The Ultimate Crossover: Dimensional Wars
Pilot Chapter: Experiment gone wrong!
Meanwhile in an underground laboratory, November 15th...
In the depths of a science institution in the middle of a thriving city, a man fiddled with a video camera until a red light lit up and the video camera started recording. The man chuckled and said "Alrighty, my kids will lose their minds when they see this!" then chuckled once more.
Suddenly, he heard a voice behind him say "You airhead, what the hell are you doing? You know we don't allow cameras in this area. The boss said so." And saw one of the lab employees walk in from the door behind him, with glasses, a lab coat, brown pants, tennis shoes, and messy hair.
"Don't worry, I won't show anyone besides my kids. And you know those darn youngins, they never care about what their parents show them. One moment their parents show them something cool then eventually POOF! They forget like a fish. Plus, at that age, nobody can believe you." Says the man with the camera.
The lab employee said "Don't be so sure. The last thing you want is for the boss to have a massive cow about showing non-employees our secret project."
"Whatever, let's go." The camera man says as he starts walking away. The other employee followed him.
The camera man walked up to a door on the other side of the two door room. He reached his hand out for a device attached to the wall. He pressed his hand against the device, and his hand's fingerprints were scanned. The device said in a robot voice "Fingerprints recognized. Employee, Peter Markman. Access granted." As the door, the device was connected to, slowly was unlocked. The other employee opened the heavy door and said "Let's go in."
"You know, I could've opened the door by myself." Said the camera man as he approached the open door.
The other employee said "You have a heavy camera and that's a heavy door. You need two hands to open that hunk of junk. Plus, I bet it took you 2 whole weeks worth of paychecks to afford that camera."
The camera man said "Yeah, whatever. Let's go." "Alright." Replied the other employee. The two men went inside and entered a large room filled with lab employees, all of them wearing the signature lab coats. Right as the two employees entered the room, a voice scolded them saying "Do I even need to say it? You two are late! Again."
The camera man responded "Well, I guess you did need to say it." With his friend snickering to the point of bursting out laughing.
The voice said "Shut it, Markman. Anyway, it's good that you two haven't missed ALL the fun. This shall be the best night of the history of this here science institution." Revealing himself to be an overweight man in a lab coat over his blue sweater, and black pants. The boss turned his head and asked "Hey Sanchez, is the energy supply full?"
A woman, blonde and with glasses, looked at her boss and answered "Yes sir, the Chaos Emeralds have filled the tank up with their energy."
"Perfect." Said the boss. "We shall now proceed with the project."
The boss then noticed Markman holding a video camera, currently recording. He said "Markman, what the hell are you doing with that camera? Recording is not allowed here. Didn't you read the rules over there?" Pointing at the rules sign on the wall. "Well sir, I'm recording this for my kids and no one else. I promise after I show my kids the video, I'll burn the footage, okay?" Said Peter holding the camera.
The boss replied "Alright fine. But you better actually get rid of the footage. We can't risk letting the public know about our project just yet. Understand?" "Ugh, yes sir." Peter sighed.
"Good." Said the boss. Sanchez asked "Sir, shall we proceed?"
The boss answered "Yes. We shall proceed. Activate the energy tube!"
"Yes sir." Sanchez said as she pulled the energy supply lever. The energy from the Chaos Emeralds started traveling through the tube and into the test tube in the middle of the room. The inside of the test tube had the body of an unconscious discolored hedgehog without part of his face and chest, and without a left arm. The energy tube connected to the test tube and filled a tank inside it with energy.
Multiple needles were inserted into the unconscious hedgehog and the tank emptied itself by having the energy travel through the little tubes that were connected to the needles. The needles then injected into the hedgehog and caused it to slightly glow green.
Markman was filled with awe as the hedgehog glowed green. He told his friend "Man, I'm so excited! Imagine the public's faces when we show them this! Maybe we can show our world leaders! Imagine their faces! I gotta tell ya, when we're done, we'll be best the science institution ever!"
"Well, I AM excited to show the press but I just hope we don't get attacked by The United Federations' military." Said Markman's friend. "Dude, what do you mean? Why do you think we're going to be attacked by G.U.N?" Asked Peter. His friend replied "Do you even know the boss? You've heard of his father-in-law, right?"
"Um, not really. What's up with his father-in-law?" Markman asked. "Let's just say he decided to play god up in his little space colony and the military wasn't too happy with him." Said Peter's friend. He then continued by putting his hands in a machine gun position and started doing noises. "The soldiers were sent there and went pewpewpewpewpewpewpewpew! It's one of the reasons the raid was also a massacre." "Ugh, tell me about it." Peter said. His friend suddenly continued "Hope we don't get the same treatment as Robotbik 37 years ago."
