Experiment Number One (Slow Updates)

Chapter Four

"What do you mean?" I tried to ask. It came out sounding messed up, like I was mumbling or stringing my words together without enunciating.

"Somebody make her go back to sleep. She's messing up the tests." I rolled my head slightly to the right so that I could see the monitor that everyone was watching. It had a picture of my brain and areas in it were lighting up in red, yellow, green and blue. More than three quarters of it were lit at all times.

"What's that?" I asked, my tongue thick. A liquid raced through my veins as someone injected something into my IV. The main doctor was writing things down faster than I've ever seen anyone write.

"Eighty percent of her brain! This is incredible! We were right," he yelled. What were they right about? And if I'm using eighty percent of my brain, I'm using like seventy percent more than the average human. How is that possible? I must be capable of a lot more than I thought. Unless they were lying to fulfil some type of test.

Sleep overtook me once again.

When I awoke, I was laying on a hospital bed in a sterile, white room. In similar beds on either side of me, Jace and Adri laid, still sleeping. They each had IVs in their hands that looped around, half filled with deep red liquid, and were taped against their arms. I looked down to see an IV plugged into the back of my hand as well.

I yanked on the tape that attached the end of the IV to my arm, and gently pulled the tube out of my hand. I moved the blankets covering me and climbed out of the bed. What's going on? I felt like I was on drugs or something because the room kept swaying from one side to the other. Carefully walking over to Jace, I shook his shoulder back and forth to wake him up. When he finally opened his eyes, they fluttered closed again.

"Jace," I whispered. His eyes struggled to open and stay that way. "Jace, wake up," I said, louder than last time but still a strained whisper. His eyes opened completely and he freaked out for a moment. "Jace, it's me, Eno. I need you to get up. I don't know what happened to us," I said, looking around me at the bleached white walls. Jace moved to push the covers off of him and I took the opportunity to wake Adri. Why had we left her alone?

Once they were both up, we huddled on the floor in between my bed and Jace's.

"All I know is that we left Adri and went into the hall. Next thing I knew, a rag thing was shoved in my face and I looked at Eno before I passed out," Jace said. I nodded my head in agreement.

"Boy, you two sure had it rough." Adri said, rolling her eyes. "When you guys left, I was surrounded by those weird men. They all were shouting at me and I tried to control their minds but I had to do it one by one. I was slowly changing their minds and making them walk out the door. When about half of them were off signing up for vacation time and planning trips around the world, Love came in with a few guys wearing gas masks. They held rags to my nose but I stayed conscious just long enough to see you two being dragged down the hall." She smirked and looked at us.  I nodded.

We all stood up and walked around the room. There was a door but I was afraid that there was an alarm on it. I looked up to see if there were security cameras, but I couldn't see any.

"We need weapons," I say.

"Why, Nancy? We have abilities. I can change what they're doing and have them go to Mexico, you can fly in the air and tease them, and Jace can tackle them while they're jumping up and down, trying to catch you. We've got this covered," Adri said.

"All I can do is fly. If someone grabs my wing or my leg, I'm screwed. I need something to protect myself with."

Jace walked over to my hospital bed and slowly bent the safety bar back and forth until it snapped off. He bent it again until it broke to the size of a baseball bat.