Ghost-Ish Lazarus by Erik Schubach

Author:Erik Schubach [Schubach, Erik]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Erik Schubach
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10 – Lazarus

My existence was pain for so long I didn't know how much time had passed, but I slowly started to get used to the pain, and for a moment I thought I was still in the train wreck with that pipe impaling me. In a moment of panic, I could feel I was suspended upright. My mind reasoned that it was by some sort of wrist restraints and not a pipe.

And just like in the accident, the white-hot pain slowly turned into a thrumming background pain, like I was building up a tolerance to it. It must be something similar to my ability to never tire anymore. As my vision came back to me as I found it easier and easier to ignore the pain, a large Lazarus logo painted on a corrugated metal wall came into focus. I could hear voices around me stop as that annoying screaming woman finally stopped caterwauling, and was just gasping and whimpering instead. Just like me.

Oh, umm, never mind. Heh.

There were three men and a woman, all dressed in lab coats staring at me as I looked around to take in the heavily armed and armored Lazarus goons that were ringed around us, weapons leveled at me.

I could see cages behind them with various deformed and monstrous looking people wearing collars. One woman with a deformed parody of a scaled snake's head, sat in her cage staring at me with reptilian eyes, a forked tongue snicking out between two very long fangs to taste the air. All of the captives but her wore those big black cloaks to hide their deformed bodies, she... wore the same armor that the soldiers around us did. Were they... were they running experiments on their own people?

Snake girl saw my attention on her, and her lipless reptilian mouth smiled a cruel smile, or was it just that it was on her malformed serpent face? She opened her mouth a bit to show off her glistening fangs, dripping with what I could only assume was poison. Nope, no misinterpretation there, she was just an asshole. I rolled my eyes at her. Idiot was in a cage, she was no better off than me? And they were her own people, ha!

One of the lab coats said nervously to the others, “The collar stopped working.”

Another pointed a device at me and pressed a button, I glared at them, and another said, “Try cycling it.”

The first man pointed the remote at me and turned the collar off, and my clenched jaw relaxed as the burning pain that was just a buzz in the background stopped. Then I clenched my teeth again as he turned it back on. My arms and legs straining against the shackles that seemed magnetized to the upright metal table I was stuck to like a butterfly on a pin.

He was a nervous, panicky sort as he almost whined out, “It isn't working. How are we supposed to detain her until the Commander shows up?”

The woman in the lab coat narrowed her eyes a bit as she studied my eyes.

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