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(Setting) The Dog Tunnels
| "Well I have the main sewer tunnels saved here, but not this. I'm just heading towards the general direction of the larger tunnels."
| "Agh, damn...So we're in the blind then..."
>The tunnels themselves seemed to be made of metal piping or tubing of some sorts. It was almost like there were additions made to the tunnel system, spliced on after the first tunnel was built. What was this place?
>The bar owners kept crawling through until the main path stopped and split off into two directions.
"Left or right guys?"
>This part was left off of CN's map. Entirely. The tunnel stopped there.
"Hmm...Left or right..."
| "Always go left, is what I always say."
| "Funny, I normally say always go right. Then again, I normally end up worse off for it, so we'll go left this time."
>The bar owners led the group to the left tunnel.
>As they kept moving, the piping started to feel...strange.
"Is this tunnel swinging?"
"I don't know. It feels a little like it is swaying."
>When they got to the very end, there was a grating in the floor that lead down below, but it had no ladder of sorts and it was too dark to see what was beneath them.
| "Hold on, let me turn on the flashlight in my phone."
>He turns in on and points it done through the grating
| >The flashlight reveals a dark room, one that appears as though it hasn't been touched in ages.
"What the hell is that?!"
>Surgery tables covered in blood, circutry and electrical wires wrre lined up next to eachother. Cybernetic parts strewn about everywhere. Oil and organs mixed together in jars.
>And weapons. So many weapons. Melee to ranged, ancient to futuristic, weapons hung on the walls and were strewn about the room.
>SN-SNAP!
>CRASH-BANG-BANG!
| >The tunnel they were in, seemingly hung to the ceiling with chain supports of some kind, breaks it's support with the weight of them all being in the same end of it, sending them all crashing into the room below.
>Nietzen spoke up, everybody groaning in pain.
"Fucking...ow. That hurt..."
"What the hell was that? The support just snaps? How could anybody use these tunnels with supports that weak?"
| >The integrity of the tunnel was now almost no more and the grate on the end was open, going out to the right side.
| "Uh..."
>CN looks around the room
"Perhaps we should make haste out of here and worry about the integrity about the escape tunnels later..."
| >RaIn kept quiet the whole time. It was something he did when he was worried. The fall had cracked one lens of his glasses and this shitty...
"The fuck is this place... The organs and shit... We weren't in those tunnels for long, we're under the freeway I think..."
>There was a small shake in RaIn's voice. He was a bit freaked out. He held the handgun a bit tighter and used it's light to look around.
"I'm definitely with CN, this place fucking reeks and is creepy as hell."
| "Y-yea let's get going, whoever was attacking us has probably found the hatch by now and may be heading this way too. We shouldn't still in one place to long."
>He points over at the grate
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| >Around the room were various cybernetics workbenches and surgery tables, along with weapons and ammo everywhere. The room also had a large metal door that was closed.
>Nietzen tried to open the door, but there was no visible knob or handle, and it did not open.
"What the hell is this place..."
>Nietzen began looking around the room along with the bar host. One of the bar hosts picked something up off of the table.
"Well, they were cyborgs, but maybe they weren't human."
| >He lifted up a cybernetic...paw?
"Is that...a dog paw?"
"Yup, and it's got serrated claws made of adamantine-treated steel. These weren't your standard dogs. These things were being turned into killer cyborg dogs in this place."
"Hey, how about you quit looking around at shit and focus on finding us a way out of here?"
"Alright, alright."
>The bar host set the paw down.
"Oh look!"
>Nietzen flipped a lightswitch that lit up the room, revealing a rotted wooden wall on a side.
| "We could probably break throu-"
>"GERONIMOOOOOO!"
>A bar host literally shoulder charged the weak wood and fell through it into another room.
"As I was saying, we could break through it."
| "Well I'm sure this next room is just as great as the last one."
>He steps through the hole and points the light around the new room
| >The bar host stood up.
"Ow...That hurt more than I thought it would. Sorry, I overre-AHH GROSS!"
>The room was actually really nice, it looked like some sort of bungalow, with nice satin-looking benches with decorative pillows, curtains and blankets.
>The place that the bar host happened to land, however, was an extremely old, used dog potty pad. It smelled exactly like an old potty pad would, too.
"Ew! That's fucking nasty!"
| >There was a door and windows made of iron bars pointing the same direction of the iron door from the previous room. It pointed out into...
"Is that...an arena?"
>It was a large sand/dirt lot with what seemed to be purposely placed obstacles, such as spike pits, jets of some kind, crates to climb on, boulders and artificial trees to hide behind. It was absolutely huge...
"Wow...That is...impressive..."
| "So, what do you think this was? Some kind of...dog combat arena?"
>Nietzen snickered.
"For...Dogfighting?"
>Nietzen busted into laughter for some reason.
