Clay quickly threw the grenade into the room and jumped to the floor, predicting the incoming bullets. The grenade detonated a moment later, making heard the sound of things crumbling over after the initial explosion. Clay stood up after it all became silent again.

"I knew that was a trap." Clay told Lela and Dustin. "How stupid does she think we are?" Clay, with the rifle in hand, opens the door cautiously, revealing the room to be a storage room of sorts. What previously stood here was now replaced by the bodies ripped apart by the grenade. Clay took the map out and looked at it. He began to look around it and eventually found out that the room they had just left had no hidden hallway.

"Looks like the map won't help us here." Clay said. "We'll have to go forwards blindly now." They began looking around, seeing if there was any other passage. Dustin eventually found a lever hidden in a random vase, after accidentally breaking it.

"Hey, look at this." Dustin said. "I think this might help us." Lela approached the lever and examined it for a second. She then looked under the table where the vase was.

"It doesn't seem to be connected to anything." Lela said. "It might be a pro-" Lela suddenly stopped after Clay flipped the lever, opening a wall in front of them.

"The wires are in the inside of the table." Clay said. "They wouldn't make it that obvious that it actually did something." They carefully went through the new opening, with a small blimp of light at the other side. In between them and the light was pitch black darkness.

"Okay, we have to be very careful now, as there's no light in here." Lela said. "First, we should-" Lela stopped talking again after Clay shined a flashlight through the tunnel. "Where did you get a flashlight?" Lela asked.

"I picked it off of one of a blown up soldier." Clay responded. "And this flashlight must be really tough to survive an explosion like that." They walked through the now visible tunnel, revealing the barren stone bricks, which looked like the ones used in Medieval castles. They eventually reached the source of the light; a lonesome lamp on the left side on them, revealing another hallway to their left. Clay peeked to the other side and saw another beacon of light separated by darkness yet again. The only difference about this beacon of light is that it was actually another large room.

"Come on." Clay commanded. "There's another room at the end."

"There's something very wrong about this." Dustin said. "I feel like we're heading for something that we shouldn't see."

"Then we have to see it if we shouldn't." Clay answered. "I would prefer that I suffer the consequences of laying my eyes upon it than for someone else to do so. If y'all want to stay back here until I give the all clear, you can."

"I'm going with you." Lela said. "If you die, I'll die by your side."

"I prefer not dying, so I'll h-hang around here." Dustin said. "Besides, I can warn you if anyone tries to sneak on us from behind."

"Well then Lela, let's go." Clay said, leaving behind Dustin in the small area of light. Clay turns on his flashlight again, having the same stone bricks on the walls, but this time containing long scratch marks, scratch marks that look as if they were made only mere minutes ago. Lela and Clay looked at each other in concern over the scratch marks, making them both hold onto their rifles tightly. They soon reached the room, large and fancy enough to house royalty. Footsteps were heard from behind them, making both Clay and Lela aim their rifles behind them.

"Woawoawoa! It's me, Dustin." Dustin said, crouching down. "Don't shoot!"

"What the hell Dustin?" Lela said. "We told you to stay back until it we gave the all clear. We nearly turned you into Swiss Cheese!"

"S-Sorry. I-It's just that I heard voices speaking from the storage room." Dustin said. The sound of the wall entrance opening was faintly heard. The voices, speaking still an unknown language, began to grow nearer. Clay held his rifle even tighter.

"Y'all stay behind me." Clay said. "I'm just going to ask them a few questions about where we can find Kari." They all began walking back to the lamp. Clay then turned the corner and pointed his rifle at the darkness.

"STAND DOWN! ANSWER OR I WILL SHOOT!" Clay yelled at the darkness. Lela grabbed Clay's flashlight and shined it at the tunnel, revealing two young soldiers, both unarmed. The soldiers were really young, maybe 14 or 15 years of age. Both Clay and Lela looked at them perplexed, as they never saw them in the Institution.

"Who are you?" Clay asked, with assertion still in his voice. "What are your names?" The two boys spoke to each-other in the unknown language, with fear clearly being felt from their voices.

"Do you speak English?" Clay asked. "Español? Français? Deutsche? Italiano?"русский?"The boys looked at them in equal perplexion, looking as if they have never heard of any of those languages. One of them attempted to say something.

"H-hep-h-help" Said one of them. Lela grabbed Clay's map and showed it to them. The boys began to study it and just nodded. Lela circled her finger around the entire map and then pointed it at the ground. The boys nodded again.

"I think that we should take them." Lela said to Clay. 'They can help us navigate the entire building. Lela motioned her hand to them to follow. They all went back to the room and Lela showed the boys the map again. They then pointed at a small spot in the map.

"It looks like this is the room." Lela said. Clay looked at the spot to where the boys pointed.

"Seriously?" Clay said. "This room is extremely large and for it to be that small in the map?"

