Scene 2: (An unknown place in an unknown time.)
"Where am I?" Aqua thought to herself looking around. She was locked in some sort of tube filled with a gooey liquid of some sort. Wires and tubes where connected all over her body. As she looked around the room she saw Timespan in the same sort of tube prison as she was along with at least four other creatures she had never seen before.
"Well, nothing can hold me for long. I'll just slip through the cracks in-between the glass plates," she thought to herself, trying to change her molecules to water. Try as she might her body would not shift. "What's happened to me?"
"You have been added to my collection," a voice hissed from the shadows, "That liquid you are in is a creation of my own which controls your genes only I can control when your mutant powers are used.
"Who are you?" she asked, realizing that she could talk to this thing telepathically.
"I am called The Collector, but you may call me Master," he hissed. Aqua saw a movement in the shadow. It slowly slithered along the floor and followed the shadow behind her until it finally came into view in the light in front of her.
The Collector, as it called itself, looked like a mixture of a man, a snake and a fish. It's feet and fingers where webbed and the gills on its neck where closed tightly. It's eyes had big slits down the middle like that of a snake and its tongue was long and forked at the end. It stood a good seven feet tall and would have made for a very scary campfire tale.
"What do you plan to do with us?" she asked, looking over at Timespan who was still unconscious.
"What I do with all of the pieces of my collection, mutate them," he said laughing slightly.
"What?" Aqua said not understanding what this thing ment.
"Here, I will show you," he hissed walking over to a lab table. Aqua looked and saw that strapped to the table was some creature that looked to be part human, part animal. The Collector walked over and turned on a machine.
"This machine genetically mutates the genes of mutants, causing their mutations to go further then ever possible. Those who can fly yet have no other powers may be given a variety of powers such as telepathy, ability to shoot fire balls, or any other variety of things. It's different with every mutant and I find it a thrill to see what each new mutant added to my collection becomes after a trip through the machine." He said pressing a few buttons. A bright light shot out of a gun pointed at the defensless mutant strapped to the table. The screams coming from the creature were animal like and unbareable.
"Stop it!" Aqua yelled, unable to take the horrible screams anymore as they filled her head. All of a sudden the light went off and the screams stopped. Aqua opened her eyes and looked at what was left of the mutant, a pile of red and brown globs. She felt her stomach clench with nausea. "What have you done to him?" she asked, unable to take her eyes away from what was on the table.
"Well, unfortunately, some mutants respond to the treatment by becoming globs of mucus and other such substances as their bodies can not handle the mutation. It does add an extra thrill to know that some may become more powerful, while others, like this poor soul here, will become nothing more than a pile of gunk," he said yelling orders to some of his slaves to clean up the mess.
"I can't wait to see how your friend over there handles the mutation. He seems to be very powerful already. It will be interesting to watch and more interesting to watch will be your reaction if he happens to become a puddle of nothingness. Human emotions have always intregued me, especially the emotion of grief." With that he walked into the shadows down a set of stairs that led to his underground lair to record his latest failure. Aqua strained with all her might to use her mutant ability but to no avail.
"I have to get out of here," she thought, "if not, Timespan and I may both never see the light of day again."