With the little strength I had left, I made an attempt to break free of the heavy iron chains and bars which held me to the table. I rolled my head over to the left and the right only to see Terra and Chase pinned to tables as I was. Chase and Terra out cold. I was starting to feel dizzy again...and…and then I fell asleep unconscious.

"Garret", I heard.

"Garret", I heard again. I thought it was Terra or something because it was a women's voice. I searched all around and could see nothing; everything was a blur.

"Garret, there's a key sown into your left calf. It was the only way I could get it to you. Free yourself and save your friends", the voice quickly spoke.

"Who are…you", I managed to say.

"That's not important. Hurry and when you're down, free me."

I demanded, "Who are you and what's going on!" Then a bright light; it was all fading away, and then I woke up. Terra and Chase were still lying there unconscious, I was still pinned to the table against my will, and Nate was still nowhere to be found.

"Well I see you're finally awake", barked an odd creature who I assume wasn't here to help me, "I would've done this earlier but Master wanted me to do it when you were awake…oh Ya, I'm going to be your new doctor for the next few hours."

"What are you going to do", I asked nervously?

"Make an example of you. You are only a few hours away from experiencing extreme pain; so extreme that your body would normally kill itself to avoid the pain, but I'm going to inject you with some adrenaline-to keep you awake and Chromozile-to keep you alive. We, the Gist, are going to show the universe that we aren't joking…we mean business! And we don't expect everyone to understand by merely torturing mere children; your planet also be destroyed", the wanna-be-doctor chuckled.

The doctor left. My eyes jolted down my leg to find something bulging out of the side of my right calf! The key!

"Garret, where are we", Terra freshly awake questioned?

"Oh good, you're awake", I answered shakily, "We're in their…ship. We have to get out here, now! We only have a few hours before they kill us with and earth, that is to say that their hours are the same as ours! There's a key sown into my leg, we have to get it out somehow and free ourselves."

"WOW", was all she said.

"I know, we have to hurry", I said.

"No it's just that you're actually taking this serious for once", she muttered.

"That was almost funny. But I need you to take this seriously also!"

"O.K., calm down. So how do we get that out of your leg without you crying", she chuckled.

"HUH! You're hopeless", I yelled!

"Hey, where are we", Chase said as he was yawning.

"Chase, we need to find a way to get this key out of my leg and I need you to take this seriously", I answered. There was a long pause as Chase thought intensely.

"How are we supposed to get it out of your leg without you crying", he sarcastically replied. Terra and Chase laughed hysterically. Then it hit me, Terra and Chase were drugged with some alien drug! They were high. Now I was in this alone.

I didn't know how I was going to do it, but I had to get the key out of my leg. I suddenly got an idea, which no one would've normally trusted but no one was normal. I concentrated hard. In the middle of the room I formed and air blade. Terra and Chase were having immature conversations about flowers and toy race cars. I steadily moved the air blade to me; I had it whirling right above the bulging side of my leg. I closed my mouth and bit down tightly on my teeth. I counted three.

"One"

"Two" I shoved the air blade down the side of my leg with all my concentration, force, will, and might. The pain jolted through my body just like the time I'd accidentally grabbed the jumper cables when I was helping my dad start the car. I was afraid of fainting and getting caught. I couldn't hold it in any longer.

"ARGHHHHHH", I yelled intensely, so intensely it brought Terra and Chase to their senses.

"What", they both asked in concern.

"The key…was in my leg", I yelled back! Blood continually dripped down the edge of the table. My vision was going out. I quickly concentrated on the key. I formed air beneath the light metal and carried it to Terra. I looked down my leg one last time realizing I'd cut much more than I needed to. Tears filled my eyes, but no matter the situation I wouldn't cry as long as Terra was there.

"This is the key… to release us…it's the …key to our…freedo", was all I could say as I passed out.

* * *

"You could at least help us by carrying yourself", Terra grumbled.

"What? Oh sorry", I replied as I removed myself from her shoulders. I quickly tumbled to the ground with a THUD!

