Prison Block (part 3)
The big guy jumped over the desk and got in the room.
"LITTLE PIGS!"
The malfunctioning airlock behind him burst into flames and started to make small explosions that shook the room. Chris Walker had his white eyes locked on the couple as he started to walk toward them. A loud clank caught Kirigiri's attention right before they started to run away from him. They ran in a very cartoony way around a desk. Chris Walker tried to reach them over the desk but they just walked away, and when he jumps over they were already at the other side.
"Up the vents! HURRY!" Kirigiri exclaimed as she pointed at the vent that was open, her partner understood.
He ran to one side of the room, gaining the big man's attention, that little distraction was enough for the lavender haired woman to get in the vent and call out to her fiancé.
Naegi ran toward the man as he was raising both hands to grab him but the brunette slid under his large legs. Walker didn't immediately understood what just happened as he slowly turned around to see his prey grabbing his partner hand and being pulled up. He rushed toward him.
The male detective was halfway inside the vent when suddenly his leg was tightly grabbed, he let out a shout of pain as he looked down on the big man that was holding him and about to pull him out as he increased the pressure on his leg, almost breaking it. Naegi did the only thing he could think of to get out of this mess: he kicked the giant's face. It didn't had much effect on hurting him, but he did released his grip, leaving the brunette with the camcorder enough space for his leg to slip out of his giant hand.
Chris Walker let out an angry roar as he saw the couple crawling through the vent.
"Are you alright?" asked Kirigiri, concerned.
"I-I'm fine, let's just get away from him. Ah-AH!" shouted Naegi as the air vent plate suddenly gave up under the weight of the duo.
They crashed right outside the Security Room, in the hallway. They couldn't even breath for a second as the closest door suddenly started to bang.
"JESUS!" yelled Naegi, "He won't leave us alone!"
"Let's go! No time to waste!" said the female detective, helping Naegi run with his injured leg.
They ran down the hallway as fast as they could as the metal door gave up and Chris Walker was already giving chase. They saw at the end of the corridor the burning decontamination chamber, there was no choice but to walk past it and hope not to get burned by the flames. But the second they walked beside the flames, an explosion occurred and blasted the couple through a window, making them fall onto the lower floor of the Prison Block they were in.
The fall was higher this time, than when they went through a window in that first hour in the Asylum. Strangely, neither died nor got more injured when they crashed to the ground.
This Prison block was different than the one they woke up earlier, first of all, it was pitch black. The only source of light coming from the stairs at the other side of the courtyard, and from the flickering light coming from the shaking lamp over the duo, showing them exactly why their landing was 'soft'...
...They landed on a pile of corpses and body parts. Guard's body stacked like hay around a pond of blood and flesh. Arms, heads, torsos and legs absolutely everywhere. And everything was dried up as none of the detectives got stained with blood that wasn't theirs. And suddenly the lamp gave up.
"W-WHAT THE FUCK!" yelled both detectives.
Naegi quickly put the night vision and looked for his partner, they were both in panic. Well, Kyouko was using all her strength to show it at a minimum. He finally reached her and grabbed her hand, he told her that it was him and they needed to get out of there as soon as possible. She nodded and followed her partner. The stairs were at the other side of a wall of desks and beds, they could easily jump over it. But as soon as they did, someone jumped over the rail of the upper floor and landed on top of the stairs a dozen meters away from the couple: it was Chris Walker, again!
"What is this bullshit?!" seethed quietly Naegi before jumping back over the small wall of furniture with his fiancée and hid in the closest room.
The big guy started to walk around the court, whispering insults toward the couple as he looked for them. As soon as he turned around to look in a room at the end of the court yard, Naegi and Kirigiri quickly jumped again and walked up the stairs. There was light on their left, at the other side of the gridded door was a lighted hallway with a trail of blood on the ground, as if that bastard of Father Martin knew that they'll end up there somehow. Unfortunately, the gridded door was closed so they had to do a big detour around the balcony of the second floor of the Prison Block. They managed to do it without doing much noise that could attract the big guy downstairs who was still looking for them.
They eventually got to the other side, right at the entrance of the corridor leading to the next part of their journey in this insane place. Naegi's leg was getting a bit better since the injury wasn't that important. He let out a sigh and a growl responded it. The duo slowly looked behind to see Chris Walker walking up the stairs, his eyes locked on them. He roared as he punched once the gridded door, making some bolts fly.
The detectives quickly turned around and ran down the corridor. A gridded door was blocked by beds but thankfully for them, there was enough space between two beds for them to slip through, there was no time to waste as Naegi went first quickly followed by Kirigiri. Chris Walker was at the other side of the door, the gap too small for him to slip through. He turned around and looked for another way.
When they look behind them, they saw another corridor leading to the court yard, they immediately understood that there was another way in to this side of the beds for Chris to get in. They looked around for a way which Chris had no chance to get them. Another gridded door, completely blocked by beds, leaving just a small hole for them to crawl in. They didn't waste a moment as Kirigiri went first, halfway through the hole though, she yelped in surprise. Naegi quickly followed her to help her from any problem that appeared in front of her.
