I think I would be in the top ten people who do not know how to update well.
Cause really, I've been in such a slump, I couldn't find the right words.
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I clenched my fists harder as I stared at Ari's smirking face, just wanted to punch his grin off his face myself. But I was behind bars, watching as two Erasers approached, one heading for Gazzy, the other for Caige whose bruises were already becoming visible as his eyelids fluttered, trying to stay open. I tried to formulate a plan, anything that could possibly stop this, but I didn't know others already had one.
As the Eraser's walked, one slightly in front of the other, I tried to determine just how far my foot and fists could reach, and how effective they'd be from behind bars. "I trust that you'll be fine to collect them." Jeb said absently, flipping back the pages on his clipboard as he made his way to the door. Angel shot the room a small worried look, quickly covering it up with a smirk. It had me wondering which was what she was really feeling. But Zen didn't look as the two followed Jeb out of the room in silence.
The Eraser's were within five feet of us when suddenly a loud clunking noise filled the room. The one furthest away fell forwards, sprawled out on the ground as a smallish and metal bar clattered to the floor beside him. I guessed it was the cause of the small blood oozing from the unconscious Eraser's head, now matting his fur. I watched the other turn around to look at his comrade with confusion just as the bar flew across the room and landed in Nudge's hands. I watched with shock as she raced it mentally over to Crest and Scholar, Crest's hands up to floating the bar and Scholar's hands resting gently on his wrists, numbers flooding her irises. Suddenly she pushed Crest's hand's forwards, launching Nudge's metal bar into the forehead of the shocked and confused Eraser. And with that, he was on his back, in the timeframe of seven seconds since the first was knocked out, no less.
"Hey!" Ari growled loudly. I had nearly forgotten he was here since he beat up my kid. Now I smirked slightly as he marched over to Nudge's cage, snarling like an immature brat who was annoyed with Nudge for flicking him.
Nudge just scowled up at him as he glared down into her cage. Finally he clicked his tongue when he couldn't make her whimper, resorting to kicking the bars of her cage with his boot instead. "What're you all just standing around for idiots?" Ari snarled to the other Eraser's who stood there, sucking on their own saliva like toddlers. "Hurry up and get them." He commanded and they all jumped, but only shuffled around, bumping into one another, some of them still staring at where the other two were unconscious on the floor, dirtying it with their blood.
"There's really no point, we'll just do this again." Scholar told him with a "duh!" sort of tone in her voice as she and Crest lifted their hands, holding them in a readied position.
"Is that so?" Ari snarled as he made his way over to them, bending over to look directly at Scholar. She didn't flinch, even when he grabbed her wrists with his huge paws, holding them firmly. His hands looked like they could wrap around her wrists twice as he squeezed hard. "Will you now?" He mocked as he smirked in her face, but I could feel myself backing up behind my bars, even though I was no where near to her. It was out of instinct, and I could see Crest doing the same, his words forming the words "bad idea" as he backed away.
I watched as Scholar scowled even darker at Ari before her face twisted slightly, starting to calculate. See, Scholar hate's being restrained, one of the reasons she's so rebellious against Jace. So if you knew her well, or even made a mistake while fighting her, you knew not to grab her by the wrists if you want to walk away without something dislocated or broken.
I only saw the calculation's flash for about two seconds before she went to work. She had done this so many times I think she knew the equations by heart. Suddenly she quickly bent her arms to the side, taking Ari's with her and bending them at an awkward angle. She didn't give him even a second to realise what was happening before she lifted her left arm over his head, spinning him around so her arms were wrapped around him. She snapped her arm closer to her, letting Ari's back slam against the bars as he let out a gush of air. Letting go of his left arm, she took his right in both hand, shoving his wrist upwards into his back, seeing how close it could get to his neck. Hearing a satisfying whine of pain, she pulled his arm back down, weaving it up until the elbow in between the bars of her cage, securing it tightly.
I watched as Scholar wore a small expression of achievement on her face, crossing her arms and settling as Ari tried to pull his arm from where they were wedged in the bars. And the whole time he did it with his back to her, unable to turn around, so I had a front row seat for the pathetic and amusing frustration on his face. "Listen you freak, you had better-"He started to snarl just as Scholar slammed her foot through the bars and into his shoulder, pushing him forwards, stretching and increasing the pain on his arm.
"No, you'd better listen up disgusting mutt!" She said, pushing her foot harder to emphasis her point. I watched as Ari tried to keep his mouth shut, not wanting to show any sign of pain. "You leave my family alone and get the hell out of this room or I break your puny and fragile little arm." She snarled, pressing his arm even further, making it bend abnormally. Finally Ari let out a howl, forcing two Erasers's to go running to their stupid superior. Of course, it just so happened these Erasers, or any Eraser for that matter, were not at the top of their class, proving my point when one decided that the best way to get Ari's twisted arm untangled would be to push Scholar's cage backwards with the sole of his boot, hard. And as the cage slid across the floor with rusty scratching noises, it pulled Ari to his back along with it.
