Genetics: SRD

[TaintedHeart]

::OOC-Hey, I'm new to literotica but really bored so if anyone wants to join go ahead, I'll be happy to rp with you.::

For years the SRD was kept well under cover. Their doings were specifically classified, all cases they opened were 'closed' to the public soon after, though their research was continued. The SRD, Scientific Research Department took those from the streets, those who showed abnormal skill or considerable abilities to their labs, and experimented on them. Their target. To find just what made them like that...how they worked, how they learned. How to be like them. They kept these operations so concealed that no one knew about it, or had the faintest of clues. They had things from empaths, to psychokinetics, to anthromorphic humans and everything between. Never before had they been able to create anything different...until now.

The ultimate unique individual, crafted of various species of the Superior, what they called the gifted and ability enhanced humans they held in the labs. They called her EX-AR1, or Ari for the closeness of her experiment name. The appearance of a healthy, somewhat thin eighteen year old, with pale skin, long silver hair, and the ears of a feline. Multi-colored eyes were made to be known, but Ari was still under way of being finished. What she did, they did not know. They found her alive from a thirteen story fall from the middle of a sky scraper, unharmed. Three years of genetic enhancements increased her in mind and physical abilities, but exactally what she did, they didn't know. They wanted to find out.

"Scheduled for awakening in five...four...three..two..." The clearing beep of the water filled observation tube, the reinforced unbreakable glass giving them a clear visual of the magnificent creature, flawless picture of amazing beauty, what they had finally found need to give the title; perfect. Her eyes flashed open, the wires inserted into her naked body in such places where they could observe her vitals quivering as she jerked to life. She gasped for breath. Slowly the water began to drain. The scientists of SRD had made sure that there were no remaining records of her, that she'd died in the hospital, she had no name and no family as far as the hospital had known. So, technically, Ari did not exist. One of the four scientists smiled.

"Welcome home, Ari..." She gave a groan, now resting by her knees at the bottom of the tube. She blinked deeply, her eyes shifted from blue to gold, then deep green as she glanced around, meeting nothing but dark frames of people and bright light. Where was she? A better question, who was she?!

 

[SlickQuiver]

I watched as the water drained from her tube. Her beautiful naked body lay in the tube in front of me. "Welcome home, Ari..." I said. "I am Dr. Alan Hanes, and these are my colleagues." I approached the observation tube, and opened the front. She stumbled out, and I caught her in my arms. She was barely able to hold herself up on her legs, which were weak from years of inusage.

She looked around the lab, confused, not knowing where she was. "Don't worry, my dear," I said, holding her close and comforting her. "I know you're scared and confused. But come with me, and I'll explain everything." I assisted her through the lab, she looked around fascinated at all the various tubes and beakers. I chuckled to myself, as I opened a door, and brought her inside to a simple, plain bed. I picked up her smooth, naked body and placed it on the bed. "You need some rest. Sleep for now, we'll talk when you wake up."

 

[The Jeffinator]

You have an AWESOME idea here. I want to play.

 

[The Jeffinator]

Damn, someone beat me to it again.

 

[TaintedHeart]

::OOC-I don't care how many people join, you can if you want...::

Ari's feline-like ears perked at the sounds, her eyes wide as she listened, taking in the words with superb hearing, but not understanding many of them. She finally brought herself to stand, the wires snapping loose and falling limply. Doctor Alan Hanes? Was she hurt? Why couldn't she remember anything. Everything seemed so blurry, her words came as simple answers, aware of her naked state, her mind reduced to the simplicity very much like a child. In time, perhaps faster than they had estimated, her knowledge would boost considerably. But for now, she was quite unnoticing of much of the happenings.

As he led her through the lab, her legs unwilling to fully cooperate, or even hold her light weight, her still quite wet body soaking in every sense it could reach, the air around, the warmth of the room, the humidity, every little detail did not go unnoticed. She smiled in facination at the simplest of things, colorful liquid flowing through glass tubes, beakers and machines set out for their research. Unknowingly, every one was on the data following their newest experiment, one that they would not have to toss away after they were done. One that could potientially prove very interesting.

