"this is going to be a problem.", Stated dr. Shoemaker as he crossed his legs putting his feet up on the empty space of the controls. "so much for no powers! He made that titan his bitch.", he complained. Ahissing sound came from him opening a can of cola.

Sip.

I shot back, "maintence is going to love you in the morning".

"Yeah, and how are we going to keep your little toy on the down low, with him destroying half the god damn room". he said agitated at the situation, "we've lost assests sam! we can't cover that up!".

"your right.." I trailed off in thought as i twirled my hair slowly. I didnt expect him to be able to take things so far. "we have other subjects in the test right now as well don't we"

"Yeah give me a second." He sat up tapping away on the keyboard. "there's 5 active and 13 failed subjects who went offline". I leaned in, The console displaying separate bubbles for all nanyte carriers within. two of them flashed with a warning, one gave its last flash before going dark. The main screen immediately flashing to room b.

A young boy of about 8 years, fell down to the snow. his body convulsing violently as the parasites awiftly over took his body. Ripping his shirt off, His skin darkened and his ears, stretched out. His hands and feet growing giant sickle shaped claws. His heel extended and his toes became arched. His agonizing scream becoming a demonic roar as his face morphed into a muzzle. from it jutted serrated teeth as his eye became slitted. Within a couple of hours he would lose all humanity and be a beast.

"Let's make that 14 failed experiments". He proclaimed proudly adjusting his wrinkled collar. "Looks like 0173, has himself a new friend to play with soon". A devilish grin spreading across his rat shaped face.

deep down the site made me want to vomit. I spoke up "we'll blame it on one of them. was anyone else put in today besides 0173.", I asked to mask my displeasment.

he rolled his eyes as he replied, "Yeah and all of them died in room a".

"Good well blame them and corrupt the footage". As calmy as i could to not draw suspicion i walked back to my seat. My tablet flickering to life on the desk upon my aporoach.

Beep. beep.beep.

"House call".

"no, his test results must be in". I said defensively. my body became chilled as I sped through the results. silent and unable to find the words, i slammed it back down to the desk. Tom clearly caught off guard shot up from his seat in confusion. I sped off, the heels of my long boots clapping as I made my way for the door.

"Hey..." He asked, raising his hand in my direction both curious and concerned about what I had learned.

I stopped still facing the door as i responded, "There's something I need to do".

"What? about him?"

"You can handle it until I get back". i left the room in a hustle, his protest still audible as the door closed behind me. The hallway was dimmed by The facilities timed lights. The corridor itself lined with doors on both ends. Each doors label lit with its department or the name of the doctor in charge. I had to get to my lab immediately to confirm the data. If what was on the results were accurate.

Then. This. Would. Change. Everything.

As i dwelled on the implications of the results, A trace of firey red hair caught my gaze. squinting down the dark corridor a feminine figure came into view. the easdropper tore off around the corner. The sound of a woman's heels running echoed down the halls

Tack, tack, tack.

i rounded the very same corner mere seconds later. the culprit was no where to be seen. I hestitated for a split second contemplating on how much she had heard before i pressed on. The door to my lab finally in site. I stepped in Locking the door behind me.

Nnn...nnn....nnn

To the left of the room amongst the cages of animals lining the wall. A small black and white husky wimpered as i entered the room. Among all my test subjects he was my absolute favorite. I walked up to him the tag on his cage had his mutation listed As "canis lupus asteroidea familiaris". I reached through the bars to pat him on the head.

Fwip fwip fwip. His tail began to wag uncontrollably against the floor.

The room was tidy and state of the art. I was the companies golden ticket after all, so anything i needed was mine. Where shoemakers team worked on human subjects. I still prefer animal bioweapons and the nanytes could be used for more than just super soldiers. His cuteness, Fenrir, was one of those lab rats. His nanytes were programmed to emulate the 1-xb starfish mutation. If he lost a limb he would simply regain his limb and if his limb was intact would spawn another cute fur ball.

I walked away from fenrir as he left to lap up some water from the bowl in the corner. I scurred to the fridge containing multiple specimen samples. popping open the small cooler I lifted 0173s samples to eye level. Swirling his infected blood within the vial I murmured, "just who are you..." If my test was right he was more than special to genetx. He was special to the 1-xb itself.

The anxiety tugging at me, i pressed down on the leaf shaped birthmark on my hip. The same birthmark that surprisingly 0173 had on his hip as well. i failed to hold back a yawn as i sat at the microscope. I started to dive into my work, exhaustion envolping me with every blink. i started to Set up a slide with 00173's blood. it was would be morning soon and fenrir would need a new batch of nanytes soon. For now though it was time to get to the bottom of this the mystery or die trying.​