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Chapter 7 - Chapter 6

Zack hears this and goes up to the door and actually tries to push the door open. He turns around and says, "David can you get it open?" David doesn't respond and immediately pulls up his communicator while at the same time, his contacts light up as he scans the door. As he is typing on his communicator he says, "Horus, we need to get out of here. I don't care what alarms go off, I need you to open the door. Break the code and build a new one if we have too. I don't care, just do it."

David turns around to the group and looks at Reynaldo, "Hey, I need you to go to that computer and see what you can pull from it. It's connected to the door and wall so it might have a way out." Reynaldo nods and goes off to the side. David then looks at Kai, "Kai, I need you to go to the center and pull out the main drive. Pulling it should do a full reset and we'll be able to get through the door that way."

Kai in response turns around in a 180 and runs to the center. When he gets there he gets down he starts searching. After a few seconds, he realizes that the main drive is not on any of the computers in the circle. He gets up to search again when he sees Hana is right behind him searching also. At this point, her bun has messed up and parts of her hair are in front of her face as she looks at him with serious eyes.

"What am I looking for?" She says. Kai tells her and they both start to search when they hear another, "BOOOOM!!!"The whole facility shakes and the group hears a heart-dropping crack as the rumbling glass breaks in from all sides. The energy floods into the room. As the energy waves over them, right before it does, Reynaldo rushes to his sister and grabs her as he ducks under a control panel. Zack is pushing up against the wall as he feels the energy wash over him. The same thing happens to David as he all of a sudden feels his eyes burn as his contacts feel like its melting.

The energy rushes into the center towards the orb and the orb actually falls from where it is floating as the four-pronged force field drops from the ceiling also. Out of pure instinct, Kai grabs onto Hana's small frame and pushes her to the ground as he covers her with his body. As the orb and the antennas fall, the orb comes into contact with the white energy, which turns the original blue energy white also. After that happens, the energy that blew into the room flows out again as the falling orb breaks as it falls. This time, however, the energy actually seeps into everyone in the room.

Pure pain is felt throughout the entire group. Wracked with pain, Zack pushes up into the door and does not notice how his hands seem to sink into the door. David feels the pain in his eyes yet the pain to his brain hurts a thousand times more as he seems to hear sounds of beeping in his head all in a second. Reynaldo jumps out from under the table with Amaya as he suddenly feels like his whole body is hardening. Amaya feels her muscles and bones are going numb with pain. As she tries to stand up she doesn't notice that she stands up straight through the edge control panel as it breaks from her standing up suddenly.

In the center of the room, Hana feels the mind-numbing pain for just a second before it washes away with coolness. She opens her eyes to see that she is right under Kai as she also feels that Kai is laying over her. Yet she doesn't feel much pressure as he sees that Kai is trying to keep himself from falling onto her fully. With where she is, Kai and her would be able to look into the eyes of each other but Kai is closing his eyes as he is in pain. Looking behind him, Hana sees one of the antennas are on top of him.

Seeing this she reaches around him and pushes the antennae off him. With the weight no longer on him, Hana pushes him up so that he can sit up straight. Cooperating as much as he can, Kai is able to move his legs so that his legs are straight out. Hana moves her body so that she is sitting sideways in the middle of Kai's legs. Kai is still in pain but he feels a bit of weight on his right leg. Kai opens his eyes. When he does, he sees Hana. Her hair has fallen down from the bun and now is just straight down in a bit of a mess from being on the floor. He sees that she is sitting sideways and her legs are on his right leg.

He grimaces in pain as he feels not only his back hurting a lot but the back left of his head hurt also. Despite that, he opens his mouth to say something but Hana faces toward him while she is sideways and leans in a bit closer towards him. At this point, her face is almost inches away from his. Her hands both come up as she looks over him. She turns his head to the side with a furrowed brow.

"Are you stupid?" She says as she turns his head and sees the bleeding from the top of his head. "What if the pillar fell on you? Or the ceiling?" She reprimands him as she looks at the side of his head. Kai takes her hands off his head and he faces her again.

Kai clearly sees worry in her eyes despite the anger and quickly says, "I'm fine." Then continues to say, "Are you okay?" Hana looks at Kai and says, "Are you? Your head is bleeding." She shakes his hands off and turns his head again. As she does she sees slight pink energy slide off her hand as she places her hand on his head.

Right in front of her, she sees the wound in a matter of seconds, close up. Not even leaving a scar, as the energy continues to go over Kai's back. Kai starts to feel better instantly as his head and back tingle. He even feels stronger. Kai closes his eyes and as he is about to say something to Hana, he sees what's happening. More accurately he feels what's happening. With his eyes closed, Kai realizes that he can feel everything in the laboratory. He feels the technology in the room and can even tell how Zack is partially through the door. He feels Amaya swaying and falls down after placing her hand on a corner of a control panel that breaks under her hand. He sees David clutching his head as he stands up. He feels Reynaldo standing and for some reason feels Reynoldo's skin actually moving. Not understanding any of this he shakes his head.

