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Post by Chiwi on Jun 25, 2005 18:12:59 GMT -5
Eyes sliding over to meet her friends, Chiwi listened to her statement. "But dammit, we won't let him do that will we?" she heard her friend say. Shaking her head, she agreed quietly, "No we won't..."
Her attention quickly went to the scientist, as he began speaking. She growled as he denounced the importance of their names and she opened her mouth slowly to retort, but was interrupted by the man as he spoke again.
"Well well seems like our other experiment will be joining us. Please do welcome him once he arrives." he said, but something about the tone in his voice was...wrong.
Suddenly, an inhuman noise emanated from another area of the room. Turning her head, her eyes were open wide and her fur stood on end. She began to tremble, and nervously commented, "Hey Zairu... Don't you think its time for us to go?"
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Post by Kei on Jun 26, 2005 1:55:00 GMT -5
Inside the room stood an eerie silence, as the figure inside the transporter had neither moved or spoken a word since the scream they heard earlier. When all thought that he wouldn’t come out, a hand curled over the open door of the transporter. The hand seemed to be normal, but covered in blood……Or it at least seemed like blood from the distance to Chiwi and Zairu.
The figure stepped forward a little, no longer hidden by a metal door. His hair was blue, well…most of it. It was now stained with blood in places, sticky and clotted along the ends of his bangs. He kept his head down, the reason unknown. His shirt, which had previously been long-sleeved was now sleeveless, and torn in several areas. Though bits and pieces of the sleeves remained on his arms. The whole front of the shirt was torn, and a large gash in the abdominal area.
Once he stepped into clear view he looked up, one eye glowing a menacingly red, bright enough to be seen through his hair and from a distance, the other still a computer green, still receiving information. To all who see him it seemed as if he was covered in blood…and in fact he was. But it was his own.
Long blade like pieces of bones prodded through the skin, raising up to his shoulder in length from it’s position at the elbow bone. Others prodded from the knee, less in length, but still sharp. Each drenched in blood, some leaking it back onto his skin, the rest falling to the ground. Each droplet hissed upon touching metal, a soft scorching sound eminatting behind him. Smaller blades pierce through the flesh as he stood, prompting a small whimper of pain. The blades stood at attention from the shoulder blades, barely visible over his shoulders.
He opened his mouth to speak, but only a low growl emitted from the vocal chords that still worked in this current state. He stepped forward, his shirt pulling up a little as he walked. He stared at Chiwi and Zairu, until the green in his right eye had vanished and was replaced with the menacing red. Perceiving a threat, he crouched lightly, growling louder at them both. Now that he was closer they could see that his face had strange red markings that lead down over his body….And that his arm didn’t only have a blade.
Once he reached a distance of perhaps 15 feet away, they could see clearly all the features he had. His shirt was no longer sleeveless, but had only a fraction of what it originally had as sleeves. His left arm was covered in a sort of armor, the rest of his arm had become a blade, strange in shape and sharp in nature. And from behind him, lashed out two small whiplike chains. They too were sharp in nature, but had a rectangular shape.
“My my, you have adapted quite well to the Mimic cells I see. We shall have to take you back in for examination of the progress.” The Dr. spoke to the once-was Kei. Kei glared up at him, snarling loudly in his direction, the anger pouring off his body and able to be sensed by a human so pitifully sensely densed as the doctor himself. The Dr. looked at Kei silently, raising an eyebrow gently.
“Such a degree of anger….We shall have to have that corrected.” the Dr. said, turning to the panel and typing in another set of commands. Immediately Kei began to feel strange, and stumbled to his knees. He coughed quickly, holding a hand above his mouth to keep the contents in…But to no avail.
He silently leaned over, retching up blood. It was strangely darker than the blood that seeps out of cuts deep or superficial. As it touched the ground the hissing noise was all but unnoticed. The metal beneath the blood had corroded and the wires inside the metal had frayed right through. He shivered lightly, standing back up, glaring at the Dr. once more but more intently….
Then his gaze turned to Chiwi and Zairu, his eyes danced around like a lion about to devour his prey. No longer in the mindset of a human being, Kei began walking towards them….
….In a state of bloodlust…..
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Post by Zairu on Jun 26, 2005 17:28:34 GMT -5
"Hey Zairu... Don't you think its time for us to go?"
