ACT IV: DISCLOSED

"Reality is within the mind of the beholder! Fantasy is within the realm of the soul."

"Tssssssssssssst! User0502 logging in. Test subject no. 6669, Michael A. Curt. Test subject has been diagnosed with psychosis. Hallucination and paranoiac are symptoms observed." said by a man with a lab gown while taking notes. "What? Where am I? Let me go, this instant!" the blue-eyed man yelled while struggling to escape.

"Test subject is very aggressive. Jailed for three months for murdering his wife and daughter in their house and was turned over to Sheer Rehabilitation because of security reasons." Ignoring the man who was strapped tightly in his seat as the examiner jot down some notes.

"No! No! No! I didn't kill them. I was framed! I WAS FRAMED!" the man shouted his eyes welling tears as he struggled to escaped from the seat covered with a brownish yellow stain. He yanked the old leather belt holding him until it ripped and ran away as fast as he could from his capturer.

The man with laboratory coat followed in fast paced to the direction of the escapee and soon the two cannot be seen in the monitor but noises of metallic objects dropping, making clanging noises and glass breaking are heard in the background. "You will not escape, idiot! You live here now! We own you now! And I will not let you waste my research. I have worked hard to take you, my friend, as a subject! You cannot hide from me!" As he grunts, and a loud thug is heard.

It took only five minutes for them to reappear in the monitor. The scientist has stained his lab gown with red, blue and green chemicals while the other man has been stripped of his orange detainee shirt with bleeding wounds all over his body and blood dripping from the cut from his head.

"Listen here, Michael, you are my only friend but I need you to cooperate. I worked hard for this company so that it may achieve its sole purpose to serve those who aren't lucky enough to achieve any of their bloody goal in life. You "killed" your family, you have become insane and in our "rehabilitation center" you fall. Just like the old saying goes, 'The end justifies the means'. You made me what I am now, I thank you but I need to finish what I have started." he told the wounded man while holding his chin.

The detainee smiled bluntly, "You will not escape these, at least not in your conscience, Edgar. The Demons will hunt you down and tear your soul apart and feed with your inner darkness."

"I'm sorry, Michael. FAQA Start extraction protocol one; initialize all extraction programs to Robopod. Administer type one local anesthetic." he directed the computer.

The video was then cut but the speakers remained on. Constant beeping will be heard including a saw-like sound on the background and in an instant a very bloodcurdling scream bombarded the hall shaking the glass of the observation pods. The speaker of the Observation Pod I exploded. Then all lights blacked out leaving the dim yellow emergency light on and Edgar more confused in front of the glass window.

"Restarting System. Running Back-up power. All generators up and running. T minus 36 hours until fuel depletion. Running on Save Mode. All defenses down." the computer AI called out as the lights turned on.

A glimpse of the bloody dead body was seen in the foggy glass of the observation pod missing the upper part of his head in a glass cage.

"Did you see what I have done? Do you want to accept it and run away?" a whisper in the cold air in the hallway calls to him.

Not far from the other end of the hallway where the Observation Pod I was located, a dark human like cloud with thin physical body wearing a stained laboratory gown stands as if waiting for him to come close. As he walked close to the dark figure, it jumped at him hitting him in the forehead while looking at Edgar menacingly with its brown eyes. Edgar collapsed on the cold metal floor and he backed away from the figure with his hand and feet.

"Ohoho! You are really afraid of me, don't you?", It said smiling cunningly. "Well, Im not surprised since YOU KEPT ME HERE FOR 10 YEARS!" The building shook and the voice of the person echoed in the room.

"Wh...who are you?"

"Really?! You even can't remember?! Maybe this would refresh your pea-sized brain." The figure approched him while he just sit in fron of the observation glass of the observation pod, frozen in fear. The cold hand of the figure grabbed his face and yanked him up towards its face. Its face was pale wrinkly and full of scars, its right eye was all white and the opposite eye possessed blue iris that glows.

"..."

"Still don't remember? Hi Hi Hi Ha Ha Ha!", the man roared with laughter that shook the room again. "Is that how you treat the one you killed. I am just an old man innocently walking through the path of life and just wanting happiness and eternal rest but what did you do, stripped all of that and made me just like a rat experimenting on me everyday, torturing every inch of my body. Do you remember now, Adolphos?", it hissed at Edgar.

"I don't know who Adolphos is! I am Edgar!", He said straight at the man.

The creature looked at him agin from top to bottom closely with his one working eye. He smiled and told Edgar, "Oh! To think that he will sacrifice the very thing he intended to surpass him in a few years. Why am I not so surprised. Torturing his only..."

A big rock fell from the top of the building and the person tilted his head upward and told, "Tsk... It seems our little reunion would come to an abrupt end. We will meet again soon so don't you dare give up on those illusions. Find the truth like what the three kids said and escape. Erase this world he made for us."

The speaker that was hanging on top of the observation pod fell on Edgars head. Edgar felt dizzy and felt something flow on his face as he lied in the wall beside the shattered glass. Before all faded away from Edgar's sight. The man whispered to him, "Remember, you must find her. Rescue her before its too late. Goodbye, Edgar Cumber."