“Only if you are prepared to enter this dark world can you read them. But if you do – there will be no going back.”

Michelle sat down. She drew the first file toward her. The paper felt heavier than it should, as if it carried the weight of the girl it described.

Trella. The Boss, the rock, the one who pulled me into this world in the first place. I´m ready.

She opened it…

File 1: Trella Moretti, codename “Boss”. Age 15. Born in Southern Italy. Daughter of a respected local “Familia” that acted as protectors of their rural region. She witnessed the violent destruction of her entire family at age 6 after a mafia incursion. Kidnapped, tortured, and sold into human trafficking before acquisition by the Organization. 

Enhancement response: Standard augmentation, strength, agility, reflexes, pain tolerance. Secondary enhancements: Unusual neurological response → heightened intelligence, tactical processing speed, and exceptional muscle reinforcement. Capable of operating heavy firearms one-handed. Training Specialization: Close-to-mid range combat, squad leadership and tactical command.

Psychical evaluation: Outward presentation is calm, confident, charismatic. Subconscious trauma: severe PTSD linked to early life events. Conditioning is stable under most missions, but risk of “red phase” psychotic break when confronted with specific trauma triggers. 

Case note: During operation in Italy, Trella encountered a mafioso linked to her childhood torture. The subject exhibited uncontrollable rage response, slaughtering targets indiscriminately. Required sedation for 72+ hours post-capture.

Wow… That sure is a big burden. Aya wasn´t kidding, when she said the others also have a dark past. Allright, next file…

File 2: Aiko Tanaka, codename “Shadow”. Age 12. Born in Japan. Parents killed in Yakuza turf conflict. Subject survived on the streets at the age of 5 with a group of homeless people, then extracted by Organization scouts and inducted into the program. 

Enhancement response: Standard augmentation, heightened reflexes, improved stamina. Amplified response: Exceptional speed and agility, enhanced proprioception (awareness of body in space). Lightweight physiology amplifies effects — subject is fastest among all active operatives.
Capabilities: Advanced martial arts training beyond standard regimen. Specialized in Japanese swordsmanship. Silent infiltration and elimination; adept at fitting into narrow passages or ventilation systems for sabotage.

Psychical evaluation: Brainwashing stable, no trauma triggers detected. Emotional baseline: calm, detached, almost expressionless.Interpersonal engagement: minimal. Rarely speaks unless necessary. 

Weaknesses and limitations: Physically weaker due to age and size — cannot match strength-based combatants. Prefers stealth engagements; extended firefights reduce effectiveness.

File 3: Mei-Ling Hsiao, codename “Lotus”. Age 14. Born in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, in a poor fishing district. Her father was a violent drunk who gambled away everything and her mother worked long shifts in a textile factory. From a young age, Mei-Ling learned to survive by her own hands. At 6, she was already stealing knives from markets, both for protection and for sport. She’d practice throwing them at fish crates and abandoned walls. One night, her father sold her to a loan shark to pay off debts. That loan shark didn’t want a child — but someone at the Organisation did. Mei-Ling was trafficked, shipped in a crate, and handed over as a subject to the Organisation’s handlers at the age of 7. Unlike some recruits, she didn’t resist training. In fact, she thrived on it. The moment she was given real blades, her natural instincts showed terrifying precision. 

Serums enhanced her reflexes, coordination, and muscle control to unnatural levels. Unlike most, she displayed immediate ambidexterity — she could switch weapons between hands without hesitation, even mid-strike. In advanced training, she created her signature weapon combo: kukri knives linked with a leather cord, modified into rope-dart-like weapons. Instructors noted she not only learned existing techniques but invented her own.

Exceptionally fast learner. Enjoys combat to the point of eagerness — perfect for high-morale missions where enthusiasm matters. Fearless in close quarters. Sometimes overconfident - takes risks just to “show off.” Doesn’t fully understand restraint; tends to go further than necessary when finishing a target. Lotus and Shadow form a highly effective close range combat duo: the “Sword dancers”. 

The Sword dancers… Pretty fitting. How those two move is simply amazing. Who is next…

File 4: Samira Khalil, codename “Cherry Bomb”. Age 13. Expert in explosions, demolitions & booby traps. Extracted at age 6 in Mosul, Iraq. True birthplace is unconfirmed. Her father was a bomb-maker for a local militant group. She grew up in an environment where explosives were as common as kitchen tools. She learned shapes, wires, and chemical smells before she learned to write. At 6 years old, a botched explosion in their safehouse killed both her parents and several fighters. Samira, badly shaken but physically unharmed, was found playing with the unexploded ordinance fragments by scavengers.
Those scavengers sold her on the black market — too strange, too dangerous to keep.

