Pmd: life-guards

Today is my final day. There’s no way I can win today’s trial, they are going to send me to death. “SDN-Me1 Please make your way to Court room 3” I stop my leg tapping and get up. Two guards start escorting me to the Court room.

I put my hands in the pockets of my hoodie as they escort me. There is no way out of this. I am going to die. But I have to try something. I have to assess my surroundings. The guard Infront of me was a tall fox, while the guard behind me was a slightly shorter than me Pitbull. If I had to fight one, I think I can take the Pitbull. Well… it’s now or never.

I quickly turn around and kick the Pitbull down, he screams but I don’t care. I race to the entrance behind the pitbull. “Someone stop that Protogen!” I hear the fox scream from behind but I don’t care. Freedom in the grasp of my paw. But, then I feel a sharp pain on the right side of my stomach. A stun baton, I fall to the ground.

Shit. “Ah runner eh?” The fox said. “That kick hurt like a bitch.” “Your fine, Chase. Just walk it off.” They begin approaching me, but I can’t move. My arms won’t move. As I try my best to escape I hear them talking. “Hear slip this into his mouth.” “WHAT! I ain’t getting near dat thing.” “Calm down. It’s paralyzed, just put it into it’s mouth thingy” “Fine fine…”

I hear footsteps approaching but, this paralysis is not wearing off anytime soon. “Alright, open wide. Not like you have much of a choice heh.” He says that last part under his breath. He slips something into my mouth… and I black out.

When my eyes open, I am in a field. “Hey!” I turn to look at the voice. I see a small Otter waving at me. “Cmon!” He gestures me to follow him. I smile. I can feel tears swelling in my eyes. “Molly!” I run and hug Molly. “H- How are you here!?” “Why not show you?” Molly begins Running holding my hand. I eagerly follow.

We run for a bit before Molly stops. “We here?” I ask. “We are still in the middle of nowhere.” Molly doesn’t respond. “Molly?” I feel another sharp pain, this time slightly duller.

I fall to the ground and look up to Molly, except we are not in a field anymore. And Molly is gone… again. I look around and… I’m in the court room. I feel restraints on my paws. “We are to finish SDN-Me1’s Murder case.” I hear some random person in the jury yell. “It’s Guilty! We already know!” The Judge looks surprised. “Does all of the Jury feel this way?” I hear murmurs in the Jury but everyone comes to the decision that they agree. “Well, we still must at least hear what they must say.” He points at me. “Please explain yourself one last time for the Jury.”

I try to calm myself down to no avail and speak. “Your honor, may I explain? My brain has claimed its glory over me. I’ve a good heart, I’ll be it insane.”

The jury speaks in unison “Condemn him to the infirmary.” The judge nods and signals to the guards. I panic. This has happened before. Infirmary is code for the execution room. I have seen them do this on the news before.

The guards are approaching, I kick the closest one. The fox goes flying back. “Hah! How’s it feel?” The pitbull laughs. “Just shut up and get him.” The fox yells “Alright alright don’t get you knot it a… knot…”

Before I can even kick him he hits me with a stun baton. This feels familiar, and something enters my mouth again, and I black out.

When I wake I see Molly worriedly sitting by me. When he sees me he jumps up and hugs me. “I was so worried! You randomly blacked out when we were walking!” He stops and looks me in the eyes. “Please don’t do that again.” The sadness in his voice almost made me cry. I hug him tightly. “I won’t I promise.” We stay like this for a bit, it’s nice. “Alright can I show you noowww?” I laugh “Alright alright.” I get up and brush myself off.

The otter jumps in the air and grabs my hand. “This time we’ll go slower so you don’t pass out again haha!” I laugh. “Alright alright.” We walk slowly looking at the scenery. It was nice, but our time was cut short. “Alright, we’re nearly there.” I feel my arms being restrained. I stop.

“Mel?” Molly asked me confused. The sky seemed to be darkening, this was my last chance I could feel it. “Molly… Goodbye.” I hug him. “W- WHAT?” Molly looked panic. “N- no, Mel PLE-”

…

The room is dark, a singular light lit up the room. My paws were tied to a chair. A helmet was placed on my head with wires connecting it to the roof. I look towards the window in the room. Where family would usually show up, no one was there. Tears streamed down my face. I see someone pulling down a lever.

Electricity surged through my body; I feel immense pain. I feel wires exploding, I feel my organs slowly expanding, then bursting.

I close my eyes for the last time.

I see nothing. Is this the afterlife? Or hell? As my senses return, I feel more things. I feel something soft all around my body. I smell something sweet, a perfume maybe. I hear some soft snoring. I’m able to open my eyes again. It’s dark but it seems like a room. This doesn’t look like my room though. I sigh loudly in relief. “ughh, was that a dream? It sure didn’t feel like it.” I get up from my bed. Maybe I should rinse my visor, I know it can get dirty sometimes.

I head to the bathroom, which is connected to my room now? I don’t remember that… Nevertheless, I continue to rinse my visor, and I turn on the bathroom light. I look back into the mirror and that’s not me. Instead of being a normal Protogen with blue fur and no patterns. I now have Cyan fur that splits in the middle to a dark blue color. Along my arm I have stripes of Dark blue on my Cyan arm. “WHAT THE FUCK!?” I yell understandably.

My breathing increases. What’s happening, why aren’t I me? Am I still Mel? Or did Mel die in that chair? There is no way that didn’t happen. But one question is louder than the rest.