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Summary: When Biovolt goes after one of its past 'students' the BBA steps in and places the girl under the watch of the Blade Breakers. What are Biovolt's plans for this girl and what happens when they get a hold of her because she risked herself by saving one of the Blade Breakers that has grown fond of her.
-All I have to say is… Thank you Cherry Rain!! Oh and yes… Lets all torture Boris!-
Takes place after the World Beyblading Tournament
"…." Talking '….' Thinking
Clandestine Wolf
Chapter Seventeen - Can I Trust You?
"You will be as obedient as ever with our new little experiment, Alexis. You won't be running away or fighting back without being told to do so…"
'He's rambling on and on again, but I don't really think he understands.'
"No longer will you have any emotions to interrupt your training or missions that you'll be sent out on.."
'Doesn't he know that my emotions are what make me strong and who I am? No, of course not…Naïve little Boris.'
"The first things you're going to be sent to deal with are those traitors Spencer and Ian along with Kai and that boy called Razor. Tala has already bee taken care of as you saw for yourself. A foolish boy he was."
'Boris you don't know what you're talking about. Don't you know my will is stronger than that? Tala was one of the best friends I had, but of course you never knew that we all knew each other. You didn't know that I taught Tala how to act human, did you? No, I didn't think so because you're still rambling on like you know what you're talking about.'
"Your training will resume as soon as you return to the Abbey. In a week, seven days, you will never question your orders again. Your obedience will be at its peak and will know nothing of rebellion. Quite ingenious our scientists are, but then again their lives are at stake while working for Biovolt."
'Did I tell you..? You're going to die Boris, and so is Voltaire. The days of suffering that you've put everyone through are going to be no more. You give me a week…? That's plenty of time to destroy everything here at the Abbey.'
"You'll be hidden from the world and in contact with no one but the scientists, Voltaire, and I. No one will get to see you except for us, and you'll be locked in a room all over again. Only for a week, though…. Only for a week until you're completely will-less."
'You may hide me, but you don't know how loyal my pack is. You don't know, do you? I have a pack now, and the only thing that is keeping me from completing it is Biovolt. They might not know it now, but they're loyal to each other to the end. They didn't tell you that they were leaving for me, did they? Spencer and Ian were always a part of my pack since day one, and so was Tala. I taught them to be human again, reversing your training and using it against you. Kai is learning, you know? He's starting to be more human because he's realizing that feelings do make him stronger. I love him. I bet you didn't know that either, huh? Razor was loyal to Tala, and over the days he's become part of the pack too, but now you've taken the one he loves away from him. You do know that you're going to have to pay for that too, don't you? No, of course not… You think you have everything under control, when in truth you have nothing at all under control. In a week, seven days, Biovolt will fall.'
Boris was sitting across from Alexis in the cargo bay of the helicopter, two guards on either side of the female teen while she herself was as docile as could be. He was lecturing her about what she had done wrong and what was going to be changed along with what was going to happen in the future. Even as he kept on talking Alexis didn't say anything against his words nor did she show any discomfort other than the fact of the bullet wound in her shoulder. The look on her face suggested that she was listening to what Boris was saying with a great deal of interest and almost admiration, but it was always just a mask she put on when it was needed. A mask. Alexis considered herself to have a box of masks, but only when she was around Kai did she never wear one as she risked her own hurt to get close to him and teach him that it's alright to have emotions. Of course Boris didn't understand this, not understanding that he had just awoken a sleeping beast that they had trained themselves. It was like a single knight with no armor, magic, or a weapon to fight with up against a three-headed dragon.
The helicopter ride wasn't very long, as they didn't have to travel too far to get back to the Abbey. Only when they finally started to land did Boris stop with his endless plans for Alexis, standing up and walking to the front of the copter to talk with the pilot briefly. The landing was smooth, as Biovolt always had the best of everything including pilots. Boris ordered the black suited men to take Alexis out of the helicopter and to her new room in underground levels of the Abbey. Then men were quick to comply, thinking the girl to be as docile as she was putting off as they cut her wrist binds and led her by the arm out of the cargo bay of the helicopter. That was their single and worst mistake that could've happened, Alexis having her hands and arms free to move.
The first few steps Alexis took out of the helicopter were calm steps, merely going along with the suited men until blades of the copter came to a slow halt. With a quick glance around the area she deemed herself to have enough space away from the helicopter now, a good distance still between herself and the building of the Abbey. Soon calm and docile turned to calm and deadly as the man who was holding her arm had his own broken in the first instance she wrenched free from his loose grip. The palm of her right hand caught his nose, driving it upwards so that the bone shattered painfully. The second man who was on her other side grabbed her around the torso, lifting her light body up into the air as he squeezed, but his own mistake was not pinning her arms to the side as her elbow was sharply jabbed into his neck several times until the man let go. As soon as her feet hit the ground the other were already after her, a solid punch immobilizing the one who had picked her up as she whirled around. Her shoulder throbbed painfully, but she kept on fighting to show she would not be so easily tamed. Sliding down to a kneeling position she kicked out with one leg towards a man's kneecap, rendering the leg useless as it bent the wrong way. As Alexis rose up a man moved to jump on her, but she pivoted around on her foot perfectly only to spin around and catch him in the back with a deadly punch. The fight went on for some time, over half of the black suited men laying in complete and utter pan on landing pad of the helicopter. It took a good deal of time before about four men had jumped onto her small frame, pinning her limbs down until they were tied tightly together. From there they carried her off, a smart move for their own stupid one.
