So, before this begins, I'd like to mention the story that sparked this whole thing. I didn't copy anything from it, not that I know of anyways, but everything developed from it. That story is Rise of Decker written by League of Writers which was the first PAW Patrol fan fiction I read. and I would like to thank him for sparking the idea of this story. This will also probably be the only story in the near future, mostly because this is the only story I developed fully. Anyways, enough about this, time for chapter 4.
Rocky had a plan, now he just needed to execute it. He needed to get out undetected by anyone, and that included the security cameras that were scattered everywhere. Because the front door was always locked unless someone came by to check in, he needed to find another way out. Gray proved to be a very helpful voice in Rocky's head, and sometimes Rocky silently questioned how he knew so much about this place. Rocky took the same vent that he went in to spy on the researchers. This time however, he kept going straight instead of right at the first turn.
Gray told Rocky that the facility that he was in was completely sealed, meaning there was no way to escape the complex via air duct. Rocky thought about that fact, deciding he needed to escape by a door or window without being detected. Rocky figured that he needed to sort out the cameras, as they were everywhere and couldn't get out without security noticing his escape. Rocky planned to take out security and alter the camera's footage to seem though the guard fell asleep on the job.
After telling Gray his plan, Gray told him that the monitor room was the third left and the fifth right, first vent down. Rocky followed Gray's directions and found himself right above the camera room. Once he got there, Rocky noticed that his heist was going to be a lot easier since the guard had already fell asleep on the job, and all Rocky had to do was to reprogram one camera's footage pointed towards the door. Rocky stealthily took a snapshot of one of the main front doors using a camera and kept it as a stagnant picture on that monitor. Rocky thought that since the monitor room would be less frequently visited, no one would be able to tell the camera's footage was altered. Rocky then proceeded by jumping back up in the vent using his newly improved limbs, which Rocky was grateful for at this point because he wouldn't be able to pull any of this off without it.
"Hey Gray, where is the exit that I saw on that monitor?" Rocky asked quietly.
"It's just down this path and on the second right" Gray responded.
Rocky followed down the tunnel and took a right. Just as that happened, a loud blaring sound played right below him, and all the lights that filtered through the grates turned a violent red. Rocky realized that he never considered what would happen if the scientists went back to the house and realized that Rocky wasn't inside. Rocky also forgot to replace the vent that he screwed off, leaving a pretty obvious place where Rocky was. Rocky cursed and knew he needed to get out of the vents, or else the scientists would send something down the vents and find Rocky. Rocky got to the first grate and looked down. Inside the room below, he saw mops, brooms and buckets, it was a janitor closet. Rocky deemed it to be safe and jumped down, this time remembered to put back the vent grate as he dropped.
Rocky hid inside a basin that was inside the room and evaluated his current situation. Rocky assumed that all the entrances were in lock down, so he couldn't walk out though the doors. Rocky needed a new plan. Rocky looked at what was in the room, desperately trying to find something he could use to escape. There were shelves stocked with cleaner and sponges, walls covered in moss, nothing there could help Rocky. Rocky started to feel defeated, that he could only accept death until suddenly the door opened. Rocky immediately ducked down into the basin. Rocky took a peak at who opened the door and saw it was his instructor, the one that helped him walk. Once Rocky recognized her, Rocky devised a plan, he was going to ask the instructor to help him. Rocky believed that out of everyone, she was the one that he trusted the most. Rocky slowly climbed out of the tub and tapped his instructor on the shoulder. The instructor shrieked and immediately covered her mouth. She saw Rocky sitting there and calmed down.
"Rocky, everyone's looking for you, how did you end up here?" his instructor asked.
"It's hard to explain, but you need to get me out of here, they want to kill me!" Rocky replied frantically.
The instructor thought about it for a while, and then responded.
"Sure, I'll help. I also want to get out of this joint. Come on" his instructor finally replied.
