Teen Beasts 🐾 S.S.

Pain of the Penultimate

The ATM's screen kept blinking on and off, so Zach moved to pound on it a few times to try and make it work. He just wanted to get out of here and didn't want to stay here any longer than he had to. Even less when he began to feel some raindrops starting to fall.

"Come on," he said as he gave the screen two more hurried whacks.

The machine's screen blinked a few more times before the screen went fully green. There was then a clicking sound echoing out from the machine's speaker. To Zach it sounded like electrical clacking.

"Zach," a distorted voice sounded out from the machine.

Zach narrowed his eyes before his name appeared on the screen, repeating itself constantly, without even spacing and kept on going for several lines.

ZachZachZachZachZachZachZachZachZach

The young chimera was getting freaked out by it and started to back away as the machine kept going. He turned around to leave but froze as he saw one of the so called Dread Doctors that held him captive before, the Surgeon, standing a few yards away, slowly walking over to him with his cane dragging a bit as he walked. The Dread Doctor looked even more scarier than he did the last time he saw him.

"Zach," he muttered as he moved ever closer.

"Oh man," Zach muttered before he took off for his car.

But Zach stopped in his tracks as he saw both the Geneticist and the Pathologist standing on opposite sides of his car, facing him.

"Your condition is stable," the Surgeon muttered, making Zach turn to frightfully look back, seeing that he was now just a few feet away. "Yet, no progress."

"Failure?" muttered both the Geneticist and Pathologist.

"Failure," the Surgeon confirmed with a nod. The Dread Doctors then moved to unsheathe the blade at the end of his cane and then hurled it for the boy.

Zach screamed as moved his arms to try and shield himself. Suddenly, his eyes flashed bright yellow as two feathered wings burst out from his back, cutting through his jacket. His right wing came and stopped the cane in mid-air, before his left wing moved and batted it away as soon as it hit the pavement, making it harmlessly roll off. Zach straightened himself as his face widened at the sight of the wings. His glowing eyes widened at the sight of them.

The Geneticist then began to move and grab him. Zach reacted and turned around to try and hit him with his right wing, but the Geneticist caught it with both of his hands. He became frightened and tried to pull away but the Geneticist's grip was iron tight. In a panic he tried to throw a quick left hook for the masked head but the Geneticist moved to catch it. The Geneticist turned his gaze over to the caught hand and saw the claws that were now visible at the end of the fingers. But he had to loosen his grip on the wing and Zach pushed it into the doctor and made him let his hand go. The sudden release made Zach and the Geneticist stumble back but while Zach fell on his back, the doctor stayed firm and tall, looking down at him in intimidation.

Zach started to crawl back, seeing all three of the doctors now encircling him. He turned himself around and started to run, on all fours. He ran a few yards before he leapt into the air and then started flapping his wings, lifting himself higher and higher. The Dread Doctors moved to stand side by side, gazing up at his retreating figure.

"Pursue?" the Geneticist asked, his eyes not leaving the boy's distancing form.

The Surgeon regarded the boy for another second before he turned away. "Unnecessary," he said as he walked off.