Chilling Revelation

Thames opened his eyes with a groan; he wasn't sure what had happened to him. All he knew was that he was hurt and in so much pain. Whatever they gave him to numb the pain wasn't working.

'Wait, who gave me what again?' Thames tried to think but his mind couldn't handle it.

A blanket of darkness wrapped around him as he was trying to stay awake forcing him back to sleep.

BANG

Thames jolted awake as he felt his head hit something hard. The pain had receded but he was exhausted.

He looked around but he couldn't see much, with the corners of his vision still clouded in darkness. He looked around and all he could see were the creatures he had seen outside his pod.

They huddled together, making strange and intelligible noises. Thames was pretty sure they were discussing something, probably him, he deduced, with the number of times they gestured towards him.

As he strained his ears to pick up on their conversation, the darkness in his eyes receded and he could finally see where he was clearly.

He looked around taking in the space he was in. Calling the hall large would be an understatement. It was massive, The ceiling was so far above him that it was practically the sky. It was also dark too, no light reaching it.

The only source of light were some crystals dotted around the walls, slightly above the height of the monitos the creaturs we're using. The crystas were all transparent looking but all the light they gave only flowed down for some reason Thames couldn't realize.

At the edge of his vision, he could see rows and rows of pillars. They continued from both ends of the wall behind him. Looking closer he saw that they weren't pillars. They looked more like trees.

They rose like skeletal giants from the ground, twisting in weird and unnatural ways that reminded Thames of vines. Dozens of pods hung from their metal branches and Thames could barely make out shapes in them. The shapes were moving in weird ways and twisted ways, indistinct, like trying to see figures in smoke. He looked closer, straining his neck to see what they were.

Then he realized it, his stomach turning in horror as he understood what those shapes were. They were people, others who where going through the same pain he went through just moments ago. He could see them more clearly now, their faces contorted in agony.

There were so many of them, hundreds of not thousands. The pillars went all the way up to the ceiling, most of them obscured from him by the darkness.

Thames wanted to scream, to throw up, to do anything to rid himself of the disgust he was feeling. But his body was tired. It wouldn't obey his commands so he just laid there, useless.

He did continue to try though, his efforts inadvertently caught the creatures attention. They looked at him and came closer into the full glare of the light, putting themselves on full display. They looked at Thames with their

insect-like eyes, all of the eyes a wierd shade of gree.

Their reached towards him with their 'hands'.

Their hands weren't hands at all. They were hardened into thick jointed claws—brown and chitinous, glinting in the crystal light with a metallic sheen.

Where there was supposed to be fingers, there were pincers, clicking with unsettling precision. The pincers we're large enough to wrap around Thames neck and snap it if they wanted to, but they didn't.

With weirdly nice dexterity, as if sensing Thames unease, they lifted him up from the gurney, his bindings loosing like they never existed. The creatures brought him closer to them and Thames could see more of their bodies.

They had more arms under their cloaks, each looking like they were from different species.

Thames wanted to scream as they lifted him but the creatures mouths opened and a gas released from their mouth, flowing through rows of tiny teeth, each row in a full circle.

The gas hit Thames, immediately calming him down. 'This has to be the drugs they gave me in the pod' Thames ruminated.

As they took him away from the metallic vines and their unwilling inhabitants. Thames tried to tell his body to move but like always, it didn't listen to him.

The creatures separated them, two of them carrying Thames away and the rest going back to monitoring their sick experiments.

The two looked at Thames very strongly has they moved him to another section of the Hall.

Thames looked into their eyes and shivered as he sensed 'glee?, what the f—'

The creatures looked at him, their body language radianting nothing but pure happiness.

' Why do they seem so cheerful' Thames wondered 'It clearly has something to do with me, because they clearly weren't like this after I came out of the pod, yes the pod and all the pain I felt, the feeling of fire-'

Thames tried to scream again but the creature at his left exhaled more of that gas, approximately four times what it's counterpart had released.

The higher dosage of gas completely cut off most of his major thinking faculties, he couldn't even continue his train of thought.

The creatures took Thames into another

side of the Hall, by the walls directly facing the mechanical trees and directly beside the lightless monitors. They lightly tapped on the wall 5 times in a strange rhythm.

The wall hummed in response, the mechanical sound resonating with the hums of the other machines in that hall, creating a discordant yet harmonious medley of music.

The wall opened up, revealing another room, this one having the same layout as the great hall but way smaller. It was still very large though. There were pods in this room but they were all non-functional and empty, hobbled together at the center of the room.

Circling almost around the room, was a large collection of weapons and armor, Guns, Swords, Spears, Daggers and the like.

The armors looked slick, like something out of a Sci-fi novel, they looked more like Small Mech Suits than actual armor. Some looked Bulky and Intimidating, Others were sleek and streamlined. Each of them packing power.

But the creatures just walked forward, ignoring most of them as they brought Thames to a Mach suit at the very end of the room. It looked like a mixture between the Bulky and Streamlined ones. It was colored white and black with patterns of Gold appearing on the Armor.

The creatures wasted no time, pressing buttons to open up the armor and stuffing Thames inside. They attached a breathing apparatus to Thames's mouth connected to the large cylinders they placed on the back of the Armor.

They then closed it up and went around outfitting the Suit with various weapons. Thames could not perceive his surroundings but he knew that the creatures were planning something.

After they were done outfitting the Suit with weapons, they used a crane that was clearly not their when they entered the room to place Thames in one of those Pods in the center of the Room.

These pods looked more metallic and less like the flesh-organism devouring pods in the main hall. The creatures moved towards the wall and pressed a few buttons.

Thames stood there in the pod', his body involuntary tensing in anticipation of more pain.

Rather than that, the floor opened under his Pod, sending it falling out of whatever building they had been in.