Watching the whole event from behind a corner of the building was a pair of slate gray eyes, their orbs watching closely as the men finally got a hold enough of the dark skinned female to tie her up and keep her from injuring anymore of their men. The pair of eyes noted the desperate pain that all of the injured men were in, their faces washed over with a pain filled expression while most were unconscious. Then the eyed noted Snowflake's steel blue eyes on him, knowing he was there but saying nothing as the suited men rough handled her as she squirmed around in their grasp. It was like those steel blue eyes knew him, knew that he was the one member of the Demolition Boys that she hadn't got to meet and knew that he had been through hell because of Biovolt. Those blue globes showed hope and defiance even as the owner of them was being dragged away with Boris right behind her. From there Brian decided that he'd do what was needed to get free of Biovolt's grasp even if it meant freeing the girl that Spencer and Ian had told him about before they left to go find Kai and honor Tala's grave.
The four men who were still intact brought Alexis to her now -home-, a stone walled and stone floored room on the level 5 where the security was the strongest. Even as they stripped her from her cloak and boots she squirmed like mad, an unlucky hand getting bit by her sharp wolfish fangs yet that action was only met with a solid cuff on the back of the head. For a moment everything she saw was blurry, but still she refused to go along with Boris' plans easily. Only untying her hands then black suited men quickly pinned her two free limbs to the floor while another man held the rest of her body face first against the cold rocky floor. As soon as Boris considered her secure a doctor was called in, or rather a scientist with a small history of treating wounds. The middle aged scientists wasn't gentle either as he cut away that part of Snowflake's shirt where the bullet hit her skin. Only then did Alexis whimper a small utter of pain as a scalpel was dug into her back to remove the bullet from her body. Soon the whole was stitched together with a few messy stitches of medical string. From there the scientist insisted on prodding her body here and there saying he was looking for any other injuries that Alexis might have received. It was only then when she was injected with a liquid anesthesia, which caused her world to slowly spiral into darkness.
It was nearly the middle of the night by the time Alexis was given the shot, but she woke at dawn with her hands and feet free from their bindings. Her body was messily thrown onto a hard mattress with rough cotton white sheets on it. The pillow was flat and old, smelling of mold and must while the room its self was freezing from Russia's cold weather. As she sat up the point of where she was shot throbbed in light pain, but it was quickly pushed aside to let her other sensed take in what was around her. Steel blue eyes roamed over her body, nothing serious besides the stitches in her back, but her clothes had been changed into her old Biovolt uniform. The uniform was a dark slate blue and black, pants being like loose jogging pants with lighter blue stripes down the sides while her shirt was nothing more than a dark slate blue leotard. Her feet were still bare, the stone of the floor cold against their soles as she stood up to walk the perimeter of her new room and home for only what she insisted was a to be a short time.
Just then the lock to the door was unlocked, the heavy metal door swinging open as Boris stepped in. Behind him were two guards, bulky looking men yet also quick looking through the cloth they wore. Alexis figured she was just going to go along with this until the time was right, the routine going on the same everyday. She'd followed Boris to the beyblading room where they'd demand her to blade against their own bladers and blade against holograms. Only after he was satisfied for the day did Boris let Snowflake finally have her lunch only to usher her into her physical training. It was all the same, everything she had learned before as if they thought she had forgotten it while being gone. The courses they had given her each of the six days, which had passed by then were completed flawlessly with everyone thinking she was growing more and more obedient everyday. One day would be weapon training then the next computer courses on hacking and programming of viruses and works. It was all just a game to them, pushing her harder and harder each day as Boris and his men just watched her like she was a tasty little lab rat. Only once did one of the men advance on her, but she had quickly dealt with that and had been amazing rewarded for it by Boris who then gave her three more hours of training in the gym they had. The scientists were always testing her in one way or another, seeing if the was physically fit and or mentally fit to go through with experiment that was going to be done the noon of the next day.