"Like...seriously...dude...why are you even laughing?"
"Because...DOGFIGHTING!"
"That's messed up, dude."
"No, I'm not laughing at literal dogs fighting, it's the name. The term itself, 'dogfighting'. It's an old world term, for like airplanes fighting, making it a pun in my book."
>The bar hosts just stared blankly.
| "Bro, I don't even know anymore, it's been an intense couple of days, let me laugh at something dumb will ya?"
>Nietzen said.
"Whatever, let's just go..."
>The iron doors were hard to budge, but they opened and swung outwards, opening up the arena.
"Wait!"
>Nietzen quickly ran back into the previous room, before exiting with a...gun, of some kind.
"I need a weapon in these times. Figure I could take one of these. This place looks abandoned."
>He cocked it back.
"Cool."
| "Do you even know what, how, or what ammo that thing fires?"
"I'll learn as I go. It's what I tend to do with most things."
| >CN looks around the room as this conversation goes on
"You know I'm not saying you don't need some protection, but word of warning for you is that last time someone I knew brought something back before checking it out, our hideout got discovered. Just saying don't make it a personal weapon of yours for now and properly but something later."
>He shrugs
| >RaIn kept looking around the rooms. Specifically at the ceiling, there weren't any camera's or anything. Despite what this place was used for. Clearly this bar host and Nietezen haven't been on many of this fucked up escapades. Or maybe they have and were just doing weird things for a reason..?
"I... Really would rather not stroll into an arena to be quite frank. There's not much in terms of other options, but It doesn't seem smart to me.
>He looks around for any other doors.
| "I'm sorry for acting a bit aloof. It kinda happens when I'm extremely nervous."
>Nietzen says as he looks around.
"You're right though, we should stick to the edge of the arena."
>Nietzen and the bar hosts began to scale the edge of the arena, and one of them shined a light down the arena. As he did so, he revealed a large metallic device that looked like the size of a room at the end of the arena. Behind it was a ladder that went up into some sort of shaft.
| "I guess that ladder is our ticket out of here?"
| "It's the only way to get up that I can see. Still strange that this place is just abandoned. I wonder what happened to the dogs that were here..."
>One of the bar hosts said as he walked past the metal device, stopping at it for a brief moment.
"This looks like some kind of teleporter or something. This is weird. Wonder if they all went through here?"
>Nietzen looked back, not giving that much of a dignifying thought. He was anxious though. Where were their pursuers?
| >Nietzen thought to himself, shouldn't they be here by now? He was glad they weren't, he guessed, but if they did really have camoflage like the bar hosts said...they could have been literally anywhere around them. They could even follow them home.
>Nietzen created a computer projection with a flick of his left hand, and wrote a message on his screen with a notepad before sending it over to CN, small enough to go in front of his eye, so nobody else could read.
| >The screen said this: "If our attackers have camoflage, they may be following us. Is there a different safe place we can go to lose them?"
| >He then duplicated the screen, and showed one miniature screen to everybody, including RaIn and the bar hosts, so everybody knew: they may be getting followed.
| >CN ponders the question for a moment, thinking to himself before making a face and writing "Not at the top of my head sadly, at least where we can hide this many people."
| >Nietzen recalled CN's screen and read his message.
"Oh..."
>Nietzen then thought to himself.
"Alright, I guess we just climb then..."
>The bar hosts began to climb up the ladder, and were able to reach the top. A commotion was heard up there, however.
"Oh shit!"
"What the hell? >What the hell?!"
>Nietzen's stomach started churning. He sighed and got on the ladder, before climbing up.
>He made it to the top, and looked around.
"Holy fuck..."
| >CN follows after them up the ladder
"Can't wait to see what wonderful sight is up here..."
| >The entire Dorky's Barcade building, along with the surrounding buildings in the Old Town District, were all on fire. Burning to the ground in front of their eyes.
>Nietzen commented as he looked upon the scene.
"Well that's just excessive. Even in this shithole of a city, who just burns down a place like that?"
>The bar hosts, however, were crying.
"That was our entire life savings, our whole career! What the hell kind of person does this?"
>Nietzen sighed, and turned away..
| >...as he did so though, he saw some hovercars approaching that looked scarily familiar.
"Oh...double shit."
>And in came the Phoenix Corps, which quickly surrounded the group.
>A loudspeaker activated through one of the cars as a Phoenix Corps man began to speak:
"As part of the ongoing investigation into the suspected arson incident surrounding Dorky's Barcade and the Old Town District, you will all be placed in temporary hold cells for 48 hours until we sort this thing out."
| "What the hell did we do wrong!? What do we need to get taken for?!"
>Nietzen exclaimed as he stared at the cars.
