Back in the Upper Corridor, I spotted a box laid out in the middle of the hallway. It is undoubtedly left by you-know-who. It is purple with light vertical straps and it’s wrapped in green. As I walked towards the box, it burst open. A light purple gas spewed out and a small party horn played when it opened. As I suspected, more of those blabbermouths began to chatter incessantly with the mocking laughter shortly afterwards. I ignored the bad comedy joke and continue to venture the hallways to search for another doctor.
“Will all patients please stay calm and move slowly to their accommodations?” the announcer repeated.
“Our findings make debates about whether psychosis and its self-neurotoxin, and it whether potentially damage the changing of the brain relating to psychotic excess. Project Titan allows us to strengthen the individual’s abilities to cope with such changes. Earlier results were promising but it was only after the arrival of Patient X that our expectations were raised. Patient X was the catalyst that leads to the full scale adoption of the Titan Project. We must all thank our benefactors for this opportunity.” Spring announced about a specific mind strengthener called Titan and how somepony called ‘Patient X’ is the catalyst for the drug. I’ll learn more about it later.
I crawled through a ventilation duct that leads to a hallway with the yellow line leading to the X-Ray room where Spring Evergreen is.
“So that’s Dr. Evergreen,” a rough voice said. I hid behind a corner that leads to the X-Ray room that contains Evergreen. Three ponies guarded the door. I prepare to throw a batarang to interrupt their peace
“Yeah, she could operate on me anytime-“he didn’t finish his rant when a batarang knocked him down, stunning him. Two saw me walking and a ready to fight despite the obviously tremendous strength levels between us.
I countered a thug’s punch by striking his chest and flip him over with my outstretched hoof. I grabbed a pipe from a Unicorn and struck him in the side twice, hard. Finally, I kicked the third thug with a roundhouse. I performed a Ground Takedown to knock one out.
I grabbed a thug’s hoof, flipping him on the floor and twist his hoof with a sickening crunch. He yelled in pain before he passed out and I finished the fight with an overhead on the last standing thug. Stretching slightly, I continue to walk and open the door to enter the X-Ray room.
In the room, there is a building in the middle of the room, an office-like building but outside the perimeter is numerous X-ray examination photographs plastered on the walls. There are sets of X-ray machines and devices for such examinations. Small monitoring screens are plastered and mounted on the walls for a cross-referencing of an examination along with a few radioactive symbols on the wall. In the small building, I heard a female voice, belongs to Doctor Spring Evergreen and she sounds annoyed.
“Why are you doing this, I’ve done exactly as you asked,” Spring said irksomely. I watched a monitor that surveys the inside of the building. Five armed thugs surrounded Evergreen with guns pointing at her and they appear to be demanding orders.
“Look at me, do you think I care? Stop your whining and listen well! If anypony goes near you without Mane-iac’s expressed permission, then I’ve been ordered to make sure you are taken out ASAP. Looks like you’re our bargaining chip,” a thug barked and explained.
I crawled quietly to a brick wall and used Detective Vision to see that two thugs are at the wall on the other side. I pulled out my Explosive Gel and sprayed the rigged wall. I crawled silently to search for another weak wall for the detonation. I crouched out of sight from a window of the building to avoid the thugs’ attention. As I crept to another wall with three thugs on the other side, I sprayed the Explosive Gel and stood back.
“Got to tell you, the boss is all over this job, planned like a military operation. Friends on the inside and out,” another thug added.
“I am quite aware that this job, as you call it, requires friends. What I want to know is why you chose me. Did Mane-iac specify me? Why won’t you let me talk to her, I’m sure we can set it,” Spring said irately.
“Lady, if I had to tell you once more, I’m going to hurt you. You understand, shut the hell up!” the leading thug barked.
I pressed the button and the two walls exploded and the thugs are blown away from the blast radius. The debris and rubble knocked the five thugs out instantly and the rubble and explosion made an inward explosion that allows me access inside the building. Evergreen shielded herself from the blasts in fear.
“No, please no, don’t!” she shrieked. I calmly walked in the building and saw Evergreen, still protected and unharmed from the blasts. She stood and reassured herself and saw me.
“What’s going on? They were talking like they’re in control. Is it true that Mane-iac escaped?” she asked.
“Unfortunately, yes, but not for long,” I replied.
“I’ve been studying Mane-iac’s case for months when she broke out. The Warden was very specific that he wanted Mane-iac cured,” she added.
“Bad publicity will affect his campaign for mayor,” I replied.
“That’ll be the least of his-I almost forgot! They said they were moving in the facility, hunting down the other doctors!” she exclaimed.
“I know, I’ve got one more room to search and then all the staff will be safe, you stay here,” I said. Evergreen nodded in agreement and I walked out of the room to find the last doctor.