We all knew what our mission was. Go in there, get the jewel of life, eradicate the remaining scientists, free up the new test subjects, leave and enjoy life, ending 15 years of torture. But there would still be scars. We would still be changed. Nothing could turn us back to normal; nothing could fix us. So, we merely did what we could, and that was our mission.
Or at least that was what I had told everyone. With the Jewel of life, I could regain my full powers. Sure, I could stop and start time, but I could not advance it or rewind it. Once I obtained it, I had different plans. The first part was true; we would storm the laboratory and I wanted to see Cyrus suffer. Luckily for me, I would see him in agony twice.
When I had the Jewel of life, I would go back in time. Before this even sprouted. Before Cyrus was an adult. Before I was twisted. I would go back and save everyone. What would have been emotionally destroyed test subjects would live happy lives as regular people. I would give them peace. They would not be caged and experimented on, and they will live and enjoy their lives. As for now, we lived in a constant struggle. Even after we kill Cyrus, we would have no use. Mentally ill homeless teenagers with no job and life.
I just told them that lie because otherwise they would stop me. Even Alpha was so upset at the idea of me going back in time. Because I would die. No, I would still be alive, but everything and everyone currently around me would be replaced by their happy, test subjectless selves. Obviously, that was my intention, but it meant that I would be forgotten. J, Delta, Alpha, Everyone would never meet each other. I would be alone in the new world, suffering by myself. Nobody would ever know what would have happened to them, that I gave up my own world of happiness for them, or that I even existed.
I would not be selfish. As much as I did not want to leave behind this reality, this was what I and only I could do with my powers. To be honest; I doubt it would really make any difference on me. Already, I was lonely. Why would that change?
Getting up, I groggily headed to the grand hall, where Alpha had gathered everyone. Their eyes lit up when they saw me enter. "Everyone. Alpha briefed you on our goal right?"
I took their nods as a yes and continued. "This is our chance. Save the new patients, kill the scientists. Leave Cyrus to me."
"FOR JUSTICE!" They chanted in unison.
Veilstone city was rather cramped. The people in here were the lower class; this was the crime capital, gambling central and poorer city of Sinnoh after all. We broke up into groups. Alpha and I went first as the others walked behind buildings and past shadows.
As we headed past some back alleys, it obviously attracted some negative attention. At least, Alpha did. Walking down dodgy parts of town was obviously not a good idea for regular people. A group of men smoking cigarettes and probably doing drugs saw us coming and they got up, heading to our direction. I did not flinch, run, or even react. They were not my priority. Ignoring then earned a chuckled from one man as he slowly approached Alpha, whistling. "Ey yo baby girl!" He yelled. The others also came next to her. We just kept walking past, until one man grabbed Alpha. "C'mere!"
I landed a punch on the guy. He was in his 30s and was muscular, and it did nothing to him. I knew it wouldn't knock him out, but I was just warning him. "Stop it." I commanded coldly. They grinned and cracked their knuckles. "Fuckin' kid needs to learn a lesson!" He yelled. "Grab him!" He ordered, as two men twisted my wrist into an armlock. Though it seemed like my 15 year old body would be crushed, I was not losing this fight. The man just grinned and picked up his cigarette. Alpha watched in dismay as she was held back by two other men who ordered her to strip. I rolled my eyes; always there were gang members trying to fuck her. When she didn't, they threatened her. "If you don't do it, we will kill your boyfriend and burn him!"
She looked at me and was honestly about to take her clothes off when I quickly interjected. "Go ahead."
The same gang member cracked his knuckles again and took his cigarette out of his mouth, lighting the tip of it. "Smart ass over here's gonna learn a fuckin' lesson!" He yelled, thrusting the cigarette against my chest, scorching my skin. Alpha looked at me desperately. Any normal human would have screamed. It was painful; even I could feel that.
But I was not normal. I let the pain rush through my body, and turned it into energy. Pain fueled me; it was always a part of me. I never fell to pain, and I wasn't going to now. Slowly, as the cigarette burned my flesh, I descended into my animal instinct. As he kept his hand against my chest, disconcerted that I did not react like they expected, I lunged at his finger. My teeth sank right into it, dislodging it from the bone as he screamed. I spit his finger out at one of the guys holding me back, which hit him straight in the eye. Instinctively, he let go of me to rub his eye.
