Episode 30: Mining Down Bellow
In the living world, there is a large castle ruin, everything seems quiet there. From the looks of it, the castle seems to be untouched by centuries. Suddenly, there is a loud sound of guns firing and the sound of glass shattering. At one of the towers, multiple gun fires can be heard and bullets fire at the windows, causing them to shatter. Coming out from the top of the tower of the balcony is Blitz, and is clenching his left arm.
Blitz grits his teeth and says, "god fuckin' dammit! How hard is it to kill this fucker!"
Then Amara runs out to join him, "When this guy used to be a soldier from the army and still has a lot of his guns and bombs. Not to mention that he escaped from a mental asylum."
Moxxie and Millie soon run out and look tired and Millie has been badly shot on her right leg. At the same time, Moxxie has blood on his head, which shows little signs of him bleeding as well.
"Are you okay, Millie?" Moxxie asks, worried.
"I'm fine Moxxie. I've gotten worse than this," Millie says.
Then asks in concern, "What about you, Moxxie?"
"I'm alright. Though, I feel that my head is about ready to spin," Moxxie says, rubbing the back of his head.
"Let's just kill this fucker be over with it," Blitz says.
"Yeah," Amara says, and soon feels the pain on her back. "Ow!"
"Are you doing alright, kid?" Blitz asks.
"I'm okay. I just got a bad hit against the wall after that bomb exploded," Amara says.
Suddenly, they hear gun firing and explosions coming from inside the tower.
"Shit, that fucker found us!" Blitz says.
"Let's run and see if any of us can shoot this psycho!" Amara says.
Moxxie holds Millie and the three demons begin to run back in the tower from the other entrance. Just then, a man who looks like he's in his late sixties or early seventies runs onto the balcony and back in from the other entrance. He is bald with a car going across his face, and has guns, bombs, and sharp weapons. He is wearing a headband on his head and is only wearing black pants and army boots. The man laughs like a mad man as he chases the four demons down.
The group continues to run down the stairs as they try to escape from the madman.
Amara turns her head and grunts in frustration, "What the fuck is this lunatic's problem?"
"I knew this guy is a psycho from the client, but I didn't think that he needs to be double secured in a fuckin loony bin," Blitz says.
"Just keep running!" Moxxie cries out.
The group continues to run down the stairs and into the hall of the abandoned castle, but the psycho is still on their trail, laughing crazy and firing his guns and throwing his bombs around.
As they run down the hall, Blitz steps on a particular looking tile on the ground. The tile seems to have a strange symbol that looks like an egg with stripes. And suddenly, the tile goes down. And suddenly, a trap door opens from right under the four feet and they all fall down with a scream. As the psycho arrives, the trap door closes upon arrival.
Down the tunnel, the group continue to slide down as they scream and bump into each other, and soon roll down. Then they end up arriving at an intersection, Blitz and Millie fall down the tunnel on the left while Amara and Moxxie fall on the right.
Soon, Millie and Blitz end up falling out of the tunnel they've fallen from and land with a loud 'Thud' on the ground. Millie ends up landing on top of Blitz.
"That fuckin hurts," Blitz mutters in pain.
"Sorry Blitz," Millie says and gently rolls off old Blitz.
Blitz stands up and dusts himself, "I'm alright. At least you had a soft landing."
Then asks, "You okay?"
"I'm fine," Millie says, trying to get up.
However, she feels her leg in pain and falls to the ground.
She soon looks around, "Where are we?"
"Who the fuck knows?" Blitz replies.
He then looks at the tunnel they've fallen from, "But it seems that we've fallen deep underground."
"Yeah," Millie says.
She looks around and asks, "Where's Moxxie and Amara?"
"You're right. I know they fell in with us," Blitz says, looking around.
Then Blitz helps Millie stand up, but uses himself to help support her.
"Come on, we need to find them and kill that Psycho. At least get the fuck out of here," Blitz says.
"Yeah," Millie says, "I hope Moxxie will be okay."
"I'm sure he's fine, and Amara is with him. I'm sure those two will handle it until we find them," Blitz says.
