They checked out the computer room and Mina found the head control board.
"Hm", Mina pressed the button and required her to push a password, 2D, "How do I….*remembers the page from the other room* Knuckles, go to that desk over there"
"What for?" Knuckles asked.
"Just do it, I have an idea", Mina said and went to another desk, "On 3, push the button, 1…2…3", Mina and Knuckles pushed 2 and D and the Knights lifted their swords.
"If those knights lifted their swords, then it's safe to say that the knights in that room with that giant centipede did the same thing", Knuckles said.
"Let's check that door first", Mina suggested, so both went through the door and explored the rooms, one featuring a giant chessboard.
"Wow, this is an interesting room", Mina said.
Both checked around the room, and Mina noticed a book from an Ashford Relative about something called the Progenitor Virus, something belittled by Finitevus.
"This is an interesting read", Mina said, while Knuckles examined the area and found two statues and a note.
"For the statue in the main hall", Knuckles read.
"What could it mean?" Mina asked.
"No use standing here to figure it out, let's go see what this is all about", Knuckles suggested.
Both walked to the main hall and placed the little statues on the big one and then the big portrait opened to reveal a new pathway.
"I get the picture", Knuckles said and chuckled a bit.
Mina smiled a little then went down and both walked down the dark pathway.
While they were walking, they heard some thumping noises, both stopped and looked around to see where it originated from; soon they saw it was from Giant Spiders.
"I hate spiders", Mina said.
They both shot at the spider, but then more started to come.
"What the hell is going on here?" Knuckles asked in an annoyed tone and shot the other spiders with a shotgun.
"Why are there so many bug problems here?" Mina asked.
"Who know, let's just get the hell out of here before we run into giant ants or roaches", Knuckles suggested and both ran off, after seeing one room was locked, they ran to a small room, and after seeing nothing interesting, they went to another room which was barely lit and contained a lot of chains on hooks.
"Something out of a Hellraiser movie", Knuckles said.
"I see a vent, maybe it leads to the room that was locked", Mina said.
Both went to the vent and Knuckles lifted Mina to the vent.
"I'm almost there", Mina said and reached the entrance.
"Glad I could be of service, hurry up inside", Knuckles said.
Mina went through the vent and came out the other side, then gasped at the sight of the iron maiden, a chained chair among other things.
"Is this a…torture room? This place must have been creepy even before the zombie outbreak", Mina stated.
She checked out the room and saw a switcher board, so she operated it.
"This looks useful", Mina said and operated the machine til it worked, "There".
Some doors began unlocking, but little did Mina know, a camera was watching her.
The same gowned echidna was in a monitor room, watching Mina.
"You are wasting your time; I have already claimed this place for myself, which means you are trespassing, and I am VERY territorial", he said and did an evil cackle.
A cage started to open and a monkey was shown growling, and this wasn't a cute friendly monkey.
Mina looked around the area before leaving before that monkey jumped on her back; she managed to knock it off but fell down in the process.
She rolled away to a corner and saw the monkey approaching her, at that moment the floor gave away and she fell through a hole, but held on to lose metal for support.
"I can't…hold on", Mina said while dangling over certain death.
Knuckles was still waiting but he got a radio call from Mina with her shouting, "KNUCKLES HELP!"
"Oh shit", Knuckles said and ran out the room, and checked the other door to see if it was unlocked, and since it was he went through and went to the room where Mina was.
He was ambushed by the monkeys (who are actually known as Eliminators) but he managed to shoot all the Eliminators that came his was and checked the hole.
"HELP ME KNUCKLES!" Mina shouted.
"I'll head to a lower level, just hang in there!" Knuckles stated and ran off to find the basement.
"I hope that wasn't some sick joke", Mina said out of annoyance.
Knuckles ran to a room he was in before, remembering there was another pathway there that he and Mina didn't worry about checking out.
After going through the double doors, he ran to another room and went down the opposite path from before and entered a boiler room but encountered more Eliminators.
"I don't have time for this", Knuckles said and ducked away from one of their attacks.
He grabbed a handgun and snuck up on one and shot it in the back of the head.
The other Eliminator pounced on Knuckles but he pushed it off and shot it a few times in the face.
"I gotta hurry", Knuckles said and ran off to the room where Mina was.
Mina dangled more but eventually lost her grip but luckily Knuckles grabbed her.
"Hang on, I'll pull you up", Knuckles said and assisted her out the hole.
"Thank you", Mina said after panting a bit.
"Don't mention it, just keeping my word, we promised to cooperate with each other, remember?" Knuckles stated.
Mina smiled but then saw her radio was beeping, so she answered it.
"This is Mina, over", Mina said.
"Mina, this is Vector, have you managed to locate Knuckles Coen yet, over?" Vector asked.
Mina paused for a bit, so Vector talked again, "Mina, answer me".
"No Sir, I have not found him yet, I'll continue to search for him, over", Mina said and put her radio away.
"Mina……." Knuckles said.
"My first mission and I've already disobeyed orders", Mina said and shrugged a bit, "So much for my great law enforcement career, oh well, probably won't live long enough to worry about it now", Mina said.
After a moment, Mina spoke again, "Knuckles, I just need to know, I need to know the truth, did you really kill 23 people? I'm not gonna judge you, I just want to know the truth", Mina said.
Knuckles paused a bit and sighed before answering, "It was around this time last year".
We go to a flashback to a jungle in Africa with soldiers walking about while Knuckles narrated.
