Minuit

minuit - French for Midnight
Genre: Sci-Fi (Dystopia), Fantasy, Adventure
World setting: Bristlestone, Alderberry
== Synopsis ==
== Minor Notes ==
() - short extra info about stuff
[] - Time, location
--- ← Switching scenes
<...> - Short silences
{} - Dialogues for Testing Unit, They don't technically speak so everything they try to say is on their screen
== Chapter 0: Prologue ==
[Time: Ancient Bristlestone, Probably a LOT of centuries ago]
Our story starts out as any other story, with once upon a time.
Once upon a time, where human were nowhere to be seen, there was MorningWood Park, a forest ruled by two gynoids.
The Machinian villagers of the park in harmony and peace.
Well, at first.
The two gynoids did everything right for their land. The led them to peace, and the villagers loved them for it.
----
One day, one of the gynoids, Ines, had enough of some of the villagers. She took her anger out on a male Machinian and his child.
These two hadn't had anything to eat in days and were hungry. They spent all their money on their new home and didn't have anything left for food.
"Well you know what? I'm so sorry, okay? You're hungry, what am I supposed to do about it? You spent all your money on your house, how am I supposed to feed you?" Ines scolded at them.
"Is it my job to feed every single citizen in our community? Is it my job to make sure everyone is fed? Well, I'll tell you what my job is, it's to make sure that there is peace in here and that we do not break into war and that every citizen can care for themselves. Now, you must leave the park at once."
Unfortunately for Ines, the other ruler of the park, Sele had heard the whole argument.
"Geez, is it my responsibility to feed everyone? The park go bankrupt soon enough!" Ines groaned.
"We all must make sacrifices for our people, if they were hungry, we should have fed them. It's not your full responsibility to feed everyone, Ines. But sometimes, we have to." Sele told her, "Ines, it's not your responsibility to make every single decision in this park. That's why I'm here, we're supposed to make these decisions together."
"If I were you, I would have fed them. They were indeed hungry, and that poor girl was only 5 years old!"
Sele tried persuading Ines, but it didn't work.
----
Later, that noon.
Sele and Ines met again.
"You fed them, didn't you?" Ines asked.
Sele didn't reply. (But actually she did!)
"Sele, it's not our duty!"
"Sometimes we have to do what we have to do!" Sele defended herself
And after that a huge argument broke out. I'm won't be adding what they're saying next cuz that they're still talking about that whole feeding deal and it would be pointless if I did so.
Plus, many, many other arguments broke out after that...
----
Until one day...
[Location: Sele & Ines's house]
Sele came to Ines without her flower hairpin.
"Why aren't you wearing it?" Ines wondered. "The matching ones that we always have on our heads?"
"Let me explain: I'm no longer taking part in ruling the park, and you're going to be the only ruler here." Sele puts the hairpin on Ines's hands, "I'm not sure how you can handle it, but you'll get it eventually."
Ines was surprised.
"Then...Then where are you leaving at?"
"I'm going to the suburbs of this park. It's not far away, so we'll still be in close distance, but I just feel like we need our space. After all, this park can't run with two rulers." Sele added. "You can make the decisions now, you can be the decision maker all on your own."
"But...But you help me. You point out my flaws so that I can fix them to be better, I point out your flaws so that so we can be better. We can do this together!" Ines convinced Sele.
"Well, not anymore. And if you want, you can visit me. I'll be living in Camp Bristlestone. It's just a small colony with a few Machinians. They said since I'm a ruler I would be able to rule over that camp and we can still be queens or something! I've already packed up all my stuff and I'm ready to set off. I'm here to say goodbye and...make a few announcements."
Ines was furious. "You know what? Since MorningWood Park is no longer be called "MorningWood Park", it's now going to be called "Alderberry City", and you and your citizens will never be allowed in here! Alderberry City forbids anyone from Camp Bristlestone!"
"Well, isn't that so? Because anyone from Alderberry City isn't welcome in Camp Bristlestone, your citizens will not be allowed to set foot on my camp!"
"Fine! Don't come back crying for help because I'm not gonna give it to you! It's your responsibility to care for your camp, your land, your new home!"
