PROJECT: K3L13N

before everything, before my birth I was...well an egg. but that may seem kind of obvious, but this egg was different, special, better than all the others. scientific equipment was this eggs womb, culturing it, changing it, giving it life. Eventually I was born, the light came through to my eyes as i looked around and moved all my body, arms moved first, then my fingers and after that my legs stood up and my feet took place keeping me in balanced equilibrium. Then a sensation washed over me, blood flew all around my body, and then up into my back and a something began to move, appendages, i felt them move and before long they felt like they had connected with me. I could not grasp what was going on but i saw humans, lots of them in white coats and two of them wearing white gloves came over to me and picked me up. After that i do not remember what but i found myself in a room, and a person talking to me. Before long I had reciprocated what she was trying to say "defend and attack". after that the days passed and on the 2,048th day, i had learnt the most prominent human languages, English, french, mandarin, Cantonese and seventeen other languages. In this time i had already grown to be larger than many of the staff, standing at seven foot two and weighing around 130 kilograms.

one day, I was taken into a room. a large room, with a door on the other side, a large mirror stretched an entire side of the room. on a speaker I heard "subject K3L13N you will be tasked with killing the two animals which come through that door". before i could answer the door opened, and two hyenas came out and my fighting instincts kicked in, the two animals hungered for something to eat. they circled me, both of them attempted to get on either side of me but that would not work. I knew that once both of them got on either side of me they would attack, it was basic common sense. even with no previous knowledge of hyenas i could tell they were scavenger animals, small frames which were not big enough to hunt but still an obviously carnivorous diet due to their teeth. Then, suddenly they both pounced. I threw out a kick one yet the other one attacked and bit my shoulder. I grabbed it and threw it against the wall, taking my hand I grabbed the other ones skull and smashed it against the mirror, crushing it and leaving blood splattered over the mirror. then the other one came at me again. In a wild frenzy. I tackled it. Locked it in my arms and crushed its entire torso, leaving it dead in my arms.

after a moment of silence, the loud speaker came on and repeated three times "Subject K3L13N you may exit the test chamber". I was escorted to my chambers and as such that marked the beginning of my combative training. over the course of three months and four days i learnt as many forms of hand to hand fighting as the humans thought i should know. as well as this they taught me about the sciences, biology, physics and chemistry even bringing through lectures from a place such as oxford and Cambridge, telling me to remember everything. the combative training days would always end with me killing an animal, eventually i faced a silver back gorilla which i punched and killed. then, finally i was taken into an even larger room. many other things like me were there, we all had wings similar to that of a dragonfly, tentacles, long dark hair, claws coming from our fingers. although each of us looked different with some being smaller whilst others were larger and some looking more like the female humans or male humans, me being in about the middle of size and taking the appearance of the male human.

"your task will be to fight one another to the death." came a voice from the loud speaker. Carnage. blood splattered the walls. cuts and bruises. lost appendages. loss of blood. But the last one fell. I stood amongst all their corpses, staring at the humans watching me through the wall. "I have done as you asked." I said, spitting out blood of the other subjects. not a single cut or bruise was on my body. Nothing. I was better than them in every way. faster. stronger. I had learnt better than them. I realized that i had gained knowledge of how i could be better, fight better.

THREE YEARS LATER

i was in america, a country where i was dispatched frequently. killing people was what i did, learning about them and then finding out where they were before ending their lives. I was in a long room illuminated by flashing lights and a chair with a stand next to it, a man sat in the chair, a gun in hand. two shots hit my chest only to ping off. his hands trembled as i walked towards him. blood crawled down my arms, the blood belonged to his guards. his name was Doctor james miller. as i came to stand next to him i pierced his skull with a tendril, killing him on the spot. I took his body and tossed it away. i grabbed a suitcase which stood on the stand next to the chair. opening it and grabbed the contents. a genetic modification tool. one which would make your entire body yours to control. I placed it on my arm and the machine injected a small serum into my blood, the needle struggled to pass through my skin but with a single cut from my hand it managed. Then, black. everything went dark. i felt my entire being. blinding but manageable. then. Death. i collapsed on the ground. dead. I had attempted this before. but i could not. death was my only outing. I did not know i had these feelings but I felt released.