Chapter 3 - The Caged Chamber

"I-said-identify-yourself-human!" The robotic voice said. I don't know how much longer I could stay still. I needed a plan and so far, I didn't have one. I couldn't run due to my broken leg and I couldn't use my wand on this car. Wait, my broken wand, I just got an idea. "Identify-yourself-or-we-will-shoot!" the robotic voice said for the final time. "How's this for identification?" I yelled as I threw my broken wand at the hovercar. "What-the-heck-was-that? That-was-not-identification! Prepare-to-? Oh-shoot-he-got-away." The hovercar said as I managed to stall the flying junkbot for long enough to escape onto the lift and ride down it. "Now these bots are on my tail. I need to find some way to hide." I said to myself as I reached the ground. After a very quick look around, I noticed that a lot of people were heading into some sort of tunnel thing. I didn't know what it was but I knew that this crowded thing was a very good way to blend in, so I followed the crowd into this tunnel. We went into this very poorly lit area with a very small platform. We had to enter through these gates until I could see something of a subway. It turns out that cars were not the only thing to receive the hover treatment. It turns out that the subway cars had also mastered the hover thing and they too were flying off the tracks. It looked cool but also kinda spooky as well. I looked around, hoping to find a familiar face when I noticed that one of the subway trains or hover trains was boarding. I was about to stay and look around some more when I noticed some small machine things entering the subway station. They looked like droids from Star Wars but they also looked like Adam's face because, of course, they did. "Attention-my-captive-audience,-we-are-looking-for-an-unidentified-person. If-you-have-any-knowledge-about-this-human-report-it-to-lord-Adam-and-you-shall-be-rewarded-greatly." The droids said as I began to panic. "So Adam is in control of this city!" I thought. "But if me and my friends defeated him, how would he return?" Knowing that if I stayed where I was, I was going to be confronted by this Adam so I quickly made my way to the boarding train. Luckily, I don't think the droids saw me in time but I knew it wouldn't be the last time I would run into them again. I want to say that the train ride was eventful, like the droids found me but nothing like that happened. It was just me, next to two very big men, and my thoughts and questions overlooking me from a distance. I had no idea what the heck to do. I was on my own, with droids and a bounty on my head, and being in a world with Adam running it. This was truly living in hell. I had no idea what my next move would be. All I know is that I destroyed that prism energy thing, I appeared here in a world run by Adam and now droids are trying to kill me. Talk about a day for real. I looked outside the hover train and into the moving walls. They matched the rest of the city for sure with Adam's face all over them. I was beginning to wonder if this city was in Colorado because I think Adam would have loved to live there. I continued to be alone with my thoughts until the train stopped very suddenly. "Captive passengers, this is stop 3145! The doors are opening now." The train loudspeaker said as the hover train's doors opened and a few people got out of the door. At this point, my leg still was in brutal pain and was still broken but I was able to put my foot on the ground for a few seconds but that was it. I still hopped out of the hover train, hoping to find a new face somewhere. Yet again, I didn't see anyone in the station so I planned to hop out of the subway. I had no idea what was going to happen or what I was going to do next but it was a start. I headed towards a set of stairs that led above ground and that was where I was heading when just like last time, a few droids were watching the stairs and you guessed it, they saw me. "Unidentified-human! GET-HIM!" The droids said in their robotic voice. "Oh shit." I said. Now this time, I was defeated for sure. Within a few moments, before I could hop away like a coward, the droids surrounded me. One of them zapped me from behind and yet again, everything turned black. I don't know how long I was out for. Minutes, hours, days, months maybe? I had no idea anymore which seemed to be common in this place. After what felt like forever, I slowly opened my eyes to find that I was trapped. My arms and legs were chained to the walls of a very small room with no windows and just one steel door. "Wh...where am I? Is anyone there?" I shouted out loud, not knowing what to do or if anyone would come to help and explain. Just then, however, a screen came down from the ceiling, and...he was on it. "Good evening unidentified prisoner." Adam said on the TV screen. "Adam? But...How?' I asked in horror. "So you know my name? Interesting. I would like to know you're human." Adam said. "You already know my name! Didn't Penny tell you it?" I responded with anger in my voice. "Penny? Never heard the name before. Now I recommend you tell me yours now!" Adam said as within a few seconds, what appeared to be guns came out of the walls and pointed directly to me. "But...how? Liz had to have made Penny here...right?" I said under my breath. "Say your name human!" Adam yelled. "Uh..Austin...Austin Davis!" I spat out instantly. "Good." Adam said as the wall guns retreated into the wall. "Now that we have your name Austin, you don't seem to be on my database. Care to explain that?" "You have a really bad time recognizing people, let alone keeping track of them." I responded with a little chuckle in my voice. "IMPOSSIBLE!! I'LL GET WHAT I WANT MYSELF!!" Adam yelled as what appeared to be a tin foil hat dropped from the ceiling and landed on my head. "This is a truth seeker. I didn't want to use it but due to your annoying behavior, I'm using it to get what I want!" Adam yelled. "Bro's got anger issues." I said. "Start the fucking thing up!" Adam yelled. Within a few seconds, I felt as if my brain was getting invaded. It's hard to describe really but after a few moments, it stopped. "So you're from another world?" Adam asked me as I stood there. "I...I think so?" I said with confusion in my voice. "Wait...that's...me. A very handsome me at that." Adam said as he continued to look through my memories which seemed to be over the years. I knew that he was about to find some things that he wasn't going to like and I'm guessing I was going to suffer through them. I still couldn't believe that I was in a world where nothing I and my friends did ever happen. I couldn't be sure yet but It seemed like Penny was never built by Liz in this world which I'm guessing led to Adam taking over. I still wanted more answers though and I hoped that I would get them in due time. After a little while, Adam started to turn red with anger as he looked towards me. "You and your friends killed another me. I've had enough. THROW THIS TRAITOR INTO THE DUNGEON!" Adam demanded as a few masked people came into my room and removed my chains. Right before I could process all of this, the floor opened up and I fell into another small room that looked just like the other room but now it was darkly lit. "OWWW!" I yelled as I looked at my legs. Any chance that my right leg was getting better was gone as I landed on that leg again. It hurt even worse than last time and my left leg was hurting a ton as well. Standing up was impossible now so I had to lay there on the cold floor. "Oh great. What the heck is Adam going to do to me now?" I asked myself in sheer panic. "I can't even feel my legs."