Chapter 2
Warning! Do not read this flashback if you're squeamish to needles. SO I'M WARNING YOU ONCE!
Earlier-
"U-Ugh… My head."
A pair of eyes opened up and immediately winced at the bright lights shining on her face.
"W-Where am I?" She thought to herself.
"Good morning, Subject 4." A voice said to the right of her.
She looked to her right to see a woman with what appeared to be a rhino's horn on her head. She is wearing a lab coat standing across from her.
The mere sight of this researcher filled her mind with all memories leading to this moment.
"Now I remember." Focusing on the researcher, gritting her teeth in anger.
She tried to bite at her, but only to have the restraints around her head and maw tighten to the point that she couldn't move.
"You know that's not how to treat staff Subject 4," the researcher scolds. Subject 4 only huffs at her.
"Alright. Now that's out of the way. We can proceed." Another scientist stated before pressing a button that made a big machine pop out from behind Subject 4. The table slab that she's strapped to then moves up, making her face the researchers.
The machine then produced several large tubes with needles attached to the tips. These needles then insert themselves into the back of the table slab. Subject 4 realizes what's about to happen next and tries to break free.
"You know that's not going to work." The scientist with the control panel started to Subject 4.
Some more mechanical claws arms pop out of the ceiling with tubes attached to Subject 4's arms and upper body. Subject 4 frantically looked around in every direction, desperate to get free.
By sheer chance, even if only briefly, both the rhino Faunus researcher and Subject 4 made direct eye contact, with a look of pure terror in her eyes was very apparent, almost looking like she was begging them to stop, down to the brimming tears.
But, the Faunus researcher knew she had a job to do. She's a scientist, and a scientist's job is to obtain data to further our understanding and the pursuit of knowledge.
So she clicks the counsel button, and mechanical arm tubes sprout needles and jabbed themselves into Subject 4's body.
Her eyes bulged, becoming bloodshot in an instant. The scientist could tell that Subject 4 was in deep pain. But they need the Subject's DNA to proceed with their research. So they push forward.
"RRRR AAAA GGG HHH!"
Subject 4 shrieked from underneath her muzzle. The tubes attached to the needles began to extract a reddish-black liquid from Subject 4's body. This liquid flowed through the tubes until it all dripped into a container.
-x-
"H-how long?"
"How lo-ng w-was it-?"
"How much l-longer?"
"W-Will it E-end?"
These questions filled Subject 4's brain as she reflected on herself. Tears flowed down each side of her bony face.
"W-Will it-t E-End?" She repeats that last question to herself.
She would have repeated that same question over and over again. Then the question suddenly changed in her head.
"Will THEY End it?" Her subconscious asked her.
Hearing this, Subject 4 came to an epiphany. Soon feelings of pain and terror subsided. For a moment, there was just nothing, just her and the big empty void that was her consciousness.
But as fast as those feelings went away. A new emotion fills the conscious void. One that made it heat up like a furnace.
Rage!
Her heartbeat went into overdrive, Blood pressure rising, teeth-gritting, her big paws balled into fists, her tear-soaked eyes became a pair of portals that led to a blood-red inferno.
"I W-WILL EN-D T-THIS!" She vowed grittily, answering her conscious question.
-x-
The researchers saw that the heart monitor on Subject 4 was going through the roof. They tried to alleviate this by having the robot arms administer tranquilizers. But Subject 4 kept fighting back, thrashing around in her restraints, keeping the tranq from landing a direct hit.
Along with a few of her restraints, the needle arms still embedded in her body broke off from her thrashing.
"CALL SECURITY!" The male scientist orders his Faunus colleague to do.
She immediately ran towards the back of the room and slammed down on a big red button. A loud alarm goes off as some lights flash red from over her.
After returning to help her fellow researcher, the room suddenly felt like someone, turned on the room's thermostat, and dialed it to the maximum heat.
