Jane was beaten. She lost to that Marco guy. She was bloodthirsty for battle, but her psycho mind couldn't beat the trap set by two men. Jane was feeling weak; something like anesthetics were soaked into her bloodstream. She tried charging blue electricity from her fingertips, but her wrists were restrained by some kind of plastic straps. The only thing missing now was someone taking her clothes.
Where was she? Jane could make out animals in the room with her. Not cute and fuzzy animals like cats or bunnies, this was a lab where the scientist man made monstrosities.
In cages she saw the back of a white and muscular rabbit-like creature with leopard ears and black stars on its back. One was infected with paleness in its skin, dead, the right side of his thoracic cavity already looked gnawed out by a few rats.
"Jane?" a voice said to the graveyard filling bandit. A voice talking to a devil worshiping piece of garbage like her was a surprise. It was the Fishman Momo. The person the crew was looking for.
"Where am I?" Jane shook her head when she realized something important was missing. "Wait, what are you doing here?"
"I don't know..." he began. "I mean...I know why I am here, but I have no idea how I was put here." Momo stared at his feet. He found something odd with the way his feet looked; they looked as normal to Jane as the first day she met him. "How did they catch you? You're suppose to be one of the toughest members of the crew?"
"Shut it!" Jane tried acting tough, even though she was really wallowing in self-pity. "I just got a little distracted. I thought I was against one opponent but I was really up against two."
"That's strange," Momo says looking at Jane. "The same thing happened to me. I was fighting a one on one fight against an old friend of mine, out of nowhere, somebody comes out and takes me down. This was after I found out he was an old friend of mine. He wasn't just a friend but a student, like me."
"Oh boo-hoo!" Jane said rather bitterly. "You're not the only one who's lost friends and family ya know. I've lost a lot of friends, people who worked for me, and I wept for all of them. But they were old. It's nature. The oldest ones and your parents die before you. You live in this world, you die in this world. You die early, you die in the middle of your life, and you die when your elderly. As for me I like to watch others die…it helps me sleep knowing I lived longer than others."
Jane tried to flail his arms out of the straps that she was trapped in. Jane was raging with anger. She was angry all the time. Why was she so angry, always wanting to hurt people and make them suffer? Suddenly, the iron doors opened and a man walked inside.
Momo could tell he was the scientist by the lab coat. The scientists always wore the lab coats. He was short scientist, too, which reminded Momo of a few friends he had once, dear friends. The scientist was the size of a midget with his head looking like six tumors were protruding from his head, and loose green hair on his ears. He had bright yellow eyes and had a necklace hidden under his lab coat.
The scientist held out his small hand.
"Good evening," he says to Jane and Momo. "My name is Dr. Szolo, and-"
"If you want to kill me you have to get through my cold dead hands!" Jane shouted before the doctor could finish. She looked down at the assignment in his hands, but was unable to read any of it.
"I am a doctor," Szolo said. "An assassin is not a part of me. I take care of you two for the good of the castle."
"Bullshit!" Momo shouted. "I bet you just work for money."
"I will not deny that fact," Dr. Szolo said. "Money is the greatest resource in life. They pay me to keep healing the shark so Goro can keep beating him to death. The girl I captured because, well, I think I am in love with you."
"Gross..." Jane said sticking out her tongue. The last guy who called her cute she almost gouged his eyes out.
"Don't worry. By the end of today you will fall in love with me. We will live happily ever after. What are you?"
Jane was a bit hesitant to answer. But the truth just erupted out of her like a volcano. "I'm a Skypian."
"Really?" Dr. Szolo seemed surprised. "I've never fallen in love with a Skypian before. I see your wings but I don't see your antennas."
"I'm a special Skypien," Jane said. "I know how to hide them."
Doctor Szolo laughed to himself, walking up to the table where he kept his tools. The doctor stared at the lamp above where he kept more of his tools. The strange little man then hummed to himself, beginning to sing.
"He's the greatest scientist…Jam Jami Jang, Jam Jami Jang, Jam Jami Jang. He won't every fall. He's the ding ding greatest scientist. He may not be the most reliable scientist, or the prettiest, all those who are rich they strut around thinking 'he's an ugly scientist'... But I am not without righteousness. Jam Jami Jang, I am Doctor Szolo."
