ggThis isnt particularly my longest chapter or my best (In my opinion) But you just cant skip little details or things will get confusing!

The next chapter will be better and longer for sure so dont worry!(Or when it goes back into the actual story...)

All characters in this story are mine! (Except for Jo-Cher)

Enjoy!

"Are you sure he's stabilized?"

"Yes I'm sure Dr. Ricardo stop worrying."

"Stop worrying… He just fought Treador! And you expect me to 'Stop worrying'!"

"Why do you care so much for him anyway? You seemed awfully ticked off when they said who he was going to fight."

"… He reminds me of my son…"

"Oh… well anyway stop worrying he'll be alright."

"Alright I'll stop…"

"Hey I think he's waking up!"

Whiteness blinded Surf as he slowly opened his eyes. He didn't fully open them only half way waiting for his eyes to focus. His eyes focused like they did when he first woke up in this place, fast and sudden zooming of in and out. His eyes finally adjusted to the light and saw two figures standing out in the light.

"See I told he will be ok!" Surf heard a female voice say.

"Good thing." Surf heard another voice say. He recognized the voice after thinking for a moment. Surf smiled on the inside knowing that Snowy was nearby.

He was able to see the figures features better after the one figure on his left went out of sight and dimmed out the lights. The person on his right was of course Snowy with a concerned look on his face. The other person that was on his left came back into sight. The person was a rabbit that was mainly a light pink in color. Her highlights were a pale color and she had the white clothes of a nurse.

"Hey Surf how are you feeling?" The rabbit asked.

"You probably already know the answer to that…" Surf answered with a headache.
"You got a headache don't you?" She asked.

"A big one."

"Let me get some pain killers for that." And off she went to some unknown location.

Surf then looked at Snowy who still looked concerned.

"Why you worry?" Surf asked.

"Why not?" Snowy answered while crossing his arms.

"Aha I see what you there." Surf said as he waved his finger at Snowy.

"Sooo… what happened to Treador?" Surf questioned.

"He's in a different hospital room far away from this one. The one he's at is mainly for subjects like him." Snowy answered.

Surf thought about that answer and then another thought popped into his mind. Surf managed to remember the small conversation Snowy and that rabbit before he woke up.

"What happened to your son?" Surf asked suddenly.

Snowy looked to have froze up. A second later he had a sad look on his face as if he was going down memory lane.

"Car accident…" Snowy finally answered.

"Ouch… I'm guessing you tried The Replacement Project on him didn't you?"

"Of course I did. But he didn't survive it…" Snowy replied sadly.

Surf was thinking of a way to make the situation better but nothing was coming up. He decided to bring up something else he heard in the conversation.

"So your name is Ricardo? Why didn't you tell me that earlier?" Surf joked.

Snowy did a :S face and said.

"You eavesdropper, you heard that too?"

"Hey I can't help listening if I'm sleeping ya know!" Surf exclaimed.

"Excuses, Excuses!" Snowy said while waving his hand around.

The rabbit came back with a bottle of pain killers and yelled.

"Pills here!"

Surf's head pounded painfully from the sudden loud sound.

"Oww… Your yelling isn't helping."

"Well these will. Just plop a couple in your mouth and drink it down." The rabbit whispered.

The nurse handed over the pain killers and gave Surf a glass of water. He put four on his real hand and noticed that one looked different than the other three but he didn't think much of it and plopped them into his mouth. While he was washing them down with his glass of water the nurse mentioned something.

"Well now that you drank the pills I can tell you something."

"Hmmm?" Surf mumbled while he was still drinking.

"You know that pill that stood out. That pill is what I like to call a sleeping pill and it's going to make you sleep within the next five minutes whether you like it or not!"

Surf spit out the water that was in his mouth.

"Why!"

"Well those burns on your back and bullet wounds will heal faster if you sleep and I know you won't want to sleep when I tell you to so I might as well do it by force!" She explained with a wide smile.

Surf just looked at her for a minute.

"That's messed up man…"

The rabbit started giggling and replied.

"I know but it's for your own good."

Surf watched her as she skipped away. After she went out of sight he looked back to Snowy. Snowy had the same face as Surf which is of complete confusion.

"Are you the only normal person?" Surf asked out of the blue.

"I'm starting to believe so…" Snowy replied while shaking his head.

Surf then remember something that happened during The Slide part of the test he took earlier.

"You liar!" Surf yelled pointing at Snowy.
Snowy jumped back in surprise to Surf's sudden outburst.

"What did I do?" Snowy exclaimed.

"You never said a thing about my quills being able to turn to sword like!" Surf yelled in frustration.

Snowy looked to be thinking for a moment then did a sweat drop.

"To be honest I didn't really know about that ability. I'm not the only scientist that programmed attachments into you and some of the scientists kept what they did a secret."

"So there are probably still things that I don't know about myself." Surf said as he looked at his artificial arm with wonder.

All of a sudden Surf felt weak and everything was going fuzzy. His head landed on the pillow while he tried to speak.

"whazz… hwapwenning…?" Surf's speech was slurred which made Snowy have to figure out what he said.

"Oh… That's the sleeping pill taking effect."

"Bwut I don't wanna goes to sweep…" Surf tried to resist but was failing horribly.

"Good night Surf!" Snowy said as he waved.

