Chronicles of the Night

When we last left off, Night-claw battled the unfortunate results of Dr. Moore's new version of project Warbeast. Right before Night-claw was about to kill Dr. Moore, he was taken captive by the security and taken away. Meanwhile a stranger in white clothes appears to Night-roller and Night-princess, and tells them where they can find Night-claw.

Disclaimer: I do not own Marvel comics, I do own my original characters and plot.

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Feral

"GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!" Felix felt the tenth needle they've used on him since he regained consciousness. He didn't stay out very long, but he almost wished that he did.

"Okay… hold him…" A doctor in a mask said while drawing blood from Felix. Felix was being held down by thick metal restraints and security guards just to be sure that he didn't escape.

"MOORE!!! GET DOWN HERE! I'M NOT FINISHED WITH YOU!!!" Felix shouted in fury. "AH!"

"Quiet you!" A security guard spat at him.

"Don't be too hard on him, he's our most valuable specimen after all." Dr. Moore's voice said over a microphone.

"AH!" The needle was yanked out of his arm with very little delicacy to put it lightly.

"All right, that should be enough blood, but now we're going to need to run some physical examinations." Moore said.

"Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr…" Felix could feel his mind beginning to succumb to his bestial rage as Moore's voice went through his head. This time he was ready and willing to lose control. As the cat-like instincts began to overlap his human rationality, his thoughts began drifting more and more towards clawing away at anyone here who has hurt him.

ZAP

"ARGH!" The cattle prods they constantly used on him made his reactions and strength weaken, it seemed highly unlikely he'd be able to go in to a feral state as of right now. The guards unlocked the restraints holding him to the table, and led the weakened Felix down through the hallways.

Meanwhile…

"Absolutely incredible." Said a doctor that was running the results of Felix's blood test through a computer.

"Ah yes… it seems that the Formula B and feline DNA has bonded perfectly with his own." Moore commented.

"Well, this is just part of the data, but over all yes. Somehow or another the Formula B that was tightly bonded with the cat DNA has come in to contact with his own,."

"And the Formula B had some kind of reaction to its new DNA environment and bonded with his DNA while carrying the cat DNA with it, stabilizing it out." Dr. Moore observed with a selfish gleam in his eyes.

"But… still this would be terribly difficult to replicate, I suppose I could…" Dr. Moore's assistant began to say if not for,

"No, just take Dr. Thomas' blood samples and bond it with more formula B, that ought to allow us to make a much better sample than in previous experiments." Dr. Moore said.

"Huh? But Dr. Moore, that could still be hazardously unstable." The assistant said.

"But it could also prove to be more stable." Dr. Moore said. "There is probably a thirty seven to one-hundred odds of it being stable, but that's better than with previous formulas. Dr. Thomas will be here for a long time, so we'll have plenty of time to make sure that he gives us a stable formula." Dr. Moore said, looking at a monitor that had Felix being forced to hold his breath underwater.

Meanwhile…

"Whoever that guy was, his timing was right on. We're here in the exact amount of time he said we would arrive." Night-roller said. He and Night-princess were right outside the lab building, hugging the wall around the corner from the truck entrance so that they wouldn't be seen.

"What do you think they're doing to Night-claw?" Night-princess asked.

"Hey, don't worry I'm sure he'll be fine." Night-roller said in an attempt to comfort her.

"…" Night-princess turned her head away, her eyes were hard to see due to her shades, but it was clear that she was upset. "That guy also said we had to get to him in time… that has to mean something bad is happening to him."

"Night-princess, believe me I want to get him out of there as quickly as you do, but we need to move quietly if we want to rescue him." Night-roller said.

"…" Night-princess' eyes glowed red and orange underneath her shades, and a single shadow of a small brown rat crawled out of her shadow and became a live rat. "Find Night-claw." Night-princess told the rat.

"Squeak." The rat scurried around the corner quickly and made its way toward the entrance.

"…" Night-princess sat against the wall and cradled her knees, deciding that was all she could do for now.

"We will rescue him, I promise." Night-roller said as the sky started letting a few droplets of rain fall down.

Inside the complex…

"Urrrrrrrrrrggggg… MOORE!!!" Felix shouted in fury. He was inside a room that resembled a prison cell, bound to the wall by steel cuffs around his arms and legs that were attached to the wall via cables, like the test subjects, Felix was only allowed to wear tight brown shorts. "I'LL KILL YOU!!! ARG!!!" Felix tried to pull his way off of the wall, however electricity ran through the cables and electrified him.

"Tsk tsk Dr. Thomas, can't have that now can we?" Dr. Moore asked. The steel door opened and allowed Dr. Moore to come in, holding a vial of some kind in his hand. "I just thought I'd stop by to say thank you."

