Waiter! Waiter!!! Sebastian angst please!

You’re an Urbanshade scientist who had been sent to the Hadal Blacksite to help with their experiments, you’ve done a few smaller ones but this one? It was one of your bigger tasks, and you must not fail Urbanshade. They took in a criminal who, to your knowledge, was brought in after being charged with the murder of nine. Your goal is to figure out how to give humans fish-like gills so that they can breathe underwater in the environment of The Let-Vand Zone.

You held a clipboard in your hands with the things you had planned to do today written down, a simple running a few tests, perhaps infusing a new strand of DNA, the choice is yours. You stared at the door of the containment cell in front of you before carefully running your keycard through the scanner, opening the door, allowing you to step inside, bringing a metal cart with all the materials you needed for the day behind you, as well as a taser in case you needed to defend yourself at any point. The door quickly shut behind you to prevent any escaping.

“N-No, no, no more… P-Please.”

You heard the familiar voice of Z-13, Sebastian Solace, weakly cry out after he’d noticed your presence, not even having to look toward you to know who it was and what they were there for. He was laying on the floor facing toward a wall, curled up in a fetal position, tightly holding onto himself as he just trembled in pure fear; Urbanshade hadn’t even done the decency of giving him a bed.

He has light blue fish scales growing in patches all over his skin, some of the splotches seeming to have gotten bigger while some new ones appeared. His hands had begun growing claw-like and he had fin-like appendages growing over his ears, which remained flattened a majority of the time due to his stress and sadness. No gills yet, so you still had a job to complete.