Zairu didn't even seem to hear her and kept staring at the transporter. She couldn't have spoken if she'd wanted to; her voice had once again failed her. Her tail was twitching nervously, a fearful whimper escaped, and her ears were laid back in fear.
Blood. So much blood she smelled. Was it even humanly possible for so much blood to spill from one person? She began to tremble as the person walked from the transporter and she wished for her sense of smell to be deadened as his blood dripped and hit the floor, a foul, acrid smell accompanying the hissing of metal corroding.
“My my, you have adapted quite well to the Mimic cells I see. We shall have to take you back in for examination of the progress.”
This boy was another of this twisted scientist's experiments? She suddenly felt akin to him; he, like Chiwi and her, had suffered from this lunatic. As he looked at the scientist, she felt a strong wave of anger and she knew that, at least in this scientist's case, they were on the same side.
The scientist seemed to be human after all, because he commented about the anger. Watching him input something into his computer, Zairu saw that it affected the boy. She covered her mouth with her hand, her eyes wide with horror, as the boy retched even more blood. The smell that followed was almost unbearable as his blood corroded more metal. Zairu made a strange noise, but couldn't bring herself to utter anything.
The boy once more looked at the scientist, but then his attention was arrested on Chiwi and herself. Zairu felt like the bird entranced by the viper; she couldn't stop looking at those piercing, blood red eyes. They terrified her, causing her to shake even more noticeably. Then something flickered within them and Zairu's stomach gave a violent lurch as she realized what he was thinking.
They were prey to him.
"MOVE!!" She shrieked and shoved Chiwi to make her start running.
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Post by Kei on Jun 27, 2005 1:20:17 GMT -5
Kei's steps weighed heavily onto the ground, creating slight dents in the metal but light enough to be noticed. As he walked towards his mindset's meaning of "prey", he smirked, as a psychopath would. He walked slowly, torturing his two small fellow experiments, swinging the blood that dripped from his sword carelessly. In effect, spilling more blood to corrode more metal.
Gently he turned the corner at the door, standing at the long hall where Chiwi and Zairu had just ran to. He tilted his head to the farthest side, analyzing distance and making calculations. His smirk widened, as all calculations were complete, and with minimal output from him to accomplish what his mindset required.
At first, he walked. But then as they ran further, he began to run after them, slowly but still at a faster pace than a human can attain. It would be only seconds before he reached them. He smirked again as they turned a corner, and instead of running around it like they would've expected, he went in front of them. Kicking off from the ground, he bounced off the farthest corner wall to the wall nearest the girls, landing in front of them with a snide smirk of twisted mentality on his face.
Playfully, he pinned them in a corner, swinging at them and purposely missing....by centimeters. Then to seal that he was through playing, he made it look as if he would ram the blade through one's skull......but again missed for the shear joy of torture. He stood, smiling down at them, having pinned them in a corner with no chance of escaping, with his bladed-arm a foot into the wall.....
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Post by Zairu on Jun 27, 2005 12:42:29 GMT -5
Zairu fought panic as she and Chiwi went sprinting down the hallway. Left, right, right, left, straight, she didn't care which way they went as long as it was away from him. Whatever that scientist had done to him...what had happened to them was probably nothing compared to what he must have gone through.
She took a frightened look behind her and saw that he was swinging his arms everywhere, blood hitting metal with the distinctive hiss of it corroding. He had also started to run and was coming closer with every step. Terror lent strength to her legs and she started to run faster, but it seemed to be of no use.
Sharply turning a corner, Zairu thought that maybe they could get a precious few seconds more of a head start. It didn't happen that way, somehow he manage to jump in front of them and Zairu let out a horrible shriek as he pinned them into a corner.
She and Chiwi clung to each other as he swung his blade arm at them. He was toying with them as he missed, but Zairu was too terrified to be angry.
Please stop, please stop, please stop... She kept thinking over and over again in her mind. He swung his blade arm back and she shut her eyes, thinking that it was the end...
But it wasn't. Opening her eyes, she saw that the blade was embedded a foot into the wall, with the boy smiling psychotically at the both of them. Her breathing shaky, she looked at Chiwi, her question evident in her features before she looked back at the boy.
What were they going to do?
