Slugterran Saviours

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Tears strolled down her cheeks, leaving glistening tear tracks across her face as she desperately searched for a way to escape the hell she was trapped in. Her daisy white, striking eyes were filled to the brim with overflowing tears. Her determination started to fade away, the fire in her eyes finally burning out, turning her limbs to rubber, her adrenaline to fatigue, her hope into hopelessness. Her legs shook with exhaustion as she ran around the place, sweat dripped down her brow. She had to escape, she had to stop that monster that took over her body before it hurt anyone else. Before it could spread it's demented wings and soar over Slugterra, dooming the caverns in the process. She couldn't let the monster win, she couldn't. If she did...

Well, she saw what the monster did to High Plains Cavern.

How it destroyed everything in it's path, how it watched and grinned with a sickening delight. How it laughed darkly as he saw the humans crumble and die at it's feet, how it turned them into souless automatons that only knew how to do one thing: kill. How thousands and thousands of them stood in compact, dark rooms, their expressions blank and empty, no emotion in their vacant, desolate faces. How agony was the last thing they felt, before they lost the ability to feel emotion.

"Dammit!!" She screamed at nothing out into the empty space, her voice echoing, piercing through the air. Hopelessness seeped into her bones as she buried her face in her shaking, blistered hands. Her legs gave way underneath her, and she fell to the tiled floor of the science lab she got possessed in, her surroundings tinted a vibrant, eerie, jade green. All of her tears were spent as dry sobs took over her body as she thought of her life before, and how her surroundings were a cruel, cruel reminder of them.

She had friends, a life, a family, a fulfilling life she loved with all her heart. She had a job she loved doing, one she was willing to put all her heart and soul in, one she never complained about, even as her job was the reason she stayed up all through the night, the reason she had two refrigerators in her house: one for the dangerous chemicals she experimented on, the other for her food. She craved to hear the laughter and the voices of her best friends once again, she craved to stay up all night, not feeling the slightest bit of fatigue because she loved it so much.

And that vile, vicious, heartless monster stole it all from her.

She resented the ghastly sight of that monstrosity that was embedded into each and every corner of her mind, it's disgusting, cancerous voice haunting her every second, chiming tauntingly in her mind. She had to leave this hell, she needed to escape this but she didn't know how. No matter how much her throat ached from screaming and shrieking for help, no matter how much she pounded at the walls, nothing she tried came even close to working.

But one thought about her past life, and she got back onto her feet, trying again and again. She would do anything to get back to her previous life, to get back to the wife she loved back home, to get back to the family she loved, her children, her parents, her best friends. She wanted to go back to hanging out with Sam Gray and Kayla Winters at the mall during the weekends, she missed playing with her two children, showing them safe, but entertaining chemical reactions, going to the playground with them on the weekends, cuddling up in same bed as her wife every night, locked in her warm, loving embrace, spending her days with her by her side.

And if she defeated Ataro, she just may get that back.

So she got back up on her feet, running as she searched desperately for another way out of that hell hole, for another way to get Ataro out of her head. She had to try. For her wife, she had to try. For her kids, she had to try.

For Slugterra, she had to try.