The Price of Power
Chapter 2: A Reflection Upon Myself
I don't own Lilo and Stitch. The people that own it do. I think that's Disney and not me. But I do own my fan experiments...... which are a lot.
6-0-5 POV
I can't believe it...... Just like that, they think that they know me. They don't know me. This first day has been worth crap. And I don't even know what I look like yet. This sucks.
"Is zis true, 6-0-5?" asked Jumba. "Did you hurt him?"
"Well, at least I didn't kill him..... and besides...... He started it. Didn't he everybody?" I said desperately.
"Did he really start it guys?" asked Jumba.
Jumba looked over at the experiments expecting an answer. All of the other experiments had backed into a corner that was farthest away from me.
"Vell, just don't stand there staring. ANSWER ME! Did 1-1-1 start it or did he?" said Jumba impatiently.
All of them just stood there shaking their heads pointing at me. If there are three things that I hate in this world it is: cheats, thieves, and liars. And all of them were liars right now. I started to hiss lightly.
"OW!" I screamed loudly.
Jumba had hit me upside the head. All of the experiments were laughing nervously at me. All of a sudden a bunch of green liquid started to flow out of my mouth. It had no taste.
"Come vith me, 6-0-5."said Jumba, trying to control his anger. "The rest of you, take 1-1-1 up to the hospital ving."
Jumba opened the door and I walked through it with him and followed him down the hall. I thought that we would turn left and go into his laboratory, but we turned right to all of the rooms. He stopped at a door. It was like every other door, except it was labeled 6-0-5.
"Zis," said Jumba, pointing toward the door, "Is you quvarters. You vill be staying here for za night."
"Why," I asked.
"Because I don't vant you to get into anymore trouble tonight." replied Jumba. "And you vill be needing much sleep for your training tomorrow."
"What do you mean, 'training'?" I asked.
I didn't like the sound of that word. It sounded difficult. And everybody's voice still sounded harsh. This hall was pretty quiet though.
"Vhat I mean by training is that you vill be vorking under strenuous conditions tomorrow." replied Jumba simply.
The tone of his voice implied that this was no new thing that he was doing. I still didn't like the sound of it. It might be fun though.
"Jumba," I said, "Why do all of the voices that I hear sound harsh?"
"Vell, they shouldn't," he said, "But it could be because your ears have to adapt to your surroundings before you can hear normally. I'm sorry, but it vas unavoidable."
Oh, well that sucked. That meant every time I went to a new place it would sound harsh.
"Why do all of the other experiments avoid me, Jumba?" I asked.
"Zat.... my friend.... you vill have to find out on your own." he said, "Now get into your room. No more questions."
Jumba watched me go in my room to make sure that I didn't pull anything. I heard a clicking sound behind me and everything went dark. I guess that I have to adjust my eyes again. I concentrated. I saw the shields come off of my eyes and I could see perfectly. There are no windows in my room. I wonder if the other experiments have windows it their rooms. Or am I the only one that doesn't.
I look around the room. It's a pretty dead looking place. All of the walls were metal...... how different from everything else. It had a bed with a thin mattress. It looked more like a cot than a bed. It had no comforters. I guess that I didn't need any anyway since I didn't feel temperature. That's driving me crazy! I don't know if it's hot or cold. I had a table in the corner with two chairs. At least the chairs were padded. There was a little slot beside the table that food and water could come through.
There was a light bulb on the ceiling. I don't think that I would need that. There was a small computer on a desk that I could fiddle with if I wanted to. Wait a minute. I can see what is in the other experiments rooms with my X-ray vision. I concentrated hard, but nothing happened. Maybe there was another type of shield that went over my eyes. I concentrated on that certain area. A very dark shield came over my eyes.
At first I couldn't see. But I'm used to it now. I looked at the room that was across from mine. It was exactly the same as mine. Except for the fact that the experiment had a comforter and no computer. The experiment was sleeping. In fact I'm pretty sleepy. I need to get some rest. I guess that it is around 12:30 a.m. I took off my shields and went over to my bed and got in.
As I closed my eyes I could see the back of my eyelids. It was not dark and that bothered me. Why wasn't it dark. Everything was a light red. I open my eyes and I can still see everything. Maybe I have to shield my eyes when I sleep. I shield my eyes and everything went black again. As I closed my eyes this time it was all black.
I'm running as hard as I can. The clocks are ticking. They are going oddly fast for clocks. There are screams. Blood curdling screams that are sending shivers down my spine. I don't know where I am going. I think I'm lost. All I know is to follow the screams. I HAVE TO HELP THEM!
I open a door and go into the room. The room goes pitch black as the door slams behind me. At the end of the room there were flames that illuminated the whole place. I didn't even shed one bead of sweat. I look harder into the flames and I see a bunch of experiments all screaming for me to help them. Out of the fire come a huge, black demon. He was about the size of a house.
"This is what happens if you don't save them, 6-0-5! Hahahahahaha!" screamed the demon.