Sele bids her farewell despite Ines is still rambling about the whole MorningWood Park deal.
"Goodbye, Ines. I have faith in you, even you don't have faith in me." Sele left with her backpack.
"Oh dear Sele, I'm not sure if either of us can do this on our own."
----
So the two gynoids went separate ways:
Ines ruled over Alderberry City. She did learn from her flaws. She learned from her friend Sele. Of course, a queen must do what a queen has to do, and she ruled with grace and dignity.
Sele ruled over Camp Bristlestone with the love of Mother Nature. She cared for each and every resident there and made sure they were kept healthy and happy.
But these two, and their citizens need each other more than they think.
== Chapter 1: Soirée==
[Time: Modern Bristlestone, 307X]
[Location: West side of the Forest of Bristlestone]
Abby, a Ranger Unit mechanoid, was walking in the forest, looking for berries and mushrooms for tonight's dinner.
She passed by the polluted river when she noticed a bottle when a bright-green cap floating in the river.
She reached for the bottle and picked it up. There's a piece of paper inside.
"I wonder what this could be and where it came from. I'd better take this back to see what my dormmates think."
She dusted the bottle and placed it inside her empty basket headed to the camp base of Bristlestone.
----
[Location: Ground Floor of Cabin No. 1X, Camp of Bristlestone]
Abby opened the cabin door and entered the cabin.
The cabin was huge, several mechanoids of her same kind were playing board games while others were chatting and exchanging gossips.
"Oh, Abby! You're here!" A female mechanoid with cream blonde hair (Scarllet) came to her. "Have you brought anything for dinner!"
"No, can't spot anything. Neither fruits on tree nor mushrooms."
"Hey, what's that?" Another male mechanoid with orange hair (Jimmy) asked, pointing at a bottle inside her basket.
"I didn't really know, I saw this floating in the river on my way back here."
"That's interesting. Bruce, Alicia, come to see what Abby just brought!"
----Meanwhile...
[Location: 1st Floor of Cabin No. 1X]
"Bruce, the food supply is running low recently. I'm not sure the colony will survive this season." Alicia told Bruce, she looks worried.
"Don't worry, Alice. I'm sure Miss Zetta would know what to do. She's the manager of the camp, after all." Bruce reassured her.
There's some noise downstairs.
"Let's go down to see what's happening." Bruce suggested.
----"Scarllet, Jimmy, what's with all the noise here?" Alicia asked.
"Abby found a weird bottle in the forest!" Jimmy explained.
"There's a paper inside." Bruce pointed out.
"Like...a message in a bottle?" Abby wondered.
"Probably, I wonder what it was written inside." Scarllet said.
Abby opened the cap and took out the piece of paper.
It wrote:
 4120677265617465722074687265617420697320636f6d696e6720796f7572207761792c20626520617761726520436c616e206f662042726973746c6573746f6e65
"Dude, it's literally a bunch of numbers!" Jimmy gasped.
Scarllet realised what it wrote a while later, "This can't be right, it's a threat!".The message written is in hexadecimal numbers, which can be deciphered as: A greater threat is coming your way, be aware Clan of Bristlestone
"There's something on the back!" Abby added, "A very weird looking symbol, what does that mean?"
"You three, set the table in dining hall with the rest, since Kenzie and Aubrey are preparing dinner. While Bruce and I will go inform Miss Zetta about this." Alicia ordered.
She puts back the paper back to bottle and left the cabin with Bruce, who was holding a camping lantern.
"C'mon, let's go." Abby said.
They left the cabin and headed to the dining hall.
But what they didn't know was that things were about to get worse.
== Chapter 2: Nuit==
[Location: Zetta's Office, Base Camp of Bristlestone]
Bruce and Alicia knocked on the door of an office, a grey-haired mechanoid opened it.
"What seems to be the problem?" She asked.
"Miss Zetta, we found a note which has a threat written on it." Bruce explained.
"Our dormmate Abigail (Abby's real name) found it while she was on the west side of the forest" Alicia further added.
"Did she found it on the ground then?" Miss Zetta asked again.
"No, she found it on the river." Alicia replied.
Miss Zetta asked once again, she's quite skeptical about it. "That's kinda strange. You ain't made this up, are you?"
