Chapter 7
Escape
Amelia was left alone in the tank. After swimming around for a few hours she realized that she wasn't tired. She thought that was a little strange because usually after swimming she was exhausted, but now she felt fully awake. Amelia was becoming bored and decided to sit on the bottom of the giant fish tank. She looked at her hands, after a moment of though she started concentrating on them in an attempt to transforming them back into her normal ones, it worked after about five minutes of trying. She practiced this until the transformations became as easy as flexing a finger. She spent the rest of the night transforming her body from one form to the other. Amelia had found out where here clothes had gone, they had transformed with her body, this meant that she could make here clothing disappear and appear with her human form and this included accessories like her watch and ring. Time went by at an unusually slow pace that night, Amelia would have been bored to tears if she could cry in water. She managed to fall asleep in the end after all. She was awoken by Barricade. He had walked up to the tank and annoyingly tapped his digits on it, something Amelia sometimes did with her little sisters gold fish. Amelia swam up to the glass until she was face to face with the Decepticon. She was somehow less afraid of him now, he did not seem as scary as before nether did all the other Decepticons at the base. She transformed her wrist so she could check her waterproof watch, she had slept for half an hour. This worried her, half an hour was way to little sleep especially after a stressful day like the day before. She dismissed her worried thoughts and turned back to her stare down with Barricade. He had silently left when she checked the time. Amelia looked down the open doorway into the rest of the Decepticon base. She turned her head towards the lid of the tank she was in and swam towards it. After pushing a few times she had an idea, she swam to the bottom of the tank, half transformed her tail into legs, set of and shot up to the lid of the tank. She hit it hard and in return it budged a very small bit, Amelia smiled in satisfaction at her minor victory. After about ten of these, the lid had moved just enough for her to slip through. It was, like she had expected, a very tight squeeze, she pushed herself through in her mermaid form because it was so slippery and slim. When she had crawled out, she transformed back into her human self, clothes and all. She was stuck, there was no way she would survive the jump down. The tank was about as tall as most of the Decepticons she had met and all of them where extremely big. She crawled, on her hands and knees, to the side of the tank. She decided, after looking over the edge, to find another way down. After walking around on the top of the tank, she found a way to escape. There were a series of pipes lines and other tubing stuck to the wall, if she jumped, she could grab one of the tubes and slid down the side of it until she reached the ground. She needed to jump quite a distance though, so she jogged to the other side of the tank's roof. Amelia then did a flat out sprint, did a leap of faith, gracefully latched herself onto the closest pipeline and slid down it. When she reached the ground, she quickly dusted herself off and made a B-line for the open door.
"Smooth criminal" she thought to herself as she exited the room quietly.