Chapter 25: 16 Train Tickets Please
This is such a short level that no matter how hard I try, I cannot extend it any further than 2 whole chapters. Oh well Enjoy
At a locked gate in the subway
"So then you just take the rusty nutcracker, and place it on the rusty lock right...here." Heather instructed
Her students however looked less than enthusiastic in wanting to learn such an important lesson on how to unscrew a bolt on a gate with a nutcracker. After a slight pause, and some strong twists, and turns Heather had successfully unbolted the chain, and a new path was open to them. They went downstairs again where they found a completely old, rusty, tagged, broken subway train which seemed at first ominous, but after a few seconds to stare at it the team realized that the only thing scary about this soon to be pile of junk was the distinct lack of any foul odor that they could recognize.
"Okay, next step is to enter the train." Heather said
"It's awfully quiet here..." Angela said
"Well technically this isn't Silent Hill, but the town, or maybe I should say something similar to it has definitely plagued this place for the time being." Heather tried explaining
"So I guess there's a stronger concentration of monsters, and dead bodies at a the center of town." Alex said
"Seems that way doesn't it?" Travis said
"It's gonna be a little cramp in there. We should form a single file line, or something until we get to the other side." Harry said
"Yeah...so! Who wants to go first?" Maria asked cheerfully
There was an awkward silence as everyone looked at each, and then at everything else.
"I'll go!" Laura shouted
"Laura? Are you sure sweetie?" Maria worriedly asked
"Yes I'm sure! This is perfect opportunity to try out any other special talent!" Laura argued
"In such close quarters? We don't don't know what will happen. We could get caught in the blast." Elle retaliated
"It will not! I know something completely safe, and powerful will erupt out of my wand!" Laura said
"Well the black wand summoned a black hole, but I'm optimistic so I believe nothing smaller than a supernova could pop out...or maybe a white hole." Henry thought to himself
Laura was beginning to get depressed, and began hiding her face with her overly large witch hat. James couldn't hep, but feel bad for his adopted daughter.
"I say we let her go, and I'll back her up from behind." James announced
They looked at him funny, but the serious tone in what he just said, and the he looked back at everyone told them there's was no way of talking him out of it.
"Besides Laura's short, and even with her hat on I could still aim my rifle without her getting in my way." James said
"James..." Laura whispered
Laura was looking up at James with a new found respect, and even formed a small grin.
"You really trust her do you James." Lisa said
"Of course! She may pull pranks on me, call me names, tease me, pretend to listen even though she's just ignores me sometimes, but I still love her like a father should, and...I just made myself sad remember all those pranks." James said
Laura's sudden guilt made her drop her hat on her face again.
"Well If we have the volunteer I guess we should get going then." Cybil said
"I really don't like it, but I love Laura too so go ahead." Maria said
"You guys...there's no monsters in the train..." Heather reported
There was another brief silence.
"Well this is awkward." Henry dully said
"...I still stand by what I said, and I'm sure we'll get to them eventually so no change of plans. Laura go ahead." James said
Laura nodded seriously, took a deep breath, and walked towards the train. Halfway there her hat dropped in front of her eyes, and she accidentally crashed onto the subway train's side just inches away from the opening.
"You need a band-aid?" Lisa asked
"I'm not a little girl." Laura mumbled, slightly red in her cheeks, and rubbing her forehead.
Everyone snickered at Laura's accident, but they were quiet enough to keep it to themselves.
Laura entered the train followed by James, but as soon as James got in there was already...complications. The opening which should have held a sliding door had only room for 1 person, and the so did the train inside which made it difficult for Maria, and Angela who both wanted to be closest to James.
