*End Flashback*
Klein got up again, and went to his own dorm. Grabbing the pillow off his bed, /Why doesn't the stupid robot notice that I sleep on the floor?/ he laid down beside his bed and pulled his jacket over him, dozing off...
Later...
Selskia opened her eyes slowly. /Where am I?/ She tried to sit up, to find she couldn't, with everything spinning around her. /What happened?/ Her throat was dry, so dry it hurt to breathe. /Klein?/ Memories hit her hard, swamping her with details of the battle. /The AC...My AC...Klein!/ She reached her arm over, trying to get up again. Suddenly, someone filled her limited vision.
"Good, you're awake."
The voice was familiar. Of course, it was Klein's. She tried to answer him, but all she could manage was a croak. A kind hand held a cup of water to her cracked lips, and she drank gratefully. Finally managing to sit up, she looked around, seeing Klein's computer lying in a nearby chair and her new surroundings. And, of course, Klein leaning over her bed.
"Where am I?"
Klein laughed, an odd sight to see. After all, this was Klein.
"This, Selskia, is your dorm. Your very own so you won't have to stay in mine all the time."
"How long have I been here?"
Klein looked back at the wall, counting to himself and pointing fingers occasionally.
"Oh, I'd say around...4-5 days?"
She blinked once, twice, then looked back at Klein.
"Where's Mystic Angel!"
"Your AC is in the garage, and you have some bills to pay off."
He got out a slip of paper from the repairmen, handing it to Selskia. She read it slowly, looking over each repair. Her AC had been pretty trashed, and Klein obviously took back his modified Moonlight. Then her eyes glanced over the total price for the repairs.
"50,000 credits!?!? Just for repairs!"
Klein nodded solemnly. He reached over and grabbed his computer, handing it to the girl.
"Here, you have to specify your account. And I have no idea how you're gonna pay for it all..."
It was here that she smirked. She had a good amount in one of her accounts, after all, she was a fair high ranked raven when she was alive. She typed in her main account, and got Access Denied back. Of course, they deleted that one when she died...
The next account, her private account, was also deleted. From her death, naturally. What about her savings account? It was her aunt's old account, and surely she was still alive...And it was there. A nice, 1,200,000 credit cushion just in case she ever needed it. Buying a few more replacement parts and paying for the repairs, she logged off. Then she got an idea.
"Hey...You know they have all those bios on all those ravens that died? I wonder what mine says..."
Typing in a few more words, she skimmed through her bio, laughing at moments, recalling old memories. It was kinda true, although it didn't really mention anything about her personal life, and she couldn't remember that anyway. Then she reached the bottom, and gasped. With a shocked look on her face, she looked up at Klein and back at the holo screen.
"Selskia? What?"
Turning the computer to him in reply, she had a paragraph highlighted.
Selskia died on June 24, 2476 while on a mission to eliminate a research facility. However, she was attacked by several other ACs, and her partner, Klein, killed all of them, including the famous raven.
End Chapter 5, Part I
Note from Selskia The freaky part. I hated rping this, but it's kinda cool if you read it during the daytime. Of course, I rped this at night, so pity my pour, tormented soul...
His lips formed a snarl as he watched the monitors, watched as the memories were triggered. Turning, he reached over to the rarely used alarm buttons. Popping the plastic case open, he smashed one of the smaller red ones in his anger, a silent alarm, and crushed the smooth plastic to bits. Almost immediately, the team was at his doorway, asking what was wrong.
"He found out! Go! Reinforce the memories! DON'T LET HIM REMEMBER!!!"
Back at the dorm...
"But...I didn't kill you!"
Klein was pacing in his room, looking over at Selskia, who was sitting in his computer chair checking over old news files.
"But everything says you did...I can't remember anything about the actual event though..."
Klein stopped his pacing and looked up at Selskia. Sitting down, he put his head in his hands, rubbing his temples.
"Thing is...I don't remember either."
They sat there like that for a few seconds, both deep in thought. Suddenly, Klein's head snapped up, and he got up, almost in a daze, muttering to himself.
"Of course...What else? It has to be..."
Pushing Selskia aside, he walked out the door and down the hall, thinking. /The dream...It has to be the dream...Of course!/ Selskia ran out after him, mini AC in tow. But Klein had been walking fast, and steadily, and was almost out of sight by then. She ran after him, into the garage. She just managed to see him get into Vengeance and leave.
