Intermission: Base 14
Pyro fell to the linoleum, choking. His side burned and his mouth tasted like smoke.
"John, you are being difficult. What I am asking you to do is very simple. Create fire."
He slammed a hand against the wall of glass separating him from the white coats. A second electric shock drove him back to his knees.
"I'm telling you I can't." he snarled.
Dr. Stryker gave him a long look. "I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that you aren't a fool. Create fire or I will get that pretty little girl from the cell, and I will take her apart personally."
"Leave her alone."
"Then I need you to cooperate."
John dragged himself upright and walked to the center of the room. He couldn't create fire. Maybe if he could find a stray spark him could make it look like he had. There was nothing. She was going to die.
That almost made him laugh. They were all going to die, sooner or later.
"John, patience is not one of my virtues."
He squeezed his eyes shut. C'mon, c'mon, c'mon… please just once. Nothing happened.
Dr. Stryker pressed a button on the intercom. "Please bring Mutant 66f.7b.2c1 to testing room B."
"No!" yet another shock rippled through his body and he collapsed, unable to breathe.
The outer door opened and a guard marched the girl into the room.
"Pyro?"
Dr. Stryker slapped her across the face. "I do not want to hear you using that name again. Now, John, why don't you tell her what I have asked you to do? And what will happen if you do not follow instructions."
He swallowed hard. "I have to create fire. If I don't, she…"
"Proper names, John."
"Then Dr. Stryker will send you to lab C."
Lab C, they called it the ninth circle. It was the one no one ever came back from. The one where they had dragged Maya's friend Snake yesterday. It was the worst the first day they got a new patient. You could hear the screaming at the far end of the hall.
Maya went pale.
"It's going to be alright." He lied.
Dr. Rebecca Stryker resumed her seat behind the desk. "May we begin?"
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A/N: the friend i wrote this for suggested this and... well. it worked. this happens on the same day as the last chapter.