Good day all!
Last place we left off, Tyroth had been taken to the torture chamber for interrogation after his DNA was extracted and Dr Arden was injecting him with torture serums but now the freak doctor has injected him with a new type of serum. What was it? Well read below to find out.
Also, on a quick note, some elements in the story happen in Tyroth Darkstorm's fics so again, if you haven't read them. The characters in this chapter, Overlord and the Zomborgs belong to Tyroth Darkstorm.
WARNING: This chapter contains bloody violence, strong language and scenes readers may find upsetting.
Chapter Twenty-One
Delusions
As the needle penetrated Tyroth's flesh he waited for pain to happen, but he felt nothing. He looked up at Dr Arden who was still smirking and Izo Arashi who was looking rather eager.
"What the hell did you just inject me with?" Tyroth demanded angrily.
But as he spoke, he noticed that the area started to deteriorate, as if it was melting or flaking away like ashes from a dying fire.
"What the...?" Tyroth looked around and down at the chair, he was still strapped down so he couldn't escape what was going on.
"What the fuck is this shit!?" he cried as he struggled more against his bonds, but again he felt his muscles get weaker due to the sedatives.
He looked in front of him and saw that Dr Arden and Arashi were still grinning at him, but their eyes had turned yellow and their smiles had become wider and more deranged almost like the Joker from Batman.
"What's going on...?" he asked nervously "What the hells gong on?" sweat formed on his forehead and body as he tried to move.
He looked down at the restraints then he saw they began to change, the metal and leather started to take form and they began to turn into slimy slithering creatures.
Tyroth felt his heart race and his throat go dry as he saw them take shape more clearly and saw they were long black slugs and were starting to crawl all over his body.
"No! Oh fuck no!" he thought as he again tried to struggle and get away from the slugs as they crawled up his body.
One reared up and showed it's front to him and Tyroth saw the little rows of teeth and it leapt up towards his face before latching onto his cheek and he heard a loud sucking as it drank his blood.
"Leeches!" Tyroth thought, his heart leaping to his throat as he remembered a traumatising experience when he was a little boy with one that bit him on the nose.
"NO!" Tyroth screamed "Get off me you damn leeches! NO! NO! Leave me alone!"
He struggled harder and harder against his bonds but he couldn't free himself no matter how hard he struggled.
He heard laughter again and looked up to see Dr Arden and Arashi laughing manically and opening their mouths where more leeches poured from their mouths and vomited over him making the bloodthirsty leeches crawl more over him until he was engulfed by the hideous creatures.
Tyroth screamed and roared, he tried to breathe fire, but each time he did, he coughed and choked as if something was stopping him from doing so.
As he shook himself, he tried to throw the many leeches off his body, he felt their sharp teeth sink into his skin and suck his blood.
All the while he could hear laughter coming from the demonic figures of Dr Arden and Arashi as they stood before him.
It wasn't long before he heard more sinister laughter and the leeches began to ease off him before falling to the floor full of Tyroth's blood.
Tyroth looked at his body and saw many puncture holes from where he was bitten, but he also saw his restraints were off!
Tyroth couldn't believe it for a moment that his restraints were off, but how they come off or why, he didn't care, but he was ready to slash and gut Dr Arden and Arashi!
But as he stood up he realised they were no longer there?
"Huh?" Tyroth cried "Where did those bastards go?"
All over the floor were the leeches as they wriggled and slithered over the floor.
In fear and rage combined, Tyroth lifted his feet and stamped on them causing them to go squish and splutter green goo.
The sinister laughter came back and the doors to the dungeon opened and Tyroth saw a figure appear.
A slender female figure with a lizard appearance and long curly red hair.
"Sephie?" he said, not believing his eyes at first as the figure walked out of the dark doorway and made herself more clear to the confused Dragon mutant.
"Sephie!" Tyroth cried as he saw his beloved standing there, "Oh thank God Sephie!" he ran over to Sephie but as he got close he realised something wasn't right about the way she stood before him.
"Tyroth..." Sephie spoke, her eyes pale and sad and tears fell from them.
"Sephie...Sephie my love?" cried Tyroth "What is it? What's happened...?"
"You failed Tyroth..." Sephie said "You failed to save me...save our friends..."
"What are you saying?" Tyroth cried, his heart beating faster and his throat hurting as he tried to get closer to his beloved.
"You promised you'd keep me safe for as long as you lived...what about that time in Mutopia...you weren't able to help when Xazahl killed me..." As Sephie spoke, a bloody wound appeared on her chest close to her heart and the blood poured from it.
"You failed me...you failed me!" she began to scream and her eyes began to turn black and souless as she screamed.
"No!" Tyroth cried "The others saved you! You lived again!"
"You should have protected me!" Sephie screamed "You failed and now you failed again!"
Tyroth was speechless for a moment as he stared at Sephie then he saw she began to move towards him, almost zombie like.