"Get out of the way!" Angela complained
"You think I'm gonna let you get close to James like that? In your dreams!" Maria argued
"Oh this is so not the time for this." Heather moaned
"Come on girls can't this wait until later?" Alex said
"It doesn't have to wait if Maria could just let me through!" Angela retorted
"It shouldn't have to wait until later if Angela could just take a hint!" Maria retaliated
"Um...how about we let James decide who-" Eileen began
"Shut up!" Angela, and Maria shouted simultaneously
Eileen yelped softly, and retreated behind Henry. By this time Cybil walked besides Lisa, and Elle, and submitted an idea. The girls gathered close to listen in, and nodded their heads in approval of said idea. Travis, Alex, Little Walter all glanced at the huddled girls, but were unable to listen in to their plan. After a quick huddle the girls set their plans into action. Lisa walked next to Maria, and Elle stood close to Angela, and while the Maria, and Angela were distracted with each other Lisa, and Elle simultaneously grabbed both girls, and pulled them apart from the opening while Cybil walked straight inside next to James.
"Okay the path has been cleared." Cybil called out
"Hey!" Both Maria, and Angela shouted
"Huh...good job solving that puzzle Cybil." Harry congratulated, and enter the train himself.
Following him was Alessa, then Henry, Eileen, Travis, Little Walter, Heather, Alex, and at that point Lisa released Maria, and went inside herself with Maria following, then Elle did the same with Angela being the last. At this point with everyone inside the line Laura had just exited the train via the end opening almost as soon as Angela went inside. At that point James's radio began to go off as his flashlight pointed at a large blob of skin blocking a staircase leading up.
"Alright Laura just stay calm, and hit with whatever you got." James said confidently
"Don't worry almost everyone is here already, but just to be on the safe side we'll tell you when to duck so we can shoot at it from a distance." Cybil assured
"T-thanks." Laura stuttered
The blob who must have been woken up by the sudden noise began to rise from it's nap.
"Insane Caner! Or at least that's what my DS is telling me..." Heather said reading her DS.
Everyone stood back as they let Laura do whatever it is she might do. Insane Cancer was now completely upright, and motioned it's blank head at the tiny figure that was Laura. By now she stopped shacking, and was glaring at the creature in an effort to intimidate it, but hearing Maria go "aw~" only told her that she wasn't going to intimidate anything bigger than an ant. The Insane Cancer spent no time in a staring contest, and began to power walk towards Laura. She yelped, and pointed her sapphire star wand directly at the blob. It did nothing so in desperation she waved it incoherently in the air, and miraculously something did occur. The wand began to glow, and change color from a bright blue to a radiant gold, and a spray of golden stars as fast as arrows, but as small as snowflakes numbering in the hundreds began to shot out all over the place as Laura was blindingly waving her wand though not out of fear, but because her hat fell to her eyes again. The stars acted like shurikens as they punctured the Insane Caner, and the walls, floor, ceiling, train, and etc. At first it seems like it did surprise the walking blob since it did stop him from rushing, and bits of blood began to pour out of the many punctures, but then a second later as Laura stopped waving her hand causing the spray to end the tiny starts began to spin rapidly. Acting like little buzz-saws the stars began to rip, and tear through whatever layer they are stuck in, including the Insane Cancer ending the seemingly innocent attack, and making it quite devastating, and painful. The act ended in a second however as all the stars all blew up in sparks, and flames which were surprisingly bright enough to cause everyone to close their eyes, and look away except for James who used his sunglasses, and smiled. Once the burst of light faded everyone looked over their shoulders, and saw a very impressive sight. As if a group of soldiers were sweeping the entire area with flamethrowers every spot the stars collided with was black, and charred including the Insane Cancer which didn't just deflate, but was reduced mostly to a pile of ash in the shape it once previously held lying down.
"What the hell...?" Henry said
"That was awesome!" Heather shouted unable to hold her excitement
Everyone gave Laura a round of applause
"Great job!" Eileen cheered
"Yeah...yeah! I told you nothing bad was gonna happen to us!" Laura proclaimed
"So bright, a-and warm too." Alessa commented
"Very powerful, and maybe with some more practice you can improve that...spell? Of yours." Angela commented
"Don't be like that, it was perfect!" Maria defended
"I like the part with the stars." James said
"It was so, so...unbelievable." Lisa said
"Yeah I would have never had believed it, if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes right now." Elle said
"It looked like it came straight out of sci-fi with a hint of fantasy in it." Cybil proposed
"It definitely proves that truth is stranger than fiction." Travis said
"C-cool..." Little Walter weakly said with a small grin
"It reduced so much fat into ash in so little time." Angela realized
"It charred just about everything from what I can tell." Harry said
"Hm~ yeah it's accuracy seems low, but with so many of those stars a direct shot would be completely unnecessary" Alex said
Tina was heard yawning in James's coat, and after a brief struggle she hopped out of it, and landed on her feet feeling all better now, and ready to walk alongside her master, and her master's masters.
