Chapter 15

Surfacing

"Many try to bury the sins of the past. But if you deny them, pretend they never happened, wish them all away, they will come back to the surface a million times stronger." RT

As the group walked through the sewer tunnel's they then came across a lock cell door when suddenly sparks of electricity came coursing through some wires on either side of the walls of the tunnel. When they reached the lock cell door there was a bright flash of light and Horace appeared before them. He then began to speak to Torque. "This place wants you Torque. It needs people like you. Once it gets a hold of you, it won't let you go, like it hasn't let me go. I've been here a damn long time, and it's sucked me dry. I pray it's almost done with me... It's sending something after you. It let you out for a bit, now it wants you back, deep inside. Deep inside where I've been, all these fucking years. Don't say I never did anything for you..." He then raised his arms and with a bright flash of electricity the cell door open, he then said, "Come join me... in the dance hall..." And with another flash he disappeared.

Then a hatch opened up and a letter came down, the group claim up the ladder and into some kind of water pumping room. They then began to continue forward, while also opening some lockers filled with supplies and ammo along the way. Making their way down a hallway, the group found themselves in another room, when suddenly a group of Mainliners' appeared. Letting out an agonizing cry, the creatures began to attack and the group retaliated. One Mainliner launched itself at Ruby but she quickly dispatched the creature by shooting it while it was in midair. The round fired from Ruby's rifle that the creature flying and into the wall it then fell to the ground with a wet slap and burst opened, releasing its toxic fumes.

Another Mainliner threw a syringe filled with its toxic chemicals at Weiss, who quickly created a glyph and block the syringe. She then fired an ice beam from her weapon and froze the creature in place, she then swung her weapon and shattered the creature to pieces. A third Mainliner jumped into the air and grabbed a hold on to Yang, to which she quickly grabbed the creature's skinny arms. The Mainliner held a syringe in its right hand and was trying to stab Yang in the neck with it, despite the creatures' skinny appearance Yang was quite surprised at how strong the creature was. But she was stronger and with some effort Yang threw the creature away from her and began to unload shell after shell from her shotgun gauntlets ember Celica, each round struck the creature and tour pieces of its flesh from each shotgun blast, soon the creature fell to the ground dead releasing its fumes.

Another Mainliner crawled its way towards an unsuspecting Blake, it then pulled out a syringe and threw it at her but wouldn't make contact with her, she disappeared creature was confused by this only let out a agonizing cry when Blake stabbed the creature in the back pinning it to the floor. She then lifted the creature up and threw it away from her while in midair she opened fired on the creature striking it several times before it finally the ground. It then let out one last cry of pain and died. The last Mainliner try to attack Torque, but he quickly took care of the creature by pulling out his dual revolvers and fired off every round in them. Upon the last shot the Mainliner fell to the ground dead and Torque began to reload his weapons. The Mainliners were gone the group moved forward.

As they moved forward, they saw a large group of rats running away from something. As they moved forward, they found out what the rats were running from, in two small separate cage cells were Slayer's, creatures walked back and forth and upon seeing the group let out an agitated hiss. Not wanting to stay any longer the group moved forward, but as they did, they herd the voices of ghosts long since passed. "You have no proof that these men are spies! They are just as from Vale as you or me!" Then everything went quiet again. As the group moved forward, they entered another room but when they did it with another vision. In this vision they saw the rogue Colonel arguing with his subordinate, by saying. "The hell they are. If internment camps are a good idea out West, then it's a good idea to shoot spies on this coast." Soon the vision ended and everything went back to normal.

They then continue to move forward and as they did, they realized they were back in the basement of the prison. As they made their way back to the basement to the prison, Horace appeared before them behind a cell door and began to speak directly to Torque. "Been waiting so long just to fuckin' sleep. I think you're my last chance, Torque. Don't let me down." He then disappeared and the door opened. The group then moved forward and went back into the prison.