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 Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2008 1:04 pm
A small sound entered his ears; a faint musical beat, accompanied by what sounded like Midian humming.
'You're all P-A-T-H-E-T-I-C,' she softly said, her footsteps heading back towards him, 'that is how it is and how it stays...'
He heard a scrape of metal on metal, and then felt the most horribly excruciating sensation he had ever felt in his life searing through the back of his neck.
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Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2008 1:41 pm
He tried to scream, but without his body working properly, there was no way he was able to make any sound. Yet he had to make Midian aware of the fact that he was fully conscious, and could feel everything, somehow...!
His eyes closed again, his loud screams ringing out in the depths of his mind, rather than being vocalised, as Midian still continued to slice at the back of his neck, readying to install the chip, blissfully unaware of anything wrong.
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Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2008 2:15 pm
There was a white hot sting as Electrothanasia finally stopped digging around in the back of his neck, and she placed something into the gaping wound. Aizel wanted to shiver from the cold sensation of...whatever it was, yet the anaesthetic was still seizing his body.
He heard an electrical buzz as whatever she had just placed in him scalded him, forks of electricity shocking every inch of him. His body automatically jerked on the table, causing Midian to let out a surprised cry.
'What the...?' she muttered, and crouched down to look at him. His eyes swivelled in their sockets, gazing pleadingly at her. 'Oh Christ, you're still awake! How the <********> did that happen?!'
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Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2008 2:39 pm
'Sorry, Kasuka, there isn't anything I can do for you,' Midian sighed, straightening up again. 'If I knock you out with more anaesthetic, there's a good chance you won't survive. Looks like you're just gonna have to grit your teeth - if you can - and bare it.'
She made a few more adjustments to the position of the chip, which would shock Aizel again once every few seconds. His body would flinch again with each one, and Midian sighed every time.
She stitched up the wound on the back of his neck, and reached for some gauze. Her other hand picked up an antiseptic spray, which she squirted onto the gauze, and then dabbed it onto his skin.
There was a small hiss, as Aizel finally managed to regain his voice. His fingers twitched slightly.
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Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2008 5:20 pm
Once the spilt blood had been dried off the back of Aizel's neck, Midian placed down her gauze, put everything away, and watched as he slowly started to regain more feeling. She unfastened the restraints, and he just managed to turn himself over again, onto his back.
'Wha...what did...you...d-do?' he breathed.
'I placed a tracking tag in the back of your neck. It's connected to your spine, so if you try and go on the run again, not only will you get a nasty shock, but we'll be able to locate you a lot more easily,' Midian explained. 'Seems that little band on your wrist just wasn't quite enough.'
'W-What is it...with you people...a-and sh-shocking...things?' Aizel asked.
'It's a good way of making a specimen docile,' Midian shrugged.
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Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2008 5:39 pm
'Oh...g-get lost...' he weakly growled, sighing in irritation. 'I...I am a...human being, not...once of your...experiments.'
'But you've been an experiment before, have you not?' Midian shot at him.
'Th-That's none...of your business.'
'Well, you must have been - I was watching you fight the vampire and werewolf; those are some interesting abilities you have. You must have aquired those somehow, and it sure as hell can't have been something you've had since birth,' she retorted.
'I have n-nothing to say...about h-how I got those p-powers,' Aizel stubbornly hissed.
'Fine. We'll find out ourselves,' Midian said. 'Speaking of, as soon as you're able to move again - and I wouldn't fake being more lethargic than you really are, 'cause I'll be able to tell - you need to go into our training arena. We test out all specimens in there first, see what they're capable of, monitor various different things and the like. You'll be no exception.'
Aizel's metallic hand was slapped over his face as he sighed, suppressing a shudder at the words "training arena".
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Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2008 5:49 pm
'Come on,' Midian demanded, grabbing a hold of Aizel's wrist and dragging him off the table. 'The anaesthetic should've completely worn off now; your movement should be pretty much back to normal.'
Aizel stood up, and after a bit of precarious wobbling, found that yes, he could in fact maintain his balance. Still grasping a hold of his prosthetic arm, Midian hauled him out of the room. Aizel let out a small, surprised yelp, and staggered after her.
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Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2008 6:11 pm
He was guided into a wide room, much larger than the rest of Karestra that he had seen so far. Everything looked horribly clinical; white and steel, as though it was a giant operating theatre. Aizel felt a brief moment of confusion; he could have sworn Midian had mentioned a training arena, and the room he was staring at looked nothing of the sort.
'Yeah, I recognise that look. You're not the first person to come in here and say "this is the funniest looking training arena I've ever seen!" But yes, this is it,' Midian declared.
The door opened behind them, and another man entered, and nodded to Midian.
'I thought I saw a new specimen being brought into here,' he said, motioning towards Aizel. He stepped closer to the boy, scrutinising him closer. 'Well...he doesn't look strong enough to be a werewolf, his skin is too rosy, his teeth too blunt to be a vampire, and as for demon, well...what is he?'
