After a couple weeks, Jack is starting to feel like he was never going to be able to escape this torture. The worse thing of all, is that he has no clue what these people are trying to accomplish. At least five times a day they hook him up to that same test and mark down the results. Yet, they always put the same exact needles around the original place.
Once Jack starts to wake up, he rubs his eyes to mentally prepare for what’s to happen today. He looks up at the glass door, he can now see outside of the door now that he’s trained his eyes to do so. Now there are five security guards on the opposite side of the door. Jack sighs to himself, he knew that would happen sooner or later. Keep trying to escape when they don’t want you to will really agitate some people.
Jack then stands up, and walks over to the door where he puts his hand on top of the glass. As he looks up, he can see the torment that Anti went through stained on his face. His hair was going left and right. Dark circles started to form underneath the eyes. The skin started to look pale, almost as pale as the white tile that he stood on. The pjs that they put him in started to wrinkle bad.
Jack holds unto the tear drop pendant again. For some reason, just holding onto it gave him comfort and a reason to escape. One thing that Jack knows for certain, is that this isn’t just a normal kidnapping. No it wasn’t, this was something bigger. The only thing he can come to think is that this is the government. Who else would have hundreds of doctors and nurses? Who would have had the money to afford all of the tests that needed to be performed? Whatever it was, he knew he shouldn’t have tried to solve it by himself. Or maybe not at all.
The worst thing about all of this, is that Jack knows he’s reliving Anti’s life. But, if he’s been here for weeks, how long as it been in his life? Has he only been stuck here for a couple hours or weeks as well? He just wants to go home...
Suddenly the glass door swings open, and the five security guards walk in. However they weren’t wearing what they usually wear. They looked like they were wearing nuclear protection outfits. Now with that, Jack knew that this wasn’t going to be the day he thought. Without hesitation The men grab ahold of Jack’s arms as he starts thrashing about.
He knows by this point he’s not going to be able to escape the men, but he doesn’t want to be compliant. Why would he want to be? He’s basically a human test subject.
However the men didn’t start taking him out of the room, first one of the security guards rolled in what looked like a medical gurney, but way old fashioned. The men then place Jack on top of it and strap his arms down the the metal rails and they start rolling him out of the room and down the halls. He hated this, Jack is usually a nice person. He always has been a nice person, but he knows that half of the things that he says are coming from Anti. Yes jack was the one struggling to get away, but Anti was the one who was making the medical staff hate him.
However, Jack keeps struggling against the leather straps as the men push him. He then looks up at the top of ceiling. There was lots of air vents that where at least twenty feet in the air. One thing that Jack did know, was that this place was built for these experiments.
The men roll jack into a room with bright blue and green floor with blazing white light that stung Jack’s eyes. Suddenly the men stop rolling him, and a nurse walks up to Jack. She wasn’t the fifty year old nurse that she saw before, she was younger. Maybe her early twenty’s, he’s hair was a blonde and the lights above made the pink highlights in her hair even brighter then before.
The Nurse: “Did they tell you what we are doing today?”
Jack doesn’t say a word. Which makes the young nurse sigh. She then motions to the security guards to move him into a weird looking machine. As soon as he sees the rim of it, Jack starts to struggle as hard as he could, not caring about the leather straps burning in his skin. This wasn’t a normal machine, and he did NOT want to go in it.
The nurse: “Andrew calm down. This isn’t going to hurt you.”
Again, Jack didn’t say that. After being here for a couple weeks. Jack started to realize that all of the dialogue that he want saying was all coming from Anti when he was living through this. But it doesn’t really matter, this was Anti’s story. Not his.
The nurse: “Well calm down, this experiment usually doesn’t work so there’s nothing to worry about.”
Jack’s eyes widen. If it doesn’t work then why are they trying it out on him?! The nurse then walks up to Jack and lifts up his sleeve where she puts in the needle into the same place as the other nurse has done.
Jack still wasn’t use to the pain of the needle yet.
The nurse: “Sorry hun. Now lay down all the way so we can begin.”
Jack: “What even is this test?”
The nurse: “Genetic mutilation.”
Jack doesn’t want to be in this seat any longer, he starts struggling like crazy. It doesn’t get him anywhere but at least it was getting the guards to be protective of the nurse.
The nurse: “Don’t worry it never works.”
Jack: “Then why are you trying it on me!? What are you people even trying to accomplish!?”
The nurse: “We’re trying to unlock full control of a human brain.”
That makes zero sense, but jack stops struggling trying to figure out a way to escape before whatever the hell is going to happen.
The nurse: “Now I need you to lay down all the way so we can begin.”
Jack: “I kinda can’t when my arms are tied to the bars.”
The nurse: “Alright. Give me a second.”
The nurse then puts undoes Jack’s left hand restraint, and then goes back over to the opposite side of the machine so she doesn’t get in the way of the experiment.
