I know you're all excited because I posted this chapter so early, but it's really an expiriment to find out why my story aquires indents and others do not. I am finding out this minute...perhaps not this minute, but I am finding out at a minute sometime. Well, enjoy your early chapter.
Travis woke up to a knock on the door. Climbing down from the top bunk, he made his way to the door, attempting to smooth down his hair. He opened it to see Aaron and Shawn standing there calmly.
"What do you want?" Travis rubbed his eyes, "It's not even breakfast time yet."
"We want to come in," Shawn told him and walked into the room, followed by Aaron.
Travis mumbled something and crawled back into his bed. Aaron and Shawn approached the bed underneath.
"Franky," Aaron spoke into Frank's ear softly, "Wake up, Franky."
The sound of Aaron's voice not only woke Frank, but Cory and Chris, who had taken Max's place, also woke up.
"What purpose are you guys fulfilling by invading our sleeping quarters so early?" Frank groaned.
"Your humunginormous words have no effect on us, space fiend!" Aaron said, a little overdramatically.
"Where'd that come from, bro?" Shawn scratched his head, "Anyway, we need to borrow your laptop."
"For what purpose?" Frank pressed his face into his pillow.
Aaron and Shawn both looked at each other and smiled, "None of your...BEESWAX!"
"Ooh!" Cory moaned, "I hate when people say that."
"Yeah, sure," Frank was too tired to protest, "It's beneath my sleeping quarters. Return it to this specific location when you're no longer in requirement of it."
Shawn pulled the laptop from under the bed and followed Aaron from the room with a little wave.
When they reached their room, they crept in quietly.
"Shh," Shawn put a finger to his lips, "We don't want to wake Kyle and Roberto."
"Even though we just woke up another whole room," Aaron smiled and plugged in the laptop.
"What was that site?" Shawn clicked on the internet shortcut.
"Something like www . mutationdatabase . org," Aaron said quietly.
Shawn typed it in and the site popped up.
"Looks pretty mysterious and secretive to me," Aaron commented, "Go to that recent news thing."
Shawn clicked on Recent News. A list of entries popped up.
"Start at the bottom," Aaron instructed.
"I'll start where I wanna," Shawn pouted, but scrolled down to the bottom where the least recent entries were.
The first few articles were nothing but a bunch of deals made by the organization. The next two were written in different languages, none of which the twins could decipher. The next article caught their attention.
"Look," Shawn ordered.
"I'm looking," Aaron said, irritably, "What, did you think I was watching our roommates snooze?"
"You never know with the way you think," Shawn commented and began to read, "It says...,"
"I know what it says!" Aaron said a little over a whisper.
"Shh!" Shawn hissed.
Getting to the point, the article stated:
After our recent obtainment of what we call the Larva, (There was a nearby picture of a hideous black beetle with a shiny, dark-reddish head. The slightly bloated head was accompanied by a pair of beady eyes which were hard to see.) which we believe to be a mutant, we examined the DNA of the specimen. After receiving the results, we recruited a volunteer test subject (there wasn't a supplementary photo, but Aaron made a comment about 'volunteer') and conducted a few experiments. Nothing has resulted so far in our findings. We hope that a great discovery will be made.
"Well, my IQ just dropped a good sixty notches," Aaron muttered, "How 'bout you?"
"Sixty-two," Shawn grinned, "What else do we have in this 'legal' website?"
The twins scrolled through a plethora of articles, none of which provided any useful information. One article did state that the 'volunteer' test subject had mutated horribly and had been locked away for everyone's safety. There was no picture of this mutation.
"My interest in this site has long since moved to Zimbabwe and is living happily with twelve kids," Aaron said with a yawn, "Anything else?"
"Here's something relatively interesting," Shawn began reading another article, "Here, check it out."
