When ZAC returns home from the surface, he has found that Twitch's sentience experiment that day may not be a failure! Instead of dying like all the others, according to Twitch, this rat lived and escaped with his skin glowing a slight green, but th...
I run through the pipes and make my way deeper and deeper into the twisted sewers below. It always disturbs me on how quiet and calm the sewers are, where all I could hear were my thoughts, loud thoughts of worry and fear. I was so used to the yellow lights above and the fire of kindness humans shared with each-other, but here.. it was so empty. So dark. So cold. I've been here for what seems like a year now, but it always seems new to me, as if the sewers itself was changing shape as I went down, like it was alive.
Eventually, as I go deeper and deeper, I hear a small cackle echoing in the vast emptiness of the tunnels. It seems broken, in-pain, yet distinctly.. happy. I begin to see his silhouette. Twitch held his hands firmly as he limps through. There are times when he stops to lean on the wall, gasping for air. "He lives.." Twitch repeatedly rambles on and on. "He lives.. He lives.. He lives! Hehe.. Heh. Heh. I saw him go this way. I saw him! He grows.. He jumps.. he breathes! Heh. He fights! He runs! HE LIVES! Must find him.. Must find him.. Heh. Hehe.."
I grow worried as I hear this. What happened while I was gone? I hop out of the pipes and manifest myself into my natural physical form. Twitch's ears perks up at the sound and jerks his head towards me. He quickly took a stance to go into camouflage, but then he realize who it was.
"ZAC!" He shouts happily like a child. So much happened! You must help me!"
"Heh. I could tell pal. A lot of bugs came to me. Uh.. what got ya so happy?"
"Well.. let me show you.. You must se- Augh!" Twitch cries as he fell in his more rodent-like stance. All 4 legs on the ground.
"Twitch!?" I ask as I run towards him. I bend down and try to lift him up. As I reach for his hands, I felt the usual burns from sentience experiments, but then I felt loose fur and scars. I look up to where his beady eyes would've been. He just looks at me as he begins to laugh. I could see the shadows of his sharp teeth and the edges of his maniacal smile. "Hehe.. He did this you know.. Hehe.."
I just look at him, puzzled and worried. "..who?" I mutter out.
As a response, he just cackles more and more, unable to talk through. His laughter echoes in the tunnels deep down Zaun.
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I march towards the pipe that acted as the entrance to Twitch's lair with Twitch sprawled on my back. As I approach the pipe, I see the tarp that hanged in front ripped to shreds, clearly revealing the sole green lantern behind it above the metal cauldron in which steam is rising from it. My skin begins to tingle at the very sight of it. I tip-toed slowly towards it, inching my way into the lair as slowly as possible as if the entire area was being watched by some unseen predator. I look around the wet concrete floor to see the usual bones and cracked glass, but also fur and imprints. Cracked concrete filled with new excess poison and arrows. As I make my observations, Twitch begins to point out certain parts of the area while mumbling about them faintly. "That's where I tried to shoot.. How stupid I was hehe.. ...Ooh! He ran over there.. I could see his footprints at one point! ....That's where he just stood there.. and grow.. and PULSE! He glowed green when he does that and he shed so much fur.."
