This is a continuation of my "Soul" fan fiction if you could not tell. If you haven't read that one then go read it first! If you have read it first then enjoy!
Pronunciation: Kitearo (Kite-are-oh) Argentum (Are-gen-toom)
Musica (Musi-cah)
Photonic (Photon-ick)
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It has been five years since I arrived back on the surface. Life got really crazy for a while. It technically still is. I made a few friends here in the lab. We call it the H.M.O.T.G all the time. I don't care what it stands for. My friends and I are all strange which is actually why we're here. When I came back here I was immediately taken to a small dark room and left there for a while, then taken to get a tattoo, which we all call code numbers or codes for short, of the roman numeral for "13" in a neon blue color on my left shoulder blade. That is my personal code. Everyone except for my few friends call me by my code and I hate it. My friends are pretty nice. I've known them ever since I was two. They helped me escape from this place last time and now we are planning to escape together.
During the time that I have been here I was able to gather some information on what Gaster told me, but not all of the information that I need. This is because this is one of the four labs he mentioned. Thanks to internet I was also able to get information from the other three. I also kept the journal I found with my things away from the bleach whites, that's what we call the scientist here because they have that uptight "we want results now" kind of personality. It just stuck to them like those disgusting lab coats they always wear. Speaking of my things, those jerks took everything except that journal, and only because they didn't see it. They even took my clothes and gave me pure white clothes to wear, but they did let me keep my silver ribbon and silver hair tie so I could put my hair in its usual ponytail and wrap up my two longer bangs in the ribbon. Because they took my scarf, I wrapped some bandages on my neck so it feels like I'm wearing it, that and so I can hide my--- that's not important right now. Anyway, those bandages also went down to seemingly connect with the bandages on my right arm.
"Thirteen, Nine, move it. Lunch time." Me and my roommate and friend, Flo Photonic, hear from outside our door. We both get off of our "comfortable" white spring beds and stand in front of out door, me behind Flo since she's older. Flo is amazing to be honest. She's fourteen and has long hair that is flaming red with golden highlights and is styled so that it looks like it parts into an upside down "V" shape. She also has cool hawk-like eyes that are a nice burnt gold color. She is very nice to me and I'm happy she's my roommate. Her code is the roman numeral for "9" and is on her right side of her chest, near her shoulder and it is colored a flaming orange. She also has a golden flame symbol on her right upper arm.
The two of us are taken to the cafeteria where all of us here get together to eat, duh. Me and Flo go and sit at our usual spot with our friends. There are a total of five of us. Me, Flo, the twins Boom and Beats Musica who are thirteen years old, and the oldest and head of our little group, Kitearo Argentum, who is sixteen years old.
The twins are like mirrors in how they look. Beats has mainly black hair with blue tips that is a little messy and parted to the left while Boom has mainly blue hair with black tips that is a similar style to his twin's hair except it's parted to the right. Their eyes are mismatched in color and are sort of fox-like, Beats's left eye is gray and his right is blue while Boom's left eye is blue and his right eye is gray. Kitearo has shiny dark silver hair that is messy and a few white highlights here and there while his eyes are wolf-like and are a bright sapphire blue, maybe a little lighter than sapphire blue.
The twins are counted as one person even though they are different. They each have the Roman numeral for "12" on them. Boom has his tattooed on the back of his right hand in navy blue while Beats has his on the back of his left hand in black. They both have the eighth note symbol. Boom has a blue one on his right cheek with the flag pointing to the right while Beats has a black one on his left cheek with the flag pointing to the left.
Kitearo has the Roman numeral for "10" as his code. It is tattooed on his neck in steel gray. He also has a symbol, like everyone else here. We were all born with them. Kitearo's symbol is a white "x" shape on his forehead.
"Alright." Kitearo begins. "I have a layout of the area. We will meet in the recess area." Kitearo pulls out four small rolled-up pieces of paper and passes us each one. "I put down the map on these papers. Keep them close and keep them safe. Stick in groups then grab your things and go to the area circled in red. The area circled in blue should be where the boys things are while the orange is the girls things. The things in yellow are security cameras and the green lines are paths that the guards take so keep an eye out and only use your abilities if necessary." Kitearo whispers so only the four of us can hear him.
"So we're getting out tonight?" Boom asks and Kitearo nods.
"Yes, two hours after lights out. Boom, Beats, I know you two share a room. Kari and Flo you also share a room, right?"
"That's right." Flo responds. I just nod in reply. I don't like to talk much anymore, like when I was five.
"Alright. I have a room of my own so that's good. Everyone understand what to do?"
"Yes." Boom smiles.
"Sure." Beats nods.
"Understood." Flo chuckles. I just nod. Kitearo looks at me and sighs.
"... Yeh..." I finally reply in a low tone that is barely above a whisper. Kitearo gives me a worried expression but then quickly changes it.
"Okay. See you all tonight. Be careful."
"Alright maggots! It's test time!!" Groans and shivers fill the cafeteria. They call out ten codes out of forty. This is the last test of the day, and I know I'm going to be called because I haven't been called yet. Soon the ten that were called out by their code are taken to a room with metal tools and chemicals. This is where a lot of pain is born. This is what we fear the most.
