ZERO ESCAPE: Last hope. Ch5
Author's note: Aaaaand another parallel history. Sigma is bored of chosing the kitchen door, so lets change the choice here! Enjoy.
By the way, stuff in italics later on will be memories/flashbacks that Sigma suddenly gets, who knows where from...
Edited with the help of a beta reader.
Summary of repeating events for this chapter:
Sigma wakes up in a cell. From MARS? Voice threatens to kill unless escape. Solves the puzzle and gets out.
Join 8 more people: big guy Omega, labcoat Delta, overly suspicious Phi, moto suit Iota, old mole lady Theta, kid Mu, bald businessman Beta and asocial Lambda.
Their kidnapper Zero speaks about the nonary game. One exit. Explosive bracelets. 9 hours.
Bracelet dial shows choices for doors. 2 choices: Heracles door and Hermes door. Chooses Heracles alongside Mu and Lambda. Omega, Theta, Beta, Phi, Iota, and Delta chose Hermes.
Shower room solved!
5 hours left...
Everything becomes blurry...
Before I could do anything, Lambda grabbed the handle of the right door and entered without a word. I looked at Mu, who sticking her tongue out at me, entered the other room at the left.
I could choose which door to go through but I couldn't decide. Lambda looked unstable and unreliable enough to be needing some checking on him, but at the same time, Mu gave me a very bad feeling. I should be checking on her too. So, what would it be? Lambda or Mu?
My headache got worse, I went to press the dial but I felt a deep pain on my arms when I approached my finger to the Eta symbol. It gave me such a bad feeling that I carefully pressed the other one, Delta. I guess I was to follow Lambda, so I opened the right door.
Fresh air welcomed me as I stepped outside on the grass.
Wait, outside? Grass?
Looking around I could see the huge place where I was. It looked like a garden and the walls and ceiling formed a huge dome of gray metal that reflected the light of a giant focal in the top of the ceiling. Under it, in the middle of the greenhouse was a circular lake and there were a lot of trees here and there. I could also see many different plants.
The only thing out of place was a few metallic boxes not far from the door in front of the one we used to enter. It seemed like a mixture of a ventilation system and an air purification system. Well, if the plants were the ones renovating most of the oxygen in the base, it made sense of it to be there and not in another place, like a storage room or water tank place.
Erm… and why did I think of such a place to be suitable as well?
Brain, stop bringing up random stuff and focus on what u need to do right now!
Lambda was checking the door as well, so I joined him.
"What do we need to get out?"
He almost jumped from my question, "I don't know!" he looked at me like he was crazy.
Oh boy, I don't know who is worse, this guy or that kid. Even if she killed me and Delta…
Woah, where did that came from?
I shook my head and just checked the door. The lock had a little box that looked like a card reader.
"So we need a key card to open the door."
"Huh? Oh, Yeah, it seems so…" he looked at the door's lock, nodding.
What the hell have you been checking here? The air system? Ok, buddy, I'm not gonna do all the work here.
I pushed him far away from the door, "Look, I don't really care what kind of attitude problem you have. But you're gonna help me getting out of here. If you expect me to do all the work, forget it!"
"But I have to-" he started complaining and then shut up. I raised a brow and waited, but he remained quiet.
"Riiight, now start looking for the key card over there while I look here," I pointed to the other side of the dome.
His face got all red, "You can't order me around! Why can't I check this part?"
"I have the feeling after I finish checking that part, I'll still find you on this spot. So move it already!" right then, I felt inspired, "Do you want me to go call lil Mu?"
The little color he had in his face disappeared, "No! No need. I'll go!"
Good thing he was too scared to think straight. All doors get closed and can't be opened from inside until you finish the puzzle. I couldn't call for Mu even if I wanted.
And I so didn't want it anyway.
And why is he so scared of her anyway? I mean, apart from the creepy talk, and the creepy brother and the stabbing in the heart…
Ok, what was that again?
Damn it, Sigma! Focus on what you have to do! Look for the key card and get the hell out of here.
There was a wooden cabinet in the nearby I saw there were a plastic fishing rod, an odd-shaped long metallic device, and a folder. There were 2 papers in it. One was a leaflet, very colorful, almost looking like being done by a kid. It said:
Grow your treasure! Plant, water and grow your key ticket to your desired place.
A travel ticket?
No, wait.
Oh… I see, Zero smartass. Key ticket. To get out maybe? That had to mean the keycard to unlock the door. Yep.
