Chapter 1: Project Apex

[Main Character's point of view]

Have you ever had a reflective moment? like one instant that makes you question everything- reality as you know it? Well, I do. I am having that moment right now. The last thing I remember is being bored, I close my eyes and when I open them, I am in a dipper, my body is that of an infant and I am shitting myself wide awake.

What is life? A quality that distinguishes matter that has biological processes, such as signaling and self-sustaining processes, from matter that does not, and is defined descriptively by the capacity for homeostasis, organization, metabolism, growth, adaptation, response to stimuli, and reproduction.

In philosophy, the self is the relationship of an individual's own being, knowledge, and values. Self relates the experiences of one's inner and outer living in presence. What is color? Can we describe one without using another color?

"WHA! WHAA! WHAAA!"

Cries escaped my mouth as I was trying to escape my new reality. It is one thing to piss your pants on purpose or drunk but shitting yourself is not something that can leave your pride intact. In fact, this will no doubt be a cringe moment from now on.

[Seven Years Later]

Things went downhill ever since I woke up in this world and I have yet to bounce back. I was an orphan who on his fourth birthday had my eyes change color for an unknown reason. A month after that happened, my intelligence increased greatly, and shortly after that, some doctor came and "took" me to the hospital in the guise of curing me… I think you can see where I am going here.

Yep, they kidnapped me and put me here. Once that happened, they noticed that I had a special D.N.A. My D.N.A. indicated that I have a special gene that was still dormant even though I still had superhuman abilities. I possessed the X-gene which meant I was a mutant.

The reason why I knew what they said was that I could see and hear ghosts, I listened to what they said about me. Anyway, I spent the next three years in the Facility learning everything I could about it.

I have to thank the chatty scientists who kept preaching about the greatness of the Facility. I managed to learn about a bit of this world's history… well more like this place's history which the ghosts were not able to give me since they were past lab rats who had died.

Speaking of which, I can not die, or more accurately, every time I die, I come back to life a day after. The chatty scientists kept talking about the facility during my experiments. I was thankful to them as it allowed me to distract myself while they literally tried every way to kill me.

I will make sure to rip their head clean. The ghosts were able to fill in the blanks that the scientists were either leaving intentionally or did not know themselves. For those that do not know what the facility is or anything that has to do with any anti-mutant weapon.

Weapon Plus Program's origins date back to 1945, when Truett Hudson, a civilian adviser to the U.S. Army nicknamed Professor Thorton, discovered Dr. Nathaniel Essex's hidden laboratory under a liberated concentration camp.

Funded by the U.S. Government, Thorton formed Weapon Plus, a Program devoted to creating super-soldiers based on U.S. Army's Project Rebirth, which birthed the hero Captain America, retroactively considered to be Weapon I.

In 1945, Thorton located another of Essex's laboratories underneath the Ravencroft Institute and commandeered it, allying with Count Dracula in an attempt to cure vampires of their weaknesses. This effort was foiled when Captain America attacked the institute looking for an army buddy who had been abducted, and Jonas Ravencroft - the director of the institute - unleashed the grotesque abominations created by Weapon Plus' experiments on them.

After the end of World War II, Weapon Plus focused its efforts on combating the U.S.S.R.'s Department X, until in 1965 an alien dragon made of living darkness was discovered by S.H.I.E.L.D. and codenamed the Grendel. Terrified by the prospect of an alien invasion, the Weapon Plus program metastasized into multiple installations each seeking a solution to this new threat.

The first nine installments of Weapon Plus had been partially successful, including Weapon III, which resulted in the creation of the Skinless Man, and Project Homegrown, a.k.a. Weapon VII, which produced the cyborg Nuke.

The Weapon X Program had two iterations, the first being started by criminal mastermind Romulus and sponsored by the U.S. Government's Central Intelligence Agency, while the second one was formed by the Canadian government's Department K after the failure of the first installment.

Although the first iteration successfully applied the Adamantium bonding process to the mutant Logan, he later escaped the Weapon X Facility. The results of Weapon X's experiments on Logan were used by Department K to start a new installment, which resulted in the creation of Deadpool.

The American Weapon X Program later broke off from the Weapon Plus Program when Plus' overseer John Sublime notified Weapon X director Professor Thorton that his superiors wanted the project to shut down.

To prevent subsidiary programs from going rogue, Weapon Plus directly oversaw the creation of the last living weapons operating in the clandestine facilities of The World, employing Bolivar Trask's Sentinel technology.

Throughout the decades, Weapon Plus has used increasingly more extreme methods to create its super soldiers. Weapon X employed genetic alteration, brainwashing, and memory implants. The latest creations were bred specifically to become mutant-hunting weapons much deadlier than Sentinels.

{A/N: I found this on https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Weapon_Plus_(Earth-616)}

After the Weapons Plus Project was shut down, the Facility was created as a branched-off organization with similar goals of creating genetically altered weapons and soldiers. I was now one of those weapons.

