Return to the Administration Block (part 1)

Just the thought of leaving this infernal place made both of them smile. The exit was close! One last push, that's all they needed. They walked down the familiar hallway but what appeared in front of them made them shiver: a wall of furniture with enough space between them to squeeze through.

"Oh God no…" whispered Kirigiri, already knowing where this was going.

The couple squeezed their way through the furniture. It leaded to a long hallway with lots of doors, some were opened, some closed and some certainly locked or blocked. They didn't make ten steps into the hallway that a roar was heard from the other side. Then a gargantuan form emerged from one of the doors, it looked left, then right and had its eyes locked on the duo.

"Little Pigs!" Chris Walker roared as he started to charge towards them.

Kirigiri's quickly grabbed Naegi's hand and brought herself and her lover inside the room on their left and closed the door behind. They then noticed that it was a large room with two doors. Chris's heavy footsteps were getting closer, they needed a place to hide!

"Over there! Under the desk!" Ordered Naegi as he pulled Kirigiri and huddled with her under the desk.

She wanted to say that it was not a good idea but it's too late: the giant barged into the room and started to look around.

There was a hole large enough for Naegi to see what was happening around the desk. Chris was looking around and grunting like an enraged animal.

"I know you're here little pigs… I won't let you escape this time…" he growled as he approached a corner of the room to look behind a large chair that was put there.

Naegi took this short opportunity to grab something on top of the desk and throw it away, praying that it was toward the door.

Eureka!

The distraction worked as Chris suddenly turned towards the noise, roared in anger and stormed out of the room.

"Please turn right… please turn right…" the brunette chanted and his prayers were answered when the monster of a man turned right and entered another room.

"Let's go!" Said Kirigiri standing up, quickly followed by her partner.

They ran down the hallway, Chris shouted behind them, now aware that they've tricked him. Kirigiri saw an open air vent in the nearest room so she leaded Naegi inside and they closed the door. She helped her companion get in first as the Variant started to bang on the door, ready to demolish it. She jumped inside just in time as the door gave up.

Chris looked at the couple crawling inside the vent and yelled in anger one more time, more threats for their lives came out of his mouth.

The couple crawled inside the vent, Naegi guiding Kirigiri. He told her that there was a corpse blocking the way out so it might be better to look for another way, she agreed. After some turns, they landed inside a locked room. The only important thing about the room was the CONFIDENTIAL Document on the ground. The lavender haired woman grabbed it and started reading.

It was about that patient named William 'Billy' Hope, it seems he talks with the supposed to be deceased DR. Wernicke 'in the white place'. The delusion of the patient got worse since he joined the Asylum. Wernicke was talking to him about the Walrider and that the only way to 'defeat' it was by using vampiricalbutterfly that were vomited by the demon called "Horerczy". The butterfly can suck the breath from people's lip and drink blood from their nipples. They can also take multiple form.

"So he really is alive…"

"Wernicke. Something tells me he's behind all this."

Having nothing else to do in this room, they climbed up the vent again and this time went toward the corpse. They pushed it away and got out of the vent. They looked at their surrounding and immediately recognize as the place where Chris Walker first ambushed them, which seemed like an eternity ago. It's at the other side of the wall of furniture that was now blocked. They walked inside a dark room that was near where they've landed, inside they found only batteries and another document. This time it was about Wernicke's experiment in 1938.

Wernicke was developing something named 'The Morphogenic Engine". There wasn't much about the project itself but the writer of this document witnessed it. And he said that Wernicke's method breached the spiritual realm. Something crossed from the other side. They witnessed an apparition. Then the writer asked the receivers to witness the experiment and that the Fuhrer must know about them. They had to finance Wernicke's experiment as they could help the German Nazi's cause.

That was very interesting. What is the Morphogenic Engine? What did they mean that they breached the spirit realm? And what crossed the other side? Was it the Walrider?

So many questions but they were getting closer to the truth.

They left the room and noticed a trail of blood, Father Martin was still showing them the way. They followed the instructions and they were now in front of the staircase and elevator. The cabin wasn't there and obviously pressing the button would do nothing. The staircase leading down was locked, so no way to go back to the Security Room to unlock the doors and leave immediately. They approached the staircase going up but a patient came down and started talking to the duo.