The other paper only had some odd inscriptions, like a riddle:
1= Love of Venus
2= Stripped Mars
3= Dotted Mercury
4= Zigzag Jupiter
5= Plains of Earth
Shit, what the hell does this mean? Venus is the roman goddess of Love, ok. Aaaand… Jupiter of Thunder, which might be the reason of the zigzag, but the rest… Maybe the god of war was a stripper? Scattered messenger god? Sightseeing on Earth? Yeah, of course! Earth tourism from outer space!
Riiiight…
I'll check it out later, first let's see what this machine is…
BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP
Wow! It made a loud beeping sound when my hand got close to the tip. Or maybe just my…
BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP
Right. It was the bracelet. This thing is a metal detector. So… What? Do I have to go treasure hunting or something? Oh! Grow your treasure… hum… I'll carry this… and this too. I bet there are fishes in the lake up there. Oh, Lambda is already there. Good.
I approached the center of the Greenhouse where Lambda was checking the lake. It was round, about 8 feet in diameter, and not very deep.
Surprisingly, there wasn't a fish in sight; instead, there were 5 small balls at the bottom. Looking at them closely I could see they had a circular shape and all of them were yellow with different black marks. They had a little tip with a small hole, which I guessed the hook of the fishing rods were for.
That was easy to understand. Next would be… "Did you found anything there?"
"Only 5 watering cans in a wooden cabinet over there," he replied.
5 "fish", 5 cans… oh! And 5 parts in the riddle. I'm starting to figure out this mess. I handed Lambda the fishing rod. "There! Go fish!"
He looked confused at me. Sigh, I should have known not to make a joke with this freak. "Fish those balls, will you? It's a part of the puzzle to get out."
"What do I need that for then?" he said, smirking. "Only an idiot would do it the hard way when you can just get on your knees, get your arm in the water and UUUGHHGJHAAAACK!"
Holy crap, he had just gotten a finger in the water and I could see his body almost jumping back from the shock!
That Zero bastard! He had the lake electrified to make us do it the hard way! Phew, good thing I didn't think of trying that…
Oh shit, Lambda!
Oh wait… I don't care!
Sigh… yeah… ok… fine…
I rushed to him. He wasn't moving. I checked his pulse and breathing. There was.
He probably had just fainted, but still he scared the hell out of me.
I left him there to rest and went away to check the watering cans.
What? It was something I had to do! I wasn't scared of that water or anything!
Now far away there was the cabinet and the cans. Each colored different. They were purple, indigo, blue, green and yellow. Almost a complete rainbow.
However, the riddle didn't talk about colors, but gods.
Ugh, my head…
I was seeing 2 posters, one with planets, the other showing distances. And colors indicating distances…
Wait, that never happened! Where did I see that from? What's wrong with my head?
And what did that had to do with the god's riddles?
…
Well, Venus is also a planet… and the colors matched with most of the ones in the cans…
By that, I could guess that from Mercury to Venus, colors should be the rainbow from violet to yellow. Maybe?
Ok, I'll follow that. There is no other clue I can follow anyway.
So now the riddle goes like this:
1= Love Indigo
2= Stripped Green
3= Dotted Violet
4= Zigzag Yellow
5= Plain Blue
Hum… still 2/3 of it is unknown. Maybe the 2 tools I have here will tell me the other 2 hints. Let's try that.
I took the fishing rod and approached the electric lake. I wasn't nervous, ok? Just a little apprehensive.
Lambda was still sleeping.
Ok, let's give this a try.
It wasn't easy. The hole in each ball was very small and it wasn't easy to aim an object that moves in the water.
I managed to do it, but it took me so much time that I was afraid the nonary game would have ended already.
I checked the watch.
2:45
Son of a bitch! We're running out of time!
I checked the balls. They were encapsulated in plastic to insulate them from the water and electricity, but it wasn't difficult to take it off to see them better. They were marbled sized and the marks were different in each one. One had black lines, like a Zebra, others had dots, a zigzag, a heart and the last one had no marks. It was Plain…
Oh! Lines, dots, zigzag, heart, and plain. Heart and love were similar and lines and stripes too!
Ok, that took care of the second part. Now I had the… seeds? And I knew what to water each with. Left was…
I looked at the metal detector.
Knowing where to plant them?
I put myself to it and looked with the detector each part of the ground.
