"Alright," Kim said, leaning back and crossing her arms. "Johann Ivanov, age 62, birth world unknown, race human. He served in the military during his young twenties, presumably for someone dark but I could never pinpoint where. After his service he became a off the books scientist. He has genius level intellect, I have to give him that. He started developing black market weapons that were very effective, selling them to various crime lords. But after a while, even that started to get dull for him. So he started his newest project, code name 'Dark Room'."
"Dark Room was the development and training of individuals with extraordinary skills to become the perfect assassins for hire. He would pluck people from the streets, who had no place to go, and bring them in, give them food and shelter, and train them for his purposes. After they were thoroughly trained in the arts of espionage, weapons handling, military tactics, seduction, and killing, they were injected with a serum with the code name of 'Rebirth'."
"At this moment, the only strain of Rebirth that works is on human physiology, all other species had failed spectacularly. This serum enhances everything about a person. Speed, strength, stamina. Picture as perfect as a specimen could get and multiply that by at least five. He was failing in keeping subjects alive for extended periods of time after Rebirth was administered, until I came along. I was fresh off the streets, hadn't had a hot meal or bed in a month, and hardly anything to my name. He took me in and started training me. I just fell into line and I didn't know much else what to do. He was very nice to me, it was intoxicating. When I was given the serum, where others failed, I thrived."
"There was a secret component of the serum though, and it was a control factor," Kim said. "Nanobot technology that would lay dormant in the nervous system and be activated by a string of code words. At those code words, my body would be taken from me and become a puppet of Johann. And while my body wasn't mine, my brain was still there watching. It was years before I found a way to break free, and it was due to a very powerful EMP charge that I took right to my body. Knocked me out for three days, but after that, the nanobots had been destroyed, and Johann didn't know. I was able to fake being under control the next time the words were administered and break free on that mission."