Chapter 14:

The Story Part 2

The pain, it was flowing from my head to my tail, it was horrid, I couldn't bare it, so to try and deal with it, I laid in the downstairs lab motionless, just begging for the pain to fade. All I know was when Samiria, Jared, and the newer echidna came down, they couldn't believe it was me.

He could hear their footsteps collide against the stairway as they ran down it. He kept his body in place, and knew whatever was to happen will happen they way it should. He groaned loudly as he tried pushing himself upwards, but no energy would allow his arms to help him up, and he screeched out as the pain struck through his arms.

"What was that?" Jared stopped, within Mince's hearing range.

"It came from downstairs." another male voice spoke up, "It must be the mutant!"

"Keep it going slow, and don't fire until it attacks." Samiria ordered.

Mince begged for his body to regain life, but his body started tightening, and the pain spread from the arms down his spine, and made the chameleon screech out even more, longer and louder. He rolled to his side and curled up, unable to yell out for help, only screech wildly, echoing into the stairway. His fingertips clawed his arms, the black claws ripping at his hands, the muscle almost tearing right off of his bone.

"Okay that sounds really bad." Jared whimpered lightly, "Whatever it is it ain't anything I heard."

"Just keep your cool hun." Samiria tried telling him.

Mince's back snapped twice, and a surge of life pulsated into him, and his body jolted, making his head smack into a desk behind him. His hands slapped on the floor, and his claws scrapped across the floor wildly.

His head spun to the stairs, and there was Samiria walking down, her gun aiming right at him.

Her mouth dropped as she looked at him, and she lowered her gun, "Oh my god! Mince!"

Mince's body jolted again, forcing another screeching noise out of him, and smacked his head against the desk again, "Stay…away, please!"

Jared and the black echidna came trotting down, both dropping their weapons onto a chair and started to walk beside Samiria. She quickly scampered to Mince and tried lifting him up, the chameleon snarled loudly though and swiped his claws across her, forcing her to fall back and scamper away from him. Samiria grasped her stomach and arm, and curled up as pain crawled around her arm and stomach. She stared down and seen her shirt ripped and her arm bleeding madly, dripping around and on the floor.

"Leave me!" Mince snarled, "Keep me down here! Just go!"

"No!" Jared snapped, pulling Samiria up, "We're gonna help you! No matter what it takes damn it!"

The chameleon jolted again, his body whipped away from the desk and faced the wall in front of him, his breath growing deeper and more violent as pressure kept building inside him. The black echidna grabbed his flashlight and pointed it at his back, seeing the veins denting his skin and spreading throughout his back.

"Shoot him!" the echidna demanded, "Shoot him with the-"

Mince screeched out loudly, and flipped onto his hands and feet, and leaped onto the echidna, the black claws digging into his shoulders and took him down. Jared and Samiria scampered over to the two and tried the separate them, Mince's grip tightly on the echidna and wouldn't release him. Samiria then dragged out an injection, and stabbed the chameleon in the back, hoping the chameleon would stop and collapse.

Before I knew it, the injection that was stabbed into me only made my body mutate faster, nothing stopped me from ripping our new member to shreds, Almost slicing him along the neck, he was lucky enough to hold me back and fight while I clawed and snapped at him. Jared and Samiria did everything they could to pull me off, I just fought back and ripped them almost to shreds, later on, the echidna died, blood surrounding him and drenched him. Last thing I remember was Samiria and Jared running away, and I chased after them.

It was about an hour later, I woke up aching, but normal again.

Jared stomped the halls madly, Samiria forced to follow and convince him to stop with the rage and just settle down. The fox wouldn't listen, his scars reddening from his anger, not showing any weakness. He kicked the glass doors to Huston's office, the glass shattering to the carpet, and Jared walked over it.

"And you call yourself a master of security!" Jared snapped loudly, "You didn't do a damn thing when there was a flipping mutant on the loose in the Downstairs Living Hall! Are you mad!"

Samiria leaped over the broken glass and grabbed the fox by the arms, "Honey! No! We don't need another problem!"

Huston slammed his hands on the desk and glared at the fox menacingly, "It's already taken care of! What are you complaining about?"

"We lost our newest member damn it!" Jared snarled, fighting Samiria's hold, "And he didn't need to die being attacked by it! Being ripping to shreds until his blood covered him from head to toe!"