"Grrrrrrrrrr…" Felix's eyes were narrowing out even more than usual, his adrenaline was pumping through his system. "RAH!" Felix tried to lunge at Dr. Moore, but again the cables made his efforts futile. "Oooooooohhhh…" Felix groaned, calming down yet again.

"Now now Dr. Thomas, is that how you treat your host?" Dr. Moore asked.

"Moore… no matter how many times you try, you'll fail. Just watch." Felix said to him between breaths.

"If that were the case Dr. Thomas, you wouldn't even exist as you are now would you?" Dr. Moore asked.

"Moore… when I get free from this, I will kill you." Felix said.

"Dr. Thomas, I'm shocked you would even say such things. You may have had a temper but you were never quite this violent when I knew you. What happened to make you this way?" Dr. Moore asked, faking sympathy with his mocking tone of voice.

"…" Felix stayed silent by merely looked at him with a burning desire to strike him in his eyes.

"!!!" Dr. Moore backed away suddenly and turned to walk out the door. "Well, thank you, you provided us with what promises to be a much better formula B than before."

"Go ahead, walk away little man." Felix said. "Walk away because I know that you're afraid of me."

"…" Dr. Moore walked out and shut the door behind him. He turned to the keyboard behind the door, overwrote the previous security code and changed it to a new one.

"…" Felix listened for Dr. Moore, and listened to him walk away along with four small little feet scurrying the other direction. This caused Felix to smile.

Meanwhile…

"You're back." Night-princess allowed her summoned rat to climb on to the palm of her hand. She brought it up to her face and listened to it squeak. "Okay."

"You know where he is?" Night-roller asked.

"Yes…" Night-princess said. "According to Lola…"

"Lola?"

"That's what I named the first rat I summon." Night-princess said. "But… she said that they're doing some… awful experiments on people."

"…"

"Torturing them… I… I don't know what to do." Night-princess said.

"We'll forget all about subtlety is what we'll do." Night-roller said.

"Hm?"

"We're just going to bust in, get Felix out, get answers, and then we'll go from there." Night-roller said, rolling away from the wall.

"…" Night-princess was a little surprised by this plan. "Are you sure?"

"If these guys want to hurt people, my best friend and yours, then why try to avoid a fight? We're getting in one anyways." Night-roller said. "Now give me a little room."

About a minute later…

A few doctors and security guards were in the cafeteria eating lunch, talking about work, or gossiping about Dr. Moore and Felix.

BOOM

"Whoa!" The wall suddenly burst from the outside and from the dust and debris, Night-roller skated in.

"Freeze!" The security guards whipped around and started unloading rounds at Night-roller. The rounds bounced off of Night-roller's force-field, and only prompted him to retaliate with rapid single finger shots.

"Out of the way!" Night-roller shouted, skating towards the other door and punching his way through it.

"…" Night-princess ran through the hole in the wall leading outside and looked around, a few scientists staring at her.

"Got ya!" One security guard that was still conscious stood up and fired a bullet point-blank in to her forehead, however Night-princess took the bullet and only tilted her head a bit from the force of the bullet.

"Where are the people you're holding here?" Night-princess asked as the bullet fell out of her head.

"Ah… ah…" The security guard backed away from her, but she grabbed him, removed her shades and stared in to his eyes as her eyes turned red and orange. "This way…" He answered hypnotically as he led her out of the room, leaving the scientists in the room bewildered.

"Dr. Moore! Some freaks are attacking the building!" Came a panicked voice through the walkie talkie Dr. Moore kept on him.

"Yes I know… they're those pesky teammates of Dr. Thomas' from the news." Dr. Moore said in a tone of voice.

"Wh-what should we do?"

"Take them down of course! Do whatever is necessary! Even if it means using the test subjects. Just don't let them take Dr. Thomas away!"

"Y-yes sir."

"Idiots…" Dr. Moore sighed to himself.

"Night-roller is in the house!" Night-roller boosted down the hallway, knocking security guards out of the way as he did so. "OOF!"

"Force-field at 71 percent power."

"What the?"

"OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!" A giant man with really large arms howled like a gorilla. The man leaped at Night-roller, but Night-roller punched it in the stomach and sent it sprawling backwards.

"Heeeeeeeehhhh…" Two rat-like subjects leaped at Night-roller from behind, but he wheeled around and fired a single three-fingered blast at them and knocked them out cold instantly.

"Anyone else?" Night-roller asked.

"Groar!" A female with lion-like features came from behind Night-roller and another person with fox-like features appeared from the other side.

"I had to ask didn't I?" Night-roller asked.

"Stop right there!"

BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG

Night-princess stood still and allowed the bullets to hit her multiple times, after all, the bullets did nothing to her.

"Release the test subjects on her!" A bunch of people with wolf-like or rat-like features appeared behind Night-princess, ready to pounce on her.

