(Now I finally I have some free time ooh, this has grown so long. I like Mohovie's avatar btw. This post is long, and I see lots of lame things things in it but bear with it. When will my writing skills improve? D:)
With all the noise recently, Lionel thought he could finally nap inside his cage. It hadn't been easy, falling from the 'sky' due to the sleeping gas. He could feel pains along several points in his body, but nothing too damaging that it would last for very long.
Finding himself trapped within a cage, he tried to budge the bars but sighed. His strength was still human. It was a weakness, but it didn't match up to the strength he had gotten from his wings. But just to be sure...he expanded his wings back and quick as lightning flexed their tips forward. Success! the bars of the cage showed tiny cuts.
"And I didn't even use my full power yet." He spoke to himself slowly, not aware of how cocky he sounded. Well, now that he knew he could get out, like a child who knew where the cookie jar was, he leaned against the bars of the cage contended. He couldn't see Xero anywhere. He was about to nap, his arms crossed and legs spread (Xero called it his signature pose) when he heard a faint tapping noise.
"Hey... Lionel!" he turned to meet a smiling Hex. "You okay?"
"I was."
"Huh?"
"Anyway, how did you get here?"
"Long story. We need to get you out of here."
"Hang on, I got this." Still lying down, he raised his back a bit and flapped his wings, slicing the bars of the cage on the opposite side with the wind. First top, then bottom. He silently got up and went out, slipping through by pushing the bars out.
"Tada!" he smiled at the surprised Hex, holding out two of the metal bars.
"Why didn't you do that earlier?" Hex whispered.
"I was about to nap."
"If only you weren't so lazy."
"That's what everyone says. Lets go! you think you can get me back to the habitat?" Lionel asked.
"Why?" Hex narrowed her eyes.
"I need something. Didn't have the time to get it." Without asking further questions, Hex lead him back to the habitat after passing through the maze of vents. The whole place was completely empty.
"Wait here." He commanded and flew off at his max speed, blowing all of Hex's fur backward. He came back, holding something in his hand. Hex's eyes widened in surprise.
"How did you even get that?" He was spinning a small pistol around his finger.
"Stole it when some months back from some coat. Some are really despise us, and carry around one that doesn't contain tranquilizers. This one has live ammo, though the magazine in it is all I've got." Hex's eyes widened in surprise.
"Who are you going to use that on?"
"Frankenstein, of course." Lionel didn't feel like smirking when he saw her face. "We need to get back. Show me the way." Hex was reluctant.
"Look, I've only got these wings. I'm completely human unlike the rest of you. I even catch human diseases now and then, and cook the raw meat scientist toss to the carnivorous ones because I can't live on the food they give to other flying experiments." Hex was utterly confused. How could he still be so human? all the experiments were tested harshly.
"How are you still like that?"
"Ah, her name was Grace was it? she was the first one to test me. Well if I tell you only the three of us will know." He took a deep breath. "I was humanly abnormal before I was brought here. Normal testing methods can make my blood type appear to be AB+. But, there's something more. Grace calls my blood Z-type. It's extremely fast in generating an immune response and reproduction. The moment my cells are altered, they are treated as viruses and eliminated while the non-affected ones quickly multiply. I got the wings when I was younger, but even as my body grew my wings didn't." "Shouldn't that made the scientists want to experiment you more?"
"Once again, if you think about subjecting a completely normal human to post-mutation experiments no one would survive. I do get called now and then to be injected with serums when they think they've finally cracked it. Naturally they fail and take more blood from me." Lionel sighed. Hex tried to digest what he was saying.
"Fine then. But you'll only use that thing when your life is in danger. Other than that then no one in the world will you find scarier than me." Hex warned. She was scary now, what about later? Lionel quickly nodded.
She started to lead him back to the place where all the other experiments were trapped, sneaking through the vents.
"Your tail is really fluffy. Can I use that as a pillow sometime?" Lionel said, bored of the silence as they took another turn. They were moving crouched on their knees and elbows, and her tail was in his reach, which he was desperately trying not to feel. Hex laughed. "You're a weird one, aint ya?" "Is that a yes?" she didn't respond. They finally reached the place in the wall Hex had torn previously before. As they stepped to the place with the cages, they were completely shocked. There was absolute chaos, with experiments running rampant and cages being broken everywhere. He looked at Hex.
"Will you be fine on your own?" He asked, a worried expression on his face. She laughed a little.
"You're worrying about me? You should stay behind me." Damn, she was ready to fight.
"Take care of things on the ground." He shot upwards. "Let's try to meet up again. Find Xero if you can!" He yelled over the sounds. Flying max speed into the center of the area, he noticed something really fast, flying to from experiment to experiment on a rampage, dealing with them easily and fast.
Lots dust was gathering in the air and he couldn't clearly see their appearance. They turned around and looked at Lionel, a strange and cheery look in its' eyes, making it seem almost lunatic. He moved fast as it approached him and geared up as it attacked.
Swift movements he moved to dodge but one unavoidable hit he choose to block. This proved to be a fatal mistake. Their claw struck his left shin. Instantly, swung around with his right ready to land a kick. As predicted, they moved and dodged and also read the left kick he sneaked in but they were in the palm of his hands. He had the fastest reflexes among all of the experiments.
They were moving up but he brought down his fist hard, his knuckles connecting with their face. It turned quiet suddenly and the field seemed to stand still. The dust cleared. Lionel looked in surprise. What was this! they resembled 99!
"You know, you're first one to land one on me. Though it wasn't pretty effective." The slight bruise that had appeared above its suppressed eye vanished. She opened the other eye. His leg was still bleeding. Panting as he struggled to stay in the air, he asked in a shaky voice.
"Who are you?"