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Also my Internet connection has been playing up so I couldn't post anything and that's another reason. SORRY!


Resident Beyblade

Chapter 5 – Prisoners in the lab


The train was still going and it seemed like it would never end. Ray had now fallen asleep leaving Claire to talk to her mind. She wished she and Ray didn't have that conversation as it was scratching away at her thoughts. If she was infected then, that was it, the road she was walking down had come to a dead end.

Claire stood easily and that worried her. After having it slashed by the licker in the police station it had become numb. Why though? She lifted up her trouser leg and examined the long slash down her calf muscle. A dark scab had grown over it and it stung when she touched it. At least she still felt some pain in it.

She walked past everyone and entered the driver's compartment. It was slightly windy after having the front window smashed open by the ant. The smell of the damp tunnel was flowing in the compartment along with the wind. Sitting on the driver's seat she watched as the dark tunnel flew past her.


"Sir, the train is now approaching its destination"

"Excellent. Initiate phase one of the plan"


Zeo woke as he was flung forward by the sudden stop. He rubbed his head and found himself on the floor. What now? He thought. The others were getting up and looking around for the source of the problem. Claire came through from the front compartment. "Why have we stopped?"

"I was just going to ask you that" said Leon. Kenny opened the door and went out with Hilary. The tunnel was dark apart from the headlights of the train. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary. Tyson jumped out after them also looking around.

"It smells funny" Hilary screwed up her nose. Tala came out and walked up past each carriage while holding onto the train's side with his right hand in case he suddenly lost footing. Reaching the front he saw nothing on the track as the other three came up behind him.

"What is it Tala?" asked Tyson.

"I'm not sure" Tala looked around in the darkness but could see very little. Hilary took a few steps forward but was pulled back again by Tyson.

"We don't know what's in this tunnel" he whispered. Leon walked past them and out of the headlight range. Nobody moved and the silence was killing them. After a couple of minutes he emerged unharmed.

"I've found something, follow me" They nodded and Hilary ran back into the train to get the others. Zeo came out first with Hilary and Kai, followed by Claire, who was helping Ray to walk. They followed Leon a little bit down the tunnel until he stopped. "There" He was pointing to the right hand side of the tunnel.

A door came into view and it was hanging of its hinges. The former policeman pulled out his gun and slowly pushed open the door. Everyone jumped as it fell to the floor with a bang. As they entered Zeo slipped and his back hit something on the wall, lighting up the strange hallway before them. Stone steps lead down even further into, God knows where.

"I'm getting kinda sick of all these passage ways," exclaimed Max.

As they reached the bottom a wider tunnel revealed its self. It looked like some private passage as it was all done up, glass flooring, fancy lights and…

"Security cameras" Kai pointed to a camera a little way down the hall.

"What do we do now?" asked Zeo. Leon shrugged his shoulders and looked at the smaller boy beside him.

"We can't shoot them out, we don't have silent guns, and we can't exactly go up to them and switch them off can we?" added Leon. As they were thinking of a way to get past the cameras a door lifted up behind them as a corpse fell on top of Hilary. She screamed and pushed it off her as Tyson picked her back up.

"How the Hell did that get in there!" exclaimed Tyson. Claire and Ray stepped back and in a flash had fallen through the floor.

"Claire!" Leon went to grab her but the hole in the floor closed up. He sat back up and thumbed his fists on the floor. "They have the place filled with traps"

"Which means they already know we're here," added Tala. Leon stood back up and walked past them and down the corridor towards the camera.

"Wait, what are you doing?" shouted Kenny. Leon ignored him and pulled the camera off the wall, throwing it on the floor with a bang. He walked back up towards them and into the room where the body came from. The rest followed him. It was a small control room and another body was slumped across a control panel. Several screens were showing parts of the facility but the rest were blank.

"If there's dead bodies in here and half the cameras are out then that means this place is infected like the rest of the town" spoke Leon. They now realized they had two big problems; they were trapped in an infected facility and two of their friends had gone missing.


"OUCH!"

"Sorry Claire" Ray climbed of off Claire as he landed on her back. They had fallen through the hole in the floor and had slid down a dark sort of slide. Both had fallen into a cage in a very large control room of some sort.

