Human Experimentation: Redux: With the Trials, Comes Friendship

Story by Paul Rueger on SoFurry

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#4 of Human Experimentation: Redux

Fourth part, enjoy it kiddies!


Human Experimentation: Redux: With the Trials, Comes Friendship

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Chloe opened the door and pushed it in, as the hinges were only allowing inward movement; leading with the rifle's barrel she opened the door to a starch white room. Chloe walked in and three seconds later someone cried out, "Get 'em!"

Chloe's rifle was pulled out of her hands, and a body came out from behind her and held her in place. The one who took the rifle then took the butt of the gun and hit her in the stomach, knocking the wind out of her and making her fall to her knees, crying out in quiet silence.

One of her attackers saw this and said in a angry voice, "Won't cry out will you? We'll-". He then saw Chloe's face, and noticed the fact that she was the same as they, a hybrid, and a girl. "Stop! Let her go John."

John looked at the other hybrid, "Say what Isaac? Why the hell should I? It could be a trap!"

"John," Isaac calmly said, "Look at her, she's one of us. She can't be a Mackenzie worker." And at that Chloe shook her head in a yes manner to agree with Isaac.

John saw this and cried out defensively, "Then why does she have a gun?!"

Isaac looked at him again with slight contempt, "What did we do if we saw a Mackenzie person? Maybe-"

Isaac was cut off as Skaroth came in and attacked John. John was brought to the ground and Chloe was dropped as Johns hold came loose. Skaroth's hands were wrapped around John's neck and he was starting to lose air as Skaroth's grip tightened.

Isaac lifted the gun, "Please stop! We were about to let go of your friend, John there was being stupid. If you want me to shoot continue choking my friend." Isaac said with a firm voice even as his eyes showed worry, "I want to talk this over."

John continued to be choked and the words of Isaac rang in Skaroth's skull. Slowly, his grip began to loosen and John coughed and sputtered as his breath returned to him. "You want to talk, fine, but give me back mute. I won't allow her to be hurt, as me and Fiad have almost broken and without her we would have."

Isaac's ears picked up Fiad in the sentence, and he grinned madly. "So you're Skaroth then!"

Skaroth was taken aback and responded with a glare, "How do you know my name, wolf?"

Isaac glared as he was called wolf, "My name's Isaac thanks... and as for your name, we know someone who you've met before... a girl named Haiden?"

Skaroth's eyes lit up as he heard the name, "Really? Where is she, Isaac?"

Isaac held out his hand, "Come on, they're in a different part of this room. Also... this room's gotten a lot bigger."

Skaroth took Isaac's hand and got up, "Ok, we'll go with you. But I gotta get Fiad. He's outside in the hall... and he's not doing so hot. He's been clipped in the leg with a bullet."

Isaac nodded and looked at Chloe, "Dunno what your name is but here..." Isaac held out the rifle which Chloe gratefully took, "And I'm sorry about the hitting you with it. But I promise I'll make it up to you." He finished with a grin. And with that he went to help Skaroth in collecting the still hurt Fiad.

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15 minutes later the group consisting of John, Issac, Skaroth, Chloe, and a hurt Fiad traveled the large white room. Isaac had explained that the room had gotten bigger after Haiden had been woken up. All four walls had moved about 450 yards in each direction, and the roof moved from 10 feet to almost 30 feet tall. The room was now almost a half mile in both length and width making it a small auditorium of sorts.

When the room reached its current length Isaac and the rest had decided to camp out in one corner, where they found items such as two first aid kits, and four blankets. Greg, Amy, and Haiden weren't moving anywhere because Amy was falling into depression and Haiden was all confused. Greg being the chivalrous type had been appointed "Babysitter" and had been told to stay and watch the girls while John and Isaac explored.

"And we were almost doe till you guys happened to open that door." Isaac explained, "It's weird, because the walls themselves look the same. It's all uniform, then randomly you pop out of it.... Uhm, Skaroth what's her name?"

Skaroth looked over to Isaac and shrugged, the motion lifting Fiad upwards a teensy bit. "We don't know man, We were dropped into a maze like place and we ran. We found her after we were running away from the complex because it was... closing in the sense that it was getting to be a smaller space." Skaroth was using his hands to convey the story more, "Then we found a room that wasn't closing and we jumped in. There we woke her, and when we tried to talk to her she couldn't talk. So as far as I know she hasn't got a name."

"Damn, I've been freaking because we haven't found Amy's sister, Chloe. She's becoming a wreck because of it." Isaac said while looking at the ground, fists clenching and unclenching, "So help me god, right now Mackenzie, the company I thought to be all good is destroying people and I can't do anything about it!!"

Chloe watched Isaac and listened, her heart yearning to say that she was herself, but the augmentations preventing her from it. She was scratching her right arm with the left as the right still had the rifle, she then did something out of the ordinary, and tapped Isaac's shoulder.

Isaac turned around and looked at her happily, "Yes? Did you need something?"

Chloe opened her mouth, but nothing came out. She was going mad on the inside not being able to talk, and tell anyone what she had to day. Tears formed at the corner of her eyes and her eyes grew big.

Isaac saw all of this and inside was beginning to freak out wondering if he did anything wrong. Then Chloe leaned up and kissed him. Her tongue broke through his lips, and went inside his mouth. Her tongue started dancing along his, which started reacting by kissing her back.

And then like a schoolgirl Chloe broke off the kiss, blushed and looked at the ground. "Isaac looked at her and then heard words. "God, I hope he's not mad at me... I mean... I meant to tell him I'm Chloe but instead kiss him. How foolish am I?!"

Isaac looked at her, "Chloe, it's ok, you're not foolish. In fact it was cute."

