Inside the bubble shock factory mark Hawkins was sneaking around the factory,
Mark hid behind some boxes as 2 guards walked past, he then continued though the factory until he came to an area, which was cordoned off with large plastic sheets.
"Today's first lot going though now" A male voice said.
Mark slowly walked towards the sheet.
"Transmitting data to the archetype, " the voice continued.
Mark found a small opening in the plastic, which he looked through,
Mark could see a man at a control panel and the figure of a woman who stood by some sort of bed where another figure lay covered in a plastic sheet.
"And transmit" the man added as he flicked a switch.
Suddenly bolts of electricity ran though the figure on the bed.
"Is it working" the man asked.
"Oh yes he's almost fully matured" the woman replied as she walked around the bed.
"I would even say perfect," the woman continued as she pulled back the sheet.
Mark could now see the figure was a young boy, who only looked a year younger than marks own adopted son, Mark then turned to leave but then ran into two guards.
"Oh sorry, this isn't the tour is it" Mark said.
But the two guards didn't move.
"Guess that isn't going to work, Take me too your leader" Mark added with an awkward smile.
"I see we have an intruder," The woman's voice said behind mark.
Mark turned to her.
"You must be wormwood" Mark replied.
"Mrs wormwood" The woman corrected.
She slowly walked up to mark.
"Now maybe you could tell me who you are, and why you've broken into my factory," She demanded.
"Oh I wasn't braking in, not really, I'm just interesting in your company that's all" Mark explained.
"Let me guess you're a journalist looking for a story" Mrs wormwood continued.
"Not exactly, but I do have a few questions" Mark answered.
"Then maybe we should head to my office, where we can have a proper chat" Mrs wormwood replied with a smile.
Mrs wormwood then led mark to her office.
"Please take a seat" Mrs wormwood said as sat behind a desk.
Mark sat in a chair on the other side.
"Now what are these questions you have?" Mrs wormwood added.
"I have friends in the city and they tell me this company literately set up over night, and it normally takes years for a new food stuff to be approved" Mark answered.
"All were doing is supplying a need" Mrs wormwood replied.
"Which is" Mark said.
"The people are hungry, new foods new drinks new tastes, all the western world does is eats, all day everyday eating, they gorge and feast and chew and bite, everything sweet hot and sticky food and drink, just food and drink that's the human race they devour, who are we too deny them" Mrs wormwood told him.
"So you invented bane," Mark asked.
"Oh the bane in bubble shock isn't new, oh no it's very, very old" Mrs wormwood replied.
Mrs wormwood then stood up.
"Come and see," she added.
Mrs wormwood led mark to a TV screen, which was showing the bubble shock advert.
"All they hype, bane is completely natural 100% organic" Mrs wormwood continued.
"Yes but what is it exactly" Mark asked.
Mrs wormwood turned to him.
"Oh don't be silly, I can hardly give away our recipe" Mrs Wormwood answered.
"I had a bottle of bubble shock analysed by some scientists I know" mark told her.
"Your social circles sound fascinating" mrs wormwood said.
"Strange thing was, none of there tests worked it was as if it was resisting the analysis, and nothing can do that, well nothing on earth" Mark added.
"What are you suggesting that bane originated from outer space" Mrs wormwood asked with a snort of laughter.
"Now wouldn't that be something" Mark replied.
"I grow tried of your games, why don't you tell me who you are and why your really here, or do I have to call the police" Mrs wormwood asked.
"Go ahead, maybe you can explain to them why you have a boy down stairs, wired up to your machinery" Mark said.
The smirk on Mrs wormwoods face suddenly disappeared.
"Oh looks like I've touched a nerve," Mark continued.
"I'm sorry that you had to see that, I was going to let you go, but now you've seen the Archetype I'm afraid I'm going to have to kill you" Mrs wormwood told him.
She then transformed into her bane form.
"You will be taken to mother, where you will be devoured" Mrs Wormwood added.
"Sorry but I'm not on the menu" Mark shot back.
Mark then threw something onto the floor, and the office was filled with a blinding flash, once Mrs wormwood sight returned she could see mark was gone.
"Find him" Mrs wormwood yelled as some guards ran into the room.
Mark ran down a staircase as he tapped a number in a mobile phone.
"Lets hope I get signal in here" Mark said to himself.
Mark then dialled the phone and held it to his ear.
"Sanjay" He said.
Suddenly the phone screamed and mark dropped it at the bottom of the stairs.
Alarms began to sound as pipes all over the factory started to shake and green gas burst from some of them.
Mark began to smile to him self as he grabbed his phone.
"I'm sorry everyone but we appear to have an emergency" the muffin told everyone as he led them out.
"What's going on" Maria asked Lesley.
"I'm not sure, but if you could all come with me please" Lesley replied as she turned to leave.
Maria was about to follow when she noticed, the boy she had seen the day before hadn't left with the rest of the tour, and was headed towards another set of doors.
"Maria" Alan called.
Maria then turned and followed Lesley her dad and Kelsey to the lifts.
Bubble shock staff was running in all directions, and Maria got separated from the others in the crowd.
"Dad" she yelled.
But Alan and Kelsey were already in a lift, and the doors closed before Maria could get to them, She quickly looked around and saw the stairs.
She decided to head down, assuming everyone would be heading outside, but then she ran into someone.
"What are you doing here?" A voice demanded.
It was the boy had seen sneaking off.
"Might ask you the same" Maria shot back.
Just then a group of guards appeared at the top of the stairs.
"This way" the boy told her as he grabbed her arm.
"What" Maria protested?
"No time to explain, just do as I say" The boy told her.
