Here's the thrilling second part to the Mutation Database chapters...this is a good one for you action-lovers...and just as an interesting fact: tomorrow is the aniversary of this story...which is disheartening for me, since I should have more done by now...but enjoy...
Meanwhile, Shawn was debating leaving the high security room. He didn't want to encounter another gun mounted on the wall. Looking around at all the glass containers, he debated freeing another specimen. Before he made up his mind, a group of six heavily armed guards ran into the room, obviously searching for him. Still in camouflage, Shawn crept from the room.
Once again, the flat artillery on the wall noticed him and began firing, this time without the alarm, as it was still blaring. Shawn ran the other way, only to discover another gun on the wall. Shawn ducked into the nearest room. Which happened to be full of scientists. Luckily, they couldn't see Shawn in his camouflaged form.
"Guess I'll hang around here for a while," Shawn thought to himself.
Tony stopped outside the room that Nyoko had instructed him to go to. He turned to the two students with him, "If I'm correct, you both have different ways of entering rooms."
They both nodded.
"Good," Tony continued, "Allen, you take the door, Kurt you take the right of the door, I'll take the left."
The three mutants got into position.
"On three," Tony held his hand in front of him, "One…two…three!"
Kurt disappeared as he teleported into the room. Allen easily slid under the door, his skin molding to fit through the small space. Tony quickly made a movement with his hand. The wall in front of him opened as a hole materialized.
The five scientists were too startled to take action as the three mutants entered the room. Kurt knocked two out cold with a kick to their heads. Tony created a void under two more of the scientists and they fell to the basement below. The last scientist tried to run from the room, but Allen slid out on the floor. As the scientist's foot made contact with Allen's skin, his feet slipped out from under him. His head made a loud thud when it hit the floor, taking his consciousness.
"Over here," Tony gestured them to the computer. Kurt opened a file cabinet next to the computer.
"Shall I take a few of these?" Kurt asked innocently.
"Sure, why not," Tony shrugged, "The more information the better."
"Dude, is this important?" Allen picked up a stack of floppy disks.
"Give me one of those," Tony took one off of the stack and put it in the computer.
"What are you doing?" Allen asked.
"I'm stealing information," Tony told him, "Oh, good it's an empty disk."
Tony began copying files on the computer and moving them to the disk. Kurt had taken a number of folders from the file cabinet.
"Dude, I'll go see if anyone's coming," Allen went over to Tony's hole in the wall.
"Almost done," Tony said to himself.
"Is there anyone coming?" Kurt asked still facing the file cabinet.
"Aw, dude, I'm so tired," Allen replied.
"What?" Kurt turned around just as Allen dropped to the floor.
Right outside the hole was a group of three scientists and two guards. The closest scientist had a TV remote-looking device in his hand.
Nyoko, Roy, and Aaron ran down the hallway, not meeting much resistance. There was an occasional guard or scientist, which they easily took care of. They soon reached places in the hallway, where flat-looking guns on the wall would fire at them. These gave them more trouble and it took them more time to dispose of them.
When they finally reached the high security room, they easily entered through the hole where the door once stood.
"Shawn should be in here," Nyoko said to the other two mutants, "There's the broken cage."
Upon hearing new voices, six guards stopped their searching and began advancing on the intruders. Nyoko quickly took action and jumped behind one of the glass tubes. Two of the guards began to move in her direction.
Roy went on the offensive and moved in to attack one of the guards. The guard lifted his gun and began firing off shots, each time failing to hit Roy. Roy slid across the floor, twisting to avoid the bullets being fired at him. Soon, there was nowhere for the guard to go. Roy whipped his tail around, pulling the guard's feet out from under him. Before the guard could hit the ground, however, Roy landed a kick to his midsection sending him careening into one of the large glass tubes, which shattered.
The creature that rolled out of the damaged tube looked like a dark ball of plasma with eyes. As soon as it hit the floor, it began sprouting legs and scuttling across the floor. The creature spotted one of the guards who was aiming his gun towards Roy. The creature launched itself through the air and landed on the guard's face. The guard began yelling in pain as the plasma-ball's legs transformed into pincers and began snapping at the guard's face.
Aaron had transformed into a bright blue squid that sported a pair of slipper-like feet along with its tentacles. The two guards that had approached him now backed away slowly.
"What, do you think I can't see you?" Aaron scoffed, although all that came out was a high-pitched screech, "I can see just as well as I did when I was…human!"
