Zero has been transferred into the midst of the jungle; the dense trees blocked the skies and shaded him.
Zero looked around and decided to climb up a tree to see where the pyramid is.
He climbed up a bent tree and reached the top, he shaded his brow with his hand and looked at the ocean of trees below him.
He saw the pyramid it was huge, it rose up from the trees and he could see the entrance from his direction.
A gigantic staircase led to it, climbing upwards and upwards.
"Check in everyone." He heard Harpuia's voice in his comm.
"Fefnir, ground level checking in." he then heard Fefnir's voice,
"Leviathan, second story checking in." Leviathan said.
"Zero?" Harpuia asked, Zero looked at his comm. puzzled.
"Harpuia, we were supposed to be transferred to the inside?" he asked.
"Yes, you were supposed to be transferred to the top floor." Harpuia said.
"Something's not right, I suggest we should regroup." Zero said worriedly into his comm.
"Why what's the matter?" Leviathan's voice asked.
"I'm not inside the pyramid! I'm about..." he calculated the distance, "a mile from there." He heard Leviathan gasp and something that sounded like someone tripping in his comm.
"What do you mean you're a mile away?!" Harpuia's voice asked.
"Something must have gone wrong with the transfer but I fear for worse. Perhaps it was sabotaged." Zero said, climbed down from the tree and started walking towards the pyramid.
"Sabotage? By whom, the Executioners?" Harpuia asked and the answer came immediately, "I fear so. I'm afraid it might be a trap for the three of you."
"I see, hurry up and get here then. We'll continue..." Harpuia started but was interrupted by Fefnir,
"There are three of us now and no one can take on all three of us." Fefnir said arrogantly.
Zero had just warned them, what were they thinking? He decided to say something he couldn't let them fall into a trap if there was one.
"The executioners did." He said, he could almost hear Fefnir's liquids boiling.
"Zero, if we'll talk all day we won't get this mission done." Leviathan said impatiently.
"Do what you wish, I warned you. I'll be there as soon as I can. Be careful!" he said in his comm.
"Right." The three guardians said.
Zero looked around him; he had the unpleasant feeling of being watched. But then again, most chances are that he was watched. He decided to forget the walking and dashed ahead, cutting trees and vines with his beam saber.
Meanwhile inside the pyramid, at Fefnir's level...Fefnir walked along the empty hall filled with statues he walked playfully comparing statues to the other guardians.
He looked at one most resembling Leviathan, it didn't look really like her but it was the closest of all statues in the room.
It was a statue of a woman with curly hair holding a javelin, her eyes really looked like Leviathan's except that they were stone gray.
"Mayans sure knew how to carve statues." Fefnir said to himself while checking the other statues.
The statue that really caught his interest was one of a bat, at least it seemed like one.
Fefnir assumed it was one of the Mayan gods so he studied it:
It was a giant bat-like creature with wingspans four times wider than he was.
The bat's face was ugly, looking so scary that unless the room was lit Fefnir would probably startle.
The creature had claws that looked sharp enough to rip right through Fefnir's armor.
Fefnir read something written in the base of the statue, it was in Mayan but luckily the guardians were programmed with all of the known languages so he could read the name: Camazotz.
Fefnir finally moved away from the statue, but with his gaze fixed on it. As if it was about to spring into life and attack him.
He finally exited the hall of statues to reach a corridor.
He walked a couple of steps before a giant axe swung from the ceiling and nearly chopped him in two.
The axe swung back and forth, threatening to slice anything in it's path.
Fefnir looked farther ahead and saw even more axes swinging in the corridor ahead.
They were like pendulums swinging back and forth, using their own momentum to stay in the same rhythm for eternity.
Fefnir enjoyed watching them swing, until he was bored.
He blasted the ropes that the axes hung on and the axes crashed into the floor with a loud noise.
Fefnir continued down the corridor and reached another hall, it had two staircases going down, one next to the other.
Fefnir looked at the staircases but didn't know which one to choose so he pointed at one and moved his arm so each time he was pointing at another staircase.
He counted to eleven, pointing at a different staircase with every number and ended up in the left staircase.
It was dark, but due to the infra-vision Fefnir had installed in his ocular sensors he was able to see fine.
The stairs finished in a large basement, Fefnir yelled as he saw what was in front of him, he was yelling for two seconds before he was knocked out.
