Chapter 13

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I find myself in front of a large building, built of brick and metal, it looked oddly modern, but it was still beaten up and broken, a hole gaping in the top corner of the building. I walk up slowly, opening the heavy front door with both hands before I quickly pull my pistol from its holster, a small flashlight clipped to its rail shining down an empty hallway, shadows moving to form fake images to the untrained eye.

I keep walking down, but the lights slam on and I aim my gun straight up to a dark corner, a wolf, standing there, a hint of a blue glow coming from the darkness. I holster my gun before speaking. 

"Baskin! Come on down. It's not polite to hide from your guests." I yell out, but I turn around quickly as my ears perk, Baskin launching at me from behind, I go flying backward, landing into a stack of boxes, then falling to the ground with a thump, I look up to see a blue form of Baskin next to him. 

"You think I'm not smarter than that? The voice tells me what to do...I succeed then. I'm better than anyone. Even Peyton and Channing." He grins, sending the blue figure at me, I shoot forward, passing the figure quickly, I slide behind a large pillar, groaning as I hold my side. Must've nailed the soft spot there. 

"Hey, Baskin! I know you have a voice. I have voices too...but I have to ask. Where's my brother?" I ask, looking up, but a red ball smashes the side of the pillar, sending rocks at me, I cover my head before Baskin speaks again, his voice almost hazy. 

"Oh him? He's somewhere. Over the rainbow, you could say."  Baskin laughs and another red ball smashes into the pillar, I jump forward and kick off the wall, then start climbing the pillar before reaching a set of pipes, I hoist myself up into them, keeping myself hidden.

"A little birdy told me you were a coward!" Baskin yells, blinding light covering my vision, I feel a burning in my chest and I look up, realizing I was falling fast to the ground before everything hurt, I cough but hear a crackle in my earpiece, I tap it and the voice becomes clear. It was the medical dragon from USSIDA.

"Michael, I'm sending you the prototype we made. Get ready." He says and I cough, standing, I see Baskin with his hand outstretched, red glowing in his hand before it blasts forward, red ropes shooting towards me, I hold my hands in front of me, but something crashes into the ground in front of me, a giant almost meteor-like oval-shaped mechanical structure.

The back opens and Vex speaks robotically. "Sir, the identification sequence is done, calibration will be shortened to a minimal structure." She speaks and the red blast phases off the metal, I shoot forward into the back of the machine, I feel clicking against my skin and a pricks go through my body before my mask folds over my face, the hud coming up. The rest of the mechanical structure blows off as I fall to the ground in a rather large suit. 

The shined like new, different parts whirring and clicking in as the calibration process runs, the glow of orange lights underneath, I look at my hands, turning them around before clenching them, I look up and Baskin looks at me oddly before scoffing, he launches at me, his hands flaming with red energy, I pull back one hand, it glows with orange light and I plow it into his stomach, he lets out a grunt as he slides back on his paws, growling, he let's out a whistle before disappearing.

Another version of him, colored red this time launches at me and I grab his arm, then his leg and swing him into a brick wall, causing the whole wall to fall down from instability. I turn around and start back down the hall, soon finding a set of stairs leading into the basement of the facility. I run down and my mask pings, and I see a figure, tied to a chair through the walls before it disappears, I run into the room and see K, stuck to a chair. 

I run over and flick out my wrist, a blade coming from my forearm, I cut away at the ropes that held him, he grunts and looks back at me with a sheepish smile and I shake my head.

"At least I called first." He says.

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