-Apologizes to spelling and grammatical errors in the first two chapters (especially in the second chapter where I keep saying hear when I meant here). I do intend to fix them...eventually. Though I still do not like dealing with that quick-preview. Also, while not really a grammatical mistake, where I said, "Return to Paradise", I meant "Rebirth of Paradise" (since this is what I intended given that this is what the woman said in Silent Hill 3 [also a hint to who and how I'm going to use this character in this story]). Why am I saying this now? Well, if I get to the chapter where you meet that woman before I fix the previous chapters, she will say the latter. I'm telling you now since, given how lazy I've been fixing grammatical errors (and my eagerness to get these chapters up as fast as I can), I'm warning you that there might be a slight, very slight, continuity error if the time comes.
-[Edit] Now that I have gone back and proofread and revised chapter 1 and 2, and now this one, you can now disregard my previous notes.
-BTW, I have not played Silent Hill 3 or even finish Silent Hill 2 (although I did get through a lot of it before I had to return it to my brother's friend when I left for college). Still, I will use elements from both games in this story that I saw in trailers, and spoilers that I have read (like the character from Silent Hill 3 I mentioned above).
-Also apologize for my long author rants that I like to do. I hope to make that up with an even longer chapters and story. ;-) Speaking of which...
Alternate Romero Apartments
The Titans arrive at level B2. After a tense few seconds that seemed like an eternity to the Titans, the elevator doors open to a dark level. Cyborg turns on his light to scan the room. Compared to the normal Romero Apartments that appears to be recently built and well kept, this level seems old and abandoned. The walls are rusted over. The floor's tiles are cracked and broken. The sound of metal creaking is heard throughout the level. Beast Boy shakes at the sight in front of him.
Cyborg gulps. "I have a bad feeling about this."
Beast Boy stares at Cyborg. "Dude, I think we are WAY beyond that now."
Starfire takes a step into the hallway. "Um. Our friend does not appear to be here, lets go back and leave this horrible place and..."
Robin walks into the hallway dragging Starfire. "I'm sorry Starfire, but we have to proceed."
Cyborg nods and follows Robin and Starfire. Beast Boy reluctantly follows.
Robin looks at his radio. No static. This level, at least, is safe, for now. He looks at the walls as they pass. He notices a lot of bloodstains and fingerprints everywhere. He looks at the doors as he passes, noting that they are boarded up with no handles. Apparently this is an indication that they shouldn't even try to open these doors. 'Good thing too I guess. Less searching for what we have to do in this place.'
They reach a flight of stairs. Cyborg looks up and sees only darkness even with his flashlight on. "Guess we should search this place."
"We'll go level by level. Keep your eyes open." Robin takes the first step up the stairs. He pauses. "And your radios on."
Starfire follows Robin. "Please don't let there be any more horrible monsters."
Cyborg shakes his head. "Sorry Star but...I'm almost certain that we will fight more monsters."
"Waaaaaaaaaah." Starfire whines.
"Funny guy goes first, funny guy goes first, funny guy goes first..." Beast Boy closes his eyes and shakes.
Cyborg bashes Beast Boy's head. "Keep saying that BB and you WILL be the first to go. Except it might not be from the monsters."
Beast Boy sees stars for a bit then recovers. He gulps and heads up the stairs.
Robin makes it to the B1 door. As the group reaches where he is at, a small earthquake starts. The Titans brace themselves as the area behind them collapses, blocking off the entrance to B2. Robin looks at the blocked stairway behind him. "No turning back now." Robin checks the B1 door, but finds that is lock. He looks up the dark stairway. His first destination is the first floor door. They stop in surprise as they see that, other then the fact that it is rusted over, the door has a dent in it as if someone rammed it.
Starfire blinks. "Is this the same place as the less evil world?"
Robin scratches his head, then looks back down to where B2 used to be. "No...the normal world didn't have a B2." He turns his attention back to the first floor door. "Its probably just a sign that this is the similar apartment complex and we are still...in a form of Silent Hill."
"In other words...they are screwing with us again." Cyborg frowns in frustration.
"Yes. But...we have to continue." Robin grabs the handle and slowly turns it. Except he finds that it is locked.
Beast Boy shakes. "Maybe they want us to be stuck here forever!"
Cyborg shakes his head. "Calm down BB, we still have 2 more floors to go. If those two floors are locked, THEN you can start panicking."
Robin nods. They continue up the stairway towards the second floor. Robin slowly turns the knob. Cyborg, Beast Boy, and Starfire hold their breaths. A click is heard. Robin slowly opens the door as their radios started sounding. Robin takes out his retractable Bo Staff, Cyborg activates his sonic cannon, Starfire readies her starbolts, and Beast Boy changes into a tiger. Robin quickly opens the door ready to hit anything. From their location, all they see are the rusted walls and metallic grated floors.
Robin takes a few steps in, followed by Cyborg, Starfire, and Beast Boy. The clank of his steel soled shoes is the only thing that they could hear. The room is completely dark with only Cyborg's flashlight thing illuminating the hallway. Robin looks in one direction, then another. At one end of the hallway, a barred window and the elevators are there. At the other end, the hallway turns right. If there were any monsters, they would be at the other end of the corner. With Cyborg's light shining a small circle in front of them, they head towards the end of the hallway. One step after another, the corner of the hallway gets closer, and closer. The sound of the static from there radios gets louder, and louder. Beast Boy sweats in fear.
Once they get to the corner, Cyborg quickly spins and fires his sonic cannon. "Take that you...monsters?" Cyborg moves around, looking at the hallway. No monsters are evident except a figure at the far end of the hallway. The figure only sways back and forth.
Robin looks down. "That monster is only swaying at us...if it is a monster."
Beast Boy peaks behind Cyborg. "Maybe you stunned him silent? Hehehe."
Robin looks down at his radio. The static is still raging. "Maybe it is waiting for us to get there."
Starfire gulps. "Then should we not be getting there?"
Cyborg, switching to night vision and looks at the monster. He, it, is just standing there doing nothing. "From where I am, I might be able to knock it down, but...the fact that it isn't moving is giving me the creeps."
Robin, Cyborg, Starfire, and Beast Boy walk up towards the figure that is just standing there.
Crash
The apartment door 202 next to them shatters into a million pieces. A piecing scream is heard as a monster, which looks like a woman with half her face blown off, swings some sort of knife.
Robin swings his Bo Staff and knocks the monster off its feet. The monster gets up and swings at Robin.
"Aaaaaaaaagggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh." Starfire blast the monster with enough starbolts to kill it.
A second figure obscured in the dark approaches the Titans. The figure seems to be running at them. Cyborg blasts the monster back into the apartment. But since his sonic cannon can only knock objects, and not kill anything bigger then bugs, the monster quickly gets up and lunges at Robin.
Robin karate kicks the monster back. He runs towards the monster before it gets a chance to get up and starts bashing it with his Bo Staff.
"Robin wait!" Cyborg runs in and scans the rest of the darkened apartment.
Robin bashes the monster continuously. After bashing it for a while, he stomps its breaking its...neck he assumes. The static from his radio tapers off a bit.
Beast Boy, now a mouse, walks in. He changes back into a human.
Cyborg scowls his eyes at Beast Boy. "Great help BB."
Beast Boy shrinks back into a mouse. "Hey, common, what did you expect me to do? There were only two and you guys seem to have it covered and..."
"If we are going to survive, EVERYONE needs to fight." Cyborg glares at Beast Boy.
"I was willing to fight...just that it LOOKED like you guys got it covered." Beast Boy yells back at Cyborg.
Starfire, still shaking from what just happen, tries to calm down her two friends. "Friends, stop. This is not helping."
Robin looks at the two. "Stop fighting!" A vain appears to be pulsing from his head. "Its bad enough we are stuck in this nightmare. We DON'T want this group to be split apart now do we? I'm sure you've both seen enough horror movies to know what happens when that happens!"
Cyborg and Beast Boy shake their heads.
"Good." Robin looks around the apartment. "Since this place opened up for us, guess we should check this place out first. A little light might help here."
Cyborg, with his little flashlight, looks around the room. He sees a light switch. "Wouldn't hurt." Cyborg flicks the light switch on.