"You failed me...You failed me! And you failed everyone!"
"No!" Tyroth screamed as tears of devastation fell from his eyes "No! Please..."
Sephie looked up at Tyroth again as the blood continued to drip and fall, her eyes still black and souls as she continued to scream at him.
Just then the sinister laugh came back and Sephie moved to the side and Tyroth's eyes widened and his jaw dropped to see a five meter tall creature appear, covered in burnt and ripped armour, a damaged rocket-pod on each shoulder, a large chain gun attached to the left arm, and a cannon on the right arm, all damaged and half shot away but still horrific and deformed.
"No!" Tyroth cried in horror "Oh God please no!"
"Tyroth the Dragon..." a voice sounded from the giant cyborg as he stepped into the light and Tyroth saw his face, half of it of the right completely burnt and the other side covered by metal plating with red tubes running from his giant chest to the head.
"Long time...no see..." the cyborg growled.
"Overlord...?" Tyroth choked "No! That's impossible! You're dead! I killed you! That explosion during our final confrontation ripped you limb from limb!"
"I'm afraid you're mistaken Dragon!" Overlord growled "Nothing keeps me down for long! Nothing! You fucked me up for the last time! You and your little slut foiled my plans so many times and now it's payback time!"
Tyroth growled and got into a fighting stance.
"I'll took you down once Overlord!" Tyroth roared "And I'll do it again! Even if it means sacrificing myself!"
Overlord laughed cruelly.
"You think you can take me down yourself Tyroth? You're weak! And even more so without your little friends!"
Tyroth looked up at Overlord.
"I'll take you down Overlord!" he shouted "And this time I'll make sure you don't come back to hurt anyone else!"
"And you think killing me will bring back your little whore?" Overlord shouted pointing to the side of Tyroth where the Dragon looked and saw Sephie lying on the floor in a pool of her own blood.
"Sephie!" he cried "No! NNNNOOOO!"
"Little bitch!" Overlord taunted "I have to say it was a laugh seeing the life snuffed out of her!"
"You son of a bitch!" Tyroth screamed "I'll take you down!" he leapt up at Overlord, but the Cyborg knocked him back sending him flying into a wall.
"There's no escape now Tyroth!" Overlord taunted "And your little friends can't save you now!"
Tyroth looked up dazed from being thrown into the wall, and it was then when he saw several cyborgs a lot smaller than Overlord come into the room all wearing steel armour and carrying guns.
"Zomborgs!" Tyroth cried "Shit!"
Overlord laughed as he stood back and let the zomborgs attacked Tyroth.
Tyroth growled and opened up his wings and roared then began to slash and punch with his claws and wings taking down the zomborgs.
All the while Overlord laughed as he watched Tyroth take them down.
"Ah this is so entertaining!" he cackled, he walked over to Sephie and knelt down to stroke her hair as she lay there on the bloody floor.
Tyroth roared again in fury as he sliced and diced the the zomborgs, slicing through the armour as if it was butter.
He then opened his mouth and tried again to breathe fire, as he did, a jet of fire appeared and began to burn the armour and melting their guns.
"I'll burn you all back to hell!" he screamed as he continued to slice and burn and fight the zomborgs as they came at him from all angles.
It wasn't long before the powerful dragon took down the Zomborgs then looked up at Overlord who stood there laughing.
"Powerful as anything!" he laughed "Powerful...but no hero..."
"What...?" Tyroth gasped. He looked down at the broken and torn up zomborgs then saw their armour melt away revealing who they truly were.
What Tyroth then saw shocked his body to the core he felt like he would be violently sick. He fell to his knees and more tears of shock and devastation fell from his eyes.
There laying on the ground soaked in blood and dead were the turtles, Splinter, Mona, April and Casey.
All of them had open wounds on their bodies, presumably where they had had their organic organs replaced with cybernetics and machines.
"My friends...!" Tyroth wept as he reached his hands to Michelangelo and Mona who were laying near him and studied their bodies, their eyes open and soulless, no life in there at all.
"You...You!" Tyroth was so angry and devastated he could barely speak "YOU MONSTER!" he screamed "You killed my mate...and you made Zomborgs out of my friends!"
Overlord laughed and stepped over before dropping Sephie's body with them like a piece of rubbish.
"Me?" he asked mockingly "This is your fault Tyroth! You failed to save them! Their blood is on your hands!"
Tyroth stared up at Overlord.
"You weren't there to save them!" Overlord growled "You being trapped in the Foot headquarters gave me a chance to find them when they came looking for you, they tried to fight! Tried to protect each other, but they weren't strong enough for my army...I overpowered them and tortured them before deciding to add them to my army!"
Tyroth felt physically sick as Overlord continued to speak.