The sound of that voice...... It was horrible. It sounded like true evil. Evil that can only be imaginable in your wildest dreams. I saw a female experiment. She was beautiful. Her fur was an ice blue color. She had long antennas that ran down her back. And her eyes weren't closed like the other experiments, they were open. She stared at me hoping that I could help, but not so expectantly.
The demon took all of the experiments in his hands and poured them in his mouth, screaming with laughter. He got taller and more powerful...... more..... evil. I ran towards him to kill him for killing all of those experiments....... especially the female. His hand wrapped around me so easily and started to squeeze me.
"Wake up, 6-0-5!" yelled the demon.
"Vake up, 6-0-5! Vake up! You are fifteen minutes late for your training!" yelled Jumba.
What happened? It was just a dream. Or was it. Man, I'm so tired. I must not have gotten any sleep at all. What was it all about?
"VAKE UP!" yelled Jumba.
"I'm up. I'm up. What time is it?" I asked.
"It is four seventeen in za morning," replied the fat scientist.
Four seventeen! What is he trying to do? Kill me?! I didn't even get four hours of sleep and he wants me to train! This guy IS an idiot!
"Now ve go to the training facilities. Follow me," said Jumba.
I'm stumbling down the hall beside Jumba, not knowing where I am going. I can't even concentrate. It's a good thing that the lights are all on. Otherwise I couldn't un-shield my eyes............ We've been walking for about ten minutes. I am finally mostly awake, so I know where I am going. We seem to be going down the halls with all of the labs.
But this place is different. We must have went through a door somewhere in another hall that led to this hall. Because I have never seen this place before.
"Here ve are!" said Jumba happily.
We stopped at a door that said 'Training Facility #1'. Some name. There were a lot of doors. I didn't have time to count them all because we entered quickly into the room.
"Zis," said Jumba, "Is the endurance part of your training. Now hold out your arms."
Jumba's putting some sticky things on me with wires........ I don't like it. I'm already starting to hate this training.
"Now," said Jumba, "Zis is a tread mill. Vhat you vill do on this is to walk, and when I turn up the speed you vill have to go faster. Do you get it?"
I nod. What kind of an idiot does he think I am?! I know what to do with this stupid machine. Throw it right in his face! I step on it. It's still. Some endurance test. It's starting to move. Extremely slow. The monitor on the front says that it is going 1 sph. How slow.
"Zis is just the easy part!" yelled Jumba excitedly from behind his panel. "Now I vill speed it up to ten sph!"
(Sph is salophones per hour. I'm just gonna say that is their unit of speed. 1 sph is equivalent to 2 mph.)
I hate this blasted thing. It goes too slow. All I have to do is walk right now. My heart rate isn't even going up! It'll take a lot more than that to break me.
"Now I am going to speed it up to your top speed!" yelled Jumba. "Tell me ven it is enough!"
The monitor kept going up..... 20 sph...... 35 sph...... 47 sph....... 55 sph. I was going at my top speed. Is this all I can take? Oh, well. I can live with that.
"Jumba, that is enough!" I yelled.
"You are doing better zan any other experiment!" said Jumba. "Ve do it until you are tired...... vhich will be a vhile since you don't get hot!"
Just great. I have to do until I can't take it any longer. I'll just bide my time on a tread mill going 55 sph. 5 minutes....... 10 minutes....... 20 minutes...... 40minutes...... I'm getting so tired, but I have to go on....... 50 minutes...... every minute that passes feel like a lifetime...... 1 hour.
"Ok! Jumba! I'm done! Slow it down!" I yelled.
The tread mill slowed down slowly. Too slowly in my opinion. It felt like it took forever.
"Vell.... that vas incredible! I have never had an experiment last zat long!" said Jumba, surprised, "The longest zat I remember vas about 55 minutes!"
At least I outlasted that experiment. I hope that I get a break. I'm dead tired.
"Ve vill take a break...... have some vater." said Jumba, handing him the water.
I took the water and drank it greedily. I don't care how I look while I'm doing it...... I'm just so thirsty........ I've had my fill of water............... I've been resting for about fifteen minutes. I have most of my strength back.
"Now," said Jumba, "Ve vill test your endurance in climbing. Come vith me."
We walk down to the end of the room and I see four red doors. Jumba is leading me to the first on the left. We go into the room. There is a room with three walls in there. Where the fourth one should be is a window with a control panel in front of it
"Now ve vill be testing your climbing skills. I would say zat ve vill go to the highest level." said Jumba, "Now, in ze simulator rooms if you take damage zen it will look like you have and feel like you have, but remember zat you really haven't. Ok?"
"Yeah," I replied, "I think that I get you"
"It starts...... now!" yelled Jumba.
I no longer saw the room with the walls. In front of me appeared a huge jagged mountain. A watch appeared on my left wrist. It said 15:00. So that meant that I had fifteen minutes to climb a mountain that is taller than a building! The timer wasn't moving, so I guess that it starts once I start climbing the mountain.
