Chapter 148 - 100 | Inside The Facility

Inside the facility at the deepest level of the building. A kid of sixteen years old sat, looking through his transparent cellar walls. He was in a white room, only having one of the walls transparent.

He was breathing unnaturally slow before he opened his eyes. Bright emerald eyes shone in an eerie manner. He stood up, before walking to one of the white concrete walls.

You could hear the clanking of metal from the other side of the wall. "Laura, can you hear me?"

The response came with more clanking of metal. The noise was wild, almost as if someone was chaining down a wild beast.

"I know it hurts." He said, with a saddened voice, before placing his hand on the white wall. "I know, cause I too lost someone to them." He then looked at the transparent wall at the side, as if checking for something or someone.

The chain clanking stopped. Maybe he was the cause, he didn't know.

"I have been counting. If I am not wrong. It should be around two or three hours… after they took the last shipment." He said, in a whispering voice, but he was certain the person on the other side could hear it.

"So, we have around an hour or so… if we work together I think we might be able to escape. The Jester is gone, I think..." He said softly waiting for a response of some sort.

"I can't," a childish growl came from the other side of the wall, almost feminine, hard to say. "They cuffed me." There was another clanking to emphasize the point.

The boy stood there, taking a breath in and then out, while talking he was still following the breathing like a ritual. "I think I might be able to get you out."

"We will fail." The voice from the other side said. "I have tried, you can only get to the top floor if you don't have these collars… Oh, I forgot you burnt yours this morning."

"Yes," he said, touching his neck, there was a scorching burn mark on it. But what was weird was the fact that it was green. The wound was burned green. He winced when he touched it. "I can do yours, but remember it will hurt a lot."

"Oh, trust me. I can handle pain." She spat. "But can you get these cuffs off?"

"I might be able to…"

"What?"

"Well, you won't like the idea." He said, there was honesty and terror in his voice.

There was a pause for some time. "Think you can pull it off?"

"Yes, I might be able to." He said. "How many chains are there."

"Two on my hands and two on my legs."

He winched. "That's the worst variable." He mumbled.

"What?!"

"Oh, no. Nothing." He said. "But you are not going to like this. I will have to….." Then he shared his idea.

"That's a stupid idea." She said.

"Well do you have something better?" he said almost as if he got accused of treason.

There was a brief pause. "No. But it better work. Or…" then there was a loud scratch as if one was dragging chalk on a blackboard. "I will do that to your face."

"Well for your kind information, my face won't make that noise…"

"Zip it." She growled.

And he shut up.

"Well, do it…"

The boy sighed, breathing out. Closing his emerald eyes, then opening them, as green flames started sprouting on his black hair, turning them into a light shade of green. The palm that was on the wall started to heat up, glowing green. Before a burst of flames erupted outwards, concentrating on the wall.

Destroying it in seconds, the debris from the wall smashed and clashed around the two joint rooms. He jogged towards where the girl was.

These collars were designed to shock the prisoner if he wanted to make any escape attempts. But unlike the other prisoner, the boy had a mild healing ability so he could destroy it, and the guards were afraid of the boy's fire abilities.

And today happened to be a moving day. It only comes two times a year, on the moving day children that have presentable abilities but aren't that useful are sold to the highest bidder.

They would know, they have been living here almost their entire life. They were afraid of making escape attempts. It was because of the man in charge, the person that called himself the Jester. He was a brutal doctor, a psychopath if you will. And only the Jester could put the collars back on the mutant children without getting harmed.

But fortunately, in the moving days, the Jester usually accompanies the shipments and comes back later. So today was the golden opportunity to make an escape attempt. Even if they failed, at least they could take some guards out and cause some mayhem, and that was enough of a drive to get out of this hellhole.

The boy ran, his blue medical gown had already been burnt to crisp. So now he was only running in half-burnt pants that he took off a fallen guard. Though it was hard to run in those oversized pants.

He breathed in, holding his breath, before releasing, as he ran. With each breath, his neon-green hair would flutter with light.

A group of soldiers holding special shields came out of the corner. Some threw grenades while others fired shots.

The boy stood in the hallway, as a few shots hit him, creating small wounds. You could see the pain in the boy's face as he was concentrating with closed eyes. Shortly after, a tsunami of emerald flames washed down on the soldiers.

Turning them to an amalgamation of melted flesh and bones, even before they could react from their pain. Even the steel wall behind him had melted green, opening a path towards a new room, a dark room.

The boy ran inside, he didn't know how to get outside. But he had calculated his time, and he had a few hours or so. If he could find the largest gathering of soldiers he would be able to know the path outside.

But when he went inside the darkroom, several yellow lights flicked on. And all of them pointed at him. The boy lit the place up, only to see generation one sentinels.

"Shit," he cursed underneath his breath. His stable breathing was no more, it was ragged. He huffed and puffed for air, the last attack had drained a lot out of him. And now seeing these sentinels. He wasn't sure if he could make out alive.

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