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Negan
Camelot Forest
Negan stared at Gryphon for a moment, before closing his eyes, letting out a slow, long sigh escape his mouth. A sigh that basically said 'done with this shit' all-in-all. As he did this, the Savior leader brought his gloved hand up to squeeze the bridge of his nose, just between his eyes with his thumb and forefinger. Finally, after performing these acts, he opened his eyes, and looked at the demon.
"Is that why you're here?" Negan asked. "Because you heard a scream? Or... is there another reason?"
There was the possibility that this Gryphon wasn't alone. And if he wasn't, then Negan was particularly interested in figuring out who they were. And what made them tick, most importantly.
Artemis
Camelot
"Hardly." Artemis replied to Serena. "Like any other male, he's vacuous, arrogant, and aberrant. Regardless, the people here seem to like him, and he's allowed me stay after our confrontation. I'm indebted to show him some modicum of respect, as little as that may be." Looking down at the girl, Artemis gave her a small smile. "I suppose we'd better get you situated. I'll provide you a tour of the kingdom, and insight you on what this place holds."
Sans, Snake
Camelot Cave
"I'm at some sort of mountain, above a cave system." Snake answered. "I'm moving up to get a better vantage point. You say there's a forest nearby? I'd suggest heading for it. I'm surrounded by woods." He explained to Raiden, before Shantae spoke up, offering something.
Snake narrowed his eyes at the vial, containing a brightly colored substance. Reluctantly, he reached his hand out, and accepted the potion. Hesitantly, the soldier slowly raised the vial to his lips after pulling off the cork holding in the potions contents inside. With that, he drank quickly, gulping down the potion. As quickly as he'd begun, the vial was empty. He lowered it, blinking a few times, before looking down at his leg to see if anything had changed.
"cool." Sans replied, leaning against the cave wall, his eyes somehow closed. Many monsters had asked Sans how a skeleton could close its eyes. Frisk even, at one point. Sans' answer had never changed. Upon hearing the question, he'd turn to whoever had asked, and say; "simple", before closing his eyes, and falling asleep before they could ask how the physics behind it worked. He may be intelligent, but the reasoning as to why a skeleton like Sans could close his eyes was because... yes. That seemed like a valid reason.
Spider-Gwen, Logan
Goldenwalk Robbery
Gwen thought about it for a second. Toph's nickname for the Spider-Woman seemed valid enough. A compliment, more than an insult. It just sounded so negative, though she was a little confused on what the hell a 'Spider-Mongoose' was. Some kinda weird animal hybrid? Well, considering that this group of people had been whisked away on an interdimensional adventure much like herself, it wasn't entirely impossible that a 'Spider-Mongoose' was an actual thing back in Toph's world. Or, she could be messing with the teen. Either way, Gwen didn't really have a response for that, except; "Uh... cool, thanks." She said, dropping from the ceiling, turning midair, and landing nimbly on her feet. "Also, uh, guys, I know this is a little late to add, but..." She looked at the plasma burnt ground, making sizable holes in it, as well as the hole in the ceiling Toph had made. "Let's try and keep property damage at a minimal. I'm uh... already in a lot of trouble after accidentally blowing up a building a few days ago."
Doomslayer, Master Chief
Specter's Fortress
Flynn furrowed his brow at the rods as they shot up along the sides of the belt, generating visible electricity between them, going up for about five rows ahead to the top of the belt. Clenching his jaw slightly, the slayer rolled his eyes inwardly. If this was supposed to be some sort of defense, it was worthless. Child's play. As the belt sped up, Flynn was quick to grab the first rod on his right, yanking it out of the belt as the electricity jolted into him, his suit's insulation rendering the shock almost entirely useless, though he could feel a little bit even through all the insulation. These were generating quite a bit of power. Without the rod on the right, the one on the left stopped generating the wall of electricity, leaving itself to spark in vain attempts at connecting with its partner.
Nevertheless, they were hardly an obstacle for the Doomslayer. As the belt continued to speed up, he swung the rod he'd torn out at the second group, easily destroying them. He repeated the process for the third, fourth, and finally, the fifth obstacle.