The first reaction was not far away. It made 3 beeps. Hum, 3… maybe that was the number meaning. Next place beeping twice confirmed my theory. I found the three other places and placed each seed, watering them with the can according to each one.
After finishing and waiting for a full minute, I heard a ding and rushed towards the lake. The bottom was draining the water and once the lake was empty, I could see something I wasn't aware before. It was a transparent card lying in the bottom of the lake and covered in insulated plastic.
I quickly took it and carried it towards the exit. After a bit of struggling with my nails, the cover came off and I was able to read it. The familiar electronic sound felt really good to my nervous mind, almost as if it relaxed me.
Demeter door, unlocked.
I went back to the empty lake and moved Lambda. After a bit of shaking, he opened his eyes and quickly jumped to his feet. I quickly explained to him what had happened but that didn't calm him down at all.
I had to push him out of the room towards a similar hall to the one after the Heracles room. There were 2 doors as expected and our dials showed spinning symbols again. Z and A. Zeta and Alfa, which one?
I took a deep breath, expecting some kind of inspiration.
In the meanwhile, Lambda had decided and had his hand already in the right doorknob. So he had chosen the A. It was Apollo the god showed in the carving metal plate of the door while Zeus was in the other one. It was obvious I was gonna chose the one he wouldn't.
And I pressed my dial.
I heard some voices greeting him, but I lost interest in him and entered the left door. If luck was on my side, I wouldn't have to be with more freaks anytime soon.
"Sigma!"
I looked in front of me. Phi and Iota were looking at me, surprised. Well, Phi was surprised, I couldn't see Iota's face. We exchanged information about the rooms we had been to. I also let them know about my suspicions on Mu and Lambda.
"Well, I guess it's to be expected, considering our situation," she dismissed my doubts so easily that it made me angry, looking for another way to convince her.
"How about Delta?"
"What about her?" she asked back
"Well, she knows something about this place! She said so!" I insisted
"What? When did she? I don't remember anything of the sort!" she looked confused.
"Of course, you weren't with us in the kitchen." I replied
"Neither were you!" She exclaimed, "Didn't you say you were paired only with Mu and Lambda so far?"
"Of course, I… Wait a sec…" I was getting confused. I had been in the shower/gym and in the garden. However, I have the feeling I had been in the kitchen with Delta.
But that was just impossible.
I shook my head, "Look, forget it. My head hurts. It's not making much sense."
"If you are done wasting time, I suggest we get out of this place now," Iota scolded us.
I checked the time.
1:35
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
Ok, calm down.
"Have you checked anything here already before I got here?" I asked them, looking around. It looked like some sort of control room.
"No, we had just arrived as well," Phi replied
I realized I was still holding the door, so I just advanced, letting it close and lock as usual. I was going to start inspecting the room when there was an electronic voice on the speakers,
Magnetic field generator offline, please, connect again in order to unlock door.
"Magnetic field?" I asked
"It makes sense. Mars hasn't a magnetic field like Earth. If we're in a Mars base, it's obvious we need a magnetic field to protect against the sunwind." Phi explained.
"Don't tell me you're buying it, that we're on Mars," I objected with some doubts.
She didn't reply to that, though. "Let's search this place and connect the field so we can leave," I suggested.
She nodded. I didn't even bother to look at Iota. It was tiresome talking with him. Looking around, we could see that the walls were metallic and full of dials, buttons, displays and screens, though most of them off. The room was quite big, without windows and divided into 2 sections by a glass wall. The other section didn't seem to have a door to enter but I could see through the glass a metallic machine the size of a truck and the shape of an octopus, with huge wires acting like tentacles and a secondary machine, that looked like a cylinder with narrow wires.
Next to the glass wall was a diagram with wires, levers, and numbers. On top of it was a label: Power on. Another part that picked my interest was a little flashcard. I put it in my pocket, you never know in which puzzle it might be needed afterward. Then I joined Phi, who had found 2 things. A display with colored diodes and dials and a keyboard to do something with it and 2 screens, one with the label magnetic field generator control label on it.
"That's what we need to operate."
"Bad news, they are all switched off, the power is not working," she replied.
"On my side they were too, but there was also a display with wires that seemed to connect the power," I signaled to it
"You should have tried to activate it as soon as u saw it. I'm always telling you don't need my permission to- huh?"
"What are you talking ab-" I got as frozen as she had.
