The Island � Chapter 2 Written by Archie-Fan betty_cooper72@gmail.com After meeting the Amazons living on the island the mystery only deepens ****************************************************************************** ***************** The survivors were marched through the jungle by the amazons in two lines. The males were following behind Lauren while the females were behind Bianca. Abigail led the whole group while the other Amazons followed on either side with two of them at the rear. As he marched along Archie briefly entertained the thought of trying to make a run for it. However after seeing how easily and callously the amazons had killed people back at the crash site, Archie figured that was probably not a very good idea. It wasn't as though he had any idea as to where to go and the Amazons seemed so physically superior he probably wouldn't get very far anyway. Archie looked over at Betty who was marching along behind Miss Grundy and Cheryl. Betty glanced over at Archie a frightened look on her face. Archie wanted to reassure Betty that everything would be okay, but the truth was he didn't know if it would and signs in fact suggested that it wouldn't be. It wasn't very long before they had made their way out of the jungle. Once they had they found themselves in some large fields with crops. The crops were being picked and gathered by people dressed in tattered clothing. Some of them looked as though they may have been refugees fleeing from the Middle East or North Africa, others looked like they were wealthy people who's clothing was now tattered after they'd been forced into manual labour. The people working in the fields were being watched by even more Amazons. "Geez what is this place?" Jughead whispered to Archie. "How many of these women are there?" Before Archie could reply the amazon nearest to them, a brunette with long hair and had a noticeable freckle on her right breast just above her nipple, stepped closer. "No talking!" she snapped. Archie and Jughead both cowered and nodded as they continued on. Soon they had passed through the fields and arrived on some sort of town. However the buildings were unlike anything they had ever seen before. They were made of some unknown bluish-white metallic material with no windows and had rounded off corners. There were a dozen or so smaller buildings that lined the perimeter of the town and in the middle was a large sort of complex that sort of looked like a futuristic castle or something. They saw groups of Amazons leading other groups of slaves as well as individual Amazons walking about. Abigail came to a stop and turned to Lauren and Bianca. "Take our new recruits for processing," Abigail said. "I'm going to go file the report." Abigail headed off. "Alright you pathetic insignificant males, follow behind me," Bianca said. "And ladies, you follow me," Lauren said. They each led their groups in separate directions. As they headed off Archie and Betty looked at each other one last time before they were forced to move along, unsure if they would ever see each other again. ****************************************************************************** ***************** Archie, Jughead, Reggie and the rest of the male survivors followed behind Bianca. She had led them into one of the buildings of the complex and down a long corridor and finally into another room. Inside was a lone amazon, a blonde with a short punk-pixie style hair cut. There was also something that looks a bit like an X- ray scanner one would see at an airport or other security checkpoint, although it was a bright white in colour. "Line up against the wall," Bianca ordered. The males all quickly went to do as ordered. "So zese are ze new recruits?" the blonde asked Bianca, speaking with a French accent. "Yes, not much to look at I know," Bianca responded. The blonde smirked and nodded. "Alright listen up you maggots," Bianca said turning back to the males. "What's going to happen is one by one you're going to walk through this scanner and then Marie-Claude here is going to process you according to the results in gives her, got it?" The males all simply nodded in agreement, but all of them had questions as to what exactly it meant to be processed. However none of them voiced those questions as they all realized it would lead to an immediate and brutal death. Bianca then shoved the first male in line, a very nervous Asian man, towards the scanner. The man paused in front of the scanner as Marie-Claude stood on the other side staring at him. "Well step through ze scanner," Marie-Claude said some what impatiently. The man stepped through scanner. As he stepped through the scanner changed from white to blue. None of the males knew what that meant. Marie-Claude then stepped towards the man holding something that looked a bit like a nail gun in her right hand. She jammed the device against the back of the man's neck and he let out a yelp as she seemed to inject something into him. A door then opened up behind her. "Go through ze door and await further instructions," Marie-Claude ordered him. The man hurried off, thankful to still be alive. "Next!" Marie-Claude called. Archie and Reggie watched as Bianca shoved the next man towards the scanner. "You know if they weren't so murderous these women would be kinda hot," Reggie whispered to Archie. Before he could reply Bianca came marching over. "Only kinda hot?" Bianca asked. "I'm quite sure that all of us are more than �kinda hot'." Bianca posed and flexed, but Archie and Reggie were both more surprised by how she had managed to overhear them. "Oh are you wondering how I heard you? Well that's