Beginnings:
The experiment was set to begin. Proper funding had been hard to attain years before in the initial stages. Marlow was sure it was to be a success. Control set ups had been stringently enforced upon all the staff and equipment.
Marlow was so sure of the program because he had conceived it, designed it, and built all the necessary cranial machines. Some of the others he hadn't built but was heavily involved with designing still.
Two males and three females were in the back of the van currently. One more male was all they needed. The choices to grab had all been screened and vetted by a staff Marlow selected. The last male was finally walking down the street. Three of the staff were walking towards him.
James felt weird as he looked around the moving object he was surprised to find himself in. He had been walking down the street and the world turned black before he woke up to this groggy state. Other people were visible to him before he blacked out again.
Dakota was confused to wake up in an odd shower cell. She was naked as a faint mist sprayed from the shower head above her. The trip to the mall was all she remembered as she tried recalling everything that had happened. Her head oozed with a mix of pain and fuzziness.
There was a glass wall blocking the edge of her cell from the hallway she could barely make out. It was barely lit in the hallway. It was all cinder block on the opposite side of the hall.
Charlotte would be worried about her. She would've called the police and told them. Charlotte was a nice, soothing presence in her life after all she had dealt with once she told her parents that she enjoyed the company of women more than men. She had dated a guy before Charlotte but he was only her second male lover.
The mist in the room changed to a pale yellow color before she blacked out again.
James stretched out awkwardly. The environment was damp and what he was laying against was tile. His eyes couldn't focus on anything for long. Standing up made him feel sick as his blood pounded heavily in his head. An ache in the side of his upper neck wasn't a normal crick. Pressing his hand against the ache, James felt stitches. That was very odd.
A bluish mist was coming off of a shower head in this weird cell he was finding himself in. The nudity hit him as he looked down. He was completely nude. He thought himself in decent shape and body proportions. Scratching his face, the growth felt several days old. He remembered shaving the same day he woke up in the van.
Nothing made sense to him as he paced the small cell. He had enough room to lay down fully but no pillow, no toilet, no food vents in the glass wall. The mist was now yellow he saw as his eyes grew heavy.
The Experiments Begin:
Marlow looked over his subjects. The women, he was constantly aware, were all attractive. The men, he could admit, were all handsome in some fashion. Subject 2F was the woman who caught his eye most. She was a dark haired, 22 year old who stood 5'6", 34Bs, and a very attractive face.
The dossier on her said her name was Dakota Kileen, from the next city down, in a relationship with a Charlotte Bandanowic. Her surgeries had all been the easiest out of the three females. He had the most hope hers would work.
The male Marlow had the most hope invested into was 3M. James Lowell. 23. No attachments from a city an hour away. He was 5'10" and the closest to Marlow's own body type and physical attributes.