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Chapter 4

The Escape

"They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."
- Edgar Allan Poe

I ran away from the door as the man seemed to bash through it. Luckily, a security system had activated it, causing a blast door to quickly go downwards, cutting the thing in half, but it didn't stop the thing from crawling towards me at an alarming rate. Since flight had reached higher than fight, I darted into a supply closet, knowing that there was no way the torso of the man could reach me in there.

I panted as my body scrunched up in fear for a moment.

"Shit, shit, shit, shit, shit..." Was the only thing I could say. I never knew things this terrifying could exist in reality.

"No Ender." I said to myself, "We need to fucking get through this, you're useless when you act like a coward."

I slowly began to get back onto my feet, the sound of the thing banging could be heard from behind me. I walked around the supply closet for a moment, looking for anything useful, when I noticed a panel behind some cleaning detergent.

"Access Subject #00 Test Chamber" The panel read. I didn't have time to try and figure out how this control panel worked, so I took my sword and made a heavy swing at the panel, causing it to spark and turn off.

"Well shit, that did-" I began to say, before getting cut off by the sound of a wall sliding out of the way behind me, revealing a long hallway. However, this one was pure black. The power was out. I held out my sword, trying to get as much light from it so I could look ahead at whatever hellish creatures would run at me. I took note of my swords light for a moment. This white light, it seemed so... calming, like someone saying 'Everything's going to be OK.', and somehow, that made me more confident than ever. I walked down the hall, looking for any doorways of any sort.

The hallway ended at another door, this one appearing to have been torn open. I noted the black liquid on the wall next to me, doing my best to avoid it, before going into the room.

"Hello?" I shouted into the room. The echo that came back to me made the room seem as if it were the size of a large cavern. I had a feeling of dread come over me, I knew that no one was going to respond to me, until one of the most terrifying things happened to me.

Something made a loud screeching noise.

It seemed like something of a dog whistle, except amplified to the point of ear piercing. Just as soon as it had began, it stopped. I was frozen in my tracks for a moment, listening out for anything making noise. Suddenly, two glowing violet eyes shone ahead of me, a few dozen feet. I tried to recognise its body features before realizing what it was.

It was an Enderman.

Its body was slim, arms long, reaching close to the kneecaps, and its legs were abnormally long, causing him to stand another two feet higher. I held out my sword, ready to fight, before noticing something else unusual about it. Four arms came from its back, allowing it to walk with its hands. I stayed silent, hoping the beast wouldn't notice me.

It did.

The thing yelled loudly, it's screams seeming to rupture my eardrums. All I could do was run in the opposite direction, I ran back into the supply closet, kicking open the door down in front of me. The torso of a man that banged on the door was long dead, a pool of the black ooze had formed around the cut mark. I noticed that the blast door that cut the man in half had reopened. I caught my breath for a moment once I had gotten into the lab, my sword in hand. I thought I had escaped those things until a screaming came from ahead of me. The scientist in the elevator had been infected, presumably by the man from the closet. I knew there was no other way to get through but by fighting it. I allowed the man to run at me, the whites of his eyes apparent. I took a swing at him, blowing his arm off. I thought I had beaten it until the black liquid covering his body had formed a new arm. The creature seemed to bask in its glory for a moment, before running at me again. This time, I swung at its head, knocking it clean off. The body of the creature paused before spewing the black liquid all over the wall in front of it, and falling to the ground.

"That seemed to do the trick..." A surprised voice said. I turned and saw Manyl with four other guards. They all walked towards me.

"What the hell have you done?" I asked, before a screeching was heard, coming from the test chambers.

"No... what the hell did you do?" He seemed to shout, before making the guards get into a fighting position. These guards were different, they wore full black jumpsuits along with heavy white body armor overtop, and white assault rifles, glowing a light blue. I looked back towards the long hallway full of testing chambers. I saw the enderman again. I noted how its body looked, it was thin and fragile-looking, but it had a tone of white to it. It rushed towards us at an alarming rate, its mutated hands seemed to crush the ground and whatever it was made out of with ease.

I ran towards the elevator, slamming the up button with my fist. Manyl looked back just in time to watch as the doors closed. I heard banging come from the other side of the elevator, before screaming was heard. I shivered for a moment, knowing what had happened to them. But I waited for the elevator doors to open, so I could get out of this shithole.

The doors opened up, the hallways were eerily empty. No guards in sight, the only sound was that of an alarm blaring throughout the facility. I noticed a sign that read: "EMERGENCY EXIT AHEAD: USE WITH CAUTION". I began following it as soon as I heard the sound of metal doors being slammed to the ground.

The thing had found its way up...

I started running, I didn't want to be down here with that thing, I turned a corner and saw a large group of guards, along with a man in a grey suit. The man noticed me, his eyes were a dull grey, I stopped in my tracks for a moment, until I heard a loud screeching sound behind me. I turned to see the beast from before, it was charging at me with violent speed, I had to do something fast before it got to me. I looked to my side to see a room labeled 'Temperature Balancing Room'. I ran in with not a single thought.

"GET HIM OUT OF HERE!" A man shouted as bullets flew past the door I had entered moments before. I watched as the white beast darted past the door, and then peaked back inside, staring me down. I ran before it even made a move, I knew I had to kill it here and now, there was no other way out. I glanced around for a moment, it was filled with these white tanks, a control panel was set up on the far wall.

"Wait... tanks." I thought to myself. If there were tanks in this room, then there had to be water inside of them. I barely dodged a swing from the enderman as its hand crushed one of the tanks. A clear liquid quickly came from the inside of the tank and went all over the things arm. It squirmed around in agony for a moment, smoke came from its arm. I ran and took a blow at the hand, cutting it clean off. It ignored the loss and still came at me, before knocking down a few more of the tanks, getting more water over it. I took another swing with my blade, before it went through a cloud of purple dust.

It could still teleport.

I looked behind me, just to see the enderman slam one of its appendages into me, knocking me into . I scurried to my feet, my lungs gasping for air. I knew I couldn't kill this thing, I was just going to die down here with that thing if I didn't figure out how to escape. I stumbled over to a nearby control panel, slamming all the buttons I could. Somehow, out of sheer luck, I set off the sprinkler system. The enderman screeched as its body was drenched in water. I ran as fast as my body could carry me, not wanting to be there a second longer. I ran around the facility for what seemed like an eternity, I looked to my side, and was met with a sigh of relief as the elevator shaft that I had entered here in was ahead of me.

I slammed the UP button on the small panel, nothing happened. I began pressing it repeatedly, hoping something would happen, but nothing did happen. "Dammit." I thought to myself. I decided to try and climb up using the pipes on the walls. I leaped to the other side of the shaft, almost falling in the process. I scurried to the surface, the door was still open.

"Facility Meltdown, All workers evacuate." A robotic voice echoed out from the shaft, followed by explosions.

"Oh shi-" I shouted before a wave of light and heat flew out from the elevator shaft. Launching me to the ground, I felt my head hit something hard, as my vision became blurry. The last thing I saw was a completely black figure with two glowing, purple eyes, veins branching out from the eyes. The figure looked down towards me, and said with a dark and croaking voice.

"You're still alive?"

Sorry for not posting a chapter sooner. I had stuff get into the way, but anyways, hope you all had a wonderful Valentine's Day! Have a great day and hope you enjoyed the chapter!