Present Time
"And tonight's show. More and more people have been gone missing over the past month or so. We're broadcasting Newscaster Mark right now."
"Thank you, and good morning from you Cameron. Lately, there have been rumors that Team Rocket are somehow responsible for the disappearances. Bianca, can you explain us all the rumors that have been circulating around lately?"
"With Pleasure Mark. Recently, people have been spreading rumors like wildfire, claiming that Team Rocket has been taking humans prisoners, and are locking them up. But, that's not all. Rumors say, that Team Rocket are taking people away for human experiments. To make them immortal or something far worse. Tonight, detective Johnson is gonna go confront Team Rocket and show us once for all, if we truly are facing possibilities of another war."
-The Local News Station of Australia
Pain, pain is something that all humans will inevitably go through in some period of their life. Whether the moment when their born, or when the said human has reached adulthood. Pain is inescapable, for as pain is the true nature of life.
But, when pain is uncontrollable, so frequent, that's when things have been taken too far. Well, what if I were to tell you that there are people who are going through tortures far then anyone could imagine?
Sounds of bubbles popping and rebirthing, plasting into the subjects ears for minutes on end. Other than the bubbles, he could make out faint muttering from what he presumes to be a few men chatting to each other.
A groan escaped his breath. He felt a load of nausea rush into him.
He opened his eyes. When he did, however, he immediately closed them, as soon as the light beamed within his vision, instantly becoming too bright for his poor eyes to handle. He opened them again, but much slower this time. As bright as it was. It was a far cry from the previous attempt. And once he able to see his surroundings, he was in for quite a shock. He was in some sort of laboratory. There was no way of telling what color the laboratory was, for as he was some strange liquid that seemed to be water. However, that is not the reason he cannot tell the color of the laboratory, no in fact, it was because the liquid color instead. The capsule he was contained in used some sort of green liquid. Something you see in some cheap alien movie.
But, then. Painful thoughts began flowing right back through his mind.
Memories of being breathless, memories of feeling his bones morph, as he tried desperately to stop the pain, yet, no matter what he did, the pain would never stop, until he would pass out, rinse and repeat.
It just never ended. He had no idea how long he was in this laboratory for since he was captured and subjected to these horrible experiments. But, it had to be something short, for as his memories of being an innocent teen are still recent, meaning he was probably here for around a month or so.
However, he shouldn't be daydreaming. His body seems to be in the best condition since it has ever been in this torture chamber.
Knowing this, the boy tried to break free. With all the might of his strength, He punched and punched the capsule as hard as he could. Usually, his attempts on breaking free would be hopeless with the capsule withstanding his attacks. But, not this time.
Instead, the capsule began showing faint cracks right in the middle. Hope at last coming back to the lost boy, and he held tightly onto that hope, like if he was holding a teddy bear. The boy was relentless. He didn't catch a single breath, he wanted to make sure he was out of the capsule for good this time.
After smashing the glasses to oblivion, he came head first out of the capsule. On the ground, he opened his eyes in pure shock and terror, upon what they just witnessed.
A few feet away, were two men who wore white coats, staring in complete shock.
The boy smiled sheepishly as he knew he was in a load of trouble.
"Ugh, hi guys?"
But, instead of being given an answer, the laboratory men screamed in fear.
"Help! An experiment, has broken free, I repeat. A experiment has broken free!"
In an instant, the alarms went off, as the white walls had turned red. Ryden grew in a panic. Not just because of the inevitable danger, but because of his new body as well. He was some weird crimson lizard thing. He had small muscular arms that were coated red, along with claws sticking out of his hands (which are paws now).
His belly was completely white, which extends all the way down to the tip of his tail. His legs are short, so much so, that both of his legs are basically just a thigh, attached to the feet and the body. Placing a hand behind his head, he could something protruding from his head.
It didn't feel a lump to him or anything similar to that, but instead a horn, but why was there a horn protruding from his head? But, there is one key feature about his body that had topped the rest of bizarreness, and that is his new given tail. Somehow, in the gravity of this world, there was flame on the tip of his tail. The strangest part was that the flame did not spread, but rather contained itself at the tip of his mutated tail.
