Chapter 10: Jail Break

Lynn led Nickoli, Justin and Patrick through the white hallways of the Maliwan Lab, doors lining the halls to different rooms. "How are you able to do what you did?" Nickoli questioned. "Are you like the Elementals?" Lynn hung a right, looking at each door, and answered "Is that what you call the four jackasses? Makes sense, but yeah I'm like them. I was a test subject to see if a single person could be able to harness all of the elements. Clearly it worked." Lynn stopped at four way intersection and she continued to look down the halls. "What are we looking for?" Justin questioned.

"Security. Keeps all confiscated items and weapons there. Once there we can find your girlfriend and get out of here."

"One, she's not my girlfriend. Two, do you know how to get there?" Nickoli responded. Lynn continued straight and responded "I used to be allowed to walk the halls, but they locked me up after I tried to escape too many times." She finally stopped at the door marked 'SECURITY' and proclaimed "I'm guessing there are two security bots in here. So Nickoli, I need you to be ready to fight." Nickoli prepped his arms and nodded to signal that he was ready and Lynn created a fireball in her right hand as she reached for the door. As soon as the door opened, Lynn and Nickoli jumped through the door and dispatched the security bots, which looked like the guard bots in the jail but with 'SECURITY' printed across the chest.

Nickoli blasted one, creating a massive hole in the chest, and Lynn threw her fireball at the other one, turning it into a pile of molten slag. Justin and Patrick came through the door and immediately shut it behind them as Lynn jumped on the computer and started typing frantically. Nickoli stood behind her and watched as multiple screens repeatedly changed from room to room and hallway to hallway. One screen finally stopped to show Angel strapped to a table in, what appeared to be, a room that was more meant for surgery than a prison. "There!" Nickoli shouted as he pointed at the screen. "That's her!"

Lynn continued typing and replied "That's great, so why are you telling me?" Nickoli raised an eyebrow and responded "We have to rescue her!"

"Then why are you telling me? Go get her. I've got other things to do here."

Nickoli pulled her away from the computer and barked "Look. You are going to help us save her and we are going to get you out of here. That's the deal." Lynn glared at him and responded "Do you have any idea where we even are?" Nickoli opened his mouth and then immediately shut it as Lynn pulled her chair back to the screen and hit a few keys. One screen changed to show a place that resembled the Eridium Blight, but then the camera shifted as Lynn hit a few keys and revealed Pandora's surface. "We aren't on the planet you idiot." Lyn growled. "Unless you can override the lockdown caused by our breakout while rescuing your girlfriend, we are shit out of luck for escaping."

Nickoli straightened up and apologized "Sorry, I didn't…" Lynn cut him off "Apologize when we are planet size. For now, I'll do the tech work, and you go save your girl." Nickoli grumbled "She's not my girl."

"Then you'd better get on it. A girl that cute has to have options. If you don't start dating her, someone else will."

Nickoli rolled his eyes and looked to Justin and Patrick, who had all of their gear ready. Patrick had a Bandit shotgun while Justin had a Dahl assault rifle. "Justin, stay here and guard the door." Nickoli ordered. "Patrick, you're with me. We're going to save Angel." Patrick nodded and pointed to Lynn, who was holding an ECHO device over her head. "You'll have better luck saving Angel if you know where you're going." Lynn commented as Nickoli took the ECHO from her hand. "Once you've got Angel, come back here and we'll head to the hanger as a group. Easier instead of you two running around trying to find the hanger."

"Understood." Nickoli responded as he looked at the layout to the room Angel was held in. He memorized it and proclaimed "Let's move Patrick." Patrick nodded and the two started to move through the space station towards Angel. When Nickoli saw Angel, he knew that whoever got to her was going to pay. Her Siren arm was cut to hell, like someone let a psycho loose on her arm. She was ridiculously pale, probably from blood loss since her wounds weren't bandaged or anything.

