Baka's note: My contribution for Valentine's Day!
Our heroes finally see the exit
Return to the Administration Block (part 3)
Father Martin was dead. Burned alive by his own followers. Crucified like Jesus Christ.
He won't be missed, that's for sure. But now that Naegi and Kirigiri have the key of the elevator they can finally escape this damned place! They turned around to leave the chapel and remembered that the Twins were behind the doors… But not anymore.
The doors were wide open and when they walked past it they saw the naked Variants sobbing in two corners.
"Are they crying?" asked Naegi, pointing at the obvious actually.
But it didn't matter, they must go.
They continued to walk down the same corridor that had lead them to the Chapel only to be face to face with a dead end. But when Kirigiri looked up, she saw an air vent that was open and pointed at it. After the couple got in the vent, they started to crawl toward the next exit then jumped down.
The only problem was that when they landed inside this new corridor… everything was quiet… Too quiet. They could already sense the bad thing coming.
And they were right because five steps down the corridor towards the Kitchen and cafeteria, as the panel indicated, a giant form appeared at the other end of the corridor: Chris Walker.
"Oh I swear to-" started Naegi, boiling.
But the female Detective didn't had time to complain as she grabbed her partner and ran down an adjacent corridor before Chris came too close. Most of the doors were barricaded and locked. But thankfully they found one that was open.
They quickly got inside but not only the room had absolutely nowhere to hide, but it had also another door, one that they've just passed, and it was connected to the room. Now they just had to wait and see from which door the big bastard was going to barge in?
The right door almost cracked under the slam of the Variant behind it. So the duo ran to the left door and escaped by running behind the giant man after he bashed down the door and took a second to breathe.
They didn't stop running as they heard Chris roar in anger one more time in the night. They went toward the kitchen as they remembered that the elevator was right next to it. But when they got inside the cafeteria, the lights were out and Kirigiri saw with the camcorder that the doors were barricaded!
"Look for a way out! I'll close the doors!" Naegi exclaimed and did what he said before starting to look for anything to stack against it.
Kirigiri looked for an exit, then noticed the vending machine's light that it emitted near the barricaded door and saw the open air vent near the machine. They could go through there!
"Over there! Quickly!" The detective yelled to his partner as he was doing his best to hold up the door as the heavy footsteps were getting dangerously closer.
Naegi nodded and both started to run towards the vent but everything that he put against the doors to hold back the monster flew away in one hit. One of the chairs actually flew and hit Kirigiri straight on her leg, stopping her charge.
"Kyoko!"
"Don't stop! I'll distract him!" She ordered and smiled seeing Naegi not stopping.
She got back up without too much difficulty, her leg hurt but not enough to stop her from running. She turned around and saw Chris looking around for the couple. She ran towards a returned table and exclaimed.
"Over here!"
She watched Naegi managing to pull himself up inside the vent and making hand signal telling her to come.
He couldn't see where she was because of the darkness but he hoped that she could see him. And he was right when he heard her approaching him at full speed.
Chris looked at her way just a few seconds late, and chased after her another second later, allowing her just enough time to jump inside the vent and escape him. Again!
"Goodbye, asshole!" The male little pig said before crawling with his partner in the vent.
Chris roared in anger one last time. Before walking away.
The next time he'll found them… they won't escape. He'll skin them alive and crush them.
The couple reached the kitchen and jumped down the vent. They ran towards the elevator shaft as they didn't know if Chris Walker could still get to them.
They practically jumped inside the elevator cabin and Naegi thrusted the key inside the keyhole and turned before smashing the down button.
The gridded doors closed and the elevator started to go down.
Flashbacks of a crazy Doctor flashed inside Naegi's mind as he held Kirigiri's arm tightly with wide frightened eyes, but she quickly calmed him down with a smile that he returned to her.
"We're finally going to leave this place! Kyoko!" He exclaimed with joy as he pulled her into a hug.
"Yes… the nightmare is finally over. I'll be very frustrated that we wouldn't see the end of this mystery but we first need to get you to the hospital I can't lose you for this mystery." She calmly said as she hugged him back.
They exchanged a kiss on the lips before the elevator stopped all movement. They looked through the gridded door and recognized the entrance hall were Chris threw them in during their first encounter that was only a few hours ago but felt like an eternity ago. The front door was open, they could finally leave this nightmare!... if the grilled elevator's door would open.
It was taking awfully long… they exchanged a glance and were about to touch the gridded door or a button but the elevator started to move again.
It was dragging them further down. Bringing them deeper inside the Asylum than ever, dragging them further down in Hell.
Their reactions were completely normal in front of such treachery: Naegi started to shout and banged his hand against the door, Kirigiri looked down with wide eyes, trying to think of what to do and why this was happening, slightly trembling.
They looked like any other resident of the Asylum.
The elevator reached the deepest floor and the door opened…
It was a short corridor leading to a double blue door. They hesitantly walked out of the cabin. It looked like they were now inside some sort of secret lab with pipes everywhere.
They took two steps away from the elevator and the door closed behind them before it went up again, abandoning them to their fate.
Naegi was about to yell again but Kirigiri grabbed him and pulled him into another tight hug to calm him down…
The nightmare continues… The end is near… but which end?
To be continued…
In the next chapter of Survival at Mount Massive…
"Is Mating behind this?"
"There's no other choice…"
"When will we leave this place?"
"I know this place."
"No more escape…"
"I know I'm supposed to be dead… No such luck."
Baka's note: HAHAHAHA I DIDN'T LIED!
They saw the exit, they just couldn't reach it!
It's a very short chapter I know but this part is literally less than 3 minutes of gameplay
Our story is almost over!