Misty finally came around after a few moments of silence in the cavern, raising her head from the surface she was lying flat on, her stomach contacting the cold, she grunted as the painful ache was ever so present in her bones, "uugh, damn… ow" she grimaced, as she struggled to move her body from the pain induced stiffness, however she looked down and found what she was lying on, Lilith, with the front of her jacket slightly covered in concrete dust, "oh shit! Lil, you okay?" Misty asked for reassurance, Lilith then opened her eyes wide with them looking around, "I can't feel anything below my neck" she said worried, "oh shit that ain't good" Misty then started to panic, but Lilith then groaned and squeezed her eyes shut as she was then able to bend her back, "ugh! No, there it is" she then reassured, managing to sit up and rub her head, "what the hell happened?" she asked the farmer, Misty managed to get back up on her two feet, the soreness being magnified by the pressure on her feet as she bent over to the feeling, having her hands on the front of her legs to prop her upper body up as she groaned, "fuck, I think we fell down a large hole" she replied, "you okay though?" Lilith then said seeing her in her position, Misty then looked at herself, "bones, check, organs, check, gun, check, boobs, check, yeah I'm good" she said checking all her vitals, however a shout from above caught their attention, they both looked up to see a web of metal and rebar slicing up the rays of light coming into the space they were in, they had hoped it was only a few feet down, but now it seemed that they were much lower than that, the walls of the hole must have been at least twenty feet high, and the sun looked much further away, "HEY! YOU ALIVE!?" Dempsey's voice called down again, wanting an answer, "yeah where fine" Misty called back up, "fucking hell we thought you were dead for a sec" he replied back, "hey Lily? You okay?" Decker then cut in, "I'm fine as well Decker" Lilith reassured her partner, "what the hell is it like down there?" Lennox asked them both, just as Lilith stood up and started to walk around, Misty looked around and found that they were in some kind of maintenance room, seeing the chemicals on some shelves and the musty atmosphere, it didn't look too clean, "is there a way out anywhere? we won't be able to get you out this way" the Sentinel trooper added on, "I don't know…" Misty guessed, "hey I found a door!" Lilith then shouted, Misty turned to see her trying to pry open a rusted door, however her fingers slipped and there was a slight crack of keratin, Lilith hissed and saw the nail of her thumb now shortened from the action, "shit, broke a nail" she grimaced at her pedicure was tarnished, "Lil, should we be more worried about a nail?" Misty just whined, moving her aside as she worked at the door herself, Lilith didn't reply, Misty being more use to manual labour compared to her counterpart managed to get the door open, past the door was what seemed like a long tunnel, with corrugated metal coating the walls and a small layer of dirt on the floor, "we found a tunnel out, but I don't know where it goes" Misty walked back to the hole and called back up, "okay, before you go through grab this" Lennox said, he reached into a pocket in his orange suit and pulled out a small box with an antenna sticking out, he dropped it down the hole and it bounced off the jagged rocked a few times, it came to rest in front of Misty's feet, "it's a transponder, we'll be able to track your movements underground from the surface, don't lose it!" Lennox advised as she picked it up.

After the two women had composed themselves and Misty had latched the transponder to her belt they had walked through the door and into the darkness, Misty took point and turned on the flashlight mounted on her Remington's foregrip and lit up the environment, they saw another door just in front of them, Misty grabbed its handle as Lilith had the barrel of her rifle pointed at the opening gap as Misty pulled the door open, with it being clear on the other side they both walked through, they immediately felt the ground getting damp under their feet, they had just walked into a junction as two different routes presented themselves, the tube was now larger and was covered in concrete, they both deducted they had to be in a sewer, Misty chose the left direction and Lilith didn't object, she just tagged along behind as they started walking again, "urgh, this place just looks disgusting" Lilith grimaced at the dirty walls, "after working on a farm for most of my life, I'm use to it" Misty replied to her comment, "now I wish I was back in a server room, not in some magical world" Lilith then said, Misty just hummed and they continued walking, "no, actually if I was in a magical world, I would like to be sunbathing, cocktail in hand, in a tight swimsuit, on my own goddamn private yacht" she continued to rant, "oh just so you can seduce Decker even more?" Misty then teased, Lilith sighed "and that's coming from the person who has her D-sized bust on show for her nerdy crush" she quipped, Misty blushed again just like last time, "now you're just trying to compensate for your small chest now aren't you" she shot back, "hey, I am a C-cup for your information, it's just I'm wearing tight clothing, and I'm a bit on the smaller end" Lilith then defended herself sharply, "riiiiight" Misty rolled her eyes to that answer, however they both realized the rather inappropriate tone of their rather feminist conversation, "isn't it weird where both arguing about the size of our breasts in a sewer?" Misty then mentioned, "err yeah, that conversation just happened" Lilith bluntly replied, "well at least be glad the boys aren't around, or anyone else for that matter" Misty joked to herself as they continued to walk through the pipes to an unfound exit.

