A face you'll never see

“Scars are but evidence of life. Evidence of choices to be learned from...evidence of wounds...wounds inflicted of mistakes...wounds we choose to allow the healing of. We likewise choose to see them, that we may not make the same mistakes again.”

        "Mistakes my ass." I grumble while shutting the magazine. I lay my reading material on my lap surveying my room. The hospital was nice enough to give me a nice cozy room. Well, I say room even though it feels more like a cell then anything. It had nice pearl white walls with some soothing pictures here and there. To my left was a window revealing a small little town. We're not in Kansas anymore toto. Chuckling at my comment I continue to look around. A little ways off there was a tile missing in the roof. Good a possible escape route. To my right was the door which was made from oak wood, and most likely being guarded. I look down my bed to find out that it came with a little extra feature. A god damn pair of shackles!

        "Damn it. I need to get out of here. Now time to find out if they took my pick." I search the secret pouch hidden within my left sleeve. To open the pouch you have to tug the pouch a certain way to loosen the hold. I pull the pouch to feel a small metal pick fall into my hand. As I start to work on picking the lock I could hear muffled voices coming from just outside my door. I decide that talking wouldn't be the best option for me, so I started to work feverishly to unlock the shackles. During my little escape attempt The voices outside began to increase in volume leaving me to believe that an argument was taken place between the voices. How hard is it to unlock these dam-

*Click*

"Thank you!" Wait, damn I said that to loud. With my little outburst I could the voices stop. OH SHIT!! I pull the cuffs off looking around for my weapons. I continue to look around when I hear the click of the door being opened. It only took me a split second to decide what to do. I rush forward to the missing tile, and taking my chances I reach up with my right hand grabbing on to the edge pulling myself up. I reach up again to latch on to a thick pipe leading over head. I look around to find the area of the ceiling was closed off for maintenance. With my free hand I swing to the right to grab another pipe suitable for my weight. I began to inch my way to what I assume is the way out when I hear a gasp come from my room. Halting my movements not daring to even breath, thinking that I was found.

“CAPTAIN,” the voice said. The voice sounded feminine with a regal and commanding tone. I start inching my way down again fearing capture. Soon I make it to a split in the ceiling, but thats not the worst of my problems. As I was leaving the voices behind the regal one had a hunch that I escaped through the ceiling, so she commanded her soldiers to try and see if I was up in here. Needless to say, they have some form of technology that allows them to shoot lasers. One of the lucky bastards managed to land a decent hit in my shoulder rendering my right arm useless. The shot went straight through the muscles and veins, and I knew that if I was to make it out of there I needed to adjust my position. With my right arm hanging uselessly, I moved all the weight I could to my left arm. With my new position I tracked, what I guess is about a hundred feet, through wet pipes and darkness.

I soon found a light coming from a space from which another tile had been removed. Finally! As I near the opening I slow my pace down to a crawl fearing that anybody near the opening can hear me. I inch towards the entrance to hear a voice from below. I press myself back as far as I can hoping it was enough.

“Excuse me nurse, may I ask you a question?” The voice sounded masculine but also like he was in pain. Duh, you’re in a hospital.

“Certainly Mr. Bones.” This voice sounded feminine and had a helpful tone. Must be a nurse. This isn’t good, I need them out of the room now.

“Can I go for a walk?” Please say yes. Please say yes.

“But the doctor’s orders are for you to stay in bed, so no.” God damn you woman. Why can’t you let the man go for a walk. It’s not like he going to die today.

“The doctor said today is going to be my limit, so please… let an old man have one last breath of fresh air.” That’s it old man, just put on a little charm.

“Very well sir, but I need you to sign a waiver just in case.” Wow, she does not want to get sued.

“For you anything, Nurse Redheart.” I can no longer hear her voice so I assume that she is gone. Now I wait. Not even a minute after that thought I hear the door open.

“Ok Mr. Bones, I just need you to sign here….here… and here.” After a few sounds of a pen scribbling on paper I hear a grunt coming from the man.

“Ok, now get me out of this damn room,” The man said. I wait for what feels like forever while the nurse helps the old man out. I stay there for an extra minute just to be sure. Making sure no one was in the room I let go of the pipe and twisting my body to match an olympic diver. Just as I am about to hit the floor I pull my feet forward, straightening my body in the process. As soon as my feet touch the ground I relax my muscles to lessen the sound of the impact. I crouch as I evaluate where I am. I am in a similar room to mine, but this one was a little different. It had the same white walls,paintings, and door. I look to the bed to notice the lack of shackles. Ok, it looks like I was the only one who got the ‘special’ treatment. The thought reminded me of my leg. Looking down I expected lots of scar tissue, but to my surprise my leg was perfectly fine. The only thing that indicated that I even got hurt was the pink spots that looks an awfully lot teeth marks.

I tear my gaze from my healed leg to look for any medical supplies for my shoulder. Looking around the room I came across some flowers on a table near the bed. I made my way over to the letter to hear shouts outside the room and getting closer. My first idea was to jump back up into the ceiling, but were cut short by the pain in my right shoulder. I look out the window to find that I’m on the 3rd floor facing towards the right of the town. I rush back to the cabinet to take any medical supplies it had to offer. As I ransack the cabinet I hear the voices getting louder and closer. I could barely hear the words but what I heard was enough to kick my ass into high gear.