It was now night of the sixth day, Alexis just being released back into her prison like of a room. Tomorrow she planned to make her move, whether or not she was going to get help from anyone or not. It was tomorrow or never, because if she didn't make her move then everything would go down the drain and the experiment would be done. The experiment its self was to have a behavior chip placed into the stem of her brain making her completely obedient and revolt free as her will was put against her. If that happened then there was no telling what would happen, but she had a pretty decent guess that Boris would get the answers he wanted and use them against her to attack Kai, Razor, Ian, and Spencer. If only she could get to the other member of the Demolition Boys…
Just then there was a knock on her door, dinner as always and on time it seemed. With her training even just the past six days Alexis was back to her full strength, if not growing some as she purposefully pushed herself harder than she had when at Biovolt before. The door was pushed open, a guard stepping into her room as Snowflake just stood there as he held out her food tray to her. Moving to take it a wicked plan slipped into her mind, changing her plan slightly as her hand grabbed the man's wrist instead of her food tray. The tray its self toppled to the stone floor with a clatter, but after a second look Alexis realized there wasn't a guard posted at her door. Twisting the man's arm behind his back and pulling it out of socket as she shoved him hard enough against the wall for his head to snap against it viciously. That was enough to knock the guard serving her the food to be knocked unconscious, snatching his keys with skilled fingers and slipping out of the room stealthily only to lock the door behind her.
Steel blue eyes glanced down both sides of the hallways, hugging the wall with her body as Alexis' gaze caught and counted all of the cameras. Each camera had a blind spot and she used that to her advantage to move through the hallways of the Abbey. The new levels were challenging, guards everywhere along with more cameras posted. It took well over an hour just to get to familiar grounds where the secret passageways lay. It was Tala who had found the passageways to begin with, showing them to each of the Demolition Boy members as well as herself. They were small, but she skillfully worked through them with past experience that made it much easier. 'One door…Two door….. Three door. Here I am… Whether or not he reports me is his decision, but he had at least better listen first.' Taking a deep breath Alexis pushed the tapestry away, which hid the entranceways to the secret passageways and stepped forward into a candle lit room.
From there Snowflake stood still and silent with her back pressed close to the wall, steel blue eyes glancing around the empty room before her. There was a bed, more comfortable looking than her own, and a desk as well which had a few books here and there on it along with some deadly looking weapons. Shoulder length stark white hair was pulled back into a loose tie at the base of her neck, the strands which wouldn't fit in it hanging lightly around her face. Quietly she crept into the shadow of a corner, only to successfully make it into the shadows as the door to the room swung open, a lavender haired teen stalking in and closing the door behind him quietly. Brian. He seemed oblivious to the fact that Alexis was in his room, sitting down at his desk and getting out a laptop that was well hidden in a larger book. Soon he connected to the Internet after turning the computer on, sending an e-mail to what seemed like a familiar address to Alexis' eyes.
Daring to move closer Snowflake moved slowly through the shadows, taking her time so that she made sure each movement was silent and flawless as she got closer to Brian. Once close enough to see clearly, no longer having the eyes of a wolf to aid her, Alexis grinned at what the lavender haired boy was writing. 'Well what a sly person he is… Seems Spencer and Ian has him talked into getting his own freedom back. He's sending them information on the layout of the Abbey, and from what I've seen from getting here from my room he's telling the truth.' Though she was distant from her bit beast spirit and missed its presence inside of her dearly it still left her with the ways and attitude of a wolf. By now Alexis was crouched at the foot of Brian's bed, legs slightly apart with her knees bent and weight situated on the balls of her feet. Her hands were splayed, fingers apart with their fingertips touching the cold floor of the room. 'He has the right to know I'm here.'
A low wolfish growl caught Brian's attention as Alexis let her presence be know yet still hidden as hr body stayed in the shadows. The slate gray eyes teen was quick to judge that whatever was in his room wasn't friendly; standing quickly from his chair while his hand grabbed a throwing knife from the desk's top. Quickly he whirled around, throwing the knife while her was at it. It aim was deadly, as Alexis found out the hard way when she barely caught the blade of the knife between her hands. Slowly she stood, giving Brian a good view of who she was while he himself didn't seem too pleased at the fact someone had snuck up on him in his own room. Walking forward Snowflake held the knife hold so the hilt was pointing towards Brian, making no move to harm him while she held his weapon out so he could take it back.
"How the hell did you get out of your room? I should call the guards on you, though I'm sure they wouldn't mind me having some fun of my own…" Greedily Brian snatched the throwing knife back, pointing the blade towards Snowflake's throat while she merely stood there with her steel blue eyes staring into his slate gray eyes. Even as he moved to advance the dark skinned teen didn't budge an inch, standing her ground as her gaze bore into the taller boy with a stubborn willfulness to get him to back off, and so he did so before he found out what she was actually capable of first hand. The knife was lowered, and for the first time in a good deal of time Alexis carried on a conversation that was longer than a single sentence or comment.
