SUBJECT 007 & 009
Hawkins National Laboratory - Classified Records (REDACTED)
ORIGINS:
They were born minutes apart.
The twins were taken before they were old enough to understand the word home. Their mother never knew where they went-only that the men wore government badges and spoke in calm voices that felt like lies. By the time they could form memories, Hawkins Lab was all they knew: white walls, humming lights, and the constant feeling of being watched.
At first, Brenner believed they shared one ability.
Teleportation.
But twins were never supposed to exist in the program. Powers were meant to imprint on a single nervous system. Instead, the ability mutated, fractured down the middle like a mirror breaking unevenly.
Subject 007 -
Could teleport objects and non-living matter. Weapons. Evidence. Doors. Blood-stained clothing. Even pieces of walls if he concentrated long enough.
Subject 009 -
Could teleport herself and others-human bodies and animals. Living things. She learned early that fear made it harder, and trust made it easier.
Brenner called it symbiotic divergence.
Privately, he called it a liability.
That was only the beginning.
As the twins grew older, the fractures widened.
007 began hearing things before they happened. Footsteps three corridors away. Conversations behind locked doors. Screams that hadn't started yet. Sound bent around him like a living thing. With training, he learned to project his voice, throwing it across space, making it echo from rooms he wasn't in.
009, meanwhile, stopped needing words.
She could hear thoughts the way other people heard breathing. At first, it was overwhelming-dozens of minds bleeding together-but Brenner's conditioning forced control. Soon, she could read, filter, and eventually speak directly into minds. Silent. Precise. Inescapable.
Together, they were no longer experiments.
They were tools.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"OPERATION: CLEAN UP"
Brenner separated their files.
Separated their rooms.
Separated their numbers.
007 & 009.
No consecutive sequence. No visible connection.
Because together, they were dangerous.
When a test subject escaped...
When a civilian saw too much...
When a body needed to disappear without a trace...
Operation: Clean Up was activated.
007 erased physical evidence-teleporting weapons out of hands mid-fight, removing doors, hiding bodies inside sealed spaces no one would think to search.
009 gathered information-extracting memories, locating witnesses, silencing them without leaving marks.
They were trained in:
Silent combat
Swift execution
Chemical disposal
Psychological conditioning
Emotional suppression
They learned how to kill efficiently.
And worse-how to make it look like nothing happened.
The staff whispered about them.
Other subjects feared them.
The twins never spoke during missions. They didn't need to.
And despite Brenner's precautions, something remained uncontrollable.
When 007 was in danger, 009 felt it.
When 009 was afraid, 007 heard it-loud, sharp, ringing in his skull.
Distance didn't matter.
The connection was not psychic in the usual sense. It was deeper. Older. As if the power itself remembered that it was once whole.
Brenner noticed.
So he escalated the conditioning.
Isolation. Punishment. Threats.
He told them they were expendable.
He told them they were replaceable.
He told them the outside world would kill them if they ever escaped.
He was wrong.