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Post by Kei on Jun 27, 2005 21:56:00 GMT -5
Kei smiled down at them, his precious prey. From how close he was to them, they could feel his breath, with it's strange mark of cold, heartless acidity. His right eye immediately began into action again, becoming it's bright computer green. The white text began to inform of ways to end this quickly, or slower ways...But one line caught hold of something. A command was being entered, at that very moment.
Kei felt something weird in his body then. He began to shiver, haltingly pulling at the sword in the wall. As he pulled out, he stumbled backward, clutching his head with as pained an expression as he could muster in this form. He groaned, feeling pain in all of his body. Again he screamed, and within seconds he was in his normal body, still covered in his own blood. He looked up at the two, with a strange curiousity as if he didn't know their faces.
"I....I'm..s-sor..ry...I hurt.you....Please...forgive me...." he muttered, falling onto the ground, not yet unconscious, but without any strength to keep himself up.
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Post by Zairu on Jul 2, 2005 15:10:00 GMT -5
Zairu looked down at the still form, eyes now widened from the shock of the transformation. He looked now like any normal boy, if you didn't count the blood everywhere and torn clothes. Giving a confused look toward Chiwi, shooting a double take at the boy, she looked back at Chiwi and nodded her head toward him.
Was he dead? She knelt down and peered at his face, but cautiously should he become berserk again. No, his eyes were open and he was breathing, he just seemed out of energy. Was this the same boy who had, only moments before, tried to kill them? He looked completely harmless now.
Gingerly, she touched his shoulder, preparing herself should it burn her fingers like it had corroded the metal, but found that it was just like any other person's blood; warm and sticky. Looking at Chiwi, they both turned him over on his back; his face had been being crushed on the cold metal floor.
"So..." She scratched her head; looking at the boy, "Think you can tell us your name? Then," She looked at Chiwi, "we need to find a way to get out of here."
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Post by Kei on Jul 5, 2005 21:06:55 GMT -5
Kei groaned as his body was turned over. His right eye had been in motion showing all types of different data, including the commands placed on him. He sighed inwardly, a particular command passed by and filled him with dread. Blood grav. as it was called. It was a command used on the mimic cells to make their gravity denser and thicker to the point where it took all the energy of a hyped up 5 year old to stand up from a sitting position.
Kei rolled over with some effort, moving to his knees slowly. His body was struggling with the weight, and several times in the movement he wanted to just keel over and stay like that until he could figure out how to get the command removed. He stood up after a few good minutes, loosing balance quickly and in the process ramming his shoulder into the wall.
Kei hissed under his breath, as more blood seeped from his already gaping wounds. No human could possibly survive such blood loss, but Kei could still move. He shuddered noticeably, falling back onto the ground, face first again.
"Please...just stay away....run as far as you can....away from me..." He coughed, a few drops of blood spilling onto the ground in front of him. He sighed, waiting for them to pass him by.
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Post by Chiwi on Jul 6, 2005 16:29:42 GMT -5
As she watched Kei climb out of the transporter, she felt frozen to her spot, unable to even move her arms. She could not help but to stop and stare at the creature the machine had just issued. Blood was everywhere; covering both the creature and the floor over which it stood.
Distantly, she heard the doctor mention further experimentation and she felt herself recoil. What more could be done to the poor being that stood before them? And there was no way to correct such anger; she felt it herself. With every moment she felt around the Dr. Noikero, she felt that spark of fury inside herself grow.
She could relate to him... feel his pain as well. Part of her wanted to reach out to him, tell him that he was not alone, Zairu and herself were there with him now. Yet, somehow, she knew that such a thing would not work right now, by the looks of it.
Despite her pity for what she saw, she could not help but feel her fear consume her. Quaking, she found herself immobilized by the sight of Kei charging at her. If Zairu had not have shoved her, Chiwi would have never moved, and probably be attacked by Kei.
Her mind scarcely registered what was going on as she sprinted through the hallways. Carefully, she followed her friend, who was a couple steps ahead of her.
Without warning, Kei was standing in front of them, and he pinned them in a corner. Chiwi let out a yelp as he swung at them, and she began to cling to Zairu desperately. He was playing with them, mocking them, and Chiwi felt a twinge of anger rise again, but it was quickly repressed.
