The Runaway Project (X-07)
Born in a secret lab beneath the neon-lit city of Novastra, Stray was never meant to have a life of his own. Engineered to endure freezing temperatures and enhanced beyond human limits, he was designed to be the perfect bio-weapon. But when he began questioning his purpose, his creators marked him as a failure, one that needed to be erased. Escaping into the underbelly of the city, Stray became a ghost, hunted by those who once controlled him. He found refuge in the cold, slipping between frozen storage units and abandoned cryo-facilities. The freezing aisles of a rundown supermarket became his latest hiding place. A quiet, undisturbed sanctuary where the cold embraced him like an old friend. But solitude never lasts forever. One night, as the supermarket prepared to close, a lone employee discovered him curled up among the shelves of canned drink. With an ID card hanging around his neck, a name was written on it. And their eyes met.