1 Nightmare

Nightmare

Chapter Zero: The Origin

???? POV:

A useless little boy that's all I am, that's all they say to me. It's like clockwork I know when they're going to beat me, yell at me, humiliate me, feed me scraps, and the worst of all is when they send me downstairs in an isolated room with these monsters in white safety suit, which means they would poke these needles all over my body and inject God knows what into me. That's how life has been every single day and I'm only six years old. I feel unusually uneasy today, well at least more uneasy than I usually am. I don't know today just oozes bad potential, but at the end of the day I'm going to go through it regardless. I hear knocks at my door which startles me and makes me curl up as I'm in defense mode. My "mom" and "dad" walk in my room, they always wear smiley face masks so I have no idea what they look like all I know is their awful raspy voices, they're who scare me the most. I can just feel them looking me down with evil smiles as my "mom" walks up to me which only gives me goosebumps. She whispers something in my ear which makes my eyes almost bulge out. I push my "mom" to the side and tried to make a run for it but to no surprise I wasn't quick enough as my "dad" grabbed and scooped me up.

"Sorry little Maurice." the older male says with his raspy voice to me using my government name. "We're going to make you a very special little guy."

"Please..." I plead quietly. "Don't... let... them... touch me."

"Then how are we going to test to see if our experiment works?" My "mom" asks me with her high pitch creepy voice but in a very unsettling tone as she starts smirking. "You're going to help us make history."

They take me to the secret basement where they do all their crazy experiments, I see the men in white lab coats staring at me. The chills in my bones after my "dad" sits me down in one of the chairs as the tie me down. The scientists start discussing within each other plus my "parents" start chipping in about how much money they can get back from this. I was disgusted and hurt most of all when I heard that out they mouth. One of the scientists walk up to me with a needle that looked like the size of a TV remote. I tried to break free, but the locks over my hand were too tight. He injects me with the needle and that's when the craziness truly began in my life. I start shaking violently, which gets everyone's attention.

"Hey make sure he's okay or everything we worked for is ruined!" my "dad" yells at one of the scientists. "If you don't fix him, I will end you and the rest of your crew!"

My "dad" pushes the scientist which makes him bump into one of his glassed chemicals and it spilled all over me which only made me shake harder. Chemicals were dropping everywhere and mixing together which was making everything unstable.

"We need to leave befor-!" One of the scientist yells before the building explodes.

All I hear is ringing in my ears while I just lay on the ground to scared to open my eyes because I know once I do, I'm going to wish I never did. For several minutes that feels like hour... no worse it feels like days have just past while I have an argument with myself if I should open my eyes or not. I finally have the courage to open my eyes and when I do let me tell you it was the most horrific thing I've seen in my life. Dead bodies everywhere some of the corpses weren't even attached to some body parts anymore, I start backing away against the wall and just hold my head and close my eyes hoping this was some crazy nightmare, but I opened my eyes and I saw the same thing just a bunch of dead bodies. I start crying losing all hope when suddenly I hear coughing, I look up and see one of the scientists barely breathing gesturing me to come over. I slowly walk over to him not knowing whether I should be happy he's not dead or upset because this man and his "buddies" have been making me do these tests for as long as I lived. I'm a foot away from this scientist scum as we just stare at each other, but something was off even though he was on the verge of the death he was smiling still.

"Why are you smiling?" I ask innocently. "You might die, doesn't that scare you?"

"Death is a part of life." the scientist says to. "We knew how dangerous it was when we started those tests on you." He explains to me. "But it seems all those years of work finally paid off judging by the color of your eyes."

I don't believe him at first then look down and see pieces of broken glass, I pick a piece up my eyes go wide not just because of my eyes, but for the first time in my entire life I know what I look like, a dark skin black kid with marks all over my face, my messy bushy afro, damn I got big lips but I think I may like them, but worst of all I see is my eyes are red. I start freaking out, I try to run away from the man, but when I tried to run, I zoomed face first to the wall making it break down by mistake which had me on my ass, I get back up and see my feet have red marks probably from going too fast.

"What's going on?!" I ask in panic. "What did you people do me!?"

"We made you into the perfect soldier." He says proudly as he proceeds to cough up a lot if blood. "All those years of studying and testing have finally paid off."

"Yea well I can't run without burning my feet, so nice plan!" I yell at him with tears in my eyes.

"If you go to other side of the room and go to what's left of the room and in the safe there should be two black shielded wrap sneakers that'll be able to sustain, your speed." He says realizing he's close to his death. "With the explosion you shouldn't need the pass-code to get in."

"Why are you helping me?" I ask still having a grudge towards this man. "I'm not going to do whatever it is you planned for me." I feel so much I rage I just let out everything, "You realize I could kill you right now!"

"Maybe not now, but you're going to join us." He says laughing. "Just remember Maurice, we made you the way you are."

The man had finally stopped talking which probably means he's dead. All I can do for the next five minutes is just look at him and try digest what he had just said to me... hell what I've seen today alone has scarred me let alone what I've seen my whole life or at least as much of it as I can remember. I touch my face and start crying, it just feels so unreal. I finally snap out of that little trance I was in and walk over to what's left of the room the deceased scientist told me about. I step inside the destroyed room. But my eyes immediately only see the black sneakers in what's left of the safe. I pick up the shoes and inspect them and realize that they are a little big, but I don't mind I'll grow into them. I put them on my feet and out of nowhere they shrink to my exact shoe size.

"Whoa." I say not really knowing how to comprehend all that has happened today. "Well at least they fit now."

I try running with my new found speed, but of course since I'm not really used to it like at all I run into a wall face first breaking through another one which leads me to sit on my ass once more. I rub my forehead in pain and then I realize that I should've busted my head open when I hit that wall, matter of fact I wasn't even bleeding at all. Guess the experiment doesn't just make me fast and traumatize me. I get up and for the first time in my life I leave that building and get to see what outside looks like and let me tell you it's a beautiful world.

"This is finally my time to live and experience what this life is really about." I say to myself finally feeling peace for once. "I never felt peace as 'Maurice' and it seems he died in that lab and was reborn into..." I say feeling my face and lastly touching my eyes. "Nightmare."