"No I'm sorry. I wasn't serious. I didn't know you were awake", she said sorrowfully. I looked down at my leg; Terra and Chase had wrapped, though the white cloth they used was completely dark red now. I got up and limped on my left leg.

"No guards", I painfully asked?

"Chase went up ahead to take care of them", she replied.

"How, his power requires earth", I said in question?

"Actually, it turns out that pieces of the ship here and there are made of iron", she excitingly added.

"Does he know how many times we could've used that", I exclaimed!

As we walked around the corner, well actually I limped, we saw Chase in a suit of iron armor that looked as if it had been scrapped out of the dumpster, but it was obviously with holding. Just then Chase charged towards one of the guards, which were new to all three of us, with his pieced together iron sword. Chase swung up ambitiously, hoping to actually hit the guard. This was because he did all this with his eyes closed. Chase went flying through the air, backwards. The guard easily, without a sweat avoided Chase's attack, pulled out its razor sharp, glowing magnificent swords and had swung back. Chase got back up and instead of charging the guard again, he ran the other way.

Terra had no choice but to fight. She quickly flashed out her swords, jumped toward the guard, and slashed; with her eyes open. She landed the hit right on the guard's left hand. As she pulled away, her sword was absorbed into the guard. Then I heard something from behind me, I quickly limped out of the way and hid myself behind the corner. I peeked around the corner to check it out; no one there.

WAAGGHHH! I found myself picking myself up from the floor about 20 feet away from where I used to stand. I spun myself around, hoping it was Terra, but with all odds against me, like always, It happened to be a Dark tall scary man holding a giant, celestial iron sword in his hands. I tried to scurry away as it came my way. I quickly made a shield and sword of air and picked myself up again, readying myself to fight what regrettably maybe my last fight. As it came closer, I my muscles tensed, sweat slid down my body, my hands tightly clenched onto the sword and shield, and Chase took off his Dark helmet!

"Chase, what the heck do you think you're doing", I yelled in agony as the pain in my leg began to return!

"Man, you should have seen the look on your face", Chase chuckled, "Anyway there's an armory storage just down the hall on your left if you need anything." I scurried along past Chase in annoyance. The armory storage was just a few yards away or what I thought was the armory, when, CLUNK! Some sort of huge robotic armor suit slammed me against the wall.

"Oh yeah, I forgot to tell you, it's the second door on your left. Don't go near the first door, there are these crazy robotic things in there with sensors that'll try to kill you if you come near the door", Chase reluctantly added as he smirked. The robotic armor suit had arms and legs. One arm pinned me to the wall while the other hand clenched into a fist and rocketed towards me. Its punch ended with a loud CRACK! In the nick of time I formed a wall of air in front of me. I whipped out my air sword and as I swung to separate its arm from its body and me, I noticed an empty cockpit in the center of the robotic guard which was now driving its knee up the wall towards me. I forced air around my body and slipped out of his grip. When I landed on the metal flooring, a vast amount of blood poured out of my leg. I fell to the floor harder than any boy can fall for a girl.

The robot soared through the air and landed directly over me on all fours. I looked up as sharp spear like objects erected from the machine. In the blink of an eye, I kicked out the sturdy glass which held the way to my survival. The spears sliced the air of where I used to lay. I'd managed to crawl into the cockpit, while the machine did self-inflicting damage to itself.

Finally in all the chaos, I quickly learned the basic controls and took control over the metal beast. Beast that sounds like a good name I thought to myself as I turned around and ran to check on Chase and Terra. Terra had a bloody lip, all bruised up, and softly fell to the floor as she fainted in my robotic arms. Chase lied awake, in pain as he heaved to breath. He had also been stripped of his fancy armor. The controls the machine was fairly simply. The digital glove and sleeve like objects were the hand and arm controls, the digital boot like things were for movement, and the buttons on the dash board were for weapons that would somehow appear into my mechanical hand. Now I was ready to fight!

I picked up Terra in my arm and grabbed Chase and drug in the other. I managed to find my way back to the cargo bay. Just as I released the ramp Nate stood behind me with a beautiful girl about my age, who was now pouring out tears, and a dagger.