A/N: This extra long chapter is for Classified. You like all my CP stuff.
So this chapter is dedicated to you. Enjoy!!
As far as they could tell, the Captains assumed they had been detained for about 2 earth days. They were already losing power, and with Captain Planet taking most of the punishment, he would go first.
Captain Pollution was starting to get weirded out by all the screaming that was going on. He could tell they were torturing someone else other than his twin because there were so many.
They still had no ideas for an escape. They would be long gone if they knew how the machinery worked. But it was all Greek to them. So he had no choice but to wait for his counterpart to return until they thought of something.
When Captain Planet did come back, he looked just the same as when he left. There were no new scars as far as he could see. And he seemed to retain the same injuries he had originally. Once he was shoved in, he didn't stumble, but just walked in and watched them close the door behind him.
" What'd they do to you?" Pollution asked while he went to sit against the wall.
" I dunno. I just went in and was strapped to the table. Then they injected this purple liquid in me. After that, they just let me go." He said.
" I don't like the way that sounds." He said.
" Well, I don't like the way it feels. I don't want anything in my body unless I put it there. I can feel it moving around in my veins. " He said.
" Ugh! Freaky!" He cried.
" Oh act your age! It's not that bad. Did you think of anything yet?" Planet asked.
" Nope. You?" Pollution asked lying back in the sludge pile.
" Well, I'm starting understand how the controls work. From what I can tell, they move the ship with a large ball about this big," He said showing him the size," And their language is closer to screeches and clicks like dolphins."
" Oh great, Flipper has to save us!" He said.
" Shut up complaining Pollution! This whole thing is your fault in the first place!" He said.
" Ah blow it out your ear!" He said.
Captain Planet gave him a warning glare that showed the only reason he was still able to say those things were because his hands were tied. So he said nothing else and watched his twin pace in the cell like a tiger.
" How's the injection?" He asked.
" I still don't know what it is. Something alien as far as I know. Staying calm is the best thing I can do right now. If I panic it'll spread faster." Planet said; not ceasing his pacing.
" What if it's poison?" He asked.
" Careful Pollution, you're starting to sound like you care." He retorted.
" Alright, forget I asked then!" He snapped turning around and facing the window.
As he looked out, he could see the moon. They must have been hovering there the whole time. It was slightly comforting to see the big, white rock right there. It didn't bother him that it was clean, he wouldn't mind seeing some clean things as long as he could go home.
" Yo Planet!" Pollution called.
" What now?" He asked stopping mid-pace.
" We can see the moon from here." He said.
" So?" He asked crossing his arms.
" What do you mean 'so'? Don't you wanna see it?" He asked; slightly surprised.
" Aside from a few collision craters I'm sure it hasn't changed enough to require my attention." He replied.
" What's with you man? You're supposed to be the cool guy. You know, the one that never gets mad or panics. You're supposed to get us out of here before they kill us-me." He corrected.
" You haven't seen mad. You've seen mildly irritated. If you saw mad, you'd be dead." He said smirking at the shock in his counterpart's face.
" You can kill?!" He said in shock.
" Technically, I shouldn't be able to. But I can and have. When I need to, I can block out my empathy for an hour or so. When it does come back and I have killed, I get a wicked headache. Enough to make you kill yourself, but by then, I'm usually asleep in the earth." He said calmly.
" You scare me Planet."
" Good. Let's keep it that way."
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It had been about an hour since Captain Planet had stated his capacity to kill. Ever since then, he had been sitting against the wall with his eyes closed. Pollution thought he might be sleeping. And now that he knew he had the capability to kill, he didn't really want to test him.
Among finding out that their powers didn't work, their red garbs, which was originally skin, was now actual clothing. They were getting weaker by the minute. Soon they would be totally human.
*Growls*
" What was that?" He opened one eye and focused solely on him.
" I dunno." Pollution said shrugging.
He grunted somewhat, and then closed his eyes again.
