Shiro slowly crept along the crypts of the underground laboratory. His bloodshot eyes scanned over the operating table before him. This had gone on long enough. At first the rare prospect of getting to dissect his fellow villains had excited him but this had gone on for too long. He fear he might soon be the next upon this shiny chrome operating table.
A fit of coughing seized Shiro. He grasp at his mouth. Blood. Curse that damn elf. He'd be able to suppress the worst of virulent magical infection so far but he feared it was starting to take its toll on his body. Worse was the mental trauma that last image had left behind. Even now he could so vividly recall it...
Shiro shook his head in disgust. Better to focus on the task at hand.
"Let us continue to autopsy. Start the recording again, Yamato."
At this Shiro lowered his welding mask and started back up his band saw. He continued to saw away at the metallic cadaver in front of him. Finally he managed to break off a piece of chrome flesh - a little knife no bigger than a pen. He held it in his hand.
"Such a small knife. I wonder what he used it -"
The sound of a distant explosion rocked the operating room.
"Fuck is it the damn Triceratops again? Give a doctorate and a rocket launcher to any damn ceratopsid and suddenly they think they're a real scientist. You two go deal with our intruder. You three move this mechanic socialist to examination room four. Whatever you do keep the specimen form that insane Triceratops."
As his assistants hurried off to complete their tasks, Shiro turned down the hallway toward the deeper part of the laboratory. He had to at least make sure his most sensitive experiments in the lower levels remained undisturbed . As he turned around the corner there was a figure in the lab coat hunched over by the wall crying.
Hiro? He was one of Shiro's higher functioning
henchmen assistants. A few of his assistants received smaller doses of suppressant than the others to help them retain more of their cognitive processes. Unfortunately this meant the occasional relapse when the assistant became more tolerant to the suppressant was more common. This had been the seventh time Hiro had relapsed like this. Increasing the dosage anymore would degrade his cognitive abilities too much. He approached the man and hunched down next to him.
"Hiro. Hiro, it's going to be fine. Your medication seems to have worn off. Come here I'll help you."
Shiro reached into his pocket and drew out a syringe of cyanide while turning Hiro around to face him. The man's tear soaked eyes widen as he looked at Shiro.
"No... No please! I don't want to die!"
Hiro screamed as he ran further down the hall away from Shiro.
"That's odd. None of the others noti-"
Before Shiro could even comprehend what was going on a pair of hands wrapped themselves around his throat. They lifted him up so his feet no longer touched to floor still tight around his throat.
Bad Pouch! I'm being killed by Bad Pouch! No this can't be happening! I have to stop him!
Shiro reached deep into his pockets. Curses! He had dropped the syringe of cyanide in the commotion. Further in he reached. Anything. Anything at all. Something to stop Bad Pouch with. At last his hand stumbled upon the slender pen-knife. Somehow it had made its way into Shiro's pocket. With the last of his fading strength, Shiro buried the tiny knife into the arm of his assailant.
To no avail. The vice remained tight until the life eventually drained from Shiro. With a final sickening crack the hands released and Shiro's corpse fell upon the floor.
[HEADING=2]I was a Corruptor[sup]*[/sup][/HEADING]
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Infiltrator. I meant Infiltrator.[/sub]