Please... just make it stop... let this end. She thought desperately, squeezing her eyes shut. The words repeated over in her mind, until they began to run together and she mumbled them out loud.
Suddenly, she heard a loud noise, and, opening her eyes, she saw that one of his blade's had been buried in the wall while he smiled insanely at them. She shivered as the cold breath brushed against her skin, making it tingle and twitch slightly. Just as she thought that this chaos would never end.... he became human again.
"I....I'm..s-sor..ry...I hurt.you....Please...forgive me...." he mumbled, before falling face-first into the floor.
Peering at him, she studied him for a moment before looking back at Zairu, the pair turned him over, so that his face was not being crushed by the metallic floor.
Chiwi watched as Kei painfully moved about, ramming his shoulder into the wall. When he hit the floor yet again, she winced.
"Please...just stay away....run as far as you can....away from me..." she heard him say. Shaking her head, she motioned at Zairu to help her lift him up. Carefully, they carried him back to the transporter room.
Whispering to him, she asked, "Do you know how we can escape?"
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Post by Kei on Jul 6, 2005 18:20:16 GMT -5
Kei felt his body lifting slowly, though it was straining for the two girls to pick him up from the ground with his increased weight. He felt himself unconsciously growl loudly, automatically glared at whoever's eyes he met with first.
"Let me...go....Stay away....Stay far away!!......Leave me behind...." he spoke angrily, standing just barely. Now with increased force on his limbs, he pulled back, attempting to break free of them. But to his surprise, they replied in a tense feeling, grabbing onto him tighter, claws digging into his flesh unknowingly. He sighed to himself, as they rounded a corner and came to the straight hall.
"......Walk down the hall.....at about 15 steps you will find a small, narrow opening between two of the labs on the other side.....There should be a transporter there." he spoke, reading off the information in non-technical terms as the information came in diagram specs through 0s and 1s. He himself didn't understand why he gave this information...But to him, the sooner he is alone....The better.
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Post by Zairu on Jul 7, 2005 17:18:19 GMT -5
As they picked him up, Zairu was taken aback at his sudden newfound strength as he struggled against their helping hands. She held tighter, forgetting momentarily that her nails were now razor sharp claws and probably digging into his skin. As abruptly as it started, it ended, as if he resigned himself to a fate he did not like.
Why didn't he want them to help? Why make them stay "far away"? Sure, he'd just tried to kill them, but he seemed completely different now. Did he just lose control in the form?
Damn that doctor and his tinkering around with other human beings! May he rot in hell!
Following the directions that he had just given them, they slowly made their way to the chamber where the transporter lay in wait. Zairu took a glance at his eye, looking in fascination at the brilliant green and the white numbers racing across it; what secrets did it tell him that Chiwi and herself were blind to?
"All right, we're here." She murmured, looking at the transporter apprehensively, having never been able to fully trust a machine that ripped you apart molecule by molecule to get to a destination. Really, what would happen if the thing were to malfunction and she ended up having a body part materialize somewhere else on her person or losing the body part entirely?
Well, she thought, if it would get them out of here, she was all for it.
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Post by Kei on Jul 7, 2005 17:41:10 GMT -5
Kei sighed, lifting himself up a bit. He looked up at Zairu, clearly making eye contact with her, but soon turning away. He shuddered inwardly, what they must think of him....Such a pathetic excuse for a human...in fact not even a human anymore. Since when did humans change..into that..that thing? Since when did humans change their eye color at will by feelings?
No... I'm not human. Not even close. To them...I must be a complete stranger...I can't bear to look at them. They may be changed too...but...they're still remotely human..They still have human blood....For them to stare at a mishapen attempt at humanity as me..is too cruel....
These were the thoughts that ran through his mind, while they walked into the transporter. He looked up from him thoughts, careful not grace them with dispair from his appearance. He kept his eyes downcast, looking away from them always.
"Lean me against the wall....I'll begin the input of commands....." he mumbled, groaning when they leaned his body against the wall softly. He leaned up a bit, gritting his teeth when the wall burned against the openings of flesh along his back.
He leaned over the panel, holding onto the side to keep a weak balance. Silently he arched his body forward, his face only inches away from the panel.