"I bet it would look amazing if I shoot all those stars straight in the air outside." Laura said
"Well I have to say good job Laura, the coast is clear. So Heather do we head on upstairs now?" Alex asked
"Hang on let me check..." Heather said pulling out the map
It was full of black markings to help them navigate through the subway, but still eligible as Heather stared blankly at the paper.
"Well we could, but I know a better way just ahead." Heather told them
"Great! Let's go!" Laura shouted with new found confidence.
She began walking ahead of group until her hat suddenly slipped from her head to her eyes temporarily blinding her. She stumbled slightly, and swerved to the right crashing into the wall Everyone did, and said nothing, but watched in an awkward silence.
"I-I meant to do that!" Laura argued
"Maybe we should take the hat off." Maria suggested
"No way, it completes my look!" Laura said
"Spoken like a true cosplayer, I think you rubbed off on her a bit." Heather said glancing at James.
The team walked walked past the staircase the Insane Cancer was guarding, and found another staircase behind it leading down. The followed it, and found themselves in a similar white hallway that mostly connect the rest of the trains stops to one another. They followed the hallway until they found one portion of the path completely blocked by junk.
"This again? I swear it's like they think we're dumb enough to get stuck here in an endless circle without some force guiding us along." Travis complained
"Gee I wonder if those two narrators on the speakers have anything to do with all of these barricades." Harry said
"Could be, but let's not question this now." Alex told them
They continued walking along the path.
"So we're going to take a train to your house?" James asked
"Yes, but not to my house, it's going to direct us straight towards the sewers." Heather told them
Everyone, but Heather stopped walking
"Huh? What's wrong?" Heather asked
"What kind of train takes passengers to the sewers?" Lisa asked
"The employee subway." Both Harry, and Heather said simultaneously
"Huh...wasn't expecting such a normal answer." Elle said
"Well life is full of surprises." Heather responded
"Hey we past a staircase." Cybil said
"No worries that's not the one we go through anyways, it's the one up ahead." Heather said
They continued following Heather, and sure enough there was a staircase leading to 'Bergen Street'. The team descended the staircase to find themselves on a similar platform they had previously traveled through.
"Is this where we wait for the train?" Eileen asked
"Sure is...technically." Heather said
"Technically?" Henry repeated
"Well this is gonna sound as stupid as it is suicidal, but I could really use a volunteer for this. I just can't go through the same thing twice." Heather said sounding slightly nervous.
"What do you mean?" Alex said raising an eyebrow
"Well we need to call the train, or else it will never get here. I know it sounds like it's coming, but trust me it's not." Heather explained
"So how do we call it?" Angela asked
"We need someone to just go on the tracks, and a little into the tunnel you'll see a door with a bright red light bulb glowing, you can see it if you just tilt your heads slightly." Heather continued
A few from the group did so, and sure enough the saw an eerie red glow, but not the door itself.
"Well to make a long story short...we need someone to run towards that door, touch it, and come back before the train flattens you." Heather concluded
"You're right...that does sound stupid, and suicidal." Alex said
"We'll I'm not lying, but that's the truth...so any takers?" Heather said
There was no instant takers as everyone looked nervously to each other, but then a ray of unexpected hope appeared.
"I'll go." Henry said dully while raising his hand.
