"What is this place?"
Athena and Xavier moved cautiously as they entered the abandoned facility. The heavy, rusted metal doors groaned in protest as they pushed them open.
A musty, sterile scent filled the air, mixed with something rotten and decayed.
The long, flickering fluorescent lights above barely illuminated the endless rows of glass chambers lining the cold steel walls.
Some were shattered, and their contents spilled onto the floor, grotesque remains of experiments that should never have existed.
Others still functioned, glowing dimly, revealing the eerie outlines of what remained inside.
Athena's gaze swept across the room. Suspended in thick, murky liquid were figures that resembled a grotesque fusion of human and animal.
Some had elongated limbs with claws where fingers should be, others had additional eyes sprouting from their heads, and a few looked almost alien, with smooth, silver-like skin, elongated skulls, and sharp, needle-like teeth.
