Super Soldiers: Awakening

[Inbred Chocobo]

"The man that opened the chamber must be the one that made me." Leverik thought. After listenning to the man speak about something, that man came back and lead him somewhere, somewhere that seemed different that where everyone else was going. "I have to admit, I didn't think putting knowledge in you like I did would work at first, but I just didn't fell like teaching you the old fashion way." The man said. "I know you can understand me, I designed you that way. Now Leverik, are you going to anwser or not." Leverik then anwsered with a simple "yes". The man then said "Good, now we must get to work, if you haven't guessed it already, I've done some stuff that the other scientist would kill me if they knew. Not only do you have all the knowledge of the English language, but you should also know what most of your powers are, who you are going to hunt, and what made me do all this." The man smiled "There is much to do, with very little time. Follow me." Then the man took off in a very fast paced walk.

[Astral Harmony]

"You're making things very easy on me, you know? You're very cooperative. Perhaps you remember me and what we used to be?" The woman was still speaking as she fastened bands of leather around the girl's wrists, ankles, torso, and neck. "Don't worry. This won't hurt. It'll just be very intense. Keep your eyes open."

The woman removed the girl's left glove and held her hand comfortingly as some large bowl of sorts was brought down over the girl's head. Suddenly her eyes were forced open and a dim light appeared before her. Automatically, tears rolled down her cheeks. "It's all right. I'll stick by your side this whole time. Okay, we can begin your education. Start up the program!"

"Program commensing. ETA to completion is thirty-seven minutes, fourty-two seconds." Suddenly, visions rushed into the girl's mind. She learned about hundreds of different topics in a handful of minutes. Her vocabulary was up to date in a single minute. She learned how to bake hundreds of different pastries throughout many nations, how to ride a horse, the proper stance to firing many different guns, lots of important names and faces throughout history and today, sexual education, foreign languages, bomb making and defusing instructions, proper instructions to eating meals, venomous and poisonous animals and plants, treating illness, martial arts, origami, disarming, poetry, attention to detail, meditation, disposal of classified information, household chores, flirtacious movements, sports, computer hardware and software, national monuments, hacking, sign language, how to lift heavy objects, dinosaurs, chess, the law system, dancing, driving a racing vehicle, native dress, religion, gymnastics, anime date simulation games, the stage of a newborn human from conception to birth, the latest hairstyles, picking locks, mythical creatures, fatty foods, mixing alcoholic beverages, noble attire and attitude, ceremonies, pressure points, panties, kareoke, cool insults, muscle mass, illegal drugs, criminal offenses, dead baby jokes, the Internet, Heaven and Hell, faking tears and blushing, hand gestures, various alloys, cake decorating, genetic dysfunctions...it all flashed through her mind, expanding her horizons in mere seconds. She grit her teeth as her tears dripped from her chin and gripped harder at the woman's hand. Her head quivered and suddenly...it was all over. The dim lights from before weren't even there. The woman let go of the girl's hand and quickly lifted the bowl...the helmet off of her, placing her hands gently on the girl's face.

"Good god, are you all right? C'mon, Kristen, speak to me!" The girl, Kristen, blinked a few more times and stared at the woman for a while, then uttered "Who are you?"

[Krylo]

When Achilles had awoken, he hadn't acted like the others. He had been used to the dreaming state. The dreaming state in which nothing was real and nothing could be felt. Free of any physical sensations.

And so, when he awoke, he took a deep breath and smiled at the feeling of air rushing into his lungs. His hands wandered to the glass where he appreciated the feeling of it against his skin, cool and hard. It resisted as he pushed against it gently, testing it, and this made him smile too, until it opened up.

The outside world was cold and bright, but he stepped out of his capsule calmly, his eyes moving directly toward the bright light. Achilles savored even the pain and cold. It was uncomfortable, but it was better than his existence up until now. At least when he felt pain he was feeling something. He was feeling alive.

The droning on of the scientists was something he quickly zoned out as he was moved to a chair to sit. He couldn't understand what they were saying, and their rambling was boring, so, instead he looked about the room, commiting it to memory as he waited to be allowed to stand.

It wasn't long before a man grabbed his hand to lead him away, and Achilles followed, more out of curiousity than anything. He didn't know who these people were, but he also didn't know to be cautious. Curiousity with his new found freedom and this world was his driving force now, and so, when he was shown to some clothes, he poked them at first. Picked them up, toyed with them. Even tasted them. He then smiled and looked back at the scientist and then the clothing, realizing that the man, who was now rambling again, was wearing similiar articles, although they were not exactly the same.

Achilles donned his clothing, shirt, pants, coat, socks, boots, etc., putting it all on in a way to best resemble the scientist standing behind him. His mimicry kept him from any real mistakes in dressing. At least after the scientist came up and adjusted his shirt so as that it was no longer on backwards.

[Seeker]

When Xavier woke up his head was much clearer, the blurryness from the day before had gone and he could think freely. Despite that he still didn't know what was going on. As got up and dressed by using the clothes in the way the man had showed him yesterday, something instinictively told him to prepare himself. Without realizing what he was doing he began going through various exercises. These were designed to limber both his mind and body as well as tweak his muscles into a state of "readiness". As he carried out the actions with a vacant mind the short man from the day before entered the room and took a seat to watch. Xavier continued on with the exercises for a while longer before finishing, it wasn't until then that he noticed the man sitting in the room.

"Well done Xavier. I can see that the instructions implanted into your brain have asserted themselves nicely."

Xavier looked at the man in shock, as he tried to recall what he had just spent the last hour or so doing, "What exercises? I don't know what your talking about, I don't even know who I am. What is going on?"

