I close my eyes, trying to keep out everything and then somehow, the heat slowly starts to go away and my body returns to normal within a few seconds. What happened? There's no more heat from the energy blasts nor from Dr. Jenkins yet this smog is still present. I open my eyes and stop running. What happened? Reaching my hand out, trying to feel for something, anything. My fingers meet something ice cold... Metal? A metal wall! And something else... something warm. I attempt to fan away the smog and to my surprise, it works this time! I can slowly start to see now and I'm able to make out what the object is.
It's a hand... STICKING OUT OF A WALL!? I jump backwards and bump into something on the ground. Something furry... I turn to see what it is... It's not fur, its hair! There's a head halfway into the floor! I jerk away from this new shock and something above me catches my attention. There's a bright light coming from somewhere above me. I look up and see a big hole in the ceiling. Just beyond the hole are our planet's moons, both of them reflecting their moonlight upon the room. Oh! I know where I am... The fusion-cloning room. But not just any fusion-cloning room... the same one that we were in before! But how did I get here? The last thing I remember is running from the MC-Soldiers and the heat... the intense heat... I notice my dad next to me, also puzzled about how he got here and why there's a foot sticking out of a monitor. We spot Dr. Jenkins on the other side of the room and approach him.
When we make it to him, he has a frightened look on his face. "I can't believe this... I'm a monster..." He doesn't look up at us; his vision is locked on something a few feet away. Me and dad turn to it as it squirms in pain. Can it be?
It looks like a body... but the flesh... The skin has been completely turned inside out. The body is saturated with its own blood while muscles tighten and loosen. It flinches with the pain that comes from the skin not being able to prevent the muscles from rubbing on each other. The teeth and gums are clearly shown due to the lips being peeled over the face.
The body coughs and struggles to speak. "AH! Hurt... skin... PAIN! ARGH! Help please..." The body shakes a few more times before finally becoming lifeless.
The doctor shakes his head, now starting to grow patches of scales all over his face. "I've just teleported... I've just killed all of these loyal employees..." I continue to look around and notice two or three more bodies all faintly crying out for help. Bleeding to death. Suffocating... choking as they wither away on their own blood. Ears coming out of machines, hundreds of teeth everywhere, even out-numbering the red and green buttons.
Dr. Jenkins now stands up and looks further around the room. "Teleporting is extremely dangerous. One must know exactly where their destination is to be. If you're the least bit uncertain, the least bit incorrect with your calculations; you could end up in another time... another dimension... or even... like them." He turns to another body, this one fused with the MCG left frozen by Project P. "This is terrible..."
I start thinking to myself. "I was SO close to that wall... That could very well had been my hand sticking out of that wall! Those could be my teeth scattered across this room... I could've been one of those bodies, powerless to do anything but die in overwhelming, unimaginable pain!"
"To fusion-clone, we use the same idea of teleporting. We first clone the specimen, preventing the loss of its original DNA and then when we fuse them together. Fusion consists of teleporting each creature to the exact same location. But in their case" he says, glancing over to another lifeless body "they were fused improperly. The skin was teleported wrong... or a finger or limb wasn't teleported along with the body..."
I jump, thinking of what Dr. Jenkins had just told us. "I was so close to that wall... so very close to that cold, solid wall..." I look around the room once more, examining the great devastation that was caused by teleporting and notice something a couple of yards in front of me. Its dark green and pale; directly under the lab coats that I had knocked down earlier before. I take a gigantic leap and immediately race to the pile.
"Hey! The arm! It's over here!!!" My dad and the doctor set the conversation about teleporting aside and follow me. I lash at the arm, ferociously bringing it to my face and examining it. Dark green and pale but extremely light weight and unstable. I've never held a detached arm in my hand before but this doesn't really feel like an arm. I lift it higher while Dr. Jenkins and my dad watch me and wonder what I'm doing.
Dad walks up to me and takes the arm from my hand. "Come on! We have to get back to the room before it's too la-" He stops mid-sentence... completely shocked about something, freezing and dropping the arm to the floor...