The Prodigy:part 3 of chapter 1

If they were maybe they were already dead and she was the last one left, she didn’t like the idea of being the last one here. Scout laid down it had to be night time by now and she was so tired she closed her eyes and prayed that sleep would find her soon before death found her. Scout dreamed of the robots finding her and surrounding her she begged for them to take her as a prisoner but they only repeated the same sentence “kill anyone who is still alive” the robot soldiers grabbed Scout’s arms and pushed her against the double doors. Scout couldn’t move she was so scared in the darkness the robot soldiers eyes glowed red “this can’t be happening I’m only a peewee I’m not supposed to be at this level yet!” The robots laughed as Scout struggled under their grasp “oh but you are at this level now so why don’t you fight back?” Scout stopped struggling wasn’t she fighting back already? “What do you mean I am fighting back I can’t break free your hands are hurting my wrist” Scout started kicking at the robots but they stepped back and laughed at her “if that’s all you can do I don’t know why Sanders picked you” Scout stopped thrashing “Sanders! Sanders is the reason I’m in this mess!” This made the robots laugh even harder “your a failed experiment 201 a failure you can’t even break free” Scout glared at one of the robots and kicked him dead in the face “hows that for failure!” The robot grabbed his face that now really looked like a robots face Scout must of hit a button or something. “You brat I’ll kill you!” The robot punched Scout’s rib cage and then punched her face he kept punching her Scout took every blow with a smile. When the robot was done Scout spit out blood right onto another robots face “oh I’m sorry I meant to hit your eye with that” the second robot clenched his teeth “why you little” he grabbed Scout’s hair and slammed her head against the door, Scout felt dazed but she didn’t let the robots know that“are you done throwing your hissy fit yet?” The third robot pulled out a gun and put it up against Scout’s head “one more word out of you and I’ll blow your brains out” Scout turned her gaze over to the third robot “kiss my ass.”when the robot pulled the trigger Scout woke up gasping for air. She looked around wildly for any robots she was alone it was all just a dream. Scout looked up the observation room was still dark everyone probably thought she was dead her stomached growled somehow she had to find food and water in this barren city. Scout looked around for what seemed like hours with no luck, what did she expect to find here anyway by now she should of completed the stage or died trying, she was only postponing her own demise. Scout sighed and walked down a dark alley she wasn’t hungry anymore she was sick of this stupid test and how Mr. Sanders was such an ass Scout wanted to kill him instead of the robots. The robots would kill her anyway so why not take Mr. Sanders down with her. Scout sighed and leaned against a tall gray skyscraper she was never gonna get out of here, she pulled out the knife that she was supposed to somehow kill the killer robots with how on earth she was gonna do that she had no clue. Scout sat down and looked up she didn’t know what she was expecting to see, a night sky with stars? No one had seen stars for ages, the factory’s smoke covered every inch of the sky there was no sunlight, no rain, no anything everything that was supposed to be natural was manufactured in factories, even snow. It did however get rid of the common cold and flu because the snow was warm and could never melt anyone wanted a snow day if there was enough votes the government would give you a snow day. However Scout and the other girls in the building never got a break, or get to go outside for that matter, the only way Scout knew that there was no sky because she remembered faint memories of her parents telling her stories of what the earth used to look like before all the war and factories came. She couldn’t remember what her parents looked like the institute wiped your memory pretty much clean when you arrived. Scout heard the soft metallic voices of the robot soldiers their hard metal footsteps echoed down the dark empty streets, they were heading towards her and fast, Scout looked around wildly where could she go she turned and ran down the dark ally trying to make as little sound as possible. Scout stopped just before she slammed into a concrete wall she punched the wall, regretting her action as the pain shot threw her arm she probably just busted her hand. Scout wanted to scream she was trapped and the robots were now running towards her she was done for. Scout wasn’t giving up just yet she looked for somewhere to go or hide up above her she saw a guard rail if she could get up there she would be home-free! Scout tried to jump up and grab it but the rail was to high up for her to reach, it wouldn’t be to high if the monitors would have activated her but, she was on her own. Scout took a deep breath and focused she could hear the pounding of about 20 robot feet on the ground heading straight for her, when she opened her eyes she ran right up to the side of a building right across from the rail she jumped up and slammed her feet on the building pushing off and sent herself hurtling towards the rail she reached up and grabbed the rail with both hands, her legs were dangling and she struggled to pull herself up because her hand was screaming from pain. Scout clenched her teeth together she began to taste blood in her mouth she spit it out and pulled herself up onto the ledge she stood up and pressed her back against the building catching her breath as the soldiers stood right below her. She silently thanked God that it was night time however the soldiers were taking out there flashlights if they saw her she would be dead in seconds. Scout looked up the roof was about five feet up somehow she had to get up there, Scout took out her knife maybe this stupid weapon could be useful. Scout put the knife between her teeth and bit down she then searched for a ledge to hold on to so she could pull herself up she finally found one but she had to jump to reach it if she missed when she landed the noise would alert the soldiers below her and she would be eating bullets. Scout jumped up and grabbed the ledge she clung on for dear life, blood started to drip down her fingertips as her nails dug into the concrete building. She got her feet lodged into two cracks in the building and listened the soldiers didn’t stir they didn’t know she was there yet. Scout grabbed the knife she had in her teeth with her free hand and stabbed the building lodging the knife so she could pull herself farther up the building she was almost at the top but she felt like hell. Sweat was dripping down her face and her hand was on fire she chocked back tears as she continued climbing the steep building, when was this hell going to end. Scout almost cheered when she ran out of wall and she peered up to see the roof she used the last remaining amount of strength she had left and pulled herself up to the roof she rolled over onto her back catching her breath and letting the adrenaline drain out of her body she was safe there was no way the