They are currently trying to find ways to study and replicate my abnormal traits, specifically the increase in intelligence and my immunity to death.

Now you must be wondering why they would not just dissect me and get this over with. That is because they already did which is how they found out that I could come back from the dead. As soon as that happened, I became their favorite lab rat.

Some of their investors have lost interest in weapons for fighting mutant kind so they came up with a different sales pitch. Eternal life or at least being able to come back from the dead. From what I heard they emphasized the fact that if their work bore fruition, they could mass-produce serum that would grant the investors a second, third, fourth, fifth, and so on amount of extra lives.

They occasionally spent some time during the first two years testing my intelligence before they stopped and focused on purely testing my immortality while trying to create a serum out of it. I can say that their imagination for finding a new cause of death has yet to end.

It has been three years since I started being experimented against, I am now seven years old, and my daily routine is electrocution followed by meals before good old radiation poisoning trials then dissection if there is no scheduled method of death testing that day.

I had made some plans to escape but once they noticed that stuff had gone missing and tracked it back to me, they started to drug me up twenty-four-seven. I became too high to form a plan of escape. The only time I regain my lucidity is when I am dead and about to come back to life.

I noticed that they have been trying to clone me but have not been able to achieve any positive results. The same goes for replicating my abilities. Now, this is just a theory but I think that I would need to be sober for them to witness the true extent of my abilities.

I say that because I noticed that I saw fewer ghosts the more I was drugged but they would never know this because they started pumping sedatives into me before I even started coming back to life. The lack of results has pushed them to perform even more inhuman experiments.

When the experiments were being conducted I could feel everything but I was bound and paralyzed so I could not even move a single finger in my attempts to escape. This might not matter but I was given a name here, Project Apex: PX-07. They tattooed "PX-07" on my chest, right above my heart.

They gave me that name because once they found a way to incorporate my ability into their latest Weapon X program then it would become the Apex weapon. They added the number seven because I was the seventh one in Project Apex and currently the only one who is still alive.

Time flies by when you get tortured... that is a lie. Anyway, on my fifteenth birthday, I was moved to another facility and I was put under the care of Dr. Robert Windsor. His experiments were less dissecting and more observing how far I could go with my abilities.

There was still dissection on the table... well I was the one on the table but there was less over-the-top dissection. He would remove part of my brain to see which part allowed me to interact with ghosts then kill me to regrow my brain. He also started to drug me less and less. I liked him, I will save his death for last.

Once my mind was cleared of the drugs, I slowly learned that I could summon the Ghosts into the world of the living. Being experimented through all those years, I had very little things to think about outside of revenge so I had a few theories at what my ability could and could not do.

To be honest, I had already figured out the trick to summon the dead after the third try but I prolonged it until I had all the tools I needed to escape. While Dr. Robert Windsor was amazed that I could temporarily bring dead mutants back to life and puppeteer them into using their abilities, he failed to notice my escape plan was finalized.

I built a Freeze Ray. It could freeze organic targets until they became an icy statue. I use it in combination with the temporarily revived Mutants to escape. I let the temporarily revived Mutants rampage and get revenge over their killers which also served as a great distraction for my escape.

I made it seem like I was freezing the guards I was encountering while trying to escape as I destroyed the security camera I came across but that was, in fact, a diversion, the temporarily revived Mutants would continue to break the camera as they rampage while I gave my Freeze Ray to one of them to use as they continue rampaging around.

The Freeze Ray was built to be unstable the more it was used and would explode, freezing everything around it, in fact after the third try, it would explode within the next ten minutes freezing anything in a five-meter radius. I was not planning on sticking around for that long.

I activated the small-range EMP that I had created to deactivate whatever tracking device they had placed onto or into me then I used one of the temporarily revived Mutants who had the ability to teleport. My command was to teleport us as far away from here as possible.

The next thing I knew, I was in the middle of a forest. It was only after three days that I managed to get out of it and found out that I was in France. This was good because that meant I had a whole ocean between me and those who would be hunting me.

I summoned some dead people to secretly steal some clothes for me and then headed into the poor neighborhood. I scavaged for any piece of junk I could find and brought it back to the forest. I started to build my home there.

I would often go to populated areas while covering my face in the most inconspicuous way possible to find food or gain money. For most of it, I would steal to get either of the two and thanks to my invisible minions, I would not get caught.

By the time I was sixteen, I had already a bunch of gadgets that would allow me to defend myself against those who could come to kidnap me and I had already taken as well as dismantled the tracking devices that were put in me. I had not forgotten about them but for now, I could not leave the country.

I was planning on leaving the country once I reached the age of twenty-one and managed to make a new identity for myself to well... you know GET MY REVENGE! I had been on the hunt for someone who could make a new ID for me that was able to fool most governments but that took a lot of time.

Especially considering that I had not made sure that I was not being traced back as I searched for someone who could make it. I also had several plans of escape in case I was found but most of them became obsolete once I turned seventeen because I finally remembered HOW and WHY I came here.

[AN: Want more? Like Thanos, I want those STONES!!!]