The Worlds We'll Never Know

Artificial Selection

I gasped for breath and to my surprise I didn't get water but air.
"Welcome, Anthony. You have an average performance compared to the others." Hexings giggled. A gender less monster, Hexings looked like a starved animal with dark blue skin and awkward patches of fur.
"To bad they aren't heerrre."
"What did you do to them!" I shouted.
When I tried to get up I realized that I had chains on my limbs connecting me back to the rotting stone wall.
"Oh, they're gone. Don't you remember." Hexings moved its forked tongue along the edge of those nasty jagged teeth.
All of a sudden images crashed down on me, death, rage, pain. The thoughts made a deep pit form in my stomach.
"Aw, didn't mean to make you sad. I saved one."
That glimmer of hope disappeared as soon as I realized who it was. A small male figure came out of the shadows.
Jacob. That was the idiot that got all of us stuck in this prison in the first place. All of us was just me now.
"Wow, I'm so glad another one of us is still alive!" Jacob smiled at me.
Hexings piped up. "It's not just his fault , Anthony. Remember, you let her fall." Hexings was just trying to get me worked up. It wasn't my fault, we both knew it was hopeless and I tried to save her. I tried.
"You know what, I'll let you to have a little reunion." With that Hexings slashed off the cuffs on my wrists and then my ankles.
"Oh, and here's a little something special." Hexings slipped a small object in my pocket with his claw- like fingers.
I already knew what it was.
"Now we can get out of here together, right Anthony!" Jacob was still smiling.
"You know, there's a way you can leave right now, Jacob."
"What would that be."
I quickly rammed the Tripplette onto Jacob's head. It's brass claws latched on in a heartbeat.
"What's this for. Looks dang-"
But poor Jacob didn't get to finish his sentence. The Tripplette was doing its job. First, spreading more wires just barely under the skin, still visible to the naked eye. Then, it broke out. After a quick pulse quick it coiled back to its normal pen-sized self.
"Congratulations, Anthony. You won!" Hexings cheered.
"Great, let me out."
"Okie dokie."
The stones all fell down for me to see
nothing.
"Haha bwaha! You really thought I was just going to set you free!" Hexings wiped away a nonexistent tear.
" You were just the beta testers. Now that the experiment works who knows how much your species will improve!"
With that Hexings sedated me again and took me to the lab.