*Growls*
*Growls*
*Growls*
" Pollution..!" That noise was starting to grade on his last nerves. He was going to hurt him real soon.
" I tell ya it isn't me!!" Pollution cried.
" It's your stomach you idiot. You're hungry. And for that matter so am I." He stood up and walked over to the bars.
" But we don't get hungry." Pollution got up and went over to see what he was doing.
" I know," He said," Hey!! Cockroach!! Yeah, you get down here!!"
A guard walked over to where they were. He opened the door and yanked them both out. Captain Planet protested as they were being forced down the hall.
" Hey!! Take your hands off me!!"
The roach creature threw him and Captain Pollution to the ground in some kind of room. There were only two doors, the rest was walls and they seemed to be made of metal.
" What are we supposed to do in here?" Pollution asked.
" This is an experiment." Said the voice of Kazu.
" What kind of experiment?" He asked.
" An obstacle course. You have to make it through the maze without getting killed." Mezk said.
" Killed?!!" Both shouted.
" It's the repeating trick again!" Kazu said happily.
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So there they were. Making their way through a large maze like little white lab mice. Planet was irritated and uncharacteristically cursing and complaining every time they reached a dead end. Pollution was on edge because of his irritation. Of course, the obstacles were no help either.
" This is the third dead end we've come across!! Where are you taking us Pollution?!!"
" Would you like to lead the way Planet?! I suppose your senses are much better than mine?!"
" We'll see won't we? This way." Captain Planet walked off.
" But there's an obstacle that way!!" Pollution ran after him as he entered another room.
" Don't be such a baby Pollution. It's the only way out." He gestured to the door on the other side of the room.
" But look what we have to go through to get to it!!"
Pollution was right. There was a large pit of spikes in the middle of this room. Above it was a thin cable for use of getting across. It was barely pulled straight enough for one person to get across, let alone two.
" That's no big deal." Planet was unfazed by this. He dealt with heights all the time.
" Are you crazy?!!" Pollution grabbed him by his collar and yanked him in his face." That fall will kill us-me!!"
Captain Planet looked down to where Pollution's hands were on his cut-off shirt. Pollution immediately removed them.
" You have two choices Pollution," He held up two fingers." You can either walk across, or I'll THROW YOU ACROSS!"
" Walking sounds good. Lead the way fearless leader." He gestured to the cable.
Captain Planet shook his head in exasperation and walked over to the end of the cable. Not even checking to see if it would hold his weight, he walked out on it like he was walking on solid ground.
Pollution stood agape as his twin moved across. How was he doing that? He couldn't even stand on one foot and his twin could walk across a wire like it was nothing.
" Uh, Planet?"
" What now?"
" How...How are you doing that?"
" Doing what?"
" THAT!!" He pointed to the way he was walking across the wire.
" One foot in front of the other?"
" Don't be funny! Just tell me how are you doing that?!"
" It's just walking Pollution. It's not that hard. I'm sure even your brain can comprehend how to do it."
" You can just walk across a cable? Just like that?!"
" Well, not just walk."
Captain Planet put his hands above his head and did several balance beam back flips until he landed on the other side. The whole ordeal was no trouble at all. Pollution stood with his mouth wide open once again.
" How did you-"
" I dunno. Just perfectly balanced on this thing. Now c'mon we gotta get going. The sooner we finish the sooner we can get back to planning a way out."
" It's not that simple you know!! Some people don't have perfect balance!!"
" And some people are going to have a broken nose if they don't get across this cable!!"
" I'm going!! I'm going!!"
Warily, Captain Pollution made his way across the cable. He almost fell off twice. After the second time, he froze in the middle of it.
" Pollution! What's the problem?"
" Forget it Planet!! I'm not moving!!"
" Why not?"
" Because!!" He tried really hard to make it sound tough, but the last part came out as a squeak," I-I can't move."
" You've got to be kidding me!"
" Well, I can't!! You have to come get me or leave me."
" See ya on the flip side." He turned to walk away.
