Authors Note: Okay so here's chapter 2 I'll try and update as often as possible but I don't have a set schedule. Feel free to Point out any grammatical errors you find. Please read and review!
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Chapter 2
Balto found himself walking down a small, totally white, hallway Charlie on his left and a small brown mouse in a lab coat in front of him. The hallway was lined with doors with no knobs; they each had a small slot at the bottom and a keypad on the right-hand side of the doors, each door numbered 1 through 14. But what really caught Balto's attention was the door they where headed for, at the end of the hall, door number 14. Balto could almost sense what was behind, it filled him with an uneasy feeling deep down in the pit of his stomach, a feeling he just couldn't shake.
"So gentlemen as I explained before project 14 is our only…fully operational experiment, he adapted well to the gene augmentations and is progressing faster than all the others." The small mouse who earlier introduced himself as Dr. James Muru
"Dr. Muru, does you program make any concessions for how the experiments might be effecting your subjects emotional or mental health?" Balto asked as the walk to this door was taking far longer than he felt it should.
"Well sir several of the scientists originally planned for this were rejected because of a moral issue with the concept of these tests but while we aren't paid to worry about the subjects mental state, we like to think we make it a point to at least know the subjects are in to pain while we experiment, but you do bring up a valid point, projects 2 and 3 were both terminated due to the onset of insanity in both subjects and they were deemed unsafe for any further study." Dr. Muru ended as the trio reached door 14.
"Well here we are." Dr. Muru said as he typed in a code and opened the door.
Balto peered inside and was awestruck by what he saw inside. Directly inside the door where five other scientists all dressed in lab coats akin to Muru's and in front of them offset in the back of the room was a large, clear, box of sorts and with in was what had Balto most surprised. A large, white Shepard with a black lighting bolt shaped mark on his left side, normally what would be covered by a shirt, but now he wore only black pants.
"Bolt! Your experimenting on Bolt the superdog!?" Balto exclaimed, Now Balto knew from years of military training that you never yell around a superior officer but he just could not contain his shock that this experiment had gone so far as to attempt it's experimentation on a former TV superstar.
"Hehe, well yes I suppose I forgot to tell you just who project 14 was and yes it is the one and only Bolt of television fame." Dr. Muru chuckled at Balto's sudden slip in manners and tact.
At the outburst, Bolt seemed to respond, the white Shepard looked up and gave his prison one good punch which translated into a ground shaking rumble.
"What the hell was that?" Balto asked
"He's stronger than he was last time I was here, you all have been busy" Charlie finally put in, stepping forward and standing directly in front of Bolt who simply stared back.
"Impressive observation sir and yes he is stronger than last time the two of you met." Muru replied to Charlie then turned to Balto "And in answer to your question that is one of Bolt's six genetic enhancements."
"One of six? You mean he has more?" Balto questioned never taking his eyes off of Bolt as he stared menacingly at Charlie.
"Yes well we thought it might me somewhat ironic to try and perfect all of Bolt's fake television abilities and see how he adapted to having them for real." Dr. Muru also turned to look at Bolt as he said this giving him a look of near admiration.
Balto let the statement sink in for a minute and then tried to remember all of Bolt's powers from the TV show; he'd seen it a few times in passing. His pups, Aleu and Kodi, watched it all the time when they where young.
'That mean, invincibility, super speed, super strength, heat vision, enhanced jumping ability and…wait what was that last one?... Damn well guest I'll remember later.'
Just as Balto finished his thought Bolt was on the move again, apparently Charlie had been antagonizing him since he had walked up to the case.
"Um…sir I wouldn't do that." Dr. Muru said walking up alongside Charlie
"Hey, why not? the case is made of diamond, ain't it; he couldn't punch through that if he tried all night." Charlie laughed turning away from Bolt.
"Well it's just that, it's not his punch we're scared of it's his ba…" Dr. Muru was cut off by what could best be described by those in its path as an explosion that ripped apart the whole room thrusting everyone in the room back toward the door and subsequent wall.
Balto was thrown less of a distance than everyone else but just as forcefully and as he felt himself hit the ground and the world around him fade to black one thought lingered in his mind. He had remembered Bolt's final power.
"Super Bark…"
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Hope you enjoyed Chapter 2 I'll get 3 up when I can
