*Setting: Computer terminals and LEDs blinked gently. Small beeps were emitted from random machines and Drs, Researchers, Psychologists and Scientists all stood at different terminals and screens. Monitering the progress of their special, yet costly, experiment. In the middle of the room was a large reinforced glass box, it stretched from the floor to the ceiling and took up most of the room. Three small steps led closer to the glass. Inside the container were five Orkhid teenagers, their age approximatly 14. They were each dressed in black skin-tight suits with their corresponding number on the back of them in red. Four of the five looked relativly normal. Their hair and eye colour dark and their skin pale. However, the fifth, the female, was completly the opposite. Her hair was golden blonde and her eyes a piercing blue. She was Aisha. The only one in the room with an, unofficial, name. The others were merely numbers. She sat in the corner of the glass compartment, watching the others talk amongst themselves. The inside of the glass prison was illuminated with white light from both the floor and ceiling and the glass was one way. Making sure the teenagers only see their reflections and nothing on the outside. Aisha sighed and tucked her legs under her chin and then wrapping her arms around them. She was tired and hungry. The training that she was recieving was beginning to get harder, but she knew that she would have to try her best. Cornesh had told her that if she didn't it would give the Scientists at the top an excuse to kill her. Resting her chin on her knees she watched the other Orkhids in the compartment, knowing that they'd be treat better just because of their appearance. Closing her eyes she pleaded with any deity that would listen, she pleaded to be turned into one of them or to be killed...*
Janek: "How is the progress coming along...?"
He stood at the entrance of the large metallic doors, the two guards who were guarding the door merely stared straight ahead, knowing the Consultant had no need to speak to them and thus wasnt. Gracefully Janek stepped down the steps, his long, black coat dragging along them as he did so, as he reached the bottom his eyes immediatly went to the container and the creatures inside. To answer his question the nearest Doctor stepped upto him, he was wearing a white coat with black trousers and had stubble growing on his chin. Holding a three page file on the creatures he quickler handed it to Janek and explained, nervously, to him what it was.
Doctor: "T-These are the latest reports, sir. A-As you can s-see the female, she's become more and more isolated from the males..."
Flicking through the pages and scanning the contents Janek nodded and cooed.
Janek: "Gooood. Wvhen wvas their last training exercise??"
He turned to the Doctor, his grey eyes piercing the Doctors who then began to stutter as he tried to remember the exact time.
Doctor: "Erm...I-I think around three...three."
The Consultant slowly sauntered down the three steps that took him closer to the container. He peered in, watching the four males interact.
Janek: "And how did they do...?"
Doctor: "Err...let...let me just go get the files, sir."
Janek turned his head and snarled.
Janek: "Give me a brief summary, wvho wvas the best and wvho wvas the wvorst...??"
Once again this put the Doctor on the spot and as he tried to think a female Psychologist answered for him, her black hair tyed back in a red bobble, her eyes a dark brown. She spoke softly and clearly.
Psychologist: "O3 was the worst...He became nervous and fumbled constantly, even being beaten by that...that thing."
She cast her eyeline over to Aisha. Her voice was full of hatred and anger as she mentioned her. Sighing Janek turned back around and scratched the back of his bald head.
Janek: "Do you think he wvill ever improve? In your professional opinion...?"
She, too, sighed and shook her head slowly.
Psychologist: "He's a liability and should thus be disposed of to make way for the creatures that can aid us..."
He gently nodded and turned to two Doctors whom were sat infront of a large terminal that was situated towards the back of the room and partially hidden in shadow. The large terminal itself showed each of the teenagers vital signs and was capable of interfering with the nanobots in their bloodstream and thus capable of killing them, painfully at that. The Doctors typed rapidly and selected the teenager whom was going to be extinguished.
***
Inside the room all was well, the four males were talking amongst themselves and discussing how well they believed they did in the past exercise. But as they did they noticed something off with their companion. He was rubbing his head and blood was beginning to drip from his nose. This was the first time that this had ever occured and thus worried the creatures inside, even Aisha who was now making her way over to the scene.
O3: "M-My head...It...AHHGRRR!!"
He clutched it and staggered back into the glass wall. His eyes had turned completly black now and he was growling and snarling like a beast caught in a Beartrap. His mouth opened showing his teeth gritting with a shocking force. His long canines on his lower and upper jaw began to crack with the pressure as did his other teeth. Blood seeped from his left eye and his body began to spasm and as it spasmed the third time, his back cracked and he died. The other three males stepped back in shock whilst Aisha crouched down next to him and caressed his face with the back of her hand.
Tannoy: "Step away from the body. I repeat, step away from the body."
Reluctantly she did so, worried that the same fate might be awaiting her...
Tannoy: "Will remaining O's please make their way to the back of the room and away from the body."
Once again they obeyed and watched as a compartment in the glass wall opened up and two guards dragged the teenagers corpse out of the room, expecting them to forget the incident they had just witnessed...
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(OOC: Feedback would be appreciated as would tips on how to improve on this one, due to the fact that this is one of the bigger stories that goes on for, like, ever.)