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Chapter 17: In Control

[Scott's Pov]

I am here once again. I see nothing but void, and the darkness surrounds me. I feel the cold pavement underneath my hind legs, and it is colder than the previous two dreams I have had. I looked around, turning my head side to side in search for the reappearing glowing battery. The battery hasn't appeared yet, and it concerns me. Not knowing what to do, I took a step forward into the unknown. I walk forward, hoping to find the glowing battery within the void. I took a step forward, but my left foot paw did not came into contact with the floor.

Will it be stairs, or a hole? My question is finally answered when I noticed the lack of flooring underneath my left foot paw. I fell down into a deep dark hole. I can't see the bottom of the pit, nor the walls of the cliff. I can feel the gravity pull me down, and the wind brushing against my fur as I descend deeper into the abyss. Am I dead? Then I landed on something soft. The fall could have broken my bones and killed me already, but I feel just fine.

I pushed myself from the soft padding, and noticed it is a bed. I slowly got up and see walls in every direction but the east wall. I find myself now in a room, and I am confused. I looked down and noticed the white tiled flooring covering the floor of the room. The appearance of the white tiles are similar to the ones in the laboratory. I stood up from the bed and I felt the cold white tiled flooring. It is still cold, just like my two previous dreams. I looked up to the ceiling, and noticed the void cliff I fell from now covered with a white concrete as a ceiling.

A huge window acts as a wall on the east wall of the room. I approached the window, and saw another room behind it. The room is filled with black latex covering the flooring of the room. At the other side of the room is the glowing battery I have been looking for, and a giant lever attached to the floor sits beside it. That is my ticket way out of this dream, and I have to reach it. Without hesitation, I quickly pulled my right paw back.

My right paw is formed into a fist, and I struck a hard punch on the window. The glass of the window is thick, and the punch I landed only cracked a little portion of the glass. I tried it again, pulling my right paw and punching the glass wall. The size of the cracked glass wall remained the same. I took a deep breath, and let out a long sigh. Nothing is breaking the glass wall down. Looking closely at the glass window, I see my reflection being mirrored by the glass window.

I see my white Protogen body, and my visor stare at me. I noticed an exclamation point being projected by my visor, followed by my green LED turning red, and my Protogen face returning. My visor LED is now red, and somehow I feel the sudden anger and power building up in my body. It feels unnatural, as if this body does not belong to me. With this new profound power, I took a step back to touch the wall of the room behind me. Without hesitation, I ran and charged forward to the glass window. To my surprise, the glass wall shattered into shards of glass.

Shards of glass fly around, and one of the shards has cut my left arm. Ouch, it burns. I looked at my wound and noticed the blood oozing out of it. It is color red. This is not how my blood looks like. I ignored the wound and make my way through the floor of black latex. In every step I make, I feel the black latex pull me to the floor. I looked down to my hind legs and noticed the black latex paws grabbing onto my hind legs, slowing and preventing me from moving onward.

Using my strength, I freed my hind legs from the grasps of black latex. I sprint towards the glowing battery as fast as I can, doing my best to not get caught by the black latex paws. I eventually arrived in front of the glowing battery, and I reached my right paw to hold on the giant lever. Using my last remaining strength, I pulled the lever down as I pant. I looked at the battery, and the third bar is not full. A glowing phrase appeared above the battery once again. "Thank you.".

I immediately woke up from my dream, feeling my sweat cover my whole body and fur. I noticed Doctor K looking down at me. I can see his worried face through his gas mask. He noticed me being awake, and he pulled me into a hug while being on the gooey floor. I feel latex underneath me. I looked at my shoulder and noticed the white latex covering the floor underneath me. "Where am I?" I groaned as I feel the burning and stinging pain on my abdomen. Doctor K pulled back and took a glance at a far distance before looking down at me.

"I'm glad you are awake now. We are still at the Behemoth's lair, and you got ambushed by our angry Prima. The angry Protogen kicked you on your abdomen, and the kick has irritated your wound into bleeding again. You got knocked out from shock. Puro did his best to replace your bandage using a nearby first aid kit." I looked down at my abdomen, and noticed the green blood soaking the bandages. I let out a sigh of relief. I feel at ease knowing that I'm in my very own body.

I hear commotions of shouting and yelling, and I slowly sat up right to observe the scene. "Careful there Scott. Your wound is still bleeding, and I don't want to lose my close friend." I see Prima talking to the giant white latex wolf head in the distance. Prima appears to be enraged, and yelling at the white latex. I hardly make up the words, but one statement stood up particularly. "I demand control over the white latex beasts!"