Chapter nine:
The place is obviously abandoned and it is not all in one piece but it is enough to protect them from the beasts for now. The place is mostly black, grey and white as the main colors seen in the building.
They are in what looks like a main entrance way with a circle like space that other than parts of the building and stuff like that it is empty.
At the opposite end from where the three are there is a hallway that leads off to somewhere they can't see from where they are.
Whenever they walk on the grey metal floor their footsteps create clanking noises that are soft but loud enough to be heard with each step they take.
"I say we check it out." Near says starting to walk forward as Mello does the same.
Matt hesitates. "Um guys what if there is beasts ahead?" He asks.
Mello and Near stop only to turn to Matt.
"Well it doesn't seem like there is and it's a lesser chance of them being in here. Unless you feel like going outside to face the beasts out there then come with us." Mello says turning away only to continue to the hallway.
Near glances to Matt as the red head dashes to join them then they jog to catch up with Mello.
They walk down the hall glancing around trying to take it all in.
Anything they can see outside of the hallway, the damage, the architecture and anything else they can take in.
The hall is the same color as the rest of the building and it looks like it was once a nice yet simple styled hallway.
Near looks ahead as the end of the hall is approaching. "No. This couldn't be….. Could it?" He then dashes ahead.
"Near!" Matt calls after him.
Mello and Matt share a look wondering what's gotten into Near then they turn away racing to catch up with Near.
Near is stopped in the room the hall took them to when Mello and Matt join him slowing to a walk as they leave the hall to try to take the whole place in only to stop by Near.
The place they have found themselves in is what looks to be a big laboratory for big experiments but it now is abandoned along with damaged.
In the center of the room is what looks to be the main experimenting area with the machines all around as well as places leading to other rooms and space to walk around.
The three cautiously and a little slowly begin moving towards the big center surrounded by a continuous technologic panel that wraps all around it.
"What the Hell happened here." Mello gasps as they continue to look around.
Near looks and sees something. He goes over to an area where there is a pile of rubble. He kneels by it then he moves some of it uncovering a badly damaged camera. "Whatever happened they had cameras." He says slightly tilting his head back but in a way so he can still look at the camera.
"So all we have to do is find the surveillance room." Mello says.
"Then we can find out what exactly just happened." Near agrees as he stands up slightly glancing around the pile of rubble.
Mello looks to the doors. "But which way is it?"
"We'll have to explore." Near says.
"Split up?" Mello turns to the direction the other two are generally in.
"We need to stick together. For starters we have no way to contact each other. Another thing is if one of us is lost then it can be a huge problem we would want to avoid." Matt says then throws his hand into the middle looking brightly hopeful at the other two. "We stick together and if we get lost we'll do it together. We're a team." He says.
Mello and Near glance to each other for a moment then Near smiles quite softly only to go over to Matt.
Near puts his hand over top of Matts. "A team." He nods.
Both turn to Mello.
Mello slightly clenches his teeth as if in thought then he sighs softly only to go over to them. "Fine we'll stick together." He puts his hand in the middle.
"Yay team!" Matt throws his hand up slightly throwing the others two's hands up as he happily grins.
"Let's get going." Mello says after a roll of his eyes at Matt.
"This way!" Matt points to a random direction. "Come on." He begins to run towards the first door in that direction.
Mello and Near go after him.
Matt tries to open the door only for it to fall off. He looks at it obviously not having expecting that.
Mello sighs slightly and reaches over taking the door tossing it off to the side.
They go in and only find themselves facing a door that's slightly ajar with the label of the chemical room.
There is only that and a small space between the two doors.
"Next door!" Mello says turning around since they have no idea what kind of dangerous chemicals could have been broken getting into the air.
They can't risk it so they head to the next door.
Opening it with no problems and not having it fall off this time.
They go inside only to find… A break room with a lounge?
"Things are starting to not make sense." Matt says looking at the tattered, broken and some are even destroyed couches.
The couches are obviously too unsafe to even put a hand on it to try to help support yourself.
They move on to the next door….. Only to find it locked.
"Let's break it down!" Mello cracks his knuckles.
Near turns to look to the other doors. He slightly jogs away going two doors over. He looks to it then turns to Mello and Matt who are about to try to bust the door open by trying to ram into it. "Or we could try to door that says surveillance on it." He says pointing to the black door.
Mello and Matt pause as they were just about to charge and they look to Near.
"That works too." Matt says and they head over to join Near.
Near turns as they begin heading over. He reaches for the doorknob but it's of course locked. He kneels down and checks the lock.
It's a key lock.
"Is there any thin pieces of metal like a paperclip." Near asks glancing to the other two.
They stop and glance around for something.
"Um not really." Matt says bringing a hand slightly to his head.
Near glances around himself. "What about in the other rooms?" He asks.
"We can just smash it open." Mello says with a slight snort as if stating the obvious.
Near looks to him with a slight frown. "No it won't work. I know labs and even if you try to bust it down it won't work."
Mello snorts. "Oh really? And how can you be so sure?"
"Because my father was a head scientist in a big lab kind of like the general idea of this one." Near informs them. "I've seen them try to open a door that way but it doesn't work. Our best bet is to pick the lock."
"If it wasn't for my pride to avoid probably looking like a fool I would have tried to bust it down." Mello grumbles a little but joins Matt in looking for something to pick the lock with.