soldiers could've seen her as she climbed up the building and even if they did she didn’t care she was dead tired. Scout’s stomach growled she had to find food tomorrow or she wouldn’t be able to go on for much longer. Scout laid her head down on the hard concrete roof and tried to get some sleep it was hard to sleep though with the soldiers right below her waiting for her to come down and face them. Scout imagined there eyes right above her their faces smiling as she screamed as the ripped her apart. Scout held her hand over her mouth as she suppressed a scream she held her breath listening as the soldiers scuffled below her she could hear them talking about something but she didn’t want to know what they were saying. Scout crawled over to the edge of the building and looked down she saw that the soldiers had made a little fire there was about twenty of them below her, she held back a gasp as she realized there had been one hundred soldiers after her before where did the rest go. She leaned down farther trying to see if she miscounted maybe the rest split up far away from her or they were right below her waiting. One of the soldiers leaned against the wall below her she saw from the corner of her eye a glint of a gun she heard the click of the gun being loaded and she heard the click of the trigger she pulled her head back and the bullet hit the building wall where her head was, she jumped up and heard the pounding of feet rushing up the stairs she knew where the other soldiers were now. Scout looked around frantically where could she go what could she do, she turned and stared at the door that led from inside the building to outside the soldiers would be coming from there she had to move fast. She looked at the other side of the building about 5 feet below her was another building she had to jump to get there, there was a good distance she had to jump to get the building she almost screamed when she looked down if she missed the jump she would plummet to the ground and die instantly she looked at the door that’s doorknob now shook as the soldiers tried to open it. Scout backed up and took a deep breath dying from this would be better than death from the soldiers, she started to run to the edge of the building just as she was about to push off the door flung open and the soldiers rushed out Scout turned her head to see all of them yelling at each other and there guns being pointed directly at her. Scout looked down and bit her lip she didn’t think she was going to make it bullets whizzed by her head as the robot soldiers fired trying to shoot her down. Scout tucked in her knees and rolled onto the roof just as one of the bullets clipped her ear. Scout turned around and stared in horror as the bullets stopped she knew why the soldiers were going to jump she had to do something. She looked down and saw shards of glass beneath her feet she picked them up and crouched down holding one of the shards in her hand she waited, she saw a soldier in the air and threw one with deadly accuracy the shard twisted in the air and sliced the soldier right in the neck the metal on glass made a sickening sound and the soldier went limp and crumpled falling to the ground. The other soldiers didn’t even react to their fallen friend thats what Scout hated most of all about the robots they had no feelings so they didn’t care about life and death which made her sick. She winced as she was forced to do the same thing to four other soldiers but realized by the fourth one she didn’t care anymore, she went to reach for another shard and shivered as she realized there wasn’t any more. Scout watched frozen as the rest of the soldiers landed on her side of the building what could she do there wasn’t anything she could do. Scout slumped to her knees she was tired, hungry, and dehydrated it would be so easy just to give up here and let them kill her so she could just forget about this whole institute and Mr. Sanders forget about everything in this stupid corrupt society. Scout put her head down and let the soldiers grab her arms and pull her to the edge of the building she looked down and got a tight feeling in her chest and her mind raced, she couldn't die now she didn’t want to die now! The gun was placed up to her head and she heard the robots laughing and snickering at her weakness she hated it she wasn’t weak, she wasn’t “come on think” she whispered to herself. Scout felt a tugging feeling in the back of her head and she felt her body go numb for a second she looked behind her and saw everything different time seemed to slow down and she had the remote. Scout smiled for a breath second and let her body relax, the soldiers didn’t even notice her sudden change and she laughed and twisted around grabbing the gun and skillfully twisted it and shot the soldier in the face the others had no time to react she flipped behind a soldier who went to tackle her and shot him in the head as well and threw his body at three soldiers near the edge of the building, all four fell with a screech of defeat. Scout got grabbed by a soldier in a full nelson and she quickly got out of it kicking him in the groan as he bent over in agony she shot him and grabbed a grenade he had strapped to his belt, she pulled the pin and placed it down and began running to the next building this one she would have to jump a lot higher for but she didn’t care she turned and ran backwards shooting the soldiers that followed her and turned at the last second and instead of jumping for the roof of the next building jumped aiming for the wall. She tucked in her knees and once she felt the brick on her sneakers slid down the wall with great ease. Once she landed on the asphalt she ran for cover silently under her breath she counted down “5...4...3...2...1” the grenade went off and the building shook and began to collapse no one could have survived that. Scout threw her head back and laughed as the city began to disappear into a regular white room and the door opened up for her but who stood there wasn’t Mr. Sanders no who stood there was three other girls who looked ready for war. The tallest girl of the three stepped forward obviously the leader and looked Scout over “Scout?” Scout nodded still not understanding what was going on “welcome to The Prodigy” the girl tossed a red cloth to Scout that had the word Prodigy written on it Scout took it and looked at the three girls like they were crazy the leader just laughed “you obviously want an explanation?” Scout nodded still not being able to speak “well my name is Jinx and I lead this operation” Scout looked at Jinx who wore a black long sleeved turtle neck with a red tie and black jeans and shoes she obviously wasn’t a fan of colors. Her hair was black with pink highlight in it and a portion of her bangs hung over her left eye, her eyes were green and cold and she carried a 44 magnum in her hand Scout could tell it was recently used but for what? Jinx flipped her hair a bit “I’m 16 and I specify in all weaponry and technology” Scout’s mouth dropped open she was the rave of the institute every instructor talked about Jinx she was the most prestigious of the girls in any area she was moved to all the advanced classes she was gonna be the first senior operative they had.