Snippet #2018400

Adana stuck her dog tongue out at Daniel. "Of course, because Military personnel would stop a doggy." She said, or thought, in a joking manner. "With that I will be off." She bounded down and out of the room, disappearing into the streets. This should be fun. Her pawpads pounded against the concrete as she tried desperately to dodge certain people in her way. Many were too distracted with poverty induced crime and war to notice a golden retriever to stop and wonder why it was running so fast, or why it’s eyes were blue, let alone that it seemed to know exactly where it was going. The neighborhood she was going to had been her home for a year after the old couple had died. The ones she would be asking for help knew her powers, and they weren’t afraid. They were supers too. The group had created a little protective shell of survivors to maintain a little bit of sanity. She had remembered. They would know her.

Adana stopped in an alley, panting slightly. Where was the door? The metal sheet, that was the entrance to the underground hideout. She lifted it up, and suddenly a sting in her backside reminded her that she was in trouble. She turned just in time to see the humans. She spasmed in pain and bared her teeth. Crap, crap, crap, crap. “A golden retriever? At this time? Do you think it’s her? Put her in the cage, I need to go find Zachary.” One of them spoke, holding Adana by her scruff. “Be careful, she bites, use the morphine. Hurry, she looks mad.” When she was awaked she was suspended in a rope cage aboce a grup of humans. Assorted weapons and handmade tools were placed carelessly around the room. She was irritable. She wanted to move. She needed to move. “Really? Really. You put me in a cage. Let me down now, I have to see Zach! I need to see him now! It’s urgent! “ Adana pleaded, tryind desperately to paw at the rope. This wouldn’t do. Most of them gave her blank stares and a few chuckled while others looked shocked at the voice in the back of their heads.

She growled, bearing her teeth. “Fine. You want me up in a cage I’ll give you a reason to keep me up here.” At those words she grew, her fur turning black. Many backed away in fear as her teeth sharpened and her growl loudened. With one slash at the ropes the giant panther landed on her paws, baring her teeth at the humans. She liked the fear. She really liked the fear that spilled from each and every one of them.

“Adana, please don’t eat my crew, I need most of them.” The voice got her to stop her fit. She turned her head to where it was coming from. “Zach!” The giant panther tackled the male. He got older, she noticed, looked like he was what? Twenty-five now? That must have been it. He laughed. “You’re heavy.” He noted and all Adana could do was purr. She finally got off. “ Can we go somewhere where your men aren’t pointing guns at me?” Zach waved them off. “You got to admit they have reason to be scared, let’s go to my office.” Adana scoffed. “They gave me morphine, you expect me not to be slightly irritable, considering that only put the dog to sleep? They probably killed half of my DNA! Do you know how stupid and reckless that was? And then they go and put me in a cage? A cage?! You know my fear of captivity and they put me in a cage suspended in air. Who’s more frightened here?”

Zach shrugged as he led the way. “What do you need anyway. I thought you went out to actually help people and find the people who made you like that and ask questions.” Once a safe distance away Adana shifted into her human form, swaying slightly and leaning on the wall. “I-I need your help protecting something that could kill everybody if deployed.” Zachary raised an eyebrow. “Isn’t that already going to happen with this war.” Adana shook her head. “I need to sit down. My head’s swimming.” After finding a seat in his couch she placed her head in her hands. “It will kill everyone, despite the war, it doesn’t care who you are or what you do, it won’t care if you have children, it is a bomb, a ticking bomb, and I and my friends are trying to destroy it. We need help, protecting, anything, we need superhumans, supers, whatever. You’re the first one I could think of.” Zachary took a seat behind his desk. “Why are you helping them Ady?”

Adana shook her head. “They’re my friends. One saved my life, three times now, not that I’m counting or anything and I have to repay them, you know me and my debts. She’s the closest thing I’ve ever had to a best friend, or a sister or whatever you want to call it and I owe her and all of them all my lives ten times over. You think I can just disappear?”Zachary shook his head. “No, I understand. I will go, and five of my closet men. We have the powers that can help, where is it?” Adana shook her head. “It’s that warehouse, by the, I can’t think anymore, I need to sleep, the morphine.” She shook her head, rubbing her eyes. “Down the street, keep going for a few blocks. It’s right there. I need to sleep..”

Zachary wrapped a handkerchief around Adana’s neck, one you would normally find on a dog, folded diagonally. It was her collar that she had left there last time she had appeared here. “Sleep, Adana. We’ll get there safely. Trust me. Just sleep.” Zachary, and four other supers arrived at the warehouse. Adana was sound asleep on Zachary’s back. “Adana, wake up, how do we get in?” Adana shook her head. “Go right in, shouldn’t be a problem.” She mumbled and they all looked at each other confused. “Where is the door?” Adana shook her head. “Just go right through the wall..” She said, sort of irritably. They entered, staring at the supers that remained in the warehouse. “We came here with Adana, here to protect? Is there a place that I can put her? She’s exhausted.” Zach said, gesturing to the sleeping Adana.