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"It's only a matter of time..."
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"It's only a matter of time before you lose what's left of yourself..."
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"Release me once again, and submit yourself over to me...
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"...Let me end your suffering..."
"Stop lying to me!"
"You almost killed an innocent-"
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"SHUT UP, I will have full control! I WILL break you."
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"You can never break me!"
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"Try me..."
The pup could be seen once again floating in a dark empty void, he was sobbing quietly to himself. He was forced into an empty world alone, he had nobody to protect him, he was just surrounded in empty space without any sound, or life.
"THEY tried locking you away from your horrible past, THEY thought they made you stronger, THEY thought you would successfully cope with your inner self..."
"But they were wrong..."
The pup was suddenly thrusted into a different world, and seemingly knocking him unconscious, but felt the feeling of adrenaline rushing through his veins, and found it incredibly hard to open his eyes.
He felt himself being dragged with two mammals holding him by each of his shoulders.
"Specimen has arrived on base, proceeding with standard protocol." A male with a recognizable Russian accent said to his left, whos voice sounded like it was masked.
"Affirmative, Deathwatch. Proceed with standard arrival protocols." A male voice replied, which sounded like it come from some sort of radio.
The pup slowly opened his eyes after struggling to do so. He looked up and saw the back of a mammal walking just ahead of him, the mammal appeared to have the silhouette of a male, he also appeared to being wearing some sort of fully blacked out military uniform, which included shoulder and knee pads, black combat boots, pistol holster on his left leg, a small black bag hanging from his right leg, a jet black pasgt helmet, and black body armor, which had a neck guard surrounding his neck. The male mammal also appeared to have the tail of a leopard, and leopard ears protruding from his helmet
The pup also noticed a large patch with "BSSD" in big white letters on the upper part of unknown mammal's body armor. He felt himself begin to panic, he even noticed that the mammals around him sounded like they were breathing through gas masks, which gave him chills. He cautiously looked up to the mammal to his left, who seemed to have a deep male Russian accent. The pup widened his eyes in horror at what he saw.
The mammal to his left wore that exact same clothing as the the mammal walking in front of them, but had white wolf like ears protruding from his helmet, he also had a black M04 double filtered gas mask over his face, and muzzle that also had a white wolf skull painted over it.
The white eared wolf suddenly looked down at him, which caused the the pup to gasp in surprise. The dark tinted visors covering the white wolf's eyes gave him a cold, and emotionless stare.
"Look who decided to wake up." The white eared wolf chuckled under his mask, catching the attention of the leopard in front of him and the other mammal holding onto his right shoulder.
"Shall I sedate him again, Sir?" The leopard from in front asked, who's voice seemed to be masked as well.
"No... I want him to be aware of what's going on." The wolf grinned under his mask.
"Let me go! I want my mo-" Before the pup could finish, he was interrupted by the wolf.
"Close your pipe-hole, boy." The wolf said, dragging him up against a large window. "Look." The wolf simply said.
The pup looked inside the window and noticed a male coyote pup lying strapped down to a metal table, a recognizable blue eyed, brown husky wearing a white lab coat, with half rimless spectacles approach the coyote pup. He pushed a cart that seemed to carrying four syringes filled with a purple liquid.
There was also another male mammal in the room wearing a black military uniform complete with combat armor and helmet, but the mammal wasn't wearing a mask, revealing him to be a male hyena with a serious expression plastered on his face and appeared to be watching over the husky, he held a slightly modified P90 firmly in his paws, as he watched over the supposed scientist, he also had a small patch over his heart that read "BSD" in small white letters.
The pup watched in horror as the husky picked up one of the syringes, and flicked it with his fingers.
"STOP! PLEASE!" The coyote pup screamed as, the husky began lowering the syringe upon his arm. "PLEASE! I DONT LIKE SHOTS!" The coyote pup cried aloud. He screamed out in pain, as the husky inserted the long needle into his appendage. The husky pressed down on the syringe, injecting the purple liquid into the coyote pup's bloodstream. He began bawling, tears rushed down his cheeks, as the husky injected more of the liquid into his neck. Before the husky could inject the coyote pup a third time, the coyote had suddenly began spasming out almost like he was having a seizure. The coyote looked straight into the pup's eyes, he watched as the coyote's brown eyes slowly turned into bright purple, before they dimed out into a dark purple, until they had completely died out and the coyote was no longer moving.
The husky began doing CPR on the coyote pup's now lifeless corpse, but he only remained unresponsive. Blood slowly trickled out of the coyote's mouth, and nose and onto the cold stainless steel table.
The pup heard the wolf scoff. "Another failed attempt to raise our pay grade." The wolf sighed. "Alright, you guys get some R&R, I'll take him in."
"No, No, No please!" The pup begged, fighting the wolf's tight grip, as he pulled him into the room.
"Dispose of Specimen 979, bring in the new specimen." The husky sighed, as he wrote something down on a clipboard. "Thats already 27 failed attempts today." The husky said aloud without a hint of remorse.
