Lucid Reality

How if Feels Like To Escape an Evil Lab (Pt. 3)

When Lucidius entered the car, John put a blindfold on him and Mary put earplugs in his ears. It was probably to prevent Lucidius from finding the 'secret' place they were taking him too, and he didn't like this feeling, not one bit. It felt like he was naked, robbed, alienated. 'They better make this quick or I'm not sparing them during my next dream.' The agents drove for a good hour, and very fast too. Lucidiuis thought they arrived, but no. The agents dragged him out of the car and started walking. He thought that they would walk for about 10 minutes or so, but they walked for another hour or so. Lucidius hated this, it was the worst feeling ever! Imagine not being able to see or hear, and being dragged for an hour or so! Geez! Apparently, hopefully, they arrived to the destination, and this time, it seemed that they have arrived. Another solid 10 minutes passed until he was being dragged again, and this time they both picked him up and threw him into something. Lucidius thought it was the gate of the place or something, but when his body entered, it felt like entering into water. His entire body felt as if plunging through a tsunami, having his body carried at rapid speeds across water. But strangely, the earplugs nor the blindfold fell. When the 'waves' stopped, Lucidius fell roughly on the ground. By the dry and soft feeling, he guessed that he was now in a desert. Soon, the two agents also arrived beside him. The dragging continued again and this time Marcus's newly bought socks and shoes filled with sand which greatly saddened him. They walked for 5 minutes this time, and finally, FINALLY, they arrived. When they took off Lucidius's blindfold and earplugs, he was in front of what seemed like a mental asylum but also looked like a hospital. 'What's a building like this doing in the middle of nowhere? And am I even in Japan anymore?!' When he looked up at the building, he saw some words that said, 'LAB 51: ALASKA'. 'How tf did we suddenly arrive in Alaska?! I may not be properly educated, but I at least know that Alaska is in the USA, and to arrive to USA from Tokyo would take way more than 3 hours!' Lucidius immediately knew something fishy was going on, but decided to focus on the task before him. When he entered the building, everything inside was run-down and destroyed, nothing like a government owned lab you'd imagine. But the two agents just kept walking in front, until they came to a destroyed shelf. The agent named John touched the shelf for a while until he found a button, and when he pressed it, a tiny microphone came out. "The mice have come to report to the tiger." Immediately after they said that, the shelf started rotating . 'What type of cringey code is that? Do they think it's cool or something?' Once the shelf has rotated 180 degrees, it revealed an impressive lab behind it. 'Now this...this is what you'd imagine to be a government owned lab that only important people can come in!' Certainly, it was quite the lab. They walked until they were in front of a lab room with the title '89' on it. 'I guess this is going to be my test number...? What are they gonna do, dissect me?' As Lucidius was thinking these thoughts, the two agents pressed some buttons on their watches and began talking with what he thought were their higher-ups. "...Yes, we have captured the target....No, surprisingly he didn't give us a hard time, he was strangely calm. ...Alright, we'll return immediately." Lucidius guessed that this 'target' they talked about was him. 'Hah, of course, why would I give you guys a hard time when I can just escape this damned lab?' Before the two agents left, they took Lucidius into the lab room and then shut and locked the room, then left. "Oho? So you are the test subject I presume? I look really forward to experimenting on you!" A raspy voice said behind him. When Lucidius looked around, he saw a old man in a lab coat. He looked evil, with a crooked grin and overly large goggles. He looked like a madman! Lucidius had faced many hardships and pain before in his life, but he had never experienced being dissected, and he certainly did not ever want to. "Umm, sir? What am I supposed to do? I mean, standing here like this while you talk is kinda awkward...But if I'm supposed to stand here like this then I guess it's all chill." "Oh, of course, please have a seat!" The mad doctor pointed to what seemed like the metal board where he would be dissected, but Lucidius didn't mind. He was just so, so, tired. When he sat down, the doctor started talking to him. "So...I heard you have supernatural powers? People have seen you flying around and doing things only gods can do, but so far, you haven't done anything of the sort! In fact, we didn't even expect you to be caught by the trainees in the first place! Don't tell me that all those clips of you online were edited?" "Umm, sir I have no idea what you're talking about right now. Care to enlighten me?" "It's none of your business Subject 89, now lie down on this board." "Ok? But I have a name! And it's Lucidius. Lu-ci-di=us! I won't lie down until you call me properly!" With that, he did a 'humph!' face and folded his arms together. "Alright then Lucidius, please lie down on this board." As