Dispatch: Unknown Variable | OC

Ch. 3 Runaway Rat

RECAP;

"Wow! You look so cute, I'm surprised Royd picked a perfect size, I was worried it wouldn't fit." She had a finger to her chin as she nodded at the clothing I wore. I looked down at it again.. It just. Didn't seem right for me to be wearing it. "Come on, let me bring you to some of my most trusted people, I think they'll like you, and maybe you'll like them" with that she grabbed my hand again, soft and gentle, leading me through the different hallways of this.. SDN building..

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I'm getting so lost.. Every turn we take seemed like it brought us to another staircase or to another hallway.. Just when does this end?

Finally we reached a large and open room.. There were so many people and.. Aliens? Why were so many people and aliens working together? Existing together? Oh, am I here to kill them? Is that my mission? Sometimes my bosses needed me to kill aliens.

Blonde Blazer led me to the first half divider wall, keeping me behind it as she talked with someone. "Robert, Chase!" Her voice seemed awfully happy.. Am I not killing the aliens? I watched passerby's closely- just in case

"What do ya want Blazer? The old, male sounding voice asked her.

"Can't I just say 'hi' and chat with you two?"

There was a small silence between them before the older voice piped up again, "You told me you had this important mission, and now your here, extremely happy.."

"Yes~?"

"Which means your only here for trouble" he continued, which earned a small and quick chuckle from another- younger male.

The younger male added, "Chase does have a point, Blazer." Oh, so the old male is Chase..  "You seem to come around whenever you have a job for us to do or if your checking up on the job you gave us" which means the younger male is.. Robert?

"Well- because you mentioned it." Blonde Blazer responded with a small albeit, nervous sounding, chuckle. She lightly pulled on my hand and put me right infront of them. "This is, Shifter. Shifter was apart of my mission."

The younger male, Robert I think, was sitting on a chair infront of a computer infront of me, his right ear looked like it had a bite taken out of it, and he looked awfully tired or worn down. The other male, Chase, was standing? Over a wall divider, his hair looked like it was electrocuted. All white and puffy. He had a mustache...

I.. Liked mustaches.. but, why did I like them?

"Shifter?" The older male asked, looking right. At. Me. "What's your real name, kid?"

. . .

"Kid?" He asked, watching me not respond.

"Shifter.." Blonde Blazer said, nudging me. "We aren't what your used to- you are free from that life now.. You don't need permission" She said softly

I don't feel free.. What does free even feel like? I feel enclosed and traped. Don't tell me I'm free when I'm going to go back.. I always go back.

The older man sighed, and moved himself, his full body visible as he stood next to the younger male. "I'm Chase, this here is Robert." He introduced, roughing Robert's hair up.

"Hey- Chase-"

"Shut it."

Blonde Blazer didn't react to this.. scene.. So I presume it's normal? Though i've never seem this before. "Shifter, you can introduce yourself now" she said to me.

"I'm.. Shifter." I flatly said, watching the two males watch me, as if they thought I was going to say more.

"Hi, Shifter" Robert said with a smile, "I'm Robert, Z-team dispatcher, nice to meet you."
During his introduction I saw something move. Small. Not human.

Instinctively I watched the area out of the corner of my eye- there! An animal let out a sound as it ran toward the two males from Chase's side.

Before I knew it my body was shifting from pigeon to tiger to snake to spider to cat in reaction. Everyone's reacting and yelling- I need to do my job- why else would I be here, I need to kill the animal-

Nothing but static and old teachings reached my ears.
'Quick and clean'
'Don't hesitate'

Right as I lunged toward the animal in a fit of confusion and sacredness. Robert had scooped up the animal, lifting it up from where it was up high above his head, he had a look of fear and confusion on his face, so did Chase?..

Someone behind me had roughly grabbed at me, instinctively I reacted nearly biting their hand before realizing it was Blonde Blazer and stopping. She too, looked like she had fear on her face..

Am I not doing a good job?
This is why you brought me, right?
Why else would you buy me with numbers?
I hate numbers but everyone likes them
Why are numbers so liked?

"??? !"
"??? !"
"S?? !"
"Shit?? !"
"Shifter!!"

Yelling of my name stopped me, i slowly raised my head up and out. People were surrounding me, I was an armadillo, curled into a ball..  when did I turn into an armadillo? Oh.. because I failed my job.. I'm going to be punished now, aren't I?

Blonde Blazer was at my side, not too close to get hurt but close enough to make it known she was there. She looked at me with eyes of worry, not anger. "Shifter? Are you okay?" She asked with a strangely gentle voice.

I didn't respond verbally.. Her voice was the same voice they gave me when they wanted me out, unprotected.. My eyes darted around, there were people around us, all the same people from before who were originally behind the wall dividers on their desks..

Find a hole.. go through the hole.. and run...
Find a hole.. go through the hole.. and run...
Find a hole.. go through the hole.. and run...

I saw an opening between someone's legs, I looked at Blazer again, then started shifting again, not into a human but into a rat and quickly dashed off through someone's legs, I kept running while yelling and screams followed, I went into any hole, nook and crannies I could find and never stopped.

My legs were on auto pilot as I ran away, eventually reaching a room where the yelling was quiet. No footsteps were behind me, and no close yells or screams of my name were near me either..

I was safe. For now...

As i looked around I found that i was hidden inside a dark and quiet room, there was lots of white all around with different computers and monitors dotted around the place with this large window that looked into another room, which had not many items inside as the room i was in did. The room I was hiding in had wires hanging from the ceiling and connected to multiple different devices, with many.. arm like robotic parts.

I shifted back into a human, as I cautiously walked around, amazed at all the lights and different blueprints and schematics around this room. I bumped into a few objects, earning a sharp gasp of pain whenever I walked into a sharp table corner

I suddenly heard the door handle move, and I quickly rushed to the walls to hide. As i ran in the dark worried about getting caught I hit into a table and put my hands out infront of me to catch myself before shifting into a rat again. What I didn't notice is the sharp objects on the table cut into my hands.

Then, the door opened right as i hid in a conveient hole in the wall, as a large man entered the room with a carefree and happy attitude.

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Personally, I love Royd!! Writing his mannerisms is another story though, so that can wait for the next chapter. 
Next chapter will be about Shifter getting a name, and actually talking to everyone( even meeting Z-team), and starting some character delevopment
It'll be a much longer chapter because of that, since I don't want to break those up to much!!
Hope you enjoyed :)

Edit: Used the wrong title. Fixed it instantly though