“They are the perfect specimens.”

The words were whispered softly and left lips with a puff of warm breath into the frosty air. The person that spoke wore a heavy parka over her lab coat. She wore specially insulated goggles over her glasses to keep the lenses from freezing and cracking. The storage room was kept at a temperature below freezing. Although the storage pods before her each had their own individual freezing system, the room was kept at a similar degree to ensure the storage containers worked correctly.

Before her, in separate, sealed, frozen cylinders were the five young men she had desperately wanted to get her hands on. She walked before them and gazed at each face in turn. They were frozen, the glass itself had collected bit of frost and thus it made it difficult to clearly see what was inside. Unless you already knew what the container held.

She knew. She knew these boys. She had collected data and studied them for so long, she wouldn’t be surprised if she knew them better than they knew themselves. Even though the frost obscured her vision and the oxygen masks covered most of their faces, she could name each of them. They would have to be renamed of course. They’d be given code names to use here. All traces of their old life would need to be left behind and that included erasing their memories. Physically, they would change as well. The serum would cause some alterations, as would the intensive training they would be put through. Mentally, they wouldn’t be all that different. The majority of the specimens she currently observed showed no changes in their personality after their memories were erased.

As she imagined what these boys would become under her supervision, the scientist smirked, one corner of curling upward. The simple movement distorted her beauty and for a moment, the darkness she normally kept hidden was evident on her face.

“I can’t wait to see what fantastic creations you become.”