The Garden of Vacant Dreams

The Reunion - Pt. 2

AN: Saban/Disney owns the characters you know. I own the ones you don't.

CHAPTER ELEVEN

THE REUNION – Pt. 2

"Is this plan of yours going to work?" Lord Zedd asked as he walked over to stand next to Rita in the back of Mesogog's lab.

"We shall soon find out." He replied.

Tommy lay unconscious on a table toward the center of the room, the rest of the villains surrounding him. Everyone was anxious to see Mesogog's plan put into action.

"How will you know it worked?" Trakeena asked as she looked over at Mesogog.

"We will do a test." Mesogog told the group as he walked over to Tommy. He was carrying a syringe with clear purple fluid. Mesogog placed the needle in Tommy's forearm allowing the fluid to disperse into his body. He immediately woke, gasping for air as he began to shake.

"He's experiencing it just as I did." Mesogog noted. "It becomes rather cold as it enters your body."

Tommy was fully conscious by this point and able to hear the others in the room, "What... did you do... t-t-to me?" He continued to shake, feeling as if he had just been completely buried in snow.

"Ahhh... you're awake." Mesogog said as he looked down at Tommy. "I think it's time to see if we were... successsssful."

Tommy wanted to open his eyes but he couldn't bring himself to do it. He pulled at his restraints as hard as he could but what little strength he had left wouldn't be enough to free himself.

"You're wasting... your time." Mesogog spoke slowly. "The fluid has already made it through your blood stream." But Tommy still continued to try and break free.

"Prince Gasket... will you do the honors?"

Gasket nodded. "Certainly." He replied as he stepped in front of Mesogog, his sword drawn.

As if feeling like you're going to freeze from the inside out wasn't bad enough, Tommy let out a painful cry as he felt intense pain come from his chest. He had felt pain like this in the past when he would get injured in battle but he knew no one had come up to attack him while he was lying there on that table.

"Did it work?" Rita asked, walking closer to Mesogog. He raised his head slowly as he looked over at his adversaries. "Yessssss." He responded incredibly pleased as he took a few steps toward them. "We're done here... round up the Tyrannodrones, Trakeena... he can go back to his cell for now."

Trakeena nodded as she left the room first, the others just behind her.

"I wish I had thought of something like that back in the day." Divatox said, impressed with Mesogog's presentation.

"I agree." Prince Gasket added. "And here I thought the Machine Empire was advanced for its day. If I had had that kind of ability I would have been a supreme ruler."

Tommy could hear them in the hall as they walked further and further away from the room he was in. He had stopped shaking by now, lying still again as his eyes remained halfway open and his mouth slightly ajar. Sweat dripped down the side of his face as he continued to stare at the ceiling. He looked completely disheartened as he finally started to realize what he had been brought there for. He knew what had just been done to him and why.

He knew he was going to die.

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"How is he?" Ashley asked as her and Cassie watched the rest of their team tend to their wounded leader.