He's insane! Jane thought. I am looking at an insane man!
"Equip Doctor Szolo with…gas container."
Doctor Szolo picked up an instrument neither Jane nor Momo had ever seen before. It was in the shape of a cylinder, but had three rings around it and a tiny tooth on the lid. To Doctor Szolo, using this was the norm for calming prisoners.
"Stand still, please," Dr. Szolo said with a small smile.
Jane was sprayed with the green gas. It looked like something that came out of a devenom snake. Right when it touched Jane's skin, she was unconscious. The doctor sprayed her with enough of the gas to knock her out for ten minutes. Doctor Szolo unlocked her straps and begun to carry her away.
"What are you doing to her?" Momo yelled behind Doctor Szolo.
"I am going to clone her," the crazy scientist answered calmly. "I have embryos that can grow a baby inside this woman's stomach. I like to call them the 'seeds of regeneration'. Once a baby starts growing, I'll take it out and use my own experiments to accelerate her growth."
Momo laughed. "You're too late, Doc. Jane's unfertile. She told me on the boat. She can't have babies anymore."
"It doesn't matter," Szolo said. "I can inject her with a small but living and breathing parasite that will live inside her. When it has all her DNA, I can grow my own child that will be modified from its predecessor. A much stronger and younger version."
"You're using things like those to create your own illegitimate off springs?" Momo said. It's a good thing I always use protection.
Doctor Szolo was laughing at his victory. Suddenly, Jane woke up and kicked Doctor Szolo in the face. Her attack did little harm to the doctor. Jane landed on her feet and scampered towards the doctor's lab. After she reached the lab, she threw a table at him. The doctor stood still as the table went through his face. The doctor was stronger than he looked. When the table rammed into him he swat it into the wall.
" You do know we live on an island?" He muttered, looking to the broken tools and other equipment. " It takes two months for new tools... You destroyed them...but you won't destroy me."
"Bring it, shorty!" Jane growled. Her hands generated blue electricity in her palms, and her hair follicles turned blue.
"My darling, you just don't get it," Szolo said. "Casterwill's already won. You and the shark are the last living captives. You think all my things are props but they are all quite real. My belt can signal when I am in danger. If they don't come here in two minutes, it means all the men are going after the rest of your friends. Do you know how many men Casterwill will still have even if they beat his army?"
"How many?" Jane asked, a bit frightful for the answer.
"One hundred."
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Mindy won. She beat Daniel with her hostile terms and making an ultimatum on Razi's life. He cannot bring himself to choose—he knows if he chooses Razi, he will lose a ship. Daniel really wanted to be his own captain with his own ship, but not if it meant sacrificing Razi.
"Put him down!" Jen, as a man with a deep African American heritage, pointed his gun at Mindy. Eiza used her powers to create icicles in her hands.
"Don't stop!" Mindy laughs. " This is more fun than I could ever hope for. Go ahead and try! You might just kill me. You can try attacking both at once if you wish. One could hit me and the other will hit your captain. It's good to see friends who want to help their friends. Speaking of friends...I have two as well."
Eiza and Jen didn't know two shadows were stalking them. Eden Blake swooped down and trapped Eiza in his wings. Jen tried protecting Eiza, but two bayonet's were crossed around his neck like scissors. Eiza didn't try to fight Eden knowing the crazy priest could decapitate Jen with the slightest twitch.
"It's just you and me, swordsman," Mindy laughs. "You have to choose."
Mindy threw Razi in the water and dropped the lighter simultaneously. Daniel couldn't chose. Razi fell...he fell...into a coffin! A coffin was risen to the surface Razi landed in. The ship was saved when a black hand caught the lighter and crushed it.
"You are right about one thing," a voice spoke. Daniel and Mindy looked left and right and everywhere but couldn't find another person. "It's just you and me."
A dark object spin around in the ground like a tornado. The tornado drilled through the dirt than hovered Daniel and Mindy. The tornado then dispersed and inside was a pale looking salamander-man, his hair green as tendrils and his mouth filled with multiple sharp teeth. He looked menacing, he looked intimidating, and even Mindy who saw things amusing instead of scary, shuddered at the site of him.
" You're...You're..." Razi pointed to the floating man. " You're Umbrage."
