The brothers had lost all hope in the white suits after everything that had happened. But the logical part of Henrik figured since they made all of them, they wouldn’t let them… they wouldn’t sit around if one of them was hurt, right?

This was the only place Schneep knew could help Jackie. He hadn’t been there in so long and he prayed that they hadn’t abandoned their base for some other location.

As he neared the base his heart caught in his throat. The lights in the base were dark.

“No...No.. NO!” Henrik breathed. He swam as fast as he could to one of the windows and peered inside. Someone had to be there, please!

A face suddenly appeared behind the glass from where Schneep’s reflection was. Henrik screamed and scrambled back before the face cleaned the dust away from the window. Henrik could see a woman now, with dark curly black hair and dark skin. He blinked at her. She tapped her fingers against the glass, her head contained in a typical white suit helmet.

She mouthed what looked like ‘follow me’ before pointing to a large hatch on the side of the base. Henrik hesitated, but a groan and pained whimper from Jackie shook his doubt and he swam for it.

The hull door opened with a shrill squeak into what looked like an air lock. But it was filled with water. Henrik sighed slightly in relief. Once he and Jackie were inside a red light blinked on above and a tinny robotic voice reverberated throughout the water.

Decontamination commencing... Please stand by.

Henrik held onto Jackie tighter, his eyes wide with fear. A couple small jets popped out of the wall and sprayed a foul looking blue white liquid into the water. Henrik coughed, the solution irritating his throat and eyes. It didn’t last long though and the murky semi-red water they brought in settled and seemed to clear. Another beep followed by a now green light, signaled the door to the base opening. Henrik quickly swam through and nearly barrelled into the white suit.

“Woah, woah! Slow down!” She piped through the speaker on her suit, “What’s going on-” She cut herself off once she saw the steady flow of blood coming from Jackie and covered her mouth.

“Oh my!” She quickly stomped to what looked like an operating table through the water, “Quickly come settle him here!”

Henrik quietly compiled and helped the white suit lay Jackie on the table. His face was way too pale, the bags under his eyes looked almost purple in the dim blue light of the base. HIs breaths come out in ragged shaky bursts. Henrik blinked to keep himself from crying.

The white suit quickly swam to one side of the room and grabbed what looked like a large light. She set it behind the table and switched it on and it took a few seconds before it flickered weakly.

“I apologize,” She mumbled, swimming back so she could look at the wound, “We’ve been out of power for sometime….” Henrik looked around now that he could see better. He saw what looked like lab equipment: beakers, waterproof charts and monitors, pictures of bones and muscles of the fish surrounding the area. Henrik recognized a couple from his own mini experiments. His throat closed slightly and he swallowed. Was he becoming like a white suit?

He looked around to see a few large cages in the corner, containing some larger fish. A tiny boneshark, a few peepers, a crashfish, a jellyray. But they all looked like they had been healed in some way. Some wore clean white bandages, others seemed to have fins splinted to keep them from moving. All of them were chomping on what looked like fresh meals. Henrik was perplexed. He had never seen a white suit being kind to another fish before…. Well, not since they took Jack.

A rustling behind him caused Henrik to look around to see the white suit grabbing a couple tools: what looked like string, needles, a syringe filled with clear liquid and a wicked looking scalpel.

“You’re very fortunate i was here, i can certainly fix your br-!” a small squeak escaped her lips as Schneep grabbed her wrist and snarled in her face, but he looked more scared than angry.

“Don’t-!... Do not hurt him.” He breathed, “please…”

The white suits paused before giving him a small smile.

“I’m not going to hurt him, Henrik.” Henrik was caught off guard by the use of his name and the white suit pulled her hand from his grasp gently before turning to work on Jackie. She carefully inserted the syringe into his upper arm and slowly Jackie began to relax, his head falling lightly to the table. She looped the thick looking string to a needle and started to press into the skin, looking like she was trying to pull the sides of his cut together. Henrik watched above her, fascinated.

‘“How.. How do you know mein name?” Schnnep asked quietly. The white suit chuckled softly.

“I was there when you were created. Though there, we used to call you SH-003.” She concentrated a second on a particularly tough spot and winced slightly as a soft whimper left Jackie’s mouth.

