The boat lurched and shook the minor wave it was riding caused by the explosion, now being pushed by its motor
Alex Mercer was no bitch, but this time around he felt afraid. He didn't know why 'I'm not gonna die even if I was caught in the damn explosion...yet I feel like...'
He turned his head around and looked to the hatch where he left the victim of experimentation. Was that why he did all that running? Why did he care?
"Not the time. I need to set this thing to a course" he reminded his overthinking cap and selected through the navigating panel a location. They were now in the east side harbor of what he gaped was Japan
"Holy... I really need to sit down in a garden rather than run randomly"
He sighed and shrugged his shoulders "Okay then we head back to the U.S."
He scrolled the screen and selected a place he had not visited. Somehow he recalled that once wanted to visit one place that was now blinking
He chose in a plain flick California. They say they know how to party, and that's what he needed
"Alright. Shit is done, now I can sit back and await to find land" He put the boat on Auto, flicking a switch and leaving to go below deck
He jumped over into the hatch acrobatically to land in a quite thud to not awake the pink haired lady. He could still not find why she was called a monster, even less why she was threated so
'Its not like she killed pass a hundred people right?'
He walked to the room he placed her in and thought about what he could tell the poor lady. Would she trust him? Now that he looked at his hands and attire he had second doubts
He in truth looked to be the very definition of hoodlum, worse so the inside as he housed the powers of total slaughter
He had a damn hoodie on that lit up in red viral light for god's sake! 'Calm down. Just talk. I need to be honest'
He stopped walking. 'Wait'
"Why do I care how I look? I am Mercer not a begger!"
He opened the door without hesitation and looked to the sofa he placed her. Alex huffed seeing blood dripping from her injuries "Humans. They make us and label us monsters when ironically they are no better, even worse."
He kneeled before her twitching suffering facial features. She was pretty, he could say that. Sadly, he could see that behind that was a true beast, how could she not? There's a reason why she was locked up
He ignored that and began to patch her up using a medkit he found attached on the wall and his abilities that would make sure to increase her healing process
He sewned the openings and gashes made by god knows what with needle, applying alcohol before closing the wounds of such violent experimentation
Secondly, he checked her over and certified no serious hemorrage or broken bones seemed to have happened
Thirdly, Alex cleaned her body in the shower. Amazingly, he barely noticed that she was naked this whole time. He nosebled at the realization and supressed his stupidty for some other time, right now she needed to be tended with extreme care
He washed the blood off and held in anger each time he revealed a scar of the past. This girl, whom ever she was, had an impressive record of injuries
By his sight, he learn she had survived fire, ice, poison, and other stuff that he could not believe she made it through. Bullet holes riddled her body as if she survive a rain of it that seemed to have successfully faded to leave strange small holes.
He cleaned her good and left her sparkling a good olive color. He had trouble polishing those...'orbs' and hated his pervert human instinct that bleed throughly but did it, anything between the...'gates' he steered clear
Finally he carried Lucy into a queen size bed on the top level of the boat. The room was basic but the view it had especially in the semi-open balcony he did love it fully. It was a nice change from being in craters, wreckage, tunnels, or bodies
He placed her on the soft bed fixing her body to lessen the pressure on her injuries and bandages, getting a little happy he did something good for someone other than himself, once done he went to see the outside. Taking soft steps to the outdoors he gasped seeing the beauty of the sky, not polluted, shaded, or infraraded, but openly beautiful. The stars formed a river that extended to the end of the ocean, pointing right ahead
"Truly soothing. I wish I was there..." Alex murmured sadly. He wanted what they had, freedom of everything. Stars that just shined upon the world infested of humans
He unconsciously tighten his right fist
"They did this to us... I hope there's no more victims" Alex whisper to the sky, pleading to whatever watched upon them could help stop the madness
He left the balcony and checked on the girl
Sighing in defeat, he kneeled by the bed and layed his elbows on the mattress. Alex gave a good look at her once again. She was sleeping peacefully and super lightly snoring throught chapped lips, she was bruised by cuts on her cheeks that made her look older. He checked her pulse for abnormalies but it all came great for his patient
He grabbed the covers and layed them on her, laying some warmth that relaxed her troubled features and replaced them to a condecending smile
Alex inwardly giggled, kneeled by the bed and watched her sleep. Strangely, it stuck to him too and his eyes told him he needed some sleep. He was about to climb the bed but a click from his brain stopped his arms from touching the mattress
'I need to give her space, so she won't act violently'
He looked around the room, no way in hell was he going to leave her alone with the possibility of a kidnap by those government agents so he searched a place he could sleep in. Lord and behold he found the perfect 90° angle. He retreated into that corner and made himself comfy with a cover.
