Breakout

"Urgh..." Bryony moaned as the both of them are greeted by bright lights. She recall flashbacks of how lights of similar brightness was used during her experiment. She tries to move, steering her head away from the lights, but to no avail, slimy clamps had been wrapped around her. "It's pointless you know," Draxas enters the room, the other slimes in the room made way for him, "Do you know how impressed I was when I heard you managed to not only find a host but to teach him the proper skills to survive... I am unfortunately disappointed however for your betrayal to our kind," Draxas moved and took a clear bottle seemingly made out of clear slime. In it, yellow acid hissed, seemingly interested in destroying someone, "and obviously there are consequences for it." He pours some of the acid onto her face. She screamed in pain, almost becoming muffled as part of her face turned into stone. At this point Hektor wakes up and is horrified by the sight that he had saw.

"What did you do to my mom?!?" Hektor yells at him. He tries to attack Draxas but he is laid down by the other slimes. "The reaction between acid and slime is so satisfying," He adds acid to a large slimy looking syringe as he continued, "You are a promising new child. Through the experiments done by them, I believe...You look very humanoid and bigger than most slimes of your age. Impressive. It is also the main reason why it sickens me," He moved towards Hektor who struggled to break away from their grasp, but to no avail, "would be a shame...if your limbs don't work anymore." He presses the needle of the syringe down hard on Hektor's right arm. Stone grew from his arm as it begins to react with the slime. He yells in pain. Bryony tries to see but couldn't, she has been partially blinded. Slimy tears drop from her face as Draxas makes an hysterical laughter. Laughter manically as he made gestures of his win. What could they do now?

Several floors below

Dwayne is pushed along as they head to the extraction chamber. He remembers the fond memories he had with his dead parents. The flooding of memories started to make him cry as they are pushed into what looks like a metal chamber. It resembled a wind tunnel except it is vertically structured. The razor sharp blades tore through the air like butter, causing strong winds to flow up. As he closed his eyes, he finds himself in an empty room. The place is dark and water is filled around his legs. Nearby he sees two people resembling his parents.

"Hello?" He walks up to them as they turned around. "You must had lost your life huh..." his father looks at him with a slight smug with a little hint of disappointment in his eyes, he had a rough look, seemingly still recovering from his injuries in the blast. His robes were all white with slightly long black hair and beard coming out of his face. Dwayne looked around, trying to get back to the present but all he ended up doing was flailing about on the water. He looks up to the sky. Seemingly seeing a slow motion video projected onto the sky of what was going on as he hears Shelly screaming in the background. His mom cancels out the noise with a wave of her arm. She looked like a ghost with her white robes and extremely long hair but still had a warm smile that he remembered, "Dwayne why do look so distraught?"

"I failed. I seem to be unable to anything by myself. I don't even have the strength to fight and yet I'm sort of the leader..." Dwayne sighed as his father and mother pats him on the shoulder. "Look, you are doing amazing well for someone your stature." His father compliments him, slightly smiling before returning to his sulky expression. "Look beyond the picture, there are no mistakes nor are there any impossibilities." She wave her hand to show bright sunlight seemingly crashing back down from the sky. The moody sky starting to clear, seemingly becoming happier with their brighter tone. "It all comes down to you." His father grabs Dwayne's arm, moving it as the sky becomes clearer. Dwayne was amazed, understanding what he needs to do, "Now go back. They should be expecting you." Dwayne looks towards them. He has a lot of questions, he may as well ask them now, "What did you guys do earlier on?"

"To be honest, we are not sure. As people who are more than ordinary, all we want to do is to give you a better life," Dwayne's father and mother looked at each other as his mother continued, "The only thing you need to do is to learn. There is no such thing as a failure. The only thing that are here to stay is the journey. You only have one life. Use it wisely." She said as Dwayne's father intervened, she stares at him, seemingly glaring at him for interrupting her, "we would always be there for you always." His wife, who had now stopped glaring at him smiled along with him as they vanished into the light.

Dwayne reawakens, regaining his vigor and stood up again. He could hear Shelly close by, yelling at him. And before he is pushed down, he started to laugh. Everyone in the room was confused. The slime dazed at the break of silence as he kicks the slime holding him. It tries to assimilate into him but he was quick on the draw. He tackled it with all the strength he had and managed to push it down into the blades. It's blood splatter all over the machine as the dazed slimes regained their composure. They quickly rushed him, yelling in a primitive manner, creating spears and arm cannons to kill him, but he dodges all of them. As this was going on, Kaminev breaks free from the slime's grasp. Punching it the face as it falls flat on the ground, knocking it out. He joins his the fight as several slimes are kicked into the machine. It was now the guard holding Shelly that was left. It was terrified by the odds and made a run for it. Shelly kicked it hard as it face plant into the slimy brick wall.

Kaminev made a thumbs up with Shelly smiling as Dwayne nods. They need to find their friends now. They quietly rushed up the steps, avoiding contact with other slimes with their blissful unawareness of their colleague's death and injuries. As they moved corridor to corridor. They spot a room with men guarding the place. It must be where they were held. "We need a plan." Shelly whispered as Dwayne jumps in. "Ok." He looks at Kaminev and directs him by pointing his fingers. Trying to tells him to stealthily take out one of the slimes. But his finger pointing was weird. Not necessarily looking like sign language and rather more of an insult. Kaminev shrugs his shoulders. Unsure as to what he was saying. Dwayne sighed, "Screw plans." He then moved out to take out one of the guards. Shelly tries to help him but it's strength was immense. The other slime tried to take them out, but Kaminev, who realized what Dwayne was trying to say now, tackled him, covering its mouth. The slime tried to assimilate into them, but they managed to find a small knife in their belts, stabbing them to death as they hear more muffled noises of pain. Taking up their spears, they stormed the room.

Draxas was still laughing hysterically when they arrived. "Dwayne, your back..." She whispered as she sees a new Dwayne. No longer would he be bullied further. His eyes was of determined rage and strong confidence despite his muscles sagging and sweat dripping down his face. Hektor, who was still dazed by the impact of the Syringe is pleasantly surprised to see Shelly. Her eyes were filled with bravery, not fearful of anything, despite her shrunken and sweaty self. Kaminev throws a spear at a slime, it's head slumps to the floor as Hektor's right arm is freed. He quickly used his strength to break off his now dead arm, reforming his arm quickly to the passive anger of Draxas, who tries to stare them down but to no response from them. "Impressive. But not good enough." Eight octopus-like tentacles shot out through its back, attempting to crush the trio. Dwayne and Shelly missed their shots with the tentacles grabbing their javelins and arms. Kaminev however manages to throw the javelin at Draxas, he tries to block it with his arms but the javelin pierce through. Striking through his chest. He tries to get up to his feet but the pain was too much. "Impressive Kaminev. You win this round. But you will never get away with this..." he shot out some slime and it slithered into the drains as he slumped onto the floor . Hektor, who had managed to free himself quickly assisted Dwayne and Shelly took out the other slimes. Slicing them in half with his shiny sharp blades as their two pieces crumble to the ground.

"What happened to you-" Dwayne looks at Bryony whose face is now just stone. "No time to explain. We need to go!" Hektor interrupted his speech as he breaks Bryony out of her clamps. They rushed up the stairs as loud noises are heard down nearby. "What is going on?" Hektor creates a telescope and is shocked, "We are too late..."