"No, Miss. we're dead serious!" Bruce convinced her.
"Then mind if I have a look?"
"Uh...sure."
<...>
"I'm not sure who's threatening our camp either, but nonetheless, this won't be good. Thanks for telling me about this, me and the camp staff will investigate this ASAWC (as soon as we can)."
Zetta closed the door.
"What are we going to do? This could be the end of our camp, and for now there's nothing we can do! How are we going to tell our dormmates and everyone in the camp?" Alicia was worried.
"Let's hope that Miss Zetta knows what's she's doing" Bruce said. "Let's hope for the best, not the worst."
----Meanwhile...
[Location: ???]
"How's the message delivered?" A black entity with red eyes spoke with a feminine voice.
"Yes, it was delivered quite nicely." a voice of a young girl replied.
She has the hair of the feathers of a raven, eyes with bright red crosses as her pupils, and she looks...like a human?
"Aren't they suspicious about it?" The black entity spoke again.
"By what I can tell, they aren't suspecting a thing."
"We need the next message prepared." It told her.
<...>
"Can I ask one more thing?"
"Yes, hurry up."
"For the past couple of decades, you've ordered us to do this over several other lands. You wouldn't think they'd be aware of our grand plan?"
"Nonsense! Are you questioning us? WE know what we're doing, and we've done this for years. If you ever doubt us again, forget about your second chance of being alive."
"Yes...yes, master. I'll go prepare the next message."
The girl leaves, walking in how you pretend you're walking a puppet.
Wait...did I say puppet?
Yes, there's weird strings connected to her body parts!
How strange...
----[Location: Outside Cabin No. 1X, Camp Bristlestone]
Abby, Jimmy and Scarllet had finished their dinner, and ready for bed.
Abby couldn't sleep, she went outside to look at the night sky. Ethan (a Testing Unit mechanoid, tamed) came and sit next to her.
Abby asked him, "If you got a threatening message but you have no idea what it means, what would you do?"
Ethan shredded out his metallic claws, {Rip it apart?}
Abby giggled, "I'd give it to another person to see if they know how to deal with it."
"Speaking of which, I wonder what Alicia and Bruce are doing."
----[Location: Evergreen Track]
Bruce and Alicia were on their way back to the cabin.
"Miss Zetta didn't say anything about who wrote the message? How is she going to crack the case? How are we going to tell Abby and the others?" Alicia told Bruce.
"We can just tell them what Miss Zetta said, for now, we have to head back home for a good night's sleep." Bruce said.
"Wouldn't it scare them?"
"They'd been living here for years already. I'm sure they'll handle for...whatever's coming for our colony."
== Chapter 3: Matin==
[Location: Living room of Cabin No. 1X, 307X]
Everyone in the cabin greets everyone in the morning.
"Breakfast should be ready in the dining hall." Alicia said.
"How's the meeting with Miss Zetta last night?" Jimmy asked.
"Well...she didn't said much, but she mentioned that she's going to investigate." Bruce replied.
"I see, did she know the person who wrote it then?" Abby asked.
"Neither." Alicia said.
"That must mean that person is VERY mysterious and SPOOKY!" Scarllet joked.
"Scarllet!" Everyone groaned. Scarllet's jokes aren't really funny.
----Meanwhile...
A meeting was held in the counsel office.
"Is everybody here, Val?" Zetta asked Valerie (another Testing Unit mechanoid, Zetta's personal assistant).
Valerie shoved the checklist on her face.
"Kyan's here, Ripley's here, Jack's here-Wait, where's Lydia?"
Valerie shrugged.
"Maybe it'll take her a while to arrive, after all, she lives in the edge of the forest." Jack speculated.
<...>
"Thank you all for coming today. I'm sorry to call this meeting on such short notice, but we do have a bit of an emergency." Zetta announced.
"So...why are we here anyway?" Ripley asked.
She explained the incident the day before.Go back to chapter 1 in case you forgot
"That's why I have to get advice from you guys."
Everyone in the meeting was discussing when Kyan interrupted them. "Miss Zetta, Miss Lydia Clayton is here!"
"Let her in."