The instructor picked up Rocky and put him into her coat, bundled it close and started to move out of the closet. Rocky saw through the buttons of her shirt that they were moving towards the door. Security started to chat with her instructor and in order to leave, she had to be patted down so that she wasn't smuggling anything out. When the hand reached Rocky, Rocky held his breath as the hand reached him. Suddenly his instructor shrieked, saying that he shouldn't touch her there because it was wounded and didn't want him to touch her there because it would hurt too much for her to bear. The security guard apologized and let her though. The door was so close to Rocky until he felt a sharp pain in his stomach. Rocky looked down and saw a dart sticking right out. His instructor pulled him out of her jacket and looked at him with a resentful expression.
"I'm so sorry Rocky" the instructor cried as Rocky fell unconscious.
Rocky woke up groggy on a table, tied down just like after he was reincarnated. Rocky looked around and thought about what had just happened. The instructor captured him. The one person that he put trust in betrayed him. This only strengthen his hate for humans. Rocky saw the instructor talking to the scientists, laughing away, and when she saw Rocky awake on the table staring at her with a cold glare, she ran out of the room scared. Rocky wanted to tear out her heart so badly, and he didn't care that she helped him before. Rocky started to growl loudly, and soon was greeted with a heavy blow to his stomach. One of the scientist had just struck him, and it hurt Rocky so badly that a large gash was made in his belly region. Rocky tried to hold back the pain, but started to cuss at the scientists, which earned him another blow in the stomach right in the wound.
"Heh, look who it is, Rocky. Thought you could get away from us? Run away and be free like you wanted? Well let me tell you this," he said in a mischievous tone, "Nobody cares for you, and no one will accept you as one of their own. You're a misfit, you're part pup, part machine, the odd one out. Face it, even if you get out, no one would give you a second glance."
Rocky took this in and it hurt, hurt more than the gash in his stomach. He thought about it and started to give in. Maybe he was a misfit, that no one would want him in his current state, that no one would care for him because of his robotic state. Rocky decided to surrender himself to the scientists, he believed that death was the only way to end his suffering. Living would mean more pain and suffering.
"Rocky, don't give up, don't believe them. There are people in the world just like you that have good homes, good families. People care, no matter what they are or what they had become. You're a good pup, I would hate to witness you die here, you have so much potential to make great things happen. Fight back!" Gray screamed in his head.
Rocky listened and he stared at the ceiling. He thought about his friends the became his family back in the kennel room, before that even. He needed to get the word out, to reveal what these cruel people were doing. Rocky would not die here, for if Rocky died, then all hope was lost for every pup in the facility. Rocky looked up, then at the scientists, and started to growl once more. The scientist with the bat prepared another blow to his stomach, but Rocky tugged at the chains, and because of his modifications, was able to snap them in half. All the scientists stared in disbelief as their creation broke the restrictions put down as was now in a fighting stance, ready to kill every one of them. Rocky noticed that even though his belly hurt like the devil, as long as he focused on moving, he could still fight wounded.
Rocky looked at the scientists, then at the door. It would have been so satisfying watching them die, killing them with his own claws and teeth, but decided that it was against his nature to kill them, even if he believed that the human race was corrupt. Rocky made a mad dash towards the door and charged right through, breaking the door in half. Rocky felt pain in his chest area, but like the gash in his stomach, as long as he ignored it, he would be fine. Rocky looked around and saw that it was the same area that they took him to be examined. Down the hall was the room labeled suffocation, and the room after that was the kennel room. Further down from the kennel room was the window to the outside. Guards had started to surround Rocky, but that didn't stop him. Rocky ran down the hallway, dodging bullets as they flew by him, some bullets did land in him, but he didn't care. Rocky neared the window and head smashed right through it, leaving glass cuts all over his body. Rocky tumbled down the grass and finally rolling to a halt. He was finally free, there were no fake screens of nature, this was actually the real deal, but first before he could enjoy the outdoors, Rocky needed to get this organization taken down. Rocky continued to run down the fields of green grass and it pleased Rocky that his dream was now a reality, and finally saw a city. As soon as Rocky got close, he hid in the shadows. Even though he wasn't in the lab, he wouldn't come close to anyone. Rocky found where the nearest police station hesitated to knock. Even though Rocky hated humans with a passion, he was more bent on taking down the organization. Rocky built up courage and knocked on the door. The door opened with a police officer standing in the doorway.