He stops and opens his eyes as he hears Hana say, "What?" As he opens his eyes he sees Hana just as she was before. Almost inches away from his face but she is looking at her hands as pink energy seeps back into her hand. Hana has no idea what happened. When she looks back at him, she sees Kai looking at her worriedly. That's when she realizes that she is closer to Kai than she thought she originally was.

A moment passes, then Amaya yells out, "Is everyone okay?" After another moment and groans sounding in the laboratory, Amaya calls out again, "Hana! You okay?" Hana turns her body so her back is to Kai. Afterward, she stands up and answers, "I'm fine, are you?" Kai stands up after being in a bit of a daze. As he stands up, he walks away from the center towards Zack and David. Hana goes to Amaya and Reynaldo. After separating both Kai and Hana realize that they feel a bit colder in the laboratory.

Dismissing the feeling, Kai goes to Zack and says, "Zack, I'm going to need you to stay calm." Everyone hears what Kai is saying and they all look at Zack.

"The hell?" Reynaldo questions confusedly. He voices the same question everyone has because Zack's arms were in the door. Zack opens his eyes and sees this, "Shit!" He yells out as he jumps back onto his feet. "What the hell was that?!" Zack exclaims, staring at his hands. The group does not answer as they are just as confused as Zack.

"BOOOM!!!" Another explosion goes off, reeling the group out of their shock as they see part of the wall to the right of them disintegrate under the explosion. Reynaldo looks to the group and says, "We need to get out now." He heads towards the door and places his hands on it to try and open it. As he does, his hands visibly harden as a metallic sheen covers his hands, piercing into the metal door. The door opens just a little when Reynaldo sees this and he pulls both hands-off. As he does his hands go back to normal. Once again the group sees something extraordinary.

Kai moves over to check on him, "Reynaldo, you good?" As soon as the question comes out of his mouth, Kai stops and tries to adjust himself as he suddenly feels his vision change again. It's the same as moments earlier. Almost like having a 360-degree vision yet instead of sight, it's feeling the shapes of what is around him. No color but very distinct shapes appear instead. He feels the wall and door.

He also feels the ground vibrating slightly on the other side of the door. With his eyes closed, he turns his head towards the door and when he concentrates he feels his vision go from a 360 degree angle to a straight line outwards instead. The range of what he feels in this vision goes from what must've been 15 feet to 40 feet out. With this, he feels nine security guards armed to the teeth coming their way in a cautious manner.

Coming out of that weird state, he feels two hands on his arm as Hana had come up to Kai worrying he might have a concussion from earlier. Giving Hana a glance to reassure her that he was fine, he looks at the rest of the group and says, "Guards on the way. Nine of them. Going to have to find another way out of here."

"What do you mean?" Amaya asks as she goes over to check on her brother. "Look I don't know what's happened now, but trust me! I can see them coming." Kai responds quickly, almost hissing out the words due to pure frustration. "Something happened to us but that's for later. Right now we have to find another way out." Amaya sounds like she wants to say something else when David speaks up.

"He's right, nine gene corp personnel are coming and not only that, they just called for more people to come," He says as he holds his head, shaking it from all the noise he's hearing. "How do you know?" Zack says. "I can hear them on their coms," David says.

During this whole time, David had been sorting through all the sounds in his head. After a while, David came to realize the sounds that he was hearing about the technology around him. As he opened his eyes, he thought he would see his normal digital overlay with his contacts, but instead, he saw lines of code and data where he should not have been able to. Everything seemed to lay across one another as his normal vision now had data streams going over it.

As he looked out the door he saw nine lines of code that indicated security identification. That was how he was able to confirm what Kai said. "Just what the hell is going on!" Amaya exclaims.

"Forget about that, we need another way out, start looking," Reynaldo says. The group go on to look around searching for an exit they missed. In a few moments they hear the sound of guards yelling through the door, as they search.

A muffled sound of a male officer comes through the door, "Open up this door now! This is Gene Corp. property and you are trespassing! Come out now and you will be charged with the minimum penalty!"

A moment of silent passes over the group before they continue to search frantically. Banging can be heard on the door as the security officers keep yelling for them. Stressed out, Amaya slams her hand on the wall as she says, "Damn it!" Reynaldo and the group turn to look at her as she says this. The moment Amaya's hand slams on the wall they see the wall make a resounding crack as the wall fractures under Amaya's hand.

Zack is ecstatic upon seeing this, "That works."