Code White

Escape

Cold glass doors opened up to a greenhouse-like lab. Smells of earth and soil filled the air and drove out the smell of Iodoform, a type of disinfectant used in hospitals.

As if on a field trip a group of teenagers walked in led by a bio engineered human that recited facts about the place. Near the middle of the group stood a young boy around the age of fourteen named Chess Levion found in the city of Bruinen with no family .

He held a shard of glass that flashed as he tilted it. Each angle gave a message to those with the willpower to think for themselves. Of course no one noticed for most were brainwashed or had no mental capacity.

Perfect for experiments in a new facility that developed living weapons.

Reaching out he brushed against the nearest creature tending to the healthy green plants. In close contact with these monsters transform into fighting machines with monstrous claws and red translucent skin that is hard diamond. As he backed up into the crowd of onlookers it slashed the air and eyed them with the bloodshot eyes of a murderer.

Using the confusion as a cover he raced off with the patrols at his back. He climbed up the bookshelves knocking class bottles and books on the heads of unsuspecting rivals.

Bang.

Bang.

Gunshots echoed through the silent hallways firing uncecling at the disobedient boy. Most richayed off walls , but one hit its target in the side searing pain though this abdomen. Determined he jumped for the adamatic doors a few seconds before they opened fire. Once on the other side, he slammed his palm on the manual lock button and dived for the wall.

For a few seconds he stopped to breathe adrenaline pumping through his veins. Behind him someone clamped their hands over his mouth cutting off air flow and whispered,

"Don't move or I'll kill you." their voice was feminine and filled with certainty as she pushed a sharp blade into his lower back. "Follow me partner."

Then she let go and he whipped around to see a girl with eyes like himself, but with marron hair a shade lighter and shinier than his. Her deep indigo eyes seemed to see right through him. Feeling a deep relationship with her he grabbed her hand with no resistance as footsteps echoed to the hall on their left. She paused a few times to take snapshots on her polaroid camera of the rooms they passed.

One had blood tubes flowing from humans to a monstrous creature in the middle of the room. Another had the effects of radiation and explosions on both humans and people.

They continued to contain scarring images monitored by scientists. As they rounded a bend with a view that overlooked a dark row of floors and mirrored a white enclosure with a girl sitting on a green symbol of a leaf.

He placed his face against the cold glass to hear what she was saying but turned away with an expression of pure horror from her screams. They looked down at the plague that said,

The Effects of Insanity

As patrols rounded the corner they bolted blood flying from a gash on her left arm. As they found an opening in the wall she forced him in and handed the pile of photographs and samples into his trembling hands.

Then she stared him in the eye and hissed, "Here. Go out the passage made for robots."

Her eyes softened to violet as she kissed him on the cheek and slapped a metalic black gas mask on his face.

"Goodbye brother I hope we meet again." Then she turned to face the guards with a brave face and a heart filled with hope. Chess hadn't ever known his sister or even the fact that he had one until the day he lost her to the STEAM Laboratory.

Where every kid has no life or way to contribute to society went. 

 They were looked down on by all races, human test-subjects are what they were referred to as. They were schooled and treated nicely in the spotlight but genetically modified to weapons and blood dispersers. If you became old enough without being set into a category your DNA would be changed to resemble an animal.

Teenagers with wings and feathers sold at auctions came out of this factory. Kids that resembled wolves and foxes were sent into the military or as personal assassins.

He crawled through the steel maze of tunnels, bits of rust falling in his messy hair he went on. It was slow progress making his way up right left avoiding vents and light. Darkness had enveloped him entirely as he lost hope for an escape.

Haven't I passed that bolt before? That vent looks familiar, he thought, stopping for a moment he felt the bag that his sister had given him. Suddenly a notion made him wonder was that girl he'd met really his sister. Was she using him for her own personal gain or did she really want to help? Questions raced in his head as he sought for light, maybe a grey light.

Would the sky be blue like in stories or grey from pollution?

Up above he saw a light, one a dull grey. He heard foregin sound, like footsteps but the ones of little children. As it became quieted he climbed out the last step into the open air, his lungs breathing in rain and fresh air for the first time in years.

Each drop was filled with a new sensation, the world was so beautiful. Why did people at the factory keep them from it?