New Markets by Kevin Rau

Author:Kevin Rau [Rau, Kevin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Science Fiction
Publisher: Kevin Gerald Rau
Published: 2011-09-14T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 19 – Mutating

Rael’s Viewpoint

I woke up again. Same cell, it looked like a new table and new clamps under me.

A man stood just to my right – he was drawing blood from my right arm. He noticed my eyes and his bulged out. He turned and looked at a small table of equipment against the wall, and then stepped toward it.

Shit, oh hell no! I felt the odd jolt sensation I’ve had in fights before and discovered I stood next to the man, just as he grabbed the gun.

In slow motion he began lifting the gun. I slammed my right hand down on top of his. It made a crunching sound. He whimpered. Then I realized how hungry I was and bared my teeth.

In a heartbeat I was biting into his neck. I stumbled back a step and wiped blood off my chin with the back of my left hand. Frag me, shouldn't have done that.... I looked at the gate. My claws were pointy; they didn’t have a sharp edge to slice through something like metal with. A series of barbs rose through each of my forearms. They appeared to be a line of small shark fins made of the same material my claws were made of. Somehow I knew the front of each fin would be razor sharp.

I dropped the now-dead man and stepped over to the gate. At the thudding sound of the body, the guard ran back over this way. He stopped outside the gate, glanced at the man in the lab coat and back at me.

I couldn’t reach far enough through the gate to grab him. He pulled out his needler pistol again slowly. Black tentacles burst out from my trapezius muscles just to the right and left of my neck. Each had a single finger-like claw at the end.

He began firing the needler at full automatic at me. I didn't even have to think to move the tentacles; they reached through the bars and stabbed into the man's shoulders, and then yanked him toward me.

The needler made constant 'thwip' sounds as he continued firing into me. I bared my teeth, reached through the bars and grabbed his neck, then crushed it.

I felt slightly drowsy and sluggish, but it faded quickly this time. The sound of plastic hitting the floor occurred repeatedly as my body pushed out the needles.

I looked down at him and said, "Asshole."

I rammed my forearm against the bars. The mini fin blades easily cut through the thick metal. After doing that both high and low I had cleared a box shaped opening to step out of.

I quickly changed into the guard's clothing, though the shoes were too small and I couldn't wear them. The hallway had a row of cells made like the one I was in.

I walked down the row, looking into each room. There were supers lying in their shorts on tables in each one. The first few had drip bags, and then I saw the beautiful silver girl I'd seen on Saturday in the emergency room.

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