Two days ago, the crimes of breaking-and-entering, vandalism, assault, and theft were committed here in our laboratory.("Like they haven't committed any crimes themselves,"—Aaron) We believe the criminals responsible for this disaster are or working for mutants.("Everything gets blamed on us mutants!"—Aaron) Our guards were unable to provide any protection due to the phenomenal immobilizing of their eyesight.("Frank's the only person who could actually read this, with all these big words and stuff,"—Aaron)("Shut up, Aaron,"—Shawn) When the disaster was over, we discovered that both the Larva and our volunteer test subject had disappeared, as well as one of our other discoveries, the Gemstone(see our experiment log). Although there were no witnesses to the attack, we were able to capture the event on our numerous security cameras. Click on the link below to view what we successfully taped.
Shawn clicked on the link. The twins found themselves looking at a series of different screens. Two screens were filming the outside of the building. The others were watching the inside hallways and lab rooms. The first outside screen was obviously placed on the roof. It was completely normal except for what looked like a large, furry bird was perched a little ways from the camera. The second outside camera was hidden near the ground. The twins stared at the large, iron fence on the screen.
"Wow, look at all that footage," Aaron's voice was dripping with sarcasm, "These guys really know how to catch a criminal in action."
"This footage is probably from Burger King at night, anyway," Shawn commented, still watching the action-less scene, "I'm surprised it's in color."
The twins abruptly became silent as a hole began to form in the fence. They squinted as a head chewed through the fence. Two arms appeared and pulled the rest of the body into the area.
"Looks human to me," Shawn shrugged.
The figure stepped into the moonlight. It was a black-clad male who looked in his late twenties. He was slightly shorter than average and wore a black knit cap over his dark, curly hair which hung a little lower than his ears.
After looking around, the criminal took a look through the hole in the fence and made a beckoning movement with his hand. A moment later, three more figures came through the hole in the fence. Actually, only two figures came through the hole. The third brought down the entire fence.
The first and second figure entered the moonlight. The first figure was crouching, looking away from the camera. He had extremely pale skin and a long, dark ponytail hanging from the back of his head. He had large hands with tiny claws and as he turned towards the camera, the twins glimpsed his gleaming, red eyes.
The second figure looked perfectly normal.
"Do you think that's a human?" Shawn asked, "Maybe he hired those mutants or something."
"We'll see," Aaron just watched the monitor, "Now...we watch."
The third figure was huge. It was easily as tall as a one story house. Its features weren't distinguishable in the dark, but it resembled a massive chunk of rock. When it walked into the moonlight, it blocked it out from the other figures.
"Hey, wait!" Aaron exclaimed quietly, "Where'd that one guy go?"
When the gigantic being had blocked the moonlight, the crouching, red-eyed mutant had simply vanished.
"Invisibility, Aaron," Shawn tapped his brother's head, "Camouflage. My specialty."
The visible figures walked into a doorway and disappeared from the screen.
"Time to switch to another camera," Shawn pressed a few buttons and another camera screen appeared, this time from an inner location.
The only form of life was a group of five guards. They were standing around, obviously bored out of their minds. It wasn't long before they were confronted by the normal-looking man from outside. The other beings were nowhere to be seen. The guards were instantly alert. One of the guards began to speak to the man. Unfortunately, the cameras hadn't acquired any form of sound, so the conversation was lost.
"That's some high quality equipment there," Aaron said, still in sarcastic mode, "Even better than surround sound."
The guard shook his head. The criminal turned around to walk away. Suddenly, he spun around and pointed his hand at the guards. The guards were obviously stunned. Two rubbed their eyes, as if they couldn't see. Two more began to walk into things. The last one fell to his knees and began crawling around, looking for an exit.
"Guess he is a mutant," Shawn said, mainly to himself.
The mutant continued down the hall, past the guards. He was followed by the fence-eating mutant. One of the guards began to recover from the strange attack. He was knocked off his feet again by something unseen in the dark. The guard reached for his pistol, but his hand began to bleed and he clutched it in pain. At that moment, the huge mountain of a mutant lumbered through the hallway, shoulders grinding against the wall. The screen turned to static as the mutant's enormous finger crushed the camera into the wall.