I DO recall her telling me that, but… when? Where?
"Impossible… I've never seen you before… Don't make me waste time, old man!" she finally snapped at me, angry.
"Old man?"
The hell? I'm not old! I've got everything young and fresh, no illnesses, no prosthetic limbs…
Holy crap, I had the worst déjà vu feeling ever!
I shuddered violently.
"I'm sorry, let's try to get out of this place," she apologized.
I agreed and checked the wires to connect the power. They were weird. They had numbers and levers. I wasn't sure how to operate them.
Then, Iota approached me with a folder and some papers, "This should help," he passed me one of the papers. It had a string of numbers with an 'A' after each them.
"Is that electrical intensity? Ampere?" Phi pointed out, touching the numbers.
I nodded a bit unsure and started using the levers. As I moved them, the numbers in the bottom changed. After a while of trial and error, I managed to put them in a position that got me the numbers I had in the paper. We heard a low rumble and some lights could be seen in the screens that were dead a bit before.
I looked at the screen of the magnetic field generator, but it asked for an 11 alternate digit code that none of us knew, so I checked the next screen over that seemed to have a game of some sort on the screen. However, I couldn't find any lever or button to use on it.
I sighed, "How the hell can I operate this thing?"
"Hum…" Phi was also pondering it.
"It's a touch screen, right? What else do you need?" Iota said
Phi and I looked at each other, surprised, "How did you know that?" she asked him
He shrugged, "Wasn't it obvious?"
To hell with him, let's solve this part of the puzzle. It seemed like we needed to join the dots in order to make a closed circuit, but the lines had to pass for several numbers in order to get the last number to equal the addition of the numbers selected. Piece of cake!
Piece of shit that made me waste 15 minutes of trial and error.
"Wow, you really suck at this," Iota mocked me.
"Screw you, I have a code now," I checked the word appearing in the screen. It didn't have 11 digits. It wasn't even a word.
LCRCT
"Maybe it's just part of the code," suggested Phi
I shrugged and looked around. There should be other puzzles to solve in the room.
There! The display with colored lights, dials, and keyboard.
"No use," said Iota, "that keyboard doesn't work, it needs a key card. We haven't found one, right?"
Phi shook her head, but I just took the card from my pocket, "I found it before."
"Then say it so!" complaint Phi, snatching the card and inserting it in a slot of the keyboard. She started using it and after a bit, all the diodes lighted on, "Hum…" Phi kept hitting keys, but there wasn't anything else happening.
"Maybe we need to use the dials," I suggested
"Be my guest!" Phi left the seat and I replaced her. It wasn't easy to use, moving the dials lighted on and off some diodes and others.
"This goes nowhere if I don't know what to draw in here," I commented, frustrated on not knowing what to do.
"Try this," Iota offered another piece of paper from the folder.
"Next time say earlier there were more hints around!" complaint Phi with a scowl, but Iota didn't seem to notice her.
Even with what I had to draw I needed almost 30 minutes to do it correctly. When I finished, Phi noticed the screen of before changing the word to EETIIY.
"So…. LCRCTEETIIY," I entered it and of course…
Wrong password.
"I guessed so," I sounded defeated, but we had checked the whole room and there was nothing else to use. That had to be the password! I tried EETIIYLCRCT. But…
Wrong password.
"Oh come on! How didn't I saw it earlier!" Phi looked angry with herself.
I glanced at her, "What is it?"
She explained it, "It asked for an alternate code. You have to alternate the letters. What do you get?"
I thought it for a sec. The first letter from one word was E, first from the second word was L, second from the first E, ...
ELECTRICITY
Zeus god of Thunder. Oh man, the Irony.
I entered the password after some facepalming at our idiocy and of course.
Magnetic field restored, Zeus door unlocked.
"Well, that's that," I announced, getting up and going towards the door, followed by Phi and Iota.
It was another hallway, bigger than the others. There was another door not far at the right of the door we had gotten out from (Our left). In front of that wall was another door, way bigger. It had a big metal carving of a merman.
"Neptune, god of the Sea and ships. And our way out!" announced Phi.
I checked the dial in my bracelet.
0:27
There wasn't much time left.
"Should we wait for the rest to finish their rooms?" I asked.
But they looked deep in thought. Or at least, Phi looked that way.
Seriously dude, take off that helmet already!
Phi was about to say something when the floor below her moved and she fall backward. It was a trapdoor!
