(One last thing *POV indicates a change in point of view, however since part of the fun in my writing is for my reader to figure out whose pov they are in, I won't outright tell you who is whom.)
Chapter 7: The Madness of Akihiro Kanou, Der blutige Niedergang eines Wissenschaftlers
Doctor Kanou, mad as he was, was useful. Although Eto had been in near constant contact with him, the good doctor had disappeared, fallen right off the face of the world, after he had gotten his hands on her father. that was nearly three years ago. Since then she hadn't heard a peep from him or any of the subordinates Aogiri had lent them. Then there was that man, "Alpha", he didn't smell like a ghoul and yet he did. Just like Eyepatch, that lovely young man that had killed Yamori. Dr. Kanou had a hand in the creation of that ghoul, she was sure of it. He needed to explain himself. Her gapped smile creeped over her features, she would just have to bring Ayato along now that his leg was mended. That would be fun.
Kanou had a laboratory hidden under one of the poorer districts in Tokyo city and while she had expected the buildings to be run down the same could not be said of her expectations for the lab interior. Ayato had complained at first but only silence grew between them. His perpetual scowl had warped into a lovely shocked expression. In much the same way as the factory from nights before, there were bodies left and right. Some seemed to be from Kanou's failed experiments others were Aogiri staff. Tubing and other wires were ripped from the walls, dim and broken emergency lights flickered.
Eto was indeed surprised at the state of place, not that she would show it. The smell was just awful as she skipped through the halls. Any corpses they saw were decayed beyond what could be feasible in a few days. None of them had the damage or warping that came with Alpha's poison. "They must have been dead for a while." Ayato's voice was hard.
"Hmm~," Eto turned to face him, "that could be, but don't you think we would have heard about this before now?" Ayato didn't respond. No fun.
The rest of the laboratory was in just as bad a shape. A few stasis tubes had exploded, dried, goob like fluid, stained the floor. Ayato knelt next to one, studying it.
"Eto, come look at this." She walked over to stand beside him. "The glass is blown out, see."
"So~?" She knew the reason.
"Tch, that means whatever was in here got out before it exploded." Obviously. "If this stuff," he gestured to the fluid, "is still here then maybe we can follow the footprints, find out where he was going?" Eto tilted her head to the side. Why didn't I think of that?
The prints joined up with four other pairs where they lingered in the center of the room before heading up to Kanou's data processing room and office, overlooking the main laboratory room. Crusted, bloody hand and footprints, as well as the occasional body, suggested that they met some kind of opposition. When they got into Kanou's office it was in ruins. Chairs overturned, desks smashed to pieces, computers ripped apart. All the destruction in the circular room was contained to the perimeter. A single, mostly eaten body in a white lab coat lay against the far wall. A gun lay just off center in the mostly untouched portion of the room.
One single monitor remained intact near the window. Eto could see the entire lab from this room. Kanou would know what was coming for him, the gun was probably his. Ayato tapped a few keys on the terminal. Miraculously it was still functioning.
No unread files. View last recording?
[Yes]
.No.
Ayato tapped the enter key and the screen lit up. It was the doctor reviewing his notes, a small dusky haired boy was playing in the center of the room with looked like a doll of the doctor. "Ah, Yukio-kun, be a good boy and play somewhere else for a while okay?" The child didn't respond immediately, instead twisting the doll's head off, slowly, deliberately. He stood up suddenly, "Yes, doctor." his voice was a monotone. When the child had left Kanou prattled on for a few minutes about "Yukio's condition" and the apparent successes in creating more half ghouls. He expressed hopes that they would be powerful weapons for Aogiri. The secondary screens that were still intact displayed the data he was talking about. Whenever he mention a specific experiment a bio would appear on the top left corner. "I am a little concerned about Yukio's ability to socialize with the staff. They are his future family after all." A bio of the boy also appeared. Oh? He is an experiment too then?
Name: "Kaneki" Yukio
Mother: Tatsuki Sen (Eto)
Father: Kaneki Ken (Eyepatch/ Centipede)
RC Levels: Error Unobtainable
Projected Ability Range: SSS
Status: Unknown
Eto's eyes widened, Ayato swore loudly. "All of the variables that went into his creation. The success of artificial birth alone is impressive." Kanou got excited and rambled on about the unprecedented nature of what he had achieved. All the while Eto fumed. The doctor's work had always been under speculation, and while interesting, had proven to be relatively inefficient. For every successful experiment there were dozens and dozens of failures. Even among those rare gems of brilliance the most powerful or promising of them, Kaneki Ken included, always backfired in some way. It wasn't until Kanou had stopped talking that her attention returned to the recording. He had stood up and was looking over the monitor. Ripping open a nearby desk draw he retrieved the side arm that now lay near the center of the room. They were coming for him now.
