Chapter 1
I opened my eyes cautiously, hoping that no one was in the room where I was tied to a chair. I couldn't hear anyone but they had drugged me up good, so I wasn't up to my normal super soldier self although if I was out of this chair I could properly be out of the room before they even know I was gone. I took in my surroundings. There wasn't much to see, gray blank walls, no windows and the only light there was in the room was trickling in from the smallest gap under the steel door. My night vision kicked in and looked for a camera or any sight of a person. Nothing, which was strange. They have a 14 year old locked up to a chair in an empty room and there was no one in the room. Not even watching if I was to try to escape. My mind was racing for ideas on why they would have kidnapped me. 'To turn me over to Lydecker and get a large pay out', but then they would of known that I was not like other 14 year old girls. I was made in a lab and was able to withstand large amounts of drugs, and torture. If they knew this, then they would of brought more men for back-up for my capture and wouldn't of been so surprised that I could take out 3 of their team before they even noticed that I knew they were following me.
Flashback:
I was on my way back to my foster parents house from getting some supplies. It was two blocks from the store that I noticed that one of the guys I saw in the shop was following me on the other side of the street. I put my supplies down and knelt as if I was tying my shoe. I peered under my arm to get a better look at him. He had stopped and lent against a wall. I zoomed in on him with my enhanced eyes and saw that he had a barely visible microphone in his ear, which looked high tech, but he didn't look like one of Lydecker's men. I looked ahead of me. The park was too far ahead of me and that I could go through the park to try to lose him and whoever else was following me. I picked up my bags and started walking to the park. Once I reached it there was no one in the park but some guy reading a paper. I took a closer look and saw that he also had a mic. I took a glance behind me and the guy that was following was catching up, but it wasn't just him now. He also had a buddy with him. I heard movement ahead of me and the newspaper guy had got up and pulled a tranquilizer gun from his coat taking aim at me. I quickly dodged two-tranq dart and ran towards him. I swung a bag of supplies at him; he was distracted for the second so I followed through with an uppercut to the chin and a knee to the abdomen. He took it hard and fell to the ground out cold.
I dropped the other bags and turned to the other two guys that had just entered the park. They both raised their tranquilizer guns and fired. I dodged two darts but hit in the arm by one I didn't see. I pulled it out and ran towards them at inhuman speed. I reached them while they were dazed at what happened and smacked their heads together. That was always one of my favorite attack moves. They both crumpled to the ground out cold like their newspaper buddy. Then out of nowhere a dart hit me in the chest. I quickly pulled it out before I got the full dosage. I quickly moved towards the source, a parked car across the road with a guy holding a tranq gun. They obviously didn't want me dead. Yet. I thought. He aimed and fired again. I ducked in the middle of the road. While I was down he fired again and hit me twice, once in the leg and the other to the stomach. A normal human being would be down and out by the first dart but that wasn't me. I wasn't normal. A white van screeched around the corner while I was trying to get up. It stopped right in front of me and five guys dressed in black piled out of the van and surrounded me before I could even stand. When I finally stood woozily, one of the guys punched me to the stomach. I doubled over but didn't fall. He took another swing, which I blocked and kicked him to the head. He fell back shocked that I could pack such a wallop. A guy behind me kicked me in the knees that brought me down. Now they all joined in kicking and punching until I laid still. I looked up with glaring eyes before one brought their gun down on my head and I blacked out.
End Flashback:
I tugged at the ropes that had my hands tied tight behind my back and secured to the wooden chair. I stopped and snapped my head up at movement behind the door. I heard voices that were muffled even to my hypersensitive ears. 'Damn drugs' I thought. The handle on the door turned and the door opened which let white light pour in blinding me instantly as it hit my eyes.
I slowly opened my eyes letting them adjust. There stood in the door way a very short and ugly man looking at me with a smug smile on his face. It looked as if he hardly ever smiled, as it didn't suit his face and balding head. I let out a laugh. He looked like an elf. His smiled faded and was replaced with an angry glare which made me even laugh harder. I wasn't scared at all knowing that they had no idea who I was and what I was.
"Shouldn't I be the one laughing?" He said in a really deep voice that did not suit his body at all. My chair nearly fell over from my laughing spurt.
"You would if you looked in the mirror." I said during my fit of laughter. He signaled to the guard and pointed at me. The tall and well-built guard walked over to me and backhanded me in the face. My laughing fit stopped but when I looked at him I wore a smile from ear to ear.
"What, didn't want to get your little hands dirty?" I asked through my smirk. The guard hit me again but this time to my abdomen.
"What is your name?" The elf asked.
"I thought you would of done some homework before you kidnapped me or is your intelligence the same size as you" I said grinning again. I was once again hit in the abdomen and then again to the back of my neck.
"Your foster father didn't tell me. Just told me where I could find you and how much money he wanted for the info. Now, I will ask again. What is your name?" He said now with a smile.
"Ima" I replied. I knew that my foster father was an abusive, drunken jerk. I just didn't know he stoop this low for money. I mean he was giving away his punching bag. Then again, he would do anything for a beer.
