He fell to the ground holding his stomach in pain, his eyes widening in shock as he dry heaved. I turned to the woman, "I'll bring him back, I promise."
She blinked, "t-thank you."
I nodded and immediately ran into the alleyway the kid ran into. I looked around the alley, inside trash cans, street inlets, everywhere. He had ran, and didn't stop.
I eventually made it onto the main road and looked around, a small park was on the other side, if I was a kid trying to run away that was where I would go.
I ran inside and began looking for hte boy. And just as I reached the heart of the park I heard someone yell out, "help! Someone help me!"
It was the boy! I turned and ran towards the voice. I reached the other side just as a white van speed off into the distance. The kidnappers, they had gotten him. I needed to follow.
I jumped onto the nearest telephone pole and leaped across them following the van off in the distance. They were driving away quickly, but I managed to keep up, hiding off in the shadows so they couldn't see me.
They drove for what must have been an hour, all the way around the city, doubling back. They almost spoted me a few times, but I managed to stay hidden by climbing up the side of buildings, hiding where they would never think to look.
Finally they stopped in front of a building in Hunts point. The building was shoved between a Farmer's market and a warehouse, so boring looking I doubt anyone would have looked twice at it.
The garage doors opened and the van drove in. I managed to spy men inside armed with guns and heavy duty gear, they looked like military, expect they wore all black. Something was wrong, this didn't feel like a child kidnapping ring at all. I needed to be cautious.
The building was three stories tall and the windows were tinted, something didn't feel right. I jumped onto the roof and looked around for an air vent I could sneak in through. But the one I found was too small for me to fit inside.
So with no other choice I began crawling down the walls, reaching a small window from where I could smell urine and cleaning chemicals. The bathroom. I quickly covered the glass window with a thin coating of my webbing and pressed my palm against it, pushing it slowly, steadily building up the pressure before I heard the glass crack.
The webbing held all the pieces together and muffled the broken glass. I pulled the webbing out and the glass pieces came along with it. I stuck it to the wall and crawled inside.
The toilet was empty, good. I hide inside a toilet stall and waited for around ten minutes when finally someone walked in. I woman by the sound of her high heels. Great, just great, I snuck into a woman's bathroom. No time for modesty, time to interrogate.
I heard her lean against the wash basin and pant, looks like she wasn't having a nice day. She had blonde hair, blue eyes, a few inches shorter than me and she looked exhausted. I snuck out of the stall and cleared my throat, "hello there."
"What the-" she turned around and I webbed her mouth closed. She looked horrified as she grabbed the webbing and tried to break free.
I quickly covered the toilet door with my webbing and grabbed her by the neck, lifting her into the air with one hand, "you're going to tell me what I want, and if you lie to me, I will know. Do you understand?"
The woman looked panicked, she struggled to break free. I growled, I grabbed the wash basin and slowly crushed it with my grip, turning it into rubble. She stopped and looked at me in horror as I slowly tightened the hand I had around her throat.
"I can kill you without a second thought. So tell me what I want to know!"
This time she nodded. I threw her into a stall and closed the door behind me. I grabbed he webbing and sprayed it with a solution that slowly dissolved it. It was something I came up under the advice of Sue, good thing I listened to her huh?
"What is this place?" I growled, doing my best Batman voice.
"I-I don't know! No one knows! We got hired by some big company and asked...we were just told to do some tests!"
"On children?" I growled making a leap, but something told me by the way she paled I was right on the money.
"I didn't know! For the longest time we just perfected the formula! We didn't know what we would be testing them on! When I found out I didn't want to do it! But they threatened my family!"
I understood her feelings, regret, I could use this.
"Tell me everything and I'll stop them. Tonight, I'll make sure all the children escape and even the scientist like you who had no choice in this."
"You can't," she said looking guilty and sad.
"I can, and I will," I told her firmly.
"You don't get it! You can't save them because they are all dead!" she was crying in tears.
My eyes went wide in horror. All those children, all of them….were dead? I...I couldn't believe that. I….I was going to save them, I was going to take them to safety and now….dead?
"Monsters," I growled.
"We are," she didn't try to deny it.
I felt guilty for not noticing this sooner, if maybe just one day earlier and one other child would have been spared, one more family that weren't broke apart. And just then I remembered the mother whose child I promised to return. There was still time, I could save at least one child tonight.
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