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// 20) The Waiting Game 
// Story: The Death of Lab 14 
// by SapphireRose87 
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{Experiment Ada}

As I went around the corner to go down the hallway to my room, I gasped as I saw Head Cora lying face first down on the floor passed out right in front of her office. Well, maybe she's dead?

To be honest, I hoped that Head Cora was dead, because if she was then it would mean the end for Lab 14 possibly. It would also keep God Henry away from her and hopefully Lab 14 altogether.

For some reason I was actually concerned for her. I went over to her and tried to wake her up. "Head Cora! Head Cora, are you okay?"

Head Cora groaned and rolled on her side and sat up against a nearby wall. "I'm fine Experiment Ada, really I am."

I gave her a wary look. "Are you sure about that? You don't look so good. Maybe you should go get some rest for the day?"

I looked to see that she was completely disturbed by something. I wasn't about to ask her what was disturbing her and trust me, I didn't want to know. Wow, she's really that anxious for God Henry and God Derek to arrive? Why does she want to have them at Lab 14 so bad anyway? I mean, I know God Henry was the first experiment Lab 14 ever created, but is his really that valuable?

I was snapped out of my thoughts by Head Cora clearing her throat, "Uh, Experiment Ada? Are you daydreaming about Experiment Henry again?"

"Huh?" I said.

Head Cora laughed, "I know that lost in thought look when I see it. Most of the time it happens when a person is daydreaming about someone."

I gave Head Cora a nervous laugh, "Yes that's right, yup I was daydreaming about Experiment Henry alright. I was going to go have a wet dream about him in my sleep. Yup! That's exactly what I was doing."

Head Cora smiled. "Wow! But I do wonder, why did you run away from Lab 14 if you like Experiment Henry so much?"

I paused. To tell the truth, I ran away from Lab 14 and went to work for Star Labs because I was tired of getting disciplined by Head Cora again. I didn't want to have her forcing me to rape God Henry. I didn't want to tell Head Cora the truth, so once again I lied through my teeth. "Honestly Head Cora, I don't know."

Head Cora nodded and she seemed satisfied by my answer to her question. "Okay then, I have some more experiments for you to play with in the meantime. That is whenever you want to. You did say you were going to turn in for the day right?"

I nodded. "Yes Head Cora, I am tired."

Head Cora nodded and went into her office. I breathed a sigh of relief when I got to my room and closed the door.


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{Henry}

At this point I was starting to get very irritated that I haven't found Cora yet. Derek and I went back to the Inn after destroying four more locations of Lab 14. As a matter of fact I've been getting so irritated that when Derek and I keep having  to kill those tricky experiments so I got creative with it. I think I might have scared Derek doing that, he's never afraid of anything. Well, except for that first vision we shared that showed his anger in it.

I was out back by the barn taking two by fours and throwing them outside of the barn and at the walls. It was a way for me to get my anger out somehow. At least I had an outlet for it this time instead of being locked away in a room at Lab 14.

I threw another two by four at the barn wall when Derek came up beside me.

"Well, at least you have some way to get your anger out this time," Derek said.

"Yeah," I threw another two by four at the barn wall. Finally, I got tired of throwing the two by fours at the barn wall and sat down. "Why can't I just kill her already?"

Derek sighed, "I don't know why yet. But there is one location deep within a forest in the In Between that we saw before, remember what we talked about? We're going to save that one for last and I'm pretty sure when we get there, that's where that witch Cora will be. We have only three more locations left. Once we get those, then we go after the last one. If we run into Cora before we go to that location that we think is the last one, that will make our job easy. Then all we would have to do is destroy the rest of the location's and the job is finished."

I nodded. "Yeah, it's just annoying that I haven't seen her yet."

"I agree with you on that," Derek said. "I think you're overdoing it on how you kill those tricky experiments lately. It's kind of scaring me."

I smiled. "Why? They were going to die anyway. Do you think I'm going to become a psycho like Cora or something like that?"

"Not necessarily," said Derek, "it's just, I've never seen you this angry before. I mean I'm glad Tiger Stripes helped you get over your fear of facing her, but I think we've created another monster by that. Although I'd rather have you laughing like a psycho in your sleep than screaming in fear."

I snorted. "Yeah and that's because of the stupid test they did on me before the iron rod goes in. I plan on doing that to Cora when I see her."

Derek looked like he threw up in his mouth at the very mention of that test. I don't blame him because that test as I call it 'the rape test' is about as sick and demented as it comes. To think they did that to me before every single experiment that I was released into. From what Milton and Martin told me, Lab 14 did that same test to them and they have no idea if that test has produced any good results on their end either. It seems Lab 14 did that to every experiment they had and not just me. Good thing Lab 14 never got their hands on Derek like they wanted to.

"I'm glad Lab 14 never got their hands on you because you probably would have endured the same thing I did," I said. "That's exactly why I want Cora dead and fast. The last thing I want to deal with is another wedding. Yuck! There's no way I'm marrying any creature that passes for a woman that she picks for me. Nope, not happening!"

"What I want to know is why is she so obsessed with experiments marrying each other anyway?" Derek asked.

I shrugged. "I have no idea. All I know is she's psycho and a person like her should never be allowed to see the light of day."

"No kidding," Derek said.

The fact that I had not seen Cora yet made me more determined to search for her and I wasn't going to rest until I got my hands on her.