"This ones quite weak." The masked wolf chuckled, fighting off the pup's sad attempts to break free. "Are you sure you aren't wasting your time on him?"
"He may be weak, but my creation could turn him into the worlds greatest Super Soldier, although I doubt he'd survive the initial injections." The doctor said, placing down the clipboard onto a nearby table. "I'm going to go grab two more serums, take care of my specimen."
"Whatever you say, doc." The wolf said, forcing the pup onto the table and tying his limbs down onto it.
"I just want to go home..." The pup cried.
The wolf laughed and brought his masked face close to the pup's. "There's no going home, you have no-one, you have only yourself." The wolf whispered, pulling his head away from the pup and laughing once more.
"Why are you doing this to me?" The pup sobbed.
"Kid, I've been doing this for as long as I can remember. Call me crazy, but I find this job rather... Enjoyable." The wolf grinned under his gas mask.
"Alright let's get this over with." The brown husky said, carrying two syringes to make up for the two wasted on the coyote pup.
"Good luck." The wolf snickered to the pup.
The pup watched as the doctor approached the side of the table and held up a syringe. "Hold still." He said, as he inserted the large needle into his arm. He felt the needle penetrate a vein, before the doctor pressed down on the syringe; injecting the purple liquid into his bloodstream.
The pup felt a sharp pain rush up his arm, which strangely quickly subsided. The doctor raised an eyebrow, and inserted another syringe into his other arm. The same painful sensation rushed up his other arm, but once again quickly subsided. Once again the doctor injected the pup a third time, but this time it was the pup's neck. He screamed out in pain as, the purple substance was injected into his neck. He felt an immense throbbing pain in his head that felt more like an extremely painful migraine. He began hearing strange noises in his head that sounded almost like... whispering. He clenched his fists, he felt powerful, he felt like he could accomplish anything, but he felt the sudden undesirable urge to hurt someone... To kill someone.
"By-God, it's working." The brown husky gasped. "Quick! Someone get the containment unit ready, and get him ready for stage two." The brown husky yelled.
The hyena nodded his head, and quickly left the room.
The husky injected the last of the serum right over the pup's heart, which caused the pup to gasp out, the doctor watched as the pup's body emitted a powerful purple flame.
"I have successfully evolved the predators gene!" The husky celebrated as, he watched the pup.
The pup felt an unprecedented amount of anger flow throughout him, but before he could do anything to dangerous, he felt a sudden sharp pain in his chest, which caused him to blackout. All of his energy faded out of his body, and he was left in an empty void.
"I'm coming for you..."
The pup gasped awake, he frantically looked around; finding himself inside a dark room, he heard the sound of shackles rattling, as he tried moving his paws, which were currently held in place by shackles bolted into a cold concrete wall just above his head.
He felt powerless, exposed, and vulnerable. He could feel himself beginning to hyperventilate, but his breaths were suddenly muffled by duct tape mysteriously appearing over his mouth.
"What's the matter? Can't talk?" A voice laughed. "I can do what I want here. One second, you could be breathing like so, but the next... You could be suffocating." The voice chuckled evilly.
The pup widened his eyes, when he suddenly couldn't intake any air through his nostrils. "Mrmph mmmrpph mmmrrrmph!" The pup muffled aloud.
"What's that? I can't quite understand you." The voice chuckled.
"MRMMPH MMMRPPH!" The pup cried, as he thrashed himself around.
"Hmmm, must be the duct tape on your muzzle." The voice said.
The pup could feel his face turning purple under his fur, he slowly went limp, and his vision blurred, but out of the darkness a figure appeared.
"So weak, so pathetic." The figure said in a dark tone.
The figured reached down, and yanked away the duck tape covering the pup's mouth. He gasped, and quickly took in long deep breaths.
"Unfortunately, your time isn't up yet." The figure chuckled. "You know, I'm doing you a favor by keeping your deeper memories hidden. Although, I'm not afraid to reveal them to you."
The pup remained silent in an attempt to ignore the unknown figure.
"Why do you refuse to stare up at the inevitable? Don't you want to glance up and witness superiority at its finest?" The figure said as, he stood over the pup. "Humph, I tried playing nice with you, but it seems I must take more... drastic steps." The figure chuckled coldly, making a venomous grin.
The pup felt the figure grasp him by the neck with a single paw, and lift him up to his eye level.
It was like staring into a mirror, the figure appeared to be a completely identical form of the pup, but had a few features that stood out. First off, the twin was covered in what appeared to be old blood, and had dark shadows under his vicious purple eyes.
"What a waste of life, I deserve better than to be trapped inside your miserable mind." The twin spat, dropping the pup.
"I never wanted this, I didn't want to become a weapon." The pup retorted, trying to pry off the twins grasp
The twin laughed out loud. "Who cares! I've been trapped inside the dark corners of you pathetic brain ever since you were born, I crave for destruction and chaos."
