The 2015 SummerSlam pay per view and NXT Taping had just finished up and Amanda was packed up and grabbed her duffel bag to go meet up with Finn in the garage.

But as she walked towards the back doors, she realised how quiet it was… and took a deep breath.

"Okay… it's just late, that's it." Amanda responded to herself before she reached the door and tried to open it… only for it to not budge. "Damn it! Seth, I'm gonna kill you!" She hissed angrily, thinking that Seth was pranking her and grabbing her phone to text Finn.

'Locked in by the northern side of the arena, can you pull the car around? I'll switch the flashlight app on so you can see me.'

'Will do but you'll probably have to see if Marcus has the keys, there's no shoulder barging those doors, all solid metal. Usually is in his office in the basement level I think.' Finn responded after a few seconds, referring to the arena's main janitor, engineer, all around wrench jockey.

"Marcus, where are you?!" Amanda called out as she went looking for him, finding her way to the nearby cargo elevator and going down in it. The elevator being all behind the scenes stuff wasn't exactly kept to what could be considered 'publically presentable' and moved with just as loud cables as the doors were when they opened, letting her out into the large darkened storage room.

'Okay, just… find him quickly.' Amanda thought to herself.

Usually she wasn't the first to be afraid of things like the dark, but being in the basement, knowing the room was way bigger than she could actually see and the time being past midnight made her feel generally uneasy about being down here.

Exploring further brought her to a set of double doors, leading to a corridor which was lit with old, yellowed lights. Just as she reached her hands to the two handles though, she heard a noise behind her, a sort of squeak that reminded her of a bottle cork being twisted before it was yanked out.

"Hey, Marcus, you in here?" Amanda called out, stepping back into the room and taking out her phone, using the flashlight to see… and jumping back in fright the moment she did, seeing three of the old mannequins stood there looking at her. "Fuck… almost gave me a heart a…" She stopped and went dead silent as she'd moved to one side, the three heads turning with her, still staring. Then slowly starting to step towards her, quickly making her back up with equal pace.

Amanda closed the door, starting to panic even worse than she ever had… and then jumped as a hand rested on her arm, her turning to see a woman, taller than her with chocolate brown hair of about the same length tied into a bun.

"Don't go down there…" Amanda responded frantically.

"Ah, was kinda hoping you wouldn't say that…" The woman responded with an accent Amanda had heard a lot on her trips to Manchester, turning quickly and Amanda jumping again as a loud crash came from one of the smaller doors in the corridor. "Run!" She shouted as the door was smashed down, Amanda catching a glimpse of more mannequins on the other side. The two darted along the corridor, mannequins quickly walking behind them as they did. The woman led Amanda to their left, into a smaller secondary cargo elevator where she frantically pressed the button, but not before a mannequin arm blocked the door from closing and became trapped between the two halves.

"Come… right… here!" The woman grunted as she grabbed the arm under her right and yanked on it several times, before the arm became severed with a loud 'pop' and the door closed. She threw the arm to Amanda, who quickly caught it. "See? Plastic." She spoke while turning back to the buttons.

"What the hell is going on in here?!" Amanda replied, her heart pounding so loudly that the other woman could hear it.

"They're plastic, living plastic. They were after me, you got in the way, why were you down there at this time anyway?" The woman responded.

"I… was looking for Marcus." Amanda responded, trying to relax herself as the woman looked at her. "Janitor guy?" She added.

"Marcus is dead." The woman replied as the elevator stopped and the doors opened, stepping out of them and taking a small device out of her long knitted jacket, tapping a few buttons on it before holding it up against the elevator buttons, which began to spark and break. "Come on then, quickly now." She said to Amanda as she headed down the hallway towards the metal doors at the end, these doors one more over from the ones Amanda had been at previously.

"Marcus is… they killed him?" Amanda asked as the woman used the device on the doors, which unlocked as she tapped the large dome end to the keyhole.

"Ruthless creatures. And that's why I'm gonna blow the building up." The woman answered, holding up a device which looked to Amanda like a form of C4 explosive. "So go on home, go have some… I don't know, biscuits and gravy, whatever calms you down. And don't tell anyone about me because if you do, you'll get them killed." She said as she guided Amanda outside, then closed the door behind her… moments before opening it again and peering out. "I'm Martha Williams by the way, what's your name?"

"Uh… M-Amanda." Amanda responded, the rapid succession of events causing her thought process to be scattered.

"Nice to meet you 'Manda. Run for your life!" Martha responded, holding up the C4 at the end before closing the door again.

Amanda took off towards the rented Equinox and her and Finn held each other before they got in and he drove off… and he looked at her, seeing tears running down her face and lightly rubbing her left arm.

"You okay? Seems like the darkness got to you a bit…" Finn began to ask, stopping and hitting the brakes as he saw the orange glare in the mirror, quickly accompanied by the fiery glow coming from the explosion that burst through the windows of half the arena's main building.

"It's gone… all of it…" Amanda managed to say as Finn pulled over and hugged her.

He wanted to ask but he could tell she was too frightened to say what had happened.