Meanwhile, Amara and Moxxie have already fallen out of the tunnel and landed on the ground. They both soon sit up and Amara rubs her back pain.
"Ow. My back," Amara says in pain.
Moxxie sits up and holds his head, "My head."
Then he asks, "Are you okay, Amara?"
"I'm alright, but my fuckin hurts. I can't believe we had to deal with a nutcase like that," Amara says, rubbing her back in pain with her artificial hand.
"Where are we? And what happened to Millie and Blitz?" Moxxie asks, looking around.
"We must have gotten separated when we fell. The best thing we can do is continue forward and see if we can meet up with them," Amara says.
"I suggest we call them on our phones before we go forward. We need to make sure they're at least alright," Moxxie says as he brings out his phone.
"Good idea. You call Millie and I'll call Blitz," Amara says, and looks at her phone.
However, Amara notices that the bars on her phone have none, "No good. I don't have any bars."
"Sadly, I don't have any bars either. We must be so deep underground that we can't get a signal," Moxxie says.
"Then it's best we choose a direction for us to go and see if we can find them. It's a risk to go back up in case the Psycho might come down here," Amara says.
"That would be for the best. Let's choose a direction and find the others," Moxxie says.
"Okay. We'll go this way," Amara says.
She walks to the wall as she brings out a chalk. Then she draws a gemstone shape with the arrow pointing in the direction we're going.
"That way we'll know where we've been, in case we run into a dead end," Amara says.
"Hmm, that's a good idea. How do you know how to do that?" Moxxie replies, impressed.
Amara answers, "My dad taught it to me. He said it's good when you're spelunking so you won't get lost."
"Okay then. But stay close, we don't know what's down here," Moxxie says, bringing out his gun.
Ammra brings out her gun, "Understood."
Then Moxxie turns on his phone light, "And we'll keep a light on. It's best we use one phone so that the other can be used in case one of the batteries runs out."
"Good idea," Amara says and puts her phone away.
With that, Amaa and Moxxie begin to walk down the tunnel to find Blitz and Millie, and hope they won't run into any problems when they find them.
Meanwhile, on their side of the mysterious cavern, Blitz and Millie decide to walk down the tunnel to find Amara and Moxxie and find a way out of the tunnel. During the time, they discover that they're unable to call them due to the tunnel being deep underground. Blitz feels pain in his arm while Millie still feels pain in her leg, but they continue forward to find the others, and they won't run into any kind of danger. Millie is also holding her phone so they can get some light.
"This place is so dark. I can barely see a thing," Millie says.
"It's a good thing we have batteries on our phones. Too bad we can't call the others," Blitz says.
"Yeah. I'm worried about Moxxie and Amara. I know they can handle themselves, but who knows how long we're going to be down here," Millie says.
"I'm sure they'll be fine. Amara is as tough as you are, it will take an Overlord to take down that kid," Blitz says.
Millie giggles, "That's true."
"And Moxxie can kill good himself so no worries," Blitz says. "Even though he acts like a fuckin baby from time to time."
"Blitz!" Millie sternly scolds him.
"What? He worries too much. I wouldn't be surprised if he's worried about you at this very moment," Blitz says.
"Let's worry about finding them," Millie says.
She calls out, "Moxxie!"
"Amara!"
"Moxxie!" Millie calls out.
Back where Moxxie and Amara are, they walk down the long and dark tunnels as they try to find the others.
Amara calls out, "Blitz! Millie!"
"Millie!" Moxxie calls out.
"Blitz, can you hear us?!" Amara calls out.
So far, nothing. They don't hear Blitz nor Millie.
"Nothing," Amara says.
"We must be somewhere in a different part of the mine and we're nowhere near Millie and Blitz," Moxxie says.
"We must be deep in these caves," Amara says.
Amara and Moxxie continue to walk down the cave and soon notice something close by.
"What's that?" Moxxie asks.
Amara squints her eyes, "Is that a cart and a railroad track?"
Amara and Moxxie walk over to see a cart and it's full of pick axes, shovels, and interesting looking rocks that seem to shine when the lights hit it, and sparkles a gold color.
