There Is No Escape

She groaned as her bones hit the bars of her cage, as she was thrown back in by the scientists. She pulled herself up, just to fall back down in exhaustion. "I wish i could disappear from this place all together," She thought to herself. She had to get out. She needed to get out. She couldn't take it anymore. The next scientists to come in her she would punch, right in his stupid little face. she would jump over him and run for the door. She would run and run and run, but then she would be stopped by guards and it would be all over. She cringed as she heard screams come from the experiment rooms. She needed a shower. desperately. She stunk, and she was starved, thirsty, and mentally broken. There had to be a way out. A scientist came from the experiment rooms and started walking down the hallway toward her. She closed her eyes and lay back, wishing it was all over. "Subject number 3, stick your arm out." She squeezed her eyes shut and turned invisible. The scientist tapped its foot. "Subject number 3!" The scientist shoved his hand into the cage and found her arm. He pulled it out and stuck a needle in her arm. She sighed. Her eyes closed.

Sari was laid back in her cage and a scientist stuck a needle in her arm. A few seconds later she started to wake up and the scientist left. Sari's eyes fluttered open and a growl escaped her before she got a good chance to look around. She sat up, more animal like, and looked around with her dull green eyes. She then looked at the scales and huffed. She laid down and curled up in the cage, then licked her hands as if they were paws. She had lost most of her human side, and had been more like an animal. Being in the cage wasn't doing her well, but she would be scared to be free. She had no idea what she would do if she would be free.

She raised her head as a scientist walked by before resting her head back on her hands. She was close to the experiment rooms, so scientists always walked by, but she was always careful it wasn't for her. She watched the scientist go to a girl that could turn invisable and cocked her head to the side a bit. She sniffed, trying to catch the girl's scent, the girl was still there. She watched the scientist put a needle in the arm of the girl it seemed and she rested her head back on the ground. How strange that someone could vanish like that. She looked up as a scientist knelt down before her cage. She backed away into a corner, but the scientist stuck her hand in her cage and seemed to pet her. She calmed down and laid back down, but kept a close eye on the scientist.

Crimson was thrust into the cage, the cage doors locking as he hit the cold bottom. He stood up, pacing in the cage like he normally did. This was not what he wished for, he thought. He was not an animal. He didn't deserve a cage. A scientist walked up to the cage. "Crimson, extend your arm." Crimson...most scientists called him by Subject 17, but a couple took it upon themselves to make his life miserable, part of that was calling him Crimson. He grew acustomed to it, it seemed better than subject 17...it personalized him. "Crimson! Extend your arm!" the scientist said once more, in a more commanding tone. He sighed, then concentrated on his arm. A few seconds later, a duplicate of an arm was in front of him. He grabbed it and thrust it out of the cage. "Very funny, Crimson..." the scientist sighed, then grabbed his arm when he wasn't looking and injected the needle. Crimson grabbed at the needle and yanked it out, but it was too late. Whatever substance they put in was already in his bloodstream. He sighed as the scientist left. He already felt like he was losing conciousness, but a slight hope was now in his mind. He still has the syringe. The scientist never took it back. He closed his eyes.

He opened his eyes. How much time had gone past? He never knew. He did manage to keep track of the days and knew this was his birthday. Happy sweet sixteenth, he thought as he stood up, his arm hurting. He rubbed it and found the syringe in his other hand. Alright, so now I have a weapon, he thought, what to do, what to do. Today, the ultimate birthday present would be to leave this hell hole of a place behind him once and for all. And he was going to do it. The syringe gave him hope for now. He closed his fingers around it and began to come up with a plan...

Alex's eyes flew open. She was on an experiment table, like always. She sighed and checked to see if the restraints were on her. She struggled but it was no use. What were they going to do to her now? So how much pain she can endure? See if they can find some way to make her invisibility better? See if they can make her breath under water, but just manage to have her almost choke to death? She sighed. A scientist leered over her. "Today we will be experimenting on the mind." she attached a weird sticker to her head that had a wire connected to it. She attached the other end to herself. She leaned over and inserted something else into her arm. "Just relax," the scientist said, in mock sympathy. Alex's eyes swam with figures and shapes. bright sounds and colors pierced her vision and she screamed out in pain. The world dipped and her focused shifted and blurred. Sometimes the world went black. Sometimes the colors were so blinding it hurt. At some point only words filled her thoughts, jumbled and disoriented. The world went black again and her eyes closed.

She woke up a while later, the world returned to normal. -I wonder if it worked. I should get the boss.- "What did you say?" Alex asked. -she's mental.- "Nothing Subject 3, I didn't say anything," the scientist said. "No, before that. you said 'I wonder if it worked. I should get the boss'," Alex replied. The scientist's eyes widen. She ran over to a phone and picked up the receiver. Alex didn't hear what the scientist said but again, she heard something. -She's a breakthrough! A freak of nature! She is the first subject who can read minds.- Alex's eyes widened. "I can....I can read minds?" The scientist looked over to her and nodded her head. The scientists hung up the phone and walked over to her. The scientists took a needle and injected her with something. Her eyes closed, but somewhere inside her, she had hope.

She woke up to cold metal under her. The familiar bars of her cage pressed against her skin. She sighed and fell asleep.

Sari turned around and saw the girl was back in her cage. She cocked her head slightly and sat up, then pawed at the cage bars as dogs would do, or any animal, even though she wasn't. She cocked her head as she noticed a boy and turned her head to look at him. She sniffed the air and cocked her head, then watched as a scientist walked over to her cage. That made her scared, and she went back in her corner where she usually hid when a scientist came to her cage. She lowered her head and bared her teeth slightly as her cage door opened. She narrowed her eyes and tried to get away, but the human grabbed her gown. She tried to scramble away but a few more scientists came to drag her out, and she gave up her fight. Although she felt safe in the cage, the humans were stronger and she gave up.

Soon, she was lying on an experiment table. They had strapped down her arms and legs so she couldn't do anything. Scared for anything, she watched terrified as more needles were stuck into her, and more pain went through her. She saw one of them grab a big knife and her eyes widened. Scared she shook her head, but they just tried to stab her in her chest, and although it hurt like hell, the knife didn't went through the scales. She closed her eyes, almost screaming in pain, but managing to hold it in. She also held back her tears as best as she could. ''Interesting,'' one scientist said and she opened her eyes to watch the scientist jot down something. ''Make a cut in her skin. I want to know if her skin is that hard too,'' the scientist told the other scientist and a small cut was made beside her scales. That's when she did scream, and tears flowed free. ''How interesting,'' the scientist said and jotted some more down. Sari tired to move her hands and arms to try to get free but there was no movement. She tried again before giving up again. They than stuck another needle into her arm and injected her something, making her black out only minutes later.

Slowly, her eyes opened, and she saw more scientist. She looked at her hands to find her knuckles, and top of her fingers and hands covered in scales. She let out a low growl, causing herself to get more pain. She closed her eyes again, blacking out from the pain.

She opened her eyes only to find herself back in her cage. She sighed and curled up.

Crimson was interrupted by the creaking cage door being opened once again. Ah, crap, what do they want to do THIS time? He slowly got up, knowing that he couldn't fight yet. His plan was still being configured. He had pocketed the syringe. If he lost it now, his plan would be smashed before it even begun. They took him into a room and strapped him down. This would probably hurt, he thought, then laughed out loud. He got hurt everyday. Why would this be different? "Is something funny, Crimson?" His smile died an instant later as that same scientist came into the room. He was going to experiment on him. Chances were, this was going to hurt a little more than normal. "Answer me, Crimson!" he yelled and punched him in the chest. He cried out as pain entered his rib. He so desperately wanted to shove that syringe he had into this guy's heart. But two things were holding him back. His plan that could not fail and the fact that he was strapped down. "Today, were going to do a little something about your muscles." The scientist smirked and drew another syringe. The liquid inside was a bright orange. His eyesd widened. "Oh don't worry, Crimson." the scientist said,"This will only hurt a lot." He laughed and injected the needle into his arm.

He closed his eyes and tried not to scream. Flashbacks entered his mind in a distorted vision. Everything was changing colors from blue, to red, to brown, to purple and so on. It was like a rainbow in his head. Voices entered his head from a long time ago. "No, no, no, no, no!" his mother's voice entered his mind, followed by crying. "Look at that freak!" another voice, this one unfamiliar to him, came next. Finally a fuzzy voice entered his head. "Complete failure...take him back..." There was a slam and he was out once again.

He came to in his cage. He got up, feeling groggy. He looked around at the familiar sights. Cat Woman was curling up. Cat Woman was Crimson's pet name for her. He always gave pet names to everyone, like that one scientist gave to him. It made things a little brighter in this pale gray world he lived in. He was right by a clock, so he looked up at it. Only a few hours passed by this time around. He drew a breath, then reached in his pocket and felt the syringe...his only hope. He wanted to sleep a little longer but he knew he shouldn't. This was his only time to think and plan. He had to make the most of it. But an idea entered his head when he got up. The orange liquid was the distinct memory in his brain before he lost conciousness. Could he conjure liquid? He had to try. He groaned, unheard by anyone as the screams from the experiment rooms drowned it out, and concentrated. He thought of the liquid, orange, bright. He opened his eyes...and it was there, in a puddle, on the floor! New life flowed through him as he pulled out the syringe and sucked up whatever he could and wiped away any traces. He put away the syringe just as a scientist passed by. He froze until he was gone, then began breathing again. He couldn't be caught, not now. He just figured out how to escape, but he needed a lot of concentration to do so. He was going to escape...tonight...

Sari opened one eye as the boy woke up, and cocked her head. She sat up and watched him, then lowered her head and tried to get a better look at what he was doing. She pawed at the bars of the cage and turned, then looked back at him. Speaking... Could she speak? It had been long since she last spoke, not that she had learned to speak in a proper manner anyway, she had it learned by herself, so it surely wasn't great. She shook her head and pawed at the bars again, curious of what the boy was doing. He always seemed to have some kind of... plan. Something she hadn't. She had instinct, instinct was what made her like how she was now. The boy froze as a scientist walked by and she cocked her head, then watched him breathing again. She laid down and looked at the scales on her skin, the new ones were hurting. She rested her head on the ground and let out a soft wale, not wanting to be in more pain than she already was. Every time new scales came by, the pain only became more. It was a burning pain, with a horrible sting, and she couldn't do anything.

She rested her eyes on the cage of the boy again, curiously watching him.

-girl is back in cage- Alex's sat up and looked around. The animal thing was looking at her. -cage. paw at cage.- Alex looked into the animal thing's eyes. -boy is over there. scientists are coming. they hurt me. cage is safe. I stay in cage.- Alex felt sympathy for the girl, even her thoughts resemble those of an animal. Her mind picked up on the scientist's thoughts. -Subject 12 is putting up a fight, oh good more people are coming over to help. I can't wait to try experimentation on her skin.- Alex cringed and looked away as more gruesome thoughts emerged from the scientist. She pressed the palms of her hands to her head and squeezed her eyes shut, trying to keep the horrible words out of her head. Different thoughts seeped into her brain though. She looked up. -Subject 3 can read minds. how interesting. I should preform an experiment on how far away she can read, or how well. Her nerve endings in her brain.....- The scientist rambled on about technical stuff and walked toward her. She turned invisible, but the scientists know well enough by now that she was still in her cage. She rested her head against the cold metal of her cage. "subject 3, hold out your arm." She sighed and turned back to normal and thrust her arm out, obediently, to tired to put up a fight. She glared at the scientist. "When will this hell be over?"

Crimson was sure...this plan would work. He had already created seven syringes filled to the brim with the painful orange liquid. That should be plenty. He watched as a scientist came up to Subject 3, or Goner as he called her, and watched her give up to the scientist. He sighed. These people had no hope. That's what they needed most. He turned and saw Cat Woman staring at him. What did she want? He looked at her with sympathy. She acted more animal than human. It was sad what this place did to people. He had enough. He looked at the clock. It was time. At once, he put up an act and began groaning in pain he didn't feel. He was tossing and turning, slamming his hand against the bars, hoping to get the attention of that scientist. As of right now, he was the only scientist in the room.

Alex looked over to the crimson guy and stared, picking up his thoughts. She winked at him and disappeared, ripping herself from the scientists grip. she walked to crimson and turned back to normal. The scientist angrily stomped over to her. "What do you think your doing?" The scientist looked in at crimson. -what's wrong with him? I should get some scientists on him pronto.- "Hey!"the scientist yelled to a couple scientist looking at notepads. The scientist motioned to her and crimson. The scientist ran over to them. -It's time. I need to get out of this place.- She stared at crimson and mouthed 'your welcome.' Then the whatever they injected her with took over, and she slipped into unconsciousness.

Sari turned her head and looked at the girl -Alex- and cocked her head. She sighed as she seemed to be going away again, because the scientist had taken her arm. She then heard a groaning and turned to find the boy, seemingly in pain. She cocked her head and whined slightly, then pawed at the bars and started to walk in circles before lying back down. She felt sad for the human, she really did. She knew the pain too, but she kept it back. Maybe his pain was worse than hers, that would be terrible. As she watched, she looked at the girl too, well, at the scientist with the girl. Than back at Crimson. Wait, maybe he was up to something. She whined again and pawed at the bars, seemingly stressed about this, trying to get out and to the boy. She didn't like to see them in pain.

Jennifer and John entered the room and walked up Crimson "We want to be a part of your plan". We want to escape. We've been here too much and too long. We need fresh air, food, water, life, clothes, and shelter. "Sorry we forgot to introduce ourselves I'm John Blake but call me Blake and this is Jennifer Kyle call her Huntress."

Crimson was still faking the pain as Goner ran to his cage and stopped. The scientist followed. What was she doing? he wondered, then realized it as the scientist noticed him. A very noble sacrifice. Two more scientist came into the room. She mouthed "Your Welcome" before she was injected with something and lost conciousness. The first scientist grabbed Goner and took her away to someplace. Meanwhile, the other two opened the door and reached out to grab him. The moment he heard the familiar creak of the cage door, he stopped. Everything seemed to stop as he did, opening his eyes and getting up, holding the syringe in his hand. He was smiling. Before the other scientists figured out it was a trick, he lunged forward, stabbing one syringe into one scientist's arm and injecting the liquid, using his other hand to pull out another and stab the other in the chest, injecting there. His smile grew wider as they both crumpled to the ground in pain, probably feeling they way he felt when he was injected. He turned to Cat Woman. He wanted to do something for everyone here, to try and save them somehow, but he didn't have a key. "I'll come back for you guys to free you." he said to her and smiled softly,"I promise." With that, he went to the cage where Goner originally is in. She helped in his escape. She deserved a chance too. He took a syringe and placed it under her food dish, then ran out of the room.

He grabbed two more syringes and rushed into another room. Outside...he could see the ground outside. It was the first time in almost a year that he could see what was out there...it marked freedom. Two security guards were standing there and reacted instantly when he entered. They grabbed their tranquilizer guns and fired. He reacted, running behind an empty desk, dodging the darts. He peeked over. They were reloading. He took the chance and ran toward them, pushing the needles with the substance into both of their chests. They didn't see it coming. They crumpled to the ground, experiencing the same fate as the scientists did. By now, there were shouts as the scientists and the absence of himself were discovered. He knew it wouldn't take long. Without another glance back, he rushed out the door, running at top speed. He was in a desert. He was found in a forest. Where the hell am I? he thought. He dismissed the question and focused on running, faster and faster. He needed to get to a police station. He needed to lead them to this terrible place. He needed to save the others. Cat Woman and Goner. He saw the setting sun and ran over a sand dune, the terrible place out of his sight. He peeked over. Scientists were beginning to run outside, looking for him. They weren't going to find him. He turned around and continued to run, not caring which direction so long as it wasn't towards the hell hole.

Enkidu sat within his cell, watching the daily lives of experiments go by like his own. Yet so different, he watched as syringes were shoved into their arms and they were shoved into cages built differently then his own. He wondered what it felt like to have a needle pierce your own flesh, he did not receive the same treatment. He was feared by many of the scientist, he was very.. 'different' from them. His cell was built differently then the cages, it did not have bars to let him stick his 'arms' through. Those things that called themselves humans, by the way that they talked. He had once been like them, so.. 'soft' and weak. Maybe he had once felt emotion so frequently as them, but with every passing day. He was growing more distant, more uninterested. Only intrigued by his own existence. He watched as one of them tried to escape, why were they trying to get out? What could be out there that was any more interesting then this bleak room.

John watched Crimson in action. He was amazed and saw what he saw. He went over to Crimson and told him he had an idea. "Just get all of us together and let's me in the courtyard where the guards aren't standing and make it look like we are just playing basketball".

Sari raised her head and stood up as the boy stopped with groaning of pain and attacked the scientist. Hope seemed to fill her eyes that moment, human hope, not animal hope. She turned in her cage and pawed at the bars, wanting to get out of here, although she liked the safety of the cage. She soon gave up and watched the boy go, and her hope was gone again, and she was back to her animal spirit self. She sighed and whined, then laid down and rested her head on her hands, just like a dog would rest its head on its paws. She had found hope when the boy escaped, but her hope was gone now. She wouldn't be a human ever again, but just this, animal locked in human form it seemed. She looked at another cell, it was different, and cocked her head slightly. She pawed at the bars, before sighing.