" Planet!! Wait up!!" Captain Pollution scrambled off the cable and chased after his eco-counter part.
He dashed after his fading form in the darkness and latched onto him like his life depended on it.
" Let go off me Pollution."
" I can't."
" LET GO!!!" This came out more akin to a lion's roar than just yelling. It immediately got Pollution to jump back.
He landed on his bum and looked up at his twin. He was glaring at him and looked like he might just kill him at any moment. But Pollution noticed something else.
" I thought your eyes were brown."
" They are brown."
" Not anymore. They're yellow and cat eyes."
" Wha?"
" And since when do you have fangs and I don't Planet?! And that blood in your mouth! You holding out on me?!" Pollution pointed an accusing finger at him.
" Fwhat are you thalking about?! I don't thave fangs! Fwhat happened to my voice?" He walked over to a piece of reflective metal and that he actually did have fangs. And his eyes were not the same mudd brown they had always been. They were feline and yellow.
" Fwhat happened to me?!" He jumped back from the wall.
" You're a mutant!! Pollution pointed and laughed.
" Shut up!! Ah!!" Captain Planet held his stomach and fell to his knees. He cried out in pain as if something was ripping him apart.
" What's up, Planet?" Pollution looked over at his fallen twin. He was mutating before his very eyes.
His cries turned from human to animal. He grew in size and busted out of his clothes. His green hair grew down his back and in seconds he was covered in it like fur. His face morphed too. Audible bone snaps echoed in the small space. When the noises finally stopped, Captain Planet was totally different.
He stood at a full height of 8 ft. He had huge fangs; large as much as necessary to tear apart an elephant. Paws big enough and claws sharp adequate to chop down a redwood with one swipe. His eyes were a demonic yellow and focused on Pollution. He stood on two legs; his knees popped backwards; towering over him.
" Uh, Planet?"
His answer was a loud lion-like roar. Pollution pressed himself against a wall as the transformed Captain Planet advanced.
" Oh boy, I'm in trouble. Uh, good kitty. Nice kitty."
*Roars*
" Oh, I'm a dead man."
As far as they could tell, the Captains assumed they had been detained for about 2 earth days. They were already losing power, and with Captain Planet taking most of the punishment, he would go first.
Captain Pollution was starting to get weirded out by all the screaming that was going on. He could tell they were torturing someone else other than his twin because there were so many.
They still had no ideas for an escape. They would be long gone if they knew how the machinery worked. But it was all Greek to them. So he had no choice but to wait for his counterpart to return until they thought of something.
When Captain Planet did come back, he looked just the same as when he left. There were no new scars as far as he could see. And he seemed to retain the same injuries he had originally. Once he was shoved in, he didn't stumble, but just walked in and watched them close the door behind him.
" What'd they do to you?" Pollution asked while he went to sit against the wall.
" I dunno. I just went in and was strapped to the table. Then they injected this purple liquid in me. After that, they just let me go." He said.
" I don't like the way that sounds." He said.
" Well, I don't like the way it feels. I don't want anything in my body unless I put it there. I can feel it moving around in my veins. " He said.
" Ugh! Freaky!" He cried.
" Oh act your age! It's not that bad. Did you think of anything yet?" Planet asked.
" Nope. You?" Pollution asked lying back in the sludge pile.
" Well, I'm starting understand how the controls work. From what I can tell, they move the ship with a large ball about this big," He said showing him the size," And their language is closer to screeches and clicks like dolphins."
" Oh great, Flipper has to save us!" He said.
" Shut up complaining Pollution! This whole thing is your fault in the first place!" He said.
" Ah blow it out your ear!" He said.
Captain Planet gave him a warning glare that showed the only reason he was still able to say those things were because his hands were tied. So he said nothing else and watched his twin pace in the cell like a tiger.
" How's the injection?" He asked.
" I still don't know what it is. Something alien as far as I know. Staying calm is the best thing I can do right now. If I panic it'll spread faster." Planet said; not ceasing his pacing.