"You're them. Yes. I'm supposed to tell you… The key to the house of God is in the theater. Behind the light. In the theater, behind the light. You have to see the movie. So that's where he left the card. Okay?" the Variant instructed.

"Friends! Children! I need your help! Where are you?" the voice of Father Martin called out from upstairs.

"Yes! Coming! I'm coming!" responded the Variant before wishing the couple good luck and ran upstairs.

The couple looked at each other, they must go to the theater to continue their unwanted journey. Another blood trail was guiding them to the Recreation Hall. But the door leading to it was locked. They must find another way in. There was a room near the locked door that was accessible. They entered the room only to notice that one wall was completely destroyed, leading to another room that resembled a backstage room.

"Shh. Can you hear that?" asked Naegi, raising a hand to his ear.

Kirigiri imitated him and after some seconds of silence she heard it too.

"Piano."

It was coming from a room near the backstage followed the nice melody. After a short walk, they reached a barricaded windowed door. But the glass was only half barricaded so they could see what was behind. It was a piano in a very dark room; illuminated by a candle gently posed on top of it, being played by a Variant, but he abruptly stopped playing by slamming his hands on the tiles. He slowly stood up, turned around and approached the door to stare at the couple that was staring back at him. He slowly walked away after that.

After a couple of seconds, they resumed their march, it seemed that the hallway they were in was also leading to the Recreation Hall. So they kept going down the hallway. They reached a large double door that was almost completely blocked with furniture, there was just a gap large enough to crawl through. Which they did.

The big room was in complete darkness, the only light was coming from the candle on top of the piano in the corner of the hall. Kirigiri looked with the camera and told her partner that it was some sort of giant cinema room as there were rows of chairs in the room. On one of them was a corpse though. They took two steps and the giant screen suddenly illuminated. Something was being projected. The 'light' the Variant told them the key was behind must be the projector.

"...Exit interview recorded December 27th, 1985 in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Clearance Sierra Alpha, Subject DR. Rudolf Wernicke, 14866."

The voice was coming from the speakers, it's the video that was being broadcast. The Variant did say that they have to watch the movie, and if it's an interview with the famed Wernicke; It must be very important. At the same time, Naegi and Kirigiri turned around and what was on screen was not what they expected.

MORPHOGENIC ENGINE

Activation Sequence N°4

8416.82

Then the screen changed.

All research personnel

MUST avert ATTENTION in

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What appeared on screen was something they would never have imagined… Some sort of animated Rorschach tests… And the way it was animated made them look like swarming insects or infected surgery wounds… They were getting sick just by watching this, but it was very hard to stop looking.

The interview continued, Wernicke and the interviewer.

"The films are real." said an old German accented voice: Wernicke.

"There was no alteration to the footage? No trickery?"

"None"

"In June of 1943 you recorded three instances of spontaneous bleeding. A half dozen test subjects began to develop brain tumors."

"Yes. The autopsies revealed that the tumors were pure lead."

"It killed them? Can you explain why the results could not be reproduced in the United states?"

"I have my theories… My homeland, in those years. It is impossible to understand the things we felt. What we believed. The overwhelming fear. Ecstatic rage and… English words are insufficient..."

The video went backwards then started again but the interview kept going all that time.

" ...More than hope. A human mind in that environment is capable of extraordinary things." Wernicke continued.

"You're saying the experiment needed…"

"A proximity to death. To overwhelming madness. Only a test subject who had witnessed enough horror was capable of activating the engine."

"Do you believe your test subjects achieved something supernatural?"

"No."

"Do you think they contacted something supernatural?"

"Nothing is supernatural."

"Then what was it? You said Project WALRIDER was a gateway. A gateway to what?"

A gateway to what? No more words were spoken after that. The recording was over.

To be continued…

In the next chapter of Survival at Mount Massive Asylum…

"We might be going insane without even knowing it."

"I really hate this place."

"Ah! Shit!"

"Of course it needs a key."

"Is that… The Gospel? I think I heard one of the patient mentioning a Gospel of Sand."

"You two alone shall escape to tell them. This is your penultimate act of witness."

Baka's note: We're approaching the end of the story my friends.

There is at least 5 chapters left.

Important note! My other crossover: Danganronpa Protectors of Humanity is also reaching the end of the story and I plan of doing the two last chapters going BOOM! I hope for your support and feedbacks about it!