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Beta:Still trucking on...

Without further ado, here is chapter five! Well, six if you include those Specimen Files that I used as filler earlier. Either way, sorry this is so short. I hope to make the next chapter much longer. We will have to see. If I feel like I am taking way too long again I will post what I have if it meets 2,500 or more. But, right, yeah, OFF WE GO!

Autumn slowly began to regain consciousness; her head was pounding and her body was stiff. What had happened? She couldn't remember. All that came to mind was blood and horrific screams. Where was she? It couldn't be her cell. She was on a bed, and there was something on her face. Autumn lifted her arm, but found that she could only reach so far; she was held down by leather cuffs on her wrists and ankles. What had happened to her face?

"Dominic?" She called hoarsely, her throat was dry and her lips cracked at the movement. "Dom…" Autumn opened her right eye to see that she was in the Medical Bay, hooked up to a couple machines. The room was private, Dominic wasn't there.

Autumn closed her eye and tried to think. What had happened? She had been taken to the training room… everyone had been there, Dominic, Serena, Jak… They had been fighting, then… a burst of Eco…

Suddenly, her memory came back in a colourful blast. Fighting Serena, seeing Dominic being ripped apart… feeling his life drain away… then her memory went blank, and panic surfaced.

Autumn panicked and started ripping the IV's out of her arms and tore at her restraints. An alarm from the heart monitor went off, but she kept tearing at her restraints. She could feel her fingers beginning to bleed and her wounds opening. She needed to get out of here, she couldn't take this anymore. She needed OUT! She screamed, loud and long, and it turned into a desperate wail.

Several orderlies burst into her room and slammed her back down onto the bed; Dr. Grace came in behind them preparing a needle.

"Be CAREFUL with her." She hissed. "Strap her down so I can administer the sedative." Autumn howled again, feeling her body change, and snapped her razor sharp teeth at an orderly that had gotten too close. He yelped as her teeth grazed his neck, leaving red track marks. Her nails were now long weapons, and she swiped at the orderlies, slicing a few of them. They started to back away, but then Grace gave a frustrated noise and pushed two at Autumn, who bit and sliced at them, and administered the sedative into her IV. Autumn's flailing slowed, her vision blurred, and then her world went black.

The next time Autumn awoke, she was in a new cell. This one was smaller than her old one, meant for just one person. She sat up gingerly; she must have been out for days again, she was mostly healed. Gingerly, she touched the right side of her face and felt a gnarled scar covering most of her face. Claw marks from Serena, and then damage from the stun gun, had destroyed the vision in her eye. Autumn sighed, her heart heavy with apathy. There had been so much loss and carnage in her life... she finally just couldn't bear to care anymore.

She stood up and picked up the bowl of now cold soup from the floor and ate it quietly. There was nothing there for her, and she couldn't bring herself to care. She ate her soup and then went back to her cot where she sat down cross legged and just... stared at the wall.

It was a few weeks before Autumn started being able to care again.

One year in Prison

Autumn was put through her strides after she was 'fit for work' again. Jak was still alive, but they were not to train with each other right away. Trulson didn't want her to rely on the warrior during battle; she needed to get back up to snuff before she could be trusted to take care of the Baron's new weapon.

So she trained. She trained and she trained and she trained. Autumn trained even in her cell; if she was going to die here, she would take Trulson and his wicked daughter with her. She did every exercise she could think of that could be done in her cell. Within a couple weeks, she was deemed fit to train with the Dark Warrior again.

"You've progressed by leaps and bounds. I am impressed." Trulson stated during her check-up. "You have even more muscle mass than before, are healthier and have more focus."

"We should have killed that other Medic sooner." Grace laughed darkly and it took everything Autumn had to not kill her right then and there. No, she wanted to bring EVERYONE down. To do so, she was going to need help. If she killed Grace here and now, Autumn would never get the chance. They would kill her.

"Be quiet, Grace." Trulson ordered. "The specimen is ready to go back to her full regiment. Throw her into viewing room three, with our last warrior." Grace nodded only the slightest trace or anger showed across her face.

"Yes, father." She hissed and took Autumn by the arm and stalked out of the med bay. Outside the door was the squad that had escorted in the first place. Without a word, the group took Autumn down to viewing room 3. Inside, Jak was fiercely fighting several 'Heads by himself.

"Just throw her in." Growled Grace at the guards. Without a word Autumn was shoved into the viewing room, grabbing the attention of some of the 'Heads. Autumn sighed and did a quick stretch as a couple came at her.