"Ha, hello there." A voice calls and an old man walks up. "Nice to see you again. Looks like you are all doing well. Yes, yes very nice very nice. Now come sit down children. Hurry, hurry." We all hesitate because we know what would come next. We gulp down our fear and slowly walk to one of the ten chairs. I go to the last chair, thankfully. I instantly regret getting this chair. That stupid old man takes one of the syringes filled with a weird bubbling purple liquid and then starts to inject it into the person who took the first seat. The teen lets out a scream in pain.
"IT BURNS!!" He cries over and over in a blood curdling scream. "MAKE IT STOP!! PLEASE!!!" He begins to foam at the mouth.
"Oh dear me. That is not good. Nurse." A woman walks in and takes the boy to a table and straps him down. "There can only be strong here. Sorry not sorry, boy, but you are going to die anyways. Pull it." The nurse nods and pulls a sparkling lever to the left. Instantly a blade rushes down in blazing speed.
CHING! AAAHH!!! THUNK! CRNCH!
The boy is cut in two right before our eyes. Now there's only thirty nine of us. From where I'm sitting I get a good view of his organs and spine that stuck out slightly from his upper half. His pelvis was a little fractured on the right by how it slightly shifted to the left, and his face was frozen in terror. White glossy eyes and his mouth still foaming. The old man huffed then went through the rest of us, another one was to be killed off because she reacted poorly to the weird blue chemical she was given. She is put in a grinder that was put on the slowest setting for the old man's amusement. She does not die instantly like the other one, her screams echo through the room and I want to puke from the rancid unholy smell of the now decaying body from the boy and the horrible blood boiling screams from the girl, but I know if I do that I would be next to die so I gulp it down with a shiver. It takes her about twenty minutes to finally die, I feel bad for saying that, all while the old man grins insanely and mouths the words; "Die and suffer you damn freak." I don't want to be here anymore.
I'm now in my room with my left arm hurting and a little black because of the chemical I was given. The black patch on my arm is smaller than before, thankfully, so it was not permanent. I flopped onto my bed and shivered.
"How many?" Flo asks as she sits next to me and pets my head. She knew when I saw someone die. I raise my right hand and form the number "2" with my index and middle finger. I feel her pull me into a hug and I begin to sob quietly. I should not have left the underground. I should have stayed.
Soon it was nighttime and Flo woke me up with a small smile. We both get up and exit our room quietly, Flo leading the way. I hear a voice calling me, telling me that above my things there were a few things that would no longer be needed by the owner and that I can take whatever I wanted. I assume this voice to belong to the girl I saw get ground into a meat pile hours ago. I feel myself get sick but keep my dinner down and nod in response.
Flo and I rush down the long and dark hall to the room where all the girl's items were kept. Items such as clothes and toys that were from the outside. The room is unguarded at the moment and this is our chance. I begin hacking the system while Flo keeps watch. I open the door within two minutes and we both rush inside the room. It is big and has over one hundred drawers, each holding items that belonged to someone, though sadly most of the owners are dead now. A few of these drawers hold things that once belonged to some of my other friends that used to be in our group, but they're dead now. Flo and I soon find our things. I found a few items from the drawer above mine that I liked or thought were useful such as a black and white music player with blue headphones, a pair of dark blue fingerless cycling gloves with black lining, and a few first aid books and wilderness books and things like that. I sigh and put the items in my knapsack that I have not touched in five years, then put my clothes in it and wrap my silver ninja scarf around my neck. I look to Flo and she nods. We then run out of the room and towards the meetup area as fast as we can, ninja-style because it was more aerodynamic. We were told to run this way by Kitearo so we can gain speed quicker and get away that much easier.
"Hey! I see two of those freaks!!" I hear shouts and yelling from behind us both. I don't look back because I already know that we have been spotted by the guards, and if I look back it will only slow me down.
"Kari," Flo spoke and I ran up to her left. "Put up a barrier." She said and I nod in reply. My symbols begin to glow and a transparent silver barrier forms around the two of us while we run. Gunshots whiz and ricochet off of my barrier as we run towards the recess area quickly. The guards run out of bullets and begin to get frustrated. I know this because I hear their guns click and their groans. They were far behind us, and normal people wouldn't have heard them, but I'm not normal. That is why I'm here in the first place. We reach the meeting place while panting and join up with the boys. Flo warns them about the guards while I form an even larger barrier to surround all five of us.
"Alright, everyone follow me!" Kitearo says, and we all stay close to him. Kitearo jumps over the fence, using his earth abilities to help him get over and land safely on the other side. Kitearo has us each use our own abilities so we could get better at using them instead of just helping us with his own. Flo uses her fire abilities like jets on her feet so she could get up and over. Boom and Beats fly over with their air abilities while I join in. I am able to copy whatever I see and use it as my own, that is my ability. It is hard for me to control and I get tired easily, but I am getting better.
Kitearo has the ability to manipulate earth and metal, as well as summon weapons at will. Flo has the ability to manipulate fire and nature at will, and she can talk to animals. Boom and Beats both have the same abilities. They can manipulate air and electricity as well as sound. Boom likes to use his air abilities more than his electricity abilities while Beats is the other way around. We all glance at each other, then run into the forest quickly to hide from the guards that are now looking for us. Kitearo watches over us and keeps guard while we sleep, since he stole some coffee from the employees-only room back at the H.M.O.T.G, which was smart on his end. We all curl up into a large tree, hidden in the leaves, and slowly fall asleep.