"Someone's going to pay." Nickoli thought as he rounded a corner and ran into a few bots. He didn't hesitate to blast them to pieces with both of his arms in their gun modes. "Someone will pay for hurting her." Nickoli thought as he charged another bot and planted a boot to its chest, knocking it to the ground. He drove his fist through its head and thought "I'm going to save her". He immediately shot back up and continued sprinting with Patrick right behind him.

They followed the map that Lynn provided them and they eventually got to the lab after dispatching several bots along the way. Nickoli prepped his arms as Patrick attempted to open the door, but it was locked. "I do not have time for this!" Nickoli barked as he blasted the door, sending it falling to the ground. Nickoli walked through the door and looked around the room to see that it was deserted, not even Angel was in the room. "What the hell!?" Nickoli barked as he walked through the room. "Where's Angel!?"

Nickoli looked around the room and saw another door that was leading out and way slightly ajar. Nickoli headed towards the door with his cannon arm ready and threw the door open with his other hand, bellowing "I'M HERE FOR ANGEL! RETURN HER NOW AND I WON'T KILL YOU!" Nickoli looked into the darkness and scanned for any form of life, but was coming up empty. He turned and proclaimed "Nothing in the room. She was probably moved after Lynn found Angel." He took a step when a robotic voice exclaimed "How wrong you are."

Nickoli turned back to see a large white fist mere inches from his face and thought "This is going to hurt." The fist connected with his face with an extreme amount of pain that sent him flying into Patrick and throwing the two into the hallway. Nickoli groaned as he sat up, checking to see if his jaw was broken. Thankfully he moved his head down enough to where the fist only connected with the upper part of his skull instead of losing his jaw. Nickoli stood up and helped Patrick to his feet, questioning "Are you okay?"

Patrick nodded and grabbed his shotgun, then pointed back to the room where the fist originated. Nickoli watched as something similar to a drone that they had fought on the way here, but this one was much bigger, standing nearly 8 feet tall. The major difference between this bot and the other drones was that this was a cyborg like he was. The body was human with a white 'MALIWAN' chest plate and he was wearing a helmet that covered half of his head. The cyborg stood his full height and growled "Dr. Harloc said that you would be coming for the Siren. She was very clear with her instructions, kill you and the rest of the escapees."

Nickoli brushed himself off and exclaimed "Where did this Dr. Harloc take Angel?" The cyborg laughed "Wouldn't you like to know, trash heap." The cyborg launched forward at Nickoli, but Nickoli anticipated the attack and fired a cannon blast, sending the cyborg right back into the room. Nickoli looked at the camera and shouted "Lynn! Angel isn't here! We need to find her and get out of here! Me and Patrick will deal with this bot while you and Justin get Angel." Nickoli turned back to the Cyborg, who was climbing out of the room chuckling "Not bad trash heap. Not bad. This fight is going to be fun."

Nickoli charged the Cyborg, firing his automatic arm as he charged and bellowed a war cry. The Cyborg blocked the rounds with his arms to protect his face as Patrick ran around his side. He took the opportunity and blasted two rounds of buckshot straight into the Cyborg's side. The Cyborg recoiled from the blast, giving Nickoli an opportunity and fired a cannon blast at the opening. The Cyborg fell onto his back and Patrick jumped onto his chest, shotgun leveled at the Cyborg's face.

"Not bad at all kids," The Cyborg laughed, "but you're going to have to do better than that." The Cyborg swung and threw Patrick into the wall. Nickoli was ready to fire another cannon blast, but the Cyborg was faster and turned his own hand into a cannon. Nickoli saw the blast inside the cannon as the Cyborg laughed "You aren't the only one with big guns!" Nickoli flew through the air as the Cyborg's cannon blast sent him flying into the hallway.

