Author's Note:

I'm surprised you guys don't hate me yet, I keep forgetting to update and worst of all school is about to start up for me again, but hopefully the boring atmosphere of school will awaken my muse again, it usually does.

I haven't had any ideas for my stories lately but hopefully once I get typing again I'll be inspired, so if this chapter sucks I apologize, I'm trying to reawaken my muse. This year will be my last year of high school which means I'll be leaving for college just as soon as I actually apply somewhere, I don't know what will happen but hopefully I'll be able to keep writing.

Enough of my ramblings I'll introduce the OCs as always and we'll get on with the story.

Gideon Procella (Human)-Kuro Rakka Shimo

James Mag Raibhaigh (Row-be) -MagRaibhaigh848

Dusk-EverythingAtOnce

Tsurugi Joan (Tsurugi is her last name) -Karenkook

On with the chapter!

(Warning, mild gore and possible language)

Everything hurt, with each weak beat of her heart a sharp pain cut through her small form, it felt as if her blood was on fire, her right side felt heavy yet hollow at the same time.

Fever burns through her nerves and her golden fur is matted against her sweaty skin, her chest slowly rises then falls with each labored breath, for once in her life she wished she was dead, or at least unconscious, because through all the pain she could hear it, the hum of a saw, or some device close to it.

Metal barely cracks her eyes open and winces as a sharp white light burns her pupils, "You're awake! Just in time too," oh great, Greed was still here, she weakly turns her head to the left, spotting his shadow shrouded form sitting back lazily in a chair, he or rather it was staring up at the ceiling as though there was something just out of sight only he could see.

"Your new arm is quiet lovely, and I believe it suits your name quiet well too," the man hums happily, proud of his new device, it had taken quite some time to get the size right but he was a fast worker.

Metal swallows thickly, tasting iron in her mouth, "W-what?" the chipette chokes out weakly a frown forming on her sweaty face, "Your new arm, I took the liberty of giving you a better one, the other was too weak," Greed states a slow wicked grin spreading across his distorted face as his eyes slide to a table opposite where the chipette lay.

She follows his gaze and regrets it, her vision seems to sway for a moment, and she can feel a headache pounding behind her eyes as she stares at her arm, HER ARM.

It lays in a fresh puddle of blood, it had been sawn off, and it laid at just the right angle so its former owner could clearly see the bone and tissue inside, her veins still oozing blood, her arm, her arm was gone, it was gone.

Panic sweeps through her followed by the urge to vomit, but her stomach was empty, and then came the worst part, she turned to look at where her arm used to be, she expected to see a bloody stump or a gaping wound, but instead she sees shiny metal, metal shaped in a crude copy of her real arm.

She trembles, gasping for breath as she takes in her new limb, following it all the way up to her shoulder, blood glistens around the port, and her skin is blotched black and blue, swollen from having to accommodate the heavy new limb, her whole right side felt eerily numb and it felt like it was throbbing, you know that sensation whenever you stub a toe or prick a finger? You feel your pulse right? The sensation of that was thumping in her entire body; it felt as if she were shaking.

"Y-you, my a-arm," Metal stammers, her pupils have shrunk until they looked like tiny pinpoints amongst an ocean of sharp blue, her breathing quickens as she practically pants, "Y-you…..you…..BASTARD!" the rodent bursts into flames, melting the straps holding her to the medical table.

The flames roar and crackle, reaching up towards the surgical light, Greed watches in sick fascination as the fire grows bigger and stronger, consuming the objects around it, sucking up the oxygen in the room until it felt like you were suffocating.

Greed simply stands there, staring into the flickering reds and oranges as if he were sitting at the edge of a camp fire, Metal stands within the vortex of flames, her fur flickers and dances with the fire, her eyes glowing red as she moves forward, raising her flesh arm she sends a fireball straight at the doctor.

It collides with him like it was shot out of a cannon sending him soaring into the far wall, a sickening crack followed by a wet thump echoes through the room, the flaming chipette storms forward intent on harming the man further, the windows in the doors explodes outward sending glass shards into the hall, smoke billows out as oxygen rushes in.

The other kids had heard the explosion and rush towards the hall, they could smell something burning, "Metal's defiantly this way!" James shouts as a massive heat wave washes over the teens, they flinch and raise their arms, trying to fend off the scorching heat, Gideon pushes ahead; coughing as the hall fills with black smoke.

"There's too much! We won't make it!" He shouts over the roar of the fire raging inside in the lab, "We have to! Metal's inside," Dusk yells as the building groans, "The ceiling isn't going to hold, we can't do anything now," James states squinting in pain as the heat burns through his fur.

Inside the room Metal looms over the twisted body of Greed, his entire chest was so burnt that she could see his bones peeking through, his neck was twisted at an odd angle as his eyes stared straight ahead; that wicked grin still plastered upon his face even in death, the sight is enough to shock Metal back to reality.

Her whole body suddenly seems to shut down, every last flame dies out as she collapses to her knees, she stares at the face of the monster, blood trickling down her new arm, seeping between the ports and sticking to the wires inside, the room was still blistering hot but it wasn't nearly as bad as before.

Jo and Dusk rush in first, followed closely by the boys, the small group stop in their tracks, taking in the damage of the room, Jo inches towards the kneeling chipette, "Metal?" she whispers reaching out a auburn furred paw, she rests it softly on her shoulder.

"Metal?" Jo gives her shoulder a soft shake making Metal's body jerk and a sharp cry of pain escapes her mouth, she doubles over clutching her right side, "M-my arm! My arm is gone!" she cries hunched over as pain throbs through her core.

The outburst frightens her new friends, James had wondered away from the group to investigate the room, he finds her arm, or what was left of it, he looks away quickly, his stomach churning, Jo and Dusk move to their fellow Chipette's side, trying to comfort her.

"He took it, he took it," Metal whimpers as Dusk holds her in her arms, sobs rack the golden chipette's body, Gideon inspects the body of Greed, his eyes lost in thought as he listens to Metal's ramblings.

"Why did he do it?" Jo whispers, staring at the shiny new appendage attached to her new friend, "We're nothing but subjects; experiments they can bend and twist into whatever damned toy they want," James spits, his paws coiled into fists at his sides.

Gideon straightens up, dusting coal off his hands, "We should get to somewhere safer, Metal needs to rest," he states gazing down upon the trembling rodent, "We can't move her, not when she's like this," Dusk argues, frightened by the chipette's firm grip on her dress.

"We either move her now or be found by those beasts, your choice," the human snaps, Dusk frowns and looks at Jo who nods softly, not wanting to move their injured friend either.

Gideon carefully lifts Metal up, it'd be easier for him to carry her anyways, he cradles her against his chest like an injured bird before following James out of the room, Jo and Dusk bring up the rear, both quietly trying to let everything sink in.

One of the doctor's was dead, they're not afraid to torture or take anything from them, and Metal's arm was only the beginning what other twisted games and gruesome acts were they devising?

How were they going to escape?

Bloody freaking short again T-T I'm sorry guys! I thought this would be a longer chapter for sure but my muse just up and died on me again, plus it's 2 a.m. and I should really get to bed.

I'll try to get another chapter up soon! I promise!

MM