Chloe looked at him wide-eyed, "Did he hear m thoughts?! I can't speak! How'd he know I thought he thought that I was foolish?!?"

Isaac shrugged, ""No clue, and I think you may be right about me hearing you because so far all I can think is, " That's fucking adorable.". How is it that I can anyhow though?"

Chloe then proceeded to faint.

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By the time Chloe had came to, again, the four males and her had reached the camp in the corner of the room. The room had become darker than it was when they had met up, by a large amount as it was now a dark, almost nighttime, shade in the room.

"What the fuck happened?" Chloe thought to herself, "I swear, I thought Isaac could hear my thoughts.... He couldn't actually have... Could he?"

Isaac was the first to notice her move and he smiled as he walked over, "Yeah I did, actually. How're you doing Chloe? You kind of fainted back there." He looked at everyone else who was sitting around on the blankets, "I told everyone who you are and I told them about what happened. So far it seems like no one but me can hear you though. I'm wondering why."

Chloe gasped and started to get dizzy, but Isaac held her up and gave her a bottle of water. "Here, we found these on our way back. There was also some MRE's that a few of the others have started to get into."

Chloe took the water and drank it down, happy to finally have something to drink in what seemed like forever. She then looked at Isaac, thinking about him. "Calm yourself down Chloe! Don't fall for Isaac... Don't fall for Isaac... Don't fall for-" She was cut off in her thinking as Isaac started to kiss her as deeply as he could.

When he broke off he smiled, "I'm sorry, but I think I've fallen for you Chloe." He grinned, "You're too cute NOT to fall for."

Chloe, was happy. She started crying and Isaac looked at her, "What's the matter Chloe?" he said in a protective tone, "I didn't do anything stupid did I?"

Chloe shook her head no, but continued crying. Inwardly she thought, "How can you love me? I look nothing like I did before! HELL , I can't even speak! You're just able to hear my thoughts through some weird non-explainable way. I don't see how you could've fallen for me!"

Isaac just started to grin, a shit-eating-grin, and hugged her, through the blanket and the fur. "So far it's been all the reasons since I've met you in this form. You've acted like a helpful person, both Fiad and Skaroth have said, and you seem to have this air of... Sensible righteousness? Besides, in this form you look like you did before, although more Tiger-like than before, you still look like you did, I should know, I was looking when we were still human." He let go of her and continued to talk before standing up and offering her his hand, "Come on, we gotta go talk to the rest of them, and even if you can't talk to them I can still " talk" to you, so you're still one of us. Ok?"

Chloe looked at his hand, and then to his face, seeing nothing but truth lying there in his eyes, so she believed him. Happily, and gratefully she took his hand, stood up with him, and walked over to the group, all while happily purring softly.

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As they got over there the looks on both Isaac's and Chloe's face was a given and everyone else smiled, happy for the two. "Hey Isaac, catch!" Greg semi-shouted, "New watches, somewhat like yours."

Isaac held his hand out and caught two watches strapped together, and looked at them. "Where'd you get these?" He asked Greg, "And these are the same model by the way."

Greg shrugged, but smiled. "There was a small package next to the water, and I opened it. When I looked inside there were eight watches, the same number as all of us combined, so I figured the... People running this hell-hole wanted us to have them." He gestured towards everyone else's left wrist, each carrying an identical watch, "With these we've got a time schedule and we've set up a Sleep/Watchmen chart."

He motioned toward Fiad and Skaroth, Him and Amy, and John and Haiden. "We've got it set up so that watchmen each have a partner to help them watch. Everyone else shall be sleeping while that set keeps an eye out for anything out of the ordinary." He then gestured toward Isaac and Chloe, "You two are the last watch. Oh and before you ask each watch is an hour and a half. It's 9 O'clock right now so me and Amy are going to watch first, while everyone gets some shut eye."

Isaac nodded at Greg's plan, "Sounds good Greg, but, I gotta get Chloe a bite before we doze off though, so where had the MRE's gotten placed?"

Greg pointed toward the neat stack of boxes, "That's them. All of em are cold pork though. And everyone else has eaten so we're good."

Isaac nodded and went and grabbed Chloe two of the MRE's which she happily ate, as well as downed the rest of her water.

Isaac was about to fall asleep when he remembered the amount of blankets, "Greg, what about the blankets? We only got four so what's the deal with that?"

Greg shrugged, "Simple, Fiad and Skaroth get a blanket each, John and Haiden share another, and you and Chloe share the last. Watch doesn't get any."

Isaac looked at Chloe and swallowed his spit, throat becoming dry, "O-oh... O-oh-kay..."

Chloe seemed to sense it and smiled, "What's the matter Isaac, getting hot and bothered by that idea?" She seemed to say with seductive thoughts, "Too much for you?"

Isaac's face became flushed, and he looked at her, "N-no!" His eyes regained normal composure and he grinned, "I just don't know if there's gonna be any space under the blanket for you!" He said while taking the blanket from Chloe, and running a short distance away.

Chloe followed and playfully fought with Isaac for the blanket, before kissing him and getting muzzle to muzzle with her on his chest and him staying comfortable underneath her. After they had fallen asleep, Greg shook his head then smiled, "Silly Isaac, you'll never change." Turning toward Amy he asked, "You ready to watch over these guys with me?"

Amy smiled and looked at her sister, "Yeah. It seems like with the problems we've faced so far, all this transformation and shit, made us all friends till the end. For that I'm happy."

Greg nodded, "Me too, Amy. Me too..."

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End of Chapter four!

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Extra note: To anyone who didn't understand.

When anything is Italic that means mind speech, When anything is bold it's got emphasis!