I groaned in pain as I opened my eyes, but I couldn't see anything. All I saw was the pitch blackness and empty space. I tried to move my body but I couldn't. Suddenly I heard machine's moving and with a click I was able to move again. I was thrown to the ground and I landed on a hard metal surface with a thud. I sat up and rubbed my head but stopped when I didn't feel fur. I looked at my hand and I screamed. I didn't see green fur, but I saw peach skin. I had skin! I looked at my other hand and it was the same. I felt my face and it too had skin. I could feel the friction and roughness against my fingers. I stood there, astonished and soon panic rose in my chest and I almost puked.
"Nausea, a side affect of the simulation" Someone said and I looked around but I didn't see anyone. Light flooded in the room as some doors open. A man with blue hair walked in and I immediately backed away.
"Hello Flippy" He said and I looked at his face and back at the doors. They were open just a crack and the light was too bright to see anything beyond it. I looked back at him and looked at me.
"W-Who are you?" I asked and he smiled.
"My name is Dr. Malloy, or better known as Sniffles to you" He said and my eyes widened.
"S-Sniffles?" I asked and he nodded.
"Come with me Flippy, you'll probably want an explanation of what's going on" He said and I nodded. He walked into the light and the doors opened more to reveal more metal. The whole room was a metal death trap, with dangerous looking machines and electronic buzzing noises. I saw Sniffles look at me and he opened a metal sliding door.
"Come Flippy" He said and I ran to catch up with him. Someone stopped us and held a small electronic thing that looked like a cell phone, but I wasn't quite sure. He held it up to my face. A red light shone in my face and I closed my eyes and backed up, startled.
"He's clear" The man said and Sniffles dragged me to another room.
"Stay here for examination Flippy. And don't worry. Everything will be explained soon in time" Sniffles said and left. Soon some soldiers came in and pushed me onto a table.
"HEY!" I yelled as they strapped me down. A light was shone in my eyes and they poked me with needles in my arms. They snapped near my ear and I realized I had animal characteristics too. I had bear ears on my head and I could feel a fluffy small tail on my lower back. I growled when someone pulled my hair and my ear. I snapped at them with my canine teeth and the man stepped back, frightened.
"Tell me what's going on!" I growled and the men stopped the examination and left. I was unstrapped and Sniffles came back into the room.
"Well Flippy here's the deal. You know the 10 years you've stayed at Happy Tree Town?" He asked and I nodded.
"Yeah" I said.
"Well that's all fake. 10 years ago you offered your life to us after you had no place to go. You and 250 other people were in an experiment. An experiment to see how people would react in different situations. And in order to do that we had to completely erase your memory and change your DNA structure. We made you part animal for a new race of "Flurries". You see the human race is dying due to a disease and we have discovered that animals aren't affected by it so; we stored away 250 Flurries for the new world but we needed to know what could kill them, and what their animal instinct would help them survive in, so we put all the Flurries we created into simulations for the last 10 years. And it seems you have died and woke up from the simulation" He said and I blinked.
"Are you a Flurrie?" I asked.
"No, I'm not, which means I need to get vaccinated before we go any further. This little area you're in is a containment unit with the special vaccine. It only helps prevent it, once you get it you're done but it will help slow down the process, but it would be painful so let's not waste any time" He said and walked out the door, so I followed him and looked around. All the walls were made of multi-colored metals and solid metal doors with a key pad on them which meant they were locked. They were numbered 1-300. He said there was only 250 Flurries so the rest must be other humans. I thought.
There were armed guards stationed at every door, as if someone would pop out and need to be restrained. Sniffles stopped at a lab and used a key card to access the door. I followed him and a blue haired doctor was typing away furiously at the computer.
"Petunia, Flippy woke up" Sniffles said. I looked at her and I felt discomfort. I felt as if I was forgetting something, or forgetting someone. I remembered and gasped, earning Petunia and Sniffles attention.
"Philip, is something the matter? You look concerned" Petunia said.
"I just remembered what abo-wait did you just call me Philip?" I asked.
"Yeah, that's your name isn't it?" She asked.