"Sleep? But..Ari..need not to sleep.." She struggled with the sentence, not seeming quite that able to reverse the way he spoke, referring to herself as the name he'd called her by. She'd fix it later. But a few years inside of a observation tube and under a deep sleep, and the last thing she wanted to do was sleep. But her mind and body weren't interacting correctly. That simple stroll around the dark lab had wore her out, her body unused to so much movement. Her long, waist length silver hair fell over a shoulder as she laid there, eyes shifting from deep green to a violet like blue.

 

[SlickQuiver]

I could see she was tired from her latest excursion. I lay her down on the bed, stroking her long silver, hair. I could still see the confusion in her eyes as they rapidly changed colours and she looked around the room, trying to take in as much as she could. "You're tired, you need rest. Go to sleep Ari." I chuckled to myself. It wasn't often that I had such an attractive naked woman on a bed in front of me who I was telling to go to sleep. I stroked her hair one last time before standing up, and heading to the door of the room. I turned back and looked at her in the room, smiled softly, and flicked off the lights before closing the door. I smiled to myself. So far, experiment EX-AR1 has so far been a success. I headed over to the computer to program in the latest observations of the experiment.

 

[TaintedHeart]

It was confusing for her. There was so much to see, and so much to do, to feel and touch that she couldn't bring herself to fall asleep. The room itself was pleasently warm, with white walls and little furniture. Through the darkness, those almost illumnating eyes turned a peculiar shade of blue-silver as she glanced around in the darkness. Why did she have to go to sleep? Hadn't she just woke up? More so, what had happened?

Ari stared hard at the door for a moment, thinking deeply on it. She couldn't remember a thing, nothing. Who or where she came from. Not a thing. She didn't puzzle it for much longer, rolling carefully on to her side, facing the far wall, her long hair covering most of her body as she closed her eyes, drifting off into a uneventful sleep as he had requested.

 

[SlickQuiver]

As I typed up the results of the various tests into the computer, I cursed my job. Every time the government had assigned me a new experiment to test, it was always the same. I would hold them in tubes, insert various probes and needles, take fluid samples. Always the same work. They were never even treated like human beings, only scientific oddities for us to look over under our microscopes. I had felt bad about it for every one of our subjects, but even more for Ari. Every time I laid eyes on her, I felt something about her. Something I couldn't describe, but I knew she was special. I finished inputting the results, and clicked send. A few seconds later, an ominous message appeared on the screen.

Results recieved.
Subject is a threat to national security.
Destroy all relevant test results and terminate subject.

I blinked hard, unable to understand the words on the screen. I never knew our company was this evil. I looked around the lab, looking at all the other computers, thankful that nobody was using a computer at the time. That message would have been sent to every computer in the lab. I looked back at the door where Ari was being contained. I had to do something.

I ran up to the door and burst it open. There was no time to take anything with us, I just picked Ari up, wrapped her naked body in the blanket. She woke up, and looked at me confused. "Ari, we have to leave, immediately. Don't make a sound," I whispered to her as we snuck out the back.

 

[TaintedHeart]

::OOC-It's just slllightly futuristic, not too much though ::

Ari was yanked to a sudden wake as she'd seen Dr. Hanes re-enter the room. Blinking at his words, resisting the urge to ask him where they were going, or why they were leaving, she walked at the almost jog pace with him, her legs somewhat more comfortable with the different of gravity that the air around them was subjecting her to. Her ears flickered, catching words of those far back in the room, storing them deeply in her mind as they entered the back way elevator and proceeded the decent from the forth floor of the SRD building. Safely in the elevator she finally brought herself to speak, voice with a child-like innocence and curiosity.

"Taking Ari...where to?" She asked as the elevator opened, many men rushing about, not seeming to pay even the smallest ammount of interest in the man and the feline-earred teenager, not even those long silver locks seemed to be odd to them. They were much used to seeing such things, and didn't bother in things that weren't their concern. As they exited from a long hallway, a man down the hall, the security guard called out.

"Hey wait! Where are you taking that?" None the less, the scan through on the door sent a little 'beep' to all security on the floor. Ari still did have that barcode, which went off as soon as she exited the building, imprinted on her wrist. Without a second glance back, smiling somewhat, a slow, silvery sheen swept over the floor of the long hallway, towards the door they'd just exited. She'd created ice. And none the less, the guard was slipping in no time.

