"Please look into the light." The female doctor with the long black ponytail and big glasses said to the volunteers of project 'The Griffin' on the other side of the protective glass. Her white lab coat flowed behind her as she went from computer to computer checking for any signs of trouble. "Number 3, would you mind stepping into room C?"

A young woman of about fourteen with short blond hair and gray eyes turned to the mentioned door and entered the Bio-Alt chamber. The other volunteers followed her with their eyes, but other than that none dared moved. They had been told the importance of patience in the project. One wrong move could tear everything apart.

"Number 7? Please enter room D."

Number 7, a young man of about thirteen with green eyes and golden blond hair, turned toward another door, but hesitated before entering. Unlike the others, he had seen one of the files. None of the other ones made it. Something always went wrong. And they died. He didn't know about the aothers, but he really didn't want to die.

Not Number 7.

Not Jason Manning.

He entered the room and thought for what seemed like the millionth time that his father was crazy for making him do this.

The room looked the way one might think a surgery room might look. Everyone wore white, there were machines beeping and wires crossing, and a table for the (victim) volunteer to lay on.

"If you would just lay down there." A man said. His round glasses made his blue eyes look twice as big as they actually were. Jason did as told.

The people in the room hooked the young man up to all the machines in the room and restrained his arms so that he wouldn't be able to thrash about.

Orders were given and buttons and levers were pushed. All was going smoothly until Jason felt a static shock. It hurt, but not that much.

And then the power went out.

***888***

"Come on, Lily!" a sixteen-year-old Matthias Pennel called back to his super slow sister. "He'll be here in only three minutes!"

"Why?" Came the thirteen-year-olds' reply. "I don't even know him."

The Pennels' were at the airport to pick up Sargent Lance Pennel, a war vet. He had been gone for ten years and was finally allowed to go home after an accident cost him his friends and his right arm.

"But he's Dad." ten-year-old David trailed behind his mother as they raced to find the man he'd heard so much about. "And Matt said he could teach us to build a car!"

"Teach who to build a car?" The voice was like music. They all turned to see the tall form of one Sargent Pennel, the worlds greatest dad (at least, that's what the coffee mug they go for him said). His brown hair was buzzed and his hazel eyes sparkled with amusement. "Hello, young man." He said to David. "You must be..." He paused as if trying to think. "David!" He snapped his fingers as if he'd figured it out on his own.

David jumped up and down and exclaimed, "He knows my name! Dad knows my name!" to which they chuckled.

Lily just rolled her eyes.

"Uh, oh." Their Dad turned to her. "It seems you've caught the Disbeleifitis. But that's okay. I know how to fix that." He reached out and twisted his daughters ears until she, despite her best efforts not to, grinned. "There. That's better." Then he turned to the rest of his family and they lead him home for the first time if ten years.

***888***

"What happened?" one of the scientists asked when the room went dark.

"Samuel went to check the breaker." another scientist replied.

Jason looked around. It was pitch black. Nobody could see anything. But Jason had a keen sense of sight and could remember the room almost perfectly. He knew his dad wanted him to go through with it, but he had no intention of dying, so he decided to get out while he could. He carefully fought against one of his restraints; one that had been done too loose. He was able to pry it open and with that his right hand was free. He then went on to free the rest of himself and when he was done, he crept off the table and used his memory and his sense of hearing to guide himself toward the door. He couldn't exit the room until the power came back on (all the doors being automatically locked) so he crouched down in a corner and waited.

The lights flickered back to life and the door opened at the same time. In the instant all adult personnel were blinded, Jason booked it out of there, He ran down the halls of the building until he came to an open door with a big pod inside. His head jerked when he heard footsteps approaching and quickly opened the pod; thinking he'd just hide in it until the commotion passed.

He'd just gotten snug in the pod when he heard the heavy footsteps run by. One set of feet, however, slowed down and entered the very room Jason was in. Whoever it was must not have known whether or not Jason was there because they stepped carefully as they crossed the room to the panel. While looking around, the person bumped into something (probably a chair) and a light in the pod went on (hopefully a chair).