Enkidu sensed that one of the other experiments had taken more notice of his cell. As his mind expanded, he felt the echos of thoughts coming from the girl. It felt more animal then human, he spoke to her telepathically. "Can you hear me? I am the one in this different cell."

Sari had laid back down and her head was resting on her hands, until something entered her mind, a voice it seemed, a male voice even. It said it was the person from the different cell, and she raised her head to look into the direction of the boy. A dog-like grin seemed to.appear on her face. She nodded at him, to show him she understood.

"Somebody help me! Please!" Huntress shouted not knowing where she was. She looked over and saw Blake in a different cage passed out. "Where am I" she asked herself.

Alex woke up on the experiment table. Of course. -Time for the pain test. I wonder if her new mind changes how she feel pain. besides, she did something horrible today. I hope those guard find the escaped boy.- She looked up to find the nearest scientist holding a needle with the bright orange liquid. She cringed in pain, hearing his thoughts. They injected it and the pain was instant. She screamed out and thrashed at her restraints. Her head felt like it was about to explode, and searing pain ripped through her skin. She tried to hold in the screams, but out they came and she wriggled and fought. She turned invisible but it was no use, she couldn't hide from pain, but she would get out of this awful place. Through the pain she heard people's thoughts -interesting, her feeling for pain hasn't changed at all. Oh well, give her one more injection, she deserves punishment for today.- She screamed and glared at the scientist. "Shut up, you are all stupid sadistic creeps." Then the pain overcame her, and she blacked out.

Enkidu was about to communicate more when his cell door opened, a few scientist walked in and said, "Please, if you would follow us were going to be running more experiments on you." Some of them acted polite, maybe it was because he was what they were looking for. He exited the cell and his arms were bound be steel arms sized cuffs. He looked at the girl he had communicated with before, he must look a sight to her. A tall man made of of crystal shards that hummed and faintly glowed. He was led into a room where he was strapped down onto a bed and inserted inside of a large machine. It was designed to read his mental ability and to determine how much it was growing. He was then led to a chair where they sat him down and asked him to attempt to move a pencil with his mind. What were they thinking? How could he perform such a feat, however as he concentrated on the task at hand. He delved deep in his mind as he worked over the theory, as the crystals that made up his body were connected to him. It was natural for him to be able to control them, but maybe through his willpower alone he could outwardly manifest the control he had on his crystals to control other things. He stared at the pencil and it began to slowly rise up into the air before falling back down on the table. The scientist exclaimed in joy and led him back into his cell. However Enkidu couldn't help but wonder what was outside of these walls that made the others want to break out.

Sari cocked her head. The man was led outside and bound with steel. She pawed at the bars and walked a few circles in the cage as she watched him leave, than laid down and sighed. She looked at her scales and an idea broke up in her mind, and she could try, but not now, it would be too risky. She watched the man return to his cell and sat up, looking more like a dog. She pawed at the bars again and cocked her head, hoping they hadn't hurt him like they were hurting her.

Huntress was tired for waiting so long. And accourse Blake was still blacked out. But she still wondered what was going on.

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Enkidu felt concern from the girl, he was starting to pick up more on the emotions of those around him. He expanded his mind probing the scientist that passed by, he felt a little bit of humor. Their minds were so feeble and small compared to his, constantly he was evolving while they stayed the same. More theories came to his mind, he had controlled the pencil, perhaps he could control their weak minds. He concentrated on a passing scientist, slowly suggesting for him to light a cigarette and start smoking there. Something that was not allowed their due to all the chemicals and experiments, however he could sense that the man wanted one desperately. So convincing him to smoke without being caught was easy. Surely the man pulled out a cig and started smoking, with slightly glazed eyes as if he had forgotten where he was. Again he looked at the girl, "See how easily I control their weak minds, I have a question though. What is outside these walls that make all of you so desperate to get out? Just think whatever you want to say to me, I will hear it."

Huntress watched the scientist act unusual. Then another scientist unlocked Blake's cage and woke him up and took him in to be tested. "What are you doing to me and where am I?". The scientist opened up his bag and pulled out a test tube. He stabbed Blake with the needle and drawed some of his blood out. Then the scientist tested it. Blake watched, then looked at the scar the scientist had on his neck. "If I may ask why do you have a scar on your neck". The scientist turned to Blake. "Let men just say every jobs has risks and always comes with a price."

Crimson grew frustrated as he tossed yet another failed lighter. This time, he managed to make the container and the fuel inside, but it wouldn't work because it was missing some key parts inside. He sat on the groud and buried his face in his hands. The problem with making mechanics was that he couldn't create the parts inside that made it work unless he actually saw those parts and where the fit inside the device. He wasn't going to make a lighter tonight. Another idea entered his mind. There was another thing that could start a fire. He imagined what it looked like...a small stick, almost like a cue tip, except the bulb part can light aflame when you rub it on something. He opened his eyes. In front of him was a match. He balled his fists in triumph, lit the match, and then the kindling gathered to start a fire. Normally, he would conjure the wood, but conjuring anything costed energy...precious energy he needed to escape this desert. The flames grew brighter. He wouldn't light a fire in these conditions except for the fact that he knew that he was at least a few miles away, behind a few dunes and a plateau and it was too dark to see the smoke rising.

He sat down next to the flame. He didn't expect to have to start a fire, but the desert was surprisingly cold at night. He blew a breath and rubbed his hands together. He closed his eyes and imagined a quaker granola bar inside a wrapper. It appeared in front of him. He opened the packaging to find that it was empty. He'd only imagined the wrapper, not the granola bar itself. Gah, he hated it when this happened. He tried again, actually imagining the granola bar and there it was. He began to eat. "Chocolate chip," he mumbled to himself and continued eating. They never served enough food for any of the subjects, so he imagined food a lot. In fact, it was how he discovered his power. He imagined to have at least one glass of water in front of him and it appeared. So it wasn't like these tests were completely useless.

Now how was he going to explain his hair and eyes when he got back? He wondered for a bit and settled on color contacts and permanent hair dye. He laughed. He wasn't out of the fire yet. He was one step closer, but not to where he would be making up how he explained his appearance to other people. He put out the fire, glad to be a little warm again, and began walking. He'd ran a few miles just to get away, but being in a cage for the past year didn't help you do so. He couldn't find the strength to run anymore, so he resorted to walking for now. He'd just have to pray he didn't get caught...

Sari cocked her head and watched the scientist. She looked at the man curiously, and as he spoke, she was surprised. He could control minds! Then he asked her about outside, and it made her unsure. She had only been three when she came here, so she didn't even know what was outside, but hearing from others, it seemed better than this place. -'Don't know Outside. Was three when here, can't remember. Humans say freedom. Don't know freedon is. Don't know anything. Can hardly talk. Don't know.'- More animal like her thoughts were, and you could really say she was almost animal. She watched a scientist approach her and became scared. It was holding a needle, needle hurt her. She pawed at the bars and sat in a corner, scared.

Enkidu was intrigued at getting to have conversation with someone else who wasn't human. However when the scientist approached her preparing to interrupt the conversation. He became slightly annoyed, then enraged. His emotions rarely exploded like this but he was very angry at being interrupted, the small crystals that made up his body began to vibrate and hum faster. The noise growing louder, his cell was made up of glass so strong bullets couldn't break it. However he was not going to be stopped by it, repeatedly he smashed his arms against the cell wall. The scientist turned and looked at him in shock, small cracks started forming on the Cell. The scientist turned to run to alert the others but Enkidu knew he couldn't let that happen. Releasing strong reins of mental energy he grabbed at the scientist stopping him in his tracks. The scientist would of screamed but Enkidu had pushed his tongue down his own throat. "You cause them pain, something I never cared about before. However, you got in my way. It was very rude of you, maybe you should feel how they feel. The scientist, unable to control his actions stabbed himself with the syringe.

Blake and The Scientist

Blake was in huge pain. They had found his weakness. They were replaying his Family's Death and forced him to watch it.

Huntress in her cage

Huntress knew Blake was in great pain when she heard he cry in pain and was asking her for help. She wanted to help him so much. He was like a brother to her. But she was unable to escape from the metal cage. "I'll save you once I get out of here Blake, I promised". Wack! went one of the guards sticks hitting Huntress. "Oh shut-up you creature!". Huntress recovered and stood up. When the guard wasn't looking she slipped the keys off his belt and his stick. " I'm not creature". She unlocked her cage and knocked him out. She saw Sari and ran to a dark corner. She was trying to get Sari to read her lips, but what she was saying was too hard to understand.

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Sari looked into the direction of the man and watched him taking control of the scientist. A small smile spread across her face, that was very kind of him. She pawed at the bars and smiled faintly. No one had ever done such a thing for her, no one, and now someone stopped the scientist from hurting her. -'Thank.'- The human/animal creature thought, hoping he'd heard her. She looked at him, waiting for a responce.

Enkidu heard her and nodded at her, he knew they would trace the accident to him. They would attempt to harm him and he knows maybe they would find a way. The instinct to survive kicked in, he began hammering away on the cell wall. Forming more cracks in till a large piece of the glass fell out. It was hardly large enough to stick his arm through but it was enough, his body began to detach. Coming apart in till each individual crystal had flowed through the hole he had created. Reforming on the other side, he looked around probing for threats. Approaching the scientist he took the key from him and inspected it, he memorized the shape and approached her cage. One of his fingers began to reform into that of the key and he opened her cage door. "Time to see the world we don't know anything about."

((OOC: TeenTitans, I would reccomend using OOC to advertise any roleplay you created...or maybe the forums...but I don't think here, in the middle of the roleplay is an appropriate place to advertise...just helping out, I don't mean to be cruel.))

Sari watched another girl break free, and cocked her head. She was unsure. She didn't like this place, but she was scared to leave her cage for something unknown. She felt safe in the cage, like nothing bad could happen. Maybe she wanted to stay here, and let the scientists just do as they pleased. She wouldn't know what else to do really. At that moment, she heard glass breaking. She looked at the man as he took the keys from the scientist and opened her cage. Her head low, she sniffed him first, then took a few steps outside, even though she was scared. Another thing, she walked with hand and feet, like chimpansees, or gorillas. She looked at the crystal man, than at Huntress, before looking back at Crystal Man. -'Scared. Cage safe. Maybe me stay.'- She looked back at the cage, than at Crystal Man.

Alex's eyes opened and she was back in her small cage. The cold seeped into her skin and she still shook and shake from the pain she was just through. She curled up in a ball and the tears started to flow. She needed to get out of this place. Needed to. She looked glumly at the scraps of food that occupied her food dish. SHe ate them hungrily. Wow was she hungry. She lifted the plate up to lick it clean, and something clattered to the ground. She looked around to make sure no scientists came over and she looked at what dropped. A syringe filled with orange liquid. She clenched it in her hand. If only she could make it disappear, for she couldn't hide it on her person, not in her tattered dress type robe. She closed her eyes. Some experiments showed she could turn other things invisible, but she never tried. SHe concentrated hard and gripped the syringe. Suddenly it disappeared. She grinned and placed it back under the food dish. Those scientists will pay. The next one that comes in here won't know what's coming. She grinned and started to formulate a plan.

Someone's thoughts pressed into her mind. She looked over at the mutant in the special cage. The Rock, as she called him. His mind almost called out to her. The Rock said something to the animal thing. Even though it wasn't directed toward her, she could read it loud and clear. Maybe she could communicate back. SHe focused on the mind, and pushed into his. It was like, well, pushing on a hard rock. She pushed and suddenly it gave way, she thought to him -Can you hear me? I heard what you said to the animal thing.- Than she exited his mind and tried to test it out on scientists. They were much easier to break through. But she wan't to try something different. she grabbed hold of his thoughts and inserted her own. -you want to walk to that cage.- The scientist sort of narrowed his eyes and shook his head. she pushed harder, and urged him forward. -You will walk to that cage.- The scientists didn't hesitate and walked to the cage beside her. -now you will open the cage.- In a daze, the scientist opened the cage. -now you will climb into the cage.- The scientist climbed in. -now you will close the door.- The scientist pulled the door closed and it locked with a click. She almost laughed, and let go of his mind. The scientist looked around and widened his eyes. he tried to open the cage door, but it was locked tight. -Why in the blazes am i in her- She laughed at his thoughts, and pealed with laughter as he started yelling for help. She grinned and lay back in her cage.

I will escape. I will finally escape.

Crimson stopped to rest again. Man, this was tiring, he thought, rubbing his feet. He emptied his pockets. He still had three syringes filled with the orange substance that inflicted tons of pain. Another idea entered his mind. He'd been having a lot of those lately.

First, he imagined a wooden bowl, opening his eyes to see it in front of him. An easy task, but now came the hard one. He closed his eyes and imagined a bow and arrow. He knew better than to imagine a gun, it wouldn't work anyway. He only had one in memory...his dad's long bow. It was mahogany wood polished to perfection. It was hand-crafted by his dad and it was his dad's prize possession. That should be enough, he thought as he opened his eyes and nearly screamed with delight as it was there. Now, another tough step...his dad's arrows. 30 deadly steel-tipped arrows with a solid oak shaft and decorative feathers. And there they were. Next, he imagined a quiver, another easy one, and it appeared, attached to a leather strap to carry it. He was smiling, more exhausted than ever, but smiling. He'd been taught to hunt before with a bow and arrow and already knew he was a decent shot. He grabbed an arrow, felt the bow in his grasp as well, nocked, drew back and fired at a cactus. It hit the trunk...not in the center, but still a very good shot. He retrieved the arrow and now was grabbing the syringes and letting the liquid out of them, watching the orange substance enter the bowl. Now, he grabbed each arrow and dipped the tips into the substance. He layed them out on the sand and grew relieved that they were drying quickly. Every second was an advantage and he knew he couldn't stay here long. Once thirty arrows were coated in the now dried orange substance, he put them into the quiver, confident that even a single scratch by the arrow on skin would cause the substance to activate, like it did with the scientists and guards. He put the quiver over his back. He still had half of the orange substance left in the bowl...and he knew what to do with it. He imagined an empty canteen and it appeared. He poured the rest of the liquid inside and put the cap on. Now he had a weapon. He could cry from happiness...but for now, he would continue to escape. He got up and continued walking...

((OOC: NO! What the heck happened?!))

Everything was going haywire. The Rock was escaping, and apparently helping the animal thing. If she wanted to escape, now was her time. Scientists were running into the hallway, obviously alarmed by the noise going on. She grasped the nearest one with her mind. He walked over to her and unlocked her cage. She jumped out, grasping the syringe and punched him in the face. "That if for all the times you hurt me." SHe turned invisible and closed her cage, so it looked like she was still in it, just invisible. She released the scientist's mind and he walked off a little dazed.

She sneaked past the scientists running toward The Rock and the animal thing. She creeped down the hallway to find two guards by the door. There was no way to get past them, without alerting them. She tried to enter one of their minds, but it was very hard. When she finally got in she couldn't persuade him to move away from the door. The guard just grunted and shifted his feet. Maybe she could only control week minds. She will have to work on that, but for now she needed a way out. She remember the syringe in her hand and quietly thanked Crimson for giving her one. She stabbed the first guard and injected some of the liquid, and while the other guard held up his tranquilizer dart gun in confusion. She watched the guard writhe on the floor in pain. Yes. That is how it feels you scumbag. She injecting the rest of the liquid into the other guard. She stepped over the bodies in pain and ran out the door.

THe sunlight hit her and she squinted into it. Already guards were running out and she ran too. She ran and her feet hit rock and sand. She kept running even though she was exhausted. She continued running and didn't stop to rest. She needed to get as far away from that piece of crap as she could. She finally had to stop from exhaustion. She soon realized she had no food, no water, and no fire. Suddenly a faint voice touched her mind. She ran forward, panting. the thoughts became louder, and as she walked out from behind a large boulder, the thoughts were clear as crystal. She turned back to normal and stepped forward.

"Crimson."

Crimson's nerves tingles as his pet name was mentioned. He grabbed his bow, nocked another arrow, drew back, and turned around to find...Goner. He quickly lowered his bow and walked over to her. "Goner?" he asked, though he knew she would be confused. What was her real name? He didn't know. He wasn't there long enough to find out."How did you escape?" he asked her before hugging her, glad that he wasn't alone anymore. Unfortunately, she might have brought along a few foes on accident, so his instincts told him that they couldn't spend too much time on conversation. They would have to get going soon.

Jerome entered the containment room and what layed before him nearly caused him to show an emotion.

There was one scientist in a cage and three mutants were out of their cages. He recogized two instantly...Sari and Enkidu. He was surprised that Enkidu was out. Endiku was a mellow character, the only mutant that hasn't put up a fight with the scientists. It appears he made a friend, Sari. Sari had been here from the moment he arrived. She and Enkidu were the least problemsome subjects. I guess people change...The third one was a mystery to him...probably brand new, he thought.