"You know… my control of bats, rats, and wolves isn't limited to just the ones I summon." Night-princess said.

"What?"

"I'm sorry to do this to you." Night-princess said. Her eyes turned red and orange once again, and the rat-men and wolf-men ran right past her and after the security guards.

"AH!"

"Look out!"

"I wish… I could return you to normal. But I can't." Night-princess said while letting a few tears trickle down her cheek.

"Grrrrrrrrr…" The subjects around Night-roller were unconscious and lying on the ground.

"You poor people…" He sighed, shaking his head as he skated down the hallway, knowing there was no time for regret.

"Hm?" Felix heard the sound of mechanical roller blades, and picked up a scent that belonged to someone all too familiar to him. "NIGHT-ROLLER!!! IN HERE!!!"

"Night-claw?! In this room!?" Night-roller's voice responded.

"Yes! Just blast through the door! AUGH!" Felix felt another electric shock course through his body.

"Night-claw!" Night-roller punched the door four times, making a bigger dent the first three times, and then busting down the door the fourth time. "You alright?" He asked in a worried tone as he skated up to Felix and blasted away the cables with two fingered blasts.

"You know… I'm glad you guys didn't listen to that note now…" Felix panted, shaking to stand up.

"What did they do to you man?" Night-roller asked, noticing the numerous sore spots where the needles were injected, the scratches from his fight before his capture, and other miscellaneous injuries.

"Nothing that I'm not going to pay back." Felix growled as he walked toward the door out of his cell.

"Night-claw, what is going on here?" Night-roller asked. "And don't dodge the question this time."

"I…guess I should have said something sooner." He sighed. "That monster we fought had the same chemical that I have in my body… and the one behind all of this was a former colleague on the same project."

"What?"

"I always hated that guy… and now… I need to find him." Felix said.

"Felix…

"Not just for me. For Dr. Sykes' sake as well, and so I won't have to trouble you two over it after this." Felix said.

"…" Night-roller sighed. "Alright, do your thing man."

"You know I will." Felix sniffed the air for a bit, and followed Dr. Moore's scent down the hallway.

"He's coming… he's coming he's…" Dr. Moore was frantically pacing the room he was in as a few scientists were attempting to gather their belongings. Dr. Moore looked at the flask on his desk that contained the new formula B they just concocted, and looked around before reaching for the flask.

"Hm? Wait! Dr. Moore we haven't tested that yet!"

"It's do or die now!" Dr. Moore said before gulping down the thing. "Urk…" It tasted revolting, and it didn't make his body feel comfortable, it felt as though everything was rearranging itself inside of him. "Uuuuurrrrgggg… AH!" He yelled, watching his skin on his fingers rapidly grow over his fingernails.

"Go down!" A security guard thrust a cattle prod at Felix, who side-stepped it, gave the guard a strong right hook, and snatched the prod from the guard's grip. He then ducked under one that came from behind him and thrust his stolen cattle prod in to that guy's stomach.

"Out of my way!" Felix grabbed two more cattle prods that were thrust at him by their handles and gut kicked the two guards that thrust them at him.

"UWAH!!!"

"ARG!"

"NO!"

"DR. MOORE!!! AUGH!"

"Hm?" Felix inhaled through his nose for a bit as he stood before the door the shouting came from. "Blood?" Felix revealed his claws and forced his nails in to the small space between the two parts of the door before pushing them open. "!!!" Felix looked around the room, all over it the bloody bodies of the scientists lay on the floor, and at the middle of the room, Dr. Moore was hunched over, breathing heavily.

"Thomas… look at this… LOOK AT THIS!!!" Dr. Moore turned around, his canine teeth had sharpened, his eyes were thin and cat-like, and his nails had become claws much like Felix's.

"…" Felix looked at Moore disdainfully and uttered "I told you."

"You'll… grrrr… yo… grr… I'll kill you!" Moore lunged at Felix with his claws and fangs bared. Felix lunged at him as well, the two met in mid-air and crashed on to the floor, they started rolling on the ground, clawing and punching at each other. Moore then thrust his legs in to Felix's abdomen and sent Felix flying off of him and in to a vacant desk. Moore ran out in to the hallway, growling and hissing the whole way.

"Moore… I said… that I'd kill you… and I will!" Felix's eyes narrowed out like a cat's completely, and he ran out after Moore crouching on all fours.

The chase soon reached the roof of the lab building, the rain had picked up and was now a complete downpour, the roof was like one giant puddle of water with the two of them ankle deep in to it. The rain splashed on to Felix's bare back and Moore's lab coat, soaking the both of them within a few mere seconds.

"Moore…" Felix hissed.

"Thomas…" Moore hissed in return. In the darkness, both of their eyes were large and round, they bared their fangs at each other and crouched low to the ground, ready to pounce at each other.

"HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!" They both hissed.