With that, he reached the top, tossing aside the rod and pulling out a plasma rifle, bringing it up to aim about at the foreign room he'd entered, ready for another fight.
"There." John stated, looking towards Flynn and Hiro, who stood on a conveyor belt, having just reached the top. His eyes quickly scanned the room they were in, the thing peaking his attention the most was a strange robotic giant, which was disabled and destroyed. It had a strange resemblance to Hiro, leading Chief to the conclusion this Specter guy might have made robotic counterparts to each member of the team. But what they could do, John didn't know. He'd just have to be attentive.
His entire thought process had only lasted for about a second, as he began to make his way to the conveyor belt. "We're headed up, Kale. Are you still alright?" John asked into his comms, resting his chin down on a pad inside of his helmet, opening up the communication link with a short, quiet burst of static.
Rick Grimes
Fenrir Far East Branch
Rick felt his eyes slowly open. He'd been doing that a lot lately. His side felt far better than it had just earlier. If that was earlier. He had no sort of reference of time to figure out just how much he'd been out of it since what had happened, happened. Slowly, the man sat up, rubbing the sleep from his eyes, finding displeasure at the taste of morning breath in his mouth.
"Oh, good. You're awake. Hopefully you're feeling a bit better now?" Rick removed his hand from his eyes, looking drearily at Dr. Sakaki when he'd spoken. With a slight nod, Rick gave the man his answer, before looking about at the room he was in with slight interest.
"Water..." He finally said, his voice cracked, and faint, in desperate need of hydration. "I need... water..." He told the doctor.
Miranda Keyes, PVT Blakes, PFC Javier, CPL Fisk
Alpha Corvi II
The small team made their way off the beach, finding themselves under the canopy of dense leaves and vegetation upon entering the forest. The four individuals kept their weapons raised, their safety off, ready to fire at any moment. Even if the Insurrection was their goal of support, it would help not to look so relaxed. Not to mention there was always the possibility the Flood had somehow managed to spread here. Then again, the Flood had taken over Earth in less than three hours. Their limits weren't exactly set in stone.
Miranda suddenly dropped to a knee, looking down the sights of her SMG. "Javier. Blakes. You're up. The structure is ahead. Fisk, you have our six." She breathed. Her heart was thumping like crazy, her stomach twisting in knots. If the Insurrection rejected them... That would be it. This would need to be a very carefully operated operation. One wrong step, and the whole fragile thing might come crashing down around their ears.
Sgt. Johnson
New Mombasa
Somehow, some way, the Marine continued to survive. Against all odds, here he was, sneaking his way around the Flood. He'd originally been fearful that they could smell him out, but maybe they really couldn't. Johnson knew he couldn't be infected, either. The augmentations of the first Spartan program had ensured that. He couldn't remember the name of the diagnosis that allowed him immunity to the Flood, but he was damn sure glad he had that disease.
Peaking around a corner, Avery Johnson noticed a pack of Flood Combat Forms wandering aimlessly in circles around each other. The air was heavy with the misty green fog produced by the Flood, presumably for airborne infections, rather than more direct ones performed by the Infection Forms. Again, Johnson had no worry of this. He was immune to the Flood. He just wasn't immune to death, hence his caution.
If the soldier was being honest, he wanted to find a way out of New Mombasa. Not for places uninfected, but rather, for some place he missed. Some place he loved. He wanted to go back to Chicago. Back to his apartment. There, he'd kept all of his Auntie's things after she'd passed away, shortly before the Covenant first attacked Harvest. He could still remember seeing her cold, stiff, lifeless body tangled in her sheets when he'd entered her room.
All Avery wanted to do, was go home, and make his final stand there. On his own turf.
'Do what's right.'
His Auntie used to tell him.
'Make me proud.'
"Hell, Auntie..." Johnson muttered under his breath, low enough to pass the Flood's hearing. "I'm gonna make you the proudest old lady this side of the galaxy."
Frisk
Underground
*You called for Papyrus.
*But Nobody Came.
*You called for Sans.
*But Nobody Came.