Though, his mind wanted to know more about his new appearance, he was cut off by the imminent danger that surrounded him.
More men with the same white coats what the other two men were wearing came marching into the room.
"Don't move you monster. We have you surrounded!" One of the coated man said, as all the men in the room pointed their guns directly at the boy.
Ryden couldn't move. Not with all the fear thrusted into him. His body trembled, as if he was caught inside an ice storm. He just didn't get it. One day, he was happy with his friends, and the next, he was in hell. How? How did this all happen so fast?
Everything was crushing down on top of him, and all he can do is just take it and cry in a corner.
The men smirked as they knew that they creature right where they wanted him to be. Ryden just stared at the tall men, as their menacing weapons made him shake like a leaf, enduring immense wind.
Ryden needed to think of something, and something fast, or otherwise, he will be enduring the same hell, until the day he dies, or worse, forever…
Then, all of a sudden. He felt the urge to puke. This feeling, however, was much stronger than he could ever imagine. It felt like as if he swallowed a dynamite and it is close to detonation.
Just before the men were about to seize him, they froze as they knew that something was terribly wrong with the creature.
Ryden couldn't hold it. It was far too strong for his system. Flames came spewing out of his mouth, as the strong flames launched directly at the men. Ryden found it impossible to shut his mouth so he just let it all out of his system instead.
The men screamed in agony as they tried desperately to put out the fire, but, the damage was already done. While some of the coated men had survived the massive flamethrower, their skins' were beyond repair.
This also meant that they were defenseless against the lizard. The coated men who were alive could barely stand the pain, as they passed out right on the floor only a moment later.
Ryden stood there in awe. What had he just done? Will he be able to forgive himself for what he done to those people?
But it doesn't matter. Even if he is freed from his torture bubble, it seems that he must slaughter anyone who have intentions of inserting him in hell again.
As sad and unstable as Ryden may be. He must leave, before anyone can lay a finger on him again.
He noticed a few other capsules besides where his capsule is. Knowing this is a battle that he cannot fight alone, he broke a capsule with his barefist. Despite the strength of the capsule, it didn't take more than a minute for Ryden to break one the capsule's.
What came out of the capsule was some purple ghost witch. It had ruby tentacles as arms, which were inside the monster's purple sleeves, a purple ripped up dress as its body A purple witch like hat, seemly attached to its head. It had three ruby jewels attached to its chest, with the one in the middle the biggest, as the left and right jewels were the same length as each other. It's eyes were yellow, and last of all, it had a cracked smile, as if it had just cutted its mouth zigzagongly with scissors.
This monster opened its eyes. It stared at the room, confused of its surroundings. But, as soon as the purple ghost saw Ryden. It's heart sank.
"Holy shit. What are you?" The ghost said, as it backed away from the lizard.
Ryden, originally confused, soon came with realization and shock. Realization for what the ghost was saying, yet, shock for what the ghost meant and, most of all, the ghost sounded quite familiar to him. He couldn't put his mind towards why it sounded so familiar to him. He had never seen this abornination in his entire life. But, as if he was giving up on trying to discover the familiarity with the strange ghost creature, his mind suddenly clicked on him. The voice, it coming back to him.
Leo…? Ryden thought, as he felt his mind leaving him completely.
"Leo, it's me, your buddy Ryden!" He said, pointing his claws at himself.
Hearing the words spoken from the lizard's mouth, the ghost felt outraged, as it hovered over to the crimson lizard.
"How dare you claim yourself as my friend. Do you really think that I believe such nonsense?"
Ryden stepped back. Seeing such offense from the ghost answered Ryden's question. He is in fact, Leo.
"Leo, please, listen to me. More of them will be coming soon. We need to get out of here!" Ryden said, as he couldn't hide the panic in his voice.
"And why would I care? For all I know, you could be the monster here."
At last, Ryden couldn't hold all the rage and frustration that has been eating him for the last three months. He took a step forward and opened his mouth wide for the ghost to hear every single little syllable he says.
"Leo, for fucks sakes, it me, your best friend. And take a look yourself, you look no better than me," Ryden yelled.
At that sentence, Leo looked down upon his body, to find that the flame lizard was telling the truth. The Leo, was horrified, in fact, too speechless to even conbrenet on what he had transformed into.