Aaron stretched out two of his tentacles and grabbed the guards. After being swung about quite a bit, the guards found themselves flying through the air as Aaron let them go. Two more glass tubes shattered as the guards collided with them.
Nyoko was slipping between the tubes while the last two guards ran after her with their weapons ready. Everything looked distorted as she looked through the glass containers. She stopped as she saw one of the guards through a series of the glass tubes. The moment he stepped from behind the tubes, he was rendered helpless by a bolt of bright yellow electricity. The position he was in, however, wasn't balanced enough to keep him standing. His immobile form tipped over and collided with one of the large glass tubes. And the tube went down with him. The tube bumped into the tube next to it and gravity took over.
As Nyoko walked through the remains of the tubes, she spotted the other guard. He had been crushed by one of the tubes. There was now a plethora of different creatures roaming about the room.
"It's time to go," Nyoko said to Roy and the blue squid which transformed back into Aaron.
Shawn spotted a pile of metal tiles lying to the right of one of the scientists. He wondered if the tiles were thick enough to resist the attacks from the guns on the wall. He crept to the pile of tiles quietly. He froze as he brushed against the scientist.
"What?" the scientist looked to his right, seeing, of course, nothing.
Shawn acted quickly and tapped the scientist on his left shoulder. The scientist's head spun to his left. The scientist's expression went from fear to annoyance.
"Stop playing about, Riffen," the scientist scolded the scientist next to him, "There's work to be done."
The scientist known as Riffen gave the scientist a confused look, "What is this nonsense you speak of, Druppins? I have done nothing wrong."
"Don't play innocent with me, Riffen!" Druppins said, his voice growing louder.
"Riffen and Druppins," Shawn thought to himself, "I'm so glad I'm a Kerr."
As Riffen and Druppins continued to shout at each other, Shawn began to drag the metal tile across the floor. The other scientists were too interested in the shouting to notice the escaping tile.
Once Shawn was back in the hallway, the gun on the wall spotted him again. But this time, Shawn held up the metal tile. The blasts from the gun simply left burn marks on the metal. Using the blocking technique, Shawn moved quickly down the hallway, looking like a floating metal tile in his camouflage form.
Kurt and Tony stood frozen to the spot, not daring to move. The three scientists and the two guards had moved into the room, the first scientist still pointing the remote at the two conscious mutants. Tony and Kurt looked towards the door as another man accompanied by two more guards walked in. The man had his shoulder-length hair pulled back and he wore circular sunglasses.
"So these are the filthy beings that have caused this disaster," the man said loathingly.
"Actually, we believe there are more," one of the scientists said.
The man hesitated a moment before taking a two-way radio from his belt, "Larson! Form a squad and find the rest of the scum!"
The man replaced the radio and turned to one of the scientists, "Take your sleeping specimen and put it somewhere. I get these ones since you didn't take them for yourselves."
"But…" the scientist started.
The scientist received a glare from the man, "Yes, Clark."
The scientist moved to pick up the unconscious Allen, but when he tried to lift him, Allen's skin slid right through his fingers.
"You're the scientist, you figure it out," Clark said, irritated, before the scientist could state his problem.
Tony and Kurt watched as the man called Clark walked towards them. Clark stopped around five feet away, obviously not wanting to get close to the mutants that he loathed so much.
"Mutants," Clark said, "You're only two of the countless creatures that exist in this world. If I could, I'd kill you all right now. But, unfortunately, that's not possible, now is it?"
Nyoko ran down the hallway, closely followed by Roy and Aaron. Any of the security guns that were mounted on the wall were destroyed quickly.
As the trio rounded a corner, they nearly collided with a group of armed men led by a tall, dark-haired woman.
"Take them alive," the woman ordered without hesitation.
The men began pulling tranquilizer pistols from their belts. There was no choice for the mutants except to fight or get shot with a tranquilizer dart.
Aaron quickly morphed into an armchair-sized, scorpion-like creature with several extra arms. These extra arms attached themselves to the ceiling while the regular arms began making threatening motions towards the guards.
Roy immediately attacked, first using his tail to eliminate his opponent's balance. Once his targets were off their feet, Roy had no trouble taking them from consciousness. The problem was the numerous amount of replacements that kept appearing.