Mark ran through the factory trying to find the boy wired up to the machines,
As he ran down a corridor he saw 2 guards coming down a flight of stairs, mark quickly headed through a door and hid on the other side until the guards passed.
"That was close" Mark said to him self.
Mark then heard something above him, he looked up to see the single eye of a bane, but this one was a lot bigger than Mrs wormwood.
"You must be mother" mark said as he walked towards her.
The bane mother screamed in pain as mark held up his mobile phone.
"Guess you're not a fan of these" Mark added.
Suddenly the bane mother swung a tentacle at mark, and knocked the mobile from his hand and onto the floor, just then the muffin arrived flanked by a group of guards.
"What have you done?" he demanded.
"Sir" one of the guards said as he picked up marks mobile.
"Well switch it off" The muffin told him.
The guard dropped the phone onto the floor, and crushed it with his foot.
"There's nothing to be afraid of mother," the muffin told the giant bane.
Meanwhile Maria had been led to a room by the boy.
"We should be safe in here for a while" he told her.
"Mind telling me what the hell is going on" Maria demanded.
"You wouldn't believe me if I told you" The boy answered.
"Try me" Maria replied.
The boy then smiled, he could tell this girl wasn't going to take no for an answer.
"Ok, but don't say I didn't warn you" he continued.
"Who are you?" Maria asked.
"My names Sanjay, Sanjay Harkins" the boy replied.
"Maria, so Sanjay what's really going on here?" She added.
"Well, the bubble shock company a front for a group of Aliens" Sanjay explained.
"Aliens, like the one last night" Maria said.
Sanjay nodded.
"So what do they want?" Maria asked.
"That's what I'm here to find out" Sanjay told her.
He then pulled out a phone.
"Please be ok" Sanjay said to himself as he dialled a number.
Once again the alarms began to sound, the muffin turned to Mark who simply shrugged his shoulders.
"Look like you may have a bit of a security problem" Mark said with a grin.
Just then a pipe exploded between mark and the muffin, the bane mother once again screamed with pain, and mark wasted no time and made a run for it.
"Don't let him escape" he muffin yelled.
As the pipes continued to shake pop the control panel that the archetype was contacted to began of over load, the boy on the bed suddenly sat up wide awake,
He could see one of the guards in front of him desperately trying to control the over load, but it was too late with one final explosion the man was sent across the room,
The boy then quickly pulled off all the connectors from his body, he then got out of the bed and run through a set of doors and down one of the corridors.
"Sanjay, where are you" Maria and Sanjay heard in the distance.
"Who's that?" Maria asked.
Sanjay turned to her with a smile on his face.
"Someone who's going to get us out of this" He replied as he headed for the door.
Maria followed him and they both ran into the archetype.
"Err hello" Maria said.
"Err hello" the boy replied.
"Who are you" Maria continued.
"Who are you?" The boy repeated again.
"We're lost" Maria added.
"We're lost," the boy once again repeated.
They then heard the voices of some of the guards heading towards them, the boy then turned and ran.
"Hey wait" Sanjay said as he and Maria headed after the boy.
The bane mother continued to roar, as she writhed in pain.
"Calm yourself mother, we'll find the source of the disturbance and destroy it" the muffin told her.
He then put his hand to his earpiece.
"Mrs wormwood the situation is under control," he told her.
Mrs wormwood was checking on the archetype, only to find the bed empty.
"Oh I don't think so, the archetype has escaped find him, and for the bane mothers sake, turn off these alarms" She demanded.
The muffin looked up nervously at the bane mother as he left the room.
"Find the device" one of the guards shouted as a group of them, ran past where the boy was hiding.
Maria and Sanjay then arrived, and the boy was about to run off again.
"Hey it's ok, we're not with them" Maria quickly told him.
The boy stayed where he was.
"We're here to help you" Maria continued as she smiled.
The boy then returned the smile; there was something about this person that made him feel safe.
"We need to find somewhere to hide" Sanjay told them.
Maria quickly looked around.
"Oh yes" She said with a grin.
She then turned back to the boy.
"This way" she added as she took the boys hand, and led him to the ladies toilets.
"You've got to be kidding" Sanjay said in protest.
"Oh don't be a wuss and get in there," Maria told him as she pushed him into the toilet.
A few minutes later Mrs wormwood arrived just after the muffin.
"Did you search everywhere" Mrs wormwood barked.
"They must have left the compound" the muffin answered.
"Impossible there are humans still here, I can smell them, and one very particular person very much alive" Mrs Wormwood snapped.
She then turned to the ladies toilet.
"Did you search in there?" She demanded.
"But it's for there male only, we are males their culture says we should never go in" the muffin replied.
"Oh you idiot" she said as she stormed into the toilet.
The muffin followed and quickly opened all the cubical doors, but they were empty, Mrs wormwood then turned to an open window.
"Where does that lead?" she asked.
"Visitors Car Park, only a child could fit through there," the muffin told her.
"Then it appears our friend has a young accomplice" Mrs wormwood added.
She then turned to the guards.
"Seal off the gates" She ordered.
Sanjay Maria and the boy were now running across the car park.
"Come on we need to get out of here" Sanjay told them.
Maria then stopped.
"Wait, my dads still in there," Maria said.
"He'll have been evacuated with the others, look the bus has gone" Sanjay told her.
"But we were on a private tour" Maria explained.
Sanjay then saw the gates closing.
"Dam it they've sealed the gates" Sanjay said.
"Secure the perimeter" Mrs wormwoods voice yelled.
The 3 kids turned to see Mrs Wormwood and the muffin with two guards.
"Retrieve the archetype," the muffin ordered when he saw them.
"We're trapped" Maria yelled as more guards appeared.
To be continued.