Surf opened his mouth to say something else but nothing came out, he ended up closing them as he fell into a deep slumber.

"Does he really remind that much of your son?" The nurse asked as she came from the shadows.

"He's like my son in a different body. That's how much he reminds me of him…" Snowy replied plainly.

"Interesting." She said.

"I'm going to guess you're going to say visiting hours are over so I'm going to go now." Snowy said as he walked to the exit.

"See you later Ricardo!" The nurse called out.

He exited without saying another word.

The next day

Surf was already awake when the nurse came by to check on him. He was just staring endlessly into the ceiling looking like he was thinking of something.

"What are you thinking about?" She asked as she sat next to him on his bed.

"Nothing…" Surf said.

"Look don't try lying to me now. I know when someone is thinking hard on something and you are thinking about something. So come on spill it out. Tell your friend Nurse Kathy all about it." She said with the warmest of smiles.

Surf couldn't help but smile too and ended up spilling the beans.

"Well I'm just thinking what my parents are going to think of me when they see me like this. Are they going to accept me or are they going to deny me and chase me away… not to mention if I would have to go back to school. My bullying issue is bad enough already! Now it's probably going to get worse if I go back."

Kathy didn't hesitate replying to what she just heard.

"Well if your parents really did love you dearly they will accept you for who you are no matter what you look like or what you turn out to be! Or that's what real parents should do."

Kathy then rose from her sitting position and went to an unknown part of the room.

Surf scratched his head and kept thinking on that statement.

'Despite that rabbit having a few screws loose what she said is true.'

Surf sighed and looked back to the ceiling getting lost in his thoughts. Surf fell asleep after what seemed like hours of just staring at the ceiling.

Inside Surf's dream

Surf was walking down the school hallway with his textbooks being carried by his left arm. Some of the girls that were in groups looked at him and giggled. Surf never knew why the girls did that. Perhaps they were remembering embarrassing moments that happened in the past.

A mobian cheetah boy was passing by him but while he passed he slapped Surf's stuff out from his grip. The cheetah just laughed and so did a couple of other kids that were watching. Surf's ears drooped and he was about to pick his scattered textbooks up when a mobian penguin kid came up from behind him and slammed a trash can onto his head. Surf fell into a sitting position onto the floor and only listened as all the kids laughed at him. Surf held in tears as he took the trash can off from his head and looked at the kids that circled him, mocking him with their laughter sounding of nails on a chalk board.

Surf covered his ears trying to tune out the laughter but he heard it as if he wasn't covering his ears. He then felt something heavy hit his head and then another and another. He looked seeing the kids were now throwing their textbooks at him. A kid threw a hard cover textbook at his face and hit his forehead causing a cut to start bleeding. Surf covered the cut with his right hand and noticed the kids weren't throwing anything anymore. Instead the kids in front of him started making a pathway for someone in the back, a grizzly bear mobian came from the crowd and had a menacing look on his face. He towered over Surf like a giant and had two, much smaller; black bears following him like his minions.

The grizzly bear had a black gang jacket with a light grey shirt that had a skull crossed with bones. He picked Surf up by his fluff of chest hair which made Surf feel like it was about to rip off. Once he picked Surf up at eye level he raised his free hand in the air and made it into a fist. Surf could hear the kids surrounding them chanting.

"Fight, fight, fight, fight…"

After a moment of listening to this the grizzly bear brought down his fist.

After said dream

Right before the fist met his face Surf woke up with a jolt. He was alone in the room with the lights out. He looked at his night stand that had a small clock on it that said.

"4:35"

'Wow… I've slept that long already…'Surf thought as he plopped his head on his pillow again. He gave a look at himself and noticed that bandages were all around his chest and that he had a couple of band aids on his head in the shape of a X. Surf noticed how eerie it was in the room when it was dark and no one was around. Surf didn't feel sleepy and didn't plan on sleeping anytime soon from his recent dream. Surf's back didn't seem to hurt that much and neither did his chest so he decided it would be safe to go wandering in the halls.

Surf figured that if Kathy found out he got out of bed without her permission or the supervision of someone she wouldn't have her happy go lucky style. Surf could barely see five feet in front of him due to how dark it was.

"If only I could see…" Surf mumbled to himself.

Once saying this he saw something in his vision saying

"Night vision activated"

Then suddenly his vision switched from just barely seeing five feet in front of him to a slimy green color and being able to see everything in the room.

'Sweet!' Surf thought as he found the door that led to the hallway.

The door opened automatically to the brightly lit hallway. The light did not go well with Surf's night vision so he had to switch it back to normal by thinking.

'Deactivate night vision'

In one swift wave of white in his vision his sight was normal again. He looked to the left, right then left again and stepped out into the empty hallway. He started walking to his left and started his midnight wander. He saw other doors that probably led to bedrooms of other scientists; Surf didn't dare go inside them afraid of what he might see.

He walked on and on for about half an hour mainly just staring at the blue pipe that was attached to the wall. He then heard someone from behind him.

"Don't you think it's a little late for you to be walking through these halls?" Surf froze and recognized the voice immediately, not expecting to see this mobian during this time.

Can you guess who found Surf in the halls? Well can ya?

Well you'll find out who it is in a future chapter (Chapter six will be different); Could be Ricardo or Treador or Jo-Cher!

Enjoy!