Lydia arrives, she looked like she came back a long run. And she's holding a dirty-looking bottle.
"Miss Zetta, sorry for be late. I've found another message in a bottle."
== Chapter 4: Midi ==
"WHAT-" Everyone in the meeting gasped.
"Where did you find it this then?" Zetta asked.
"Found it inside a tree hollow, near the Border." Lydia replied. "And there's a message inside."
She opened its green cap and read the paper aloud. Not a bunch of numbers, but instead it wrote in inky black words:
"OUR ARMY IS READY, IS YOURS?"
"Signed with a weird symbol on the back." She added.
"Definitely the same person who wrote the first message!" Sean pointed out.
"Someone's planning to attack our colony, but we don't have an army for defend ourselves!" Jordan exclaimed. "Even if we do, it wouldn't be enough considering our very small population. What are we supposed to do?"
"Perhaps asking other colonies for help? Like our neighbouring colony Alderberry?" Connor suggested.
"Alderberry, don't you remember the legend of Sele and Ines? We're forbidden to cross each other's lands!" Lydia said.
"Unless some group sneak into the border and enter Alderberry." Evelyn suggested.
"Then who do you have in mind?" Jack, Kyan and Ripley asked.
"Perhaps the one who found the first bottle, and deciphered its code." Evelyn further explained. "Maybe he, or she, might have an idea of what's happening."
"That's kind of a great point."
"Yeah, I agree."
The counsel office is filled with noises.
Lydia asked, "Alright, any opposed opinions?"
Absolute silence, no one raised their hands.
"I guess we'll end this meeting now." Zetta announced, "Val, come with me, I know one girl who might be what we need."
== Chapter 5: Choix==
[Location: Cabin No. 1X, Camp Bristlestone]
"I shouldn't have picked up that bottle, if not, everything wouldn't be so tense right now." Abby confessed. 
"But you did the right choice! We won't have the chance to decode its message and the counsel wouldn't have been prepared so early!" Scarllet comforted her. "I just heard that they're bringing an army!" 
"Knock, knock!" 
Jimmy opened the door. It's Miss Zetta and Valerie. 
For everyone in the cabin, having the leader of the camp counsel right at your door is the most unexpected thing possible. 
Still, Jimmy greeted politely, "Good afternoon, Miss Zetta. What's the purpose for your arrival?" 
Zetta explained what happened in the meeting and- 
"So you're telling me I'm going on a secret mission to sneak into Alderberry, talk to its leader and convinced him to help us in a possible war?!" Abby spluttered. 
Val nodded, and everyone in the cabin (including Jimmy, Scarllet, Alicia, Bruce and Abby herself) gasped. 
"Doesn't it sound great, Abby? This would be a great opportunity explore outside of Bristlestone and you could get the chance enter the forbidden colony!" Josie said. 
"You're the first to find the bottle, you take a huge part in this!" Ryder agreed. 
"But I've never been on a giant expedition or anything! How am I supposed to do that?" Abby questioned. 
"We'll give her advice in her journey. We're pros (experts) in this!" Bruce and Alicia said. 
"We're joining you too!" Jimmy and Scarllet said. 
"The choice is yours now, Abigail." Miss Zetta said. "It's up to you." 
"Even my friends agreed in this, everyone's counting on me." Abby thought. "This is a very big decision." 
"I'll do it, guys." Abby finally accepted. "For our colony." 
Everyone cheered, Ethan even jumped in joy. 
== Chapter 6: Quête==
[Location: The Border, Between Bristlestone & Alderberry]
The Border, guarded by a metal fence, still remain unchanged after many centuries.
"You sure about this Abby?" Jimmy asked, "I'm not really confident about this to be honest."
"Kinda, I guess?" Abby replied, nervously.
"What are you guys waiting for?" Scarllet cried, "C'mon, time's not waiting for us!"
The trio, along with Ethan and two other Testing Unit Mechanoids, Ellie and Maya, arrived near a hole on the fence, Bruce, Alicia and Miss Zetta were already waiting for them.
"According to the plan, we'll have two day's time to go around and back of the city. Make sure not to reveal your identity to avoid being spotted." Bruce instructed.
