I'm a loophole finder, and this story's existence will show that, unless of course FanFiction doesn't care that I'm actually not breaking any rules in which case, they suck. Basically, I'll write a chapter, and some of them have storywise puzzles in them. I just won't publish a chapter until someone comments, or PMs the correct puzzle solve. The rules say that any form of interactive story is notb allowed, but this is technically not interactive. Interacting with means affecting it in some way, and you won't affect the story itself at all. The whole thing will be written as normal, it just won't be published until someone gets the right idea. You don't interact with it at all, you interact with me. Hehe I'm such a cheater.
The PAW Patrol have been sucked down some strange, strange rabbit holes before, but they've never had any quite as weird, and even a little scary. I suppose it's best if I explain how they got into this situation, yes? It's not complicated, yet not simple either.
I'll give it to you short, as the main point of this story is not how they got there, but where they got, and what happened there. Basically, Adventure Bay seemed to have an issue in the sewers, or mpre just Mayor Goodway, so naturally the PAW Patrol went to check out the issue. It ended up that there was just a clog no big deal but they also found something else. Looking closely, there seemed to be a hole in the wall, and after looking closely at that as well, there was some building in there. Grayscale, the building seemed to be entirely metal. Breaking through the wall, they questioned not only how this thing managed to get here without anyone noticing, especially considering that it seemed to have dug out a square around itself, and why it was here. Who made this, and why?
Anyway now that that's finally over, I can now talk about what happened on the inside. They walked into the building, having nothing special happen, except for the fact that the entrance door was only openable from the front; oops. They were stuck in the lab and, spoiler alert, they had to go through what was effectively an escape room to get out. This came as a surprise to the crew for clear and obvious reasons, but they took on the challenge of the puzzle lab.
First off, they decided to walk into the room that was put into their faces as soon as they walked into the place. No labels, but it seemed important considering it's contents. In the heart of the room, their was a heavily defended machine with no obvious use. It seemed to be off at the moment they looked at it, so they had no idea what it did. They did notice a screen on the wall that was projecting words, and it read as follows.
"The time doesn't matter. This machine is set to periodically teleport this laboratory to random areas with high enough population density. That thing, it's afraid of people, so it would want to avoid populated areas. it teleports the lab and it's contents except for any living thing. It's a sacrifice we have to make."
Y'all like dialogue? I can give you that right here.
"That made no sense." Marshall spoke, trying his hardest to figure out what it was trying to say.
"No, it didn't, but I'm sure more of these exist." Ryder explained, doing the same as Marshall.
Ok enough dialogue. They walked around finding that the hallway was full of random rooms with large tubes in them; they did nothing with these rooms. There were projections on the wall but they wanted to explore first. The next hallway, however, which took forever to get to since the first one was huge, was full if rooms labeled with names. An example would be the first room they saw, which read "Robby's room. (Dr. Mont-Anderson)" above the doorway. Man I wonder who owned this room? Anyway most of the rooms were locked, Robby's was one of them. They each had keycard locks, so if they wanted in any specific one they needed a keycard. Two of the rooms were already unlocked, so the crew entered those. The first one they entered was "Sam's room (Dr. Flowers)".
Inside was a simple room, tools, a desk, a small bed, and two large tubes just a little smaller than the ones they saw before. So y'know normal things to have in a room. There were also two of the projection screens on both sides of the room, the left one read as follows.
"October 26, 2024. I don't usually get invested in experimentation, hence why I don't log very often, or ever, but everyone has recently been logging about Antoni's experiment so I guess I should jump on the train too. I'm more or less just a helper around the place. I don't put a lot of effort into my own things so I just roam around and help the others in whatever way they want. Antoni rarely asks for my help though, so I don't know much. However, I have managed to gather that he seems seriously attached to his experiment, despite that others constantly urge him to cease the experiment. I've never seen anyone quite so attached to the outcome of an experiment so this is quite odd."
The right, and less juicy one read like this.
"November 30 2023. I've just been accepted into this lab and I'm more curious than anything, really. Derrick gave me the general scoop on everyone when I came in so I at least know what's going on. I have no idea what to put here to be honest."
They decided to keep as much of the information here in the back of their heads, as it seemed like it'd be important later down the line. The second room was home to Thomas, or Dr. Blackwater. His room looked the same as Sam's just with three logs instead of two, one on the left two on the right. One of the left ones read like this.
"August 28, 2024. I'm excited to be here, I really am. I've always had a huge interest in experimentation, and a lab with effectively no rules inside your own room? I don't care what you say that's awesome. Experimenting with living creatures without threatening any living creatures is just a mind blowing idea to me. Can't wait to start!"
Number two on the left wall said this.
"December 12, 2024. I refuse it. I can't deal with Antoni anymore. His experiment is a danger I swear. It watches me; both in and out of it's chamber. It's evolving into something dangerous. It avoids anybody who isn't Antoni and doesn't hesitate to attack anyone who scares it too much. I need to leave ASAP."
Right projection reads like this.
"September 3, 2024. I've been here a week and I'm already hearing rumours if an experiment gone wrong. They don't seem like false rumours either! Everyone has the same points to make so either it's true or an organized prank. I'll assume the former."
The crew tried to remember as much information as they could from both rooms as they went back to the first hallway to read those projections. The projections seem to be a quite important factor to their escape.
They read the first one they came across, and it read like this.
"December 15, 2024. That thing is ballistic, it kills nearly anybody it sees as a threat, which is every fucking person on planet Earth. We've just finished the security system for after we finish the grand machine, the thing to hopefully end this all. Basically, once the grand machine is activated the systemwill come into affect. It locks every entrance and exit and puts a shield around the whole lab. If you are a human reading this after the conflict, you're safe. Nothing should be of any danger to you. We're putting together a ppuzzle right now for how to deactivate the security."
Number two.
"December 14, 2024. We need it away from the lab and away from people, but if it finds the lab we have to keep it here. It's such a fucking mind breaker. It's a threat to theel entire fucking human population on this goddamn planet. I don't care about the formality of this log I can't deal withthe shit going on anymore. Our survival chances are rapidly depleting. We're gonna need a Christmas miracle to survive this shit."
Number three, the last one on the left side of the hall.
"December 13, 2024. He's going crazy and we can't stop him. I tried my hardest, everyone did, but we failed. The longer he's here the more pissed off he gets. It's to the point where he's more aggressive than scared, which causes issues. He kills people, but wants to kill more the longer he's here. What do we do?"
Next is four, can you count too?
"December 9, 2024. No way we can continue to allow Antoni to do whatever he's doing with that thing. He knows much more about it than we do, and it's clear we need him to spill the facts. It's going to go crazy, it's going to hurt us, maybe kill us. What can we do to delusional Antoni?"
Second to last, man these are filled with juice. Maybe its grape? I like grape juice. Ok anyway here it is.
"December 3, 2024. Antoni... I can't. How do you feel that attached to that thing? It's attacking people. Sure, not always but one bullet is enough to start a war. You have to stop man. We have attachments too. Attachments to the people here, and your attatchment to that thing could end that. Please stop. Please."
And the final one, which is just a joke honestly.
"July 23, 2022. These projectors are fun. Too bad they project only one of their contents."
That's it for now. Remember this information for yourself because I'm not repeating these in further chapters.
The question for progression is: Why is the lab in Adventure Bay? What made the doctors want it there and how did they make it happen? PM me I might help just a little.