Chapter 5 : The Lab
'Here you go…your pain should cease within 3 days.' I said after applying the medicine on Papyrus's wound.
'Thank you.' he said.
'Come on, it's getting late. We should head back to the house.' I said, holding his hand and led him to the house. 'You also need some rest in order to speed up your recovery.'
After finished our dinner and tucking Papyrus into bed, I decided to head back towards my dad's room and began to investigate his stuff. I got a bad feeling about those things I've found earlier.
The first thing I checked was the pile of documents. As I examined closely, each document's title labeled the same sets of symbol '******* ****'. I remembered when I was young, my dad has taught me and Papyrus about reading such symbols, saying it can help to encode message. Until now, I'm still having a bit trouble on reading it. It took me sometime to recall what the symbols represented and tried to decode the message, after this, I found out the title was called 'PROJECT SOUL'. I picked one of the documents and started reading it, later it turns out to be some sort of description about a machine that can extract soul and it included a blue print with detail explanation of how each part works. The more I read those documents/ diagram, more questions started to pop up inside my head. Around an hour later, I decided to move on checking the drawer.
I carefully picked up the tube and examined closely, the liquid inside was dark red and there's some sort of sediment sunk under the bottom, which was really odd and kind of disgusting. After placing the tube back, I picked up the silver key and found a small sticker labeled 'Lab' on the back of it. Judging with the size of the key, it seemed to be some sort of room key. I looked around the room and attempted to find hidden rooms/area which may be the 'Lab', yet I found none. Later, I decided to get out of the room and extended the searching area. Doors, cupboard, rooms even the painting on the wall…etc. The 'Lab' should be in the house somewhere. After a long search, I eventually went outside and headed towards the 'storage room' which located behind the house.
My dad never told me and Papyrus anything about the room other than informing us it was used for storing stuff. Sometimes when I passed the room, I can hear some sort of animal shrieking sound came from inside. Whenever I asked my dad about it, he'll just changed subject and never answer my question. Something ain't right about this and perhaps this was the time to find out what's behind the door. I carefully placed the key inside the keyhole and it fitted perfectly. A long dark corridor was revealed in front of me and I can smell a strong scent of chemical and detergent came from the room. For some reason, the atmosphere seemed to become creepy all in sudden and I don't like it.
Slowly, I gathered all my courage and went inside the room. Once I closed the door, I quickly 'lit' up my blue eye and used it as my light source and tried to find the room light switch. In the process, I noticed there were lots of diagram and notes being placed on the wall, plus there was a large cupboard contained numerous of chemicals and samples, which labeled in code number (similar to the tube inside my dad's room).
As I walked further into the room, I noticed a small computer screen has turned on itself. Once approached it, there was a list of folder appeared on the screen, each named 'PJS' with a number behind it. I randomly touched one of the folders and a new computer page popped up, showing a paragraph written in strange symbol. It took me some time to decode the message and it seemed to be some sort of science log.
Project Soul-Day 150
I injected 'Experiment 01' to Test Subject 09, it worked effectively! Test Subject 09 become stronger and healthier than before, perhaps this is a step closer to make monster soul stronger….
I touched another folder and a new page popped up, instead of a paragraph, this time it was a video clip. I clicked the 'play' button and I saw a bird being trapped inside a large tube, attempting to flee. During the process, I heard some sort of animal shrieking sound in the background and I saw my dad wearing a science robe, carefully lifted up the tube and placed it on a weird looking machine with a holder. Next to a machine, a sick Froggit was croaking unhappily inside a small cage.
'Sorry little bird, I have to do this …' my dad said, later he pressed a large red button on the machine.
The machine started to roar and a strong white light suddenly 'filled up' the tube. In the process, my dad placed a small test tube on the holder and dark red liquid started to drip down from a strange looking pipe. Around few minutes later, the test tube was filled with dark red liquid and the light has faded, the bird that trapped inside the large tube earlier was lying on the ground, dead.
'It's going to be a little bit painful afterwards, but I promise that you're going to feel better….' my dad said, facing the Froggit.
My dad later got a syringe from a table and went to the machine to obtain the red liquid, later he slowly injected it to the Froggit. At first nothing was happened, but around few seconds later, the Froggit started to shake violently and feathers sprouted out from its skin, later a tiny pair of wings began to grow on its back. The duration of this horrifying transformation occurred for few minutes, after that, the Froggit passed out.
My dad slowly walked in front of the camera, looking disappointed and sad.
'Day 200 of Project Soul, Test Subject 15 has passed out after I injected 'Experiment 03' to him, feathers sprouted out and a pair of wings grew out from its back. It seems that the test subjects have partially take form from their 'Host'. There's got to be a way to fix this problem.'
As I continued to watch/look at my dad's science log/video log, his experiments was getting worse and more disturbing to watch, I eventually decided to stop and moved on. What the hell was wrong with my dad? How could he do such cruel and horrible things to sick and weak looking monsters/ animals? The dad I know will not even harm a fly, what cause him turned into a dark and twisted person?
After some exploration, I finally found the light switch and turned it on. However instead of light, I heard something has clicked open and the room suddenly filled with foul smell, I followed the smell and came across another room. If I had a stomach, I'm pretty sure that I'd have vomit everything out.
Inside the room, there were dust/ash being stored in glass cylinder, dissected part of monsters and animals, all being pinned on the wall with notes written next to them. The weird looking machine that I saw earlier was placed in the corner of the room. I noticed there were dark red stain stuck on the surface of the machine and the floor. I didn't even bother to look what's deeper inside the room and quickly went out and pressed the switch. After that, the room in front of me sealed up itself and the foul smell has gone.
I was numbed and shocked at that time, it took me sometime to 'recover' what I've just seen. Slowly, I felt my brain started working again and began to think about what to do. Even though I'm really confused and scared that time, there's one thing I know need to take action….
My dad's science project must be stopped…