"Vengeance...why'd I name you that?"
Klein was already out in space, heading down to Earth. Back to that same plot of desert where it all started.
No data related to names found.
Memories were starting to fill his head, remembering the details of the place and one thing that he didn't pay any mind to: His familiarity with the old, abandoned laboratory. Suddenly, the pop of displaced air interrupted his thoughts. Paying no mind to Selskia, he continued, muttering to himself.
"Klein, where are you going?"
No response. He just kept going, nearing the giant orb below, Earth.
"It has to be...The dream...Past...Has to..."
/Nightfall. Like it was then...I think...I can't remember! Only...Fragments...Maybe it was all just a dream? No, it can't be...It has to be.../
The moon was rising over the patch of desert, lighting the ground eerily. His AC spread long, dark shadows across the abyss of desert, as it walked forward. Forward almost to the town, and it was then that Klein finally spoke aloud.
"I remember this. That tower didn't used to be there, that building. Ah, there!"
He pointed straight at what seemed a hole in a cliff. A dark hole shining with steel. An abandoned laboratory, a memory infused deep in his mind. Selskia walked uneasily towards him.
"Err...I don't like the looks of this place...It scares me..."
Paying no mind to Selskia, he continued forward. Stopping the AC next to the doors, he popped the hatch open and jumped out, hopping to the ground. All around him were shards of glass and metal, jutting out of the ground and sprinkling the dirt around him. Selskia appeared next to him, afraid to jump onto the glass. Clinging on to Klein, they both opened the door.
It was definitely a lab, and probably one of those human genetics and android workings that the government had banned long ago. The floor was cold steel, as were the walls and ceiling. The lights were off, all except emergency lights, casting eerie shadows across the floor. The place was strangely clean, despite its abandoned look. Finding a light switch, they flipped it on and Selskia screamed.
Humanoid corpses were floating in tubes along the hallway. They looked human, they had the typical shape and color, but they had tubes connected to them and limbs in all the wrong places, some without eyes and mouths, and some with several. All around them, bubbles floating in the green liquid they were suspended in. They didn't move, fortunately, and Selskia clung even closer to Klein.
They walked down the hall, Selskia glancing from side to side frantically, and stopped at a door.
"Selskia, don't come with me...I remember this place...Nothing will hurt you..."
The girl nodded slowly, although whimpering like a hunted mouse. She sat facing a nearby wall, observing a label for a small bottle, the wording almost impossible to make out.
Klein walked into a smaller room, with a single, empty tube in the center. This room was the most familiar to him; he knew every detail of it somehow. There was a console in front of the tube, still on and glowing green. Walking up to it, he unidled the program and scrolled through, clicking on 'Test Information'. Another holo screen popped up in front of him as he started reading the bright green on green words.
Project Name: Genesis Project ID: 102DTA Project Objective: To create the ultimate raven to aid the Abomination. Also to verify supernatural signs of power when a subject is born under certain circumstances. To test the enhances created by Tyler Pendragon in earlier experiments, untested on human subjects thus far. Project Length: March 3, 2402 and still in progress
Back where Selskia was, staring at a wall, a single corpse twitched unseen to Selskia. It saw the young girl in front of it, and, as body guard, warned everyone else. In a hoarse voice, it whispered through the clear liquid, "In...Intruder!"
End Chapter 5, Part II
Another alarm blared now, and this time, it wasn't a silent one. He covered his ears and yelled over the din at his fellow team members, who were looking at various monitors, trying to see what the fuss was about. He already knew what it was though. The one thing he hoped wouldn't happen.
"GET HIM OUT OF THERE!!!!!"
Meanwhile...
Klein continued to scroll through the files, and stopped at the project records. Squinting in the little light, he leaned in closer to read the fine text.
Day 1: Subject A has just been brought in. The whole project isn't voluntary, and I hope it turns out all right...If we're caught, the whole projects' screwed.
Day 4: Most of the enhancements have been put in, and the subject is still in a state of coma. He shouldn't wake up for a long time...Hopefully.
Day 12: It escaped today. All the enhancements were in when it broke through the glass and escaped the lab. It is thought that he is gone, out to blend in with the normal people. Yet, we can do nothing about it-If we were caught, all of us would die, Abomination or no.