It wasn't a chair.

Jason felt something prick his arm and saw some blue liquid being administered to his forearm. After he saw that he couldn't see much else as the light kept getting brighter and brighter until he had to close his eyes (unless he wanted to go blind). His mind barely registered another needle in his other arm. Even with his eyes scrunched as tightly as possible, all Jason could see was white. He dared not make a sound, though the pain was unbearable, so he bit his lip so hard he made it bleed. He let the coppery taste of the red liquid distract him from all his pain, but only for a moment.

Jason was done. Finished. He was going to die. He let the thought of death consume him as he waited for the end.

And then the pain stopped.

And the light went out.

And the pod's door opened.

And there stood a group of twenty or so men staring at him as if he were the devil.

And all Jason could do was fall flat on his face.

***888***

"So your family thinks he's never seen a movie before?" Kathy, Lily's friend, questioned over the phone. "That's so lame."

"I know, right!" Lily responded as she rolled over onto her stomach and looked at the clock that read 6:42. "We're going to go see 'Tangled' in the theater because it's the only Disney movie that looks halfway interesting." She sighed. "Why can't Dad just go by himself?"

"Lily!" Lily's mom's voice was heard from the doorway.

Lily was startled and accidentally hung up on her friend.

"That is no way to treat your father!" Mrs. Pennel placed both her hands on her hips. "He's a very brave man!"

"Yeah." Lily grumbled. "He's so brave for going away to some third-world country and leaving us here to try and make things work without him." She tried to walk past her mother, but Mrs. Pennel stepped in her way.

"You will not use that tone of voice in this house. Do you understand?"

Lily rolled her eyes.

"I said: Do. You. Understand?" Mrs. Pennel's patience was as thin as a string. She didn't expect everything to go smoothly when her husband came home, but she also didn't expect this attitude from her daughter.

Lily, on the other hand, thought she was being treated unfairly. "Fine! She said. "I won't use that tone of voice in this house! Do you want to know why? Because I won't be here!" She shoved her mother aside and stormed out of the house.

"Lily Beatrice Pennel! Where do you think you're going!" Mrs. Pennel called after her.

"Somewhere where I won't be bothered by you!" Lily yelled as she ran to the only place she knew to go. She didn't know very many places, other than school and the ice cream parlor. Her only real refuge was Kathy's house, so that was where she went.

***888***

WARNING: The following scene has some content that is not for the faint of heart (Almost Rape!)

Lily knew her mother didn't know where Kathy's house was. That's why she went there. She knocked on the door, expecting Kathy's mom or dad to answer, but Kathy was the one who opened the door. She seemed startled to find Lily there, but welcomed her in anyway. "You're just in time!" She said as she led Lily to the kitchen. "My folks are out of town so I decided to throw a little party." She said when she noticed her friends eyes linger on the decorations. "I was going to invite you, but you said you had to go to that movie."

"Well, I don't." Lily replied tartly.

"That's good." Kathy smiled. "Will this be your first party?"

Lily nodded.

"You're going to love it."

The doorbell rang and the first guests entered. People kept entering until there was nowhere that could be considered 'private'. The music was so loud,Lily wanted to plug her ears. And she was pretty sure most of the 'guests' were drunk.

Lily pushed her way past a group of people until she found her friend. "Kathy!" She yelled over the music. "Do you even know who any of these people are!?" Kathy just grinned in response. "Hey, Lily!" She said as if she just had an idea. "I want you to meet some other friends of mine! They're in my room!" Kathy grabbed Lily's arm and dragged her through the crowd and up some stairs to her room where three tall dark male teenagers sat around drinking from some bottles. The tallest came over and looked Lily up and down. "She new?" he asked. Lily looked at Kathy, questioningly, but Kathy didn't look at her and nodded at the boy. "She'll need to be broken in." another guy said.