" What if it's poison?" He asked.
" Careful Pollution, you're starting to sound like you care." He retorted.
" Alright, forget I asked then!" He snapped turning around and facing the window.
As he looked out, he could see the moon. They must have been hovering there the whole time. It was slightly comforting to see the big, white rock right there. It didn't bother him that it was clean, he wouldn't mind seeing some clean things as long as he could go home.
" Yo Planet!" Pollution called.
" What now?" He asked stopping mid-pace.
" We can see the moon from here." He said.
" So?" He asked crossing his arms.
" What do you mean 'so'? Don't you wanna see it?" He asked; slightly surprised.
" Aside from a few collision craters I'm sure it hasn't changed enough to require my attention." He replied.
" What's with you man? You're supposed to be the cool guy. You know, the one that never gets mad or panics. You're supposed to get us out of here before they kill us-me." He corrected.
" You haven't seen mad. You've seen mildly irritated. If you saw mad, you'd be dead." He said smirking at the shock in his counterpart's face.
" You can kill?!" He said in shock.
" Technically, I shouldn't be able to. But I can and have. When I need to, I can block out my empathy for an hour or so. When it does come back and I have killed, I get a wicked headache. Enough to make you kill yourself, but by then, I'm usually asleep in the earth." He said calmly.
" You scare me Planet."
" Good. Let's keep it that way."
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It had been about an hour since Captain Planet had stated his capacity to kill. Ever since then, he had been sitting against the wall with his eyes closed. Pollution thought he might be sleeping. And now that he knew he had the capability to kill, he didn't really want to test him.
Among finding out that their powers didn't work, their red garbs, which was originally skin, was now actual clothing. They were getting weaker by the minute. Soon they would be totally human.
*Growls*
" What was that?" He opened one eye and focused solely on him.
" I dunno." Pollution said shrugging.
He grunted somewhat, and then closed his eyes again.
*Growls*
*Growls*
*Growls*
" Pollution..!" That noise was starting to grade on his last nerves. He was going to hurt him real soon.
" I tell ya it isn't me!!" Pollution cried.
" It's your stomach you idiot. You're hungry. And for that matter so am I." He stood up and walked over to the bars.
" But we don't get hungry." Pollution got up and went over to see what he was doing.
" I know," He said," Hey!! Cockroach!! Yeah, you get down here!!"
A guard walked over to where they were. He opened the door and yanked them both out. Captain Planet protested as they were being forced down the hall.
" Hey!! Take your hands off me!!"
The roach creature threw him and Captain Pollution to the ground in some kind of room. There were only two doors, the rest was walls and they seemed to be made of metal.
" What are we supposed to do in here?" Pollution asked.
" This is an experiment." Said the voice of Kazu.
" What kind of experiment?" He asked.
" An obstacle course. You have to make it through the maze without getting killed." Mezk said.
" Killed?!!" Both shouted.
" It's the repeating trick again!" Kazu said happily.
*********************
So there they were. Making their way through a large maze like little white lab mice. Planet was irritated and uncharacteristically cursing and complaining every time they reached a dead end. Pollution was on edge because of his irritation. Of course, the obstacles were no help either.
" This is the third dead end we've come across!! Where are you taking us Pollution?!!"
" Would you like to lead the way Planet?! I suppose your senses are much better than mine?!"
" We'll see won't we? This way." Captain Planet walked off.
" But there's an obstacle that way!!" Pollution ran after him as he entered another room.
" Don't be such a baby Pollution. It's the only way out." He gestured to the door on the other side of the room.
" But look what we have to go through to get to it!!"
Pollution was right. There was a large pit of spikes in the middle of this room. Above it was a thin cable for use of getting across. It was barely pulled straight enough for one person to get across, let alone two.
" That's no big deal." Planet was unfazed by this. He dealt with heights all the time.
" Are you crazy?!!" Pollution grabbed him by his collar and yanked him in his face." That fall will kill us-me!!"
