The Marionette

A New Test

Shadow sat on her metal bed, staring at the wall as she waited. Her body had grown a sense to when her testing was coming. Shadow was a young girl of 13 when she was taken by the evil people who held her now. Shadow was 16 now and she could barely remember her old life. 

After the first year of there awful tests, Shadow had grown numb to it all. There were many kids in the lab but most died from the gruesome pain and strange chemicals. Shadow was the oldest subject in the lab, she had survived all there tests. She had been pumped full of so many chemicals she no longer felt human.

Shadow was pulled from her thoughts when she heard the clear knock on the metal door. With a huff, Shadow stood from her bed and walked to the center of the room. The door opened slowly to reveal the two armed men ready to take her to the test. Without a word, Shadow stepped out of the room and followed to two men without hassle. 

Shadow had been through this so many times the guards no longer chained her or even bothered to watch her. They were at the room in no time and Shadow went right to the table and laid down, ready to just get this over with. Soon the doctor came in but there was something different, something was off.

She was strapped down in the middle of her arms, legs, thighs, torso, and her neck. Shadow was growing worried, this had never happened before. She looked around and saw men she had never seen before, there was also a pile of strange glowing blue pipes. 

Before Shadow could ask what was happening an ear-splitting scream tour from her throat. Her left ankle joint was popped from its socket with no warning. Before the pain even faded one of the glowing pipes was forced between the dislocated joint. All the chemicals they had given her made her incredibly durable to inhuman levels.

The doctor methodically went up her leg doing this to each joint. Stopping after her hip before moving to her right leg. Tears were streaming from her midnight eyes as her screams echoed around the room. After her legs they did her arms, each joint popped then kept out by a pipe. By the time it was done Shadow's hair was soaked with tears and her voice gone. 

There was no blood but Shadow already knew why, the weird glow was to blame for that. The men that had escorted her then picked her up, Shadow could faintly hear the doctor telling them to not dislodge the pipes. With not so gentle movements the men carried Shadow back to her cell. The men dropped Shadow to the ground and left her without a word.