"Those are bright rocks. What are they?" Moxxie asks.
Amara picks one of them up and observes one of the stones, "Hmm, they look like Gold Ore."
"You're right. And judging by the pickaxe and shovels, and the cart on the tracks, this place must have been a gold mine a long time ago," Moxxie says.
"And I'll bet that if we follow the rails, we'll be able to find a map of some kind of the mines," Amara says.
"Then let's go. There might be a chance that Blitz and Millie find the tracks as well. We could meet them somewhere in this place," Moxxie says.
"Right," Amara says with a nod.
Amara and Moxxie then begin to walk down the tunnels and follow the railroad tracks. Hopefully they can find Blitz and Millie.
However, above ground and in the castle, the Psycho killer is trying to punch, kick, and fire his gun at the trap door with full force and laughing like he has gone beyond mental. The crazy man then lights up his bomb and throws it at the trap door. Soon, the bomb explodes soon enough and it's loud and big that the castle feels like it's going to shake, even underground. Seeing the trap door is destroyed and now there is an opening, the Psycho killer drops down through the tunnel and goes down the intersection Blitz and Millie fall through. The man continues laughing insanely and runs down the tunnel to find his targets.
Somewhere deep in the tunnel, Blitz continues to carry Millie, despite having an injured arm and continues to search for Moxxie and Amara.
Blitz looks around, "We've been walking for a while and we haven't seen either one of them."
"Yeah. I wonder how deep this place is," Millie says, looking around.
Millie looks up ahead and says, "I think I see light up ahead."
Blitz looks ahead to see some light a little further down the cave. It's not much, but it seems to count for something.
"Well then, let's go check it out," Blitz says.
Blitz and Millie continue to walk down the tunnel and reach the opening. To their surprise, they find themselves in a large cavern. There are railroad tracks, carts, a few pickaxes and shovels, and a few wooden platforms and pillars with lanterns hanging on them. Above, there is a large opening that is allowing light and air to enter the large cavern.
"Wow. This place is huge!" Millie says, amazed.
"You're right. It seems that we ended up in some kind of mine," Blitz says, and looks around. "Hmm, I wonder if Amara and Moxxie were able to find their way around here."
"They probably might. It looks like the rails go down into tunnels and different parts of the mine," Millie says.
"Well, if that's the case. We can wait here and hope the two come to find us," Blitz says.
"That will be the best," Millie says.
Blitz and Millie walk out of the tunnel and decide to wait at one of the pillars and place Millie down.
"How's your leg doing?" Blitz asks.
"Doing fine, the bleeding has stopped, but it still feels sore," Millie says.
"At least we were able to find our way down here, so we won't have to worry about anything else until Amara and Moxxie show up," Blitz says.
Suddenly, maniacal and insane laughter begins to echo around the cavern and it sounds like it's getting closer.
"Uh, what is that?" Millie asks.
Blitz brings out his gun, "I'm getting a fucking bad feeling about this."
Blitz looks around as Millie sits and brings out her dagger in case there might be any trouble. Just then, coming out of the tunnel they've come out from, it's the Psycho man and he is ready to make things go crazy here.
"Oh fuck, not this fucker again!" Blitz exclaims in shock.
Then the psycho begins to throw bombs at them.
"Oh fuck!" Blitz says, shocked.
He then grabs Millie and quickly runs on his feet as he dodge the bullets and bombs the psycho is throwing and firing , Blitz is able to use two of the mining cars to block the bullets, but it won't be easy to dodge the bombs.
Blitz turns to Millie, "How the fuck did he find us?"
"I'm more curious about how he's able to get down here," Millie says.
The gun continues firing as bombs continue to explode around the cavern.
"I don't think it matters how that fucker find his way here, we need to take this fucker out before he takes us out," Blitz says, and begins to fire his guns at the psycho human.
Millie sits on her knees, "I'll give you a hand."
Millie then begins to throw her daggers and fire her guns at the man, but the man is running and dodging too fast, it's like he's not even human at all.
"Shit, this guy is even more psycho than I thought," Blitz says.
