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Chilling in his apartment, Lee suddenly hears knocking by the front door. He turns off the tv, where he was watching the Merlin series and he gets up with a grunt. “Must be mail, as usual.” Lee whispers to himself as he walks to the door and opens it. He freezes at the sight of military men pointing their weapons at him. “What is-” Before he could even finish, a tranquillizer dart was fired at him, “oh...” Lee’s knees shook and he fell to the floor as the dizziness and the overwhelming feeling of sleep took him over. The last thing he sees is the military taking Lee into a truck and shouting loudly to move while Lee’s older brother shouts out for him.
To come back...
The memory floods in Lee’s mind as he opens his eyes. He looks all round and notices he is in metal cuffs, adorned with a soft grey metal texture with soft blue light shining. His clothing is changed into an all white hospital gown that at least also coverd his butt. He has bandages all over his head and neck which is maybe why he has migrains. At first Lee was confused about what might have happened, his eyes darting around the room to try and figure out what he might have missed. Only to realize he got kidnapped by the government for... no reason?? The memory of his brother calling for him in the distance and the distress made him groan and try sitting up, but his head felt like exploding. This is somewhat too much for him to handle. "Fuck fuck fuck!" He hisses as he wriggled his hand against the cuffs before letting his hand fall back to the side of him. Knowing it's useless. The memory of his brothers scream came flooding again, filming his mind with guilt and remorse. He couldnt even finish his series!
Before Lee could even have time to mourn, men in black military outfit enter his room, with one person wearing a labcoat. Hinting who he might be. I must know whats going on! “Where-” “Remain silent subject 23. Consequences accrue if you speak, struggle, fight back or even roll your eyes.” The scientist called monotonly as he took out a clipboard and wrote down something before motioning one of the guards to release him from the cuffs and grabbing him by the shoulder. Lee knows those guards are armed so he decides to go along with them to not end up somewhere worse then this.
They force him onto his feet and start to hastily walk out of his cell, each step the same by the others, only Lee's stepts were uneaven. They drag Lee through the halls with fast steps that he could barely catch up with. Glancing at the halls, on each side is at least one metal sliding door with a number beside it. Knowing now that his number is 23 they start to pass by at least 20 more cells. Noises are heard by every door they pass, some were hissing noises, others were screaming or screeching. Until they pass by one specific door that had deep breathing noises, thats when the air got colder as it sounded as if it was behind you. This gave him enough reason to not lose his eye in that door while they passed. Looking up, the environment is very lit up with warm air flowing around, a calm but still cold atmosphere was around tho be felt. Security cameras in every corner you turn and look. But also accasionale of scratches on the ceiling and walls, when looking closely there are also some human teeth on the side. Lee's mind races at all the pictures that could have caused this. What are they keeping here?
Lee snaps out of his thought when they stop in front of a large, secure door. Light blood traces are on the floor in front of it. It’s already a bad sign. Because in the next second he is pushed inside and the door locks behind him immediately. Lee is confused about what this has to do and looks around the room to find a way to know what is going on. The chills and the silence are unnerving, It’s like they all are just waiting for shit to go down. Lee inspects more and in front of him is a large glass wall with small holes all over them and one bigger to at least be able fit a fist through.
On the other side of the glass is also a door that is much more heavily sealed than by others, it has scratch marks and broken glass almost everywhere. Loud metal and robot noises are heard from the other side of the opposite door. Slowly the door slides up, revealing a gruesome creature with no eyes, sharp teeth, two muscular arms and two average sized arms. Big, strong legs that could kick anything in seconds. And his body is covered in hard, rock looking skin, colored in dark green that shines blue when hit by the light. But the only thing that isn’t protected by that hard shell is its lower belly and crotch. You can see nothing by the crotch (…yet.).
The only thing Lee was able to say was, “Well... shit.” The creature approaches the glass, calmly but in high alert and starts to sniff through the small holes of the glass wall that is separating them. The creature makes a low grunt and by that response the scientist talk through the camera, “Good, now put your arm through the hole of the glass wall. Let him sniff you.”
