Cora rushed back out and then back in to bring a Heart Defibrillator and placed it on a table passing the handles to Mark.
Mark said, "Let us start with 400V[Volt]", and then pressed it on her chest after taking off her medical coat but that didn't do it.
Mark continued, "600V", and pressed again, but it still didn't work.
Mark started to panic inside thinking, "No No No No! Cathy, wake up there are people here for you... Don't leave them, I know you don't want that, So, please!"
Mark continued, "800V... no put it at 1000V", Cora and Sophie noticed him freaking out there but even then they kept their calm. He then pressed and still it wasn't beating even after that.
At the time, C already woke up hearing Mark, C tried to wake up but couldn't feel her body so instead, she tried to move to the right side which was still hard for her since she felt pain in her neck and was tired too but she was able to later to do it. She saw Cora holding onto a device that had a modulator and Mark holding its handle pressing it on Cathy's chest while she was lying on the bed but then later C immediately shut her eyes and slept.
Mark continued, "At 1100V... if not then maximise it out", he pressed it and saw that it beat for a second there. He was relieved to see there is still a chance for her.
Mark said, "Full!", and pressed. 2 days later, C woke up from the bed and saw that no one was next to her. She got off the bed and heard someone coming in and saw it was Cora. Cora saw C woke up and told her, "You should still be lying down, It has been 2 days since then and you haven't eaten anything but liquid food"
C asked, "Where is Cathy?"
Before C woke up Cora was put on watch of C when she woke up, So, she had to stay in the room next to the ICU which is a CCTV room for ICU. Sophie came every once in a while to check on Cora and bring her food to eat.
Cora knew C would ask that before anything, Cora said, "First lay down! I want to be a Big Sister at least for now to you", C was desperate to know but she felt Cathy was alright since Cora wanted some time with her. So she laid down and Cora operated the bed. She raised her head level as if she was seating and then brought in an eating table for her to have her food. Mark's and Martin's rooms are the only room that has windows. Everyone inside the Pieces except C, Cathy, Perry, Seth, Lara and Takashi hated the world since most of them were left by their parent in the streets when Martin came up to them and took them in while the others were highly ambitious and had no support from the people around them instead people took advantage of them and left them in the dust, Martin was the only one who was them for who they were and took them in. C then looked over at the window and saw it was dawn. C and the others do not remember when they were so young since it was too traumatic for them. Lara was born in a Lab so she hasn't even set foot outside.
When C looked outside she saw the sunlight, C asked, "Sis! Could you cover the Sun?"
Cora replied, "Cover the Sun? I can't do that... You should be saying "Can you cover away the light?" Dummy"
C was pissed and said, "Ya! Ya! Whatever! Just cover it!... Please?!", Cora then goes and then bring down the curtain to cover the light and switched on the light in the room.
C asked, "Is... she alright... I am a bit worried, I can't seat still without knowing it... So, please?"
Cora looked at her smiled and said, "Of Course! She is well, Now! You have to get well too, don't you wanna join her upstairs?", C nodded in happiness and said, "Yes!"
Cora was then thinking, "I am sorry, I had to lie to you to keep you well eventually you will know I know you will want to learn the truth of what happened and that you will never forgive me for this... I wanted to protect you as an elder sister would... but you are the one who acted like it more than I have to you, they all love you that is why they haven't said anything to you...", Cora was in pain in truth because she couldn't tell the truth to C.
In truth, Cathy was the one who told them not to tell C and Lara anything about this. During the Test that Cathy, Seth and Perry had Cathy was told by Martin, "Perry and Seth are compatible with each other's ability. But You don't have any compatibility with any one of their's ability and the same goes with C's ability that is why I decided to put your both tests separately from each other and give you a choice. Like I said before both of you are not like the rest, both of you were already suffering from cancer before I ever met you two... you only have a year left before you die. And the choice was to live on as a bit or... you know"
Cathy was lying in her bed hearing to Martin while looking at her hands on her lap. Cathy asked, "So, I can continue living...?", as Cathy looked at Martin. Martin nodded saying, "Yes"
Martin continued, "I checked your compatibility with both Lara and C, the tests say your blood could be transfused with Lara's... but there is a risk"
Cathy asked, "What is it, Master?"
Martin held Cathy's hands and said, "You might die if it does not work out. Honestly, I think I should just keep finding another way" then Martin was thinking, "I should just keep continuing on the search to find the sure that people found... but what if it takes me more than a year, maybe just find compatibility among the survivors... but they are already trying to find it I can't just rush them. They are doctors they have to take time... I... guess going on with it would be a good idea but it is not my choice", he thought as he called Perry and Seth and told them about Cathy's condition.
C asked, "Where is Master?", Cora didn't hear what C said she spaced out thinking about Cathy while seating under the curtain near the window looking down the shores of the island. C saw Cora and didn't hear what she said, So, she got off her bed and headed out of Mark's room and saw no one in the dormitory corridors letting her get away easily to the elevator and up to the 68th floor.
As she entered the floor she didn't see anyone but Lara in the room playing with her toys. C went up to her and asked, "Lara, Do you know where the others are?"