"Who turned on the heat?" The scientist asked his colleague, wiping his brow.
"T-That's not coming from the vents." The Faunus researcher said, trembling. Aware about the only possible source of this sudden heatwave.
Her suspensions turned out to be true when she saw smoke vapors billowing from Subject 4's body, specifically her fur.
She continued to lash around to escape her bindings, each time more violent than the last. Finally, something inside of Subject 4 ignited, her adrenaline went through the roof, and her fur started sparking with tiny little embers all over her body.
The scientist saw this, grabbed her colleague, and pushed the two of them to the ground.
"DUCK!" She shouts.
-x-
Outside the lab, Security personnel had arrived and were about to assess the situation. Then suddenly, the lab doors busted open, nearly torn off the base entirely, making the Security team fall backward. They picked themselves up and saw a sight that gave them a good reason to answer the call and run like hell out of this place.
Subject 4 stood on her hind legs facing away from them, her fur aflame in a golden yellow blaze. The guards could get a sense of how massive her stature is compared to them, making them feel small for a bit.
She then turned the guards. Her eyes stared right through their souls. Then using her massive paws, she grabbed the muzzle that was still attached to her bony maw and ripped it clean off her face.
Subject 4 snarled at the security team as they raised their weapons to fight back. Subject 4 then got on all-fours and let out a massive roar.
"RRRROOOOOAAAAARRRRR!"
She charged at the guards. They opened fire at the monstrous experiment.
-End of flashback.
-x-
Present-
"KEEP FIRING!" A guard ordered fanatically to his colleagues. They continue to fire shots down the hallway they are running away down.
But their bullets were no match to literal fireballs. Several of the guards were talking out from the blast. Those hits fell to the ground writhing in pain and trying to put out the flames to no avail.
If being burned wasn't bad enough, one guard managed to put out the flame on her lower torso and upper left leg. But only to see Subject 4 come at her, biting down on her midsection and ripping her to pieces as she screamed out in agony.
Some other guards tried to shoot her head. In retaliation, she grabbed one and smashed him against the walls, into the ground, and then left him embedded in a wall crater. The other guard next to him was not so fortunate. He had his torso pierced from behind by her razor-sharp claws like a piece of kabob on a stick. She then launched him aside as if he was a piece of trash.
"P-PPPPAAAAYYYY-Y!" She roared at the top of her lungs.
She stampedes down the hallway, hacking and slashing everything in her path, unfortunate guards and researchers included. This warpath continues until she picks up a familiar scent.
One that gave her a feeling of joy, comfort, and happiness. Three things she hadn't felt in a long time. It also made her desire to find and protect the source at all costs. Subject 4 turned in the direction of the scent and spotted one researcher at the end of the hallway with two entrance ways. They stumble down the left hallway with a big painted sign with big, bold letters.
EXPERIMENT CONTAINMENT CELL Sector-1
Something about that sign made her vicious reddish-black blood boil. She decides to follow that researcher and wreak vengeance on her tormentors and bring this damned facility to the ground.
Unbeknownst to 4, someone else was trying to find his way out of this facility. And he went down the right hallway that she ran past!
-x-
Location: E.C.C Sector-1
Several scientists were gathered in this room, quickly pressing buttons and pulling levers to activate some security protocols to contain their Sectors Subject, Until this Breach's over and Subject 4's recaptured.
They then pressed a button that made a tinted glass window on the other side of the room see-through, allowing them to see their Grimm Subject.
On the other side of the glass, chained up and muzzled similarly to Subject 4. A large, wolf-like creature with jet-black fur, strapped to the wall, like 4, covered head to toe in bone spike and plates, a long mane of hair going down her back, and topped with a wolf-like skull for a face. But, unlike 4, her fur was covered in reddish highlights on her underbelly, ear tips, and tail tip.
The most striking feature of this Subject was its big pair of silver eyes. When 4's eyes filled with rage and malice, its eyes just looked tired and blank.
