Book 1: Shattered Harmony

Chapter 33: Help her

Mistaken

Chapter 33

Help...

The room was dark, the only light came from the hallway on the other side of the bars. Zane slowly sat up and looked around the room. The ground was laden with straw. Their was a bucket in the corner, and sink on one side of the wall. Dareth lay sprawled out on the floor not to far away. His clothing looked to be ripped, and their were scraps and wounds that weren't there previously. It looked like he had put up a fight after Danny had... He swallowed down the sudden nausea feeling. He looked around at the room again and scanned the doors. They were interlocking systems. They weren't ever going to get out that way. Specially the bars, his ice wouldn't work on them.

Zane crawled over to Dareth and shook him.

"Dareth? Dareth please you must wake up. We need to get out of here."

"What for? My whole world just ended Zane. I watched the woman I loved killed. Shes...Dannys dead." Zane realized Dareth had been laying there crying. Zane stood up and looked down at the mourning man. He shook his head.

"Either you get up Dareth, or I'll get revenge without you." Zanes voice was rough and full of promise. Dareth sat up and looked around.

"But how the hech are we going to get out of here Zane? Thats those bars made out of that elemental mumbo jumbo." He lay back. "Its hopeless man." Zane turned around and leaned against the wall near the sink and ran his hands over the pipes.

"Oh...is it?" He pushed as much cold into the pipes as he could. The exposed pipes and the water within burst cracking the wall. Zane kicked the wall a few times before it crumbled down around them. They were able to climb out of the room into the hallway. Zane turned to help the ever clumsy Dareth.

"You don't suppose we should get the help from the big guy do you?" Dareth asked holding out his hand. Zane shook his head and looked back up at the lighting. It was horrible. A small bulb once every few feet. The place would hurt your eyes if you were stuck there.

"We need a distraction." Zane said stepping back into the cell and hiding behind the walls. Dareth nodded and leaned out pushing a button near the doors. The doors opened setting people free one by one. Zane nodded his head. It would be a lot easier to hide among a group of other prisoners.

The place was in pure panic. The androids were trying to round up people running out of their cells fearing for their lives. Both Zane and Dareth knew first hand what they probably went through. Ronin found out that a lot of Spencers funds came from stealing body parts and organs from unsuspecting people. A lot of these people were either missing limbs, or were probably missing organs. Some people didn't even get up out of their beds. Dareth and Zane checked on several of them. All of which weren't alive in the head, but their organs were kept fresh by keeping them in the body and temperature regulated.

Dareth opened the door to another and looked in.

"Alright everyone out. Its a prison break hu..." Their was a large tank in the corner. "Hey Zane...look at this. This is new." He said and walked over to the tank. Zane walked in just behind Dareth and looked at the machine.

"It looks almost like my cryostasis unite on the back of my old tumbler. What could they want this for?" He tapped at the controls for a moment.

"Live organs. Maybe its a new refrig for it." Dareth suggested. Zane shook his head and scrolled through the information.

"Breathing normal, blood pressure normal, heart rate normal, intake normal, brain activity normal..." He pushed a button and gasped stepping back. Dareth looked around at Zane curiously.