Nightshift 49: Animal Test Subjects Kennel
[warped in from here.]The minute Endrance stepped through the door, he felt the pit of his stomach drop. He recognized this place from one of the first nights he'd been there, and he had hoped never to wind up there again. "This place
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Leon bent down near one of the kennels, not close enough that anything inside would be able to get at him, hopefully, and made a face. "What is it? Some type of... monster kennel? Is this where they grow the things they release on the patients at night?" And had they all been normal animals at one point in time? That was just cruel, but he definitely wouldn't put it past him.
He remembered that dog creature thing they'd fought the night he and Kadaj had followed that radio clue. Had that ever been held here?
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This new area was wrong immediately, and after only a few steps the Rogue froze, eyes widening at the grotesque creatures in the cages along the walls. Haseo wasn't much of an animal lover or anything, but something like that surely would have made anyone normal feel ill, and if not that, uneasy for the fear of one of the things coming after them. At that point his anger hadn't exactly dissipated, but turned to something else inside him condensed by the disgust at discovering this room.
"This is sick," he said, and only then finally tore his eyes off the things to look at his friends instead. If suddenly the doors didn't go ( ... )
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They hadn't been led back to the room with the boulders, that much was certain.
He felt disoriented after going through the door, like he'd been running a moment ago and now his feet weren't moving as fast as they should have been, taking a few short steps to slow a momentum he didn't have in the first place. Once his feet and his balance were back under control, the Doctor glanced at Dean to make sure they had both ended up in the same place-they had.
The silence was gone here, replaced with scratching and growling, but the first thing he noticed were the cages.
They lined the walls, and there were animals inside. Or what used to be animals; the light of the Doctor's torch landed on one-maybe it had been a dog once, but it was difficult to tell. The teleportation had been amusing up until now, but this... This was serious. He may not have seen any of the rumored 'monsters' at night, but whoever had done this certainly fit the bill.
He took a few tentative steps towards the nearest cage, his face solemn.
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No boulders.
But there was a definite smell here. Dean sniffed and brought up his flashlight, peering past the Doctor. The light fell on a thing in a cage, and set it off - he got an impression of fangs and too long claws suddenly gripping the cage, the beast spitting and snarling as it rattled the bars and tried to get at them. Dean instinctively braced himself for a throwdown and then relaxed after a long couple of seconds. Looked like the freak in there couldn't get out ( ... )
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The creature he was studying was snarling and rattling the bars in an act of anger or fear, but the others in the room had varying reactions from lashing out to cowering to ignoring them entirely. It seemed unlikely that whoever had done this might have moved them elsewhere in order to conduct.....
"I'm sorry," he said quietly to the creature, though the words were meant for all of the creatures here. "I'm so sorry..."
He had a broad sense of what constituted 'life'-much broader than that of humans-but this was simply cruel. What could he do for them, though? Find a way to cure, reverse the mutations that had been inflicted on them? It was a thought, but that would take time he didn't have right now. If he'd only had the TARDIS, he could make sure this never happened to them in the first place ( ... )
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While Peter had been waiting for the impact of his feet meeting the soggy ground on the other side of the wall, he instead felt a particularly severe bout of that disorientation, and then he was suddenly back inside -- dripping wet, but inside. What had just--?
Even the walls triggered the teleportation, then. Peter shook his head to get the water off of his face and out of his hair (as much as possible, anyway), and then noted that his bag and shovel were down next to his feet. At least those had moved with him. Frowning, he picked them both up and then tried to squint through the darkness and figure out where they'd ended up.
As his dizziness cleared, he realized that he heard shifting, rustling, breathing. He paused, caught his own breath, and then rifled through his soaked pillowcase for his flashlight ( ... )
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-And since when was a wall considered a frigging portal? Never mind that there shouldn't have been any portals existing in the first place, but at least the doors had contained a kind of logic to them. So, what, was the institute simply divided up into borders and zones? Cross one and fall into another area?
Sam let out a breath. Well, at least he knew that your stuff went with you as long as you hopped through the same...entrance. Even if you chucked it through beforehand.
He bent down to pick up his flashlight. His fingers had just grasped the handle when he met a pair of glowing eyes and a snap of teeth.
He started. Holy-From the looks of it, Peter wasn't exactly expecting this sight, either ( ... )
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Kairi was such a sweet girl. Carter felt his momentary depression lifting and flying away under the attentions of such like-minded optimism. "A Dear John letter," he explained, "is a letter your girlfriend writes to you if you're away at a war and she wants to be in love with somebody else instead. I guess it's better than not telling you at all but it's still--
Hup! And the swirling sinking rising feeling came again and Carter found himself towing Kairi into a small dark closet that smelled of animals.
"That's no fair!" Carter commented loudly, dropping Kairi's hand and feeling very put out. "We didn't even go through a door that time!" Now where were they? The young sergeant flashed his light around the room, looking over a multitude of cages with growling, scratching noises coming from their darkened depths. Rats? Too big for rats...
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Her sad thoughts were momentarily stopped when that wave of nausea sank into her stomach once again, and she swallowed. Why were things being like this?
"Where are we now?" Kairi asked, her tone taking on a soft whining sound. This was making absolutely no sense! Her eyes gazed over the cages, jumping in surprise at the sound of the moving animals. What were they being kept here for?
"Oh god," she whispered, her face paling. They tortured animals as well? "This place is just so horrible ..."
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"Are they...I don't even think they're regular animals, not Earth ones." And it didn't seem right they should be locked up in here, they all sounded very miserable. Carter tugged at the cage door, going so far as to brace his foot against the rack. When it didn't give he fell back, exasperated, and waved one hand at the poor creatures.
"They outta be ashamed of themselves, locking up poor animals like this. When I bring back reinforcements this is gonna be the first place we stop," he declared firmly.
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She didn't want to look at them ... even though she knew they attacked them and she should take no pity, she couldn't help but feel bad thinking that these were once normal animals that were twisted and tortured until they were what they were now.
It just proved how horrible Landel's was.
She didn't want to be there very long. Shifting closer to Carter, Kairi frowned, grasping tightly onto the blade, rage filling her as she thought more about the animals. Her fingers tingled slightly, and she shook her hand, wanting it to go away. "I hope it will be that easy. Let's find the door before one of them escapes ..."
She could already see some broken cages, anyway. That certainly wasn't a good sign.
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