Original Stories Fan Fiction ❯ Aaramina ❯ Chapter Two ( Chapter 2 )

CHAPTER TWO

 

Deep beneath the town was a large underground laboratory. Many people with white coats were scattered about, surrounding a table in the middle of the lab. On the table laid a little girl, no older than eight years old. She was unconscious, and had many cables and tubes connected to various areas of her body; these tubes were connected to a gigantic container, which held a glowing red substance within. The lead scientist, also known as the “Superior” to the townspeople, was observing the progress of the other scientists. A man not in a lab coat approached him.

 

“Sir, there seems to be a disturbance topside,” the man whispered to him.

 

“The townsfolk again?” The head scientist groaned. “It will have to wait until after we're done with the injection sequence. We're too far into preparations to stop right now.”

 

“Of course, sir.”

 

The head scientist looked at a file he was holding. It carried details of the girl on the table.

 

NAME: Riana Mandel

SEX: Female

AGE: Eight (Earth Years)

PLANET OF ORIGIN: Earth (believed to be half-Imaltian)

 

The rest of the file carried other minor details and scientific details about her. One of the scientists approached the head scientist.

 

“Sir, we're ready to start the injection process.”

 

“Good, you may begin.”

 

The scientists started activating various switches, and the tubes connecting the girl to the container began to glow red as the substance snaked its way toward her. After that, suddenly, the container shook, and various alarms started going off. The red substance in the container started to go down at a slow but steady pace, and the building started to shake.

 

“We have a problem!” one of the scientists yelled. “The girl started absorbing the energy at an alarming rate! At this rate, there may be a backlash and the entire town might be destroyed!”

 

“Dammit,” snarled the head scientist. “Abort the injection sequence!”

 

“We can't, the controls aren't responding!”

 

Some of the scientists panicked and ran out of the laboratory. The leader, however, stayed put. His eyes narrowed as he watched the last of the Omega Energy drain out of the container. The girl herself began to glow red as well. He waited a moment, there was no explosion.

 

“Could it be...” he said to himself. The leader began to approach the girl cautiously. As he got closer, he could see the girl's eyes open. They had a violet hue to them.

 

“Can you hear me, Riana?”

 

She was silent for a moment, but then slowly replied “Yes.”

 

“How do you feel?”

 

Riana sat up on the table. “I feel...”

 

She looked at her hands. “I feel...”

 

“You feel...?” coaxed the leader.

 

Suddenly, a red tendril of energy appeared from Riana's body and sliced the leader in half lengthwise. Both halves of the scientist fell in opposite directions.

 

“I feel it... infinite anger...”

 

Moments earlier...

 

“Too easy,” Aaramina grinned. She had found her way inside the largest building in the town, which happened to be the town hall. But from the gunmen guarding the place, and the massive Omega Energy signal coming from the interior, Aaramina knew she was about to figure out everything behind the existence of the town and the behavior of its inhabitants.

 

“I'm close.”

 

Thus, she began her search. Meanwhile, outside the “Town Hall,” the Sheriff and his group appeared and found the gunmen who were previously guarding the place laying about the area, unconscious.

 

“Dammit, she's already inside. What on earth is she thinking, going back to the place she escaped from?”

 

“I don't think she's even from here,” said Narxon. “Didn't the 'Superior' or whatever he is say that there are other operations besides this one? She might have escaped from one of those.”

 

The Sheriff snorted, reminding Narxon of how much the Sheriff resembled a pig. “All the more reason you should have shot her. She may be trying to expose or even destroy everything we've earned. We can't allow that for the town's sake. For my sake. You will be dealt with as soon as she is dealt with.”

 

“Looking forward to it,” said Narxon, rolling his eyes. He was lead into the building, with the mob following them closely. Aaramina looked around the corner of the hallway and saw them entering through the front entrance.

“Guess they saw my handiwork,” said Aaramina. “And it seems they got that Narxon kid on a leash. Oh well, it's time I...”

 

At that moment, the building started to shake. Aaramina stopped dead, a surprised expression on her face. “That was... unexpected...” She then took off further into the building.

 

The Sheriff's group went into the building cautiously, but as soon as they turned a corner, they heard noises. They froze, and they all pointed their guns down the hallway. They saw it, a little girl. She was slowly walking towards them.

 

“It's one of them!” shouted one of the gunmen. Milliseconds later, there was a flash of red, and the man's head fell clean off and bounced on the floor.

 

There was an uproar. Everyone in the hallway fired the guns. Red tendrils of energy appeared from the girl's body, and they started cutting everything in sight. Narxon used this moment to slip away and run in the opposite direction. He ran as far as he could, not looking behind him. He finally found a deserted room to hide in. After using a few moments to catch his breath, he pulled a gun out of his pocket. He had made sure to grab it while the Sheriff had looked away in his apartment.

 

He checked his gun, it was an energy gun that had a clip powered up for a hundred shots. He didn't have any other clips. “If I go outside, they'll recognize me and shoot me on sight. If I stay in here, I'm no better than a cow sent off to be butchered.”

 

But then he remembered the woman was still here too. She didn't seem hostile to him when they met. Yet, she was the one who had got him into this mess.