because we are superior to you pathetic males in every possible way. Not only are we bigger, stronger, sexier. We are also smarter; all of our senses are better than any human or animal. We can see better than eagle, smell better than a dog and hear better than a rabbit." Bianca explained. "We are so superior you are lucky that we even tolerate your presence." Her speech had left all the males utterly terrified. "Next!" Marie-Claude called out. "How about you?" Bianca said as she reached for Reggie. "No, leave him alone," Mr. Fine said stepping in front and defending his student. "You want to go next, suit yourself," Bianca said. "You're all going to be processed anyway." Bianca then shoved Fine towards the scanner. He looked back at his students with a stoic expression on his face. He then calmly stepped through the scanner. Unlike with the first two men this time the scanner changed to red. The males, and especially Fine, all wondered what this meant. Fine looked towards Marie-Claude who slowly smiled. Fine stood nervously as Marie-Claude reached out and placed her big hand on his head. Then very abruptly she clenched it in a fist and squeezed crushing his head flat in an instant. She then tossed Fine's headless corpse to one side where the floor suddenly opened up and his body fell in and vanished as the hole disappeared as quickly as it had appeared. "Next!" Marie-Claude called out with a wicked grin on her face. Archie and Reggie both looked at each other and gulped nervously ****************************************************************************** ***************** Betty wasn't having a better time. She and the rest of the females had followed Lauren to another section of the complex. Betty noticed a smell in the air that sort of reminded her a bit of a hospital. They were lined up against the wall outside of a room. There was a large window looking into the room. In the room there was only a single chair. It looked sort of like one of those hair drying chairs at a salon, but instead of the dome that would come down there was just a ring or halo. The room had three other doors on the far side, where they went Betty didn't know. She wondered if Archie was going through the same thing wherever he had been taken or if he was still alive. Betty then noticed Lauren talking to another amazon. This new amazon was easily as tall as Lauren and had long dark brown hair and hazel eyes with noticeably thick eyebrows. She was wearing a similar sling bikini type outfit although hers was a silvery-white. "Alright ladies listen up," Lauren barked. "This here is Iryna, she will be processing you determining your value to us so listen to her instructions." "One by one you will come into the room, you will sit in the chair while I perform a scan," Iryna explained, her voice had a faint but noticeable eastern European accent. "Once the scan is complete you will then be sent through one of the three doors. Failure to follow the instructions of myself or Lauren will result in your immediate termination, understood?" All of them nodded. "Alright let's begin," Iryna said. The first woman in line, a middle-aged Hispanic woman, followed Iryna into the room. The woman sat in the chair and the halo lowered automatically around the woman's head. Iryna tapped something on her wrist computer thing and the chair glowed dimly. The glow of the chair then changed to orange and the halo raised up. The left most door opened and Iryna indicated that the woman should head through the door. As soon as she did the door closed behind her. The process continued on, as woman after woman sat in the chair. When it glowed orange the left most door opened and when it glowed purple the middle door opened. However so far nobody had caused the right most door to open so Betty didn't know what colour that would be. She'd watched as some of her friends had all ready been scanned. Nancy Woods and Midge Klump had been sent through the orange door and Ethel Muggs and Brigitte Reilly had been sent through the purple door. Betty wondered what was going to happen on her turn. Up next was Cheryl Blossom. Betty was somewhat amazed at how Cheryl walked with confidence to the chair and sat down showing no fear. The chair scanned Cheryl and then it glowed green and right most door opened. As Cheryl walked towards the door Betty noticed a small smirk on Cheryl's face, as if Cheryl was proud of accomplishing something. Betty was second in line of the women left, ahead of her was Miss Grundy. "Put on a brave face like Cheryl did Betty," Grundy said to Betty before she took her turn. Betty watched as Grundy sat down in the chair for her turn. To Betty's surprise the chair glowed green once again and Grundy was sent through the right most door. Betty swallowed as she steeled herself for her turn. Betty walked past Lauren, her head barely reaching the bottom of Lauren's huge breasts and into the room. She looked at Iryna who motioned towards the chair and Betty climbed into the chair. As her back rest against the chair the halo automatically lowered around her head. She could hear the chair hum slightly as it scanned her. Betty glanced to her left to look at Iryna who was looking at the screen on her wrist. Betty noticed that Iryna had a slightly confused look on her face and Betty felt like this was taking longer than it had for all the other women. Their scans had taken just a few seconds at most, this was definitely taking longer. However finally the chair glowed orange and the left most door opened. The halo automatically raised up from around Betty's head. "Head through the open door," Iryna instructed. Betty