Peter felt a shiver running up and down his spine "Now I'm feel so confident anymore." The tank was finally left completely dry and the last bits of energy were inserted into the hedgehog. The boss turned around and said "Hey you!" While pointing to the employee next to Markman. "What? Who? Me?" Asked the employee. "Yes, you." The boss said. The employee replied "Oh. What is it?"
The boss said "Install the artificial body parts."
The employee, who's name was Charlie, said "Ok." And walked over to the test tube and pressed a red button. The top of the test tube had two holes that opened when the red button was pressed. Robotic hands descended from the ceiling and when a wide metallic briefcase was opened by an employee, in it being a mechanical prosthetic arm and the left side of a robot face, flat like a mask split in half, the robot arms grabbed the body parts and then went on top of the test tube. The robot arms went in the holes in the test tube and were submerged in the green liquid surrounding the hedgehog.
The body parts the robot arms were holding slowly were put into place, the mechanical arm in the left arm socket and the split robot mask in the hedgehog's missing left face. The boss walked over to the test tube and pressed a small green button. The outside of the test tube's transparent glass slowly transformed into one-way glass, the employees couldn't see the hedgehog but if the hedgehog gained consciousness, he could see the employees. The boss then pressed a small blue button and spots of light started emitting from the one-way glass. Minutes passed as the spots of light kept blinking. An employee looked at a monitor with the wireframe of the hedgehog. He reloaded the wireframe and saw the hedgehog with the new parts of its body. "It's ready, sir." Said the employee. The boss nodded and pressed the blue button then the green button.
The one-way glass transformed back into transparent glass as the workers of the facility looked in awe at their finished project, the hedgehog with the artificial body parts installed. Markman quietly murmured "Kids, eat your hearts out!" and pointed his video camera at the test tube with the hedgehog.
Charlie said "Finally! After all this time, our project is comple-" But was interrupted by the boss who said "Not yet, Charlie."
"Wha- Wha-, what do you mean?! The artificial limbs were installed. The energy is now in the hedgehog's blood. What else is there to do?!" Yelled Charlie, confused, at the boss. The boss ignored him and said "Sanchez, install the heart."
Sanchez responded "On it, sir."
She took out another briefcase and opened it. In it being the left part of a gray robotic chest, also flat like a mask. She then took out the inner layer that held the robotic chest and uncovered the bottom inner layer of the briefcase that held a heart, but half of it is organic and the other half is mechanical.
Peter asked "Is-Is that a h-heart?" "Yes, it's a heart. A half organic half mechanical one to be exact." The boss responded. Peter's jaw dropped as Charlie whispered into his ear "The miracle of science. It's a jaw-dropper."
After taking out the objects in the briefcase, she went behind the test tube and pressed a small red button with a silhouette of a heart. Two more robot arms lowered from the ceiling and grabbed the body parts. The robot arms then went above the test tube and entered through the same holes the other robot arms went through.
The hybrid heart was, what Peter thought, disgustingly shoved inside the hedgehog through a hole in a hole in its left side of the chest. The other robot arm covered the heart with the chest piece.
The boss was about to press a small orange button when Sanchez grabbed his wrist and stopped him.
"What?" He asked. Sanchez said "Before we can start the heart, we need to properly install it."
"But that heart. It can automatically install itself into any body. I tested it out with heart surgery victims. All surgeries were successful. Now, I am going to press this bu-" Said the boss before he was interrupted by Sanchez. "Sir, I removed that feature."
"But...But why?"
"I didn't think it was safe." Sanchez said. "Even machines can mess up. Don't worry, I'm careful and quick."
"But Sanchez, the host is not alive. Not yet anyway. What are you so worried about?" "What if the heart is installed incorrectly? If that happens, our project won't live very long." Responded Sanchez. The boss put his hand on his face then groaned "Ugh fine, install the heart yourself." Sanchez then went behind a desk and turned on a monitor. She took out a joystick and with a push of a switch under it. The monitor showed footage of a camera on the right robot arm. Sanchez explained "Alright, we first need to-" Before she heard a door slam, interrupting her.
"Charlie and Peter went to go take a smoke break." The boss said.
As the boss said, Charlie and Peter were above the underground lab in the employee lounge, Peter covering his mouth with his hand and holding a small trash can while Charlie was actually smoking a cigaratte. Charlie took out the cigaratte out of his mouth and said "I know how you feel. I may not be as squeamish as I was before but it can't stop the truth from being the true. I vomit very easily. Especially if I saw Sanchez attach a hybrid heart, half of it being normal and half of it miraculously being made out of goddamn steel." As he blew out smoke out of his mouth. Peter took a sniff of the smoke and held the small trash can to his mouth while gagging until he finally hurled in the trash can. "Jesus." Said Charlie who was disgusted by Peter regurgitating his lunch into a trash can.
