3. The Darkness Army Does The Basement: Part Two

"Um..."

"Yeah, so..."

"Let's go see the other rooms," Taker said finally after no one else could think of anything else to say. They all nodded and he led them out of the room and back into the hallway. They walked a few feet and came upon a door on the other side of the hall. Taker didn't ask for any volunteers, simply because he knew that there wouldn't be any. He just opened the door and stepped cautiously inside.

They all walked inside the huge room, and immediately Eddie screamed.

"Oh shit! This room is full of clones!" He ran back out the door. "We can't stay in there!"

"Relax, amigo," Batista said, smiling big as he walked over to the first wall. "These are just mirrors."

"Oh," Eddie said, embarrassed at his outburst. "I knew that."

They looked around the room, which appeared to be a huge bathroom. It had showers, toilets in individual stalls, and sinks, and that was basically it. The floor was tiled. There were mirrors on every surface of the room except the floor.

"This isn't so bad," Ashley said, walking around. "It's just a bathroom."

"Good, because I have to take a leak," John said. He walked over to the first bathroom stall and didn't bother closing the door.

"I wouldn't recommend using that particular toilet," Batista said, noticing what it said on the door. On the door was one word: GRAB.

"I really have to take a leak, man," John said. He unzipped his shorts and was just about to pee when he started screaming. "Let go! Let go!"

"What'd I tell him?" Batista asked in a tired voice. "I told him not to use that one!"

They all hurried over to the stall. Looking around John, they could see a bony-looking hand reaching up out of the toilet. It had what appeared to be an iron grip on John's... Well, you know!

"Now that's just fucked up," Taker said, shaking his head as the hand squeezed John painfully.

"Do something! This hand is COLD!" John yelled, struggling with the hand.

Ashley slid past John and kicked the hand as hard as she possibly could with her boot. "You guys, pull him!" she yelled, constantly kicking the hand, which was slowly sinking back down into the toilet and pulling John's genitals with it. The other four started pulling John away from the toilet while the hand kept pulling him towards the toilet as it sank down. Ashley gave one more hard kick to the hand and it let John go.

They all fell back on each other. The hand pointed over at Torrie, who was still cradling her left arm. Torrie got up and walked over to the hand.

"Not a good idea," Batista said in a sing-song voice.

Torrie ignored him. By now, her whole upper body was bright yellow. The hand motioned for her to lean down and come closer.

"Are you stupid?" Ashley asked. She was still standing next to the toilet and couldn't believe that Torrie was actually going closer.

"No. It's trying to tell me something," Torrie said. "I can feel it."

"That's not all you're going to feel," Batista warned her. Inside, he somehow knew that something bad was about to happen to Torrie again. Hey, he had done his job. It wasn't his fault that she wouldn't listen...

Torrie leaned down. "What would you like to tell me, Mr. Bony Hand?"

An evil cackle of laughter filled the stall. The bony hand shot a bird at Torrie, showing her the middle finger. Torrie's mouth widened in surprise. And then, before she could move back, the hand slapped her across the face. Then the hand disappeared back into the pipes, and water shot out at Torrie, right into her open mouth.

Torrie stumbled back out of the stall as Ashley doubled over in laughter. She just couldn't help laughing at Torrie for being dumb enough to talk to a hand that came out of a toilet! Torrie definitely gives blondes a bad name! she thought, following her out of the stall.

Everyone was looking at Torrie strangely as she stood there swallowing the water from the toilet. They backed away from her.

"Um, maybe you should look in the mirror, chica," Eddie suggested after an uncomfortable silence.

"What the hell is happening to me?" Torrie cried as she looked at her reflection in the mirror. Her whole body was bright yellow. Even her hair was starting to turn yellow. Her eyes were all black, and they were getting bigger by the second. Her whole body was slowly beginning to expand. "I look hideous!" she screamed.

"Oh, she knows another word I never thought she'd know!" Ashley exclaimed.

"I... I can't be seen like this!" Torrie yelled miserably. She headed for the door, then ran away from them.

"Come back, Torrie!" Taker called, heading for the door. Everyone else just stood there. "What are you all waiting for? LET'S GO!"

They all hurried out into the hall, only to see Torrie's hair streaking around the corner of a hall they hadn't yet explored. They followed, with Taker leading the way. They rounded the corner just in time to see Torrie enter what appeared to be the only room on the hallway.

"This definitely isn't the traditional hotel," Batista stated as they made their way to the room. "Only three rooms on one floor? Weird."

Taker led the way into the room and stopped almost immediately. "What the hell is that?" he asked, pointing over in the corner.