The first one she punched in the throat as it jumped at her. Its windpipe crushed with ease and the Manic Head fell to the ground, suffocating slowly. The other two held back for a moment, re-sizing up their new opponent. In the background, Jak continued to fight the other group of Manic Heads, their roars of anger rang through Autumn's ears. One of the 'Heads bit Jak's arm with its massively sharp teeth, making Jak cry out in pain over the sudden wound.

The cries of pain made Autumn's heart start beating rapidly, she started sweating and the blood drained from her face. She hadn't been up again Metal Heads since Dominic died. Suddenly, she was in a panic, and the two 'Heads that had been waiting to strike pounced on her. They ripped at her flesh with their teeth and claws, making her scream, and had her feel powerless.

Seeing an easy meal, two of the other 'Heads that had been fighting Jak abandoned him and bounded over to feed on Autumn, the scent of her blood exciting them. Autumn screamed and cried as she pathetically fought away the attacking Manic Heads. In her panic, something inside of her woke up, and Autumn's body burst with energy, stunning the Metal Heads that were attempting to devour her.

Autumn kicked one of the Metal Heads in the face, the sickening sound of bone being crushed mixed with its agnoized cries. Autumn sat up, her nails now talons and her horns sprouted from her skull. Her skin was green and caked with blood, but her wounds were healed. Nothing was left behind but several scars from Metal Head teeth. Autumn's feral side took over, and with lightning quick reflexes, she killed the 'Head that she had kicked and then snapped anotherw neck. The remaining two had managed to get to their feet and then pounced on her, their claws slashing at her skin and their jaws snapping at her weak spots. But they were no match for her and she was able to dispatch of them quickly.

"You… Okay?" Jak asked from behind her, his voice cracking and he strain to form the words. Autumn turned around to find that he had dispatched his own four Manic Heads. With the threat gone, Autumn's power melted away and she turned back to normal. The adrenaline faded, and her anxiety crept back up into her heart. Her legs began to shake, and it took all her might to still them.

"I think… I think I am alright." Autumn brushed herself off and turned around to look at Jak who was trying to get the blood off of his face. "Are you okay?"

"Yes..." He nodded and pulled a chunk of Metal Head out of Autumn's hair.

"Oh, that is just gross." Jak laughed.

Two years in prison

Over the last year Autumn and Jak spent most of their waking moments either training together or strapped into their respective chairs. Trulson was still trying to find out the correct dosage he needed to have Autumn change at his will, but to no avail.

"It seems like her Eco reserves only manifest when she is in serious distress." Dr. Grace offered one day while her father was cursing at Autumn. She was half concious in her chair, barely listening to Trulson and his wicked daughter speak to one another. On her mind instead was the conversation she and Jak had had earlier that morning about family. It made her wonder about her own family. Were they still alive? What had happened to her mother after she was arrested? Jak was wondering the same thing about his two friends and an elderly man that had adopted him as a child.

"I got lost during a riot." He said. Riots were not unsual in the Slums; Autumn had particpated one or two of her own before the Channelor Draft. "Then KG took me."

"I'm sorry Jak. But, if we ever get out-" Jak cut Autumn off with a sad shake of the head.

"No way out." He said, and turned to the entourage of Metal Heads that we entering the viewing room. Autumn's heart clenched and she readied herself for the oncoming attack.

Would they truly never get out?

"Her and that warrior boy are useless to us if they can't change at will. Or at all, in that boys case." Autumn was snapped back to reality as Trulson and Grace continued to bicker.

"If you had simply listened to me, father, the female Warrior that had been able to change would still be alive!" Grace's voice wavered at the mention of Serena. She had takent he death of the girl very hard, and even had a lock of her hair in a locket around her neck. She never thought Autumn was concious enough to notice when she looked at it.

"You were too close to that specimen! Calling her by her first name, spending time with her… If you weren't my daughter, I would have thought you were falling in love with her!" Trulson was at his wits end with his daughter, he was starting to jab at her personally.

"Me? In love with a lowly specimen such as her? Father, you insult me!" Grace turned away and rushed out of the lab, Autumn getting a glance of the tears that were falling down her face.

"Over dramatic child." Groused Trulson as he went back to his notes.

"You should… give her… more credit." Autumn panted as she tried to move her head up. "No wonder she hates you." Trulson said nothing and stormed out of the lab.

Jak helped Autumn up off the ground, she had tripped over the body of one of the 'Heads that had been killed earlier when she had tried to jump up onto a Rhino's back.

"Clumsy." Jak stated with a smirk.

"Tired is more like. They've been pushing us all day, I need a rest." Autumn gave Jak's arm a quick squeeze before trying to straighten herself out.

"Something is wrong." Jak nudged another body over to see the face of a Manic Head. "More of them than usual."