"Sedation appeared to be finally taking effect." One scientist reported. "Transportation will arrive shortly to extract Subject 1."
"They better. Who knows where Subject 4 is." Another added, worried about having a surprise visit from said Subject.
"They're in Sector 2B and should be arriving soon." The first scientist replied, assuring his colleague that everything was under control.
Unfortunately for them, another scientist barged into the room, his lab coat covered in several burns and still smoking in some places.
After panting for a bit, he screeched out. "WE NEED TO MOVE! NOW!"
The scientist then scrambled to get out the door. At that exact moment, Subject 4 smashed her way into the lab. All the researchers got sent flying to different corners of the room. They looked up to see Subject 4 snarling and ready to tear these scientists a new one.
She turned to the tinted glass window and saw the chained-up wolf-like Subject 1. Seeing that caused her pupils to turn into a pair of slits. She roared again and then charged at the wall, venting all her rage out on the viewing window, completely ripping the wall of its frame!
She knew this wolf's what she was looking for, the source of the scent. She breaks into the holding cell, grabs Subject 1's restraints, and tears them off the wall.
"Scchhhrrechh!"
Subject 1 slumps over into 4's paws. Then shifted 1's head up, looking her straight into her tired eyes, and pulled her in for a big bear hug.
"Ssss...Siiis'ssster-r." She said as tears dripped down her face.
Even though this might be the happiest Subject 4 has been in a long time, she knew that this moment couldn't last. Now more than ever, she needed to get both of them out of this hellhole of a laboratory.
Then she heard the sound of many people raising weapons in the air. She turned around and saw the extraction team, who were supposed to take her sister, standing ready to open fire on them and contain them both.
Subject 4 took her sister and threw her over her shoulder. She roars out and charges towards the guards to claw her way out.
As she went full beast mode on the Extraction team, Subject 1 briefly opens her eyes and sees her sister in action. Many things went through her head at this moment. But only to let one thing come out of her mouth.
"Yyy…Yaa'nnng?" She weakly asked.
-x-
After what felt like forever, Klin finally made it to his destination, the vehicle garage. He made his way to the nearest jeep, and when he was just about to get in. He heard a commotion coming from the stairs.
Hiding behind the jeep, Klin peaked out and saw several other guards pointing their weapons around and then, giving a signal that the coast was clear.
Stepping out from the stairs came Maize, who looked like he was
both upset and impressed about this situation. He also appeared to be saying something to his security. Unfortunately, Klin was too far from them to hear what he said but assumed it was something about the mutant Grimm.
Before he could learn more, the sound of an explosion went off. Then, followed up by emergency alarms caused a change of plans for Maize and his guards.
They race to the nearest armored transport and drive off through the now open garage entrance.
"Course he wouldn't stick around." He muttered to himself.
Then another explosion goes off upstairs. One much larger than the last one. It shook the entire facility and caused several parts of the garage ceiling to collapse partially. That signaled Klin that it was time to get the heck out of this nightmare, once and for all.
Thanks to his experiences in security, he knows how to hotwire the jeep. He starts the jeep and floors it. Klin speeds away, all while an explosion ripped through the ground-level building and lit up the night sky with a smoke cloud billowing out of its ruins.
Still, a little bit shaken up by what he had just experienced, Kiln pushed through it and floored the jeep out of the garage.
"That Grimm may have been a destructive force, but that thing alone couldn't have caused all of that." He thought to himself.
"Dear Gods, if there are more of those-." He shook his head to cut himself off mid-thought, not wanting to think about that terrifying thought.
"The Board is going to want an explanation after this." He mutters to himself as he drives off into the long not-so-quiet night.
-x-
Meanwhile-
Two guards run through the burning ruined remains of a collapsed wing of the facility, trying to find any survivors.
"Did you find anyone?!" The first guard called out to her partner on the other side of some debris.