"Welcome" A man with dark green hair appeared before them. "Sorry but we couldn't have the infected ones running about, there's enough of them already"

"Zargart!" The man just smiled at the young teen and turned away.

"What do you mean the infected ones?" asked Claire.

"I mean" began Zagart as he stood with his back to them; " I can't have anymore infectious beings running around my private facility"

"You mean your own creations" Zagart turned and looked at Ray, smiling.

"Guess you found out it was me then"

"No one else is crazy enough to do something like this, no wonder Zeo ran away" The smile left Zargart's face for a second and then returned again as he turned away, walking towards a large panel before him.

"Zeo will return to me soon, he is a robot after all and he's my son which means I can control him all I like"

"I don't see him running to you", said Claire.

"Oh, but it's not that simple. I created him to be more human than machine so, like a human, I can't just press a switch and make him come to me. But I have other ways of dealing with it"

"And they would be…?" Zagart ignored Ray and pushed a switch on one of the monitors in the wall. A picture of the teens and Leon appeared as they wandered through the hallways. He pressed a blue button and in a flash steel gates had fallen into the corridor, separating the gang. Zagart turned and smiled at Ray.

"To force him to come to me"


Hilary, Leon, Kai and Tyson were on one side whereas Tala, Max, Kenny and Zeo were on the other. Leon, Kai and Tyson tried moving it but it wouldn't budge, it was far too heavy.

"You were saying about them not knowing we were here?"

"You're not helping Hilary" stated Tyson. They gave up on trying to move the gate and decided to make a different approach.

"Why don't you try firing those blade things at the bars, they're made of steel themselves aren't they?"

"Hey, great idea Leon!" Tyson was first to pull his out his blade followed by the other four. "OK, let's give it a shot" They all fired at the same time but the blades just bounced on the bars and hit the floor where they stopped spinning.

"It was worth a try" Zeo picked up his blade and checked Cerberus wasn't damaged.

"Why don't you guys go ahead and we'll meet you somewhere else"

"Tala, if you go down there you're just going back the way we came" Leon pointed out.

"Not quite, look what I found" Tala pressed a small panel that had been designed to look like part of the wall. The wall beside him opened up and he smiled at their shocked faces.

"How'd you do that?" Kenny was amazed Tala had been able to see it.

"Magic" was all he said. The group decided to risk it rather than wait and be found by any guards. Tala's group entered the secret door and as the last person walked it slammed shut. Zeo went to open it but it was locked. The room was dark and it was quite large. They searched the walls for a switch and when Max found one a bright light filled the whole room. They were in some sort of research room that was filled with shelves of books.

It looked a bit like a library but the walls were white and sheets of paper had been thrown about the floor. They noticed a door at the side of the room and Zeo opened it only to be knocked back by something. "DOGS!" he shouted. Three of them had ran through the doorway and the boys had clambered up the shelves to get away from the man-eaters.

"What now?" asked Tala as he threw a book at one of the dogs. Kenny thought for a moment and then an idea popped into his head.

"How about two of us get them to chase us out the door? WAAAAA!"

"Watch your hand there chief"

"Max this is no time to be kidding around! Well, should we try my plan or not?"

"It's the only one we've got so I say yes," said Zeo.

"I'll go"

"No, you can barely walk Tala, forget running. I'll go"

"I'm coming with you Zeo. Max will you stay with Tala?" Kenny threw another book, forcing the dog back onto the ground.

"Do I have a choice? WOAH!" He dodged the jaws of the hungry animal and threw an ornament of some sort. Zeo jumped down and ran to the door waving his arms franticly, trying to get the attention of the dogs. Two of them chased him out the door and Kenny sighed. He also jumped down and made the last dog chase him but not before screaming as he went out the door.


Meanwhile, Tyson and his group had proceeded down the dim corridors, finding nothing. Suddenly alarms sounded and red-flashing sirens replaced the pure white lights.

