Chapter 4: Getting Acquainted

Work is a pain in the ass, this story might relieve some of that. Hope you enjoy this I'll try to keep the errors at a minimum.

At the main villain's headquarters

"HELP! HELP! AAHHHH!" Walter shrieks, and cries echoed the building.

"Walter come back I just want to impale you...slowly...up the ass" Pyramid Head shouted menacingly.

Enter flashback

It started as soon as Pyramid Head saw Walter. Walter said "how did it go?" and Pyramid Head responded with a horizontal swing, meaning to cut Walter in half. Luckily for Walter the swing narrowly missed him, and only slicing his shirt. That was when Walter began running like a teenage girl being chased by a slasher. This concludes the flashback.

Exit flashback

Walter was running out of places to hide. It seemed as if Pyramid Head had a general knowledge of where to look for frightened cowards, and finally ended up in a dead-end. He began looking frantically around for any signs of his so-called friends yet there was no one here. He had forgotten that they had all began rallying their bosses which took longer than their regular monsters considering some of them are quite large. Walter, and Pyramid Head were the only ones with few bosses so their work was easier. He knew the end was near as the sound of metal scraping was growing louder, and louder signaling Pyramid Head is coming.

"I've always enjoyed trapping my prey." Pyramid Head said.

"I'm gonna die, I'm gonna die, I'm gonna die" Walter kept repeating.

"You're not James, but I'm gonna do everything I was going to do to him on you." Pyramid Head said darkly

"MOMMY! HELP!" Walter yelled to the air

As if he had actually had someone to guide him like a mother, an idea formed in his head something that if he was cool, calm, and collected would have been the first thing he would have done, but because of the sudden circumstances he had failed to do so. Pyramid Head was coming closer, and was just about a sword's reach from him when Walter formed a smile.

"Oh? What's this have you gone insane already?" Pyramid Head remarked

"The joke's on you because unlike you I can be anywhere I want!" Walter said

He snapped his fingers on his right hand, and stuck his middle finger at Pyramid Head with his left, and vanished in a mist of black smoke leaving Pyramid Head alone with nothing to cut to relive his anger. He would have roared in complete anger, but that's not like him, he also didn't get depressed or bummed out. He simply sighed, lifted his blade, and slowly walked out of the building.

At Henry's, and Eileen's new apartment

"Is everyone comfy?" Eileen asked

They were in the living room, though the apartment was larger than their old one, it was still a tight fit considering the amount of people that have gathered. Still everyone had enough room Henry was sitting on the couch, with Eileen on his lap Cybil, Alex, and Elle where on the sofa, while Harry, and Heather were on the second sofa. James, Maria, and Laura were huddled together on the floor, and Travis took a chair from the dinner table.

"I'm fine thanks" Alex said.

"Me too" Elle said.

"I'm fine" Cybil said.

"I'm so glad you're feeling okay" Harry said leaning towards Cybil.

"She wasn't talking to you dad" Heather said pulling her father back by the ear.

"Nice place you got here" James said looking around.

"Yeah very cozy" Maria said.

"It could be better" Laura replied.

"Laura bad girl!" Maria scolded.

"I think I'll get a place like this after my trucking days" Travis said.

"Okay now that we got all that out of the way, why don't we start by reintroducing ourselves. My names is Henry Townshend...Nice to meet you" Henry said with little energy

"My name's Eileen Galvin, and it's a pleasure to meet you all." Eileen sweetly said

"My name is Alex Shepard, an agent that's all you need to know, nice to meet you all." Alex said

"I'm Elle Holloway, I'm sort of new, and I'm with Alex, great to see you all." Elle politely said

"I'm Cybil, it's nice to meet you all, and it's nice to see you again Harry" Cybil said smiling at Harry, he smiled back "Also if it's okay with all of you I'll just keep my last name a secret." Cybil continued.