"There's been a breach!" he spoke in his com,"All scientists report to the containment room immediately. He pulled out his tranquilizer dart and shot the three, knowing that each dart would cause them to sleep. It was charged with a high sleep medicine so the effects would be instant. Even Enkidu would be affected, despite his crystal form. At that time, the scientists arrived. "Clean those bodies up and put them back in their cages. Put Enkidu in the solitary confinement cage. It's the only safe place left." The scientists went to work. The solitary confinement cage was at the very end, it's own room of it's own. It was made of metal and had no openings of any kind. It was the only place for him until they fixed his cage.

He went over to the scientist in the cage, opening it up. He was careful about Alex, since she could be invisible and sneak out. He grabbed the scientist and yanked him out, locking the cage behind him. "What happened," he asked. The scientist began stammering,"W-well...I-I guess that...well you see it's just the funniest thing...I-I...Subject three may be...she's gone...escaped." He slapped the scientist, then tossed him to the ground. I'll have to tell Theresa to look for TWO escaped mutants, he thought. Crimson, another blank face he didn't really know, was the first. Maybe Theresa had her hands full, he thought. He decided to meet up with her and go hunting with her as well. He grabbed his tranquilizer sniper and left the building, looking for Theresa.

Alex stiffened at the hug. Never, or at least in a seriously long time had she received touch that wasn't intended to hurt her. But she relaxed and embraced, glad that all of the suffering was over. -we should get moving- Crimson's thoughts touched her. She sighed. "I guess we should get going, but do you have anything to eat or drink? I just ran like three miles." She slumped against the boulder in exhaustion. "The Rock, or whatever you call it: the crystal thing, and the animal thing, and a newbie were causing chaos. I took that time to escape. I've developed interesting mutations." She pushed inside Crimson's mind and spoke to him -I can read thoughts, and talk to people through their minds. Not to mention I can control people with my mind, which greatly helped escaping. And thank you for the syringe.- She exited his mind and sighed.

"It's over now."

She slung her rifle over her back, and waited impatiently for Jerome to show up and give orders. She assembled her troop of 10, ready for the hunt. She looked around and sighed. They could be miles away by now. She shifted her feet and and took out her knife, twisting it in her hands. She looked over to Theresa, who was also leader of the group. She looked to the door and saw Jerome walking out the door and she waved him over.

"Let's get hunting."

((A tranquilizer dart wouldn't effect Enkidu. He doesn't have organs or blood, he's made up of pure crystal. He also does not sleep. Also I have to consider that completely controlling my character since you decided for me that Enkidu was going to be affected by something that would NEVER effect him.))

((OOC: To Enkidu, although I understand you don't want to be completely controlled, I also find it unreasonable that there is NO possible way of controlling you. My decision, and it is final, that yes, you do get knocked out by tranquilizer darts, but not nearly as long as normal humans or mutants. In fact, tranquilizer darts only affect you for about a minute.))

Enkidu awoke in a new cell, after his body had reformed due to be momentarily unconscious. Recalling being shot by Jerome he once again was thrown into a rage, how dare that filthy human even approach him. A new found hate and pride was rising up in him, he wasn't going to be caged anymore. No more would inferior apes test on him, he was going to get out even if he had to tear every human apart. Repeatedly he hammered away at the wall of the cell, each time his arms breaking apart slightly only for the crystals to reform back in place. Stopping since he knew it was useless, he decided to wait. The moment one of them showed up to relocate him, they'd receive all his anger.

Most women her age were slowing down. Oh, there were still a few who tried to relive thier glory days through botox, plastic surgery, and trysts with the young, male fitness instructor; but generally, most 45 year old women were overcome with family life, work, and the endless drone of working life. Not Theresa. Sure she was showing her age, but her body and mind were as fit and strong as ever. As she did every morning, she dressed in her boots, cargo pants, and sports bra, and was doing chin-ups and leg-lifts from the doorframe to her bedroom. She didn't have to be in until 8, anyway.

As usual, she hated the thought of going into work. Perhaps she was getting too old for this. Right now, all she wanted was to throw herself down on the couch, open a beer, and watch daytime talk shows until she fell asleep. Then again, the whole reason she'd taken this job was because she was bored of doing just that. And she needed the money. Of course, she hadn't known then that this "lab" was actually a house of horrors, where someone's idea of a science project was turning children into monsters. But a job was a job. And she still hadn't heard from her friend in Nigeria. She was begining to wonder if the Army of Christ had been crushed before they could begin thier crusade against the heathen Muslim terrorists. She'd so much rather be living under a tarp in the jungle than having to go to a place where creatures that were once American teenagers were stuffed into cages that made pet carriers look like palaces.

A knock on the door startled her. Theresa lost her grip on the doorframe, and landed with a thump on the floor. Her first thought was that Carlos "El Pato"'s men had finally caught up to her. She thought that was over with, after the Mexican Marines swarmed the little cantina where Theresa was holed up against Carlos' men. Apparently not. With instincts bred from 15 years of fighting, Theresa dropped to the floor, scurried along on her hands and knees to the door of her apartment, then slid up against the wall. She reached for the shotgun she kept hidden over the door, pumped a pair of shells into both barrels, and threw open the door, ready to give Carlos' hired goons a face full of rock salt.

Yuri screamed like a little girl, and threw his arms in front of his face to protect himself. He was dressed in his full military uniform.

"Yuri!" Theresa exclaimed, lowering her gun. "What are you doing here? And dressed like that? What are you trying to do: get the cops called? People will think you're some sort of neo-Nazi terrorist."

"My apologies, Ms. Martinez," the former Russian Speznatz commando sputtered in accented English. "But there's a call from the lab. It's the test subjects - they're - escaping..." The emotion in his voice wasn't so much from Theresa's surprise. Theresa felt her heart sink into her stomach. This was the moment she dreaded - unable to take the horrors anymore the monsters in the lab had finally snapped. Most were probably just scared, and would instinctively scurry off into some dark hole to hide for fear of how others might react to their horrible transformations. But some - some might have had thier humanity forced out as more and more drugs were forced in. Some might blame humanity for betraying them to the scientists. Some might turn their mutations against the humans who gave them these "powers". Some might decide they no longer owed anything to humanity, and that all humanity must suffer for the sins of a perverted few.

They're no longer children, thought Theresa, ejecting the shotgun shells and returning the weapon to its hiding place. They're no different than escaped lab rats. Most just need to be rounded up and taken back home for thier own safety. Some need to be put down. Of course, these justifications did little to calm her. On the contrary, they only made her dread her job even more. But when she thought of how many people would be at risk if one of the more violent mutants got out...

"Come inside, Yuri, before people start thinking the Russians have invaded," she ordered, then shut the door on her fellow mercenary. "How many little critters got out?"

"I don't know."

"Any scientists dead?"

"I don't know. Maybe a few, God willing, but I don't know."

"Okay, just let me get dressed. I'll be out in a bit."

Theresa retreated to her bedroom. Her shirt was where she'd thrown it the night before. She pulled it on, then her vest and the rest of the ballistic armor, and finally her helmet. She grabbed her pack, filled her hydration pouch with water from the bathroom faucet, then retrieved her weapons from the closet. She'd pick up ammunition later, at her locker at the lab. She grabbed her ID badge and her phone, and rejoined Yuri, who was nervously slapping his palm with a cigarette pack.

"Okay. Let's go." The two scurried out of the apartment, down the second story steps to the dirt parking lot, where a green pickup truck was waiting, driven by some kid fresh out of the Marines and dressed in a motley assortment of hunting camouflage and military fatigues. Yuri got in the cab, and Theresa vaulted into the bed. She'd barely settled in, when the kid gunned the engine, and took off, driving well over the legal speed limit. The town was small enough, that they were out of it in minutes and streaking down the highway towards the turnoff to the lab. As they drove, Theresa called in to the lab.

"This is hunter lead Martinez, reporting. I'm with Meyers and Vladimirov. We're three miles from the turnoff. What's the situation?"

"Hey, that could be useful. Whenever you hear thoughts that aren't mine, let me know,"Crimson told her,"We could know when they are around us. And here." He imagined a granola bar in her palm and when he opened his eyes, it was there. "I don't know, but should we wait for Rocky and Cat Girl? They could be escaping as well. I know it's a risk and will only go with your decision, whichever you choose. Keep in mind that there are people who want to bring us back in. I only have so many arrows." He motioned to his quiver. Goner was very useful, since she could turn invisible. Even if he couldn't escape, he would make sure that she would...
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Jerome almost smiled when he saw Brenda. Now her and Theresa were his top hunters and he was exceptionally proud of them. Last week, when the first one escaped, they were on the call, ready to react. They wrangled him in within a couple of days. He was confident that these two wouldn't be much longer. "Let's go," he commanded and off they marched. Brenda and himself would lead the ground patrol, Theresa would scout ahead with her two troops in the buggy.

An incoming transmission entered his com. It was Theresa. "Yeah, we got a couple of escaped subjects. Subject 3 and Subject 17. Subject 3 has invisibility as well as mind reading and manipulation. Subject 17 can conjure any item out of thin air. Be warned about them. Me and Brenda are on ground troops, following behind. Locate them, but do not engage. Call us and we will arrive behind you, then take them out together. I repeat...do not engage." He turned off the com and turned to Brenda,"Let's wrangle a couple of mutants, shall we," he muttered and led the way behind Theresa.

Sari scrambled back in her cage when she was hit by a dart and was even more scared than she'd ever been. For her, the cage was her only save place, and going outside would mean something bad would happen. She didn't want all this pain anymore, but she was too scared to try to escape. Like a scared animal, she sat in her cage, feeling sleepy, and looked at Jerome. When she was three, he seemed to care more for her, now she was just a labrat to him. A tear rolled down her cheek and her eyes closed, her arms went forward making her fall to the ground, and she lost consciousness.

Several minutes later it seemed, although she didn't have a good sense of time, she woke up again. She looked around, but Crystal Man was not in his cage, and she couldn't see him. She slowly sat up and looked around, then shivered slightly and sighed. -'Scared Outside. Inside pain. Don't know do.'- She laid down and curled up in her cage, making herself as small as possible as she could. She rested her head on her hands, but then held her head up and looked at the scales. Almost nothing could go through, they tries almost anything. She looked at the bars and pawed at it. Then sighed and rested her head back on her hands.

Great; it was Dr. Satan who answered. Theresa was sure there wasn't a hunter or scientist who actually liked Dr. Kutzo, or Dr. Satan, as everyone called him behind his back. Shared his views, yes; had as little regard for the mutants as him, yes; but certainly didn't like him. He was just - creepy. Even though he was 18 years her junior, Dr. Satan still gave her the creeps. Returning to the task at hand, she tapped on the back window of the truck. Yuri turned to open it. Theresa relayed the situation to the two men in the cab.

"Jesus Christ!" exclaimed Andrew, the ex-Marine driver. "Please tell me they mean one guy is a master escape artist and the other knows slight-of-hand tricks."

"Unfortunately, no." Yuri said. Andrew had only been working at the lab for a month, so he was blissfully unaware of the darker goings-on. As if experimenting on children wasn't enough.

Andrew's eyes widened. "Wait, what? I thought this was supposed to be a program to build a better soldier, not make comic-book superpowers real!"

"I wouldn't believe it either, but unless we see otherwise, we can assume Subject 3 has psychic powers and can literally turn invisible; and Subject 17 can create anything it wants to from thin air, like the Green Lantern," Theresa explained.

"Fuck!"

"Trust me kid, you have no idea what really goes on in there." Truth be told, Theresa didn't know either, and she probably wouldn't want to find out. "I heard there's this one guy - he used to be a guy, anyway, a teenage boy, I think - but there's this guy that I don't know what they did to him, but now I hear all his organic tissues have been replaced by some sort of crystalline matter. He's still alive, but he's not even human anymore. I don't even think he resembles anything close to a human except for 2 arms, 2 legs, and a head of sorts. He's more like solid, living rock."

"Ugh!" exclaimed Andrew as they pulled up to the guard shack, five miles up the turn-off, up the main road, on the edge of the lab's outer perimeter.

The guards were only prepared to deal with normal human threats from the outside: curiosity seekers, investigative journalists, religious extremists, determined parents... Not mutants trying to get out. Hell, they didn't even know what went on inside the lab. They probably thought it was all white rats and monkeys. The guards reported no disturbances on the outer fence, convincing Theresa the mutants were still in the perimeter. Even if Subject 3 could fool the motion sensors and trip wires, Subject 17 couldn't - no object it could conjure, short of a hot air balloon, could not set off the perimeter alarm.

Once they were through the gate, Theresa let Andrew drive a distance into the perimeter before ordering him to veer off the road and head off into the desert. When they reached a clump of trees growing at the bottom of a dry stream, she ordered Andrew to park the truck as close to them as possible.

"Okay, Andrew, Yuri, you two: go out and erase our tracks back to the road, and for about another hundred yards down towards the gate," Theresa ordered. "Cover your trail on the way back. I'll stay here and hide the truck. Remember: if you see our two lost sheep, radio Dr. Satan, trail them, and try to stay out of sight." Yuri smartly saluted Theresa, and Andrew nodded, then tightened the drawstrings on his Aussie cap. The two men then set off into the desert. Theresa waited until they were out of sight, then sprang into action. She dragged some dead branches up and over the truck to conceal it from the casual eye. Then she opened the hood, and removed the battery and replaced it with a rock. That should keep the mutants from using it as a getaway car. For good measure, she disconnected a few other electrical lines, just in case Subject 17 realized the trick and conjured a car battery. Then she crawled into some bushes nearby, and waited for Yuri and Andrew to return. She hoped Subject 3 wouldn't find her first. She alone knew what she'd done to the truck, and if Subject 3 read her mind, then "manipulated" her... Theresa tried to think of something else. Still, she felt uncomfortable, all by herself. Swallowing hard, she contacted Dr. Satan on the radio, this time.

"This is Martinez," she said. "I am in Zone 4, solo. Meyers and Vladimirov are backtracking. I'm going to need some company. I don't like the idea of being alone with an invisible mind reader on the loose."

Brends was ready for action. After the one little mutt was captured and put back in place, things were quite. That's what she called them. Mutts. He and Jerome were off looking for the two mutts that got out. They or one of the hardest to deal with, in her opinion, well besides Allaire. She hasn't gotten out but if she did they would also have to search the air with helicopters. But invisible girl? Damn, this was gonna be harder than she thought. But she was trained for tracking, not even miss disappear could his her tracks from them. And sure enough as they set out, she could see small foot prints scattered through the sand. She grinned and turned to Jerome. Time for the fun to begin

Jerome was continuing to walk through the desert. The sun was now set, the sky a deep lavender. He would care for beauty, except he didn't. He never felt any emotion since the accident and he knew he wasn't going to ever again. A beeping sound came from his com and he picked it up, hearing Theresa on the other end.

"Calm down, soldier," he replied,"She is not a powerful mutant who is known to kill. She's just a girl. Her time in the containment room should have lowered her self-esteem. If she doesn't come crawling back, she should be easy to take. Just keep a strong mind and she won't get to you. The other one, on the other hand, is a little more fresh to the lab. He will be the more dangerous target. He's smart and creative and knows how to use his resources. But as long as you keep him running and tired, he won't be able to fight back. That's the advice I give to you. You know what to do. We'll be there in a little bit, don't lose your head, soldier." He turned off the com and kept walking towards Theresa's direction.

Alex looked at the granola bar in his hand. "That's cool." she grabbed the granola bar ate ate it. She hadn't tasted something so wonderful. "Rocky and Cat girl? You said? they most likely won't get out. When i was running out I heard the thoughts of Dr. Crazy, in the black lab coat, and boy was he mad. I don't think they got far. The question is, where do we go? If we go to the police, will they not believe us?" She looked down at her tattered pale dress, that was like a bag with strings. When she was very little she remembered wearing one in the doctor's office. She sighed. "I didn't even bring a weapon, and I desperately need a shower." Her eyes glanced up and she almost fell to the ground. -Stupid mutts, I'll get them, they can;t fool me.- "They are close! really close!" She jumped up and started running. Why didn't she hear the thoughts before? She grabbed Crimson's arm "It's to late, they are too close, we need to hide." She focused on crimson. She has never tried to completely disappear some else before. He flickered a little and disappeared, but just to reappear again. She slumped to the ground, her energy drained. "I can't do it. We are gonna go back to that hell! I can't do it! I can't take the pain again!"

Sari turned in her cage, again and again, seeming to be stressed. She whined and pawed at the bars, then turned again. She then growled and smashed her body, her back with the scales, against the bars. She yelped softly but stood back up and turned. It was all too much for her. Two of whom she knew had escaped, another had tried to escape with her, but had failed. She whined and pawed at the bars again, before laying back down and laying her hands over her head. ''Not know to do. Two gone, other locked, me...'' She sighed and looked at the scales of her hand, than at the bars. She turned again, and again, getting only more distressed. She pawed at the bars again and tried to stuck her head through one of the bars, but failed. She tried again.