"Well, for starters, you're the only people around here left alive that we could find, and you just came out of a manhole from a previously unknown and likely forbidden part of the Old Town District. On top of that you have the original bar employees with you, and the other ones have all been murdered, making you the last potential witnesses in a murder case as well."
| "And, you know, on top of that, we are the police now and you have to do what we say anyway, so it isn't like questioning us is going to get you out of this."
>Men and women in Phoenix Corps suits of armor began to exit the cars.
"On behalf of Glitch City and the Phoenix Corps, you are all placed under temporary arrest for at least 48 hours and you will all be subjected to questioning regarding your potential and likely involvement with the destriction of Dorky's Barcade."
| "Shit..."
>CN wanted to rebut the Phoenix Corp but knew it would be a waste of time. His calm demeanor betrayed his eyes as he quickly scanned all around him, trying to find a possible exit strategy before they close in too far on the group.
| "Troop, seize th-"
"Not so fast."
>Then, another unexpected turn of events, as 15 more crimson colored Phoenix Corps soldiers all materialized, holding a device in their hand that seemingly allowed them to appear out of thin air. An untrained eye would think this is just camoflage, but it was something more than that.
"Order your troops to stand down on Alpha-Reaper-1 clearance. You are all dismissed and must leave immediately.
"Ha! And just who the hell do you think you are?"
| >One of the crimson colored Phoenix Corps soldiers stepped up to the captain of the standard Phoenix Corps troops.
"All I will say is that I alone am worth more than the lives of every single one of your troops, including you. If I actually showed the miniscule amount of effort it would take to kill you all, when I get back to base, you AND your families will all be blacklisted and erased from every record book that ever claimed any of you existed. Stand down, or be erased."
| >The standard Phoenix Corps soldier stood down, immediately. He was clearly shaken to the core by the malevolent force in front of him.
"I-I was j-just following protocol sir! I would never disobey orders from a superior!"
>The crimson one looked him up and down.
"Good."
>He then turned to the group that they captured.
"I have no clue how you evaded us at that shitty bar, but you won't evade us again."
>He pulled out an extremely advanced pistol of unknown tech, charging it.
| >But as he began to lift and point it up at Nietzen, the standard Phoenix Corps squadron captain stood up.
"I joined the Phoenix Corps to make a difference and stand up for what is right. I won't allow the Phoenix Corps to be corrupt like the White Knights were before them. I-"
>BZZT!
>The commanding officer slumped lifelessly to the ground.
"Too bad. Good man. That's a weak quality in this world."
>The Crimson commander turned back to the group, barrel smoking off his pistol.
| >But another standard Phoenix Corps troop stood up.
"I will fight for what is right."
>And as he pulled out his standard issue weapon, a Crimson troop executed him from behind, materializing behind him. Another standard troop next to him then hit that Crimson one in the chest with a shotgun shell, and he fell lifelessly.
>And in 5 seconds, Phoenix Corps turned on Phoenix Corps, and a firefight ensued, all around the group.
>Nietzen ran to cover behind a car.
"This is chaos!"
| >As he ran to cover, he tripped on the body of one of the Crimson Phoenix Corps soldiers, and noticed he dropped that device that he was using to materialize in and out. He grabbed it.
"Hmm..."
>He had concerns, of course. As usual with him, for a solid 5 seconds, his mind was immobilized with fear of the possibilities of what could happen.
>But he also knew what WOULD happen. He would escape, one way or another.
"Fuck it!"
>Nietzen pressed a button amd activated the device.
| (OOC: Real quick, I'm sorry if I am posting too much at one time and advancing the story too much. I don't have a lot of time to dedicate to this and we all have different schedules, so the time I do put into this I want to make the most out of. I end up posting a lot just so that I can make up for the time away from this, but if I do this too much or too often, please tell me to calm down and shut up.)
| >CN runs behind the same car for cover, and as he tightens his grip on his stungun he looks around for a nearby alleyway he can use to escape from the firefight.
"This is too much! We got to get out of here right n- what are you doing?"
(It's fine, *it's fine*. Writing a lot is understandable since you have a lot of npcs in the scene right now. Theres nothing wrong is the thread takes awhile though, different schedules are inevitable so most threads end up moving slow as a result)
| >RaIn stayed bitterly quiet during the whole fiasco. He thought the Phoenix corps were better than the White Knights. He thought Sei could actually make something good out of this. But of course he fell for another shitty lie. The straw that broke the camel's back. He watched CN and Nietezen dash behind a car he quickly followed suit.
"Well, this is fucked. Really fucked. Any bright ide-"
>He looked at the device Nietezen was about to use. That... Could work pretty well.
| >Nietzen held the device in his hand, and it began to shoot what appeared to be rays of anti-light, like a ray of black sunshine, before he disappeared in front of them.