Nyoko, on the other hand, was occupied with her attacker, the woman who led the guards. Nyoko had quickly kicked the woman's tranquilizer pistol from her grasp and was now locked in combat with her. Nyoko was surprised at the woman's agility and skill with hand-to-hand combat. Nyoko took a kick to the stomach and she doubled over as she tried to quickly regain her breath. It wasn't quickly enough, however, as the skilled woman knocked Nyoko's feet out from under her. Nyoko lay on the floor, breathing hard.
"We should have the mutants in custody very soon," the woman began speaking into a two-way radio as she walked towards her fallen tranquilizer pistol.
"Good, Larson," came the response, "Bring them to me when they are taken care of."
The woman, Larson, replaced the radio on her belt and picked up the tranquilizer pistol. Nyoko's eyes widened and she realized that she had to do something quickly. Bright yellow electricity began to flow from Nyoko's hands as Larson pulled the trigger. The mobilized tranquilizer dart collided with the flowing electricity and was hurled off in another direction. A guard toppled to the floor as the wayward dart entered his skin.
Larson looked alarmed and reached for another dart from her belt. This was the perfect amount of time for Nyoko. Nyoko jumped up from the floor and released several volts of electricity from her outstretched palms.
Nyoko's satisfaction turned to shock as Larson drew from her belt a thin metal cylinder instead of the tranquilizer dart. As Nyoko's electricity struck the cylinder, the flashing bolts were deflected back towards Nyoko. Nyoko absorbed as much of her own energy as she could as she was thrown backward once more.
Clark had been rambling endlessly on his loathing of mutants for quite some time now, and Kurt and Tony were feeling like joining Allen in his slumber. Tony glanced back at Clark, who was talking about some gruesome way to do away with mutants. Behind Clark, the hole where the other scientists and guards stood, something caught Tony's eye. There had been a flicker at the edges of the wall where the void ended. Tony couldn't hold back his grin.
"Yes, if it were up to me," Clark continued, "I would…,"
Clark stopped talking as he noticed the grin on Tony's face. Clark frowned and glanced behind him. The situation dawned on him as he noticed a little flicker on the edges of the hole.
"Watch yourselves!" he yelled, too late. Tony's void expelled the last of its energy and the wall closed back up where it used to be. The four guards were now trapped outside the room, while one scientist was still trying to pick up Allen and one was trapped inside the wall, his torso poking out of the metal paneling. The last scientist had been startled by Clark's sudden outburst and had jumped and backed himself into a corner. Kurt took the confusion to his advantage and removed the consciousness from the two scientists who were fully in the room.
Clark who had been watching Kurt with astonishment and panic, didn't see Tony shove a large, wheeled file cabinet in his direction. Clark stumbled into the wall as the file cabinet made contact with him. As he looked up from his position on the floor, he watched as Kurt took hold of Allen and Tony and teleported from the room. Clark got up as fast as he could and grabbed a two-way radio from one of the fallen scientists.
"Larson!" Clark shouted furiously into the radio, "The mutant scum are getting away!"
"Hold on, Boss!" Larson's voice came back, rather out of breath, "I'm in the middle of…"
There was an exclamation of pain on Larson's side of the connection.
"Larson!" Clark shouted into the radio, "Larson!"
After receiving no reply, Clark hurled the radio against the wall, spraying the room with sparks and other spare parts. Clark ran to the door, quickly opening it.
"Wait! What about me?" the scientist trapped in the wall protested.
"You're the scientist! YOU figure it out!" Emil Clark shouted and immediately left the room and hurried down the hallway.
Emil found Kendall Larson lying on the floor along with several other unconscious guards, a few just getting up. Kendall was rubbing her head as she sat up in pain.
"What happened?" Emil asked impatiently.
"We had the mutants under control," Kendall started, "until some invisible force showed up. I didn't even know what hit me."
Emil showed no sympathy as he snatched another two-way radio from a nearby guard.
"Dome!" Emil shouted into the radio.
"No need to shout, boss," an irritable voice came over the radio.
"There's no time for your complaints, Dome!" Emil yelled frustrated, "Ready my helicopter!"
"Yeah, sure," Dome's voice replied.
Emil tossed the radio back to the guard and turned to Kendall.
"Gather a squadron and follow me," Emil ordered, "We're going to catch those mutants!"
Not bad, right? Anyway, I hope to get more done with this highly unobserved story...I thinkI have one reader as of now...that's pretty sad...