"The same way you'd get out of your room if you were locked in it against your will and had somewhere to go. I'd be thinking Spencer or Ian would've explained to you what I've been put through. You think your life was and is hell? I think you should sit down and look at my life. You're tired of Biovolt ruling over you and taking your freedom away, well so am I and I'm going to do something about it like you are. No, don't speak yet I'm not done… Yes, I saw you writing that letter to Ian and the rest who are back at the Blade breaker's mansion in South America, but I'm afraid to say I'm altering the plans now. You want freedom? Be out of the Abbey tomorrow by noon and you won't ever have to worry about having to come back. Where you go is up to you, but if you're not out then I'm not going to stop my plans just for you." Alexis by then had made herself comfortable on Brian's bed, sitting down with her legs crossed Indian style.
"You talk as if you know everything that is going on. From what I've heard you have been out of it since Biovolt gave you an experimental drug that only backfired and nearly killed you. They told me you didn't talk because of it, but I see you have recovered from the drug nearly entirely. What are you planning, anyways? I want in on it, and I want in on it now. Why do I need to be out by noon? And how in the world did you get into my room? My door was locked and there are guards posted in front of the door." Slate gray eyes narrowed slowly, watching as Alexis made herself comfortable on his bed with mild irritation. It wasn't everyday that someone showed up in his room and told him off and planned something without him knowing about it.
"I do know everything that is going on. You don't think I just sit in those computer classes and do nothing, do you? I sit there and hack into Biovolt's system, also your computer. Try not to leave it on and connected next time… I know everything that it going on, every little factor I have computer is fit into my plan in which I'm not going to tell you. All you need to know is that you'll get your freedom and Biovolt's headquarters will be destroyed. Now I know you don't owe me a favor, but would you mind taking these stitches out of my back? They're a damn pain and they're holding me back because I can move fully with them still in." Turning around and trusting Brian enough to do as she asked Alexis put her back to him, removing her leotard enough so that he could see the stitches in her shoulder. Lightly her arms were placed over her chest to cover what the leotard exposed. "I got in here by using the secret passageways that I'm guessing you don't know about. You can use them to get out undetected tomorrow before noon, but just be out before noon or prepared to be dead and fried. Just a fair warning…"
"Secret passageways? I thought those were only rumors that the other kids talked about in the Abbey. It would've been useful if I knew of them before hand. I could've taken care of things on my own if I knew they were there." Bitterly Brian walked forward, lifting the knife in his hand to that the blade was pointed towards Snowflake's back. He could just kill her right here and now with herself being so exposed, yet still she seemed to trust him enough to turn her back to him and close her steel blue eyes. Digging the tip of the blade under the stitches he cut the medical string before pulling it out roughly, only to receive a soft cuff from Alexis as she whirled around, uttering a small -ouch- before hand when he pulled the strings out.
Brian looked taken back and mildly furious before Snowflake sighed ever so quietly. "Don't you know how to be gentle..? No? Here, let me show you. You can't be harsh and hurtful all the time. Sometimes things require you to be gentle and kind. Look it isn't that hard…" Taking the knife from Brian's unexpecting hand she turned his palm over, running the sharp blade over the tender skin slowly yet gently. "See? It's not that hard. To be gentle, even with a sharp object. You try now." Placing the hilt of the knife back into Brian's hand he looked rather startled at the notion of being -gentle-. Slate gray eyes looked at the out held palm before him, dark skin waiting for the edge of the knife's blade to run around the tender skin. For the first time he was shaky in his movements, holding Snowflake's hand with his free one while her placed the blade of the knife onto the tender skin of her palm and dragged the edge along it what he hoped was softly.
"Now see, look at that. It isn't hard to be gentle, and it isn't wrong to be gentle either. Feelings are not a sign of weakness, but a sign that shows you're growing stronger. Just being gentle you've shown me how much stronger you are growing from what I've heard about you. It's a shame we never had a chance to meet before hand, but I suppose some things happen that way." Alexis had already pulled her leotard top back on before doing her little demonstration with the knife. Brian looked quizzical and doubtful of the whole idea, but then again all of them Demolition Boys had been doubtful of the whole idea of actually having feelings and emotions. Suddenly Snowflake pulled her hand away from Brian's light grasp, slipping from the bed as a yawn emitted from her mouth, wolfish fangs clearly showing themselves.
"You just think about it, hmm? You can get out of the Abbey by going through the same passageway I go, but you'll follow the stairs going up. You'll exit by a small group of trees about three meters from the Abbey, and from there you need to run until you're a good distance away. Half a mile would do if you wanted to stand close to see what's going to happen, but take everything you want with you because I wouldn't plan on it still being there when I get done with Biovolt. Don't.. Don't tell Kai and the others that I've met you and what I've said until you find your way to South America to talk to them. Bye now." Alexis was already walking across the room as she started talking, slipping into the entrance of the passageway under the hanging tapestry before completely vanishing as she headed back to her won room for a good few hours of rest she would need, or possibly a detour to go see her parents in their suspended sleep. 'I wish you luck, Brian. I hope both you and Kai can learn to accept your feelings, even if I can't be there to help you…'
Summary: When Biovolt goes after one of its past 'students' the BBA steps in and places the girl under the watch of the Blade Breakers. What are Biovolt's plans for this girl and what happens when they get a hold of her because she risked herself by saving one of the Blade Breakers that has grown fond of her.
