Scratch. Scratch. Scratch. Nothing happened. The only thing that appeared were simple marks on the glass, but nothing of use.. The roaches in my fur aren't responding. Why aren't they responding? They always responded to their king.. It's this damn containment! Twitch wonders if the liquid he swims in makes them sleep. Explains the other human captives in this room. I can't be like them. Twitch can't be some lab rat for the humans to experiment, and now's the perfect time to escape! He's left to talk with the Goopy One.. The Zaunite Amorphous Combatant he spoke of.. The humans will trick him! THEY'VE ALWAYS TRICKED HIM! Must find a way out... Must! I look around my capsule, nothing. No keys. No keyholes. No tools. Just some sleeping, useless subjects in my fur. I growl in frustration as I begin to scratch the glass rapidly. The marks begin to grow in numbers. They proved to be fruitless, but the sewer king shouldn't give up. I never give up!
When my arms started to tire out, the rate of my scratches soon decreased. "Must get out.. Gotta get... out.." I think to myself, but nothing much happen. Suddenly I stopped to take a break. Just a few scratches more. Just a few more and I'll shatter it and save my subjects! Suddenly, in my break, I notice a brown speck coming from the cracks of the floor. Eventually more and more came to their ruler's aid.. To save the master they respected so much.. I grin wildly at the sight of my mighty army and attempted to cackle, forming bubbles in my entrapment. No one underestimate Twitch's rule!
It didn't take long for them to open. My roaches have gotten me out of every trap the humans have created.. This is no different! Just some roaches in the wiring and the control panel and it's all easy! Some of them opened before me, leaving the unconscious humans to fall on the floor when they open, releasing a gaseous blue-green fog, but they eventually came to mine. Once it opened, I jump out, breathing for air as the fog and my roaches surround me. I level my hand to let one roach hop on to my finger. "Hehe.. Came to your king's aid huh? Heh.. Twitch's subjects are the best!"
"...hm? Oh.. The Goopy One got you here huh? ...Outside this building? That's where the human is.. The one that wanted to torture me! Hehe.. Let's see how he likes pins and needles!" I look over the desk and found the crossbow leaning on its side. Not a scratch. Heh. Perfect. "Roachmen! Scout the area now! Twitch wants the fastest route! They'll pay eventually.."
They all scattered to do their duty as I walked around to scout the area myself.. There seemed to be only 10 capsules here.. Small lab. I went over to the bodies that flopped. They would give my cover if they awoken. I placed my ear on their chests. No heartbeat... Good.. I walk around the area, trying to find doorways and vents, until I found something on the left side. 2 humans in 2 capsules side by side to each other. The man that locked me up in a basement for the sake of "safety" and the woman who helped him and forced me to eat tasteless trash. The creators of the Goopy One.. They're here. "Hm.. The Goopy One missed you," I mutter, out of breath at their sights. "He's been looking for you.." I raise my crossbow. "Hmph.. Better not tell any humans about this afterwards.." I pull the trigger. The glass shatters.
I look up at the Garrington warehouse ceiling, breathing heavily for this moment. I have everything I need. Twitch's poisonous casks, a metal crowbar, a lighter. Everything that seemed to be a necessity in every heist film I've seen. I'm hoping it's enough. I look around the building for any ledges I can get a hold of. There are many wooden structures to get a hold of. Probably rickety judging from the cobwebs. There's a lot of boxes to hide behind and a worn out rusty fan to hide behind. I just hope that Twitch is okay. That the roaches found him.
Suddenly, I hear footsteps behind me. "So? How do you like Garrington Warehouse?" he said joyfully. "Pretty worn out and worthless like the rest of this sump, huh?" I look behind me. A man filled with augments on his back and arms with dark skin and short black hair. Saito Takeda. I'm silent in the face of his question, glaring at him from afar. "Well.. I'll take that as a yes, but you'll see that looks are deceiving."
He snap his fingers and the metal thugs come out of hiding from the boxes and the hay. Everyone of them augmented with weapons. Everyone of them with numerous scars from the deadly battles of Zaun. "Now.. would you kindly drop your weapon and follow me? I wouldn't want to waste precious ammo." I sigh before I places the sash of casks and the crowbar down. Saito Takeda came up to investigate. "You really think you could take me down with..this?" He stomps on the casks easily, shattering the glass and leaking the poisonous toxins out. He steps away to avoid its stench. "Hm. How pathetic. Follow me, and don't think of strangling me lest you want to deal with them."
I follow him down the stairs, and as I went deeper and deeper, I found the area around me becoming more technological and advanced. No more are the cobwebs and rats that infect the area. Now it's light. The whirring of machines. The sloshing of chemicals that surround me. However, the thugs and security are still the same. Every corner a guard. Eventually we end up at a desk filled with computer screens. On its side is a syringe that seemed to be filled with blue electricity. Takeda lifted it up and showed it to me smugly.
"Isn't it great. A useless building turned into one of my lairs. You know, we brought you here a long time ago. You were in some sump neighborhood nearby. Known as some stupid 'returning pool', but now, you could be so much more."
"Where's my family?" I shouted. "You said you would release them. Twitch, mom, dad, all of them. Where are they?"
"Well.. you really want to know do you.." He gently placed his hand on the button on his desk. The screens blink on, showing footage of them releasing them from their capsules as a man in front of them told them to run. The footage kept repeating the moment. I stare in confusion. They're.. released?
"This happened a couple minutes ago. When my thugs spotted you. It's best for them. Better to leave without seeing their burden."
"I'm.. no burden.." I mutter bitterly. "They would want to see me. Before I go! Parents don't just leave."
"But I think you would provide an exception, don't you think?" I stare silently at his remark.
"W-what do you mean?"
He stands up and walks around me as the footage looped and looped and looped.. "Well.. Let's look what you've done. You have ruined buildings. Destroyed many homes through your 'heroic' actions. I'm not the only chem-baron that hunted you down. Even the more peaceful ones have tried to pinpoint you. Especially after that whole.. plague invasion incident." I.. I begin to wonder about that. What have I done? What have I done with them?
"It's better this way. Now they could live normal lives without feeling guilty about abandoning their son. Nothing makes that worse than seeing it, and if I'm not mistaken, you had plans to leave with them. I think you should know that this is better for them." Faintly, I hear him grab the syringe, but I never notice. I fell to my knees from the weight of it all. How could this happen..? "Let them improve Zaun on their own, Zaunite Amorphous Combatant, but don't worry; you'll still be the hero you wanted to be. Just let me guide you instead. "
As the chem baron raise his syringe towards my back, an arrow whizzed by, hitting the glass surface. I look back slightly to hear the cracks form bigger one and bigger and bigger. It couldn't contain it all. The large syringe exploded, knocking me and the chem baron away from each-other. The footsteps of the thugs rapidly approach their employer. I raised my head to see them running and an arrow near my side. A distinctive arrow. A golden arrow with a poisonous pouch as its head. Twitch.