Project Alpha

Chapter One

It was ten years ago when it happened. Ten years since I lost my family.... But I feel as if I can't do anything to quell the emptiness that I have had for so long. The loneliness I feel every morning when I can't wake up and have a mother that wakes you up in the morning, or a father that picks you up when you fall or even a little brother or sister that you could hold dearly to your heart. At least.... I think that's what a family is suppose too be like, I've never known I lost them when I was five years old, the last thing I remember about them was my mother screaming in agony, as she my father, and my little brother were murdered in front of my own eyes. That's when these men came to me, just as they were about to kill me as well, another had said to stop and that I may be of some use to the Master. Ever since I've lived within the confines of this strange facility, they seem to cooperate with me if I do the same for them. But they put me through a lot of pain, they like to use me for science experiments that they want to do on me until I fall to my knees.

My name is Alerah Blaze and the people here address me by Project Alpha. Once I had arrived here they tattooed a "SUBJECT 1" on my right arm in black letters. They let me rest the first night, but the morning after the torture began. I can do a lot of things that are inhumane, but they say it's perfectly normal for me to be the way I am. They talk a lot about my tests being successful, so I guess if me being able to lift over ten tons is successful then well done to them. Sometimes though I wonder what it would be like to see the sun, and feel warm sand or maybe even grass under my feet. I remember this one time before he died there was an old doctor who was captured by the same people, and his dream was to finally break free from this prison, and see the sun one last time before he died. He never got to fulfill his dream, and asked of me to see the sun for him, he said that he didn't want me to live within the confines of this hell my entire life. The men had heard him saying his dream to me and they injected this peculiar needle into his neck and a few minutes later he was on the verge of death, and after him, I was no longer allowed to speak to any of the other subjects except for the one who lives in the cell with me, her name is Mim and she is mentally ill due to a failed experiment they had done on her.... It worked on me, but according to the doctors, I'm different from all of the other and that's why my "Mental capacity" is still stable, and others are not.

I got out of my metal cot that seems to be the most comfortable thing I have in my life, and look over to Mim, she is probably the only person that will ever talk to me, all of the other subjects are too frightened to speak with me thinking that there will be some controversial punishment for even looking toward me. As I peered over her sleeping form and closed my eyes. Ever since she was tested on she has had the mindset of a ten year old girl, all though her experiment was successful, she is left to die here because of her mental state being the way it is. Sometimes I wish that I could break free from this place and take her with me, I've grown to see her as a sister, and my dream for her is to get her out of here because nobody will ever deserve what the people here and I go through in this hell of a science facility. I shook Mim awake in order for her to get her ready before the men in lab coats came in to wake up the straddles with long electric sticks that most of the older people here call the Sticks of Doom. As she woke up and got her plain white shirt on just as all the subjects do here, she looked to me with her innocent hazel eyes that seem to hold no emotion just as mine have done for the past nine years, and spoke just above a whisper so that only I could hear her. "Alerah? Will you be here to put me to sleep tonight?" The young ten year old had been here for three years and is not permitted to see her family, that's what they always said to me, but in reality my family was dead I just didn't have the heart to tell the poor girl the actual reason why she could not see her family. Then the next heat breaking question came to life. "Do you think they will at least let me see my mommy today? Or maybe even my Daddy?" I looked with sad eyes to her and gave the same inevitable response. "Not today Mim, I don't think they want you to see them till you get better okay?" Mim's expression became crestfallen, with the heartbreaking tears, slipping slowly down her cheeks. Just as I was about to hug her and calm her down, I heard the doors to the cell hall open up and the men with the electric shockers, stormed the room, I hastily wiped Mim's tears away, and hushed her, as I stood her up, and put her up into the position, she was supposed to be in every morning at this time.