Experimental - A Tale Of Mutilation

Through A Screen

Luigi stared at himself in the mirror. What could have happened in his life that led him right into this situation? He winced at his own reflection, surprised in that moment to see teeth unlike his own. They were like that of some sort of dog, and were arranged in the same way. He shook his head and looked away. He couldn't bear to look at himself right now. He began feeling so... unfamiliar ever since this began, and this only started yesterday! If only he knew what Doctor Oleander wanted with him...
He collapsed in his bed, falling asleep without an issue.

-

When he woke up, he saw a rather bulky machine in the corner of his room.
Is that...?
He couldn't help it, he moved up to the dark gold monitor and sat at the chair in front of it. He looked it over, and noticed a little green slip of paper on the keyboard. It gave instructions on how to use it, and the passcode to turn it on, and a little message,
It's already complete. Go ahead and message your brother, and tell him all you like. I never gave you enough information for him to find us or anything. Once your done I'll pick you up for my next round of work.
Until then,
-O
Luigi nodded, quickly typing the passcode in and sending a message to him. The anticipation as he waited for Mario to pick up made the 8 seconds of wait feel like months. Mario blinked, as if wondering who was calling him, but the second their eyes met through the screen, his brother's face lit up.
"Bro!! I can't believe it!! Alright, where are you? You can't be too far, I don't think, but even if you are, I'll be there as fast as I can!"
Luigi hated to crush Mario's optimism, but he had to.
"I'm... I'm sorry, but I don't actually know where I am..."
"... What?" He seemed shocked.
"Yeah, he's done pretty much everything to make sure I wouldn't know where I was... He really doesn't want me getting out, at all, so I don't really have much of a choice but to go along with his experiments..."
Mario looked more and more terrified as he talked. Tears welled in his eyes extremely quickly.
"... Who?? Wh... what do you mean experiments??"
Luigi held onto his furred arm tightly, like he still wanted to hide what happened from his brother... but he still had to be honest.
"His... his name's Doctor Oleander... I don't really know much about this guy, or what, exactly, he wants from me, and all that... I just know what he's doing..."
He sighed dejectedly, holding up a brown and white paw.
Mario flinched at the sight of it.
"No..."
"Yes... I don't know what's going on... but i don't have a choice but to find out..."
"I have to do something!!"
Mario began crying heavily, and seeing it broke his heart. He shook, tears falling like acid rain.
"I don't know what there is to do, Mario..."
They sat in what was mostly silence, aside from each others whimpers. Eventually, they began talking to each other, making efforts to make each other feel better, and they worked rather well. He heard Princess Peach call,
"Mario? Where are you? Are you okay?"
And Mario chuckled quietly,
"Well, I guess I'm gonna have to talk to you later... apparently the Princess and I have a lot to talk about..."
"I guess so... talk to ya later, bro..."