Chapter 1 Part 3 - The Basement Beneath - Chapter Finale

He cheers, "Three more to go!"

The Engineer went back to the orange room with the lighthouse drawing, and went down the remaining ladder that he did not visit yet. He found a room with cream-coloured walls. There was a switch, which he pulled. There was also a piece of paper on the floor. He picked it up and read it. It says:

"last summer I went camping under the big waterfall of Kent. I guess this was a great trip for me, however some people do not understand why. Well, I did lose my left arm, but what the hell, I found out that I had a third arm. The invisible one. Since then I started to learn how to use my karma arm, and soon my skills were those of a master. It wasn't a surprise to me when people started turning their backs on me, since I was considered to be a freak and mentally ill. Funny thing, I can't tell them the truth, it would be like explaining the possibility of space travel to a goldfish. So I'm just trying to-"

It cut off there. The Engineer deduced that it may be some sort of diary page.

"Funny, who'd leave a page of their diary here?" He asks.

He went down a ladder, which he spotted earlier. He was in a yellowish room with a panel with three screws in the corner, and two doors, one on each side. He went through the left-side door first. There was a mess of wires in this similarly coloured room, and there was what seemed to be a truck with an overly complex locking mechanism on it. He stooped to the four-digit combination lock on the right of the room, which was connected to the chest by the aforementioned messy black wires. He tried to think about the possible combinations, when his mind drifted to the numbers on the coin.

"What were those again? 4741?" The Engineer asks himself.

He punched these numbers in the lock, without really hoping for much. He was surprised by a creaking sound, which turned out to be the chest opening, to his surprise and delight. He looked inside, and found a solitary fuse in it. The fuse looked like it would fit in the panel he saw in another room, so he picked it up. He exited the room and slowly walked through the right-side door. There were four bells on the ceiling. There was a pedestal with four cubes in the centre of the room. He tried to ring the bells, but was just short.

"Darn. Screw my 5'6" height," the Engineer cursed.

He resorted to using the spoon to ring the bells. He just reached them that way. As soon as he rang the first bell, three of the cubes on the pedestal began levitating. He stared for a while; confused at first, then realised it was a puzzle to try to get all the cubes to float. He started to randomly ring bells to try to achieve that. He soon did, and a small door appeared on the pedestal. He pushed it open, and found another triangular metal tile. He whooped in joy as he picked it up. He quickly rushed to the device in the first yellow room to put it in.

"Two more to go!" He screamed in delight.

He suddenly remembered about the fuse he acquired, so he went back to the room that had a missing fuse in its fuse box. He inserted the fuse, and heard some sparks. He decided to investigate the ring device from earlier, so after rushing past the radio room and scrambling up the ladder, he saw another triangular metal tile.

"Well don't that beat all?" He happily said.

He quickly went back to the yellow room to put it in the device. He did just that.

"Only one left!" He happily thought out loud.

The Engineer decided to check that switch from before, which was attached to a large machine. As soon as it was pushed down, sparks flew between the electrodes.

He questions, "Now what?"

He paced around the room, thinking, when he decided to do a rather odd thing that no other engineer would do. The Engineer put the spoon across the two electrodes, which caused the electrodes to explode. He heard two metallic clinks, one from a small panel opening to reveal another triangular metal tile, and one from another room. He picked up the tile in the now open panel.

"Now where did that other clinking noise come from?" The Engineer thought.

So an exploration of the place was what the Engineer did, and when he investigated the room underneath the pressure controllers from before, he saw that the metal plate was blown clean from the walls, and that there was a switch under it all along.

"Will you look at that!" He exclaims as he pulls the switch.

A sound of a trapdoor opening (at least, that was what it sounded like) came from the top right direction from the room. The Engineer explored the place again, and found a new ladder in the peach-coloured room with the two pipes and the solitary switch on the left side of the room. He climbed up the ladder, to see a gem floating in the middle of the room.

"What is this?" The Engineer asks.

He suddenly felt a small tug in the back of his mind, and a mental voice told him that it was an Ancient Crystal of Wisdom.

"I might be going insane here, but I think it just told me that it is an ancient wisdom crystal," The Engineer says worryingly.

However, he thought nothing of it as he made his way back to the first yellow room to insert the last tile into the device. When he did so, the device powered up, making some tinkling noises as the tiles rotated and a glow was emitted by the device. The room went completely black for a second, with only the device. Then all the colours returned, revealing a new door on the wall.

"Holy..." was the only thing the RED Engineer could say.

The door was a pair of metallic sliding doors upon opening it and walking through, he saw that the tiny room was, in fact, an elevator.

"I guess it's time that I leave this basement?" He asks himself.

The Engineer pushed the button to go up, which the elevator did. When it stopped the Engineer pressed the second button underneath it to open the door. He saw a lakeside scenery at about the time of sunset, with a few trees. He took in the view for a while, happily taking in the fresh air.

Suddenly, he felt a strange force nagging him to look to the left of himself. He did, and saw a lighthouse in the distance. A mysterious swirling blue portal stood next to him. He resigned himself to his fate, and entered the portal.

Upon exiting the portal's path, the Engineer found himself in a lighthouse basement, in front of an arcade machine with the words 'Submachine' and 'See where it takes you' printed on it.

FINALLY, ONE CHAPTER DOWN, NINE MORE TO GO!
It looks like the RED Engineer managed to escape the first part of this mess he got into. Let's see how he deals with the building he's in next chapter.

Note: If you play Submachine 1, the number on the coin changes each play, so don't try to use the code here!

Team Fortress 2 belongs to Valve
Submachine belongs to Mateusz Skutnik

Updated 09/08/2016: Made ending less contrived.