"Who's there, Oh my gosh, it's a wounded puppy, let me call the vet" the officer said as he pulled out his phone.
"Now's not the time, you need to send an investigator to that facility just above the hill" Rocky replied.
"Why, are they the ones that did this to you? We'll send a team over there immediately" the officer responded.
The officer turned around to call to other officers, and when he turned back around to face Rocky, he was nowhere to be seen. Rocky vanished into the shadows again, disgusted, yet pleased that he talked to a person that could stop the organization. In the meantime, Rocky needed to tend to his wounds. Rocky wasn't able to bear the pain any longer and started to pull out glass and wood splinters out of his skin and fur. The bullets were dug too deep in his skin, and couldn't reach them. Rocky needed to create a machine to remove them. Rocky bled everywhere, and needed a bandage like strip to stop the bleeding, and found in the closest dumpster that there was rolls of bandages inside. He took them and wrapped it around his wounds and sat down. He reevaluated his situation. He was now free from the researchers, free from lies, free to do whatever he wanted, and right now, he wanted to sleep. As Rocky fell asleep, he heard sirens going down the street, and smiled that the organization is going to be shut down.
Rocky woke up in the middle of the day, still in the alley where he fell asleep. Rocky found the sun and deducted that it was noon and started to forage for food. Despite being in bandages, he could still maneuver around, and found many leftovers in the same dumpster that he found the bandages in. In the same dumpster, he found a newspaper and started to read. The front page article was conveniently written about how the lab was conducting illegal research, and all the employees were arrested and imprisoned for five years. All the animals that were experimented on were put into animal shelters and put up for adoption.
"So how does it feel to be free again Rocky?" Gray asked.
"It feels so good, now I can live the life I always wanted" Rocky replied happily.
"Great! I left you a gift right over there where you slept. Don't ask me how I put it there, just put it on" Gray said.
Rocky went over to the place he slept and found a beautiful necklace on the ground. It had a bright silver chain and a vial of a swirling blue mist as the main piece. Rocky stared at it in awe, never seeing anything as beautiful as that, and put it on. Rocky felt a surge of power rushing to him, and felt as strong as ever. His wounds had healed in an instant and was now able to take off his bandages. Rocky walked around the city he had went to. He found a sign that had a label that he thought was most likely the name of the city, Adventure Bay, huh, Rocky might enjoy it here.
Rocky had just ended his story and looked around. All of them were tearing up, telling Rocky that he was the strongest pup ever and he deserved the position he had, even if he was slightly messy at times.
"Do you still have that voice in your head, or is that just something that you made up? Also, where did you put you're necklace?" Marshall asked.
"The voice occasionally talks to me, but Gray always says how nice of a family I have here, giving compliments to all of you. For the necklace, I still have it, it's in my pup house on a shelf. I occasionally wear it, but when I do, I hide it under my pup tag or my fur" Rocky replied.
By the time Rocky finished his story, it had turned night and was getting late. They were up so late that Ryder went down to personally tell the pups it was late and they all needed to sleep. All the pups went back to their respective houses except for Rocky, Zuma and Chase.
"I'm so sorry that I pressured you so hard. It must have been difficult dealing with all that bottled up emotion. If you need a friend to help you cope with your past, I'll be here" Chase apologized.
"Well, it was a great relief getting it out finally, and thanks for lending your help to me" Rocky said as he smiled. "It's getting late, let's go to bed."
As Chase was heading back to his pup house, but couldn't help overhearing Zuma's statement to Rocky.
"Thanks for telling the story, and I'm glad you never mentioned me, I don't know what I would have said if you had mentioned that I was there" Zuma sighed in relief.
Chase stopped right in tracks, turned around and asked Zuma a question.
"You were there with Rocky? When? How? Why?" Chase stuttered.
"Oh, Chase, you weren't supposed to hear that, it was only meant for Rocky, heh" Zuma replied sheepishly.
Sorry for the abrupt ending, I couldn't think of a way to end the story without leading into the next part. This will be the last chapter until next week, maybe another week if I forget to write or edit chapter 5. Anyways, like before, grammar mistakes and suggestions, thanks for reading!