Beta's face peeked from the hole at us. He didn't say a word to us and told someone behind him, "This way."
He got out and Mu followed him. She looked surprised to see us, "Oh, so many?"
I didn't even try to guess what she meant by that.
"Are you two alone?" Iota asked them
They glanced at each other before answering. That was odd and suspicious.
"Brother and I were the only ones doing this last room," she said smiling.
I had the feeling she was saying the truth, but at the same time, the way she said it made me shiver. Beta explained they had just made the storeroom after doing the kitchen. Phi and Iota listened to his robotic speech, but I was still worried. I couldn't explain why, but I was scared. There was something off.
"Wait! Beta and Delta did with us the Mercury room," Phi had realized something.
"That means the kitchen puzzle must have been done with Delta as well," I concluded.
"Did she go to another room after that?" theorized Iota, "Omega and Theta went to Apollo's room. Maybe she joined them…"
They didn't confirm his theory, but Mu was smiling in a way that froze my blood.
And I saw it.
It was as if I was there. A body lying on the floor. A puddle of blood. Mu in front of the corpse.
I blinked. Mu was grinning straight at me. I shivered, "Mu… you… killed her."
That erased her smile and looked at me seriously. Phi and Iota turned to me.
"Are you an idiot? There is no way a kid like that had killed Delta!" Phi scolded me.
She was right and besides, what I had just seen… couldn't be real. I had no explanation that backed my theory, but even so. I was sure it had happened that way. My silence didn't felt good to Phi, as she kept complaining.
"What reason did she have to kill her, huh?"
And I saw the answer. The scene before me shifted.
"This wasn't how this should work…"
"What do you mean? How's this supposed to work? Better question, how do you know the way it's supposed to work? Why? Is it possible that you are…"
"That's not true! I would never risk lives this way! I would have never helped in this kind of way to test…"
"Test what? What do you know?"
"She knew something about this game. That's why they killed her," I stated.
I have no idea how, but I just knew it.
"Kill who?"
Just then Omega and Theta came from the other door. It was him who asked, alarmed. However, another thing alarmed me.
"Wasn't Lambda with you?"
They looked at each other. Then the lady talked to Omega, "I told you we should have waited."
"I'm not gonna wait to die cause he just forgot something in the garden," he replied to her with haste.
"You mean Delta isn't with you?" Phi asked them.
"With us? Why?"
But I wasn't listening to them. Lambda didn't enter the room. I saw him about to enter but…
"Lambda didn't finish entering the room you were in, did he?" I wasn't really asking, just stating my conclusions.
"We only had time to tell him hi before he excused to get something he had forgotten in the Garden," replied Omega.
"Rude kid didn't even greet us…" whined Theta.
"What was in the garden to go back for it, I wonder," Iota pondered aloud.
And I knew.
"The air system! It should be in the storeroom area!"
"Ok, hold on a second. How do you know it should be here? What is it? What do you know? Isn't it time you tell us?"
"The air system is in the garden, not in the storeroom as she thought," I explained to the group of 6 next to me.
They weren't following of course. They hadn't talked with Delta as I had.
But I never did! Then why do I remember doing it?
"What does the air system has to do with anything?" asked Omega.
He didn't know, but I did.
"But I was too late… They probably mutated the virus already"
"Testing site? Virus?"
"I was employed for a large company that wanted to collaborate in space travel. There was a test site in Nevada that was a replica of a space station in Mars. I was in charge of creating the… realism. So to speak. That's how I came up with Celerity, or also called, Virus C"
"I don't understand what a virus and a Mars mission could have in common."
"The testing site. You see, Mars doesn't have the same gravity as the Earth, mainly due to it's less mass. It's about 2,6 less of its gravity. So, how could we recreate the same effect in the Earth. How could you make a place where the gravity is a third of what the planet obliges? The task was almost impossible. Then I thought of a, at first sight, good idea. If it's too much of a problem changing the gravity in a place for the people, let's change the perception of the people for the place."
"Can you do that?"
"Well, seems like the test was a success and the mission happened, cause here we are, huh?" She said sadly. "In any case. I developed a drug that acted like a virus. The effect would the altering the speed of the process of the brain. If we could accelerate it enough, an object falling at normal speed, wouldn't it look like falling slower, as if there was lower gravity?"
"Yes, but… Can the brain do that? Wouldn't that harm it?"
