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The Best Kept Secret

Jolinsky

Jack Johnson

They say that I'm special. But I'm seventeen, I don't believe that bullshit anymore. They say that I have a gift, but how is running tests on me for years going to benefit anyone.

I feel like lab rat in a cage.

I have a power that I've been told no one else in the US possesses. I don't see it as a big deal but all of the trainers do. 

They took me away from my mom when I was four years old. Every year on my birthday she comes to visit.

My mother had taught me at home before I was seized by the government. I've never been outside, for a long period of time.

I can shape-shift and essentially turn invisible. They've been running tests for thirteen years, trying to see if there was certain DNA or genes that caused the genetic and scientific mutation that is, me, Jack Johnson.

They were looking for me. I slowed down my breathing while clinging to a genetically modified tree in the indoor/outdoor jungle setting.

The cameras on the far walls were moving around feverishly.

"Jack! Just come down and do your exercises." I hear the head the doctor, Lena Martinez's, voice echo over the loudspeaker. I don't move.

They must know I'm up here.

I concentrate. I jump off of the tall tree and land in the grass. I basically hug the ground, almost immediately change to match the hue of the grass.

I crawl as low to the ground as I can.

"Jack please don't resist like this." The voice says.

The problem with shapeshifting is to turn into an animal I have to touch that animal, so that's not an option at the moment.

I crawl to the base of a tree. I quickly climb up.

Suddenly I feel a sharp pain in my side.

"Ah!" I whimper while using the last bit of my strength to sling myself over a branch.

I reach down and pull out the tranquilizer dart. I throw it away. I hear the metal sliding doors of the jungle setting open, just as my vision fades to black.

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I wake up in the chair. My trainer, Lauren Huxley and the doctor, Lena were conversing in the corner.

I was strapped down. They usually don't strap me down because I usually don't resist like I did today.

Lena makes her way over to me.

"Why did you do that?" She asks.

"I hate these tests. I'm not a guinea pig." I groan. "Plus, you know my power, why do I have to keep showing you?" I ask while pulling on the restraints. She ignores my question and puts an apple in my hand.

"Jack, the sooner you co-operate, the sooner you leave and we have a surprise for you." She says.

"More anesthesia?" I ask. They both glare at me. I slow my breathing and concentrate. I felt the dull pinch in my lower back as I disappeared from their view along with the apple.