Escapes, Rescues, and Choices to be Made (pt. 5)

We've been sitting in our prison cell for over a week. They've been feeding us, but it's just about the worst food ever. Imagine plain oatmeal, with no sugar or anything. Now picture something 10 times more flavorless and you have our feast. But thankfully, we have devised a plan. Tonight, when our usual guard fall asleep like he does every night, we're busting out. Izzy's gonna use her magic to take the keys and get us out, then I'm going to knock him out cold. Then, with the guards map, we are going to navigate our way out, rescuing whatever else they've experimented on in this place. And attempt to find Kai, unless he really is dead. At around midnight, the escape plan comenced. Once we got the map, we were amazed at how many laboratories there were in one facility. We decicded to start with the one closest to us, then make our way to each and every one. As we entered the lab, the smell of death hit us without warning. Everywhere you looked, you could see cages filled with dieing chimeras, failed experiments, and some young children. We helped out a little girl, who was about 10. She was skin and bones, and looked like she had never known any happiness. Like she had grown up here. Her hair was long and mangy, and she had wings that looked a lot like Izzy's. And the strange thing, she even had 9 tails...and dragon claws. "Izzy... you wouldn't happen to have...a sister?". "She was born after I escaped. I've never met her, and have no idea what or where she is. Why do you ask?" I brought her the child I was holding, and she reluctantly took her from my arms. The little chimera looked up, and for the first time, spoke to us. "Iz-Izabella?". Izzy looked at the child, and started crying. She hugged her sister as tight as she could, sobbing. "I won't ever let them hurt you again. I promise." Her sister, looked up and started crying too. But they were tears of relief, because she knew she would finally be safe with us. Izzy finally put her down, but still held her hand. "Can you talk?" She hid behind her sister, but poked her head out and nodded. "What is your name?"."Ka-Katrina."."That's a very pretty name, but can we call you Kat?"."Yes. That's okay. Thank you... for saving me." I looked at her and smiled. "Don't thank me just yet, Kat. We haven't escaped just yet." After releasing the other caged experiments, we began searching for Kai. There were many large rooms on the map marked as torture chambers, and if he was alive, he would be in one of them. We then decided to split up. Rain went to one room, Lily went to one, and Izzy and Kat went to another. I went to the one furthest from where we were and instructed them to all meet by that one. After about 15 minutes of scrambling through twisted hallways, I found my way to the biggest, and probably scariest torture chamber ever. It was an empty room, but I was unprepared for what was in it. Tied up in two separate chambers were my comrades Izzy and Kat is one, Lily and Rain in the other. In the middle of the room stood Jay, holding up Kai, who was bloody and looked close to passing out. "Kai! What did you do to him?!"."Oh, this is standard torture protocol here. You get beat to just shy of a bloody pulp. But, he serves no purpose to me now. Here, take him." Jay shoved him toward me, and I had to catch him before he fell to the concrete floor. "Now that you have my brother back, your next phase of torture begins. You see the two chambers your friends are in? Well, by the push of a button, the girls in one of the chambers will be set on fire, burning slowly, and eventually dying a painful death. Now, making you watch them die is only half the fun. I will be slightly kind and let you choose who lives and who dies."