-All I have to say is… Thank you Cherry Rain!! Oh and yes… Lets all torture Boris!-
Takes place after the World Beyblading Tournament
"…." Talking '….' Thinking
Clandestine Wolf
Chapter Seventeen - Can I Trust You?
"You will be as obedient as ever with our new little experiment, Alexis. You won't be running away or fighting back without being told to do so…"
'He's rambling on and on again, but I don't really think he understands.'
"No longer will you have any emotions to interrupt your training or missions that you'll be sent out on.."
'Doesn't he know that my emotions are what make me strong and who I am? No, of course not…Naïve little Boris.'
"The first things you're going to be sent to deal with are those traitors Spencer and Ian along with Kai and that boy called Razor. Tala has already bee taken care of as you saw for yourself. A foolish boy he was."
'Boris you don't know what you're talking about. Don't you know my will is stronger than that? Tala was one of the best friends I had, but of course you never knew that we all knew each other. You didn't know that I taught Tala how to act human, did you? No, I didn't think so because you're still rambling on like you know what you're talking about.'
"Your training will resume as soon as you return to the Abbey. In a week, seven days, you will never question your orders again. Your obedience will be at its peak and will know nothing of rebellion. Quite ingenious our scientists are, but then again their lives are at stake while working for Biovolt."
'Did I tell you..? You're going to die Boris, and so is Voltaire. The days of suffering that you've put everyone through are going to be no more. You give me a week…? That's plenty of time to destroy everything here at the Abbey.'
"You'll be hidden from the world and in contact with no one but the scientists, Voltaire, and I. No one will get to see you except for us, and you'll be locked in a room all over again. Only for a week, though…. Only for a week until you're completely will-less."
'You may hide me, but you don't know how loyal my pack is. You don't know, do you? I have a pack now, and the only thing that is keeping me from completing it is Biovolt. They might not know it now, but they're loyal to each other to the end. They didn't tell you that they were leaving for me, did they? Spencer and Ian were always a part of my pack since day one, and so was Tala. I taught them to be human again, reversing your training and using it against you. Kai is learning, you know? He's starting to be more human because he's realizing that feelings do make him stronger. I love him. I bet you didn't know that either, huh? Razor was loyal to Tala, and over the days he's become part of the pack too, but now you've taken the one he loves away from him. You do know that you're going to have to pay for that too, don't you? No, of course not… You think you have everything under control, when in truth you have nothing at all under control. In a week, seven days, Biovolt will fall.'
Boris was sitting across from Alexis in the cargo bay of the helicopter, two guards on either side of the female teen while she herself was as docile as could be. He was lecturing her about what she had done wrong and what was going to be changed along with what was going to happen in the future. Even as he kept on talking Alexis didn't say anything against his words nor did she show any discomfort other than the fact of the bullet wound in her shoulder. The look on her face suggested that she was listening to what Boris was saying with a great deal of interest and almost admiration, but it was always just a mask she put on when it was needed. A mask. Alexis considered herself to have a box of masks, but only when she was around Kai did she never wear one as she risked her own hurt to get close to him and teach him that it's alright to have emotions. Of course Boris didn't understand this, not understanding that he had just awoken a sleeping beast that they had trained themselves. It was like a single knight with no armor, magic, or a weapon to fight with up against a three-headed dragon.
The helicopter ride wasn't very long, as they didn't have to travel too far to get back to the Abbey. Only when they finally started to land did Boris stop with his endless plans for Alexis, standing up and walking to the front of the copter to talk with the pilot briefly. The landing was smooth, as Biovolt always had the best of everything including pilots. Boris ordered the black suited men to take Alexis out of the helicopter and to her new room in underground levels of the Abbey. Then men were quick to comply, thinking the girl to be as docile as she was putting off as they cut her wrist binds and led her by the arm out of the cargo bay of the helicopter. That was their single and worst mistake that could've happened, Alexis having her hands and arms free to move.
The first few steps Alexis took out of the helicopter were calm steps, merely going along with the suited men until blades of the copter came to a slow halt. With a quick glance around the area she deemed herself to have enough space away from the helicopter now, a good distance still between herself and the building of the Abbey. Soon calm and docile turned to calm and deadly as the man who was holding her arm had his own broken in the first instance she wrenched free from his loose grip. The palm of her right hand caught his nose, driving it upwards so that the bone shattered painfully. The second man who was on her other side grabbed her around the torso, lifting her light body up into the air as he squeezed, but his own mistake was not pinning her arms to the side as her elbow was sharply jabbed into his neck several times until the man let go. As soon as her feet hit the ground the other were already after her, a solid punch immobilizing the one who had picked her up as she whirled around. Her shoulder throbbed painfully, but she kept on fighting to show she would not be so easily tamed. Sliding down to a kneeling position she kicked out with one leg towards a man's kneecap, rendering the leg useless as it bent the wrong way. As Alexis rose up a man moved to jump on her, but she pivoted around on her foot perfectly only to spin around and catch him in the back with a deadly punch. The fight went on for some time, over half of the black suited men laying in complete and utter pan on landing pad of the helicopter. It took a good deal of time before about four men had jumped onto her small frame, pinning her limbs down until they were tied tightly together. From there they carried her off, a smart move for their own stupid one.
