I jolted upward, completely astounded that somehow those words had worked. And more importantly, I was free! I turned around, Hannah was also sitting upwards, looking at me.

"How..." She stuttered. I just shrugged, stood up, and grabbed her hand.

"This is our chance! We need to go now... I'll tell you later." I let go of her hand and shifted into a fox. This was the first time I had shifted since we were trapped in this lab. As I looked at Hannah, she was shifting. Her hair, clothes, and body, became one as she turned to a otter, good for maneuvering. The fox was my most comfortable form of all animals.

We headed off into the mess of hallways. As we neared one intersection, the voice spoke again.

"Left, then through the second lab on your right." I turned left, and Hannah followed close. No people were to be seen, lucky for us. I went through the lab and into the first area of this massive lab we had seen. All of the animals still continued to cry and yelp. I looked to the sides to look for the entrance in which we came. I spotted it and looked at Hannah.

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"We need to fly", she said, immediately becoming a blue jay. I shifted to a falcon, and we took to the air. We rushed to the entrance, over all of the animals and scientists below us. As we went over the railing, we turned right into the long hallway, and flapped our wings and fast as we could. In no time at all we reached the ladder and instead of climbing it as a normal person would, we instead flew up the tall, narrow tube. Sooner than later we came out of the tube and into the old, musty barn. I shifted back to myself again, and collapsed onto the floor. We were both exhausted from the stress of escaping, we had almost forgot to breathe.

"We've done it." Hannah said, "We've escaped." She crawled up and got on her feet. "Here", she said, extending her hand down to me. I reached out and grabbed her hand.

She pulled me up and we began walking. "Let's go home", I said.

"Mhhmm!" Mumbled Hannah frantically. I turned around. A man in dark clothes and armor had a handkerchief around her mouth. Her eyes blinked and her relaxed to the side, unconscious once again.

"Nooo!" I yelled, lunging at the man behind her. But right as my hand was about to reach him, some grabbed me from behind, and put one over my mouth. "Mmhm! Mhhhmm! Mm..." Almost instantly whatever chemical it was took effect, and I passed out.