There Be Dragons! (Tag: Mel, Japanese Scientists)

((Continued from "Services..."))

Time: The next morning
Location: In a small room

Melissa: The young teen didn't get much sleep during the night she was trapped in another this time an unbreakable cage leaving her even more angry. " You assholes better let me out of here unless you want me to get out on my own!" Mel yelled at the Japanese giving them murderous glares banging on the bars of the cage. Once she got out either way these people were so dead however she was just bluffing she couldn't get out on her own.


J-Scientists: most of the noise was blocked out, and her yellings muffled, the men barely paid her any heed except on occasion to take a good close look at the craftsmanship of the bionic parts the girl sported. And of course watch amused as the child rages impotently.


Melissa: Mel growled at them getting even more worked up didn't help she hadn't eaten in a couple days or so. " All adults are the same they're just abusive assholes!" She yelled wondering why she was even a human in the first place they treated her like she was some sort of animal only worse.


J-Scientists: "oooh think we heard something that time!" Hiroto grins, it was the girls fault she had not eaten around them, they slid food into the specially made hatches. "Adult and awesomeness yeah that's what I heard" Shin agrees bro firing the third scientist and still amused by The child.


Melissa: "I'm not a fucking animal or some damn experiment! You guys deserve to be killed for treating people like this and that includes giant turtles!" She screeched at them hating her own species more and more with each passing minute. The young teen would be better off if she was a mutant at least then she would be stronger and had more of a reason to avoid her own race.
Karai: At least it sounded as though Baxter was coming. He certainly better. Otherwise he would regret it. Putting her phone away, her attention shifted to Leonardo, her pale skin smeared with Phoenix' blood. "We need blood..." She told him. "Victoria managed to find her way down here and.... it is not good...."


J-Scientists: Daichi snorts chuckling and makes a so what sort of shrug to Mel, "whatever child." he says coldly resuming his own project of reading through that interns work. They had emptier her closet of an office and where currently going through it all. Not a lot most of her work stashed on the little laptop... Shin and Hiroto resume playing their mahjong game -


Melissa: "Why don't you mutate me then?! Then you get to have more fun with me!" She yelled out sarcastically they weren't men they were nothing more but wastes of space.


J-Scientists: totally engrossed in their game Shin and Hiroto ignore Mel completely, Daichi glances up mid efforts to break into the girls encrypted files and then shrugs glancing back down to try some more.


Melissa: "You know I really need to use the restroom!" Mel said not wanting to use the cage as a bathroom and there were men in the room.


J-Scientists: Daichi does not look up this time have cracked the interns encryptions and opening the few files here shared from another source. Shin grabs a spittoon and shoves it through the hatching. "go for it." he answers shortly.


Melissa: "Oh no not with you assholes in here! Get out!" She yelled at them feeling beyond like an animal at this point but damn it she needed privacy.


J-Scientists: all shrug and turn their backs but that was the most they were willing to budge all engrossed in their own things for them moment. Daichi getting excited as he found more and more secret hidden things this girl hid on the computer... Though he doubted she did here biology knowledge was greater, but her tech savvynes... But he was learning whom helped her... And excitement was growing -


Melissa: Mel growled in humilation as she was forced to use a spittoon to do her business but what was worse she had no privacy to do it either. Then she smirked evilly as she pushed the full thing out on the tray tipping it over spilling it all over the closet floor.


J-Scientists: Daichi sighs, meh! He takes the laptop with him and balances it as he finds a wall phone to order a janitor in to clean up the mess whilst Shin and Hiroto shift their game else where. Daichi interrupts this by placing the laptop down between them show them the few pictures..l not great quality but what they could make out of the beast... As a surely cleaner came in to handle the mess the three jap men crowded the little pink shelled laptop jabbering excitedly and animatedly amongst themselves...


Melissa: "I dare you to experiment on me seeing as you don't care about Stockman anyway! All you care about is torturing anyone that you get your hands on!" She yelled as she kicked the cage bars.


J-Scientists: so excited they did not hear Mel at all still ridiculously squished side by side pointing at the screen trying to determine the gators size alone by the few grainy dark images, what they guessed was that taken by net cams.


Melissa: "Oh did you guys find out that porn exists?!" Mel asked them wondering if they were beyond starved for sex.