Watching the whole event from behind a corner of the building was a pair of slate gray eyes, their orbs watching closely as the men finally got a hold enough of the dark skinned female to tie her up and keep her from injuring anymore of their men. The pair of eyes noted the desperate pain that all of the injured men were in, their faces washed over with a pain filled expression while most were unconscious. Then the eyed noted Snowflake's steel blue eyes on him, knowing he was there but saying nothing as the suited men rough handled her as she squirmed around in their grasp. It was like those steel blue eyes knew him, knew that he was the one member of the Demolition Boys that she hadn't got to meet and knew that he had been through hell because of Biovolt. Those blue globes showed hope and defiance even as the owner of them was being dragged away with Boris right behind her. From there Brian decided that he'd do what was needed to get free of Biovolt's grasp even if it meant freeing the girl that Spencer and Ian had told him about before they left to go find Kai and honor Tala's grave.
The four men who were still intact brought Alexis to her now -home-, a stone walled and stone floored room on the level 5 where the security was the strongest. Even as they stripped her from her cloak and boots she squirmed like mad, an unlucky hand getting bit by her sharp wolfish fangs yet that action was only met with a solid cuff on the back of the head. For a moment everything she saw was blurry, but still she refused to go along with Boris' plans easily. Only untying her hands then black suited men quickly pinned her two free limbs to the floor while another man held the rest of her body face first against the cold rocky floor. As soon as Boris considered her secure a doctor was called in, or rather a scientist with a small history of treating wounds. The middle aged scientists wasn't gentle either as he cut away that part of Snowflake's shirt where the bullet hit her skin. Only then did Alexis whimper a small utter of pain as a scalpel was dug into her back to remove the bullet from her body. Soon the whole was stitched together with a few messy stitches of medical string. From there the scientist insisted on prodding her body here and there saying he was looking for any other injuries that Alexis might have received. It was only then when she was injected with a liquid anesthesia, which caused her world to slowly spiral into darkness.
It was nearly the middle of the night by the time Alexis was given the shot, but she woke at dawn with her hands and feet free from their bindings. Her body was messily thrown onto a hard mattress with rough cotton white sheets on it. The pillow was flat and old, smelling of mold and must while the room its self was freezing from Russia's cold weather. As she sat up the point of where she was shot throbbed in light pain, but it was quickly pushed aside to let her other sensed take in what was around her. Steel blue eyes roamed over her body, nothing serious besides the stitches in her back, but her clothes had been changed into her old Biovolt uniform. The uniform was a dark slate blue and black, pants being like loose jogging pants with lighter blue stripes down the sides while her shirt was nothing more than a dark slate blue leotard. Her feet were still bare, the stone of the floor cold against their soles as she stood up to walk the perimeter of her new room and home for only what she insisted was a to be a short time.
Just then the lock to the door was unlocked, the heavy metal door swinging open as Boris stepped in. Behind him were two guards, bulky looking men yet also quick looking through the cloth they wore. Alexis figured she was just going to go along with this until the time was right, the routine going on the same everyday. She'd followed Boris to the beyblading room where they'd demand her to blade against their own bladers and blade against holograms. Only after he was satisfied for the day did Boris let Snowflake finally have her lunch only to usher her into her physical training. It was all the same, everything she had learned before as if they thought she had forgotten it while being gone. The courses they had given her each of the six days, which had passed by then were completed flawlessly with everyone thinking she was growing more and more obedient everyday. One day would be weapon training then the next computer courses on hacking and programming of viruses and works. It was all just a game to them, pushing her harder and harder each day as Boris and his men just watched her like she was a tasty little lab rat. Only once did one of the men advance on her, but she had quickly dealt with that and had been amazing rewarded for it by Boris who then gave her three more hours of training in the gym they had. The scientists were always testing her in one way or another, seeing if the was physically fit and or mentally fit to go through with experiment that was going to be done the noon of the next day.
