A Reason to Live

Escape

Infinite Stratos, IS for short,they are the greatest piece of military prowess ever invented since the beginning of man. A young prodigy by the name, Shinonono Tabane, would shake the world with the discovery of these mass weapons of destruction by the late 21st century.

With the original purpose of space exploration, these complex exoskeletons were adapted for combat and were fitted with the most advanced weapon systems up-to-date, so great that it was threatening to disrupt the stability of the world.

Thus, enter the Alaska Treaty. The agreement of never using the IS for military combat and all existing IS technology would be distributed equally around the world to prevent the domination of a country over another.

The introduction of IS to humans also affected the power balance between men and women. How so? Unexpected to the inventor herself, only females were able to activate the exoskeletons. Thus, it was only a matter of time for women to quickly overpower men through their combat prowess using the IS. Nevertheless, society functioned rather well, remaining rather stable and peaceful. Though, that is to say, things were peaceful only in peaceful places. Unknown to many others, there are mischiefs happening all around the world.

Especially, in the dark corner of Japan, in an isolated street, there was a boy in the confinements of an abandoned laboratory.

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All I heard were the ambient sounds of a lab. Not one of those legalized R&D institution laboratories(look it up ), but the shady ones with questionable morals.

I was restrained on a surgical bed with metal chains tightly wrapped around my wrists and ankles. I could slightly bend from my position to look down at the condition of my body, and it was plain disturbing. With only boxers on, I could see uncountable number of scars around my chest and abdomen from all the experiments that were done to me.

I heard a scream of a young man coming from the room next to mine, and at that instance, fear grasped my existence. Panic crept from the dark corners of my mind imagining what this insane scientist would do to my body this time. I had to get out. Quickly.

I violently tried to force my way out of the wrist chains, but the metal only sunk into my skin, letting out blood. It was the same result with my ankles as well. The pain and what little energy I had left made it seem hopeless. Then, to my despair, the door to my room opened and a number of men in surgical suits walked in.

"… I told you he'd die if you do that! Tch! What a waste of a good test subject."

"Nothing can be done about that. We still have our last test subject. We can retrieve more later."

"Enough with the chatter. Let's begin the 27th experiment."

I saw one of them take out a motor surgical saw. My eyes widened in fear and I attempted at trying to break myself free of the bloody chains.

"Hold him down." One ordered.

Soon enough, my legs, and my arms were pressed down against the bed, and I could only watch the saw approach my chest slowly.

I let out a blood chilling scream, my legs and arms shaking violently in their grasp. I was in hell. Why did I have to be in a bloody lab like this? Why was I even born? If this is what life was, it was just unbearable.

I had no memory up until this point in time; I didn't know my name, my family, my friends, my age; nothing. How the hell did I even get here? All I remember is being kidnapped by a bunch of shady people and the fact that I was in this terrible lab for nearly 10 years. From what I heard from these scientists, the purpose of the experiment was to create an artificially powerful male who can surpass the speed, strength, and perception of a normal human being. The experiment had a despicable name; the Apeiron project, or the limitless project.