"W-wha~" Eileen stuttered instantly getting scared
"That's pretty gutsy of you Henry." Alex commented
"Not really I mean I have a will all set up in case of an...accident. I wrote it when I was trapped in my old apartment." Henry explained
"Don't say that." Eileen nearly pleaded
"Eileen it's nothing really dangerous. The door is only a few feet away. I promise it shouldn't take him less than 3 seconds to get there, and back." Heather assured
"There you heard that Eileen? It's no problem I can make it back before the train could even come close." Henry said not sounding nervous in the slightest
"Great we'll cover you if anything happens okay." Elle assured
"You mean like that time James was covered by a Swarm of...Swarms? Yeah I feel so much better." Henry mumbled
They walked towards the of the platform while the ominous noise of an oncoming train kept repeating itself, but never appearing. Henry looked at the tracks as calmly as if he was reading a newspaper in the morning.
"Okay Henry whenever you're ready..." Travis said
"We'll be close by to pull you out just in case." Harry said
"...Thanks." Henry said
For a moment Henry just stood there besides the railing, but before anyone could accuse him of chickening out he jumped on the tracks, and dashed towards the door. He saw it instantly, and in a second he was already twisting, and pulling at the doorknob.
"There that's enough come back!" Heather called out
Henry quickly nodded, and began to sprint back towards the group, but as soon as he turned his back towards the door everyone's radios began to blast static signaling monsters. To prove this a pack of Double Heads rushed from the shadows of the tunnel, and literally dog piled on Henry just as he was outside the tunnel. Henry fell just out of reach of his friends as the dogs systematically began biting, and scratching at him like a chew toy.
"Henry! Oh no, oh no!" Eileen cried out clearly panicing
A loud horn echoed throughout the room, and a dim light appeared from opposite the tunnel.
"Crap! He needs help!" Alex said jumping down to save him.
"Wait I have an idea!" Cybil told everyone
She shuffled through her pockets, and found the beef jerky she has been holding for the team. She figured that if it work the first it might work again. She pulled one out, and threw it as far she could into the tunnel, and for a moment nothing happened, but one by one the Double Heads jumped away from Henry, and began sniffing the air. One of them rushed back into the tunnel with the rest following, and Alex took this opportunity to help Henry up his feet as the roar of the train began to grow louder, and closer. Everyone huddled close to Alex, and Henry, and pulled the out of the tracks as fast they could, and as soon as their feet touched the platform the train appeared surprisingly fast. If it weren't for the noise of the subway train's brakes screeching they would have heard the sound of dogs being ran over by a train.
"T-that was way too close!" Henry gasped almost choking on his sentence
"Henry! You're alive!" Eileen cried out
She clung to Henry, and embraced him much to Henry's discomfort
"Ow-ow, bite marks!" Henry said clearly in pain
"Oh! I'm sorry!" Eileen said she loosened her grip
"I'm sorry too Henry...for putting you through that." Heather said out of nowhere
"Fine, fine, I'm alive, and that's all that matters. So where do we go from here?" Henry asked
"First I need to treat your wounds!" Lisa said sternly
"There's plenty of benches on the train we could have him lay down there, but right now we should get on that train." Heather said
"Let's move out people...before it leaves us, and we have repeat what Henry just did." Alex said
"We can use the gate a little further away from here." Heather told them
"Great, but I could use some help...one of them did some serious damage to my leg...again." Henry said
With Alex, and Eileen towing Henry closely in front of Heather who was leading the group everyone walked a few feet past the staircase, and found the gate Heather mentioned. After unlocking it she held it open for everyone, but just as quickly as she opened it did everyone get a surprise. Heather, and Alex's radios signaled another monster which soon reared it's ugly heads as the Double Head was charging for Henry. Alex released Henry, and grabbed both his knife, and pistol to make quick work of the beast. He shot at it aiming for the chest, and legs which crippled it just in time as it was about to leap. Once it was kneeling Alex came up from behind, and sliced it's ribs, and back, and followed it with a stab to the back of the neck killing it.
"Thanks..." Henry grumbled
Without Alex's support Henry collapsed on the floor as soon as Alex released his hand from his shoulder.