Frisk felt worry continuing to gnaw at her as she wandered through the house. Papyrus had gone up to Sans' room to give him breakfast, but had never come back down. The door had been left wide open, yet nobody was inside. This, initially, had worried the girl. Thinking this was some sort of trick by Sans, or maybe even Papyrus, who liked to pull pranks if he was in the right mood, but still, neither of them had revealed themselves.
Making her way down to the kitchen for the third time that morning, Frisk aimlessly wandered in there for a few moments, her mind wandering, drawing absurd conclusions as to the whereabouts of her adoptive brothers, before she thought... Perhaps they were back in the dog room. Or, what had once been the dog room. Ever since Mad Dummy had taken over one of Alphys' Mew Mew Kissy Cutie dolls and moved in to the affectionately named 'Dog Room', the dogs had seemingly been evicted by the coming of Mad Dummy, who was now known as 'Mad Mew Mew', named by Frisk herself.
Sometimes, Sans would mess with Mew Mew. Tell her (is it still a him? (was it ever a him?)) jokes, or terrible puns. Or maybe Papyrus, who would visit Mew Mew with grand stories, like one of his favorites, lovingly titled 'THE GREAT PAPYRUS VISITS THE DUMP!'.
But upon arriving in the room, Frisk found none of them. Not Sans. Not Papyrus. Not even Mew Mew, which was questionable. Mew Mew had managed to merge with the doll it inhabited, making it a living being, and ending its career as Undyne's training dummy, as now, it could be hurt.
A thin layer of dust coated the ground towards the far wall of the dog room. Frisk felt her heart stop, and catch in her throat. Dust. But she hadn't... had she...? Frisk had performed genocide before, but she'd moved on. Learned to overcome that behavior, learned to forgive herself, and earn back Sans' trust.
What if Chara had...
No. Not Chara. Frisk knew it wasn't her. Chara would have taken delight in revealing herself and her motive to Frisk. Whatever had killed Mew Mew, or maybe even one of the skelebros, hadn't been Frisk or Chara.
So... who?
As that thought crossed her mind, the child heard a dull thud from behind, and quickly whirled about to look at the back of Sans and Papyrus' house. Through the darkened window of Sans' bedroom, Frisk could... see someone. Or something, even darker than the room itself, if that were possible. As quickly as she'd seen it, the figure moved, disappearing from her view.
Fear. That's what the kid felt. Something she hadn't felt in a very... very long time...
Slowly, entering through the back door, Frisk found herself back in the kitchen. She wasn't sure why, but... it felt... and looked... so much darker. It was a precaution, she didn't intend to hurt or kill anybody, but... Just in case, she needed protection. Finding her way to the silverware drawer, Frisk slid it open as quietly as she could, reaching in, and finding the handle of a kitchen knife. It was nothing compared to Chara's knife, but it was a major improvement of the Toy Knife back in the ruins.
With a weapon in hand, Frisk left the kitchen, into the living room. She tilted her head back to look up at the second floor, to Sans' bedroom door, which remained wide open. It just kept getting darker, though...
*You tremble with fear.
*A wave of coldness washes over you.
*Something sinister awaits you.
*It gets darker still.
Frisk found herself climbing the stairs to the second floor, finding it difficult to place her foot on the next step. It was too dark, she couldn't see a thing. Yet, even though she'd been blinded, it continued to get worse.
*Dark.
*Darker.
*Yet Darker.
Frisk shivered. Could this be the mysterious man? She'd only heard of him. Rumors, mostly. She'd managed to find a terminal in the True Lab once before. The message inside had been in some kind of alien language she couldn't interpret, though there was one part she understood quite clearly. Dark. Darker. Yet Darker. Whoever had been the royal scientist before. Whoever had been shattered acrossed time and space. Whoever was in that picture Papyrus had drawn a long time ago, depicting the brothers in their youth, holding hands with some individual... This was him. Frisk was sure of it.
And she was terrified. The coldness. The darkness. They were consuming her. It was so dark, she couldn't even see the white mist leaving her breath and rising into her face.
Regardless of these circumstances, however, Frisk managed to find her way to Sans' bedroom. Peering around the corner, she could see it. See him. The dark figure. Darker than the darkness that surrounded him.
*You decide to confront him.
*You decide to overcome your fears.
*You decide to stay...
*Determined.