Lara looked back and saw C standing, She said, "Hi C! I thought they would be waiting till you came but they left and went down...", Lara closed her eyes and took a moment and continued, "They are in the Hall... I sense one of them is in Mark's room and someone else also who is in the dormitory headed upstairs and all the others are in the Hall"
C then said, "Thank You, Lara! I have to go now, later", and then headed back inside the elevator down to the 67th floor. Lara still closed her eyes and was watching what was happening.
Meanwhile, Cora was seating under the curtains watching outside the window Sophie walked and saw C wasn't in her bed and asked Cora immediately, "Cora! Where is C?"
Cora heard Sophie and got off her chair and saw no one in the bed and said, "Wha... she was here 5 minutes ago! Damn... maybe she went up either way it doesn't matter I gave her a dose for dozing it should probably kick in right about now. We should go check on her"
Sophie said, "We should! later then join the others in the main hall... It's Cathy... her time is almost over", she said this as they got out of Mark's room.
Cora replied, "C will soon learn about what happened to Cathy eventually... It will be hard on her", as they walked across the corridor to the stairs.
Sophie said, "I know how hard it is already on Perry and Seth they were afraid of ever losing one of them... I remember the first time we got here"
Cora said, "Ya I know! it felt like we were being used when we were brought to an Island outside the mainland, I had to carry C on my back, back then and I didn't feel comfortable coming here till I saw other kids the same age as C. They were also the reason everyone here felt Martin wasn't the person others say he is", she said as they both walked down the stairs and walked across the corridor to the 2nd stairs down.
Sophie looked down and saw C on the floor, she said, "Well! She is down there...", and looked over at the elevator as it closed. Sophie continued saying, "She went upstairs looking for them... none of us said to Lara what was going on right?!"
Cora and Sophie stopped at the corridor and Cora said, "What if she knows now?!", and then started running down to get C whilst Sophie headed up the elevator to check on Lara. Sophie got off the elevator and entered the 68th floor and saw Lara sitting on the floor next to her toys. Sophie went up to her and asked, "Did C come here, Lara?"
Lara put the toys down and said, "Yes! C came and went back down"
Sophie then asked, "Did she ask anything in particular?"
Lara was confused by the question so she asked back, "What is the reason? and Like what particular?"
Sophie was speechless and later she said in embarrassment, "Well! It is nothing... forget everything I... I have to leave", she left after understanding Lara was innocent in this case. And then later joined up with the others in the Hall. Cora also joined them after placing C back in her bed in Mark's room.
Cathy was in the middle along with Perry, Seth, Martin and the others in the crowd around them. Cathy was in a wheelchair because her right leg was weakened due to her cancer and she was no longer able to use her ability.
Martin tapped on the earplug and said, "As you all know Cathy hasn't got much time, So, I have a plan on keeping her alive but you will have to decide whether it should be done or not. Based on a voting system by all, except those 2", Everyone felt terrible for leaving C and Lara not knowing what's going on. Sophie came out of the crowd and went up to Martin and whispered something in his ears.
Martin then said to Sophie, "I will see her later and ask her", and then Sophie nodded and ran back and joined the crowd. Martin continued, "Alright then about what I was saying...umm... where was I?"
Some in the crowd slapped their forehead after that Cora said, "Master, You were talking about what was your plan on helping Cathy"
Martin put his both hands on the back of his head and smiled saying, "Sorry!... I was lost in my thoughts"
Martin then said, "the choice was to make her into a bit but doesn't mean she can be living among us...", and then he walks to Cathy and looks her in the eyes and then up into the roof and continued, "Like how I keep those 3 in the tube I have to check on her the same... But the difference is since she has her consciousness I have to keep her in there only for a certain period which could be about 3-5 years and if not she turns into one of them"
Perry and Seth were happy to hear that she still has a chance and looked at Cathy and nodded to take it. Cathy didn't think twice and said, "If it means I can still be around them"
After that, they all headed to the lab and some of them returned to the dormitory to take care of C and Takashi whilst Lara was left alone. Cathy was injected and put to sleep inside the incubator. And so there were 4 incubators, the 4th being Cathy and the others being Haveks, at the time they weren't called anything.
Later after C woke up Perry and Seth told her about Cathy and that it was her choice.
After C recovered she along with Perry and Seth decided to ask Martin if he did let them stay there. Martin eventually agreed, but he kept saying no to them every single time they kept asking him. And after 2 weeks he said yes. And Lara was left alone on the 68th floor but Takashi still kept visiting her.
Now we are back to the topic at hand, the catastrophe that almost killed everyone on the 67th floor.
Takashi tapped on C's shoulder asking, "You there! I have to keep going... there are a lot more people I have to help out", and started to run towards the dormitory.
C saw that and rushed the way he went saying, "Hey! Wait up I am coming too! *whispering* such a spoiled sport"
Takashi said, "I still can hear you, you know!"
They headed up the stairs in the dormitory, they part ways upstairs. Takashi went inside Martin's room and C into Mark's room. Inside Mark's room, she went to the ICU to find no know there, she was in complete shock and asked, "Perry, Seth... where are you?"
