Chapter 16

Ben Pov

Its been a couple of hours since the slates closed and open back up again, Rex isn't in his cell anymore, who knows where he went. Danny isn't answering my calls either. Yeah, needless to say, I've been losing my mind over the fact that neither of them is answering me since the slates closed.

"Rex?!Ben?!"

Danny? What's wrong with his voice? I ran up to the bars and grabbed them, Danny was doing the same thing, but he looked terrible.

"Danny!? What happened, why is there blood all over your face? and why is your voice like that?"

"Oh, where is the blood so I can wipe it off?"

"Danny, it's coming out of your eyes, nose, and mouth, how did you not notice?"

"I just woke up after they knocked me out."

"What?! What do you mean after they knocked you out?!"

"Hang on give me a second so I can clean myself up"

Danny dropped out of view for a couple of seconds then came back up"Ben, do you still have a water bottle, the blood is dried already and I'm having a hard time cleaning it off with just my sleeve?"

"Yeah, but can you catch?"

"Yeah, can you throw?"

"I'm better at soccer but let's try my hand at baseball."

I jumped down from the bars and grabbed the half-full water bottle I had in the corner of my room. I ran back up to the bars and hoisted myself up. I swear I better have raging biceps by the time I get out of here.

"Here Danny, catch!"

Apparently, I can throw pretty well, Danny caught it and then dropped out of view.

"Thanks, Ben!"

"No problem, and drink some water too so your voice can get back to normal."

"Ok"

After a while, Danny popped back up, already looking and sounding much better.

"Ok, now lets back to business Ben, after the slits closed and I heard someone take Rex out of his room, I started to hit the slate until a voice told me to stop, they ended up letting a mist fill the room that was made out of blood blossoms and ectoranium mixed together. After that, they took the air out of the room and I ended up passing out."

"That's why Rex isn't here anymore. And what about you? How are you doing?"

"Everything seems to be healing, although it's taking longer than usual."

"That's good, what do you think happened to Rex?"

"I don't know, the only thing I know is that he was taken from here, I don't know anything else."

"Dammit, so we know nothing and you're hurt."

"Pretty much there nothing we can do but wait"

"Yeah, you better get down and rest Danny, we'll need our energy for whatever they have for us next."

"Yeah you're right, I'll be going to be sleep or at least I'll try to, see ya, Ben."

"Yeah, you do that."

After Danny dropped out of view, I let go of the bars too. After a couple of minutes, I could hear faint snoring from Danny. That brought a smile to my face, at least he was getting his rest.

~time skip~

Its been at least a day since Rex was taken, he's still not back. I was dozing off when the slates pulled back close again. The sound woke me up. I shot up and stood up, looking at the slate, I ran up and grabbed the ledge, I was just about to start hitting the metal. Until the experience, Danny went through made me stop. Danny had enhanced healing, but I didn't. Without the Omnitrix, I was just a normal human being, just a normal teenager.

The sound of the metal slate opening back up brought me to my senses. The sound of coughing in the next room over gave me the incentive to look through the bars again. Rex was back, his back was towards me, but from what I can see, it doesn't look like he went through a pleasant experience. His jacket is dried with specks and splotches of blood. His navy blue pants seem darker than usual in some parts of the upper thigh and lower calf.

"Rex!?"

Looking up at Danny, I realized that he was able to see Rex head on, the look on Danny's face didn't give me hope that Rex is fine.

"Danny, what's wrong with Rex?"

I tried my best to say this in a calm voice, there's no need to freak out Danny even more.

"It is his stomach."

"What about his stomach Danny?"

"I can't see it completely but it looks like he was experimented on."

"What do you mean experimented on?"

"I mean he has incisions and stitches all over the place, that's what I mean by experimented on!"

"You don't think that's why we're here do you?"

"I know that's why Rex and I are here, we're not regular humans Ben, but they are probably keeping you to keep your mouth shut."

"I don't think that's why I'm here Danny, if they wanted me to be quiet, they wouldn't have taken me in the first place. They're probably going to try to find out the secret of the Omnitrix."

" Shit, you're right. Hopefully, they won't take the liberty to make you part of the scarred duo that me and Rex make up. "

"Yeah, but who knows, with what we've seen, this organization seems to be unpredictable. "

"...Guys."

a raspy voice interrupted us from our thoughts. We immediately looked towards Rex. He tried to get up and fell back down. He couldn't even get to his hands and knees. The most he could do was lift his head up off the ground.

"Rex?! Don't try to get up, just rest, you don't even have to move, just stay there."

"..Yeah you're right Danny, but I need to read something real quick."

"Read what Rex? Is it a good idea of Ben and I listen to it."

"Probably, Sergeant Alex gave it to me before the experiment noticed. Tch, I didn't even notice it was in my hand until Alex was already across the room."

"Seriously? I guess we should read it then."

"Yeah, go ahead and read it to us Rex?"

Nothing but silence met us, I still couldn't see his face

"Rex?!"

"Ben calm down, he just fell asleep, let him be."

"Are you sure?!"

"Yeah, he'll be fine, clockwork knows that he will need rest"

"Clockwork?"

"Yeah, just, I'll explain it to you later"

"Ok i gu-"

Coughing interrupted my sentence, Rex started coughing and wheezing, something was obviously wrong.

"REX?! What's wrong!?"

With wheezes and coughs interrupting almost every word

"Guys, I can't ... breathe"