Here's Chapter III, with even more goodness.
Edit: Chapter has been Edited and reviewed
Chapter III: Specimen IX
He felt completely numb, he couldn't move, he felt heavy and to top it all off, completely and utterly wet. He heard voices, one male and one female, they seemed amused, but he couldn't open his eyes.
"Specimen IX...brought in from Edea's Orphanage on the outskirts of Radiant Garden" said the female voice who seemed to be reading something.
"Just like us…" said the male, who had a very deep and commanding voice.
"You know if the old broad were still around she wouldn't have allowed this…" the young woman said, sounding sad "Anyway, let me see…" she seemed to go through papers while the other one began to touch the young man on the examination table.
"Kinda cute ain't he?" he asked chuckling; the girl just rolled her eyes.
"Whatever…" she went on "Specimen IX seems to be taking to the experiment well, the injection of Jenova cells as well as Heartless DNA has not been rejected as of yet…What is this psycho trying to do to us?"
"Who knows? I'm actually grateful…" the young man said, playing with the hair of the unconscious youth.
"Why the hell for? Do you know how it feels to have PMS 24/7 simply because now I have an 'electrifying' personality?"
"Darling, you were always on PMS even before this…"
"I know, but now I can actually rip you limb from limb…" she hopped off the table and walked around, reading some more "As with Specimens XI and XII…that'd be you and me…a green materia has been inserted into his body and has seemed to meld with his soul rather well, but, since materia is made from the energy source that opposes Jenova it has taken a slow amount of time to evolve…I wonder what he put in this time?" they both then heard a voice coming near to the room they were in.
"Time to go" the man announced with a grin, opening a dark portal and both of them rushed inside "Leave those" he told her and she did, not before making a small mess.
"There, let's go my dear Marly" and they left.
~o~
Vexen came inside the Experiment room in the 8th floor where he was conducting an experiment that Professor Hojo had wanted to continue.
"Good Morning Number IX" the man said coldly, he only saw his subjects as nothing more than puppets to be used and tossed away; he looked around and saw the mess that was made, he began fuming "Guards!" he yelled and then left the room.
"…ugh…" the young man on the examination table groaned, he managed to open one eye and began to look around, tables with tubes and liquids and stuff everywhere, papers thrown around the room, he then tried to sit up but groaned in pain, his stomach was heavy and his head pounded as well "Where am I?" he thought as he lay back down.
"Incompetent fools…" Vexen grumbled as he came back in "Hmm? You're awake are you?" he walked closer and looked him over; the young man felt the cold hands of what he deemed an ugly old man with long dirty blonde hair and an inverted doctor color scheme "It seems you're taking the treatment quite well…though it seems you're retaining water…and sweating it out twice as much…"
"I'm pregnant…what the hell!?" he yelled in his head, his eyes concerned
"It's to be expected, a Water materia was inserted into you, you'll take to it soon…" he then sighed "At least you can take solace in the fact that you can still feel many things, where as I, with a Ice materia embedded in me cannot…I'd probably melt…a theory best left not proven…" he then began mixing and pouring stuff, the young man couldn't see him, but he mustered enough courage to talk.
"What…my…name?" he blubbered
"Name?" Vexen laughed loudly "My dear 'puppet' you have no need for a name, you're practically dead, you, according to the norms of the world do not exist anymore…well…after Hojo's SOLDIERS were done with you, who would?" he said, the young man didn't really understand, but it hurt him to be called a puppet "Hmmm…it seems your heart is still intact as well…the Heartless DNA within you should have taken care of that, but it seems the light of your heart is keeping it at bay…I wonder…" he then snapped his fingers, one of those black hounds appeared "Devour him" he ordered and the dog snarled.
Jumping on the table, the dog began to smell for the heart, he was confused over the many chemicals, but the smell of a pure, light-filled heart was unmistakable; the dog licked and opened it's mouth, the young man yelled in horror and smacked the thing away with great force; Vexen only smiled at the display, taking it in and making mental notes.