Crimson was a little deflated, partially from physical exhaustion, partly from the fact that it was just her and him who were escaping. No matter, he thought, we can come back for them and save them, this time with police force. "I don't know about the police..." he said finally,"But that's a risk we have to take. We can make up something and bring them to this place and they will see the truth. We can-" Before he could continue, she began screaming. She was hearing thoughts from one person. They were almost too much. We wasted too much time talking, he thought in horror. She couldn't turn invisible and he couldn't create anything. They were both exhausted. "Sshh..." he whispered,"You making all of that noise doesn't help." He grabbed her and they ran underneath a rock. "You stay here..." he whispered,"I'll distract them. You helped me and I'll help you. Live a good rest of your life." With that, he ran out with his bow and arrow, already nocking an arrow and firing. He cursed when his shot missed, landing directly between Shadow Man and his accomplice.
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Jerome stepped to the side, pushing Brenda to the other side as an arrow landed between the two with a thud! He turned and saw Subject 17 with a bow and arrow running to the side. "Action..." he put his sniper rifle into firing position. "Brenda, take your troops and surround him. I'll get Theresa." He pulled out his com and radioed Theresa. "Theresa, we've found Subject 17. Get your ass over here and help us!" Not waiting for a reply, he turned off the com and began to set up his sniper.

Brenda headed back, sniper in hand and gather the troops. She motioned for them to surround Subject 17. She snorted at his bow and arrow but then frowned as she heard commotion behind her. "Hey! What's going on?" One of the guards turned to her unarmed, and stammered. "My...My gun...its, its gone!" The guard held up his empty hands to show her. She sighed. "How stupid can you be to loose...." The a thought hit her. "Number 3." Then something pierced her skin and she fell over knocked out.

Allaire woke up to hear one of the mutants, the scaled one pawing at her bars. Allaire stretched and looked around to see some of the cages empty. "I slept through the invisible girl and the other one escaping..? Man, that sucks.." She looked to her left to see her friend not in her cage, and sighed. Allaire looked over at the scaled one. "Do you know how to get outta here??" She whispered to the scaled one in a hushed tone. Allaire looked up to see a scientist approaching her cage. "Arm." He said demandingly. She felt like antagonizing the scientist, and put her hand by her ear as if to say that she couldnt hear him. "Arm NOW." "Wha-?" Allaire mouthed to him. The scientist snatched her arm and injected whatever was in the needle, and walked off.

Although she was exhausted, and nearly ready to collapse, she turned invisible. The thoughts of those horrible people just pushed her willingness to act, to the brim. She took one of their guns. It didn't feel right in her hands, and it was also a little heavy. She aimed at one of the guards, brenda she thought and fired. It surprisingly landed itself in her lower ankle. She turned and fired at two more guards, but only one hit, and guards started going bezzerk, shooting and random, and all wondering what the crap was going on. Dr. Crazy however, just calmly stood still and looked for her. His eyes glanced to the ground and he caught sight of movement at her feet. He fired and she jumped back. "Oh how on earth are we gonna get out of this," she muttered to herself.

Sarin looked as a girl woke up and cocked her head. She pawed at the cage and turned in it, although there wasn't much space to do so, she didn't care. She then heard a hushed voice and turned to look back at the girl. She cocked her head and sniffed the bars, then shook her head. She turned again and pawed at the bars before lying down. She watching a scientist near and watched the girl act like she hadn't heard the scientist, but the scientist didn't like it. She sighed softly and sniffed the bars again, then pawed at it and whined. Yeah, her human side was gone for most, she seemed just a scared animal that wanted to escape this place, although she was scared to even go outside her cage. She tried to push her head through the bars again and again, than gave up and whined more.

Crimson was about to be surrounded, only to hear commotion from one of the guards. Apparently his gun was gone. How the, he thought and then it clicked to him. Goner...she was helping out once again. This was a huge risk. Now her precense was known and it was either escape or get captured yet again. Both of them. Why can't I make a noble sacrifice to her? he thought as he drew back and fired again. The arrow struck one of the guards and the orange substance dried on the tip took effect, causing pain beyond belief. More shots were fired. So far, with the commotion, Crimson was lucky. He wasn't the target, Goner was at the moment. He knew it would only be a matter of time before he would become the target again. He was actually visible. He nocked, drew and fired, missing the other guard. Meanwhile, two other targets from Goner hit them, one at what appeared to be the second in command in the ankle, and another guard. A distant shot was fired and he turned towards it...Shadow Man. He had a sniper rifle and was trying to hit Goner. He fired again, this time at Shadow Man.
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Jerome saw the traveling footsteps of invisible Alex. "Gotcha..." he mumbled and fired. It missed. He reloaded and an arrow shaft appeared at his right. He turned and aimed at Crimson and fired. He watched as the dart hit Crimson's leg and Crimson crumpled to the ground. Now back to Alex, he again looked for the moving footprints...

Allaire looked at the scaled mutant and decided to give her the nickname of Scales. "It's alright.. We'll get out soon enough. I'll make sure we will." She said in a soft tone. Now, Scales was the only friend in the facility besides her other friend who, for some reason, wasn't in her cage. Allaire curled up, and kept an eye on Scales, making sure she was alright. She was worried about her other friend, but she couldnt worry about her now, she had to worry about a way to get her and Scales out.

Alex watched Crimson fall. Crap. This isn't going to work. How could I have been so stupid? She needed to get out of here. Her captured too wasn't going to help either of them. She started to run in the direction of the trees, but Dr. Crazy was quick. He fired, but none hit. She darted toward them faster and a couple guards caught on, firing in her direction. Doctor Crazy was more aware and he nearly hit her arm. She dived behind a tree and gasped in exhaustion. Made it. Then the world dipped and went hazy. NO! i didn't get hit. This can't happen. she looked to find a tranquilizer dart lodged in her thigh. The world went black, but before she lost concouisness, Doctor Crazy's thoughts rang out: -Gotcha. Stupid Subject 3.- She laid her head back and closed her eyes. No. This just can't be happening.

Sari looked at Allaire and shook her head as said they'd get out soon enough. She was too scared to go outside her cage, bad things would happen. She turned in her cage again before lying down again. She rested her head on her hands and yawned. She then closed her eyes, and sighed. She rolled over onto her back and looked up at the ceiling and the bars. She pawed at them, and looked back at Allaire. She stuck her hand through the bars to paw at Allaire, although she had no idea of what use it would be.

Allaire looked at Scales trying to paw her, and held her hand out. She wasn't sure what she wanted but, she did it anyway. "What is it?" She said looking at Scales. She wondered what had made Scales start acting like an animal. She knew it probably was the testing, but she knew Scales was still human, because all of them in the facility were atleast part human now.

The moment Alex fell, she reappeared behind a tree. He walked up to Brenda, noticing the blood on her ankle, but not caring. "And that is how you bring some mutants down," he smirked as he went to the other hunters. One was dead while the other was screaming in pain from an arrow in his leg. "Collect Subject 17 and Subject 3 and bring them back," he commanded and they instantly obeyed. Like dogs, he thought as he turned on his com and called to Theresa."Where the hell are you, soldier? We got the mutants in custody. Head back to the base. I will speak with you there." He disconnected. The soldiers had just picked up the mutants' bodies and were carrying them back. He looked up at the sky and found it pitch black. How time flies, he thought and went back to Brenda. "Need help, or can you walk?" he asked, harshly. He meant well, but he still had no feelings for anyone.

Scales laid her hand on the hand of Allaire before pulling it back and sniffing her hand. She looked at her hand and than at Allaire, -'Same. Same hand. Me still human. Part.'- She looked back at Allaire and whined slightly. She rolled onto her back, her greenish, shining throw gown rolling with her. She didn't wear anything apart from a t-shirt and a underpants, but that was all. They wanted to keep a close eye on her scales.

Theresa wasn't exactly comforted by Dr. Satan's words. She is not a powerful mutant who is known to kill. She's just a girl.

Yeah, but no one is known to kill until they do kill, and it's not exactly that I'm worried about. Then came the command to come for assistance. Unfortunately, Dr. Satan hadn't specified a coordinates. Theresa radioed to Yuri and Andrew.

"Meyers, Vladimirov: Team 10 has made contact with Subject 17!"

"What's thier position?" asked Andrews.

"How should I know? I..." The loud pops of compressed air caught Theresa's attention. They were distinct from conventional gunshots, but carried just as good. "Just head for the noise. That's probably them." Breaking cover, Theresa scurried out across the desert, keeping low to the ground, and using the bushes for cover. The noise of the shooting got louder, then suddenly died away. Theresa kept running. Coming over a rise, she found the rest of the hunters - a motley mix of private contractors, mercenaries, former soldiers, bounty hunters, and "gun-nuts" clustered around Dr. Satan, who stood tall, like the Devil himself. At his feet, like a prize buck, lay a quite cute-looking teenage boy, clutching a bow and a quiver of arrows. A pretty little girl, not even 16 yet, lay nearby, a submachine gun at her side.

I must be getting old, thought Theresa. Either these mutants were easily taken down, or I'm not as spry as I was when I was 40. Theresa came to a stop, and rested her hands on her knees, while she panted and caught her breath. As the day was starting to get hot, she took sip from the straw of her hydration pouch.

"Well," she said. "That was easy enough."

Andrew and Yuri arrived at that moment, both panting and sweating. Theresa felt a slight swelling of pride. Both men were younger than her, and both men looked ready to drop dead. Yuri regarded the two mutants with what looked like disdain, and muttered something in Russian. Andrew whispered something that sounded like, "Jesus Christ, they're just kids." between breaths.

Theresa looked up at Dr. Satan, and felt her skin crawl. He looked more like a cross between a hunter who'd bagged his quarry and a mafia hitman than a scientist.

"Is that all of them?" she asked, glancing again at the two mutants.

Allaire pulled her hand back in and looked at Scales sympathetically, and decided to unfurl her wings through the two wing holes in the back of her sweatshirt they had cut out for her, and stretched them out, through the bars of her cage. Her wings hurt from always being folded in against her back. Allaire flapped her wings a couple times, and wished desperately to be free from this place. She usually made her daily excersize as flapping her wings for hours at a time, even if she could barely flap them because of how big her wings were, so she wasnt atleast exhausted as easily when she finally got the chance to fly.

Brenda woke up to find Jerome leering over her. Crap, what happened. She scrambled up and her head hurt. Her ankle was smeared with blood. She looked over to find the mutants being carried off. That's good at least they got them. She hated subject 3. now she looked like a fool who couldn't handle herself. She kicked the creature as it was carried past. She smirked and brushed herself off. "Sly little mutts aren't they?" She said, turning to Jerome. She crapped the legs of subject 17, and helped them haul him away. "Let's take them back. And this time they should be put in better secured cages."

((OOC, as i read over my post, it has come to my attention that I said crapped, instead of grabbed, mostly likely an auto correction. I imidiatly burst out laughing because it is hilariously placed in this context. :D forgive me.))

Sari looked at the girl as she stretched her wings. She cocked her head and rolled back on her tummy, and sniffed one of them before Allaire flapped them. She went back a bit to give her some space and sat up, sitting like a dog. No wonder, her back legs were shorter then her arms, so she really seemed more animal than human, and her skin starting to cover with scales, made it only look more like she was an animal, of some sort. She cocked her head and pawed at one of the wings, curious about the feathers. She than laid down and rested her head on her hands, but watched Allaire curiously.

Allaire smiled at Scales. "You can touch them if you want. I dont mind." She held a wing down lower for Scales. She had always wondered what flying would be like, but was going to wait for just the right moment when she had the chance to get away, and not be caught. She had thought about her plan for a long time, and that was what she had decided on, because if she was caught and brought back, her cage would be more protected than what it already was, and she wouldnt have hardly any chance of escape then.

Sari smiled faintly and softly touched the wings. She cocked her head as one feather seemed to be released by her touch and she took it between her fingers. She smiled and looked at her feet. She put the feather between one of the scales before looking back at Allaire, seeming to be excited by the feather. She then rested her head back on her hands and looked at Allaire. She hadn't spoken in a while, but trying could. ''N..N..a..m..e..?'' She raised her head and cocked it to the right slightly, then looked at Allaire, hoping she had heard it.

"Unfortunately, the only place I can think of that's like that is the solitary confinement room, and that place is already occupied," Jerome puzzled over the situation out loud, then decided to do it anyway," Actually, Brenda, let's put them in the solitary confinement room. The room is bugged so we can hear and see anything they do. They can't plan without us knowing." And with that, he walked in between the two limp bodies of Subject 3 and Subject 17. A half hour later, they arrived at the facility. "Now..." he instructed the ones carrying the subjects,"You all may know Subject 5. The crystal one. He's gone rogue for some reason, so be careful when you open the door. Only open it a slight crack and push the bodies in. Don't waste a single second." They did as instructed, tossing Subject 3 and 17 into the Solitary confinement room, then sealing the door once again. He turned to Brenda and motioned to her foot. "You might want to go bandage that. I've got a meeting with Theresa so don't bother me for now." He went up to his office and waited for Theresa to arrive.

Allaire looked up at them, and saw them put the two in solitary confinement, and felt bad for them, after listening to what they were saying about the crystal rouge guy. jeez, well that sucks for them.. Glad Im not in their position., Allaire thought. Allaire heard Scales, and turned to her. "Oh.. My name is Allaire. Whats yours?" She smiled at Scales.

Sari watched as her two friends were put in the solitary confinement with her new found friend Crystal Man, and cocked her head. She looked at Jerome, her eyes filling with hatred, before looking back as Allaire spoke. Her name... It had been so long since she had heard her name, just because she acted more like an animal, they treated her that way. ''S..s..a..r..r..i.'' She cocked her head and looked at Allaire.

((OOC: EEWW! Now Crimson has crap on his legs...thanks a lot BRENDA!!! XD))

Brenda huffed and went to the scientists and asked if they had bandages. One of the scientists bandaged her up. Stupid, stupid mutts. "You should do something about that subject 3." She said to the scientist. "Yes we have been informed that we need to make it possible that she can no longer control minds." The scientist looked to the ground embarrassed about something. "But we do have a theory, if we change her nerve endings and revert her thought process...." She zoned out as the scientist explained whatever theory he had. She flicked some dried blood out from under her nails. The scientist stopped talking and finished bandaging her ankle. Something had to be done about those mutts.

Allaire smiled. "Well that's a pretty name, Sari." She smiled happily at Sari, and tucked her wings back in and layed on her back in her cage and yawned. "So, do you have any other abilities?" Allaire asked Sari curious.

Sari watched Allaire pull in her wings and rolled back on her back with a soft sigh. The girl asked if she had more abilities, but shook her head. She then got up and turned in her cage, then pawed at the bar. She growled lowly, and tried to chew the bars, then smashed her side against the bars of the cage.

Allaire listened to Sari's answer and nodded. "Me either." She watched as Sari growled, chewed, and smashed the bars of her cage. She wondered if Sari was going to try to get out. Allaire sat up and thought of the things that could bend metal, but all those things she thought of, they didnt have.

Crimson groaned and opened his eyes. He was on a familiar cold floor. "Ugh..." he moaned as he realized that they were captive again. He got up slowly...and found they were in a different room. This wasn't the room with the cages...this room was slightly larger than that...but only slightly. He found that there were no openings inside and the only way in or out was a door. He tried the door and found that it was locked. Figures...he sighed and turned around to find Rocky in there too. He was awake as ever, but when you're a crystal, it's not like you're going to sleep when you're comprised of rocks. He also found Goner, still asleep, on the floor in front of him.

Sari didn't look at Allaire, just smashed into the bars again. She growled and turned, before smashing into the bars again. She pawed before she chewed one of the bars, but with no effect. She growled and narrowed her eyes, then looked at the door and smashed into the door, so hard, she fainted and sunk unconscious onto the ground.

Allaire raised her eyebrows at the effort the now unconscious Sari put in. Allaire felt sympathetic for Sari. Allaire sat there thinking, and occasionally looking over at Sari. There had to be some way of getting themselves out.. She thought.

((Sorry if this is god-moding a little....but i can't really phrase it any other way.))

Two scientists talked outside the solitary confinement room. "We need to get the mind control out of her. If we do that she can be placed back into a normal cage." One scientist said. "How are we going to get her out though?" He replied. "Sedate them all and grab her before the affects wear off on Subject 27. His internal system quickly burns off the sedate.". "Fine, good thing we installed those user operated tranquilizer dart gun, mounted to the wall." The scientist called another one over and the two waited outside the door, while the other went into the control room.

Alex woke up and stretched. She was in a room with Crimson and the rock. He pressed her palms to her head. What have I done? Suddenly she heard a loud and unmistakable ziiiiit! behind her. She turned to see a tranquilizer dart in Crimson's neck. Another ziiiiit! and a tranquilizer dart appeared in the rock's heart, or whatever that rock thing might have. She heard one more ziiiiit! and she slumped to the ground. Two scientists dashed in as the world swam and hazed, and trapped her, dragging her out.

Allaire watched the two scientists drag the invisible girl out, who had a dart in her. Allaire wondered what they were going to do to her, and got a glimpse of the other two laying on the floor sedated, as they drug the invisible girl out. Allaire raised her eyebrows and watched.

No one paid any mind to Theresa and her two goons. Everyone was too busy dealing with the aftermath of the battle. One man dead - a former soldier - and several more were injured. These critters are getting desperate. I'd hate to see what the more powerful, angrier ones could do. Weather the dead man was an accident or a deliberate strike by the mutants, Theresa wasn't sure. What she was sure of, was that Dr. Satan wasn't pleased with her for whatever reason. He wanted to see her.