"What now?" grumbled Tyson. At the end of the corridor appeared two very vicious looking canines. They wasted no time in bounding for the intruders. Tyson and Leon ducked from the leaping creatures while Kai pulled Hilary into a doorway, slamming the door shut. The two outside headed where the dogs came from before the mutts realized what was going on. They ran through God knows how many corridors until finally coming to an open door.

They caught their breath and laughed slightly until they noticed what was in the room. A lot, not hundreds but a lot of containers where lined in a row on each side of the room. They were filled with green liquid and some were cracked and empty while others still had their prisoners inside.

"Leon come look at this" Leon found Tyson running his hand over a container with a frog-like creature inside. It was unconscious and had wires stuck to its body. "Think this used to be a human?" Leon copied Tyson's hand gesture.

"Could have been a child, it's small" They looked at each other with sad looks and left it to be.


Claire had fallen asleep in her cage while Ray was left to talk to his thoughts, but only one question was racing through his mind at the moment. How were they going to get out of this mess? He wondered how his friends were as the cameras had gone offline. The control room they were in was empty apart from the two prisoners. Zagart and his men had gone to do something else, probably to get another world dominating plan into action.

A sharp pain emitted through his wound as he placed his hand over it. It hadn't been treated and he was starting to worry about being infected, even after what Claire had told him. Just then the double doors across the room flew open as several men came in carrying two figures, followed by Zagart. A small boy was thrown into an extra cage as the guards held the other.

"Chief! Zeo!" Kenny looked for the sound of the voice. And he smiled when he saw his friend alive beside him. Zeo was trying desperately to remove himself from the grasp of his 'father's' lab men. Zagart walked to his son and forced his head up so he was looking at him.

"I knew I could force you to come to me" Zeo spat in his face only to receive a slap from the taller male. "Mind your manners boy"

"I can't feel pain remember?" Zagart growled and started to circle the small robot like a lion circles its prey.

"Where have you been hiding Zeo? I missed you"

"Did you fuck" was the response he got. Zagart's eyes widened slightly. "I knew what you were going to use me for and that's why I ran. I'm not your little puppet that you can play with when you feel like it" Zeo looked up. "You wanted to re-program me so I would be an ultimate solider in your plan to take over Raccoon. Look what you've done, you've killed a whole town and you don't even care"

Zagart laughed evilly and closed his eyes. Claire sat up, hearing everything. Ray and Kenny looked at each other and then back at Zeo. "The R.P.D. was in my way and were destroying my creations. I had to do something so…" He walked over to a monitor and turned it on. A photo of Nemesis appeared on screen. "…That's where he came into it. He was, and is, the perfect weapon to help me rule"

"YOU'RE PUTTING MY FRIENDS IN DANGER!" Zeo had had enough of his father's tales and stupidity. "Look what your creations did to my friends!" He pointed to Ray and Claire. The green-haired man walked over to Zeo and pulled down the back of his T-shirt, pressing a button on the back of his neck. The men let him go and Zeo fell to the floor, eyes closed and lifeless.

"ZEO! What did you do to him?" The scientist looked at Claire and gave her a smirk.

"He was getting too lively so I had to shut him down for a while. Men, you know where to put him" The men that were previously holding Zeo carried him out of the room, followed by a very happy Zagart.


Hilary searched the small room for a way out while Kai tried to open the door that was slammed shut. It was quite small and had two monitors in it. "They like to have high security here don't they?" she said. Kai ignored her and punched the door, giving up on trying to open it. A card reader was sticking out of the wall beside the door and he read the side. It read 'Level A'

"Kai look!" She pointed to the first screen and they saw Kenny and Zeo run under it followed by three dogs. "They're in trouble and we can't get out!" He growled and spotted several coats hanging on the wall. He began searching the pockets for something useful.

"What are you doing?" question Hilary. He ignored her once more and smiled when he found what he was looking for. He waved a keycard in her face and made a cash register sound. He scanned it and watched the door fly open.

"That was a bit too easy wasn't it?" she said.

"I'm not complaining. Come on, let's go!"


Yeah, I finally updated! I had some spare time so I quickly did this chapter. I can't promise fast updates, not at this time of the school year.

IT'S EXAM TIME! WWWWWWAAAAAAAA!

Oh well, better sooner than later!