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Project Nexus



PROLOGUE- I am Nexus… I am known by several other names as well… N-4, Freak, Lizard, Nex… the last is the only one with any meaning to me. I was born in a government biological testing facility. I did not know my real parents. When I was still young the caretakers told me that my parents were both dead. I have no reason to doubt them; it wouldn’t have mattered because according to them I would spend most of my life in that facility, knowing nothing but the smell of chemicals, anesthetics and various cleaning fluids. But they didn’t count on my escape, and I now know the truth of the facility’s origins.

Chapter 1

They had started genetic testing on me when I was about five years old. They were trying to make a genetically engineered super soldier. The scientists gave me shots of various chemicals that stimulated different hormones and muscle reactions. Made it so I could run faster, jump higher, they changed my eyesight parameters; I could see a pin in the middle of a field from a mile away. Then the complications started… as I got older I became more aware of myself and my personality, I knew right from wrong and I gained my own opinions. I was less willing to cooperate with them. But the real change happened when they tried to splice reptile DNA with my own, they were trying to make me cold blooded… they tried to make it so I would not be detectable by thermal imaging. Shortly after they finished, my DNA began to rewrite itself. I felt as though my skin had turned to molten steel, there was a burning everywhere, the pain became so unbearable that I passed out. When I awoke I was laying on the floor of a white walled cell with one window. I was unaware of what had happened, I yelled for someone to tell me what was going on. I was in such a panic that I had not noticed the slightly deeper tone to my voice it was then that I looked at my reflection in the window. There I stood staring at the beast in the reflection… me. My skin was no longer skin it was now a layer of green scales covering my whole body. My face had elongated into a snout complete with sharp teeth and two piercing yellow reptilian eyes. I also noticed the small webbed flaps protruding off the back of my head, I examined my hands and as expected I found claws, I silently thanked god that I still had my thumb albeit altered as well. That’s also when I noticed a weight added to my lower end and as expected found a long tail.

After my self-examination a thought occurred to me, “I guess that means I’m naked”. I looked down and saw a crude loin cloth fashioned from what I presumed to be what was left of my old clothes. A sudden rage rose inside of me I slammed my clawed fist as hard as I could against the window that would have shattered the window were it not for the thickness and laminate the glass was in. I heard an electronic voice through a speaker, “subject N-4 is in a state of rage, Initiating containment protocol”. Then the room filled with knock out gas and again I dropped to the floor, unconscious.