As soon as I made my empty promise, I heard the door open. My crate was slammed to the ground and I hit my head on the bars. The one next to me was thrown to the floor also. " Ahhh" I heard a blood-curdling scream and realized it had come out of the cage next to me. There was one in there too. I saw white jackets and realized we were going to the lab. " I'm not going back!" I yelled. I threw myself at the door and then I was shocked with a cattle prod. The one with blue eyes was being toted away on a carrier, I rattled my cage and tried to escape to help her. Ffzzzt! I was shocked again and I was knocked unconscious.
When I woke I was in a very dark and small room. There were whitecoats exiting and one stayed to keep guard. It was Jeb. He told me to be quiet and unlocked my door. I floundered out, totally unaware of my surroundings. My legs quickly gave way from not using them in 8 hours. Note to self: look before you leap. "Get up, get up quick!" the dark one said, while grabbing my arm and dragging me from a pile of debris. I quickly lunged to my feet and made a dash for the door. Jeb told us to be quiet and to move slowly. The light was very bright compared to our dark little room. "They're gone! Find them! We can't risk them getting away!" I heard someone say. I darted a glance to the dark one and then to the youngest boy. Their faces were covered in worry. " Just hold still." Jeb said, but the brown haired girl was hit in the back with a door and lunged forward while screaming.
"Get them!" was the next noise I heard and I was on my feet running. The dark one was on my heels and the blue-eyed one was in his arms. There was a small light haired boy running beside me. He quickly jumped up into an air duct and I lunged in after him. We all stayed in the duct while the white coats fumbled around below. There was pure energy surging through my veins almost burning, and I liked it. " What now, we are in an air duct." The small boy said. I started crawling toward another vent, they followed. I didn't count how many of us there were, but I knew there were more than I could see.
There was a small opening at the end of the duct and I started crawling for it. Suddenly there was a sharp screeching noise and the duct was sucked out from under me. I was wrapped in aluminum from the collapsing duct and then I heard a smooth voice that glided in one ear and out the other. It was an eraser. I wriggled around inside my metallic imprisonment just to be cut and jabbed by the jagged metal. A sinister smooth voice said softly in my ear " I've been waiting for this day a long time Max." and then I was injected with FCS-22 which made me as useless as a hole in my head.