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The scientist used back doors and entrances to quickly cross the distance from the hulking man to the Medical Pavilion, where the newest Big Brother candidate was currently residing. The big sister that had brought him in had done quite a number on him, crushing almost every bone in the boy's left hand, which would require extensive muscular surgery and rehabilitation, tearing and ripping of the shoulder muscles in the upper left shoulder, popping his eardrums, gouging out his eye.
The scientist sighed and motioned for the group of aides to help him get the damaged boy on the operating table. As they did so, the lead scientist took a look at the file concerning the boy. He skipped all of the personal information and notes, jumping straight to the medical material. He hummed as he skimmed through it, noting the –AB blood type. A note next to the blood type made him pause.
"Anderson, is this measurement accurate?" The scientist asked, motioning over one of the aides. Anderson looked at the note and nodded.
"Yes Doctor Stein. I recorded it myself. I realize that it is an unusual way of marking it, but the Parts per Million numbers are exactly the same" Anderson replied.
"The PPM is exactly the same? By the Good Lord above us all, Euphoria didn't have this high a count! Start on the corrective surgery immediately, I don't want to lose this one!" Dr. Stein yelled out, throwing down the file and donning a surgical mask and gloves. No one noticed when the file slid off the desk and fall to the ground behind it, resting in the gap between the back of the desk and the tiled wall.
As they worked, several problems arose. Namely, the plasmids in Jaxton's genetic code had yet to settle, electrocuting, charring and freezing the surgeons dead in their tracks. He was also bleeding out rather quickly. They didn't have any blood to match his own, so Dr. Stein decided to inject him with ADAM, using the properties of the material to simulate blood in Jaxton's veins. When it came time to replace Jaxton's eye, they found they didn't need to, as a new one had already grown in place.
"That is strange…I will have to look into that later." Dr. Stein mumbled to himself, dodging a particularly vicious bolt of electricity. Unknown to the Doctor, the bolt of electricity had fired the machine they had developed to simulate the mental conditioning of Big Daddies and Sisters within an hour or so, instead of weeks or months. What that registered to for Dr. Stein was a small jolt for Jaxton on the table.
Dr. Stein looked around for any aides that were still alive. Several were, though most of them were sporting a burn of some kind or another. He motioned over Anderson, who had the front of his lab coat blackened and charred. His skin underneath was unharmed however. As they maneuvered the still unconscious Jaxton onto a gurney, Dr. Stein pointed it out.
"Oh this? I decided to get the Human Inferno gene tonic awhile back. I was part of the Big Sister project and a few of them got a bit too burn happy with Incinerate. After the first third degree burn, broke down and got it. Seems like a good thing I did too." Anderson replied, brushing some soot off. "He blasted me with a good sized ball of fire there. What plasmids did this kid have before? Had to be at least the third upgrade for incinerate, and I saw Winter Blast and Electro-bolt in there too."
"I don't think his file mentioned any. Let me check." Dr. Stein replied, looking around for the file. He spotted a small pile of ash on the desk. He growled. Anderson looked at him questioningly.
"What's wrong doctor?" He asked, unlocking the gurney's wheels. Dr. Stein pointed at the pile.
"That's where I left his file. Seems like an errant flame got it." He replied angrily. Anderson sighed.
"I think I have a back up file on my computer at Point Prometheus." He said, pulling the gurney into an elevator set into the side of the clinic.
"Good. We'll need it for the grafting of the suit. Do you have everything you need?" Dr. Stein asked. Anderson nodded. "Good. Any survivors, help any that are more wounded than yourself. Meet us at Point Prometheus in an hour."
The doors closed shut silently and headed downward, to a mostly unused access route. It was created so any patients that were in critical condition could be rushed to the Medical Pavilion and so the doctors could reach the patients in time to stop them from dying. Now it was only used by the scientists and the occasional Big Daddy or Sister, as the route was part of a series of tunnels that connected all of Rapture.
As Dr. Stein and Anderson reached the elevator leading to Point Prometheus, Anderson turned to the doctor.
"What is he being turned into?" He asked, looking Jaxton over.
"A Big Brother, like Orion." Dr. Stein replied, also looking over the unconscious form of the boy. He felt a chill crawl down his spine in a very sickening way.
"Another Euphoria?" Anderson questioned, not looking up.
"Not this time. A Halcyon." Dr. Stein replied.
"A Halcyon? I thought that was still in development." Anderson said, the elevator doors opening to reveal a clean lab with several Big Brother suit parts scattered about. Mostly parts for Euphoria, which consists of the basic Big Sister suit, but with a few slight modifications. The corset and leg braces were gone, replaced light armor. The harpoon on the right am was gone, replaced with hard points the ADAM needle could attach to, along with anything the developers wanted to give the Big Brothers. The helmets were different as well, looking more like a full faced helmet than a sphere.
"Anderson, the entire Big Brother project is still in development." Dr. Stein replied, lifting Jaxton onto an operation table and strapping him down with thick, metal backed leather straps. He grabbed a bottle of fluid and drew some into a syringe.
"Fair enough Doctor." Anderson replied as the other medical staff began trickling in.
"Let us begin the operation." Dr. Stein said, plunging the needle into Jaxton's heart.