Alright this is possible the most difficult chapter I've done so far. Ok two big shout outs 1st Wrighterdragon who helped my a bunch on my character development thanks a bundle I hope I got it right this time! 2nd to MKSfan14 for giving me my first review! this chapter is told by Susan and I'm not going to repeat descriptions I already gave.
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Susan
"Hey guys." I said. They looked up my way and smiled. "Monger told me we got a new monster, is she here?" I was pretty happy about the idea of another woman in the group. Doc smiled and said
"She's in the washroom right now. Come to think of it she's been in there a while now… ah." He was interrupted by the sound of a door opening.
A very tall woman in a jumpsuit a lot like mine cut to the middle of her thighs and arms came out to the table where the others were sitting. Her skin was white in the middle and had silvery blue stripes like a tiger and little glowing specks all over the sides of her body. Her eyes kind of scared me they were huge and black but glowed very subtly in greenish yellow. Ruler straight white and silver hair sat on her shoulders lining very high cheekbones. She also had fins on her arms and a flat tail that ended with a V shaped fin.
She, wasn't exactly pretty; no her features were still crude. Her nose was much too small, her mouth too large and while she was muscular her frame was close to anorexic. Also there were countless scars and marks on any exposed skin.
"See you're finally done," Monger said, who I hadn't realized was in the room, "Now we need know at least a little about yourself even if you can't give certain things like you said. Tell anything you feel comfortable with." She nodded. Monger asked "What happened to you? What are you?"
"Several years ago a Russian agency was working on creating a living weapon in interest of starting another cold war. They were particularly interested in the field of aquatics for scoping and spying. One of their agents blackmailed me into having the procedures performed on me; they could only be done on women for getting the hormone factor correct. The experimentation left me 20% tiger shark, 15% deep sea angler fish, and 10% electric eel." I wasn't sure but I think she had a slight lisp.
"Is that all?" Monger said. "It's the bulk of it." She answered.
"What do those mutations include?" these questions gave me a shiver of déjà vu.
"I am capable of breathing water like air, my skeleton is cartilage instead of bone, I have the eight senses of a shark including the ability to detect electrical fields, and, as you can see, have many florescent projections."
"What about family? You got any?"
She shook her head, "Either dead or too distant for me to know of." This didn't seem to bother her.
"We'll test your abilities in the training room; follow me." They both walked into the hallway. The others started to follow. I leaned down to be eye level with Doc.
"Do you feel like this has happened before?" I asked. He chuckled "You get used to it over time, my dear." I smiled, I couldn't explain it but he just made me feel comfortable. I put out my hands for everyone to ride on. It tickled when they walked on.
The training room was an obstacle course that changed for each test. Each monster ran three tests in order to find out what they were capable of. There was a huge Plexiglas screen above it where the researchers, Monger, and the monsters could watch. I remembered when I first went through it, but now I was on the other side of the glass. The room was dark now, but then a little figure of glowing spots and patterns appeared. Doc had told me her name was Aanglela.
Monger spoke into the intercom. "This first test is for sensory awareness. Your job is to find the ten hidden men and not to get touched by any of them before you hit the buzzer on them. 3-2-1. Go!" the patterns sprinted to the right corner and a buzzer went off. Then another and another; in about three minutes ten buzzers had gone off. The lights blared on; she grimaced and covered her eyes.
"Good now simply stay on the path while it moves." The room shifted and the real obstacle course came out. It had several jumps, climbs, tunnels and rails and was on a moving floor. She hesitated on the first rock wall, walking backward, and nearly fell off the path. I frowned "What's the matter?" she then jumped off the wall on the side and got around it. At the following tunnel in the ground she actually seemed scared and ran over it. The rest of the course didn't prove too much trouble aside from the other climbs and tunnels.
Monger's brows buried together in frustration, but he switched the room to the last course. Fifty targets attached to steel pipes popped up all over the room in a rugged terrain. Some were stationary others moved in regular and irregular patterns. "You have sixty seconds to destroy as many targets as possible. Go all out on this one; do any method of demolition you can."
She coiled and sprang on the closest target; her teeth hooked on and pulled it down. A sideways moving one was to her left; in the next second a knife was jammed in then pulled out. Ten seconds passed: five targets. Twenty second: another six. Forty five seconds: twenty one destroyed by various kicks and jabs and punches.
She looked up and saw several located on the ceiling and walls. "Surely she won't climb" I heard Doc whisper. I looked down and saw her close her eyes; when she opened them again they were glowing brighter in blue. She brought her hands to her face; blue static danced all around her fingers. "Five second left." Monger said. Then she slammed her hands down, claws first, and the static traveled up the walls, snaked up the pipes and exploded on ten targets in a shower of light and sparks. The timer ran out.