Camelot Forest
Negan stared at Gryphon for a moment, before closing his eyes, letting out a slow, long sigh escape his mouth. A sigh that basically said 'done with this shit' all-in-all. As he did this, the Savior leader brought his gloved hand up to squeeze the bridge of his nose, just between his eyes with his thumb and forefinger. Finally, after performing these acts, he opened his eyes, and looked at the demon.
"Is that why you're here?" Negan asked. "Because you heard a scream? Or... is there another reason?"
There was the possibility that this Gryphon wasn't alone. And if he wasn't, then Negan was particularly interested in figuring out who they were. And what made them tick, most importantly.
Artemis
Camelot
"Hardly." Artemis replied to Serena. "Like any other male, he's vacuous, arrogant, and aberrant. Regardless, the people here seem to like him, and he's allowed me stay after our confrontation. I'm indebted to show him some modicum of respect, as little as that may be." Looking down at the girl, Artemis gave her a small smile. "I suppose we'd better get you situated. I'll provide you a tour of the kingdom, and insight you on what this place holds."
Sans, Snake
Camelot Cave
"I'm at some sort of mountain, above a cave system." Snake answered. "I'm moving up to get a better vantage point. You say there's a forest nearby? I'd suggest heading for it. I'm surrounded by woods." He explained to Raiden, before Shantae spoke up, offering something.
Snake narrowed his eyes at the vial, containing a brightly colored substance. Reluctantly, he reached his hand out, and accepted the potion. Hesitantly, the soldier slowly raised the vial to his lips after pulling off the cork holding in the potions contents inside. With that, he drank quickly, gulping down the potion. As quickly as he'd begun, the vial was empty. He lowered it, blinking a few times, before looking down at his leg to see if anything had changed.
"cool." Sans replied, leaning against the cave wall, his eyes somehow closed. Many monsters had asked Sans how a skeleton could close its eyes. Frisk even, at one point. Sans' answer had never changed. Upon hearing the question, he'd turn to whoever had asked, and say; "simple", before closing his eyes, and falling asleep before they could ask how the physics behind it worked. He may be intelligent, but the reasoning as to why a skeleton like Sans could close his eyes was because... yes. That seemed like a valid reason.
Spider-Gwen, Logan
Goldenwalk Robbery
Gwen thought about it for a second. Toph's nickname for the Spider-Woman seemed valid enough. A compliment, more than an insult. It just sounded so negative, though she was a little confused on what the hell a 'Spider-Mongoose' was. Some kinda weird animal hybrid? Well, considering that this group of people had been whisked away on an interdimensional adventure much like herself, it wasn't entirely impossible that a 'Spider-Mongoose' was an actual thing back in Toph's world. Or, she could be messing with the teen. Either way, Gwen didn't really have a response for that, except; "Uh... cool, thanks." She said, dropping from the ceiling, turning midair, and landing nimbly on her feet. "Also, uh, guys, I know this is a little late to add, but..." She looked at the plasma burnt ground, making sizable holes in it, as well as the hole in the ceiling Toph had made. "Let's try and keep property damage at a minimal. I'm uh... already in a lot of trouble after accidentally blowing up a building a few days ago."
Doomslayer, Master Chief
Specter's Fortress
Flynn furrowed his brow at the rods as they shot up along the sides of the belt, generating visible electricity between them, going up for about five rows ahead to the top of the belt. Clenching his jaw slightly, the slayer rolled his eyes inwardly. If this was supposed to be some sort of defense, it was worthless. Child's play. As the belt sped up, Flynn was quick to grab the first rod on his right, yanking it out of the belt as the electricity jolted into him, his suit's insulation rendering the shock almost entirely useless, though he could feel a little bit even through all the insulation. These were generating quite a bit of power. Without the rod on the right, the one on the left stopped generating the wall of electricity, leaving itself to spark in vain attempts at connecting with its partner.
Nevertheless, they were hardly an obstacle for the Doomslayer. As the belt continued to speed up, he swung the rod he'd torn out at the second group, easily destroying them. He repeated the process for the third, fourth, and finally, the fifth obstacle.