"We'll have all the supplies we need when we reached there." Alicia added. "I've disabled the electricity supply on the fence, but it won't last long. Let's get in now."
"Abigail, don't let us down." Zetta reminded.
"Of course, Miss." Abigail promised.
Abby and her gang crawled through the hole and entered the land Alderberry successfully. They waved at Zetta before continuing their journey.
----[Location: Alderberry]
Abby has always imagined Alderberry to be a rather futuristic city, with technology around every corner and stuff like that.
But in reality, that doesn't seem to match her expectations.
Alderberry looks more like a ghost town than ever. There's no sign of walking mechanoids, and buildings look a bit rusty.
"We'd better split up to look for directions." Alicia suggested, looking at the map, "If you find anyone here, ask them where to find the leader of this colony."
Everyone agreed.
Soon, Abby and Ethan were left alone, standing near the fountain in the Town Square.
Ethan sniffed tracks on the cold, snowy floor, Abby decided to follow him.
They arrived at a building which is slightly taller than the others. It seemed to be locked, the doors were guarded with chains that were enclosed by a locket.
The sign above the doors said: ST. PAIGE'S SCHOOL.
The chains were rusted, though. Ethan scratched them a few times before it cracked and crumbled into pieces on the floor.
And he dashed into the abandoned school.
"Hey, wait up!" Abby shouted, chasing him.
== Chapter 7: S'échapper==
{WARNING: There will be mentions of major spoilers for Alderberry's history in this chapter, please proceed with caution}
[Location: Cedar County Energy and Research Facility]
Jimmy, Scarllet and Maya, on the other hand, are inside...a research lab.
Wow.
"Strange, that's the only building with the lights on." Scarllet pointed out.
There's a giant steel door in front door (just imagine the ones that lifts have).
Jimmy stared at a weird device (facial recognition scanner) next to the door. It sprayed white light on his face for a short moment.
And then...
"Intruder alert. Intruder alert."
Oh no.
Soon after that, a group of white mechanoids came with weapons like guns and tasers.
"We should better run!" Scarllet screamed.
----The next thing they knew it, they're on a dead end.
Maya hissed at the guards, {Stand back, or I'll bite you into pieces!}
"Now what?" Jimmy worried.
"psst!" A voice whispered, "Come here!"
It came from a room labelled "Janitors Closet", close to the spot they're being caught at.
"Let's get in!" Scarllet ordered.
They did it in the nick of time.
----"Thanks for saving us," Scarllet thanked her "saviours", "Who are you guys to be exact?"
And yes, there's two female mechanoids in the closet who looked as if they're in the same kind as the trio, except they're wearing white lab coats.
"Olivia Simmons and Lia Cooper, nice to meet you." One of them (Lia) introduced. "Are you three from Bristlestone?"
"Wait, how did you-"
"Those scout clothes you got, quite distinct among all the Units." Lia explained. "They told us to never trust the Ranger Unit."
<...>
"That's just a silly rule to keep us away from them." Lia joked, "I actually want to know more for them, including you guys."
So Lia and Scarllet have the typical "girl's talk".
"So...since we're like...enemies to each other, we did you still save us?" Jimmy wondered.
"Well, it's a long story..." Olivia explained, patting Maya on her head.
----Ever since the two rulers split their lands, Ines ruled Alderberry city with grace and dignity. But without Sele's help, she repeated her mistakes, over and over again.
Soon, she passed away, and no one was willing to take her position.
Because of this, everyone in Alderberry lived in dispair, until something changed their lives forever.
Near the grave she was buried, they found valuable treasures, from parts of a mobile devices to hefty chunks that can make a truck.
They used these parts for reusing and innovations. They even built a lab made out of them!
Everyone in Alderberry worked there to earn a living, but at a price to make another innocent species suffer.
----"Now can you tell the reason now?" Jimmy moaned.
"The Testing Units have been going crazy recently, and I think the bottles we found near the Border might be related to their unusual act. Perhaps you guys...might know more about this." Olivia explained.
"We don't know much about it either." Scarllet said. "Other than it threatening us to battle a war with us, and that's why we're here, to look for help."
"Then join us so that we can investigate it together, and win that war!" Jimmy encouraged.