Captain Planet looked down to where Pollution's hands were on his cut-off shirt. Pollution immediately removed them.
" You have two choices Pollution," He held up two fingers." You can either walk across, or I'll THROW YOU ACROSS!"
" Walking sounds good. Lead the way fearless leader." He gestured to the cable.
Captain Planet shook his head in exasperation and walked over to the end of the cable. Not even checking to see if it would hold his weight, he walked out on it like he was walking on solid ground.
Pollution stood agape as his twin moved across. How was he doing that? He couldn't even stand on one foot and his twin could walk across a wire like it was nothing.
" Uh, Planet?"
" What now?"
" How...How are you doing that?"
" Doing what?"
" THAT!!" He pointed to the way he was walking across the wire.
" One foot in front of the other?"
" Don't be funny! Just tell me how are you doing that?!"
" It's just walking Pollution. It's not that hard. I'm sure even your brain can comprehend how to do it."
" You can just walk across a cable? Just like that?!"
" Well, not just walk."
Captain Planet put his hands above his head and did several balance beam back flips until he landed on the other side. The whole ordeal was no trouble at all. Pollution stood with his mouth wide open once again.
" How did you-"
" I dunno. Just perfectly balanced on this thing. Now c'mon we gotta get going. The sooner we finish the sooner we can get back to planning a way out."
" It's not that simple you know!! Some people don't have perfect balance!!"
" And some people are going to have a broken nose if they don't get across this cable!!"
" I'm going!! I'm going!!"
Warily, Captain Pollution made his way across the cable. He almost fell off twice. After the second time, he froze in the middle of it.
" Pollution! What's the problem?"
" Forget it Planet!! I'm not moving!!"
" Why not?"
" Because!!" He tried really hard to make it sound tough, but the last part came out as a squeak," I-I can't move."
" You've got to be kidding me!"
" Well, I can't!! You have to come get me or leave me."
" See ya on the flip side." He turned to walk away.
" Planet!! Wait up!!" Captain Pollution scrambled off the cable and chased after his eco-counter part.
He dashed after his fading form in the darkness and latched onto him like his life depended on it.
" Let go off me Pollution."
" I can't."
" LET GO!!!" This came out more akin to a lion's roar than just yelling. It immediately got Pollution to jump back.
He landed on his bum and looked up at his twin. He was glaring at him and looked like he might just kill him at any moment. But Pollution noticed something else.
" I thought your eyes were brown."
" They are brown."
" Not anymore. They're yellow and cat eyes."
" Wha?"
" And since when do you have fangs and I don't Planet?! And that blood in your mouth! You holding out on me?!" Pollution pointed an accusing finger at him.
" Fwhat are you thalking about?! I don't thave fangs! Fwhat happened to my voice?" He walked over to a piece of reflective metal and that he actually did have fangs. And his eyes were not the same mudd brown they had always been. They were feline and yellow.
" Fwhat happened to me?!" He jumped back from the wall.
" You're a mutant!! Pollution pointed and laughed.
" Shut up!! Ah!!" Captain Planet held his stomach and fell to his knees. He cried out in pain as if something was ripping him apart.
" What's up, Planet?" Pollution looked over at his fallen twin. He was mutating before his very eyes.
His cries turned from human to animal. He grew in size and busted out of his clothes. His green hair grew down his back and in seconds he was covered in it like fur. His face morphed too. Audible bone snaps echoed in the small space. When the noises finally stopped, Captain Planet was totally different.
He stood at a full height of 8 ft. He had huge fangs; large as much as necessary to tear apart an elephant. Paws big enough and claws sharp adequate to chop down a redwood with one swipe. His eyes were a demonic yellow and focused on Pollution. He stood on two legs; his knees popped backwards; towering over him.
" Uh, Planet?"
His answer was a loud lion-like roar. Pollution pressed himself against a wall as the transformed Captain Planet advanced.
" Oh boy, I'm in trouble. Uh, good kitty. Nice kitty."
*Roars*
" Oh, I'm a dead man."