"Our unit was ordered to Africa, to intervene in a civil war, our mission was to raid a hideout of some guerilla forces, located deep inside the jungle", Knuckles said.
The soldiers were attacked and a gun fight ensued.
"But the hideout was far away from our entry point", Knuckles said and more soldiers started getting killed, "Some died from the heat, others were killed by the enemy, in the end, only 4 of us survived".
A village was shown ahead of where the soldiers were.
"Only, there was no guerrilla hideout", Knuckles said.
"What do you mean?" Mina asked.
"The idiots in charge had us operating based on wrong information, but we couldn't go back home empty handed oh no, our leader ordered us to attack an innocent village", Knuckles said.
The soldiers rounded everyone up with the leader urging the soldiers to kill the villagers.
Knuckles pleaded with the leader not to do so but he was knocked back, and the other 3 soldiers shot the villagers.
"Sir! Please! Don't!" Knuckles said and went toward the soldier, but all we see are his uncaring evil eyes.
The flashback ended and we were back in the boiler room with Mina and Knuckles.
"So did you execute those innocent people?" Rebecca asked.
"Forget about it, it doesn't matter anymore, that was then this is now, besides, you said you wouldn't judge me", Knuckles said.
"I'm not judging you, but it does matter, look now my people thing you killed those MPs in the van, but I don't think you did, it was those zombie dogs, when they attacked the van, you were able to escape, isn't that right?" Mina asked.
"You don't get it, I only have two choices left, either report to the Marines and serve out my sentence, or keep on running for as long as I can, that's all", Knuckles said.
Mina looked sad from hearing that but decided to leave it be, Knuckles wasn't in the mood to talk any more about this, she respected that.
Both of them left the room and went back down the hall and noticed a door while they were walking down.
"Let's go in there", Mina suggested.
Both of them went through the door and explored the area.
"This place looks like a dump", Knuckles said.
They looked in a room; it had a lot of gun parts on a table and a glass view into another room.
"These guns would be much more useful if they were assembled", Knuckles said.
Mina saw some scratch marks on a wall, "Hate to run into a creature like that".
Knuckles then saw some customizable gun parts, "Hey check this out".
Mina looked at them.
"They look good but I don't think they fit on my gun, it's a different brand than yours", Mina said.
"Yeah, Samurai Edge, I guess it will work on the standard 9mm handgun", Knuckles said.
He managed to assemble the pieces to his gun.
"Well now that that's done, we should probably move on out", Knuckles said.
They both left the room but Mina stopped cause she though she heard some reptilian like snarling.
"What's wrong?" Knuckles asked.
"It's nothing", Mina said.
Both left the room and walked back to the main hall and decided to head toward the room with the knights.
They walked through the door that lead them to the room and stopped when they thought they heard something
They went through the door nearby and saw another door in the background close.
"Who's there?" Knuckles asked.
"Maybe someone on my team", Mina said.
"Let's go, if they see me they'll shoot me", Knuckles said.
"I gotta check though, they could be walking into danger, don't worry I'll vouch for you", Mina said.
Knuckles decided to go along with it and they walked through the door.
They arrived at a bar but Mina was disappointed to see that what they followed was a zombie and there were more zombies in the area.
"Oh real nice, led to a fucking ambush", Knuckles complained and fired his new custom pistol at the zombies.
A zombie lunged at Mina but she grabbed a beer bottle and smashed it against the zombie's face and then shot the zombie point blank in the eye.
Knuckles broke a bottle and used it to stab and slash another zombie.
They both shoot the zombies more and Knuckles managed to punch one of the zombies out the window.
Mina killed the last zombie and then panted.
"Where do all these monsters come from?" Mina asked.
"Who cares, we see them, we shoot them", Knuckles said and reloaded his gun.
"Let's not get trigger happy, we don't wanna run out of ammo", Mina said, then noticed the piano, "Oh, maybe music can calm me down".
She played the piano but messed up on a note, "Shoot".
"Let me try", Knuckles said, and much to Mina's surprise, he was exceptionally good at the piano.
"That's impressive", Mina said.
"Didn't expect that now did you, feel better? We need to go now", Knuckles said and both walked back to the hall, so both went to the room with the knights and since they weren't blocking the door, they were able to go inside and see a giant telescope.
"Holy shit, where are we?" Knuckles asked.
Mina went to examine the telescope.
"This looks so interesting", Mina said.
She saw a tablet on the telescope out of place, so she placed the tablet in its proper slot.
Upon doing that, both felt the place move and the entire tower went down and sunk into the water, but leaving the door next to a path for them to go down.
Both eyed each other momentarily and then went up and went through the door and down a bridge, the water was near the walkway but only a few inches under.
After crossing the bridge they examined the building.
"Should we go in there or through the path on the side?" Knuckles asked.
"You check the path, I'll go inside", Mina said.
Knuckles nodded and looked at the side and Mina looked inside the big building.
The inside made it apparent to her that it was a church.
"I could sure use God's help right about now", Mina said.
At that point, a giant bat crashed through the roof.
"Ah!" Mina yelled.
The bat picked her up and was gonna bite her, but she managed to shoot the bat in the face and it dropped her to the ground.
"Ow", Mina said after impact.
The bat flew down at her but she shot it in the face with her grenade launcher and caused it to stagger.
The bat turned around and she saw its burnt face.
It flew at her again but she fired again and it fell to the floor.
She shot one more grenade at the bat and it finally died.
Mina panted and fell on her rear.
"What a day", Mina said.