“What!? Are you nuts? Look at those teeth!” Lee yells hesitantly as he approaches the glass making the creature sense Lee’s presence and turns his head towards him. Lee flinches as it... stares at him? with no eyes? “There is a chance he might bite your head off if you keep on standing like that. Now do as we instructed you to and stick your arm out so he can sniff it.” The scientists demanded from the other side of the room behind a secure glass. “It still doesn’t convince me to put my hand through-” “Do you really want to risk your brother’s life? We can always take him instead.” they threatened Lee, making him freeze and look at the glass hole. He thinks for a brief second before. “My brother has no guts to pull this off. I have.” Lee chuckles, shaking his head and walks towards the hole in the glass and puts his hand through.
The creature’s towering form bends down and sniffs Lee’s wrist, which makes Lee confused as it like… has no nostrils. How does he- “AAH!” Lee yelps as his wrist suddenly gets bitten by creatures sharp teeth, drawing blood from his arm. “Let go!” Lee yells and suddenly he hears cheering from the scientist from the other lab making him feel angry. What do they think this is? Funny? Not painful??
Lee gets angry and tries to get his hand back but gets stopped by the creature’s normal sized hands. Lee huffs in anger and he harshly takes his hand back which the creature still holds on to. He takes the creature’s hand and bites it himself, making Lee hear gasps from the other rooms. Even the creature is taken aback at that sudden move. Now the creature is bleeding himself. But for some odd reason, its blood is black with a hint of rainbow glistering. “That’s what you get!” Lee hisses and immediately spit the blood from his mouth.
But Lee can’t think more when suddenly he gets tased from the back and Lee lets go of the creature’s arm as it retreats through the hole. Lee shakes violently and falls to the floor like . Soldiers come in and take Lee away, by grabbing his arms and dragging him away, while the doctors and scientists examine the creature’s wound. But the creature doesn’t allow the scientist to even look at the wound or try healing it. Instead the creature keeps on calling out for Lee, huffing and screeching as it banged all his four arms against the bulletproof glass, wanting to break it. Its as if calling him out which Lee cant make sense of as his head hangs low. The scientists kept trying to talk and distract the creature but all things are futile. It has made a decision.
Meanwhile, Lee is roughly thrown into his numbered cell, his hands catching him in time so he wouldnt hurt his head. He breathes heavily the shock of being bitten by such a beast and almost also being eaten by it hit him like a gut feeling, while also the side affect of the taser also hit his back like a burning scar. This could have been his end. He barely was able to move or think straight. With a loud sigh he slowly crawls towards the bed and gets on it, no mood to do it by walking as his muscles burned like if they were set on fire. His whole back feels like it’s burning and the wound is stinking, The bandages on his head doesnt make his brain feel any better either. It wasn’t a good feeling being here, now he knows how a bird feels like. No decisions is he allowed to do, he will always land back in a cell with food and water served. He can’t sleep, the burning sensation keeps stinging him like needles, but he is too tired to let his eyes stay open. He is just laying there, being awake and tired. After a while the door opens and one of the scientists, Paul, enters the room. He seems grumpy. “Do you know what you just did?”
Lee smirks, “I farted.” Paul immediately put on a disgusting look as he stepped back. “Oh my god, that’s disgusting. But no. You did something much worse.” He says sternly and takes a step away from him. “Oh, you mean him. Well, I just gave him payback.” Lee smiles and turns to the other side to face the wall, away from the prying look from the scientist. “He proposed to you.” the scientist explains with a harsh tone of voice. “He proposed to you so you could be its mate.”