"My name is Harry, Harry Mason it's good to see that I'm not alone in this." Harry said

"I'm Heather, just your regular teenager really" Heather said

"I love your hair Heather" Maria commented

"Thanks, your hair looks awesome too" Heather said smiling

"My name is James Sunderland, and I'm the brains of this operation" James boosted

Laura, and Maria began giggling, even Alex, Elle, and Cybil were holding back their laughs.

"Wait did you say Sunderland, do you know a man name Frank Sunderland?" Henry asked

"Yeah I do! how do you know my da-" James said

"*Ahem* my name's Maria I'm hooked with James, but feel free to come to me for 'assistance'" Maria teasingly said with a wink

Some of the guys nodded, while some of the girls gave her a stern look.

"I'm Laura I'm the youngest here, but I can be useful too." Laura said cutely yet seriously

"My name is Travis, just a regular truck driver, I finished my last delivery so I have time to spare, nice to meet you all." Travis said

"So my next question to all of you is. What sort of connection do you all have with Silent Hill? Let's give short answers for now, and details later." Henry announced.

"I just wanted to take my daughter for a vacation there, that's it" Harry began.

"I guess a tragic fire in a small town is not gonna stop you from vacationing there I see" Henry replied.

"When I think about it it does sound pretty dumb dad." Heather added.

"Now, now that's not true my late-wife Mary, and I really had fun in that town. I can see why you would take your daughter there as well." James defended.

"Late wife?" Travis questioned.

Laura, James, and Maria all twitch slightly on the topic at hand about Mary.

"Uh yeah, late wife, she died a few years ago." James said with some difficulty keeping a straight face.

"That's too bad. Do you mine if I asked you how she died?" Alex asked.

Again Laura, James, and Maria slightly twitched at the topic

"Well...I-I- guess it's bec-" James stuttered

"Lay off him man it's not easy losing a wife, mine passed away several years ago because of illness" Henry said.

"Sorry, sorry I won't bring it up again." Alex said apologizing.

"It's cool, anyways I also found Maria, and Laura during my trip, and they had nowhere to go so they are staying with me, and we adopted Laura." James explained.

"Yep were a happy family" Maria added.

"yeah, a dysfunctional family" Laura commented.

"Laura!" Maria said disapprovingly.

"Anyway back on the topic what about you? Heather was it?" Henry said before the conversation went off-topic.

"Yeah it is, and all I know is that I was randomly chosen. Probably because of what my dad did a few years back in Silent Hill. You never told what you did there by the way." Heather said.

"Well it's a little complicated. Even I don't understand much of it myself, the important thing is that I saved you, and you're still alive." Harry said trying to answer.

"Well for me it was just the wrong place, at the wrong time. I was trapped in my old apartment for 5 days trying to get out, and apparently the last owner had the same problem. Then everything went from bad to worse. Though I did visit Silent Hill a couple of times to take some pictures of scenery so I guess that's why I was chosen." Henry said.

"I even met Walter briefly when I was little, and visited Silent Hill in the past." Eileen added.

"I heard about Walter in a magazine I think he's the one who killed 2 children with an axe!" James remembered

"Yeah he did, and 17 more people as well just so he can complete his ritual, and see his mom." Henry said

"He must be a vicious criminal" Travis remarked

"To get away with so many deaths...He must be very smart, and clever" Cybil said

"He must be completely insane by now though." Elle said

"Well maybe not smart, but he is insane. He thought my whole apartment was his mother.

"Huh?" Everyone said

"Maybe I should briefly explain" Henry said

Henry gave a brief history from what he could gather from Joseph about Walter explaining his abandonment issues, his horrible childhood, his discovery of the 21 sacraments, and his reasoning to believe the apartment was his mom. Finally when he was done the group fell silent for only a moment.

Then they all laughed. Even Henry chuckled a bit

"Hahaha, He-he thinks his-haha-apartment is his mom haha" James screamed

"Oh man, haha that's just sad hahaha" Travis said holding his stomach

"What a dumb-ass hahahaha" Harry said holding on to Cybil for support who was also having a hard time sitting straight.