the mad doctor said this, veins bulged on his forehead. Lucidius obliged and lie down, and then the doc gave him a shot. The liquids he shot into his arm slowly spread into his body, and slowly, Lucidius felt his body go numb and drowsy. "Be happy boy! If not for their instructions on treating you right, I would dissect you just like that!" As he said that, he took out some tools, mostly knives of different sizes and flashlights. Lucidius slowly drifted into sleep and let out a devious smile before he completely dozed off. Immediately the doctor noticed something strange about his test subject. First and most noticeably, his skin began to glow a bright yellow, and his eyes slowly opened, but instead of a human's pupils, Lucidius's eyes were pure yellow. The room slowly started vibrating, then shaking until the point where things began flying off shelves . "Ah, AHhhh, AHHHHH HOW GLORIOUS! YES! YOU, I WILL DEFINITELY DISSECT YOU AND LEARN ALL YOUR SECRETS!!! HAHAHAHAHA!" 'The doctor seems to have gone insane. Fufufu, he won't be laughing pretty soon.' Lucidius was ecstatic, he was on cloud 9! He approached the doctor, and merely touched his shoulder, but when he touched it, stitches began to sew the docs mouth shut. The doctor tried screaming but no voice came out. The doctor then noticed that his arms and legs felt limp, no, they weren't there anymore! The doctor looked at his arms and legs that were 5 feet away from him with wide bloodshot eyes. Lucidius decided to escape this god-forsaken place, but when he exited the room, he heard...screams. Children's screams. Veins immediately bulged on his forehead. He headed towards where he heard those screams, and in his anger, threw a couple of staff members who tried blocking him, out the building. The place the screams were happening from were other lab rooms with numbers on them. He tore the door apart, and what he saw was enough to give someone PTSD. A kid laying on the metal board, a mad doctor dissecting him, the boy was thrashing around, screaming, but the doctor, nor anyone seemed to care. Seemed as if they were...used to it. Lucidius felt nothing but disgust and anger towards these doctors, and his head burst with flames. The doctor seemed to have finally noticed Lucidius, and stopped his psychotic laughter. Before the doc could even let out a sound, Lucidius's hand reached his head, and then *crunch*, the doctor dropped to the floor in a bloody and gory mess. The boy whimpered and shook as Lucidius approached him, and Lucidius tried comforting him. "Hey, it's ok, I'm not gonna let anyone hurt you ever again ok? You're safe now." He touched the boy and imagined all his wounds to disappear and heal, and it did. The boy stared at where he previously was hurt in wonder, but fear still flashed through his eyes. 'Poor guy must be traumatized.' Lucidius decided to erase his memories of the time he was being dissected and slightly altered his memory so the gore he caused to the doctor would be blurred. 'No kid, no anyone deserves that type of memory or experience.' The fear slowly disappeared from his eyes and he seemed confused. "Where am I? Hey mister, who are you?" "Well, little guy, you were here because some evil scum of the earth kidnapped you and they were doing reaaally bad things, so mister here, saved you! By the way, what's your name?" The boy still seemed a bit confused, but he still spoke, "It's Asher." "Asher? From today onwards, I'll take you in. You can live in my house, but of course, if you don't want to, then that's fine. I'll just send you to an orphanage...or if you have a home then back there I guess." "No, I'm an orphan. If I can, then I-I would love to stay at your home mister!" Asher beamed at Lucidius and Lucidius smiled back. He first went around the lab to check if there were any other poor children like Asher, but it was only him. "Alright let's go." He picked Asher up, and teleported to his house. "Woah, mister how'd you do that?" "Secret. Don't tell anyone ok?" "Ok!" He sent Asher to take a shower, and since he was still in his dream state, he created a lot of security measure in his home. Security lasers that would blast apart any uninvited guests, security walls made of 'nuclear pasta' the hardest material in the universe, and cameras around the house. As Lucidius wouldn't be able to use his powers if he weren't in a dream, he preferred to be safe and secure even then. He thought that the security measures were enough so he woke up. As he woke up, he realized that, if the government ever found out that he caused the lab incident, then he would most likely become the most wanted man in the world. And he needed to become more powerful, not just able to use his powers during dreaming, to be able to protect his peaceful life, and to make the earth a peaceful place. This...was just the beginning.

*Author's Note* This is the end of the 3-part prologue chapters! From now on Lucidius will only become stronger, training to be able to enter his dream phase quickly, uncovering more dark secrets and protecting himself and the people close to him from more threats. Thank you for checking this out, and I hope that you will stick around for the rough journey ahead! You can message me, comment or dm me on my instagram for Q and As or ideas! --dafatpanda