"I took them apart, one by one..." Overlord growled "I broke them, starting with the annoying pun throwing Michelangelo...then the know-it-all Donatello...then the slut Mona...seeing her hot headed mate Raphael beg and scream for her life as I took her apart was a real thrill for me...then of course I took his life as his older brother and rat sensei watched in horror, broken at the fact they couldn't help, then I broke them more by taking apart their human friends, before finally putting them on the table...and now...still not free from their agony...they worked for me to take you down...and you snuffed their lives out like a candle!"
Overlord then began to clap and applaud mockingly.
"Bravo!"
"FUCK YOU!" Tyroth screamed "You did this! You killed them!"
"Their blood is on your hands Tyroth!" Overlord continued to scream "It's all your fault! You failed them!"
"You failed me..." a soft voice whispered.
Tyroth looked down at the bodies and saw Sephie look up, her eyes black and soulless.
"You failed me...you failed all of us...!"
Soon the bodies of the turtles, Splinter, Mona, April and Casey began to move and sit up before looking at Tyroth with black soulless eyes.
"You failed to save us Tyroth!" Leonardo growled, blood pouring from his mouth "If you'd saved us, you might have spared me the agony of seeing my brothers die in front of me!"
"You have dishonoured us Tyroth!" Splinter snarled, his teeth and claws razor sharp and pointing accusingly at Tyroth.
"Failure!" Mona hissed, her eyes black and cold as she crawled over, "You made me suffer a fate worse than when I was first mutated...worse than being raped and brutalised! You made me suffer again!"
"Because of you I lost my mate!" Raphael accused as he crawled over to Tyroth "You deserve to loose Sephie!"
"We never should have met you!" Tyroth saw Michelangelo looking up at him, his skin pale and like marble yet the eyes showed no soul within.
"Meeting you lead us to our fate!" Donatello accused as he spat up blood and pointed at Tyroth.
"Murderer!" April screamed as she and Casey tried to lash at Tyroth.
"We have our lives!" Casey screamed "We had our lives!"
Tyroth couldn't stand it as the zombified versions of his friends screamed and pointed at him.
"NO!" Tyroth screamed "I never failed you! I never did!"
Overlord continued to laugh and jeer and the zombies accused and pointed at Tyroth.
"NO!" Tyroth screamed "NO! This isn't real! None of this is real! Stop it! Stop it...Stop it...!"
The jeering and laughing continued boring into Tyroth's head like a drill.
"STOP IT!" Tyroth screamed over the noises around him "STOP IT!"
His eyes opened as the anger, fear and frustration got stronger and he could take no more.
"STOOOOOOPPPPPP IIIIIITTTTTTTTT!..."
As soon as he had snapped, the laughing and jeering began to fade and Tyroth saw the figures start to melt away like rising ashes from a dying fire and Overlord began to deteriorate, then he heard different voices, this time calm and almost impressed.
"That serum has worked a treat my good doctor..."
"Indeed it has, my lord...I always wanted to create a gas that makes one relieve their worst fears..."
Tyroth shook his head and he looked up drenched in sweat and found himself once again face to face with Dr Arden and his body felt fatigued again almost like he had a huge comedown from his sudden adrenaline.
"What the fuck...?" he gasped "What the fuck did you do to me?"
"Sweet dreams?" asked Dr Arden "Or should I say...delusions?"
Tyroth looked down and saw he was still strapped to the chair and the sedatives were still being pumped into him.
"Fear Serum..." said Dr Arden "Clever huh? I was able to make you experience what you fear most...it was indeed entertaining to see you screaming for mercy! A so called strong mutant as yourself screaming for help!"
Arashi laughed evilly as he saw Tyroth glare at him, he could tell he was starting to loose it, part of that worried Arashi, but he trusted that Dr Arden's syringes would keep Tyroth weak.
Dr Arden then held up another syringe finger with an empty filler.
"That serum would have lasted a while, but I used this antidote to bring you out of it, I believe you'll be ready to co-operate?"
Tyroth glared back at Dr Arden, despite the fact that the Fear Serum had scared him and he still felt severely traumatised, he still wasn't going to give the evil doctor the satisfaction of breaking down before him.
"Never..." he gasped holding onto everything he had within to stay calm "I'll never co-operate..."
Fear Serum! That's what Dr Arden injected Tyroth with! Holy shell! Hope that scene didn't distress you too much, even if it was a delusion, pretty nasty too! I kinda admire Tyroth still being strong and defiant despite that horrific moment, but how long before he finally snaps?
Note: I kinda got the idea for the Fear Serum from the villain Scarecrow's Fear toxin in the Batman franchise. well, Dr Arden is kinda based off of Batman villains Two Face and Scarecrow and he does have some Freddy Kruger in him too.
Also the leeches in Tyroth's delusions were something Tyroth Darkstorm told me were a phobia of his character.
Next chapter, we'll be catching up with the turtles, Mona and Sephie to see how they get on when trying to get into the Foot Headquarters. Don't miss it!