Spider-Man: Duty And Loss Chapter 56: Death Part 2

"Created to replace a weapon of Death."

Laura's eyes shook for a second before the darkness that surrounded them disappeared.

White walls surrounded the young Laura as she stayed curled in a corner. With her knees up to her chest she stared blankly at the opposite white wall. There was no sound except the shallow breathing coming from her own mouth. Covering her was only a hospital gown, white like the rest of the room.

Starring into nothing, she twitched as she heard the only door to the room open. *Click* A man in a lab coat walked in with a clipboard and waltz right up to her. She didn't make a sound or move, only continuing to stare at a new person once again.

The man with the clipboard started to scribble out notes as he spoke to himself. "Subject X-23 seems compliant, no outward signs of malnourishment or muscle lost since last checked. Still no signs of possible mutation comparable to subject weapon X. Further growth needed for final a.n.a.lysis." Talking as he wrote down his thoughts he acted as if Laura wasn't in front of him, treating her like air.

Laura did nothing as this went on, already used to such treatment. She had heard many times of this 'Weapon X' her better, something they were trying to recreate with her. Even though she had never met or seen him, she started to slowly blame they way she was treated on him. There were only 2 people that seemed to notice or care about her existence in the facility and she didn't get to see them much.

Finished with his writing the doctor looked down one last time and spoke to her for the first time. "You will go to training in 5 minutes. A guard will escort you in a minute" Saying that, he left once again not even checking for a response. Waiting until he was gone, she finally let her hands rest before getting up.

Walking over to door without a single word she waited for the guard to arrive. She liked going to train with sensei, he was nice to her. She felt a small smile come to her lips at the thought before it disappeared as the door opened again.

Laura was once again in the white room, she spent a lot of time in there, ever since she could remember she spent most of her time in there until she had to train. She was once again starring into nothing waiting for something to happen when the door burst open.

Her small amount of instincts warned her of danger as she jumped to her feet starring at the entrant, or more like entrants. 4 guards walked in armed with stun batons and tasers. Laura backed up against the wall as she felt the threat that they possessed trying to make herself as small as possible.

But it didn't matter anything she tried to do didn't stop them from dragging her out of the room and across the facility. They may not have treated her like she existed but they hadn't been this brutal with her before, she was scarred.

Her mind drifted as she thought of the two people that might help her. The woman that looked like her, Sarah and her sensei, but they weren't there to help her. They dragged her as she tried to fight back but they grabbed her arms and legs.

It wasn't long before she reached a new room. Walking into the room she saw control panels and scientists in lab coats all working around the place. Separated by a gla.s.s wall was another room with a metal bed in the middle.

Her eyes shut tight in pain and fright as they continued to drag her along, towards the door to the next room. "No Zander don't do this! Give her more time! They'll develop naturally!" As she was being brought along she heard the voice of Sarah, she sometimes read to her when she was alone.

Laura's eyes snapped open and starred in the direction from where the voices were coming from, a small trace of hope was in her eyes as she looked at the black haired woman in the lab coat. She was arguing with another 2 people at a control station.

One she looked over she could see both men clearly. One of them was looking at her with a calculative gaze one she had long since grown used to, while the other looked at her with a bit of hatred in his eyes. The calculative man turned towards Sarah as she continued to speak.

"A lot of money has gone into the creation of this weapon. We can wait no longer for her to grow up." Sarah just turned louder. "But this could irrevocable backfire! It could do more harm than good!" The other man turned back this time, breaking his eye contact with Laura.

"We simple don't care. She either gets her mutations now or she is disposable." The voice was so cold and callus, it was like nothing Laura had ever heard before. Terror griped her again as her eyes turned to Sarah, hoping, praying that she could help her.

She didn't know what was about to happen, but she was sure it wasn't good. As she looked at one of the only good people in her life, her hope started to crumble away and die as Sarah stopped trying to argue and slumped her shoulders in defeat.

'NO help me! Keep going! Don't leave me alone.' Her thoughts screamed at her as she was finally carried into the room, tears finally falling down her face as she wasn't protected by one of the two people she trusted.

Carried into the room, she was almost slammed into the table as her legs and hands were restrained by metal links. *Click* *Click* She tried to wiggle her body around but she couldn't move, the metal was just digging into her arm, hurting her.

Looking up from the links she starred into the window as multiple eyes starred back. Her eyes were blurred slightly as she starred at only one set of eyes, only one figure on the other side of the gla.s.s. *Bang* Click* The door to the room was locked shut.

The room was dark except for the small light coming from the window. On the other side the scientists put some gla.s.ses on and made their final preparations. Zander and the calculative man also put gla.s.ses on as Sarah continued to stare at the tear filled eyes of her daughter.

Finally just above a whisper Zander spoke. "Begin the Radiation Bath" Sarah gave a reluctant nod and pressed the b.u.t.ton, every movement caught by Laura's eyes. *Ting* *Buzz* something buzzed to life above Laura's trapped body turning the whole room into a sea of red.

She didn't feel anything for a second before the pain hit her. It was like nothing she had ever experience and sadly it wouldn't be the last time she felt something like this. "ARGHHHHHHHH!!!!!" Pain exploded in her head as her body felt like it was on fire.

Her body that had been still, thrashed about as drool and spit were flung everywhere. Her eyes shut tight as the pain made her brain go white. Convulsions racked her body as it only got worse and worse over time.

She didn't know how long she was strapped there for, her voice had long since turned rasp her throat raw from the screaming. At some point she started to clench her teeth as her gums bleed from the pressure.

As her brain was blank with unending, unceasing pain she felt an itchiness build up in her wrists and hands. She had no clue what was happening as the itchiness started to become more painful. Cracking her eyes open with the will she had left.

Her eyes just cracked open as two bone claws popped out of her hands and one for each foot. Blood splattered out causing more pain and suffering, but at the same time the newly made cuts started to heal over at an unprecedented rate.

"ARGHHHHHHH!!!!!!" With one final shout of pain the red vanished and Laura slumped to the bed, out like a light. The pain finally made her unconscious. *Bizzz* A blue light enveloped the room as the fans in the vents started clean the air, slowly cleansing the radiation.

*Drip* *Drip* Blood fell slowly down her bone claws and fell to the ground as the door to the room opened, quite a few people walking in. People in labs coats surrounded the unconscious girl as they studied the new additions to her body, one even slas.h.i.+ng her skin with a scalpel to see how fast it would heal.

A smile was plastered onto Zander's lips as he turned towards Sarah, who was standing a bit behind the group. "See, what did I tell you." Giving her one last smirk he turned towards the guards. "Take her back to the room."

Everyone left as the bloodied body was carried away

As the room cleared a different Laura appeared in front of the metal table, eyes unclear she looked at the still wet blood. Behind her Sarah Kinney whispered again in her ear.

"A weapon forged in pain."