"Leo, come on and help me out of here. After we're out of this hellzone, we can talk more about this whole mess we're in, okay?" Ryden question.
Seeing the situation that the two have been thrusted in, Leo knew full well, that wasting anymore time is definity a fatal mistake.
Leo let out a loud sigh, knowing that whatever decision he makes, it will change his life, either for the worse or the better.
Thinking fast, Leo wasted no time and obeyed Ryden. After all, at least the lizard's voice is familiar to his friend. Unfortunately, he was not quick enough in deciding the factor, as more reinforcements come crashing down on the two teens.
Seeing that they are trapped, the teens had no choice but the engage.
Ryden tried to muster up all the power within him to create the flamethrower he had used previously, however, this time he just ended up coughing out a bunch of smoke. After bursting into a coughing fit and trying to blow the smoke away with his hands, he discovered that two of the guards were charging straight towards him with police bats.
On his last resort, he disarms one of the guards and steals his police bat. Ryden then kicks the disarmed guard away and quickly turns his attention towards the oncoming guard.
Ryden and the second guard's police bat clash together, as one tries to push one back. Eventually, despite the guard's trained and big body, it was, however, no much for the lizard's sheer bionic strength that Ryden had been gifted.
The guard was lifted up by a few feet and thrown away by the lizards strength. Leo found himself surrounded by six guards. Ryden gasped in horror, as he saw his best friend to be collided by all six of the men, only ot be okay?
In fact, Leo managed to faze through the blob of guards, completely unharmed. Both Leo and Ryden were shock, more shocked than anyone could have imagine. However, none of them had anytime to say something, for as Ryden was punched in the face and then was sent flying into a wall.
With Leo seeing this, he came in to stop the beating against the Charmeleon. He grabbed two of the guards with his tentacles and threw them into the wall. Both of the men fell into consciousness, as the rest of the men felt shivers down their spines. The guards knew that they were dropping like flies, but how would they be able to counter such supernatural beings?
"All men, they are too strong, FALL BACK!" The speaker abruptly said.
Having no questions on the their leaders duty, they hightailed out of the room and left the unconsciousness alone with the transformed freaks.
At this moment, Ryden and Leo were left confused. Weren't they surrounded?
However, they both didn't for as, this could be the start of something great. Something they dreamed of since they were locked up. Freedom…
Seeing that the cost was clear, Leo told Ryden to come follow him. However, Ryden had other plans.
"Leo, wait. These tubes… There must be other survivors stuck in there…" Ryden believed.
As much as Leo saw where Ryden was coming from, he didn't know he could the other… creatures that could potentially be inside the tube.
"But Ryden, what if the people inside there are beyond saving? What if they have already been corrupted by this corroboration?" Leo question.
"Leo, I… Know." Ryden admitted, "I was just thinking.. What if all of our other friends were trapped in there as well?" Ryden said, as he felt his heart beginning to thumb from the thought of his friends experiencing the same aggravating tortures.
Hearing this, Leo froze on what he was going to say. Ryden was right. How could he ever be happy again, knowing that their friends may still being tortured?
"Alright Ryden, you win. Though, be warned, for as what we witnessed upon our friends, may scar us for eternity," Leo said.
Ryden knew the risk by the second he thought about his friends and he doesn't care. It's not like his entire life is already as worse as it could be, so what would that be doing to him?
Ryden answered yes with just a single nod, as he held a straight face throughout.
"Alright, then let's open up these capsules and hope to god they are inside them."
They opened the first capsule. Upon doing so, they witnessed another demonic creature. This one however, didn't look terrifying in the slightest, in fact, some may call it cute.
The said creature was some child like alien. It's skin was green, which was accompanied with a white dress, it's eyes were just as huge as Ryden's big eyes, It had some sort of green hat attached to its head, that covered the middle of its face, which includes a bit of both of its eyes. It was easily the shortest, out of the three, with Leo being tallest and Ryden being only centimeters shorter than Leo.
The creature laid on her knees as it used it's hands for support. The creature began to cough it's lounges out, all the while shutting its eyes and gently holding onto its neck.
