Post by silent.lullaby on Oct 2, 2009 15:13:28 GMT -5
Boot Camp For Terribly Twisted Teens [Chapter 44] The Rebellion
The night came.
Stars and the moon lit my way to the car. I threw the duffle bag in first onto the passengers side and hoped in the drivers side. As much as I would have liked to have gone in with everyone, as much as that was a much better chance of survival, I couldn’t. Rick was right, the monster in me wasn’t a leader and I needed her to keep me safe.
I would be the rebellion against the Kennedy monsters.
I would save my friends.
Starting up the car I felt my stomach flip as my mind flashed to Nick. Had I just taken care of myself better. If I just stayed in bed a while longer. If I didn’t kiss Nick. If I hadn’t pulled him closer. He wouldn’t be where he was now.
My mind drifted to Leon. I had feelings for him too. I felt ridiculous even thinking about the two of them. The feelings I had for them. Like either of them would speak to me when this was all done with. I’d be a new kind of monster after what I intended to do to Kennedy.
I floored it, I had memorized the way there. All the ways there actually, all the side streets. I memorized the interior of the building from the blueprints.
While stopped at a red light I opened the duffle bag and looked in. Comforted slightly I drove on as the light turned green. Ditching the car in lot I knew it was time to start walking. Black tight fitted pants, black turtleneck and shoes. I had cut off my hair before I left so it was just to my neck. I needed it to all fit into the ski-mask I had.
It was strange. I had made such a fuss before about my hair, so much so I almost got killed over it, and now I just cut it off because it was essential that I did.
I adjusted the duffle bag and continued walking. No one gave me a second glance as I walked with my head down, eyes up. The road got quieter and quieter. I stopped a moment and got out the ski-mask. “Rick, if you’re watching me. I’m sorry I wasn’t the leader you all needed. I’ll try to get them all out alive.” I whispered knowing if he were watching my future, he’d hear it.
I strapped the two silencer guns on my hips and put my mother’s black gun in the back of my pants. I had a knife in each of my boots and needles filled with nothing. Oxygen right into the bloodstream is a killer. My best weapon though was the darkness. I looked up and the moon was just a tiny crescent.
Shadows swirled around me, and I drew on them more and more, I felt them come into me. I looked down and they were entering my body, filtering through my skin, I watched in horror as my veins became black and highly visible. I took a deep breath and was either over it or so scarred from everything else that had happened that this wasn’t such a leap.
There were guards that started shooting and dropped to the ground the shadows wrapped around their necks and lifted them up I listened as they chocked and gasped. I got up and dusted off the snow before walking forward. I felt calmer than I had in years.
I stepped over their lifeless bodies and into the building. The lights were bright, and at first it worried me. Looking down at my hand though, seeing the black veins filled with shadows the fear slipped away.
Besides, I knew this mission was crazy. It was crazy when I had back up, like this it was like Rick said. A suicide mission. I had to try though. Their lives were worth more than mine anyways. The monster in me was only going to get worse. I knew that. Hadn’t she gotten worse already?
I kept moving taking out guards as I went. I needed to get to the containment facility. They had too keep them somewhere, and that sounded like a promising place to start. The P.A clicked on. “Intruder all guards to the south wing. We have you on camera don’t think you can escape.”
A smile came upon my face, showing through the cut out in the mask. “I have no intention of escaping.” I turned as a guard came around the corner and I shot him with one of the silenced pistols. “And I have every intention of killing everyone in this building.”
“That’s a foolish intention! You’ll be dead soon.”
I smiled once again. “So you think.” I took off running, I needed to get to the containment facility! I jumped a banister to get to the lower floor quicker. A guard started shooting, I put my arms up and the shadows guarded me from the bullets and knocked him back shattering his body between the wall and the shadows. I kept going realizing that my veins were nearly back to their normal colour. I took out one of the silenced pistols and shot the lights. The entire hallway black and I felt the shadows come into me once again. I kept moving toward the containment facility, I turned the corner and shot to guards who were talking to each other and kept moving not thinking, just automatically moving.
I thought of the blueprints and got to the facility fairly quick. I shot the lock and kicked open the door. A year ago I would have been pleased by how bad ass I had become. Now I was just wishing I was the blonde girl with a great family, and a bit of an alcohol problem. Life was easier then.
