Michael and I enter the room through the curtain, on the other side was a latex creature of some sorts interacting with a computer screen.

We barely took a step forward when the creature noticed us.

They gave us a frightened look and immediately hid under the desk.

Out of curiosity we then took a closer look at the creature it looked like some kind of White dragon but it's hard to tell if things on its head are horns or ears.

It was shivering like crazy...

I then looked up at the monitor of the computer it was using.

Looks like that it was trying to code some kind of game... Wait a minute, if this thing can code that means, it's sentient! It's fully sentient!

This was a big discovery. Maybe this thing can help us out with our situation.

I try to approach them, unfortunately it was still scared of us, It was moving back so much that it's back was against the wall.

I then try to communicate with it "hello there, It is a pleasure to meet you. My name is Andrew and this is my brother Michael. We are currently, let's just say trapping this facility and want out.
Can you please help us?" I said in a very polite voice.

The White dragon creature continued giving us a scared look, like it didn't understand what I was saying... There must be some kind of language barrier going on between me and this dragon, looks like it would be best just to leave it alone... Darn.

Eventually, we looked at the desk, as expected, there was the computer it self, the monitor, the mouse, keyboard, and right next to it was a cassette player.

They are appears to be a cassette tape already inside the device without any hesitation I press play on the consent player.

Just like before, it started out with static and garbage noise but it didn't last long as it did last time.

"Site director? I have a question." Said someone.

"What is it Bob?" The site director said while sighing out of annoyance.

"Is it really a good idea to kidnap people for test subjects? It's not really ethical, and I'm afraid at these criminal employees might turn on us" Bob said.

"Because there is no one else is willing to do the job, and besides we need enough subjects to perfect the cure for the virus, as long as we play our "special employees" well they won't do us any harm. Any other concerns?" The site director replied.

Bob paused for a second or two and then started to say his concerns "Yes for a matter of fact, I recently heard about this new drone project going on in the biological Labs, I don't exactly agree with the idea of taking away a man's free will, I thought we were just using in these creatures to find a cure for the pale virus not create a breed of slaves."

"We need those drones to do maintenance work for us so, the large majority of our employees can focus on creating the perfect cure for this nightmare of a virus." The site director answered.

Good grief, not only they were turning people into furris but they are also transforming people into some kind of mindless slaves through the latex creatures, this is just, wrong!

I can't even begin to describe the amount of anger I am feeling when I heard this.

Why is the guy even working with mad scientists willingly?!?!

"Speaking of employment, remind me why did you take this job again?" The site director asked.

"It's my daughter Mia. She's currently suffering from the first symptoms of the pale virus, I know I'm not much of a science guy, but if there's anything I can do to save my daughter, then I'm willing to do it." Bob answered.

That's why he is working with Thunder Science, he's concerned for his daughter.

"Very good Mr. Bob, now please get back to work as soon as you can." The site director happily said.

When the recorded message was over I was able to calm myself down and say "So, our kidnappers were criminals before they worked in Thunder Science."

"Wow, that sounds like great idea. Surely nothing bad will ever happen with with literal bad guys running around in the facility." Michael said it in a sarcastic voice.

"Indeed." I said an agreement.

I then looked around sadistic again to see if there's anything else, and there was.

"Hey, there's another consent tape." I said while picking it up.

There was a sticky notes that read "To those those who got my old job. Please listen to this if you want to learn the truth about this place.
Bob Roberson."

I was about to put it in but, then Michael grabbed my hand and said "It's probably a good idea to check it, to see if it's some kind of, weird electronical trap set by that annoying mad scientist."

Michael then frantically looked around with his makeshift knife out, anticipating anything to jump out at any moment.

I then proceeded smell it, all I smell was plastic.

"It smells legit, but you're right, we need to be ready for anything since this room is obviously a trap of some sorts." I said, while I switched the cassette tapes.

I then proceeded to press the play button.

I was anticipating that it's going to start out in static but, but instead the sound quality was extremely clear this time.

"My name is Bob Robertson, I am an intern at Thunder Science. My job is to monitor the aquatic latex beasts." Bob Said.

So, that's what this guy was doing.

"I assume that's you're sitting near my desk now as a replacement employee.
They told me to put down any tutorials on how to do my job if I needed to be replaced, but between you to me I'm getting straight to the point of this recorded message." Bob continued.

He then proceeded to take a big deep breath.

"They told me, that's the employees responsible for the kidnapping, are just kidnapping adults, but they were lying. They kidnapped my daughter... and they experimented on her with the latex beast right behind my back..." Bob said in an upset sounding voice.

"When I found this out, I... I... I... was..."
He then proceeded to cry.

"I CAN'T BELIEVE THAT THEY DID THIS TO MY LITTLE MIA!!! SHE WAS ONLY SIX WHEN THE SYMPTOMS OF THAT HORRIBLE VIRUS KICKED IN, SHE WAS LOOKING FORWARD TO HAVING HER FIRST DAY IN PRESCHOOL, AND NOW SHE'LL NEVER GET THE CHANCE!!!" Bob yelled in a tone of voice that displays a wide a range of emotions, mainly of anger and extreme sadness.