Lee froze for a second before smiling weakly “Oh, how sad. Well I decline. I don’t want to marry a monster. Not while being stuck here.” Lee rolled his eyes but the scientist didn’t notice. “It’s an alien! And you can’t refuse, you already-” Before the scientist could even finish, the alarm went off. But it was a deep wine red color that the alarm blinked. Lee sees that the scientist is panicking and he sits up. “What is going on?” Lee asks, sitting up and looking around. But regardless, the scientist takes out his walkie talkie and starts to speak loudly. “Headquarters, this is Paul Hallon. Are you coping? What is going on? …… He got out!? …… head to the ships? But the research- Hello? Hello!?” Lee panics, so does the scientist and he runs out of the room. Lee runs after but the moment he reaches a loud robotic female voice is suddenly speaks the announcement and closes Lee’s cell door. “This is not a test drill, this is real. All the employee please head to the ships or activate your quarters safety protocol to keep you safe from all harms outside. Please head and escape safely.” Lee hisses as he bangs and punches the wall in anger“Hey! Let me out! Bastard!!” Lee cusses at the scientist who left him locked in his damn cell. He bangs at the door one more time before looking at his empty room with no windows, and no other furniture beside the hard bed and a chair. Lee then sees a small vent, but knowing this isn’t a movie he won’t be able to escape with it either, the vents are too small. All he can do now is hide under the bed and hope for whatever is going to disappear. He gets down on his knees and crawls under the bed seeing no dust particles or even a some crumbs. Did they deep clean this cell? But just as Lee was about to say something he suddenly hears a bang against his cell door making him coward under his bed so fast his heart skipped a beat. He coudn’t help but giggle nervously at how his blood is pumping so fast. “Damn. Just like in some horror movie, huh?” Lee chuckles and shakes his head, only to slowly realize he is talking to himself like some mental ill person “Dangit.” he curses himself. Suddenly loud screams and shouting is heard from outside the door and fast footsteps are heard. and then… silence. That’s a good sign- wait no. In horror movies, it means it’s not a good sign!.. right?
Slowly, Lee starts to calm himself down. His blood is still bumping till his head, try to find a way to escape but he can only imagine what is happening outside. He closes his eyes and keeps on laying under the bed. His eyelids start to grow heavy as all this grown too much to him to handle. The sleep overwhelms him so much its hard to even stay awake art the growing silence.
Some time goes by quickly and Lee wakes up to the noise of power turning off. He sees the room darkened and the red emergency lights turn on. A loud gas noise is heard and the door opens, allowing Lee to finally escape. His face lights up and he crawls out immediately, like a puppy seeing the entrance to the garden open. “Fuck yeah! What took you so long!?” He yells out happily and runs out with his bare feet touching the cold floor.
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Paul on the other hand was quite shocked. “What is he doing?” He questions as he looks at the security footage of the alien taking several cloth and blankets and putting them into a corner of its sell. The alien keeps checking if it’s comfortable and if it’s big enough for two. The other scientists whisper as an idea comes up “I think this is a nest. Like a mating nest.” All of the scientists who barely survived widened their eyes. “Does it mean that it can be controlled with the help of Lee Damin?” They all think for a while before the head chief takes its walkie talkie and speaks in. “Get Lee Damin. Immediately to the station without getting noticed by the monster. We need Lee alive.”
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Lee has found the exit of the lab, a large beautiful slide door, but the bad part is it can’t be opened. It’s completely shut without power and electricity to lift the ton heavy door. A loud sighs escapes his mouth as he looks at the map of the lab pinned on the wall behind a glass panel. He sees all the exits but some of them have to be with either meeting the lab workers or get killed by that monster. He doesn’t like neither of those. But one exit he is able to go. The garage, where also the power generator is placed in. Lee glance at it multiple times to memorize which paths to takebefore he starts to make is way there. The air around is cold, it seems the vents are also defected. The hallways are completely blacked out with only red emergency light turning on and off ever so slowly. The floor Lee is stepping on with his bare feet are smooth and yet again, freezing, thats why he doesnt like smooth stone floors.
