They didn't give me any clothes at all. They kept us in different cages, I did not know where the others were. This was extremely uncomfortable. I got nothing to eat, but there was a sink, the spigot was working, so I had some water to drink. There also was a toilet, but that was all. The artificial light white and cold, the walls where white and there was only the white door. I looked around. The thing up in the corner could be a camera, but I wasn't sure. So I sat on the floor, leaned against the wall.
I thought about what I knew so far. Ryn's sister had been captured. They kept her in ocean water, which lead to her being able to escape. Obviously, they didn't want to repeat that mistake. Nevertheless, I had to get out of here. They must have taken us for a reason, they were studying Ryn, and now they had more of us. Whatever their reason was, they had to get in contact with us. Someone, me included, would at one point get a chance to fight.
I wasn't sure what they already knew about us. The sure knew that we were strong, that we were dangerous. They would take even more precautions, which made the situation difficult. They had powerful weapons. They could hurt and kill us. The fact that they had more than one was danger, too. If someone, Ryn, Katrina or me, would be too much trouble for them, they would simply get rid of us first. Best not to be too troublesome, then.
Time had no meaning to me, but still I got bored. There were almost no noises, other than people moving in some other parts of the building, but nothing that was intelligible to me. So I tried to sleep, but I woke up soon.
Eventually, someone came. I heard several humans gathering in front of my door, their heavy boots, the metallic sound of their weapons. They unlocked the door and threw something into my cell. That little thing started to smoke, and soon the whole room was full of. I had to cough violently, my eyes hurt and I couldn't see or smell anything. I felt something pulling on me, something around my neck tore at me violently. Instinctively, I tried to grab it blindly, and my hands hit a metallic pole. I felt the metal string around my neck. I was dragged along the floor, the string pulled closer, I couldn't breathe. I felt how ma hands were tied together with something metallic behind my back
We were out of the cell, and I could see a little bit again. A soldier took of his mask and put his face closely in front of mine.
"We can losen that thing around your neck a bit, so that you can breathe. You do anything I don't like… well, I got no problem with killing you animal, is that clear?"
I did not react, but in fact, I could breathe again. I was dulled up and I was brought into another room, where I had to sit on a kind of metallic table. Several humans in white coats where in there, three soldiers stayed, the others left.
A man in white came to me.
"Do you understand me?"
I did not react.
He had a cloth in his hand and came close with it. I hissed.
At once I couldn't breathe and was pulled of the table. I fell to the ground, and the two other soldiers were on top of me. I did not act in any way, against my instinct telling me to fight and escape.
The guy in white made a sign, and the two soldiers sat me on the table again.
"I'm just going to wipe your face, so we can get rid of the teargas."
I let him do it.
"There. Now, I'm going to examine you. First, we will shackle your feet. You will not move, understood?"
Someone came near with the shackles. When he was close enough, I kicked him away. I didn't use any force, but the frail human still fell on his back. I was on the floor immediately and couldn't breathe. But their reaction was slow. I was faster.
This time, I was shocked with a taser again. But when they tried to shackle my feet again, I kept up struggling. I was tasered several times. Yes, it was bad, but not as bad as growing scales and a tail. I had to win this one.
So I said: "I will talk to you, but no shackles."
He looked down at me in surprise. And he was ordering the guy with the shackles of. I had won this one.
"Can I get up?"
He nodded at one of the soldiers, who pulled me up, so that I was standing on my feet again.
He gestured again, this time towards the table. I sat down.
He and a female assistant began to examine me. I let it happen. The noose was still around my neck, a soldier on its end and two others standing there, tasers ready.
I hissed in disgust. He looked at me warily.
"No worries," I told him. "I don't want to be hurt, but if you hurt me, I will try to hurt you. Understood?"
He looked at me.
"I'm stronger as you. And much faster. Before they have me down, you will be down."
He understood that I had already tested that.
"My name is Dr. Weller, do you have a name?"
"My name is Lele."
"Do you understand what is happening here?" He gestured around.
"You try to learn about us. You know that we are stronger than you, and you want to become as strong as we are."
He looked at me in a strange way. The he asked: "Are you their leader?"
"I want to leave. With the others, also the humans."
"Ah. Well, that is not in my power, but…"
"I know. You are weak, you have no power. Who is your leader? I would like to talk to her."
