*What the **** happened? Where the hell am I am?* Jondy thought, her head
feeling like it had been hit with a Mack truck. She tried to move her arms
and legs, but they felt heavy.
"You're awake, 210, excellent." Jondy froze, recognizing the voice. She felt cold all of a sudden. "Your head may feel a bit sore and you may feel a slight heaviness about your limbs, but otherwise you are completely in tact."
"Who were they?" Jondy croaked.
"Who? Julian and Jason?" Jondy opened one eye to see Renfro smirking at her. "I thought X5s were built with better memory than that!
"You should remember, 210, some of the experiments we ran on you and your…your siblings," Renfro smiled in a patronizing way. "Completely severing limbs to reattach them, severing your spinal cords, and my personal favorite, bleeding you to death to refill your body. That one was incredibly tricky, mind you. Only two people ever managed to have that doe successfully. That was you, last time you visited us – a year ago – and, I believe the other one was X5-211…"
//Jax glared at all three of them, growling in her throat. If Jondy had known how to cry, she would have. She had a chunk out of her arm, Zane had dislocated both his knee and his shoulder and Justin was covered in bite marks and bruises.
"We need to knock her out," Justin said. "If we do that, Lydecker should let us out."
"Watch her, Jondy," Zane advised. "Have you got anything sharp, Justin?"
Lydecker noticed the X5s' mouths were moving, but he could not lip read and the cage was sound proof – but from the looks on the X5s faces', he knew they could hear the other three.
"A double sided blade," Justin said. "Found it over there when Jax decided to throw me over there."
The blade was ten inches long and had a chunk out of the point, as if it had been snapped off.
"Don't kill her, Justin," Jondy said in a pathetic voice. "She's our sister."
"Ben will be upset if you kill her in front of him," Zane reminded, standing in front of Jondy, as if to protect her.
"I'll try and knock her out," Justin sighed. "But if I have to…" The knife glinted in the dull light.
Jax crept closer to the three of them and leapt at Zane. Jondy squealed with fright and Zane fell over, fear all over his face.
"Zane!" Jondy screamed, trying to pull Jax off him; Jax's leg dangling from where she had dislocated the knee and snapped the leg.
Justin punched Jax in the face, her nose breaking and blood spattering everywhere… Jondy sidestepped as Jax fell backwards and knelt next to Zane – a few scratch marks on his face.
Justin punched Jax's head and Jondy and Zane watched, too scared and injured to help.
It was over too quickly for the X5s to really grasp what had happened. Justin lay in a heap, blood pooling from his stomach, the knife lying beside Jax, who's next appeared to be broken.
Lydecker blinked.
"Barracks, now!"
Max stared back at Jondy, as Lydecker lead her and Zane up to the barracks.
As they lay in bed (no infirmary for either Zane or Jondy) Ben sat up.
"Justin has gone to the bad place," he said in a clear voice.
Jondy sat up too, her arm in a make shift bandage. "No he hasn't, Ben he's gone to the good place, he has," she said. Zack slid out of bed and went to her side. Jondy had dark circles around her eyes and she was very pale.
"She's in shock," Tinga added.
"He's gone to the Good Place, hasn't he, Zack?" Jondy begged. Zane watched them all carefully.
"I don't know," Zack said softly, looking closely at the wound.
"Tinga?" Jondy begged. "Max?"
Max looked up at her, frowning. "Justin killed Jax, Jondy, he went to the bad place."
Jondy felt dampness on her cheeks. Everyone stared at her, as she sobbed; loud, hiccupy sobs. Zane went to her side and hugged her.
"I promise you, Dee, he went to the Good Place," he whispered in her ear.//
"Justin," Jondy murmured. "But I was a little girl when he died…"
"Well, 210, we brought his dead body up here and pumped him full of blood and stitched him up and sent him to a different squadron of X5s – X5s you've never even seen," Renfro smirked. "The better squadron, 210.
"You could've been one of those superior X5s, 210, all of the X5s that escaped could've made it there. And I promise you, this time, you will be part of that other squadron," Renfro walked towards the door. "I'm not stupid, 210, you won't escape this time."
"Well, I escaped twice before, didn't I?" Jondy taunted. " C'mon, an X5 managed to escape two times?"
"Third time unlucky," Renfro sneered.
"Luck doesn't exist…" Jondy began.
"Do you remember last time?" Renfro yelled. "Because, I promise you, it'll be worse this time around…you won't even remember your own name when I finish with you…"
// The blood ran down her chin, as she sat huddled in a corner of a cell, her hair cut short and bruises marring her pale skin. She hadn't seen the sun in almost three weeks and she was having a hard time thinking clearly.
"My name is Jondy…" she repeated the mantra over and over again, trying hard not to cry. Crying was a weakness, and weaknesses would make her crack. She'd become the super soldier they wanted her to be…X5-210…
Jondy slumped in a corner, her eyes dull and the pain in her head worse than ever…
…She lay on the backseat of Zack's truck – it smelt a bit like Zane, so Zack must've borrowed it, Jondy decided. Everything was fuzzy. I like fuzzy- ness, Jondy decided, as the truck stopped and Zack appeared at her side.
"C'mon, Jondy, you awake?" he asked, smoothing her short hair away from her face.
"Mmmhmmm," she murmured, struggling to sit up, but dizziness making her slip back into Zack's arms.
"I'm sorry, Jondy, I was careless," Zack said softly, as he examined some of the wounds.
Jondy began wheezing and Zack slid a oxygen mask over her face. A few seconds later…
"What did you do, raid a hospital?" she asked, laughing.