As he continues to cautiously walk through the halls he suddenly steps on something wet. He looks down and sees he has stepped on blood next to a dead body. The bodies head and body is sliced in all kinds of bits, and the smell of the metal on the flowing blood makes him want to puke “Eww… ew ew ew ew.” Lee whispers in disgust as he jumps backwards. He sees a nurse’s office right next to the body and hops inside. He grabs some tissues that are on the counter and starts to wipe the blood off his foot. Lee still has that gross feeling on it even if he wipes the blood away, its disgusting ticklish sensation. He already hates this. First he gets kidnapped, second he gets bitten by a dinosaur or some shit, then he gets dazed and now he has to escape the rip off of the alien movie! “I can’t deal with this. I’m hungry, I’m thirsty. I want to go home, I want freedom. What do I get? A rip off of the alien movie.” Lee whines quietly as he sits on a chair and lays his head on the table in a dramatic way. “I wanna go home…” Lee whines one last time when he suddenly sees a bottle of water. He smiles excitedly, as he can already feel the dryness on his tongue and takes the bottle from the rest of the cups. As he opened it his nose sensed the strong aroma of whiskey. “Really?” Lee huffs and throws the bottle away in the trashcan in disappointment. “No wonder they all look like shit on a stick.” he grunts and gets up from where he is sitting. He notices a clean lab coat hanging on the hanger just waiting for it to be used. Lee takes breath in relief, finally something warm he can wear since how cold this place already started to get.
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The camera suddenly blinks as they detect Lee’s movements. “He is there!” Paul points at one of the camera footage where Lee is walking past, looking at each corner he passes by. The head chief immediately takes the radio and talks to his soldiers. “The target is at the hospital section 2B. I repeat. The target is at the hospital section 2B!” He then harshly puts back the radio and looks around the scientists. He notices one of the younger ones, Larry, staring at his tablet stressful. “S-Sir. We lost the signal to the Atokan.” Larry hesitantly says as he shows the tracker they put on the alien being shattered on the ground “God damnit!” Paul yells as he pushes the table harshly against the wall. Everyone flinches besides the head chief who rolls his eyes. “We still have the cameras.” He says like all this ain’t a bad thing at all. But everything is just getting worse. Paul wanted to say something but he knew arguing with the head chief was useless. “Alright. Everyone! Focus on where the Atokan is and Lee!” Paul yells as all the other scientists nod and now check all the security cameras to search for them, while .
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Lee hates the dark and ambitious silence. It’s so quiet... too quiet even. He keeps on walking with silent footsteps. Not wanting to step onto anything like glass shards or blood again. His breathing is much more calmer and controlled, and his eyes dart on anything that is moving. He knows that the emergency light will soon go out so the first thing he is looking for are flashlights, water and food. And probably a hiding place. “There must be a way to get the energy into the building system so I can leave this shit hole.” Lee whispers angrily as he looks around for a while, to his surprise he finds a flashlight hanging next to the key box. He breaths out in relief as he opens the small key box and retrieves the little flashlight hanging there and puts it in his lab coat. The bad thing is that these buildings are underground appearantly showing by the sing of no sight of any windows. It would be bad if he was stuck in Russia. Lee must know where he is and he needs to contact someone outside this lab to get him from this place. But a bunker that is deep underground with no service might be harder then it looks. So either way he has to escape by himself
Few minutes later…
“I’m lost! I’m dead, I’m dying. How could I be so stupid!? Where can I find one map- oh there it is.” Lee lights up and sees that the hospital receptionist has a flyers on next to the newspapers and takes it immediately. “How nice of them to leave it here.” He smiles, like he wasn’t dramatic two seconds ago. Whatever. He opens the map to the hospital and sees 5 floors and 2 basements. Trying to find the path way towards the garage looks more difficult that it looks but as he opens the map again more maps fall out that show all kinds of floors and rooms that are in this labratory hidden. Lee groans at the sight of the mess, like this he will never escape till tomorrow. “Shit..” Lee starts to pick up all the tiny maps to try and organasie them. But holding 5 different maps with difficult reading makes it all harder to eve
Suddenly, low footsteps are heard. With men whispering in deep voices. “Shit…” Lee whispers and hides behind the counter. The men have strong flashlights and are lighting up the place now and then where they point their guns at. The men whisper to one another. “Didn’t the head chief say 2B?” “Yes, now stop talking and look for him!” another whispers angrily, before loading up his gun. They start to search up the hospital rooms and while they do that, Lee is still trying to stop shifintg in the uncomfortable position as he tries to find another way to hide. Concentraing, Lee hears their boots screeching every now and then while their breathing is loud and deep. Their gear fumble against each other, they are walking with precision. He can feel the weight on him how the plan to escape is immpossible.
