"The Escape"

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An old man in a white lab coat was walking down the halls of a lab, making his way to a metal, electronic door.

Taking out an identification card, the man held it out under the scanner and the door unlocked automatically, opening for the doctor.

He walked inside the room and made his way over to a cell that was built out of an indestructible metal to ensure the person locked inside wouldn't escape.

Standing in front of the cell, the man stared inside to see the figure of the project he and his colleagues had been working on for three years now.

"Guten Abend, Roter Tod (Good evening, Red Death)." The doctor greeted in German.

Groaning softly at being addressed, the figure on the floor slowly turned on her side, moving out of the shadows to reveal herself to the doctor.

Red Death, as she was called, was a young teenage girl who had long tangled raspberry colored hair, tanned skin and chocolate brown eyes.

She was dressed in a pair of black pants, black combat boots and a long sleeved black shirt.

Wrapped around her neck was a metal collar that had a red light on it that beeped in time with the girl's heart beat.

Nothing about the girl seemed threatening, but there was something odd about her.

There was a long cat tail that was covered in raspberry colored fur that poked out of a hole in her pants and she had a matching pair of cat ears on top of her head.

"Hallo, Dr. Weber (Hello, Dr. Weber)." The girl greeted back.

"You have been very quiet lately, Red Death. The scientists think you may be depressed." Dr. Weber commented.

The girl remained silent at that, simply staring at him with a blank face while her eyes were dark, hiding the rage that was boiling inside of her.

"Are you upset that the Asset is longer here with you?" The doctor asked.

Everyone at the facility knew that the two Assets had some kind of bond growing between them and they had taken advantage of this fact to manipulate them into doing whatever they wanted.

One day, though, the boss had decided that Red Death no longer needed the Asset around to teach her how to fight or use weapons since she had grown into a deadly weapon, one that was more powerful than he was, so they separated them.

It had caused Red Death distress since she didn't want the Asset to be taken away from her, but they didn't have any choice in the matter when they were both drugged and placed in their respective cells.

The next day when she woke up, the Asset was gone, taken away by the boss to a different country for a new mission, and she had become depressed after flying into a fit of rage which made everyone stay away from her for the time being.

Strangely, Red Death was silent at this moment and didn't seem to be as emotional as she had been a few days ago which made Weber curious as he peered down at the girl.

"I'm sorry, but that wasn't my fault. The boss needed him for an important mission. There was nothing that could be done to keep him here." Dr. Weber said.

"I understand." Red Death answered.

Nodding at that, Dr. Weber pulled out his security card and Red Death eyed it curiously, a plan forming in her mind as the scanner on the door beeped.

Once the door was unlocked, Weber opened it and walked inside of the cell, knowing that the second Asset was compliant and unable to attack while she had the electric shock collar around her neck.

"Stand up, Red Death. We have some tests we need to run on you." Weber said.

Nodding slowly, the feline creature stood up, keeping her eyes on the doctor as she did so.

Satisfied with this, Weber then turned and started walking out of the cell, signaling for the girl to follow him.

Doing as she was supposed to, Red Death followed after the doctor and her eyes roamed around the lab they walked into, watching as the other scientists pulled out medical equipment and needles.

"Hello, Dr. Weber. We're ready to begin whenever you are." A scientist with a Romanian accent said as he approached them.

"Good. Red Death, go sit down on the table and we will begin." Weber instructed.

Nodding, the girl walked over to the metal slab and sat down on it, watching as a female doctor made her way over to Red Death to take the collar off of her.

The collar would be in the way of their experiments and they had a drug to inject into the cat hybrid to cut off the use of her limbs so she didn't try anything.

Red Death stayed perfectly still as she allowed the female doctor to remove her collar, feeling more at ease with it gone.

"She's very calm today. I thought she would be agitated without the Asset here." A younger scientist commented.

"Stop worrying. She is perfectly compliant. She doesn't disobey commands. Now, let's begin the tests. We need to see if we will be able to replicate the DNA in her veins to create a new, more powerful serum. Viper wants news on the process by the end of the month." Weber said.