"Errr… it's more a 'him', actually. But you can't talk to him. The Admiral is very busy."
"So you can't give me anything in return for not killing you?"
His eyes became wide. His assistant had left the room. His soldiers became wary after my last remark. I felt the string round my neck tighten. The noose was on the end of a metal pole, held by a soldier to control me. I just grabbed the pole and rammed the blunt end into his chest. I felt the and at the same time I was jumping from the table and grabbing Dr. Weller by the neck with my one hand, I used the other to get the sling away from my neck. I used Dr. Weller's body as a shield, so that the soldiers couldn't use their weapons.
"Now, we will free the other ones." I told them; and, to the two soldiers: "You go first, we follow."
They hesitated, but Dr. Weller must have given them a hint, because they marched on. When the first one was already through the door, I threw Dr. Weller to the side, jumped the other soldier from behind, grabbed his head and broke his neck. The other one outside realized what was happening and tried to return into the room, but I was already on him and broke his neck, too.
Dr. Weller was on the floor, and he looked at me in horror. I was next to him at once, grabbing his arm and pulling him with me. I took one of the guns of the soldiers, and we entered the corridor.
"Where are the others?" I asked Dr. Weller. He pointed at another door. I pushed him so that we entered the room.
It was empty, but there were two big tanks. I recognized four of the mermaids, all besides Ryn and Katrina. When they saw me entering, the commotion started in the tanks. At the same time, an alarm rang. I heard the steps of boots throughout the building. I had to act quickly, so I let Dr. Weller be, jumped on top of one of the tanks and used the handle of the gun to smash the glass.
The water exploded out of the box, and the two mermaids, Viv and Levy, with them. I could not jump down, or I would have come in contact with the water, which would hinder me a lot. So I jumped on top of the other tank, repeated the action and let the other two out. Now, soldiers tried to enter the room, but the door did not open due to the water pushing it shut. While the four were in transition, I was pointing the gun at the door. I pulled the trigger – nothing happened. I checked the weapon – something was wrong. There, "lock", I pushed the little thing the other way. I tried again, this time the weapon fired, the bullets hit the door and whoever was on the other side.
The water was flowing away, and I was ready to leave the room and fight our way out of that trap, when I heard shots fired from the outside. I jumped to the floor, ignored the burning of the salty wetness on the soled of my feet and tried to peek out of the door.
In the corridor, I could see Ryn, Katrina, Maddie, Ben and Helen. With them was a dark haired, beautiful human girl who had fired her weapon. Dead soldiers were lying on the floor. I immediately sprinted towards the girl and throw myself against her body, before she had a chance to use her gun.
It was Ryn who shouted: "Stop!"
I looked up to Ryn. "She's a soldier."
"She came and freed us. Her name is Nicole. I trust her," answered Ryn.
I looked to the floor and let her go. She looked relieved, but didn't take my hand as I offered to help her.
"I'm sorry!" I told her, but she was still too shocked to answer.
I looked around. I freed Viv, Cami, Levi and the Sarge, Ryn came with the humans and Katrina. That meant Eliza was still missing. We needed to leave as soon as possible, so we had to find her quickly. Andrea gave me a lab coat that I put on. Humans had problems with not wearing clothes, I didn't care. He looked like as he wanted to hug me or something, but I was definitely not in the mood to be touched by any more humans, not even those I liked.
"Ryn, we need to find Eliza, and we have to get out of her as fast as possible," I pleaded to the small mermaid.
Nicole answered. "She is locked in a cell, follow me."
We went into another corridor, keeping to the walls in case of encounters with other soldiers. Nicole went first, I passed Ryn with another loaded gun which I had taken from a dead soldier. This time, I unlocked it properly. The corridor was empty, but we could all hear soldiers moving around in the buildings. Nicole unlocked the cell door with a keycard, but let Ryn open the door. I stayed at the side and pointed my gun in the direction of the corridor Nicole was not covering with hers.
"Mermaids with machine guns," I heard Ben mutter.
"Hey, we didn't start the war. They did, when they started drilling for oil." Maddie looked at me as if she was not exactly sure that I told the truth.
Ryn got the scared Eliza out of her cell. Back in her pack, she was ready to fight back. And this is what we did. My white lab coat turned red, before we could leave the building.