He tries to control his breathing again, and stops moving as much as possible. Before Lee can calm down fully, the soldiers’ radios suddenly turn up and the head chief speaks in. “He is under the counter, you stupid idiots!” This gives Lee enough reasons to panic and get up. He jumps over the counter and towards the exit of the stairs only to be hit hard on his neck by one of the soldiers.
“Argh!!” Lee grunts and collapses to the ground. The scientists all cheer up and the head chief speaks into the radio. “Great, now bring him here to the security room!” The chief yells and shuts the radio off. All the men cheer and throw their hands up. They are proud they have captured Lee… who is hurt on the goddamn floor! One of the soldiers walks up to him and lifts him up in his arms. “*Don’t worry man. We will get you back safely.*” He winks at him jokingly . Lee just rolls his eyes and gives an annoyed grunt as his head is fuzzy from the strong hit. Not being to make sense but knowing he is angry he blurs out some curses. “Fuck you…. you..”
They chuckle, finding his disorientation amusing to watch while he is hanging from a mans shoulder. A sudden gust of wind that smells like a deep mix of metal and iron hits their nostrils. Everyone freezes at the spot, none moving one muscle as the sound of heavy breathing is heard from the hallway behind them. Only one of them turns around and gives out a gasping noise, which makes everyone turn their heads as well. In front of them stood the alien heaving and breathing heavily, holding one of the other guards head that is detached from its body, its spine glistening by the light. Even without eyes, he is staring at them with anger and flare, growls in anger as it snarls and throws the head to the side making everyone flinch. “Oh shit!” Lee laughs as his vision slowly repairs and looks at the soldiers. “We are so dead man-” Lee laughs weakly only to feel them move at a sudden speed “RUN!” The soldier yells and charges towards the hospital exit with everyone joining full speed which gives the alien enough reason to go after them. Lee jumps down from the soldier and immediately starts running as well.
Some soldiers stop and start shooting at the charging alien, for it to slow down, which is not working as the alien’s thick armor protects him from it. Not even a scratch could damage the aliens armor. Only then did the soldiers realize this before turning for another command “Smoke bombs-” Before the soldier could finish, his head got bitten in seconds making everyone’s stomach twist in disgust. One of the soldiers had to look away for that and cover his mouth. Lee just stares at the corpse with widened eyes, knowing this could have been him, and this can be him right here, right now. Yet, still a but dizzy he points at the corpse with a drunk laughter “Has no one seen that bite? That bite was HUGE!” Lee shouts in fear and excitement, as blood is cursing through his system in speed making him slowly regain his composure. This causes the alien to pay attention to Lee and remember what he came in for. Him. He menacingly and cautiously approaches Lee, making him immediately drop his smile and he step back. “Fuuuuck.” Lee says nervously and takes several steps back. The alien steps closer, with each step it knows he is making Lee coward back. Lees breathing quickened and skipped every beat by every menacing step it took. In the background everyone is just yelling for him so run. Even his own instincts yell to turn and just run for his fricking life! His life is flashing before his eyes, all those memories, all those bad past he experienced. He doesnt want to die like some subject for anyone’s experiment. He doesnt want to die like some stupid side character he always was. But just at the moment he was about to yell, he notices the alien is… grinning?