"Hehehehe, I take back what I said about him hehehe" Cybil said trying to stop her giggling

"Vicious criminal my ass-hehehe, haha" Heather blatantly said

"hehehe-he can't do anything right-tehehe" Laura giggled

"I'll never look at him the same way-hehehe" Maria said

"He fails so much at life-hehehe" Elle said clinging to Alex

"I can't wait to-haha-meet him-hahaha" Alex said

"I thought-hehe-it was pretty silly too-hehehe" Eileen said

"Hehe, yeah...I know he's pretty dumb huh." Henry said smiling a little.

After a while everyone settled down. In the end it felt really good to laugh at another person's misfortunes other than their own.

Meanwhile during their complete laughter.

Walter after changing his underwear, and taking some much needed rest. He begins mumbling to himself in his sleep.

"zzz-hm...stop laughing at me...hmm-zzz" Walter spoke softly

Back at the apartment

"Okay what about you Travis?" Henry said

"Well I had some demons with my parents, and Silent Hill kinda magnified that ten-fold, still I face my past, and whats done is done for me." Travis spoke

He reflected upon his past during his explanation, he spoke with the voice of a wise man, with a been there done that attitude. He sounded more like a war hero rather than a trucker for a moment

"Yet here I am again, the only reason I went back was because of a distress call from a fellow trucker, never found the man, not ever the truck, I just crashed mine." Travis finished

"Anyways were out of Silent Hill now right?" Heather asked

"Technically yes." Henry replied

"Thank god let's leave now!" Maria exclaimed

"...Go ahead the front door is over" Henry pointed towards the exit

"All right let's go people" Harry called out

"Hooray!" James shouted

"What about our mission Alex?" Elle asked

"Don't worry about we'll just say the debris fell in the lake." Alex assured

"Normally I would go against something like that, but I'll make an exception." Cybil said

"Oh well I guess this is okay too, but I wanted, an adventure." Laura said a little disappointed

"So Cybil you work for some secret service now?" Harry asked walking towards Cybil

"uh..yeah what about you?" Cybil asked

"Oh you know a bunch of different jobs" Harry answered

"If you asked me my dad should be a magician." Heather said remembering the trick her dad did to escape certain death.

"Um...Henry aren't you going to tell them?" Eileen asked seeing everyone heading for the front door

"They'll found out in 3...2...1.." Henry counted down

"What the hell?" everyone said right on time

"Oh yeah I forgot to mention, Walter barricaded the door, but feel free to pry it open." Henry called back

Everyone pulled out their own melee weapons, including Maria's new Steel Pipe, and Laura even found a convenient hammer, lying on a table nearby, it was a little too big, but better than nothing. Now then since there was little room for a whole group of people to attack the door together they decided to go at it one by one. The first ever 'Get Henry's Door to Open with Force Tournament' was about to begin, and first up was.

Harry Mason

"I a massive hammer, and this is an emergency so...Let's take it down!" Harry shouted as he prepared for a strong horizontal strike.

He swung hard at the door, and the speed, and force which the hammer dealt would have broken bones, and can make any day your worst, yet when the hammer hit the door it vibrated, then recoiled back. Harry felt the vibration in his hands, and quickly dropped his hammer where it stilled shuttered for a second, and quickly stopped. Harry felt his hands twitch for a while, then it ended, everyone stared wide-eyed, and mouths gaping. Truly this was going to be harder than it seemed.

"There's got to be a reasonable explanation for this." Harry said dumb-founded

"Yeah...You suck at swinging!" James teased

Everyone began snickering at him, while Cybil looked away from him for a while holding her mouth trying to not show her own snickering

Harry turned red, and took his hammer back.

James Sunderland

"Clearly you can't smash it since wood is meant to be cut!" James said smartly

He pulled out his massive Great Knife, Henry walked towards them just in time to see the large sword.