In the aether was a room, a room which could be described as an old bedroom, its red walls being furnished by wood, in the room was a multitude of furniture, such as a bed, a doll house, a wooden model of a few buildings, a toy chest near the window and a table with a few small chairs, however, standing at the window looking out was a girl, her white and blue dress and the teddy bear cradled in her hand being very recognizable to some people, especially Richtofen, as she continued to look at the scene of the two women walking through the sewer in the glass panes of the window, Samantha was wondering about they got under his foot, how Misty fell for his commands on a broken Earth, and how Lilith gladly worked for an organization which caused suffering for her new friend, she then turned around to see him right there, a preoccupied Oz sitting at the table looking at a few small figurines, they were miniature zombies, one of them where your bog standard zombie, another being an exo-zombie, but there was one which was different, it looked grey and its face, if you could even call it a face was full of rows of sharp teeth, Samantha came up to table and sat at the other end to Oz, she had in front of her the figures of the aforementioned women, Oz then turned his eyes up to the little girl, "they're both stuck in that sewer system, dark and damp, a rather scary environment" he mentioned, as he had seen the scene through the window, Samantha looked back, "yes, we could make their time in those tunnels even more scary" she said rather sadistically, she then took the grey skinned zombie figurine and also picked up the figurines of the two aforementioned women from the wooden model nearby, she brought them together on the table and looked at them all, "I wonder if they have a phobia to creepy crawlies" she asked smugly to herself as she then bashed the zombie figurine into the two female ones, knocking them over with a thud on the table, at that point, they're was the ominous sound of a creature which filled the room.

Back in the sewer Misty and Lilith had managed to reach a small area, it was a box shaped room with the remains of a catwalk which went across a void filled with murky water, the area was filled with blue light from a flickering fluorescent tube hanging high above, the two women could see the corner of the catwalk which was in the middle of the water, which would allow for them to jump to and then from into another pipe which went in a perpendicular direction from the one they were in now, Misty decided to throw caution to the wind as she slung up her shotgun, she took a step back and then jumped the gap, landing on the metal grating of the catwalk with a metallic clang, she then turned ninety degrees right and jumped the watery gap again, landing on the solid concrete of the second pipe, "you are the yolo kind of woman you know that?" Lilith then mentioned, Misty looked at her confused, "what's a yolo?" she asked, Lilith chuckled a bit, "it's an acronym some gamers use from my time, you only live once" she explained, "ahh ok, well it's your turn, don't miss or it gets a whole lot wetter" Misty responded, Lilith slung her rifle on her shoulder and took the jump, just like Misty she hit the platform with no problems, she then turned and took the second jump.

As she was in mid-air, an alien hand then suddenly reached out of the water and grabbed the ankle of her boot, Lilith lost all her momentum and her stomach slammed down onto the pipe with her whimpering from the pain, she flipped over and to her horror, the hand with long talons was trying to drag her into the water, she looked down to see a head poking out, it lacked a face and had nothing but a large row of sharp teeth, snarling and snapping at her, she flailed her other free foot and tried to kick it off, "get the FUCK off me you putrid shit!" she yelled but had no success, she was slowly losing her grip as her nails were scraping on the concrete, but then a deafening sound went off next to her, the zombie's head exploded and the hand went loose, coming off her boot and sliding into the water, turning red from the blood, she saw Misty on her right with the smoking barrel of her shotgun, "you okay?" she asked, as she held her hand out which Lilith grabbed onto, pulling her up back on her feet, "what the fuck was that thing?" Lilith then asked, "nova crawlers, they go for your feet and if you kill them, they let out a massive stink" Misty explained, but they then saw the water being disturbed again, and to their horror, their where more of the crawlers slowly rising out of the murky liquid, "we gotta go" Misty suggested, "good idea" Lilith just replied in fright and the two women turned and ran down the tube as fast as they could.

