Prologue
In the military there is a saying "Never volunteer for anything". It's there for good reason. Commander Toshio Nakamura learned that in Basic; heck, he'd known this all his life but somehow he'd forgotten the tenets of that particular line of grunt-line thinking. Nothing good could come of volunteering, it was said by those whose a**es were first in the line of fire. And it was superior officers who generally picked the volunteers first to send them into combat. And usually that ended up with the volunteers in a body bag.
But brilliantly, CDR Tosh Nakamura actually volunteered for a weird experiment that they told him nothing about other than the fact that it would heighten his senses and make him a "better combat aviator." In fact, the pudgy little rat-faced REMF lied to his very face about the whole experiment. It was "Drink this elixir and see if it works." The little National Defense Service medal wearing worm just smiled as he handed the elixir to him. As Tosh drank the elixir down, he'd felt a painful shifting in his body and an intense desire to howl at the moon. The HQ creeps had turned him into a werewolf. When he'd growled at the REMF asking him in barely understandable Simlish "What did you do to me?" the little rat-faced REMF just said, "We needed to understand if this elixir worked. We have uses for you and your partner here..." motioning to a prone form in a cage. We needed to find the smartest candidates and the toughest candidates for this experiment, she's the smartest, you're the toughest. And this will be the future of armed combat. Supernatural beings going against other supernatural beings. We've seen the future and this is what it entails. Sacrifice. You're our guinea pig..." the white-clad scientist said with a sinister smile, "You're the future or shall we say, her offspring will be..." All that was missing from this soliloquoy was a maniacal laugh.
It was easy to see that Tosh was not happy about the situation at all. In fact, two guards armed with loaded M-16s shoved him into the cage with the prone figure (which he later verified that her form was that of a female. The words, "Her offspring will..." came back to his mind. Did they mean to have him mate with her? He sat in the corner, panting hard from the pain of transformation back to his human form and he wondered what had become of his life.
The Escape
It was in the sixth hour of captivity that the other occupant of the cage stirred and raised her head. His heart leapt into his throat.
"Meg?" he whispered as he looked over at her.
She looked dazedly over at him, "What happened?" she said hoarsely. "I was working at the research station for weapons development, when I was kidnapped two weeks ago." she murmured softly. "Tosh...is that you...how? How are you here?" she sounded confused. "Why am I here?"
Tosh thought feverishly, She doesn't know why she's here and they must have experimented on her while she was unconscious. "Do you know anything as to what happened with you?"
Meg shrugged,"I know that they gave me an elixir of some sort and told me to drink it, but when I did, I...felt this overwhelming rage and animalistic insanity come over me. I turned on the researchers and that's when they tazered me and I presume they threw my unconscious body in here. If they threw you in with me, they must have experimented on you too."
"You disappeared from Harm's life." Tosh stated as calmly as he could. "We didn't know where you went." he looked at Meg wondering if she realized just how much pain, he and Harm had gone through.
"I didn't have a choice. The higher ups told me that it was my career or they'd find a way to silence me." she looked at him with eyes filled with tears. "I'm sorry...I had no choice." she repeated.
"Well," Tosh said, "We've got ourselves a pickle here. We've both been experimented on, this place isn't safe. I don't know what they have planned for us, but it isn't good."
Meg replied firmly, "We have to escape."
Meticulous planning was what it entailed, but they had to be very sly about the planning stage. They first had to lull their captors into a false sense of their subjects cooperating with them. then they had to find a way to snatch the keys off the guards and make their way out of the secure facility in which they were captive.
The opportunity came about a week later after their two week planning. A guard had left his keys in the room while making his rounds entailing him to have to return and retrieve them. When he returned he found that the female was unconscious with the male sitting in a corner curled up shaking. The guard took his keys and opened the cage to see what was the matter. That slip cost the guard dearly. Tosh jumped on him and choked him unconscious, while Meg got his keys, his gun and his radio. They slipped out of the room and down the hallway. They were lucky that there was a shift change going on, with the guards briefing the replacements and there was no one in the hallway. They'd managed to find a way out of the building without running into anyone, whether it was sheer dumb luck or what, they would never know. All they knew was that they had succeeded in gaining their freedom. Where they would run to, he didn't know, but Tosh had a gut feeling that the best way to find freedom was to run north. Surprisingly Meg's car was still in the parking lot and they used it to put as much distance as they could between them and the facility.
Moonlight Falls
Moonlight Falls was a quiet little community nestled in the Rocky Mountains which they found to be the nice secluded refuge that they were looking for. Everybody minded their own business and nobody poked their nose in where they weren't supposed to. Everybody liked their own privacy and that's the way they kept it. All in all, it was the perfect little place for Meg and Tosh to set down roots.
Was this where they would finally find peace with what had happened to them both? They looked at each other as they stood outside of the gate of their newly purchased home that they had managed to get with the money that both Meg and Tosh had saved up with their pay over the years of not spending most of it.
In fact, Tosh had lived at the BOQ when he was assigned to the bases, and VOQs when he wasn't. He rarely spent any of his money so it was at least §3M that they had both accumulated put together.
Considering that they both had expanded lifespans now as a result of the experiments conducted on them and the fact that they were now essentially immortal unless they had something drastic happen to them such as grievous bodily injury, the only mates that they had were each other and they both realized that their lives had changed. Whether for the better only time would tell.
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