J-Scientists: Daichi beams, the cleaner was leaving and the room clean once more, he grins at Mel and points, "no porn, something better... much better..." he grins and resumes the chattering with his fellow japs in loud chattering


Melissa: "What another mutant? You know if you made me into one then you would have a huge breakthrough or whatever." Mel said sarcastically.


J-Scientists: "yes!" was an answer from Shin the three still discussing this, still excited it was like an actual dragon had been discovered!!


Melissa: "I was being sarcastic. Look I will make you a deal if you leave that mutant alone I will let you mutate me or do whatever experiments you want on me." Mel said being serious not yelling at them hoping she could at least keep one mutant free.


J-Scientists: "no no, dragon beast must be caught..." Shin grins so excited! Wait til they called BS with this hunt! A predator! Of course they had no idea he was already aware of the gators existence. Daichi nods, "later must read rest of girls work and place out best bits to give Baxter... Some of it, keep rest to selves." they share grins and ignore the child cyborg... Mostly


Melissa: "Please I beg you to leave the mutant alone and do what you want to me." Mel begged them.

"no." Daichi says very coldly finally walking back and forth and rubbing his chin thoughtfully, capturing such a beast, keeping him, a living dragon... almost save the fire breathing and lack of wings the giant smart gator was the closest thing to a living dragon.

There was no living female gators to breed him with.

And any attempt to bred such a beast with the female turtle would need the girl intern on hand.

Maybe cloning the creature would be best -

"must call BS, meet him... Away from here Baxter need not know about this, and keep an eye on that those females... Our turtle and the intern." but Daichi was careful to say whatever else about the girls and the turtles and the fact Baxter would most likely butcher one of those males before any sort of impregnating could happen, and with all the constant interruptions of the man going into the tank room it was unlikely in any case...

The three men now were debating, scheming...

Alyss had been wandering the halls seemingly aimlessly, peeking about trying to figure out what room Mel could be in. She decided to skip the tank room for now, she was positive that there were still people there, and she wasn't quite in the mood for an audience. Besides, they'd probably brought Mel elsewhere due to annoyance.

She finally stopped at a door where she could hear the sounds of voices. She slowly and quietly peeked in. She noticed the scientists first. She almost turned away when she noticed the cage - Mel!

"Knock Knock~" she said, grinning, rapping her small fist on the door.

" Aly what are you doing here?" Mel asked the girl grabbing onto the cage bars unable to get out of the cage. Why was that girl here the teen thought Aly hated her for some reason. Was she finally listening to reason but that was probably a pipe dream.

The knocking made three men look around and -

There in the doorway that other cyborg kid - that did not seem as unstable as the Mel.

Hiroto leaves his comrades and moves towards the door way opening it it and eyeing the younger girl. "What? what do you want lil cyborg?" Perhaps just here to visit her friend? huh well he supposed he and Daichi and Shin could accommodate that.

For a little while.

Alysson stepped in the room slowly. Closing her eyes, she planned her words carefully.


Deep breath...

"Um...excuse me sirs!" she chirped, her voice as innocent as possible. "May I pretty please have a moment alone with Mel? I'd like to eh...have a word with her." She paused a short moment. "I have permission from Mister Stockman!"

Breathe out...

" Aly those creeps don't care they're more interested by what's on the monitor." Mel told her knowing the scientists wouldn't leave the room instead focusing all on the new mutant.

" But why do you want to talk to me?" She asked her still curious about that.

"And bad luck for you Mel, we can take this monitor out of the room." Hiroto grins darkly at her, before glowering at the little blonde Alyss.

"You can speak to her, but you wish to do more it will not be in here, I believe there is explosive test spaces where you can play with your cyborg pieces if that is what you wish to do in a trail by combat with this Mel. We wont let her out here, no sense letting her escape and having her once again make herself a nuisance." The man says fairly watching the youngest Cyborg curiously, was that what she wanted?

A talk in this room sure, but for more the girls needed a more sturdy place.

Alyss sighed, tilting her head and placing her hand on her cheek. It wasn't a bad offer. Besides, it was difficult trying to conceal her true intentions. They'd find out eventually, what with a corpse and all.

"Kay~" she responded, glancing in Mel's direction. "That's fine, fine. It'd be more fun that way."

