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Imprisonment and Restoration

When you awaken, the first thing you notice is that you are no longer bound to the table. Instead, you are in a bed, a soft, silky bed with pink sheets, in what appears to be a little girl's room - pink wallpaper and carpet, stuffed animals on the floor, a dollhouse and dolls in the corner, and a small table. Oddly, though, the room has no doors or windows. You quickly find that it is very hazy and hard to think. You find it difficult to focus, and absolutely impossible to think about something serious for more than a couble seconds before completely forgetting what you were trying to think about. You have vague memories of something about a machine, a guy in a black coat, and some fancy, high-tech-looking room that you wouldn't be able to understand if your life depended on it.

All of a sudden, there is a flash and a man appears on a screen on the wall opposite your bed. A brief flash of something in what remains of your mind tells you that this guy's name is "Korak" and that there is something you didn't like about him, but you cannot recall what.

"Awake, are we?" he asks. "How are you feeling today, mm?"

You groan slightly, holding your head. "I feel... I feel... Ooooh, I-feel-pretty!" You exclaim, the stupor taking over your mind.

Korak laughs darkly. "Heh, excellent. I know you can't think very good anymore so I'll speak slow. The room you're in in to be your room forever. You will never get out, but you have everything you need already in there. I'm sure your limited mind will allow you to enjoy what you have for a long time. Meals will be delivered directly to you. Well, I'm very busy so I must be going. Enjoy your new life! Ha!" With that the screen goes blank.

You clutch your head, trying to make sense of all this, but you find that the more you try to think, the more you are drawn into the stupor. It seems that your old, original mind has seemingly been completely destroyed. You look around and once again catch sight of the dollhouse in the corner. "Ooooh, yay, dollies!" you exclaim, and hurry over. You play with the dolls for a few hours before eventually collapsing on your back, giggling insanely.

A sudden crash shocks you out of your frenzy. "Wassat?" you ask, still bubbling with stupid girlishness. You hear a loud, deep voice let out a war cry (although you would never be able to identify it as such in your condition), and with a smash, a large man crashes through the wall that Korak had appeared on. "Hi-iii!" you cry happily. "Who-are-youuuuuu?" The man does not answer, but instead grabs you and forces you to the ground. He lifts your chin up and sticks a needle full of light blue liquid into your neck, making sure you are injected with all the liquid before getting off.

For a minute you just lie there, stunned. You stand up, dizzy, and when your head clears you notice something: the haze is gone, and you can think again! You thank the man quietly for restoring your mind, idly noticing something familiar about him. After brief thought, you recognize him as Calladus from before. "You!" you say accusingly, pointing a finger at him while slowly backing away, "You-you're Calladus...the one from-"

"Yes." Calladus interrupts. "I did capture you. But I did what I had to do...Korak gave me details on how to resist the blasts...but...what I did was wrong, and now as an act of contrition I will help you escape."

You stare at him in shock. Calladus grasps you by the wrists and pulls you out through the hole he made and navigates the hallways of the compound, pulling you along. You notice the alarm blaring as he pulls you along, but you are too distracted to think about that.

Eventually, a squadron of guards corner you at the end of a hallway. There is a door off to the side, but it is locked. The guards then step to either side to make way for two people you recognize as Shadowfist and Freezerburn. Calladus glares at them angrily, then smashes through the wall behind you, leaving a hole leading outside. Calladus points through the hole "Run!" he commands fiercely. You look at him and begin to say something, but he cuts you off. "Go! I'll hold them off, you just run!"

You nod, then turn and run through the hole. You hear Calladus's war cry, as well as the battle cries of Shadowfist and Freezerburn, but you pay no mind as you keep running. The sticks and pointed rocks hurt your bare feet as you run (the heels that your transformation had given you had been abandoned in the "room" Korak put you in), but you keep running anyway. After a while your lungs start to hurt, but you force yourself to keep moving. You have absolutely no idea where you're going but you don't care; anwhere is better than the compound. Eventually you just cannot keep running and collapse to the ground, completely exhausted.

You just lie there catching your breath for several minutes, until you see someone few feet in front of you and hear a familiar chuckle. You look up into the pale face and fierce red eyes of Thirak.

"Well, well, look who got away. I must say, I'm impressed. The only other person ever to escape from Korak was me, and I was in much worse shape than you are"

You are a little surprised but let out a nervous laugh as Thirak helps you up. You then proceed to tell him about everything that happened in the compound, but you decide to leave out the part about what you actually did while in captivity and under the effects of the serum.


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