Chapter 20
Ben POV
I just woke up to the sound of my food slot opening. I shot up and quickly crawled to the bread and water bottle they gave me.
I crawled back to the 3-year wall and started to eat my bread and drink my water slowly. Savoring my last food before I kill myself.
The bread and water tasted bland as usual, but at least I'll be able to die with a somewhat full stomach. Getting impatient, I quickly finished the bread and downed the water. Once I finished the water, I started to fold the bottle into different ways, trying to find what is going to give me the sharpest edge
After a while, I was able to figure out that the sharpest edge I would get was folding it in half.I sat up straight and held the water bottle in my right hand. I placed the somewhat sharp edge on my wrist. I stopped for a second. Thinking about the blissful sleep that will come after. About life free from experiments and pain. Mustering up the little strength I had. I pushed down on the water bottle as hard as I could.
"Ow, shit that hurts"
I moved the water bottle so I could see the cut, there was only a shallow cut, I only scraped off the skin. I tried again, this time making sure to use more over the same cut. I got the same result
"GODDAMMIT"
I threw the bottle across the room in anger. Why did I think that would work. I'm never going to get out of here.
I tried to calm myself down but it didn't work. It would probably work better if this fucking hair stopped blocking my eyes. This hair is already way too long already...I wonder if it's long enough to go around my neck
No, I'll just die of suffocation, it won't be painless. It won't be more painful than the experiments but nevertheless still painful.
Maybe this world government will save us, or maybe my worlds government will look for , that will never happen. I started laughing but those chuckles turned into sobs. I curled into a ball and just started to cry my heart. Shedding tears for my family, for my lost 3 years of life, for the pain that I have been enduring for too long. For the pain that the three of us never should have gone through.
For the next couple of hours, I just let the tears stream down my face as I tried to lull myself to sleep. but that never happened. When sleep almost took hold of me, the soldiers came in and took me to Brown's lab for some more experiments. I just let myself drag in between the 2 of them as they took me down the hall, just staring at the floor on the way there. For a couple of seconds, I looked up to see another prisoner being dragged back to their cell. They didn't look to be in any better condition. Then again, their hair was covering their face. So I couldn't see if they were in pain or not. But the odd thing is that their hair was red from all of the blood that was on it. Whatever happened to him, I hope it doesn't happen to me.
Once we crossed paths in the hallway. The prisoner started to scream. We stopped to see what was going on. Once the prisoner started to struggle, my captors dropped me to go and help. I roughly fell onto the floor, my legs burning from the pain. I looked up to see what was happening. The prisoner was just about to overpower them. He was so close to winning. I looked around and I realized that there was no other soldier to restrain me.
'I can escape'
I started to get up, it took some time but I was able to get up. Once I was able to stand up completely, I looked back to the prisoner and the soldiers. This time, one of the soldiers had the common sense to get out one of their batons to hit the prisoner while one of the others used their radio to call for back up. The others were unconscious on the ground.
'I can either run or I can help that guy and we escape together'
I quickly ran up to the soldier with the radio and started to hit him as hard as I could. He struggled for a little bit, but since I hit him from behind, he couldn't hit me back before I knocked him out
'A little bit dirty, but its survival at this point'
I turned around to help knock out the other guy but once I turned around, I noticed he was already on the floor at the prisoner's feet. The prisoner turned to look at me.
"B-ben?"
"What?"
The prisoner used his hands to push all of his hair out of his face and once it was out of the way, I was able to see electric green eyes staring back at me. It was Danny. I quickly crossed the space between us and hugged Danny with tears welling up in my eyes.
"D-Danny, I can't believe it's you"
I hugged him tighter as he hugged me back, all of a sudden, he pushed me away and said.
"It's great to see you Ben, but we have to go. We still need to get Rex and get the fuck out of this hell hole"
"Yeah you're right"
"What's that thing on your wrist?"
I looked down to see my wrist, the metal box was gone, and in all its glory, the Omnitrix was there with its bright green and black colors. Quickly I started to use, trying to find the perfect alien to use. I found the insignia for cannonbolt. I closed my eyes and pushed down on the Omnitrix.
"Cannot use this function. User must be stable to use."
'What'
I opened my eyes to see that the Omnitrix was red.
"Fuck!"
"What? whats wrong Ben?"
"I can't use it, it says I'm not healthy enough to use it."
All of a sudden, Danny grabbed my arm and we started to run towards the cell.
"We can deal with that later Ben, for now, we just have to get to Rex."
Once I was able to keep up with him, he let go of my hand and we started to run faster for Rex's cell. While we were running, I kept on messing with the Omnitrix. Over and over again, I was denied the chance to transform.
"Omnitrix, what life forms can I use?"
" You may be able to use Tetramand for a short while."
I can't turn into cannonbolt but I can turn into four arms?!
"Ben, look alive!"
I looked up to see that we were at Rex's cell but soldiers were coming towards us on both sides. looking back down, I quickly found four arms and turned into him. I could hear yells of surprise from Danny and the soldiers. Ignoring it, I quickly punched down the door. I barely walked in when I heard the sound of Omnitrix warning me that I would change back soon. Quickly I ran to the opposing wall and punched it down. On the other side of the wall was the howling wind and rain.
'All those years ago, Rex was right'
As soon as I turned around, I transformed back into a human. Danny was already next to me with an unconscious Rex in his arms. over the howling wind and rain, I yelled at him.
"Is he ok?!"
"Yeah, at least I think so?"
I peaked my head out of the hole. We were over the edge of a small ravine, at the bottom, there was a huge river violently flowing below, from here I could see the rapids and the rough water.
"Danny, our only chance to escape is to jump!"
"I know!"
I felt an arm grab my waist and all of a sudden, the floor was gone and we were free falling towards the river.
"DANNY ARE YOU FUCKING CRAZY?!"
