Chapter Eight- Keep you safe
When I regained consciousness I was lying on a hard concrete floor. I groaned and sat up. Wherever I was it was dark and cold. There was a tiny shaft of light coming through a slit in the wall high up. It was much too small for two bird kids to escape out of. It looked to me early afternoon. I looked around the dark room for Iggy; he was about 5 feet away from me starting to wake up. I shuffled over to him. It was painful, I was bruised all over.
"Hey," I said softly kneeling beside him. He opened his eyes.
"Ugh." He moaned. "Are you hurt?"
"Not that much, a little bit bruised. What about you?" I downplayed it a little bit so he wouldn't worry.
"Kind of the same thing. Do you know where we are?" He looked around at a room he couldn't see.
"It's a cell or something, it's mostly dark. I think we're underground." I spotted a wooden door. I went over to it and tried to open it. It was locked. In slammed up against it trying to knock it down. It wouldn't budge.
"What are you doing?"
"Trying to break down the door! It's not working!"
"It's okay. I think I've got some..." he dug through his pockets. "Crap! They took all my explosives!"
"We're stuck." I couldn't think of another way out. It was hopeless.
"No we will. I'll get us out of here. I'll keep you safe." I went and sat next to him on the hard ground. He put both arms around me and pulled me close to him. There was a sound like keys rattling and four people stepped into the room. Two of them I knew.
"Oh look Violet's got a boyfriend." My clone taunted. I felt like hitting her. She was holding the hand of a boy who was a similar age to me. He had steely grey eyes that showed no emotion. Must be Omega.
"Wait, I'm confused. Why are you taunting yourself?" Iggy said.
"Iggy, meet my clone, and look ter Borcht is here too. And I finally have the displeasure of meeting Omega."
"I know ter Borcht. Yo, ter Borcht did you ever eat those nine snicker bars?" Ter Borcht looked as if he might explode with anger.
"I see you are as annoying as ever." He growled at Iggy. Iggy simply grinned.
"Yup, I still have a good sense of irony." He said happily.
"Enough!" shouted the fourth person, the only one who I haven't heard of or meet before. He was a short fat Asian man. "I am Mr Chu."
"You're the guy who kidnapped Max's mom and dumped all that nuclear waste in the ocean. So you're working with ter Borcht now. Weird partnership." Iggy commented. Mr Chu looked as angry as ter Borcht.
"Nah they have the same tempers it's a match made in heaven. Or hell." I said
"Ter Borcht come and prepare the experiments. That will shut them up." Mr Chu left the room with ter Borcht following dutifully. Omega and my clone stay behind guarding the door.
"Well, I can see who wears the pants in that relationship." I chuckled.
"You're not making your situation better by making fun of everyone." Violet 2.0 commented.
"Please leave. I feel like making out with Iggy and you're ruining the mood." Iggy looked happy at this.
"We've been assigned to guard you. We cannot leave." Omega said robotically.
"Enjoy the show then." Iggy said and kissed me passionately wrapping his arms around my waist. I grabbed his hair and kissed him back. I heard my clone and Omega make sounds of disgust but I didn't care. The one good thing about this was that I was with Iggy. I didn't know how much time left we had so I was planning to enjoy it as much as possible. Making out with him kept me calm and made me happy. Iggy looked more relaxed too.
I saw Violet 2.0 and Omega watching us curiously but angrily. I'm guessing Mr and Mrs Perfect didn't do stuff like this. It didn't look like an intimate relationship, Iggy and I were the exact opposite as we were showing them.
"You are disgusting." Omega said. Violet 2.0 nodded holding onto his hand.
"You should try it sometime it's fun." Iggy said between kisses.
"We don't do those kinds of activities." Omega snarled.
"But how will you repopulate the world with perfect babies?" Iggy asked putting on a very fake innocent expression.
"Let's guard outside the door." Violet 2.0 said angrily and they both stormed out slamming the door behind them. Iggy and I fell about laughing.
"That was so funny." I giggled.
"They are so easy to wind up."
"I don't think they have a very intimate relationship." I said this loudly enough for them to hear. I heard angry whispers outside the door and knew my insult reached its target.
"You should've told me about your clone."
"I thought she was imprisoned or something. She's not a perfect clone. It's my human DNA no bird."
"So her and perfect boy are a thing?"
"Pretty much." We sat quietly and listened to the conversation going on outside.
"They are completely inappropriate!" Omega said.
"Maybe we could try it just once." Violet 2.0 muttered. I heard a slapping noise. I couldn't believe she just took that. If Iggy hit me I would leave him so fast. But he never would so I'd never have to. Another of the reasons why Iggy is a much better boyfriend than Omega.
"No, I want to as well but we can't give into our urges." I clapped my hand over my mouth to stop myself from laughing.
"I'm sorry your right. I can't believe I even considered that."
"They are inferior to us; we cannot let them get to us
"Of course, they are just showing off. Idiots."