Then the psycho throws two more bombs and lands in front of the carts Blitz and Millie are hiding behind, and they explode, sending the two back. One of the carts lands on top of Millie, having her covers. Blitz ends up hitting the ground and ends up with a nasty hit to his head by the train track. Blitz struggles to lift himself up from the hard hit against the metal railroad track and blood begins to bleed from his hand.
Blitz grits his teeth and mutters, "God fuckin dammit."
The Psychic continues to laugh insanely and continues to throw bombs all over the cavern, destroying many of the area of the mine. There are rocks and some gold ores being fallen from the ceiling or the side of the cavern.
In the other tunnel, Moxxie and Amara are walking down the tunnel as they continue to search for Blitz and Millie. As they walk down the tunnel, they see some gold blending into the wall and some on the ground. Amara then picks up gold that is in the surprising shape of a star and another in the shape of a double loop. With that, she puts the two stones in her pocket.
"Why did you put these in your pocket?" Moxxie asks.
"I actually have a rock and mineral collection at home. I especially like to collect some in different shapes," Amara says.
"I also have a special geode that Aaron and I found when we were children. Aaron doesn't have a rock collection like I do, but he likes to see the collection I got," Amara says.
"Huh, I didn't know you had one," Moxxie says.
"I sure do. I guess it just never occurred to me to share it with you guys. Some of the rocks I got are involving geodes, crystals, rocks, and stones like that," Amara says.
"I like to see them sometimes," Moxxie says.
Suddenly, the two hear loud explosions, the ground and tunnel shakes, and rocks begin falling.
"What the fuck was that?!" Moxxie asks, shocked.
And hears insane laughter and gun firing.
"It came from down there," Amara says.
Amara and Moxxie hurry down the tunnel and soon see a light out in the opening. They rush over and come to a stop to find a wooden elevator of some kind, and beyond it, they see the large cavern.
"This must be one of the centers of the mine," Amara says.
"But where did that noise come from?" Moxxie wonders, and looks over the elevator to see what he can find.
But Moxxie notices something in shock, "Amara, look over there!"
Amara rushes over and sees the Psycho man going crazy and is practically destroying the mine as Blitz, lying on the ground, struggles to get up.
"Shit, the guy has completely lost it. If we don't do something, that nutcase is going to cause a cave in," Amara says.
"And it will bury Millie and Blitz along with him, not to mention us," Moxxie says.
Amara then brings out her rifle, "Moxxie, can you shoot the guy from way up here?"
"Of course I can," Moxxie says, taking the rifle and asks, "But what are you going to do?"
"I'm going to go down there and disarm that nut. When he's disarmed and when I give the signal, you shoot him, either the head or the chest," Amara says.
Moxxie nods his head in reply.
Agreeing to the plan, Amara uses her artificial arm to lower herself down as the Psycho man is going crazy with his attacks. Amara reaches the ground floor and quick;y hides behind one of the other wooden pillars and remains hidden from the psycho in question. She looks to see that the Psycho has calmed down, well as calm as he can be. He continues laughing as he walks towards Blitz and is ready to kill him.
Suddenly, he hears around and turns around to see a robotic limb aiming at his face. The man quickly dodges, but Amara comes in and gives the man a hard kick and lands on the ground. The psycho continues laughing as he stands up to see Amara landing on her two artificial feet.
"Alright, Mr. Psycho, I'm going to ask you nicely. You either throw down your weapons, or am I going to have to confiscate it?" Amara replies.
The Psycho however beings throw bombs at Amara. Amara then jumps up and dodges the explosions.
"Looks like we'll have to do things the hard way," Amara says.
Then the Psycho begins to fire his gun as he runs towards Amara. Amara quickly dodges the attacks and uses her artificial arm to coil the guy up and throws him towards the call, making him drop his guns. Amara then uses her magic to lift the guns up and crushes them into pieces and she lets them drop to the ground. Just then, the psycho manages to grab Amamra by her artificial limb, and swings her around until she crashes into the pillar. The pillar soon begins to fall over, but Amara is able to move out of the way. Amara coughs from the dust and turns to see the psycho throwing bombs at the ground. Amara quickly moves out of the way, and manages to tackle the psycho to the ground. Soon, the two begin to struggle as the two end up getting a fist fight. Things become a struggle when the Psycho is able to physically rip off Amara's artificial arm, crushes it with her bare hands, and tosses it aside. Then Amara uses her artificial legs to kick him off of her, and sends him crashing to the wall. This time, the hit is so hard that he feels dizzy and unable to focus.