Enhancement response: Standard augmentations, heightened strength, speed, reflexes. Cognitive amplification: enhanced problem-solving and technical intelligence. Manifested in instinctive affinity for chemistry, mechanics, and explosives engineering.

Expert in creation, deployment, and disarmament of explosive devices. Operates a personal micro-lab where she improvises ordnance. Adept at handling military-grade explosives (C4, Semtex, ANFO) but prefers “homemade” devices. Confident under pressure, takes almost gleeful pride in detonations.

Psychical evaluation: Personality: outwardly cheerful, playful, but verges on manic when working with explosives. Displays sadistic satisfaction at successful detonations — possible imprint from early trauma. Possible subconscious trauma: loud sudden noises sometimes don’t trigger fear but instead trigger curiosity and excitement. This inverted psychological reaction is the direct result of her upbringing.

File 5: Katya Morozova, codename “Ghost”. Age 14. Born in a decaying industrial city in northern Russia. Her father was a miner, her mother an office worker. Poverty, alcoholism, and crime were everyday realities. One night, a fire broke out in their apartment building — whether it was an accident, or something else - no one ever confirmed. Katya survived only because she had been outside, wandering the neighborhood at 7 years old. She returned to find her home in flames, her parents dead, and no relatives to take her in. In the confusion that followed, she was simply missed by the system — no one claimed her, no one asked. That’s when the Organisation stepped in, scooping her up under the guise of “rescue.”

Enhancements & training: Serum amplified her reflexes and sharpened her eyesight to near-predatory levels. When tested with firearms, she showed unshakable calm and uncanny precision — never flinching, never overthinking. Her ability to stay still for hours without complaint made her perfect for sniper discipline. She mastered long-range shooting, but also the psychological aspect: patience, detachment, and reading her targets.

Psychical evaluation: Calm, collected, almost languid in her demeanor. Doesn’t show much excitement or stress; it’s as if her pulse rarely rises. She doesn’t “enjoy” killing, but she accepts it as her daily bread, like breathing. Her “invisibility” is not literal stealth — it’s the way she blends into her surroundings by being unremarkable, quiet, and forgettable. She isn’t a natural leader, nor is she eager to bond — she exists best in the periphery, watching.

File 6: Aya N’Komo, codename “Beast”. Age 15. Heavy assault / shock trooper. Born in Central Africa. Born with partial albinism (white hair, otherwise normal pigmentation). Tribal superstition split on whether she was omen or curse; ultimately condemned to be a “religious sacrifice” at age 6, tied to a tree and abandoned. Recovered by Organization scouts and transferred to a training facility.

Enhancement response: Standard augmentation, increased strength, speed, reflexes, endurance. Amplified response: extraordinary muscle density and bone reinforcement. The subject exhibits physical power significantly above other enhanced individuals. Conscious self-conditioning: subject actively pushes physical limits beyond safe thresholds.

Capabilities: Close combat dominance, heavy weapon proficiency, intimidation asset.

Psychical evaluation: No major subconscious trauma markers post-conditioning. Behavioral risk: extreme irritability and very short temper. Incident report: local gang attempted mugging; subject inflicted near-lethal injuries even while consciously restraining strength. Multiple hospitalizations drew law enforcement scrutiny.

Weaknesses and limitations: Hydrophobia. Subject cannot swim, has strong fear of drowning. Sea operations to be avoided.

File 7: Elisabeth “Liza” Grünwald, codename “Poison Ivy”. Age 13. Born in Austria to a dysfunctional family, Elisabeth’s early life was filled with neglect. Her father was violent, her mother absent. By age 5, Liza was already slipping between moments of bright laughter and dark, erratic behavior. When her father finally abandoned her in the woods, she was found days later, malnourished, hallucinating, and half-feral.

That was when the Organisation’s scouts picked her up. On paper she was just “another lost child,” but her instability caught the eye of the scientists. She was sent directly into serum trials, where her fragile mind bent under the pressure. Instead of breaking her, the serum warped her, sharpening her reflexes and intelligence while also amplifying her fractured psyche.

Specialisation: Her poison obsession came naturally. Liza loved watching things writhe and collapse — a fascination that grew once she was given access to the Organisation’s labs. She excelled at gas dispersal systems, toxins, and needle-assassination methods, developing a signature claw that she fills with her own mixes. Thanks to her knowledge of biology and anatomy she also became the teams´ field medic and lab assistant of Dr. Dragovic.

Psychical evaluation: Two-sided: cheerful “sunshine girl” one second, manic devil with a cruel grin the next. Has partial immunity to some of her own concoctions, but careless — sometimes exposes teammates. Forms a dangerous duo with Cherry Bomb — Liza builds toxins, Cherry makes them explode. Their combined chaos has earned them the nickname “The Witches”.