'He's a human, but he's been imbued with demon powers,' Electrothanasia explained.
'Another one?'
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Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2008 6:33 pm
'W-What do you mean, "another one"?' Aizel asked, looking at the newcomer curiously.
'There was another human who somehow managed to get into Karestra a while back. A pink haired b***h with an attitude problem, and the power to cheat death,' he replied. 'And now there's you. Curious.'
'Oh...' Aizel murmured, eyes widening slightly; he had completely forgotten that Evangeline had already been to Karestra! He suddenly felt the slightest bit hopeful...if she had been there and back, and survived to tell the tale, then surely, he would be able to, as well? Surely she would be working on a way to help return him to the facility...
She was gone three days, he realised. Just less than how long he had already been stuck there, but that hardly meant that she had given up on him...right? In spite of how much he tried to reassure himself, doubts were beginning to creep back in.
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Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2008 6:52 pm
'Well, let's get this started,' the other worker ordered. Aizel peered closely at him, and saw that he bore a tag with the name 'Marcus' on it. He momentarily wondered how come it did not have his code name, and then remembered that there were more pressing matters at hand. 'I brought the usual equipment.'
He had a clipboard tucked under one arm, which he threw to Electrothanasia, who caught it easily. His hands then dug around inside his pockets, and withdrew several circular shaped devices. He walked over to Aizel, who shrank back, looking rather worried.
'M-More shock devices?' he asked, glancing at the objects in Marcus' hands.
'Not in the slightest. They're monitors,' Marcus replied.
'L-Liar!' Aizel yelped, making a run for it to the other side of the 'arena', trying to put as much space between him and the other two as possible.
The clipboard clattered to the floor as Midian charged after him. She mentally cursed Aizel, as she tried to catch up with him, the boy just out of reach. He eventually reached the other side of the room, and nearly crashed into a wall. As he swerved to the side to avoid striking it head first, Midian leapt at him, and bowled him over.
'It's not a shock device, you've already got one of those,' Midian said, nodding to the band on his wrist. 'These devices will monitor how you are emotionally and physically. Emotional responses, synaptic responses, things like that.'
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Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2008 7:08 pm
Aizel pushed Midian off him, clambering to his feet again. As she too rose, Midian withdrew the familiar keypad, shocking Aizel into submission. She then slipped it back and tightly grasped his hands, motioning towards Marcus to come over and attach the devices.
Marcus stepped in front of Aizel, and placed one of them on each temple. He then strode behind Aizel and Midian, tapping at a panel on the wall. A shiny, metal door sprung open, and Marcus vanished into it. It closed after Midian headed through as well, two locks clicking, sealing Aizel in alone.
'Let me out of here!' he screamed, and hammered on the wall, where the door was but a moment ago. 'S-Stop this, please!'
'And now we see the full extent of his powers,' Marcus said, heading to a window, after climbing up a gloomy flight of stairs, and peering down at the boy.
'I already have,' Midian absentmindedly replied, thinking of Aizel's fight against Raesa and Kylun. 'Kasuka is pretty handy in a tight corner.'
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Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2008 7:31 pm
Midian and Marcus both peered at a display, waiting for information that the monitors on Aizel to start coming through.
'So if you already know something about his abilities, do please fill me in,' Marcus prompted, as Aizel bashed his fists against the walls, still screaming to be set free.
'They almost seem to be triggered by emotions. When he gets very scared, he turns silver, and there's a higher chance of him producing corrugated steel walls out of nowhere. Things like that,' Midian explained.
'Hmm...interesting,' Marcus mused, pressing a button, and activating the computer program that controlled the arena. 'Let's see if we can pull off any fancy tricks with this thing...I've always wanted to play about with the image system, try and provoke negative emotions in people - does that make me a sadist?'
'Just as much as the the rest of us,' Electrothanasia grinned.
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Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2008 7:48 pm
Two large tiles in the ceiling seemed to shift, revealing a hidden passage, and a shadow seemed to be lurking, lingering. It watched Aizel with a dark, morbid glare, before dropping, sailing through the air, and landing deftly a few metres away.
'Oh G-God...' Aizel muttered, when he realised that he was no longer alone.
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Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2008 4:15 pm
He stared at the apparition before him, a computerised demon that stood tall, towering several feet above Aizel. Underneath its withering stare, he could feel himself shrinking further down.
Aizel gave it a wide berth, heading off to one side, away from it, and away from the wall that he had pressed himself up against. He glanced up, and just about could see the figures of Midian and Marcus through the window, watching ******** maniacs…Aizel thought, a surge of rage shooting through him.
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Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2008 4:20 pm
Up in the observation booth, Electrothanasia raised an eyebrow at the dirty look that she and Marcus were being given whilst he started to tap buttons to control the “demon” in the arena.
It raised its arms, and lunged for Aizel, who ducked underneath it, facing its back. His skin charred, as he gained a few inches, yet still came up very short in comparison to his metal foe. He raised his natural arm, the fist clenched, and watched in delight as liquid fire once again began its consumption of the limb.
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