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| Chapter XVII | lab rats

Firefly got her flamethrower ready, but before she fired it a loud bang was heard. Reine had shot her gun in the air, gaining her attention.

"I'll burn bright, so how 'bout you don't point that thing at her. I assure you she won't burn as bright as me."

"Reine, what the hell are you doing?"

"Not letting you die, that's what. I'm right here Firefly! So take your best shot."

"As you wish."

Firefly fired at Reine.

"Reine no!", Cat was about to fire at Firefly.

To everyone's surprise, Reine wasn't burnt to a crisp. Quite the opposite, she was controlling it. After realizing what was happening she turned the fire back at Firefly. But it also caused no damage to her.

"I am Firefly. Fire cannot touch me."

"Fuck. Kitty run!"

Reine ran to Cat pulling her with her. Next thing she knew she was outside of the room, without Cat. She turned back to the door and started banging on it.

"Kitty-cat! Kitty! I'm going to find a way to get you out of there!"

She turned around, looking for anything she could use to get her friend out of there. But she couldn't find anything.
Her mind was rushing. Worrying about Cat, not knowing how exactly she did any of that, thoughts, thoughts, and more thoughts. She couldn't think straight.

She began running around the place, desperately trying to find a way to get her friend out.

Memories also started flooding her mind. Memories of this place, of experiments.
The more she looked around the more memories would come back. Her head was filled with thumping pain; her body felt as if it were on fire.

There were many orderlies walking around.
She went into an empty room and locked herself in it. She sat on the floor trying to get herself together. The memories kept coming. She felt the pain all over again. The whole pain of being a lab rat.
Alive, dead, alive, dead then alive again, then repeat. She remembered everything they had done to her.
Reine was on the floor gasping for air.

She was in a completely white room. Tightly strapped in a bed. Needles inserted her body, her veins burned. She screamed for her life. She felt herself die.
Six minutes.
She'd been dead for six minutes. Then electricity surge all over her body, bringing her back.

Then it all happened again, and again, and again.
The number getting higher and higher. The pain growing bigger and bigger.

Day and night. For more than three years.

All the pain she had endured for more than three years came flooding back in the span of a few hours. Yet, she forced herself to stand up and get through the pain. She needed to save her friend. She left the room and continued her search.

Suddenly a loud red alarm started blaring and doors began shutting.
Her heartbeat started racing, she couldn't be trapped here again. She ran for her life, she didn't know exactly where to go but she just kept running.

Fifteen minutes to detonation.

"Oh hell no! I am not dying here!"

<Okay, Reine time to learn to use your powers. And learn quickly. At least enough to get the hell out of here.">

For seven minutes she learned how to use her powers. Or least how to turn them on. She was decent for someone who taught herself in seven minutes.

She went through door, after door. Looking for a way out. Finally, she ended up in a place that had a bus in it. But she was too drained to use her powers anymore.

Security systems deactivated.

The door began opening.

<I might just be the luckiest bastard ever.>

As she went to get on the bus, she saw another woman who was here with her. She had a brown eye and a blue eye with short black hair and a red stripe.
Reine took her out her gun but didn't point it at her yet.

"Look I don't want any trouble. I just want to get the hell outta here. It's been a stressful day so we can either share this bus outta here, or I simply shoot you and get on with my day."

"Alright, but I suggest you talk to me with more respect little girl."

"You know I would have an amazing comeback, but I really don't care what you think of me."

They both get on the bus, the woman drives the bus away. Then she puts her hand on Reine's.

"Give me your gun."

"Sorry, but I'm holding on to it. Just to be safe."

They continued to drive off. While they drove away the cops started chasing them. They get away, but then we get another cop car got right in front of them. Fish revved up the bus.

"Come to mama!"

She steps on the gas then puts the bus into drive.

Reine starts laughing in excitement.

Then all of the sudden bullets start firing, making them crash on top of two cars.

"Professor Strange! Professor Strange! Come out."

It was the Penguin.

"Strange, we need to talk. You did a very bad thing to me. And now, you're going to pay!"

The woman sneaked up behind him, she gave a small blow behind him to get his attention. When he turned he gasped in shock.

"Impossible."

She shook her finger and tutted.

"Nothing is impossible."

Penguin passed out from the shock. The rest of the gang members ran off.
The woman leaves without taking a second look at Reine.

Before Reine also left she turned back to the bus. A bus that was filled with a bunch of people like her. Experiments.
Lab rats.
She couldn't just leave them.
So she opened the door to let them all out and left.