>Nietzen wasn't quite sure exactly what happened, because he didn't really remember most of it. From what he did remember, it looked kinda like the world around him was like the stereotypical depiction of 'hyperspace' in most sci-fi shows. He pressed the button again and came back to reality behind the car again.
| "Whoa...Guys, find one of these devices. I think we can use these to get out of here."
>He wasn't really sure, to be honest. He didn't really move around while he was in that state, but he definitely knew he wasn't actually visible in that state, meaning they wouldn't be either.
| "Well if it's the only shot we got right now."
>He peeks around the corner of the car, looking for any similar device he can use.
| "THERE THEY ARE!"
>One of the crimson colored Phoenix Corps soldiers pointed his rifle at CN as he peered out, but was subsequently shot in the back by one of the white Phoenix Corps soldiers.
>The body was out in the open, but close to him. CN would be able to reach out to it, but he would have to crawl out of the cover.
| "Dammit..."
>CN tries to reach out and grab the corps to drag it back to cover
| "Fuck it. Wait here."
>RaIn grumbled to CN as he watched him almost get shot. Of course this aggravated RaIn, he dashed out from behind the car and ripped the device off the corpse, then chucked it to CN. He checked another corpse and found his own... There was a burning feeling on his arm. He clenched his jaw as hard as he could to avoid shouting in pain. Whatever they were firing, it dug deep. He didn't have a choice really. RaIn clicked on the device and ran back to cover.
| >He was able to see Nietezen with the device being turned on, RaIn gripped above the bullet hole in his arm with his free hand and ran over to him.
"We need to get the hell out of here NOW. Anywhere but here, your place, some store, just anywhere dude. This bullet fucking stings like a bitch."
>RaIn took a deep breath to try and calm himself down while he glanced around for CN.
| >CN grips the device in his hand
"What about the bar hosts?"
| >The bar hosts had seemingly either ran off or took cover somewhere else. For some reason they were nowhere to be found, and now that one would look, even with all the dead Phoenix Corps soldiers, some of the crimson ones were missing. Where had they gone?
"I don't see them, but if we don't leave, we're gonna be the next ones shot. Click the device and let's fucking run."
>Nietzen said as he held his own and clicked it once more, disappearing from CN's view.
| >After doing it twice, Neitzen now felt a little more comfortable in this other state of being.
>Then, he saw RaIn.
"Holy shit, we're floating."
>Nietzen looked at his own body, and exclaimed in shock.
"Are we...fucking ghosts or something with this? I don't feel any physical weight, or anything. This shit is weird...
>Neitzen waited for CN to click the device.
"I have a place we can temporarily go, but we can't stay there long."
| >CN has a pained expression on face, but only for a moment
"...Alright, let's get going then."
>CN clicks his own device, following suit
| >All 3 of them were transferred into an altered state of reality. It was one that was similar to our world, but different. Off in some aspects. Or on? It was confusing to be sure. It almost seemed like it was another layer added on to the one they had existed in previously.
>Also, for some reason, they could float.
"I really have no idea how to moo-OOOOAH!"
>Nietzen leaned forward, and then started floating forward...VERY quickly, much faster than walking speeds."
"Holy shit!"
| "I wonder if-WHAAAA!"
>Nietzen then started shooting upwards into the sky, screaming before shooting back down to the ground."
"This shit is trippy. You kinda just...think of where your destination is and you go there?"
>Nietzen said, as he stood in awe at the device.
"I don't know what this is, but it is weird as hell."
| "We can worry about it later. For now we need to get out of here before they realize what we're doing. You said you had a place? Where are we going?"
| "Yeah, I have a place, just as soon as I figure out how to mooOoOOVE!"
>Nietzen seemed to be having trouble getting away from the scene. In particular, trouble moving. After a few more attempts however he got the hang of it, and started flying down the street and up through Light Highway, still terrified. It was like his body was moving as fast as his mind could, and his mind thought of fhe destination, so he went there. His friends would just think of following him, he thought.
| "So it's like based off your mind right..."
>CN closed his eyes for a moment, thinking about how this works, as he starts floating after Nietzen.
| >Nietzen began floating above the Light Highway, on his way back to the Motor District.
"WHOA SHIT!"
Then, all of a sudden, a car flew across the road the wrong way and hit Nietzen...and he went through it.
"Okay, so we can go through physical barriers..."
>Nietzen clutched his chest as he flew.
"This is way too much man..."
| >CN slowly catches up to Nietzen
"Dude try to calm down you'll move more smoothly. Try to think of it as like... a point and click game."
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| >As they continued crawling through the tunnels, suddenly they kept splitting off. Many different tunnels all seemed to twist and turn as though they were some kind of maze. How anybody could have ever navigated these was a mystery. It was almost like they were intentionally made to be confusing.
>Nietzen spoke.
"CN, do you have the map to this place? I doubt it has all of the paths, but maybe it has the main path at least?"