Chapter 36-Living Quarters
White Wing: Thisis Akiko!?
(a girl is tied up with rope surrounded by the 'shorts' gang, she has dirty blonde hair that goes a little ways past her shoulders. She is about 15 or so with glasses that enlarge her blue-grey eyes, with two ear buds in her ears)
Logan: I was thinking someone more, well, spectacular
Jake: She looks studious to me
Serenity: Ya well Jake usually people who are bookworms are
Neofreak: She doesn't look like JP, she doesn't own Maximum Ride!
All except Akiko: WE KNOW NEOFREAK!!
Akiko (in a loud voice): Hey what's up with this!?
Livia: I think someone should take out her ear buds
(Angelo does so)
Akiko: Now I can finally hear your excuses for this stupid ambush
White Wing: We were sick of not knowing what you look like or who you are
Jake: Neofreak got the coolest power yesterday
Akiko: For some reason I'm not real inclined to hear it
Logan: I think we know where White Wing and Serenity get their snappy attitude from
Serenity & White Wing: Hey!
Logan: See what I mean?
Akiko: Of course they do, I put a little bit of myself into all my characters, Jake, just to name a couple has my fear of heights, White Wing and Serenity have my attitude, Logan has my very violent personality and Angelo has my funny side…sorta
Angelo: What do you mean sorta?
Akiko: I'd rather get to the story, and thankOlympiangirl, Alex Knight, goldeneyez-x, Qwaar-jet858, MaxRideNut, Electroclasm, R-U-Insane, Dygen Entreri, Alienated2, Stop. But don't stare please, jenfan456, Love is the key to the world, MaxCullen21, MaXiMuMrIDEisThEbeSTBoOkeVeR, haliedaisy, joemarnc, Randomitis Sufferer,elmosworld1717, jumpfurjoy, akatsukigirl1230, miscallanious, phoenixwing and XxSilentMoonAngelxX for the awesome reviews. ON WITH THE STORY!
Serenity's POV
Artemis kept taking us higher, so now the cages were gone, steel doors with numbers replaced them making me think that behind them was more like a jail cell then anything. One of the doors were opened, 574 and they shoved Livia into it. She gave me a pleading 'help me' look while the door shut cutting her off from us. "What cages out of style now?" Angelo asked when we slowly walked away.
"These are the containments are for our more valued subjects so now stop being a smart ass. You defiantly haven't changed from what I've heard." Artemis muttered the least part to herself. "Though I was created to be a smart, huge brain capacity being. Telling me to stop being a smart ass just defeats the purpose of creating me." Angelo said grinning. I dug my elbow into his ribs as hard as I could without breaking anything. Artemis didn't turn to look at us, mumbling something about giving Angelo more shocks to get rid of his funny business.
Iggy had gone quiet since we had left the room I woke up in, he felt tense. Not just the air around him but the way he walked; something about this smell was bothering him. "Are you okay?" I asked in his ear making him jump slightly. "The smell," he whispered back, "It's bugging me. Bad, very bad memories come back whenever I smell anesthetic." Iggy shuddered. "Apparently smell spikes memories more than anything else. If you almost died in a fire, at whatever time you smell smoke or something burning you'll remember the fire you almost died in. Since you can't see, it would be even worse." I whispered back.
Iggy shook his head, "I haven't been blind forever."
We stopped at 602, Angelo being thrown into the cell. The Eraser slammed Angelo's cell door just as Angelo was about to punch him with all seriousness. There was a CLANG followed by muffled shouts, I believe I heard 'FOR THE LOVE OF THE DIRECTOR'S ASS' or something along those lines. Even though Angelo's words weren't decipherable after that you could tell he was swearing from the edge his shouts had. "I didn't know he had that colourful of a mouth, well I guess I'll tell the Director about the new swear that's been formed." Artemis sighed shaking her head.
"Does the Director happen to be an old but young looking woman or a man made of Plexiglas boxes?" Iggy asked. Artemis turned to Iggy with a questioning look on her face. I told Iggy she was looking at him like he was crazy. "The last two Directors we ran into was a woman who kept the School going for the longest time and the Ex-Director (A/N: That might not be the actual title, I'm too lazy to look now) who had all of his organs in Plexiglas boxes." Iggy explained. My stomach churned at the last one; that was probably disgusting.
"Let's keep moving." Artemis said turning around. So more boring walking, nothing exciting. Until we got close to our cell. "Who is the Director anyway?" I asked out of the blue. Artemis stopped in her tracks, the air around her and the Eraser grew heavy. Maybe I shouldn't have brought that up. "Those who don't work right underneath him shall not hear of him. Only those with gifts and skills know him, I do not even know his name." Artemis said.
"Because if you've seen him and you're not in the status pyramid right under him, your dead meat. It's like a sinner seeing a God if you may, it's forbidden."
