Chapter 35- Hell on Earth and More So
Declaimer: I don't own Maximum Ride, I am not JP!
White Wing: Her name's Akiko
And no I'm not Japanese!
Serenity's POV
'Oh the irony!' Angelo cried for the fifth time. "Angelo I swear to God if you say that one more time…" Owen said. "Would you stop talking to yourself and start finding a way to get out of these chains?!" Livia snapped struggling against their binds. Me and Iggy were back-to-back like Livia and Owen, tied together with steel chains in the back of a panel van. "I am not talking to myself!" Owen opposed.
"My arm is killing me! Does anyone have an experience of getting a bullet out of an arm?" I asked. No one was listening. "Well now we at least don't have to look for the Organization." Iggy said. I nodded, he was right. This was the quickest way to Angel.
"Wait a minute, Serenity do you know Chinese Get-Up?" Iggy asked turning his head to look in my direction. "Yes, why…oh of course! Let's just hope I don't kill myself." I said. With some difficulty I linked arms with Iggy, getting onto my knees at the same time as him. "Okay slowly now." Iggy said as we struggled to get on our feet using each other's back for support.
"Victory is ours!" I said seeing that we stood up. "That took less time than I thought it would. You're pretty good at knowing how to get up." Iggy commented. At that moment the van went over a bump sending both of us into a stumbling frenzy.
"Crap I'm going to fall!"
"No you're not, keep your balance. You are a cat after all."
"I'm the klutzest cat on the planet dude. Unless you haven't noticed that before."
"Just keep moving and don't stop or we'll─"
"ACK!"
I brutally hit the side of the panel van violently slamming Iggy against the door. "You okay?" Iggy asked.
I nodded, Livia and Owen piped in. "Have you forgotten about us?" they said at the same time. I leaned against the wall suddenly getting tired. Iggy had told me another thing; I had lost five days of sleep. Dr. Elric's little teleporting act had taken five days even though it seemed to take just seconds.
"I've got a handle." Iggy said I could see his face breaking into a grin in my head.
Ca-CLUNCK
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Ca…
"I've got it!"
CLUCK
"Damn." Iggy said. Every 'ca-cluck' simply sounded like 'de-nied' rubbing in our faces that the stupid door was locked. 'If it didn't work the first time why would he think it would work the next five times?' Angelo said unimpressed.
Ca-CLUNCK
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Ca-Click
'How the hell did it work now!?' I thought in a 'you have to be kidding me' tone. The door flew open, a half morphed Eraser stood there staring at us. It was silent for a moment.
"What the fu─!?" Both me and Iggy's foot collided with his head knocking him over and out. One K.O Eraser, fifty more to go. I mean it.
"Damn it I told you to tranq them before they got in the car!" Artemis screech. Something hit below my left shoulder, my bad arm. I screamed in pain my knees buckling underneath me. It was unexpectedly hot, I felt like I was boiling from the inside out; my breath came out in short, sharp pants making it hard to breath.
"Serenity!" Iggy cried falling also. What the hell was happening!? It felt like my brains were being cooked as well as my actual self had been thrown into a giant bonfire (I know, that makes no sense). Out of the corner of my eye I saw three Erasers hauling Owen and Livia out of the back of the van.
Blackness filled the corners of my eyes, slowly filling my vision. All my hearing ceased to work, the only way I knew I was alive was the fact the burning sensation didn't go away plus I was positive my heart was going to hammer its way out of my chest.
But I knew it, just knew it.
I was slowly dying.
"Serenity? Hey Serenity can you hear me?"
Moaning my head lopped over to the side, which hurt 'cause I was laying on a hard, cold metal table. I wasn't dead? Or was this Hell, torturing me with Iggy's voice? It defiantly couldn't be Heaven.
"Serenity talk to me. Are you okay?" Iggy sounded worried. When trying to lift my hands I found that they we either cuffed or chained at my sides to the table I was on, my ankles in the same fashion. "I'm in Hell." I said out loud, my voice cracking.
"No you're not, your still on good God's green Earth. However we are in Earth's Hell." Iggy said. "This must be Hell, you sound like a monk." I groaned. Iggy laughed, "Sorry."
