ATLAS

PT: 696

4/5/2079

"Go... go!" mother yelled. I ran and jumped through the glowing portal. I landed in a forest of some kind. It had trees with maroon colored leaves and dark brown trunks.

I stood up and saw the swirling vortex fade away and disappear. "Wasp! where are you!" I yelled. There was no reply. I began to walk through the forest and went searching for Wasp.

After a long time of walking it began to rain, I never liked the rain it always made me feel uncomfortably cold. I eventually came across a large caged fence. I saw a small table in front of the gate of the fence. I looked over the papers and saw that they had names on them. It was most likely where they would check people coming inside. I walked through the caged gate and began to walk up a small hill. As I walked up this small hill I noticed some kind of corpses lying around on the ground. But I didn't stop to look I had to find some shelter before I catch a cold. I walked up a little more and saw another fence and gate, and beyond that, I saw a large building. The rain became harder, I ran through the gate and got into the building. It was completely dark in there except for the late of the door I had opened. I stepped inside. It was cold and full of dust, machine parts scattered everywhere as. It looks like when this place was abandoned it was in a hurry. I stared into the pitch blackness and listened to the sounds of the heavy rain falling. But then I saw something. It was the glowing footprints again. I followed them as they took me deeper into the darkness

As I walked down the dark endless hall, I heard faint sounds. Like tapping, dripping. It was mostly the rain dripping through the ceiling. I then heard a loud bang and then the footprints disappeared. I was left alone in the dark. "No no no! come back!" I shouted, my voice echoing in the darkness. Suddenly I heard a high pitch ringing. It got louder and louder to the point of having me on my knees covering my ear. But as it kept ringing it morphed into sounds. I heard shouting, gun firing, and a woman shouting "Stand back!". They kept going and going to the point where the ringing was unhearable. It eventually stopped. I fell to the floor in tears. I covered my face with my hands and cried. This place was The Caesar Facility. I saw visions of mother saving me from AA. And this is what I saw...

"Now then we should begin our sixtieth session," Dr. Vitch said to me. I sat in a chair zoned out of what was even going on. "Atlas can you hear me? oh.. oh, of course, you can't right, those drugs must have really knocked you out, I suppose we won't be having our session right now," Dr. Vitch said standing up from his desk turning off the tape recorder. He stood me up and lead me towards the door. But before he could touch the doorknob it swung open and smashed his face. Someone stepped inside. It was my mother. She saw me and hugged me crying a little as she did. "My god.. what have they done to you.." she said. I did not respond I only staring into nothingness with my mouth open slightly. Mother picked up a shark blaster from the desk and we began to walk through the hall. "Hold it!" a guard yelled as he approached us. Mother shot him with the blaster and we kept walking towards an elevator. We waited for what felt like forever for the door to open. As it did another guard walked out. He got out his rifle and pointed it at us. "Stand back.." mother said it an almost whisper tune. "Come on let's go," the guard said reaching for her gun. "Stand back!" she yelled as she shot him in the chest.

And that was all I saw. I can assume after that we escaped. I eventually found another door that led to a courtyard that connected a lot of other buildings. I walked through it and saw a large tree in the middle of the small courtyard. It had a wooden swing attached to it that swung slightly in the breeze. I remembered it. I remember seeing it from the window inside, there always used to be someone who swung on it. I never saw who it was and they were only outside once a day and eight o'clock at night. That's when the facility was on lockdown. Being at this place really had brought back some memory. Those drugs I was given made me forget so much, but those visions I had brought them back.

I walked through a doorway that led me to another building. This one was just as damaged and dark. I stumbled around until I found a doorknob. I opened it and saw sparks of light. It was revealed to be a power room. I found a power generator and powered it on. The building's lights began to flash and soon everything was lit up with the lights having an orange/yellow hue to them. I left the power room and walked down the hall. There were parts and junk scattered everywhere. Nothing in here looked familiar, I had never been in this building before I saw a sign that read "Right Sector B". I had only been in the Left Sector, not sure if it was A or B. I made my way down the hall some more until I came across a room that had a sign which read "Archives" on it. I opened it and saw stacks and stacks of papers, videotapes, and computers. I also saw a decaying skeleton with a lab coat on sitting in the corner, its clothes old and dusty. I saw a VHS player and saw that a videotape was sticking out. I pushed it in and watched.

A man appeared on screen in the same archive room. He was the decaying body "Hello, this... this is Dr.Dio Ram, I am recording this just in case I don't survive, we are in danger and-". He was interrupted by the sounds of people yelling and guns being fired in the background. "I am stuck in this archive room, and I don't know if anyone is going to save me, I believe the current time is one o'clock in the morning. A few hours before this one of our patients from Right Sector A was stolen. And while we were having mass chaos happening something bad happened. One of our top-secret patients was freed themself. She is patient 696, and her name is Belladonna she is nothing like we've ever seen before, but she has escaped and she is destroying everyone. I pray that my goddess Thorxa will save me...if someone ever sees this and I am dead, remember one this, the only way to kill her is to-" The tape cut out. "Dammnit!" I yelled taking it out and setting it on top of the tv. I looked through the stacks of tapes and eventually sound one with "patient 696" on it. I put it into the VHS player and watched it.

Dr. Holly: "Hello this is Doctor Holly of Alpha Advancements, facility: caesar, Underground Left Sector C. Today I have a new patient to work with, Name: Belladonna, Age:16, Gender: female, Skin color; light grey most likely from the outlands, she is very strange, her parents sent her here because she was acting strange. levitating, using her sight to control things, she even used some form of energy to break every bone in someone's body with just a locked and focused stare. Now we have tied her arms and have blindfolded her so she cannot use her eyes to attack. I will report back soon with more info as the sessions go one,". I search through the tapes to find the date "6.19.2070" is when mother saved me from this place. As I looked I found one from a day earlier with Belladonna's number on it. I put it in and watched

"Hello, this is Doctor Holly of Alpha Advancements, facility: caesar, Underground Left Sector C. Today we are transforming our patient 696 to Trout Facility on the other side of the northern realms in the grand lake. I will be going too, this facility is falling apart plus Belladonna almost escaped earlier so we had to put a mask over her face so she would not be allowed to use her sight to do anything" she held up a mask that had some strange long eye lens on it like a telescope camera lens. It had a red glass that could be looked through. She put it on as an example. It looked like a robotic cyclops eye that stuck out about five inches. "This mask only allows the person wearing it to see a few things but it is almost impossible to see. she is instructed to wear this always now and most likely forever." she then pressed a button on the side and the red lens glowed light a red light bulb. "This is for when the patient is awake and when they sleep we turn it off," she said placing it down, now I must go and get prepared we depart in an hour,". The video went to static. I walked out and found my way outside and began to walk through the forest again. It had stopped raining and the sun came out a little. As I walked I really wondered what happened to Belladonna, was she captured and sent to the Trout Facility or did she escape. Something inside me really wanted to find her, for one thing, she could help me stop AA for good, and plus I got nothing else to live for, so why shouldn't I? I could destroy them all for good. I kept walking until I came across a cliff overlooking a valley and in the valley was a small town. "I know I can find someone to help me get there," I said aloud as I began to walk more to find a way down there.