"Hehe, sorry about that, but it was a lose lose situation. There was nothing I could do." Alex said
"Another dog behind you!" Henry called out
Alex turned around, and saw it coming, but Heather stopped it chort from attacking with an impressive shot from her shotgun. Alex took the liberty of stomping it on the ground to finish it off.
"We have to take the long way since the gate is broken so up those stairs, and follow close." Heather instructed
"Well that's a minor inconvenience." Cybil commented
Everyone turned, and walked towards the stairs.
"Yeah, but get ready for a fight I'm pretty sure there's going to be guards dogs all over the place." Heather warned
Everyone changed gears, and began jogging, and now climbing up the stairs.
"I say we attack with our melee weapons since we did end up using a lot of ammo back at the mall." Alex said
"I hate it, but you do have a point." Harry said
"Wait! I can use my magic, and wipe them all out." Laura said
"Yeah, but with the train so close to them you might want to tone your attacks down a bit." Travis suggested
"Oh...yeah..." Laura said agreeing, but still feeling a little disappointed
"I think I'm getting woozy..." Henry muttered
"Okay then, everyone get out your weapons, and attack, but we can't really protect Henry if those dogs end up rushing him all at once so me, and Eileen will keep him here." Alex said
The team stopped to come up with a plan on the hallway.
"No problem, we'll all just ambush them, and overpower them with our superior numbers." Maria said
"Right, and don't forget to call us once the coast is clear." Alex told them
"No problem." Elle assured
"I definitely see everything in a blur now..." Henry uttered weakly
"Um...maybe we should let Walter, and Alessa stay with you guys too." James suggested
"Good idea, you two can stay with us for now." Eileen said
"I'm just gonna...rest my eyes f-...for a mo-...ment...zzz~" Henry feebly whispered
He was now unconscious from blood loss.
"Okay well in that case, um...Tina why don't you stay with them as well?" James asked the cat licking it's paw.
"Meow? Meow, meow!" Tina replied although whether she was complaining, or complying was anyone's guess
"How come you never licked your paw Alessa?" Maria teasingly asked
"To be honest I did have...u-urges, but I didn't want to look...w-weird." Alessa answered
"Tuesdays...french toast..." Henry mumbled in his sleep
With that Henry, Eileen, Alex, Alessa, Tina, and Little Walter stayed behind while Harry, Heather, Cybil, Laura, James, Maria, Angela, Elle, Lisa, and Travis, went downstairs to clear out the platform full of enemies.
At the platform
Sure enough what Heather said earlier was correct as the team saw a pack of 3 Double Heads, but they weren't worried for a bit even if they had to use mere blunt objects. James, Maria, Angela, and Laura quickly had one Double Head surrounded, but the dog was far from intimidated as it began dashing towards James who held off it's rushing bite attack with his Great Knife. Unable to completely encircle the blade with it's jaws, it then tried to move to the left where Maria was waiting for it. She swung at the beast, and landed a fierce blow on one of it's jaws causing it to stagger away from James, and leave itself open for Laura to fire a blast of stars which on contact ripped, sawed, then exploded. Though considering the fact that it was such a short burst it didn't cause a maelstrom of light, and fire, but a small explosion a flash-bang might do. Seeing the work done Angela decided to actually slice something instead of being a wall so she saw her opportunity when she saw Lisa struggling to remove her katana from the Double Head's mouth. She rushed towards the Double Head while crossing her blades, and once in range Angela delivered and x-crossed slice cutting though most of it's left-hand side of the body. This sudden lapse of pain was enough for the dog to loosen it's grip on Lisa's blade, and once in her blade was in her full control she lowered her body slightly while pointing the tip of her blade directly in between the Double Head's mouth. In a split second flash, and distinct half a second long noises that sounded like metal swiping through metal Lisa was now behind the Double head, with half her blade stained in blood. The dog for a moment just stood there, but then blood began to jut out from a long gash on his right hand side of his body, and it died before it completely fell to the floor. Angela stared blankly at Lisa who stared back, but while tilting her head in confusion as if she didn't know what's so weird about what she had just done. Meanwhile Elle, Cybil, Heather, and Travis were also dealing damage to the third Double Head. Heather tried to crush it with her maul, but missed almost completely as it retreated in Travis's direction. He tried to deliver a blow with a vertical swing down, but the dog swerved to the left, and dashed behind him as Travis pulled his Fire ax from the crack in the concrete he made. Cybil had it on her sights, but the short nightstick was easy to avoid for the Double Head as it turned on a dime, and ran towards Elle. Elle seeing all this thought enough was enough so she charged at as well with her bat in a bunting position. In the same fashion the Double Head tried to swerve away from the attack, but Elle saw it coming, and interfered in it's targeted path. Using the bat as a ram Elle had successfully caused head trauma as the bat collided with the Double Head who was ran at full speed at it. The dog lost it's footing, and collapsed on the floor close to Travis who delivered a boot stomp on it's chest although it is possible that it may have already died as soon as it fell.