With that, he reached the top, tossing aside the rod and pulling out a plasma rifle, bringing it up to aim about at the foreign room he'd entered, ready for another fight.
"There." John stated, looking towards Flynn and Hiro, who stood on a conveyor belt, having just reached the top. His eyes quickly scanned the room they were in, the thing peaking his attention the most was a strange robotic giant, which was disabled and destroyed. It had a strange resemblance to Hiro, leading Chief to the conclusion this Specter guy might have made robotic counterparts to each member of the team. But what they could do, John didn't know. He'd just have to be attentive.
His entire thought process had only lasted for about a second, as he began to make his way to the conveyor belt. "We're headed up, Kale. Are you still alright?" John asked into his comms, resting his chin down on a pad inside of his helmet, opening up the communication link with a short, quiet burst of static.
Rick Grimes
Fenrir Far East Branch
Rick felt his eyes slowly open. He'd been doing that a lot lately. His side felt far better than it had just earlier. If that was earlier. He had no sort of reference of time to figure out just how much he'd been out of it since what had happened, happened. Slowly, the man sat up, rubbing the sleep from his eyes, finding displeasure at the taste of morning breath in his mouth.
"Oh, good. You're awake. Hopefully you're feeling a bit better now?" Rick removed his hand from his eyes, looking drearily at Dr. Sakaki when he'd spoken. With a slight nod, Rick gave the man his answer, before looking about at the room he was in with slight interest.
"Water..." He finally said, his voice cracked, and faint, in desperate need of hydration. "I need... water..." He told the doctor.
Miranda Keyes, PVT Blakes, PFC Javier, CPL Fisk
Alpha Corvi II
The small team made their way off the beach, finding themselves under the canopy of dense leaves and vegetation upon entering the forest. The four individuals kept their weapons raised, their safety off, ready to fire at any moment. Even if the Insurrection was their goal of support, it would help not to look so relaxed. Not to mention there was always the possibility the Flood had somehow managed to spread here. Then again, the Flood had taken over Earth in less than three hours. Their limits weren't exactly set in stone.
Miranda suddenly dropped to a knee, looking down the sights of her SMG. "Javier. Blakes. You're up. The structure is ahead. Fisk, you have our six." She breathed. Her heart was thumping like crazy, her stomach twisting in knots. If the Insurrection rejected them... That would be it. This would need to be a very carefully operated operation. One wrong step, and the whole fragile thing might come crashing down around their ears.
Sgt. Johnson
New Mombasa
Somehow, some way, the Marine continued to survive. Against all odds, here he was, sneaking his way around the Flood. He'd originally been fearful that they could smell him out, but maybe they really couldn't. Johnson knew he couldn't be infected, either. The augmentations of the first Spartan program had ensured that. He couldn't remember the name of the diagnosis that allowed him immunity to the Flood, but he was damn sure glad he had that disease.
Peaking around a corner, Avery Johnson noticed a pack of Flood Combat Forms wandering aimlessly in circles around each other. The air was heavy with the misty green fog produced by the Flood, presumably for airborne infections, rather than more direct ones performed by the Infection Forms. Again, Johnson had no worry of this. He was immune to the Flood. He just wasn't immune to death, hence his caution.
If the soldier was being honest, he wanted to find a way out of New Mombasa. Not for places uninfected, but rather, for some place he missed. Some place he loved. He wanted to go back to Chicago. Back to his apartment. There, he'd kept all of his Auntie's things after she'd passed away, shortly before the Covenant first attacked Harvest. He could still remember seeing her cold, stiff, lifeless body tangled in her sheets when he'd entered her room.
All Avery wanted to do, was go home, and make his final stand there. On his own turf.
'Do what's right.'
His Auntie used to tell him.
'Make me proud.'
"Hell, Auntie..." Johnson muttered under his breath, low enough to pass the Flood's hearing. "I'm gonna make you the proudest old lady this side of the galaxy."
Frisk
Underground
*You called for Papyrus.
*But Nobody Came.
*You called for Sans.
*But Nobody Came.