"Well." Lela said. "The larger rooms might be for something far greater, and possibly far more dangerous." Footsteps were heard in front of them in a hallway with a right turn. The two boys immediately ran towards the sound making Clay draw his rifle at them, as if to take a shot. The boys turned the corner, and immediate gunfire was heard, being fired from inside the hallway, painting the wall and floor in the blood and guts from the boys. More footsteps were heard running towards them.

"Get ready to shoot these pieces of shit." Clay said, aiming his rifle at the hallway. Lela and Dustin proceeded to do the same.

Edward had been running for a while until finally reaching the entrance to Tentakeel Outpost. He entered it and sat on the couch to catch his breath immediately after reaching Tentakeel Outpost. Edward looked around him and only saw Marina and Callie, who were standing near the cabin with the device.

"Hey, where is everyone?" Edward said. "Are they getting their things to go look for Clay?"

"Yeah." Marina said. 'They all agreed to meet up here in about an hour. Pearlie went to get something to transport everyone there. Speaking of which, where are your things and why are you panting?"

"Yeah, and Where's Marie?" Callie asked. "She went with you didn't she?"

"Oh y-yeah, there were just some...complications with her."

"What kind of complications?" Callie asked. "Did something happen to her?"

"No." Edward answered. "She's fine, she's just-uh...a-all you need to know is that she'll be back soon." Edward turned around and pretended to be relaxed. Callie and Marina sat next to him, with Callie being really close to him.

"I know what happened." Callie said, smirking at him. "She tried to do it, right?"

"I-I have no idea what you're t-talking about." Edward said. "We just had some i-issues."

"Come on!" Callie said. "Everyone knows she liked you!"

"I didn't." Marina said.

"Uh, now that I remember, she told me to keep it a secret." Callie said. "Oops! Just don't tell her that I told you Marina."

"No problem Callie." Marina said.

"How about we try not to talk about this." Edward said. He tr=ried to stand up, but was pushed back down by Callie.

"I just can't believed that you and Marie actually did it!" Callie said.

'Well-uh, you see, that's-uh the funny thing..." Edward awkwardly said. "We didn't actually. Well, I didn't."

"Wait what?" Callie said. "Really?" Edward started to feel and look ashamed, enough to make Callie and Marina notice.

"Well, did she say anything after saying no?" Marina asked. "Maybe she doesn't feel-"

"I ran out of her house after 3 got in." Edward quickly said. Callie and Marina looked at him wide-eyed.

"Are you kidding me?" Callie said. "That's not a very nice thing to do."

"Well, I did tell her no, but she continued, and now that I think about it, I should've kept going."

"Well now you're pretty much screwed." Callie said. "Marie's not going to take that lightly."

"Are you sure?" Edward asked. "Maybe she'll make an exception for me?"

"No, in fact, you might have to stay away from her for a bit. She can get pretty crazy, and not in the good way." Callie said. "And just out of curiosity, why did you not want to, then want to now?"

"I mean, we are two completely different species, one of which should be dead." Edward said. "But if we were suppose to be a completely different species, then why are we attracted to each other? I mean, very, very, very few humans are attracted to chimpanzees like that, the closest related to humans, and for me to like a humanoid squid thousands of years in the future is a bit weird. So, maybe there's a reason for me to like Marie." A sound was then heard coming from the entrance.

It was Marie, with Agent 3. Agent 3 passed through them quickly and headed to the other kettles. Marie angrily glanced at Edward and went inside the cabin.

"I'm sorry that I didn't want to fuck you!" Edward yelled, making both Marina and Callie laugh. Marie then came out of the cabin with her umbrella and walked towards Edward. Edward stood up at began walking towards her. Marie then whacked Edward in the face with the umbrella.

"YOU BITH!" Marie screamed while getting ready to hit Edward again. Edward began to run from her and Marie gave pursuit. They both began to run in circles, with Edward constantly apologizing and Marie yelling. This kept going on for a few minutes as Marina and Callie just watched, laughing in the process. Marie eventually got Edward cornered and slowly approached him.

"Don't kill me!" Edward said. Marie closed in and kissed his left cheek before going back into the cabin. Edward just stood there, in shock and confusion over what had just happened.

"This shit is messing with my mind." Edward said.

"Well, I don't know what all of that was about." Callie said. "Just keep an eye out for her, as she might be trying to trap you." Edward slowly walked towards the cabin, with Edward questioning his every step. As Callie watched, she began to think about something.

"I just hope that Clay doesn't react like that. I really hope he doesn't." Callie then stood up.

"Hey Edward." Callie said. "Can I ask you something?"

"Uh, sure." Edward responded. He walked towards her, happy that he has an excuse to not talk to Marie yet. "What's up?"

"This might be a weird question, but do you think that Clay would like me?"

"What would I know?" Edward responded. "Although, he's always been concerned specifically about you, so it's not far-fetched. All I can say is that he probably feels just like you, but don't think that's 100% correct." Edward continued to walk to the cabin, leaving Callie to think.

"I should've left with Pearlie." Marina said to herself. "This is all to weird." She kept on tweaking the device to see if she can get the device to do anything that might help them and Clay.

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