Chapter 1

Life is difficult.

Life is harsh.

Life is cruel.

Death is easy.

Death is quick.

Death is simple.

But when you are unable to die, and find life too hard to bear anymore, what are you supposed to do with yourself?

Those were the thoughts running through my mind as I was tortured, abused, and left in my cell to die each and every day.

It wasn't always like this. I'd had a normal life before all of this. At least, as normal as it could be.

But that all changed when I accepted to go through some genetic and DNA testing for a research study. That's how they found me.

MECH.

They found that my DNA was easily manipulated and decided they wanted me for their own devious plots.

That's how I wound up here, in this living hell.

It'd already been a whole year since they'd taken me. In that time, they had pumped my body full of these different colored chemicals, cut me open, sent me through vigorous "obstacle" courses, riddled my body with bullets at least a dozen times for trying to escape, and used pretty much every form of mental and physical torture known to mankind, along with a few other things.

My body had changed physically from the "treatments" they'd given me. My pupils had a plus shape instead of a normal round shape. Small, diamond hard scales crisscrossed in intricate patterns over my body, not covering all of my skin, but more like half of my skin. A long scaled tail grown had out from where my tailbone is, and was about 8 or so feet long, with a wicked double-sided blade thing on the end. Coming from my upper back were two massive wings that appeared bat-like in structure, but were smooth to the touch, aside from the scales and all. Sharp claws at the ends of my fingers gave me an edge against these jerks.

There was only one thing that stopped me right now. They had placed a high powered shock collar around my neck so that I wouldn't get any ideas.

I hated that thing.

A gruff looking man came in, scarred face, and short buzz cut alerting me that it was Sylus.

A deep, menacing growl rumbled in my chest. He was the one behind all of this.

"Now, now. That's very rude. We don't want any of that, now, do we?" he said, scolding. He pressed a button on a controller in his hand and electricity coursed through my body. I screamed in pain and collapsed onto the hard floor.

The shock collar ceased, the waves of pain a memory that had me gasping for air.

"Now. If you decide to behave today, we'll actually take you outside on a little 'field trip'." he said.

Perking my interest, I looked up at him in mild curiosity, but fear as well.

'Is he taking me to another facility again? Or is he going to do something worse?' I wondered, shuddering at the thought of it.

I stood back up, and watched Sylus with a growing interest. 'If he actually takes me outside, I might just be able to find a way to escape at last.' I thought.

"So, are you going to behave and do as we ask you today?" he asked.

I nodded, steadying my mind and body for whatever he may have in mind next.

:Send in our secret weapon, let's see how well she does against our adversaries' best.: Sylus's voice came from the walkie-talkie radio held by the MECH soldier next to me.

"Yes sir." he said, turning to me now.

Several clicks sounded as my restraints were released. The collar remained on my neck though.

A HUD screen appeared in front of my eyes from the head piece I was now wearing. A map overlay showed 2 glowing blue dots dead ahead moving around a lot.

"The blue dots are your targets. Engage them, and do your best not to kill them by accident. We want them alive, or at the very least, one of them alive." said the MECH lacky.

Nodding, I spread my wings, which reached a good 15 foot wing span, and launched myself into the air, heading straight for those blue dots.

I circled above the clearing where two giant metal beings were fighting with the MECH soldiers.

One was a blue female (in all appearances) with a few pink highlights. She was a couple of feet taller than me, but shorter than the other one.

The second one was yellow and black, with baby blue eyes. 'At least, they appear to be eyes...' His features were rather adorable, to say the least. He seemed to be a bit too much for me to handle, so I decided to go for the blue female first.

Moving into position, I tucked my wings tight against my back, and plummeted down to earth.

Mere seconds before I crashed into her, I spread out my wings and cut my speed in half before I landed behind her and attacked.

She'd apparently been alerted to the impending attack from her 'Partner?', who had apparently seen me land behind her with a drawn blade out, preparing to attack her.

She whipped around and barely managed to block the blade swinging down at her.

The MECH soldiers around us the concentrated their fire at the yellow one now that the blue one was preoccupied with me. That was fine with me, it meant I'd have a less likely chance of getting shot by a stray bullet from one of their guns.

My thoughts and attention quickly refocused on the target in front of me as she began to quickly attack with fast movements and extreme agility. Counter-attack vs. counter-attack, we fought in a whirl of movements that the humans could barely even follow with how fast and furious our battle was. She managed to give me a few nicks with her blades, but she got a few in return.

A sound of tearing metal and a feeling of metal ripping off of my neck caught me by surprise.

She had destroyed the collar!

And yet, she apparently didn't realize what she had done, as she continued to attack me again, throwing the now useless hunk of metal aside. I grabbed her arm and threw her 10-15 feet away, where she landed with a slight thud on her front.

Now free from my restraining device, I turned to the MECH soldiers, who hadn't realized I was now free to take my vengeance on them. A grin crossed my face as I struck the unsuspecting humans.

With lightning fast movements and a thirst for blood, I tore through the MECH forces, forcing them to retreat, as they knew that if they dared try to fight back now, the would all die.

Once they disappeared from my line of sight, I finally relaxed a bit, only to realize just how exhausted I was from all of this.

Then there was a blinding burst of pain that hit the back of my head. I briefly wondered what could have hit me, before my mind slipped into darkness.

Waking up wasn't pleasant.

First of all, most of my body was either sore, or just plain old hurting from various gashes.

Secondly, I found myself strapped down on a metal table with all sorts of machines and a couple of IV's hooked up to me.

And, last but not least, those metal beings from earlier were back. Only this time, there were more of them.

'At least I don't have that bloody shock collar on anymore.' I thought, relieved a bit by that fact.

My attention was soon drawn back to those metal beings. They were having a deep discussion on the events that had transpired during the battle from earlier, and were trying to figure out what to do with me.

"...interrogation and find out what she knows about MECH, and why she turned on them in the middle of the battle."

"We should also find out more about her physiology while we're at it. Who she is, where she came from, and what-" He was cut off by a motion from on of the others.

"She's awake."

'No duh. Took them long enough to notice.'

Sighing, I opened my eyes, and prepared myself for what was about to happen next.