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A single monitor remained somewhat in tact. On it flashed the number 30 in red print. It flashed again and was replaced by 29.. A limp body hung against the wall, unconscious but still alive. The room was found during the attack on Kilawli and was destroyed. 20. The laboratory was gone. Beakers, test tubes, computers, machines and much more were all destroyed. The monitor that was currently counting down was cracked in a myriad of places. The mechanisms that 13. The Lilith troops had not attacked the body, mistaking it for dead. The body was kept in condition with the help of an intravenous drip, which was feeding in the required nutrients. A mask was attached to the males face and was regulating his breathing. 6. The machines that were currently supporting this persons life were kept behind the walls. 3. The lab began to come to life for the last time, computer screens had flickered to life and began displaying code. 1. Something was about to happen.

When the number should have been zero, that particular monitor had turned black. The handcuffs that were suspending him snapped open. Simultaneously, the shackles binding his ankles did the same. The corpse fell to the ground. In reaction to this, the intravenous had been ripped out of his veins and the mask fell to the ground. The good doctor had managed to make things work out perfectly even in the event of his own death. The boy was free now, nothing was holding him back to this place.

Green eyes were revealed slowly, as the teenager began to wake up to the world around him. He saw all the damage that had been done to the place but didn’t waver. He was well aware of what happened within these walls. The lights suddenly went out, and all the screens in the room also went black, except one emanating from a single computer. His body, still partially numb, moved slowly towards the source of light. Upon the screen was a set of word document:

0000-1307. No, that will no longer be sufficient, Enko suits you quite nicely. Enko, you were once an experiment of mine, and not of your own volition. However due to the circumstances you are now a free person. I would have liked to see you grow up. I am most likely dead by this point in time, seeing as how Kilawli, the city you are in, is being assaulted. Your clothes are located in the vault, behind the wall that you were hanging from. Do not worry about anything, the machinery is no longer of any use if you are reading this. The combination is 1, 3, 31. From this point on you do not have to continue reading, I’d imagine that you hate me.

Enko stopped reading at that point, but the text went on to explain how the doctor was proud of the success he had attained with Project: 0000-1307.

((Many thanks to you, Sins.))

Enko turned around, to face the direction that led out of the vault room, by using his right foot as the pivoting point and going from there. He was about to walk through the hole in the wall, when he noticed something posted on the adjacent wall. He approached it, and stared blankly trying to comprehend exactly what it was that he was seeing. It was a map to the entire facility and didn’t contain much. There was the testing room, which is where he was brought when he was awakened. There was the holding chamber, which was the room that he woke up to. The room holding the vault wasn’t featured for obvious reasons. Then there were various rooms for storage of equipment and medicine. There was only one hallway however, and it connected every room together. It even seemed to lead right off the page. Linking together two pieces of information, the map was of the facility and the hallway ran off the page, he came to the conclusion that this would be the hallway that would give him his freedom.

He stepped through the opening that he created, and cautiously walked through the room. There were no lights on, except for that single computer which held the doctors message. Enko grabbed the screen and flipped it over the desk, breaking it upon contact with the cement floors. He nearly bumped into a wall, but managed to stop in the knick of time. He placed his hand on the wall, and began to walk letting the wall guide him. There was turn a couple feet ahead, and he knew that he found the corridor. This hall seemed to be a tad bit darker.

As soon as he had began to tread through the halls, a light appeared opposite to his position in the hall. It was coming towards to holding chamber, instead of away from it. He ducked into one of the storage rooms, and began to wait. He could easily murder any scientist, but would prefer to avoid any casualties if possible. As soon as this person walked by the door, Enko would make an attempt to grab them and forcefully bring the two face to face.

Enko was becoming anxious, time felt like it was passing by at a snails pace, his breathing became heavier. Something was up ahead, preventing his escape from the building that he had been a prison to for the past four years. His eyes narrowed, trying to catch sight of the person, or possibly thing, that was approaching. A rat squealed in the corner of the room and he lunged at it, narrowly missing it as it ran into its own hole in the wall. ’Concentrate’ he thought, reminding himself that the person was not in here but out there.

