Hello all!

I am back with a new chapter, sorry to the few who are reading this I have been really sick and swamped with school work..

But I am feeling much better so..

On with the chapter!

Oh...I own nothing...except my OC's

Lilly: Oh goodie...

As they walked through yet another guard station Lilly noted that they did not take the usual turn right, but instead went straight, into a sector she had never been to before. She glanced down the hallways, despite the uniform look of all the walkways she still made a mental note to herself to become familiar with the path they now took, being in case of an emergency she wanted to know where backup was. The only difference of this hall from any others was the fact the main accent color seemed to be red. It's not much of a life line but it was something, and that is better than getting lost Lilly thought. They walked silently, the only sound being their boots hitting on the metal floor and the occasional beeping from machines, there was always the hum of agony about the area but after a while one just tends to drown it out as background noise.

At the end of the straightaway they were greeted by another set of doors with two guards at either side of it, they all nodded at each other in recognition when the door opened. A smaller elderly man waddled out, swiftly removing his goggles and gloves and stuffing them in his coat pocket. When this was done he looked at the two guards, "Oh, well Hello there, I will jump to assume you are the two coming to help out around here?" While Jade stated in normal KG fashion of "affirmative" Lilly looked at the old man from behind her mask, from his clothes she could tell he was a scientist that much was sure, but the interesting thing she noted was that he seemed happy which being in this place of doom and gloom seemed a bit odd. A sudden nudge from her large companion brought Lilly back out of her head, they were moving into the open doorway. When they got through it closed and locked with several loud clicks. They stopped at a desk in a circular reception room, the man started to write something on a sheet on the desk, then he paused, "Ah," the old man coughed, "Could I get your names? I would much rather call you by that rather than Big and Small while we are working together today." He gave them a kind smile.

"Small is Lilly, or Lil' or sunshine if it suits you better," Jade jabbed a thumb in her friend's direction then to herself, ignoring the stare she was getting from Lilly, "and I am Jade, or J.D. whatever again you feel like callin' me, Big isn't bad neither."

The old man laughed and wrote the names down, once he was finished he put the pen down and turned to face the girls, "Well, you can call me Dr. Wilson, or Sir…" he paused and chuckled again, "or perhaps even Dr. Sir."

He suddenly ushered them forward through one of the hallways branching off the room, "I suppose I should explain what is going on here and what you are to do today." He sighed and stopped in front of some blinds. Lilly looked at them, could there be sunlight here? How far down are we…or are we out of the city enough they are not worried about on lookers... Her thoughts stopped once Dr. Wilson started talking.

"We have started a new stage of experimentation, while you may have questions I do not know if I am going to be able to answer them, I am only allowed to tell you so much." He looked at the blinds and continued, "We are working with metal head DNA now mixed into the dark eco. It is easy to do being that metal heads already harbor the substance in their body. But, if you are sharp guards like I think you are, being you had to pass an evaluation to come to this sector, you will note we have not had any new…er, subjects brought in." He turned to face the blinds, gesturing with his hand for them to turn as well. "There was an incident; a few families decided it would be fun to go outside the wall. Needless to say, they were attacked and killed…leaving sixteen children and three teenagers behind." His eyes darkened, he could feel the looks that were coming from the two girls, "I am proud of my research, but not of how I had to do it. Please, understand this. We are all expendable; I didn't want to be another statistic because I refused."

He pulled the blinds open, inside was a young man bound to the wall, covered in blood and dirt, his head was down and his dirty hair covered his face. Jade sucked in a breath, he was transformed, a tail hung loosely between his legs, his feet were now elongated and ended in black claws off his toes, much like that of a metal head, Lilly couldn't discern his skin or hair color with him being so dirty. There was a girl inside, sitting pretty as a button on a chair, about six feet away from him; from the occasional moving of the man's head they were most likely talking.

"Is he one of the teens that you mentioned?" Lilly's voice was level and calm, Dr. Wilson nodded, "The only one left…survivor rate is relativity low." She nodded "And who is she?" Lilly pointed a finger at the dirty blonde girl, Dr. Wilson cleared his throat, "Oh that..." he reached up and rubbed a temple, "is Bennet."

A little shorter than the first I know I am sorry, working on that whole writing more.

Next up:

"Lil, what's that clicky sound mean?" Jade looked to the girl working rapidly on the circuits before her, frantically cutting wires and rearranging the plugs."Well, Jade...that "clicky" noise, " she tilted her head side to side while keeping her eyes focused on her hands, and sharply cut off the end of the word with a click of her teeth, "is the system failing...and apparently no one hooked up this sector to the backup generator...no..wait...scratch that, there is no back up generator!" Lilly looked up to her friend, who looked back at her with wide eyes gripping her gun tightly.

YAY!

Lilly: /sigh