It was now night of the sixth day, Alexis just being released back into her prison like of a room. Tomorrow she planned to make her move, whether or not she was going to get help from anyone or not. It was tomorrow or never, because if she didn't make her move then everything would go down the drain and the experiment would be done. The experiment its self was to have a behavior chip placed into the stem of her brain making her completely obedient and revolt free as her will was put against her. If that happened then there was no telling what would happen, but she had a pretty decent guess that Boris would get the answers he wanted and use them against her to attack Kai, Razor, Ian, and Spencer. If only she could get to the other member of the Demolition Boys…
Just then there was a knock on her door, dinner as always and on time it seemed. With her training even just the past six days Alexis was back to her full strength, if not growing some as she purposefully pushed herself harder than she had when at Biovolt before. The door was pushed open, a guard stepping into her room as Snowflake just stood there as he held out her food tray to her. Moving to take it a wicked plan slipped into her mind, changing her plan slightly as her hand grabbed the man's wrist instead of her food tray. The tray its self toppled to the stone floor with a clatter, but after a second look Alexis realized there wasn't a guard posted at her door. Twisting the man's arm behind his back and pulling it out of socket as she shoved him hard enough against the wall for his head to snap against it viciously. That was enough to knock the guard serving her the food to be knocked unconscious, snatching his keys with skilled fingers and slipping out of the room stealthily only to lock the door behind her.
Steel blue eyes glanced down both sides of the hallways, hugging the wall with her body as Alexis' gaze caught and counted all of the cameras. Each camera had a blind spot and she used that to her advantage to move through the hallways of the Abbey. The new levels were challenging, guards everywhere along with more cameras posted. It took well over an hour just to get to familiar grounds where the secret passageways lay. It was Tala who had found the passageways to begin with, showing them to each of the Demolition Boy members as well as herself. They were small, but she skillfully worked through them with past experience that made it much easier. 'One door…Two door….. Three door. Here I am… Whether or not he reports me is his decision, but he had at least better listen first.' Taking a deep breath Alexis pushed the tapestry away, which hid the entranceways to the secret passageways and stepped forward into a candle lit room.
From there Snowflake stood still and silent with her back pressed close to the wall, steel blue eyes glancing around the empty room before her. There was a bed, more comfortable looking than her own, and a desk as well which had a few books here and there on it along with some deadly looking weapons. Shoulder length stark white hair was pulled back into a loose tie at the base of her neck, the strands which wouldn't fit in it hanging lightly around her face. Quietly she crept into the shadow of a corner, only to successfully make it into the shadows as the door to the room swung open, a lavender haired teen stalking in and closing the door behind him quietly. Brian. He seemed oblivious to the fact that Alexis was in his room, sitting down at his desk and getting out a laptop that was well hidden in a larger book. Soon he connected to the Internet after turning the computer on, sending an e-mail to what seemed like a familiar address to Alexis' eyes.
Daring to move closer Snowflake moved slowly through the shadows, taking her time so that she made sure each movement was silent and flawless as she got closer to Brian. Once close enough to see clearly, no longer having the eyes of a wolf to aid her, Alexis grinned at what the lavender haired boy was writing. 'Well what a sly person he is… Seems Spencer and Ian has him talked into getting his own freedom back. He's sending them information on the layout of the Abbey, and from what I've seen from getting here from my room he's telling the truth.' Though she was distant from her bit beast spirit and missed its presence inside of her dearly it still left her with the ways and attitude of a wolf. By now Alexis was crouched at the foot of Brian's bed, legs slightly apart with her knees bent and weight situated on the balls of her feet. Her hands were splayed, fingers apart with their fingertips touching the cold floor of the room. 'He has the right to know I'm here.'
A low wolfish growl caught Brian's attention as Alexis let her presence be know yet still hidden as hr body stayed in the shadows. The slate gray eyes teen was quick to judge that whatever was in his room wasn't friendly; standing quickly from his chair while his hand grabbed a throwing knife from the desk's top. Quickly he whirled around, throwing the knife while her was at it. It aim was deadly, as Alexis found out the hard way when she barely caught the blade of the knife between her hands. Slowly she stood, giving Brian a good view of who she was while he himself didn't seem too pleased at the fact someone had snuck up on him in his own room. Walking forward Snowflake held the knife hold so the hilt was pointing towards Brian, making no move to harm him while she held his weapon out so he could take it back.
"How the hell did you get out of your room? I should call the guards on you, though I'm sure they wouldn't mind me having some fun of my own…" Greedily Brian snatched the throwing knife back, pointing the blade towards Snowflake's throat while she merely stood there with her steel blue eyes staring into his slate gray eyes. Even as he moved to advance the dark skinned teen didn't budge an inch, standing her ground as her gaze bore into the taller boy with a stubborn willfulness to get him to back off, and so he did so before he found out what she was actually capable of first hand. The knife was lowered, and for the first time in a good deal of time Alexis carried on a conversation that was longer than a single sentence or comment.
