Chapter Two: Experimentation

"Are you sure we can use this?" the scientist asked, looking at her coworker. Their experiment was on the table, being worked on.

"Of course I'm sure." Her coworker said. "It's completely compatible."

"If you say so." The scientist said. "But, I'm not sure two strands of DNA from the opposite spectrum are capable of making a whole being."

"It'll be fine." Her coworker said. "All you have to do is just stabilize it."

"But" the scientist said. "What about the source? That's an unstable combination."

"It's fine." Her coworker said. "I promise you that this will be a success. The boss is sure. She really wants this one to be a success."

"I know." The scientist said. "Well, experiment number 150 should be good to go in a few days if it's a success."

"Good.' Her coworker said. "I'll tell her."

The scientist was left alone as her coworker left, leaving her to her work.

"I hope this works." She said. "Otherwise, this was all for nothing."

Two years later

She blinked her eyes open. The greenish fluid around her was blurring her vision slightly, preventing her from seeing the outside of the glass tank she was suspended in clearly. The bubbles didn't help either, but they fascinated her, so she didn't mind. The wires that were all attached to her helped keep her floating in her tank as well as providing her with an air supply, so she didn't pull at those. She was unclothed, but, she didn't really understand or worry about it.

She saw a blurry shape emerge from across the room. She didn't know the person, but she knew that they were one of the ones that monitored her and took her… something.

The fluid slowly drained from the tank. She was shocked. It had never done that before. Once the fluid had drained completely from the tank, she could see better, but not completely clearly, her eyes used to the tank's vision range.

A person in a lab coat opened the tank, unhooking the wires and breathing apparatus as they carried her over to a table. They strapped her arms, legs, wings, and chest down. They poked and prodded her with a bunch of tools, one of them even cutting her skin. She winced. That one hurt a little. She was confused. She'd never really felt pain before. It shocked her. She looked to where the feeling was coming from to see her own grey blood trickling out of her left arm. It confused her, but she didn't know why.

They then hooked up a few more wires to her head. She saw a monitor light up, several lines moving in a zigzag pattern and several moving in a pulsing pattern. One of the people around her opened her eyelids more with his fingers, shining a light in it. She flinched, the brightness affecting her as the slit constricted. He did the same on her other eye, the pupil constricting in the bright light.

Several voices were speaking, but they were muffled due to the fluid in her ears. She felt something pulse within her. She thought it was her heartbeat at first, but it was different, stronger.

"Let it out." Something said. Something inside her. "Show them what you can do. Release your power."

She resisted it. Even though she wanted to be left alone, she didn't want to hurt anything. There were her friends she had to think about. Her eyes glanced around the room at all of them, sleeping in their tanks. If she unleashed her power, she'd hurt them and that was something she didn't want to do.

Suddenly, a woman emerged from a door. She was the only being in the room she recognized. She had blood red hair that went down her back. Her eyes were piercing green and she wore a bodysuit mixed with armor. There was a black heart on her uniform that seemed to signify evil.

"How is it coming?" she asked one of the people around the room.

"Number 150 is progressing nicely." One of the people said. "Its power is higher than any of the other experiments."

"That's news.' The woman said. "I want you to destroy the others. They're useless now."

Her eyes widened. They were going to destroy her friends. She struggled against the leather straps holding her to the table. The people around her looked at her with confusion. She had never acted this way before.

She began struggling, grunting as she pulled as hard as she could against the straps, trying to get them to loosen. But, she couldn't, her strength not enough.

They moved to restrain her, prevent her from moving. They held her down, managing to restrain her. One of them stuck something in her neck, something going under her skin and into her blood. She felt her eyelids go heavy as she blinked them, struggling to stay awake.

"Are you going to let them do that to you?" it asked, her inside of her unconsciousness. "You need to unleash your power, fight them."

She shook her head.

"They'll kill your friends if you don't." it said. Her eyes widened. She couldn't let them hurt her friends.

"So" it asked. "Will you let me unleash your power?"

She carefully shook her head yes. It grinned, snapping its fingers.

In the outside world

Her eyes snapped open, the scientists around her shocked. The woman was amused, having partially expected this. She broke the straps restraining her, standing up. She looked around, shocked at the sight.

Her friends' tanks were all opened in the time she was unconscious, the beings inside all being held by someone, each of them holding a weapon up to the head of one of her friends. She froze, her eyes widening.

The woman nearby grinned, nodding. They shot their weapons into the heads of her friends.

Her world shattered as she felt something inside of her she'd never felt before. If she'd known what it was, she'd have called it: rage.

She gave an unearthly yell as she unleashed a huge burst of her power. She extended her wings, rising into the air as a burst of her power erupted from her, pulsing out and destroying the lab they were in in a large explosion. She curled up into a ball, darkness surrounding her as she disappeared.

After she was gone, a scientist weakly looked up at the place where she was, speaking his dying words.

"We tried to create the world's most powerful being…" He said, just before collapsing and dying. "And…we succeeded."

What could this thing be? And, why does this scene seem familiar (betcha can't guess what this scene resembles XP)? Find out soon.