Life and Amnesia

Part 6

Randall fought hard in the raging water to keep his head above water, but with water pushing him down a lot, it was hard to get a decent breath in before he would go under again. He was fast losing his strength to stay conscious.

Then, at one point, the water was pushing him so hard that he didn't see it coming. He had been trying to aim for shore, but he was slammed so hard into a rock, he felt his right upper shoulder crack. And with one arm down, and he couldn't swim anymore because of the pain, and then a little further down, his head got hit hard into another rock, knocking him unconscious.

His body was carried down the river until it ran into two different channels. It went to the one on the right.

The cops went downstream to the channels and saw no sign of him. They would keep looking for him, but for now, there was no sign of the lizard to their eyes.
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By evening, Randall's body had washed ashore way downstream.

Two young monsters and their dad were out touring for fun.

The dad was a big red monster with standing eyes. Almost resembling a crab, with six legs. His name was Rambo Nicks. He was in his late 50's. He had two arms.

His older son was Tyson Nicks. He was blue with some yellow striping. (Kind of like Jerry's striping.) He was 15.

The younger son was Adrian Nicks. He was red with blue striping. He was 12.

The three of them liked looking at wildlife. They just happened to be passing by the rapids when they saw something unusual laying on the shore.

"Dad, look there." Adrian pointed.

Rambo looked and he saw it was a purple looking lizard. "That's odd."

"What are we going to do?" Tyson asked.

"Let's go see if he's okay." Rambo said.

They went down to the shore and saw the unconscious lizard. Rambo had his sons stand back while he checked for signs of life.

"Hey, Sir, are you alright?" He asked. He turned Randall onto his back and checked for a pulse. Finding a weak sound, he began the CPR.

Pushing on the lizard's chest started something and water squirted out of his mouth and he came to.

They all stood back as Rambo pushed the lizard to his front, letting the water get out of him.

"It's going to be alright, son."

Randall finished coughing. Once he had his bearings, he turned over and saw who had spoken to him.

"Are you alright, Sir?" Adrian asked.

Randall looked around and didn't recognize who these strangers were and he didn't know where he was.

"Who... who are you?" He asked in alarm.

"I'm Rambo Nicks, and these are my sons, Tyson and Adrian. What's your name?" Rambo introduced his family.

"Uh, I... don't know." Randall said.

The others all looked at him weird.

"How could you not know your own name?" Tyson argued.

"It looks like you have a bad wound on the back of your head. You might have a concussion, and maybe amnesia." Rambo said. "How about you come with us and we can take a look at it."

Randall was weary, but he went with them. They seemed nice enough.

"Well, until we find out your name, we got to call you something." Rambo said.

"Alright. What do I look like?" Randall asked.

"You look like a Randolph to me." Tyson said.

"Looks more like a Matthew to me." Rambo said.

"More like an Alex to me." Adrian said.

"I think Alex suits me." Randall said. And so, he became Alex, at least for now.

(I'll still call Randall by his real name, and mixing it up at times, while the family calls him Alex.)

They got Randall to their car. He couldn't understand how blurry his vision was. Maybe it had been caused by his accident? He might have had a concussion.

Rambo got the first aid kit out when they got to the car. He put some medicine on a bandage and put it on the wound and though it stung, Randall let him bandage his head.

When Randall tried to raise his right arm, there was a painful crack. "OW!" He held his arm.

"What's wrong?" Tyson asked.

"I think my arm is broken too." Randall said.

"I think we need to get you to the nearest hospital." Rambo said.

They all got into the car and took 'Alex' to the nearest hospital.

There, while the family waited, Randall was taken to the back, where the arm was x-rayed and the shoulder was just dislocated and put back in place and held in a sling.

Next was the head exam. Indeed, he did have a small concussion. The wound was held closed by sturry strips.

The doctor gave Alex the information that he was to come back in a week and he would be checked on for the concussion. They would do some eye tests then on whether he needed glasses or not. Right now, it was not uncommon to have blurry vision with a concussion.

The doctor had also noticed the fresh scars on the lizard's wrists. Someone must have been mistreating him.

Rambo and his sons would take Randall to their place where he could get some rest. They would keep an eye on him.

At their house, he was introduced to the mother of the kids, a blue slug monster named Ollie. It was short for Olivia. She also had some yellow striping in three rows down her body horizontally.

She was a bit taken aback that her family had found this lizard while they were out, but she welcomed him nonetheless.

The house they lived in was a one story orange house. It was good sized. There was even a few guest rooms. Randall was allowed to stay in one.

He was glad to lay in a comfortable bed. He was so tired. It had seemed like such a long day. And he was allowed to join the family for dinner.

Randall was happy for this nice family to show him all this hospitality. He really wished he knew who he was. Perhaps he would find out real soon. Even if it took a long time, he wanted to know who he was.
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Authorities searched the channels the next several days for any signs of Randall. They knew his body would wash up somewhere. Even if he drowned in the rapids, they were determined to find him.

The city of Roarington was alerted about the lizard's escape, that they should be on lookout for an escaped criminal. Though the alert also traveled back to as far as Monstropolis too. They considered he might head back there to get more revenge on the ones who sent him to jail.

Mike and Sulley saw the bulletin. Their injuries were healed now from their scrap with Randall's last attacks on them. They knew that he would get out sooner or later. They would be keeping on the alert for him.