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He ran. He ran like a rabbit running from a fox. A hungry fox. He jumped over stumps, uncovered roots and boulders trying with fruitless attempts to shake the tail of this gruesome human being that calls himself a “Caring and lovable explorer”. His pupils shrank and shrank while his terror and anxiety grew and grew with each passing moment of trying to escape and reach the ferry to get out of this cursed mainland and go home with Heatwave and the others. He started panting, energy wearing thin and legs starting to slow and give way like an old and brutally used car. Tears started pooling in his eyes, he wasn’t going to escape. Was he. No, NO! Don't think like that Cody! You will get away from that crazy explorer! He turned his head around and looked back as he heard the sound of an engine “Yeah, crazy explorer WITH A CAR!!” He yelled in panic to himself. He prays to the heavenly god above to help him reunite with the other Auto bots. And get home and forget this all ever happened and never leave Griffin rock ever again.
He opened his eyes, but it was dark everywhere. He feared that he was blind as his breath started to quicken and he glanced in all directions to try and find a light source but couldn’t. He held his head and curled in on himself as he started to have a panic attack when a door in front of him opened and let light spread and Cody immediately relaxed knowing the fact that, no, he was not blind. But his eyes widened and he pushed himself to the corner of the room and get as far away from the door as possible.
Because there, he saw the exact same man that had kidnapped him and locked him in this underground sound proof basement with no escape routes except one that requires authorized access, which he did not have.
The man had smirked seeing the young males' visible fear. He walked closer, small cattle prod in hand, and started cackling as he kneeled to Cody’s eye level. “G’day there mate. What’s your name?” He asks. Cody furrowed his eyebrows and gritted his teeth, not willing to talk.
This action, however, amused the insane explorer. “Givin me the silent treatment Eh? Well alright, but you must know there’s consequences for that ‘behaviour’ .” He raised the cattle prod and pointed the tip to the latter’s throat threateningly “Cause then that’ll mean I’ll have to kill a nice mate like you, innit? But I really don’t want it to come to that…” his voice dropped to a threatening one as the orange haired male stood up and put a hand on his hip and started twirling the cattle prod around “ya see there mate, I need you…to get the other aliens you call ‘friends’ for my national geographic reality show I’ve been working on. They make great Dino bots.” His voice returned to its arrogant form as he watched the young male, awaiting response to his query.
But Cody still had not opened his mouth to speak let alone insult the orange haired man before him. The man waited some more t’il he got bored and growled in frustration. “Right…look here mate, I really didn’t want to have this conversation but if you ain’t gonna talk the easy way…” he pinned the young male to the ground and stabbed the cattle prod into his left shoulder. Cody cried as tears fell from his eyes from the pain. “then I’ll just have to make ya talk the hard way…”