As the other hunters collected thier quarry and trekked back to the lab, Theresa turned and lead her two companions back to the truck. Along the way, she retrieved the battery and handed it to Andrew. "I had to disable the truck," she explained. "I didn't want to give our little friends a getaway car."

Once at the site, Theresa and Yuri removed the branches while Andrew repaired the electrical lines and reinstalled the battery. As he worked, Andrew muttered a few choice words about Theresa, Dr. Satan, the lab, and the mutants.

"Little fuckers. Ought to just be put out of thier misery. It's the only freedom they're ever gonna get."

Once the truck was prepared, Theresa got back in the bed, and boys got in the cab. With a roar of the engine, Andrew put the truck into drive, and sped the rest of the way to the lab. Once they parked, Theresa got out of the bed and headed into the locker room. For a moment, she savored the cool air conditioning. Then she headed towards her locker.

The first thing she did was put away her weapons, her pack, helmet, and her ballistic armor. Normally, she took off her uniform top too, but as she was wearing only her sports bra underneath, she kept her shirt on. She made sure to load a clip onto her rifle. She'd had no ammunition for it earlier, as it was all stored here, and her pistol was only equipped with hallow point bullets - good for killing people, but not bringing back mutants alive and in one piece. Then she slogged up the stairs to rendezvous with Dr. Satan.

Because she'd ridden in the back of a truck, she'd beaten the main body back to the lab. Theresa still had time to lean against the wall outside Dr. Satan's office, cross her arms under her enormous chest, and wait impatiently for him to arrive. She tried to look cool and composed, though in reality, she was rather disgusted and anxious about the whole episode.

A scientist looked at Sari and than at Allaire. ''Can you tell what happened?'' she scientist asked, opening the cage to Sari and checking her breathing. Breathing was fine, a bit fast, but fine. Though, her side was bleeding and so was her mouth.

Allaire looked over at the scientist. "Nothing much, really." Allaire didnt feel comfortable telling the scientist, because she didnt want them doing anything to Sari, and putting her in the other room the other two were in, if she told them that Sari tried to get out.

The scientist narrowed her eyes and dragged Sari out. She then picked up the girl and took her to a lab for close examination. She laid her on a table and first went over simple things like checking eyes, heart, lungs and other things. She then started checking the more difficult things.

Crimson looked around. He'd already tried to talk to Rocky, but he wasn't answering. Maybe rocks did sleep, he thought. He pounded on the door again, but again, it didn't magically, like his imagination wanted it too, open. He turned as movement behind him alerted him. He found Goner waking up and pressing her palms to her head. He was about to speak when he felt something hit his neck and he was out like a light.

A few moments later, he came to again. He found Goner gone and Rocky still there, still immobile. He once again slammed his fist on the door. Once again, the door didn't open. C'mon imagination, open the door, he thought.

Allaire wondered if Sari was ok, and wondered if she had told the scientist the right thing, or not. She felt like Sari was her only friend in this place, and didnt want anything bad to happen to her. Allaire sighed, and thought to herself that if they were gonna get out, they needed to do it soon, because the scientists were probably going to start ramping up the security.

Jerome was sitting there, looking at the only picture of his family...the family he used to love. It'd been so long since he loved anything, he forgot what love felt like. Such a minor mistake from his first few months on the job, and yet it changed his entire life. It was why he hated even the tiniest mistake from anyone, Showing up one minute late, hesitating at the line of fire. He was a perfectionist and he had no room for error. It was partly why he called Theresa to this meeting.

Speaking of which, where's Theresa? Then he heard noises outside his room. He figured it had to be Theresa. "Come in, Theresa, I'm already in my office," he called out to her. He sighed as he waited for her to enter the room.

Allaire heard banging on the confinement room door that the two were in. "hmm.. wonder if they could hear me if I yelled. I could even get the scientists mad.. Sounds like a plan." Allaire muttered smirking. "HEEY!! GUY BANGING ON THE DOOR CAN YOU HEAR ME?!" She yelled laughing a bit.

She slipped in and out of consciousness,catching sight of scientists before she went under again. Her mind was twisting and turning, and she was so out of whack she couldn't even read minds. Bright sounds and colors flashed, and all the time it felt like her head would explode. She groaned in pain and tried to move, but like always, she was held down. At some point the pain ebbed away after awhile.

The familiar cold metal seeped into her body and she sat up. Why was she in a normal cage and not the solitary confinement room? They never learn. She spotted a scientist, and read his thoughts like always. She tried to enter and take control, but it was like trying to walk through a brick wall. Baffled, she attempted again, but on a different scientist. It was like his mind was sealed up tight. She tried on more scientists, but all with the same result. She slammed her hand against her cage in frustration, but then winced and pulled her hand back. It was like everyone's minds were a one way door. Thoughts could escape out, but she couldn't get in. She reached out and Allaire was in the cage beside her, followed by the animal thing. She reached out further and she could faintly hear Crimson's thoughts. Crimson. She landed both of them back in this dreadful place it it was all her fault. They would get out some day. All of them.

Apparently, Dr. Satan was Satan. No one answered when she knocked, now Dr. Satan was in? Either he had a secret entrance somewhere, or he appeared inside with a flash of fire and brimstone. Theresa marched in, planted her feet firmly on the ground, and glared at the diminutive man in the black suit. Even if he stood up, he was still dwarfed by Theresa's imposing figure. The older woman was all muscle, save for her bosom, and she was a full 3 inches taller than him. She stood up straight and tall, sucked in her stomach, which was naturally flat and taut, and puffed out her chest.

"You wanted to see me?" she asked in a deep, husky voice that some men might have found alluring, or intimidating; depending on thier opinions of tall, muscular, and busty 40-something year old women.

Allaire heard the invisible girl and looked over at her. "So I heard about your escape plan... How'd it work out..? I would like to get out of here sometime, but I would like to know how they reacted, so I can think through it a bit if that's ok with you..." She said looking at the invisible girl.

Crimson stepped back a little bit as a voice came from the other room. But all he could hear was a muffled sound. They called it a confinement room for a reason. He figured it would be the same way trying to answer to her, so he didn't try to hold on a conversation. He banged his head on the door slightly followed by a fist. Then an idea came to him. He knew a little morse code, the basics, but he didn't know a lot, so he had to use what he had. He tapped his fist in morse code and formed two words: "Hear...me?" He'd just have to hope that the person trying to talk to him knew at least the basics of morse code.

Allaire listened closely and heard the person use morse code. It was a good thing she had learned it from her old friend who was once in the facility. She used the bars, and knocked on them forming the words: "Yeah, I hear you."

The scientist opened the door of the cage of Sari and laid her in it, but on a steel plateau, and she was strapped. The scientist stuck a needle into the arm of Sari and connected it with a bag of fluid, then closed the door and left.

She checked to make sure no scientists were around, and then she spoke: "All scientists can call more just by pushing the alarm or even just by yelling, so the best time is when there is only one, so you can take him out before he calls others. The other problem is getting out of the cage. It should probably be a time when they are attempting to get you out. If you don't give them your arm and evade their needle, they will eventually open the cage. The other tricky part is that guards protect the door. The worse part is when you are actually out. They will hunt you down. Although, your wings would probably help you a lot. to get far away fast. They all.." she stopped short as a scientist walked their way.

Allaire nodded listening to the invisible girls answer carefully, and looked up to see a scientist headed their way, and looked back at the confinement room door, waiting for an answer.

The scientist closed the door of Sari and left. Sari slowly opened her eyes and felt like throwing up. She tried to move, but found herself unable to. She growled lowly and closed her eyes again, only feeling pain.

Jerome saw her enter the office and stood up. She did have a good three inches and a few pounds over him, but he had no compassion, no emotion. He showed no fear and had no attachments. Everyone else had at least ONE fear, but he hasn't felt fear in years. He has seen all and didn't even bat an eyelash. It was a gift and a curse however. Even her husky voice didn't intimidate him, like it did most others.

"Theresa, I have a small problem with you being even a little bit late. I can't afford error in this business. If you can't deliver punctuality, I can easily have you replaced with someone who does. I can order you to be sent back to Mexico, you know that, right?" his voice became just as intimidating as Theresa's if not more.

Allaire looked over at Sari and wondered if she was ok. "Its ok Sari.. Just rest a bit." Allaire said in a soft tone. She wondered why the scientist had strapped her down, and watched the liquid from the IV drip.

Crimson could hear it, faintly and distant, but he could hear it. He heard "Yeah, I hear you." He sighed in relief. Maybe he could figure out where he was. He knew he was near the room with all the cages, since he could communicate with someone else. He tapped in Morse Code: "Where am I?".

Sergeant Brown shifted his gun in his hand as his jeep neared the research facility. This ought to be good, especially after all the money he put into the research. He tapped his foot and caught sight of the building. He radioed in to signify his arrival. He hopped out of the jeep and marched over to the door. He opened it and a scientist greeted him as he came in. "Did you tell Jerome I have arrived? I want his description on the creatures." The scientist nodded and replied: "yes we sent someone over right away to inform him" Brown nodded and waited for him.

Sari opened her eyes and looked at Allaire. She groaned softly in pain and closed her eyes again. This wasn't comfortable, this wasn't comfortable at all. For a moment, she was still, before opening her eyes and trying to get the needle out of her and to get away.

Allaire heard a response and tapped in morse code: "Solitary confinement. Watch it, they have a operated tranquilizer dart gun mounted to the wall in there, they sedated you all when they were getting the invisible girl outta there." .

Sari turned her wrist and bit her lip, then tried to free herself from the straps. The scientist came to check on her and opened her cage. First he removed the straps on her legs, then her hands. Sari watched the scientist turn around and lunged forward, her hands gripping the shoulders of the scientist.

Alex shifted in her cage uncomfortably. She looked over Allaire, who was tapping morse code. Curious she asked: "What are you doing?" she sat down and then winced as she heard the animal things agonizing thoughts. "What happened to her?"

Crimson furrowed his brow as he got his response. All he heard was ".....Watch it, they have a......gun....to the wall in there, they...you all when they were getting the...girl out of there." He stepped back and tried to configure the message. He knew a lot, but there were highly confusing morse code words he didn't understand. He did know there was a gun in there. Probably filled with sedate darts. Their "subjects" were too valuable to take down unless there was no other option. he guessed that he was sedated to take Goner out of the room for whatever reason. He tapped back. "How is she?"

Allaire looked over at Alex. "Talking to the red haired dude. I think the scientists called him Crimson? and I have no clue. She started doing that a while ago." Allaire got re-focused on morse code and tapped back: "She's fine, and awake."

Gripping the scientist by its shoulders, her nails sank into the soft flesh, causing blood to flow up and out of the small wounds, down the shoulders. The scientist yelped, surprised by the attack, and tried to move his arms, but only yelped because the nails seemed to sink deeper into his soft skin. Sari dragged the scientist into her cage and released it, then sniffed the ground outside of the cage and sat down, still in the cage, staring at the scientist.

He drew another breath as he was told that she was fine. He leaned forward again, tapping out another message. "What did they want with her?"

Allaire listened to the reply, and tapped back: "Im not sure, but they took her to the operating room, and brought her back to a cage." Allaire looked at Alex. "Do you know what they did to you..?" She asked her.

The scientist looked at Sari, seeming confused. Where any other experiment would have escaped, she seemed to be too scared to leave her cage. Sari lowered her head and whined softly, then sniffed the scientist and looked at the blood. She cocked her head and went aside so the scientist could get out. The scientist looked at her and stuck his hand out to her to remove the needle. She growled lowly, and he pulled his hand back.

Crimson got out of the code: "I'm not sure, but they took her to the...room and brought her back to a..." He tried to fill in the blanks with operating and cage. This was sort of cool. He was learning new words in morse code. He heard more muffled words and assumed she was talking to Goner. Probably finding out his original question, he thought. He'd just have to wait.

Alex wondered if she could still talk to people through her mind, especially after what the scientists did to her, but he could hear what Crimson was thinking. She tried to push past the impenetrably wall in everyone's mind but it was no use. Instead she just lingered outside the barrier to his mind and spoke, hoping he would hear her. -I am ok. They did something to my mind control powers, because I can't control anybody anymore. They put me back in a normal cage.- She looked over to the animal thing, her cage open. her eyes widened. "GO! run before some comes! hurry!. -cage safe.- she heard her say. She sighed and hoped Crimson heard her.

Allaire looked at Alex wondering if she heard her, and just sat there, guessing she had sent him a message through telepathy herself. She looked over at Sari, wondering why she thought it was so safe, because they starved her and tested on her and kept her locked in the cage. Allaire sighed.

Run? She cocked her head and looked at Alex. She looked at the scientist in her cage and grabbed his labcoat, dragging him along. She nudged the door of the cage of Alex and the scientist hesitantly opened it after a growl. He than opened the cage of Allaire. Sari then looked at her own cage, scared to actually leave it behind.

Crimson heard something faint, fainter than the morse code with the other person, except it was words and he recognized Goner's voice instantly. "Well then how are you able to talk to me?" he mind messaged back before he started hearing voices. They were muffled, but it wwas obviously a woman shout. It sounded like Goner...he thought. "What's going on over there?" he mind messaged to Goner.

Allaire leaped out of her cage, excited. "If we're going to escape, then whats the best escape route, dear scientist??" Allaire smirked.

Alex hopped out of her cage and turned invisible. She thanked The animal thing and ran to the solitary confinement room. She tried to open it but was locked with a key. She groaned. already a scientist was getting ready to walk down the hallway. She ran into the weapons room by accident. She found army clothing and found a small jacket. She pulled it on and stuffed a gun in the pocket. A real gone. One that would kill. She also grabbed boots and slipped them on, putting a dagger in the boot also. She stood up and took out the gone. we will leave this place forever this time. She left the weapons room and searched around for a scientist. He walked over to him,invisible and pressed the gun to his head. The scientist stiffened. "Don't say a word and come with me." She led the scientist the the solitary confinement room. "Open it." The scientist vastly drew out a key and unlocked it. She smacked the scientist with the barrel of her gun and he passed out. She turned unenviable and looked at Crimson. "Come on. We're leaving."

((If I took to long typing this, and already things are happening, like our capture, please ignore this post.))

Sari looked at Alex, then back at the cage, and sniffed it. She looked at the scientist who she had captured and pointed at the cage! He seemed confused, and went into the cage. She waved before making a run for the exit.

Allaire looked at the others, and went to the weapons room after she saw alex come out. She took a desert eagle, some ammo for it, a knife, and put them in her sweatshirt pocket. she also grabbed steel toe boots, a lighter, and started running, stopped and looked back. "If we all make it out, lets meet up in Phoenix arizona." She told them, low enough for the scientist to not hear, and dashed for the entrance, and knifed both guards who were in shock, killing them, and unfurled her wings, and soared way up into the sky, going as high and as fast as she could to get away from there.

Enkidu had hardly been paying much attention to who got thrown into the room with him. He had been busy deep inside his own mind, testing the limits of his body. When Alex opened the door he knew it was time to try and escape again. "I'm going with you." he said to both of them telepathically.

Sergeant Brown was becoming irritable, Jerome hadn't showed up yet. He shifted his gun in his hands. "Why don't you just direct me to his office?" He asked the scientist. The scientist nodded. "Very well." He led him toward Jerome's office. He stood before the door and knocked firmly on the door. "Jerome. I am here for the inspection of your mutants." He always anticipated to see what he came up with each month.

Sari shook her head and scrambled back to her cage, too scared. The scientist was already gone, and she lay down in the cage shaking. -Cage safe. Cage safe. Outside not safe. Cage safe. Need be in cage. Be in cage, cage safe. No where else safe, only cage safe. Can't go, cage safe.- she thought, shaking in her cage.

Allaire put on the steel toed boots as she was flying, and stuck the lighter in her pants pocket, along with the ammo. Allaire was flying as fast as she possibly could. She would do anything to not be caught. She looked back and couldnt even see the facility anymore. "Even If I cant see it anymore I need to get as far as I can..." Allaire muttered scared and nervous they would find her and take her back there. Luckily the wing exersizes had helped. She was flying pretty fast. She caught a fast wind current and was traveling a lot faster. She was worried about everyone else, though. Would they all make it out alright?

Brenda heard commotion. What now. She walked to the holding rooms and saw mutants running free. Oh god not again. She signaled the alarm and ran toward the nearest ones, Miss disappear and the Crimson guy. The crystal thing was also lumbering out of the solitary confinement room. She took out her gun and fired. She missed, too far away. She also saw another thing....flying. She turned the gun toward her, a closer target, and fired. Two missed but one lodged itself into her shin. She grinned in triumph as guard rushed into the holding chambers. I'm not useless after all.