The nurse: “Are you ready?”
Jack quickly unties the strap on his other arm, and hopes off the bed. Which immediately alerts the guards that he’s trying to escape.
The nurse: “GUARDS GET HIM!”
One guard goes to grab him, but jack is able to dodge him and the others and run out of the door. Anti must have been an acrobat in his past life, because there was no way Jack could have done that in the real world.
He keeps running down the hallway as fast he can. He can easily hear the footsteps of guards catching up to him, but he keeps running and analyzing ever single hallway just in case if this isn’t his final escape attempt. Jack quickly makes a small look down the hallway on the left of him, and in big red letters says, ‘EXIT’. Without thinking he makes a quick turn and runs straight to the door. The guards bump into each other after realizing that he turns and follow after him. Jack pushes open the door, but stops himself.
The door led outside, but it was over a fifty story drop.
Jack gasps and holds on tight to the door handle, scared of letting go. He has horrified of heights, but this was just ridiculous. Yes he has done higher in VR, but this was really freaking life. But if this is the way out, so be it. He quickly looks behind him, and sees the guards only fifteen feet away. So, he does something he never thought he would do. He takes a few steps back and jumps off the ledge.
However, he gets jerked back as someone grabbed his pj shirt and pulls him back into the building.
He gets thrown to the ground, and kicked in the ribs.
He then is met with a sharp sting in the side of his neck, which he’s recognized this feeling before. He looks up and sees the nurse with the green injector in here hand. As his vision fades in and out he listens as she talks to him.
The nurse: “You’re real stubborn. How come you just keep fighting?”
Then jack passes out.... again.
Jack: “MMHHHMMHM!!!!! HMHMMMH!!!”
Jack didn’t even get a chance to wake up before he was violated with what felt like thousands of sharp knives being stabbed into his body. When he was able to open his eyes, he noticed that he was inside of that machine that they tried to put him in before. His arms where once again strapped down, but they put the gag in his mouth once again. He didn’t know why, but it hated it. It made him feel like he was being suffocated, and it hurt his jaw.
Suddenly the pain goes away, but he hears a voice that sounded like the robotic voice from portal.
Voice: “Level 15 accomplished. Proceeding level 16. Are you sure you want to continue? Levels have never been done like this before.”
Jack’s eyes widen, has this whole time when he was knocked out where they doing these tests and he just barely felt it? Without a second thought, he sees a blue light at the bottom of his feet coming straight at him. Luckily his feet weren’t tied down, so he quickly moved them up to his chest to prevent them from getting hurt. He then hears a voice from around the room that sounded liked surround sound.
The nurse: “Andrew don’t move. It’ll only hurt more.”
Jack didn’t believe that, he knew that it was going to hurt no matter what he did. He starts Frantically pulling his arms up trying to escape as the light came closer and closer to him.
Jack: “Mhmmhmm!!! Hmhmm!”
The light barely touches jack’s feet and he screams.
Voice: “Ending test is in failure. Proceeding completion.”
The light goes even farther up Jack’s body and he keeps screaming louder and louder.
Voice: “Ending test failure, proceeding completion.”
Jack has no idea what that voice keeps meaning to say, he just knows that he’s going to have a bad time. Suddenly the light goes super fast, and shines directly into Jack’s eyes.
Jack: “HMMMHMMMHMM!!!!! HMHMMMHHMM!!!”
He tries closing his eyes, but the light just burns hotter and stronger. Suddenly the light turns off, and Jack once again passes out.
Jack wakes up in the sweat of panic, and quickly gets off of the bed that he slept in. He felt different, he didn’t know what it was but he did. It wasn’t personally but it but physical. He quickly runs over the the glass door and he gasps. He didn’t look the same, the top of his hair turned completely dark green. His skin was paler, it looked like the white paint on the walls. Then his eyes, they looked the same, but every couple seconds they would turn completely black with a small white spot in the middle. Suddenly Dr. Porks walks into the room.
Dr. Porks: “Well Andrew, looks like you’re the first person that has successfully passes the genetic experiment.”
Jack grabs at his hair hard, he doesn’t believe it, he can’t believe it. What the fuck is going on?! Why were his eyes changing color!?
Jack: “What did you do to me!?
He then looks at the Dr, who in fright jumps back. He wasn’t expecting Jack’s eyes to change like they did. However he gathers his courage and tries to to act professional.
Dr. Porks: “Simple molecular structure switch inside of your dna. Anyways, you have another test in thirty minutes.”
The Dr then leaves, as Jack chases after him. The door closes right before he can though. He then hits his fist against the glass door.
Jack: “WHAT TEST!??! Dr!!! Please tell me!”
Jack then falls to his knees, and he covers his face in his hands.
Jack: “I can’t take more of this...”
( @watermelonsinmyattic )
