The station seemed so dark and every corner made Hawk look around with paranoia if no one was there. A few hours ago he was happily working and now it felt like he was running for his life.

He entered his room and even though he was prepared that someone was there, he was relieved it was empty.

He grabbed a few of his most important things and made his way to the door.

‘Got to get the boy,’ he said to himself and he looked around outside his room to see if no one was around.

Slowly and careful he made his way to the room of the subjects. He was afraid that the transporter team already went there even though professor Khalazar said they needed to do it tomorrow.

When he arrived, he opened the doors and he had trouble getting used to the scenery.

The room was dark and only the emergency lights were on.

A different vibe was present then when he was working here.

The test subjects were in their cubes and they all looked like dead bodies in the dark, drifting in the water, attached to different cables. For some reason, Hawk couldn’t believe he never looked at it this way and never thought how wrong it was.

He ran to the middle of the room to the big tube in the middle and opened it with his password.

When the door opened, the room was dark but Hawk knew where to go.

He ran to the bed and woke the boy up who was sleeping in the room.

‘Wake up, we have to go,’ he tried to say as softly as he could.

He shook the boy to wake him.

The boy woke up and turned around while opening his eyes.

‘Professor Hawk? What are you doing here? I was sleeping,’ he said and he yawned.

‘No time,’ Hawk said and he almost pulled him out of his bed.

‘Alright, easy. I can do it myself,’ the boy said as he tried to get up.

‘What’s wrong?’ he asked as Hawk looked nervous and started sweating.

‘I can’t explain but I need you to come with me.’

‘Why?’ the boy asked again.

‘No time, but do you trust me?’ Hawk said and he raised his arm.

The boy immediately started smiling.

‘Ofcourse. You’re my friend,’ and he grabbed his hand.

Hawk pulled the boy up and took him with him after which they left the room.

The moment the boy left the door, an alarm went off.

‘Warning! Subject leaving restricted area. Code 6580. Subject not authorized to leave the area,’ was heard through the speakers.

In a matter of seconds, all the alarms in the station went off.

Red lights started to flicker and illuminated the dark room.

‘Damn, we have to hurry,’ Hawk said, nervous because he thought it would be easier and he pulled the boy with him. He thought of a hanger nearby in the hopes of getting a ship to get out of here.

Luckily, Hawk memorized the patterns of the security in case he needed to ask about the subjects if something had happened. This was his opportunity to avoid them and get to the hangar.

He ran and turned in multiple hallways, hoping not to find security. Otherwise he had no idea what to do as he had no weapons.

As they ran, the boy was silent, looking around through the dark hallways filled with the alarm lights and sound. Hawk feared he made a grave mistake and they wouldn’t make it. Still, it seemed better than to be taken and shipped to some place where he didn’t even know what would happen to them.

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He took the boy in a long hallway and he remembered a hanger at the end.

When they almost reached it, a security guard came around the corner.

‘There you are,’ the man in the armor said and he raised his gun.

‘Set to stun,’ the guard said and he blasted his rifle.

Hawk didn’t know what to do. The blast became bigger and went their way and he could never dodge it. He almost accepted that he was gonna be stopped there but the boy grabbed him with both his hands and pulled him aside

The boy swung Hawk around and suddenly his right arm and leg started to glow.

‘Don’t touch him!’ the boy yelled angry and with the glowing leg he jumped forward.

Within that jump he reached the security guard and he punched him with his glowing arm, knocking the guard a few meters away against the wall that knocked him out.

‘What just happened?’ Hawk asked while the glow in the boy’s arm and leg started to fade. This was something he had never seen before or noticed from the data. The boy was as surprised as he was and he looked at his arm while mumbling ‘I don’t know.’

Hawk thought that they didn’t have time to think about it. He stood up after the boy had thrown him away and he grabbed the boy again, making his way to the hangar.

They went around the corner, past the guard who was still past out against the wall.

On the other side of the hall was the door to the hangar but something was in the middle of the hall.

Someone stood in front of them, in the middle of the hall.

Hawk stopped and looked at who was standing there. He didn’t recognize him as the man turned around to look at Hawk and the boy.

His body was covered in dark shadows so Hawk couldn’t see what he looked like. There was someone standing there and he was looking at them.

‘So, you are gonna escape with the subject?’ a voice asked, coming from the man in the shadows.

‘Are you going to stop us?’ Hawk asked and he could feel that the boy prepared himself to fight. Hawk tried to hold his arm against the boy to hold him.

‘Nah. This is exactly how I planned it,’ the man said and it confused Hawk.

‘What do you mean?’ he asked the man in the shadows.

‘It means that I have bigger plans. And every big plan has to start small. These small steps are needed,’ the man in the shadows said and he moved his fingers from the boy to Hawk.

Hawk couldn’t understand what he was trying to say. The man in the shadows had a feeling Hawk and the boy didn’t understand.

‘When the heart is filled with darkness, a seed of light is planted to sprout. We can only wait for it to evolve and devour the darkness that has our worlds.’

The man in the shadows looked more like he was talking to himself than to Hawk and the boy.

A silence occurred and the man’s head turned to them, looking at them.

‘A ship is ready to leave. Take it and I will make sure that you can leave safely.’

‘You are not here to betray us?’ Hawk asked because he didn’t trust the man.

A laughter was heard.

Betray you? Nah. I’m only here to help you. Give you a little push for the grand scheme.’

The shadow moved to the side and an arm of darkness pointed to the door of the hanger.

‘The ship. Take it. I will make sure you get away.’

Hawk looked at the man, still not trusting him but he had no choice.

Slowly he pulled the boy with him and passed the shadow, constantly looking at the shadows as they passed it.

Just when they passed him, an arm of the shadow grabbed Hawk and pulled him closer.

‘Eto,’ he whispered in his ear.

Hawk was preparing himself for an attack but his eyes widened when he heard it.

‘His name is Eto,’ the shadow said and he pushed Hawk in the right direction.

As they walked towards the hangar, the shadow behind them slowly started to fade and disappear.

‘What was that?’ the boy asked, searching for the man that had stood there a few seconds ago and Hawk looked at him.

‘Nothing,’ he responded. ‘But I have great news when we get out of here.’

They went to the hangar and there was a ship standing ready to fly.

Hawk didn’t recognize the ship and he had a feeling that it was placed there for them to escape.

The main part was round with the cockpit in front. It stood on two legs and two wings were on the roof mirrored to the legs.

They entered the ship and Hawk opened the main control door of the station after he made sure that the boy sat next to him.

‘Nothing on the scanner. I can’t believe we can just fly away,’ Hawk said with concern and the boy looked around.

‘Where are we going?’ he asked and Hawk looked at the scanner.

‘It seems a destination is already planned,’ Hawk said and he thought of the man who said he had everything planned. Hawk wasn’t sure if he could trust him but he had a feeling he had no other choice.

Slowly he started the ship and maneuvered it out of the hangar into open space.

They just flew outside and the boy pulled Hawk on his arm.

‘Look,’ the boy said and he pointed outside.

Hawk looked and what he saw caught him by surprise.

The whole station went dark, as if the power was cut.

‘This is our chance’ Hawk said to himself and the boy and immediately he prepared the ship for a hyperjump.

‘What is going to happen?’ the boy asked a little scared but Hawk kept looking at the screen.

`We are about to find out,’ he said before the ship jumped into space.