20 minutes later, Sanchez was done installing the heart at the same time as Peter and Charlie came back in the with Peter saying "Hey, we're back. What did we miss?" "You came just in time, the heart is in. You can now press the button, sir." Sanchez replied. The boss sighed and said "Alright." Then pressed the orange button. Behind the hedgehog inside the test tube, two small doors opened and robot hands emerged from it. The robot hands didn't really have hands. They actually had a pair of defibrillators. Charlie said "Wait, are those...Defibrillators?" With Peter as well saying "The hell?"
Sanchez approached the boss and said "Sir, you're kidding me!"
The boss responded "I know, it may seem stupid. But hear me out. Defibrillators use electricity to regulate an irregular heartbeat. So I thought "Hmm, I wonder if I make defibrillators that use 1000 to 1200 volts of electricity that can restart a heart in case of cardiac arrest or in this case, start a heart that has never beaten before?"
"Sir, that doesn't make sense! First off, defibrillators use only 200 to 1000 volts to just regulate an irregular heartbeat, like you said. Second, using more volts can either make the heart explode or or in case of a beating heart, stop one." Explained Sanchez. The boss responded "Sanchez, the only reason I don't respond to you the way I want to is because I don't like to argue with women. The heart is half mechanical. Robots are mechanical and they're powered by electricity. The same can happen to the heart."
"Sir, will you please shut up and find another wa-" Yelled Sanchez before she heard electricity and saw Peter holding the orange button. In unison, the boss and Sanchez screamed "PETER!"
"What? I'm just proceeding with the project since you clowns are more interested in arguing like children." Replied an annoyed Peter. The defibrillators sent their electricity to the hedgehog's heart, with the hedgehog twitching by the shocks. As the hedgehog was electrocuted, it violently twitched, making all the employees nervous. Charlie wiped the sweat of his forehead as the footage from Peter's camera was glitching. Sanchez said "Peter, stop the defibrillators!"
The boss continued "Yeah, you'll turn our project into grilled hedgehog!" "Hey, you're the one who was arguing with Sanchez. I'm just finishing what we started." Peter responded. Peter held the button as employees noticed the lab equipment was malfuntioning. Charlie asked "Um boss? Is it normal that everyone's equipment is going nuts?"
"Oh no. The defibrillators must be making the Chaos Energy in the hedgehog go haywire. That's why the machines are failing."
The hedgehog's heart started beating but since it was still being electrocuted, it let out grunts and groans. An employee, slightly overweight and with a slightly dirty lab coat, looked at the glitching heart monitor and told the boss "Sir, the heartrate has started!" Peter looked at the hedgehog and got worried. The hedgehog then let out a scream that had everyone cover their ears as the test tube glass started breaking. The boss said to another employee "Disconnect the defibrillators!" The nerdy-looking employee, in glasses and neat dark colored hair, went behind the test tube and opened a panel with all the devices connected to the test tube. Before he could disconnect the defibrillators, a rush of electricity shocked the employee and then made him go unconscious. The hedgehog grunted and groaned as the defibrillators were making it twitch and burn. The carbon polymer glass started shattering more as the Chaos Energy was getting more and more out of control.
Instantly, the hedgehog opened his eyes and released another loud scream as the test tube glass broke into small shards and the machines above the test tube, that were powering it, exploded and destroyed the underground lab. Everyone was sent flying as the lab ceiling collasped and trapped the unconscious enployees in large pieces of debris. Even with the cacophony of the ceiling pieces giving in and causing a disaster in the lab, nobody above the lab heard it.
Time passed, it felt like hours, days, or longer. The lab was quiet, until, little by little, a hand came out like a zombie coming out of its grave. Another hand came out then came a head, it was Peter. He slowly wiggles out of the debris, getting his chest out and then his legs.
After getting his body out, he noticed that the lab was completely destroyed and completely in ruins.
"My god, that sure was an explosion from the experiment." Peter said as he took of his lab coat and left his science pun t-shirt on. As he looked around the debris filling up the lab, he suddenly remembered something and made him let out a quiet "Oh shit."
He ran toward pile of debris, looking for Charlie and the other employees and the boss while yelling "Charlie! Ivo! Sanchez!" After inspecting three piles, he finally found Charles, unconscious but still breathing. Peter said "Oh, thank god he's still breathing. I gotta get everyone outta here and call the paramedics."
But then after grabbing Charlie and pulling him out of the debris, he saw a faint green light coming from the broken test tube. He went closer and closer until he saw the project. Kneeling in pain, breathing heavily, and with green lightning running around his skin like there was an invisible aura.
Peter made a small grin and thought "(That son of a bitch did it. He played god. Revolutionary.)"
While Peter continued pulling Charlie out of the debris, there was a balcony that had a hooded figure watching over Peter. He then turned his head to the hedgehog Peter saw. He made a grin and let out a quiet chuckle as he saw the creation of a man playing god.
Find out what happened next by reading the first actual chapter of the Ultimate Crossover: Dimensional Wars!
Thanks for reading the pilot chapter of my story! I hope you all have a nice start to 2019!