Author's Note:

Hello everyone, and welcome back! Hope that the first chapter set the stage for the story. Now for a little bit of information about the characters, the OC that I had just inserted in this story is Nik, I had a random thought that if the Skullgirl's blood would also work on the opposite gender, and to be honest with you guys, I just used a random name generator and set the settings to give me Greek names, I know. So, with that out of the way, I hope you will enjoy chapter two of the story, and again, Comments and reviews are very much welcome.

Chapter 1: A Failed Transformation

"Vitals, stable. Brain functions, fine. Parasite synthesis, forty-eight percent complete." Valentine says to herself while she paces around a dimly lit lab, there were vials of chemicals on different tables, a large screen with two separate heart monitors is connected to the arms of the two bodies on the table, their faces were covered with a cloth.

"Seems like these two are compatible, they even have the same blood type, huh," Valentine says to herself as she closely watches the two unconscious bodies, the door to the lab suddenly opens, and on the other side was Brain Drain, slowly walking up to Valentine.

"So, how are the patients doing? I hope that you weren't adding any more modifications, I only want to see them react to the Skullgirl blood that we made, especially the one over there," as Brain Drain raises his finger to point to the second body, Brain Drain slowly walks over to said table and pulls the cloth to side. On the table laid a masked figure, the mask having a somewhat owl-like pattern.

"I'm only interested in the outcome in this one, compatibility is one of the things you promised that would happen when we took him in to be tested on." Brain Drain says as he then looks over to the other table. "And what about this one, did the blood completely synthesize with her parasite and body?" Brain Drain asks.

"Of course it did, you know me well, don't you?" Valentine replies back. "And besides, what's the worst that could happen if this doesn't go well?"

"The worst that could happen is that we lose a healthy candidate for our project, and you don't want that to happen, Valentine," Brain Drain replies. "How long do they have left until they wake up from their state?"

"They wake up in about an hour, then we can prepare tests on their lethality," Valentine replies back as she skims through the data on the computer.

"Very well, I expect to see them in that time frame. Be sure that they are in perfect condition," Brain Drain said as he exited the room. As the doors closed behind him, Valentine looks at the pair and smiles. "This will be fun..." she grinned.

Meanwhile, in a dark part of Maplecrest

"Ughh… my head…" groaned a figure, they slowly opened their eyes and saw that they were in some kind of alleyway, "ohh... where... am I…?"

Their eyes look around the filthy alley and see the night sky. Their vision was blurry; they reached out to feel their face and find that there was a pair of glasses.

"Wait... who... Who am I…?" they thought to themselves immediately, they slowly stood up and saw the exit of the alleyway, as they neared the exit, three thugs suddenly stood in their way. "Hey there, little missie. Where do you think you're going?" said one of the thugs.

She immediately frowned and tried to push through the group, but their strength proved otherwise. "What's with the attitude, huh? Don't you know who you're messing with sweetie?"

They pushed her over and started to walk slowly towards the figure, she looked around and spotted a wooden baseball bat. She dashed to it and seized it, readying herself to swing the wooden weapon.

"Aww, how cute, you think that bat is gonna protect you? Think again." The thug pulled out a revolver from his coat pocket. "Now, if you want to live, you have to come with us. We swear we won't hurt ya".

She breathed heavier than before, and looked around for an escape route but couldn't find one.

just about when she was about to give up, she heard a voice. "Hey kid, if you want to live, you gotta listen to me. You have to run towards them, and when I say jump, you have to JUMP," the voice tells her.

She was hesitant at first, but had to trust in the mysterious voice, "On the count of three, run, okay?" the voice said, as the voice tell her the thugs start moving closer.

"One…" they were now pulling all sorts of weapons from their pockets, Knives ,guns, saws, anything that you can think of.

"Two…" with their guns aimed and knives ready to stab, they were now ready to attack her.

Three…. NOW!" She then sprints towards the group at full speed and jumps, she was then launched high up into the air, she saw the lights and the buildings, the bustling cars and bright light of the casinos, she was simply starstruck at what she saw.

"HEY KID, GET YER HEAD IN THE GAME" the voice calls her back into reality as they are now falling towards the gang and to her surprise, she felt her hair starting to move irregularly, what she then saw was black tendrils coming out from the back of her head, one of the tendrils started to attack the goon on the left by simply piercing the knives they were holding and uppercutting them, the two other men we frozen from fear after witnessing the brutal beatdown their friend received.

"Wha-what are you?" exclaimed one of the conscious goons, "You're some kind of freak, aren't ya? You're one of those parasite users da boss was talking about!" the second goon said, pointing to the figure who was now turning to look at them, her eyes was red with a crimson glow, her hair was flowing freely, even though there was no wind in the air.

"Ge-g-Get 'er!" the gun goon said, as soon as the goon said the word, the hair-tendrils shot out and stuffed his revolver until it cracked and burst rendering the weapon useless, then the other tendrils formed large fists and rapidly attacked the gun goon repeatedly, The other goon stood in shock and runs away from the scene.

Standing in the middle of the mess the woman regains composure and looks around for the source of the voice that was guiding her, after a few minutes, she was confused as to where the person is.

"Hey kid" the voice called out, she was taken aback after the call, but quickly regains her composure.

"Who are you, and why were you helping me?", the woman called out to the voice.

"My name is Samson, and, if you don't freak out, I'm actually part of you" Samson tells the woman.

"What..do you mean by 'part of me'?" the woman asked back.

"Touch the top of your head, trust me, you'll be fine" Samson tells the woman.

A little hesitant on the orders of the voice, the woman slowly reached for the the top of her head, as she reached over, she felt something wet, and something sharp. Her face almost instantly turned pale with fright and she slowly sits down in realization that she now has a mouth on her head.