We turned; I had to squeeze Iggy's hand tighter seeing something I really didn't want to. Just a foot above our heads was a boy around nine with wavy copper blonde hair and autumn brown eyes. Though that wasn't what scared me. He was chained in place, the steel chains came from the roof wrapping around his arms, legs, neck, torso and his flacon wings. His white clothes had gone a little red where the chains were from either rust or something else, he gave me a weak smile showing off some wickedly pointed teeth. "Hi there." He said trying to be cheerful. Emphasize trying. "Shawn what did I say about talking to strangers?" Artemis hissed clearly showing this boy wasn't supposed to talk to anybody.
"Can't I just ask them to find my brother in the Maze Experiment, doesn't take very long. S' not like I'm going to keep talking after th─" Shawn cut off with an intake of breath, the chains tightening. Artemis grabbed my arm dragging me with her throwing me into 643. I knew this meant I wasn't going to see Iggy any more; however I was correct as something was thrown on top of me, hearing whoever it was moan. The door slammed close echoing in the room. "Well this is a small room." Iggy said sitting up.
"Ig you're sitting on me." I grunted. He jumped off of me helping me up. "Sorry 'bout that." Iggy said rubbing the back of his head. "So just wondering but can you describe the room to me?"
I turned around starting to describe what I saw. The room was completely white, made of either steel or cement. On the two walls at my sides were windows, a metal bed under each with a single pillow and blanket on the bed. The door we had come through was steel, with a mesh of steel with small circular holes that could stay closed while the actual door it's self would be open. The window to my right was dark, showing no signs of life in the other room. To my left however was a half lit room with the far side light burnt out. It was a single subject room as it only had one bed in by the back of the cell. Room 644's inhabitant was a figure in the shadows, hunched over like it was holding its knees. "So what's in the other room?" Iggy asked. I went right up to the window noticing by the door for the other room was a window with writing scribbled on it, on the ledge was a black Expo pen. I placed my hand on the window peering into the shadows to get a better look at the figure. His or her head jerked up, some light fell onto their face making the baby blue eyes visible. The figure moved into the light, my eyes filled with tears. There were bruises and cuts all over the exposed skin with big blots of blood all over her white shirt. She moved closer cautiously like a frightened animal.
"What's in there?" Iggy asked slightly impatient. I opened my mouth, a sob escaping my throat instead of the thing I wanted to say. "Serenity?" Iggy said in a worried tone coming up to me. At the sight of Iggy she was at the window in seconds, hope in her eyes. I felt a tear slide down as she placed her own hand against the window like we were putting our hands together. On her hand was the tattoo of the Organization, meaning she too was property of this dreaded place.
"An…an…" I couldn't say it. Iggy wrapped his arms around me in comfort resulting in making more tear fall. "What do you see?" Iggy murmured in my ear.
"Angel." I choked out.
Since Angel too had been given a bracelet to stop her from reading minds she was communicating with us via window writing. I was surprised she was alive, ALIVE DAMN IT! Now seeing this that she was alive I wasn't sure if I should be happy or sad. Iggy had somehow found an Expo pen, though writing friggin' backwards is not as easy as it sounds. (A/N: Anything in bold means that Angel as written it on the window and Serenity read it out loud just so I don't have to keep repeating same thing; with bold italic it's the same except it's Serenity doing the writing)
"Ask her what they've done to her, because then I actually do have a reason to blow this damned place up." Iggy said his hands curling into fists.
They've done most of the things that the School did when they got me back. I think they lost the records.
Iggy says that you didn't really tell the Flock what they did to you.
Blood tests, the Maze experiment, chaining me to a large treadmill, putting me in a wind chamber making me fly at high wind speeds, things like that.
Have you seen any of the other Flack, Iggy doesn't know if they've been caught or not?
I haven't seen Max or anybody since I came here, you're the first person I know that I've seen.
Angel's head turned to the door in her room making me believe she heard something.
Somebody's coming, I have to go.
Once we used the gray blankets to clean the windows we all left them, Angel dashed to the shadows again, Iggy took out a pack of cards he found underneath the bed (I really don't want to know why he was under there) and set it up to look like we had been playing since we were in here.
I looked at my hand wondering how the hell Iggy was going to play. Like he read my mind Iggy explained that because he could feel colours the red or black stood out from the white. 'Okay then,' I thought, "Might as well actually get into the game.'
"Do you have any queens?" I asked seeing some movement in Angel's room. "Nope, go-fish." Somebody looked through Angel's window; I could feel their eyes on my head. "Do you have any fives?" Iggy asked glancing over the top of his cards. "Go-camping." I said smiling. "Go-camping? I thought we were fishing."
