Vlad's screams echo in the room. Blood drips from the machine his wrist is in. Is this thing eating his arm? Literally? I shiver at Vlad's torture. I want it to stop. I want Vlad to be okay again. I want him to remember so he can beat up that stupid Callidus guy. Callidus, who'd doing this to my best friend. Callidus, who doesn't know what's coming for him. Vlad does another scream, and my hands clench into a fist. I want to go after him now. I want to show that freak what he gets for putting my best friend in pain.
"We can't go after him yet, Henry. We need to get Vlad to safety first." He was reading my mind? No fair. Vlad screams again, and we both wince. Tears fill Otis's eyes. "I just hope we can do it before it kills him." That last sentence makes me shoot a look at him.
"This thing can kill him?"
"Well just look at him, Henry. He's losing a lot of blood, and can't you hear how intense his screams are? Plus he has no knowledge of the world around him. Now please help me."
We try every button and switch that looks safe to touch. We turn it off, but we need to reverse it now. Vlad stops his screaming (thank goodness), but he's breathing very heavily, and he's still unconscious. At least he stopped screaming; it was scaring the crap out of me.
"I don't see any way to reverse this, Otis. What do we do?" Otis looks frantically at every button there is.
"There must be a code to turn it off, they're all numbered."
"There were numbers on the door that I was locked in. They decoded to prisoners."
"Then this should be much simpler. What word do you think they'd use?" That's not a very hard question; that Callidus guy is an idiot. I type in the numbers, and it starts going back to the watch. Vlad screams, but not as bad this time. After it's done we pull his arm out. I almost puke. Around where the watch is some blood is oozing out.
"Now we need to get Vlad to a hospital. Doesn't this have a transporting setting?" I press the buttons on Vlad's watch to get to Stokerton Hospital. Hopefully he'll be okay now.
I watch Otis as he toys with Vlad's watch. He's been at it for hours. During that time, I've helped the nurses bandage Vlad up, and I've even taken a nap. At least Vlad's heart beat his back to normal now. He still looks like he's in pain, though. If I didn't know better and if the heart monitor wasn't beeping, I would say that he's dead. Thank goodness he's still alive.
"Are you finding anything Otis?" Otis looks back at me. He's all sweaty and exhausted. I wouldn't blame him.
"Almost. I just need a few more minutes."
Otis hits the last switch. Vlad's body jumps, but not in pain. As I run to Vlad's side, huge, meaty arms grab me. Otis is fighting back, putting up a gargantuan fight. I try to struggle out, but to no avail. This big guy (and I mean big guy) has me locked in his big arms. Other agents inject something in Otis, making him weak, and grab him to. I kick everywhere and knock over something by Vlad's bed. His eyes are opening.
"Vlad! Vlad!"