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The Extraction

The jolt of electricity shot through his body, tensing every muscle inside him as it raced down his arms and legs. His frame immediately started thrashing, his body jostling this way and that, but the shackles binding his wrists and ankles held him in place.

He screamed, a deep, horrible scream that made his chest burn. But the electricity could not stop, would not stop, pulsating through him like tiny fiery snakes.

He screamed again, his mouth stretching wide, his eyes gaping at an unknown force. He was still convulsing, the sharp streams of electricity forcing his body into motion.

The man screamed a last, finite scream, bursts of electricity shooting out of his body in their last escape.

And then he was still. His limp body hung in mid-air, no longer suspended by power of its own, only the shackles keeping it up.

But it breathed. A drawn-out, raspy breath, but a breath nonetheless. And then, with the final effort it possessed, the air was forced out of the body, and with it, the life. And all at once it was dead.

There was silence.

But in another room, the talking had just begun.

"There goes another one." Said Mac, a large, fat man that wore a uniform he had long since outgrown.

"That makes three in one day."

The small room in which they sat had the scent of metal. A large panel stood in front of the two men, various buttons and dials lining the display.

In front of the panel was a large window. Through it they had a clear view of the man, his body practically falling out of the shackles now.

"Well, that one lasted longer than the others." Mac stated, sighing as he pressed a button on the panel.

"Maybe we should have breaked him another time."

Mac looked over at his partner, slouched in the seat next to him. Both large men, the two took up most of the room.

"Nah." Mac said, turning his head back to the window and the limp figure he could see through it. "We got all the juice we could."

Mac's partner nodded, pushing another button on the control panel. A claw dropped down from above, lowering slowly toward the figure.

"You ready for another one?" Mac asked.

His partner nodded.