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ShinRa's Experiment
Chapter 1
The bright lights were shinning high above him as the disoriented man, not yet beyond his mid twenties, began to awaken. Breathlessness. Cold. A throbbing ache in his left arm. Gradually, sensations began to return, each seeming somehow strange and not his own. Like an animal awakening in a cage, his first conscious thoughts were dedicated to his physical condition. It had not yet occurred to him to question where he was or how he got there.
He struggled to raise a hand to his face, but nothing happened. Ahh.... I can't seem to moveHe thought to himself as he tried to regain some form of coherency. What is this place? Thoughts swarmed through his mind while he struggled just to move his head. Slowly the darkness diminished giving way to the light that shinned above.
After a moment the lamp above his head shone so brightly that it sent a rush of pain through him. He turned his face away from the mechanical armature, which suspended above him from the centre of the room like some massive robotic spider lurking in wait of prey. Multiple arms protruded from a central hub, each tipped which medical probing devices, syringes, and diagnostic sensors. I must be in some sort of laboratory Looking around he could see clearly now. At last he recognized the source of his paralysis: five heavy nylon straps bound him to a stainless steel surgical table at his wrists, knees, and chest. The smell of disinfectant lingered with some strange unrecognisable odour. And the faint persistent hum of the lights accented the otherwise deafening silence. He could feel a breeze through the flimsy surgical gown that added to the cold he felt from the table he was laying on. And he tasted something reminiscent of rubbing alcohol in his mouth. Nothing seemed in place or appropriate. It was as if some bizarre nightmare had taken substance around him.
He searched the room for any means of an exit, just as he was trained to do. There were double doors to his left, a solitary door to his right, and a large vent in the ceiling, that must be where the air is coming from. I wonder where it leads. ...If I could just get free He continued to think of the best way out as he struggled to break free of his bonds.
Tick! Tock! Tick! Tock!
A man paced up and down a dimly lit room. Another sat at a long table and sighed, watching his partner.
Tick! Tock! Tick! Tock!
The large grandfather clock at the far end of the room kept its metronome, crisp and loud, easily cutting through the silence and suspense in the room.
Tick! Tock! Tick! Tock!
"Where IS he?!" the sitting man bellowed, bringing his fist down hard on the wooden table.
The second man stopped his pacing and shrugged, shaking his head, before looking out of a large, stained-glass window and across the grounds dimly lit against the encroaching twighlight.
Hmmmmm.... hmmmmm..... huh? . A woman awoke from a daydream in a small room cluttered with boxes storing chemicals, equipment and other things. She shook her head to try wake herself up.
Hmmmm... strange dream," she murmured and stood up. She then tried to recall the dream. It had been about something... a scene from her past. A memory long forgotten, which she couldn't quite place. Something had seemed familiar about the setting of her dream. She had been walking down a corridor, the only light coming from the lamps that hung above. She had entered a hospital room. In her dream she couldn't have been much older than nine. A strange man in a white coat had come to her. He hugged her and said something like "She's gone..."
"Who?" the nine year old had asked. But just as the man opened his mouth to answer she had woken up.
The woman, called Alex took a deep breath and exited the room she had been in. A man was waiting outside. Her best friend, Matt. They had been best friends ever since they small and both had the same dream. To be the best warriors the world had ever seen.
"Well... shall we go then?" he asked and she walked with him down the familiar corridor in her dream. As she walked she told him about her dream.
"Strange..." was the only word he uttered as they walked down the corridor.
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