Monstercat: Origins (Part 1)

Chapter 26: Truth and Dare

Savant looked down from the balcony. "Your welcome," he said. Camon turned to him, "All you did was slow her down, and if it wasn't for you she would've never even been here." Savants eyes widened. "Wait... Are you? You were the one who destroyed Megaboy! You're the boy with the magic bandana. Camon? As my son I expected so much more from you," Savant said, "But, I forgive you. It was wrong of me to try to take over the galaxy. Especially with you watching me. This demon has been warping my thoughts for years. I am terribly sorry for everything I've done... and what I'm about to do. Dr. Raven looked up at him as he pressed a red button on Vario's head. Small red lights appeared everywhere around the city. The Workbots were put into self destruct mode. Dr. Raven turned and yelled to him, "But, your soul!" "To hell with my soul," Savant retorted, "All i need is power." Loud explosions filled the city. The whole front of the Cult was being obliterated. Giant metal walls closed between Savant and the two heroes. Dr.  Raven turned to Camon and shouted over the explosions, "This isn't the end Camon! I need you to take this backpack. Controlling the wings is easy. Inside is a single breathing mask you can temporarily wear in space. There is also an instruction manual on how to build a special robot out of the blades. The robot has the ability to..." CRASH! Dr. Raven flew back from Camon and was flung into space with the other scrap. A small blue orb arose then. "Is that... A soul?" Camon questioned. He took Stert and wrapped the soul up. He started to suffocate. He forgot the mask. He quickly rummaged through the backpack, but he couldn't find the mask. He began to turn purple until eventually he blacked out.
(Dream) "Ahhh, Camon, back again are we? You know, you really need to stop dying. Remember how last time I said you didn't have to die until the next time. Well, I lied. You have one more chance at this Camon. You are destined to stop your father, but the odds of you doing it are very slim with you continuously dying," the booming voice said." (Fade Out)
(Wake)
Once again, everything was white. Once Camon finally came to his senses, he saw the mask floating in front of him. He strapped it on and took the deepest breath he had ever taken. "Who is this voice, and why doesn't he want me dead," Camon wondered. Stert was still in his hands, wrapped tight around Dr. Raven's... soul? Camon looked at the Cult, now much smaller than before. The remnants of Zion were scattered around the space around him. Somewhere in the wreckage was the corpse of the beaked doctor. Camon looked at the soul and whispered, "We'll get you back, somehow." He began swimming through space to a launchpad on the Cult. The engines were warming up, meaning pretty soon the airlocks would close on the platform and Camon would float endlessly in space. That is... unless the booming voice person came to him again. Camon waded peacefully towards the Cult. He finally reached a launchpad, and the airlock had not yet closed. He floated inside the gate, waiting for the airlock to close so he could finally get on his feet. At last, Camon heard the Cult's engines roar to life, and the airlock closed. Camon sat on the ground, out of breath. He took off the mask and carried it into the laboratories. Camon wondered if he could even tale care of the place without Dr. Raven. Then he remembered, the instruction manual. He completely forgot about the wings. He slipped the backpack off of himself and looked inside. Sure enough, in a small side pocket was an instruction manual. The cover of it read Predictbot 1.0. He opened the manual and inside was a blueprint and easy step-by-step directions on how to organize the metal pieces from the wings into a small vessel of some sort. Camon looked at the soul wrapped in the bandana. "A soul vessel?" he said out loud. Camon took the backpack and the manual out onto a balcony. Just as he went to pull the vine to summon a hand, he heard cluttering from an upper lab. He listened closer and noticed it was only something small. Then again, there was a small killer robot on the ship. Camon took the risk anyway. He attempted to pull the vine, but it snapped. He looked up at it and noticed part of it was brown. Camon then looked over the balcony at the garden of vine hands at the bottom. However, what he saw was no garden, not a good one at least. Piles of dead foliage laid at the bottom of the column. Just as he was about to get worried, he remembered the wings. He put on the backpack and sure enough, he was floating. He used the controller and silently flew up to the noisy balcony of... the robotics lab? Camon landed quietly onto the balcony and hid behind a pillar at the entrance. A familiar voice came from inside, "Hey, what are you doing out of your cage, test subject! Get back in there you blasted fool!" Then Camon heard the most unexpected sound, a faint little meow.