Chapter 5: Side Effects

I stayed in a room that the Protoss had gladly let me borrow, to my luck it was next to the infirmary, so that if anything did go wrong, you know the rest. It was strange watching the Protoss eat, for they did not actually 'eat' but they absorb their food on their hands. Lucky for me that they caught the local Rhynadon to do experiments on, and had not started the experiments yet. For a strange reason for the first few days nothing happened so I used the time to mourn for Angela, she was the best friend and lover the world could have. Every now and then there was a check up in the infirmary to see if anything happens, it was boring because nothing happened.

"Hello Alex, how are you?" asked Javier while we were in the Cafeteria.

"Fine, and yourself?"

"I'm ok."

We both got our meals and sat down at the nearest seat, we talked about each other's families, hobbies, where we live, and any local news. The Cafeteria was a big place; it had nothing special, just the lights overhead, the long grey tables, and the serving station. We were just talking when I started to feel sick, I slumped onto the floor.

"Alex, Alex are you alright."

"Ohh…I shouldn't of had those extra steaks…Ohh!"

"Don't worry, I will carry you to the infirmary."

From then on it was blurry, all I could see was the bright lights that lit the hall. After that I blacked out. I was dreaming, I don't know exactly where or when, but I was standing in an operating theatre in a Terran (human) Hospital. People were surrounding a table with the patient on it; there were scalpels, drills, picks, etc on a nearby trolley. One of the doctors asked me to pass him the scalpel, so I did, the voice sounded familiar, but I could not pinpoint it. Then I looked at the patient, it shocked me right down to the bone…it was…me.

"Hey, he's awake!" shouted a nearby Protoss.

"Welcome back, you wont believe what happened."

"…Man…my body feels like its lying in the ocean, yet I'm still on a steel bench." I groaned.

"Apparently, your brainwaves exceeded the psychic mind of an ordinary Protoss, something abnormal for a human, it is something we haven't seen before. It must be the effects that you are having from your fall. There is something else that we need to tell you…when we analysed you with our scanners, there was a scalpel floating across the room, and went towards you, someone grabbed it before it could do any damage to you."

"Strange…I think that was me handling it in my dream…"

Time passed, and the pains in my head started to disappear. When I had a final check up they said it was fine.

"Well Alex, it seems like that you are o.k. I am sorry, but you will have to return to your own species."

"Fine, now I can see my family again!" (I had been in the Protoss encampment for some time, and the meals started to taste horrible)