What the hell have you done to me?

Standing here now I remember how it all started. Me and Faith were sitting there just chatting wondering what movie we were gonna see since Sharon was watching Lana. Soon to be wed and just out for a movie. Thats where everything started. Oh my names Christian, I'm 6'2" and 215 lbs, I just recently got out of the army, if you ask me my face looks like something the cat dragged in but Faith would hit me if she knew thats what I thought. Faith, oh my god Faith is the woman every man wants. Gorgeous face, beautiful deep brown eyes, full lips that just beg to be kissed, a cheek that you can just nuzzle into and get lost forever. A cute little button nose. Hair so soft and long that its more like a veil than anything. Perfect for running your fingers through. She stands about 5'6" 115 max. Though like all women the only people that will know are her and her doctor. Small delicate hands that are gentle when needed and rough when wanted. Perfect heart shaped bottom that just fits perfectly in your lap. Supple breasts that are a perfect size not too small not too large just right. A small little stomach, but I think you get the picture. And Lana, is a beautiful, fragile little girl, 35 lbs and all of about 3 and a half feet tall. Same hair and nose and lips as her mother. Beautiful. I'm blessed to have them. But apparently something went wrong. We went and saw some movie I can no longer remember, and all was fine. Went fine for a few weeks. And then something happened. I was at work, I work at Target while waiting to get into the post office. And these guys have been "working" out back, I say working like that cause I now know differently. Well I was left to pull some things out of a trailer and thats when it happened. Stinging pain in my back. Darts. Darts in my back with some kind of tranquilizer. Blackness. The next couple of days are nothing but blinks. Incoherent images coupled with nothingness. Then, Awakening. Pain. All throughout my brain. Being held immobile by things I cannot see. Cold metal against the back of my head, well most of it. Then I wake up in a bed. Alone. A square room. Complete with bathroom. No windows, one sealed door, and the constant feeling that I'm being watched. Food comes in through a slit, I attempt to grab hands that aren't there, begging to be let loose, I have to get back to Faith and Lana. I have to get back to my life. I was pitiful. Then after what seemed like days. A man came into my little prison. He wore a white jacket, a lab coat they call it. He was balding. Hawk nosed, and seemed timid. "What do you want with me?" I exclaimed. He calmly looked at me and said, "My dear boy. We just wanna see success." That's when it happened.1

A migraine like no other headache I've ever had. Filling me to the brim with pain, pain that flowed out of my eyes nose and mouth. "WHAT IS THIS?" 2

"We're making sure our implants are all intact and ready to be tested."3

My thoughts, implants what the hell is he.... Another jolt of pain. Tears. Darkness. A vision, Faith and Lana, in a room, scared. Wondering whats happened to me. Whats to become of them. Is he dead? I hope they don't rape us. I want my daddy. Wheres Christian? Hes dead I know hes dead. I look at the scientist and see him as an opened book. I hear word when his mouth doesn't move at all. Is it working? Are the latent human abilities opening up? I look at him through eyes half lidded with pain. "What abilities?" Surprised he looks at me, sputtering "I di-di-di-didn't say anything...." His voice, no movement, "HE CAN HEAR MY THOUGHTS!!!! ITS WORKING!!!!!" He hold out a remote control and my world goes black. Groaning. A CAT scan machine. In my head I think "Whats going on here?" A flash, a vision Faith looking around, and saying one single word "Christian?" Then back to this room as they notice I'm awake, and then darkness. Back in my room. Wondering about Faith and Lana, and about those implants the scientist talked about. Another flash. Schematics. Circuit boards. Wires. ESP amplifier. Thats what the thing in my head is called. God I'm thirsty. God this is draining. God this sucks, "Thank you." I take the glass of water. Then blink. I'm alone. WHO THE HELL HANDED ME THE WATER?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? So I think about what just happened. What I saw and thought. And then the Thirst.... I WANTED a glass of water. I thought about getting one, even ran though the motions in my head. Did I do that? I started thinking about putting the glass back by the sink. Going through the motions in my head. And when I opened my eyes. Thats when I saw it. The glass floating through the air. I freaked. The glass shattered then fell. A voice in my head. "Subject 143533255332 is doing exceptionally well. His abilities are showing and hes starting to control them already. Exceptional. The stun wont work on him anymore. Well have to use pain and the girl and woman to control him. That should work." Pain? The woman? And the girl.... Anger. Fiery broiling anger. Then fire. Boiling my blood. "His stress levels are rising. Hit him." Pain again. Pain so pure it sent lightning through my brain. Then the ever waiting darkness.4

Golden light at the end of the hallway. Faith waiting there in all her beauty. Lana playing in the yard waiting to play Leprechaun. It was all a bad dream. I close my eyes. And open them back into this hell of a reality. It was only a temporary reprieve. Something to give me hope. And then despair. I feel him long before he hits the door. As he walks in I ask "What do you want with me now?" He answers, "Well after we make sure it works well let you and the girls go."5