"*Huff* Okay...I think that's all of them." James said
"Alright we need to call Alex now, and tell him the coast is clear now." Cybil reminded them
"Hey Alex! Get your well toned ass in here already!" Maria shouted
She was greeted by a stern looking stare from Elle.
"What? I'm just being polite, and observant." Maria said while shrugging
Back upstairs while everyone else were battling the Double Heads.
Alex carefully placed Henry's head on Eileen's lap while he went to work looking for the more serious, and deeper bite marks that are causing Henry's rapid bleeding. Alessa who did show some a lot of worry was trying her best to stay strong by playing with Tina, and Little Walter sat next to her having fun just watching her. Alessa was holding Tina's paws, and having her stand upright when a child's curiosity got the better of her.
"H-hey Eileen?" Alessa asked still concentrating on Tina
"Hm?" Eileen hummed caught by surprise
"Do cats um...chase their tail?" Alessa asked
"I don't believe so." Eileen answered
"Why not?" Alessa continued
"Well um...I think it's because...well even though cats have their own personality they still have one common...cat instinct that tell them they have better things to do than chase their tails...like napping for instance, or self cleaning." Eileen explained
"...you have no idea do you?" Alex translated
"Nope..." Eileen truthfully said
"I bet Henry would have a clever answer, but he's a little out of it." Eileen continued
"Oh I can think of something...*ehem*" Alex began
"Cats don't chase their tail because they are all hipsters who never do what the mainstream do. They see dogs as mainstream pets so whatever they do cats do the opposite so they can remain hipster." Alex said changing his voice a bit to sound like Henry
"That would be something he might say if he wasn't serious." Eileen said smiling a bit at the impression
"Meow! Meow, meow, meow!" Tina was heard saying
Although whether she was offended by the comments about cats, annoyed at Alessa for keeping her from napping, or saying that one of those statements were in fact correct was anyone's guess
"So...does that mean that cats are hipster to each other too?" Little Walter asked
Both Eileen, and Alex were caught of guard by Little Walter's sudden question.
"Hey Alex! Get your well toned ass in here already!" Maria was heard shouting
"Oh my!" Eileen said going slightly red at the comment
"...Well that's one way to get my attention...hope it doesn't happen again. Come on Eileen we really need to let Lisa take care of him." Alex said
With Eileen's help they continued to carry Henry as they descended down the stairs with Little Walter, Alessa, and Tina. Once down there, Alex was glad to see that the platform was in fact clear of enemies, and that they could enter the subway without any hassle now.
"All aboard!" James called out as he was standing next to the subway.
One by one everyone went inside the train, and took a seat next to each other as James being the last went inside once everyone was present, and accounted for. As Lisa, and Eileen quickly went to work patching up Henry something odd, according to Heather happened. The doors were closing slowly, and a soft static was heard from the overhead speakers hiding in dark pockets where light cannot reach. Soon the static began to clear, and the sound of a cheering audience was heard.
"I must say congratulations on getting this far, but your journey has just begun!" A loud optimistic, and familiar voice rang.
"No, no, no, no..." Heather groaned in annoyance
"Hey I though by now you would have liked us, or at least grow accustom to hearing us." The Game Host said sounding hurt, but still sounding very cheerful as well.
