Chapter Ten: Unwanted Attention
In the far corner was a shivering form of a woman. Once the blinding light of the wolf's flashlight connected with the figure it became apparent that she was bare of any clothing. The youngest of the three became red in the face before turning away. The older male duo were shocked from her bare form and hastily scanned the area for something to place over her.
The bare woman was indeed alive and shuddered at the cold brisk air that was confined to the room with her. She was a lilac cat with amber eyes that flickered all around the room and its occupants. Those eyes stopped on the air vent that peered down, almost menancingly, to the people inside.
Her breath paused, staring at the grate warily. Slightly shifting to be parallel with the cold metal slab of a wall.
Dune followed her eyes to the entrance of a metal maze above them while Nickolai slowly and quietly moved to the bare cat. He held a rough and scratchy looking blanket in front of his body that he managed to find within the room. The female cat noticed too late that she had an intruder of her space as the domino fox locked her arms by her sides. Like all cats would, she hissed; her fur fluffed to the max, especially her tail. Her blood shot eyes glaring at him as she squirms, teeth bared.
"Jeez no teeth lady." Nickolai murmurs, flinching back from the slight horrid smell of the feline. Her neck drips with sickening sludge. "Can I get a little help with the fiesty drunk?" He whines, getting a grunt from Dune as he grabs the cat's legs in the blanket.
"Kit, get the doors and watch our backs." Dune orders, sighing. He grips the limbs tightly so that the captive wouldn't free herself. Yet despite the constant struggling, the small team gets back to the medical lab where most of the team was. Apparently Ghost and Vector were out scoping the area, also something to help the green crocodile and keep him away from the body of his fallen comrade, his close friend. Eve blinks, looking at the frantic feline in the scratchy blanket. "Doctor Blaze?" She questions, rushing over before getting a terrified hiss. Her pupils becoming slits, fur paling against her cheeks and her squirming more violent.
"What the hell is wrong with her?" Scourge orders, gritting his fangs as he looks at her, going over to help the preocupied males with the restless female onto an examination table, strapping her down with much haste. Nickolai keeps the blanket over her body, showing the woman the much needed respect in this horrible ordeal they were facing.
Blaze's eyes lock onto Eve's as she hyperventilates, struggling harshly against her bonds. Her body wracked with deep scratches and a sludge crusted wound on her neck. "This is your fault!" She hisses, her eyes pulsing a neon yellow with a each word. "It comes for you! For you!" The cat screeches, tensing as she tries to move the table with her rocking alone.
The purple hedgehog jumps at her words, flinching at the cat's screams. "Doctor Blaze please, calm down. You're not making sense." she responds, laying a hand on her shoulder, earning a snap at her hand and making the medical doctor yelp, pulling back.
Scourge glares, placing a heavy hand on Eve's shoulder, turning her away from the frantic and injured scientist. "What is she talking about doc? She's saying you caused this."
The acid devil corners her mercilessly, glare enough to kill an elephant. "I-I don't know what she's talking about, honest!" Eve answers, raising her handsin surrender. A sudden grip of the front of her skirt makes her that much closer to the upcoming storm.
His grasp on the female doctor sets the room ablaze, everyone cautiously trying to believe the civilian but didn't have the information to back it up or deny it. "I have one man dead from my team and a few more from whatever shit you're pulling up here, so you tell me what the f*k did YOU do?" He hisses at her.
Shadow grabs Scourge's wrist from Eve's shirt, returning the glare that settles on him. "We can't start jumping to conclusions just because a wacko starts spouting nonsense about another. We're already in this mess, let's focus on getting out of it." He states, trying to stay calm.
"And you should stop making this personal! You're on a mission right now, you better start acting like it." His commander growls back, swiping his hand back after letting go of Eve, ripping a squeak from her. "You better be clean of this mess or I'm going to enjoy doing much more than taking you in." He murmurs lowly to her before turning on his heel and ordering a patrol with Dune and leaving the room. The harsh thuds of his boots trailing after him.
After he leaves, Eve lets out a soft sigh of relief resting a hand over her heart. All eyes were on her and she felts accustations in the air as Blaze was the only one speaking, mumbling near nonsense under her breath. With pessimistic thoughts overloading her brain she heads back over to Blaze to quiet and calm her.
"Are you alright?" Tails asks suddenly, yet keeping his voice low.
"Y-yeah as good as someone can be after being accused and threatened." the vilet hedgie answers, shaking lightly. "And I know that my say doesn't mean anything now that he's branded me a traitor, b-but I really don't know what she's talking about. I was an understudy for Dr. Perry and I had a mineal position in the archealogy wing. Perrry could have fired me and that would've been the end of it." She rubs the arm that holds the syringe in to stop it from shaking.
Shadow sighs, rubbing her back gently, ears lowering at her fear. He knew Eve wasn't one to lie, she'd start getting antsy and apologetic if she tried. "It's fine, we're not going to let him bring you in for anything you're not responsible for."
"Unless, you know, you did do something." Nickolai interjects, a nervous grin on his face. "Then we'd have to.." A look from Shadow makes his comment drift away and he clears his throat.
"Thanks I suppose." Eve murmurs, a hand going over her shoulder to grab onto the crimson splashed one soothing her. She squeezes it lightly before lifting her head, looking at Blaze again witha determined narrow of her sapphire eyes.