"I agree wholeheartedly. That other Violet will get what's coming to her."
"They'll really understand each other after that. All we need to do is wait for the message." they both laughed coldly.
"I must say, I bet your clone is hot and all but she's a total jerk. I'm glad I'm with the part avian, all wonderful, original Violet." Iggy whispered. I nodded.
"Iggy, I'm nodding." He smiled and kissed my forehead.
"I'm sorry that I gave into my urges." We both laughed.
"I like your urges."The door flew open and banged on the wall loudly. Omega strode in and grabbed me by the arm. He kicked Iggy in the head and pulled me off him. Iggy, whose nose was bleeding, jumped up and lunged for omega but two M-Geeks rushed in and held him back. I tried to struggle out of Omega's vice-like grip. He dragged me up stairs and down a hallway. I was thrust into a hard chair. My head slammed against the hard headrest. Omega restrained me in the chair and taped my mouth shut.
"Wait here." He said. Like I could do much else. I was left tied up in the chair for a long time. It was incredibly uncomfortable. The restraints were tight and cutting off my blood circulation. I tried to break free but the restraints were made of iron. I didn't know what the M-Geeks were doing to Iggy. I hoped he was okay. Finally a team of scientists led by ter Borcht filed into the room. Some of the White coats came over to me and started hooking me up to electrodes. I had been hooked up to electrodes before for ECGs and stuff like that but something seemed wrong about this. One of the white coats was looking at monitor.
"Are ve ready for the shock?" Ter Borcht asked the white coat. Shock? What shock?
"Yes sir, the brain waves are good." The white coat at the monitor replied. Another white coat turned a dial. And I felt pain. It was excruciating. A shock went through my head. I screamed but it was muffled by the tape over my mouth. I felt tears falling down my cheeks. I squeezed my eyes tightly shut. I had never known pain like this.
As quickly as it had started it stopped. I opened my eyes. For a second I wondered if they had turned out the lights because it was pitch black. I couldn't see a thing. I blinked but nothing changed. I froze. What had they done to me? I felt the tape be ripped harshly off my mouth. It hurt but compared to the pain I had just been though it was gentle.
"Vhat can you see?" Ter Borcht asked.
"Nothing." I said blankly. "What have you done to me?"
"It's only temporary. You shall be able to see again tomorrow morning when you wake up. Enjoy your evening." He said this in a way that made me think he was smirking but I couldn't tell. I was unrestrained and pulled down a hallway. I stumbled down what felt like steps and was shoved hard. Then I was caught be something solid.
"Violet!" It was Iggy. I started gasping and sobbing as I felt warm hands wrap around me and hold me tightly, "What did they do to you."
"I can't see." I whimpered. Iggy pulled me down and onto his lap. I cried into his chest as he rocked me slowly back and forward. "They shocked me. It hurt. It's only temporary. Until I wake up tomorrow morning."
"It's okay, I'm here. I know everything there is to know about being blind. I'll look after you." I felt better knowing he was here but I was still so disoriented and confused. I didn't want to cry in front of him but I couldn't seem to stop. I snuggled into his chest for hours as he patiently stayed with me. I heard the door open and Iggy tightened his grip around me.
"Here's some food." A cruel voice said. I hadn't eaten since we had a beach side picnic before we broke into Itex almost a day ago and I was starving. But how could I eat when I couldn't see the food. I stayed perfectly still while I listened to Iggy's chewing.
"Why aren't you eating?" he asked sounding concerned. I felt frustrated that I couldn't see his expression.
"Not hungry." I mumbled. My stomach rumbled.
"You need to eat."
"I can't. I can't see the food."
"Okay, I'll help you." I felt something near my mouth.
"What are you doing?"
"Feeding you. You can't do it yourself so I'm going to do it for you. Open up." It was so sweet of him to help me like this. I knew I definitely had made the right choice in Iggy. I gingerly took a bite. It tasted like peanut butter and jelly sandwich. It's not exactly gourmet but when you haven't eaten for a day anything tastes good. I ate a couple of sandwiches until I felt relatively full. I heard a smashing sound.
"What was that?" I asked feeling sort of alert.
"I broke the plate. We could use it for like weapons or something." Trust Iggy to turn something as innocent as a plate into a weapon.
"Oh, okay."
"When you can see again. Tomorrow we're going to find a way out of here. I don't know how but we will. What they've done to you, it's awful and I don't want anything else to happen to you. So we've got to get to safety."
"Yeah we do. Good idea."
"We'll talk about it in the morning. I promise you, I will get you out of here alive." Warm lips met mine. "Go to sleep. The sooner you sleep the sooner you will be able to see. Good night."
"Night and thank you for today."
"It was nothing. I would do it any day." I shut my eyes out of habit even though I was already enthralled in darkness. I dozed of drifting into dreams. I heard one whispered sentence before I feel asleep.
"Sweet dreams my darling."