Author's note: Hey peoples, sorry for the long wait! But now I'm back to writing like crazy. Hope you enjoy the chapter!

Sarah didn't know how long she had been there, but it felt like an eternity. Burning pain ran through every inch of her body at the slightest movement.

Her body had pretty much shut down from lack of food to give it energy. Which meant Sarah still had a few of her bruises.

She had done almost nothing but sleep for the past to days. She couldn't lift her head if she wanted to, and she could barely keep her eyes open. Though, she opened them as wide as possible at the sound of someone entering the room.

Sarah heard the person cross the room as they approached her cage. The cage door squeaked open and a pair of strong, scale covered arms lifted her up. Sarah stared, practically unconscious, up at the face of the lizard guard.

The guard's expression was almost one of pity as he looked back at the limp, boney girl.

Then as someone else came in the room, the guard's face suddenly went blank, with no emotion at all.

Sarah heard an all too familiar voice. "Take her back to where the others are being stored," they said; it was none other than Dr. Wallace.

***

If Danny hadn't been in a cage, he'd be pacing; him and the others where practically out of their minds with worry.

"It's been three days!" Danny exclaimed, "She would have been better by now."

"Three days in this place," Vince said, "I wouldn't be surprised if she came back green. Who knows what kind of sick, twisted experiments they could be performing on her."

"Gee, thanks buddy," Danny said with heavy sarcasm, "you really know how to make a person feel better don't cha'?"

"Vince," Stell said with a quiet voice, "Do you think Sarah is ok?"

"I think she's fine," Vince said, trying to make his voice sound convincing like Sarah had done many times, "she's tough like that."

There couldn't have been a worse time in the world for what happened next; the lizard guard came into the room with a boney figure in his arms.

He gently set the fragile person in the cage Sarah was kept in. Danny stared in horror at the body that lay limp on the floor of the cage; he knew it was Sarah.

Stell let out a gasp as June looked shocked. The twins, who were in the last two cages, looked confused. They couldn't see what was going on. Vince felt almost sick as he stared at Sarah.

Sarah just laid there, her eyes half open and gazing blankly at the wall in front of her.

"Sarah?" Danny said, "Sarah?" Danny reached through the bars of his cage and into Sarah's; he moved her head so that she was looking at him.

"Sarah? Please say something." Sarah closed her eyes and let out a weak moan. Danny drew his arm back into his cage and just stared at his friend. This was the worst she had ever looked in years. She wasn't just boney, she was almost skeletal.

"I bet it was that Wallace guy," Vince growled, "I swear, if I get out of this cage, I'll kill him!"

A second later, a woman scientist hurried into the room; the same lady as before.

"Oh my," she said to herself as she started to open Sarah's cage. Jus as she was reaching in, Danny lunged toward her and grabbed her arm through the bars of his cage.

The women jumped in surprise, but couldn't break away from Danny's crushing grip. Her arm was starting to turn purple were Danny was holding it, when a guard came in. He walked over to Danny's cage and zapped him with a taser through the bars. Danny instantly released his grip on the scientist's arm, but continued to give her a dirty look.

"I'm just taking her to the medical ward," the women scientist said as she rubbed her bruised arm.

"That's what you said before," Danny replied angrily, "and this was how she came back."

"Please let me take her," the woman said, "I only want to help."

Danny growled, "Just give her food and go away."

"You don't understand," the woman continued, "she needs to be put on a feeding tube, and I can't bring it in here."

The guard, apparently tired of waiting, moved forward and reached into Sarah's cage. Danny grabbed the guard's arm through the bars. This time he morphed, digging his claws into the guard's arm.

Without any hesitation, the guard whipped out the taser and zapped Danny with a full charge of electricity.

Danny screamed, releasing his grip, and fell back against the bar on the opposite side of the cage. He snarled and rubbed the taser mark on his neck. The guard didn't react as he took Sarah out of her cage.

The scientist and the guard left with Sarah once again; who knows what would happen to her this time.