The outside brought such facination to her now deep orange eyes. The narrow alleyway of the massive building, set alongside another, and still on rows down as far up as the eye could reach were down the entire street. The smells, the light, everythingseemed like something to explore. She jumped somewhat as a odd looking plane jetted past over head, and people at the end of the alleyway, where the streets and cars were, standing on a walkward of blue energy, going the opposite direction of traffic on the newest technoledgy, a energy path.

 

[SlickQuiver]

I was shocked when we were escaping to see her create a trail of ice to foil our pursuers. Despite all our tests, I had no idea she could do things like that. Maybe this is why the order was sent out... Maybe she can do much more than we know...

I kept running with her down back alleys, avoiding the main roads and energy paths. Who knows what kind of attention we'd catch if I was seen running down the street with a naked woman in a blanket? I kept running, before realising we had nowhere to run. The SRD knew where I lived, they would track us down in hours. I looked into Ari's eyes, which were now white with fear. "We have to keep running," I assured her. But where to?

I ran down into a back alley, and I could see the exhaustion in her face. I laid her down on the ground. "Have a rest here," I said. We should be able to stay out of the SRD's detection range for a few minutes here. "Get some rest, we have to keep going soon," I assured her, before slipping into the back door of a nearby shop. I spent a few minutes inside, before coming back out with a set of women's clothing: a red t-shirt and a tight black skirt. I handed them to her on the ground. "Put these on, we'll attract less attention."

 

[TaintedHeart]

Those ever changing eyes watched and waited, alert at even the smallest sound or sight or smell she could gather in the surrounding area. None the less, Dr. Hanes to return. The outside world was interesting, captivating...but so different than she could remember it. Remember? She blinked. Small blurrs and inches of things that she'd seen when she'd been awake flashed in her head. Pieces of a massive puzzle. They were too small and too short to try and peice back together...but things had changed. Definately. She didn't need to have been awake three years ago to know this.

As he returned, she stood, dropping the blanket still the innocent air of unknowing, slipping the shirt over her head and the skirt around her waist. Drawing her long, somewhat wavy silver hair from behind her, those soft white feline ears flickering somewhat she gave a small smile at the accomplishment, seeming to recognize that they were, in fact, in danger, yet did not take to it so roughly. She paused, eyes shifting to a curious emerald as she watched him for another moment, almost thoughtfully. Then reaching up to touch one of those ears, she pulled the little earring from it, showing it to him. It was a tracker. Almost as if she'd known what it was, but nearly impossible, none the less. Another moment of thinking and her pretty, young features lit into a confident smile, turning her back on him and closing her hands, reopening them to reveal a small yellow bird. It tweeted. Turning back to face him, she showed it to him, closing the hoop earring around it's talon and letting it fly off.

"There go! Bye bye birdie!" She said with a smile back to him. It was a shockingly odd sight, very shocking. It seemed she knew exactally what she was doing, yet didn't at the same time. None the less, she waited now for him to lead once more.

 

[SlickQuiver]

I paused in shock as she removed the earring and it flew away. I had seen the test agents place those earrings on all our subjects, but I had always thought it was only for identification, not tracking. I shook it off, and grabbed her hand. "Ready to go?" I asked her. She gave me a silent nod and we kept running.

As we ran, I looked at her. She seemed fearful, yet calm. She seemed tired, yet determined to go on. I had never been intrigued by a test subject like this before... No. She wasn't a test subject. She was Ari. A person. I watched her long flowing silver hair trail behind us as we ran, and realised how beautiful it was.

I still had no idea of where to go. I figured if we got to my house and got the car, we could drive away. We'd be much harder to find on the road, and it would give me some time to think of where we could hide. We kept running around the back alleys to reach the familiar locale of my house, only to stop dead in our tracks to find the perimeter of the house crawling with SRD agents. I quickly held us behind the corner as an agent looked in our direction. "Shit, we can't get in there..." I whispered to her. It took me only a second to remember what I'd seen her do. "Can you get us in there without being seen?"