"The same way you'd get out of your room if you were locked in it against your will and had somewhere to go. I'd be thinking Spencer or Ian would've explained to you what I've been put through. You think your life was and is hell? I think you should sit down and look at my life. You're tired of Biovolt ruling over you and taking your freedom away, well so am I and I'm going to do something about it like you are. No, don't speak yet I'm not done… Yes, I saw you writing that letter to Ian and the rest who are back at the Blade breaker's mansion in South America, but I'm afraid to say I'm altering the plans now. You want freedom? Be out of the Abbey tomorrow by noon and you won't ever have to worry about having to come back. Where you go is up to you, but if you're not out then I'm not going to stop my plans just for you." Alexis by then had made herself comfortable on Brian's bed, sitting down with her legs crossed Indian style.
"You talk as if you know everything that is going on. From what I've heard you have been out of it since Biovolt gave you an experimental drug that only backfired and nearly killed you. They told me you didn't talk because of it, but I see you have recovered from the drug nearly entirely. What are you planning, anyways? I want in on it, and I want in on it now. Why do I need to be out by noon? And how in the world did you get into my room? My door was locked and there are guards posted in front of the door." Slate gray eyes narrowed slowly, watching as Alexis made herself comfortable on his bed with mild irritation. It wasn't everyday that someone showed up in his room and told him off and planned something without him knowing about it.
"I do know everything that is going on. You don't think I just sit in those computer classes and do nothing, do you? I sit there and hack into Biovolt's system, also your computer. Try not to leave it on and connected next time… I know everything that it going on, every little factor I have computer is fit into my plan in which I'm not going to tell you. All you need to know is that you'll get your freedom and Biovolt's headquarters will be destroyed. Now I know you don't owe me a favor, but would you mind taking these stitches out of my back? They're a damn pain and they're holding me back because I can move fully with them still in." Turning around and trusting Brian enough to do as she asked Alexis put her back to him, removing her leotard enough so that he could see the stitches in her shoulder. Lightly her arms were placed over her chest to cover what the leotard exposed. "I got in here by using the secret passageways that I'm guessing you don't know about. You can use them to get out undetected tomorrow before noon, but just be out before noon or prepared to be dead and fried. Just a fair warning…"
"Secret passageways? I thought those were only rumors that the other kids talked about in the Abbey. It would've been useful if I knew of them before hand. I could've taken care of things on my own if I knew they were there." Bitterly Brian walked forward, lifting the knife in his hand to that the blade was pointed towards Snowflake's back. He could just kill her right here and now with herself being so exposed, yet still she seemed to trust him enough to turn her back to him and close her steel blue eyes. Digging the tip of the blade under the stitches he cut the medical string before pulling it out roughly, only to receive a soft cuff from Alexis as she whirled around, uttering a small -ouch- before hand when he pulled the strings out.
Brian looked taken back and mildly furious before Snowflake sighed ever so quietly. "Don't you know how to be gentle..? No? Here, let me show you. You can't be harsh and hurtful all the time. Sometimes things require you to be gentle and kind. Look it isn't that hard…" Taking the knife from Brian's unexpecting hand she turned his palm over, running the sharp blade over the tender skin slowly yet gently. "See? It's not that hard. To be gentle, even with a sharp object. You try now." Placing the hilt of the knife back into Brian's hand he looked rather startled at the notion of being -gentle-. Slate gray eyes looked at the out held palm before him, dark skin waiting for the edge of the knife's blade to run around the tender skin. For the first time he was shaky in his movements, holding Snowflake's hand with his free one while her placed the blade of the knife onto the tender skin of her palm and dragged the edge along it what he hoped was softly.
"Now see, look at that. It isn't hard to be gentle, and it isn't wrong to be gentle either. Feelings are not a sign of weakness, but a sign that shows you're growing stronger. Just being gentle you've shown me how much stronger you are growing from what I've heard about you. It's a shame we never had a chance to meet before hand, but I suppose some things happen that way." Alexis had already pulled her leotard top back on before doing her little demonstration with the knife. Brian looked quizzical and doubtful of the whole idea, but then again all of them Demolition Boys had been doubtful of the whole idea of actually having feelings and emotions. Suddenly Snowflake pulled her hand away from Brian's light grasp, slipping from the bed as a yawn emitted from her mouth, wolfish fangs clearly showing themselves.
"You just think about it, hmm? You can get out of the Abbey by going through the same passageway I go, but you'll follow the stairs going up. You'll exit by a small group of trees about three meters from the Abbey, and from there you need to run until you're a good distance away. Half a mile would do if you wanted to stand close to see what's going to happen, but take everything you want with you because I wouldn't plan on it still being there when I get done with Biovolt. Don't.. Don't tell Kai and the others that I've met you and what I've said until you find your way to South America to talk to them. Bye now." Alexis was already walking across the room as she started talking, slipping into the entrance of the passageway under the hanging tapestry before completely vanishing as she headed back to her won room for a good few hours of rest she would need, or possibly a detour to go see her parents in their suspended sleep. 'I wish you luck, Brian. I hope both you and Kai can learn to accept your feelings, even if I can't be there to help you…'
