-| Us Lab Rats |-

-| C5. Three Steps Back |-

Bryce's POV:

Oh. My. God.

"What the heck is this!?" I shout, just barely dodging a huge fist.

"It's a human! But, it's giant and full of metal!" Contact Lens practically yells back.

"Find it's weak spot! We and C.L. here'll distract it!" Subway Seat shouts in my direction. I start looking around the huge monster I see. I decided to start at the top. It had a smooth surface. No open spots. I look at it's back and, bingo. I half-open hatch waiting for me. I went in, and it was just a huge mess of wires, buttons and so on.

I think for a bit. Then grabbed a purple and a yellow wire. I break them, which slowed down the robot. Ok, got it. I put them together, shouldn't have done that. My body sparked with electricity, white some lights in the machine went out. The whole robot tumbled forward, and I went with it. Hit my head a couple of times on the way down.

"Oh jeez, are you ok?" I heard someone say. I groaned while holding one of my horns. Somebody lifted me up, I didn't know who though. They said something muffled. Then, the whole world was moving. Some more faint muffled gibberish was heard, and then everything went black. Why does this always happen to me.

Subway Seat's POV:

"Oh jeez, are you ok?" I asked Bryce, who was clearly not ok. He groaned. Yep, not ok at all. I lifted him up.

"Contact Lens, I don't think he's ok." I told him. Contact Lens nodded with an unreadable expression. I started carrying Bryce over to him.

"I think he's gonna black out." C.L. told me with a worried tone.

"Let's just get out of here first." I instructed him. Then, Bryce went limp. Great! Just what we need right now! I sighed angrily.

"The door is over here." C.L. said to me, wandering over there. I followed him. It was a long way there. I felt too tired to fly right now. I also kept tripping over Bryce's tail.

"I can carry him." Contact Lens offered. I thanked him and I went the rest of the way trip-free. We finally got to the door and exited. Airy was there.

"What took you guys so long!" He demanded, clearly annoyed. We shrugged. Airy sighed and put a hand to his face.

"Subway Seat, that was terrible dodging. Contact Lens, You just did nothing the entire time." Airy reviewed.

"I saved-"

"SHUT UP!" Airy shouted. We flinched. He sighed.

"Just, go back to the others." Airy directed us. After we left the room, we now realized how out of breath we were. We got to the door. And, I gave Contact Lens the limp bottle I was carrying.

"You go ahead. I'll be back in a second." I told him. C.L. was going to ask why, but stopped himself.

"Aright then." He replied, walking though the door. I looked at the scribbled out room. Should I go visit him?

Taylor's POV:

We were in the Cafeteria again. Chatting about how things were, and what we were doing in our rooms. Contact Lens came in with a limp Bryce in his arms.

"Don't *huff* worry guys *huff* he's ok." Contact Lens reported. Subway Seat still wasn't here.

- After half an hour -

We were now in our rooms. Charlotte was calming down Amelia, Bryce was still knocked out, and I was playing with Charlie. It wasn't fun, but I didn't mind. After another minute or two, Bryce woke up. He told us the crazy things that'd happened. He escaped a maze, he disabled a giant robot and he figured out how to fly. He showed us for a bit. Charlie seemed to like it. After a bit of silence, I spoke up.

"What's it like to be able to fly?" I asked Bryce.

"Quite fun actually. But, it takes a lot out of you." He responded, yawning. By then it was time to go to sleep. We were the only ones awake now. I yawned as well. Bryce found a nice corner to sleep in, and I slept near the door.  About five hours later, a high pitched screech could be heard.

Subway Seat's POV:

I uncovered my ears, and my eyes. The glass had shattered but, the chains were still holding on to him. Liam sighed and looked at me.

"Are you ok?" He asked. His voice clearly raw.

"Yeah, thanks for warning me." I told him. We used his voice to shatter the glass. It can get really loud sometimes.

"Are those chains actually titanium?" I questioned him.

"I don't know. I was just thinking so." He replied. If my stare was verbal, it would ask him why he said that. I went over to his room. Then, I got one of the chains and kept scratching it on the metal part of my seat.

"Umm, what are you doing?" Liam asked me.

"I thought, if I can break the chains, you would be free." I explained, still scratching the metal. Around a few minutes of a bit of pain later, the chain broke. I didn't expect that to work. Some wires in the chains sparked and fried up.

"Finally!" Liam shouted happily. One of his eyes turned into a bright yellow. I laughed at his childish reaction. Some yellow sparked came from his freed hand, and the chains broke into pieces.

"They restricted some powers." He explained, walking out of his room. He hid his huge wings by turning them into smaller ones. I wondered what they would feel like. Maybe soft? I went to go feel them while Liam was rubbing his wrists. I touched them, and he flinched.

"What was that for!?" He asked. I couldn't reply. His wings were so soft! Like fluffy clouds! They were softer then C.L.'s fur, which was saying something.

Footsteps. We heard footsteps.

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Jeez, this took a while. Time to start the next-

"HOLD IT!" A stop sign walked out from the curtains of a stage.

Why must you come out now!

"Can't I introduce myself?"

fine...

"The name's Stops. Nice to meet ya." Stops told everybody in a chill tone.

CAN I END THE CHAPTER NOW?

"Fine, fine." Stops replied. She seemed annoyed.