He scrolled down near the end, glancing at a few words here and there. Then stopped. He recognized this part vaguely.
Year 16 Day 48: The test subject's son has been captured. The boy is but 10 years old, but still retains much of his father's enhancements. All we had to do was add a few more that got removed through the genetic process.
Klein stood up and looked around. Why is this place so familiar? I can't be that old...His hand slipped onto a palm pad and he felt a prick on his finger. Grabbing his hand back, he noticed that the holo screen had changed again. This time, it showed a familiar double helix-His DNA. It was standard memorization nowadays, everyone had to know theirs, or at least recognize it. Another, similar strand was held up to it, and the program whisked through all the coding in those two strands. Then a number and a few letters grew out of the bunch and centered on the middle of the screen, flashing red. The computerized voice spread throughout the room, reading the text.
"DNA Match for Subject A: 93%"
Klein's eyes widened as he continued to watch the program carry out its duties. Another strand appeared on the screen. Like his, as far as he could tell. It ran through the DNA identification process again, and yet another announcement echoed through the room.
"DNA Match for Subject B: 100% Subject identified as: Klein, #24869"
Klein gaped at the screen. So it was true - He was just a lab experiment. No wonder this place had looked so familiar...He looked around at his old home for a few seconds. /So this was my childhood.../ He looked back up at the holo-screen again, to see it changed back to the old records.
Year 22 Day 235: Subject B has escaped. He shattered the glass like his father had, once the boy was 16. Luckily, once he was out, we managed to disable his memory of everything that went on in here. Pendragon doesn't think so, but I just think his whole theory about the memory wipe is just bull. We closed up the lab and left today. Best there be no trace of us.
Klein snapped up as he heard a shriek from outside. Turning abruptly and running out the door, her met with an awful sight.
Selskia was on the floor, her hands up and small bits of flesh were scattered everywhere. One of the tubes was broken, the gooey liquid spilling across the floor. More tubes were shattering as Klein watched, and Selskia fled, teleporting back to his AC with a pop and a yelp. For some reason, Klein wasn't afraid of the disembodied corpses, actually, he felt like he knew some of them. And he did. They paid no mind to Klein, stumbling about, and searching for Selskia. He actually walked up to some of them, remembering the guards and his 'friends'. Walking past them, Klein was thinking. /This is practically my family...My past...I never could remember being anything but a raven all my life. This explains it.../
Klein found Selskia cowering in the corner of his AC as he walked in calmly. He started up the AC and started to fly back to the station, all while trying to get Selskia to stop shaking in fear, comforting the girl. As they flew back, he noticed something very odd-A tall, deathly black obelisk was towering not too far from where the lab was, polished and unearthly. It wasn't there before, he was sure of that. At the sight, Selskia cringed in fear again.
"Not...Not that again!"
"Eh? What's wrong with the tower thing, Selskia?"
But Selskia wouldn't say a word about it. She just seemed to have a fear of the thing, like it was evil. Perhaps it was. Klein would have to go explore it later. The events of the day still weighing heavily on his mind, he continued back up to the Raven's Nest, calming Selskia down yet again.
End Chapter 5, Part III End Chapter 5
Mystic Destiny Chapter 5-History
Klein walked into the dorm hallway, Selskia trailing behind, balanced precariously on the mini AC's hover board. He looked back at her before walking to the manager.
"Hey, could I rent a dorm for this new raven?"
"Well, sir, that would be-"
Klein cut him off. "Take it off my account"
"Erm...Ok, here. Have a nice day."
He grabbed the keycard from the man, motioning for the mini to follow again. Room 485...Great, it was close to his room...She would probably visit him at least 10 times a day now. Sliding the card on the identification slot, and pressing Selskia's limp hand on the pad, he slid the door open. A new room, just like he had asked for.
Sliding to the bed, Klein helped the small AC to lift Selskia on the bed, covering her up before he got up and sat on a nearby chair. Selskia really shouldn't have tired herself out so much...
*Flashback*
The battle was finally over. Falling to her knees, Selskia slumped over onto Klein's lap, exhausted. Magic and physical exertion had finally gotten to her. Klein, of course, jumped up, letting her head lay on the seat rather than him. Why did she always have to do that? She should've gotten more sleep...