"Looks like a portal," Ashley said nonchalantly. They all looked at her. "What? I've seen enough on Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Angel. I know a portal when I see one."

"The question is, where does it lead to?" John asked, limping into the room to stand next to Ashley. He was ever grateful to Ashley for saving him from the bony hand, and as a result, he now wanted to be next to her at all times.

"I can answer that for you," came a happy voice from the other corner. They all turned around to look and saw a huge yellow smiley face with big black eyes and a huge, shiny white smile. It was wearing a crown and a robe. "What?" the smiley face asked. "You don't know who I am?"

"You look familiar... What's your name, ese?" Eddie asked.

"I'm King Rollback," the smiley face said. "My kids work in hell, so that's probably why you all recognize me."

"What's hell?" Taker asked suspiciously. "Does it start with a 'W' and end with a 'T'?"

"Right. It's Wal-Mart," King Rollback answered. "Home of rollback prices!" He smiled a dazzling smile at him.

They all screamed at the mention of Wal-Mart. Yeah, they'd been in Wal-Mart a couple of times. Overall, they'd all had bad experiences there.

Batista regained his composure first. "Did you see a young woman run in here?" he asked King Rollback.

"A young woman?"

"Yes. She was about this tall," Taker said, indicating with his hand. "And she was pretty thin and everything."

"But she was expanding," Ashley added. "And turning yellow... Kind of like you."

"No one came in here except my queen," King Rollback said. "See? She's right over there by the portal."

They all turned their attention to the corner where the portal was and saw a most horrible sight. It was another huge bright yellow smiley face wearing a crown. It was obviously a female, and it was smiling a spectacularly huge, white smile.

"Guys, it's me!" Torrie cried. "And I look hideous!"

"Why are you smiling?" John asked, his brow furrowing.

"Because I can't stop!" Torrie wailed. "I've tried and I've tried and I can't stop smiling!"

"This is ridiculous," Ashley said, shaking her head. "Fucking ridiculous." She turned back to King Rollback. "What are you going to do with her?"

"Isn't it obvious? I've made her my queen," King Rollback said. "We are going to go and rule over hell."

"No!" Torrie cried fearfully, yet still smiling all the time. "I don't want to go!"

"You can't take her. She has a contract with the WWE," Batista informed the king. "King Vince McMahon will kick your ass if you take her!"

"Vince is no match for me and my minions," King Rollback said. "Let's see him come and try to take my queen away." He turned to Torrie. "Queen Rollback, go into the portal."

"No," Torrie said bravely.

"Now," King Rollback ordered. She refused. "You leave me no choice. Soldiers, I command you to come take my queen to hell."

Out of nowhere, seemingly hundreds of tiny bright yellow smiley faces appeared. They all went around Torrie and pushed her into the portal.

"I'm sorry I was such a bitch to you, Ashley!" Torrie yelled, and then she disappeared into the portal with the tiny smiley faces.

"I'm going after her," Eddie said immediately.

"You do know where that portal leads, don't you?" King Rollback asked as he rolled over to the portal.

"Where?" Eddie asked.

"To hell," King Rollback said. "Wal-Mart. Home of the rollback prices! Join us if you'd like to!" And then he disappeared through the portal.

"Yeah, you're not so sure about following her now, are you?" John asked Eddie.

"No way. I vowed never to set foot into Wal-Mart and I don't plan on going there," Eddie said.

They all looked at each other. The group was down to five. Torrie was truly gone.

"Well, there's nothing more we can do here," Taker said with a heavy sigh.

"Poor Torrie," Ashley said, and couldn't believe those words had actually come from her mouth. "I didn't really hate her. I just liked bugging her."

"We better get out of here," John said.

They all headed for the door.

"I'll come back and save you, Torrie," Ashley said in a low voice as she looked at the portal. Then she followed the four men out into the hallway. "Where do we go from here?" she asked.

"I guess we go back upstairs," Taker said sadly, grabbing her. "Stick close together, though. We don't want to lose another member of our group."

As they headed back up the hall, Batista wondered aloud. "I wonder if Group 1 is having better luck than we are?"

A/N: There were more votes for Torrie to die, so Torrie is gone to hell. The Darkness Army (Taker's group) has been reduced to 5 people... Up next we'll have Group 1 (Shawn's group) exploring the first floor. Here are the people you can vote for to disappear next: Triple H, Stephanie, Chris Jericho, Edge, and Stacy Keibler. Shawn Michaels can't disappear now because, like Taker, he is the leader of a group. Leave your votes in a review and don't forget to visit my website to see layouts of the places they've already explored.