I was only a quarter of the way to the escape pods when the hallways shut down, steel walls sealing every entrance, exit, and door. I tried using my aura to break through the steel but it held firm, it was probably too thick for me to pierce. 

I sat there contemplating my options, (which were only two), and decided to take the best one, suicide. I formed an aura knife in my hand and opened a hole in my defenses, then just as I was about to cut my throat open I was tackled. I instantly got up into fighting form and looked at my attackers. There were 10 of them in this very cramped space, the part of the hall was only 5ft by 7ft. I generated another knife and they drew theirs.

They made the first move, two people rushed me and two others fired on me with pistols. Any bullets that hit me were reflected and I dispatched of the other two attackers with some moderate difficulty before rushing at the rest of the group.

However, by now my aura was very weak and holes started to form in my defense as bullets grazed me and caused bleeding. I threw my two knives to quickly dispatch two riffle men, before engaging in hand to hand with another who was quite proficient in it. Taking advantage of my speed and stature I slid under his legs and flipped onto his head but before I could snap his neck he threw his body backward and I hit the wall hard.

My entire back was now exposed to attack, and while the others had stopped firing they certainly didn't stop trying to kill me. I drop kicked the person I was on before rolling behind two and grabbing a knife that I stabbed into one and was going to stab the other had he not shot my side.

I dashed to the other side and stole another gun and fired back, I hit one in the arm and jumped into the air with a spin to stab one in the throat. With three left I was at a very clear disadvantage, but I was not going down without a fight. The three surrounded me and while dodged the first two, the final one put me in a chokehold against the wall. As I struggled to break free from the vice grip he had on me I saw a grenade get chucked at the both of us. I put the rest of my aura into my arms to break free and use the guy as a body shield.

It worked but then a flashbang was thrown and knocked me out cold.

---------------------------------------------(Sometime Later) (WARNING MATURE: Gore) ----------------------

I awoke in excruciating pain, I was squatting with my hands behind my back and a wooden board was between my arms. I also took note of my lack of clothes, coldness, and blindfold. Then all of a sudden, deafening music started playing and my ear started to bleed from the sudden sounds. After that, the room temperature dropped considerably and I was sure I had frostbite at this point. 

I felt my self get pulled up and dragged across the cold floor and put in an equally cold chair.

"So, why were you here and who sent you?" The man in front of me asked. I kept silent and kept my head down.

"I can only help you if you tell me who sent you and to do what" He deadpanned and I still didn't respond.

"Tch. If you want to play it like that, so can I" He creepily said and I heard him stand up and walk over to me.

Not a second later one of my hands was stabbed through and I bit my lip hard to prevent my cry of pain from escaping. He then proceeded to punch me clean across the face and I was sent flying into a wall, he then hoisted me up and started choking me and I struggled to do anything.

Just as I was about to pass out he dropped me to the floor before saying: "Not Yet Bitch."

He then grabbed me and put me into a dangling box, I could tell because of the swaying and shape of it. He then shook the box rapidly before stopping and starting randomly, all this was still going on with the cold and deafening sound.

After however many hours of torture of all different kinds such as; waterboarding and then turning up the cold, beating by a bat with barbed wire, starvation, stress positions, and some small sexual humiliation I was finally left alone for a minute or two before the door opened again. I couldn't stand at this point and just lay there, as I heard sounds of a struggle and then a kid's voice.

They took off my blindfold and in front of me was a child from the orphanage, Ren, I believe his name was. They turned up the heat and I could feel some motion returned to me, they then freed me of any shackle on me and then spoke: 

"Beat him to death, or you will be beaten to death." 

I showed hesitation for a full minute before they put a knife to my throat, then I started beating him over and over while tear flowed down my face. Make no mistake though, those tears were from the physical pain I suffered because I was punching hard bone using my messed up hand.

After a full two minutes of continuous beating, they stopped me and checked his vitals, they then dragged him out and threw me to the floor before leaving for god knows how long.

When I awoke again I wasn't cold, but I was hanging from my wrists which were bound by a chain connected to the ceiling. My vision was pretty bad but I could still make out all the blood smeared all over the room.

While hanging there helplessly I looked around for any means of suicide or escape, I found none but noticed that the blood-smeared everywhere looked like symbols of sorts. They looked familiar but I still wasn't sure where they were from, then it hit me, the stone tablet I saw in the lab a while back had similar symbols.

I took a look at my body and realized the same symbols were on my body, engraved like permanent tattoos with overwhelming precision. A few moments later I was lowered down to the ground and a heard a whirring noise.

Tubes filled with blue liquid and the items I saw before rose up next to me and then a Glass cage surrounded us. The liquid was then released and I could feel the coolness of it spreading throughout my senses, as breathing mask was forced on me as the blue liquid filled the entire tank.

Searing pain ripped through my body and a blinding red light started filling my vision, the next thing I could feel was being shocked, small jolts through the liquid. After that a bright flash of red before blacking out.

Hope you enjoyed this chapter, I know I had fun writing it despite all the time it took for me to get it the way I wanted. Ja ne!