Nickoli felt the metal bend as his back collided with the wall and the heat of the blast. Nickoli dropped to his feet as the Cyborg stood back up and laughed "Looks like I'm going to enjoy killing you two, and I thought killing two kids was going to be easy." Another shotgun blast struck the Cyborg in the side and caused him to falter, allowing Nickoli to fire his own cannon blast. It struck him again, but he didn't fall to his back so Nickoli fired again, striking the Cyborg in the shoulder and causing him to spin. Patrick took the opening and charged towards the Cyborg to deliver a close shotgun blast.

The Cyborg recovered from his spin and turned his other hand into a cannon, sending Patrick into the wall and knocking him out. Nickoli started to fire both of his arm guns at the Cyborg, but the bot was able to dodge most of his attacks. The Cyborg fired a blast of his own, but Nickoli jumped out of the way and fired his cannon again. The Cyborg took the hit like a champ and continued to fire away at Nickoli, who continued to dodge the cannon blasts. Nickoli knew he couldn't continue this fight and find Angel at the same time, so he had to end this fight quickly.

He ducked under one of the Cyborg's blasts and charged the massive bot, firing his own cannon blast at the Cyborg. The Cyborg buckled as one of Nickoli's blasts struck him in the side, which enraged him and forced his attacks to become reckless. Once Nickoli was close enough, the turned one of his cannons back into a hand and threw a fist at the teen. Nickoli slid under the punch and fired a blast at the inside of his right leg, dropping the Cyborg to one leg. He spun during his slide and sent another cannon blast into the small of the Cyborg's back.

The Cyborg fell to his hands and saw a pair of feet in his sight, the feet of the kid he sent into the wall. He brought his head up to see the kid bring down a large metal pipe, and then bring it down on the top of his head. Nickoli heard a sickening crunch as Patrick smashed the Cyborg's skull and covered himself in a shower of blood. The Cyborg dropped and Patrick placed his pipe on his shoulder, with the same neutral expression he always carried. Nickoli stood up and questioned "You good Pat?" Patrick nodded and looked around the empty room, proclaiming "No Angel."

"Yeah, I can see that. Let me get Lynn on the ECHO."

Nickoli pulled out his ECHO and called Lynn, updating "We made it to the room you told us. Angel's gone and some Cyborg was here." Lynn responded "I saw, I'm searching for her now."

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Lynn hit key after key after key, monitors changing over and over in search for the Siren Angel. "Hey kid." Lynn called as she continued to search. "Get into the contraband box and get me a small white box." Justin nodded and did what he was told, handing Lynn the small white box. "Is that box going to help find Angel?" Justin questioned as he watched the screens. "Yes and no." Lynn answered. He looked over her shoulder to see a small flame on her pointer finger and lighting a cigarette.

"They help me focus." Lyn answered as she started typing again. "I should be able to find her in just… about… now." The center screen showed the hanger and it was filled with soldiers. Lyn could see Angel strapped to a table with a doctor walking on her right. Lynn put her ECHO on speaker and updated "I've found Angel, but there's a problem, and a pretty big one too." Nickoli questioned "How big of a problem?"

"Like a small army problem. They are loading Angel up into a ship, probably bound for Pandora. Getting her is going to be incredibly difficult since there is an army in between us and Angel."

There was silence for a moment and Nickoli cursed "Shit. What are we supposed to do now?" Lynn scanned through the monitors for something, anything, that could help them get Angel back. She spotted something that would help them, but it wouldn't be pretty in the slightest. "Nickoli," Lynn called," I think I just found a way, but no one is going to like it. I'm sending you the directions now."

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Nickoli and Patrick followed the map that Lynn had given them, but didn't tell him what they were exactly looking for. They eventually found the room they were looking for, the door marked "PROJECT ZERO", with a sense of unease about it. "What is Project Zero?" Nickoli questioned as he opened the door to see exactly what the Project Zero was. The room was massive with large tubes filled with a strange liquid that was occupied by an individual in each tube. Nickoli looked around the massive room to see there were thousands of tubes in the room.

