Test Subject 5008

No one knew his name. The researchers who monitored his every move had long since stopped referring to him as anything other than a number. His past, his memories, his very identity had been stripped away, replaced by a clinical detachment that the facility demanded. He was not the first, and he would not be the last. He was merely a cog in the machine, an instrument in a series of experiments designed to push the boundaries of human capability and endurance.