 

[TaintedHeart]

Ari paused, recognizing those men, dressed in black, police like outfits with the embroidery SRD on their hats and chests, carrying guns and lights, net deployers to capture and such. Another flash back. They were evil, that seemed to fill her mind. She paused, giving a thoughtful look before nodding. Turning to face him, her hands took a glow of a celestial like light before she ran one before his face in a waving motion, slow enough for the light emitting from her hands to wash over him. With another pause, taking a deep breath and concentrating as well as she could, she repeated the action over herself, her eyes closed as she did such. Opening her eyes, still very much with a face of her own, those delicate, flawless features visible, she'd changed their appearances, dramatically. Almost as if it was shape shifting, a rare gift to find singularly, even more so in a person along with other abilities as well.

"Temporary..." She warned him, fixing her long, now black hair with a pony tail and smiling. It was quite easy to tell Ari was herself, her simple speech and ever changing eyes, pretty features made it easy. Though none the less, she pulled a set of sunglasses from her pocket, slipping them over her eyes. They both wore now, one of those very familiar SRD uniforms. They could go in and out and not be seen or even worried about now. But when Ari said temporary, she ment it. They'd have to be quick.

 

[SlickQuiver]

I smiled. "Thank you," I said. I held her by the arm as we walked into the house nervously, hoping nobody would see through our disguises. Several SRD guards gave us puzzled looks, as though they did not recognise us. I ignored them, hoping we did not seem overly suspicious. I headed to the garage of my house, and when nobody was looking, we slipped in.

I approached my car. It was old and rusty, definitely not a "chick magnet" at the SRD. Still, it got my job done and got me to and from work. Now, without a job, I wouldn't have to use it anymore, except for this one last ride. I ushered Ari into the passenger seat before hopping in the driver's side myself. I looked over at her and smiled, before I saw her hair flicker a tell-tale flash of silver. I opened my mouth in shock, before looking at my own disguise start to fade. "Damnit! We have to get out of here!" I yelled, as I slammed down on the garage-door opener, and watching the door slowly creak open.

I slammed on the gas as the car shot out of the garage, watching as the final wisps of our disguise disappeared. "Get down!" I yelled to Ari, as I pushed her head down below the seat, just before a speeding laser beam shot past our window. I continued to drive, as the barrage of shots and lights surrounded the car. I could feel the metal being torn of the rim of my car as I drove, and deftly shot around the corner and away from the bullets.

We were now speeding down the road, heading towards the highway. "I don't think we've lost them yet, Ari. We've got to get out of here!" as the car tore down the road.

 

[TaintedHeart]

The lasers, the lights, Ari was frightened out of her wits. She glanced around franctically, unable to think properly to do anything much, before she spotted those cars which were much more sophisticated as they headed toward the freeway, the flying cars over head heading on as well. Flying. She wasn't sure if she could do it, but a glance ahead of them told her other wise. The on ramp itself was crowded, but in order to get the car skybound, she'd have to try as hard as she could. The last of that disguise faded, leaving her now in her previous form, her eyes a frenzied shade of blood red as she looked to him at the side, flinching as a jet of blue ripped through the seat, skimming her right shoulder. She winced, though ignored it, as they finally sped towards the end of the traffic. Eyes wide, hands taking on that glow she thrust them out to grasp the dash board, closing her eyes as the light engulfed the entire car. Just before they were about to collide with the other car, it took a odd turn upward toward the sky traffic, giving them an easier way. With nothing but the energy from her hands lifting the car, Ari whimpered, sending it a boost of energy, lifting furture into the flurry of cars, dimming the glow of that abnormal power.

Tiring quickly from sending the energy of it her own into the car to keep it flying, she gazed around quickly, spotting several models that were enabled to fly on their own. In a desperate attempt to give the car it's own abilities, she began to rearrange it, taking less than a few moments until the car was a perfect replica of those other thirty cars like it. The glow disappeared and she released the dash board, breathing heavily in the massive release of energy and power. Though none the less, below on the ground the men were out of their cars, walking in the opposite direction of the traffic in attempt to locate a car that was no longer there. Ari reclined in the now soft, velvet black passenger seat, giving a sigh and a weak smile of achievement.

"No find now..."