The first boy gently grabbed Lily's arm and led her to the bed. He pushed her down so she was sitting and one snap of his fingers got his friends to grab her limbs. They each took one arm and a leg. The one on her left leaned in and licked her neck from her collarbone to her ear, which caused her to shiver and try to get away.

"K-K-Kathy?" Lily asked, uncertainly. "Whats going on?" Her heart was racing. She looked over to her friend, hoping Kathy was just as appalled as she was and would sent these boys away for treating her like that, but Kathy just stared at her with a sinister look.

The first boy knelt down in front of her and placed his hands on her stomach. He moved his hands until they were under her shirt, touching her bare skin. Lily thought he was going to stop there, but he kept moving until his hands rested on her pants button. He grinned an evil grin and undid her pants.

She never knew the sound of a zipper could be so terrifying.

Lily closed her eyes so that she wouldn't see what happened next; she felt the two boys at her sides close in on her, both licking her neck as if trying to clean it, while the hands on her waist slowly curled it's fingers around her pants and started to tug them off.

She screamed.

Her scream was quickly silenced by what she assumed were a pair of lips crashing into her own. Whoever was invading her mouth must have been drinking something awful because Lily could taste it and it was revolting. She tried to squirm out of their grasp, but the three of them against one of her meant they had the upper hand and whatever they wanted to do with her was up to them. She was powerless.

Lily accepted her fate and waited for her ruin.

But it never came.

She kept her eyes closed as she felt her attackers being thrown off of her. She felt big arms lift her gently, carefully, and carry her away. A car door was opened and she felt herself being placed inside. There was silence for a moment and Lily wondered what was happening when the drivers side door opened and closed. The engine was started and Lily was driven away.

After a while, she felt the need to look at the driver. She opened her eyes.

And saw her dad.

***888*** Okay, it's over

Jason woke up and the first thing he noticed was his missing shoes. The next thing he noticed was that he was on a table. He turned his head to see more scientists everywhere (did they grow on trees here?).

"Hello, 7." One of them greeted him. "How are you feeling?"

Jason thought for a moment and said, "Fine."

"7, you may be experiencing shock. Please concentrate and tell me if you feel any pain."

Jason concentrated on any pain he was feeling and shook his head. "I feel fine." As if to emphasize his point, he stood up and walked around. "See? I'm good."

"But... you didn't have the proper... you shouldn't even be... How are you still alive?"

Jason looked at the scientist, questioningly. "Why wouldn't I be?" he said as he found his shoes and put them on. There. That was much better. "It's not like I actually did your stupid test."

He went to the door and walked out.

"But you did." One scientist said after the door closed behind him. "You just don't know it."

***888***

Lily's dad took her to a parking lot and parked the car. Lily didn't meet his eyes as she tried to control her sobs (they escaped no matter what).

"Did you know them?" She heard him ask. She shakes her head violently. She looked into her dads eyes as she let the tears flow from her own. "Wh-what were they-?" She started but was cut off by a sharp, "Don't ask."

Mr. Pennel was livid. What kind of monster attacks a child? For a moment, he feared his precious daughter had been through this before, but the look on her face told him otherwise. "Are you alright?" He asked. He didn't expect and answer, but had to ask the question.

Lily threw herself into her fathers chest and let her sobs rack her body. "I was so-so scared, Dad!" She gasped for breath and barely managed to get enough air before it all burst out. She felt her dad gently rub her back and pull her close. She heard him say comforting words in her ear, telling her everything was alright. They sat there until Lily had calmed down enough to go home.

A/N: Okay, well that was different. I really don't want to write like that again.

Just out of couriosity, who thinks Lily's dad killed those guys?

I forgot to say this last time: I don't own BH6 or any other material from any other fandom that may have ended up in that/this last chapter.

Some decisions have been made concerning the future of this fic and I can honestly say that there will be more blood. And adventure. And other good things.

I hope no one is confused about why Lily thinks so highly of dads now (not that anyone was confused before).

Please review! Tell me what you thought! Or just tell me if you've seen a one-eyed one-horned giant purple people eater!

Love you all!

Queen