"How is the specimen holding up?"
He's doing well, heart rate at 77 bpm, brain activity is, however, experiencing a spike in speed and productivity well beyond what we predicted."
"Good, good..." Hojo lay his hand on the glass of the mako tank and scanned his spectacled gaze over the young man inside, "Yes my specimen, your success is very important to me." Hojo stepped back, mumbling to himself a little.
"Professor, excuse me for asking but..."
"You want to know why we did all of this extra work for one SOLDIER?"
"Yes sir, I would like to know, if it isn't classified that is. Not to say that I can't keep a secret..."
"Quit your babbling. You don't particularly need to know but I like people who want to learn why they are doing things... I changed the procedure to deluging the specimen in mako and doubled his dosage of Jenova cells, even though a 70 chance of mako poisoning and a 10 chance that the specimen will be a berserker are both present, President Shinra asked me to find a way to create a more powerful SOLDIER.
"I see, thank you professor Hojo... All right people, Pull him out! We're finished here! Put him on the examination table to rest until we come back in the morning."
As the assistants filed out Hojo was the last one to leave. Pulling a switch he mumbled to himself, "Four hours... Time to give him a little test run..." With this finished he left chuckling to himself a little.
The young man laying on the examination table slowly opened his eyes. Sitting up, he pushed a lock of mako drenched, shoulder length blond hair out of his face and pulled various I.V.s off of his body. His luminous mako ice green eyes searched the room, no clothing, nothing to dry off with. Now cold, wet and naked, the twenty-one year old searched the room for a light. Flipping one on, he found that he was in a laboratory. Tanks of the blue green liquid called mako were lined up on the walls, and LCD screen near the door showed a timer with only a few seconds left on it. 5... 4... 3... 2... 1... Then finally zero. It was midnight, loud machinery clanked and whirred throughout the facility and dimmed roars of horrific beasts chilled the blood. Emergency alarms sounded only to be cut off as the power went out. All that was left was silence and the slow blinking of the red emergency power light. It wasn't long before a scratching could be heard on the other side of the sealed door, and soon that became a pounding. Whatever was on the other side was starving, and it smelled meat. The young man took a few steps backwards and grabbed the nearest thing that resembled a weapon that he could find, a scalpel. A few more pounds, silence.
And one, last, pound.
This pound sent the door flying off of its hinges revealing the monster on the doorstep. The hideous creature had the body of a lion and the head of a snake, it's barbed tail flicked back and forth with eager anticipation, and the animal glint in its eye gave an aura of danger.
It lunged.
With teeth bared, it pounced him, venom dripping from its fangs it prepared to devour the young man on the spot. However, with a speed, strength, and deftness of hand that he didn't even know he had, he took the scalpel...
And jabbed it into the beast's thought.
Then he slit downward all the way to the bottom of the abdomen. The beast shrieked and exploded leaving a bloody mess all around the young man and drenching him with blood. Pushing what was left of the corpse off of his body he picked up the instrument and moved over to one of the mako showers and stepped inside, although this could be hazardous for his health, it was better than being covered in blood. After getting the blood off as best he could he left the lab to look for a place to dry. Stepping into a bathroom he used some of the towels to rinse off the mako, now partially dry, he went in search of better weaponry.
Once inside the guard locker rooms he grabbed a pair of pants and two handguns. Along with an iron bangle and two magic matieria were the best he could find. Putting these on he went to the emergency power grid and turned on the back up generator. With the lights on low to conserve energy he made his way to the elevators.
"How far is he?"
"In the elevator, he just plowed through the Jenova enhanced creatures."
"Good, release the 'special' projects."
Professor, are you sure that the specimen can handle it?"
"Fool, you have no idea what experiment number two five seven three Sol Garde is capable of..."