'Damn,' Jennings grimaced as the experiment began,' he gonna be uglier than a behemoth when they done with him!'

Reno jabbed him in the back with his stun prod. He shut up. Shinra circled around his desk so he was directly in front of me. He nodded towards the screen.

'This is surveillance footage of an Experimental Mako shower that took place at 1700 hours yesterday,'

'What happened to the subject, sir?' Reno asked, trying to sound interested without his voice betraying him. Shinra raised his eyebrows, spun around in his polished shoes, and grabbed a remote of his desk with a podgy hand.

'This,' he replied, pressing the fast forward button the remote, 'is how he was just a few hours ago, after exposure of course…'

We all glued our eyes to the screen, which showed the subject writhing around as the Mako cascaded over him. Soon, two guards whizzed in and injected sedatives into his left arm. For a long time, nothing, just a drowsy test subject, until-

'Whoa!' Jennings pointed at the screen, 'His arm, what the hell is happening to his arm?'

I squinted at the image, and heard Reno gasp behind me. The subjects' arm appeared to have turned a dull shade of pink, and was way longer than his other one. As I looked even closer I noticed something poking out from his elbows.

Tentacles.

'What the hell?' Jennings stuttered, 'What's up with him?'

'Shut up!' Reno accompanied the command with yet another jab from the stun prod.

We all watched in horror as one of the scientists approached the subject, obviously unawares of the mutation. As he bent over to leave the tray on the floor, the tentacle darted out of the subject's arm and wrapped it around the scientist with what must have been the strength of a python. The test subject threw its victim with impossible might straight at the camera, and the screen turned to white noise seconds before the horrified face of the scientist smashed into the nearby wall. Shinra switched of the screen and set the remote down on his desk. He looked up at us, and began to pace up and down, eyeing each of us up.

'As you can see,' he began, 'something has gone horribly wrong with test subject 001,'

'You don't say!' Jennings whispered, and received his third jab from the stun prod. Someone wasn't gonna be sitting down anytime soon…

Shinra continued his speech, which was turning into a briefing.

'This could be a PR disaster if word gets out to our….beloved public. So, I want you to take out this creature,'

Jennings pulled a face.

'Wha? Isn't this a job for some kind of crack unit? We don't have the training for dealing with that thing!' He exclaimed, pointing frantically at the screen.

Shinra glanced over at Reno, who nodded.

'Think of it this way, Jennings,' Reno snapped in his ear, 'you pull this off and you are the crack unit. Move out!'