Grabbing a needle that was filled with a sedative, Weber stepped up to Red Death and prepared to inject her in the arm with the syringe.

Before he could, a small tanned hand was placed over his own, stopping him.

Confused by this, Weber turned his confused eyes onto Red Death to find her staring at him with a glare on her face.

Lips pulling back, she showed off her fangs while her corneas turned red in her rage.

Before Weber could alert everyone that the cat hybrid had lost control of her primal instincts, he found himself with a pair of fangs sinking into his throat, ripping through the flesh.

Screams filled the lab as the doctors ran around the room, some trying to run away to get help while others tried to find some type of weapon to subdue the Red Death.

Throwing the dead body of the doctor off of her, Red Death slid off of the slab and attacked the rest of the people in the room, memories of what they had done to her filling her mind and encouraging her to continue her rampage.

People screamed and blood splattered around the room, painting it red.

Once she had finished her massacre, Red Death looked around the lab at the dead bodies that littered the floor and growled as she started destroying everything around her.

Picking up a table, she threw it at the medical equipment before pushing the computers onto the floor, watching with grim satisfaction as they sparked and the screens cracked.

Picking up a chair, she used it to smash the computer, wanting to destroy all of the tools that had aided in her torture, releasing all of her pent up anger that had been kept at bay for years.

Roaring in rage, she threw the chair across the room and grabbed the vials of drugs and poisons that were on a shelf and smashed them, throwing them around the room.

While she was doing this, men in black uniforms holding guns raced into the lab, aiming their weapons at the dangerous creature.

"Freeze!" One of the men shouted.

Dropping a vial on the floor, watching it shatter, Red Death opened her mouth to reveal her blood stained fangs and roared before she tackled the man, ignoring the pain of the bullets that were shot into her body.

She had been put through worst pain than simply being shot and she wouldn't allow this to slow her down or prevent her from completing her revenge.

Twisting the man's head and hearing his neck snap, Red Death then attacked the rest of the men, using her claws to slash open throats and her tail wrapped around a man's leg, pulling him down onto the floor where she knocked him out.

Grabbing one of the guns from a dead body, she dodged the bullets fired at her and hid behind a turned over table where she then started shooting at each guard, aiming for their heads, knowing it would be an instant kill.

Soon enough, the guards were all dead and she grabbed a few more guns, tucking one into her chest bindings while one was shoved into the waist band of her pants.

Checking the bodies over for any more weapons and to make sure they were dead, she was curious to find one of them had a lighter and a pack of cigarettes tucked into his vest pocket.

Glancing over the destruction and the spilled chemicals on the floor, she decided what her next move would be.

Flicking the lighter on, she then tossed it onto the floor where a puddle of chemicals was spilled and flames ignited instantly.

Getting up, she raced off out of the lab, quickly searching for a way out of the building before the fire engulfed it entirely.

As a few agents tried to approach her out in the hall, she shot them down and raced by their bodies, not bothering with any who pulled out their communicators to warn the other scientists and agents in the building that the cat hybrid has escaped and was on a rampage.

Continuing on her way, the cat hybrid found a vent and decided to sneak out of the facility through them, knowing that they wouldn't be able to track her that way.

Jumping up to the ceiling, she clung to the ends of the vent and ripped off the grate to open it before she swung her body inside of it, then began crawling through the narrow area to escape.

She heard the voices of people shouting, giving out orders to evacuate the building, salvage whatever work they could and to find Red Death before she got too far away from them.

Nose twitching, the cat hybrid smelt what she was sure was pine and continued crawling off in the direction of it, knowing it would lead her outside and to her freedom at last.

Reaching the end of the vent, Red Death punched the grate off and then climbed out, falling into the wet ground below.

She noticed that it was raining and knew that this would work to her advantage.

The rain would wash away her footsteps and would hide her scent from any dogs the facility decided to use to track her down.

Pushing herself up, the girl ran off into the thick forest and knew she had to continue to run or else her captors would find her and drag her back to their labs to torture her.

She refused to be their science experiment and would never allow them to mold her into their ultimate weapon.

If she had to, she would travel across the nation and run to the ends of the Earth as long as she was never found by those monsters.

To be continued...