Inside I seen them. My friends on slabs, sedated. I whipped off my mask, I had been using it so they wouldn’t figure out who I was along with what I could do. I pulled out all of the sedation tubes and a doctor strolled in and I grabbed the needle and shoved air into his jugular in one swift movement. He seemed shocked and I kicked his saggaring body into the storage closet and shut the door.
The P.A clicked on and gave the guards my current location. “They will attack to kill when they wake up you know.”
I smiled. “Nope. They won’t.”
“How do you figure that?” The man on the PA seemed amused.
I pulled out the small electronic device Dr. Allen had given me, he thought it might work. “Frequency disrupter. As long as this is around... their minds, are theirs.”
I grabbed Leon’s hand and put it in his palm and shut his fingers around it. It pained me to see him like this. This was my fault too. Everything was my fault. Had I never been sent to Kennedy I wouldn’t have shattered their teetering world. Leon would have been out soon, able to live his own life. “Forgive me,” I whispered kissing his forehead.
More guards came and more went down. I was nearly out of bullets, I still had three in the second silenced pistol, six in my mother’s. I finished off the three I had in the silenced pistol and dropped it, it was of no use to me anymore.
I pulled out my mothers pistol and bit my lip. Would I ever see her again? I heard someone moan and start to move behind me. I shot another guard and then another four in quick order. I used up the last bullet and backed up whipping out one of my knives. I wasn’t trained in close combat, and this room was to light to use shadows, I still had some in my body, my veins a unsettling black.
One guard charged me and grabbed my wrist as I went to slash at him. He slammed his palm into my forearm and I heard a crunch and when I risked a glance I seen the bone of my right, dominant arm was shattered through my skin.
Another guard put a gun to my head and whispered in my ear. “You fucking bitch! You killed four of my friends tonight, and my little brother. A bullet to your head would be too fucking quick I felt the cool metal through my shirt as he pressed the gun against my collarbone by my left shoulder and shot the gun I felt the bullet rip right through and I screamed. “Don’t pass out sweetie,” he murmured as I swayed. “I’m not even close to being through with you yet.”
“Actually you are.” The man with the gun dropped and then the one holding me still dropped too. With a simple touch of a pale hand. “Claire?” I swayed and took two steps back to regain my balance.
“Scott!” I couldn’t believe it. Hawkeye had seen him against a bolder. Broken spine. Here he was standing in front of me. “Scott, are you okay?”
“Other than this damned chip in my head,” Scott murmured. “Why can’t they control me?”
“Stay near Leon, I put the disrupter in his hand. It kills the frequency.”
“Where the hell did you come up with that?” Another guard came in and with a simple touch the guard died.
“How the hell are you killing people?”
Scott gave a half ass smile, “I’ve seen death for a long time, now I can see it on whoever I want. And bam, they’re dead.” I dropped to my knees, “Claire?”
“Claire? Oh my god! Claire?” I felt a hand on my back and turned to see Nina. I laughed. “What’s so funny?”
“You’re alive. You’re all alive. You need to get everyone out of here.”
“Where is everyone else?” Nina asked.
“Safe, Carlin institute. Get there, the password is 78362. Please. Tell my mom I’m sorry okay, can you do that?”
“You can do it yourself,” Nina said indignantly. “You’re going to be fine.”
Nina pressurized the air and threw out more guards. Thayne sat up and looked at me, “Jesus! What the hell.”
“Explained later,” I muttered. “We need to get out of here.”
I took off my watch and put it on Nina she looked at me with a strange look. “There were a few extra things I took from the Institute in my duffle bag. Like the bomb I rigged this place with. This place is going to blow in less than five minutes.”
Nina’s eyes grew wide. “Holy shit!”
“Get everyone awake, Nina, do it now.”
“I have to keep them back!”
Thayne charged and shattered a mans skull with his fist. “Scott and I can keep them back!” Nina nodded and started waking Hiro. Scott and Thayne worked efficiently watching each other’s backs killing all guards that came their way.