LIES. I know hes lying. Theyll kill me and rape the girls then kill them. Thats what his mind tells me. "What now?" One last test then youll be free to go..." He forgot to say if you come even close to surviving it. He leads me to a chamber thats reminiscent of a gladiator arena. Gates line every part. "Whats this about?" I ask as the door seals me in. "Survival!" The doors open and I know what they are. The earlier versions. The rejects. The ones that didnt succeed. A boulder. Flying towards me, I throw my arms up and suddenly the boulder stops. There are three of them. Misshapen due to overload. I see the boulder rising. Smashing one to bits. And it happens. I hold my hand up and grab one with my mind focused through my hand. I close it, crushing him. Pain. Golden pain sending me to oblivion. The months fall off the calendar. Flashes of memory. Tables. Instruments. Metal on my wrists. And finally, around my waist.6

"Hes completely under our control." I see Faith. And Lana. In a cavern. And soldiers with guns behind them. A huge steel door. And I feel... Nothing. I know that its not right but thats what I feel. A man in fatigues, "Prove it. Make him open the door so that they can be fed to the rejects." A million visions of rape and torture flows through my head and still I feel Nothing. "Push the button and be rid of your old life 14353325532." I try to stop but nothing, as if its a nightmare I cant control. I watch as I calmly walk over and push the button and the door slowly begins to open. Then I walk back over and stand there, cussing myself in my own mind. Feeling my own rage. Then something else.... Another rage. THEIR rage. The rejects. And I started to shake visibly.7

"Hes rebelling, activate the restraints." A hum. My wrists move to the belt at my waist with no movement of my own. The Rage. I feel like im standing in front of a door, and I open the door. RAGE, all at once. All for me. "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!" as a massive psychic globe erupts from me shattering the floor, walls, ceiling, glass, and the restraints. "The remote!!!" Pain. But the Rage is too strong. It pushes me. Compels me. I reach up and I can feel the object moving through my brain, more Pain. Then the Pain leaves. I look at him, its the soldier. I grab him and force the device into his ear, then take the remote thats now on full power sustained and shatter it so itll never stop. Then I leap out of what was the window.8

I see them in the distance as I charge towards them. I mentally grab one and slam him into the others making Faith and Lana look back at the sound and see three soldier staggering, one lying there. Then one soldiers head slams backwards at an impossible angle. Pain in my back, cant stop, have to save them. I pick up a boulder and slam it into one of their heads, and it lands on the unconscious one. The final soldier begins firing. I raise my hand and he lifts up, then I crumple him up like hes a paper cup. I whip my head around and look at the rear and flames shoot up from the ground burning the one i didnt know was behind me as Faith and Lana run up to me to hug me. Theres wet stickiness on my back. I cant let them feel that. "Just run Ill meet up with you on the outside, I cant drop my concentration Ill make sure you get out." They hesitate. "GO!" They run past me and Faith picks up Lana and runs. Lanas waving at me. I wave back then concentrate on what I have to do. Flames.9

They come up on an intersection. Three of the paths become blocked by fire, Faith doesnt skip a beat. Always so cool headed. Three more intersections and shes almost to the elevator. Shes watched several people.... Explode. Made Lana close her eyes. As she nears the elevator the doors open making her skid to a stop, its only me. She realizes this and runs in as the doors close. Its already on its way up as she turns around. I start stumbling to the door. She leaves the elevator and its on its way down as she makes the first of 3 turns. I slam the steel down and bury it in rubble as well as bringing down the entire cavern. "Im sorry but youll be happier this way."10

She makes the next turn and almost trips over someones head. No body just a head. Im almost to the elevator. Three turns down one to go and the elevator is finally here to take me home. I get into it. The final turn is down and Im 20 stories from the top, I start burying the lower complex in itself. I can feel the air on their faces the moonlight is so beautiful. Too bad I might not see it. The doors open and Im so tired I cant see straight. That and blood loss, then something hits me. Theres someone going for Faith and Lana. NO! Gotta save them. I run as well as my rubbery legs will carry me. Shouts of "Stop him!" from a room I pass. No finesse. Just torched the entire room. I kick out the front doors with a thought and see the guys raising their guns. Three of them. And I dont know what I have left. Faith doesnt even see them. Lana screams and burrows into her Mommys neck as they are about to fire. Not happening. I raise a wall of stone and repave the road with them inside of it. Its done. Their safe. I can finally rest. I look at them and smile as they look back. "My beautiful girls are safe, and not a feather was harmed on the chicken tail," are my last thoughts as I slam face down on the ground lying in a crimson pool of my own life. My eyes slam open and Im staring at the ceiling of my cell. Or so it looks like that, then I look around and see the hospital room Im in. Faith is sitting in a chair unconscious. Lana is curled against my side. I look at the door and it closes. No one there. Alls well that I can tell, but still to this day. After 4 years of not seeing a single person that knows anything about the place or what happened there except Faith and Lana. I ask myself everytime I awaken from a nightmare and Faith is calming me down. What the hell have they done to me?11