again sorry it took so long, this time it was writers block...
*a charred looking Cili walks in*
Cili: don't you think using an atomic bomb was a little bit excessive? *coughs up a puff of smoke*
Hey! you dont know how hard it is to get rid of writers block!
Cili: whatever...
Chapter 10
Scrawny shuddered as he heard Spider's screams echoing through the vent shafts.
Dammit he thought, At this rate they'll end up killing him within month..
He settled himself in a corner and started trying to think of a way to get Spider out. As he did, memories resurfaced...
It was what? 3? No 4 years ago, he was typing away at his terminal when he heard a blood curdling scream.
"Master!" he cried as he literally flew out of his chair as he run toward the scream. He tripped and fell, due to his pants catching on a raised patch of carpet. He scrabbled back up and run into the lab, where he found his master, Bastek, laying on the ground in a pool of blood, barely alive.
"Master.." he said, kneeled beside him, "I'll call for a medic.."
"No..." Bastek said weakly, "It is too late for me."
"No..." he said, tears welling up in his eyes, "What happened?"
"Myron." Bastek gasped, "He wanted complete control over Crossbreed 738, and I wouldn't give it to him. Therefore..."
"Crossbreed 738...Spider?" he asked.
"Yes." Bastek nodded, then he started coughing violently, coughing up blood.
"Master...please...don't go..."
"Nerik...I have something to ask of you.."
"What is that Master?" Nerik sobbed.
"Please, watch over Spider, keep him alive and see that he gets free from this place. I do not wish for him to be stuck here for the rest of his life..."
"I will do my best Master, I promise...Master?" he then noticed that Bastek had died, and he wept...
Two years later...
"Nerik!" Myron shouted furiously.
"Yes?" Nerik answered calmly.
"Do you know where Crossbreed 738 is?"
"Ummm...in his cell." Nerik said, playing dumb.
"That's where he is supposed to be, but he is not! Now where is he!?"
"No idea Boss." he replied innocently.
"I don't believe you..." Myron said with a dangerous tone in his voice. "I know you were Bastek's assistent, I know you helped him with Crossbreed 738."
"Yeah, so?"
"I have been watching you for the past few days, I know you have been sneaking that Crossbreed food and water."
"A test subject that is nearly dead is of no use ter anyone, sir."
"But there's more...I saw throught the secerity camras, you slipping him a note. Then not long after, Crossbreed 738 'somehow' escaped and took the pant protype with him."
Nerik continued to look at Myron calmly, he knew what was about to happen next and he was ready for it. Cooly he said, "I take it yer going ter arrest me fer traison? Go ahead and try, yer'll get yours someday ya basterd." he then ever so calmly flipped Myron the bird and bolted.
"After him!" Myron said furiously to several sligs that were nearby, who gave chase.
Nerik kept running, he had this all planned out and getting caught wasn't part of the plan. He made several quick turns and arrived at the opening of a ventalation shaft. Quickly, he ditched his pants, opened the door, ran in, and closed the door behind him. The sligs that were chasing him skidded to a halt, confused.
Idiots he thought as he turned and quietly scrampered through the shaft. Now to find Spider, and help him get out this place for good...
Scrawny shoke himself out of the memories and sighed. It had took him a couple of months for him to find Spider after he had set him free. And by then, he had lost a lot of weight as he had to scrouge leftovers to keep himself going. In a way, it was a good thing, since it wasn't long after his escape that Spider went cannibal, which he couldn't blame him. After all, you can't exactly eat at the mess hall if you are an escaped lab 'animal' and have no money. Spider hadn't reconized him, and would've tried to eat him if he wasn't so thin. During the two years since, Scrawny had kept Spider out of trouble and kept searching for a doable way to get Spider out of the complex completely. He had just found a possiblity when Spider was caught again.
Here we are, back at step one again. he thought with a slight groan. At least this time, when I free him again, we can head straight to step two...
Scrawny went back to brainstorming...
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