Disclaimer: Nah, don't own 'em, except for Hofryn and Aud. Tell me, when you're finished, should I continue?
The general stood at her side as the prepped the machine. It had taken months, but military funding to this particular base had finally paid off, since the single cell found after the asteroid incident was finally whole again. The cell had been damaged to the point where the Phoenix's censors barely picked up on it, and when examined closer, it was human, but it seemed to have been infused with machine. Even someone as skilled as Dr. Hofryn had no clue as to what would happen, and she had migraines over it, but since General Aud worked for the ATF, she had no choice but to recover it and start rebuilding immediately
Dr. Hofryn nodded, and flipped the switch. The man's eyes immediately popped open, and he gasped for air, his re-created body adjusting to its surroundings. He writhed around a while, from his position on his back, struggling to regulate his breathing, and pounded on the glass. Hofryn flipped a switch and a speaker inside the box was activated. His screams of intense pain gradually died away, and then he blinked a few times.
He rolled to one side, got up on his knees, and slowly reached out to find that he was underneath glass. He tried to stand and bumped his head, then pounded on the glass. "Let me out!" he said.
He fearfully said something incoherently, and then spoke some more in an understandable tone. "Who are you?! How did I get here?! Let me out!"
Aud chuckled and went into the room where the machine was. He looked over the subject, but didn't make any move to released him. The newly rebuilt being looked right back at him, obviously terrified, but wasn't going to show anyone. "Heh, you really are a psycho, aren'tcha!?"
The man glared at Aud, and tilted his head. The next thing Aud knew, the man had his right arm raised, and a strange scorpion-like weapon attached to the ragged remains of a sleeve broke through the glass, grabbed him by the throat, and the man pulled on the cord to the weapon, and slammed Aud's head against the machine, making a bigger crack in the glass. The weapon released the general, but as the subject retracted the weapon, the glass shattered, and he cautiously slid off the machine. To Hofryn's horror, she then could see that the weapon wasn't attached to the remains of clothing; it was built right into his skin and muscles.
Two of the guards rushed at him, but he caught the smaller one in the cord of his weapon, and said, "If you come near me, he will die,"
Hofryn went to sound the alarm, but the man stepped down off the machine, and retracted the weapon after the guard passed out. "...Where Xev Bellringer and Stanley Tweedle?" he said finally.
It may have taken maybe five minutes of convincing, and three minutes of shooting with tranquilizers, but the dangeorus subject had been effectively silenced. He'd awakened about two hours later, dressed in some sort of containment suit that looked like normal longsleeved black shirt and pants, but the buckles all over it fastened him to the chair. His hair had been tied back for the occasion, and Hofryn leaned closer to have a look at the mark on the side of his face. "What's this?" she asked.
"A mark of my heritage," he said coldly.
"Do you have a name?" said Hofryn.
"I am Kai, Last of the Brunnen-G," he said simply.
Hofryn chuckled. "All right," she said. "As I can see, you follow the traditions of the Brunnen G as well. Are you aware that they were destroyed some time ago by His Divine Shadow?"
Kai had been singing his people's battle chant under his breath, not really interested in any of the so-called doctor's mockery. "Vaguely aware," he said sarcastically. " Considering I was the last of my people to die,"
Hofryn laughed hard this time. "Oh yeah? Then where have you been for the past six-thousand years?"
"I was an assassin, enslaved by His Shadow. I have killed mothers with their babies, proud young warriors and great philosophers. I have killed the evil, the good, the innocent, the weak, and the beautiful. I have done this all under the order of His Divine Shadow and his Predecessors," Kai said dully.
Hofryn immediately stifled herself. In her eyes, he could after all be very ill, if he really had killed people. Now that she looked closer at him, his eyes were ascetic to just about everything around him, despite the large gashes that he had from the neck down from his rejuvenation pod escape. It also didn't help that he spoke to her about killing as if it were something like eating lunch. "So if you were dead, how did you do all of that?" she asked.
"Protoblood kept me alive outside of cryostasis," Kai said truthfully. "I regained my own memories from a Divine Predecessor, along with the memories of all those he killed. I possess more information than I deem necessary,"
"What's protoblood?" said Hofryn, circling around him.
Kai glared at her and then looked away, focusing his vision on the wall once again, giving a struggle again to see if he could free himself. "I will not answer anything further. I do not care to live again, and as I can tell, you do not believe me,"
"Who are Xev Bellringer and Stanley Tweedle? Are they your friends?" said Hofryn, glancing over her recorded information.
"As I have said, it would be useless to tell you more," Kai said matter-of-factly. "The dead do not explain more than they need to. The dead are simply dead,"
"But what about this," said Hofryn. "How is it that you know who you are? Most rejuvenated victims take months to even remember the last few seconds before they died. You seem to remember everything,"
"I do not know," said Kai, now fixing his cold eyes on her. "I suspect that I will be destoyed on account of not cooperating? I request that you cease wasting time and get on with my euthanization,"
Hofryn glared and exited the room to find General Aud waiting for her. He had bandages wrapped around his neck, since Kai's weapon had nicked the sides of his neck, and didn't look pleased in the least. "How is he?" he said.
"Physically, just as strong as you or me," said Hofryn. "Mentally, on the other hand, well, that's an entirely different subject. He refuses to comply when questioned for the most part. Can you believe he thinks that he's the last of the Brunnen G race?"
"So he's crazy?" said Aud.
"Probably," said Hofryn. "Although he remembers everything, as outlandish as he sounds. He's not a zombie or a clone like our other subjects. He's the same person he was except that his body's brand new. We await your orders on what to do with him, General,"
"Terminate him," said Aud, turning his back on her.
"You can't be serious!" said Hofryn. "Specimens like him are rare, his neural net is-"
"I don't care," said Aud. "He refuses to comply, he isn't of any use. Destroy him before he becomes a danger to you and your colleagues,"