"Impressive thirty one targets, the record are all fifty, but still good." Monger said over the intercom.
"Who got the record?" I asked.
"You!" everyone shouted as if it was real obvious (even the workers yelled). "Monger never told me…" I grumbled.
Aanglela was panting and leaning on her knees now. "There's (pant) not anymore (heave) is there?" Monger grinned in a nasty way "Why, did you think you were finished?" her eyes widened like a track runner after a long race only to hear there was another mile left. I frowned then flicked his back which nearly ripped a patch of his suit off. "Ow! Alright, alright Miss Aanglela, you can take a rest now if you need it. Sheesh! Ginormica did you wait long enough not to clip those cat claws? " Link was cracking up, B.O.B. laughed along, and Doc even chuckled a bit.
After Angle (as we took to calling her) had been at the facility for about a month, the buzz of a new monster died down. On the third week Angle's space had been decorated to look like a pristine beach scene. I tried learning about her but she wouldn't tell much; I did find out that she considered herself a sort of scientist. However she didn't like the term.
When I asked about it, Angle said "Nothing is new, everything has always been here since God put it here; done under the sun. The same hundred and something elements and yet scientist credit themselves on being the first to bring things to light, finding the way to combine this and this etc, etc. No, I don't do that, no one does, I simply discover things again; therefore I am a rediscover." Fortunately Doc wasn't around at the time.
It had been pretty quiet and no major monsters had come along the whole time. I was getting use to how nice it had been, of course it didn't last. No one was happy when we got a call at two A.m.
"'I don't care if you have to travel all night, you get your giant hocus to Mongolia by tomorrow or else' who does Monger think he is! He's probably having us rushing to the other side of the world in the middle of the night just for a hoax." I griped accidently knocking over a hummer with my shoe. I was startled by a skittering on my arm; you would've thought I was used to it by now. Dr. Cockroach popped up on my shoulder, his hazel eyes gazed sympathetically.
"Monger's just doing his job, my dear; after all he said there were lives in danger." He was right, I was just mad at being woken up. I sighed "Yeah, I know" The others were packing essentials as fast as they could to get ready for our trip to the Mongolian desert. People had been disappearing close to the desert and witnesses said they were being eaten by something huge.
"Okay we're ready." Link said yawning. Angle looked around confused, "Where's the plane?"
"We're riding Insectasaurus; he's faster than any plane." Link told her and her face fell. Angle looked up at the behemoth moth wide eyed. Link frowned, "I thought you liked him" Angle shook her head never taking her eyes off Insecto "I do, but I don't like how far off the ground his head is."
"Wait, you didn't have a problem on the plane ride from Haiti, what's the problem now?" Doc said.
"There were no windows I couldn't tell we were off the ground." She was actually quivering now. I put my hands on the countertop and leaned down to around eye level with her. "It's ok you won't fall off, I promise." Lines formed on her forehead, "I'm going to hold you to that."
With a lot of difficulty and reluctance we managed to get her on Insectasaurus and went off.
The trip was pretty long but with the change in time we managed to get into China by dusk and Mongolia at midnight. Angle did, ok, if literally keeping her head buried in Insecto's fur for hours at a time is doing ok. When we arrived I was astonished by how vast, rocky, barren, and most of all cold the desert was. Not that it would bother me, quantonium is a very effective insulator, but I was worried about Doc he didn't do well in as much as an autumn chill; He was already shivering terribly.
It was really too dark to begin searching at the hour it was. The time change was racking our sleep schedule and we were all tired from being woken up. However, we were reluctant to go to sleep on account of the possibility of the monster attacking in the night. In the end we resolved to sleep in shifts with Angle taking the first one because she only slept a few hours a night anyway.
"Alright good night guys wake me" B.O.B. didn't finish on account that he was already snoring. Insectasaurus lay down and covered everyone beside Angle with his wings like a thick, long tarp so we would be sheltered from the wind. It was but a few minutes till Link was snoring loudly and Insecto's breath went in and out as even as a clocks pendulum.
As I began to get comfortable I noticed Doc was pulled into a tight ball with his knees to his chest and shivering even worse than before. I felt really bad for him, even with the cavernous wing above us, to him it was still colder than winter, and all he to help was his lab coat. I decided to be bold.
Quietly I worked my right hand underneath his insect frame and careful not break his antennas wrapped my fingers around the quivering man (or monster). He stilled quickly and briefly opened his eyes, but didn't awake. I felt his arms and legs straighten out and I was surprised to see his hands grab hold of my thumb gently. The doctor was sleeping peacefully now and the only movement came from his chest. I couldn't help but smile to myself as my eyes slid shut.
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