Matsuro Katsu: The Beginning

Title:	Matsuro Katsu: The Beginning
Author:	firefly_1824
Date Written:	2008
Continuity	SSEU Earth 1337-A
Time Placement	September 2008
Synopsis	A girl wakes up for the first time in a laboratory, not knowing what's going on.
Rating	PG-13
Additional Notes	Written for Wolfwood then this character was debuted.

Bright light slowly penetrated awareness until it was dazzling painfully, thousands of pinpoint knives stabbing at her eyes. She could barely see the dark blob that appeared, nor did she connect the series of sounds with anything at all other than noise. There was a high screeching sound, and then blackness again. There was light again, not as bright as before. It was there for a while, and although it as painful at first, later it didn't hurt anymore. It is light, she thought, and half of her wanted to run as far from the light as possible. But the desire to go toward it was just as strong. There were noises around her, but this time she could make some sense of them. Beeps mostly, and something more...human. Then “Can you hear me?” A dark spot in the light was over her, and the voice seemed to come from there. She realized she aught to respond, but her mouth opened and nothing intelligable came out. “She's trying to speak, Doctor!” “Good, good. That's very good.” She tried again, and heard only a strangled gurgle. “It's alright, we haven't programmed your speach production yet.” But hse much have elequent speach! She had to communicate how wrong this all was! She tried to move a hand, and realized she couldn't move. Able only to turn her head, she saw wires everywhere. It was all so wrong! She wanted to demand things! She wanted to destroy it all, or at least hit something! No, she wanted to go back to the dark, and...and what?There was a burst of something, and she was able to get her hand around where the voice came from. Then there was screaming and movement and chaos, and then more blackness. This time, the light didn't hurt, and she was in a chair. She opened her eyes and looked around. It was a bare, hite room, with a table in front of her and a shiney surface down one side. It made her feel strange, and prickly. There was a clicking sound and a girl in a lab coat, glasses, and odd hair appeared. She looked at her aprehensively, took a deep breath, and alked to the chair and sat down. “Hello, Matsuro. Do you understand me.” “..Y...es. Yes.” “That's good. My name is Hakase Satomi.” “Matsuro...that's my name?” “Yes. Katsu Matsuro.” She was uncomfortable. She could move her arms, but not her legs or torso. “I can't move.” “That's correct. There were...accidents the other times we woke you up. This way you or I won't get hurt.” “I don't understand.” “It's alright, we're not going to hurt you.” Satomi straightened her glasses, a movement to the right caught Matsuro's eye. She turned her head and stared at the other Satomi on the wall. But there was also another girl there, with matted black hair and wide, strange eyes. She was starpped to a chair too. Then it occured to her that the shiney surface was mirrors. Mirrors were surfaces that reflected whatever was in front of them. So the girl in the mirror were just reflections, of Satomi...and her. She stared at her reflection, feeling uneasy. “Matsuro. Matsuro!” She looked at the real Satomi again, and tried to listen as she talked about something called UNIT, projects, and missions. But she could feel the mirror ith her skin, and eventually just stared at it fiercely, since she couldn't do anything else. “Matsuro, do you understand what I said?” Matsuro nodded absently, and Satomi sighed. She as beginning to doubt the success of this project as she watched the girl unvoluntarily clenching her fists and trying to stare down a mirror. Unless they could make crazy girl uncrazy enough to control her, this was going to go down the tubes, and fast. And right no, she wasn't staying the the room with crazy girl any longer. Matsuro stared at the mirror, not realizing Satomi as gone at first. Then something moved around her, and the restraints were gone. She immediately jumped out of the chair, before it could hold her again, and stared at it for a while before returning to the mirror's pricking gaze. The mirror as bad. Being around it was not good. Eventually, she felt a sold wall against her back, then sidled away until she reached the corner, and it wasn't as bad there. She slid down to the floor, and it couldn't see her any more. But it was still there, and hafter a while she just couldn't take it any more. She didn't know hat was happening, btu there was rage and screaming and other loud sounds. Shattering and red. Then a very tall blond man pointing something at her, and blackness.