Hiro started to stir and Nina started to wake Leon. J.C started to awake on her own and sat up slowly. I forced my way to my feet and poked at Robyn gently, my left arm not working properly with the bullet hole. The bleeding was still heavy. Robyn jolted awake and looked at me with blood and bone coming from my body. “Claire?” She whispered.
“Get everyone out of here,” I said to her. “This place is going to blow.”
“Claire,” she whispered. “What have you done?”
“I’m ending this.”
She grabbed a sheet and applied pressure to my wounded collarbone. “Like this?”
“A lot has happened Robyn,” I said and I tasted blood in my mouth I spat it out. “Get to the Carlin Institute, someone there will explain everything.”
“Clairissa!” I turned and seen Leon coming toward me. “Oh my God, what has happened.”
“No time to explain. Get out of here.” I told him.
His eyebrows drew together, his miss matched eyes studying me. “I’m not leaving you.”
“Lie to me, look in my eyes and lie to me. Tell me everything will be okay,” I staggered from blood loss, “just lie and leave me. Please. Leave me here. We have to kill all the monsters with the bomb. I’m one of them Leon.”
He looked at me completely perplexed. “You’re not with Kennedy.”
“I am,” I lied straight faced. “I’ve worked with them for a long time,” I gave a sadistic smile. “It’s my fault you are here.”
“If that is true why would you set us free.”
“Bigger picture.” I said vaguely as blood stained my lips, “now get the fuck out of here. All of you.”
Leon looked me in the eye. “Claire. You’re a terrible liar.”
Hiro was up now too, Nina stood straight up and looked at her watch, “guys we need to get out of here! Now!”
“I’m not leaving you,” Leon whispered softly and I stared into his eyes, “you’re going to be just fine.” He turned to everyone, “Hiro! Break the window!”
“Guys, we got less than a minute!” Nina screamed over gunfire from the guards she pushed the air toward them with force.
I heard the window shatter. “I’m not a liar,” blood spurted from my mouth with my speech and landed on his shirt, I absentmindedly tried to wipe it away. “Sorry,” I whispered.
“It’s a Kennedy shirt anyways,” he said holding me close to his body, “you’re going to be okay Claire.”
“No Leon,” the blood gurgled in the back of my throat, “I don’t think I will be.”
The night came.
Stars and the moon lit my way to the car. I threw the duffle bag in first onto the passengers side and hoped in the drivers side. As much as I would have liked to have gone in with everyone, as much as that was a much better chance of survival, I couldn’t. Rick was right, the monster in me wasn’t a leader and I needed her to keep me safe.
I would be the rebellion against the Kennedy monsters.
I would save my friends.
Starting up the car I felt my stomach flip as my mind flashed to Nick. Had I just taken care of myself better. If I just stayed in bed a while longer. If I didn’t kiss Nick. If I hadn’t pulled him closer. He wouldn’t be where he was now.
My mind drifted to Leon. I had feelings for him too. I felt ridiculous even thinking about the two of them. The feelings I had for them. Like either of them would speak to me when this was all done with. I’d be a new kind of monster after what I intended to do to Kennedy.
I floored it, I had memorized the way there. All the ways there actually, all the side streets. I memorized the interior of the building from the blueprints.
While stopped at a red light I opened the duffle bag and looked in. Comforted slightly I drove on as the light turned green. Ditching the car in lot I knew it was time to start walking. Black tight fitted pants, black turtleneck and shoes. I had cut off my hair before I left so it was just to my neck. I needed it to all fit into the ski-mask I had.
It was strange. I had made such a fuss before about my hair, so much so I almost got killed over it, and now I just cut it off because it was essential that I did.
I adjusted the duffle bag and continued walking. No one gave me a second glance as I walked with my head down, eyes up. The road got quieter and quieter. I stopped a moment and got out the ski-mask. “Rick, if you’re watching me. I’m sorry I wasn’t the leader you all needed. I’ll try to get them all out alive.” I whispered knowing if he were watching my future, he’d hear it.
I strapped the two silencer guns on my hips and put my mother’s black gun in the back of my pants. I had a knife in each of my boots and needles filled with nothing. Oxygen right into the bloodstream is a killer. My best weapon though was the darkness. I looked up and the moon was just a tiny crescent.