I'm starting to climb the mountain. This is the easy part. It isn't too jagged or too steep. But when I get farther up the mountain I'll have a lot of trouble............................
I looked down at my watch. 11:31. I've climbed a good ways maybe about a quarter of the way. I have a few nicks on my skin but nothing big. My skin was pretty tough, and so were my bones. I've taken a beating, but it doesn't look like I have.
I'm about three quarters of the way there and I have about three minutes left. The climb is getting tremendously harder. Every step I take the mountain gets steeper and the slower I have to go. I'm pretty tired, but I'm pushing myself to go on further.
I'm about thirty-two feet from the top...... I don't have long left........ and I'm almost- A buzzer went off and I came back to the room.
"Jumba! I almost had it!" I yelled.
"I know." replied Jumba. "It vas a little disappointing. I vish zat one of ze experiments could get to the top. But you did good none-ze-less."
I wish that I could have gotten to the top. I was about five feet from it. So close, yet so far. I'll get it next time.
"Now," said Jumba, "Come vith me to your next exercise."
We went out of the door and into the door next to it. It looked like the room that we had just been in previously.
"What is this one for, Jumba?" I asked curiously.
"Vell, zis one is for testing your reflexes," he said, "And you'll see vat to do soon enough."
I got into the room and now I am standing in the middle of a factory with a lot of advanced machinery.
"Here are your directions," said an intercom, "The machinery will start to move. When this happens all of the conveyer belts will start to move. You have to stay on the belts. If you fall off, you lose. You have to last for ten minutes dodging machinery. If any of the machinery hits you, you lose. Do you accept?"
"I accept." I replied.
The conveyer belt that I was standing started to move. All of the machinery started to move. There were some blades up ahead. There was a small space to jump over them. I decide to take that. I jump over the blades and land back on the belt. I heard a sound over my head and looked up. There was a guillotine above me. I jumped foward just in time. The guillotine landed right behind me.
There was an axe to my right. It started to fall. I had to bend backwards to dodge it. It landed maybe an inch from my face............. I had about five minutes left.
In front of me there was a machine that was constantly shooting out a lot of nails. It never stopped shooting them. In front of me to my right there was a slot in front of another belt. It had a wall that would protect me from the nails. I have to jump just in time or else I would hit the ground. NOW!
I made it just in time......... I had about ten seconds left. There were saw blades up ahead, there was no way to dodge it besides getting on the bottom of the belt and crawling foward without falling off. I flip over and roll and grab on to the edge just before I fall off. I get past the saws and get back on top. The factory goes away and the room comes back into view.
"Vell, 6-0-5," said Jumba.
He wasn't saying anything. Does that mean that I did bad?
"Jumba," I said, "How did I do?" "Zere, are no vords zat I could say to describe zat wonderful performance!" said Jumba excitedly.
Well, at least I know that I did well.
"Now ve go to za last room." said Jumba.
Jumba led me out of the room and to the last room on the right.
"What about the room on the left?" I asked Jumba.
"Ve do not need to vorry about zat training room," explained Jumba, "It failed miserably."
Jumba was hiding something from me, I could tell. Well, if he wouldn't tell me, I'll find out on my own.
"Now," said Jumba, "Zis will test your swimming ability. If you drown, you lose. Ok?"
"I guess that's ok." I replied.
"Zen step into ze room." Jumba said simply.
I step into the room and it changes into a lake. So this is all That I have to do. Swim across a lake. Ok. I can do that. As I walk up to the edge I notice something. There was my reflection in the water.
I look at it. I looked like a lizard, just with a flatter face. My body was a smoke grey color. I had leathery looking skin. I only had two arms. I had ears that were long and pointy. I had two holes at the top of my head. I had two black eyes. I had three rows of red spikes that went all down my back and my tail. The spikes thin down to about one row when it gets to my tail. I have five fingers with claws about one inch long. And the claws on my feet were about one and a half inches lond. I opened my mouth. I had three rows of long, thin, sharp teeth. And I had a long blue tongue.
"VELL," yelled Jumba, "QUVIT LOOKING AT THE LAKE! JUMP IN!"
I jumped in. I didn't feel anything except the wetness. I started to move my arms and legs. Man, swimming is slow. Being slow is annoying.
"Go as fast as you can," said Jumba.
I started to move faster. I've gotten to my top speed. I must have been going about 20 sph. I finally reached the other end of the lake. It was a longer swim than I expected. The room went back to normal.
"Vell," said Jumba, "Zat vas very impressive. You crossed it in five minutes and three seconds."
That was good. It was a pretty big lake. But I think that I looked cool. I don't know why the other experiments run from me. I'll find out later. Jumba led me back to my room.
"Vell," said Jumba, "Zat vill complete your training for today. Ve vill begin again tomorrow."
I go inside the room and the door clicks behind me. I went over to my cot. I think that I'll take a nap before I go out to the kitchen to eat. I hope-
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