"One more thing." Lia stopped him.
She then pointed at Maya.
"She's one of the Testing Units you set free, right?" Lia asked, "Maybe you guys can help us free the others too?" 
"Why, did you like make them suffer first?" Scarllet asked. 
"Some of us realised our mistakes when one of them escaped from White Ace and never came back." Lia explained. "The past is already the past, and we want to make changes." 
"Fine, let's work on this together." Jimmy said, "Now can we leave this place? It's too stuffy in here!" 
----"I wonder what Abby was doing in the meantime." Alicia wondered. "Her GPS tracker went vanished!"
"Bruce? What are you doing?"
"Calling for help, can't you see?" Bruce replied, leaning to his walkie-talkie.
<...>
"July might know where Abby is," He told her, "She's coming to help."
== Chapter 8: École==
{Warning: This chapter may include minor violence}
[Location: 1st Floor Hallway, St. Paige's School]
"This place gives me weird vibes," Abby said, walking in the hallway.
Ethan tilted his head a bit, {Why?}.
Considering there's skulls at every corner of the hallways and three of the lockers on her right corner were has a message written in red ink (dried blood): "BEWARE OF THE TEACHERS", added with several symbols that resembles the one she found in the message in a bottle, I kind of got her point.
"Why do I feel like there's someone following us?" Abby wondered.
She turned to her back, and indeed there's a shadow-looking figure at the end of the hallway.
And whoever that was has a pointy shiny thing as her left arm and monster-like claws on the other.
The only thing she can come up with for this situation:
Run.
----Abby has ran across the entire hallway, non-stop, all because of that...thing.
Also, she ran inside the grand hall and hide inside the prop basement (located under the stage) so that it won't find her.
Background accessories and costumes fill inside the room, though they're kinda dusty. Abby did a minor clean-up there when she found a bright pink package.
She unwrapped it, and there's a sword inside. It's shiny silver with a white jewel decorated on its handle.
She also looked around to see if there's any other sword props, but they're mostly made of cardboard.
"Maybe it would be useful if I want to fight that creature." She thought.
And then...
"CREEK!"
She peeked from the basement lid, and the hall door was opened
She had found her.
----And silly fight scenes shall ensue. (I don't know how to write them right :/)
Abby has absolutely no idea when it comes to fighting, all she did was flinging her sword like nuts.
The "thing" is also a robot, with blue-blackish hair, black tops and white jeans, cable wire like tail, black claw on her right and a sword-like structure on her left. She kinda looks a lot like Abby's kind, but a bit monochromic and...violent?
Abby was ready to fight back, but then the sword tip gets stuck to one of tiles and she got propelled so high she's a few inches(?) above the "creature's" head.
And she might have crashed on it. Ouch.
She got up from that accident, and noticed a tiny (and slightly crushed) chip on the back of its neck (it's still lying unconscious). She had a bit of a hard time getting the chip (it's very stuck to its neck!).
It looked a lot like the symbol she found in the message bottle, no wonder she found that familiar.
Small grunting noise can be heard from a several metres.
It's getting up.
Oh no.
== Chapter 9: Essaim ==
[Location: Cedar County Energy and Research Facility]
Olivia and Lia introduced Jimmy, Scarllet, and Maya to the Rebellion Gang, Josh, Nick, Thomas and Taylor.
"Are you girls sure that they can help us?" Nick asked, "I don't trust them."
"Of course," Lia convinced. "I'm the leader and I know what I'm doing."
"So you three got any plans?" Taylor wondered, staring at Jimmy and the two girls.
"Maybe...we should find a way to unlock those cell gates and let them run free?" Jimmy suggested.
"Not a bad point but this is gonna be tricky." Thomas explained, "We don't have the keys to those gates, and there's surveillance cameras all around the corridor!"
Just as the six were figuring out what to do, Maya pointed one of the cells at the end of the corridor. The gates were missing and there's no camera nearby.
"That was Iris's cell. She's the most dangerous one among the subjects here, and attempts escaped a few times. She often damages our properties." Lia explained.
And there's a key card left on the floor.
Well that was...plotly convenient.
----[Location: Iris's cell]
The team started out their plan B--Obtaining the key cards some staff left to get back to the original plan.