The detached feline flinches, whining in obvious discomfort and rocking the table that she was strapped to as violently as she could. "Don't you come near me! It'll be here soon because of you!" She continues in fright.
"I don't know what you mean Dr. Blaze, what is coming? Are you mistaking me for someone else?" The calmer of the two females asks, laying a hand on the frantic cat's restrained arm, giving her the medicine so that she couldn't hurt herself further.
"Don't you f*king touch me you whore! He'll be angry at all of us!" Blaze shouts,baring longer fangs at her, startling the hedgie and making her move back at the inmobian growl that came from her.
Shadow grabs Eve, pushing her behind him as he glares at the confined female's demands. The other two in the room jump, coming over and wheeling her away to the other side of the room, keeping her at a distance. "This would end if you... hand yourself over...to him." She snaps, losing her vigor thanks to the drugs finally taking ahold of her.
"What does she mena Shadow? I-I don't understand." The frightened hedgehog questions, looking over his shoulder at him.
"If I knew you wouldn't be here trying to help an extraction team I'm sure." Shadow huffs, nodding over at his comrades after Blaze fully succumbs to sleep.
Eve sighs, rubbing her temples as she steps away from Shadow. Nickolai leans against the observation window where Nack's body was being kept. "So what are we doing now? Waiting for commander crazy to come back and order more shit from us?" he asks, no one hearing a slight zip from inside as the female doctor goes over to check Blaze's wounds without risk of being injured in the process.
"Yes." Shadow replies, voice laced with venom at the mention of Scourge.
"Guys..." Tails murmurs, his tone filled with fear and slight amazement.
"My trust in your commander has almost completely been removed with his horrible accusatory statements." Eve huffs, grumbling more to herself as she works on patching Blaze. NOting that her injuries were not only physical or just on her neck and torso. She was bare of all clothes, scratched and clawed to hell for a sick purpose.
Soft, yet heavy feet thud quietly upon the floor.
"Guys, please would you look at this?" Tails whines, shaking in his boots. His blue eyes transfixed on the absurdity in his sight.
"What Tails?" Nickolai groans, looking at the kid behind him before his ears twitch at a raw sound of rage and something slamming into the window he was leaning upon. "What the f*k?" He stammers, throwing himself to the floor and looking up at his would-be attacker, tail fluffed up.
Eve and Shadow snap their heads tot he sound, the former gasping as she views what-or rather who-she claimed dead not an hour before.
"Nack?!" Nickolai exclaims, wide eyes watching the pale purple weasel twitch and growl behind the thick pane of glass between them. The bite on his neck was starting to turn yellow and flacks of black was incorporated in his fur.
"You declared him dead Eve." Shadow says, looking over at her. "What the f*k is this?" He questions as she just shakes her head, eyes watery and distraught.
It just so happens that Vector and Ghost had to finish their patrol, walking back into the medical lab. "Shadow we checked all the areas we patrolled before but none of the scientists we shot were in the locations we indicated." Ghost says, rubbing his temples in exhaustion. Vector comes after him and jaw drops at seeing his closest friend back on his feet.
"Nack, buddy! Y-you're alive?" The crocodile proclaims, a happy smile stretching across his maw as his feet start him over to where Nack was contained.
"N-no Vector, you can't!" Eve cries out, immediately going to block him. "We don't know what's going on b-but people don't just go walking after their heart stops!" She stutters, reptilian eyes settling on her as he scowls.
"Get out of my way, Nack is alive and he needs me!" Vector growls, pushing her out of the way to the door, earning a horrid snarl from the confined walking dead in the connecting room.
Everyone in the lab goes over to stop the demented reptile with denial. "Vec, you're endangering everyone in this room if you open that door!" Shadow hisses, blocking the door from him.
The purple hedgehog runs over to her equipment and starts shuffling through it quickly from the shelves, the reanimated corpse of Nack stumbling towards where she was quietly as close as his room would allow, soft chitters coming from his voice box.
The uproars of the team against Vector get louder, Kit looks off to where Eve was before paling at seeing 'Nack' fixate on the female doctor. He goes to aid her, have her back and instead getsa charge and snarl from 'Nack.' Everyone looks over at the sight of the body smashing into the glass.
That was not their friend, that was something hiding in his corpse and it was starting to piss them off that something in this quarantine thought that it could f*k with them. Vector's eyes harden, watching the thing try and smash its way through, not using words of any sort. "Kill it. It needs to die, that isn't him. It's using my friend." He growls dangerously, cocking his weapon, hands shaking from anger.
Eve glances at the team, stepping away from the glass and Tails, the attacks and auditory warnings lessening with distance. They watch is silence as Eve tests her theory for some time, going over to Tails and stepping back again. Thus earning more and less growls respectively in her experiments. "H-he's calm..? I-I don't know! Locking onto me! Tracking me!? W-why is that?!" She rambles, stepping away and trembling in fright. 'Nack' going back to a near passive state, looking around his cell.
Shadow glares, ears twtching in irritation at the thought of Eve being the center of this before storming over and wrapping an arm over her shoulders, sollicting a soft squeak and growl from the monster in the operating room. "You need to leave, get back through the GATE. This isn't a safe place for you anymore." He murmurs lowly, glancing at her before shoving her behind him as 'Nack' claws at the walls, head snapping to look for openings. Everyone had their eyes upon the mutant as he snarled and hissed, eyes moving erratically in all directions.
"The hell is going on here?" Scourge's voice demands, the sudden sound gaining every normal person's attention.