Rise of Theo

Chapter 4 : Bright Lights

I could feel it. I could feel my body vibrating against the passenger seat.

I was inside an old car, there was old nacho cheese dripping from the glove compartment.
Yuck. 

The handles of the windows seemed to be raised and high above me. The Sun Visor seemed to really far above and raised.
Everything seemed out of place and way too big for me.

OH NO!

I was back in my dreams And this time I had a feeling that this one would be weirder. 

I was hooked to the quad seatbelts from a booster seat. I tried to look left to the driver seat but my seatbelts were so tightly adjusted that I couldn't even breathe properly.

'Who would do this to a baby?', I thought to myself.

'Well, Hey there, Champ. Looks like you're finally awake.', said a deep southern voice from my left. 
I couldn't turn to see who it was but I managed to move my tiny body which was apparently on fritz. 

'Wait a second, let me just unhook that for ya'.'
A HUGE hand came close to my east side and pressed a red button.
The seatbelts reversed and whooped back inside.
Finally.

I turned and saw what looked like a Giant Hairy Beast with somewhat of a handlebar mustache.
He wore a red and green shirt like the ones farmers wore and tight blue jeans; too tight for his plump physique.

I was almost about to cry seeing the face of a stranger when, 
'Relax. It's just me, your Uncle Michael.', he said as he was munching on some nachos kept near the gas pedal.
He handed some to me with his sticky cheesy hands. 

'Oh Wait. 'yer mum said I shouldn't hand you cheese. She'd kill me if I did. 'yer lactose intolerawatchumacallit.', he said with his half-full mouth.

I'm pretty sure he meant Intolarent. 
Yeah, he was right.
Was he the one "my mom" mentioned in my previous dream?

'Gotta take you to the base and load on some stuff.', he snuffed.

I wasn't even surprised when he said base. 
A lot of weird stuff were happening around me and this would be the least of it.

Michael was rambling on and on about something but I was too distracted by a small sapphire crested necklace hanging on the rearview mirror.

He caught my line of sight.

'Oh, you like that, do 'yer?', he said and smiled. 'It was a presen- err, gift from Lily. Uh, I mean 'yer mom.'
He leaned in and took it from the mirror and he placed it gently on my chest. 

I had a feeling I'd seen this before. 
But I still felt like staring at it forever. It was dazzling and glimmering all over.
It felt like the moonlight drowned in the deep night and the stars just went to sleep and the brightest and most beautiful thing I had ever layed my eyes upon was this necklace.
My baby-self let out a cute giggle.

'You like this huh' ?', said Michael. 'No wonder, It was Lily's.'
I kept playing with and I didn't notice the time fly by.
We passed like 6 Gas stations and kept going.

'I wreckon' you understand me pretty well... even for your age.', he gave me a different look. 

Wait. How'd he know I understood him?

'Anyway. Eddy and Lily want you to be safe. Away from those rascallions that they call "Industrial Scientists"', he rolled his eyes.

'They don't understand your true potential like we do. All they need is the money and the power. Pft. Typical Moses Industries.'

He was silent for a couple of mintues and then - 
' 'yer on the wanted list 'ya know? Merwin needs ya' for his sample or somethin'. But we need you to stay away from him as possible.'
He took in some Nachos that was on the ground.
' ...and that's why we need you to be safe..from him.. You were the only survivor of 'Project Thirteen' - ' 

He was in the middle of his sentence when a bright light from front came charging at us. 
'WATCH OUT. A TRUCK!'

I woke up with a start. 
I was in a room with gentle jazz music. 
Ugh. Yet another lousy dream.

'Aah. You're awake. Very good.', said a woman wearing a white uniform. 
'Took you long enough.', said a familar High Pitched Voice.

'Hey Espin', I said as I tried to move out of the bed I was sleeping in. 'What happened to me? Where am I?'
'Nurse's office. You're lucky you're light enough for the lunch lady to carry you.', she snickered. 'Long story short, You must've had a really bad stomach ache. You passed out. You hit your head on the table while falling and went unconcious.', she tried to explain it as slow as possible. 

I tried to get my legs out of the blue patients bed. 

'Don't try to move. You'll make it worse.', said the nurse.
'But I've got my classes -' 
'The classes can wait.', she lashed. 'What's important is your health.'
'I'm feeling fine. I just need some movement and some air.', I voiced.

I put my legs down and tried to get some grip on the bars on the edge of the bed.
But my muscles were throbbing so hard, I couldn't even feel my left arm.

'That's weird. The lump on your head dissapeared already.', said the nurse with a curious look.

'That's not the only thing weird that's happened today.', I voiced back.

I headed out the nurse's office after twenty minutes.
'What's next period?', asked Espin.

I looked up at my schedule and took a huge gulp.

'Uh oh. Gym Class.'