"They sure get around," Aaron remarked.
Shawn sighed his agreement and switched to another camera. The twins jumped a good foot off the bed. This movement was accompanied by shout of surprise and sudden fright.
The chosen camera screen had appeared and the twins had found themselves staring into a pair of blood red eyes.
"Tricky little blighter," Shawn said, catching his breath.
"I hate mutants," Aaron said, a little irritated from his unexpected scare, "Wait, what am I saying?"
"What are you guys doing?" Roberto seemed a little more irritated than Aaron.
"What's all the shouting about?" Kyle grumbled sleepily.
"We're, uh, nothing," Shawn said innocently.
"You know that never works," Roberto yawned.
"We're checking our Email," Aaron said with what he thought to be a convincing face.
"What's so scary about Email?" Kyle asked, accompanied by a 'you're not getting away with this one' look.
"Oh, ok," Shawn hung his head, "We're looking at a website."
"Wait, Shawn!" Aaron slapped his forehead dramatically, "Rewind that a little bit! The eyes disappeared."
"Oh, right!" Shawn quickly tapped another few keys, "Here we go."
"What are you guys watching?" Roberto began to climb down from his bed.
"Muppets in Space," Aaron said without looking up, "Go back to bed."
"No," Roberto walked over to them, "You've gotten my attention."
"We always seem to do that," Shawn said, defeated.
"Make room," Kyle squeezed in between the twins, "I want to see."
Roberto and Kyle became quiet while the video clip continued.
The eyes vanished and the screen was filled with static once more. Shawn quickly brought up another camera screen and the four continued to watch. This camera was in what looked like the main laboratory.
The normal-looking mutant was standing in the middle of the room pointing to various places, obviously giving directions. The fence-eating mutant walked towards a metal door and tried to punch a combination into the keypad. He obviously failed because a little red light went off next to the door and the mutant shook his head. That didn't stop him for long, however, he was immediately chewing through the door as if it were a giant sandwich. The pale, red-eyed mutant suddenly appeared and said something to the normal-looking mutant. The huge mutant trudged into the room and stopped beside the door that was now halfway eaten. A few moments later the door was completely gone. The huge mutant followed the fence/door-eating mutant into the room(which had no camera).
"Makes me hungry," Aaron said.(The twins then adopted nicknames for the criminals: normal-looking mutant = Eyeball Killer, fence/door eating mutant = Munchie, pale, red-eyed mutant = Muffin(no reason), huge mutant = Molehill.)
Muffin had disappeared once again. Munchie and Molehill soon came out of the room. Molehill carried two unconscious forms. One was the bug-thing called the Larva. The other was some mutated thing that the twins suspected was the 'volunteer' test subject.
Muffin entered the room again and lay another form on the ground. It was a body that looked like it was made of some sort of crystal. It had a faint, purplish glow to it. Molehill lifted this body onto its shoulder with the other forms. Eyeball Killer then gestured to follow him. Muffin disappeared and Munchie and Molehill left the room with Eyeball Killer.
"Well, they'll probably go out the way they came in," Shawn closed the link, "And the cameras are already dead."
"What was all that?" Kyle asked, bewildered.
"Oh, you know," Aaron waved the question away, "Home movies...Me and Shawn were just filming around and we wanted to send it in to a movie director and see if he would make it into a feature length film."
"He speaks the truth!" Shawn stood up, nearly dropping the laptop.
"YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!!!" Aaron thundered, standing up next to him.
"Well, you just woke up the rest of the school," Roberto stood up, "Nice job."
"I'm going to breakfast," Kyle headed for the door, "But, beware, miserable Kerrs, for we will find out what you're up to."
The twins waited until Roberto followed Kyle from the room.
"Ooh, that was clever," Aaron folded his arms.
"That's miserable CURS," Shawn mimicked his brother's position, "With a C!"
Not much action, but it's longer than the last few chapters. ARE YOU HAPPY NOW?! I shouldn't yell like that...where would I be without you reviewers?