It was too easy. With my now free hand, I jabbed my other captor in his lower throat, puncturing the skin. From there, I yanked as hard as I could as his flesh tore from his body. Screaming and in pain, he lost balance. I assisted his fall by completely jumping ontop of him and slamming my foot straight through his already injured neck. As it cracked and he ceased breathing, I knew that I had one down. Turning to the others, they looked at me with horror, and fear. It sent shivers down my spine… shivers of ecstasy. I loved their fear; their screams of pain was music to my ears.
The next guy pulled out a knife and lunged at me. I didn't move. I, however, snatched the knife from him and stabbed myself, looking straight at them as it pierced my skin. I only did this to make them uncomfortable, and it worked. They looked at each other with fear on their face. Seeing that made me moan in sadistic pleasure, worsening their discontentment. Now, it was their turn to suffer. I ran up to one man, grabbing his nose piercing and with all of my strength, I retracted my finger, still holding it. As it tore his nose, he cried out in pain, giving me enough time to rip his tongue out. Blood filled my vision and poured across the floor. I loved every bit of it. I craved more. I needed them to suffer. A sudden blow to my head knocked me back to consciousness. It wasn't one of them who did that; they were paralyzed with fear. It was Alpha.
"Leave, or die." She offered to the group of men. Quickly, they ran away, shouting profanities and calling me names. I was actually disappointed; my craving was not satisfied. However, when she grabbed me and hugged me, I snapped back to reality. "Oh my god, I am so sorry!" I cried. She teared up a little, tightening her embrace. "It's okay…"
"I am a fucking idiot!" I cried, frustrated that I did all that in front of her. Alpha smiled.
"I don't blame you for who and what you are."
That's right! Cyrus… Cyrus was the one that did all of this. I was played by him, and the other members of Project Evolution. We had to stop them, and not waste any more time.
Hand in hand, Alpha and I headed through the narrow alley, still awkwardly apart from one another. I was a monster… my nature was to kill. Alpha did not seem to care about what just happened and leaned her head on my shoulder. I smiled a bit. Alpha, no matter what, was always there for me. Just as she promised…
We met up with J, another test subject called C and S. J, C, and S were to obtain necessary keys and items needed for invading the Galactic headquarters, which was where Delta had traced them to be experimenting. They handed me a keycard, a key and a lockpick. We waited, and soon Delta, O and K came with tools. Boxcutters, lighters and petrol, hammers, all that good stuff. Even though Alpha controlled space, without the Jewel of Life, she could only reposition objects that she already knew existed. Finally, the entire group gathered; Alpha, B, C, Delta, E, F, G, and so on.
When we had gathered everyone, we snuck around behind the building. The ocean was north of the gigantic, spiky headquarter and it meant that nobody would be looking south. Slowly, I hammered my way through the wall, and with Zeta's help, she destroyed all sound waves that I was making, and we sneakily got through the back wall. Then, Zeta, U and K went in first. Like ninja's, they went around, knocking out guards silently. Our powers were weakened here as the Jewel of Life combatted our strengths.
After the path had cleared, we snuck after then, and Delta, F and O went to go find the right direction. I stayed back, waiting for them to come back but they never did. We then all decided to head in their direction after waiting for half an hour. Eventually, we went down a couple winding staircases, venturing past despoiled rooms until we made our way to a set of double doors. As I opened it, an enormous force struck me, and I flew back and hit myself against the wall. The others, who were trailing behind saw and quickly hid themselves as I instructed them to.
"I am afraid I cannot let you go any further… William."
I gritted my teeth as my name was mentioned. Looking up, I saw a creature with yellow tendrils, a black body with grey and red stripes and the figure was a male that appeared to be around 12 years old. I clenched my fist and looked up at him.
"Gabriel."
Hooray! I finally completed another chapter. Please note that sadly, I won't be continuing this story until a couple days later because I want to get some work done on my other story called "On a secluded mountain." Don't fret though; I already have an ending planned for this series, and if you want a spoiler for the ending I will put it below. If not, just click to the next chapter. Thank you for the support and motivation!
For the spoiler, read this backwards. Yppahtonsti