I opened my eyes looking over to Iggy. Well he was right, this was Hell on Earth. Iggy was lying on a metal table that was tilted to a near 90° angle with I.V tubes and wires tapped to his head. Both of us were wearing white outfits, white long sleeve shirts, pants and flats. Note to self: Try not to get it all bloody. The room we were in was gray, dull; to put it simply it was not exciting what so ever. There was one of those one way mirrors on the wall closest to me, a single door across the room from the damn table I was restraint to.
The circular steel cuffs were welded into the table, however hard I tried they would not open or break. "Don't try it doesn't work." Iggy said hearing my struggle, "It's steel, none of us can break through it." I slumped giving up hating that I didn't have super strength. "May I ask but what is with the little alien like wires?" I said. They were stuck to my head with little suction cups, making me want to so badly scratch my head. "Uh, I think it's to pick up our brain waves or something like that. I never really asked a Whitecoat before, you can ask if you want to except they might not answer you thinking it's amazing you can speak."
The door opened interrupting our little talk, Artemis stood there with a polished wooden walking cane. She came in like she owned the place (I wouldn't be surprised if she did) stopping five feet away from us leaning on the cane slightly. "Thank God you're up; a lot of people are impatient with you two." Artemis said in an irritated tone. "Hey I didn't know you liked House, or are you just getting really old really fast?" I said smirking. "Well House is a doctor right? Hmm they share a likeness, both are doctors, both have a bad attitude and both are total jerks." Iggy said smugly.
Artemis' lips pressed together in a tight line, clearly unimpressed with our joke. She spun the cane around jabbing the end of it into Iggy's side. The scream was unlike anything I heard; I had never heard Iggy in so much pain before. His back arched as far as it could go with his restraints. Artemis took the cane away from him; Iggy panted falling back against the table. "I have it for that." Artemis said her eyes flashing angrily.
I just had to be funny, now Iggy was hurt. He closed his eyes sighing. "Number one rule around here: no funny business. I don't like funny." Artemis said. "You might be wondering what the IV tubes are for, well to make it short you both are allergic to our tranquilizers. Severely allergic." The door opened again, five or seven half-morphed Erasers filed in coming over to my table. They took the IVs out one glanced up wearily at me, like I was suddenly going to kill him. It wasn't Owen though; Owen looked different than the other Erasers, slightly smaller and less muscular. These ones were dead when I got out.
I got my chance; my wrist and ankle restraints flung open with a soft click giving me my freedom. I jumped off the table swinging my now-feeling-better left arm at the closest Eraser. A jolt of electricity shot up my arm from my wrist, I yelped dropping cross-legged cradling my wrist with care. The shock made me notice the metal bracelet with a flashing green light that stopped from falling further off because of the two bones by my wrist.
"Another thing, we don't want you beating the shit out of our guards or doctors. I believe it's stylish enough." Artemis sneered. A couple of Erasers went and got Iggy, shoving him forward. I was hauled to my feet, stumbling over my own feet I was directed after Iggy with Artemis leading the way. Angelo and Livia mashed into our group, meaning a lot more Erasers. Livia's shoulders were hunched, her head bent to hide her tears and bloody nose. Angelo glanced over to me slightly shaking his wrist, the bracelet spinning. Could it be possible that it could tell when he was reading minds? Well now we were screwed.
We kept walking, passing different doctors who stared at us while –if possible– trying to go through the wall to keep away from us. I stared also, at the horrible things this place had. We went by crates, windows with experiments being conducted. I squeezed Iggy's hand tightly when I saw an Eraser in one room tearing up a helpless creature; Iggy looked in my direction with sympathy. This wasn't Hell on Earth, it was worst then that. I felt jealous of regular people, of Keira, they didn't have to live this horrible, pain filed life.
But I did.
Okay peoples so far I've only gotten two votes, either choose one of those or Assassination of Memories. These are what have been voted:
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Just thought I'd put it out there, I got glasses! I would be fine if I was far sighted, but nooo, I'm near sighted so I can't see the damn board in class.
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Where the hell did everyone go? By this time White Wing would have made a smart remark, where the hell is she!?
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I don't get it, how could they leave!? This place is completely sealed shut
Neofreak: AMBUSH!
Oh SHIT!