The Arena: The Awakening (1) Read Free

continued, “The medical team had just about stabilised her when we took control. We put her into an induced coma and flew her here to this facility to start the repair work. All of Mia’s internal organs were somewhat bruised but there was no serious damage. Her joints were intact but there were several bones damaged beyond repair. Both thighs, legs, some smaller bones in her feet, some of her ribs, the smaller bones in her hands and her arms all needed to be repaired. Given the advanced research of this department, we considered this an easy fix and worth the expenditure for someone we were contemplating accepting as our prime project. Titanium inserts were grafted onto the damaged bones with no rejections. Her limbs were now stronger than anyone else on this planet. We had to complete slight facial reconstruction on the jawline, cheekbones and eye sockets which altered her physical appearance but the work, as I’m sure you’ll agree, was exemplary. The final discovery about Mia that made us invest the full resources of this project was her brain function. In simple terms, the explosion wiped clean her memory, which is typical of people who experience serious amounts of trauma. What made Mia stand out from the crowd however, was that she didn’t lose the memories of all of her training; I’ll explain a little more about this side of things shortly”.
    The tall man paused for a second to take a sip of water from the glass on the lectern in front of him. As he sipped, he looked around the room at his colleagues and made sure he had their full attention before continuing.
    “Now, after the repair work on her body was completed and she appeared, for want of a better description, normal, we decided to test the LP76 Serum on Mia in a controlled environment”.
    He held up a small vial of purple liquid for all to see.
    “Our only concern was whether or not her system would catastrophically reject the serum, as human trials had never been attempted. Thankfully, for us, her system accepted it. There were no apparent side effects! After we got her up and walking with all of her motor functions back in alignment, we were happy to go to field trials with her. She still retained all of her combat, weapons, marksmanships and hand-to- hand fighting skills. We don’t understand why this was and have been unable to answer this question to date. The fact that we have not started our subject from the blank canvas expected when this project was initiated has been wholly positive. We initiated more advanced training for her and discovered that her higher brain function was unlike anything we had expected. Mia processes information at an extremely high rate and she only needs to be shown something once for her to become more than proficient. She has been trained to only follow commands given by us here at the arena; as such she will not deviate from the set task and will return here after the task is complete. After she successfully completed her first assignment for us, we discovered that precisely seventy-two hours after initial injection, Mia would return to her normal state and have no recollection of what had happened over the prior three days. Ladies and Gentlemen, for those who are not following what I’m saying, we’ve created the perfect assassin for this agency! For three days at a time, this agency has the perfect weapon at their disposal. After all, who would suspect that someone in such a vegetative state, could kill someone?”.
    “ WHAT?” shouted Mia, “ASSASSIN? WHAT THE HELL IS HE SAYING? ”
    The tall man then took a deep breath and announced “Let me show you all the fruits of our labour”.
    From the sidelines of the arena, a small team of doctors and nurses appeared and approached Mia. Due to her state, she had no idea that she was in fact already attached to various medical monitors. The tall man stayed at the lectern in front of Mia but didn’t turn around. One of the doctors from the medical team