“Captain, these are the last rooms of this floor.” I start to take anything that could fit in my pockets at that point. I rush back to the window to formulate a plan, for how to fall and not break my bones. I sigh after I plan my descent. I really hate myself! I take a few steps back, planing how to kill the person who made velocity. I hear the door next to my room break as the people invade that room.

“Sir, this is the last room.” Shit! Well, it’s now or never. I rush towards the window hoping that whoever rules this world is watching because I don’t want to become a pancake. As I near the window I look behind me the same time the door is busted in. I turn my head back towards my goal, not catching sight of the person who broke through the door.

“Halt! In the name of Princess Celestia!” I give the person the finger as I jump to bust through the window. As I break the glass and fall, the air felt like static electricity all over. As I fall I look back up to my window to see a man with a couple of guards crowding the window. I also notice a faint glow coming from the hands of some of the guards. As I watch them the feeling of static increases while a burning sensation comes from my shoulder. I look to my shoulder to see the tissue starting to fix and mend itself. Through the static and burning I twist my body to point my feet at the ground waiting for the impact. As I near the ground the static increases ten fold, and so does the burning. I look up to see a woman with bleach white skin and a beautiful cream colored dress. Her eyes were of the most beautiful shade of magenta, but what got me was her hair. Her hair was made of a blend of the most alluring colors , ranching from pink to turquoise. She had wings like an angel with their defined look and power.

After shaking my head trying to clear the thoughts from my mind, I look to see the ground close in at an alarming speed. I glance over my shoulder to see the woman holding her hand out to me with the same glow as the guards. The static returned with a vengeance. I could feel my body shaking with energy, and it was so intense that it almost hurt. I close my eyes as I see the ground close in on me planning my moves after I touch the ground. As soon as my feet brush the ground I snap my eyes open. I then twist my body with the momentum of the fall to lessen the impact. I stick my left hand out planting it on the ground, and moved my body so fast that only a trained eye would see what I’m doing. I pull with the hand on the ground, making me launch forward. I pull my knees to my chest as I roll forward. As I start to lose momentum I wait until my feet are at an appropriate point to uncurl from my position. I uncurl my feet starting with my left so I land with my right. As soon as my right foot touches the ground I spring forward using the momentum to lead me to a standing position. My body then acts on it own as if this was what it was meant to do.

After about 30 minutes of sprinting I slow my pace to a jog. I put my hands on my knees while trying to relax my breathing from running so long. As I rest I realize that I’m in a forest surrounded by large trees with vines hanging from their branches. The trees look like regular oaks but there was something off about them. I don’t have time for trees. Most likely that woman has already sent her people to find me, so I need to get away from here. I reach into my pockets to see what medicine I  had ‘borrowed’ from that room.

After a good 30 minutes of looking and remembering, I organize the bottles into certain groups dealing with certain symptoms. Done! Finally! I lay my back onto a tree a little ways away from my makeshift campsite. As I lay there I hear a twig snap behind the tree I was laying on. I spring forward raising my fist to try and scare off anything that might want to take a bite of me.

“I know you’re there! Come on out if you don’t want to get hurt.” I wait until a rustle in the bushes catches my attention. Leaning down I pick up a good sized pebble and chunk it into the bushes.

“Ow” I raise my fist again waiting for whoever was in the bushes to come out. Figuring they been caught they began to move towards me. Just before I jump into the bushes my world turns to blue. As I was blinded by the blue my hurt arm was wrenched behind me once again. Knowing who it was I roll forward knocking off the attacker. I jump back while looking to the person that attacked me, and my doubts were put at ease. My attacker was the rainbow woman from before.

“You! Why do you like attacking me so much?!” The woman just stares at me like she wanted to kill me.

“You attacked those kids!” She is an idiot!

“Are you serious! I never attacked them, and did you fail to notice that I was bleeding out and I had my back to them. If I wanted to hurt them don’t you think that I would be facing them!” I was seething with rage from her thinking that I would dare attack those children. Her look soften and she also had a crimson hue on her cheeks.

“S-Shut up!” She raised her fist to a fighting position. I was about to oblige her when she smirked and pointed behind me. I turn around to see a boot fly in my direction. My training kicked in at that point. I grab the booted foot in midair using the momentum to send the culprit flying into skittles. I step back to gain some distance from the two while they try and untangle themselves. Then I feel a disturbance in the air. Acting on instinct I duck just as a pink bolt flies over me and crashes into the other two. Ok, anymore….good-

“You, hold it!” Are you kidding me! Anymore surprises?

“You sir are a brute! how dare you attacking our friends.” I not even going to turn around. I tense my muscles readying them for another run.

“Don’t you even think about running! I put a barrier with multiple layers. There is no way you’re getting through that.” I smirk, giving her the finger while I started running. I feel the static return, not as strong as that woman but definitely stronger than those men. I glance over my shoulder to see that she has her hand stretched out towards me with a smirk. When I started running again I could hear a couple of gasp coming from the women. I soon make it to the so called barrier that the woman talked about. I reach my hand out to feel the purple wall. I was surprised when the wall turned to water with my touch. I held my breath as I started forward into the barrier. As soon as my hands were submerged my world was filled with pain. The pain was worst than anything that I’ve ever felt before. It felt as if someone lit my entire body on fire and then dipped me in a tub of oil. I decided that the only way to get rid of the pain was to push through. After what felt like forever (30 seconds) I finally made it to the other side. I wipe my forehead trying to rid the sweat off of my brow. I look back to see if they were following me. When I didn’t see anyone I turned around and ran.