" Fun? Aly do you see what's happening right in front of you? Did you forget what has happened to us and how ended up as a cyborgs?" Mel questioned Aly no one was this naive especially if she had lived on the streets. Aly was either really insane or didn't live the life she said she did.

"Hush Cyborg yous can have a blast in a moment." Daichi smirks gathering up his phone.

Hiroto moves of to retrieve a trolley jack to drag along Mel's cage and once he had it comes back to prop up her box turning it around so he could just pull it behind him.

Shin gathers up the little laptop.

They were ready Daichi nudges Alyss. "Come then child - you and your friend will have a blast in there." And with the laptop he could plug in and record the results to share with Baxter later, no doubt the man would enjoy watching his creations at play.

The three men leave their quarters to the cleaner and take both to their temporary charges to the explosive testing rooms. Not much different to the tank room other then where takes were this had empty space aside room a specially designed blast shield bunker off to the left and everything was specially designed for sound proofing and explosive devices to be set off in here as testing. ensuring the door was looked and neither girl could exit now Daichi unlocks the cage leaving it to Mel to get out saying to Alyss. "Be a good sport and let her out before blasting away you have all this space to play in." Heading to the bunker and into locking it closed behind him and his brethern, all settling themselves for a good show - doubtless even with their enhancements both untrained girls would tire out before being able to really damage or hurt each other.

Alysson settled herself down on the floor and looked at Mel, her expression calmer now that the scientists had left the room. It was silent for a moment, before she decided to speak.

"It's not safe, you know. It's never safe," she said, titling her head to the side and sighing. "Remember that? I told you that. When we first met. You just told me I was being paranoid."

She stood up and walked closer to Mel.

"Let me think...which one of us had the brilliant idea of following Hun?" Alyss paused, as if she really were thinking about it. "And who tried to escape Mr. Stockman even though her new leg didn't know how to work properly? And yells and complains waaaaay too much?"

She paused a moment.

"Mel...you're so mean. You tell me I'm insane? I'm trying to survive. I'm trying to find a family! And you're ruining all of that for me. Thanks, Melissa."

" Escaping was a risk worth taking because Stockman doesn't really care about anyone but himself. He has that girl that had no choice but to help change us locked up now. He wants to hurt those giant turtles for no real reason even though they can talk and act human. Do you really think when this is all over that Stockman will treat like his own kid. Well let me spell it out for you he won't he can't be trusted nor will he start to treat you like actual family. He will just use you and then throw you away when he gets bored. He made us into cyborgs just because he could." Mel told Aly but she wasn't done yet.

" Is finding a family really worth giving up on your humanity and what made you you? At least before you had a shot getting a family now you don't. So before you sign your humanity away completely think about what it really means to find a family." The older girl warned the younger girl not caring if it was mean it was the truth.

"Mel............." Alyss pouted. Why did she ever think that Mel would actually listen to her? Mel was not her friend.

"How did I ever have a shot in the first place? I hid from everyone I crossed paths with. Except for you, and now we're both paying for it. If I never met you, none of this would have happened. You act like you're oh so smarter than me. Well, Mel, you're not. I can take care of myself. I don't need Mr. Stockman. If he isn't really my family.... she paused. "Well...whatever. I never had a real family to begin with. And...I lived on my own so I can do it again if I have to. Alyss isn't a baby. And I have NOT lost my humanity. Maybe YOU have, and that is why you are such a big fat jerk!"

Alyss clenched her fist, and the glowing blade formed.

" So you're gonna kill me that's it? When I tried to break in again to not only get you out but those turtles and that other girl as well? Aly think about it for a second what if it was fate that brought us together and put us both through hell in order to do something good. We can prove that we're not some worthless street kids and maybe find out where we belong. Ever since I lost everything when I was ten I didn't know where I belonged or that I could ever do anything right but now's my chance to change that. And it's you're chance too prove to the world that we belong on it and actually mean something." Mel told Aly looking at her not flinching at the glowing blade.

"Fate? That's what you call it now? Fine. Tell me your grand escape plan. I'm sure this one will work," she smirked, not lowering the blade.

"You know, I want to be your friend. I desperately do. But it just won't work out. It couldn't possibly work out. Honestly, I had hoped that you wouldn't come back. I hoped you'd go on to live your own life...a and that I wouldn't have to be a part of it anymore. But dumb Mel came back to this place! Why bother? You knew you weren't strong or stealthy enough to actually help the turtle people!"