In the door between the door Mello and Matt were going to try to bust down and the surveillance room door Matt finds an office that is just a general office like you see in a movie.
He opens a drawer and finds a box of paper clips. "Found them!" He raises the box up into the air even though he is the only one in the room. He closes the door bringing his hand down then quickly leaves the room as Mello comes over to join Matt.
The two head over to Near as Matt hands Near the box of paper clips.
Near gives a thanks as he takes the box then he turns to the lock taking out a paper clip straightening it. He begins working on picking the lock working on it carefully until it clicks indicating its open. He pulls away as Mello opens the door. He tosses the paper clip as Matt brings the box in case they need to go into other rooms deciding to add the box to his bag later.
Sure enough they walk into a surveillance room.
There is a smell of death that is there but also weak since the place is aired out by things like the holes of the ruined building.
Sitting in the chair hunched over is a skeleton.
Mello shoves it off the chair then sits in it not really caring as he turns to the equipment there.
Matt looks wide eyed and gestures with his hands to the now broken skeleton as he gaps as if lost for words.
"Already here we are." Mello says trying to get things to work as Near comes over putting one hand on the empty area of the technologic table as well as the other hand on the chair letting him watch.
Matt looks to the two still wide eyed. "You broke a persons body!" He gaps.
Neither notice or care about what Mello did to the body.
Then suddenly things go a little crazy, mainly on the screens, like Mello did something wrong as Mello raises his hands in slight surrender and Near lowers his arms to his sides as he quickly steps back.
"I didn't do anything. Damn this stupid thing." Mello grumbles.
Matt sighs and slightly kicks Mello out of the chair so now he has a person standing on each side beside him. "Let the professional handle this. These kinds of things can be delicate." He says then he begins quickly working with pure confidence. He fixes whatever Mello did and begins to work to get it all up and running again then once he's done that he begins looking through the stuff there as they try to find the tapes or at least the sections that might have something.
They decide to try a few days before things started to get weird in the orphanage.
What shows on camera is a few beasts here and there in the destroyed building.
They go back a few days more finally finding people.
Matt turns on the sound as they watch whatever experiment is going on.
One person who is probably the head of the place is giving out orders to the others at the equipment along the walls in areas the things will fit as the leader is at the area where the technology panel is around the middle.
"Alright here we go." The leader says putting his hands on the empty space on the panel. "Let's try to make human and crab separated to try to make clones to see which one works." He gives a go ahead nod to start it.
Something starts to glow in the middle as things must be going as planned.
The orders continue then as things begin to get more intense with a wiring noise then the tube like thing in the middle starts to shake as the leader slams his fist on the panel where nothing is as he shouts more orders at the others.
People rush around as things continue to heat up and an alarm goes off probably to mean that the tube is having dangerous pressure or something as it rattles like crazy.
The leader refuses to give up and continues to shout orders.
Then suddenly he turns to the pipe like middle as things look like they are going to explode and the pipe breaks like shattering glass as a beast that Mello, Near and Matt have been trying to not get caught by jumps out as if flying out from somewhere under the panel out of side.
It lands on the ground and the people in the room stare wide eyed at it. It slightly lifts its head letting out a low growl.
The people all start to panic fearfully and the beast tilts its head slightly back as it roars only to put its head back to its proper angle.
The beast charges at the people who start running around trying not to get caught by the beast.
The leader looks a little uncertain as he looks around watching his people.
The beats shows no mercy and plants an egg into each person it catches.
Each person it drops an egg into shows quite bad pain then they become under the beast's control only to help it take over the lab.
Until only the leader is left.
The leader takes a few steps back then turns running towards the surveillance room closing and locking the door behind himself. He seems to lock it then relaxes after only to back away from the door tense as the beast and the ones under its control slam against the door.
The door remains intact and closed.
The leader waits as things go silent only for a few moments as then noises are heard as the beast finds the people weak only to slice open their throats one at a time with one of its legs.
The people it slices their throats open, about half only get their throats sliced open leaving half still human, fall seeming to be dead; only for beast legs to burst free then the body pretty much explodes as the beast from inside gets free.
The beasts that were in the human bodies eat the bodies they had been planted into as there is one beast for one human.
The beasts including those still human all start destroying the building until it is what it is pretty much now.
The leader plops down onto the chair of the surveillance room that is still currently intact with only him as the only life in that room. He sits there obviously trying to figure out what to do now.
Then after a few moments two beasts burst in from the outside wall only to attack the leader until he's nothing but the skeleton Mello, Near and Matt found.
The beasts all leave the building after that.
Mello, Near and Matt are now staring surprised, as well as at least a little horrified mostly just for Matt though, at the screens as they had witnessed what happened.
Near turns and looks to the wall the beasts burst through finding that you can indeed see the outside from the holes.
Mello blinks as he still is looking at the screens. "So this is where those beasts were created." He says almost sounding breathless.
"A failed experiment…. One that went horribly wrong." Near says turning back to the other two.
Matt turns to look to the broken skeleton. "Things like seeing what happens to people caught by the beasts makes me wish this was all a nightmare." He whimpers.
"Reality is harsh." Mello says.
Then the three freeze as a twig snaps behind them.
AN:
I hope I'm not making things too horrific. I'm trying to not make it horror but still interesting.
For all those awesome kind reviewers thank you as well as that there is a small box for more reviews and flamers will be used to make brownies!
Hope you continue reading when I finish and post the next chapter or chapters.
Mello.