Stitches

DeadloxMC

I exhaled deeply stepping into my personal hell again. I needed to get a key card from a guard, find the storage room, find the chips, get the particular chips for friends, locate Jordan, help him get free and escape. It had sounded easy but now I wasn't so sure. I looked at the needle hidden in my pocket as I approached Jeremy. I quickly injected it into his neck and he fell unconscious. I picked up his badge and snuck my way down to the lower chambers avoiding guards as best I could. I unlocked the door and snuck into the room. My hopes dropped as I saw the shelves upon shelves of memory chips.
"Shit"
I looked for a bit and found they were organized alphabetically by first name. I ended up searching for three hours before I had then all. I tucked them into my small bag. I had set Jeremy's badge in my back pocket. I walked towards the door and found it had locked and my only way to escape was to unlock it. Pfft no big deal I had Jeremy's badge. I reached to my back pocket. The badge wasn't there. I searched my pockets and bag desperately. I then heard a soft squeak. Mice.
I sprinted through the aisles looking for the badge. I located it and reached for it only to be bit by a large rat. I brushed it off. I was up to date on my shots. It tried to drag the badge away. I grabbed it to find it had bitten through my ticket for escape. I shrugged and ran back to the door swiping it once. Nothing. I tried again then flipped it. Then I saw some of the metal grid code had been scraped off by the mouse's teeth.
"Hey what's this on your teeth little friend"
There was a soft squeak. I whirled around finding a pale faced boy. He took a step back and cowered slightly.
"Sorry I will not speak again!"
"Ethan?"
"T t Ty?"
"Yeah it's me Seto has been worried sick come on I'll bring you with. I have to find Jordan but what are you doing here?"
"I'm a test dummy"
"For?"
"The mindwipe"
He offered out chips to me and I took them gently.
"I'll help you ok we're giving everyone their memories back"
He smiled widely and with that you could tell he was related to Seto. Their walk was the same long pacing strides. There eyes were bright and filled with intelligence and their smiles were photo copies.
"Come on I know where Jordan is he's here to he was a test dummy to"
"That's why there were so many chips for him"
"They broke him..."
"Oh what happened"
"He only knows me and how to talk"
"They completely..."
"Yes there's nothing left in his head"
"Oh...oh how are we going to get him to follow us"
"He trusts me"
I smiled slightly thankful for Ethan's calm level voice which was also like Seto's. Seto was a good storyteller and Ethan read aloud from books. It was peaceful whenever they did. When Ethan disappeared Seto locked himself away never wrote down another story and dove straight into his studies.