"Their lives are a dark, and cold place, and no matter how much warmth, and light we give them with our semi-presence it seems like they grew to love the darkness in their hearts." The House Host said as if reading a paragraph from an Edgar Alan Poe story.
"Why are you bothering us this time?" Alex asked trying to keep his voice steady, and calm
"Just a quick warning." The Game Host said as if it was of little concern
"Great! What kind of warning? The rails are gone, there's a dead end, and the brakes are broken, or are we just going to explode?" Travis said
"No, no, nothing like that we just want to tell you right now that the train will take you somewhere else." The Game Host announced
"Where? The seven layers of hell?" Elle asked sarcastically
"Nope, but interesting idea." The Game Host said
"Let's just say...it's not the sewers, and you are going to comply, and exit through the subway car we have chosen." The House Host said darkly, and threateningly
"Can this wait until after we wake Henry up?" Lisa asked after healing the last injury.
"Relax we are going to do that." The Game Host declared
"How?" Eileen said looking puzzled
"Well we just happen to be two hosts with control over all the speakers, radios, and any audio device that can transmit radio frequency." The Game Host began
"Okay now you are just showing off." Harry said
"We have discuss many means of torturing you with our new found gift, and ultimately we decided to just...'entertain' you for the meantime." The House Host said darkly
"I really hate your tone." Elle commented
"Yeah, do speak like that when reading stories to children?" Heather mocked
"And children birthday parties too." The House Host snickered menacingly
"Anyways here something to listen to while to encourage you to move to the next cart where it's quieter." The Game Host cheerfully said as if they just won the lottery
There was short burst of static growing increasingly louder, then silence for a moment. Soon a distinct sound signaling the start of the song was heard, and everyone started held the place, and grew slightly anxious as to what they would be subjugated to.
"Oh~oho~oh" the singer began
"This sounds familiar...oh no." James murmured
"~You know you love me~" The singer went on
"Never heard of this...is this suppose to be painful?" Travis asked
"~I know you care~" The singer continued
"That's kind of impressive. I mean most of they would shove this down your ears." Heather said while covering her ears as the song grew louder.
"I can try to make the best of it, but don't expect me to start dancing here." Maria said
"What's wrong getting annoyed? Bet you want the noise to stop?" The Game Host teased
"It may only be for prepubescent girls, but we are far from being tortured here." Harry said
"Hey! I never liked him!" Laura complained
"True, I never got into the whole Justin Beiber craze...actually I think that was the time I was watching Gurren Lagann." Heather said looking back on her past
"Really now...well let's see how you feel when we play the non auto tune version!" The House Host said evilly
"The song paused for a second, and the new version began to play.
"~And I was like baby~baby~baby~oh~" the singer continued
This time everyone began to moan, and scream in pain as they covered their ears trying to make the noise stop. Except for Alessa who was the only one standing, and with a puzzled expression, and Little Walter who remained seated, and began kicking at the air. Most of the adults began banging of the windows with their weapons, but to no avail. By this time Henry had now woken up from their screams, and shouts, but payed no attention to the song causing their pain, but instead yawned, and began to stretch his arms, and legs. Finally they couldn't take it anymore, and they dashed towards the only other exit that would give them peace with Henry, and Alessa walking behind them. Once everyone inside the darker subway car they shut the door, and the loud singing stopped, and everyone drew a breath of relief.
"I-I'm confused...I didn't think the song was so bad." Alessa said
They all stared at her with mixed feelings of pity, shock, and complete cofusion.
"Oh dear you poor thing, you really have been cut off from the real world." Heather said with a sad tone.
"Huh?" was the only thing Alessa could come up with to respond to Heather's statement.
End of Chapter
Sorry about having it so late I had a wifi error going on for a long time during the last minute, and it took me a while to get it working. Anyways I did all I could to drag this level for as long as possible, but I should be aware by now that some levels are just that short. Thanks for the review, thanks for your patience, and for reading, and I'll get my act together more efficiently next time.