Which soon turned into crying…
"You're awake, 210, excellent." Jondy froze, recognizing the voice. She felt cold all of a sudden. "Your head may feel a bit sore and you may feel a slight heaviness about your limbs, but otherwise you are completely in tact."
"Who were they?" Jondy croaked.
"Who? Julian and Jason?" Jondy opened one eye to see Renfro smirking at her. "I thought X5s were built with better memory than that!
"You should remember, 210, some of the experiments we ran on you and your…your siblings," Renfro smiled in a patronizing way. "Completely severing limbs to reattach them, severing your spinal cords, and my personal favorite, bleeding you to death to refill your body. That one was incredibly tricky, mind you. Only two people ever managed to have that doe successfully. That was you, last time you visited us – a year ago – and, I believe the other one was X5-211…"
//Jax glared at all three of them, growling in her throat. If Jondy had known how to cry, she would have. She had a chunk out of her arm, Zane had dislocated both his knee and his shoulder and Justin was covered in bite marks and bruises.
"We need to knock her out," Justin said. "If we do that, Lydecker should let us out."
"Watch her, Jondy," Zane advised. "Have you got anything sharp, Justin?"
Lydecker noticed the X5s' mouths were moving, but he could not lip read and the cage was sound proof – but from the looks on the X5s faces', he knew they could hear the other three.
"A double sided blade," Justin said. "Found it over there when Jax decided to throw me over there."
The blade was ten inches long and had a chunk out of the point, as if it had been snapped off.
"Don't kill her, Justin," Jondy said in a pathetic voice. "She's our sister."
"Ben will be upset if you kill her in front of him," Zane reminded, standing in front of Jondy, as if to protect her.
"I'll try and knock her out," Justin sighed. "But if I have to…" The knife glinted in the dull light.
Jax crept closer to the three of them and leapt at Zane. Jondy squealed with fright and Zane fell over, fear all over his face.
"Zane!" Jondy screamed, trying to pull Jax off him; Jax's leg dangling from where she had dislocated the knee and snapped the leg.
Justin punched Jax in the face, her nose breaking and blood spattering everywhere… Jondy sidestepped as Jax fell backwards and knelt next to Zane – a few scratch marks on his face.
Justin punched Jax's head and Jondy and Zane watched, too scared and injured to help.
It was over too quickly for the X5s to really grasp what had happened. Justin lay in a heap, blood pooling from his stomach, the knife lying beside Jax, who's next appeared to be broken.
Lydecker blinked.
"Barracks, now!"
Max stared back at Jondy, as Lydecker lead her and Zane up to the barracks.
As they lay in bed (no infirmary for either Zane or Jondy) Ben sat up.
"Justin has gone to the bad place," he said in a clear voice.
Jondy sat up too, her arm in a make shift bandage. "No he hasn't, Ben he's gone to the good place, he has," she said. Zack slid out of bed and went to her side. Jondy had dark circles around her eyes and she was very pale.
"She's in shock," Tinga added.
"He's gone to the Good Place, hasn't he, Zack?" Jondy begged. Zane watched them all carefully.
"I don't know," Zack said softly, looking closely at the wound.
"Tinga?" Jondy begged. "Max?"
Max looked up at her, frowning. "Justin killed Jax, Jondy, he went to the bad place."
Jondy felt dampness on her cheeks. Everyone stared at her, as she sobbed; loud, hiccupy sobs. Zane went to her side and hugged her.
"I promise you, Dee, he went to the Good Place," he whispered in her ear.//
"Justin," Jondy murmured. "But I was a little girl when he died…"
"Well, 210, we brought his dead body up here and pumped him full of blood and stitched him up and sent him to a different squadron of X5s – X5s you've never even seen," Renfro smirked. "The better squadron, 210.
"You could've been one of those superior X5s, 210, all of the X5s that escaped could've made it there. And I promise you, this time, you will be part of that other squadron," Renfro walked towards the door. "I'm not stupid, 210, you won't escape this time."
"Well, I escaped twice before, didn't I?" Jondy taunted. " C'mon, an X5 managed to escape two times?"
"Third time unlucky," Renfro sneered.
"Luck doesn't exist…" Jondy began.
"Do you remember last time?" Renfro yelled. "Because, I promise you, it'll be worse this time around…you won't even remember your own name when I finish with you…"
// The blood ran down her chin, as she sat huddled in a corner of a cell, her hair cut short and bruises marring her pale skin. She hadn't seen the sun in almost three weeks and she was having a hard time thinking clearly.
"My name is Jondy…" she repeated the mantra over and over again, trying hard not to cry. Crying was a weakness, and weaknesses would make her crack. She'd become the super soldier they wanted her to be…X5-210…
Jondy slumped in a corner, her eyes dull and the pain in her head worse than ever…
…She lay on the backseat of Zack's truck – it smelt a bit like Zane, so Zack must've borrowed it, Jondy decided. Everything was fuzzy. I like fuzzy- ness, Jondy decided, as the truck stopped and Zack appeared at her side.
"C'mon, Jondy, you awake?" he asked, smoothing her short hair away from her face.
"Mmmhmmm," she murmured, struggling to sit up, but dizziness making her slip back into Zack's arms.
"I'm sorry, Jondy, I was careless," Zack said softly, as he examined some of the wounds.
Jondy began wheezing and Zack slid a oxygen mask over her face. A few seconds later…
"What did you do, raid a hospital?" she asked, laughing.
Which soon turned into crying…