Project 863: The fifth Subject

Chapter 18: Life of Champions

~Pearson's POV~

As I began waking up, I felt someone shaking my shoulders, "Come on, wake up!" Someone pleaded. Opening my eyes, I realized that I was laying on the floor.

Pushing myself to my knees, the memories of what happened resurfaced in my mind. "What's... going on?" I muttered.

Someone put their hand on my chin and lifted my head up, my eyes landed on Donte. "Thank goodness you're alright!" He sighed in relief, a smile grew on his face as he engulfed me into a hug.

Once we let go, we got to our feet and took in our area. Deja vu hit me like a truck, I went to say something when I heard movement behind me. We turned around to investigate, everyone was slowly beginning to wake up.

"Who did this?!" Bryan yelled in anger, "Bryan! We don't know where we are! You can't just yell like that!" I whispered. Just as I finished talking, three men walked in with weapons in hand.

"Who are you?" I questioned, the men didn't seem pleased that I spoke.

The middle man opened the cell then walked over to me and hit me really hard in the gut with a bat, which caused me to fall.

"Pear!" Donte shouted as he held my shoulder.

The man walked away and closed the door behind him, before walking away with the other men.

"Pearson, are you okay?" Matt asked, "Yeah, I'll be alright." I nodded as I got to my feet.

"Who would do this?" Paul asked which made Connor scoff, "Whoever they are." Connor gestured to the door.

I inspected the door a little more, it reminded me of when Donte and I were... taken before.

"But why us though? We didn't do anything!" Bailey said, which made everyone speak up.

"What do we do?!" "How are we getting out?!" "Are we gonna die?!"

The constant questions began to irritate me, "Guys!!" I shouted. Everyone stopped talking and turned their attention to me.

"Look... I only have two ideas of who it could be that kidnapped us, and they're both dead. Let's just play along for now to see who we're dealing with." Donte spoke up.

"Play along?" Sam, Bailey and Cathrine questioned, "Nah, I'm not playing along." Tanner shook his head.

Tanner's comment sparked another large conversation. Some people were saying that we should agree, others saying that we shouldn't.

"I'm just saying that we shouldn't sit around, they might kill us!" Paul shouted, "Well I think that we should assess the situation and see what we're dealing with!" Donte stated.

"ENOUGH!!" I shouted, only Matt and Sam heard me.

They started getting into each other's faces as they argued, the last thing we needed was a fight. My patience had reached its limits, I slowly stepped between them.

"Stop arguing, or I'll make it so you can't say another word again." Anger rolled off my tongue as I spoke, a faint purple glow shined on their faces, meaning that my eyes were glowing. Everyone looked at me in shock.

"Pear, you need to calm down." Donte grabbed my shoulder and looked me in the eyes.

The door opened again, it was only one man.

I could knock him out... But what would be the point of that?

"Pearson, step forward." The man ordered, "What do you want?" I stepped away from the group as I spoke.

"Come with us, the boss wants to speak with you." He told me.

"Why only Pearson?" J-Fred asked, "Those are my orders, now let's go." The man said. "No, either we all go or she doesn't go at all!" Woods shouted.