Metahumans

The Meta Project
Many humans doubt their full potential. The human mind is able to heal itself faster than most prescription medication with the placebo effect. Human kind has dreamed of supernatural abilities since we shambled out of the caves we used to call home. From this, we get the following tale. During the early 2000s, a group of scientist working for the Dagon corporation, being funded by the government, started to study these abilities. The research was lead by doctor Alan McCarthy. Doctor McCarthy had always been a fan of comicbooks and such, but when the opportunity came to him he seized it with great pleasure.

The information that we've gathered is from multiple documents leaked the year before by a hacktivist group. The names had been crossed out with permanent marker. The only thing we know about the subjects is that there were 4 subjects. Male and Female ranging from ages 15-45.

Subject One: Teleportation
The first experiment was done on 6/11/05 where the test subject had been given the ability to teleport from one location to the next. This was accomplished by accessing a pocket dimension where the subject would go to the next location. The subject was told to teleport across a 15 by 15 foot room with a wall in the middle blocking him from the other side. The procedure seemed fairly easy for the subject. The scientists told the subject to travel across again, but this time to go twice. Again the subject did this with ease, but was weak when he finished. The subject was asked again to travel, but this time to do it 3 times. The subject did so and teleported one way, stopped and went again.

He reached the other side, when the subject's nose started to bleed the scientists were about to tell him to stop, but he teleported before they could. The man disappeared for over three hours until he reappeared, merged inside of a wall. The subject pleaded with the guards to be killed but soon disappeared again. 1 minute later the subject appeared, but different. He was some sort of humanoid crab like figure. The subject died upon re-entrance into our world. The subject's body was autopsy only to find the subject in the fetal position inside of the creature. The subject's skin was paper thin and the veins were filled with some sort of puss like liquid instead of blood.

Subject Two: Intelligence
The second subject was given the ability of enhanced memory. The subject also gained the ability to read movement before a person was to actually move. The subject was tested on his memory by playing Mozart and asking him to hum the whole song after listening to it once. The subject did it with ease. He was then asked to recite a whole chapter of the novel 1984. The subject did it in record time and went on to memorize the entire book. During his sleep, however, the subject had been harming himself somehow. A note was written by doctor McCarthy saying that he thought some rouge doctors showed him some sort of emotionally scaring material. Since the subject was only a teenager, the picture was likely of some form of disaster. The subject continued to mutilate himself until he had to be watched by a nurse. The subjects brain waves had been spiking since his abilities were given.

On one night the subject's brain flatlined all together. The nurse came to help when the boy had bit the nurse's throat out. The struggle lasted until he could be sedated by the guards. The boy was kept under surveillance for the next week. The boy was whispering to himself for long periods of time. All he said was "Can't stop. Seeing girl. How could someone do that?" over and over for hours. The subject went comatose at 6:52 PM on 9/10/05. The subject was kept alive by IV tubes. On 9/22/05 the boy awoke and murdered 5 guards and escaped into the forest. All of the arms had their jaws broken in a certain angle. They all received the exact same injuries. Bruises in exact spots, scars on their eyes. The boy was found dead in the woods near the test facility the next day. He was found with a photo of a young girl with the same injuries as the guards.

The project had gone on a short hiatus after the death of the boy.

Subject Three: Super Speed
The third subject was given the ability of super speed. The subject didn't last very long. From the minute he was given his powers he would be doing something and end up miles away, not knowing what happened. The subject started thinking at speeds faster than humanly possible. The subject began growing a metabolism that required him to be fed every half hour. Symptoms of starvation was shown after not being fed for 2 hours. The subject would only sleep for 15-20 minutes. Soon he started speaking so fast, his speech was completely unrecognizable. The subject soon disappeared from the facility, only leaving charred clothing. Doctor McCarthy said that the subject must have accelerate fast enough to have disintegrated.

Subject Four: Shapeshifting
The last subject was given the ability to change his biological form to any animal he choses. The transformation was flawless besides the eyes. The animal's eyes were the same colors of the girls. The girl's pupils had become red because of the experimentations on her genes. The subject was tested with multiple obstacles. He was tested to lift a large amounts of weight. She turned into an elephant to lift them. He was told to run a mile in the fastest amount of time she could. She turned into a cheetah and ran the mile in under 5 minutes. She was told to disarm a man with a gun. She turned into a bear and started to maul the man. They had to sedate her to stop her from killing the man. According to Doctor McCarthy, the subject also adopted the animals urges and mind when she transformed.

She experienced sex drives, hunger and urges to kill when transformed. The subject had become childlike and unresponsive to the other scientists. The subject would sneak around the walls of the facility. On 2/15/07 the subject asked a boy in the facility to "be her boyfriend" and was rejected. The girl ran into the walls and was not found until the next day. A scientists had kept a cat as a pet for the patients. One night, as McCarthy was on the phone with his superiors, the cat came towards him and dropped a mouse on the floor. The scientist looked closer to see the mouse had the girl's red eyes.

New Frontier
Soon after the last subject's death, the government stopped funding the facility and Dagon shut the operation down. Doctor McCarthy was promoted to head of research at Dagon and left the facility behind. The government confiscated the research. Dagon has tried to debunk any involvement. One question that's been asked because of this event is what makes us human? While humanity is entering a new frontier in genetic engineering, where is the line drawn? Our thoughts an prayers go out to the families whose children, parents and spouses were subjected to this torture. As we rapidly approach the period where these "superpowers" become a reality, humanity ponders if we should accept this change or not. The only thing that we're sure of is that if any of these are perfected, and these new Meta-humans become to powerful... then God help us all.