((OOC: sorry Allaire, I wrote it as you wrote yours and sent it in after you....in that case you did not get hit by a tranquilizer dart.))

allaire was in shock to find out that someone was already shooting at her. She was glad it missed! Allaire started flapping as hard as she could with the wind current, and she was now going about 50mph, and soared up higher so she would be a little more out of sight, and was really far from the facility. "dammit i need to go faster!!" Something must've kicked in- like a new power she had had all along but didnt know it. All of a sudden she started getting 30 second speed boosts, but after about 10 minutes it stopped, but now she really WAS far away. "Wow... I guess I really did have another power." She said surprised.

Enkidu saw Brenda run forward holding a gun, suddenly his arm came apart and the crystals shot at a scientist which wrapped around him and pulled him to Enkidu. Reattaching to his arm he pulled the scientist in front of him as a hostage. Telepathically he said to Brenda "It is time we negotiate, I suppose you humans still have enough logic to do so?"

Sari watched the chaos of escaping mutants before her, and she just lay in her cage, shaking of fear to leave it. She curled and watched Krystal Man take someone. She shook her head to herself, too scared to leave. She was shaking, and felt the cut on her chest burning. They had made a cut on her chest to see what would happen. With scales nothing, but normal flesh was vulnerable. She lay in her cage, shaking.

Allaire looked back hoping they could escape for good. If they didn't she wasn't sure if she would go back to risk it all, and try to save them. Allaire kept going, and realized she shouldve grabbed a map. "well that sucks, but atleast I have some basic stuff.. After all, I guess Im way better off than they are... I feel bad cuz I left them but..." Some tears trailed down her cheeks, and she hoped desperately that they were ok.

Huntress was still hiding in the dark corner. She prayed to herself and quietly. "Please don't let me get caught please, I want out and I want to be outside with John".

John was taken back to his cage, he was really weak, they find out his weakness and made him watch it all day. He starred at Sari, "Hey you it's ok if you need somebody to talk to, I'm here.

After a moment of nervousness when she didn't answer back, he saw the door opening and, expecting it to be scientists, ran to the furthest part of the room. He looked to only find Goner open the door. He was a little shocked to see her there. How did she escape? He left the room, unable to keep the grin off of his face. He saw Cat Girl and Angel as she called the other girl, out of their cages. "Well, let's try to get through the door again," he whispered and started heading towards the entrance. "Wait," he stopped,"I bet my bow and arrows are in the weapon room. I'll be right back. You go on ahead and scope it out. Try to get through if you can." He ran into the weapons room and found his bow and arrows inside his quiver. He got geared up and even brought a real gun. He looked around a little bit and found Shadow Man's sniper rifle. He grabbed it and threw it to the ground, satisfied that he broke it into a few pieces. He ran outside and joined the others.

Brenda snarled at the crystal thing. Good thing guards were already coming in. The started shooting, they got the weird animal thing, and also Crimson and Disapear. The bird girl was nowhere in sight. she glared and shot at the arm with her gun. It released her and she dodged the crystal things that came zipping past her. A tranquilizer dart hit the crystal thing, but it soon regained consciousness. All hell was breaking loose, and worse, Jerome came stomping down the stairs with Theresa and SERGEANT BROWN? HE is going to be mad.

Sari, shaking in her cage, looked at John. Her cage door was open, almost all cages were open, except his. She whined softly and came from her cage, than opened John's cage, before going back in her cage. She shook her head.

Huntress watched Crimson from the dark corner, and John was looking for her and watched the other escape.

John thanked Sari, he smiled "I'll come back for you I promised".

Allaire felt that she had to keep flying as fast as she could, no matter how exhausted she was, because she told herself that she wasnt going to live the horrifying life of a test subject anymore. Allaire was becoming more and more nervous, checking behind her for the others, or anyone coming to get her, but she saw nothing. "Gotta keep going.." She said determined.

Enkidu hit the ground, his body falling a part. Soon he awoke and the crystals spread across the ground started to shake madly. Enkidu's rage was rising constantly, instead of reforming he tried a different tactic. Slowly the hundreds of tiny crystals on the ground started to circle across the ground, as they got faster they came off the ground in till Enkidu was a whirling vortex of deadly crystals. The vortex dashed towards Brenda with the intent of slicing her to bits.

Sergeant Brown heard the alarms going off and he knocked harder on the door. He and an army looking woman came out. They all dashed down the stairs to see a horrifying sight. His perfect aim caught each of the mutants, with a tranquilizer dart. He turned to Jerome ready to speak, but one of them moved again. Confused, he fired again. "JEROME! WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON!?"

Blake was running all over the place, then he ran into Crimson, "have seen a girl with blonde hair and black eyes, and she has a black necklace on with red jewels?"

Brenda shrieked and dove out of the way, but a few shards sliced her legs and she screamed in pain. She dragged herself to cover and fired, hitting the strange mass of crystals. She ducked low as more sharp crystals flew over her head, nicking her ear.

John was angry and and still didn't see Huntress caught.

Sari watched Seargant before she got hit. Still in her cage, she became unconscious, falling back asleep.

Opening her eyes soon after, she looked at Seargant scared. She hadn't even dared to escape, but this was all her fault. She wanted to take punishment for all, so the rest could go free. She didn't mind staying here, she wouldn't know where to go other wise.

Enkidu was hardly slowed by the shots, they hit crystals and knocked them loose from his vortex but it wasn't a large loss. The crystals shot around the cover Brenda had taken and he reformed quickly and grabbed her throat. "I can crush your throat easily, like crushing a bug." projecting his 'voice' so that all could hear. "Brown, if you don't want me to crush her you'll negotiate with me."

Allaire kept going no matter what. She always thought flying would be so cool....well its cool except not when you are running for your life. She thought. Allaire was debating whether to go to Phoenix or not. She didnt even know if the others had made it. She kept on going. "Where am i going anyways.." She muttered, then got an idea. Maybe invisible girl, or crystal man could still hear her thoughts! Are you guys ok?? Can you hear me? Are you alright?! Allaire thought. Desperately hoping for an answer.

Sari watched Enkidu and shook her head. She begging him to let go. She'd do anything for Brown, she'd do any experiment if the others were free, and she hoped Crystal heard it.

Sergeant Brown was furious. He pointed a gun at The crystal thing. "I'm not willing to negotiate." He fired, a tranquilizer dart lodged into the crystal, and obviously, he squeezed before he fell to the ground. He motioned to the guards. "Quick, before he wakes up, put him in the solitary confinement chamber." The guards shoved him in and locked it. The other guards put the rest of the mutants back in their cages. "Right, well, since Jerome is clearly unable to do his job right, I might visit a little more often. Hey you there!" he pointed to a scientist. "Get me a bunch of syringes full of something that will hurt." The scientist scurried off and returned awhile later with a bunch of syringes.

He took one and walked to the Brenda. "You, get a syringe for being so stupid as to get caught up in a mutant." Brenda gasped and clutched her ribs. He took the syringe and injected it into her. She screamed out in pain. He walked to the next little mutt, a crimson colored kid. "You, get a syringe for escaping, and as I noticed, breaking Jerome's sniper rifle." He injected it and the pain on the crimson kid was instant. He walked to the next one, the tricky one that disappeared. "You, get a syringe for also escaping." he injected it and she screamed out. "You get a second syringe for aiding the escape of those two," pointing to the crimson kid and the solitary confinement chambers. He injected another and the girl writhed and yelped, screaming. He moved onto the last mutant, the cause of it all. " you, get exactly four syringes, for helping escape four mutants." He injected them one after the other. "Now, as for scientists, you will always walk in at least groups of three. The guard will be doubled and I will visit at least once a week."

He turned toward Theresa and jerome. I want both of you scouting the skies with helicopters for that bird girl. Get on it. Pronto.

Allaire was getting really tired. She swooped down into a tree in a park in the city. "Oh.. There's a library over there, i guess I should go look for a map." She said to herself. She folded in her wings, hopped down from the tree and walked inside the library and was looking at the whole array of books. "Woah.. that's alot of books." She said looking through them.

Sergeant went to the weapons room to mull things over. One thing was for sure, he wanted bird kids. Of course, he would make sure they were well guarded, but that bird thing that escaped? That would be perfect in the army. Paired with bullet proof skin, or being able to disappear, or be able to make anything, just by thinking it? That would be a nice weapon. He would ask the scientists to immediately start testing on one of the subjects to see if he could get his hands on something like that of what escaped. He didn't know how well or fast wings would grow on something that is already almost mature.

Allaire was confused. Where did they keep their maps?? She thought, and went to the lady at a desk to ask. "Do you have a map of Arizona that I can use?" She asked. "Why yes, certainly. We give them away free since most dont come here." The older lady said. "Well that's very kind of you!" Allaire said smiling. "Thank you dear, we do our best to help our customers." The lady replied. "Well, I'll be going, miss, thank you!" She said as she left, and walked with a big crowd of people through the city.

"Subject 3." She turned around and someone injected something into her. She woke on the lab table, like always. -Sergeant wants another bird kid? He will get another bird kid. He injected something else and then searing pain ripped through her. The scientist thought a bunch of science crap and something about 'speeding up the process'. he undid the restraints and guards came by and firmly took hold of her. They carried her to a large tank. They shoved her in and she was plunged into darkness.

Allaire looked at the map, and determined where she was. Turns out she was in Phoenix, and she didn't even know it. Allaire smiled, but her smile quickly turned to a frown of despair. If she hadn't seen any of the others yet, then chances were they were captured, and they had probably sent helicopters out to search the skies. She sighed, and wondered what she should do. She saw a restaurant, and a dumpster in the back, and knew exactly what she had to do if she wanted to eat. Dumpster diving. Allaire walked to the back and opened the dumpster. There was so much un-eaten food in it she thought she was in heaven. She grabbed a half eaten big mac, and ate it, along with some chicken nuggets, someone's still full pop, fries, and another part of a burger, and she was actually full for once after eating. That was the most she had ever eaten in her life.

((OOC: Sorry, had to get off for a little bit. I've caught up now, so I should get cracking!))

Crimson was stepping out of the weapon room when he saw someone he didn't recognize shooting people with darts. Not good. Before he could nock an arrow, a guard siezed his bow and quiver. Then, two scientists grabbed his arms. He struggled, but it was no use. He shut his eyes and waited for whatever punishment to await him. He heard the man's footsteps echoing on the concrete floor. Suddenly, he felt a small pain in his arm, then it was all over his body. He shut his eyes and his throat, trying not to scream. He didn't make it past five seconds. He was thrown back into his original cage, the door locking as it normally did. His body still felt on fire, but not as bad as before. He stopped howling and began to regain his thought process. Angel escaped...his smile broke through, despite the fact that he was in a load of pain. If he'd have reacted faster, he might've escaped with her. Instead, he focused on Shadow Man's gun and it costed him. He watched sadly as the other aides were writhing in the same pain he was in, some more than him with the extra shots. Goner had two and Cat Girl got four shots! That would be too much for me to bear...he thought. They took Goner to experiment on again. He stared bitterly as they noticed that "Subject 17" hasn't been tested on recently. They injected him with something and he was out like a light.

When he awoke, he was on the experiment table again. The pain from the shot was gone now. "Just relax..." the scientist said, smirking,"We're only going to test on you a lot more." He closed his eyes, not even wanting to know what they would do to him. A familiar pain shot up his arm. He knew it was a shot. He opened his eyes. Everything was dark, fuzzy, and painful. Every time he moved his eyes, a sharp pain entered his mind. This was the worst one yet, he thought. He closed his eyes once more until they were done. When they were, they led him to a training room, a gun on him the entire time. They wanted no funny business from Crimson. Once they got there, they tied him to a chair, his arms, legs, and head. He couldn't move anything except his eyes. Across the room, there was a fan. They turned it on and a blast of icy cold air hit his head at top speed. This was torture, he thought as he began chattering. A few minutes passed and the fan was still on full blast, the freezing air penetrating through his head. Stop it! STOP IT! he screamed in his head and wished desperately for the cold air to stop. As if on command, it stopped. "Why'd you stop it?" he asked quietly. The scientists were talking rapidly amongst themselves. They seemed excited and pleased. He turned to the fan to find it still on. "What the hell?" he cried out. One of the scientists untied him and pushed him towards his cage again, the gun still pointed to his back. What did I do? He knew this test was successful and he had another power, but what was it? He was thrown into his cage and he hit the floor. But something was different this time. Instead of the cold floor he experienced every time before, this time, the floor was warm, almost comfortable. He stood up, still puzzled. He began pacing yet again. I now have some power that makes everything warm to my touch, he thought. It was the only reasonabe explanation he could come up with. But why? How would that be useful in combat? Whatever, he thought and went to sleep. He had enough planning for tonight...meanwhile, a scientist was talking to another scientist about their success. "It's official. We've tapped into his skin and now he's able to withstand any weather imaginable. Freezing cold, blazing hot. The only side effect is that his skin changes color to whatever he's radiating. Crimson for heat, cyan for cold, et cetera."
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"Yes sir," Jerome replied, no emotion detectable. Inside he knew that the result didn't go as planned. He had watched, mouth open in awe, as he saw the creatures escaping once again, not even an hour passing between the last one. This was supposed to be a more successful day, a day where he explained all of the breakthroughs they had and how many of their projects were safe for army members to use against their opponents.

But no, the subjects got in the way of that because they chose to try and escape again. Brown had to resolve that problem. As the result, he was now furious at them and he had to take charge. Jerome had to handle these cretins better. He turned to Theresa. "Our previous conversation can wait. You bring your two troops and Brenda to go find the winged girl. I'll take care of the subjects, the scientists, and the hunters. They need to be better trained in situations like these. Now go." He left the room and entered the containment room. No scientists was to go alone and he approached three scientists tossing subject 17 into his cage. "The results?" he questioned. "Successful," was the reply. "Excellent," he replied back, then a thought hit him. "This was the one who destroyed my sniper rifle, right?" he asked them. Two didn't know since they weren't there, but the third one did. "Yes sir," he replied. "Once he's awake, take Subject 17, Crimson, Subject 3, Alex, and Subject 2, Sari to my private containment cell." Another "Yes sir" was heard before they left. He turned to each of the subjects he previously listed. He was going to get his revenge.

Sari lay curled up in her cage, biting on her hand, trying to bare the pain. Her eyes closed and her face showing nothing but pain. Four injections, the pain was the only thing she felt. She turned, trying to find a good position for no pain, only to find Jerome. She closed her eyes again and curled up in a small ball, making herself as small as she possibly could.

Jerome was now studying Subject 2, formerly known as Sari. She was cowering in fright, as if she was scared of everything he had to offer. He would laugh if he didn't have any emotion. She should be scared, he thought, if she thought four shots were bad, wait until she sees what I have in mind. He'd actually been waiting for this day for a long time. It was two years ago when he created a special compound and it seemed like now was the perfect time to test it out. He left, ordering three scientists to take Subject 2 to Jerome's private containment room. He gave one a tranquilizer gun, just in case. They went to do his bidding. He went to his office, asking three other scientists to let him know when Subject 17 was awake and Subject 3 was done testing. He needed a nap after a stressful day like today...

((OOC: Just a hint of advice, Sari. The private containment room was previously set up to have three chairs inside. Each chair has metal clamps on the arms and legs of the chair. You are supposed to be clamped into one of these chairs. Sorry if this is god-modding.))

Sari heard Jerome order to take her to his private containment room and shook her head slightly, although it made the pain seem even worse than it already was. She stayed still, and didn't struggle, she didn't dare to struggle again against anyone. As they took her, she blacked out because of the pain, but it kept her in its grip all the time as they took her to the private containment room of Jerome.

Opening her eyes, she looked around, before looking down. Her arms were in metal clamps and so were her legs. She didn't feel comfortable like this. Her legs were shorter, and this wasn't comfortable. She looked around, scared of what was going to happen.

(Nope, fine by me really)

Crimson awoke, a throbbing in his head. He sighed. It was going to be yet another long day. He tried to stretch out his legs as best as he could, but in a cage, you can only stretch so far. He got up and began pacing again, planning, thinking. Was this it? he wondered, was that all I suffered for attempting escape twice? A single shot? How come Cat Girl got four? Was she behind the entire escape thing. It didn't seem likely If she was, it was most likely unintentional. He turned to look for Cat Girl and found her gone from her cage. She must've been sent to testing, he thought sadly, poor girl. It was then that three scientists appeared in front of his cage. "Come with us, Subject 3," the first one said while the other two pointed tranuilizer guns at him. He sighed and left the cage. There was no point fighting them yet. It was three against one and two had tranquilizer guns. They weren't taking any precautions, he realized. No scientist entered the cage room alone anymore and everyone had tranquilizer guns pointed at him. It filled him with pride that he could cause them to act this way, but it also deflated him as well. It was going to be tougher than ever to escape this hell hole.

He came out of his thoughts to find that they were in a completely different part of the facility. This wasn't the way to the experiment room. "Where are we going?" he asked. As usual, they didn't answer. Figures, he thought. Another left, two rights, and they stopped in front of a metal door. They punched in a code and the door unlocked. "9264" he memorized the code. It could come in handy someday. He examined the room to find it comprised of white tile and completely bare except for a single metal shelf, a wooden desk, and three chairs. He saw one of the chairs occupied.

