Experiment Zero
Chapter One: The Mission
She was floating in a sweet abyss...
Nothing could reach her. No one could bother her. Not a single disturbance to clutter her empty mind with...
Empty... that was how she felt... that was what she always felt.... and probably, that was what she will always feel like.
There was once upon a time, when she didn't feel like this... when she didn't feel so neglected or fragile... when she was once a little child. She was a healthy child, a glowing child and a fun child to be with. A child everyone loved and adored.
However, someone, she couldn't remember exactly who, significant changed her for the worse. She could faintly remember loving that someone before that person somehow deceived her. Since then... she was scared of him, or at least she thought so.
A childish laugh escaped her pale lips, echoing in the vast space around her flimsy body.
No. She thought.
I can't live like this any longer...
Drawing in all her remaining energy she spoke for what seemed like ages to her.
"I must break free..."
01 : Mission : J
In the early years, before the Gundams were made, there were elite soldiers.
They were soldiers that were made to kill, to spy and to protect.
They were the perfect soldiers.
However, such perfection was neither due to rigorous training nor education.
They were made.
Many years ago, this operation and procedure discontinued due to human rights.
They were ordinary humans that were abandoned in the streets.
One such scientist did not comply with this.
Due to recent discovery, we have found this certain scientist and his lab filled with elite soldiers, ready to be awakened.
As you are reading, we have already begun to separate the chemicals from the humans.
However, we have taken notice that one of the human-sized tanks was empty.
One has miraculously escaped.
Though it is quite a surprise, we did not dwell on it long to know that this meant trouble.
Searching through the broken shards of glass that was once the tank, we found engraved to the glass the name of the elite.
Experiment Zero.
Reading the files off of the database of the certain scientist, we have learnt that Experiment Zero was unlike any elite soldier we have ever heard or read of.
We have also discovered that these "elite soldiers" were more advanced than the older ones.
More threatening.
The scientist called them "Immortal Soldiers".
Your mission, 01, is to find Experiment Zero and to bring him/her to us.
Good luck.
J
Eyes opened. Breathing drawing to a normal pace. Colour returning to pale complexion. Feeling returning to fingers. Heart slowing down. Hunger being realized.
She was awake.
When?
She doesn't know.
Where?
She doesn't know.
Why?
... She doesn't know.
Who?
... She doesn't know...
How?
... She has no idea!
She tried getting up into a sitting a position, but she had no strength left anymore. Though, she did notice that she was lying in a soft bed with a quilt drawn up to her shoulders, it did not dwell well on her that her mind was empty.
For some reason... empty was so familiar...
Empty...
"You called for us, Headmaster?" the blonde instructor asked while crossing her legs in her seat.
He looked around the room as the Commander stared at him with his deadly blue eyes. The usual hyper woman in yellow with her brown hair was suddenly very quiet due to the look on the headmaster's face. The cowboy beside that woman was leaning against the chair, his legs prompted on top of a table and with his hat over his eyes. The dark haired beauty dressed in blue began to fidget under his intense gaze, as the marital artist with a tattoo on his face looked him straight on.
"You are the best," Headmaster Cid started, the Commander still quiet and rigid.
"That is why the World Alliance has spoken to me, to speak with you about the matters on hand," he continued.
Everyone around the room began to sit up straighter in interest. Judging by the Headmaster's professional tone, the conclusion was that something was up. Something big. Maybe another Sorceress has come up?
"No, it is not another Sorceress," Cid said, reading their minds. Everyone, exclude the Commander, gave a brief sigh of relief. No one wanted to go through that ordeal again.
"This is something much worse," he said sending everyone's inner alarm on 'Red Alert' immediately.
The Headmaster then passed folders around to each member of the room. They, going through the routine more than once so far, opened them up and a picture paper-clipped to a sheet of information greeted their eyes. The picture was of marching soldiers.
"The soldiers you see are the very elite," he said. "More advanced than the SeeD, Preventors or the Gundam Pilots... put together. However, they were disbanded due to the fact that these soldiers were, in Selphie's words, 'A freak of nature'."
The dark beauty perked a delicate eyebrow up and asked, "Pardon?"
"I mean, Rinoa, that they aren't complete humans," he answered simply. "They were modified to perfection. Although they were perfect, the experiments done on them alerted the Human Rights activists. So it was disbanded many years ago."
"What does that have to do with now?" the cowboy spoke up.
"Well, Irvine, apparently a former scientist did not like the idea. So he started creating more elite soldiers," he said, "Except better equipped with abilities and magic that even a Guardian Force can not deal with. They are so extreme that the scientist named them the 'Immortal Soldiers'."
"Magic?" Selphie, who was the one dressed in yellow, perked up at the word. "As in, magic being a second nature to them? As in, no need to store the spells? As in, Guardian Forces not needed?"
"Yes, Selphie... yes," the Headmaster nodded. "Luckily, we found the scientist's lab just before he could release the soldiers to consume the world into mass destruction."
"But?" the instructor asked.
"But, Quistis," he referred to the instructor's name, "One, yes one, got away."
"How?" the one with the tattoo asked, bewildered.
"Apparently, Zell, this one escaped before our officials discovered the lab," Cid said.
"You want us to retrieve this elite soldier," the Commander stated.
"Yes," Headmaster Cid said, leaning forward slowly to meet the Commander's eyes. "Yes, Squall, I do want all of you to find this soldier and bring him or her to the World Alliance."
"Any additional information?" Squall asked.
"Its name is," Cid drew to the conclusion of the whole entire meeting, "Experiment Zero."
"You're awake."
The girl's eyes widen in surprise. She was unable to move, unable to talk, unable to see properly and that meant that she was unable to protect herself...
What was she going to do now?!
To be continued...
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