The pup clenched his fists in anger. "You will never have your way, so do your worst."
The twin chuckled evilly. "With pleasure." The twin tightly clenched his right paw, and prepared to strike the defenseless pup, but just as the fist of the twin was about to make contact with the side of the pup's head, he froze.
The pup looked up and noticed that that his evil twin had just barely stopped a few mere inches from him. Suddenly, he felt the shackles losened their tight grip around his wrists. He looked up, and saw that the shackles had dissipated into nothing but metallic dust. He slowly lowered his paws down to his eye level, and examined them.
"It's okay, sweetheart. I'm here for you." A female voice echoed from the darkness, which surprised the pup, because of how familiar the female voice sounded.
"W-Who are you!" The pup yelled into the darkness.
"You're not alone... You're safe now." The female voice said in a gentle tone.
There was sudden bright light that caused the pup to look away, but once his eyes adapted to the sudden flash of light, he noticed the source of the light was a glowing passage in the shape of a door frame.
The pup felt a sudden irresistible urge to walk towards it. He slowly stood up, using his left arm to shield his eyes. The pup gave his frozen twin one last glance, before he slowly walked towards the light. As the pup neared the light he could feel his heart beat speeding up.
"You will always be my little bundle of joy." The female voice said, as the pup was now only a few feet away from the doorway. "You will never be alone, you have friends now." The female voice said, as the pup stopped a few inches away from the door.
The pup looked at the door with curiosity and slowly extended a paw towards it, he watched as his arm disappeared inside the bright white door. The pup smiled and slowly entered the door, but was suddenly stopped by someone grasping onto his other arm.
"You're not going anywhere!" The pup's evil twin said, as he tugged on the pup's arm, pulling him out of the bright door.
The pup yelped in surprise. The twin laughed manically, but was suddenly surprised when a paw made of up pure light grasped his arm.
"What the hell!?" The twin gasped in surprise, turning around to see who had grabbed onto him. The twin's eyes grew wide when he saw a female wolf made up of pure white light looking down upon him with glowing blue eyes.
"Don't you dare touch him!" The white female figure yelled, as she yanked on the twin's arm, causing him to lose his grip around the pup's arm.
"No, No, No!" The twin yelled. "I will be free! You aren't safe from me!" The twin was slowly being absorbed into the mysterious female wolf.
The pup watched in complete and utter shock, but before he could say anything; the figure used an unseen force to push him inside the door.
Everything was bright, but darkness quickly consumed him once more, but this time it was different...
The pup felt his head throbbing in pain, he groaned and lifted a paw up to his head. After a short while he noticed he was laying on something soft, and was covered in some sort of thick blanket. He slowly opened his eyes, letting light seep through.
"Look, he's waking up." A female voice said, catching the pup off guard.
"W-Where am I?" The pup asked as, he tried to sit up, but found himself too weak to do so.
"Somewhere safe." The female said, which was followed by the pup to coughing aloud. "Nick..." the female said, which pup promoted a quick response.
"On it." A male red fox replied, who went by the name Nick. Shortly after 'Nick' returned with a glass of what appeared to be water. He kneeled down next to the pup and held the glass in front of the him.
Without any hesitation, the pup reached for the glass, and quickly downed its contents. The pup felt his throat moisten up causing him to sigh in satisfaction.
"How are you feeling?" The female asked.
The pup glanced over and saw that it was a familiar grey bunny talking to him. He also noticed he was laying on a clean green sofa. "I'm okay." He replied.
The female bunny smiled and cleared her throat. "Well, my name is Judy Hopps, but you can just call me Judy," Judy said putting placing a paw on her chest. "And this here his my partner in crime, Nick." Judy said, motioning over to Nick, who was leaning on the sofa.
"So whats your name?" Judy asked, getting a confused expression from the pup.
"M-My name?" He said.
"Yes, your name." Judy smiled inching a little closer to the pup.
"I-I don't know." The pup replied scratching his head.
"What's do you mean 'you don't know'. You must at least remember your first, or last name." Judy said, causing the pup sigh. "Try to remember, I know you can remember it somehow."
The pup nodded his head and closed his eye as, he tried desperately to remember his name or at least a fragment of it.
After a few seconds of digging through his blurred memories, the pup gave up and opened his eyes. "I can't." He said.
Judy frowned. "It's alright, but if you remember it don't be afraid to share it."
The pup nodded, but then it hit him. He suddenly remembered being somewhere with that brown husky scientist, but despite being faintly blurred, he remembered the scientist had call him by something.
"Wait." The pup said, catching the attention of Nick and Judy. "I think I remember." The memory slowly resurfaced. Then he heard it, he had finally after many nights of wondering remembered his own name, or so he thought.
"I remember now." The pup smiled. "I remember!"
"What is it." Judy smiled as well, excited to finally hear the pup's name.
The pup puffed out his chest in excitement.
"It's Project Tanzanite."