 

[SlickQuiver]

I looked around, dazed, as the car lifted up off the ground and flew into the air. I didn't know what to say. Was there anything she couldn't do? I looked down at her exhausted face with a sense of pride on it. "Amazing! They'l never find us now!" I said, wrapping my arm around her shoulder in joy. "We did it!" I pulled my arm away, only to see it covered in a deep crimson fluid. I looked at her arm, to see it seeping blood.

"Ari, you're bleeding!" I said, applying pressure to her arm with my fingers, trying not to crash the car in the sky. I had never driven a flying car before, so I was understandably nervous. I removed my hand from her for a second to rip off some of the fabric from my shirt, which I tied around her arm. "That should hold it for a while," I said. "At least until we get where we're going." Wherever that is, I thought to myself.

As we flew through the night sky, I remembered back to being a child. Whenever we would go on our annual summer cottage trip, we would always have to take a flying car to get there to cross the lake. "The cottage!" I blurted out, as Ari looked at me confused. "Could it still be there?", I exclaimed, as I banked the car hard left. I looked down below us, to the familiar lake we crossed every year. "I think I know where we can hide, Ari."

 

[TaintedHeart]

Ari smiled, the words a good sound to hear. The more he spoke, the more she began to learn, or re-learn. She wasn't sure if she could manage another stunt like that tonight, not now at least. Her body automatically began responding to her weary state, fixing the problem as best it could. Blinking, looking out the window for the first time since the car had went skybound, she grinned despite her tiredness, leaning over to watch the water as the sky began to darken in delight.

"Safe now, hm? Oh, just a cut. Ari will be fine." She said reassuringly as he tied the fabric around her arm. The bleeding was contained as the process of healing began, the girl's genetics enabling the cut to start sealing almost immediately. She glanced at him with wide, light blue eyes now, smiling in response.

"Why do you help Ari...?" She asked, absentmindedly playing with a strand of her long silver hair, those soft white feline ears twitching as she turned her head back toward the water of the lake. She was curious as why he did it, why he gave up his job and such for her. She'd realized now, just what this about. Why they were following them, why they had left the lab in the first place. It was because of her. But why had he done it? Given so much up for an experiment? Ari did not seem to mind so much, being so innocently nonchalant about the troubles of the world around her. Anyone would have been amazed how calmly she went about such things...though then again, Ari was nothing close to normal, or something to not be amazed over.

 

[SlickQuiver]

"Well..." I stammered. Why was I helping her? I had always suspected they had terminated test subjects, but I remained in denial, not allowing myself to think I could have been responsible for something so vile. Now, perhaps that the truth had stared me in the face, I couldn't allow it to happen. Or maybe, it was something about Ari.

"I couldn't let them kill you." She did not seem shocked to hear me say they were going to kill her, even though I had not told her that before. She seemed calm, almost as if she knew. Almost as if she wasn't afraid. I looked down, to see the island where our old cottage lay. I flew the car down, and landed right next to the old, rickety cottage. I helped her out of the car, and led her inside. "We're home," I told her.

The inside was falling apart, with very few luxuries. But at least we were safe here. I took her over to the couch, and sat her down. I removed the blood-soaked makeshift bandage, expecting to put another proper one on, only to see her skin prefectly healed. I wasn't at all surprised. "You must be tired, have a rest."

 

[TaintedHeart]

"Thank you..." She said with a soft tone, smiling somewhat and laying down finally, streching her body out over the couch, twirling a finger around her long silver hair, her changing eyes set up on the ceiling. It was a wonder how absentmindedly she viewed the world. Such trival matters ment little to her, a pure unknowing mind kept her in an odd balance of harmony with everything around her. But what if they caught her? Such a demonstration of power and ability, either she would be destroyed, or kept for furture research. Why did the SRD do this? Because they could. Because, technically, Ari belonged to them, and any other wise, she did not exist. But Alan seemed intent on keeping that from happening.

"What do you do now?" She asked quietly, tracing a glowing finger over the untouchable small dots of the ceiling above, a trail of silvery light following after her as she smiled softly, crossing her legs as she lay there and turning her head to watch him curiously. She was beginning to get used to it, walking, running, soon she wouldn't have to stop for resting, at least not as frequently as she had to now. The gravitational pull wasn't so much of a strain on her. But still, curiousity and the will of knowledge met her as her brain, left with nothing else to concentrate on began to dig out what had happened before in blurry flashes through her mind.