Seeing the chance, Amara calls out, "Now!"
Hearing the signal, Moxxie aims the rifle at the Psycho man and shoots him clearly at his head. The man dies instantly and falls to the ground with a thud. Amamra deeply breathes in exhaustion from the fight she has got herself into. Moxxie finds a switch on the elevator and uses it to lower the elevator shaft down to the ground floor.
"Are you okay, Amara?" Moxxie asks.
"I'm fine, just very tired," Amara says.
Then looks at her busted limb, "And it looks like I need to get a new arm."
Suddenly, they hear a grunt and groan and turn to see Blitz is able to stand and still feel dizzy from the hard hit.
"Fuck, Blitz," Amara says, and rushes over with Moxxie close behind.
Amara helps Blitz up with her organic arm, "Blitz, are you alright?"
"Fuck, no. My head fuckin hurts, and so is my arm. That psycho really went all out on us," Blitz says, in pain.
"Where's Millie?" Moxxie asks.
"I think she's under that cart," Blitz answers.
Moxxie rushes to the cart and pushes it as hard as he can to flip it. Worrying for Millie is what gives him the strength to move it. Moxxie gasps in shock to see Millie on the ground and is unconscious.
"Millie!" Moxxie cries out.
He kneels down to her in concern, "Oh Satan! Millie, wake up! Are you okay?! Millie!"
Millie lets out a groan and she slowly regains consciousness, "Mo-Moxxie."
"Oh Millie, I'm glad you're alright. Are you hurt?" Moxxie asks, relieved and still worried.
"I'm okay. I must have been unconscious when the bomb exploded," Millie says.
"I'm just glad you're okay," Moxxie says, and he and his wife hug.
"I'm just glad you two were able to off that fuckin lunatic," Blitz says.
"Yeah," Amara says.
Then Blitz asks, "Hey kid, can you call Loona and get her to open the portal. My fuckin head is going to split open."
"Alright," Amara says.
She sits Blitz down and begins to call Loona.
Luckily Loona answers and Amara says, "Hey Loona, sorry it took long. We've finally killed the target, you can open the portal to let us back."
Soon enough, the portal opens.
"Come on guys, let's get out of here beforeā¦" Amara says.
Suddenly, they begin to hear rumbling sounds and rocks and boulders begin to fall down to the ground.
"What's happening?" Moxxie asks.
"I think because of the fight and the explosions it is starting a cave-in. We need to get going, now," Amara says.
Amara then picks up Blitz while Moxxie picks up Millie. Then the two hurry through the portal as the cave cave-in on itself. Soon, the portal closes before the cave can be fully covered by the rocks and such from the explosions.
Later on in the I.M.P office, after being paid by the client, the group is taking a good long rest after the mess they have. All their wounds have been treated and Amara is able to attach her spare artificial arm to her body and is able to move it.
Blitz sighs in exhaustion, "Fuck, what a long day."
"I know. That mission was not only tiring, but that was pretty dangerous," Amara says.
"At least we were able to get out before the cave collapsed with us in it," Moxxie says.
"Yeah. I'm going to be sore for weeks," Millie says.
"I feel that I'm going to be sore for a month," Blitz says.
"I know what you mean," Amara says.
Roy sits next to Amara and says, "I'm glad to see you all got out okay."
"We're glad too. I don't think I'm itching to find myself in a mine again," Amara says.
"No fuckin kidding," Blitz says. "The last thing we need is to be on the rocks, or in the rocks, get it."
Everyone grunts and groans to hear Blitz's little joke with unamused expressions on their faces. Mainly because Blitz's little joke is pretty bad, and the last thing they want is to hear any rock based jokes.