Shadows swirled around me, and I drew on them more and more, I felt them come into me. I looked down and they were entering my body, filtering through my skin, I watched in horror as my veins became black and highly visible. I took a deep breath and was either over it or so scarred from everything else that had happened that this wasn’t such a leap.
There were guards that started shooting and dropped to the ground the shadows wrapped around their necks and lifted them up I listened as they chocked and gasped. I got up and dusted off the snow before walking forward. I felt calmer than I had in years.
I stepped over their lifeless bodies and into the building. The lights were bright, and at first it worried me. Looking down at my hand though, seeing the black veins filled with shadows the fear slipped away.
Besides, I knew this mission was crazy. It was crazy when I had back up, like this it was like Rick said. A suicide mission. I had to try though. Their lives were worth more than mine anyways. The monster in me was only going to get worse. I knew that. Hadn’t she gotten worse already?
I kept moving taking out guards as I went. I needed to get to the containment facility. They had too keep them somewhere, and that sounded like a promising place to start. The P.A clicked on. “Intruder all guards to the south wing. We have you on camera don’t think you can escape.”
A smile came upon my face, showing through the cut out in the mask. “I have no intention of escaping.” I turned as a guard came around the corner and I shot him with one of the silenced pistols. “And I have every intention of killing everyone in this building.”
“That’s a foolish intention! You’ll be dead soon.”
I smiled once again. “So you think.” I took off running, I needed to get to the containment facility! I jumped a banister to get to the lower floor quicker. A guard started shooting, I put my arms up and the shadows guarded me from the bullets and knocked him back shattering his body between the wall and the shadows. I kept going realizing that my veins were nearly back to their normal colour. I took out one of the silenced pistols and shot the lights. The entire hallway black and I felt the shadows come into me once again. I kept moving toward the containment facility, I turned the corner and shot to guards who were talking to each other and kept moving not thinking, just automatically moving.
I thought of the blueprints and got to the facility fairly quick. I shot the lock and kicked open the door. A year ago I would have been pleased by how bad ass I had become. Now I was just wishing I was the blonde girl with a great family, and a bit of an alcohol problem. Life was easier then.
Inside I seen them. My friends on slabs, sedated. I whipped off my mask, I had been using it so they wouldn’t figure out who I was along with what I could do. I pulled out all of the sedation tubes and a doctor strolled in and I grabbed the needle and shoved air into his jugular in one swift movement. He seemed shocked and I kicked his saggaring body into the storage closet and shut the door.
The P.A clicked on and gave the guards my current location. “They will attack to kill when they wake up you know.”
I smiled. “Nope. They won’t.”
“How do you figure that?” The man on the PA seemed amused.
I pulled out the small electronic device Dr. Allen had given me, he thought it might work. “Frequency disrupter. As long as this is around... their minds, are theirs.”
I grabbed Leon’s hand and put it in his palm and shut his fingers around it. It pained me to see him like this. This was my fault too. Everything was my fault. Had I never been sent to Kennedy I wouldn’t have shattered their teetering world. Leon would have been out soon, able to live his own life. “Forgive me,” I whispered kissing his forehead.
More guards came and more went down. I was nearly out of bullets, I still had three in the second silenced pistol, six in my mother’s. I finished off the three I had in the silenced pistol and dropped it, it was of no use to me anymore.
I pulled out my mothers pistol and bit my lip. Would I ever see her again? I heard someone moan and start to move behind me. I shot another guard and then another four in quick order. I used up the last bullet and backed up whipping out one of my knives. I wasn’t trained in close combat, and this room was to light to use shadows, I still had some in my body, my veins a unsettling black.
One guard charged me and grabbed my wrist as I went to slash at him. He slammed his palm into my forearm and I heard a crunch and when I risked a glance I seen the bone of my right, dominant arm was shattered through my skin.
Another guard put a gun to my head and whispered in my ear. “You fucking bitch! You killed four of my friends tonight, and my little brother. A bullet to your head would be too fucking quick I felt the cool metal through my shirt as he pressed the gun against my collarbone by my left shoulder and shot the gun I felt the bullet rip right through and I screamed. “Don’t pass out sweetie,” he murmured as I swayed. “I’m not even close to being through with you yet.”
