Explanations and Decisions
"So who are you, what happened here, why the creatures here die after we beat that bird, and can you help us? Like give us weapons or a ship or something?" The bandaged Double-d asked from the lunch table. "No," the scientist told him with a smile, "but I can give you food." He tossed him a loaf of bread and said, "The name's Jeff. This laboratory's crew was reblleious and disobeyed King Shadow's order. Bad decision on our part, it allowed the Volgrall to get loose and the other animals soon broke out of their cells for its pollution."
"What?" Eddy asked confusedly, "Why would the animals break out for pollution? I mean that gas harms people." "Right, it harms people! Not those animals, they need a polluted environement to survive." Jeff told them as he took a seat on the opposite side of the table. "Why on earth would King Shadow want animals that need pollution to survive?" Double-d asked. "Well," Jeff began, "Shadow knew that there would probably be much pollution in a lot of places on earth so he wanted animals that needed it to survive. Also he needed some areas to be gassed out so that no one would be hiding for long so he had us design the Volgralls to spread their toxin over certain areas and the pollution breathing animals could hunt down whoever was left in there and clean up.
"The Volgralls were an excellent idea, but they became very vicious rather quick and fought for their territory with eachother and so we made a huge glass storage room in the center of the laboratory to contain them. Eventually only one was left and had to constantly be fed and even injured many scientists. We had also made it so that the pipes from the Volgrall's cage only connected with the animals so that they only dared to stay in there. I guess I should just tell you the whole story from then on out of how I viewed it:
"Don't worry Vornot, all we have to do today is feed that stupid Volgrall. You got the meat, right?" Jeff asked a red-haired scientist. "Yeah, a few Crilores today, right?" the scientist asked nervously. "Yep, that should just about do it." Jeff told him cracking a smile.
Cautiously the two young men pulled the cart around the laboratory to where the immense plant bird waited in its great terror. Vornot could only shudder as he got on his suit and approached the air tight door with Jeff. Sliding it open his eyes began to water in fear and as they opened the second door he screamed in his mind at the site of such a monster.
There sat the Volgrall in all its terrifying horror like a demon waiting to feast. Its vines sagged down its body and head allowing only the beak and life support device of the devil to protrude from the rest of it. Its sick yellow eyes stared menacingly down at the two humans as they approached with their offering. "When we drop it," Jeff instructed, "run as fast as you can towards the exit." Vornot gave no response as his teeth chattered within his helmet.
Clang! They ran like there was no tomarrow heading for the door while scientists around the outside of the exit. "Yeah!" Jeff shouted triumphantly as he landed his foot through. "AAAIIIIIEEEEE!" came Vornot's scream as the bird mercilessly took the man in its beak and threw him into the air. With one last cry for help Vornot turned to liquid as the Volgrall sprayed a jet of gas from its mouth at the human. Jeff couldn't believe his eyes as his collouge dripped to the ground in a big puddle. On another floor a woman with brown flowing hair turned head away from the site and walked away to her room.
"I can't believe it, another death because of that stupid monster!" Reshaulda cried looking at the door and tossing a pillow at it, "That's the sixth time this month! And this time it was Vornot!" "So I suppose you're not going to try the food tonight?" a girl around the age of fifteen asked stepping in letting her red hair flair about, "He was my brother and I'm over it." "You didn't know him all that well, I was his friend actually!" the brown-haired one told the younger girl. "Sucks to be you." She simply replied, "my bro just wasn't qualified I guess."
"Niether are you, then." A tall man said coming up behind her, "He was one of the best don't you dare talk about him like that." "Yeah right, Zoko, he was always nervous and you know it." The little one replied with a sneer. "We were all picked up off the streets by King Shadow, name one of us that wouldn't be nervous." He commanded menacingly. "I don't need to answer to a huge dummy like you."
BAM! "You're bro isn't here to protect you now, Linda, I'd keep quite if I was you." Zoko barked at her with red under his eyes. "Hmph!" She stuttered and walked out. "Really you should eat." Zoko told his friend walking out the door after the little girl. "Not hungry." Was the reply from Reshaulda shortly said and lay on her bed thinking and plotting.
"Well, if it isn't Jeff, the surviving man! How do ya do it guy? You survived all that time on the streets, a flock of Crilores without weapons, and now this!" shouted a twenty-year old man. "Not now, Zar, I'm thinking." Jeff told his buddy dejectedly. "Aw come on you- hey who's that?" Zar asked as Reshaulda abruptly stood up on a table and shouted, "ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!" "Huh?" the said in usion looking at eachother then back at her. "King Shadow needs to learn to not treat us in this manner! He is the monster on this planet! He treats like we're nothing! He just pulls us off the streets, out of our trailers, wherever he can get us! How many of us have perished due to his expirements! Anyone know! I do! SEVENTY! Seventy men, women, and teenagers! Some he just throws into containment cells with those creatures even! We can't afford to loose anyone else, we must rebel! We must fight! He expects attacks from outside like from the Golden Hotel or the world leaders, but not from within! We must strike while the iron is hot! If not we'll all be dead eventually! I was promised just simple expirements here like the rest of you! He made us imagine test tubes and microscopes, but what it really is is a holding pen for monster just waiting to be released upon our home world!"