"Nice blade" Henry said just before whistling

"Thanks" James said smiling

James decided to go with a mighty thrust, how he was able to lift, and adjust the blade straight was anyone's guess, but James pulled it off, and began charging using his sword like a lance. He thrust the blade forward, and the blade met the wood, then the sword suddenly stopped, and James sadly couldn't stop his body so he hit his gut on the hilt. He groaned grabbed his stomach, and went into a fetal position, while quietly sobbing.

"Poor guy using a prop to cut the door." Travis said.

"What were you thinking?" Elle asked.

"It's not a prop" James groaned while still sobbing.

"Oh yeah? Why does it look like Ichigo's Zangetsu?" Heather accused

Everyone stared at her briefly in an awkward silence

"Yeah I know, you should see her room 2 bookcases full of Mang-"

"Shut up dad!" Heather angrily yelled blushing slightly.

Heather Morris

"Stand back everyone I'm going to relive, my recently gained stress, dad!" She shot a mean look at Harry.

She took her maul from her inventory bo- I mean she pulled the maul out, and walked towards the door like a girl on a mission. She then began furiously lashing out her anger, frustration, and embarrassment at the poor door, hitting it here, there, and everywhere multiple times. No one knew she had this much stamina for a teen girl, finally after what appeared as a blur of swings she stopped, and the smoke that mysteriously appeared around her disappeared, and she was crouched on the carpet gripping her maul for support. The door remained unchanged however, still everyone clapped slowly for her hard effort.

"That was impressive" Travis complimented

"Good effort girl" Henry said nodding

"Maybe after this do you want to join us?" Cybil said

"I'll get some water" Eileen quickly said, and ran to the kitchen

After a brief intermission where everyone congratulated, and patted Heather on the shoulder for a job well done the tournament continued.

Henry Townshend

"Already tried...I failed with this" Henry said holding his broken Pickaxe of Hope. "Ironically it was called Pickaxe of Hope"

"Oh..." Everyone said

Alex Shepherd

"Everyone stand back, and cover your ears" Alex said

Everyone did so while Alex checked his ammo on his guns, he decided that since he only brought his combat knife he will use fire-power to knock the door down. He first used his Chrome Hammer Pistol, and shot five bullets into a keyhole for the chains. It clinked, and clanked, but nothing was done, so he got his Blue Steel Shotgun, and shot point-blank at the door twice. Still the door held unscathed, and the bullets were on the floor mostly in pieces. Then he brought his Police Marksman Rifle, and aimed dead center at the peep-hole, and fired. It made the loudest noise out of all of them, and the bullet did hit it's mark, but there was nothing done they even saw the bullet on the floor half the size it used to be.

"Ther-there's no way that defies all logic." Alex said also dumbstruck

"Wow this ain't right" Travis said

"Maybe were doing it all wrong, come on Cybil help me with this." Elle said

"But I don't have a blunt object" Cybil declared

"Oh! I have a nightstick you can borrow." Eileen said

She pulled out her nightstick from her purse, and handed it to Cybil.

"um...Thanks?" Cybil said

"no, no not like that I mean brains. I just need Cybil's help to lock-pick all the locks" Elle explained.

Elle Holloway, and Cybil

Cybil had her personal lock-picking tools, and handed some to Elle, and the two began working on the locks. Each one working on a seperate lock, they fidgeted, twitched, and concentrated deeply on their job.

"This could work" Harry said

"This is why girls are better!" Laura gloated

"I guess we did it all wrong then." Heather said

"Still I have some doubts about this." Harry said

"Come on this is our only choice be optimistic." James said

"Did he just just say a word with more than 3 syllables?" Henry asked

"He's not that dumb, only slightly." Maria defended.

"Hey guys look" Travis said pointing at the two girls

It seemed as if during their chatter Cybil, and Elle's tools were breaking, and soon all of their tools snapped, both in half, and in pieces. When the conversation was finished all of their lock-picking tools were unusable, and were left on the floor along with the bullets.