As they ran they could hear the low pitch roar of the undead behind them, being carried along and amplified by the tight conditions of the sewer, Misty also overheard an ominous clicking sound which she remembered so vividly, she turned to see a variant of the crawler, the 'jumping jack' as they called it, running along the side of the tube like an arachnid at their speed, she twisted her body and took a shot with her Remington, she missed and the jack then jumped to the other side of the tube, shrieking its disgust towards them, Lilith just turned to see it and after seeing its snarling teeth she wished she didn't look, "fuck me sideways that things on us!" she panicked, "just dealing with it Lil" Misty replied stressed, she aimed and fired again, this time the pellets hit it right in the face, killing it with its body hitting the ground, the two women continued to run, making a hard left at a junction as a few metal grates blocked their path, they finally reached a closed round door with a large wheel on the front to operate the mechanism, Misty immediately slammed herself on the rusted metal and gripped the steel of the wheel and started to twist hard, she wheezed as the door slowly started to unlock and move, she heard all the resonating bangs of Lilith's rifle in her ears as the technician tried to hold the approaching hoard back, "hurry up with that door!" she said out loud as she had to reload, Misty finally got a gap wide enough to form and she rushed to squeeze through it, however in the process, the transponder on her hip got caught on a part of the door, snapping it off her belt, she didn't notice as she help Lilith through the gap, just as she saw the crawlers coming up on them, they both pushed hard and slammed the door right in their faces, sealing it.

They both sunk down onto the ground, trying to catch their breath from all of that running, "that… was way too close" Lilith squeezed out, "you can say that again" Misty replied, she then stood back up but Lilith noticed something, "wait, where's the transponder?" she asked, Misty patted the area and her eyes lit up when there was nothing there, "shit" she hissed, "now what? We can't go back and grab it" Lilith questioned, Misty just sighed, "we keep going, but now we'll have to find them on the surface, wherever the hell they may be" she conceded.

However they looked around from where they were and saw the entrance to a corridor which was up a flight of stairs, after walking up the metal steps and following the winding path with tight walls next to them all the time, they saw light at the end, they broke into a jog as they reached a heavy metal door with a small window, they looked through to see what looked like a path which went underground as well, but to the left, they saw sun and sky, freedom, they started to bash on the door with their fists, screaming at the top of their voices hoping that the others would hear them.

"They could be fucking dead by all we know!" Decker said in disbelief, the dot on the screen which was mounted on Lennox's left arm was still stationary, with the entire group at an intersection near a highway overpass, they had lost the trail of the two women they lost, "we can still have hope Decker" Marlton tried to comfort him, "no, it's all my fault, I shouldn't have let them on that unstable ground and let them fall through, if I stopped them they would still be here" the guard then started to shame, "don't blame yourself man, there was nothing you could do" Dempsey told, as they continued to wonder what to do next, Takeo walked off a bit as he thought he heard something, he stuck his hand up and with everyone noticing, they stopped talking, his eyes slowly scanned the environment, the air was just still enough for a natural calm, except something far off, not sounding natural, the sound of pounding metal, which could mean…

The men suddenly saw Takeo dash into a sprint towards a source, they started to run as well, trying to catch up with the samurai as he made a sharp turn into a depression, as the concrete walls started to tower at the entrance of an underpass, the wall was disturbed by a facade, a door, and that door was emitting loud banging sounds, when Takeo reached the metal, he peered through the small window and saw Misty's surprised face, "hey! Let us out!" her shout was muffled through the glass, banging on the door with her fists, Russman and Richtofen had just reached the door as well and the three men started to tug on the door, but it was stuck fast, with two large rusted bolts holding the door in place, "it won't budge" Russman conceded, Richtofen thought for a second, "hey, does anyone have any powerful explosives?" He questioned the group, Lennox came up "I've got this" he said as he pulled a large device off his back and onto his shoulder, his heavy projectile throwing MAHEM launcher, the other men just looked at it, "okay that will do" Richtofen replied, they walked away as Lennox came right to the glass, "I'm gonna blow the door open, so stand back, way back" he warned, as he gave time for the women to move he took some steps back and aimed his launcher, he put the crosshairs on the centre of the metal and, after steadying his shot, he pulled the large trigger.

