"Hurry up and run faster before we make you run faster!" An Altaen yelled though a microphone in a different room, his voice echoing in the room from some speakers.
They had set up a huge, winding path inside one of the rooms to find out how fast I was without my full speed for an experiment. But this was at least the sixth time I've ran the stupid thing and I was dead tired. My hands were bound by a metal band behind my back and some plastic-like strings connected from the metal band to some needles that were embedded in my skin on my head and on my chest. I leaned against one of the dark grey walls and panted heavily, I desperately needed a break from all this running with so little energy, but the Altaens weren't that nice.
The metal band around my wrists vibrated slightly and my eyes widened, I knew what was going to happen next. A powerful electric shock ran up the strings and into the needles in my skin. I cried out in pain before bolting forward again, that was the only way to make the electric shock stop. That's how it works, if I didn't do what they wanted, they shocked me almost to death, but if I did do what they wanted, I didn't get rewarded, which didn't really surprise me. It had been at least 4 months since I came to this cursed planet and the test were getting worse and worse.
First it was a test of how intelligent I was by putting two different sets of walls before me, one wall on each set was walk through and the other gave me a deadly shock if I touched, and I had to choose which wall was the right one until I reached the end of the hall. Then it was a test of how strong I was by having a robot throw a knife at me and I had to stop it before it hit my head, I still had cuts from that test. And now it was a test of how fast I was, and if I stopped to catch my breath or slowed down even the slightest, they would give me a good shock. But I feared that even more painful tests were on their list of torture.
Eventually, I couldn't run anymore and I collapsed on the black floor, out of breath and barely conscious. I waited for the electric shock, I would just let them shock me to death, but it never came. Instead, someone took the needles out of my skin and two arms wrapped around me and lifted me up, carrying me somewhere. I slowly opened my eyes to see Ryzer as he carried me down the long hall that led to the large room with my cell.
He looked down at me and smiled softly. "Don't worry Kiela, we're gonna get you some food and water and let you rest for a while before the next test okay?" He told me, trying to be reassuring.
But how could I take comfort in his words when I knew it all lead up to more tests of torture? Even though Ryzer had always been there to try to comfort me before and after the tests, I refuse to even consider calling him a friend. What kind of friend tells some aliens to kidnap and experiment on you? That's not a friend in my book, crazy person who wants to ruin your life and kill you in the end is more like it.
"Okay, I'll be back with your food and water in a few minutes." Ryzer said after he put the handcuffs on my wrists when we got to my cell. I said nothing but just stared at the floor blankly, I didn't say anything to anyone anymore really, I sat on the floor with my legs tucked underneath me and only the chains holding my arms up kept me from falling forward. He looked at me sadly from the doorway to my cell. "I'm sorry to have you go through this Kiela, but there's nothing I can do now." He said before leaving the large room, closing the metal gate behind him.
That wasn't true, he could've helped me break out of here, but that wasn't going to happen, he was one of the bad guys. I closed my eyes before looking up, sure Ryzer brought me food and water three times a day, but it had just barely enough energy for me to use for all the tests, which resulted in me losing a ton of weight. I was so skinny that you could see my ribcage and spine, but they didn't even bother to give me more food.
I looked down the floor again. Where are Trunks and the others? I wonder if they're close by... I thought.
Maybe Quorrin would pick up on my thoughts if they were close by, they couldn't track me down by looking for my energy or by using Instant Transmission. The Altaens had put a metal collar around my neck back when I was on their spaceship when they were taking me to this horrible planet so my energy signature was untrackable.
I closed my eyes and sighed, I missed the days back on Earth when I went to college with my friends, trained with Goku, Gohan, Piccolo, and Vegeta, and hung out with Trunks. The days when I hung out with Trunks were definitely the days I missed most. Every night before I went to sleep, I would look up at the high ceiling and remember that last night I spent with him when we watched the meteor shower together. But no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't bring those days back with just my mind.
I hung my head and leaned forward as much as I could, pulling on the chains. I haven't even gotten to lay down since I got here, and when I do they just shock me until I'm back on my feet again. And trust me, sleeping in a sitting position with your arms held in the air and legs tucked underneath you is not comfortable. Sometimes I didn't even want to fall asleep because my sleep was always filled with nightmares.
I sighed again and looked up. Trunks... where are you?
A/N: Poor Kiela, she's stuck in that place of torture and Goku and the others are millions of miles away. Think they'll find her before these tests kill her?