Some Surprises Are in Order
~Chapter 24~
Megan sat alone in the kitchen thinking about Angel I wonder why he kept to the shadows like that...could he be hiding something she thought to herself as she picked up her plate and put it in the sink to clean it. "I wonder how long the guys will be gone?" she said to the empty room. I wonder if Gabe went with them? After all I didn't see him at dinner tonight. Then a realization came to her, if the guys were gone then maybe she could find a way out of this place and home. Home to what though, other then Dad and Lex my family is here. " But I was still kidnapped, family or no family I want to go home." But home doesn't have Kail does it a little voice in the back of her head told her. "Kail." she sighed as she left the room and went to explore and maybe find a way out.
The walls were a white sterile color, clean yet totally devoid of feeling, as impersonal as a hospital and yet old. There were visible signs of age around, a crack here in the wall, a pealing of white paint there, all in all this place looked as if it should have been abandoned. After all it might just have been. Megan walked down a long hallway of the same thing, white walls, not doors that she could see. It would help if there was more light around, but there was only one light at the far end of the hall. "I guess the guys..." she stopped since her words echoed down the hall, mustn't let anyone know she was there. Who going to hear me anyway, Hojo? she shivered at her thoughts. Hojo was defiantly not a nice guy, better to stay away from him at all costs.
As she turned to corner Megan found herself right next to the open double doors to the Labs, from which the voice of Hojo could be heard. "Damn it I don't know what went wrong with the last batch!" Hojo yelled.
Who is he talking to, himself? Megan thought and smiled, she could see the Hojo talking to himself, after all he was suppose to have gone insane. But then Dad said he killed Hojo so I don't know what to expect from him. Deciding to find out if there was in fact someone that he was talking to Megan decided to poke her head around the corner of the door and look inside.
The inside of the labs turned out to look just like a laboratory would look like, with it's tubes and chemicals and lab stuff. In the far corner stood t very large glass tubes like the ones that once stood in the library in the ShinRa Mansion. To the left of her stood a large metal table covered in test tubes, and beakers, and chemicals. What Megan was not expecting to find though was the fact that Hojo wasn't alone like she thought. On the table she herself had woken up on was a body, strapped down and awake. But this wasn't just any body, it was Gabe. And he wasn't very happy. He was strapped down dressed in only the pants to his Turk suit, which would mean that he had to be freezing yet wasn't showing it at all.
"Will you hurry it up already!" Gabe demanded in a deep cultured British accent, mush like the one he had used while pretending to be Angel.
"I'm hurrying already." Hojo said as he mixed some kind of glowing green mixture in a beaker.
Gabe sighed "well hurry faster" he said as he waited.
Megan's eyes were almost bugging out of her head as she watched Hojo fill a needle with the glowing green stuff and put it in Gabe's arm. What in the world is going on here? Why is Gabe allowing Hojo to do that? she wondered as she watched Hojo inject Gabe.
Hojo removed the needle and cocked her head "well" he asked as if expecting it to do something.
Gabe closed his eyes as if expecting some great pain then opened them "nothing."
"Damn it" Hojo yelled as he went back to mixing at his table again.
Gabe sighed and went back to staring at the water spot on the roof.
Megan stood and watched Hojo for several hours all the while wondering what he was looking for in Gabe's expression.
As Megan watched Hojo inject yet another needle Gabe turned his head and looks right at her, thought something was clearly wrong, instead of his comforting blue eyes, the eyes that met hers were purple and had the pupils of a cat. When Gabe saw her she smiled in an almost evil way, then gave a small evil laugh.
She jumped back at seeing those eyes, those teeth, that grin he was a Cheshire cat gone insane; his advice had turn from help, to hate.
"Don't just stand there, Megan," he spat her name, causing Hojo to turn around abruptly. "This should be a familiar scene to you, right Hojo?"
"Megan, go now. I thought the boys took care of you," Hojo said warning her and actually using her full name. The whole time, he kept an eye on the deranged man on the table.
She didn't know what to do. The roles had reversed; Hojo wanted to help her and Gabe wanted to hurt her? No, that can't be right
She stepped in. "Gabe, are you ok?"
"Just fine," he said looking back up at the wall; his body flinched at its own answer. She ventured in more as Hojo watched wide-eyed and gaping. She continued over to the side of the table, Hojo suddenly mixed something together; the vile became a glowing, translucent blue.
She walked over to Gabe, and looked down at him. "What's going on?"
He suddenly shot his eyes open and ripped the shackles off the table, grabbing her neck and landing on top of her on the floor. "This, my dear."
"MICHAEL!" Hojo yelled as he ran over to rip Gabe off the helpless girl. But Gabe wouldn't be moved. His eyes were flaring a purple pain as he squeezed her neck. He'd lost his mind! She couldn't breath or move under his immense weight; he had her pinned perfectly.
Hojo reached Gabe's arm, but all Gabe had to do was throw it back, and Hojo hit the other side of the labs.
Mike and Kail came running in. "Shit," Mike yelled. "Kid, get 'em. Hojo! Where is it?!"
Shaking the dizziness out of his head, Hojo responded. "On the floor, blue",
just like Megan's face.
Kail ran over and literally ripped Gabe off of Megan; the two fell back on the ground, and Gabe wouldn't allow it. He threw a few punches at Kail; kidney, face, stomach and Kail took them, but then flipped Gabe off with his legs, pinned him in the same position he'd had Megan, and held his shoulders.
"Let me UP!" Gabe screamed and squirmed.
"Mike, hurry it up, I can't old him that mu-AH!" Gabe had extended his glassy nail out to about four inches and jammed it into Kail's wrist; Kail returned the favor by head butting him.
"Got it," Mike ran over and slid on the floor up to Gabe. He grabbed Gabe's cheek, harshly turned it and slammed the needle into his jugular vein; Gabe screamed.
Megan lay on the ground coughing and sputtering as much needed air rushed into her lungs. The world spun as she wondered why Gabe would attack her, but all she could think was how much her lungs burned as she tried to relearn how to breath. In the end it didn't matter, as she gave over her consciousness to the black abyss. The last thing that entered her mind is what's going on here?
Authors Notes - Hi! As I promised in the last chapter I will be trying to update more often and to prove it I have written this chapter for you. Thanks to all those who have reviewed my story. I LOVE YOU ALL! I want to give a special thanks to Crytalis Blade for the help.
