Chapter 1: POV Tara
As usual Tara woke up feet towards the ceiling. Her long red hair was all over the viciously clean floor and she didn't even bother to go through its mattered tangles. She looked over at the empty white walls and thought about how sad it was that she hadn't seen sunlight since her first and only flight. But that was a few years ago.
Tara was so freakshly tall the whitecoats pointed her cage up towards the ceiling unlike a normal dog crate. Tara is 2% avian (bird) and 1% pterodactyl (hence Tara) Tara has wings, and claws like wolverine, they come out of her knuckles and 5 per knuckle. Her claws are so sharp they can cut through almost any material, except the one they made for her cage. This, of course, isn't natural. The whitecoats mixed her DNA in an experiment to create super-humans. Notice that super-humans is plural. There were more avian hybrids, and they are: Kaito, Smosh, Crevice, Atia, (Ay-sha) Switch, and Artie. And they're all in cages together, where the whitecoats show no sympathy for human life, only for knowledge and breaking the laws of physics.
Tara rubbed her eyes and looked around. She could see an eraser walking in and she sighed to herself quietly. Erasers are wolf-hybrids that were made to keep the experiments in. As the eraser walked into the bright white lights in the room, Tara recognized it as Kimu, Atia's translator. (Atia's mute)
"Tara, are you up?" Kimu asked sympathetically, "You have an appointment scheduled with the new therapist."
"Ugh, Switch told me all about him. I am not at all interested."
"Get up, Tara." Kimu said through gritted teeth.
Tara yelled, breaking the tranquil silence sustained in the room, "Excuse me!? How exactly can I get up? With the little magical powers the freaking whitecoats gave me? I'm in a cage that isn't even put up right! Go to hell, Kimu!"
"Look I-", Kimu started.
"No, look, I don't care anymore. There are no damns I will give to you."
Kimu looked as though she was on the verge of tears. She took a deep breath and came even closer to Tara's cage. Kimu unlocked Tara's cage, with neither rage nor emotion of any kind. Kimu strode away without Tara even remotely out of her cage. Tara looked around to see if anyone saw their precious experiments escaping. Tara slowly and cautiously crawled out of her cage and crawled over to Smosh's cage, and she stared at its lock as though laser beams would break the intricate combination lock. Smosh waved her off and kicked his cage and sighed. This would take a while, his cage was designed to proof against his strength. Once he finally climbed out, he stretched and smiled, he hadn't been out of a cage in a while.
Except this wasn't their first attempt, they had almost escaped many times, but this was the first time they had the help of an eraser! Kimu had probably turned off the cameras in the room. All of their powers were helpful, but an eraser was a good way out too. Smosh's super strength, though helpful more often than not, hadn't proven to be helpful (while working) in any of their escape plans. He just took too long to open Crevice's cage without the key. Atia's right eye was surgically made into a GPS, and though crucial to the whole flying away part, doesn't help, and it proved unuseful in order to get out. Artie's animal attraction can't do much in a lab full of animals, and neither can Switch's metamorphosis controls (she can change her appearance.) Kaito's invisibility powers can only help himself, and Crevice can burn through almost any material, but that's not helpful when he's in a sealed metal box.
Smosh stared at Crevice's box in confusion. It was tight around him for just this reason, to prevent Smosh from freeing Crevice. Tara looked at him, and back over at the box.
"It's the same mineral my cage is made of, I can't help you out here." Tara sighed. She looked around fearfully, they were taking way too long here, and less than half of them were free.
"What are you doing!?" A voice yelled behind Tara and she barely dared to turn around.
Smosh didn't move an inch, and neither did Tara.
Switch yelled, "Guys, it's just Kimu."
"Bitch." Tara said, "You scared the shit out of me. Just let Crevice out, we can take care of the rest."
Kimu strode in and unlocked Atia's cage. Atia clammered out and hugged her so tightly she choked her, and Kimu coughed it off. Kimu plied her off as gently as possible, and ran over to Crevice's box. She quickly unlocked it and looked around at the rest of the hybrids.
Tara had already let Kaito and Switch out, and Smosh had just then finished smashing Artie's cage open.
"We need to hurry up, I thought you all would already be out by the time I came back. You guys are so slow, Sokki is already waiting for us outside."
Smosh lead the way into the bright white hallway and everyone else followed far behind. As they ran they saw windows with experiments either dead or in a cage; like they no longer were.
"How can we just leave them like this?" Artie asked miserably.
"We worked, Artie. Sadly, some of those experiments didn't. Didn't you see how many died? If we freed any of them they would just die off." Kimu said, not even stopping to look at the windows.
"I don't care! I would rather die out there! They are in cages against their will! I'm sure they'd enjoy even one minute of freedom. It's the thought that counts in this circumstance." Switch said.
Kaito frowned, "We need to leave, what the hell are you talking about?"
"Listen jack-ass," Switch said, "we would want to be free is someone else was escaping, right? We have to do our part, you soggy lamp-shade." Kaito opened his mouth to reply, but immediately closed it and nodded for them to begin. He also stopped and stared at her for a while for calling him such a weird name.
Smosh broke open the door and and left to open another lab room. Kimu ran in and disarmed the alarm, just as it was about to go off.
"I just saved your ass Smosh, we need to go, now!" Kimu yelled.
"No. Just let us do this!" Smosh said. Kimu thought, and reluctantly nodded and waved him off to more lab rooms. It would take longer to persuade them than it would to let them go.
Smosh opened the rest of the lab rooms, which were all suspiciously empty, and watched for erasers. The rest ran to open cages, which were all easy to open; they were simple dog cages. The creatures inside were so messed up, they wouldn't be able to open it themselves anyways.
Smosh looked over at Kimu, "How many labs are left?"
"Too many," Kimu sighed, "There might be about 20 left."
Kaito sighed, "What do we do now? Let them out through our exit? Is there an easier one around here somewhere?"
"Sadly, no. We'll have to let them follow us. Another reason that this was a bad idea." Kimu replied.
Smosh scowled at her and motioned for everyone to follow him as he ran down the hallway. Kimu sprinted to catch up to him, and silently cussed him out.
The end of the hallway was in sight, and willed everyone to come closer. Its brightness beckoned the darkness riddened experiments closer. A camera turned to follow them as they ran passed it.