"I told ya to not freak out, didn't I? By the way kid, you asked my name, but ya didn't tell me yours, so, Who are you?" asked Samson. The woman's brain was suddenly blank, she tried hard to remember, but the only name that she could truly remember was :

"Filia, the name's Filia.", She then slowly stood up and looked around, "Even though I can't see you right now, I thankful that you helped me out there Samson." Filia told Samson, "c'mon let's get out of here" Filia said as they sneaked around to look for shelter, all the while her glasses, lay shattered on the floor, a by-product of such an event.

Back at Lab Zero, An hour later...

Valentine was pacing around in the lab, checking over the notes that she made about the two subjects, she then proceeds to change their names, "hmmmm… So this girl's name is Carol, well, now you're called…" Valentine thinks to herself, "Well, she does have a giant wheel made out of blades, I'll call her… Painwheel,"

She then proceeded to change her name to the more ridiculous, yet logical, nickname. "And for the other one…" she thinks to herself as she then turns over to the other figure in the room, "hmmm... Now this one is a interesting one, i should call you, Lycan, yeah, that sounds about right for you and your abilities." she then swiped up on her data sheet and proceeded to input the names of their synthetic parasites.

"Now for you Painwheel, your parasite's name will be…" she then pulls out a book out from nowhere, and proceeds to flip to random page, "Gae Bolga, and…" flips to another page, "Buer Drive! I know nothing about these names, but I've been very lucky using this book over the years, so it might be another one that's named properly." Valentine thinks and shrugs to herself as she then proceeds to randomly name the other figure. "Now your parasite is now called…" she then flips to another random page in her book, "and yours will be, Lupin, Now that's done-"

Before she could end her sentence, Brain Drain then walks into the room, "times up, Valentine. How far have you gotten in the process?" Brain Drain asks Valentine.

"Well, I just finished naming their parasites, so yeah, I i'd say that i'm pretty much done, " Valentine replied back, "so, I'm guessing that it's time for the 'brainwashing' portion of the experiment?" Valentine Asked Brain Drain.

"Of course, it is one of my specialties, are the devices ready?" Brain Drain asks

"Duh, it's been ready for about two weeks, even before we got these guys," Valentine replies back, "let me grab it for you real quick" Valentine tells Brain Drain as she then enters the inventory to retrieve the masks, she then exits with two almost similar, yet different masks, one had a Cross-like design that had Stitch-like clips to hold it in place, while the other mask had a V-like, stitch pattern as the design.

"Here you go, you should definitely take a design class. For a genius, you have poor art skills" Valentine says as she tosses the masks towards Brain Drain.

"Don't mock my art skills, it took me three hours just to finish those…" Brain Drain replied back to Valentine's quip towards his lack of skills towards the arts.

"Now time to initiate the procedure," He then applies the masks on their faces and merges it with their skin, "Now let's try this one at a time" Brain Drain then tries to wake up Carol using the mask, "Now you must WAKE UP!".

Carol then opens her eyes slowly, taking in the sight in-front of her, the tall, floating robot man, The Ninja Nurse watching at a distance and the scientific items that were surrounding her.

"Where… Am I?", Carol tries to speak, but she then notices that her voice is now rougher, coarser, and deeper, "what.. did y-y-you do to m-me?" Carol asks the two figures right in-front of her, "No time for questions, little one, now you must follow my commands," he then raises his hand and sends his commands to her mind using his "Brain-Power".

"N-No! Stop I-I-IT!" Carol tries to resist his commands and tries to attack him directly, in an instant, Valentine defends Brain Drain using her bonesaw, "Uh-uh, not so fast," Valentine then pushes Carol away from Brain Drain and holds her down, as to make the process easier for him.

"NO! WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS!?" Carol asks, while she tries to free herself from the clutches of her abductors, but her attempts were futile and the sturggle made her exhausted faster as she was not yet used to her new body. She then caught a glimpse of Valentines covered eye, it was a permanently shut eye, with a scar along her face.

"Well, it's for science, of course" Brain Drain replies back while Carol was in shock at Valentine's face, Carol's eyes then turned blank, he was successful in infiltrating the young girl's mind, Carol's actions has now eased up and she slowly stood up right in front of her captors.

"You are no longer 'Carol', you will now be called 'Painwheel' at this moment on, your parasites are 'Gae Bolga' and 'Buer Drive'." Brain Drain tells Painwheel, "Now, follow Valentine into the next room, I will see you there later."

Valentine then escorts Painwheel out of the room, Brain Drain then initiates the procedure on Nik. After he had placed and installed the mask on his face, his eyes suddenly opened and grabbed Brain Drain's hand, his hand then grows muscle and… short hairs?

"Wha-" He then throws him across the room, the shock throws him off guard and knock him unconscious, the out-of-control parasite user then breaks the restrictors from his limbs and smashes through the roof, escaping from his nefarious captors.

"What happened?" Valentine runs back into the room, in complete shock after she sees Brain Drain on the floor, "hey, are you ok? Who did this to you?" Valentine asks Brain Drain as she helps him off the floor.

"Lycan, he has escaped, we must find him quick, his power is unregulated and is beyond my control" Brain Drain replies back, they then stare at the massive hole that was created by the test subject. The massive moon illuminating the lab. "If his power goes unchecked, he may overload himself with too much power"

"Nothing that I haven't seen before, this is an easy job, don't worry about it, Brain, I got this."

Author's note:

Three to four months later, some help and a bad case of both writer's block, laziness and a busy schedule later, now we have chapter one! I hope that you guys enjoyed this chapter, Big thanks and shout-out to my friend fgtdyd for helping me out with syntax, proper writing and tips for writing, they even went as far as to fix all of the errors in both of the chapters! Give him some love by following him and reading his stories. This wraps up this chapter, see you guys next time!