Eto grinned under her bandages. Faint screams and other sounds of general carnage drifted from the recording. Ayato shifted next to her, either nervous or anxious, enraptured by the unfolding drama. The first experiment that came bursting through the door was announced as Sigma. He was well built but thin with light brown hair. It was clear that he had been the most recent subject as his back was covered in fresh surgical scars and stitches. Curiously he was missing an eye, it was an old injury from the look of the scarring yet it hadn't grown back. Kanou shot a few rounds at him. They seemed to be rc rounds.
Another escaped experiment pushed past Sigma, this one labeled Gamma. His size and bulging muscle a sharp contrast to his scrawny counterpart. He took the remaining rounds like they were nothing, charging into the far wall. That explains some of the damage. The insane, scorpion like ghoul that they had a run in with earlier slinked into the office followed by another long haired, rather emaciated, individual. The unfamiliar one was identified as Beta, he was an ukaku type. Beta and the crazy bikaku doctor, Alpha, began smashing any equipment they could get their claws on. Lastly, a woman poked her head rather timidly into the room passively observing while her spider-like rikaku, seemingly with a mind of its own, dispatched any guards that followed up from behind. She was called Omega.
All of them wore simple hospice garb, except the Scorpion who had managed to acquire a lab coat, probably removed from the remains a worker. The confrontation lasted a few seconds at best, most of the damage to the room was complete and Alpha made his way over to the terminal about to turn off the feed. Sigma, having knocked the gun away, was holding Kanou up by the collar, practically drooling; the remaining three stood around in anticipation. A rather quiet and disinterested "Stop" caused Alpha to step away from the screen, and consequently the camera giving full view of the room. Omega removed herself from the doorframe walking fully into the office. The little boy, Yukio, beheaded doll still in hand, walked into the centre of the room, displacing the gun the last little bit with his stride.
Kanou was trying to beg now, convince the child that he was still necessary, that they were destined for greatness. The child remained unfazed, not a stitch of emotion showing in his perfect features. The five escapees started with something akin to reverence at the small figure. Every so slowly, an all too familiar smile spread over Yukio's features followed by a soft, airy, and very unsettling chuckle. He looked directly into Sigma's eye, held up the doll in his hands, gently gripped its right arm, and twisted it cleanly off. A broad, crooked grin warped Sigma's features. He slammed Kanou onto the desk, shattering it, and placing his foot firmly over the indicated shoulder, grasped Kanou's arm at the wrist and elbow, twisting it until the joint dislocated and the flesh tore. A final crunching yank ended Kanou's desperate scream as the limb snapped free.
The boy looked at Omega and gestured to the arm. She crossed the room, giving the child a wide breadth at took the severed limb from Sigma. She gave the child a slightly confused expression. He put the dolls torn arm up to his lip and gently removed the stuffing with his teeth. She copies the motion, sinking her teeth into flesh and tearing away a large chunk, instinctively eating it. Her kakugan activated as did the others. They all understood on the basest level what to do. Yukio then divided the doll into four other parts, hand them each in turn to one of the men. The whole scene took less than a minute. Kanou wasn't strong enough to yell anymore, he had lost too much blood from his missing shoulder. They were eating him alive, each taking from their assigned portion. The boy pulled the head of the doll out of his pocket and just stared at it. Omega knelt down next to the four ravenous males eating her own portion eagerly.
The boy didn't touch Kanou at all, instead he focused on the camera, his left eye a kakugan and his right a light ashy grey-blue. The smile on his face faded. He walked up to the terminal, tapped a few keys, and the recording cut out.
Ayato just stared at the blank screen, with his ever present scowl. Eto clenched her hands behind her back. In any other situation she would be fine but right now an uncontrollable rage boiled beneath her calm demeanor. "Well. I suppose we should find this Yukio. Kanou got what he deserved." Eto turned and left. There was a small part of her that was sad, Kanou was fun to watch after all.