Interstellar: Exploring The Cosmos With My Anomaly System
Chapter 73: Number Four

Chapter 73: Number Four

"You’re all cleared," The doctor’s voice rang through an empty laboratory. Elliot sat there, his back bare to the cold air that shot out of the air conditioners. His eyes half-lidded, he was tired, so extremely tired...

His hands reached up to cup his face, fingers digging into loose strands of wild, unkempt hair.

"I feel sick..." he muttered, his voice muffled through his hands.

The doctor watched him with pity in his eyes, his hand pulling the notepad closer to his person, his lab coat scrunched in between before saying,

"You’ve been asleep for many days. We were starting to believe you’d never wake."

Elliot raised his head, his brown hair now covering his nape from how much it had grown over the past few days. The look in his eyes—finally up after so long—caused the doctor to hesitate.

"As you know, since your return, we’ve been monitoring the three of you, along with the other victims of the blip calamity. However, out of everyone, you’re the only one with any signs of severe changes..."

"Severe...?" Elliot spoke in disbelief at what he was hearing, looking at the doctor as though he spoke some foreign tongue. Yet no matter how much he wished it to be his imagination, the doctor nodded to his speculation before continuing.

"Your body’s cells have been moving at rapid rates, though your wounds were long healed before you even arrived, yet your psyche remained unconscious for about a week. So..."

Elliot looked at his palms as the doctor spoke, his fingers trembling as he felt his heart rate rise higher and higher. Cold sweat started to accumulate on his brows.

Just like that, the room plunged into a deep red. The atmosphere around him changed. The blinding white lights grew a deep crimson, the door shutting as the chair he sat in strapped him down, forcing him to sit still.

"You have been infected by an anomaly... but do not fret."

The voice of the doctor rang in his ears with a calming tone that still brought dread into his mind.

Elliot’s eyes widened in panic, his breathing rapid as he attempted to claw at the sturdy steel bars, but nothing.

"Please cooperate..."

The doctor’s voice continued to ring... growing more sinister, causing the victim’s gaze to shoot up to look him in the eyes. His wide, crazed eyes watched as he got closer and closer, urging him on and on and on without end.

"Tell us all that you remember."

His hand grabbed at his shoulder, forcing him still. Elliot’s head snapped toward his tight grasp on his shoulder, hyperventilating hysterically. By the time he turned to the doctor once more, he flinched—their faces mere inches apart.

"We can save you..."

"With this knowledge, we can use it to kill all anomalies! For the betterment of humanity!"

He heard a familiar voice in the doctor’s words... a voice he’d rather forget. That’s when he broke.

His fingers dug into his scalp, his hair separated in all directions as he screamed, and screamed, yet no one came. His eyes were wide, bulging, his soul scraping at his iris, begging for salvation from his mental anguish.

"Gyaaahhh!!"

He cried, as he suffocated where he sat. His head felt like it was about to burst. The headache that struck at his eyes with tears running down his face, his dried throat, an itch, deep within his scalp, that his sharpest nail couldn’t reach.

"How do you feel?" the voice continued to ring in his mind.

"Do you feel sadness??"

"You’ll be the one...I just know it."

"You’ll save us all!"

Among all the other voices, one stood out to him—one that sounded like himself, his past self.

"He was an anomaly... nothing more. We...—"

"...Were never friends..."

With a force he didn’t even know he had, he pushed forward, snapping the metal bars in two. Swiftly, without a word, grabbing the nearest utensil before lunging at the doctor. His breathing grew heavier and heavier as he tried his hardest to stab the doctor between the eyes.

"You’re nothing but a pawn to me!"

His words remained haunting even as he was being killed, his manic smile taunting his aggressor even at the doors of death.

Elliot gritted his teeth as the doctor continued to mock him, adding his other hand to put more force into the scalpel; the blade inching towards his neck, scraping at his Adam’s apple. Alarms rang and blared in his mind the closer and closer he got to his sweet release.

Yet, all of it was thwarted with a sudden sharp pain that shot at his side. A pain that carried a sudden force, sending him across the room and skidding on the ironclad floors. His vision wavered as the pain jolted his brain back to reality. The white room returned, and his eyes adjusted to reality once more...

The ringing and alarms stopped all together, his teary gaze dragging across the now pure white room.

He saw the doctor, his gaze wavering with fear that lingered on his face staring directly at him. Standing right next to the doctor was his savior... the man who saved Tanaka all those days ago. His gaze carried a sense of indifference, the act of heroism he just did clearly out of obligation with no sense of genuine care.

"I see you’re finally awake..."

He walked closer, his feet tapping against the iron floors. Elliot sat up with a start, his heart racing at what just happened. He looked to the chair—the metal bars were gone, as if they never even existed.

"What’s going on..." he pleaded, demanding to know. "Who are you!"

Yet the man simply scoffed, stopping before the boy with a condescending grey stare. His voice dripped with soft sarcasm and faux sorrow.

"You don’t know the man that saved your life? I’m hurt,"

The man’s smile broke into a huge grin, kneeling in front of the cadet, their face inches apart as he studied Elliot’s eyes.

"I was right about you... I’m glad, that sorry group was worth saving after all. It’s been a long time..."

He reached out and poked at his forehead in a playful yet condescending manner. The back of his head lightly tapped the wall, bringing out a soft chuckle in the man.

"Number Four~"

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