Project Hera

Chapter I- Escape

I am quiet. I look around the indoor garden discreetly, hoping I don't look too suspicious. Nancy reads a book, seemingly focused, but I know that she's just wearing a facade. Like everyone. She's just " looking after me". Yeah. Just like those guards over there ? Oh, sure. They want to prevent me from getting stung by a bee, perhaps ? I choke a sarcastic laughter, making it sound like a cough. 

-Are you ok ? Nancy asks me. 

- Yeah, I reply shortly. I want to move a little, Nancy. 

As I turn my back to her, I hear her close her book and begin to walk with me. 

-Alone. Please. I say through gritted teeth. Nancy hesitates, but then again no one pisses off GRD's golden girl. ( And by GDR  I mean " Genetic Research Department".My home. My very own prison.) Everyone knows that by now. Including her. She may have been told to look after me, but hey, face the truth ; I can't run anywhere, can I ? This facility is oh so well guarded. The two gorillas in the corner watch us closely. I know that once I'll step outside they'll follow me, because that's their job, but I'm not worried. I can handle them. I take the path that leads to my room, walking slowly in the grey halls that always smell like chlorine, perhaps the only smell that I can't stand. It makes me remember the doctors that had fun poking us with cold needles. Mr. Lockwood said it was necessary for our good development, but I'm sure as hell he didn't know how we felt, like a new breed of a dog or something being tested for their abilities. He just watched contently as we were looked over and given medicine and weird stuff they put in our body. My brother took my hand every time, giving it a slight squeeze. It was his way of comforting me... I miss him, so, so much. He was my only friend. 

I push aside my thoughts and I proceed walking towards the restricted area where I saw on the security files I hacked yesterday a secret exit door. 

-Hey, hey ! the guards call out to me. You can't go in there, come on. 

-Oops. My fault. I didn't know, I say teasingly, turning to face them. I feel their fear. I can hear their hearts beating fast. The guard that spoke gulps inaudibly, but they keep their face straight, as required. He walks towards me, ready to stop me if I try anything.

-Come on. Let's leave, he says, trying to look convincing. He stretches a hand to me. Fool.

I take his hand and I twist it behind him, making him yelp, and I throw a good kick in the abdomen of the other guard, who falls ridiculously on the ground. I then proceed to lift myself on the guards's shoulders, chocking him with my thighs until he falls down. The other one raises a taser at me, sending a shock wave that hurts, but I grab his arm and make him shock himself with it. With the corner of my eye I see Nancy holding the panic remote in her hands. Before I could reach out and stop her from pushing the button that would trigger the alarm I worked so hard to hack and stop, allowing me to escape silently, she already does it. Instantly, red lights begin blinking in the hall, along with a horrible screeching sound.

Specially created to confuse me, of course. They know how loud noises make my head hurt and strong lights burn my eyes. But I am prepared for this, so I dig in my pocket and take out special headsets I created for this type of occasions. The silence that greets me when I slide them on is so comforting that I take a moment to close my eyes and relax just for the tiniest bit. I watch the exit door being slammed closed. Shit. The guards I knocked over are grunting, but I step over them. Then I leap back into action just as more  rush into the hall. They all try to tackle me to the ground, but I am quick and use their own weapons - Oh my God, is that a taser ?? Seriously ?- against them, making them fall like flies to the ground. I manage to get past the mid section of the Institute, but I still have to go to the main gates seeing as they closed my only exit door I was closed to. 

I encounter more and more gorilla guards as I make my way towards the main gates. They seem to appear from nowhere. I shove two ( only two ? I heard a lot  more grunt ... )in the wall, and I'm like fuck yeah, I'm almost there, but one of them gets lucky and shocks me with his taser. White-hot pain flares through me, and I grit my teeth, but I twist in his grasp and take the damn thing from him, shocking him in return. He grabs my ankle and I fall face- first into another guy's large chest, before being seized by them and thrown on the ground.