"Cat Girl!" he exclaimed before he was shoved to the chair furthest from her. He tried to struggle, but he heard the click of the tranquilizer gun's safety going off and he immediately went passive. He hated being sedated, it was like sleep, but you wake up more tired than you were before. They sat him down and clamped his arms and legs to the chair. He tried to slide his hand out somehow, but to no avail. They were locked tight and probably had no intention of coming loose. He sighed irritated as the scientists left the room. It was now him and Cat Girl alone. What did they want? he wondered, It probably wasn't an experiment since he'd never been in this part of the facility before. He turned to Cat Girl...and then it clicked in his mind. This was going to be about their latest escape attempt, he just felt it in his gut and it slammed hard. He saw her extremely uncomfortable and he felt sympathy for her. For the first time ever, he wondered if she could talk. "Hello, can you understand me? You don't have to speak, just give me a nod or a shake," he said, his first words to Cat Girl.

Sari was shaking, and held her eyes closed. She listened and four persons went in, but never looked up and opened her eyes to see who it could have been. It seemed the pain was still controlling her, and she wanted to curl up in a corner and sleep, but she couldn't. She was strapped to this chair, sitting like a human, and it was extremely uncomfortable. Having been shaped more like an animal, shorter legs, so she could sit like a dog, made this just painful. She heard a voice, and her eyes opened, then her head turned and she looked at Crimson. She had brought him in problems, it was all her fault. She nodded, giving him an answer. She could easily understand him.

''S..a..r..i,'' she said softly, telling him her name. She closed her eyes, trying to forget the pain, but it was all just impossible. Four injections wasn't something that went away easily, and she hoped it would be over soon, if it meant her being dead or not, she just wanted the pain gone. But it was all her fault, her fault that she and Crimson sat here. She had gave them another chance to escape, while she shouldn't have.

Crimson gave a reassuring smile as she nodded her head to show that she understood every word he said. She pronounced a word, slowly, but she pronounced it. He wondered if she had a speech impediment, then cursed himself for having that ADD thought in his brain. He sighed, wishing he could rub his temples or move or do something, but he couldn't. Even the chairs were bolted to the floor, so no matter how much he would struggle to move, he wouldn't move. He went back to focusing on talking to her. "Sari?" he asked,"Is that your name or something?" He could tell that she was in a very uncomfortable situation. She was being forced to sit like a human, but she grew like a wild animal, so this wasn't too comforting for her, he bet. He decided to continue conversation between him and her. It would hopefully take their minds off their current state.

Sari turned her head again to look at Crimson and nodded as he asked if it was her name. She swallowed and looked at him, then tried to remember his name. ''Y..o..u.. C-c..r..i..m-m..s-s..o..n?'' she asked slowly, looking at him. She knew her talking wasn't the best, but she tried. She had hardly any sense of humanity, but talking made her feel slightly more than a human, yet she knew she would never really be one anyone. Her instincts were too strong for that, and the way she had grown didn't make it any better. She'd always be part animal, mind and body, if she wanted it or not. She could do nothing about that, no one could, but she didn't mind. She looked at him, waiting for a response.

Crimson saw her speak once again, slowly, but he was able to understand. "Yes, I'm Crimson," he smiled at her,"Don't worry. I'm sure this won't last long and you and I will be back in our cages in no time." Our cages. They've been in there so long, the cages actually seemed like home. To Sari, they probably were home. He looked at Sari once again. She only looked partly human and acted only partly human. She must've been picked up at a young age and taken here, he thought, how horrid. He couldn't even imagine being the guy who was okay with stealing little children in the forest to be experimented on.

He sighed and desperately wished he could rub his temples or do anything. His headache was getting to him and he was starting to get that feeling of claustrophobia. Right now, nothing was happening. Who or what were they waiting on, he wondered. There was still one unoccupied chair between him and Sari. He wondered who it could be for...

Goner...

Sari smiled faintly at the word of her cage, her only home, her only safe haven, there where she wanted to return to. She loved her cage, and wouldn't know what to do without it. Coming where at the age of three years, she'd been one of the youngest and she had been here as one of the longest, although she wasn't sure at all, but she could say she had been here for all her life. She couldn't remember her first three years, only the years at the lab, that was all she could remember, and not all the years, only from now and a few years back, but how she longed for her cage. She wouldn't know what she would do if she would be out alone, without a cage. She wouldn't know what to do, for she probably didn't know how to hunt, or even how to get food anyway.

She looked at the empty chair between her and Crimson and cocked her head. Then she realized it was for the girl who could turn invisible and whined slowly. She felt so stupid for doing what she had done. She shouldn't have let the scientist open the cages, she should have just let the scientist go and curl up in her cage, hoping she wouldn't get punished to badly, and now she had brought others in big troubles. And then there was one girl who escaped, one girl, the girl with the wings. She hoped the girl was alright, and would never return to here.

Crimson saw her whine as he realized that it was Goner who was missing from the party and that seat was reserved for her. Goner did have a sizeable part in escaping. I mean, he knew Sari most likely didn't come up with this herself. And Sari was the one who started it. So where did that leave him? Why was he here? Probably because he smashed his gun. And now he was going to get his revenge on all three of us. Crapola...

He turned back to Sari and saw her looking glum. It almost appeared like she was beating herself up inside for bringing him and Goner into this. For starting the whole escape attempt. He couldn't let her be self-destructive to herself...besides she didn't do anything wrong. In his eyes and probably Goner's eyes too, it wasn't a wrong thing to escape. In fact, it showed personal initiative, something needed to escape that he didn't believe she had at first.

"Hey now, don't blame yourself," he spoke to her kindly,"If anything, you did a very noble thing. Any sane person would be extremely proud of your actions." Unfortunately, aside from the mutants, there were no sane people here. He kept that thought to himself as he continued. "You should feel proud too. Even if it didn't work out for most of us. These are very bad men, Sari. They want you to believe that your cage is the only safe place. They only want to use you. You have to fight back! It's the right thing to do." He stared at the door, wanting it to open so bad so they could move on...

Sari turned her head and looked at Crimson. Proud of herself? But she brought him and Alex in trouble! She looked at him and nodded silently, though still badly wanted to return to the only place where she felt safe, her loving cage. She looked at the door, wanting it to be over, wanting to be back in her cage, where it's safe. Even if it meant more pain. But, this was a bad place. Maybe he was right, maybe it was a good thing of her to try and escape with the rest. Maybe, the cage wasn't that safe, maybe it was just a though, their working on her to make her think it was safe.

((OOC: Sorry I was gone all day school shopping, I have to let my dog out now, but when I get back I will have some very large replies.))

Sergeant Brown walked out of the weapons room, and confidently sauntered over to Jerome. He shifted his gun in his hands and looked down on him. "The thing that escaped. The bird girl. I want more of them. THey are perfect for the army, and I am willing to pay handsomely. I already sent a scientist to start experiments on Subject 3, and Subject 17 is getting tests on survival, the focus right now is weather. I want you to talk to those other mutants and make em' feel like they are nothing. I don't want any escapes during the army. I also want, if Subject 3 is successful, to immediately start putting bird in the other kids genes. Track down the one that escaped, and we might be in business." He firmly explained. Jerome nodded and went to go talk with some other scientists. He will make millions. The US will finally be the top dog. Even if China is booming with technology, USA will take over. They will no longer be millions in debt.

He crossed to the door and threw it open. He climbed back into his jeep and they pulled out, dirt and gravel spitting from the tires. The driver stepped on it and the barreled down the empty landscape, back to base. This will be perfect. We will conquer.

(OOC: Alex is supposed to be brought to the secret confinement room of Jerome where Sari and Crimson are...)

stefano was walking mad through his cage trying to figure out how to get out "fucking jerks lock me up because i saw something and next i get cage like the rest i swear i will get out" he lung at the wall making a deep claw mark on it and he felt some lose bricks "mmm interesting" he started pry some of the bricks lose 'nice a start for my attempt'

Alex was in darkness. Pure and utter darkness. Her mind was blank, and not even thoughts seeped into this dank place. She stretched, and boy could she stretch. She almost liked it here. Not as tight as a cage, certainly more roomy. She felt like she was floating, suspended in air. She tried to reach out and touch things, but her hands came up empty. Suddenly, her back started itching, really itching. She tried to reach back, but for whatever reason she couldn't. Her back really itched. Suddenly pain enveloped her and she blacked out. She didn't know how long she slept. But she woke up and it was still as dark as ever. He back still hurt and she ached all over. There was something on her back now. It tickled her neck and she looked back, but couldn't her head fixed in place. Searing pain came again and the thing on her back hurt. she tried to move her shoulder blades, but the thing on her back moved instead, and it sacked her in the face. She winced as aching pain shooting from her shoulders traveled to the thing on her back. The aching was so horrible she felt like she might pass out. Sure enough, a few minute later she blacked out.

The light blinded her as her eyes opened. Bright burning light. She tried to move, but restraints held her in place. The thing on her back was still there, and she soon realized, that the thing was attached to her back. She could move her shoulder blades, and the thing quivered, fighting the restraints. -Successful. Subject 3 is perfect, the sergeant will be pleased. Invisibility and Wings? The ultimate weapon. I'll run a few more tests before we put her in with the others- Thoughts from others flowed into her mind. Wings? Sergeant? Others? She was terrible confused and very tired and hungry. A needle pierced her skin and her confusion melted away, and her eyes closed.

She woke in a small room, but a very high room. Tranquilizer dart guns were mounted in each corner. She was the only one in there. A voice rang out "Please flap your wings." Wings? But she..... she turned and looked to find two feathery huge wings attached to her back, still aching. That must have been the thing on her back. But why did she have wings? There already was a bird girl. Then it hit her. Sergeant. He must have wanted more. And she was the first subject. She also noticed that she could see the dart guns, mounted Very high up. If she were normal she wouldn't have been able to see them. Invisibility. Read minds. Wings. Amazing vision. That does seem like a good combo for a war. She sighed, but she was a little excited. She moved her shoulder blades and the wings moved. She experimented a little, flapping them, folding them to her back, keeping them in a comfortable position. After a while, when she was more comfortable with her wings, an excited voice spoke again. "Now fly into the air." She pushed down with her wings and she hopped off the ground a little. She pushed up, then back down again harder and she rose. She flapped some more and swirled around in the air. She went very high up, almost hitting the ceiling, then stopped flapping and gracefully dropped to the floor. This was cool. Something pricked her neck and she fell to the ground. Thee world went dark.

She woke up, chained and restrained in a chair. Beside her was Scales, as she finally decided to nickname the animal thing, and Crimson. Leering over her was Jerome.

Allaire walked around the city for a while, sight seeing. "Wow.. This place is so big and roomy.. Maybe a little too roomy, but still, its better than a cage." She muttered to herself. She looked up at the sky. It was getting dark. If she wanted to sleep in an actual bed tonight she needed money. The only way to get money though, was stealing.. She looked around for the right person, and decided to pick a tall gray haired man in a buisness suit. He looked busy, and didnt seem to notice anything or anyone around him, and he was walking pretty fast. Allaire kept up his pace, and when noone was looking, she quickly grabbed a big wad of 100s. The man didnt seem to even know she was behind him. Allaire slowed down and disappeared in the crowd, and decided to count her money. 1,200 bucks?! That was a ton of money to just keep in your pocket. She stuck her money deep into her front left pocket, and stuck her hand in her pocket to make sure noone was going to pick-pocket her.

((OOC: Sorry, Overslept like I've never done before. So here I go!))
Crimson would've jumped out of his seat if he wasn't clampd down to it. Gah, where the hell did he come from? he wondered as he looked at Shadow Man peering over Goner. He had watched Goner being carried in with the wings and was also puzzled about that too, but not for very long because he always knew of people getting whatever added on to them. She was probably no different. So she was the last one, he thought. This definately had to be about the escape attempts.
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It's weird how everybody seems to think that I spawn everywhere. Jerome had followed in behind the three scientists carrying Subject 3. The experiment was a huge success. Looks like more mutants with wings and a huge pay raise, he thought as they clamed her down in the chair. A few minutes later, she awoke. He was still looking over her, making sure the wings were in top condition. "I see your latest experiment was a success, Subject 3," he smirked,"As was yours, Subject 17. But we're not here because of your success stories." He turned around and walked over to a metal cabinet. "You see, I have a problem with certain mutants bringing up an escape plan or two. It sparks hope in the rest of the mutants. And hope is a dangerous thing..." He now had three syringes filled with a dark red liquid. "Do you know what this is? Most people would call it blood. I would call it my latest experiment. And you three are the guinea pigs." He went up to Sari first."You see, this liquid is supposed to be a horrendous method of torture. A useful tool to find information out of a person. It causes screaming pain to the entire body without any damage done to any of it. It's about three times as worse as the normal orange liquid...and you three are going to get hourly shots with this liquid until bird girl is back! Subject 2 is getting one for starting the second escape attempt, letting one of my most successful subjects escape." He injected her with the substance, then walked over to Crimson."You are getting one because You started the first escape attempt and smashed my gun in the second." He injected him and went over to Alex,"And this pretty bird is getting one for being a big part in BOTH escape attempts." He injected her and stepped away from the three, watching the substance take effect, causing instant pain.
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Crimson had never felt more pain in his entire life. He was trying to squirm out of his seat so he could run around in pain. But, of course, he couldn't do that. He resorted to screaming. The tears flowed because it hurt so much. It was like getting shot with a gun repeatedly, over and over. He felt bad for Goner and Sari, for they had to suffer the same agony as he did. The fact that this was only the first shot made him despair in horror. There were going to be more, each hour, until Angel was re-captured. He didn't like the sound of that, but then again, who would?

Sari shivered at the voice of the man as she watched him, still extremely uncomfortable, sitting in human position, but she couldn't do anything. She watched the man went to a metal cabinet and took three syringe, looking with a blood substance, but as he explained what it was, it made her feel bad, not for herself, she knew she deserved it, but for the rest. He walked over to her, and she watched how the needle went easily into her skin, and watched him inject her the substance. It seemed to have an almost instant working, for she felt the pain coming back again, but much worse. Her eyes snapped closed as she shook, the pain going through her body through her blood veins. It was getting worse, and worse. In the end, it was so bad, she could do nothing but scream in pain, and try to move, but being always in place. And, if there would be more, she knew she would die.

Allaire had now pretty much walked through the entire city. If she hadn't seen any of them now, then they probably didnt make it.. Allaire decided to try to contact invisible girl again and again. Are you guys ok?? did you make it?? Did they capture you guys?? Allaire thought over and over hoping maybe she or crystal man could hear her. She was desperate to know if they had made it or not. The question was almost eating her alive. Should she go back? Should she wait a little longer? What should she do?

((OOC: Honestly, Sari, It's just supposed to hurt really bod, but cause no damage to anything. That's a property of the substance. It effects the nerves, making it seem as if they were melting or something, but really, nothing is happening to you that could kill you.))

Jerome's thoughts rang in her head, pounding around inside before he revealed the red liquid and his plans. The horrible painful thoughts of the others as they got their shots mixed in and pounded inside also. They jabbed at her emotions and tears welled up even before she got her own shot. She thinks Jerome did that intentionally. The needle plunged into her skin but she didn't feel it, just the thoughts jumbling around. She didn't feel the pain either, at first. She just felt the horrible thoughts. Each thought stabbing her brain. Tears fell to the floor. pain creeped into her mind, but she just thought it was the thoughts, stabbing harder, hurting her emotions. Jerome looked at her and spoke "Why aren't you screaming? That should hurt." She remembered the needle, and searing pain, but she pushed it to the back of her mind. Seeing and hearing, and knowing her friends thoughts as they writhed in pain, that was what hurt. Jerome walked toward her as another tear plopped to the floor. "You should be screaming." he motioned for a scientist to get another needle full of the horrible liquid. "Put another in her." The needle pierced her skin, and this time pain overcame her. It was like she was being eaten from the inside out, while drowning, while being shot and stabbed in the stomach. But she wouldn't give in to Jerome. Though she so desperately wanted, needed, had to scream she didn't. She held it in and her lungs burnt. The pain welled up inside her and she wanted to let it out with a scream, but she didn't instead she let out a painful, exasperated stammering hiss. She wished she could die. She wished Jerome would just shoot her. She hissed and wriggled and her insides burned. She so desperately wanted to scream. But she still wanted to not give in. She clenched her fist, and instead let her pain out by glaring at Jerome. She just glared. That made her feel a little better, but the pain didn't lessen and she felt like she was going to die. She had never felt something this painful. Ever.

But she didn't scream. Her eyes just narrowed, and she glared at Jerome.