"Well it was a good idea girls" Alex reassured

"We weren't even close" Elle said depressed

"This is getting hopeless" Heather said

Travis Grady

"Well I still have hope I will not be denied my freedom." Travis said

He held his Fire Axe with both his hands, he walked towards the door, and planted his feet firmly to the floor. And he began swinging at the door with both sides of the axe. He may look old, but he was still strong, and more determined than ever to help his recently well met friends. It's been a while since he had so many people as company that he actually enjoyed, finally he put all his effort, and all his strength, he also thought of Lisa, he gripped his axe tightly, and lifted his axe high above his head. He swung it down, and hit the door hard, for the first time the door rattled, but stood there still locked, still trapping them.

Travis sighed, and lowered himself on the floor defeated. Everyone pulled him up, and Elle went to retrieve more water, when she came back they all just stood there silently staring at the door ending the the tournament which no one won. Unless you count the door. Everyone went back to the living room and huddled together thinking about all of their options.

"We still have that hole in the bathroom" Henry reminded everyone

"Yeah" Harry said remembering

"They'll come looking for us." Travis gasped

"We'll be ready" Elle said

"I will not go down without a fight" Alex said

"We've done it once" Laura said

"We will do it again" Maria finished

"No regrets." Cybil said

"It's either them or us" Henry said

"I won't give up" Eileen said seriously

"Let's get this party started!" James said almost enjoying the whole thing

"It's suicide, but what the hell I'm in" Heather said

She stuck out her hand in the center of the circle of people she just met, and soon everyone else had their hand in it themselves, then they all lifted their hands into the air like a sports team. Regaining their lost hope, and confidence the team was ready to move out, and face their past for what may be the last time, still their chances of surviving this time looked way more promising now that they have some knowledge of what to expect, and not only that they were a small army armed with melee, and firearms. Everyone knew this, and their past fears seemed more or less endurable than before when they were alone. (They way it looks it doesn't feel like a horror genre anymore)

"Well what are we waiting for, they already gave us an open invitation." Harry said.

Everyone began walking towards the bathroom, and since it was a newer, and larger apartment everyone had time to chat along the way.

"Wait till you guy's see the things I fought." Henry said.

"Oh yeah? Wait till they see my Assault Rifle" Travis responded.

"I have a machine gun too you know." Heather said.

"M-me too!" Eileen said brightly.

"Bet I can get more kills than you" Elle challenged.

"Heh, You're on" Cybil said accepting.

"Sorry ladies I'm going to take all the kills" Alex said

"So Maria I just found out that if you pulled this trigger here the bullet shoots out!" James said.

"Oh that's amazing James!" Maria said sarcastically..

"I hope we find first aids I think you'll need it the most James." Laura said.

"C'mon we adopted you Laura call me daddy!" James said.

"Maybe if you survive" Laura mocked.

"Deal!" James said.

"You two..." Maria said still not adjusted to their bickering.

"So Cybil after this do you wanna get some coffee or something?" Harry finally asked.

"You know I would so go for something to drink after this sure why not." Cybil replied.

"...Really? Alright then I can't wait!" Harry said quite happily, and Cybil smiled a little from this.

"Just another reason for me to get through this." Harry thought to himself.

"Hang on Lisa I'm coming for you" Travis whispered to himself.

"Henry do you think I'll be...you know..." Eileen whispered to Henry closely

"Possessed?" Henry muttered

Eileen shuddered, but nodded.

"I don't know." Henry said nonchalantly

Eileen lowered her head in sadness.

"...But I'm sure I can find some Holy Candles like last time so don't worry I'll help you if necessary." Henry reassured

Eileen looked up at Henry, and gave a big smile followed by a warm hug.

"Hey wait you guys let me lead this time I'll check if the coast is clear." Henry volunteered

Everyone agreed, and when the reached the bathroom Henry sure enough went into the hole first followed by Eileen, Elle, Heather, Laura, Maria, Cybil, Harry, Travis, Alex, and James last again.

At the Villains meeting spot

Everyone had just finished rallying their bosses, and placing them in their locations with a little twist for a change. They wanted to come back to some good news, but unfortunately Pyramid Head was there to tell them the screw up which was mostly caused by Walter. After explaining what happened everyone had their own mixed feeling about the whole mess.