It licks its sharp teeth with its long tongue on his mouth considering it possesses no lips. The alien looked huffed at the sight of him, small and frozen in place before stepping closer. Lees blood pumped faster as he backed away further breaking from the frozen moment until he couldnt. When the alien was about to grab him with one of his large hand, a smoke bomb is thrown between them and Lee took this opportunity to take off . This makes the alien roar in frustration and anger seeing Lee flee for his dear life. It grabs a chunk of the walls metal and throws it on the soldiers to try and finish them off.
With full speed, Lee runs through the corridors. Passing by rooms and even stepping on blood. Whatever, all he can think of is to run, survive and hope like damn much. In the distance, he can hear the soldiers scream, yell and shoot while the creature roars in anger and attacks whatever is going in its path.
After a while of running and the shouts become more distant Lee makes a sharp turn and hides inside the janitor closet which has a slide mechanical door giving him access immediately. The smell of high chemicals stings his nose very badly as he rushed inside which makes him shut his nose with his hand. He tries to endure it but he gives up as his eyes start to water “No, fuck this-” As Lee is about to open the door, the sudden noise of heavy footsteps walk past the cleaning closet making Lee freezes in his position. He hears the creature stop and sniff the air every now and then, as if to try and track him down. Lee realizes the bite on his wrist must be how the creature knows where he is, but other strong smells like chemicals or smoke bombs prevent him from knowing where he is. Lee realizes and he can’t help but smile. He knows how to hide from him.
Before Lee could really celebrate, he hears how the creature jumps up a wall and smells the vent above the door where he is hiding. Lee’s eyes widen as he looks at the vent that is right above him, fastened at the ceiling where the chemicals smell cant reach well. “Shit…” He whispers, as the door gets ripped open the next second. Lee backs away from the door frame only to be grabbed by his arms and harshly dragged out, as if he weighted nothing. “Oh, come on! Why me!?” Lee yells as he resists and tries to get free from its grip.
The alien doesn’t seem to care very much and just pulls him out completely after determining it is truly him after all. It growls and hisses at him. With this, he shows dominance. But Lee doesn’t get it (because he is probably an idiot) and groans “How many times will you threaten me until you will finally eat me!? It takes you so long!” Lee yells impatiently, making the alien flinch in surprise. “So? Are you gonna eat me?” Lee asks, annoyed as he crosses his arms. The grip on Lee’s shoulder and on his side tighten as the alien lifts him up and presses him against its rock hard chest. The alien huffs and shakes his head, saying those are not his intentions.
Lee is a bit taken aback by the fact the creature just shook his head for a no. Does he understand him? “You can understand me?” Lee asks to be sure he just saw what he saw was right. “Y..ye..ss…” the alien’s rough and almost unrecognizable voice makes Lee flinch.
But right now Lee has a feeling he just taught his toddler how to talk and Lee feels very proud. “Well, that’s good to know… I guess.” Lee feels so proud, but he shakes those feelings off and looks at him seriously, “So, if you are not going to eat me, what are you going to do then?” Lee asks seriously as he wants to know what the alien might say. He isn’t sure if the creature will answer, but it’s better to try it out.
The alien just huffs directly at Lee’s face before licking its sharp teeth. “We... a.re.. mea..nt... to...be...” the alien cracks and clicks as he looks at Lee, even if the alien has no eyes, it looks at him with such hunger that gives Lee goosebumps all over his stomach. It takes him a second before shouting “Totally not! I never agreed to this!” The alien on the other hand just chuckles huskily, blowing some wind out of its small nostrils, hitting Lee’s face once again making him yank his head back. The creature lifts one of its smaller arms and shows his bite wound he received from Lee. “But....yo..u.....d..id.”
This is it for so far, the next chapter will be posted as soon as i can.