Frisk felt worry continuing to gnaw at her as she wandered through the house. Papyrus had gone up to Sans' room to give him breakfast, but had never come back down. The door had been left wide open, yet nobody was inside. This, initially, had worried the girl. Thinking this was some sort of trick by Sans, or maybe even Papyrus, who liked to pull pranks if he was in the right mood, but still, neither of them had revealed themselves.
Making her way down to the kitchen for the third time that morning, Frisk aimlessly wandered in there for a few moments, her mind wandering, drawing absurd conclusions as to the whereabouts of her adoptive brothers, before she thought... Perhaps they were back in the dog room. Or, what had once been the dog room. Ever since Mad Dummy had taken over one of Alphys' Mew Mew Kissy Cutie dolls and moved in to the affectionately named 'Dog Room', the dogs had seemingly been evicted by the coming of Mad Dummy, who was now known as 'Mad Mew Mew', named by Frisk herself.
Sometimes, Sans would mess with Mew Mew. Tell her (is it still a him? (was it ever a him?)) jokes, or terrible puns. Or maybe Papyrus, who would visit Mew Mew with grand stories, like one of his favorites, lovingly titled 'THE GREAT PAPYRUS VISITS THE DUMP!'.
But upon arriving in the room, Frisk found none of them. Not Sans. Not Papyrus. Not even Mew Mew, which was questionable. Mew Mew had managed to merge with the doll it inhabited, making it a living being, and ending its career as Undyne's training dummy, as now, it could be hurt.
A thin layer of dust coated the ground towards the far wall of the dog room. Frisk felt her heart stop, and catch in her throat. Dust. But she hadn't... had she...? Frisk had performed genocide before, but she'd moved on. Learned to overcome that behavior, learned to forgive herself, and earn back Sans' trust.
What if Chara had...
No. Not Chara. Frisk knew it wasn't her. Chara would have taken delight in revealing herself and her motive to Frisk. Whatever had killed Mew Mew, or maybe even one of the skelebros, hadn't been Frisk or Chara.
So... who?
As that thought crossed her mind, the child heard a dull thud from behind, and quickly whirled about to look at the back of Sans and Papyrus' house. Through the darkened window of Sans' bedroom, Frisk could... see someone. Or something, even darker than the room itself, if that were possible. As quickly as she'd seen it, the figure moved, disappearing from her view.
Fear. That's what the kid felt. Something she hadn't felt in a very... very long time...
Slowly, entering through the back door, Frisk found herself back in the kitchen. She wasn't sure why, but... it felt... and looked... so much darker. It was a precaution, she didn't intend to hurt or kill anybody, but... Just in case, she needed protection. Finding her way to the silverware drawer, Frisk slid it open as quietly as she could, reaching in, and finding the handle of a kitchen knife. It was nothing compared to Chara's knife, but it was a major improvement of the Toy Knife back in the ruins.
With a weapon in hand, Frisk left the kitchen, into the living room. She tilted her head back to look up at the second floor, to Sans' bedroom door, which remained wide open. It just kept getting darker, though...
*You tremble with fear.
*A wave of coldness washes over you.
*Something sinister awaits you.
*It gets darker still.
Frisk found herself climbing the stairs to the second floor, finding it difficult to place her foot on the next step. It was too dark, she couldn't see a thing. Yet, even though she'd been blinded, it continued to get worse.
*Dark.
*Darker.
*Yet Darker.
Frisk shivered. Could this be the mysterious man? She'd only heard of him. Rumors, mostly. She'd managed to find a terminal in the True Lab once before. The message inside had been in some kind of alien language she couldn't interpret, though there was one part she understood quite clearly. Dark. Darker. Yet Darker. Whoever had been the royal scientist before. Whoever had been shattered acrossed time and space. Whoever was in that picture Papyrus had drawn a long time ago, depicting the brothers in their youth, holding hands with some individual... This was him. Frisk was sure of it.
And she was terrified. The coldness. The darkness. They were consuming her. It was so dark, she couldn't even see the white mist leaving her breath and rising into her face.
Regardless of these circumstances, however, Frisk managed to find her way to Sans' bedroom. Peering around the corner, she could see it. See him. The dark figure. Darker than the darkness that surrounded him.
*You decide to confront him.
*You decide to overcome your fears.
*You decide to stay...
*Determined.
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