"No, it's Flippy, only Flippy. I don't know anyone named Philip," I said and she smiled.
"Of course you would think that. Your real name is Philip G. Stockman from Stockman Corporations. You see your father was a big businessman, and he decided that he wanted you to continue his business as the owner 10 years ago so when you were 15 he sent you over here to become a Flurry. He wanted you to continue the family business and here you are today! At the age of 15!" She said.
"But- that's impossible! My father died in a car crash three years ago!" I said.
"That was fake" Sniffles said.
"What! I attended his funeral and everything, and now you're going to tell me that the whole time I grieved all the time Flaky spent comforting me was for NOTHNIG!" I yelled angrily.
"Phil-I mean Flippy, please calm down! Petunia said.
"Oh god! Than Flaky! Is she even real! What about Handy or-or-or what about Splendid!" I asked and I fell to my knees. MY whole world was falling apart before my very eyes. I didn't know what or who to believe anymore. Was the shy girl who I had developed a crush on after we spend hours upon hours of talking, not even real? Was I just imagining everything? What about chasing Shifty and Lifty when they stole my stuff ! Was that all fake too?
"Flippy! Flaky I real! She is just in the simulation too! That's why everyone kept coming back to life!
We wanted to explore how you guys would survive and the results are extraordinary!" Petunia said happily.
"So…Oh my gosh! What about Cackles and Tweak! Are they okay?" I asked worriedly,
"They haven't woken up so they're still alive in the simulation. It's amazing really. Tweak managed to escape with Cackles after you and the Tiger General's little scuffle. The general barley missed her heart's first chamber and vital vein by a centimeter!" Petunia said.
"Where are they? They're Flurries too?" I asked.
"Yes, they are. Did you see all of the metal rooms with numbers in them?" Petunia asked.
"Yeah" I said.
"Well those are other Flurries who are still in the simulation. There are monitors and guards in there in case one of them wakes up or is in trouble. We can see what you can see and we have an examination of your bodies to know if some part of you is injured. If it's a scrap or a cut we can heal that right away, or we can make it become infected or anything we want to. WE can control what happened in there, because none of it is real, but your brain doesn't know that of course. Why do you ask?" Petunia asked.
"I need to go back!" I said and she looked at me with a wide-eyed expression.
"You can't be serious!" She asked and Sniffles intervened.
"Flippy, you're dead. They're having a memorial service for you soon! You can't just pop up and say, "I'm not dead!" Out of your casket!" Sniffles said.
"Can't you just put me back in there?" I asked.
"If we did that we would be breaking the rules! I mean how are we supposed to explain that you came back form the dead?" Sniffles asked.
"Bring me back as someone else than! Can't I pretend to be a doctor go in and pronounce I'm just in a coma or something? Then a few days later I'm back in the game and the Tiger General won't stand a chance!" I said.
"They have already pronounced your death Flippy. You're officially dead to them. Dead as in not alive," Petunia said.
"I need to go back somehow! I don't care if I have to share a body with someone! I'll do whatever it takes!" I said.
"You're not going to give up huh?" Sniffles asked.
"I refuse to let anything happen to me until we win this war!" I said and Sniffles tapped his pen on his chin.
"I can figure something out. You're still at the Tiger General's base, dead. The Tiger General has deposed of your body in the lake nearby, sunk at the bottom of it. You could say you escaped and only Cackles and Tweak would know you were lying" Sniffles said and I nodded.
"How do I get back in then?" I asked.
"Well if you die again, we're not going to help you" Sniffles said. "We can send you back the way you came in. The simulant" He said.
"Simulant?" I asked.
"Yeah, that's what we call out transporters for the simulations. Are you ready?" He asked and I nodded. I followed him to the metal room where I woke up in and I saw a small square that reminded me of a telephone booth. I stepped in and heard a clicking sound and my body wouldn't respond to any of my movements. I let my body go limp and Sniffles spoke to me.
"Ready?" He asked
"Yeah" I said I heard machines power up. I felt the box I was in jerk back into the darkness of the small metal room and the metal doors closed me off from Sniffles. I closed my eyes and took a deep breath before letting the darkness consume me.
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