Nickoli looked in each tube to see that the resident was human, well, relatively human. Some had larger limbs than normal, some were bulkier than normal, some were skinnier than normal and there was everything in between. Nickoli looked at the occupants with both horror and disgust since they were stuck in the tubes like goldfish. He looked down at the label on the tube, seeing the label "ZERO.87". Nickoli raised an eyebrow and looked at another tube, labelled "ZERO.94" and more and more tubes labelled ZERO with a number following it.

Nickoli continued to look around until he heard voices towards the back of the massive room. Nickoli moved as silently as possible to find the source of the voices. He eventually moved to see two shadowed figures by a terminal, and they were working on something. "Alright, I think I've got it down." One shadowed figure exclaimed. "Alright, cracking the case in thirty." The other replied.

"ZER0.12 seems stable, his vitals are normal."

"Good, he is 'A' clone to the legendary Zer0. Isn't that right, Zer0.138?"

"That's right Zer0.1802. Once he's ready, he'll find the rest of us."

Nickoli stepped out from behind the tube and called "Hey! You two!" The two shadowed figures looked back at him and one of them threw a duffel bag at him. Nickoli caught it as one of the shadowed figures proclaimed "Make sure ZERO.12 gets this gear. His instructions are in the bag." Nickoli looked down at the bag and then back up at the shadowed figures, but they were gone. Nickoli looked around and saw no sign of either of the figures.

He heard a sound of one of the tubes opening, spilling the liquid onto the ground and Patrick shout "Nickoli!" He turned back to see the liquid pouring from a tube and ran to it to see the occupant fall out and hit the floor. They began to cough and hack coming out of the tube, like they were attempting to breathe. Nickoli began to hit his back, trying to help him out and shouting "Come on! Breathe!" He looked at the label on the tube, ZERO.12.

ZERO.12 finally took in a deep breath and started coughing some more. Nickoli pulled out his ECHO and let Patrick take care of ZERO.12, questioning "How much longer do we have until they leave?" Lynn responded "Not much longer. They just loaded Angel onto the ship. By my guess, 20 minutes tops."

"Damn."

Zer0.12 finally stood up and went to the duffel bag, opening it up and removing the contents. He put on the black jumpsuit and started to attach a pair of katanas to his back. Zer0.12 looked almost like a perfect copy of Zer0 with black hair and blue eyes, skin pale as snow but he had five fingers instead of four. "I've got an idea." Zer0.12 proclaimed as he walked over to the terminal. He started to hit the keys on the terminal and a loud siren started to blare throughout the room.

"You said they have an army, so we'll send our own army." Zer0.12 proclaimed. All of the tubes began to open, liquid starting to pour out onto the floor with their occupants falling out. "Brothers! Now is your chance! Take revenge on the ones who have caused us to suffer so much!" Zer0.12 called. "This is our time!" There were a mixture of human and nearly bestial cries as the disformed clones started to pour out of the room. "Take us where we need to go and let's get out of here." Zer0.12 proclaimed as he shouldered the duffel bag. Nickoli nodded and the trio started to head through the halls, Nickoli updating Lynn on the situation.

They all moved as fast as they could to the hanger, which was an all-out war zone. Clones and soldiers clashed with bullets and sheer muscle, blood from both sides covering the floor. Nickoli looked around and saw Lynn and Justin heading for a specific shuttle, probably the one Angel was on. "This way!" Nickoli barked, running through the fight with one thought in mind. "I'm going to save Angel." He thought as he ducked under a stray swing from a massive clone.

He looked back to see Zer0.12 and Patrick caught up in the fight against the Maliwan soldiers and bots. He continued moving until he reached the ship and ran inside to find Angel strapped to the table with a collar around her neck. He ran to her side to see the she was out cold and started to undo the bindings on her table. He got the first one off when someone grabbed the back of his shirt and threw him off of the ship. Nickoli collided with the ground and heard a disturbingly familiar voice proclaim "You just don't know when to quit, do you?"