A blood curdling scream jerked both of our heads up. Angel was thrown against the wall crumpling into a pile at the floor. One of the Erasers struggled against the others, his jaw snapping inches from Angel's face. I jumped up just as our own door flung open those pitifully stupid Erasers filing in.
"Come on freaks you're wanted in lab 47." One of them growled. I glanced into Angel's room, she was being hauled out whether she wanted to or not. One grabbed the collar of my shirt when I came forward dragging me along whereas Iggy was thrown over one of the Eraser's shoulder. I folded my arms showing I wasn't too pleased they wouldn't let us walk on our own.
I really wanted to punch someone.
The door to lab 47 was opened by my dragger; I cranked my head to see what it looked like. This room was at least not white instead it was regular cement. The roof slopped downward, two more metal tables like the one we were on before was in the dead center of the room and I must have been seeing things because it looked like the lights on the roof were all pointed at the tables creating a spotlight. To the left was what looked like a really weird shed with a door and I tinted window with Whitecoats checking monitors. More Whitecoats were walking around; one with a clip board spotted us glaring at the Erasers. "Put those down, we are trying to make an impression aren't we?" He said pointing his pencil at him.
My collar was released; next thing I knew was that Iggy bounced off of me after the Eraser dropped him. "I would be thinking you would be a softer landing, though I think the floor is softer than you are." Iggy muttered. "And what is that supposed to mean!?" I snapped. We both jumped at the shock we got, the Whitecoat rolled his eyes obviously unimpressed. "Come on, follow me." He said. Standing up we followed him over to what looked a lot like our doom, Iggy smirked. "What's up with─" "Listen closely." Iggy whispered.
I wished I had a hood, when I had my cat ears I could hear things a little more easily. Though when I concentrated I could hear the voices behind me, "It's so cooperative, much more so than the others we've seen." I glanced over my shoulder to see that closest to the roof was a second level with Whitecoats standing on the other side of glass. "I'll show you cooperative." I muttered flashing them my middle finger. A smug look crossed my face when I saw their widened eyes; some of the women's mouths were hanging open. Clipboard Whitecoat pushed me onto the table the ankle and wrist restraints clamped shut.
"Hey, what's up Doc? What's with the restraints?" I asked. A jolt went up my arm hurting a lot more badly because I was on a damn metal table. "Precaution." He simply said putting the dumb alien like suction cups on my forehead. The door opened up, this time Angel walked in, an Eraser pushing her along. She caught my glance for a second then walked on. Why did they want her here? She was put into a rectangular glass box right against the side of the shed by the door looking at –for this angle- a touch pad. Another Whitecoat took the weird thing I had seen behind both mine and Iggy's table putting if in front of my eyes.
I couldn't see anything anymore; the thing was blocking a light. "Okay we're going to have a test run." I heard someone call. A flashed in the corner of my vision made me jump, I heard something hit Iggy's table like he had also jumped.
"Amazing, keeping going. All personal into the bunker."
Man sounded like an air raid was happening.
Third POV (I don't know if that's the title either)
All Whitecoats and Angel were leaning in towards the screen with amazement. To the Whitecoats subjects 58b's and 58c's brain was responding at the exactsame time with each flash even though subject 58c was blind. Angel stared at the screen in front of her doing what the Whitecoats told her to do; she read both Serenity and Iggy's mind. She didn't think that was possible, for two minds to react at the same time, and their minds were working at the same time, it wasn't even a millisecond off.
"Impossible, even twin's brain waves won't work at the same time. Give each of them a shock, I don't want anything off." Dr. Millstone said. Angel watched as both Serenity and Iggy jumped, their minds and brain waves spiked without hesitation in either of them.
As the experiment progressed Angel couldn't sense two minds, both minds seemed to mash into one which scared her. 'What are they doing to them?' Angel thought. 'Serenity are you okay?' Angel pushed the thought to Serenity. Though not only did Serenity's brain waves answer to Angel's thought but Iggy's also.
"Amazing." Dr. Millstone breathed writing down this on his clipboard. Angel stared at her two friends, impossible could this test…No that couldn't be possible.
"Alright we're done." Dr. Millstone declared. "Now we put them back into their room and wait."
Akiko: Why won't you untie me!?
White Wing: I think we should torture you a bit (smiles)
Neofreak: Nope we're having an ask Akiko! Ask Akiko anything about herself or Dormant Angel; though please keep the questions G-rated
Akiko: I refuse to answer any of those questions!
(White Wing holds up the first Maximum Ride book, bringing a hand held lighter close to it)
Akiko: OKAY I'LL DO IT! JUST DON'T HARM THE BOOK!!!!
Logan: That was easier than I imagined it
Akiko: IMAGINATION RULES!
(Big huge sparkly rainbow appears)
White Wing, Neofreak & Logan: HURRY UP AND ASK THE QUESTIONS!!!
Jake: (holding his ears) My head hurts…