He got up and piloted the AC back to the nearest city, which was a fair distance away by now. Everyone but him was asleep, leaning on each other, or in Selskia's case, leaning against the chair. Strangely enough, Klein himself wasn't very tired. Sighing, he woke the other men and sent them off to their rooms, while he checked his rewards for the mission.
Mission status: Success 20,000 credits accounted for Klein 20,000 credits accounted for Selskia 10,000 credits accounted for Retiff 10,000 credits accounted for Perth 10,000 credits accounted for Gailin
Only 20,000 credits!?!? That wouldn't even cover some of the cheaper stuff. His entire AC was destroyed, for goodness sake! Only Selskia's was in relatively good shape, and it still needed extensive repairs. And HE wasn't gonna pay for her, either. Good thing he had a good stockpile in his account, otherwise he'd be dead...
Turning, he shook Selskia gently to wake her, muttering to himself. She wouldn't budge. He poked her.
"Wake up..."
Still no movement. The little mini AC Selskia called her own walked over, and picked her up with its hovercraft, displaying bright red words in Klein's face.
She needs rest.
Sighing, he got up, and climbed out of the AC, still muttering about prices and repairs...
*End Flashback*
Klein got up again, and went to his own dorm. Grabbing the pillow off his bed, /Why doesn't the stupid robot notice that I sleep on the floor?/ he laid down beside his bed and pulled his jacket over him, dozing off...
Later...
Selskia opened her eyes slowly. /Where am I?/ She tried to sit up, to find she couldn't, with everything spinning around her. /What happened?/ Her throat was dry, so dry it hurt to breathe. /Klein?/ Memories hit her hard, swamping her with details of the battle. /The AC...My AC...Klein!/ She reached her arm over, trying to get up again. Suddenly, someone filled her limited vision.
"Good, you're awake."
The voice was familiar. Of course, it was Klein's. She tried to answer him, but all she could manage was a croak. A kind hand held a cup of water to her cracked lips, and she drank gratefully. Finally managing to sit up, she looked around, seeing Klein's computer lying in a nearby chair and her new surroundings. And, of course, Klein leaning over her bed.
"Where am I?"
Klein laughed, an odd sight to see. After all, this was Klein.
"This, Selskia, is your dorm. Your very own so you won't have to stay in mine all the time."
"How long have I been here?"
Klein looked back at the wall, counting to himself and pointing fingers occasionally.
"Oh, I'd say around...4-5 days?"
She blinked once, twice, then looked back at Klein.
"Where's Mystic Angel!"
"Your AC is in the garage, and you have some bills to pay off."
He got out a slip of paper from the repairmen, handing it to Selskia. She read it slowly, looking over each repair. Her AC had been pretty trashed, and Klein obviously took back his modified Moonlight. Then her eyes glanced over the total price for the repairs.
"50,000 credits!?!? Just for repairs!"
Klein nodded solemnly. He reached over and grabbed his computer, handing it to the girl.
"Here, you have to specify your account. And I have no idea how you're gonna pay for it all..."
It was here that she smirked. She had a good amount in one of her accounts, after all, she was a fair high ranked raven when she was alive. She typed in her main account, and got Access Denied back. Of course, they deleted that one when she died...
The next account, her private account, was also deleted. From her death, naturally. What about her savings account? It was her aunt's old account, and surely she was still alive...And it was there. A nice, 1,200,000 credit cushion just in case she ever needed it. Buying a few more replacement parts and paying for the repairs, she logged off. Then she got an idea.
"Hey...You know they have all those bios on all those ravens that died? I wonder what mine says..."
Typing in a few more words, she skimmed through her bio, laughing at moments, recalling old memories. It was kinda true, although it didn't really mention anything about her personal life, and she couldn't remember that anyway. Then she reached the bottom, and gasped. With a shocked look on her face, she looked up at Klein and back at the holo screen.
"Selskia? What?"
Turning the computer to him in reply, she had a paragraph highlighted.
Selskia died on June 24, 2476 while on a mission to eliminate a research facility. However, she was attacked by several other ACs, and her partner, Klein, killed all of them, including the famous raven.
End Chapter 5, Part I
Note from Selskia The freaky part. I hated rping this, but it's kinda cool if you read it during the daytime. Of course, I rped this at night, so pity my pour, tormented soul...
