Yeah, sleep... No, I can't sleep! I have to stay awake! I fell forward as my legs seemed to already be asleep while the rest of me tried staying out of dreamland. This is a fight for freedom we're talking about here, not snozeville! It probably didn't help that I could see the tranquilizer dart in my leg right now.
"Nepeta! Are you alright?" Karkitty asked, banging on the crate door. I pulled out the tranquilizer quickly before hurling the dart back towards the employees. "I'm fine Karkitty. Did you need something?"
"Can you pick the lock?"
"I can try, but it might be harder now that they go..." I couldn't finish because I was out like a light.
When I woke up I could feel the freezing metal under me, frigid air nipping my skin through the thin sheet of a gown and it felt cold even on my furred limbs. I don't understand why it's so cold around me, or why they would want to stick me in here. I yawned, already tired again. Was it because I hurt so many employees? I'm pretty sure at least three of the scientists are dead, so maybe this was a punishment for that. I hope this was a mixup because I barely could feel my paw pads against the floor.
The box shifted, and someone huffed as they lifted it up. "Isn't the cold dangerous to trolls?"
"Yes, but this temperature will make them sleepy so they won't try attacking us while we try figuring out what caused what happened back there. The only subject from S block to not freak out when approached was Jake, and unfortunately still is Jake alone.
"Good thing. I don't want to see him on a rampage ever."
"None of us do. We don't need something like... that ever happening."
"Yeah. Any results so for?"
"His blood came up clean, so it might have been disease. Jake is away from the group the most, so it makes sense he wouldn't have caught it."
"What did Michelson say he had had?"
"Lyme disease. We really should start checking for diseases when we do blood tests."
"You're not supposed to come in sick, so this shouldn't ever happen."
"Well, it did happen. It happened and now we have to explain why eight employees are dead to their families while keeping things under wraps."
"Not to mention the paperwork. That's going to be a bitch."
"At least you don't have to fill out reports about what happened. Be glad you were in the middle of paperwork."
My crate was set down somewhere, where I couldn't tell through the box's air holes. "This is subject 398, aka Nepeta. She was the one who killed the most, five total."
"I'm surprised she's not being put down."
"The fact she was so aggressive is exactly why she's not. You know the higher ups are actually hoping a disease wasn't involved?"
"Why?"
"Because of how they fought. It was strategic, and in flimsy medical gowns while outnumbered they still over powered us. The higher ups want more experiments like them, but with some more control."
"You know we lost Kankri, right?"
"Wait, you mean..."
"No, not that way. Fucker escaped through the air ducts."
"Seriously? I just hope outside search finds him." I heard the popping open of locks before the lid to the box was taken off. An arm wrapped around my waist, lifting me out and onto a much warmer feeling metal table.
"What's going on?" I yawned, half asleep. I had to act like I had been sick, otherwise they might consider me a success. I don't know who these higher ups are, but I want them thinking I was sick and not the little warrior they want. I've had little role play chats with people before, and this was just another role play, but with higher stakes for being believable. I rubbed my eyes as I tried staying awake.
They both already seemed scared. "We need to take some blood, okay Nepeta?" I nodded and held out my arm. Both were surprised, but immediately set to taking blood. "How are you feeling today Nepeta?"
"I'm tired. Why do you guys need blood?"
"We think you might be sick."
"Sick?."
"You hurt people Nepeta."
"I did? When?"
They exchanged glances. "Yesterday, don't you remember?"
"Yesterday is sort of a blur. I can't really remember anything."
"Maybe it's for the best that your memory is foggy."
"Why is it so cold?"
"It was a precaution."
They seem to be believing me.