A Sort of Lucky Break

"Is the subject ready for testing?" Dr. Gombell asked.

"Subject is prepped," Dr. Phelps and two female guards escorted Angelica in. They had forced her to strip and put on only a hospital gown that went to her knees in a separate room.

"I'm not a subject!" Angelica protested. "I'm a person! And I don't deserve to be strip searched and treated like some kind of experiment!"

"Hey it wasn't exactly the highlight of our day either!" One female guard snapped.

"What the hell are you complaining about?" The other said as they started to strap her on a long lab table. "You would prefer the male guards do it?"

"Angelica we may be a secret organization testing mutations and figuring out ways to eliminate them but we do have our standards," Dr. Gombell spoke.

"Don't waste your breath explaining things to the mutant Gombell," Trask spoke. "After you run your tests I want the subject dissected."

"You mean…kill her?" Dr. Gombell gulped.

"No I mean take her out to McDonalds," Trask said sarcastically. "Of course I mean kill her! Unless you'd prefer to do it while she's still alive. Either way suits me."

"But…Sir…" Dr. Gombell began.

"You haven't formed any attachments to this mutant have you Doctor?" Foresight spoke calmly.

"No it's just we can learn more from her alive than dead," Dr. Gombell remarked.

"Well isn't that a cheery thought," Angelica grumbled. She didn't like the looks of the machine hovering over her. It looked like an alien anal probe with several very sharp prongs.

Just then an alarm sounded. "GREAT! WHAT HAVE YOU IDIOTS DONE NOW?" Trask shouted. Then another alarm went off. "NOW WHAT'S GOING ON?"

"It appears that Wolverine has escaped," Foresight remarked. "I told you so."

"CAPTURE HIM!" Trask snapped. "If you want anything done right around here…" He ran off with Foresight.

Several other guards were running around now. Angelica didn't think, she just had to get out of there before those maniacs did some real damage. "Return the subject to…" Dr. Phelps began to say something. Then she noticed Angelica firing up, burning through her restraints. "STOP HER! YEOWWW!" She tried to restrain her only to have her arms burned.

Angelica burned through her restraints and sat up. "I am out of here!" She concentrated and used a beam of heat to zap the closest thing to her, the giant probe. It started to spark and burn.

"Angelica! No!" Dr. Gombell shouted as the machine started to catch on fire. "My equipment!"

Angelica's body was radiating with energy. She tried to run around the room only to be blocked by guards. Without thinking she leapt up in the air and remained there. "Huh…" She looked as she managed to hover over them.

"She can fly?" Dr. Phelps shouted. "Since when?"

"News to me too!" Angelica flew upwards. "Maybe these powers are good for something after all!" She used a few more heat beams to blast at the guards on the floor, igniting machinery.

"What are you waiting for?" Dr. Phelps shouted. "Shoot her!"

"But not to kill!" Dr. Gombell shouted.

"Whose side are you on?" Dr. Phelps shouted. "She'll kill us!"

"Yikes!" Angelica barely dodged the bullets. She made a huge fireball and opened up a ventilation shaft. She flew into it.

"She's in the ventilation shaft!" Dr. Gombell shouted. "After her!"

Angelica crawled for her life in the cold shaft. "Well this is fun…" Angelica muttered. "I can fly and shoot off heat rays. Now if only I had some underwear on…"

Next: Jailbreak time!