Allaire gave up on trying to contact her. She looked over to the side to see a music store. She walked in and looked around. She saw a small shelf with cd's on them that all said 'Three Days Grace' and there were a pair of headphones plugged in setting on the top of it. She looked at them and put them on. A little device it was hooked to turned on and a song started playing in the headphones. She held on to every word the singer spoke, the words relating to her situation.
This world will never be
What I expected
And if I don't belong
Who would have guessed it
I will not leave alone
Everything that I own
To make you feel like it's not too late
It's never too late

Even if I say
It'll be alright
Still I hear you say
You want to end your life
Now and again we try
To just stay alive
Maybe we'll turn it all around
'Cause it's not too late
It's never too late

No one will ever see
This side reflected
And if there's something wrong
Who would have guessed it
And I have left alone
Everything that I own
To make you feel like
It's not too late
It's never too late

Even if I say
It'll be alright
Still I hear you say
You want to end your life
Now and again we try
To just stay alive
Maybe we'll turn it all around
'Cause it's not too late
It's never too late

The world we knew
Won't come back
The time we've lost
Can't get back
The life we had
Won't be ours again

This world will never be
What I expected
And if I don't belong

Even if I say
It'll be alright
Still I hear you say
You want to end your life
Now and again we try
To just stay alive
Maybe we'll turn it all around
'Cause it's not too late
It's never too late
Maybe we'll turn it all around
'Cause it's not too late
It's never too late (It's never too late)
It's not too late
It's never too late
She put the headphones down a bit mesmerized. She knew now that she had to go back. She walked out of the store playing the song over and over in her head, unfurled her wings, and took off back into the sky. She was going to go back, and see if they were ok, even if they captured her again, because she knew it was never too late to try to escape from there again.

Jerome was a little surprised at this act of events. Subject 3 wasn't screaming. She was olding it in as another act of defiance to him. She was constantly glaring at him. "Oh, so you're a tough little birdie, aren't you?" he called to her,"Well, I figured one of you three was going to do so. I just figured it would be Crimson." He went back to the shelf and pulled out another needle. "I just wished you were smarter than this," he told her in mock concern and jabbed the third needle in her. "You do realize that this will continue until I can see that you are in definite pain like the other two, right?" At that moment, three scientists came in and began whispering to Jerome. "What?" he cried out,"Is this true?" They nodded. "Alright..." he muttered and went to his desk to pull out a remote. He hit the button and it unclamped Crimson. "Fix the problem and bring him back here stat!" "Yes sir," they replied and as two went to take him to the experimental room, Jerome stopped the third,"And make sure he gets the wings too," he whispered. The scientist nodded before leaving behind Crimson, another tranquilizer gun pointed at his back. Jerome turned back to Sari and Alex.
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Crimson's throat was sore due to screaming so much. It hurt so bad, he just didn't think it was possible to hurt this bad and not die. So this is what a fate worse than death was like, he thought. He didn't even notice the scientists come in. He was in too much pain. All of a sudden, the tight grip on his arms and legs were gone. He looked down through blurred tears and found that his arms and legs were unlocked. He could jump for joy, but he knew it wasn't for a good reason that he was done early and his body hurt too much. Two scientists took him outside while the third caught a word from Shadow Man and joined the other two soon after.

It seemed like they rushed him to the experimental room instead of walked him. What was the hurry? he wanted to ask, but he knew he wouldn't get an answer. Soon, they were there. He was strapped down and given a blue shot. It immediately removed the pain in his body. He actually felt like he could breathe again, until he heard these words from one of the scientists: "Hurry, he could explode at any moment!" Explode?! Panic clutched his heart as he began to sweat. Was he going to die? Part of him actually wanted to die, to escape this place and leave it behind forever, but another part of him wanted him alive, so he could escape and feel freedom again. He felt a shot and he instantly felt numb and blacked out.

When he came to, he found himself still strapped to the board. The scientists were all giving relieved sighs and exchanging words around. He still didn't feel safe. "Why am I about to go boom?!" he cried out in panic. One of the scientists turned to him. "It all had to do with your last experiment and an experiment from a long time ago. Do you remember when you first came here and the third test you ever did seemed like a complete dud?" He nodded. "Well it was in one aspect, but not so in another. You see, the entire point of that experiment was to make you be able to shoot bombs and rockets out of your hands, like a human gun. Instead of doing that, it turned you into a walking bomb, waiting to be lit. Well, yesterday, we gave you your lighter. Yesterday's experiment was supposed to help you control your body temperature for extreme weather conditions. It would allow you to raise and lower your body temperature. That one was a success. However, we just discovered that if you raised your temperature level too high, it would activate the bomb inside you. So we had to reverse the effects." When he was done, Crimson had a shocked look on his face. I've been a bomb for the past year now? Man, that would've been bad if he escaped and conjured up a fever. "So you removed the bomb inside of me?" he asked. "That's the other thing," the scientist said, uncomfortably,"The only method we have to remove the properties of the bomb inside you would have a 99% chance of you blowing up. So we can't do anything about it yet." Crimson's shocked face now turned to one of horror. God, help me now..."Now, to take you back and-" He was interrupted by another scientist. "Ah, I see, well change of plans! You're due for another experiment." Crimson was unstrapped and led to a tank. What other experiment? He barely had time to think before he was pushed in, plunging into the darkness.

Sari felt the wound in her chest burn, burn like it had never done before. The wound hadn't healed yet, it had closed, but it hadn't completely healed, and this was making her only feel worse. She felt like throwing up, but couldn't. She wanted to go back to her cage. -Need Cage. Cage safe. Want cage. Cage safe. No pain in cage. No sitting like human in cage.- She shook her head and closed her mouth, not wanting to scream anymore, her eyes still closed, and she wasn't planning on opening them anywhere again until she was in the cage where she felt safe. She felt anger burn inside her, and it made her furious about this, it made her actually fight against the pain to lessen it, although it didn't have much effect, she felt better because of it.

Opening her eyes as she heard something, she turned to watch Crimson being taken away. She didn't know if it was a good thing or a bad thing, or both, she had no idea. She also saw Alex, and she had wings! It looked beautiful, yet, she closed her eyes in pain again, but kept her screams inside. She couldn't scream, she had to be strong, no matter what. She had to try to be as strong as she could.

As a third needle was jabbed into her, It felt like the just the small pinch of it going in was amplified and spread to the rest of her. She held in a scream but let out a gasp as Crimson was released. She couldn't bear the pain. It was to much. But she had a better idea. Black out, fall asleep, something, anything but scream! Oh how she wanted to scream, to let out the pain that burned inside her. She felt like she would die. She wanted to die. The pain seared through her and she forget where she was, what she was. She needed to stop the pain. A sudden thought popped into her head, but it felt like some actually shot her head. She turned invisible but the horrible pain never stopped. She started turning other things invisible, her chair Scale's chair, and surprisingly, Scales herself. She slumped in her seat in exhaustion and turned back to normal. It wasn't enough. The pain had to stop she couldn't bear it. She felt like she would never ever not feel pain again. She glared at Jerome again, and through gritted teeth said, "Have it your way." She then unclenched her fists and Everyone in the room turned invisible. The world went hazy, and pain ebbed away. The last she saw was Jerome's leering eyes before she passed out in exhaustion.

Allaire had used the bursts of speed again to get her farther. She was almost there. She could now see the facility again, and wondered that if now, the invisible girl could hear her. Hey are you guys alright?! I came back for you guys cuz I didnt see you in Phoenix!! Can you hear me now?? She thought, staring out at the facility.

Jerome was expecting something different from the result he saw. Now Alex AND Sari weren't screaming. Jerome bet that if Crimson were here, he would've stopped screaming as well. Suddenly, things were going haywire. Alex was turning things invisible, the chairs, other people. And then, her final act of desperation...she turned the entire room invisible. He could see within every room around him: The hallway to the left, outside to the right, two offices in front and behind and above, the containment room below. People turned this way and that, watching in awe at the now invisible room. A couple tried to get through because they thought the wall was gone and was rudely interrupted by the invisible wall. It was then that the girl blacked out and everything returned to normal. Jerome began breathing again that act of courage. This was going to be much harder than he thought to break their spirits, Jerome realized. The three escape attempts, the one last week, and the two yesterday, have all led to courage to where they could all escape. And chances were, they could. The only things really keeping them here was their own mind. There was as many test subjects as there were scientists and hunters combined. Now with the truth unveiled to him, he called in three scientists to take care of Sari and Alex, putting them back in their own cage. Meanwhile, he retrned back to his office, puzzled over what to do to their spirits and how to crush them. It would happen, sooner or later, they would all escape if he didn't plan something out. He closed his eyes and then thoughts came to him. The three escapes, the wings, the numbers, the desert. He stood up, now knowing what he had to do...

Allaire swooped down and silently landed on the building deciding to hide out a while. She wished she could turn invisible, but she knew she couldnt, so instead she did her best to stay low to the roof, so noone spotted her. "Well, Allaire.. What's the plan now..." she asked herself questioning whether to go in the facility, or to stay there and see what they were going to do about her absence.

Alex groaned and sat upon her cage. Her head ached, her wings ached, her whole body ached, and a voice in her head kept calling to her. She shook her head and realized that the voice was somebody's thoughts. -Are you alright?- Allaire's thoughts rang in her head. At least the pain stopped. Such horrible pain. She shuddered and stretched out her wings. She messaged her back. -we are fine, sort of. Sergeant brown wants more kids with wings like you. They did it to me, and I'm pretty sure they are putting wings on Crimson as we speak. You need to get out of here. You need to leave! Fly away we will find a way out!.- she sighed and clumsily flapped her wings, still not so used to having them. But wow, her vision was good. She wracked her brain for a plan, any plan. She might be able to get herself out, but everyone else? Almost impossible. There had to be a way out, but how? She shifted her uncomfortable wings. If only she could work on turning other people invisible, then she might be able to get them out. She looked to Scales. She concentrated her mind and Scales disappeared. She flickered for a second as she lost concentration, but she regained focus, and Scales turned invisible. She held it there for a while and then stopped, A little tired, but not as completely drained as the first time she tried with Crimson. She focused again and turned her cage, Scale's cage and scales invisible. She turned over to see three scientists staring at her wide eyed. They whispered to one another, and angry, she turned one of the scientists invisible. The other to shrieked and started walking around with their hands out, trying to find the invisible scientist. She laughed and everything went back to normal. She was a little drowsy, but other than that, not very drained. She flapped her wings again. They were pure white, her wings, and she folded them to her back and lied down. she would get all of them out of here.

Allaire was relieved when she heard invisible girl's response. -Well, be sure to flap them for a couple hours at a time, it will strengthen them, so you'll be able to fly faster for your escape. Oh, and if you didn't hear me when I left, tell the others when you do escape that we needed to meet in Phoenix. If we are going to live on our own, we need all of us together, so it will be easier. I already pick-pocketed 1,200 bucks from some rich buisness man. Good luck.- she thought and took back off, and flew away.

Alex nodded. She then flapped her aching wings as Allaire said. It felt good and relieved some of the tension in them. A group of scientists came in and walked to her cage. One held a tranquilizer dart gun to her. Smiling, she made it disappear. Confused the scientists looked at his hand, dropping the gun as it clattered to the floor. The other scientists pulled out their guns and while the scientist scrambled on the ground for his. They opened the cage and one held the gun to her. She was about to turn the rest of the guns invisible and make a run for it, but Jerome rounded the corner and she frowned. Just for fun, and to show defiance to Dr. Evil, she made all the scientists turn invisible so it looked like she was escaping. Jerome's eyes widened and her started to run for the alarm button. She made the scientists reappear, and he turned around. She smiled and held her hands up innocently, and cocked an eyebrow. She winked and the scientists led her to the experiment rooms.

She unfurled her wings and flapped them up and down. The scientists scowled at her and showed her into a lab table. They strapped her in, but on her stomach so her wings weren't restrained. -Test the structure of her bones and progress. Bone marrow can become deformed and alter the vertebrate tissue in her....- She sighed and extended her wings as a needle pierced her skin. She didn't black out so she felt them pull and tug at her wings, inject some stuff, and even pluck a feather or two. In the end they unstrapped her and led her towards a door. On the way she passed a tank and through the tinted glass she could make out a figure. Crimson. They were giving him wings, too. Figures.

Inside the room was the same room she first discovered her wings and flew around. They watched and tested a bunch of things, how fast I could fly and stuff. They even asked me to fly, invisible. It was pretty hard and required a lot of concentration. But at least they weren't doing anything to bad to her today. In fact, this almost helped her flying ability. After the session was over they roughly shoved her back in her cage and she winced as her wings get caught up in the bars. A plan was formulating. A good plan. They would all get out. They would. She just had to be patient.

Allaire was now back in Phoenix, and was walking the streets for a cheap hotel. There weren't many cheap ones in this city, though. She had full faith in the others and hoped none of them would have to return to that place. ever. She would say that she wouldnt even wish it on her worst enemy, but that wasnt true. She wished that the scientists, Jerome, Brenda, Sergeant Brown, all of them were put through what they were. They deserved every second of it. All the pain and suffering, all of it. Allaire looked up at a hotel building. It looked pretty cheap, maybe she should check it out. Allaire walked in and went up to the ragged lady at the front desk. "How much is it to stay here?" "Eh, weell how long are ya plannin ta stay?" The lady asked. The woman's voice sounded raspy like she had been smoking too much. She kind of felt bad for her. "Im not sure, two nights for now." "Alright, well that'll be a hundred then." Allaire raised her eyebrows. That was very cheap. Maybe a little too cheap. "Ok, here's a hundred." She said as she handed the woman a hundred bucks. "Thank ya ma'am, and here's yer key. Yer room is number 12. Enjoy." The woman said handing me my key. "Thanks ma'am, i will." Allaire replied smiling. She took the key and headed to room 12 pleased with how cheap it acually was.

Crimson awoke in an after-experiment testing room. That was probably not what this room was called, but that's what he is going to call it. He groaned from exhaustion and pain and fear from the past few hours, all compiling on him in one. It felt like a fifty pound sack was slung over his back and he was forced to carry it everywhere. No, wait that was actually happening...He turned around and all he saw were crimson feathers. Holy mother...was his only thought. He now had wings! Why they were crimson, he didn't know, but for now, he would celebrate, flapping them as he jumped. Immediately, he went up in the air. This was unbelievable! he thought. Then reality called back to him as he hit the ceiling. He plummeted the three meters to hit the table in the center of the room. He winced in pain as he pushedhimself off, clutching his ribs. Gah, that hurt, he thought. Dozens of scientists were already piling in, admiring and noting his successful flying. Crimson was excited. Not only did he have wings, but he already knew how to use them, for whatever reason. He was just a little too over-enthusiastic as he now had a small headache and his ribs hurt. Before he knew it, he was injected with something and he fell asleep...

He woke up in his cage, and the claustrophobia hit instantly. With his newfound wingspan as well as his body, his breathing room had halved. He turned around and found his small scraps of food in a bowl. Well, that's not going to help much, he thought as he imagined a giant container filled with ice cream and a spoon. It appeared and he began to dig in. He had to hurry and eat as much as he could. Usually, when he did this, the scientists took away everything the moment they saw him with it. But luckily, he had his wings this time. He crouched down, spreading his wingspan so that he was completely concealed behind it. Oh yeah, this should buy a lot more time, he thought as he continued eating. Soon after, he was full and still had a humongus portion left to spare. Oh well, he thought, I should remember to spawn a smaller portion next time. He turned around and there were his crimson wings again. Why were his crimson? He saw Angel's wings and they were white. He turned to Goner and there were her wings, white as snow. So why were his wings different? He continued puzzling over his colored wings as scientists came by and saw his tub of ice cream, taking it away and giving him an orange shot. He cringed from the pain, but that was it. He was getting accustomed to these orange shots. Maybe it was the wings or the last two escape attempts, but his confidence was higher than ever and now he wanted out...forever this time.

Sari was thrown in her cage and she instantly curled up. She closed her eyes and covered her face with her hands, not knowing what to do. There was nothing she could do, her hope was gone, and it wasn't coming back. She was now sure she didn't want to escape, no matter what, she was too scared for that. She didn't even want to put one hand outside the cage unless asked to, but further, she wouldn't dare. The cage was now her only safe place for her, the only place where she wouldn't be hurt, and she didn't want to give up the cage.

She slowly looked up to find Crimson having wings too, and cocked her head slightly. Also Alex had wings, she closed her eyes, scared to face them. It was her fault they got in problems, and she wouldn't do such a thing again. She would do nothing against the will of the scientists anymore, and she wouldn't leave her cage, even if it was open. She curled up tighter and shook a little. She whined softly.

stefano just sat in his cage when he saw a girl with scales and a girl with white wings were being dragged back to there cages. he lost the girl with wings out of his sight but still saw the girl with scales. he waited until she woke up again then he could ask her things but as he wait her cage and the girl went invisible "what the!?!?" was the first thing he said but when she flicker he figured it could be the girl with wings who did this. when everything went back to normal he still waited for the girl with scales to wake up and once she did he tried to get her attention "ummm girl, yeah you what is your name? mine is stefano"

Sari heard a voice from another cage and opened her eyes. She raised her head and looked around, finally her eyes landing on Stefano, a boy in the cage close to her. She cocked her head as he spoke. ''S..a..r..i..'' she pronounced slowly. Slowly, she sat up, like a dog for sure, she would never sit like a human anymore unless she was forced to or ordered to. She cocked her head and pawed at the bars, then looked back at the boy called Stefano. ''W..h..a..t y..o..ur n..am..e?'' she asked slowly, looking at him with curiosity. She hadn't recognized the boy earlier, so she was curious, but still, the talking was strange to her. She rather not talked really, because of being part animal, still she did.

stefano smiled gently to sari "stefano that is my name, so how long have you been here?"