Nickoli sat up to see Inferno walking off the ship with a sick and twisted smile on his face. Nickoli turned his arms into their weapon forms, a look of pure hatred on his face as Inferno's arms coated themselves in flames. "Looks like I'm going to have to turn you into ash to keep you down." Inferno proclaimed as he took a fighting stance. Nickoli raised his arms and simply stated "I'm going to kill you."

"But you aren't, not with ship with your girlfriend in it right behind me."

Nickoli knew that Inferno was right, but he couldn't show it. Inferno pulled his arm back and then threw it forward, sending a fireball flying right at him. Nickoli rolled to the side and dodged the fireball, then ran to Inferno's side so he could at least attack. Nickoli fired a cannon blast at Inferno, but he dodged it and threw another fireball. The two's fight was a constant battle between cannon fire and fireballs that struck whatever was behind the other.

Nickoli thought the fight was a stalemate, until Inferno thought ahead and threw a fireball at Nickoli's feet, sending him flying. Nickoli hit the ground, but he felt Inferno's boot slam down onto his stomach as Inferno laughed "Looks like this is the end for you kid." Nickoli raised his arm to blast Inferno, but he caught it and started to burn the metal. Nickoli howled in pain from the heat, feeling like his arm was going to melt from Inferno's grip. Inferno raised his free hand and created a fireball in his hand, laughing "Time to burn kid!"

Nickoli thought this was the end of him, to be burned to death by the hands of a psychopath. That was when the temperature in the room suddenly dropped, Inferno's flame shrinking by the moment as everyone looked around confused. Everyone looked towards the ship to see the very source of the cold, the Siren of Ice, Angel. She had wings of pure ice following her as she stepped from the ship, ice spikes forming at her feet with each step. Her eyes were a frozen blue, so deep that staring into the dropped internal body temperature.

She raised her Siren hand, pointing at Inferno and proclaiming "Release him, spawn of Hell." Inferno released Nickoli and started to back away, a legitimate look of fear in his eyes. She looked around and declared "Let all those hear me now, if any of you come after me, my friends or my family… then you shall fell… my… WRATH!" Angel threw her arms to the side and her wings dissipated into a blizzard, throwing everyone from their feet. Nickoli kept himself low to the ground, so he wasn't thrown but the wind was freezing that felt like small knives were being dragged across his face.

The wind eventually stopped and Nickoli stood up to see the entire area was covered in a fine layer of snow. Angel stood where she was but now she looked like she was miles away. Her eyes were unfocused and she swayed a bit before falling onto her back, snow flying up at her fall. He ran over to her and gently picked her up into his arms, bringing her back into the ship. After setting her back onto the table he ran out and started to search for his friends.

All of them looked like they were barely effected by blizzard and were making their way over to the ship. "Can you fly this thing out of here?" Nickoli questioned as Lynn jumped into the pilot's seat. "To some degree." Lynn proclaimed as she started hitting switches on the console. "I'm going to need a copilot if we want to get out of here." Zer0.12 took a seat next to Lynn and started hitting the switches with her, proclaiming "These controls don't seem to be too difficult. I can manage this easily." Nickoli looked back to see Patrick and Justin strapping Angel into a seat. Once Angel was strapped in, there was a loud siren blaring followed by an electronic female voice exclaimed "Station self-destruct sequence activated. The station will self-destruct in… 60 seconds."

"Looks like my brothers found the stations center console. They've set it to…"

"Self-destruct?" Lynn finished. "Yeah, we know. Everybody hang on!" Nickoli jumped into a seat and strapped himself in as the ship started to rise into the air. The ship lurched forward and propelled them into space, towards Pandora.

KABOOOOOOOOM! So it took a while to get this chapter out, but with all the stuff that is packed into it, I'd say the wait was worth it. PM or Review any thoughts comments or concerns about the chapter.

Author's Corner

Going to give some shout outs to some authors to be a bro.

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