[I OWN NOTHING]

CHAPTER 4: Containment

Magnifico awoke due to a splitting headache.

"Ugh...my head..."

A weird noise bubbled in his ears, as he rubbed his forehead.

His body hurt like hell every time he tried to move.

"Wh-where am I?"

He noticed he had scars on his shoulders. He winced.

"Ooh. How'd i get scarred that much?"

He rubbed a scar on his shoulder, feeling a shoot of pain rub in as he did. It was then he froze mid-rub. He felt around his body, and saw he wasn't wearing his robes anymore.

"WHa?! My clothes!"

He saw he'd been stripped of his clothing, now reduced to a pair of black nylon shorts. He wriggled his bare toes with a wince.

'Huh. I never actually noticed how good my body looks.'

His thoughts deserted him as he stared around, his breaths coming in convulsive gasps.

He stared at what seemed to be a reflection of himself in some sort of glass wall.

'Oh god.' His heart pounded in his chest. 'Have I ended up back in that damn mirror prison in the dungeon in my own dimension?!'

Taking a deep breath to calm himself as best he could, he looked out through the glass wall, he saw that he was in what seemed to be a lab, rather than the dungeon of the castle of Rosas.

'Something tells me I'm not in Rosas anymore.'

He also noticed he had some sort of funny mask around his nose and mouth, and he seemed to be breathing normally. And, he seemed to be floating. He almost felt like he was in water.

'What's going on? Where am I?' he wondered aloud.

It was then his thoughts were rudely interrupted.

"HE'S AWAKE!" a voice yelled.

"AAAAAAARGH!" Magnifico screamed, reeling back in fear.

Once Magnifico had managed to calm down and get his breath back, he looked out through the glass wall again, and his jaw hung. He saw a whole bunch of strange people standing on the outside of the glass wall he was in. Some of them, he noticed, looked almost like living animal creatures.

He had to pinch himself to see if he was dreaming. "Yep, definitely awake." he said, wincing in pain.

From the outside characters' point of view, King Magnifico had been put in a water-tight tube, with a respiration device over his nose and mouth, so he could rest and recover from his near-fatal crash landing.

Now, King Magnifico, the lonely ex-king of Rosas, found himself in just black shorts, floating in a tube, in front of an audience of weird mutants in a universe he didn't even know.

Oh, how the mighty have fallen.

A/N:

Oh eck. King Magnifico's ended up in hot water. Well, he's actually ended up in just water.

King Magnifico: [sarcastically] Ha, ha, ha. Thank you for rubbing it in[!]

Me: OK, OK, your Ex-Highness. No need to get wet about it. [sniggers]

King Magnifico: [annoyed] That is not funny.

Me: [sighs] OK. LET'S hope King Magnifico gets himself outta this predicament.

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