The room is dimly lit exposing a well furnished, but decaying apartment. Floors are tiled, instead of the strange metal grates that roam the hallways. The walls are the same corroded rusted look as the rest of the alternate apartments. The chairs and couch appear to be eaten away. The television in the middle of the room appears old. It even has knobs on it. Pretty odd given that, at least in the normal Romero Apartments are supposed to be a new building.
Robin walks around. He looks at the wall, the floors, and the two now deceased monsters. 'Both look like women. Wonder if they have some sort of meaning?'
Static sounds as the television flickers to life.
Robin, Cyborg, Starfire, and Beast Boy jump slightly. They all turn their attention to the television. Through the static, they see the symbol they have all grown to hate. It is the symbol that they saw in the grocery store backroom.
Cyborg points his sonic cannon at the television. "I have your freaky crap right..."
"Guys?" The symbol changes to a woman covered in the shadow.
Cyborg backs off a bit. "Raven?"
Robin blinks. "Raven?"
"You have to get out!" Raven, or at least what they think is Raven, talks in a near panic voice, at least as near panic as Raven's voice let on.
Robin grabs the edges of the television. "No Raven! We will find you! Tell us where you are..."
"No! This is something I have to do alone. You need to find a way out. Its too dangerous for any of you to get involved." The image of Raven in the shadows is slowly being consumed by static.
"Raven NO, whatever it is, we do this together. We need you Raven. Raven? RAVEN?" Robin shakes the television. The television is now dead. Robin bashes the television. Robin mutters her name in a more somber voice. "Raven."
"We need to help her somehow." Cyborg looks around the apartment. "And it means getting passed this place."
Beast Boy looks at the kitchen. The tile is all cracked and dirty. The refrigerator door is closed shut with the handle broken off. "Even if it wasn't broken off, I wouldn't have wanted to eat out of it anyways."
Starfire looks down the still darkened hallway within the apartment. One door leads to the bedroom, which seems to be boarded up, and another door leads to the bathroom.
Robin looks at where Starfire is staring. He heads towards the bathroom. He flicks on a light, which illuminates the bathroom. It was dirty with the toilet clogged. Robin opens the cracked bathroom mirror. Finding nothing of importance, he again looks back at the toilet. 'I hate to do this but I have to look everywhere.' Robin, taking out a plastic glove that is conveniently inside his utility belt, puts it over his normal gloves, and starts searching the toilet. Robin distorts as he searches the contents of the clogged toilet. 'I REALLY hate doing this.'
Beast Boy, as a rat, pops in to see what Robin is doing. He turns back to human form. "Robin, that's nasty!"
"Not something I like to be doing either BB." Robin searches, and grabs something. He slowly takes it out and sees what he has. "A key for room 304."
Beast Boy looks at the key. "I hope there isn't any more keys in toilets."
"Same here BB, same here." Robin exits the room.
Cyborg looks at Robin. "Shall we go?"
Robin nods. "I think we are done here, especially with the bedroom boarded up and all."
The Titans exit the apartment. With Cyborg's flashlight, they look back at the end of the hallway. "The monster's gone."
"Guess we are not his target." Starfire smiles.
Robin thinks a bit. "Maybe. Or...he didn't want to fight us now!" Robin looks down the hallway. "Since we are here already, might as well check the other apartments. Save us some time if there is something here that we still need to do." He, with Cyborg following providing light, and the others right behind them, all head towards apartment number 201 first. He looks at the door. "Boarded up and no door handle. Skip this one." He head towards apartment number 203. He checks the handle. It is locked. "Might have to go back to this one." Robin then heads towards apartment number 204. He turns the handle. A click is heard, and it opens. Robin looks into the apartment.
He turns on the light. Static is heard on his radio. Robin takes out his Bo Staff and bashes the first thing that comes to him. The first thing that comes to him is...moths? But these are not ordinary moths. Big moths. The first moth explodes with guts everywhere, and falls to the floor. Cyborg comes and blast a few moths as well since it is one of the few things his sonic cannon can kill. Beast Boy, hoping to make up for his perceived failure before, runs in as a tiger and bashes more moths. Starfire manages to blast a few too. Once the static disappears, they all sigh in relief.
Cyborg looks like the dead oversized moths. Cyborg smirked thinking of ways to lighten the mode. "Hey, you don't suppose Killer Moth is here too?"
Robin smirked back. "Would be funny if that was the case." His smirk turns to a frown. "But he probably is still behind bars. And at the moment, I almost wish I were in his shoes. Prison would seem like paradise compared to here."
They scan the apartment looking for clues. Oddly, this apartment seems...cleaner then the other one. Though the flickering lights certainly doesn't give an easy feel to the room. Finally, they come into the bedroom.
Beast Boy looks at the bedroom. "Well, at least this one isn't..."
Cyborg grabs Beast Boy as holds him back before tentacles could touch him.
Beast Boy's eyes widen. "Tha...aaaanks Cy. That's one big plant!"
Robin steps in front of the bedroom doorway just beyond the plant's reach. He looks around the bedroom. He notices something on the far wall. Some sort of tile can be seen that doesn't blend in with the rest of the room. 'Could be a clue? Or another puzzle?' He notices that he can't get to the tile due to the monstrous plant in the way. The plant's roots seem to come from the far wall on the other side of the room from the tile. The plant covers nearly every square inch of the room. 'Guess we have to deal with this plant eventually. But how?' Robin looks around the room again. Oddly, it is all-metal. Metal. Even the bed, which is the only furnishing in this bedroom, is just a metal frame. Its as if the room won't be able to burn down. 'That's it! A little fire will have to do.' Robin takes out his flame disc, looks at it, and then puts it back. 'This won't be enough. It's another puzzle over another puzzle that needs to be solved. Great. Who comes up with this stuff?' Robin turns around.
Cyborg turns at Robin. "What do you think?"
"Can't do anything for now. That tile on the far wall must mean something." Robin, with the group following, heads towards the door. "But with that plant obviously in the way, we need to get rid of it. With a little fire of course."
Starfire blinks. "Fire? But wouldn't that burn down the building?"
"No. That room is literally filled with metal. The only thing that should burn in here is the plant. But my flame disc won't be enough to get rid of it all." Robin continues to walk towards the exit. "Something tells me...we might find out answers in the basement."
"But the first basement is locked remember?" Beast Boy reminds Robin.
Robin nods. "Which means our answers..." Robin looks at the Apartment key 304. "Is probably in apartment 304."
Beast Boy gulped. "More searching. How long is this going to take?"
Cyborg frowns. "As long as it is going to take. Remember, this is for Raven."
The Titans head out of the room. Seeing that the hallway seemed to be cleared of danger for now, they head up the stairs for level 3. Robin, being the leader that he is, slowly turns the handle for level 3. It is again dark, and, with the help of Cyborg's mini-flashlight that is connected to his body, they see that the hallway, like the one below it, is decayed and appears dilapidated. The radio started cracking as expected. This time however, the monsters were at the end of the corner. Three female- like monsters in total are seen.
Cyborg fires his sonic cannon at the first monster causing him to fall back. Robin throws a birdorang at one of the monsters. The birdorang in that monster lodges itself in its head. Beast Boy, in his tiger claws at the monster until it falls. Starfire blast the monster Cyborg knocked over with her starbolts before killing it with her laser eyes. Robin retakes his birdorang, and bashes the monster with his Bo Staff until it is down. Once it is down, Robin stomps on it until it is dead.
Beast Boy looks at the fallen monsters. "Not scared of you now HA!"
Cyborg pats Beast Boy. "Good for you. Now if you could stay this way for the rest of the monsters ahead of us."
Robin smirks. He then turns his attention to apartment 304. The Titans reach apartment 304 and unlock it. They scan the apartment with Cyborg's mini-light. They see a birthday cake at the table, the walls seemed cleaned up if that was possible in this place. In fact, it almost looked like a normal apartment unit. The hallway going to the bathroom and bedroom are blocked. At one end of the room, they see indentations next to a cupboard.
Robin approaches the wall and feels the indentations. "Guess I found out what the tiles are for." He notices the numbers of indentations. "Three. Great. Means there are two more after we get rid of that plant thing."
Starfire looks around. A faint smile appears on her face. "I'm just happy that there are no monsters here." She looks at the cake, dimly lit by Cyborg's mini-light. "Who would be celebrating their day of birth in this evil place?"
Beast Boy blinks. "Hey wait a second, why didn't anyone turn on the lights here? It worked for the other places." Beast Boy walks over to the light switch and turns it on. What they see startled everyone.
Instead of the dimly lit apartments that they found on the second floor, the room is illuminated with a bright black light. The black light gives off a bluish hue to the room.
Beast Boy blinks. "Whoa."
Starfire brings her hands to her mouth. "Oh my!"
The walls are covered with handprints that glow in a sinister florescence. Bright stains are everywhere in the room.
Robin looks around. "Black light. They use this to find traces of blood that have been recently cleaned. Looks like there is more then a trace of blood here."
"Blood?" Beast Boy nearly faints before being bashed in the head by Cyborg.
"This is no place to be fainting BB." Cyborg looks up and notices some writing on the wall. "Robin? Check it out."
Robin looks at the short phrase. "Bees and the birds all live in the tree of life?" Robin thinks back to the tile. Robin smirks. "I don't think this one is going to be hard to solve. The tile we saw was red. Birds could represent any color, however, bees are typically associated with yellow, and trees, green. The red one probably represents birds. Put them in the right order and..." Robin stops himself. "Then what?"
Starfire looks at the cupboard. "Robin look! There are claw marks on the floor."
Robin looks at the scratch marks, then back at the puzzle. "So, the secret is what is behind this cupboard." He looks up at the wall. "Cyborg, doesn't this wall connect to the other apartment?"
Cyborg nods. "Guess that's one way into that apartment."
"But we still have to get those tiles. And get passed that plant." Robin searches the apartment. "What could we...yes." Robin takes out the keys to open the door to B1. "Now we are getting somewhere." Robin walks a bit then notices matches near the birthday cake. "I can even save a flame disc as well." Robin takes the matches from the table.
"Well, guess there is nothing to do but head downstairs." The exit the apartment and head towards the stairs. Once there, they head down to B1 level. They did not encounter any monsters along the way. Once they arrive at the B1 level door, Robin unlocks it and slowly enters. Preparing for monsters on the other side, Robin takes out his Bo Staff and Cyborg readies his sonic cannon. Robin swings the door open...only to find that the radio isn't sounding. They slowly enter the hallway and look around.
Beast Boy gives a sigh or relief. "Guess that means..."
Cyborg covers Beast Boy's mouth. Cyborg switches his vision to night vision mode. In the far distances, he sees figures standing there doing nothing. Cyborg whispers to the group. "Guys, there are monsters on the other side. However, like that other dude from before, they aren't moving." He looks back at the figures. "My guess is...they can't hear us, or see us in the dark." Cyborg looks around and sees the maintenance room door, and the elevator next to it. He looks at the doors nearer to the monsters, but they all seem to be boarded up. "Doesn't look like we need to explore past the maintenance room and elevator. If we keep a low profile, maybe we can avoid this confrontation."
Starfire nods. "Yes, I tire of this constant fighting."
Robin nods. "Me too."
Beast Boy nods. "But how will we get to the door? We can't exactly see in the dark you know. Even if I change to a nocturnal animal, I would still have problems."
Cyborg thinks for a bit. "Lets all hold hands. I'll lead the way."
"Um Cy..." Beast Boy looks at Cyborg.
"We're just doing this to get the room BB." Cyborg smirks. "Unless you want something deeper..."
Beast Boy scowls. "Now who's the funny man here is."
The Titans, holding hands, slowly walk towards the door. Cyborg looks back at the group. His cybernetic eye glowing green slightly. "The path is mostly clear except for a cart to your left. Shouldn't be a problem." They take a few slow steps, careful not to make any loud sounds. They reach the door with Cyborg this time opening it. The creaking sound of the door gives the Titans a short pause. Cyborg turns his head towards the monsters at the end of the hallway. They haven't moved. So far so good. Once the door is opened sufficiently enough for them to proceed, they enter the room with ease.
Beast Boy is about to slam the door shut before Cyborg stops him. "We have to leave remember?" Cyborg whispers to Beast Boy.
Cyborg turns on his mini-light and illuminates the room. He sees the elevator control switch and...in place of the electrical circuit breakers, it is a green tile. Robin takes the green tile with a tree symbol on it and switches on the elevator. The elevator comes alive. Cyborg looks around a bit and sees a mostly empty self. A mostly empty self except a can of oil! 'Doesn't get any easier then this.' Cyborg thought. He takes the can of oil and usher the other Titans to the elevator. Cyborg turns off his mini-light and switches back to night vision mode and lead the Titans to the elevator.
Cyborg and the others push the elevator button.
As Cyborg is doing this, Beast Boy sneezes. "Achoo!"
The monsters hear Beast Boy and starts moving towards the group.
Starfire hears the sound of shuffling feet. "Um friends..."
Robin takes out his Bo Staff. "I know."
Cyborg turns around and has his back against the wall. He prepares his sonic cannon. "Common, just a few more seconds."
The shuffling sound gets closer and closer.
Cyborg aims at the monsters. He turns on his little mini-light so that the others can see them. "Just a few more seconds..."
The elevator bell rings and the doors open. The Titans rush in and frantically push the close door button. The doors close as the monsters reach the elevator. Pounding could be heard, but nothing else.
The elevator looks exactly like its normal version except that it's more decayed and decrepit.
Cyborg turns to Robin. "So, which floor? Back to two?"
Robin shakes his head. "No, try the first floor. We still have one more tile to get. Has to be on this level."
"Got it." Cyborg pushes button for the first floor.
Starfire looks on with a black expression. She then looks at Robin. "How much longer before we see Raven again?"
Robin looks at Starfire. "I don't know Star. I just hope it's soon."
The elevator stops at the first floor. As it opens, a low static sound is heard. They walk out waiting for any movement. So far, nothing.
Robin looks from side to side. 'Nothing so far. But knowing this place, something's bound to happen.'
The group follows Robin's lead towards one end of the hallway to the other. They first approach the superintendent's room only to find it boarded it. Then they head towards the entrance. It too, is boarded up.
Loud banging is heard coming from one of the rooms.
They all stare in that direction.
Starfire blinks. "Isn't that..."
"Yes." Robin thinks for a bit. "But knowing this place..."
Beast Boy sighs. "More monsters."
Cyborg nods. "This time, whatever is through that door...attack!"
The Titans approach the first floor apartment where, in the normal Silent Hill, was where Bryan was at. Robin looks at the banging door. It seemed to have stopped banging as they approach it. Robin cautiously turns the handle of the door. After hearing the click, he swings the door wide open and jumps back just in case monsters were to lunge at them. The Titans waited, but nothing comes out of the apartment. Instead of facing a monster, they are faced with only the sound of silence.
The Titans scan the room. They flip the light switch, but this time it is still dark. Cyborg, looks around the apartment with his mini-flashlight. Again, the route to the bedroom and bathroom are blocked. They scan the room. It is sparsely furnished. Like the rest of the apartment complex, the walls are decayed and dilapidated.
Robin heads towards the kitchen. "False alarm maybe? Still, have to check every place."
Cyborg follows Robin providing the light. Starfire is right behind him in order not to get lost in this evil place.
Beast Boy follows Robin into the kitchen. As Robin approaches the kitchen, a body falls out of the refrigerator making a nice clunk. "AAAAGGGGGGGHHHHHH!" Beast Boy spins and crashes into the wall behind him.
Robin kneels down next to the body. It turns out to be a manikin. "False alarm indeed." He looks at the manikin's hand. It is a yellow tile with a bee on it. Robin picks it up.
A low moan is heard in the apartment building.
Starfire eyes are wide, and she quickly turns her head to one area of the dark room to the next. "What...where is that horrible sound coming from?"
Cyborg scans the room. He is taking aback as he sees the on the fall wall where the sound is coming from. A man, or what appears to be a man, seems to be stuck in the wall. No, he is going THROUGH the wall. A dark puddle surrounds him as he attempts to enter.
Beast Boy is shaking. "Mmm...m...m..mm....MONSTER!"
Cyborg blasts his sonic cannon at the wall. What he sees scares him. His sonic cannon didn't do anything to it! "No!"
Starfire blast a round of starbolts at it. Again, the attack has no effect.
The monster raises his head and scream. "Rooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrr!"
Robin starts itching towards the door. "Um...Titans...RUN!"
The rush the door in lightning speed and slams the door shut behind it.
All are breathing hard. Beast Boy is the first to speak up. "Its getting worse and worse by the minute! What's next?"
To the left of them, a door shatters and a number of female monsters with knives come out.
Cyborg looks at the monster. "You just had to ask!" He raises his sonic cannon ready to fire.
When another monster, with a huge knife comes out from behind and slices the female monsters in half. The huge bloody knife makes a dent in the hallway.
Robin, Cyborg, Starfire, and Beast Boy eyes widen at the sight in front of them.
"Its that monster that wasn't moving before!" Cyborg points his shaking arm at it.
"It is moving now!" Starfire begins to shake in terror.
Beast Boy, in his raccoon form, looks at the knife-wielding monster in detail. "And he looks well armored!"
"Titans...RUN!" Robin yells at the group as the knife-wielding monster dislodges his knife from the wall. The Titans run towards the blocked entrance.
The knife-wielding monster chases after the Titans at a very fast speed.
Cyborg and the Titans kneel behind a cart. Cyborg turns off his mini- flashlight and waits. The other Titans turn off their radios as well. Starfire is holding Beast Boy's mouth closed, while Robin holds Starfire's mouth closed. Beast Boy is sweating in fear. The sound of heavy boots and the sound of metal being dragged on the floor are heard right behind him. Cyborg turns on his night vision mode and peeks above them. He sees the monster, his head is some sort of metal Pyramid, looking around in the dark.
'We need to get to the stairs or the elevator. The elevator should be on this floor, and is faster so that 'Pyramid Head' can't follow us instantly. Of course it would still be useless if this thing has brains. He could just run up the stairs and catch us on either the second of third floor.' Cyborg looks around. 'But we have to make that chance if we are going to get out of this place alive!' The Pyramid Head walks next to the Titans. Cyborg looks around and notices a pipe. Cyborg picks it up carefully, not to make any premature sounds, and throws it in a direction far away from the elevators. The monster hears the pipe, and begins to move in that direction.
Once the monster is near the pipes, Cyborg signals to the others to follow his lead. All of them rise up and dashes to the elevators. All of them frantically push the button. As they are doing this, Pyramid Head turns around and sees the Titans at the elevator. The doors open and all of them rush in and also frantically pushes the second floor button. The door close and everyone inside breathes a sigh of relief. They turn on their radios again feeling that the big danger has passed.
"Another monster dodged." Beast Boy sighs.
'But how long are we going to keep doing this? At least with a horror movie it last only a few hours. If this last more then a few hours, heck, even a few days...' Robin looks at Beast Boy and Starfire. 'I'm not sure how well we could cope.'
As the door opens again, a soft static is heard on their radios.
Cyborg looks around. "More monsters?"
Starfire wonders a bit then notices something move. "Eeeeekk!" She blasts the area with her starbolts.
Robin, with his Bo Staff, ready to strike, looks at where Starfire blasted. Cyborg backs her up by shining the mini-flashlight at the wall. Beast Boy, behind Cyborg, is in his cat form ready to...strike I guess, at whatever it is.
A small, almost invisible apparition is seen. It squeaks then disappears. The sound of static disappears from their radios.
Robin blinks. "Guess it was a harmless ghost. Unlike the other ones we've encountered."
Starfire blinks. "I would almost call it cute."
Cyborg frowns. "Well, with that over, I guess we can get back to the business beforehand."
Robin nods.
They reenter 204 apartment and head towards the bedroom. Cyborg dumps the oil all over the plant, and Robin throws a match in. Fire engulfs the plant monster. The monster screams in agony before turning to ash. After the fire and smoke is cleared, Robin heads towards the red tile with a bird on it, and pick it up. On the bed frame, he sees a key. Room 203. Robin thinks back to Room 203. "Guess there is no harm in going there."
"Hope there is no more of those evil things there." Starfire follows Robin. Cyborg and Beast Boy are right behind them.
The Titans exit apartment 204 and enter apartment 203. Like before, Robin cautiously opens the handle ready for anything. Thankfully, there are no monsters here, and the light does work, but the place is dimly lit. They look around.
"Nothing seems to be of interest..." Robin looks around and sees a tape sitting on a chair. "Might be important." He takes the tape.
Beast Boy looks at the tape. "This isn't going to be like the Ring?"
Robin smirks. "No...might be worst."
Beast Boy turns away from Robin. "Hmph. Not funny Robin."
The Titans exit apartment 203 and head towards apartment number 304. This time, taking the elevator. Since no static can be heard when they arrive, they assumed it is safe and enter the still black lit apartment.
Robin approaches the indentations. "Should be easy enough, just put the tiles in the right place..."
Low suffering moans are heard behind them.
The Titans turn to see where the moans are coming from. The wall is bulging. A puddle on the wall, florescent due to the black light, and a figure appears in the middle. Arms reach out as the ghost tries to enter the apartment.
Beast Boy turns to Robin shaking. "Um. Robin...could you work faster?"
"Hold on, it's just a simple puzzle...birds and the bees, red and yellow..." Robin places the tiles on the indentations. Top one red, then the yellow tile under it.
More screams are now heard. This time, they sound like baby screams. More bulges in the walls are seen. The wall glows many small baby heads appear on the wall next to them.
"Robin?" Starfire frantically turns her head from side, looking at all the ghost coming in.
Robin puts in the last tile. "There! No, not birds and bees, bees and birds..." Robin frantically takes out the red and yellow and switches them.
"Robin?" Beast Boy backs up as one of the ghosts is free and slowly approaches the Titans. His legs shift like a distorted television image trying to correct itself.
"There!" Robin yells as the cupboard begins to move. A hole in the wall appears. "Enter, NOW!"
The Titans rush in. In a blur, the ghost rushes them from the air. "ROAR!" The space between it and the Titans is cut in half. The Titans make it into the adjourning apartment before the ghost has a chance to get them.
As the Titans enter the next apartment, the cupboard closes behind them.
The apartment, engulfed in darkness is suddenly brightened. A blinding light from a fire burns in front of them. Revealing to the Titans that they are not alone.
"Maybe we should've took our chances with the ghost." Beast Boy looks at the figure.
The monster is Pyramid Head.
Robin takes out his Bo Staff. "No escape now. Its time to FIGHT! Titans, GO!"
The Pyramid Head swings his knife at the Titans. The Titans scatter.
Starfire flies behind him, as much as the room allows, and blast starbolts at it. The monster swings its knife at Starfire and Starfire drops.
Cyborg blasts the monster with his sonic cannon. No obvious effects seem evident. The knife swings at Cyborg's head causing Cyborg to duck.
Robin gets on top of the monster and starts bashing it with his Bo Staff. Pyramid Head moves his arms and Robin is thrown at a nearby wall.
"Robin!" Starfire flies next to Robin.
"Star?" Robin looks at Starfire. He looks back at the monster. "Starfire!" The knife lodges above them. Robin tries to push her out of the way as the monster punches Starfire, sending her to the other side of the wall.
Beast Boy comes in as a tiger and begins slashing at Pyramid Head. Pyramid Head turns around and swings his knife at Beast Boy. Beast Boy changes into a mouse as the knife slams to the floor, inches away from Beast Boy.
"Why not have a knuckle sandwich!" Cyborg runs up to the monster and starts beating the monster. The monster takes a few steps back then punches Cyborg that knocks him down. The monster brings his knife around. Cyborg recovers and moves out of the way just in time.
Starfire gets up from her position. After shaking her head a little to clear it, she flies above the monster and fires her laser eyes at it.
Robin launches a number of exploding discs at the monster as Starfire's attack distracts it.
The monster gets up, and starts walking away.
Cyborg is about to attack, but notices the monster walking away. 'This guy's tough. Better let him go for now.'
A loud siren is heard.
Robin, Starfire, Beast Boy, and Cyborg cover their ears. They contort in agony before collapsing in pain. Darkness consumes them.
When they awake in the normal Silent Hill.
-------End of Chapter 3
This story is turning out to be my longest so far. Currently my other fics are longer, but they also have more chapters. In fact, in three chapters, this story already beats "Two Birds...Part 2" in word length. Given that I don't have a set ending for this fic, this could be my longest fic when all is said and done. Rivaling "Two Birds..." as the longest if you combine all three parts of "Two Birds..."
BTW, people waiting for chapter 9 for DLA, it's coming...eventually. Originally I planned to have that chapter out sooner, but the idea for this fic popped in my head and I couldn't let it go.
So, what's on that tape? Beast Boy survived his first trip into the alternate Silent Hill. Can he survive another? How long will Starfire stay sane? Will we meet the blond girl? What happen to Jessica? To Bryan? Are there others in Silent Hill? So many questions...hopefully, all will be answered as the story progresses. Until next time...later.
Proofread and revised.
-[Edit] Now that I have gone back and proofread and revised chapter 1 and 2, and now this one, you can now disregard my previous notes.
-BTW, I have not played Silent Hill 3 or even finish Silent Hill 2 (although I did get through a lot of it before I had to return it to my brother's friend when I left for college). Still, I will use elements from both games in this story that I saw in trailers, and spoilers that I have read (like the character from Silent Hill 3 I mentioned above).
-Also apologize for my long author rants that I like to do. I hope to make that up with an even longer chapters and story. ;-) Speaking of which...
Alternate Romero Apartments
The Titans arrive at level B2. After a tense few seconds that seemed like an eternity to the Titans, the elevator doors open to a dark level. Cyborg turns on his light to scan the room. Compared to the normal Romero Apartments that appears to be recently built and well kept, this level seems old and abandoned. The walls are rusted over. The floor's tiles are cracked and broken. The sound of metal creaking is heard throughout the level. Beast Boy shakes at the sight in front of him.
Cyborg gulps. "I have a bad feeling about this."
Beast Boy stares at Cyborg. "Dude, I think we are WAY beyond that now."
Starfire takes a step into the hallway. "Um. Our friend does not appear to be here, lets go back and leave this horrible place and..."
Robin walks into the hallway dragging Starfire. "I'm sorry Starfire, but we have to proceed."
Cyborg nods and follows Robin and Starfire. Beast Boy reluctantly follows.
Robin looks at his radio. No static. This level, at least, is safe, for now. He looks at the walls as they pass. He notices a lot of bloodstains and fingerprints everywhere. He looks at the doors as he passes, noting that they are boarded up with no handles. Apparently this is an indication that they shouldn't even try to open these doors. 'Good thing too I guess. Less searching for what we have to do in this place.'
They reach a flight of stairs. Cyborg looks up and sees only darkness even with his flashlight on. "Guess we should search this place."
"We'll go level by level. Keep your eyes open." Robin takes the first step up the stairs. He pauses. "And your radios on."
Starfire follows Robin. "Please don't let there be any more horrible monsters."
Cyborg shakes his head. "Sorry Star but...I'm almost certain that we will fight more monsters."
"Waaaaaaaaaah." Starfire whines.
"Funny guy goes first, funny guy goes first, funny guy goes first..." Beast Boy closes his eyes and shakes.
Cyborg bashes Beast Boy's head. "Keep saying that BB and you WILL be the first to go. Except it might not be from the monsters."
Beast Boy sees stars for a bit then recovers. He gulps and heads up the stairs.
Robin makes it to the B1 door. As the group reaches where he is at, a small earthquake starts. The Titans brace themselves as the area behind them collapses, blocking off the entrance to B2. Robin looks at the blocked stairway behind him. "No turning back now." Robin checks the B1 door, but finds that is lock. He looks up the dark stairway. His first destination is the first floor door. They stop in surprise as they see that, other then the fact that it is rusted over, the door has a dent in it as if someone rammed it.
Starfire blinks. "Is this the same place as the less evil world?"
Robin scratches his head, then looks back down to where B2 used to be. "No...the normal world didn't have a B2." He turns his attention back to the first floor door. "Its probably just a sign that this is the similar apartment complex and we are still...in a form of Silent Hill."
"In other words...they are screwing with us again." Cyborg frowns in frustration.
"Yes. But...we have to continue." Robin grabs the handle and slowly turns it. Except he finds that it is locked.
Beast Boy shakes. "Maybe they want us to be stuck here forever!"
Cyborg shakes his head. "Calm down BB, we still have 2 more floors to go. If those two floors are locked, THEN you can start panicking."
Robin nods. They continue up the stairway towards the second floor. Robin slowly turns the knob. Cyborg, Beast Boy, and Starfire hold their breaths. A click is heard. Robin slowly opens the door as their radios started sounding. Robin takes out his retractable Bo Staff, Cyborg activates his sonic cannon, Starfire readies her starbolts, and Beast Boy changes into a tiger. Robin quickly opens the door ready to hit anything. From their location, all they see are the rusted walls and metallic grated floors.
Robin takes a few steps in, followed by Cyborg, Starfire, and Beast Boy. The clank of his steel soled shoes is the only thing that they could hear. The room is completely dark with only Cyborg's flashlight thing illuminating the hallway. Robin looks in one direction, then another. At one end of the hallway, a barred window and the elevators are there. At the other end, the hallway turns right. If there were any monsters, they would be at the other end of the corner. With Cyborg's light shining a small circle in front of them, they head towards the end of the hallway. One step after another, the corner of the hallway gets closer, and closer. The sound of the static from there radios gets louder, and louder. Beast Boy sweats in fear.
Once they get to the corner, Cyborg quickly spins and fires his sonic cannon. "Take that you...monsters?" Cyborg moves around, looking at the hallway. No monsters are evident except a figure at the far end of the hallway. The figure only sways back and forth.
Robin looks down. "That monster is only swaying at us...if it is a monster."
Beast Boy peaks behind Cyborg. "Maybe you stunned him silent? Hehehe."
Robin looks down at his radio. The static is still raging. "Maybe it is waiting for us to get there."
Starfire gulps. "Then should we not be getting there?"
Cyborg, switching to night vision and looks at the monster. He, it, is just standing there doing nothing. "From where I am, I might be able to knock it down, but...the fact that it isn't moving is giving me the creeps."
Robin, Cyborg, Starfire, and Beast Boy walk up towards the figure that is just standing there.
Crash
The apartment door 202 next to them shatters into a million pieces. A piecing scream is heard as a monster, which looks like a woman with half her face blown off, swings some sort of knife.
Robin swings his Bo Staff and knocks the monster off its feet. The monster gets up and swings at Robin.
"Aaaaaaaaagggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh." Starfire blast the monster with enough starbolts to kill it.
A second figure obscured in the dark approaches the Titans. The figure seems to be running at them. Cyborg blasts the monster back into the apartment. But since his sonic cannon can only knock objects, and not kill anything bigger then bugs, the monster quickly gets up and lunges at Robin.
Robin karate kicks the monster back. He runs towards the monster before it gets a chance to get up and starts bashing it with his Bo Staff.
"Robin wait!" Cyborg runs in and scans the rest of the darkened apartment.
Robin bashes the monster continuously. After bashing it for a while, he stomps its breaking its...neck he assumes. The static from his radio tapers off a bit.
Beast Boy, now a mouse, walks in. He changes back into a human.
Cyborg scowls his eyes at Beast Boy. "Great help BB."
Beast Boy shrinks back into a mouse. "Hey, common, what did you expect me to do? There were only two and you guys seem to have it covered and..."
"If we are going to survive, EVERYONE needs to fight." Cyborg glares at Beast Boy.
"I was willing to fight...just that it LOOKED like you guys got it covered." Beast Boy yells back at Cyborg.
Starfire, still shaking from what just happen, tries to calm down her two friends. "Friends, stop. This is not helping."
Robin looks at the two. "Stop fighting!" A vain appears to be pulsing from his head. "Its bad enough we are stuck in this nightmare. We DON'T want this group to be split apart now do we? I'm sure you've both seen enough horror movies to know what happens when that happens!"
Cyborg and Beast Boy shake their heads.
"Good." Robin looks around the apartment. "Since this place opened up for us, guess we should check this place out first. A little light might help here."
Cyborg, with his little flashlight, looks around the room. He sees a light switch. "Wouldn't hurt." Cyborg flicks the light switch on.
The room is dimly lit exposing a well furnished, but decaying apartment. Floors are tiled, instead of the strange metal grates that roam the hallways. The walls are the same corroded rusted look as the rest of the alternate apartments. The chairs and couch appear to be eaten away. The television in the middle of the room appears old. It even has knobs on it. Pretty odd given that, at least in the normal Romero Apartments are supposed to be a new building.
Robin walks around. He looks at the wall, the floors, and the two now deceased monsters. 'Both look like women. Wonder if they have some sort of meaning?'
Static sounds as the television flickers to life.
Robin, Cyborg, Starfire, and Beast Boy jump slightly. They all turn their attention to the television. Through the static, they see the symbol they have all grown to hate. It is the symbol that they saw in the grocery store backroom.
Cyborg points his sonic cannon at the television. "I have your freaky crap right..."
"Guys?" The symbol changes to a woman covered in the shadow.
Cyborg backs off a bit. "Raven?"
Robin blinks. "Raven?"
"You have to get out!" Raven, or at least what they think is Raven, talks in a near panic voice, at least as near panic as Raven's voice let on.
Robin grabs the edges of the television. "No Raven! We will find you! Tell us where you are..."
"No! This is something I have to do alone. You need to find a way out. Its too dangerous for any of you to get involved." The image of Raven in the shadows is slowly being consumed by static.
"Raven NO, whatever it is, we do this together. We need you Raven. Raven? RAVEN?" Robin shakes the television. The television is now dead. Robin bashes the television. Robin mutters her name in a more somber voice. "Raven."
"We need to help her somehow." Cyborg looks around the apartment. "And it means getting passed this place."
Beast Boy looks at the kitchen. The tile is all cracked and dirty. The refrigerator door is closed shut with the handle broken off. "Even if it wasn't broken off, I wouldn't have wanted to eat out of it anyways."
Starfire looks down the still darkened hallway within the apartment. One door leads to the bedroom, which seems to be boarded up, and another door leads to the bathroom.
Robin looks at where Starfire is staring. He heads towards the bathroom. He flicks on a light, which illuminates the bathroom. It was dirty with the toilet clogged. Robin opens the cracked bathroom mirror. Finding nothing of importance, he again looks back at the toilet. 'I hate to do this but I have to look everywhere.' Robin, taking out a plastic glove that is conveniently inside his utility belt, puts it over his normal gloves, and starts searching the toilet. Robin distorts as he searches the contents of the clogged toilet. 'I REALLY hate doing this.'
Beast Boy, as a rat, pops in to see what Robin is doing. He turns back to human form. "Robin, that's nasty!"
"Not something I like to be doing either BB." Robin searches, and grabs something. He slowly takes it out and sees what he has. "A key for room 304."
Beast Boy looks at the key. "I hope there isn't any more keys in toilets."
"Same here BB, same here." Robin exits the room.
Cyborg looks at Robin. "Shall we go?"
Robin nods. "I think we are done here, especially with the bedroom boarded up and all."
The Titans exit the apartment. With Cyborg's flashlight, they look back at the end of the hallway. "The monster's gone."
"Guess we are not his target." Starfire smiles.
Robin thinks a bit. "Maybe. Or...he didn't want to fight us now!" Robin looks down the hallway. "Since we are here already, might as well check the other apartments. Save us some time if there is something here that we still need to do." He, with Cyborg following providing light, and the others right behind them, all head towards apartment number 201 first. He looks at the door. "Boarded up and no door handle. Skip this one." He head towards apartment number 203. He checks the handle. It is locked. "Might have to go back to this one." Robin then heads towards apartment number 204. He turns the handle. A click is heard, and it opens. Robin looks into the apartment.
He turns on the light. Static is heard on his radio. Robin takes out his Bo Staff and bashes the first thing that comes to him. The first thing that comes to him is...moths? But these are not ordinary moths. Big moths. The first moth explodes with guts everywhere, and falls to the floor. Cyborg comes and blast a few moths as well since it is one of the few things his sonic cannon can kill. Beast Boy, hoping to make up for his perceived failure before, runs in as a tiger and bashes more moths. Starfire manages to blast a few too. Once the static disappears, they all sigh in relief.
Cyborg looks like the dead oversized moths. Cyborg smirked thinking of ways to lighten the mode. "Hey, you don't suppose Killer Moth is here too?"
Robin smirked back. "Would be funny if that was the case." His smirk turns to a frown. "But he probably is still behind bars. And at the moment, I almost wish I were in his shoes. Prison would seem like paradise compared to here."
They scan the apartment looking for clues. Oddly, this apartment seems...cleaner then the other one. Though the flickering lights certainly doesn't give an easy feel to the room. Finally, they come into the bedroom.
Beast Boy looks at the bedroom. "Well, at least this one isn't..."
Cyborg grabs Beast Boy as holds him back before tentacles could touch him.
Beast Boy's eyes widen. "Tha...aaaanks Cy. That's one big plant!"
Robin steps in front of the bedroom doorway just beyond the plant's reach. He looks around the bedroom. He notices something on the far wall. Some sort of tile can be seen that doesn't blend in with the rest of the room. 'Could be a clue? Or another puzzle?' He notices that he can't get to the tile due to the monstrous plant in the way. The plant's roots seem to come from the far wall on the other side of the room from the tile. The plant covers nearly every square inch of the room. 'Guess we have to deal with this plant eventually. But how?' Robin looks around the room again. Oddly, it is all-metal. Metal. Even the bed, which is the only furnishing in this bedroom, is just a metal frame. Its as if the room won't be able to burn down. 'That's it! A little fire will have to do.' Robin takes out his flame disc, looks at it, and then puts it back. 'This won't be enough. It's another puzzle over another puzzle that needs to be solved. Great. Who comes up with this stuff?' Robin turns around.
Cyborg turns at Robin. "What do you think?"
"Can't do anything for now. That tile on the far wall must mean something." Robin, with the group following, heads towards the door. "But with that plant obviously in the way, we need to get rid of it. With a little fire of course."
Starfire blinks. "Fire? But wouldn't that burn down the building?"
"No. That room is literally filled with metal. The only thing that should burn in here is the plant. But my flame disc won't be enough to get rid of it all." Robin continues to walk towards the exit. "Something tells me...we might find out answers in the basement."
"But the first basement is locked remember?" Beast Boy reminds Robin.
Robin nods. "Which means our answers..." Robin looks at the Apartment key 304. "Is probably in apartment 304."
Beast Boy gulped. "More searching. How long is this going to take?"
Cyborg frowns. "As long as it is going to take. Remember, this is for Raven."
The Titans head out of the room. Seeing that the hallway seemed to be cleared of danger for now, they head up the stairs for level 3. Robin, being the leader that he is, slowly turns the handle for level 3. It is again dark, and, with the help of Cyborg's mini-flashlight that is connected to his body, they see that the hallway, like the one below it, is decayed and appears dilapidated. The radio started cracking as expected. This time however, the monsters were at the end of the corner. Three female- like monsters in total are seen.
Cyborg fires his sonic cannon at the first monster causing him to fall back. Robin throws a birdorang at one of the monsters. The birdorang in that monster lodges itself in its head. Beast Boy, in his tiger claws at the monster until it falls. Starfire blast the monster Cyborg knocked over with her starbolts before killing it with her laser eyes. Robin retakes his birdorang, and bashes the monster with his Bo Staff until it is down. Once it is down, Robin stomps on it until it is dead.
Beast Boy looks at the fallen monsters. "Not scared of you now HA!"
Cyborg pats Beast Boy. "Good for you. Now if you could stay this way for the rest of the monsters ahead of us."
Robin smirks. He then turns his attention to apartment 304. The Titans reach apartment 304 and unlock it. They scan the apartment with Cyborg's mini-light. They see a birthday cake at the table, the walls seemed cleaned up if that was possible in this place. In fact, it almost looked like a normal apartment unit. The hallway going to the bathroom and bedroom are blocked. At one end of the room, they see indentations next to a cupboard.
Robin approaches the wall and feels the indentations. "Guess I found out what the tiles are for." He notices the numbers of indentations. "Three. Great. Means there are two more after we get rid of that plant thing."
Starfire looks around. A faint smile appears on her face. "I'm just happy that there are no monsters here." She looks at the cake, dimly lit by Cyborg's mini-light. "Who would be celebrating their day of birth in this evil place?"
Beast Boy blinks. "Hey wait a second, why didn't anyone turn on the lights here? It worked for the other places." Beast Boy walks over to the light switch and turns it on. What they see startled everyone.
Instead of the dimly lit apartments that they found on the second floor, the room is illuminated with a bright black light. The black light gives off a bluish hue to the room.
Beast Boy blinks. "Whoa."
Starfire brings her hands to her mouth. "Oh my!"
The walls are covered with handprints that glow in a sinister florescence. Bright stains are everywhere in the room.
Robin looks around. "Black light. They use this to find traces of blood that have been recently cleaned. Looks like there is more then a trace of blood here."
"Blood?" Beast Boy nearly faints before being bashed in the head by Cyborg.
"This is no place to be fainting BB." Cyborg looks up and notices some writing on the wall. "Robin? Check it out."
Robin looks at the short phrase. "Bees and the birds all live in the tree of life?" Robin thinks back to the tile. Robin smirks. "I don't think this one is going to be hard to solve. The tile we saw was red. Birds could represent any color, however, bees are typically associated with yellow, and trees, green. The red one probably represents birds. Put them in the right order and..." Robin stops himself. "Then what?"
Starfire looks at the cupboard. "Robin look! There are claw marks on the floor."
Robin looks at the scratch marks, then back at the puzzle. "So, the secret is what is behind this cupboard." He looks up at the wall. "Cyborg, doesn't this wall connect to the other apartment?"
Cyborg nods. "Guess that's one way into that apartment."
"But we still have to get those tiles. And get passed that plant." Robin searches the apartment. "What could we...yes." Robin takes out the keys to open the door to B1. "Now we are getting somewhere." Robin walks a bit then notices matches near the birthday cake. "I can even save a flame disc as well." Robin takes the matches from the table.
"Well, guess there is nothing to do but head downstairs." The exit the apartment and head towards the stairs. Once there, they head down to B1 level. They did not encounter any monsters along the way. Once they arrive at the B1 level door, Robin unlocks it and slowly enters. Preparing for monsters on the other side, Robin takes out his Bo Staff and Cyborg readies his sonic cannon. Robin swings the door open...only to find that the radio isn't sounding. They slowly enter the hallway and look around.
Beast Boy gives a sigh or relief. "Guess that means..."
Cyborg covers Beast Boy's mouth. Cyborg switches his vision to night vision mode. In the far distances, he sees figures standing there doing nothing. Cyborg whispers to the group. "Guys, there are monsters on the other side. However, like that other dude from before, they aren't moving." He looks back at the figures. "My guess is...they can't hear us, or see us in the dark." Cyborg looks around and sees the maintenance room door, and the elevator next to it. He looks at the doors nearer to the monsters, but they all seem to be boarded up. "Doesn't look like we need to explore past the maintenance room and elevator. If we keep a low profile, maybe we can avoid this confrontation."
Starfire nods. "Yes, I tire of this constant fighting."
Robin nods. "Me too."
Beast Boy nods. "But how will we get to the door? We can't exactly see in the dark you know. Even if I change to a nocturnal animal, I would still have problems."
Cyborg thinks for a bit. "Lets all hold hands. I'll lead the way."
"Um Cy..." Beast Boy looks at Cyborg.
"We're just doing this to get the room BB." Cyborg smirks. "Unless you want something deeper..."
Beast Boy scowls. "Now who's the funny man here is."
The Titans, holding hands, slowly walk towards the door. Cyborg looks back at the group. His cybernetic eye glowing green slightly. "The path is mostly clear except for a cart to your left. Shouldn't be a problem." They take a few slow steps, careful not to make any loud sounds. They reach the door with Cyborg this time opening it. The creaking sound of the door gives the Titans a short pause. Cyborg turns his head towards the monsters at the end of the hallway. They haven't moved. So far so good. Once the door is opened sufficiently enough for them to proceed, they enter the room with ease.
Beast Boy is about to slam the door shut before Cyborg stops him. "We have to leave remember?" Cyborg whispers to Beast Boy.
Cyborg turns on his mini-light and illuminates the room. He sees the elevator control switch and...in place of the electrical circuit breakers, it is a green tile. Robin takes the green tile with a tree symbol on it and switches on the elevator. The elevator comes alive. Cyborg looks around a bit and sees a mostly empty self. A mostly empty self except a can of oil! 'Doesn't get any easier then this.' Cyborg thought. He takes the can of oil and usher the other Titans to the elevator. Cyborg turns off his mini-light and switches back to night vision mode and lead the Titans to the elevator.
Cyborg and the others push the elevator button.
As Cyborg is doing this, Beast Boy sneezes. "Achoo!"
The monsters hear Beast Boy and starts moving towards the group.
Starfire hears the sound of shuffling feet. "Um friends..."
Robin takes out his Bo Staff. "I know."
Cyborg turns around and has his back against the wall. He prepares his sonic cannon. "Common, just a few more seconds."
The shuffling sound gets closer and closer.
Cyborg aims at the monsters. He turns on his little mini-light so that the others can see them. "Just a few more seconds..."
The elevator bell rings and the doors open. The Titans rush in and frantically push the close door button. The doors close as the monsters reach the elevator. Pounding could be heard, but nothing else.
The elevator looks exactly like its normal version except that it's more decayed and decrepit.
Cyborg turns to Robin. "So, which floor? Back to two?"
Robin shakes his head. "No, try the first floor. We still have one more tile to get. Has to be on this level."
"Got it." Cyborg pushes button for the first floor.
Starfire looks on with a black expression. She then looks at Robin. "How much longer before we see Raven again?"
Robin looks at Starfire. "I don't know Star. I just hope it's soon."
The elevator stops at the first floor. As it opens, a low static sound is heard. They walk out waiting for any movement. So far, nothing.
Robin looks from side to side. 'Nothing so far. But knowing this place, something's bound to happen.'
The group follows Robin's lead towards one end of the hallway to the other. They first approach the superintendent's room only to find it boarded it. Then they head towards the entrance. It too, is boarded up.
Loud banging is heard coming from one of the rooms.
They all stare in that direction.
Starfire blinks. "Isn't that..."
"Yes." Robin thinks for a bit. "But knowing this place..."
Beast Boy sighs. "More monsters."
Cyborg nods. "This time, whatever is through that door...attack!"
The Titans approach the first floor apartment where, in the normal Silent Hill, was where Bryan was at. Robin looks at the banging door. It seemed to have stopped banging as they approach it. Robin cautiously turns the handle of the door. After hearing the click, he swings the door wide open and jumps back just in case monsters were to lunge at them. The Titans waited, but nothing comes out of the apartment. Instead of facing a monster, they are faced with only the sound of silence.
The Titans scan the room. They flip the light switch, but this time it is still dark. Cyborg, looks around the apartment with his mini-flashlight. Again, the route to the bedroom and bathroom are blocked. They scan the room. It is sparsely furnished. Like the rest of the apartment complex, the walls are decayed and dilapidated.
Robin heads towards the kitchen. "False alarm maybe? Still, have to check every place."
Cyborg follows Robin providing the light. Starfire is right behind him in order not to get lost in this evil place.
Beast Boy follows Robin into the kitchen. As Robin approaches the kitchen, a body falls out of the refrigerator making a nice clunk. "AAAAGGGGGGGHHHHHH!" Beast Boy spins and crashes into the wall behind him.
Robin kneels down next to the body. It turns out to be a manikin. "False alarm indeed." He looks at the manikin's hand. It is a yellow tile with a bee on it. Robin picks it up.
A low moan is heard in the apartment building.
Starfire eyes are wide, and she quickly turns her head to one area of the dark room to the next. "What...where is that horrible sound coming from?"
Cyborg scans the room. He is taking aback as he sees the on the fall wall where the sound is coming from. A man, or what appears to be a man, seems to be stuck in the wall. No, he is going THROUGH the wall. A dark puddle surrounds him as he attempts to enter.
Beast Boy is shaking. "Mmm...m...m..mm....MONSTER!"
Cyborg blasts his sonic cannon at the wall. What he sees scares him. His sonic cannon didn't do anything to it! "No!"
Starfire blast a round of starbolts at it. Again, the attack has no effect.
The monster raises his head and scream. "Rooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrr!"
Robin starts itching towards the door. "Um...Titans...RUN!"
The rush the door in lightning speed and slams the door shut behind it.
All are breathing hard. Beast Boy is the first to speak up. "Its getting worse and worse by the minute! What's next?"
To the left of them, a door shatters and a number of female monsters with knives come out.
Cyborg looks at the monster. "You just had to ask!" He raises his sonic cannon ready to fire.
When another monster, with a huge knife comes out from behind and slices the female monsters in half. The huge bloody knife makes a dent in the hallway.