"We have to be careful, Dr Miles and his assistants usually come back to have a weekly check-up for her" Olivia warned after peeking a digital clock hanging on the wall.
Maya, on the other hand, was having a fun time unscrewing the tiny nuts and bolts on Iris's cage.
"No play time Maya, we should go now." Scarllet snapped at her. "I don't like being watched a purple-eyed monster for this long."
"Dr. Miles is coming, He's not far away" Taylor warned.
Five of them quickly scurried out of the cell, while Maya hides inside a narrow gap behind the cage.
----{Warning: Heavy violence and blood (oil) starting from here}
(Things will start from Maya's perspective for a while)
A blonde haired mechanoid, Dr. Miles walked inside the cell with his group of assistants (Cerla, Helen, Oksana, and Donovan). Cerla injected Iris with some medicine and Helen chained her neck to start the test. Iris started banging the metal cage, which didn't seem to work since it's electric-powered and stinged her hands.
How about Maya? Still distracted with unscrewing the bolts.
You see, Maya actually learnt that from her past experiences. She, Ethan and Ellie were trapped in these dog cages while being stuck in White Ace. And that helped them get free the cages and leave that research lab in disguise for good. Perhaps she's trying to use that method to free Iris too, I guess?
When she nudged herself further inside the gap,
"CLICK!"
"Snap!"
She broke the switch and broke the power supply to the electric cage. The cage shook and collapsed in a matter of seconds. Seeing that it's her chance, Iris jumped out of the broken cage and k*lled every staff she saw in the cell.
She yeeted Oksana out of the cell with a force field, made Helen banging her head repetitively on the wall with telekinesis, and smacked Cerla with Dr. Miles with her claw hands.
And now they're all de*d.
{Need a lift, cyan eye?} Iris asked Maya, who was hiding inside the broken cage pieces.
Maya didn't respond, scared of all that "damage" Iris made, but Iris picked her up anyway.
Later, loud noises could be heard outside. Several Testing Unit Mechanoids were fighting back the guards. I'm sure those five did all of that, and it seemed to have paid off.
{Let's do some more damage, shall we?} Iris asked Maya again.
This time, Maya nodded, {It's Maya, not Cyan, by the way.}
----Maya and Iris left the cell, the corridor was flooded with water and minor explosions could be seen from several offices in a distance.
"Maya! Where have you been all this time?" Scarllet ran to Maya, worried.
Both of Maya and Iris looked at each other and grinned.
"So you made a buddy, huh?"
Suddenly, rocks out of nowhere fell down on the floor.
"There's still some subjects on the 2nd floor, follow me!" Josh ordered.
"We're coming!" Lia answered.
----A small group of Testing Unit Mechanoids (Greg, Alexis, Noel, Jamie) raided the Technology Department to save their friend Tanner. Our Rebellion Gang (with Iris, Lauren, Jupiter, Tess, Tyler, and Cody) arrived, gather them, and led the outside the facility.
{Linnea and Adrian are still missing!} Cody reminded.
Speaking of those two, they held Donovan captive near Dr. Miles's office, who somehow survived when Iris attacked.
While that, Linnea accidentally put an open torch lighter with a stack of papers.
There's a fire now.
How chaotic.
Lauren and Alexis managed to find them and they all left the office.
Luckily they all survived, and the facility collapsed as soon as they left.
The survived test subjects couldn't believe that Olivia and her Rebellion Gang (excluding Jimmy, Scarllet and Maya) saved them, since they're all worked for Dr. Miles. But they didn't mind and hugged all of their saviours anyway.
"Donovan's coming with us," Nick suggested, "He's one of the guys responsible for..."
"Illegal testing and ruining the lives of our new friends, too be exact" Lia added.
"At least it's unethical." Thomas added again.
"C'mon, I did nothing wrong!" Donovan cried.
<...>
"We have to go back soon," Scarllet told Jimmy, "Bruce and Alicia are probably worried sick!"
"Mind if we join," Lia and Olivia asked.
Since the two have explained about their quest, Jimmy and Scarllet answered, "Sure!".
== Chapter 10: Amie ==
Now back to Abby's side of the story,
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