Apeproid Laboratories

**Apeproid Laboratories** is a complex located in a unknown place in the south of Saturania. It is owned by Kheprini Enterprises, a Smaiu company, and funded by various rich families in the country, incluiding the Zamonths.

For its cover, it is a department that seeks a cure and distributes medicines for the Pink Fever; testing infected individuals to produce a tangible cure, using what is sometimes called illegal. Although, the reality is that the individuals are Setepnetjeru captured by the Smaiu to experiment with them.

The data on the company is nearly impossible to locate, as its location is. Only a few people know about its existence.

## Foundation

The Kheprini Enterprise was founded by Heath Kheprini, son and heir to the money empire of his father, in the year 3975, few decades after the first Setepnetjeru were born. The idea started when he adopted an orphan in the Narmer Orphanage in Komir, Nephtys, this orphan resulting to be the Chosen One from Ra, Zahi, when he was 8 years old.

With various companies, he kept the laboratories a secret, in agreement with the Smaiu, which he was a part of. The company was meant to cover the fact that they were doing illegal experiments to a innocent boy. But since Zahi did not yet discovered his *Was* and his powers, he was unable to be useful for the experiment. So, they let him go to another Orphanage to be raised and capture him again when he reach his full potential.

During that time, the Laboratories worked on its cover work, waiting for the Smaiu to find new unprotected Setepnetjeru to capture. The Apeproid Laboratories where inherited by Harold Kheprini, son of Heath, after his father died.

## Victims

* **Zahi:** He was the reason why the Laboratories were founded. Being the Chosen One from one of the most powerful gods, he was held until he used his powers, which he never did because he had to solve the Jerui for his *Was* first. They freed him, but he waited for years becoming no one and staring a life before he could go to Per-Ankhaf. After he took his *Was*, and gained his true abilities, he was found again by the Smaiu. They took him to the Laboratories and have him captive since, doing despicable experiments to him and his rising abilities. He could not make it in the escape of the other Chosen Ones, as he sacrificed himself to let the others get out.
* **Scarlett Masaharta:** She was captured since she was a baby, when her parents tried to escape from the Smaiu, her mother even worked in the Laboratories as a medic and ran with her Setepnetjeret child after she discovered the truth. Her mother and father were killed in the escape and she was taken. Scarlett was raised in the insides of the complex without knowing the outsides or where she came from, until the day she escaped with the other Setepnetjeru. It was revealed that she was held because of her transportation and transformation power that was useful for the Smaiu and their plans.
* **Ash Mesehti:** Her parents were contacted by the Ankhaf when she was 7 years old, and they wanted her to be educated and trained at Per-Ankhaf, but the Smaiu discovered her first. She was taken by a Smai cop after her house accidentally burnt and she miraculously survived. After the escape, she lost all the memories of the Laboratories and her mind created false memories to cover the experiments, because the chip in her neck reacted when she left the complex and was taken out after it made its reaction.
* **Damian Rasmussen:** After he was revived by Sokar and made his Chosen One, he was lost in the 4000 era Saturania and was easy to find by the Smaiu, and transferred to the Apeproid Laboratories. He was required for his ability to transport to the Duat and back. After years, he was able to escape with the rest.
* **Amynthia Shoshenq:** As a journalist with a secret Setepnetjeret identity, she was in contact with Hector and Monique. On an medical fraud investigation, she found the name of Apeproid Laboratories, and in an interview with the CEO of the enterprise, Harold Kheprini, it was exposed that she was a Setepnetjeret and was captured at the moment. She was held captive for months until the escape, being the last victim of the experiments.

## Trivia

* "Apep" is the Egyptian name for Apophis, and it appears on the name of the Laboratories, meaning that the owners serve the entity.
* Agent Aseneth Yodeessa, investigating on the Smaiu files, is the first person to find that Apeproid Laboratories existed after years of search by Hector Ankhaf and Monique Egyps. She even finds the place where the complex is held.
* In the short-novel *The Red Circle*, the complex is visited by the Eyes of Ra to rescue Zahi.