Project 863: The fifth Subject

Chapter 1: A Stakeout

~Pearson POV. December 2nd, 2020~

For those who don't know me, my name is Pearson as the public knows me. A few months ago I was kidnaped by one of my "teachers", who ran a lab where he was doing trials on people and turning them into human weapons. Unfortunately my friends and I were apart of those trials.

Where am I? I have a house that's somewhere near a YouTube studio called Hi5 studios, I've been watching their channels for years. When the key series began, it immediately caught my interest.

I was watching their newest video when an unsettling feeling began to grow in my stomach, I paused the video and sat back in my chair.

Do I want to check on them...?

Shutting my computer, I left my home office then went into my room to get ready. Since it's been cold the past few days, a jacket would be a good idea. The feeling continued to grow as I walked downstairs and put my shoes on, I locked the door behind me then began walking towards Hi5 Studios.

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Landing quietly on the building, I grabbed my phone from my pocket then hacked into their nest cameras. Since nest takes forever to load, I sat against the small wall while avoiding any soft spots in the floor.

Once it finally loaded up, Matthias and his team stood around a set of stairs while looking at something on their phones before walking out of the back door of Red Base. I turned off my phone then moved close to the edge so I could listen to them.

"Let's just get farther away." Matthias walked away from the door.

"I didn't fully see it, like obviously I saw your message saying that we were being watched but what was under the stairs?" Samantha questioned.

"It was a pinhole camera." Woodland responded, "Just like a surveillance camera?" Samantha asked.

"Yes, and it's wired. Did we not see that before?" Matthias questioned.

"I don't know, I didn't look that far under the stairs when we found the case." Woodland stated.

"This is just unreal, like that's obviously what he spent time doing, not just setting up that case." Matthias said.

"Well that makes sense, not only was he putting the case in the stairs but he was setting up a camera to watch the case." Samantha theorized, I slightly peeked up over the edge of the wall.

"Here's the thing, I have absolutely no idea if that's not the only camera inside our studio, he's been in orange base and all over blue base but that's just what we know of." Matthias was annoyed.

"So when he broke into Orange Base, he could have planted cameras. So whatever is in the case is something worth watching." Woodland crossed his arms.

"People might be thinking: "What is the big deal? You are going to upload it all anyways". We don't upload right away, we wait for things to play out and then we upload because it wouldn't make any sense to upload right away then just play our hand." Matthias said to the camera.

He sat in thought for a moment before glancing up in my direction, I quickly dove behind the wall.

Did he see me?

"Now there's a possibility that he knows everything that we're doing when we're doing it." Samantha continued off of Matthias.

"Dude, this is just nightmarish." Matthias puts his head in his hands.

"What do we do with the camera?" Woodland asked.

"What can we do without causing more chaos? The case has LAPD written on it, that is no coincidence." Matthias responds.