It took a minute for Bob to catch his breath before he started to talk again.

"When I told my fellow employees about this, they said that "It's a price to pay for the survival of humanity" I swear to God, desperation for survival brings out the worst in people... my daughter has suffered a fate worse than death and no one seemed to care!!!" Bob said with frustrated tone of voice.

"And if things weren't as bad enough, my daughter isn't the only child that was kidnapped to this, horrible place... I can feel it in my bones, something really, really, bad is going to happen." Bob said while taking a deep breath as if he is trying not to imagine the worst case scenario.

"It's only a matter of time before I go on the subject list... To who or, whatever is hearing this. Please do me a favor.
Please stop this madness, stop this tragedy from happening to other families, because justice doesn't exist on Earth anymore!" Bob yelled before the audio cuts off to static noise.

Michael and I were absolutely speechless, we already knew that this place was terrible but the extent of how far they went... we couldn't even think of the words to say...

We already knew that Thunder Science was a terrible place, but we didn't know how bad it got.

Geez, now I'm wondering on how many families they destroyed up because of their activities.

Eventually, we then cautiously looked around to see if anything was waiting to jump out... all we found was nothing but shorts on the floor.

"Oh great! It's more of those fake shorts." Michael said while picking up a pair of pink shorts.

I was about to say something back but then I saw the shorts that he was holding, twitch.

We already knew that these fake shorts are a type of latex creature, but we didn't know that these things can move on their own?!?!

"Michael, let go of those shorts, now!!!" I yelled while pointing at the shorts while they're starting to wiggle around as if it was alive.

Michael screamed has he dropped the shorts that we're now twitching like crazy.

Eventually they got up and walked started to walk on their own.

"I think, this is the trap Dr K was planning..." I said as I noticed other pairs of shorts on the floor starting to rise up on their own!

We immediately sprinted towards the shower curtain.

Those shorts then jumped out of us trying to latch on like some kind of head crab for, the lower half of your body.

We made a narrow escape, he jumped out of the room and and crashed onto the floor.

I then use Psychic Paralysis to stop those things in their tracks.

"Yeesh, you can't even trust clothing in this place." Michael said while catching his breath.

Then of course Dr. K has commented on our performance.

"Oh, that's disappointing. I really hope that you would like a new color for your clothing. Then again, you already knew this was a trap and yet you still walked right into it, for the promise of knowledge. This behavior proves my point that you're as impulsive as an animal failed experiment." Dr. K said.

Good grief, this guy's just never going to let go of every little mistake I do.

At least we got a better understanding of how messed up Thunder Science got before the riot.

But to be honest, I'm kind of just done with Dr. K, this creep just harass us with his annoying comments while trying to manipulate my brother to get assimilated by one of those horrible parasites at the same time.

"You know, I'm getting really tired of how you're treating me and my brother Dr. K. All we want is freedom from this horrible place, and all you want is to push us in the "right direction" to our oblivion, I'm just done with it. I said it once and I'll say it again, living here won't make me happy. So many bad memories, to me this place is a glorified prison with scientific equipment, not to mention that you're trying to get rid of the only member of my family that I have left." I explained in a very annoyed voice.

Dr. K paused to take a deep breath and then said "You're saying that like I'm out kill your brother and to endlessly torment you for my own enjoyment. First of all, I don't want to kill him, I just want him transferred, so he'll still live in some way afterwards. Second of al-"

I then decided to interrupt Dr. K, "I know he'll be still be alive afterwards, but it won't be him.
He'll be something else entirely I don't know if he will even remember me afterwards, I don't want to risk it.
Besides, based off of what we heard from the tapes, some of your employees that used to work in this place agreed that being transferred is a fate worse than death itself!" I said in very calm but angry tone of voice.

When I was done. Dr. K wanted to reply to what I said in a very rude and cold tone and voice. "You know failed experiment, you want to know why I call you that?
When we created your species, we were hoping that we can use you as a serum to cured the pale virus, but we soon learned after testing that you were complete failures.
And since you want to help another human being on escaping this facility instead of following your instincts like the rest of your species that you currently are.
And even then, when you "accidentally" transfer your own mother, it ended in utter disaster resulting in her death, which makes you even more of a failure!
Andrew, that was your name correct? You're even more of a failure than-"

Michael then interrupted Dr. K by yelling "LEAVE OUR MOM OUT OF THIS!!!"

Dr. K then took a very big deep breath, as if he's trying to stay calm and not yell. "You know what? You two are even more of a nuisance than your predecessors.
You give me no choice but to deal with you personally...
I will await your arrival... Hopefully by then you'll understand why this has to be done."

Dr. K then proceeded to turn off the announcement speakers.

"I think, we got him really mad now Andrew..." Michael said in a very worried voice.