Ryden was about to say something, with him taking a step closer as well, but the strange alien like creature halted his movement any further, as it had managed to paralyze the lizard completely. Puzzled, Ryden looked down below and saw that a purple like ring had formed all around his body, keeping him place.
Ryden was unable to move.
The psychic alien lifted her up, and began to freak out. The purple ring faded, as Ryden took a deep breathe in relief.
The psychic alien gasped, as it produced a voice, similar to one of a female.
"Who… who are you two? And what you two done to me?"
Leo came forth, as Ryden was still regaining some strength to stand on his feet.
Leo knew he needed to word his sentence probably or otherwise, the psychic lady may grow more freaked out as she already is.
Letting out a deep sigh, Leo came forth and said, "Listen, I know you may be shock upon seeing our appearances and your own appearance, but please, we are all in danger, and if we do not work together now, we will all perish into the forsaken hell once again."
Seeing the plea and fear into the ghost's eyes, she knew the male ghost was telling the truth. But what does he mean "We are all in danger?"
But then, the memories returned, the memories of being brutally electrocuted until, slowly, unconsciousness made its arrival. Or those times, where she would receive no food whatsoever, for days, and when the food does arrive, it's usually a pile of slime, from apparently all the dead slugs, according to one guy she heard when two guys were talking to each other, or even worse, have her body violated and morphed into some alien like creature, a farcry of her once innocent body.
She could remember it all. A tear sneak out of her eye, as she tried her best to not mentally break down. But, how? How would she ever overcome these horrible tragedies she had face since upon arriving at this hellstation?
However, she couldn't fall into her daydream bubble quite yet, for as, she has a question to address.
"Okay, you two win. Just get me out of this hell!" The psychic lady pleaded, as she fought the verge to cry.
Leo and Ryden saw her mental state and grew concerned of this familiar creature. They wondered where they have seen this creature before, but somewhere in their destroyed minds have known the answer long ago. And that answer spreaded into their minds as the seconds passed.
Ryden and Leo fell into shock as they soon realized who that alien girl really is.
"Emily…? Is that really you?" Ryden asked, as he began to grow hopeful, yet scared all at the same time.
Emily gasped. She had a feeling that those voices were familiar, but she didn't say anything, for as she thought were dead, but no. And to her, it seems that they been suffering the same fate as well.
Her mouth stayed open for a good three seconds until out of nowhere, she tackled the lizard to the ground, as she hugged him relief.
Ryden gave back, as he wrapped his claw around her neck, as tears flowed down both from Ryden, Emily and even Leo, someone who never lets his emotions get the better of him.
All of three of them were just happy to be together again, as a family.
Despite of the speaker, telling it's men to back away from the teens, the trio, despite this, wasted no time busting all their other friends, for as the coordination could ambush them at any giving time.
For each friend they found, the teens would have a warm feeling in their heart, yet a disgusted feel when they witnessed what their friends have been turned and subjected too.
Dante was also a ghost just like Leo, but he had stumpy legs, stumpy arms and a big, round body. He was easily the biggest as well. He had pointy ears, no nose at all, fur that paint as spikes across his back.
Then there was Lachlan. He was some cat like monster. White fur with a crimson coat marked on his paws, on his left ear along with the eye, and last of all, a marked crimson coat that marked a lighting symbol, attached to the right side of his chest.
Though, that was just his fur. He also had two massive claws at each paw, bloodshot eyes, pointy ears, fluffy body and a tall fluffy tail.
Now for Layton, he had grey fur across his body, with the exception of his white claws. Connected with his grey fur, were several of these crimson feathers, mainly his crimson crown, which was planted nicely on his head. Crimson feathers that were attached, below his ears. He now has a tail, which is also made out of feather, which are crimson as well. He had a crimson chest plating, sharp teeth, with one tooth sticking out at the left side of his mouth, and a yellow oval marked on the center of its head.
Now, with all six tubes opened in this room. Atlast, the teens have united together again. But, however, Ryden noticed that his brother is not in any of the tubes. Where could he be? Was he even captured? He thought to himself. He has no idea where he even is, and the fact that him and his brother have been separated is deeply worrying for him. He must find him, even if that means he goes down in the process.