30-day prompt challenge day 2
As promised, chapter two for day 2~ Hope you enjoy this!
Day 2: Forsaken
The first things Philip saw, when he felt his mind haphazardly returning to his own body, were two men before him, conversing.
One of them, in a long white lab coat that Philip had seen on scientific professionals in the dramas that Aki-chan had made him watch with her, was saying, “…it won’t be long now, for our subject to be fully with us. His mind cannot stay away long from his body, not with this disruptor field between the two.”
“No,” the other man, who sat, no, draped himself over a sofa, turned his eyes to look at the teen, “he’s already awake.” Philip noticed he was bald but, from his face, he guessed he could not be more than 30.
The man in a lab coat, too, turned around to confirm the observation for himself.
“I presume that I’ve been captured, and my captors, that’s you, are the two Dopants we saw and fought just moments ago. Since I’m tied up as expected, I suppose this is when I ask, ‘what do you want with me?’ and you’ll proceed to tell me your evil plan,” Philip glared at the men, trying to ignore the splitting headache that wrecked his mind every time a Henshin was forcefully undone and he was thrown back to his body. It was never nice to be expelled from Shoutarou’s body as it rejected all foreign entities while attempting to recover, though this was the first time his body was the one calling his mind back.
“Ah, Raito-kun,” “My name is Philip.” “That’s not your real name, is it?” “It is now.”
The man in a lab coat (Philip needed a name, soon. He couldn’t keep calling him man-in-a-lab-coat-it was too long.) smiled, “Fine, Philip-kun. There’s no rush for answers. After all, we will be here for a long, long time.”
“Unfortunately for you, I don’t intend to stay long, as lovely as it is to be tied up to this chair, Shoutarou would be worried to death about me, and it won’t take him long to find me.”
“We both know that’s not true. You are, after all, his source of information, his Google, his library. In other words, he’s just a puppet-you are the real detective-and therefore of no real consequence or threat to either of us.”
“Then you don’t know him as well as I do.”
“I’ve done my research.”
Philip remained silent this time. This was pointless.
Taking his captive’s silence as a sign of victory, the man in the lab coat (now would be a really good time for self-introductions, Philip prompted in his head) sat down on the sofa, beside his accomplice, such that the three of them were on the same level.
“Oh where are our manners? Let me introduce ourselves. My name is Professor Q, and this is R, though you might know us better as…”
“Technology!”
“Jellyfish!”
The two men seated in front of Philip stood up and simultaneously inserted their Gaia memories-the man-in-the-lab-coat’s, or ‘Professor Q’, memory went in by the right of his neck, while ‘R’’s went in through the top of his head. Before his eyes, they both transformed into the Dopants Philip knew they faced before.
“Welcome, to our Sanctuary Island.”
“So, what do you guys plan to do with me?”
“It’s more like, what do I plan to do with you,” Technology Dopant, formerly ‘Professor Q’ (Philip refused to believe either of them were born with alphabets as names), said. Jellyfish Dopant stood by his accomplice, clearly a man of few words.
“You see, we are brothers, faced with one problem. Our mother is dying, and we want to save her. To do that, I have studied as much as I could about engineering, medicine, and yet I can find no cure.”
“Aniki, is there a need to explain all this? If you ask me, the less he knows, the better it is for us.” Jellyfish Dopant, or ‘R’, interjected, “Why don’t you hurry up and do what you wanted to do with this boy?”
“R, it is hardly fair to the boy. He deserves to know what he’s signed up for.”
I didn’t sign up for this, Philip thought, but he knew there was no way he could escape these two on his own. Not with this annoying disruptor field cutting any possible connection he could ever get with Shoutarou, even the mental one they shared through the W-driver. He’d just have to stall, and perhaps thwart these two men’s plans on his own.
“Philip-kun, I still see the fire in your eyes. I’ll just say this for the sake of it, but it’s hopeless. This place is not just technologically removed from the world, it is also geographically removed from the world. There’s no way your Shoutarou-kun will find you.”
This time, it was Philip who smirked, “Like I said, you don’t know Shoutarou like I do.”
