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"Hello Doctor…"

We walked through the other set of doors silently, the young man tagging behind. They led to another cavern that seemed to head lower into the mountain. I look up at Geros back. He wore his lab coat and a strange mesh of white long hair hanging loosely over his back. He's changed so much…

And yet still he trusts me. Trusts that I won't call the police, or do anything to even stop him. Can I still turn back now? Break a run for it…Maybe those twins are still ok! I sigh as I notice his lab coat stained in blood. It's been about a week now…

It's been a week now since I started on my greatest project.

You, being an expert in genetic studies can truly assist me. I trust in you my dearest friend.

"You know" I start "Those doors at the entrance make quite a lot of ruckus. What if someone becomes aware of you're presence here?" I ask.

"Those doors happen to be broken…They are not of much concern"

He seemed like he didn't want to talk…I felt anxious.

"Don't worry miss-uh-Dr.Bak! I'll take care of them. I'm pretty handy with stuff like that!" Gerald piped up. Approaching the end of the cavern I smelled a mix of chemicals and body odor. Gerald seemed like a nice guy. How could he be involved in all this?

The cavern led to a long corridor with cells aligning the stony walls. Dark cold cells with bars and chains. Are those twins in one of these right now? Were they in here before?

To the right is a balcony that looks over his experimenting lab. All I see from here is a huge blaring light beaming down on an operating rack.

In one cell I spot a blonde girl crouched on the floor facing a cell wall corner. It's the female twin! Upon hearing footsteps she slightly turns her head to look. Those eyes, an icy blue…very similar to Geros. She sadly looks away and lowers her head. I look to Gerald to see his reaction to all this. He avoids my gaze and looks down at the floor quickening his step. I look back to the girl. She slumps her head down and silently sobs.

I look away to Geros back as he simply walks by. How can he do this? I feel my cheeks flush in anger. My fists clench at my sides. I should have told the authorities instead of fantasizing the idea of seeing Gero again. The Gero I knew wouldn't do this!

Gero and Gerald descend some steps at the end of the corridor ignoring me. If I'm going to be ignored then I should just leave. Instead I follow them down the spiraling steps to that experimenting lab.

At the bottom of the steps the smell becomes unbearable. How Gero and Gerald stand it is beyond me. There, on the operating rack was a body covered by a clear white sheet with an occasional blood stain here and there. All sorts of thin machines poking out from under the sheet attached to larger ones. Pallid feet poked out from under the sheet as well; the ankles strapped to the rack. The room is full of odd equipment, strange utensils, and extraordinary instruments that you wouldn't see at a regular operating table. But this was no regular operation.

"This room is too damp for such an operation" I inform Gero. He walks over to the operating rack. "I know" he mutters. Then looks up at me, a dire gleam in his eye "but it will have to make due now wont it". I hate Geros snide voice. He's become rather arrogant. He had said the twins were arrogant.

Gero took hold of the operating table and flipped it over to a more vertical stand. The thin delicate machines bent along with the rack. Gero slipped off the sheet and there was the male twin, not much to my surprise. His black hair striking out against his colorless face. Wide eyed and pale; his abdomen gashed open and being fooled around with by those intricate machines. Their long tips covered in silvery blackish blood. What disturbed me more so was that the boy was very well conscious. A soft moan escaped his lips as his blue eyes shifted from me, then fearfully to Gero. He quickly looked away tightly closing his eyes. I was about ready to KILL Gero. I looked again to Gerald who seemed a bit uneasy. He again averted my gaze.

"This one is solely for experimentation" Gero had his hand on the teenagers shoulder. Gero looked away from him to me "I've got no real experience on doing cyber genetic work. Though the girl…she will be the real thing. Project 17". Gero eyed me for a moment, and then raised a brow. "Now," he started with an uncanny sympathy "We don't have to work right away" he smiled "we really have so much catching up to do". He faced towards Gerald. "Watch over the experiment and make sure to take plenty of notes for the both of us" Gero ordered. Gerald looked up from the floor and nodded.

I followed Gero up the steps peering down at the E.Lab from the corridor. I spotted Gerald scribbling away notes.

Take enough notes for the both of us

What did Gerald need notes for?

There in her cell was "#17", sulking in a corner. She didn't look up this time. I looked away and followed Gero into the cavern. The silence between us so frustrating. We entered the other lab with the 16 pod. "Gero, you've changed so much you're unrecognizable…"

I remember…walking through the campus with light snow drifting down on us. Gero smiled warmly at me. Warm enough to make me think it was summer. I loved the way his brown bangs softly hung down over pale blue eyes. New Geros unpleasant voice brings me back to reality.

"Now Dr.Bak…how have you been?"

"Fine…How about you… how have you been?"

He looks at me with a smile. Not a very nice one… "I have been wonderful...of course. What with the whole Red Ribbon Army gone and me being a complete social outcast. I could not be better, my dear". New Gero is sarcastic, I note to myself. "I'll be even better when this project is over. Of coarse if #17 reclaims her willpower after all this I fear for my life. She may very well kill me and even you and Gerald."

Silence

"So, who are those twins any way?"

Gero looks at me in the same mannerism that he used to. "I found them in North City. It's conveniently close enough. Names weren't of much importance…The girl won't remember here after…"

I stare blankly at the wall. I didn't want to tell new Gero anything personal about me.

"So, where did you find Gerald?"

Geros eyes lit up with a little amusement. "Gerald found me! I'm not to sure what Gerald needs in this project. Something about alternate human life forms. He too wishes to improve upon life itself. But now that he's involved, he can't come out of it. Same goes for you too Doctor."

"I can't leave?"

"Not until I can fully trust you…Trust you to leave and not inform authorities. I noticed the way you looked at them. Looked at them with such pity! I am doing the girl some good. She will come to appreciate this power eventually. As for the boy…It is rather unfortunate but I have to do the testing on something. Her memories of him will have to be terminated completely… "

I look down to the floor feeling helpless. Coming to see Gero was the most fool hardy thing I've ever done.

"Gero…" I sigh as I look up at him "Why are you doing this? The Gero I knew would never do this!" He smirks "I am that same Gero you knew. They aren't 2 different people…"

I fell silently defeated. I let the truth sink in.

Don't be confused. It will be explained.

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