The strong smell of chemicals filled the lab of the hidden Weapon X facility, mixing about with the other smells of metal, sweat, and other body odors among other things. Smells that had become all too familiar to the six young agents, especially Boien who relied on his other four senses when his sight had gone away when he was young. Usually, this was a sign of pain to come for all of them, meant to test anything out of the ordinary, conduct regular tests, and just about different forms of torture when they were "misbehaving" in the eyes of their handler and the scientist.