"Doesn't matter it will only prolonged their inevitable demise." Dahlia said without worry

"Aww...my brother was here, and I missed him!" Josh said depressingly

"Well at least we don't have to find them all one by one." Claudia said reasonably

"You're forgetting that they make quite a force together, we will have strategically adjust this more, and we just finished organizing the beasts...damn!" Dr. Kaufmann said

"Can I still kill Walter." Pyramid Head said indifferently

"Maybe later, but what are we going to do about this mess?" Dahlia said

"It's fine" said a voice in the room

Walter appeared from the shadows, most likely he was there the whole time listening to their conversation.

"You! Why are you still alive" Pyramid Head said rising from his seat

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, look I'm sorry about the whole mess, but listen we don't we don't have to worry most of the buildings are small, and I'm sure sooner or later they'll decide to split up, then in a horror movie style just kill them when the separate." Walter reassured

Everyone was silent as they thought about the explanation Walter gave them.

"In horror movies the victims aren't armed with pistols, shotguns, and rifles, as well as multiple blunt objects that they have no fear in using." Dr. Kaufmann said

"My brother is a soldier, he cut down, my deformed friends who were twice his size, and strength." Josh said defensively

"You're logic has failed you again Walter" Claudia said snickering

"Why am I not surprised about that." Dahlia said snickering along with Claudia

"If you didn't amuse me so much with your idiocy you would be dead by now." Pyramid Head said

"Do I really have to be here?" Lisa asked

Everyone ignored her

"Don't look down on me!" Walter retorted

It seemed as if earning everyone's respect was getting harder, and harder, this last mistake did not help either, but Walter was not done with them yet, and he still had one more thing left to show to them.

"Well guess what I still have one more trick up my sleeve." Walter said grinning

"What can you possibly do to help us?" Dahlia said

"This!" Walter said

Walter snapped his fingers, and began laughing maniacally soon everyone heard moans, as the walls appeared to have come to life, black sludge like puddles appeared on the walls, and soon followed hands jutting out. Then heads have appeared everywhere the moans grew louder, and followed by cries, and sobs. All of Walter victims came out at once, everyone was caught off-guard by the sudden things as this was the first time they ever laid eyes upon them, they didn't even know they existed.

"Oh my god!" Dahlia gasped

"What did you do!" Pyramid Head roared as he held his spear, and sword

"You sick bastard!" Dr. Kaufmann said

"Brother! Help!" Josh said crawling under the table

Pyramid Head was the first to react, and swung his sword at Victim 1 slicing it's gut, and impaled Victim 4 who was getting too close, they both went down, but soon floated back up, and grappled Pyramid Head, but he refused to fall down. Even when Victim 12 came up from behind, and tried to pull him on the floor. Josh meanwhile was frozen in fear as Victim 16 aka Cynthia Velasquez began crawling towards him, sobbing, and crying. Meanwhile Victim 19 aka Richard Braintree was swinging madly at Dr. Kaufmann all while twitching madly as is his usual manner. Claudia, and Dahlia were at a corner, shaking madly as Victim 17 aka Jasper Gein illuminated their faces which showed more clearly how frightened they really were.

"Muahahaha! You like this don't, no you LOVE IT! Hahahahah!" Walter screamed as he grew closer, and closer into insanity.

He snapped his fingers again, and the Victims all retreated before they did anything worse.

"Now then what do you think now eh?" Walter said smiling so brightly yet maniacally that could compete with the Joker.

End of Chapter

Sorry this took longer than I thought, my new job has been going nonstop leaving little time to work, but that's just excuses really, I wanted to make this my longest chapter by words not pages, but it seems as if I failed at that, but I'll keep pushing myself further. Again please leave reviews if you wish, It seems to have a slow increase of audience lately, thanks for giving this a chance I promise I may start out as a noob ,but I will end it like a pro!