"Are you crazy?!" the young man yelled "What are you doing?!"
"Just an experiment…" the dog snarled again and lunged at the boy, missing.
"Get away from me!!" he yelled and the sprinkler system seemed to turn on automatically.
"Hmph…very nice…" Vexen smirked and froze the water coming out of the sprinklers "But I'm getting annoyed! Do it!" he ordered once more, he summoned two more hounds and then cornered the young lab rat; the hounds began to scratch at him, he was helpless, and with another yell the room was flooded, the door bursting open, and everything inside was washed out.
The boy limped out of the room, only a hospital robe on him. He saw the 'doctor' on the floor, out cold, while the dogs seemed to have disappeared.
"I have to get out of here…" he whispered and began running, slipping slightly on the clean floors while he did.
He ran toward the elevator and sighed in relief, he knew he'd have to get to the bottom floor, but would he make it? He pressed the lobby button and decided to check himself, see if there was any damage.
"…I'm…naked…" he stated flatly, and then blushed "And my butt is showing!" he tried to cover himself more but the robe was way too small "Dammit…now I'll be flashing people…" he noticed the elevator stopped at the fifth floor, he hitched his breath and prayed he'd just disappear into nothing; no such luck.
"Hey! What're you doing here!?" exclaimed one of the Shinra guards dressed in blue.
"Sorry, gotta go, nice to meet you, bye!" the youth exclaimed in one breath and managed to close the door in time.
"Sound the alarm!" the guard said and an alarm blared throughout the building, the lights in the elevator turned red as well.
"Shit, shit, shiiiit…Ima get caught!" he began to panic.
The elevator stopped on the second floor and the power seemed to have cut off, only the secondary power was on. The elevator opened and when he came out he saw guards strewn all over the floor, blood everywhere. The blond youth walked around, shaking from the sight, trying to find something that would get him out of there.
"This place sure is creepy…" he mumbled.
As he walked he found more and more bodies, some more mangled than others, one guy had his face ripped out, while another was missing an important part of his lower body "Yeouch…" as he walked around he heard shouts and footsteps from behind "Check this way!" he heard them say, when he did he broke into a sprint, going through bloodied hallway after hallway, until he bumped into something, but he never hit the ground.
"Uh…" he slowly opened one eye and saw two blue one's staring back "Please! Let me go!" he panicked and started flailing around "I don't want to go back there! Ugly dogs and rabid doctor!! I mean…Rabid dogs and…ugly doctor…" he did see blue eyes but nothing else, the man wore a dark green bandana over his head and his dark coat with a fur collar covering his face completely, except for the eyes of course.
"…Don't worry, I won't take you back…" the man announced, his voice was smooth and calming.
"T-Thanks…" he said, he then blushed as he saw the young man hold him close "Um…"
"Quiet…" he said, turning around, the guards approaching.
"Have you seen specimen VII or IX around here?" one of the guards asked.
"No…" the man turned around to face them, holding nothing "I'm still searching…"
"Sir!" the man saluted "We'll continue our search!"
"Please do" the man with blue eyes said and watched his subordinates leave; he turned back and walked toward the end of the hallway, a large window with a crack on it blew wind and rain into the building "Now…what will you do?" he thought to himself.
~o~
As the young man ran through the damp streets of Twilight Town, he remembered what the man in the coat had told him when he let him get away: "At the end of the hallway is a window, break it and use your power to get down safely, afterwards run for the nearby woods, on the outskirts of town, someone will help you there, now go" he then stalled the guards while he made his escape.
As he ran through the rain filled town, he found himself in the waterways of Twilight Town, lost.
"Where…am…I?" he asked, panting, feeling exhausted, he walked over a corner where little water run and relaxed into it.
"Maybe a nap won't hurt…" he yawned, unbeknownst to him, as he drifted to sleep, he dissolved into the water, a nightmare causing his screams of pain echo through the hallow place like a ghosts' cry.
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