His lips formed a snarl as he watched the monitors, watched as the memories were triggered. Turning, he reached over to the rarely used alarm buttons. Popping the plastic case open, he smashed one of the smaller red ones in his anger, a silent alarm, and crushed the smooth plastic to bits. Almost immediately, the team was at his doorway, asking what was wrong.
"He found out! Go! Reinforce the memories! DON'T LET HIM REMEMBER!!!"
Back at the dorm...
"But...I didn't kill you!"
Klein was pacing in his room, looking over at Selskia, who was sitting in his computer chair checking over old news files.
"But everything says you did...I can't remember anything about the actual event though..."
Klein stopped his pacing and looked up at Selskia. Sitting down, he put his head in his hands, rubbing his temples.
"Thing is...I don't remember either."
They sat there like that for a few seconds, both deep in thought. Suddenly, Klein's head snapped up, and he got up, almost in a daze, muttering to himself.
"Of course...What else? It has to be..."
Pushing Selskia aside, he walked out the door and down the hall, thinking. /The dream...It has to be the dream...Of course!/ Selskia ran out after him, mini AC in tow. But Klein had been walking fast, and steadily, and was almost out of sight by then. She ran after him, into the garage. She just managed to see him get into Vengeance and leave.
"Vengeance...why'd I name you that?"
Klein was already out in space, heading down to Earth. Back to that same plot of desert where it all started.
No data related to names found.
Memories were starting to fill his head, remembering the details of the place and one thing that he didn't pay any mind to: His familiarity with the old, abandoned laboratory. Suddenly, the pop of displaced air interrupted his thoughts. Paying no mind to Selskia, he continued, muttering to himself.
"Klein, where are you going?"
No response. He just kept going, nearing the giant orb below, Earth.
"It has to be...The dream...Past...Has to..."
/Nightfall. Like it was then...I think...I can't remember! Only...Fragments...Maybe it was all just a dream? No, it can't be...It has to be.../
The moon was rising over the patch of desert, lighting the ground eerily. His AC spread long, dark shadows across the abyss of desert, as it walked forward. Forward almost to the town, and it was then that Klein finally spoke aloud.
"I remember this. That tower didn't used to be there, that building. Ah, there!"
He pointed straight at what seemed a hole in a cliff. A dark hole shining with steel. An abandoned laboratory, a memory infused deep in his mind. Selskia walked uneasily towards him.
"Err...I don't like the looks of this place...It scares me..."
Paying no mind to Selskia, he continued forward. Stopping the AC next to the doors, he popped the hatch open and jumped out, hopping to the ground. All around him were shards of glass and metal, jutting out of the ground and sprinkling the dirt around him. Selskia appeared next to him, afraid to jump onto the glass. Clinging on to Klein, they both opened the door.
It was definitely a lab, and probably one of those human genetics and android workings that the government had banned long ago. The floor was cold steel, as were the walls and ceiling. The lights were off, all except emergency lights, casting eerie shadows across the floor. The place was strangely clean, despite its abandoned look. Finding a light switch, they flipped it on and Selskia screamed.
Humanoid corpses were floating in tubes along the hallway. They looked human, they had the typical shape and color, but they had tubes connected to them and limbs in all the wrong places, some without eyes and mouths, and some with several. All around them, bubbles floating in the green liquid they were suspended in. They didn't move, fortunately, and Selskia clung even closer to Klein.
They walked down the hall, Selskia glancing from side to side frantically, and stopped at a door.
"Selskia, don't come with me...I remember this place...Nothing will hurt you..."
The girl nodded slowly, although whimpering like a hunted mouse. She sat facing a nearby wall, observing a label for a small bottle, the wording almost impossible to make out.
Klein walked into a smaller room, with a single, empty tube in the center. This room was the most familiar to him; he knew every detail of it somehow. There was a console in front of the tube, still on and glowing green. Walking up to it, he unidled the program and scrolled through, clicking on 'Test Information'. Another holo screen popped up in front of him as he started reading the bright green on green words.
Project Name: Genesis Project ID: 102DTA Project Objective: To create the ultimate raven to aid the Abomination. Also to verify supernatural signs of power when a subject is born under certain circumstances. To test the enhances created by Tyler Pendragon in earlier experiments, untested on human subjects thus far. Project Length: March 3, 2402 and still in progress
Back where Selskia was, staring at a wall, a single corpse twitched unseen to Selskia. It saw the young girl in front of it, and, as body guard, warned everyone else. In a hoarse voice, it whispered through the clear liquid, "In...Intruder!"
