C26: Hellooo again and welcome to the corrupt underworld organisation known as Silph co. For the moment I'm trying new sorts of chapters and seeing what style my writing suits. This one involves more experiments of Silph on the way to project M in section beta. I was just playing through crystal and can't remember where copycat girl's doll is to get the rail pass, so I thought why not mutate her into a lobster like creature? Well simple there's no way I could do that, and then I remembered the virus mutation I had planned. But I want to make sure Koga is still alive plus I'm creating the mysterious powers M has. Violence, tragedy, sexual references and strong language are big in the next chapter as we look back to the creation of Silph. Enjoy!

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Chapter 8: missing

Koga

The first thing I saw when I regained consciousness was a rattata nibbling my face to pieces. Instantly I propped myself up on my elbow and brushed the rat away with my fist, it growled at me and dashed away into the distance.

I stood up and examined my surroundings; it seemed I was in a barren wasteland far from anywhere. The surface had no features I could make out, the only thing that distinguished this land as land was the rocky ground beneath my feet.

I squatted down to examine what I was standing on, it was like nothing I'd ever seen before, the rock was blue and marble like, from a glance it looked like a very tough rock, but even though I was standing on it when I put my hand down to touch the surface I slipped through it. I shivered as I felt a strange gooey liquid below the outer layer, where the hell was I?

I stood up and glanced in all directions to see whether I could make anything out, but there was just nothingness, a misty grey fog covered areas I couldn't make out, and fast moving black clouds above me gave this world a very bleak look.

It looked like nothing on this earth. Resigned to my fate I wandered through the mist when I suddenly thought to planet markers in case I ended up walking in circles.

I took off the glove on my right hand and threw it to the floor before continuing on, noting that the glove didn't sink through the ground as my hand had done.

I trudged through the mist for what seemed like hours, hoping it would end soon. I looked at my watch wondering how long I'd been in here but the concept of time seemed to have vanished, all four digits were stuck on the numbers 99:99, obviously someone didn't want me to know anything about this world wherever it was.

Then I stopped dead in my tracks, about two yards ahead of me was the same glove I'd dropped about an hour back. But that was impossible; I'd been walking in a straight line for what seemed like ages, so how could my glove be here.

I picked it up and tried it on my hand, it was my own glove, and so how was it possible?

And where had that Rattata gone?

As if this world was trying to answer my own questions I saw the creature standing a few feet away gnawing at its front paws, once it saw I'd noticed it, it ran off again into the mist. Intrigued, I followed it, maybe it would lead me somewhere…

Lance

Loreli was huddled in the corner only partially paying attention to what was to become a huge Kabutops. I squatted down in front of her blocking Bruno from her view in an effort to comfort her.

"He's gonna change" Loreli muttered under her breath, the same thing she'd been muttering for the previous half an hour.

"Loreli, we have to move before he changes" I had tried talking sense into her three times before with no result but I hoped she was ready now.

"Too many lives have been lost today Lance" she said shakily "Gary, Koga and now Bruno, we're all going to die down here"

"Hey, Loreli" I put my arm round her "We're going to get out alive its what Bruno would want" reluctantly Loreli slowly nodded.

"Too fucking right"

I swiftly turned to see Bruno trying to push himself up on his bleeding stumps which used to be hands; I noticed the Kabutops claws had vanished.

Loreli and I jumped up and helped Bruno to his feet.

"Bruno, you're alive" I stated stupidly, or course he was alive.

"Yeah, what the fuck's with the neck wounds" answering Bruno's call Loreli drew a roll of bandages from a pocket and sat Bruno down while she patched his neck.

Once finished Loreli moved to his hands but Bruno stopped here there.

"Nothing can replace that, it hurts like hell but just leave it until we get out of here"

"But Bruno, if you don't bandage your hands now you'll…"

"Just fucking leave it Loreli!" he snapped angrily.

"Okay, okay" she said drawing back, obviously she didn't want to argue, but this brought up fears of the claws of the Kabutops. Loreli made here way through the Colloseum door through to section beta, but before I went through the door I distinctly noticed two silver spikes slide back down out of Bruno's stumps, as if he could control the animal inside him.

I wondered whether I should tell Loreli, but if he became uncontrollable, killing him was the only option…

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C26: I didn't like that chapter too much but next chapter has more story to it than that, its just to show Koga and Bruno are alive.