Rex wailed and moaned in consuming pain, as the drops of diluent wandered over and damaged each corner of the plastic parts of his body. The dark green paint that was his "scales" began to fall off over time, to be then cruelly replaced by a faded white surface.
The toy dinosaur's nightmare finally ended with the last emptied and thrown into a corner bottle of this caustic substance.
The blurry vision of the plastic tyrannosaur lying on its side revealed his abuser, looking rather unusual than anyone would've thought. A gentle looking pink teddy bear leaning on a wooden cane.
Looks can be deceiving.
"I was not wrong" Lotso silently teased. "You look worse now than before... And I hope more inclined to our proposal of partnership"
Gray as medical cast, the reptile fiercely growled sticking to his stubborn "no".
"Determined, I see" the pink plush bear bit by bit glanced at his right hand man, Ken. "Do you know what the rest of the plan is?"
The doll icily nodded on demand as he turned back to look at someone there.
"Come on!"
In the blink of an eye, the rest of the evil gang emerged from the shadows. It seemed that they decided to sincerely accompany their allies.
The toy dinosaur could not help, but only flinch at the sight of each of them. Rex was no longer just having on himself the eyes of the two, but also of their henchmen. Big baby, octopus, rock toy, robot and moth humanoid.
Being fully surrounded, two solutions arrived to Rex's barely conscious head.
Without a long moment of reflection and fake applause from Lotso's evil gang, he managed to make his decision. With great difficulty rising to his lower limbs to get up.
"It looks like he wants to attack us" Stretch commented with a swallow. "Do you think he will succeed?"
"Certainly not" Chunk replied jokingly. "It's just an innocent lizard with the first thought that comes to its mind is the desire to escape"
And so it was.
Rex wanted to leave this place at all costs. The gang split up to especially watch the toy reptile bump into the nearest wall in front of his eyes and gently step back.
"I told you so!" the rock toy chuckled. "Doesn't that look silly?"
Everyone in the room laughed as the sore dinosaur sternly tried to knock the wall off with his head. When that didn't work, he turned and started blindly walking straight at Ken, who pushed him back on answer.
"Where are you going, big lizard?" the doll ruthlessly teased. "Are you looking for your mommy? I have to worry you, but she's not here"
There was another wave of laughter in the room once Rex stumbled upon one of Stretch's limbs and afresh fell on the wooden floor. The poor plastic reptile was too frail to do anything in self-defense and then sincerely was forced to experience worse humiliation than before.
In this state, Lotso easily had him in his clutches.
"Time for plan B" the pink plush bear demanded. "Something must be done about these shameful milk teeth standing in the path of real fangs, don't ya think?"
The purple octopus opened Rex's narrow snout.
"I agree here with you, boss" she admitted almost without hesitation. "We should give him some real teeth before making him one of us"
"So, then what are you waiting for?" he ordered with a growl. "Fix and correct this disguisting piece of the factory work"
The rest of the gang saluted to their leader and carried barely conscious Rex away with them. Ken stayed, being previously informed of a planned private conversation with the boss.
"What did you want to inform me about, Lotso?" the doll quirked an eyebrow. "Is there anything else I can help you with?"
"Of course" he growled and rolled his eyes. "Otherwise you wouldn't be here. You still have to do one task for me"