The man stood up and walked toward the door, "Come with me Xavier and we'll start the training I spoke of yesterday, this will help to make it all more clear."

As Xavier followed the man through the door, He asked, "Will you at least tell me who you are?"

"Very well, my name is Dr. Lacon and I created you to be the ultimate knight. The rest will be clear to you soon."

Before Xavier could reply they arrived in a new room dominated by many large chairs with oddly shaped bowls above them and many small tubes attached. He could see that some of the chairs were occupied. The doctor gestured for Xavier to have a seat in the nearest one.

"This will be a rather disconcerting experience, but one that is quite neccesary I'm afraid. Please to don't close your eyes or we shall have to begin all over and you wouldn't like that much."

The bowl was lowered onto Xavier's head and images began to pour into his mind's eye. It was as if everything that had ever happened had been compressed down to just barely processable size and was being forcably inserted into his brain. This lasted some fourty to fifty mintues and as was quite unpleastant. After the "education" Dr. Lacon again led Xavier to the his room and instructed him to eat and then rest.

For the second time Xavier lay at the edge of wakefulness and thought, "I still don't really know who I am."

[Bailey]

In his compartment, interface felt the doors trying to open.
"grgagh."
he grumbled
he melded with the capsule and held the door closed

[MNMinion]

Joe followed a man to a room with several chairs and seemed to recognize it, like most of the odd things he had seen so far.
The man directed him to a chair, he sat down and was straped down into it,"Dont close your eyes", the man said and moved a bowel over him.
Information seemed to come back to him in seconds, some framiliar, some not. He had a liquid pouring down his face, no, they were tears.
When it suddenly stoped he felt like someone had slaped him. He looked up at the man and learning so much he still didnt know his name but knew he was close.
"That went well", the man said,"Sorry I couldnt give you more but we have a lot to do".
"Thats alright, Ill live", Joe replied.

[Bailey]

There seemed to be a large computer system linked to the capsule. Through it, Interface began to explore.

He soon found a camera viewing a room that the other super soldiers were being brought to, and it seemed to have some sort of bowl that was transferring information.

{hmmm, wonder what that is. guess I'll check}

Interface used the computer pathways to find the bowl, and discovered a veritable sea of information. He found the portion designated for himself, and absorbed it. Then he began idly searching through the other parts of the information, learning of the powers and abilities of his siblings, as well as plans for future soldiers.

[Astral Harmony]

The woman stepped away from the chair after releasing Kristen, her face one of sad, but well disquised regret. Kristen didn't know what to think, but the woman set her down the right path. "My name is Patricia McCormick and I am a researcher for the super soldier program. Well, actually, one of its smaller program branches, which is involved with individual clients, and my particular branch is you."

"Me?" Kristen said. Patricia nodded. "Yes. It was called the Total Force program, and the purpose of it was to bring this dying world a miracle. That, too, would be you. You are a miracle. One of a number of them that have been reborn inside this facility through the Total Force program and similar others. Your real name is Kristen Goldman. Unfortunately, that is all I can tell you for right now. I wish I could tell you more because it would mean a great deal to me for you to remember your past but I just can't talk about it. During your duty as a savior for this world, you'll be referred to by the alias of Nancy McCormick. Now if you'll follow me, we'll discuss what the Total Force program has done for you."

"One question." Kristen spoke. "Is there a chance that you'll ever be able to tell me?"

Patricia stroked her cheek, her slightly sad expression engraving itself into Kristen's mind. "Hopefully one day, yes, I can tell you everything." Kristen nodded quickly and followed Patricia back out into the hall.

[Inbred Chocobo]

"Comon Leverik, your taking forever" The scientist yelled as Leverik slowly followed him. "Now I should warn you that what I want to do is going to be completely top secret. No one needs to know of this alright, for what we are going to be doing will be 'different' that what plans they have for you." Then the scientist opened a door to a room. The room had no camera's, no furniture, no anything. "Come in and close the door" He said, and Leverik then walked in and closed the door tightly. "Alright then, first off, you know about your powers correct?" Leverik nodded "Good, you also should know about everyone else in the project Super Soldier." Again, Leverik nodded. "Now, do you know what I am planning for you and what they are planning for you." Leverik shook his head. "Alright then, here it is." The scientist then started to go on about his plans about what to do.

[Bob The Mercenary]

"It seems everything's going according to plan." The head scientist said with a smile. Suddenly, a metallic grinding noise made him jump. He ran over towards the remaining closed capsules and examined them until he found the problem. He sighed. "Oh damnit, Captain Bridger, could I have a crowbar over here at number 2, please? It seems like one of our participants found his Christmas present a little early."

While the captain was searching the storage cabinet for the requested implement, the scientist took a closer look at the boy inside. He had a dazed and distant look on his face. "Just what are you doing?" He then noticed the excess metal near the pins and latches of the capsule.

"Doctor!" The leuitenant motioned for him. "Look at the screen." The scientist ran over and was instantly in front of monitor #1. It was displaying thousands of random symbols across the screen, symbols no one recognized. He tried tapping several different button combinations, but the system remained locked. "What the hell? Do we have a virus?"

"Hmm, this doesn't look like any virus I've ever seen?" Leiutenant Lonnquist responded.

"A hacker maybe?"

They continued watching the screen until the intercom crackled.

This is the "classroom". I'm detecting some sort of interference in our database. We can't continue until this problem is fixed.

"They're experiencing it too?"

The captain came back with the crowbar and approached capsule 2. Before he could begin forcing it open, something caught his eye. The being inside was twitching involuntarily. "Uh, doctor?"

The scientist ran back across the room and took one look at the boy. "I...I think we may have found our hacker."