Autumn was resting out on her cot, her body felt heavy and full of lead. She hadn't seen a soul in almost three days. Jak was gone, escaped, and he had left her behind. The whole palace was on high alert, the guards didn't dare let her out, let a lone feed her. She was feeling weak and she had been spending most of her time sleeping. The day Jak had left was the last time she had seen him, during the rigorous fighting they had gone through. Autumn drifted in her thoughts and tried to stop thinking about how hungry she was or how her only friend had abandoned her.

There were footsteps outside her door, the small door for dishes opened, and a bowl of hot soup was pushed through. The slide slammed shut, and Autumn crawled towards the bowl, ignoring the sour cabbage smell is gave off. She grimaced but picked it up and began to eat anyway.

Amazingly, the soup was delicious. Autumn thought that she might just be getting used to the prison food. The thought made her chuckle. She finished off her soup, starting to feel sleepy. Her body began to feel heavy again, and she became dizzy. Autumn mentally cursed as she sank down onto the floor and blacked out.

She had been drugged.

She awoke to a blinding headache and the process of being strapped down onto a gurney. She was still woozy and her sight was blurry, but she made out the figures of a couple KG and a couple doctors.

"Doctor Grace! She's waking up!" The voice was frantic and fearful, just to her left.

"It doesn't matter, she'll be dead soon. Shut up and do your job!" Grace's voice was steely and the doctor beside Autumn shied away from Grace's snarl. Autumn began to struggle weakly against her bonds; they were leather straps fastened to the metal gurney.

"Doctor! She's beginning to struggle!" Yelped the woman on Autumn's right.

"Give her more sedatives then! Her Eco must be combatting the drugs. Make sure she stays down!" A wave of panic washed over Autumn and she began to struggle harder against her bonds, her strength and sight slowly returning. Her body sparked with Eco, and she could feel the changes happening to her body. Her left cuff began to loosen, just one more pull…

"Doctor Gra-" The man to her left was silenced as her hand crushed his trachea. He fell to the floor, suffocating. The final three bonds broke, and screams erupted around the room. Autumn was loose, and she had a revenge plan.

"Shoot it!" Screamed the guard by the door, and the other guard began shooting at her wildly as she cut down the doctors and whomever else was unfortunate enough to get in her way. At one point a guard got a lucky shot and hit her in the arm. Autumn screeched a loud, inhuman sound and snapped his neck. The second guard tried to run for the emergency button, but Autumn jabbed her sharp claws through the back of this neck and he fell to the floor.

All that was left was a terrified Doctor Grace covered in blood and weeping on the floor. Autumn stepped over the guard she had just disposed of and crouched down beside Doctor Grace.

"They'll kill you. They'll shoot you down as soon as they see you!" Grace screeched.

"It doesn't matter. You'll be dead, and that's all I want right now. Too bad I can't get your father as well." Autumn smiled at Grace and rested her chin on her hand as the woman screamed again.

"You monster!" Autumn shrugged and stabbed Grace in the stomach with her fearsome claws.

"You should take a look at yourself before you call me the monster." Grace choked and blood spilled out of her mouth and down her chin. Autumn ripped her claws back out and shuffled away as Grace fell forward into her own pool of blood.

"That was for Dominic, Monster." Autumn crouched there silently; watching the scene as she slowly reverted back to normal. As Grace finally slipped away, one last word escaped her crimson lips.

"Serena…"

Autumn remained sitting by Grace's body, the room eerily quiet. She needed to decide on a course of action before anyone found this mess. She stood up and inspected her surroundings. Just about everything was spattered with blood of the medical staff and guards. The creeping realization as to what she had just done made her stomach churn, bile rose in her throat. Autumn double over and emptied the final contents of her stomach onto the blood soaked floor. Her whole body was shaking and weak.

She had just killed them all, no second thought. Now she was stuck in a room covered with blood, waiting to die. Autumn fisted her hand and wiped her hair out of her face and walked over to a large cabinet that might hold something of use to her. She was in luck; it was stocked with fresh scrubs and coats.

Autumn quickly changed and then began to make it look like she was a victim. She cut her face and her arm with one of the scalpels and smeared the blood and ripped up the lab coat a bit. She then went over to a vent in the wall and used the same scalpel to open it, making it look like she, as the prisoner, had escaped through the vent. She was malnourished enough that she could fit, and could have possibly gone that way, but she didn't know how she could get out that way.

Her aim was to escape through the front doors as they evacuated everyone but the prisoners and guards. She would go out screaming into the hallway and yell about how a specimen had escaped and killed everyone else in the room. Screaming was normal in the East Wing, so the death of all the workers went unnoticed. She would have to really try to get someone's attention.

Autumn took a deep breath, and exited the door, screaming.