They should have been in the ICU because Cathy's surgery should have been going on there. Perry and Seth were doctors for the process.
C went around searching them all over the place and still didn't find them, So, she went out and then into Martin's room and saw so many bodies on the floor and Takashi kneeling on the floor crying.
C asked, "What happened in here?"
Takashi looked at C and said while crying, "Do you think I was here while this happened... eh... Of course not!"
C said, "Geez! Calm down let's look around if anyone is still...", as she looked around she saw Cora on the floor dead.
C said, "Co... Cora... Sis... get up, Please no... no... not you too!!", she fell to her knees and held Cora's head onto her lap and was telling all this.
Takashi had already gotten up and gone around to search if anyone else was still when he heard C crying, he ignored it and went into Martin's Lab and this time saw 4 tubes in which 2 broken, 1 was empty and the last one had 1 humanoid sliced up in 2 from top to bottom over the tube.
And went on ahead to Martin's bedroom and saw Lara standing at the entry of it, staring off at something inside the room.
Takashi looked at where Lara was looking and saw one of the humanoids that he had seen earlier. But to Lara it was Cathy. Cathy had pierced through Seth while Perry was on the floor shocked and frightened of Cathy. Seth was still alive but bleeding out as death crept closer.
Takashi used his ability immediately as he saw 2 others inside with the creature[Cathy], The slowed down around him as he ran and got Perry and brought him next to Perry and went back to Martin's desk and took a bandaid as he rushed back in to pull Seth out of its laws and covered him up and quickly ran back to where C was mourning over Cora and placed him next to her and rushed back to where he had left Lara and Perry and held them in either of his shoulders and rushed next to C where he stopped using his ability. C was shocked to her mind to see Seth in pain and then Takashi having Lara and Perry on his back. Takashi said, "We have to get out of here! Now!", and went back to using his ability to get away from there but before that Pery got off his shoulder and said, "I can walk on my own", Perry didn't want to say Cathy was the one who caused this and Cathy was no longer alive.
Takashi nodded at Perry and left him and went on with Lara. Perry then looked over at C and said, "Let's go too"
C asked, "What happened to Seth and... Cora died and... everyone here too. What about Cathy where is she?"
Perry didn't answer that but replied, "The Laboratory, that is where they all are we also should join them...", as he said that they heard something crawling on the corridor way of the bedroom headed their way. Perry didn't look that way knowing what it was but C looked around and saw Cathy on the ceiling of the room next to the corridor opening.
C didn't react as much as she did for Cora but she felt sad about how Cathy turned out. But that didn't stop her from using her ability and trapping Cathy inside a cage.
C looked at Perry in pain and said, "Can you carry her to the Laboratory... I need some time"
Perry didn't say a word and let her be and headed to the cage that was stuck to the ceiling ad used his ability. He had a crystallised 2 hands that came out of his back that grew bigger to match the size of the cage and another one he used to carry Seth. He held it across the bars and carried it to the Laboratory.
Meanwhile, while Takashi was headed to the Lab he had to stop using his ability. After he did Lara noticed it and asked, "Hey! Did Father give you this ability?...", Takashi started to walk slower after she asked that.
Lara continued, "You don't have to answer... I know he did. You remember when the test that he took me to once?"
Takashi asked, "Which?"
Lara said, "The one where I have pulled apart"
Takashi then asked, "What about it?"
Lara said, "They said they took a bit of my Cerebrospinal fluid"
Takashi topped and then said, "I know what they did with it... They created this ability using it, He didn't say it but he knew if he did I wouldn't take it. But he is the reason I saved you all"
Lara then asked, "Remember the time you asked me that if I chose to leave you would help me leave too... So, Would you join me in breaking out of here?"
Takashi didn't even take a second and said, "Yes! If that is surely what you want... Master won't let you get out but I am there to show you what freedom is"
Lara smiled and leaned on Takashi's shoulders whilst he also smiled. Takashi then started to plot on getting his way out of the 67th floor down to the ground. And started running the other way to the dormitory to the elevator.
Lara then said, "I can walk now! My Jaw hurts when you run like that", Takashi put her down and said, "Hehe! Sorry"
Lara asked, "So where are we going now?"
Takashi said, "To the elevator. There is another elevator on the 68th floor"
As they were headed to the elevator, Mark who reached the Laboratory was in charge of checking the CCTV around the floor when had seen Lara and Takashi headed back to where they had come from and then to the elevator to the 68th floor. He felt like something so going wrong there so he tapped on the earplug saying, "Master" and said the Martin, "What are Lara and Takashi doing back on the 68th floor...?"
Martin immediately knew what was up and said, "It is the elevator they are going close up all the routes the elevator could go and jam it"
Mark blocked everything except the 49th floor and saw the elevator was headed down.
Mark then said, "I couldn't do all, So they would only be heading for the Hive"
Martin was frightened and said, "No! that was already infested with them... I hope Lara is ok! I know she will try her best to keep Takashi safe", as he banged on his desk...