"Is everything alright?" he asked concerned for her as he got out of the hole and stood to face her.
"I'm alright… he just startled me." she pointed at a patient that was lying on the edge of the bed, looking away.
"O-Ok… I'm glad you're alright…" he sighed with a smile as he took her hand.
She smiled back and saw that the trail of blood was leading to another prison block so she proposed to rest a bit before resuming their escape. There wasn't any threats around so they could stop to breathe for some minutes. She took that time to hold the brunette in her arms.
"K-Kyoko? Is everything alright?" he asked, his cheeks red.
"I am… But what about you? You're the one who is more injured… I don't want anything too dangerous to happen to you…"
"Well… being here is already the worst thing that happened in my life until now." he joked, and only received a little punch from his fiancée, "ow!"
"I'm serious, Makoto." she frowned.
"I know… I know… We'll get out of here… We just need to keep following the blood…"
"Yes." she released him, "Let's keep going."
Naegi nodded and both walked inside the new Prison Block, and immediately regretted it as the screams of the crazy patients behind the bars of their cells echoed throughout the prison. One of them in particular was really putting the couple uncomfortable: he was in a straitjacket and he was blindfolded but somehow, he seems to know where the duo was as he approached them, when they walked away, he followed them, whispering things to them.
"... I need to tell you a secret…" he was whispering endlessly.
"You! You need to get us out of here!" shouted another patient to the couple, "These bars won't stop the Walrider. It'll come for us one by one until we're all gone! Please! For the love of God!" he pleaded but there was nothing the detectives could do for the poor Variant.
There was no way out of the floor they were in, the only thing they could do was going to the upper floors of this Prison Block. There was no stairs for them to go up, but fortunately there was stacked beds that they could climb on and reach the higher levels. Their march to the upper floors of this Prison block was full of Variants that attacked them but nothing too serious, especially after Chris Walker or the Twins. Each time a patient tried to attack one of the detectives, the other would punch him and it was all that was needed to calm them down. The result once they got to the highest floor without patients were: two punches for Naegi and two strangulation for Kirigiri. Nothing funny here at Mount Massive Asylum.
During the climb, they found another pair of batteries and a document about some Dr. Rudolf G. Wernicke's death. Old German man who died in 2009, his moments during WW2 were cloudy but he left Germany to live in the United States in 1949 where he lived a good life. It seems that he funded Murkoff Corporation with its projects. Was he also behind the whole PROJECT WALRIDER that every patient is so afraid of?
Something bigger than they imagined is happening here. And even though they have to admit they were very intrigued, by seeing the states of the 'normal people' here (headless) they didn't want to get too involved with it.
The exit was not reachable because the floor right in front of it collapsed. But the duo found in one of the cells a hole that leaded them to the floor below. They knew they must go that way because of the trail of blood leading to the hole. They jumped down, right in the cross of two stairs leading down, one of them was blocked but the other leaded to a room full of blood. At the impact with the floor Naegi activated the night vision without doing it on purpose but when he looked down on the bloody room, he saw something. Something he couldn't understand nor describe: a big shadow of a man… floating and flying away. And he also heard a whisper he didn't understand.
His eyes widen in terror as he started to sweat, Kirigiri noticed it and placed a hand on his shoulder to ask him what was wrong.
"I… I just saw something… Maybe it was a glitch in the camera… please just be a glitch." he said, fearing that this place was getting to him, before walking down the stairs with his partner to enter the bloody room.
Once inside, they noticed it was a locker room, right next to the showers. There were entrails decorating the walls and floor at some corner but the most disturbing was the word 'WALRIDER' written again and again and again on all the walls and lockers.
"Murkoff was running an experiment here called PROJECT WALRIDER, but the patients talk about the Walrider like it's a physical presence. A spirit or demon. Something they found in the mountain… Just what is going on in here?" said Kirigiri, analyzing the writing and the weird logo that was also drawn in blood next to a 'WALRIDER'.
"I… I really don't like the turn this story is taking…"
They had to keep going but the showers were in total darkness, Naegi put back on the night vision, hoping he would never see the 'glitch' again and took his partner's hand and leaded her inside the empty showers. And found another hole, leading down the sewers, between pipes and ground. They knew they had to go there because of the trail of blood. But maybe, maybe they could exit this place through the sewers. They jumped down and down, avoiding the burning steams of the pipes, avoiding to fall from too high and reached a brick wall with a hole. The hole was large enough for them to pass through. And there they were… in the Sewer of Mount Massive Asylum.
The nightmare continues…
To be continued…
In the next chapter of Survival at Mount Massive Asylum…
"Jesus… Just as expected of sewers… It stinks."
"So there's also bodies down here… That means we're still not safe."
"Oh my god… oh my god… it's- it's…"
"It seems we need to go further down… but we need to flush the water."
"You got to be kidding me."
"HEY OVER HERE!"
"Little pigs…"
And this is the end of the second chapter of this story.
Will the couple survive of the Sewers? Or will they lose their lives there...