Hanabi felt a sharp pang of pain at the back of her neck where Alpha had hit her. She felt stings all over her body. Her hands and toes are somewhat numb. She could feel the water around her floating body. She slowly opened her eyes and saw unfamiliar equipments and unfamiliar faces of two men wearing white laboratory gowns.She could see their lips moving, she knew they were talking but she could hear nothing. Hanabi tried to reach out to them but she felt so weak and could only move in pain. An oxygen equipment was put around her mouth and nose to help her breathe underwater.
Hanabi, then, realized that she was trapped in a huge experimental tube. A lot of small tubes are connected to her hands, legs, head, back and chest.
"Her breathing is fine. Her heartbeat is a bit slow than the average. The first phase of her makeover is a bit hard on her," Dr. Baker noted as he observes Hanabi.
He saw the scarlet ninja slowly tap on the gla.s.s tube and looks at him with sorrowful and pained eyes. He looked away, not wanting to show sympathy for their lives are also at stake.
"Angela is almost finished. Angela "Vespid" will be complete within a month," Dr. Rooney stated while looking at the data of Angela.
"Hanabi should be ready with the second phase by tomorrow. We"ve got to prepare the vials before then," Dr. Baker informed.
The doors suddenly opened and Mr. Ton came in, feeling a bit relaxed this time.
"How"s she holding up?" he asked as he looks up to Hanabi who is now unconscious.
"We already incubated her 48 hours long. Her body is adjusting with the environment. By tomorrow, we will inject the first set of vials and if nothing goes wrong, within a month she"ll be going to the third phase of the process," Dr. Baker replied.
Mr. Ton smiled in triumph. He faced the two researchers and held their shoulder in acknowledgement.
"Best of luck," he said before looking back at Hanabi.
"What do you mean she has not returned nor checked out yet?" Hayabusa asked to the owner of the rental house where Hanabi had stayed.
"She never returned for 2 days so I thought she had gone back home," the owner replied.
"Hayabusa, let"s leave," Hanzo said as he heads towards the door. Kagura followed through. He fully recovered the day after Hanabi was brought to the laboratory.
"She may be with Natalia. What"s the point of looking for her if she does not want to go back?" Hanzo stated, feeling mad but he is trying to suppress it inside him.
Hayabusa grabbed his shoulder and forced him to face him. He shot him a deadly glare and an angry face.
"You also know that she"d be in trouble. Why are you not trying to look for her and save her?!" he yelled at him which only fueled the ak.u.ma ninja"s rage. He slapped his hand away from his shoulder and glared back at him.
"Why do you waste your time saving a stupid ninja who fell into the enemy"s trap?" he asked with gritted teeth.
Hayabusa madly grabbed Hanzo by his collar and attempted to land a jab right on his face but he stopped himself.
"That is no reason to ignore her! We"ve got to find her before something terrible happens to her!" Hayabusa insisted but Hanzo stood his ground.
"Let her be!" he yelled back. "Why are you being nosy of her anyways?! You should not care about her!"
This time, Hayabusa snapped and jabbed the ak.u.ma ninja right on the face. Hanzo stumbled backwards and fell on the ground. He tasted his own metallic blood from his busted lower lip.
"I want to save her because I like her!" Hayabusa straightforwardly claimed. "d.a.m.n it, Hanzo! Why are you still being stubborn?! You knew she likes you but why are you ditching her off and letting her face troubles all by herself?!"
Hanzo stood up on his feet. And before Hayabusa could react, he landed a punch on his face like what he did.
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"You know what we came here for. We came here to hunt down the killer of our troops. Do you think I"d risk that mission over one person?" he said as he grab him by the collar and landed another jab on the other side of his face.
"Don"t let your personal feelings get in the way of our mission, you f.u.c.king fool," he added and was about to hit him again but Kagura stopped him.
"Please!" she exclaimed. "If you two go against each other, we won"t be able to finish our mission and save Hanabi if ever she"s in real trouble."
The two men stood quiet for a while before deciding to go back and do their plan in capturing Natalia without being noticed.
"AAAAHHHHHHH!!!" Hanabi screamed so loud as she felt the pain all around her body. Her energy is continually being drained and she has no other means of escape in that experimental tube. Her breathing became short yet the two researchers do nothing but observe how she"ll react to the liquid she has been submerged into.
Hanabi felt every part of her body heat up in an excruciating pain. Her screams could not be heard by anyone even herself. All she knew is being under the mercy of the two men staring at her.
"What is happening?" she asked herself. "I feel like dying but there is no end to this pain. It"s creeping all over me."
"She"s coping up quite well. Add more serum to the anti-poison solution," Dr. Baker instructed which Dr. Rooney did and injected 5 more mL of the greenish serum.
Slowly, the serum made its way to one of the tubes and spreads out to the solution surrounding Hanabi.
This time, not only too much heat but also the pain of being skinned to death made Hanabi cringe and yell in pain. Her tears emerged. She wrapped herself around her body, wanting and hoping to soothe the pain but it did nothing.
"Stop! Make it stop!" Hanabi yelled. "Hanzo, please help!"
She suddenly clutched her chest when she felt being deprived of air to breathe. She choked as she tightened her grip on her chest. She reached out and started to scratch the tube, wanting to grasp some air.
The monitor suddenly beeped in a loud and ear-piercing sound and started to blink b.l.o.o.d.y red.
"Dr., she is out of oxygen to breathe. Hurry and fill her breathing system!" Dr. Baker instructed in a hurry, dropping the doc.u.ments down on his feet and rushed to the monitors to maneuver the systems.
As he mumbles to himself, he looked at the scarlet ninja struggling for air.
"Dr. Rooney, hurry up before she dies of suffocation!" he yelled.
Dr. Rooney focused on his work despite the shaking of his hands. The beeping sound and the red color flashing in their laboratory are making him lose his concentration.
"Hanzo, please help," Hanabi breathed.
Dr. Baker is becoming impatient for every second is becoming more and more crucial. His heart skipped a bit when he saw Hanabi slowly closes her eyes and her movements became stagnant. She simply floats inside the tube quietly as if she has gone to a deep slumber.
*Here Ends the First Book of*
*The V.E.N.O.M Squad*