Hold on a sec, Sean here. I think some might have gotten confused. You see, Ran is TELLING this part of the story, but it was Slade who is telling us. In short, what your reading now is what Slade is telling. So everything that happens in Chap 15-16 has happened to Slade, not Randall. Clear? Ok....we don't want anyone thinking that Randall's the cyborg.

Chapter 16 Slade Comes Out part 2

I could only carry five explosives. In my hands and one carefully with my tail. All they needed was a reaction to blow. I stood as far back from my door as I could. I tossed a vial with one of my hands and ducked.

A massive explosion was its end. I stood my ground as dust passed me. My eyes could see past it, allowing me to transverse the rubble. The alarm was bussing. I didn't mind it and left. I turned a corner only to get blasted in the arm by a bullet.

I moved myself away and got my back to the wall as many humans started shooting. I dug the bullet out of my arm. A small amount of my life fluid came out, but I could see the metal that had been injected into me, and the hinges that allowed me to operate it.....

Anger filled my heart. I would not accept this. I was blinded by rage and tossed one of the vials into the hall then brought myself back as the tearing light and dust of the explosive came to me.....

I was....a little shaken.....I peered over in the hall to see the remains of several human bodies. Sorrow overtook me. I had just kill a....no....group....of humans from my anger.

I had to leave. I rushed away from the scene, almost gagging, as I entered a room, slamming the door behind me.......I felt like crying, being the first time....I had inflicted death. I slowly moved forward, still feeling the burden of death. It looked like an office. On the middle table was a file. I picked it up and looked at it. My guilt went away.

They had been studying me for years. Knowing where I came from. They knew Monstropolis now. They had made me half machine in order to control me. They planned to make me public and use the same technology on the rest of Monstropolis. But......I was the first........

"CODE NAMED: SLADE"

*

These....these creatures are mad! I wasn't going to allow this! I'm not going to see my father and mother turn into what I have become. Mom.....dad.....they must be terrified at where I was these years. I had to find them.

The door came open. I turned my head to see a bullet hit the left side of my neck. I stumbled backward, but recovered. I....felt nothing. Just the impact...then nothing. I growled fearless and leaped at him, slamming him into the wall. I punched him in the cheek with my metal hand, hearing the crack of bone as I did. He fell to the floor as I looked at my hand.

After a moment, I ran off. My eyes caught a glimpse of a map as I went through the halls. I found the exit not long from then. Before I went to it. I placed my vials in a device in one of the labs that would heat the vials to the point when they would explode. I had time.

I headed up the stairs, but someone grabbed my leg. I fell and turned my head back to see Kroitz.

"Your not going anywhere! I own you!" he yelled to me. "I don't belong to anyone!" I yelled back. In a whip like state, my tail turned and sliced his arm from my leg. He yelled in pain, falling backwards. I removed his motionless hand from my leg and ran off....

*

The house I had entered years ago, was still here. It was above the labs. I found the door, not seeing the kid, and entered........

*

I closed the door and punched the activation light with my metal hand, and turned back around. I clamped my hands together. Seeing home again.....I thought I would...never see it again....I had finally awaken from my nightmare. My parents......would be so happy.......I ran out, finding everything that was all too familiar....like a grand dream I once had.....

*

After remembering where my home was from my blackened memory....I found myself at the door of my home. It was raining. What....should I say? What....should I...tell them? I....haven't been home for years.....would they....know who I am? I couldn't decided. Out of thought, I placed my finger on the switch beside the door. That lovely ring that I use to think was stupid rang through.....I missed......it all.....I awaited eagerly.......I....hope they.....believe me...

My mother came to the door. Her face. Those...blue eyes.....those bluish scales......the yellow speckled tail....those hands that comforted me.....she.....had been crying.....for a long time.....

*

"Hello". That voice. How I missed her sweet voice. "I......" I tried to say. My dad came next to her.

*

"Those pointed fronds of his.....ending in pink.....those purple scales....those green eyes.....that blue tail of his......dad........"

*

"Excuse me sir...." he said. "I..." was all I could say...I had to tell them. "I....mom.....dad....its......its me....". My mother gasped as my dad took a step back. "You can't be!" my father exclaimed. "...I....I am..." I said. My mother.....began forming those tears that I had not seen.....ever......

"S....son....is......that really you?" she asked. I had forgot. My tail was now silver....and my eyes were covered by glasses that I had found.....

"Y....yes....it....it is....you....wouldn't believe what your little boy has gone through....." I said, wanting to do as my mother did.

