Chapter 7: Escapees

Garfield was wrong. Rose did call for help, or re enforcement. They were just outside their doors, no one could leave. Mark held his crying wife in his hands, while Garfield was looking at the amount of police, guards, doctors from the lab, Rose, and even Slade was there.

For some reason, Raven had been falling in and out of consciousness since Slade arrived. It really confused them, most Mark since it had never happened before.

"We have to get out of here." Mark said.

"Yeah, but how?" Garfield peeked out from the curtains. "Do you think we could just lie and say we have no idea what's going on?"

"No, we have been in here too long for that. Had we stomped out once they arrived they might have believed us, but we've been inside for almost an house."

"W-We could teleport…" Raven said as she sat up and rubbed the side of her head.

"You can teleport?" Mark asked.

"Is there something you can't do? It seems like you have all the superpowers in the world." Raven blushed at Garfield's comment.

"There is more, but we don't have time now… If I'm not to kill them, we'll have to flee." Raven peeked out the window next to Garfield.

"Raven, can I just ask before we do anything?" Raven turned to Marie who wiped a tear away. "You keep falling in and out of consciousness, what is happening?"

Raven sighed. "It's Slade, he planted a chip under my skin. He has a remote that sends signals to my brain to fall asleep. I'm fighting it, and the signal isn't very strong." Raven's eyes widened for a second before she ran into the kitchen.

Garfield was about to follow her when she came back with a knife and ran into the bathroom.

"Raven?!" Garfield sprinted after her but was too late as the bathroom door slammed into his face. "Raven open the door!" He screamed and banged at the door.

"One second-!" She gave a half filled scream of pain. "Ah!"

"Raven!?"

"Got it!" The door opened and out stepped a half blood covered Raven. The left side of her waist was bleeding, but there was no sign of a wound. She held up a palm sized chip. "Don't worry about the blood." She said as she casually walked back to the living room.

Garfield took a glance inside the bathroom and almost threw up, the entire sink, floor, shower, and even the walls was covered in blood. Was she bleeding like fountain or something?

Garfield closed the door and ran into the living room, not wanting to see that anymore.

"- I see." Said mark.

"I still don't get it." Marie said as Mark held up the bloody chip.

"It's a controller, it controls brain waves and the mind in general. Why didn't I know about this?"

"Slade doesn't know that I knew about it, they placed it in three days after I came to life. He think he erased the memory but he didn't. I knew where he placed it, I just didn't have the time to remove it." She laughed. "I can't teleport right now since I'm still a little dizzy, I'm sorry."

"First; I don't see how you laugh, but I'll give it to you. Second; don't be sorry." Mark laughed.

"Mark…" Marie whispered. "The cellar." She rose and walked to a white door under the stairs. "Mark, don't you remember? The underground cavern."

"we have a cavern under the house?" Garfield asked rather shocked.

"Yes, there is a door that goes to it, but Mark blocked it when we moved. He didn't want you to find it and get hurt." Marie unlocked the door and had them follow her down. Marie picked up a hammer and began to pry off the planks. "Garfield and Mark go up and get the flashlights and lock the door. I have a strong feeling that they'll break in."

The boy did as told and went upstairs to get the flashlights, while Raven started to help Marie pry the planks off. Unlike Marie, Raven used her hands to pry them off. After ten minutes the boys came back to see the door open. Both Raven and Marie stood there staring.

"Raven? Do you see anything?" She asked.

"Spiders, bats, snakes, water leaks, rocks…" She looked over her shoulder. "What did you expect?"

"Okay, we got the flashlights and dad just locked the door. But where are we going?" Garfield asked.

"A friend of mine, Rita." Marie took one of the flashlights and flashed inside the cavern. "I just hope there is an exit to this."

"You mean you don't know?" Garfield's jaw dropped.

"It's not like we have a choice… Come on." Raven stepped into the cave.

"Good, I just heard them break through the door." Mark said as he tip-toed down the stairs. "Garfield, go, I'll lock the door." Garfield nodded and walked into the cave.

"Search the house!" Slade shouted, Mark wasted no time going into the cave and locking the door.

"So where do we go?" Garfield asked, the family flashed the lights around in fear of everything Raven just mentioned.

"Over there, there's an exit there." Raven pointed deeper into the black darkness. The family sent her a look. "Nightvision." She said before they even asked.

"Let's hurry before they find the door."

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The cavern was endless, it went on and on and the only one that wasn't affected by the distance was Raven.

"Are there yet?" Garfield whined.

Raven sniffed the air and looked around, she walked over to a wall, the flashlights flashed over to her. Her fingers slid over the wet rocks before she found a hole in the wall. "Here." She whispered. The hole in the wall crumbled and so did the wall. Their flashlights found a staircase on the other side.

Raven walked first and when she came to the top, she began to push something.

"Where are we?" Garfield asked.

"We'll find out soon." The lid came off and everyone looked away from the bright light. They blinked as their eyes adjusted to the light. When outside they were all pretty shocked that they found themselves in the graveyard, mostly since the graveyard was two hours away from the house by car.

"Good, Rita lives an hour away from here. Come on." Marie lead the way out of the graveyard after Raven placed the lid of a tombe back on.

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So, I'm really trying to draw this out… I had a habit of rushing things on another website and people told me that. So I'm really trying to draw it out and not rush things.

Question: What would you think if I said I was working on a M rated story? Tell me please, I don't know what to do?