He touched the fabric and it felt weird. It had been a long time since he used a fabric like this. Ignoring his curiousity he made a cushion to lay on the corner and sit half-right to keep a look on her
Alex extended his left arm and formed tendrils to close the doors of the room, windows, and balcony to let the darkness dim all light of the outside
Remaining still, finally he got his sleep and drifted to the static of nothingness
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The next day came in a snail's pace
The sun was dormant and night kept the serene pitch black on the room the two were sleeping in
Alex looked like he was dead, his body shut down and not even a breath was heard
Lucy in the other hand, was shaking and sweating. A nightmare was rampant and she was relieving her worst torture
Lucy POV:
The lab was live with red lights and my cell was active, almost dancing in joy at following its creator's objective
To break me
*electric shock*
'AAAAAAARRRHH!!'
*Double electric shock*
'MARRRDGGAAAAAAAAHH!!'
I felt fire over my body, almost everywhere in it felt like ants tearing my skin...I almost wanted to rip it off by hand but somehow I held
*Electric shock*
'AAAAAAAAHHHH!! STOP! *whimpers* PLEASE! I'M..I'M *whimpers* DYING!!!'
I pleaded with my soul, I wanted to die now than stand another second of this
'Awww. My poor Lucy...'
I snapped my eyes to that sound, that man was coming around from the back of my cell to look at me
How I wanted to tear him apart, he's a monster who should be suffering the same thing!
He looked at me with those eyes of hunger. The bastard is the foulest creature I have ever seen. Ever
He held my cheek and I bit his finger
Incredibly, that man did not shout or scream at his bitten finger. No. He licked his lips instead and seemed to be fantasizing about...
..
No...not again...
I shook my arms and legs in an attempt to free myself. I loath and fear what he was thinking to do to me
I felt each time more broken and helpless
I don't...want...that again!
I released my grip on his bleeding finger and coughed the dirty blood
'Leave me...alone. Please don't-! Don't touch me!'
I felt scared as he was now grinning madly. I knew that face, I panicked and pulled at my restraints till my hands bled.
'Please please please don't! I'll be quite! I- I-I'll take more shocks but don't do that-t!'
The scientist took out a used bandage from his coat
'No..nonononono-'
I pulled harder and felt the shackles tearing deeper in my wrist and ankles, my neck began to feel water stream down it. I lost it, I knew that bandage and will never forget what it meant
'NO PLEASE! NOOOOO
NOOOOOOOO
NOOOO-*muffled screams*'
The man put the bandage over my mouth and got another
I was crying in pure fear, pleading with this thing to not...to not...
'It's time to play my darlin' '
The room began to dim
The darkness began to creep over the whole chamber
The man was undressing
I screamed with the strength I had, tears spilling from my eyes before he got his shirt off and placed the final curse on my eyes
He shunt me to darkness and my heart stopped
'NNNNOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!'
-Flashback end.
I shut my eyes open and spasmed at the dark room I was in
"GET OFF ME!!! GET OFF ME!!! STOPPPPP!!" I screamed at the absence of light
I snarled helplessly and covered my eyes from seeing anything, I don't want to see anything in this darkness
My head began to ring and I wailed in an agony that always was there, tears escaped my hands and dripped from my face, nose, and any part my hand wasn't covering. Shivering in fright I prayed for light
"I'm sorry...sorry sorry sorry..so-"
Suddenly, I heard a flick of a switch
Out of the corners of my hands, I saw light. The light was like none she saw in that room
'Wh-what?'
I slowly took my hands off my eyes and opened them slowly. I let whimpers out when I saw a house-like roof over me, tears stopped and I sat up
I was in another room
I was not in that room
I looked around and relief hit me, my body kept jittering even when the light showed me a strange great sight
"You...okay?"
I looked to a figure with a hand on the light switch
It was a man, wearing sometype of running shoes, faded navy black jeans,
And what looked like a leather jacket over a dress shirt. I regained my voice and kept looking at him
"W...wh-o are you?" I asked in a horrible stutter, I wanted to leave here but in a quick glance I saw nothing but the night sky
I couldn't go outside
The man let go of the wall and walked forward to the bed I was in
Instintively, I pulled the covers I had to my chest and pushed myself to the very back of the bed
"Stay away. Don't get near" I threatened, at the moment however I had no power within me to summon even one of my vectors to use. Fear gripped my soul at the darkness outside
He took steps back to his original spot "Okay. Calm down. My name is Alex Mercer. I saved you from a base about 7 hours ago...-ish, right now its 2:39am. I won't harm you"
He showed me his hands and I looked at him. In his eyes, I could see he really meant the truth
I lowered my cover and relaxed a tier down the freak out meter I was in
I felt weak, very so I dreaded fainting "Thank...thank you" I akwardly told my random savior
He smiled and bowed
"Could you tell me your name?"
I nodded meekly a yes "My name's Lucy"
The man raised his head
"You're safe now Lucy, please rest. I patched you up a little and recommend for you to sleep to heal properly"
I sat upright in the bed while keeping the covers close to me. I was strangely calm here, even thought I was with a stranger. His presence instead of bringing fear, it had a tinge of hope
I calmed a little bit more and my body finally relaxed, the man stood there and it came to me to ask his name
"Can you repea-t your name? What's your name if I can ask again?" I asked still jittering from my fingertips
He stretched his arms to stretch out some heaviness from the sleep gripping him "My name is Alex Mercer"