Security then walked in, Mince within their grip and threw him into the office, landing in the glass and cried out. Samiria then threw Jared down and held him on the floor as he jolted around under her.

"Sir." one of the security men spoke, "You'd better look at Mince here."

Huston threw his chair to the side and trotted over to the chameleon, watching as he got up onto his feet, his black trench coat covering him, his skin a lot darker, and an his right eye still black with a red slit. Huston grabbed the chameleon around the jaw line and stared at him madly, already tempered with Jared, but seeing Mince calmed him. It was the features that Mince carried on him, the new horns that wrapped around his head, the eye that glared at him deathly, and strange veins that looked like they bulged out of his skin.

He smiled evilly, "So, what happened?"

Mince felt like biting the human's hand off, but instead jerked his head away, "An accident."

"Sir." the other security guard spoke up, "There was evidence that Mince was part of the murder of Carlos' brother, not just with the solutions spilled in his lab, but also the wreckage of the DLH lab."

Jared snarled loudly, "Again! It was a fucking cretin, not Mince!"

Huston ignored the fox and continued to stare at Mince evilly, "Doesn't look like an accident to me Mince. What's wrong with your eye?"

The chameleon glanced over at Jared and Samiria, seeing the wolf nod lightly to him.

He smiled evilly himself, "It's a secret weapon, and did I say accident? I meant an experiment."

Samiria's mouth dropped as the words from him startled her. Jared finally calmed down and shoved her off, still angered to Huston, his claws drawn out for a attack.

Huston cocked his head, "On yourself?"

Mince decided to play along, and chuckled, his vision switching from normal to thermal view, and could see the heat coming from Huston that grew faster. He blinked and changed his view again, and seen right into his body, the bones of the fat human, and found a weak spot on his left hip. He knew now where to attack if he became a bigger threat.

"Well," Mince spoke and started to circle Huston, "I combined some of the solutions that I was working with, and seen the tremendous effects, so out of shear curiosity, I purposely spilled it on myself instead of injecting it."

"So it absorbed into your skin?" Huston stared blankly.

"Yes, and quite rapidly." Mince nodded, both of his eyes now normal, "I ran several test on myself, and found a great deal of growth in lifespan, strength, and so much more. My hearing is unlike anything that exists here. Just, everything went up."

"I see." Huston raised an eyebrow, "So does this include a great increase in agility?"

"Everything…" Mince said, grinning with fangs poking through his smile.

Huston grinned and faced one of the security guards, nodding lightly. The security guard then pulled up his gun and aimed at Samiria, and pulled the trigger without warning. Mince watched the bullet come near him, and pulled his hand in front of the bullet, to the humans, it was record speed, to Mince, it was like catching a baseball. The bullet struck his hand, and punctured his hand, but didn't go through, and blood dripped from his hands onto the carpet. All of their mouths dropped, and watched as the chameleon dropped the bullet in the small puddle of blood.

His hands was the next question for Huston to ask, especially after Mince opened his hand, and it was completely healed up within seconds.

Mince raised a hand to Huston, stopping the human from speaking anymore, "Now, let me continue with my experiment, or suffer."

Huston laughed, "Suffer? I think you'll be the one that'll suffer."

Samiria's mouth dropped and pointed behind Mince, "Shiry!"

Mince spun around, hearing a gunshot echo as he spun his head. His heart sank with shock, his wife grasping her stomach as one of the guards had his gun up at her, and lowered it as she collapsed to her knees. Mince ran over to her, scared for her life to fade away, and never give him another child. She fell into his arms and blood smeared across her shirt as within seconds her eyes were shut, and her last breath was released, brushing Mince's face a last time.

Huston spun and started walking to his desk, "Make sure to burn her."

Samiria and Jared both spun their heads to Mince, and watched as the chameleon's head slowly turned his head behind him and glared at Huston, both eyes black with red slits. The chameleon screeched, and charged at Huston, his trench coat waving as he ran after him, leaping over the broken door and drew out his claws. Huston could hear the chameleon's footsteps draw close, and drew out a pistol, watching as Samiria and Jared moved to the side, and as Mince leaped at him, his black claws aiming at his throat.