"Not if just used for a small period of time, just enough for any test that astronauts needed. After the time was done, they would be injected with the antiviral and done! However, I was really proud of my research and what I had created but still… The creating, testing, delivery… Everything was so quick that I thought there might be second effects or consequences we hadn't realized yet. So I run test after test until I found it."
"What did you find?"
"A way to turn Celerity into the most dreadful bioweapon the world had ever seen. Initially, it transferred itself by air, so the moment it turned into a weapon, it would infect anyone. Everyone."
"The virus was transmitted by the air system. It was supposed to change the process speed in our brain to make us believe we were in Mars, but it could be altered to be made a deadly bioweapon who would kill billions of people," I explained to my astonished cellmates
"Then we're not in Mars, as I thought- Wait, a virus?" Iota exclaimed
"A… Virus…" Phi looked pale. Did she know too?
"A bioweapon… here? But who…?" Theta asked, fear in every word. I didn't find odd that they were buying my story so easily.
But as to who was behind… yeah. I knew that too. Don't know how, I swear to god I don't!
"There is a group of people, who provided most of the funds of the project. I doubt you've heard of them. They are called… Free the Soul. I believe they hacked into my research data diary and accessed the last entry, where I posted my latest discovery about Celerity and how it can be turned into a mass destruction weapon. Now they know how to mutate the virus."
"A terrorist group under the leader of Free the soul," I answered Theta's question.
"Free the soul… His leader is called Brother!"
I looked at Phi but it wasn't her who had said so. It was Theta!
"How do you- Oh my god…"
A shiver run down my spine as I looked at Beta. My blood froze as I saw his twisted smile for the first time.
"I have no idea how do you know so much. But that won't matter anymore. Now you should worry about her." he nodded towards Phi.
I heard her gasping and, as I turned at her, I saw Mu, who had sneaked from behind her jumping on her, like a deadly backpack, pressing a shard of glass on her neck.
I got scared for a second as I saw the glass covered in blood, but Phi didn't have a wound. Then, that blood…
Delta.
Yeah, well. We were in deep shit already.
"Sigma, forget about me. You must stop Lambda!" exclaimed Phi.
"It's a bit late to worry about that piece of garbage," stated Mu, pressing the blade a bit more on Phi's neck.
Damn, she was right! How much time had passed since I left him? Almost 3 hours ago. There was no way he didn't do it already, and with the virus transmitting through the air, stopping it was impossible now.
Even so. I couldn't try. I had to.
And despite all that. I couldn't leave Phi behind.
Phi was furious at my indecision to do something, "You should have remembered already Sigma. This is what we decided to come here for. Stop the virus! Change the future!"
Did we decide to come here? To change the future?
God, I'm so confused. What should I do?
But then everything changed. Omega threw himself on Beta, "Go Sigma! Stop that lambdabastard!"
I had no choice I dashed towards the door.
But it wouldn't be that easy.
"Oh no you won't!" I heard Mu scream.
In mere seconds, I was at the door and felt something jumping on me and it had happened with Phi. But I had a second to prepare and managed to stop the arm holding the blade. But I couldn't use all my strength against her as her other arm was strangling my neck on a weird way.
I struggled, spin and hit the fall several times, trying to get her off me. In the crazy movement, I glanced at the others. Omega and Iota were fighting Beta while the old lady was with Phi, who was on the floor. I couldn't tell, as fast as I moved, if she was all right. Judging Mu, she probably wasn't.
That enraged me and I tackled the wall head on, in the hope that the impact might make her let go of the glass.
Surprisingly, it happened.
Thankfully, the bumping didn't cause anyone to get stabbed.
Unfortunately, there was something I had forgotten. But I recalled it with the sparkling sound I heard from Mu's right bracelet. The very arm I had hit the wall because it had the shard of glass.
I had hit the arm, which meant I had hit the bracelet too.
Hum… that wasn't good. I remembered that part.
"Your bracelets won't get off and will explode if you try getting out with them on or remove by force or damage"
Both Mu and I stared at the damaged bracelet of her, mere inches from both our faces.
Oh, crap.
The white light made my word go black.
Was everything useless? Even after exposing almost everything, the future didn't change.
What choice went wrong?
Maybe If I had followed Lambda earlier.
Yeah, maybe.
The darkness engulfed me and I started floating into the nothingness.
END (bracelet)
Author's note: Nope, not the last chapter. But rejoice! The true end is the only one left! re.