His eyes caught sight of the red glow fly by past the door, thinking that the person was running with it, he ran out of the room and down the hallway following after it. A smashing sound alerted him that this was a decoy, but he still didn’t turn around. There was no time to check if the person was following him. He leaped behind one of the desks in the holding chamber. Enko closed his eyes, well aware that this sense was useless without any source of light.

”Calm down” he repeated to himself, several times, with a hushed voice. He remembered his breathing exercises, that the doctor had taught him, and put them to use. His breathing became regular again, and with a steady amount of oxygen entering his system he would be able to think more clearly. He reasoned that whoever it was in here, was definitely a person. He supported this theory because animals wouldn’t have been able to envisage throwing the light source as bait.

He wanted to call out to this person, asking them what they wanted with him, but he didn't want to any chances. As far as he was concerned this person could be hostile, and end his life before he even got to live it. Enko waited, crouched behind the desk, trying to listen to any sign that could help him position this intruder.

Enko stayed alert the entire time, but was caught off guard regardless. When the intruder had thumped against the desk, he was tempted to make a run for it, he stood still somehow. Apparently this person wasn’t expecting the object to be as close as it was. A soft thud on the ground, and the clanging of metal on the floor indicated that something happened. The experiments eyes shot open but his pupils weren’t there anymore, rather slits had taken their place. His eyes seemed to glow in the dark, with that green shade that they naturally were, and suddenly he could see everything clear as day.

He vaulted onto the desk and eyed the surroundings quickly. He saw a male on the ground grasping a piece of metal around his neck, not aware that this was a tool used to communicate with somebody else. Not to far away from the person was a knife of sorts, it would still be a stretch to grasp it. Enko pieced together everything that he had just seen, and knew exactly what it was that he needed to do: take advantage of the opportunity. He cleared the desk and took down the hallway. No looking backwards, no second thoughts, no curiosity, nothing remained holding him back. He could have taken the weapon from the person, or checked that he wasn’t injured, but at the moment that didn’t matter to him at all.

One foot in front of the other, similar to the motion of pistons, pushing himself forward constantly. His eyes fixed on the ladder before as it drew nearer and nearer to him. He took a head start and jumped three steps up. Light was at the end of this passage, and it wasn’t artificially made. There was a silhouette of another person staring down into underground tunnel. The thought of another person obscuring his freedom, angered him. This was an assumption though, since he didn’t know that either of these two were simply their to forage for lost technology.

Enko’s trench coat dragged behind him. His arms and legs moving together to quicken his escape. If it wasn’t for the person down there, he most likely would have burned the place down. But there would be no point to torture another person in that hellhole. Upon surfacing, he jumped off the final three steps and grabbed on to the ledge, pulling himself up. As he eyed the other person in the building, he caught some similarities between the one up here and the one that he had abandoned down there. ”He is safe” he said, trying his hand at speaking to somebody. The girl looked like she was more timid than her look-alike, which is why he didn't run away from her.

Enko had heard the sound of the whistle while he was escalating the ladder, but didn’t make note of it. He realized that it had to be coming from the underground lab because of the volume that it was producing. He was musing on the architecture of the abysmal place below, due to the compacted corridor the sound was able to resonate off the walls at a much quicker rate and that’s why the sound was so intense. That was the trail of thoughts that he followed. There was an alternative reason to why it was so irritating to him, but not even the good doctor had managed to discover that.

As the girl spoke his eyes fell upon the manhole, hearing a clanging sound echo upwards as the fellow below was climbing upwards. ”Why was I down there? A very good question to ask.” he said in response. Due to amnesia he recalls nothing prior to the experiments beginning. He doesn’t know where he was born, why he was chosen, who or what he. All this information is lost to him. To a certain extent he knows of his own capabilities, and thanks to the recently deceased scientist, the town he was currently in and his new name.

The slits had reverted back to pupils, pulling a veil over anything hidden in darkness. Enko was no longer able to see the form of the male coming forth, but he was aware that the distance between the three of them was minuscule. ”The best answer I can come up with to that question is that I was asleep” he spoke now having time to have come up with an answer to the previously proposed question. The girls counterpart would surely be able to hear what he had just said.