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Resident Flooder Chapter 2
By aragorn_8
CHAPTER 2: Entering the Message Board
A few minutes later, the train started slowing down as it approached a loading deck, much like the one they had left a few minutes earlier, only this one was much deeper underground.
As they approached, the lights on the ceiling of the platform started turning on, lighting up the area.
Once the train stopped, the M.O.D.S members caught off first, raising their guns as they went between boxes and crates, and around pillars, securing the area, making sure it was safe.
Two of them, Spider Carnage and MIB, carried a big, black metal trunk. As they all did their jobs, a camera clicked on, up near the roof, watching their every move.
They approached a set of doors, and they hid behind some crates. CJ went on ahead, carefully, with her gun aimed out, walking quickly but quietly.
She raised her hand and made a signal, showing that it was safe. They walked up a set of stairs and down a small hall to a huge door. By now, Dino-Snore had gone back and got SS, JP3 Girl, and Eric, and now he had caught up to his other team members.
“Listen, “ JP3 Girl spoke up to Dino-Snore. “I don’t know who you people are and I want to know what’s going on here.” Dino-Snore ignored her, looking ahead at the door. JP3 Girl reached up her hand and punched his shoulder, causing him to turn to look at her. “Now.”
Dino-Snore sighed. “You and I have the same employer.” He explained. As he explained, he looked back and forth between JP3 Girl and SS. “We all work for the Dan Corporation. The Chat mansion above us is the emergency entrance to the Message Board. You are security operatives placed there to protect that entrance.”
“What about this?” JP3 Girl asked, holding up the finger with the wedding ring on.
“You’re married.” Dino-Snore answered in a matter-of-fact tone.
“Wait,” SS interrupted. “What is The Message Board?”
“Show them.” Dino-Snore said to Jedi A. Malcolm.
Malcolm took out a small electronic device and placed it on a small crate. He opened it up and there was a screen on one part and a keyboard on another. “Accessing schematic of The Message Board.”
A small picture filled the screen of a city. “Dan’s Jp3 Page city.” Dino-Snore pointed out. Suddenly it showed a mansion in the middle of a forest. “The Chat mansion, where we found you and gained access to the train.”
The picture showed the train heading downward at a slant, going down a really long tunnel. “Which in turn,” Dino-Snore continued. “Brought us to The Message Board. The Message Board itself is located underground, deep beneath the streets and posts of Dan’s JP3 Page city.”
The picture then showed the train stopping and an underground facility that looked a little like a beehive, thicker at the top and getting skinnier near the bottom.
“The Message Board is a top secret research facility owned and operated by the Dan Corporation. It houses over five hundred lab technicians, scientists, and support staff. The live and work underground. Their research is of the highest importance, and it’s classified. Our position on this map is showed by heat signature.”
The picture zoomed in on The Message board and soon it showed a bunch of red blobs in the form of humans.
CJ was at the metal door, a welding mask over her face as she held a long device at the door, which was trying to open the door, causing sparks to fly. A bunch of wires were suddenly severed and fell to the floor.
CJ stopped the device and lifted up her mask.
“Why can’t we remember anything?” SS asked.
Dino-Snore answered, “The Message Board has it’s own defence mechanisms, all computer controlled. A nerve gas was released into the house. The gas knocked you unconscious, which could have lasted up to four hours. Second effects vary, but can include temporary memory loss.”
“For how long?” SS asked.
“It’s subjective. An hour. A day. A week.”
Eric interrupted. “So you’re saying this place was attacked?”
“It’s a little more complicated then that.” Dino-Snore admitted.
Suddenly CJ walked up to them. “Sir, We’ve breeched The Message Board.” She informed him, taking the welding mask off.
The door lifted upward and two of the soldiers knelt down, pointing their guns out into the dark hall, as the others stayed back with the three civilians, also pointing their guns out.
“Change eyes.” Dino-Snore commanded.
MIB and Malcolm lowered a pair of night-vision goggles over their eyes as they proceeded into the darkness.
After a few minutes of waiting, the people still back by the door heard MIB shout back to them. “Got it!” then the lights started coming on and a window showing the city streets opened its blinds.
The short hall ended up going into a big lobby.
All the M.O.D.S members secured the area, making sure no danger was around, and then headed for the elevator doors, the three civilians not far behind.
As they walked and looked around the room, Eric went over to the windows. He was approached by Yvonne.
“If we’re underground, how can there be other buildings?” Eric asked.
“It’s just a hologram.” Yvonne explained. “Makes it easier to work underground.”
Malcolm and MIB managed to force the elevator doors open, and when they did, Dino-Snore and CJ automatically pointed their guns into the elevator shaft. The elevator wasn’t there, and they all looked up, then down, seeing the elevator crashed on the bottom floor, far below.
“Guess we’re taking the stairs.” MIB joked. Dino-Snore nodded in agreement.
A few minutes later, they were all rushing down a set of stairs that went down in a square spiral.
As they reached the bottom, Dino-Snore called out, “Status?”
“Red King is locked onto us.” Malcolm said, looking at some readings on a device on his arm. “He knows we’re hear.”
“Who’s the Red King?” JP3 Girl asked.
“State of the art Artificial Intelligence.” Dino-Snore informed her. “He’s the security that controls The Message Board.”
They ran down a hall, and on one side were vats filled with murky water. There were small holes all throughout the vats, causing little bits of water to spray out.
Through the water, the people could make out the shapes of humans.
CJ looked down a side hall, her gun, just like everyone else’s, was still raised. The hall she looked down into was empty.
She turned back to the others as they continued on. Suddenly they all stopped.
“CJ, scout out the room.” Dino-Snore commanded. CJ nodded and went on ahead.
“What happened here?” SS asked as they passed by the vats. Eric and JP3 Girl joined SS in looking at Dino-Snore for the answer.
“Four hours ago Red King went homicidal. Sealed The Message Board and killed everyone down here. When we realised what had happened, my team was dispatched to shut him down.”
“Why did he do it?” JP3 Girl asked.
“We don’t know.” Dino-Snore admitted. “But outside interference is a possibility.”
Suddenly, from inside one of the vats, a human body floated and thumped against the glass, causing them to jump back. The person was a female and her long hair was floating above her head, her eyes closed.
SS turned to face JP3 Girl. “You ok?”
JP3 Girl just nodded her head.
“Here.” SS took off his jacket and handed it to her.
“No, I don’t need it.”
“It’s cold in here.” SS pushed on.
As JP3 Girl took the jacket, she got another flashback.
FLASHBACK
JP3 Girl and SS were in bed, having sex.
JP3 Girl snapped back to the present and put on the jacket, covering her dress. She turned back to SS. “You remember anything?” She asked. “Before this?”
“No.” SS answered. “You?”
Jp3 Girl looked away, then looked back at him. “No. Nothing.
Eric was off to the side, looking at a vent in the roof. He strained his ears and could have sworn he heard a whisper.
“Sir.” