"Tell us where XANA is!" Odd yelled quickly at the native, who was dressed, strangely, in all bright red. He smirked a dark grin, his eyes setting ablaze with red light, as he gripped Odd by the shirt, throwing him to the ground.
"Oh shit!" Robert yelled, drawing a pistol quickly. He opened fire on the approaching figure, as everyone stood back and shuddered. "What the heck is that?" William asked. Robert ducked behind a table, reloading. He blindfired over, seeming to have no effect.
Odd got up, tearing into XANA with his metal gloves fiercely. "You! YOU!" Odd screamed, finally effecting him. The raw hatred began to burrow into XANA, created out of it himself. "I'll kill you past dead! You'll wish you were never programmed! I'll rip your virtual heart out and crush your artificial bones!"
Odd threw it to the ground, drawing a rifle and pointing him straight in the face. "Talk, XANA." Odd growled quickly. "How do we get out of here and save the others?"
Just then Odd saw the fear in its eyes, as he edged the gun closer. "Can't speak? Take a deep breath," Odd muttered, drawing his gun back, still keeping XANA held down in a death grip from his glare. XANA shook his head, and opened his mouth for the first time. "There is a network of tunnels, deep under the city here. It's dangerous, even for me. It's Demon territory down there."
"Demon?" Odd asked. "Talk."
"They're the result of an experiment gone horribly wrong by Franz Hopper, not like my demons – they're terrible, mutated, freakish beasts. Never get caught by a Demon in it's own home. It can rip you apart with thoughts."
"Great," Odd whispered, slowly taking his foot off XANA, who quickly dived up from the ground, knocking Odd to the ground, and quickly drawing a combat knife, murdering both Sissi and William. "That's my fare for information."
Robert gasped, looking at the beauty that was Sissi, falling to the ground. He rushed to catch her before she fell. "No... it's not possible..."
"Robert? I may well pass out, hooo..."
"Don't! No!" Robert yelled, drawing her near-lifeless corpse close. "Please! PLEASE!"
He felt her wrist, as her pulse weakened and died. He let her down onto the ground, looking up at the trail XANA left.
"We're leaving. Leaving to meet the demons."
Robert headed into the city, noticing a sewer grate.
"Well," Odd gulped. "As much as I love the dark, demons, evil, and other such great things, I really don't think-"
"Shut up," Robert hissed, throwing the grate away, and descending down.
Something stunk in the air – decay and lingering disease. He looked around. "Okay," he whispered, "I'm getting scared now."
He pulled a lighter from his pocket, lighting it up to see a yellow-eyed, pale-skinned vampiric demon staring into his eyes. "EYAAAAAH!" Robert screamed, dropping the lighter.
"Relax," the demon uttered in a Romanian accent, "I am only the welcomer. We were especially instructed not to hurt you, Robert. Boss says not to hurt... well, I'm not at liberty to say."
"G-You're..."
"You don't know me. Or else everything isn't going as planned, and we will have to kill you. We'll take you on ahead. The others? I hope they see well in the dark."
Robert growled, trying to resist the demon's grip as it disappeared into the darkness.
Odd looked into the darkness now, trembling, heading the group of Jeremie and Aelita and beginning to move forward slowly and tactically.
"I think you should start saying what you've always wanted to say, Jeremie, because we might not make it out alive."
Jeremie gulped, taking Aelita's hand for comfort. "Don't worry," Jeremie muttered, "we'll... find Robert..."
"I don't care about Robert," Aelita whispered. "I can't go without you."
Odd raised his gloves, looking around. He began to see faint specks of light, as well as a strange silhouette.
"Who are you?" Odd shouted, as lights began to glow bright red around him. It charged at him, very clearly being an oversized, hairy, poisonous spider.
"Uh oh," Odd said.
"Ewww! That's disgusting!" Aelita yelled, diving behind Jeremie. "Kill it, kill it!"
Odd jumped towards it, enraged, as it swung up two arms to block him, and quickly used two free arms to pin him down, using his raised arms now to try and tear into him. Odd growled, ripping the arms out of his clothes with his gloves, and cracking them apart. He pulled off the very attacking arms, leaving a horrible bloody mess as it spewed purple blood across the floor.
"Disgusting," Odd muttered, as it fell to its weak body, "completely disgusting."
"We don't have to walk a-around that, do we?" Aelita asked.
"Close your eyes," Jeremie replied, leading her around it.
"I thought squishing a rat was nasty, but this takes the cake," Odd grumbled.
"Look out!" Jeremie yelled, as something ran at them fast: what looked to be a Wendigo.
Odd raised his gloves, shielding the attacks, as it battered into them, as he felt pushed back. "Aw jeez!" Odd yelled, tired of the constant attacks.
"Odd, just run!" Aelita yelled. Odd jabbed into it, raising up his foot for a kick, but then psyching it out, breaking its guard and crushing its chin with a mighty blow. He swung forth some more, until it fell. "Good idea," Odd yelled, breaking into a sprint.
The further they went, the more abominations they saw on the sides of the walls, the more mechanical and red it seemed to grow,.the more light that shone.
They reached the end, a gigantic portal. Odd looked at it. "If Robert made it through, we can!" He yelled, diving in.