Huston pulled the trigger, and shot the mutant right between the eyes, and stepped aside as the chameleon slid on the carpet, and lay motionless, and stared with an evil smile as some blue solution spilled a little out of the wound.

I was never the same, that bullet wasn't ordinary, I figured that out quickly once I realized what happened, and I laughed at it. Laughed at it!

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Mince slammed his fist on the wall, his back arched and tears ran down his face, "I had a plan! I had something to knock that bastard off of his feet and down to death! And what does he do? He shoots my wife!"

No one said a word, Sonic sitting on the floor and stared down with his green eyes turning gold for no apparent reason. Everyone felt the chameleon's pain, and all had their heads lowered to the floor, Misty was the only one who didn't, and held her gun tightly within her grip.

"About a week later, they tried an investigation." He explained, "But the FBI stated that I was killed because of a loose experiment. Afterwards they threw me in the lab underneath the DLH, and locked me here, not speaking a word except either I was killed, or went missing.

"I never thought the insanity would lead to my daughter's death, nor to destruction. Nor to this…"

The chameleon then started coughing, grasping around his stomach and collapsed to his knees. Klaira then walked over to the others and flipped up a small disc in her hand and smiled.

"I've got it." She smiled, "Now let's get the hell out of here."

Sonic quickly spun around and swiped the disc from her hand, and smiled tauntingly, "I think this belongs to us. Now let's go."

Zephyra snatched the disc from Sonic's hand, and spun it within his fingertips, "It's ours damn it! We got you guys here."

Anna then leaped up and snagged it from Zephyra's hand and held it with her life, "It's ours! You saved us from the creepy mutants, but you also chased after us for a while before-hand."

Darren turned to his brother, the mutant was on his side and was jolting around wildly, screeching out as he dug his claws into his own skin.

He spun his head to the others, "We must go now!"

Ring stared at the silver one blankly, "Why?"

The doors banged loudly behind them, bullets smacking on the other side, trying to break down the door.

Klaira spun her head to a large vest, "This way!"

Everyone scurried to the table just underneath the vent, Sonic braking it open and crawled inside first. One by one they slipped inside, but Misty stayed behind and tried to help Mince onto his feet.

The chameleon snarled and forced the hedgehog to back away, "Go on without me! And close the vent as tightly as you can."

"But what about you?" Misty asked over the sound of the door being banged against.

"They're about to get a surprise from me." Mince growled while getting on his hands and knees, "Now go!"

Misty was yanked back by Zephyra, and climbed into the vent, with Zephyra lastly to get in, and sealed off the vent with ice.

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"Hurry up!" Huston demanded, "We can't let them get away!"

Korin spun around and glared at him, "Well excuse me for being captain! We've got the Acidic Logers and the Snaggleteeth patrolling the halls, they won't get out alive."

Over the bullets a enormous screeching sound echoed from the other side, and made everyone stop. The soldiers kept their guns up, but stood nervously once the screech settled, leaving everyone's back slightly tight.

"Blow it open." Korin ordered.

Huston smacked the blonde across the chest, and stepped up to the damaged door, and pushed against it, the door squeaking open. Huston lead the troops inside, their eyes directed to what looked like Mince laying dead on his side, the back facing them. Korin entered behind them, and stared around the room uneasy, the stench of blood wasn't normal, there was a tartness to it, and it wasn't a good sign.

"I don't like this." Korin muttered, raising his sniper up, "Something's wrong."

It was silence for that moment, all the soldiers kept their guns raised and pointed at Mince, still unsure whether if the chameleon was dead. Each soldier though had their eyes scan the room, all having the same feeling they weren't alone.

Huston sighed irritated, and crossed his arms, "He's dead."

Korin glared at Huston and stepped closer, "You don't feel what I feel do you?"

The fat one waved the soldiers forward, ordering them to start walking and examine the room, keeping his eyes right on Mince's body. Behind him one of the soldiers cried out, the boots squawking on the floor. Huston spun around, seeing one of the soldiers instantly dead, with two black alien-like creatures glaring at them hungrily, and snarled loudly at them.

"Fire!" Korin demanded, leaping backwards as one of the creatures sprinted at him.

Sorry for a slightly short chapter, and I was FINALLY able to get this up xDD

I might end up doing like a sepreate thingie to put like cut-outs, versions of chapters/parts, er something lol depending on how things go

Well, enjoy O.o