The glob of metal hits its target, striking the metal and blowing the door clean off its hinges with a loud bang, Lennox just saw a wall of black smoke which covered the impact zone, but after a while he heard some coughing, and load and behold, Misty and Lilith came out holding their heads, "fuck me that was loud, shit my hearings fucked" the farmer complained, "damn my ears are ringing from that" the technician added on, Marlton just walked up to them, "well explosions in a confined environment aren't the best places to be for preserving hearing" he explained, Misty just looked at him blankly, "whatever brain bucket" she moaned as she put an arm around him, "it's just tinnitus, it will go away after a while" he tried to comfort.

"See Decker, no need to worry, she's right there" Dempsey said to the guard, Lilith looked at them both in confusion, "he was worried about you" the marine continued, she then looked back at Decker who was rubbing the back of his head feeling a bit uncomfortable, she then smiled and gave him a tight hug, Decker just looked at her with a embarrassed smile, "where you so worried when I was gone Decker?" she said with it being slightly muffled, she turned her head and put a kiss on his neck, Decker just rolled his eyes, "I was just concerned for you" he replied, she then broke away and gave him a cute look, "is somebody emotional?" she teased, with Decker in return giving her a 'for Christ sake Lilith your embarrassing me' look as the others were watching them both.

But all of their attention was suddenly diverted to Russman, "ladies, sorry for interrupting your reunions, but any flesh-eaters nearby would've heard that explosion" he pointed out, "yeah, we better start moving or we'll have a hoard to deal with" Kahn added on to his point, they all proceeded to walk out of the depression and back onto the main street, Lennox came up onto Misty, "hey, where's the transponder I gave you?" I asked, "sorry, I dropped it" the farmer replied, "damn, those things are expensive you know" he said in a depressed tone, "what Lennox, you worried it's going to be taken out of your Sentinel pay check?" Lilith then chimed in on their conversation from the front, Decker who was next to her just burst out laughing and Misty gave a good giggle, Lennox just rolled his eyes in embarrassment, "just… forget I said anything" he conceded in dry emotion, Misty had to hand it to her, Lilith was turning out to be a very good companion…

Even almost sister-like.

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"Log number: 1666-0209"

"Date: Some time after last know date of 15th November 2019"

Log writer: Colonel of R&D initials - K.G.M.W of Battalion 17 speaking"

"The events which has transpired the past 24 hours have been remarkable, albeit strange and mysterious at best and way past my scientific knowledge, after the 'Solas' prototype's magazine malfunctioned in the hands of the American and released a large energy burst which unceremoniously activated the teleporter we were positioned in, we were teleported out of the Thames station we were originally located in and which had been overrun by the 'despoiled's', and sent our group to another location, I originally thought it was a room in the Humberside station, but a quick exploration quickly dashed that theory, we seem to be trapped in an previously unknown dimension, in an area known as 'Starshot City' in a bar somewhere in the city's older district, my American, Canadian and Russian; technically Russo-American test- no, correction, impromptu comrades seem to be just as distressed as I am, they have been asking questions which I can't get the answers to, we've already set up a perimeter and boarded ourselves in this bar, we have enough foodstuffs here to last us some time, but I know it won't last forever, but I still must ask why are we here in the first place? Was it some freak of physics? Supernatural phenomena? Or my punishment for all the lives I took in the name of science, especially in the 'PR campaign' in Hollywood over the course of 2018, which I'm reminded of by this, blood-soaked white rose, *sigh* no matter what the cause of this predicament is, we still have to find… why is there a teddy bear here? I swear it wasn't here when I started… Jonathan are you sure-"

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