"Begin analysis...." he muttered, though in the small space everything was heard, not clearly, but heard nonetheless. A small hologram appeared in front of the two females, a female made up of codes and numbers on the screen.
" I shall begin analysis immediately. Please stand by. Uploading information......Drivers at 100%. Authentication complete. Imput Coordinates." she spoke, smiling at whatever was in front of her.
"North 53, East 78. Begin transfer." he replied, leaning back up with some effort. The analysis normally consisited of palming, and then imputting codes. But to bypass that on account of time a retinal scan was possible, which Kei had taken. The female form of data jumped up on the screen in a cute manner, something strange of a computer program.
"Understood, Master Noikero~ I will transfer you immediately~ " she said cheerfully though pausing, "I detect two other bodies aboard, shall I transfer them as well, Master?"
"Yes. Begin transfer." Kei mumbled, knowing that the mention of that name would get him into trouble somehow. Within a few seconds, the transfer had begun...
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Post by Zairu on Jul 7, 2005 18:02:52 GMT -5
Zairu stepped into the transporter with Chiwi while the boy did...well, whatever you did with transporters to make them work. She looked at the little computerized woman, a bit sickened by its fake smile and likeness of a real human, but lacking of any emotions. It didn't seem at all repulsed by the menagerie that was in front of it; Zairu, on the other hand, was completely disgusted at what happened to her and Chiwi. At least what had happened to the boy wasn't apparent all the time.
The computer woman reminded her of the impassive looks that the scientists had given her. She never wanted to see another pair of eyes look upon her and not show emotion; heck, even a shudder or a look of fear would be better than to see eyes like that again. Then those eyes of that Dr. Noikero.... they were the worst of all; she felt violated just thinking about the way he had looked at Chiwi and her, like they were pets he could play with.
"Understood, Master Noikero~ I will transfer you immediately~ "
Zairu jolted and her head snapped at the computer woman as the boy finished up the process. Could it have just said "Master Noikero"? No... she looked at the boy, no it couldn't be possible. It was only because she had been thinking about the doctor that she thought she'd heard the computer woman say that.
Before she could think about it further, she felt the thrum of the transporter and saw, with fascination mixed with horror, as her molecules began to disassemble one by one. She suddenly couldn't speak, tried as she might, and the last thing she saw before going into blackness, was the look on Chiwi's face as she too was demolecularized.
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Post by Kei on Jul 7, 2005 19:28:32 GMT -5
Kei groaned as the transfer began, but at the same time it was a bit of relief. He wouldn’t feel pain while in the transfer, and the commands inputed would be lifted momentarily. He became silent as he felt his molecules ripped apart one by one. The only thing active during the transfer was his right eye. A process that had been modeled to be active at all possible times and every possible process.
His right eye had begun to undo the effects of the command, and if not for the transporter, Kei would’ve sworn he was experiencing the effects of the lighter blood already. He closed his eyes as the transporter completed the demolecularization, and began the recreation on the other side…..
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Post by Chiwi on Jul 8, 2005 14:54:21 GMT -5
"Let me...go....Stay away....Stay far away!!......Leave me behind...." Chiwi heard him protest as they began to assist him. Shaking her head, she replied softly, "We're not going to leave you here... with him..."
Carefully, she followed his directions, counting her steps out loud, so she did not make a mistake. Looking around, she spotted the small opening, and, after gesturing to Zairu, they towards it. She eyed it carefully as she did so, having no current love for science.
Looking at Kei, she found his eyes were still downcast, avoiding their glances. Sighing inwardly, she shook her head slightly. "Lean me against the wall....I'll begin the input of commands....." he told them as they arrived. They did as he had requested, then entered the machine.
Not really paying attention to what it said, she just listened to the Kei and the computer. She was not fond of computers taking on human form, but she just ignored it. If it was a means by which they could escape, then Chiwi was not about to argue with it.
However, her ears perked up and her eyes darted over to where he was standing when it spouted the phrase, "Master Noikero." Frowning, she thought to herself, Is he really a Noikero, or did he just hack the machine? What if he is related to the doctor? Then again... does it really matter? He did, after all, help save us...
As the machine kicked on, Chiwi shivered involuntarily, the thought of being torn apart, molecule by molecule was not comforting to her. Panic slowly seized her as she felt herself slowly begin to disintegrate.
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