~On the outside~

Mike's mom noticed something strange happening to her son's body. Throughout the past few hours. She'd taken a shower to get the blood off her, but when she came back...her son had taken all sorts of damage to his body. What REALLY scared her were the kinds of injuries. She saw bruises on his face, a bump on his head, red marks around his wrists, and the most frightening of all...half of his left arm was badly burnt. It seemed to get bigger and bigger like a virus had infected his arm, in some parts the BONE was actually visible, his mother was unbelievably distraught. She asked the doctor if they could look at some of the security cam footage from when she was in the shower and not watching her son. All the doctors' were stunned and frozen, trying to make logic of this, when they zoomed in, with his mother beside them, they saw wounds just randomly appearing. His eyes were squinting and he was sweating a ton, while rolling around on the bed fidgeting and shaking uncontrollably. His mother was so into this video that she had actually forgotten about her son who was now seemingly getting worse. She snapped out of her trance and ran out of the room and into her son's room. The woman was frozen in fear and felt a chill run down her entire being as she slowly crept up to her boy and saw something horrific. The burn had come all the way up to his shoulder and was making it's way up to his neck. The doctors rushed in and put restraints on his whole body except for his arm. "He's going to need surgery, QUICKLY, GET HIM TO THE E.R. WE DON'T HAVE MUCH TIME!" "WHAT?!" his mother gasped and ran out along with the doctors as they went into the E.R. there was a scream and his mother ran faster. Her son had woken up, she thought. "We can't inject him with anything else, it'll mess up his nervous system." So they put his arm in a large tub of ice water. "AAAAAAAAAHHHH! S-STOP ST-STOP PLEASE!" The boy yelled as he began to thrash around against the restraints. The doctors' ignored his plea and tightened the belts that were holding him down. They poured some more cold water on the upper burns, that were closing in on his neck. Steam was now rising up fast and his mother rushed to his other side in an attempt to hold his hand but it was hidden by the belts. "STOP STOP PLEASE! UNCLE, UNCLE!" He thought yelling out 'uncle' for mercy would get them to quit but they didn't. They were merciless monsters, then they got the needle and stitches… Manitoba was the one going through this pain while in control. No. Mal FORCED him into control. He thought he was free when the cuffs evaporated as if like water and the next thing he knew, he was awake and in torturous pain. "Mal...you...malevolent little-"! As he looked at the needle with absolute terror, he tried his very best to scream but nothing came out...he was choking...just then, blood started to come out of his mouth, scaring his mother until she fell to her knees with tears in her eyes. Just when they were about to wheel him away to the operating room, something peculiar happened. His arms started to 'regenerate', the flesh was coming back and looking healthy as ever. Because of all the stress, he fell asleep again. His entire body was now fine, his pulse was regular, and he was sleeping like a baby. While he was still breathing heavily, his mother knew that the worst was over and started unbuckling the straps. The doctors' were hesitant to let her do this but allowed her anyway as she picked up her child and told them that they were leaving. No one argued. She put her son in the passenger seat to keep a close eye on him. And so, she started to drive, it was now night time so the headlights were turned on automatically. As they came up to a stoplight, the boy seemed to be waking up, his mother was both happy and paranoid. "Mom?" "Mike?" He nodded, telling her yes. Just then, mike had tears in his eyes and his mother was alarmed, "what's wrong?" She asked nervously. Mike looked down then back up, the tears now streaming down his face. "MOM! IT'S MAL, HE'S...I'M SCARED, I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO!" His mother's blood ran cold at the sound of mal's name but tried to stay calm, "what's he done now?" Mike looked scared and hesitantly answered. "He was making me do mean things and hurting other people. He wouldn't let me leave,Now I can't, I can't leave without his permission, I'm trapped.I WANT TO LEAVE BUT HE WON'T LET ME." "Then how did you take control?" "Manitoba helped me. He hit me on the head, snapping me out of his spell then I escaped through one of the mirrors and found myself here. I don't know how long I have before he pulls me back in but all I know is that I have to stay awake no matter what. He pulls me back in when I'm sleeping, that's the limit of my knolledge basically." His mother was shivering and then looked back up at the street as the light turned green and she floored it to get to their house as fast as possible. When they finally reached the house, his mother brought him to the sink to splash some water in his face and told him that she'd watch him through the night to keep him from falling asleep.

Mike was relieved at this news and sat up on the couch beside his mother and everytime he started getting drowsy his mom would shake him a little and he'd open his eyes again. Then all of a sudden it seemed like something struck mike, his head shot up and his eyes lost their pupils and he was knocked out, his mother tried to shake him awake but...nothing. She knew that mal had taken him back and she couldn't do anything about it, she felt so helpless as she held her child in her arms and sobbed.