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Chapter 15: Anger Management

[Scott's Pov]

It's dark one again. I see the void around me. The emptiness surround me. I feel the cold pavement on my hind legs. In the distance I see the glowing battery. The battery is still one bar full, and the other three being empty. I gently approached the glowing battery, and a pedestal suddenly appeared in front of me. I bumped into the pedestal, and to my surprise the pedestal did not move an inch or fall off. The pedestal appeared to be glued permanently to the floor. On top of the pedestal is a light switch facing down, and a protective glass casing cover the object.

It seems the glass cover is there to prevent the light switch from being flicked. I took a glance on the battery and on the light switch on the pedestal. If I flick the light switch, then maybe the second bar of the battery will fill up, and I will be able to wake up from this weird dream. I held the glass casing with my two paws and tried to pull it up, but the casing is glued tight to the pedestal. I pulled once again as hard as I can, but to no avail.

I inspected the glass casing, and noticed not any sign of glue on the base of the cover to the pedestal. It is either someone is professional enough to glue it without leaving a residue, or an otherworldly force is preventing the pedestal and glass casing from being moved. I gently tapped the glass cover with my claw, and the glass sounded as if it is thick. It seems that the glass covering is thick, and a simple force of impact won't shatter it so easily. I pull back my right paw, clenching it into a fist.

I landed a punch on the glass cover, and the force the impact made the portion of the glass covering where I punched crack, but not enough to shatter the glass casing. I landed another punch on the crack, harder this time and the force of the impact further made the crack larger, but still not enough. I pulled my right fist back for the third time, and landed a punch on the crack. All of a sudden, I see a vision. I see myself trying to land punches on Puro. By the looks of it, I have Puro pinned down.

The black wolf is doing his best to dodge each of my punches, and I heard the name of the Protogen, Prima. "Prima! What's gotten into you? You're going to hurt Puro!" The words echo into my head, and the sudden realization hit me. It is Doctor K's voice, and the perspective I thought to be mine is actually Prima's. Prima has gone rogue! I see the perspective of Prima, and he landed a punch on Puro. The black wolf is able to parry his punch by catching it with his right paw.

I snapped out of the vision and noticed the glass covering now filled with cracks on each side. The glass casing is fragile enough to be broken by a single blow. I punched the glass casing, and the glass casing finally shattered into pieces of glass. The shards of glass fly around in every direction, and I feel a burning and stinging pain on my right paw. I held my right paw close and noticed a bleeding bruise on one of my digits. It hurts. With the glass casing noe shattered to pieces, the light switch is now free to be flicked. Not hesitating, I immediately reached my left paw on the light switch and flicked it.

The second battery bar filled up, and a glowing phrase appeared above the battery once again. "Thank you.". My eyes opened as I wake up from the dream to a sound of collision and yelling. As my vision clears up, I see Colin looking close at me. The left side of his jaw is wounded, and it slowly trickles blood down his throat. The blood is soaking the fur of his throat in red. Colin must have noticed me waking up, and he gave me a smile before pulling away from me.

I quickly sat up right and noticed the collision of the Protogen and the black wolf. My vision in my dream is somehow correct! Doctor K is lying on the grass and has his head lean against the wall. He looks in pain, but I am relieved to see him not having bruises, nor any blood from him. I looked at Colin who is sitting beside me and I pointed to Doctor K with my left paw. The white wolf gave me a nod and ran for Doctor K.

The Protogen is too busy fighting Puro to notice any sounds of movement from behind. I see Puro holding the right paw of Prima, and is struggling to keep up. I took the opportunity and ran for the Protogen, tackling the rogue Protogen to the floor. I attempted to pin Prima to the grass, but the Protogen is somehow stronger than me. The Protogen kicked me on my abdomen, and it is powerful enough to send me flying to a Blue Apple tree. My stomach, it stings. I see Prima stood up from the grass, looking at us with his visor projecting an angry Protogen face.

Prima immediately went for the window, hopping across it before running down the hall. I tried to get up, but my abdomen stings in pain. I looked down and noticed bleeding claw marks on my abdomen. Green blood oozes from my wound. My blood is color green? The kick must have scratched me with his claws on his foot paws. I looked up and I see Puro approaching me, his paws shaking in panic. "Scott! Are you alright? You're bleeding!" Puro then jump in realization and he looks at Colin. "Colin! Come with me. Let's find first aid kit!" The black wolf and the white wolf then left the garden room, leaving me and Doctor K alone.

I looked at Doctor K and noticed him already up on his two hind legs. He slowly walked over to me before sitting against the Blue Apple tree. "Are you alright? You took the most lethal blow out of all of us. Prima just shoved me away, and I hit my head on the wall enough to nauseate and not be able to move for a while. How is your wound?" I let out a slight cough followed by a groan in pain.

"It stings, and it hurts. What happened while I was asleep?" I asked using my left remaining strength before groaning again in pain. "Prima acted weird. He is mostly staring at his paws and claws. Then he went rogue. He definitely isn't just a Protogen like you. Prima is something else, something different."

I looked around as we both wait for the two, and that's when I realized someone not being here. Where is Prototype?