Underground Prison Shadows
Chapter 2
Two guards drag Denmark’s battered body across the grimy floor. The other inmates, including Jackie and Denise, watch silently. Guards tossed Denmark into a cell like a discarded rag doll. Four more guards escort an unscathed Firestorm to her cell. Her wrists remained handcuffed, and her ankles were shackled. One guard nervously opens the cell door, and Firestorm swaggers in, growling menacingly.
“She’s a beast. Hate to be one to fight her,” one guard mutters.
“She’s neither a beast nor an animal,” a voice says from the shadows. Doctor Kreggs steps into view, clad in a white lab coat. “She’s so much more than that.”
Doctor Kreggs approaches the bars of Firestorm’s cell. He nods to the guards, who toss the key to her chains inside. Firestorm frees herself and pitches the chains back through the bars, narrowly missing a guard.
The guard ducks and curses. “Shoot, they don’t pay me enough to get my butt kicked by a woman!” He beats the bars with his billy club. “C’mon, you freak, come closer so I can bash your pretty little head in!”
Doctor Kreggs pushes him away. “Get back! Don’t you have other things to attend to?”
The guard shrugs and looks at Denmark lying motionless. “A gig's a gig. Time to go bye-bye, Denmark.”
The guards march to Denmark’s cell. Jackie, gripping the bars of her cell, yells, “Leave her alone! It's not fair! Take your hands off her!”
The guard clanks his billy club against Jackie’s cell. “Get out of here; you just wait your turn, girlie.”
Denise pleads, “Please, mister. I know you're not that bad. Please give her a chance. Please…”
The guard takes out a remote control device. “You know the rules.”
A man wearing a pristine white suit and derby steps from the shadows. Samaritan Peoples smiles coldly. “That’s right. She knows the rules. And the same rules apply to everyone. Denmark, well, let’s just say Denmark missed her golden opportunity.”
Samaritan nods to the guard, who points the device at Denmark. Her body convulses violently, then goes still.
No comments:
Post a Comment