Silence. No one dared to speak a word, even the cooks had taken time out of their work to listen to the woman. Finally someone clapped, then another, and eventually the whole room. Cooks dropped there serving spoons, people dropped their utensils, and certain people started writing all they could remember about the speech. Blushing with embarrasment Reshaulda stepped down and announced, "Anyone who wants to do anything about Shadow report to Sector Gamma Room A tonight at 8:00." "That was actually very good." Linda told herself while Jeff told Zar, "This is gonna turn out bad."
"What do you mean you won't do as Shadow says!" Shouted a man with Sonic the hedgehog-like hair only black and three spikes instead of six. "Well!" he yelled angrily sweat streaming down his peach colored face as his eyes turned into slits. "You heard us," Reshaulda told him from the other end of the computerized message sternly with a group of collouges surrounding her, "You tell you're friend that we won't listen to a word he says anymore, we're rebelling!" "You disobediant little brat!" the man cried dumbfounded and took a bite of his candy bar, "You'll regret this! We pulled you off the streets, gave you homes, clothes, food, and this is how you repay us!" "Shut up and listen Dr. Jack Kite! There have been seventy deaths here so far and we will not allow us to have another! You can tell Shadow this if you want it doesn't matter to us now!" Linda commanded towards the man in the computer screen.
"There'll just be more deaths and casualties there without us telling you lot what to do! But fine, why not, the Pollution Subdivision is now completely left up to you, have fun!" Jack sneered as he took another bite of candy and turned off the computer screen.
"Do we really operate this place on our own now?" Zoko asked his companions. They all nodded their heads and Reshaulda said, "The first thing to do is starve that stupid bird!" "Oh no." Jeff told himself from the back of the room.
"Everything went smoothly for a while with the Volgrall starving and all it was great." "Then we are you the only one left, buddy?" Eddy asked questioningly. "Ah, now to answer that question with the rest of my story:
"Care for some more wine?" Zar asked drunkily to his buddy reaching for a bottle. "No thanks, say isn't that a Crilore?" Jeff told him unsuredly. "Say what? Nah way man, you must be imagining things, look!" Zar said stepping over to the creature and using its tooth to pop the bottle's cap off. The Crilore just stood there stupified at what just happened. Just then it decided to take its first lunge at the people. "Aieeeee!" a boy cried as it caught his neck in its jaws and severed the human's spine.
"Holy crap! It is real!" Zar exclaimed and threw a bottle at the monster. It hit the Crilore on the head with a thud and it tore after him. "Help!" he could only cry as it tore his flesh with its teeth. Then there was panic, people were flinging themselves everywhere. Somehow Jeff managed to make it out the door and shot down rows of halls to the hunters' room. "Hey, guys there are-" he began, but stopped seeing no one at all. "Out to nail monsters, back soon… hopefully" is what a card on a desk read.
"Alright, I'll do this myself then." Jeff told himself grabing random weapons and heading out the door. Blam! A hunter nearly hit him with a bullet as he rushed down the hall towards the center of the labs. "Oh!" he gasped upon seeing inside the Volgrall's cage. Nothing was their except two dead Volgralls and a few unrecognizable corpses. Then he looked up, a hole. A huge hole leading through all the floors to the top of the roof. "Oh man!" Jeff yelled as he entered the huge glass cage. The smell of the creature's toxic gas was overwhelming even after it was gone.
He rushed out of there as fast as he could into the floor he had been on. No different here. VRIPP! A flock of Crilores smashed the wall above him and he was forced back into the Volgrall nest. "No safe way out of here so…" Jeff told himself as he crept into one of the vents, "I just hope whatever's on the other side is more friendly than what is here. Finally he reached the end of the hole and dropped down. There he saw Reshaulda talking over a computer to a black man. A pitch black man with no eyes, mouth, nose, ears, or other face pieces and was clad in gold armour. "Come on!" Reshaulda cried with tears, "They already got Linda!" "We tried to reason with you people earlier but you wouldn't listen!" the evil being roared, "So don't complain to us now! I'm not wasting troops lives to rescue you people! You're on your own now!"
"No, please wait!" she cried as the screen flicked off and she was slaughtered by some Crilores. "Aw, man!" Jeff cried and headed for the nearest recharge room.
"How horrible!" Double-d cried. "Yeah, well, I'm the only one left now and I managed to stay alive in the recharge until you guys came. You know the rest, so there you have it!" Jeff told the boys who had shocked faces. "Might wanna get some sleep." He told them. "Wait, Jeff!" Eddy cried. "Yeah," he asked turning his head. "The black man, was he, you know, King Shadow?" "You bet your sweet bippy he was, who else is a shadow?" Jeff told him and walked away to get their rooms ready.
Alrighty then, this chapter is basically to tell what went on at Laboratories and to intruduce two characters. The man obsessed with candy and acts like a kid: Dr. Jack Kite, and the Evil mastermind behind this whole plot: King Shadow! Their are two other main bad guys, but if you want their descripitions check Under the Head of a Shadow in Mischellaneous Cartoons for right now. So hope you liked it and stay tuned for more :)