Darren stared at her, his eyes full of sympathy. "That's horrible."
Chloe nodded grimly, "Ashley was wrong too, the next few months were just as bad. Everyday we got up and fought with each other, trying to inflict as much pain on each other as possible. If we did something wrong, if we didn't try, we got shocked through those metal cuffs, like a dog." Chloe frowned deeply. "When Mason Eckhart, a scientist at Genomex, found out what Morgenstein was planning on doing, he turned him into the police, telling them about the illegal gene manipulation. But he conveniently forgot to tell the police about the army Morgenstein had been forming. Eckhart began to try and locate the secret place that Morgenstein had hidden his army in order to eliminate them. He was scared of us, and what we might do to the world. One night, the night you found me, he found us." ...
The sky opened up and the rain poured down from the heavens. Chloe threw punch after punch, her stomach growling from hunger, the rain washing away the sweat that accumulated from the day's harsh fighting. Her opponent fell to the ground, and once again Chloe was victorious, but it didn't matter anymore. Her life had no meaning. Everyday she woke up only to find that she was fighting for a cause that she didn't believe in, and she didn't want to do that anymore.
A shrill alarm rang loudly. Chloe looked around in a slight panic; she knew, like all the others, that the alarm was only for one purpose. They had been found, and were going to die.
Chaos ensued as Eckhart's army marched in, carrying what mutants feared most, guns. Chloe ran as fast as her legs could carry her, slipping in the mud. She hadn't gotten very far when the impassable perimeter fence stopped her. Her feral side taking control, she turned to face the enemy and do the only thing she could do, fight. Chloe leapt up into the air, landing in front of the army. She took down person after person, ignoring anything that stood in her way. In a sudden moment of peace, she stopped fighting to survey the activity around her. She became lost in a daze, thinking about her friends as they were killed for trying to defend themselves.
"Chloe!" Ashley's panicked voice put Chloe on high alert.
She turned in the direction that Ashley's voice was coming from, only to see a gun pointed straight at her chest. She gasped in fear and braced herself for the oncoming pain. But Ashley had stepped in front of her, and using her molecular abilities, changed her body density to block the bullet.
"I owe you one," Chloe breathed with relief.
"You can thank me later, let's go!" Ashley and Chloe sprinted towards the gate. Ashley placed her hand on the metal, changing its density so Chloe could run through. Ashley followed, leaving the ruthless slaughtering of innocent mutants behind.
"Where's Ashley now?" Darren asked Chloe, after a moment of silence.
Chloe looked at the floor, shrugging. "I don't know. One moment, I looked behind me to see if she was there. And she wasn't. I had to keep going, I had to escape from them. I knew I wouldn't be able to help her until I had helped myself."
A sigh escaped from Chloe's lips as she slowly got down from the barstool.
"Going to bed?" Darren questioned.
Chloe nodded, "I need to take about a million sleeping pills to gets those images out of my head."
"Want me to wake Angie? She's a pysonic, a telempathic specifically, and she can calm your emotions," Darren offered.
"I can deal with it." Chloe headed off down the hallway to the medical lab, limping slightly.