 

“Ugh... Should I find her or not?” Narxon was having trouble coming to terms with it. After all, he didn't trust anyone. He had grown up that way. He was always quick to think that anyone he met was going to find a way to swindle him one way or another.

 

“Damn! I'm going to regret this, I know it.” He burst out of the room and started to go deeper into the building, praying for dear life that he would find her.

 

Moments later...

 

“This plan took a bad turn somewhere, but I don't remember where.”

Narxon found himself hiding in a very cramped closet. He had come face to face with a security robot that was guarding one of the hallways, which then proceeded to open fire on him. Narxon got away, but his arm was wounded. He had to tear off a piece of his shirt and wrap it around the wound. Didn't help the pain he felt, however. “Damn it, I can still hear that thing walking around out there. If only I could just make a feint to the northeast...”

 

He then heard some noises outside. He heard the robots energy beams go off, and then there was a crashing noise. Before he could crack the door open to see what had happened, the door was opened from the outside, and standing in the frame was Aaramina.

 

“Hi, uh.... Narxon, was it?” she said. “Funny place to hide.”

 

Narxon tried to say something but couldn't. Behind Aaramina was the guard robot. It laid in a heap, destroyed. Narxon didn't see any weapons on her.

 

“Need some help? You look wounded there,” she asked.

 

“Oh, no, I'm good. I got grazed by that robot's energy beams, but I'm alright, I guess.”

 

“Good. Then I guess we should be getting out of here soon, I've rigged this place with explosives.”

 

“Are they... time bombs?”

 

“Nah, they're activated by a remote. We don't have to rush our way out. But stay close to me, who knows what may appear here.”

 

Aaramina lead Narxon down the hallways. “So, um... what should I call you?” he asked after a while.

 

“The name's Aaramina, but friends usually call me just Aara for short,” she replied. “As I told you earlier, I'm a hunter, and places like these are what I hunt. Illegal Omega Energy labs.”

 

“But you feel like one of them... the ones who they put that Omega Energy in. But your 'aura' is stronger than the one's I've seen.”

 

“It's a long story, kid. And I don't believe now is the time for telling a long story. Stay vigilant for now, at least until we get out of here.”

 

“Of cours-” before Narxon could finish what he was saying, a single red tendril burst from beneath the them, stabbing Narxon in the chest. He fell to the ground, lifeless.

“Shit!” Aara cursed. But before she could react, more red tendrils burst from the floor and hacked Aara to pieces. From the hole in the ground floated Riana, suspended by an Omega Energy field surrounding her. She looked at the carnage she created.

 

“Useless, all of them. So easily killed. They have no right being on this planet,” she said.

“I wouldn't count my chickens before they hatched, girlie.”

 

Riana jumped, there was a flash of red, Aara's body parts had suddenly pieced themselves back together. Even her clothes looked good as new. “I must say, that's the first time in a very long time that someone has torn me to pieces.”

 

“You... you are...!” Riana stammered.

 

“Ah yes... indeed. You and I are the same,girlie.” said Aara. “In a way, that is. I've learned to control my powers and utilze them however I want. You, however, are just raging out of control.”

 

“My name is Riana, not girlie,” said Riana. “And I don't care if my powers are raging out of control. I must destroy everything. Everyone.”

 

“Yeah, yeah, whatever,” Aara waved it off. “Now, is that you or the Omega Energy talking? Sounds like it. Why did you have to kill poor Narxon, anyways? That's uncool.”

 

“Shut up! I don't want you standing there acting like you know what's going on!” Riana shouted. “This time I'll be sure to destroy you!”

 

Riana sent tendrils of energy flying towards Aara. Aara simply grinned, and actually caught the energy tendrils in her hands.

 

“Lookie what I've got,” Aara grinned maliciously. She brandished the tendril like a whip, and sent Riana flying down the hall. Before Riana could hit the wall on the opposite end, Aara had charged down the hallway at a lightning speed, punching her in the gut, sending her into the concrete wall so hard that it shattered.

 

Before Riana could recover, Aara quickly grabbed her by the head, and started repeatedly smashing her into a steel slab in the room she had crashed into.

 

“Too weak, Riana! Too weak! You think you can destroy the world with that kind of power? Pathetic! You are weak! Nothing more than Omega Energy in human form! A monster in a child's body!

 

Aara realized that Riana had become unconscious. “Meh, Omega Energy. That stuff is not meant for people to use.” She tossed Riana aside like a sack of potatoes. “Poor girl going through all that, she was probably kidnapped too. She's better off dead now.”

 

Aara turned around and walked back into the hallway, where the dead Narxon lay in a pool of blood. She looked at him for a moment. “I drug you into this... I'm sorry,” she said. “But, perhaps... yes.... perhaps... we can make things right.”

 

She picked up Narxon's body and slung it over her shoulder. Quietly, she left the building. Once outside, she enveloped herself in a red aura and started flying away from the town. As she flew, she used her free hand to pick a remote out of her pocket and pressed a button on it. The “town hall” instantly erupted in a tower of flames. She could hear the townsfolk react to it.

 

“It's high time I go see an old friend,” Aara said to herself.

 

END OF CHAPTER TWO

 

Note: Kinda late, but it's still Tuesday! Hopefully I can keep on updating on Tuesdays.