______________________To be continued..._______________________
There we have it. Chapter 2! Sorry it was dialogue-heavy ><
Would love to hear your comments ^^
Day 2: Forsaken
The first things Philip saw, when he felt his mind haphazardly returning to his own body, were two men before him, conversing.
One of them, in a long white lab coat that Philip had seen on scientific professionals in the dramas that Aki-chan had made him watch with her, was saying, “…it won’t be long now, for our subject to be fully with us. His mind cannot stay away long from his body, not with this disruptor field between the two.”
“No,” the other man, who sat, no, draped himself over a sofa, turned his eyes to look at the teen, “he’s already awake.” Philip noticed he was bald but, from his face, he guessed he could not be more than 30.
The man in a lab coat, too, turned around to confirm the observation for himself.
“I presume that I’ve been captured, and my captors, that’s you, are the two Dopants we saw and fought just moments ago. Since I’m tied up as expected, I suppose this is when I ask, ‘what do you want with me?’ and you’ll proceed to tell me your evil plan,” Philip glared at the men, trying to ignore the splitting headache that wrecked his mind every time a Henshin was forcefully undone and he was thrown back to his body. It was never nice to be expelled from Shoutarou’s body as it rejected all foreign entities while attempting to recover, though this was the first time his body was the one calling his mind back.
“Ah, Raito-kun,” “My name is Philip.” “That’s not your real name, is it?” “It is now.”
The man in a lab coat (Philip needed a name, soon. He couldn’t keep calling him man-in-a-lab-coat-it was too long.) smiled, “Fine, Philip-kun. There’s no rush for answers. After all, we will be here for a long, long time.”
“Unfortunately for you, I don’t intend to stay long, as lovely as it is to be tied up to this chair, Shoutarou would be worried to death about me, and it won’t take him long to find me.”
“We both know that’s not true. You are, after all, his source of information, his Google, his library. In other words, he’s just a puppet-you are the real detective-and therefore of no real consequence or threat to either of us.”
“Then you don’t know him as well as I do.”
“I’ve done my research.”
Philip remained silent this time. This was pointless.
Taking his captive’s silence as a sign of victory, the man in the lab coat (now would be a really good time for self-introductions, Philip prompted in his head) sat down on the sofa, beside his accomplice, such that the three of them were on the same level.
“Oh where are our manners? Let me introduce ourselves. My name is Professor Q, and this is R, though you might know us better as…”
“Technology!”
“Jellyfish!”
The two men seated in front of Philip stood up and simultaneously inserted their Gaia memories-the man-in-the-lab-coat’s, or ‘Professor Q’, memory went in by the right of his neck, while ‘R’’s went in through the top of his head. Before his eyes, they both transformed into the Dopants Philip knew they faced before.
“Welcome, to our Sanctuary Island.”
“So, what do you guys plan to do with me?”
“It’s more like, what do I plan to do with you,” Technology Dopant, formerly ‘Professor Q’ (Philip refused to believe either of them were born with alphabets as names), said. Jellyfish Dopant stood by his accomplice, clearly a man of few words.
“You see, we are brothers, faced with one problem. Our mother is dying, and we want to save her. To do that, I have studied as much as I could about engineering, medicine, and yet I can find no cure.”
“Aniki, is there a need to explain all this? If you ask me, the less he knows, the better it is for us.” Jellyfish Dopant, or ‘R’, interjected, “Why don’t you hurry up and do what you wanted to do with this boy?”
“R, it is hardly fair to the boy. He deserves to know what he’s signed up for.”
I didn’t sign up for this, Philip thought, but he knew there was no way he could escape these two on his own. Not with this annoying disruptor field cutting any possible connection he could ever get with Shoutarou, even the mental one they shared through the W-driver. He’d just have to stall, and perhaps thwart these two men’s plans on his own.
“Philip-kun, I still see the fire in your eyes. I’ll just say this for the sake of it, but it’s hopeless. This place is not just technologically removed from the world, it is also geographically removed from the world. There’s no way your Shoutarou-kun will find you.”
This time, it was Philip who smirked, “Like I said, you don’t know Shoutarou like I do.”
______________________To be continued..._______________________
There we have it. Chapter 2! Sorry it was dialogue-heavy ><
Would love to hear your comments ^^