"I think so too Michael, the way that he said "You gave me no choice but the deal with your personally..." gave me chills down my metaphorical spine.
But since we got this far, I'm pretty sure we can handle anything that he throws at us." I said it and scared but hopeful tone of voice.

"I sure hope you're right, I sure hope you're right." Michael replied in a slightly worried voice.

I then started to think about what we found in that office.

"As much as I don't like him, for once he was partially telling the truth, there was indeed information related to our kidnappers."

Michael then looked at me with a surprise look that says, why are you taking sides with this madman?!

Then Michael thought about it, and he did admit that force once he was telling the truth.

"He used the piece of information as bait for the trap, which we walked right into." Michael commented.

We then proceeded to the next room, there were two aquatic latex beasts fighting over each other for some food, one squid dog and one shark humanoid.

Among them was stacked piles of boxes floating on top of water there was also a squid dog fishing with a fishing pole.

Eventually the shark latex lost to the squid dog, there was another shark like latex beast sitting on top of a pile of boxes.

They immediately slept there forehead like its other member of its species did something extremely stupid stupid.

When the fight was over both creatures seemed to move on to somewhere else, lucky us.

But what came after was the very definition of irritating.

There was a small pathway towards the other side of the room through a shallow bridge, getting to the other side should have been relatively easy.

But, there is this squid dog sitting on top of a bunch of floating rubble like some kind of mermaid, it also sings like one too.

By that I mean it sings with a voice that's so high-pitched that it disorientates your balance, I couldn't even take one step without falling face first into deep water.

Tired of constantly falling over and getting my fur wet, I decided to use my psychic power to flip over the pile of rubble that squid dog was sitting on.

The rubble made a big splash as it fell into the pool, and a squid dog that was singing seem to be very annoyed that got rid of its favorite sitting spot.

I thought it was going to attack me and my brother fortunately, it didn't have moved on.

With that creature no longer singing, it was relatively easy to get to the other side of the narrow bridge.

If those obstacles have the way we proceeded into the next room.

The next room wasn't something too special. It was just another part of the habit at that the latex creatures made by flooding the generator area with water.

There was another one of those, picture frame things that hold tools on the wall. This time it looked a little bit, out of reach.

I guess these are for decoration or something instead of actual purpose?

Getting through this room was going to be easy thanks to Electrokinesis.

But instead of prioritizing on getting to the next room, we decided to explore a little bit and we found another cassette player.

Out of our curiosity, we decided to play it.

It started out with static and low quality audio, but then it's got a lot clearer within a few seconds.

"I am Dr. Philip, and this is my lab report on the events of December 23rd, 2009,
The outstanding science team of group B has done it again! They have created a sample that shows great promise in ending the global pandemic." Dr. Philip said in excitement and enthusiasm.

"Oh great! Another mad scientist." I said to myself sarcastically.

"Though it's not a perfect cure, it's a big step in the right direction. Group B utilize the white latex ability to hold more genetic information to make a astonishing breakthrough." Dr. Philip said with prideful voice.

"We have dubbed this strain, the beta sample. When the subject got transferred by the beta sample, they were able to retain some interesting skills in their past life, such as coding and digital art, and they deliberately want to wear clothes, this is a huge breakthrough, I guess christmas came to us too!" Dr. Philip happily said.

Wow! Would you look at that, the individual wasn't completely gone after they got transferred, but the fact that they're still doing this just to care some dumb virus, is still very questionable, in terms of ethics, not to mention the flipping kidnapping!!!

"Usually after the transferring sequence, the individual is completely gone and retains little to no traits, or skills, of who they used to be, essentially being nothing more than some kind of animal that can be compared to a orangutan, gorilla, chimpanzee, or some other kind of dim-witted monkey." Dr. Philip said in a disappointed voice, he almost sounds like that he was regretting doing this to people.

"But with this recent data, we have created the Neanderthal equivalent of latex beasts, the subject in particular resembles some kind of white bipedile dragon without wings." Dr. Philip said.

"We called this new variant, white latex dragons. We even took the liberty of nicknaming the first subject that interacted with the beta sample.
We called him Dragon Snow, sense he looks like a dragon, and he really love to play with the snow on the balcony.
Unfortunately, our science team couldn't reason with Dragon Snow, not without him attempting to transfer us.
We try to condition him to be friendly towards humans, but that backfired tremendously now Dragon Snow having an extreme fear of us instead, looks like it's back to the drawing board for us, kind of disappointing to be honest. End of report."

The cassette made a happy little beep, signifying the end of the recording.

"Wait, isn't Dragon Snow that weird, dragon creature that we meant behind the curtain in the room where we fought against a army of squid dogs?" Michael asked.

I paused and thought about what he just said. The behavior of that weird dragon creature that we saw hiding under a desk, kind of matches what Dr. Philip described in this recording.

"If this is the same creature then it doesn't want to help us because of the conditioning that the scientists made it go through, at least he was more lucky compared other latex beasts that once were people." I said with a slightly disappointed, kind of voice.

After we were done discussing about what we learned about this facility's past, we decided to move on into the next room.

End of part 9