got up out of the chair and walked through the door not sure what would happen. ****************************************************************************** ***************** Archie, Reggie and Jughead were gathered in a fenced area with all the other males from the plane that had survived being processed. Every now and then they were joined by one of the female survivors. Midge and Nancy had joined them and then Archie eyes went wide when he saw Betty. "Betty, you're still alive!" Archie exclaimed as he ran over to her. Betty was rubbing her neck where she'd just been injected with something as Archie grabbed her and hugged. "Oh my gosh Archie, I'm glad to see you too," Betty responded as she returned the hug. "Are you okay?" Archie asked. "I'm fine, they just injected me with something. I think they said it was a tracking device," Betty replied. "Yeah same here," Archie said as he showed Betty the spot on the back of his neck where his tracker had been implanted. "What do you think they're going to do with us?" Betty asked. "I have no idea, maybe we'll be forced to work in the fields like those other slaves," Archie replied. Betty nodded, she didn't really have any other ideas. This island was still rather mysterious. After a while slaves stopped entering the fenced in area and they were left to just mill about, but only for a few minutes. At that point Abigail returned along with several other Amazons and a group of slaves, who all appeared to be Asian they appeared to be carrying various tools. "Alright listen up all of you," Abigail said. "You are all about to be put to work. You will be dismantling your crashed aircraft into scrap for us to recycle for our own needs." Abigail then opened up a gate in the fence. "Now come on let's go," she ordered. Everyone in the pen shuffled out and followed. The group made their way out of the complex, pasted the fuels and into the jungle until they reached the plane. The group of Asian slaves had been forced to carry the tools as well to drag two carts. Abigail had them bring the carts in front of her as she addressed the slaves. "You will each come forward and take a ration bar from one cart and a canteen of water from the other," Abigail instructed. "You will only take one of each, or else..." She let that hang in the area and everyone understood what she meant. Then to the surprise of everyone on the plane Abigail repeated her orders in what sounded like Chinese, apparently for the Asian slaves. The slaves then lined up each of them took their ration bar and canteen as Abigail and two other Amazon guards watched making sure nobody took more. "Man these things are tasteless," Jughead grumbled as he ate his ration bar. "Yeah, but oddly filling," Archie said. "Speak for yourself," Jughead responded. They were only given a few minutes to eat and then tools were divided up and they were put to work. Archie, Jughead, Reggie and Betty got to work removing the seats from the plane. Archie and Betty used a grinder to cut away the supports and Jughead and Reggie carried them out. They were working near the back of the plane and there was another group of four Chinese slaves who were dismantling the airplanes tail assembly, cutting the plane's thin skin off and removing parts. There was one Amazon watching the seven of them named Lana. She was a little bit shorter and stockier than the other Amazons, but still about eight feet tall and incredibly menacing. She looked to be of Asian decent herself, perhaps Indonesian or Filipino though. Archie and Betty were working inside the plane and Reggie and Jughead were fighting to get a set of seats out when they heard the sound of screaming outside the plane. They went to the windows and looked to see one of the Chinese slaves grasping at a stump where his hand had been. It appeared as thought he'd cut his own hand off with a chop saw. Lana came over to the slave and looked down at him with disdain. "O, ni shangle ziji ma?" Lana asked sarcastically in Mandarin She then picked the slave up by his good arm hold his hand in hers and stared at him for a moment. Then all of a sudden she crushed his other hand in her grip leaving him with a second bloody stump. "Xianzai ni you duichenle" Lana said with a cruel laugh. The slave just sobbed in agony and an annoyed Lana then snapped his neck and let his corpse fall to the ground. Just then Abigail came over an annoyed look on her face. "What's going on here?" Abigail asked angrily. "This slave injured himself so I put him out of his misery," Lana replied. "Yeah and where are his colleagues?" Abigail asked. Lana turned around to see that the other three Chinese slaves had run off. "Oh fuck," Lana cursed. "I'll get them." "No, you're not doing anything," Abigail said putting a hand on Lana's shoulder and stopping her. Abigail motioned for two other Amazon's to come over. "Bring them back alive," Abigail instructed them. The two Amazons nodded and then took off into the jungle with incredible speed. "I think we're just about done here for the day," Abigail said. "It's starting to get dark and these slaves can't see as well in the dark as we can." Abigail stepped back from the plane. "Everybody finish up, gather what you've removed and we will head back to the complex for the day," Abigail ordered. Everyone was quickly rounded up and they began making their way back to the complex. Archie and Betty both noticed that Lana was being kept separate away from the slaves, watched over by two other Amazons. It seemed like she was being punished for allowing the slaves to escape. It made them curious as to what Lana's punishment would be.