Ch. 2 What Now?
When Leroy woke up, he sees bright sun light piercing into his eyes and quickly closes them. After a few seconds, he recovers from the light and slowly opens his eyes. He sits up and examines the scene before him. He only sees sand. Sand. And more sand around him. He stands up, but then wobbles a little and so he went back to sit down.
He tilts his head to the side in confusion as he thought why he was so off balance. Also, where he is.
He crosses his arms over his chest and closes his eyes in deep thought, 'Meega isa ship. Now meega out ship? How happened? Why meega so weak too?'
Then he opens his eyes at the realization of what happened, "They did this! Meega isa in exiled!"
He growls because of how he was treated by the Grand councilwoman, "Meega get revenge against her and council."
But then he remembers one more detail, a detail that made him hate the council so much more. "They took meega super-strength, super-speed, and super intelligence. They pay soon. Meega swear."
He stands up but stumbles after trying to walk. He takes it slow and then he starts to walk and then he jogs. Jogs as fast as he can to find anything. He had to take many stops because he was panting like a tired dog from the couple of miles he ran.
"Mee...ga...need...back...to...100...%" he gasps in between breaths.
He treks through the sand until he found a bizarre town filled with numerous aliens, he quickens his pace and enters the town. He is swiftly lost in the sea of people, until he bumps into a bazaar and almost drops a Fruit Stall.
"Hey bozo! Look where ya going! Ya idiot!" the alien looking like a mix of bull and giraffe exclaims crossed.
Leroy rolls his eyes as he passes through each stall. Some of them had fish, others had jewelry, few more had food and clothes. Leroy grabs his stomach as he hears it rumble.
He grabs it again hearing the rumbling as he mutters, "Meega hamataka. Meega misa hamataka."
He looks around and only one thought came to mind, 'Meega need food. Meega steal food.'
He went in a complete circle and was once again near the Fruit Stall, he took a closer look and saw a loaf of bread lying in the open space. He looks around swiftly and then quickly grabs it as he walks away.
"Hey!" A voice calls out and Leroy keeps walking. "Hey you! Red dog, you need to pay for that!"
Leroy hastens his pace some more as the voice shouts, "Help! Thief! Stop him!"
Then he hears more voices cry out, "Make way! Move it! Move it!"
Leroy looks over his shoulder and sees guards with curved electric swords and laser spears running at him. He runs down an alleyway and into a narrow crevice as he hears the footsteps run pass him.
"C'mon men! He went this way! There's no other way!"
Leroy stays close to the wall as the voices die down. Leroy slowly goes near the wall and watches them run out of the alleyway. He steps out a little further, until he feels something poke behind him. He turns around and sees a guard with a laser spear pointing at his face. The alien Husky Wolf hybrid quickly grabs him as Leroy tries to break free of the hold. They go down an alleyway as the dog growl.
He throws Leroy against the wall and barks, "Fancy meeting you here! What are you supposed to be?!"
"Meega naga nota youga. Besides, that isa naga any youga business," Leroy quips angrily.
"Stitchy boy you think that costume will work on me!" the husky hollers.
"Gaba? How youga nota him? Also that naga meega!" Leroy shouts loudly but is intrigued by the alien.
He stiffens as Leroy stares at him intensely.
"Choota. I ruined my own disguised," the dog hybrid confesses.
Leroy continues to stare at him, interested by what the creature said. The dog looks around, releases Leroy and then his skin peels open as a reddish-brown fur creature with yellow-orange around his eyes, on his stomach, and chest. He has bigger ears, a big purple nose, black sharp claws, a wiry body and a cone-shaped head. Leroy jumps into a fighting stance as he bares his teeth to stranger, "Who isa youga?!"
The stranger states, "Meega isa 627, but, meega name isa Evile."
"627? Evile?" Leroy tilts his head in confusion.
"Ih, meega created to beat down Stitch because he was too full of himself. Then meega was turned into pod. After that, I was activated and try to capture him for Hamsterwheel. Meega decided to be my own person and took ship and flew away into space. Having fun, freedom and adventure," Evile briefly explains his life story.
With Leroy nodding while Evile turns to him and asks, "Cama'ahar Teh Tebracres?"
"Meega name isa Leroy. Meega 629," Leroy stated a little unsure.
As Evile walks closer to him, Leroy kept growling at him for space.
"Why youga misa mad?" Evile questions Leroy.
"Because meega lost many abilities, Grand Councilwoman order meega lose powers and now meega naga strong, fast or smart," Leroy answers bitterly.
He adds, "Meega kill her and gain abilities."
He glances over to Evile and comments, "Bye. Meega do alone."
Evile shakes his head, "You naga going make it by yourself."
"Yeah! Just watch meega!" Leroy challenges him.
"You do realize if youga caught, youga will lose your paw. That is how things are around here. An eye for an eye, a hand for a hand, etc. In fact, youga might lose your neck," Evile comments truly, "Be careful with your vendetta. But, don't come crawling back to me if you in trouble."
"Naga worry. Meega won't," Leroy stated as he rolls his eyes and leaves Evile while Evile goes to the opposite direction.
Both mutter, "Toobaga."
Leroy picks up the discarded bread he had dropped and takes a bite out of it as he walks.