My father insisted that I come it. It was gift to see my house again. The carpet that I would play on. The window I would look out on rainy days.....my old bed room....that spooky fireplace.....I never wanted to leave here again.

I sat on the couch that my father laid on everyday after work....I explained everything.......the capture....the prison......the testing......now.....only one thing.....

"If you truly are our son....then.....what did they do for so long?" my father asked me. I was afraid......of what they might say....

I stood, looking at them. "Mom.....please.....don't be afraid...." I said. She nodded. The only thin I could do was hesitate...but...then...I took off the glasses. My eyes...those.....eyes....the blooded ones.....that replaced my once beautiful eyes.....My parents moved closer together as I showed them. "They....made me a machine......".

My parents could not take it. But....it wasn't this that torn my heart....its....what happened next.......

My father rose. "Get out...." he said. "But dad..." I began. "Your not our son!" he yelled. "Your not him! You leave here! You....you.....machine!!!!".

My father wanted.....his son.....not this....mechanical freak.....He grabbed my chest and....with all force.....threw me out, my mom crying the whole time. I landed in the mud and rain, hearing the door slam behind me....I couldn't take it. Years of that pain...just to come back and see my father and mother dismiss me....

I placed my hands over my head and tried to cry. But I couldn't. My eyes wouldn't let me. I....got up....and ran......I had to leave.....I had to think..............

*

I found myself in a park. Sitting on a bench with my hands clamped together and my head on them. What was I suppose to do now? Strike out on my own?....I hardly knew anything.......I couldn't live a life. I....thought I would die alone.....but then......

I heard a slight tapping sound. I've heard it before. It was the almost silent suction cupped noise I made as I walked. I could hear it through the drizzle that had once been a raging storm. I looked up and scanned the premises. Then he came beside me.........

Rayford Boggs......

He starred down at me, having a thin box under his left arm. I was a little surprised to see a reptile that looked like me, but I didn't much care now.

"You alright boy?" he asked. "....Y...yeah I'm fine..." I said. "Well you look sorta down...." he said. "Its none of your business...." I replied. He took a step back as I realized that wasn't what I wanted to say. "....Sorry....I just haven't been...." I started. "Oh I see....something bad happened to you didn't it?". I nodded. "Well...hey....why don't you come with me?" he asked. I was a little surprised. My mom told me never to follow a stranger.....but then again.....this me had no mother.....

"Why....are you letting me....come with you?" I asked. "Well....since us reptilian monsters always seem different....I figured that all of us are part of a family.....I wouldn't call us a race.....but a family..." he said. That made sense. From my fathers dream of being the first reptile scarer, he was never given that chance.

".....What are you celebrating?" I asked, noticing that he had a box of chocolates under his arms. "Oh...its great news! I'm having myself a son!" he said happily. "A......son...." I said. "Yeah....hey....you wouldn't happen to be someone I know by any chance? Or your parents?" he asked. "I...have no parents...." I said. "Oh....so that's why...." he said. I decided to change the subject. "So.....what's....the little guy's name?" I asked. "Naomi felt like calling him Switch...but I decided on a better name". I slowly rose. "What is it?" I asked.

"Randall Boggs" he said.

*

"That day changed my life. I saw Randall for the first time. Rayford and Naomi were so happy. As their first son Randolph. I had to repay this monster's kindness for letting me be allowed to see his son when he was first born. As the years went by, me and Rayford kept in touch. I lived around the city, using my skills to defeat and devour my food. But I still wanted to repay him. That's when I made a vow:

"I will watch over Randall and Randolph and make sure nothing would do the same as what was done to me".

*

"I took care of both of them when Naomi and Rayford left. I replaced their memories with the one of my parents. I didn't want them to feel the pain of loss. Victor Viper was a brilliant inventor, and wanted anything to help. That's why his mind machine was used....However...during the time when Randall thought he was being cared by my parents, Carmyne was born. Randall never got to see her. She's his sister in a word as well as mine. I knew Randall and Randolph would remember Rayford and Naomi as the years went by.....but by then I hoped they were returned.

Me and Carmyne watched over the two after our parents died. Carmyne watch Randolph, and even Readagar at times. While I watched over Randall. I knew Randall was special. I could tell he would be an important part of life. And I would be the monster that would protect him...........

Well there you have it. Now you guys know who Slade is. Uh...sorry Ran couldn't tell ya, he's a little down from writing this, I wouldn't expect anything from him soon. Wouldn't blame him.