Facility HyB

Chapter Three: Subjects Meet

No matter what I did, or how I did it, they never let go of the stupid leash! Not even stomping on their feet with all my might works! They just glare at me with their cold eyes and go back to looking down the hall. Heck, at this point I would rather be back at the orphanage with Miss Grundy and her constant cleaning then be here!

Growling under my breath for the umpteenth time I jump at the man not holding the leash in an attempt to take him down. Not being able to claw them like I use to make it harder to frighten them and this stupidly tight muzzle didn't help either. Sadly my attack plan didn't quite work out. Leash man tugged on it hard and left me sprawled out on the cold white floor. The breath was knocked out of my lungs, and as if that wasn't bad enough, I landed on my tail as well. Intense pain shot through my lower back and I yelped.

Rolling onto my stomach I brought my new tail around to examine it. It was bushy and a little longer than my arm; the fur was soft and a dull orange color with a darker underside and a white tip about the length of my hand. I reach up my hand and brush it against one of my ears, letting the silkiness of it soothe me; I knew what they looked like. Almost bat like and we're the same color orange as my tail, but instead of a white tip, they were deep black.

My human ears don't work anymore, but my hearing was now much better. I could hear one of the watches worn by almost every scientist from 40 yards away without trying, I could also block out the sounds just as easily. My sense of smell had also gotten better, allowing me to pick out certain people's sent from a ways away. And right now I smelt that no good doctor....Doctor Mikeles I think is what he said his name was. 

And just like that, with my enhanced vision, I saw him walking towards us down the impossibly long hallway. I jump to my feet, startling the two guards leaning against the wall. They hiss under their breath and look at me as if waiting for me to do something, and boy was I tempted to. But what could I do if I couldn't bite or scratch them? Not much I can tell you that!

They both looked at me in tense silence for the next two minutes that it took for Doctor Mikeles to reach us. He looked worn out and rather weary, but he still had on a smile that reached his dull blue eyes. "Hello again, 082a." He said the assigned name as if it were my actual name, as if my real name didn't matter anymore. 

"My name is Max! Not that weird ID!!" I yowl at him, spitting like a cat through the vile muzzle and into his face for good measure.

He turned away from me and began talking to the guards. I didn't bother to pay attention to the conversation. Two cheers for selective hearing everybody! Before I knew it I was being dragged down the corridor in the opposite direction that I usually went. I struggle to gain my footing and not get completely dragged. But I admit, going in the opposite direction; this peaked my curiosity, so much so that I could feel my ears perk.

However, that didn't stop me from dragging my feet after a few seconds and doing my absolute best to make them work to move me forward. The two obviously strong men—I mean if they were hired to hold me back then they had to be, even then, they struggled to move forward. With my feet being bare it gave me extra leverage and friction that their boots didn't allow. Even though the boots looked good, the traction was slippery—I would know since I've knocked them down enough times.

We passed room after room, going through a single metal door before finally reaching our destination. The room was huge, like two football fields long, just like what I watched on the crappy black and white TV in the orphanage on weekends, with high ceilings decorated with metal support beams in the center of the large room. There were assortments of climbing walls and hoops strung in the air; as if they were planning on making bird hybrids. But what I spotted on the far wall was vines; millions of vines woven together to make a wall. Other plants were also positioned in the room in various places, I even spotted several trucks lining the other wall in perfect rows. Cars ranging from a small yellow bug to a large red semi truck that resembled one I had seen on a show once quite well.