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{Cora}

I decided to take a day off for a change. But I didn't go outside of the last location of Lab 14. I was determined to stay there in case Experiment Henry and Experiment Derek arrived in my absence.

I was sitting in a private café at the location of Lab 14 that I'm in. I had a bottle of vodka and a cigarette. My now boyfriend who was the previous head of Lab 14 Aryan was sitting next to me but he was drinking whiskey.

Aryan looked at me and frowned. "Are you okay Cora? You don't look so good."

I sighed, "Yeah I'm just wanting Experiment Henry and Experiment Derek to get here. I was just going to kill Experiment Derek but when I reviewed the video footage from Experiment Roses wedding I saw one of his attacks that made me curious."

"What about it?" Aryan asked.

"Well, I saw an attack Experiment Derek has that looks very similar to Experiment Roses 'Tell Me You Love Me' attack. Only his attack is activated by the words 'Tell Me You Hate Me' instead. It makes him look like a rampaging bull. From what I heard, Experiment Derek has a glass eye because he touched a tree before his third birthday and it burned his eye to a crisp," I explained. "From what I know of, Experiment Derek has magic transfer, he can use the magic from his normal eye and transfer it over to his glass eye."

Aryan judging by the look on his face seemed impressed by this. "Interesting. Maybe we can get children from both of them?"

I shook my head. "I don't know, it's been hard enough to track them down with the tracker experiments. I've seen on the main computer that every location of Lab 14 is being destroyed one by one. You know what everyone's been saying about that."

Aryan laughed, "Yeah, yeah I know Experiment Henry and Experiment Derek have been destroying them. Yeah I find that hard to believe."

"That makes two of us," I said. "And from what some of the tracker experiments have told me, they've found other tracker experiments dead. Apparently that was Experiment Henry's doing. The reason why they know this is because their dead bodies were hung by their necks on the ceiling and whoever did it left a little note for me. It's one number, the number fourteen. I wonder if that's his way of making a death threat towards me? If that's the case then I think it's adorable."

Aryan and I had a good laugh at that thought. Even though I thought Experiment Henry's death threat is adorable, at the same time it actually scared me because if I die then I can't find the cure for death. That would mean I won't be able to bring mom and dad back from the dead.

"I know what you're thinking," said Aryan. "But to be honest, I'm beginning to wonder if finding the cure for death is even possible. Besides, even though we have your parents' bodies frozen, who's to say it'll work on people that have been dead for decades?"

"It'll work," I replied. "It has to work!"

"And what if it doesn't? What then Cora?" Aryan asked after raising an eyebrow.

I looked down, I don't know what I'll do if I can't resurrect mom and dad, not to mention Gloria and her dead dog. Why I felt that was the best way to deal with them was still beyond me. Either way I know soon Experiment Henry and Experiment Derek will arrive and I will be able to continue my research. But had to admit, it was fun torturing Experiment Henry and I envied him because of his power. I really thought that there was a cure for death and if anyone was going to find it, then it would be me.

I would use the cure for death to bring mom and dad back, along with Gloria and her dog. I would beg for their forgiveness because I killed them. Then hopefully, we could be happy together from then on. I was snapped out of my thoughts by Aryan's laughter. I frowned. "What is so funny?"

"I just think it's adorable the way that you think that once you bring your loved ones back from the dead, you can live happily ever after with them, the end," Aryan chuckled. "You know that's not possible right? Who's to say that even if the cure for death did work, would they accept your apology? I mean you're the one that killed them. If I were them I was brought back from the dead by the person that killed me, there's no way I would accept that person's apology."

I sighed, "I guess so, even if that's true, I still have to try."

I took another swig of my bottle of vodka when Aryan said, "Cora, have you thought of trying for another baby again?"

I spit the swig of vodka out on the floor and coughed because some of it went down the wrong pipe. Aryan laughed and patted me on the back. "Sorry, that was bad timing on my part and no I wasn't joking. I'm being serious here. I'm also thinking are the miscarriage you had an a failed wedding with us the reason why you want Experiment Henry to marry another experiment and give you children by it?"

"Ah…" I didn't know what to say to Aryan. I had to admit, Venom was right. My past failings are the reason why I put Experiment Henry through so much trouble to give me children that I desire. I'm still confused as to why there has been no success in that area yet. As a matter of fact, none of the experiments form Group A and that includes the female experiments that were in that group have yet to give us any children. From what I was told just about every experiment in that group lives in Equestria now and they were all children of royalty. So there's no way Lab 14 would be able to steal those experiments back unless we made a deal with the ruler of Equestria to give them back to us. But I doubt that's going to happen because the two twin experiments, Experiment Milton and Experiment Martin were the ruler of Equestria's twin boys that were taken by Lab 14. The same thing with Experiment Aria, she was the daughter of a Princess and a Prince that ruled over a place called the Crystal Empire and Experiment Sarah is now married to her. Experiment Jane is actually Discord's daughter and she is now married to Experiment Milton.

Then there's Experiment Henry and Experiment Derek, yeah there's no way I'm calling two experiments god, that'll be over my dead body.

I sighed, "You know what Aryan? There is a bit of truth to what you're saying. But for me now is not the time for a marriage or a baby at least for us. I'm going to find the cure for death and when I do, then it will be the time to do that."

Aryan shrugged. "Okay then, whatever you say."

It was whatever I said. What I say is I'm going to find the cure for death and no one's going to stop me.