“And we called Jackie RL-006… I much prefer your chosen names though,” She said with a smile. Henrik swam to the other side of the table to watch her work better as well as talk to her face to face.

“How were you there when we were created? This base.. We were not made here,” Henrik questioned.

“No you’re right. This base wasn’t made for heavy experimenting. We use this for observation and research.” She reached under the table and pulled out a jar of some sort. She opened it and put a generous amount on the still bleeding parts of the wound. Jackie seemed to sigh slightly, his face softening and the bleeding died down. “We haven’t been to the main branch in quite some time…” she commented, continuing her work.

“The main branch? Are all the white suits from there?”

The white suit chuckled again. “Is that what you boys call us?” Henrik flushed red slightly and coughed, “Well.. you do all wear white….”

She laughed again, “Well i suppose so. Alterra is very white themed… But yes, we all came from the main branch. That main base was our headquarters for the all the researchers from Alterra,” Henrik looked confused, so she expanded, “Our home planet.. Well company more like it. Not every, how you call them ‘white suit’ is part of them now though.”

Her face seemed to darken some.

“We all came here to research and see what we could do with the planet’s resources. But some of our group instead chose to use our limited supervision here to run cruel experiments on the wildlife.” She met Henrik’s eyes for a second, “I’m sure you’re familiar?”

Henrik was suddenly reminded of a memory he had long since repressed. The sounds of screaming and tearing, water tanks filling with bolts of lightning. He shuddered but nodded, holding his arms.

“A lot of us didn’t come here to harm others. We came here to help people. Seeing such experiments broke our hearts….” She paused to use the scalpel to the cut the string she had finished tying. She grabbed what looked like a roll of seaweed bandages and began to wrap Jackie’s tail.

“They wanted to begin tougher experiments on you boys…” She said grimly, “But I wouldn’t stand for it. My team and I threatened to report the entire twisted thing to the whole of the company to try to stop them. But they wouldn't. They believed down here... They could do anything. And Alterra might actually let them continue…”

“We all hatched a plan to steal you boys away, so you could grow up in the ocean… The ones on our side were a bigger group than theirs. We created a hatch for you to escape from and stole all the sea moths and equipment we could to set up bases around here so we could observe you. But not interfere, so you could grow up on your own….” She looked up at Henrik and smiled, “You were always the most curious of the bunch, Henrik. Don’t think we didn’t see you sneaking around.” She chuckled as Schneep turned redder and looked away.

She continued, “The others weren’t happy with us… they wanted you all back. But we threatened to fight tooth and nail to keep you all safe. The company here split into two factions. the white suits i guess as you know them… They’re the Alterra arms. We like to call ourselves the Ocean’s arms. Since we want to help the life here in whatever way we can.” After wrapping Jackie up in the seaweed she pulled out clean white bandages.

Henrik was mulling this all over in his head. “If you were watching us… why did you let them take Jack?!” He suddenly yelled slamming his hands on the table. The white suits fumbled with the bandages for a second before looking up at Schneep surprised.

“They… they took Jack?”

“Yeah… when we were still very small… it has been so long now,” Schneep said, sinking slightly. “They have Anti too… and they have… changed him somehow.”

The white suit set down the bandages and held her head slightly, “I… We had no idea! Most of our bases have had severe power outages and damages over the past years or so because we’re running on fumes from the split…”

Suddenly her head snapped up and she gritted her teeth looking outraged.

“Of course…” She yelled and kicked at a nearby piece of equipment, “Those bastards! They caused all this! They destroyed our supplies and cut off our connection to Alterra so they could get away with their sick plans!” She rested on a nearby counter and held her face in her hands.

Schneep slowly swam over.

“I’m so sorry Henrik… we tried to protect you and your brothers.. And we failed…”

Henrik hesitated before placing a hand on her shoulder, “Hey it is okay... Well it is not, really. But you all did all you could…” He tried encouraging. “And well… you saved Jackie… that is worth something.”

The white suit smiled at him.

Obsessed with the idea i saw on xwitter of koga having a mega dragalge cause they match!?!?!?