- Joined
- Jan 14, 2009
Rain hammered down on the windows of the high-tech laboratory. The lab was only one part of a massive research complex, funded by a massive corporation with an under-the-table agreement with the government to share their secrets in return for funding, land, and free reign over the research that was being done.
Scientists weren't allowed to leave, due to the highly confidential nature of the operations in the complex, buy they were very well provided for. Still, cabin fever didn't explain the state of one scientist who paced along one of the benches, alone in the large lab.
There were test subjects that they could use, yes--different projects got to request subjects from a shared pool--but for the past two months, they had received none. They had the project near completion; all that was needed was a few test runs to work out the final bugs.
The thin young scientist stopped, and pushed her light brown hair back into its short ponytail. She knew what she had to do. Nobody ever made the big advances without putting themselves at risk. She leaned down in front of the computer, preparing the systems. It would activate as soon as a specimen had stepped inside the Plexiglas tube that served as the specimen chamber. She made sure that she locked all the controls; no one would be able to stop it half way through.
With her relatively unassuming body slid into the yellow-and-blue bodysuit, she stepped up onto the raised platform, and the tube lowered around her. Her heart beat quickly, both from fear and excitement. It was time to see how it worked.
Scientists weren't allowed to leave, due to the highly confidential nature of the operations in the complex, buy they were very well provided for. Still, cabin fever didn't explain the state of one scientist who paced along one of the benches, alone in the large lab.
There were test subjects that they could use, yes--different projects got to request subjects from a shared pool--but for the past two months, they had received none. They had the project near completion; all that was needed was a few test runs to work out the final bugs.
The thin young scientist stopped, and pushed her light brown hair back into its short ponytail. She knew what she had to do. Nobody ever made the big advances without putting themselves at risk. She leaned down in front of the computer, preparing the systems. It would activate as soon as a specimen had stepped inside the Plexiglas tube that served as the specimen chamber. She made sure that she locked all the controls; no one would be able to stop it half way through.
With her relatively unassuming body slid into the yellow-and-blue bodysuit, she stepped up onto the raised platform, and the tube lowered around her. Her heart beat quickly, both from fear and excitement. It was time to see how it worked.