"Idiots, just get them and get out!" Ari snarled loudly with frustration as he tried to stand, forgetting about his arm for a moment. It pulled him back down, giving Scholar another chance to step on his back, putting her back on offense.
"Get back!" She yelled as one started to reach for Caige. But I'm sure letting someone else break Ari's arm was something the Eraser's would be perfectly fine with, I know it would be for me. When The Eraser pulled Caige up by his arm, Scholar pushed harder, and I watched as Ari's shoulder snapped out of his joint with a loud "popping" sound filling the room. He winced at the pain as Scholar continued to press, seeing as the Eraser's wouldn't stop "collecting their objectives" anytime soon. I looked away as I've had to see enough disoriented bones then I cared for. But my head whipped back around when I heard the sharp snap and Ari's howl as Scholar whacked his wrist backwards, breaking it and let it fall limp from its hold in the bars and to the floor. His eyes were raging as he stood, clutching his arms and glaring down with a menacing look at Scholar. She didn't even flinch, forcing him to grab the bars with his spare hand.
He flung the cage off the ground and around in a circle before letting it fly towards me. It went so fast, I didn't even realise it had hit me until I rammed my head on the bars of my cage which now lay sideways on the ground. My vision started to blur, but I could still pick up small things such as Scholar lying limp in her cage a few feet away from mine. As I struggled to get back my vision and balance, I slowly pressed against the bottom of the cage, in time to see the Eraser fling Caige up and over his shoulder, swaying slightly when Ari punched him with frustration. Somewhere along the line, Gazzy had been pulled from his cage, and I could only faintly hear his struggles and resistance, ringing in my ears. I blinked again, trying to catch my focus, only catching Jace's eyes for a moment. They looked at me with worry before scanning the room again in a fast paced and panic movement. He was at his wits end, and it was starting to show.
The only thing my ears and eyes were picking up was chaos. Nothing was clear but was only a dark and depressing blur of colours, some shades moving rapidly or jolting around slightly. I must have hit my head pretty hard considering I'd just been hit by a flying metal cage. Not my favourite thing in the world, and most definitely not the worst. But if I didn't start to get it together soon, then I was going to lose far more than I already had.
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I'm not sure what made Angel choose to do what she did, but I know it saved me a hell of a lot of trouble. I couldn't even pick up on it when it happened, the bright light from the doors opening to the hallway blinding me more then I already was. Some brightly coloured and taller figure rushed in, and could pick up strangely on the quick and unsteady shakiness of his breath. Just some of the symptoms to a mind control victim, the other signs being a monotone voice and the fact that nothing coming out of their mouth makes context sense, meaning that when the whitecoat opened his mouth and the words, "Wait a minute" came out, I knew something was up.
"There's been a delay. We won't be needing the experiments." The whitecoat continued as I frowned, still half dazed but slowly coming to my senses. I watched Ari's snarl as Angel came up with a blank face beside the mind control victim.
"Batchelder clearly stated-" He started, trying not to lash out but Angel cut him off.
"We won't be needing the experiments, so return them to their cages." She said mildly sweetly with her hands behind her back, rocking slowly from her heels to her toes, looking up at the now nodding whitecoat, who looked more out of it then I did. Ari and Angel stared one another down as I tried to figure out why Angel didn't use Jeb himself to carry out the message. There had been some problems with her trying to control him before, so there must have been something stopping her from controlling it, I just didn't know what. "Return them to their cages, please." Angel said again, more firmly as she forced Ari to fall back, letting out a low growl.
"Put 'em back and get out." Ari commanded to the Eraser's who slowly walked past Angel and the hypnotized whitecoat. He snarled and hit Angel's shoulder as he left the room, an annoyed and peeved glare still on his face. I didn't rejoice like some might have thought me to, but then they would remember that I hadn't actually won anything. I'd lost the game I thought I'd lose Caige to, and ended up losing Zen instead. And the pit inside my stomach was only growing larger as Jace locked eyes with me again. They were filled with the same fury they had been when he'd seen Jeb, out for blood. The only thing taming it was the awful feeling I knew he had from the knife in his back. My eyes slowly traced back down to his ankle. Things would have been much easier if that idiotic metal hadn't been there. All I wanted to do was curse it. That damned metal around his ankle and that damned man that put it there. But also the stupid girl who couldn't stop it from happening. Who was too dense to realize what was happening. The mediocre child who let Jeb steal her trust, who let all of her kids get into danger, who couldn't protect them, who let everything happen the way it did. That worthless leader. That worthless me.