Robin, Cyborg, Starfire, and Beast Boy eyes widen at the sight in front of them.
"Its that monster that wasn't moving before!" Cyborg points his shaking arm at it.
"It is moving now!" Starfire begins to shake in terror.
Beast Boy, in his raccoon form, looks at the knife-wielding monster in detail. "And he looks well armored!"
"Titans...RUN!" Robin yells at the group as the knife-wielding monster dislodges his knife from the wall. The Titans run towards the blocked entrance.
The knife-wielding monster chases after the Titans at a very fast speed.
Cyborg and the Titans kneel behind a cart. Cyborg turns off his mini- flashlight and waits. The other Titans turn off their radios as well. Starfire is holding Beast Boy's mouth closed, while Robin holds Starfire's mouth closed. Beast Boy is sweating in fear. The sound of heavy boots and the sound of metal being dragged on the floor are heard right behind him. Cyborg turns on his night vision mode and peeks above them. He sees the monster, his head is some sort of metal Pyramid, looking around in the dark.
'We need to get to the stairs or the elevator. The elevator should be on this floor, and is faster so that 'Pyramid Head' can't follow us instantly. Of course it would still be useless if this thing has brains. He could just run up the stairs and catch us on either the second of third floor.' Cyborg looks around. 'But we have to make that chance if we are going to get out of this place alive!' The Pyramid Head walks next to the Titans. Cyborg looks around and notices a pipe. Cyborg picks it up carefully, not to make any premature sounds, and throws it in a direction far away from the elevators. The monster hears the pipe, and begins to move in that direction.
Once the monster is near the pipes, Cyborg signals to the others to follow his lead. All of them rise up and dashes to the elevators. All of them frantically push the button. As they are doing this, Pyramid Head turns around and sees the Titans at the elevator. The doors open and all of them rush in and also frantically pushes the second floor button. The door close and everyone inside breathes a sigh of relief. They turn on their radios again feeling that the big danger has passed.
"Another monster dodged." Beast Boy sighs.
'But how long are we going to keep doing this? At least with a horror movie it last only a few hours. If this last more then a few hours, heck, even a few days...' Robin looks at Beast Boy and Starfire. 'I'm not sure how well we could cope.'
As the door opens again, a soft static is heard on their radios.
Cyborg looks around. "More monsters?"
Starfire wonders a bit then notices something move. "Eeeeekk!" She blasts the area with her starbolts.
Robin, with his Bo Staff, ready to strike, looks at where Starfire blasted. Cyborg backs her up by shining the mini-flashlight at the wall. Beast Boy, behind Cyborg, is in his cat form ready to...strike I guess, at whatever it is.
A small, almost invisible apparition is seen. It squeaks then disappears. The sound of static disappears from their radios.
Robin blinks. "Guess it was a harmless ghost. Unlike the other ones we've encountered."
Starfire blinks. "I would almost call it cute."
Cyborg frowns. "Well, with that over, I guess we can get back to the business beforehand."
Robin nods.
They reenter 204 apartment and head towards the bedroom. Cyborg dumps the oil all over the plant, and Robin throws a match in. Fire engulfs the plant monster. The monster screams in agony before turning to ash. After the fire and smoke is cleared, Robin heads towards the red tile with a bird on it, and pick it up. On the bed frame, he sees a key. Room 203. Robin thinks back to Room 203. "Guess there is no harm in going there."
"Hope there is no more of those evil things there." Starfire follows Robin. Cyborg and Beast Boy are right behind them.
The Titans exit apartment 204 and enter apartment 203. Like before, Robin cautiously opens the handle ready for anything. Thankfully, there are no monsters here, and the light does work, but the place is dimly lit. They look around.
"Nothing seems to be of interest..." Robin looks around and sees a tape sitting on a chair. "Might be important." He takes the tape.
Beast Boy looks at the tape. "This isn't going to be like the Ring?"
Robin smirks. "No...might be worst."
Beast Boy turns away from Robin. "Hmph. Not funny Robin."
The Titans exit apartment 203 and head towards apartment number 304. This time, taking the elevator. Since no static can be heard when they arrive, they assumed it is safe and enter the still black lit apartment.
Robin approaches the indentations. "Should be easy enough, just put the tiles in the right place..."
Low suffering moans are heard behind them.
The Titans turn to see where the moans are coming from. The wall is bulging. A puddle on the wall, florescent due to the black light, and a figure appears in the middle. Arms reach out as the ghost tries to enter the apartment.
Beast Boy turns to Robin shaking. "Um. Robin...could you work faster?"
"Hold on, it's just a simple puzzle...birds and the bees, red and yellow..." Robin places the tiles on the indentations. Top one red, then the yellow tile under it.
More screams are now heard. This time, they sound like baby screams. More bulges in the walls are seen. The wall glows many small baby heads appear on the wall next to them.
"Robin?" Starfire frantically turns her head from side, looking at all the ghost coming in.
Robin puts in the last tile. "There! No, not birds and bees, bees and birds..." Robin frantically takes out the red and yellow and switches them.
"Robin?" Beast Boy backs up as one of the ghosts is free and slowly approaches the Titans. His legs shift like a distorted television image trying to correct itself.
"There!" Robin yells as the cupboard begins to move. A hole in the wall appears. "Enter, NOW!"
The Titans rush in. In a blur, the ghost rushes them from the air. "ROAR!" The space between it and the Titans is cut in half. The Titans make it into the adjourning apartment before the ghost has a chance to get them.
As the Titans enter the next apartment, the cupboard closes behind them.
The apartment, engulfed in darkness is suddenly brightened. A blinding light from a fire burns in front of them. Revealing to the Titans that they are not alone.
"Maybe we should've took our chances with the ghost." Beast Boy looks at the figure.
The monster is Pyramid Head.
Robin takes out his Bo Staff. "No escape now. Its time to FIGHT! Titans, GO!"
The Pyramid Head swings his knife at the Titans. The Titans scatter.
Starfire flies behind him, as much as the room allows, and blast starbolts at it. The monster swings its knife at Starfire and Starfire drops.
Cyborg blasts the monster with his sonic cannon. No obvious effects seem evident. The knife swings at Cyborg's head causing Cyborg to duck.
Robin gets on top of the monster and starts bashing it with his Bo Staff. Pyramid Head moves his arms and Robin is thrown at a nearby wall.
"Robin!" Starfire flies next to Robin.
"Star?" Robin looks at Starfire. He looks back at the monster. "Starfire!" The knife lodges above them. Robin tries to push her out of the way as the monster punches Starfire, sending her to the other side of the wall.
Beast Boy comes in as a tiger and begins slashing at Pyramid Head. Pyramid Head turns around and swings his knife at Beast Boy. Beast Boy changes into a mouse as the knife slams to the floor, inches away from Beast Boy.
"Why not have a knuckle sandwich!" Cyborg runs up to the monster and starts beating the monster. The monster takes a few steps back then punches Cyborg that knocks him down. The monster brings his knife around. Cyborg recovers and moves out of the way just in time.
Starfire gets up from her position. After shaking her head a little to clear it, she flies above the monster and fires her laser eyes at it.
Robin launches a number of exploding discs at the monster as Starfire's attack distracts it.
The monster gets up, and starts walking away.
Cyborg is about to attack, but notices the monster walking away. 'This guy's tough. Better let him go for now.'
A loud siren is heard.
Robin, Starfire, Beast Boy, and Cyborg cover their ears. They contort in agony before collapsing in pain. Darkness consumes them.
When they awake in the normal Silent Hill.
-------End of Chapter 3
This story is turning out to be my longest so far. Currently my other fics are longer, but they also have more chapters. In fact, in three chapters, this story already beats "Two Birds...Part 2" in word length. Given that I don't have a set ending for this fic, this could be my longest fic when all is said and done. Rivaling "Two Birds..." as the longest if you combine all three parts of "Two Birds..."
BTW, people waiting for chapter 9 for DLA, it's coming...eventually. Originally I planned to have that chapter out sooner, but the idea for this fic popped in my head and I couldn't let it go.
So, what's on that tape? Beast Boy survived his first trip into the alternate Silent Hill. Can he survive another? How long will Starfire stay sane? Will we meet the blond girl? What happen to Jessica? To Bryan? Are there others in Silent Hill? So many questions...hopefully, all will be answered as the story progresses. Until next time...later.
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