End Chapter 5, Part II
Another alarm blared now, and this time, it wasn't a silent one. He covered his ears and yelled over the din at his fellow team members, who were looking at various monitors, trying to see what the fuss was about. He already knew what it was though. The one thing he hoped wouldn't happen.
"GET HIM OUT OF THERE!!!!!"
Meanwhile...
Klein continued to scroll through the files, and stopped at the project records. Squinting in the little light, he leaned in closer to read the fine text.
Day 1: Subject A has just been brought in. The whole project isn't voluntary, and I hope it turns out all right...If we're caught, the whole projects' screwed.
Day 4: Most of the enhancements have been put in, and the subject is still in a state of coma. He shouldn't wake up for a long time...Hopefully.
Day 12: It escaped today. All the enhancements were in when it broke through the glass and escaped the lab. It is thought that he is gone, out to blend in with the normal people. Yet, we can do nothing about it-If we were caught, all of us would die, Abomination or no.
He scrolled down near the end, glancing at a few words here and there. Then stopped. He recognized this part vaguely.
Year 16 Day 48: The test subject's son has been captured. The boy is but 10 years old, but still retains much of his father's enhancements. All we had to do was add a few more that got removed through the genetic process.
Klein stood up and looked around. Why is this place so familiar? I can't be that old...His hand slipped onto a palm pad and he felt a prick on his finger. Grabbing his hand back, he noticed that the holo screen had changed again. This time, it showed a familiar double helix-His DNA. It was standard memorization nowadays, everyone had to know theirs, or at least recognize it. Another, similar strand was held up to it, and the program whisked through all the coding in those two strands. Then a number and a few letters grew out of the bunch and centered on the middle of the screen, flashing red. The computerized voice spread throughout the room, reading the text.
"DNA Match for Subject A: 93%"
Klein's eyes widened as he continued to watch the program carry out its duties. Another strand appeared on the screen. Like his, as far as he could tell. It ran through the DNA identification process again, and yet another announcement echoed through the room.
"DNA Match for Subject B: 100% Subject identified as: Klein, #24869"
Klein gaped at the screen. So it was true - He was just a lab experiment. No wonder this place had looked so familiar...He looked around at his old home for a few seconds. /So this was my childhood.../ He looked back up at the holo-screen again, to see it changed back to the old records.
Year 22 Day 235: Subject B has escaped. He shattered the glass like his father had, once the boy was 16. Luckily, once he was out, we managed to disable his memory of everything that went on in here. Pendragon doesn't think so, but I just think his whole theory about the memory wipe is just bull. We closed up the lab and left today. Best there be no trace of us.
Klein snapped up as he heard a shriek from outside. Turning abruptly and running out the door, her met with an awful sight.
Selskia was on the floor, her hands up and small bits of flesh were scattered everywhere. One of the tubes was broken, the gooey liquid spilling across the floor. More tubes were shattering as Klein watched, and Selskia fled, teleporting back to his AC with a pop and a yelp. For some reason, Klein wasn't afraid of the disembodied corpses, actually, he felt like he knew some of them. And he did. They paid no mind to Klein, stumbling about, and searching for Selskia. He actually walked up to some of them, remembering the guards and his 'friends'. Walking past them, Klein was thinking. /This is practically my family...My past...I never could remember being anything but a raven all my life. This explains it.../
Klein found Selskia cowering in the corner of his AC as he walked in calmly. He started up the AC and started to fly back to the station, all while trying to get Selskia to stop shaking in fear, comforting the girl. As they flew back, he noticed something very odd-A tall, deathly black obelisk was towering not too far from where the lab was, polished and unearthly. It wasn't there before, he was sure of that. At the sight, Selskia cringed in fear again.
"Not...Not that again!"
"Eh? What's wrong with the tower thing, Selskia?"
But Selskia wouldn't say a word about it. She just seemed to have a fear of the thing, like it was evil. Perhaps it was. Klein would have to go explore it later. The events of the day still weighing heavily on his mind, he continued back up to the Raven's Nest, calming Selskia down yet again.
End Chapter 5, Part III End Chapter 5