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Chapter 25: Sunflowers and Betrayals

[Prima's Pov]

I slowly opened my eyes into an empty void. I feel something soft press against my back. No, this isn't the bridge. It's my visor! If I remember it correctly, I can melt myself into a latex instead. I slowly stood up and I felt the cold tiled flooring on my foot paws. It's cold. I feel my body melt and liquefy, and the visor fell off my head. The visor made a thud on the cold tiled flooring, and I quickly formed myself back together and formed a visor using my latex.

I'm located in a room with beds lined up, presumably a clinic. On one of the beds, I see Scott the Protogen rest peacefully on the bed. I slowly approached the sleeping Protogen, and I noticed the bandages wrapped around his left hind legs and around both of his paws. I can't believe I did this much damage when we fought. I looked down at myself and I noticed the wounds on both of my hind legs and my right arm are gone. I turned to look at the bed I rested on, and I see the bandages lying on the floor along with the old broken visor.

The bandages must have fell off with the visor when I melted myself. I turned to look at Scott who is now sitting up right on the bed. "How are you feeling, Scott?" I asked and he placed his right paw on his abdomen. Scott began to rub his abdomen. "My body feels sore and it stings. You did a great number on my abdomen." Scott brings up both of his paws close to his visor, and he examines both of them. "I'm sorry for hurting you. I didn't know what got into me. I normally don't hurt anyone like that out of nowhere. Is this how it feels to be a Primagen?"

"I did read about the common characteristics of a Primagen, and one of them being that a Primagen is... Competitive, and can sometimes be wild. Luckily, you are not a Primagen anymore. You're just a white latex now who is taking a form of a Primagen." Scott reached out his right paw to touch my metal chest piece. He pressed on my metal chest piece, and it felt odd. Normally any solid object would be passing through me when pressed against my body, but his paw didn't go through me.

"Does a bio bot assimilation still work despite the head piece missing?" I asked and he looked up at me, giving me a nod. "I think so. It often comes with the head, but it will still prolong the lifespan of a latex beast despite the head piece missing. Although I don't exactly know how long it would be. If Puro can live in years with his full bio bot, then you should be able to live in months with the head piece missing. All of that though, in under normal circumstances and conditions where the latex and the bio bot isn't exerted into increased amount of stress."

"So you are saying that I can only live in less than a year under normal lifestyle, and I can only live in a few months if I were put in stress?" I asked and Scott gave me a nod. Scott suddenly pushed me away with his paws. I noticed his visor having a message popped up. Malware detected? Command lines began to pop up on his visor. Scott has his paws on his visor. He appears to be in a state of shock and panic.

"It's the malware! Prima, I want you to do me a favor and protect the others from me. Promise me that, brother?" I see the reflection of my visor on Scott's visor. My visor is showing a huge question mark, presumably in response to what he said. Scott calling me brother after our fight? How? Why? I reached out my right paw to hold his left paw. "I promise that I will take care of them. Now Scott, where should I start?"

"Start by-" His voice is cut short by his visor showing a blue screen, similar to the ones I see on a computer whenever they run into a crash. Scott's visor then returns to normal by showing his Protogen face. I suddenly felt his paws push on my abdomen, pushing me back to the wall. "Stop resisting you rat." The Protogen's voice is different, and it sounded deeper from what Scott usually speaks in. Both of his paws are back on his visor, and he appears to be struggling with what's happening to him. Not even thinking, I stepped closer to the Protogen and wrapped my arms around him. I hugged him close.

"Emotions are interesting. They sometimes can be deceiving." Scott's voice is deep, and it doesn't even sound like Scott anymore. Could this be the Malware? I suddenly felt something wrapped around my left hind leg. I feel it pull on my lag, dragging me away from the Protogen. It's too strong to resist, and I lost my grip on Scott. I took a glance below me and noticed his tail wrapped around my left hind leg. I was then met my Scott's foot paws kicking my abdomen. The blow to my abdomen is strong enough to send me flying to the wall. I heard the wall crack behind me as the grip on my left hind leg disappear.

"Primagen are supposed to be smarter than Protogen. Why choose heart over brain?" I tried standing up, and that's when the others entered the room, specifically Doctor K and Puro. Puro is standing by the doorway with the door opened, and Doctor K is standing by the bandages and my old visor on the floor. "Doctor K! Help! Prima went rogue again!" I noticed Puro immediately did his fighting stance, but Doctor K stood calm and serious. I calculated the outcome in my head, and I quickly pushed Doctor K to the bed. I ran towards Puro, and I wrapped my tail around one of his hind legs.

In a matter of seconds, I pulled the black wolf to the floor and I rushed towards the exit. I left the clinic in a hurry.