I opened my eyes to see water above me. My lungs were burning. I reached up but there was mesh above me.I tried to move but the space was so small, I hit more metal mesh. The water was pressing all around me. All I could see were bubble streaming as I panicked to get out. I tried to push with my feet but I could feel mesh undeath. I was trapped in a wire cage.

I clawed but the metal didn't give. Red started to streak through the water, distorting the area around me. I panicked. I felt like my entire body was burning, aching, inside and out. The last thing I had remembered was watching Naruto as an earthquake hit. Maybe I was asleep. Maybe I was dead and this was hell.

There was a burning sensation rushing to my neck and suddenly my lungs were able to draw in a breath of air. I breathed in and out as fast as I could to try and stop panicking but I couldn't stop the terror from building up. I was trying to hold in as much air as I could, but there I felt an urge to let it all out, growing until I couldn't hold back anymore.

I screamed.

I forced every inch of strength I had into the scream until I heard a crack and I felt something give in the water as all of it rushed past. I slumped over afterward, exhausted. The drain let me see that I wasn't just in a mesh cage but inside a tank. Outside the tank I could make out a white wall and a couple bystanders but I didn't have enough space to turn my body to either side. There was glass and water all over the floor. Oh. Had I done that?

I shivered. It was cold. The four huge people bystanders slowly edged closer to me. One was writing notes frantically while another looked on. The other two were busy with a video camera, one taking video and the other held a boom mic overhead.

I looked down. I had the body of a child and I was naked. I was twenty six….and in the body of child naked.

I was a child and I was naked in a laboratory, in a mesh cage.

I looked at the broken glass around me and thought, this this can't be a dream. I dug my nail into my hand to check. I was awake. I knew that I had died. That felt true bone deep to my soul but this seemed like a weird version of hell.

A part of me felt like I should scream again. As I felt a rising sense of panic - whatifitshell whatifiminHELL - I took a huge breath, preparing myself to scream in their direction.

One of the camera men noticed immediately and made a symbol with his hands.

I blacked out.