“Actually you are.” The man with the gun dropped and then the one holding me still dropped too. With a simple touch of a pale hand. “Claire?” I swayed and took two steps back to regain my balance.
“Scott!” I couldn’t believe it. Hawkeye had seen him against a bolder. Broken spine. Here he was standing in front of me. “Scott, are you okay?”
“Other than this damned chip in my head,” Scott murmured. “Why can’t they control me?”
“Stay near Leon, I put the disrupter in his hand. It kills the frequency.”
“Where the hell did you come up with that?” Another guard came in and with a simple touch the guard died.
“How the hell are you killing people?”
Scott gave a half ass smile, “I’ve seen death for a long time, now I can see it on whoever I want. And bam, they’re dead.” I dropped to my knees, “Claire?”
“Claire? Oh my god! Claire?” I felt a hand on my back and turned to see Nina. I laughed. “What’s so funny?”
“You’re alive. You’re all alive. You need to get everyone out of here.”
“Where is everyone else?” Nina asked.
“Safe, Carlin institute. Get there, the password is 78362. Please. Tell my mom I’m sorry okay, can you do that?”
“You can do it yourself,” Nina said indignantly. “You’re going to be fine.”
Nina pressurized the air and threw out more guards. Thayne sat up and looked at me, “Jesus! What the hell.”
“Explained later,” I muttered. “We need to get out of here.”
I took off my watch and put it on Nina she looked at me with a strange look. “There were a few extra things I took from the Institute in my duffle bag. Like the bomb I rigged this place with. This place is going to blow in less than five minutes.”
Nina’s eyes grew wide. “Holy shit!”
“Get everyone awake, Nina, do it now.”
“I have to keep them back!”
Thayne charged and shattered a mans skull with his fist. “Scott and I can keep them back!” Nina nodded and started waking Hiro. Scott and Thayne worked efficiently watching each other’s backs killing all guards that came their way.
Hiro started to stir and Nina started to wake Leon. J.C started to awake on her own and sat up slowly. I forced my way to my feet and poked at Robyn gently, my left arm not working properly with the bullet hole. The bleeding was still heavy. Robyn jolted awake and looked at me with blood and bone coming from my body. “Claire?” She whispered.
“Get everyone out of here,” I said to her. “This place is going to blow.”
“Claire,” she whispered. “What have you done?”
“I’m ending this.”
She grabbed a sheet and applied pressure to my wounded collarbone. “Like this?”
“A lot has happened Robyn,” I said and I tasted blood in my mouth I spat it out. “Get to the Carlin Institute, someone there will explain everything.”
“Clairissa!” I turned and seen Leon coming toward me. “Oh my God, what has happened.”
“No time to explain. Get out of here.” I told him.
His eyebrows drew together, his miss matched eyes studying me. “I’m not leaving you.”
“Lie to me, look in my eyes and lie to me. Tell me everything will be okay,” I staggered from blood loss, “just lie and leave me. Please. Leave me here. We have to kill all the monsters with the bomb. I’m one of them Leon.”
He looked at me completely perplexed. “You’re not with Kennedy.”
“I am,” I lied straight faced. “I’ve worked with them for a long time,” I gave a sadistic smile. “It’s my fault you are here.”
“If that is true why would you set us free.”
“Bigger picture.” I said vaguely as blood stained my lips, “now get the fuck out of here. All of you.”
Leon looked me in the eye. “Claire. You’re a terrible liar.”
Hiro was up now too, Nina stood straight up and looked at her watch, “guys we need to get out of here! Now!”
“I’m not leaving you,” Leon whispered softly and I stared into his eyes, “you’re going to be just fine.” He turned to everyone, “Hiro! Break the window!”
“Guys, we got less than a minute!” Nina screamed over gunfire from the guards she pushed the air toward them with force.
I heard the window shatter. “I’m not a liar,” blood spurted from my mouth with my speech and landed on his shirt, I absentmindedly tried to wipe it away. “Sorry,” I whispered.
“It’s a Kennedy shirt anyways,” he said holding me close to his body, “you’re going to be okay Claire.”
“No Leon,” the blood gurgled in the back of my throat, “I don’t think I will be.”