All's Fair

Nature of the Beast

A/n:  Did you guys think I forgot?  Never!   BUT!:  Be warned... Things get dark here!  

No One's POV

Coral Grove, on the surface it looks like the most luxurious five-star hotel available. A single skyscraper on an isle far out at sea. Many rooms, each with many luxuries, but only to those who can afford it. If you've made it here, you are not just an elite. If you are in on Coral Grove you are not just 'In' you are 'In Control'.

Owned by MWF, the most powerful company in the world and led by the iron-fisted Cassandra McAdams, this resort is the crown jewel of finest resorts. Even if an employee knows about Coral Grove, they are not getting in without Cassandra's approval.

But what is unknown to most of the world's populace is the dark secret below sea-level of Coral Grove: A building mirroring the resort down beneath the ocean, clad in black, is the prison section of Coral Grove.

Former collaborators, valuable hostages, and potential threats of MWF are kept right below were the CEO of the company and associates comes for vacation. Some of the current inmates have even seen the beautiful surface of this resort. First fooled by the beauty, luxury and power promised to them, once they try to run, they are sent below. Many inmates in Coral Grove fear Cassandra or deeply hate her for taking them away from their families and loved ones. However, they are powerless against the security the facility is armed with. They are treated well enough, some more than others, depending on how valuable they still are to the Council and Cassandra.

Throughout the building scientists, guards and robots who all obey and labor for the Council day and night to fulfill the demands placed upon them. These are the ones who had a choice to leave once their work is completed. They know betraying Cassandra will just earn them their own cells they may have created here. So, they do as they're told and tell no one of what they have seen while on their 'work vacation'.

For many years, the highest security measures have kept anyone from trying to escape. That is, until tonight.

The humans within Coral Grove heard a resounding alarm that has never ever been used before, and a mechanical voice instructing them to evacuate to safer parts of the building. In fear, all the humans drop their work and run to where the system instructs them, unsure of what is happening. All they hear is the mechanical voice repeating, "Prisoner escape. Prisoner escape."

The hazmat robots have different instructions and leave their usual guard posts to confront the escapee. They're armed with crystallizer guns that will hit their target and instantly encase them in a green crystal. The target will enter a state of sleep and not be let out until the crystal is neutralized with another setting on the weaponry. All the robotic guards are also equipped with a status update, letting them know where in the building their target is headed.

Doors and hallways all shut down; never-before used security systems go into effect immediately. Along with the armed guards, lasers activate on different walls and floors, electric panel flooring also activates, and tubes filled with knock-out gas stand by to be deployed at the slightest sound they pick up. The guards are not capable of feeling fear, but they do become more and more aware of how dangerous this prisoner is. She has already broken through two levels of Coral Grove, theirs is the third, one more and she reaches the level with the submarine.

A group of eight guards stands ready to fire at a closed off hallway. No sound is made by any of them. A deathly quiet surrounds the whole area.