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Chapter 7: Overflow

[Scott's Pov]

I see a white sky with a few clouds passing by overhead. It seems I am lying down. I feel soft grass brushing against my back. My tail, I feel it pressed against my back. I sat up right to let the pressure be relieved. Vast flat lands can be seen from afar. Where am I? I looked around noticed a big tree. The tree is the only tree present within the flat lands, and grass covers the rest of the area. I stood up and walked over to the tree.

I noticed a blue colored fruit bearing from the tree. It is a Blue Apple. I reached out my paw and attempted to grab the fruit, but it is far from my reach. I heard thunder roaring from the distance. I looked behind me and the sky suddenly getting darker. Thick clouds forming and covering the light from the sun. I turned to look at the Blue Apple, before looking down to my legs. I wonder if my Protogen legs can jump higher than my human ones. I went underneath the Blue Apple and leaped towards the fruit, grabbing hold of the apple with my right paw.

I pulled the Blue Apple from it's stem. I landed on the grass as another thunder roared nearby. I turned around and saw the surroundings darken, as if it is night. I held the Blue Apple close and opened my muzzle. I took a bite on the Blue Apple with my sharp canine visor teeth. The next thing I know, I slowly opened my eyes and the face of Doctor K is in front of me. Am I lying down? He is shielding my eyes from the bright light on the ceiling. He raised his right paw and waved it at me.

"Hey, you. You're finally awake. You were drinking an edible sap from the Blue Apple tree using a complex contraption. A metal straw is placed in your muzzle when we found you. What happened?" Doctor K asked and he looks somewhere before glancing back at me and moving off. I slowly sat up right and brushed my mane. In front of me is Doctor K, and a white wolf and black wolf I haven't seen before. Is the black wolf hostile?

The black wolf smiles at me and jumped, presumably in joy. The wolf raised it's right paw and waved at me. "Hello there! I am Puro, and this white wolf is human. That is Doctor K. Don't worry about him, he may look scary, but he is friendly." Doctor K immediately looked at the black wolf, one of his eyebrows raised. "Puro, we know each other. We're friends." I wish we are more than friends. I carefully got up and leans against the tree, my Protogen legs all wobbly from the duration of my unconsciousness. Speaking of unconsciousness, how long was I out asleep? Doctor K approached me, his head tilted to his right.

"Are you alright? I see that your legs are not looking great. My deepest apologies as well for not paying you a visit when you stopped communicating. It was... Chaotic at the tower back then, especially when the white wolf, Colin, woke up from his chamber." I gave Doctor K a warm smile, my Protogen visor doing the facial expression for me. "I forgive you. I do have to do a bit of explaining with what happened when I lost communication. It all started with the white latex paste I used to hang the mirror started moving, and it consumed the black telephone on the wall."

I do feel a little embarrassed explaining the main root of the problem, leading to to this very moment. I scratched my mane as I chuckle nervously. "The white latex is alive, and it consumed any black object that is made of latex. It somehow made in contact with something that made it able to divide and grow into such numbers. Do you happen to know where latex materials are contained in this facility?" Doctor K asked, his paw held on his gas mask. I noticed Puro and Colin behind Doctor K, and the two are sitting next to each other with Puro brushing the mane of Colin with his black paw.

Those two are cute. "I went through the files of the Botany department back then, and I remember that they mentioned about a purchase of this exclusive coolant that is made using a specially engineered black latex substance. If I'm correct, they should have a number of plastic drums stored somewhere in a huge room containing this exclusive coolant." I explained before hearing a splash from the broken down window. A white latex creeps closer to a nearby Blue Apple tree. It leaves a white latex trail as it moves closer to the tree.

"Hey! You there!" Doctor K called the white latex slug, and it formed a wolf like body made out of white latex. It is missing a facial structure. The white latex beast looks at Doctor K. "Do you know where your master is?" A what? A master? Do latex beasts have master? The white latex beasts raised it's arm and pointed at a door nearby in the hallway outside of the garden. The white latex beast withdrew it's wolf like form before climbing on the Blue Apple tree and expanded to wrap the tree in white latex.

I feel bad for the trees. The precious Blue Apple trees are being consumed slowly. The white latex beasts are using them to reproduce. Doctor K hopped out of the room through the broken down window, and I followed him behind. Puro and Colin followed behind me, and we walked through the hallway covered in splashes of white latex. We reached the door that the white latex beast pointed us to, and Doctor K pressed the button next to the door with his right paw. The door slowly slid open, and we are welcomed by a large room with white latex covering the flooring of the whole room.

I see a lot of tumbled over plastic drums, and all of them are opened. Doctor K took a glance at us, and he took a step inside. We followed him inside, and soon the ground shook and a huge wolf like head of a white latex beast raised from the pool of white latex. It looks down at us. What is that thing?