"Nothing!" Her partner replied.
"Alright! We should probably head over-!"
"Wait!" The guard's partner shouted, cutting her off mid-sentence. "I hear something over here!" Then followed by the sound of someone running away in boots.
"Hey! Come back!" She called out.
But, her partner gave no reply. She sighs and goes looking for her partner.
She moves around the wreckage until she comes into a clearing. There wasn't much debris in front of her. Ahead of her was a collapsed part of the floor that led to a lower floor. "Huh, that's weird."
She moved to the edge of the hole and looked down. It opened up to a dark hallway with flickering lights, probably due to the breach, and looked like an EXPERIMENT CONTAINMENT CELL wing. "I don't think I've been here before." She said to herself.
Despite this, every part of her wants her to stay away from this place. She knew her partner was probably down there, so she jumped down and turned on her helmet flashlight.
The guard landed on the ground below and shined her light around. The hallway looked abandoned and didn't seem anyone had used it in a long time. All the cells were empty, dirty, and devoid of life. She looked at the ground and saw what appeared to be a set of footprints going down the hall.
"Hey! Are you down here!" She called out, again no reply. So she starts walking and using her light to find any trace of her partner.
As the guard kept moving, something made her feel like someone or something was watching her. But every time she looked behind her, there was nothing. So she kept going.
Then she felt that something big had just run behind her. She turned around, and again there was nothing. "Ok, If this is some big joke. Then I'm not laughing!" She shouts out to the dark hallway, thinking her partner heard that.
Eventually, she came to the end of the hallway, stopping in her tracks completely. In front of her was a cell lot like the others. But unlike the others, it looked like it exploded from the inside out. Or, most likely, something broke out of it. Looking around, her partner was still nowhere in sight. Until, she looked down and saw that the tracks stopped, right in front of the cage.
After mustering enough courage, she entered the cage and came across something shiny in the back. Upon further inspection, she came across a broken electric collar. She picked it up, noting that it had scratch marks all over it, almost like what wore this hated this deeply and aggressively tried to get it off.
She stands up and looks around her. Unaware that a massive statue was standing right behind her.
"Huh." She sighed. "Alright, you had your fun. Now let's get out of-." She said to her partner while turning around.
"-here?!" That turned into shock and confusion upon seeing that the figure was not her missing partner!
But, a massive creature, the darkness made it almost impossible to tell what exactly it looked like, But a pair of glowing crimson eyes made her instantly know what it was.
This sight made her paralyzed with fear in every part of her body. When she tried to move, her body wouldn't respond. All she could do was stare at this Grimm like a deer in headlights. In the slimmest hope that it would leave.
Tragically, when it seemed like it was going to do so. The guard suddenly regained control of her body, stumbled backward, and shined her flashlight in its face, giving her a good look at the Grimm's actual appearance.
That made the Grimm go into attack mode and pounced on her letting out a massive roar.
"RRROOOAAARRR!"
"HHHHHHAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!" Were the last words to ever come out of her mouth.
-x-
Back on the surface-
"Hey! W-Where are you!" The security guard's partner called out while helping an injured researcher.
After letting out a big sigh, he turned to the researcher. "She must have gone around. We should get going too."
As the two made their escape, the guard failed to notice that his partner's bloody helmet with a broken flashlight attached to roll out to the light in the hole in the floor below them, followed by a pair of crimson eyes glaring at the humans above.
"Interesting."
TBC…
Author's note: Let me know what you think, and as always. Constructive criticism allowed. Trolling is not.
Also, I want to let you know that several things have inspired me to make this fic, and those include-
The Dinobots origin in Transformers: Fall of Cybertron
RWBY Grimm Hybrids by DShadow101
Reborn of Grimm: Reap and Sow by Scribble01
Grimm Ascension by DragonKingDragneel25
And Poppy Playtime
So yeah, until next time. AutoHunter Rolling out of the hunt.