"Ima what?" Elfy asked.
"Ima gonna kick your ass" I replied. The bodyguard came towards me as I suspected. When he was close enough I kicked out my leg and swooped it under him. He fell back on the hard ground with a thud. I flipped my chair over and landed my seated self-ontop of his chest. I pressed my foot on his throat and kicked him in the head with my other foot. I heard a lot of commotion coming from outside the door but it was distant. I knew I didn't have a lot of time before I would be pinned down with Elfys guards. I looked up just in time to see Elfy close the door. 'Great, can't make it simple for a girl now can he' I thought. I pulled up on my ropes with inhuman strength and I heard a satisfying Crack of the chair rail snap. The wooded chair that was holding me held me no more. I stood and jumped and swung my hands under my legs. My hands were now at the front of body. I pulled at the knots of the ropes with my teeth. With little time and little effort, my bound hands were now free. I went over to the door and pulled with all my strength. It wouldn't budge. Again and again I tried. Well, they got one thing right. They put a lock on the door. I listened as hard as I could. Running footsteps, yelling voices and gunshots filled my ears. I backed away from the door hearing someone approaching. I heard the click of the lock and the turning of the doorknob. It swung open to a guard in full black gear. I gave him a smile.
"Thanks" I said with the cutest smile I could give and then with a punch to the stomach, a knee to the groin, a chop to the back of the neck and a flip over him I was out the door. I stood in the long hallway looking from one end to the other. To the right held stairs descending and no other doors to escape to. To the left was what looked to be the main area of a warehouse where the commotion was going on. 'Maybe the alarm was not raised about me, maybe something else is going on', I thought. I decided to turn left and try to get out through the scuffufle that was going on unnoticed. I ran to the end of the hallway and into the shed like area where a fight was being held.
I quickly ducked behind some creates before anyone noticed I was there. I peeked out and saw the all black dressed guys that had kidnapped me fighting four people. 'Who where these new guys' I wondered. One of the new guys formed lightning in his hand and shot it at a group of all blacks. The all blacks were flung into the air and sent flying into the crates that I was hiding behind. I moved out into the open before they crash landed. There were only three all blacks left which the new comers were fighting off. Then my eyes caught something. Behind all the fighting I spotted Elfy getting into a car. I zoomed my eyes in and caught the number plate. 'GOV-145' it read. Another lightning blast bought me out of my daze when it hit some petrol drums in the middle of the room. It exploded and everyone went flying including me. I went superman-flying style into a wall and thumped to the floor.
I sat quickly and a sudden dizzy spell erupted making me feel nauseous. I closed my eyes and then reopened them. I felt a stinging sensation coming from my abdo and back. Although I could not see it I knew I was bleeding from my back. I pulled up my shirt to show large gashes along my abdo area that was bleeding. 'Great' I thought. I put my shirt down and struggle to stand up. Then someone grabs my arm. I quickly react by pulling away and look at who had grabbed me. There, in front of me stood a pretty red haired woman who I saw earlier fighting the Black guys.
"It's OK, I'm not going to hurt you," she said. She held out her hand. I was about to grab hold when another explosion erupted. The blast wasn't as powerful as the last but the flames grew cutting us off from the other side of the warehouse.
"We have to get out of here. This place is about to go up", she yelled over the sound of the raging fire. There were no windows to climb through and no doors to exit to. I grabbed her hand and pulled her down the hallway to the descending stairs I had spotted before. She got my gist and we ran with all our life down the stairs. At the bottom there was another hallway and at the end of the hallway was a door. We heard another explosion behind us that was huge. I could hear the fire blast chasing us down the hallway. I reached the door first and pushed it open. I got behind the door ready to shut it as soon as the red haired woman was through. Another explosion sent her flying into the room and into some wooden crates. I shut the door quickly and went to her aid. Her flying act into the crates had hurt her badly but she tried to hide it. I could smell the blood even though I could not see it. I spotted a small window above us. 'We must be in the basement'I thought. I stepped on some crates and pushed the window open. I helped the woman get up and out the window before the room started to burn up with flames. We ran down the alleyway until I saw her collapse in a heap.
I heard sirens in the distance and knew I had to get out of there but I couldn't just leave her there. I looked around and found and old trolley and some boxes. I sat her up ready to lift her when I heard a slight cling noise. I looked down to see a small silver ring. I picked it up and put it in my pocket. 'I'll give it back to her when she wakes up' I thought. I gently picked her up and put her in the trolley. This would have been impossible for any other 14 year old but it was as if I was picking up a bag feathers. Inhuman strength can come in handy sometimes. I took my jacket off and put it over her. I put some boxes over her to try and not look too obvious that I was wheeling an unconscious woman in a trolley. I looked around at my surroundings and recognized where I was. I wasn't even 5 blocks from the park where Elfy's minions kidnapped me. That meant I was only a few blocks from the abandoned apartment building where I had set up a room just in case if I got found by Manticore.