A/N: Err, hiya. This is my first fanfic, so please review and criticize (unless if you're going to comment how unoriginal my OC is). If you do claim that my OC is a Mary Sue, please tell me how to modify her to seem less like it. Anyway, sorry this was so lengthy. On with the show!
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-1 The Special Ones
Chapter Soundtrack: Bright Mouths- Electric President
They watch you when you're asleep, they hear as you grind your teeth. They're always wearing smiles, but they're never what they seem. You can run when you're awake, but they'll kill you in your dreams.
Unknown Location
Unknown Time
Her toes dangled near the edge of the pool as children splashed below her.
"Sweetie?"
Her dark eyes met her mother's hazel eyes.
"Are you sure?" She asked in her childish voice.
"Jump in. I'll catch you."
The girl blinked and stared down at the water. It was so clear and blue. She saw her father swim by, little bubbles floating up. Her father was soon gone as a ripple formed. It seemed easy enough. She childishly held her nose as she jumped into her mother's arms.
No one caught her.
Her eyes snapped open. The water was a deep crimson water. It was clear...as if it were glass. Her callused fingers slowly went up, but stopped at the barrier of the crimson water. So it was glass.
She squinted, not being able to see past the glass. Lifeless hazel eyes soon came to view as she stifled a gasp. Dark hair flowed by the eyes as it passed by the glass.
"Mom?" She asked, her voice now at a normal pitch.
There was no reply as she floated further away.
"Mom?!" She shrieked, her fists pounding on the glass, hoping it would break.
Pairs of yellow, red, and brown eyes came to view. The vacant yellow and red eyes calculated her surprised reaction as the chocolate brown eyes mimicked her expression. What was going on?
She gasped as something coursed through her veins and a needle collided with her spine. The last thing she saw were those brown eyes widening in fear and desperation to help her.
Pacific Ocean
March 30, 18:40 HAST
Her gray eyes popped open, dilating in surprise. She inhaled, smelling her fear and desperation to get out of her pod. She looked over at the confused boy in the pod who had just woken up from his own nightmare.
She always seemed to be asking herself these questions. Who was he? Why was he in this lab? This was the worst lab of them all. He was muttering to himself when he woke up from his nightmare. Everyone had nightmares in this ship, including herself.
[Heartbeat detected. Three times faster than normal rate,] she heard a voice say.
She arched a dark brow as she began to search for the inanimate voice. His brown eyes finally locked on her gray ones and she shrank back in her pod. His eyes. Could it be?
Her eyes soon came to view from her crimson prison as she stared at the familiar boy. He opened his mouth as if he wanted to say something, but closed it in a thin line. She frowned in response.
"Why is she here?" He whispered to himself.
[She seems to be another...experiment for the Reach,] the inanimate voice replied.
The girl frowned again. "You know, you talk to yourself a lot," she said, finding her voice.
[She knows too much. Eliminate her.]
The girl's eyes widened as the boy frowned.
"We both know we can't do that."
There was an awkward pause as the teens looked at anything but each other.
They stifled a gasp as the doors slid open once again, revealing the Scientist and Black Beetle. They began to talk as the girl deciphered their language.
"This human Beetle is a disappointment. How can he be the Reach's advanced operative on Earth, but refuses to function on mode?" She asked, typing in the information.
"Then reboot," the Black Beetle said dryly.
"Yes," she replied, exasperated. "That may be necessary, but we require a new host."
"Finding another will not be difficult. The removing the Scarab from over pair will kill the Jaime Reyes. Meat is plentiful here."
The girl's eyes widened as she looked over at the terrified boy named Jaime Reyes.
The inanimate voice was a Scarab attached to this boy and worked for the Reach. It's not "on-mode" which is bad for the Reach, but good for everyone else. They're going to kill the boy to get it off him.