 

[SlickQuiver]

"We wait," I laughed. "There's nothing to do. All we can do is hide here, so they don't kill us." I walked over and sat next to her head on the couch. I held her hair in my hands and stroked it. "This is all there is, Ari. If we hide in a public place, we may be found and killed. We may have to hide here for years." I looked down into her pale blue eyes.

"I'm sorry, Ari."

 

[TaintedHeart]

None the less, she smiled brightly at his words. Perhaps the meaning didn't sink in...perhaps she'd almost unknowingly came up with another brillant idea. Whatever it was, she didn't seem too worried about it. Death didn't seem to faze her much. It was odd, but remarkably brave of her. Her soft white ears flickered as she paused, taking in another flood of mental images, until finally catching one. A small kitten, and two people she did not know. It was confusing, but for an odd reason she felt a surge of wanting to know about it. Eyes chaning a odd shade of lavender-green she looked back to him from the ceiling.

"Who is Ari? Ari cannot remember...nothing but pictures..." She said softly, the look of thoughtful concentration spreading over her head. Perhaps he didn't know. Then again, only higher scientists knew those things. The one's who tested powers, temperments, abilities of the subjects that were not deemed too hazardous, or were deemed quite useful to their company. Those were the one's who knew who she was. Everything else toward everyone else below them knew almost close to nothing.

 

[SlickQuiver]

"I'm sorry, Ari. I don't know." I stroked her silky hair more. I placed a hand on her forehead to comfort her. "They don't reveal that information to the scientists. It was only my job to do tests on you. The flow of information is highly restricted at SRD, they wouldn't tell me anything." I lifted her head up, and placed it on my lap. "All I know is they brought you in 3 years ago, after an accident, that only you survived. You survived because of your strange powers, and now the government feels threatened that someone as strong as you exists. That's why they want you killed."

I stroked her hair more. "But I won't let them do that to you, Ari. I promise you."

 

[TaintedHeart]

Ari listened as he spoke attentively. Oh, but she'd expected that. It didn't bother her much though, it was something she'd be sure to discover later. But for now, they had to stay alive. And out of the SRD's way. Because with 'something' like Ari out on the streets, they'd have everything worry about. Discovery, being revealed to the public, perhaps even a uproar from the press. If they didn't destroy her, or get her back into custody, then they would have trouble. His words were mildly comforting, for she was sure it'd be more than difficult to stay alive on her own, with so little knowledge of everything around. A certain fondness was expressed as her eyes took on a delighted shade of gold, and she wrapped her slender arms around his middle, hugging him gently.

"Thank you! Ari is happy for now. But happy are you? Perhaps happy you shall be, hm?" She stood, testing her ability to move freely, obviously rather full of energy. She scanned the area, that odd white light engulfing her delicate, soft hands as she thought, wandering about the cottage curiously before turning back to him.

"What do favor?" She asked curiously, delicate movements of her hands drawing forth various objects, small enough to hold. Animals, miniture versions of items that perhaps even the richest people would not be able to have. The extent of exact power Ari had was amazing, the very reason for someone to fear her abilities. But her current state of being, she seemed less than harmless.

 

[SlickQuiver]

"Yes, Ari. I am happy," I said as I stood up and approached her. I hugged her and held her in my arms. "I'm happy to be here with you safely." I saw her perform her delicate flicks of her wrists, calling forth miniature objects. A small, silver ring appeared , which I held tenderly before slipping it onto her finger. "This ring will be a sign of how happy we both are right now," I said with a smile. I held her in my arms more. "I'm glad you're safe, Ari."

 

[TaintedHeart]

She smiled with a nod. Yes, safe was a good thing. But waiting would presume a problem. How long they had to wait would only depend on the patience and technowledgy of the SRD. None the less she allowed him to hug her, giving him a still bright smile, her eyes changing to a sea green color.

"Yes, safe. Safe is good..." Silence followed as she found herself gazing into his eyes fondly before she blinked. With a sheepish grin she tugged herself away from him, venturing once more around the cottage curiously to hide the hint of a blush, her long silver hair following after her.

"What now then?"