Meanwhile at the second floor..."I don't like this place." Leviathan said to herself, her arms crossed and her hands held the opposite elbows.
She was in a large empty room filled with cobwebs, large cobwebs.
She walked as silently as she could, not wanting to wake anything up.
The bravest reploid in the world would be afraid to be where she was, human sized cobwebs dangling in every corner, dust covering everything, the cold breeze that blew in the closed room and especially the whispers.
She was positive that she heard someone whispering, the voice was high but she couldn't hear what it was saying.
She continued down the hall, avoiding any cobweb she saw and she felt horrible.
"What if Zero was right?" She thought, "what if this is all a trap?"
Leviathan wasn't sure of this anymore; she left through the door as fast as she could, not glancing back once.
She suddenly heard a scream, a bloodcurdling scream of pure terror. She recognized that voice since she heard it so many times before, it was...
"Fefnir! Fefnir come in!" she heard Harpuia said in his comm. he must have heard the scream too.
Harpuia yelled for Fefnir for a couple of more minutes and then fell silent, as there was no response.
"Leviathan?" he asked, his voice shaking.
"Y... yes?" Leviathan responded.
"I think Zero was right... but then, we're trapped. If someone messed with the trans servers than we can't transfer away." Harpuia explained, the same thoughts were crossing Leviathan's head.
"I know, do you think Fefnir is...?" she started, she wanted to say dead but couldn't.
"I don't know, just wait where you are for me. I'll be right there." Harpuia said urgently.
"Okay Harpuia, please come quickly..." Leviathan said and leaned against a wall.
A few minutes passed since she talked to Harpuia and still there was no sign of him.
She was now tapping her fingers on her arm with impatience. Why was Harpuia so late?
She finally heard footsteps and saw a silhouette of a reploid enter the corridor she was in.
"Oh Harpuia where have you..." She finally saw the reploid and it was definitely not Harpuia.
She quickly turned on her comm. and managed to yell, "Help!" before being knocked out.
Meanwhile at the third floor...Harpuia heard Leviathan shout help and then a screech.
He was terrified, he was sorry they didn't hear Zero's warning now.
He was alone, Zero was a mile away and only Harpuia was left, his heart equivalent was beating madly. He wouldn't take any chances so he drew his crimson sabers and lit them.
He was the finest of the guardians, the only one that nearly matched Zero's abilities.
His floor was a labyrinth, twisting corridors and turns and forks and dead ends. He was walking for what seemed like an hour before he reached the other end of the hall, just to be led into another. He sighed and continued walking, following the twisting corridors and taking a right at a fork.
He reached a dead end so he turned back and returned to the fork, but there wasn't any.
Harpuia looked around, there was a fork just there and he turned right. But now it was a straight road from the dead end to another corridor.
He shrugged and left towards the other corridor still suspicious.
The other corridor was a straight road leading to a dead end, Harpuia turned around to go back to where he had come from but it was a dead end too.
"What the?" he asked, and then turned around again to see that the road was now open.
"What is going on here?" he asked no one in particular.
"Harpuia." Zero's voice said in his comm.
"Yeah," Harpuia replied.
"I reached the pyramid and I'm in the fourth level. And is Leviathan okay? I heard her shout for help in my comm." Zero asked a slight concern in his voice.
"Zero, she and Fefnir they're MIA." Harpuia said with a whisper.
"What?!" Zero asked.
"I don't know what happened to them, it's just so weird. You were right; they must have set us up. We should have listened to you." Harpuia said.
"Never mind that, be careful I'll try to get to your floor but keep moving. If they're here they'll find you faster if you'll stay put. And try not to make any noise. From now on radio silence." Zero said and Harpuia whispered, "Okay."
Zero was inside a large entrance hall with two statues of the Camazotz.
Zero studied them and felt sick just by looking at it, such an intimidating figure he had never seen before.
His eyes widened when he realized this was a bat god.
"Thoth, Poseidon, Thor..." he counted on his fingers, "And this guy... Camazotz." He read the name from the base; surprising even himself he didn't remember knowing Mayan.
He heard an echoing scream from Harpuia, a scream from below him.
That was it, the guardians are all MIA it's just him against whoever is in here.
To be continued...Sorry for the late post, I was sick as a dog today so I just managed to write it now.