Chapter 14

Fang POV

I smashed one of the buttons on the wall and flew into an observation chamber overlooking the room. A sprinkler system suddenly turned on, coating the floor with some sort of liquid. Once the entire floor was covered, they turned off.

Max 2.0 dashed into the room, sliding over the floor and into the wall with a loud satisfying smack.

"Nice slide. I'd give it a 10 but you didn't keep your form."

"SHUT UP!" she snarled and attempted to leap up towards me. As she jumped, the liquid "grabbed" at her feet and held her in place.

"What the?"

Whatever this liquid/gel was, it definitely held her in place. I didn't bother to read the sign posted above the button but I'm guessing it paid off.

"Looks like you're stuck." I exclaimed as I turned to see what mischief I had started.

EXPERIMENTAL GEL: USED FOR CONTAINMENT PURPOSES

Nice. The catwalks leading out of the observation chamber were coated. All I needed to do was just fly out and head for the door up top.

"Enjoy your prison. You'll probably be stuck here for a long time." I laughed as I flew up.

"Screw you!" she screamed back at me, trying to break free from her restraints.

As I neared the ceiling, an abrupt ringing noise entered my head.

"What the hell is this?" The ringing was unbearable and causing me to lose my mind. I flew erratically into the side of the wall, sliding onto the floor of the room, clutching my head in pain.

"Well, I guess time's up for you." Max cackled below me. She reached into her jacket, took out a small knife, and threw it at the button I pressed. Sprinklers turned on again, washing away the gel down a grate that appeared.

Max slowly walked over to me with a devilish grin on my face. The last thing I saw with my ears ringing was her fist in my face.

"Game over."

Chapter 15

Max POV

I looked up above me and saw a lever just begging to be pulled by someone. Without even thinking, I reached up and yanked it down.

An alarm immediately sounded.

"Floor structure metamorphosis activating"

"Oh crap." I said to myself and looked at the sign above the lever.

TRAINING SIMULATOR (10)

Great. I just activated something really bad. I flew up into the air and saw the ground beginning to change shape. Pillars arose from the floor and some sank down to form pits. Smoke slowly crept into the room, covering the floor in a haze and began to rise up. I heard Ari charge in and smash into a pillar.

"ARE YOU SERIOUS? YOU ACTIVATED THE LEVEL 10 TRAINING SIM? SCREW YOU!" he shouted at me.

Well congrats to me for pulling random levers.

"You're welcome!" I replied back to him.

"We're both going to die here. You have no idea what you've done."

Like I haven't heard that before. I heard him rumbling around, smashing into pillars and whatnot. I really didn't care about his situation. I was high up and safe from whatever the hell was down there. There was a humming noise behind me and I turned to see a charging laser turret.

"F this." I twisted my body away from the shot and watched it leave a scorch mark on the wall opposite me. The turret turned towards me and charged again. More turrets appeared and started firing wildly throughout the room.

"ARGH!" Ari shouted from below me. I assumed he had gotten hit but the fog wasn't giving me a visual. Regardless, I had my own issues as I had multiple turrets tracking me at once.

"Well here goes nothing." I said to myself as I weaved in and out of the laser blasts. Thankfully there was an observing window with a door in it. I flew towards the window, crashed through it, and roll kicked the door down just as a scorch mark appeared where I just was.

"Safe and sound and Ari getting tortured down below in hell." The door I had unceremoniously crashed through led to some stairs that took me back down to the corridor I was just in. I started running towards where my flock was last headed, hoping they were safe.