She dropped to her knees, her artificial arm shaking. "Why, Mel? Why do you keep coming back? Why can't you just leave me be? I don't want to kill you...but I really do! I just want it all to go away...I want things to get better...but it never works...and Emily will n-never come back...no matter how hard I wish...but no matter how hard I wish you always do come back... And if it's f-fate...then...then...Ugh. J-just GO AWAY!"

" Because I went through things that were a lot worse than this and survived. I was abused and almost murdered and saw my own sister murdered where I couldn't do anything but I didn't give up. Just because I'm not strong doesn't mean I should just stop trying if I did I wouldn't have come back. If all I did was give up I wouldn't be here and you shouldn't give up either. Would this Emily want you to give up on everything because she's gone? All giving up does just proves to everyone else that you're life means nothing and you just let everything overpower you. While if you keep trying you would be surprised to find out what you can do." Mel explained not leaving why should she leave she wasn't going to give up even though she felt like giving up a little while ago. She was to stubborn to give up.

Snooooorrrrrrrrrrrrre -

Shin rolled his eyes as Hiroto faked a massive snore of boredom they were hoping the girls would balst ech other not just talk, and it looked for a few moments to be getting exciting, the cybornetic weaponry coming out! yeah - booooooooo

they were still talking.

Daichi rolled his eyes and took back the laptop to keep prying into the history and files telling his co workers and borthers to tell him if anything exciting started.

Alyss sniffed and brushed away the tears that had already begun forming in her eyes. Right now didn't feel like the right time to cry. This wasn't what she'd come here to do. Well...she'd come here to kill Mel, but she wasn't sure if that was still her reason anymore. For whatever reason, she couldn't bring herself to do it. She clenched her fist again, and the blade left.

"Who said anything about giving up? Believe it or not, heh, I'm just as stubborn as you. I'm just less annoying~" Alyss said, trying to smile again in the way she normally did when speaking to Mel. Not particularly cheerful, but not sinister either.

She was silent a moment, thinking. Thinking... Obviously they were being watched. She needed to watch her words. Though...Mr. Stockman was still away, and the Japanese scientists didn't seem to really care too much about that sort of thing. If they really were watching, they'd just be awaiting a fight. But there wasn't one. They'd eventually get bored...but there'd still be footage for Mr. Stockman to watch later...

She stood up and walked over to Mel. She reached up and whispered in her ear, "They're probably waiting for a fight. We're being watched, right? If we're really quiet, they won't be able to hear."

Okay...now what? She wasn't sure what side she was on. Part of her wanted to stay with Mr. Stockman, but another part had mild interest in helping Mel. Perhaps she wasn't on any side at all. Perhaps she had her own personal side. If what Mel had said was true, and that Mr. Stockman really didn't care about her...

" Those guys do want us to fight but I'm not giving them that satisfaction. Instead we should do something else like getting the prisoners out just need a good plan. With you being on those scientists good side you might be able to do something." Mel whispered back ready to show those scientists that they messed with the wrong girls.

"You don't really think I'm on their good side, do ya? Those guys don't seem to care 'bout anyone. And besides. I've been telling you... I don't think there's a way for us to save the turtles. Even if I decided to help you. You're too stubborn to realize these things. You don't pay attention, just rush into things. That was why we're here in the first place, isn't it~?"

She threw a quick glance around the room, trying to figure out where a camera could be hiding. "And anyways...there's really no way of doing anything if we're being watched."

The girls were not being very entertaining.

Buuuut they were also locked in this area meant for explosives tests.

So they could not cause trouble now - Baxter might be angry that the little one Alyss was locked in there but fuck at least the annoying one was with her and for the moment to two were both out of trouble and no annoying those in the tanks.

Though nothing productive was likely to happen among these products with constant annoyances of Baxter and his men in any case. The three were discussing the great beast gator, those in the tank just glancing to supervise the girls now and then.

Daichi was last to be in agreeance if they could get a tracer or something on one of the females - they no longer saw the red ones girl as human and not show their hands in a escape/ rescue...

Their usual man, Bonesteel would no doubt be eager to hunt the beasts again. Or if on an escape they could catch one of the girls to keep to draw one of the captured beasts back some time?

Well whatever they would have to be careful to NOT let Baxter know they were behinds it. Or more precisely his payer, Saki.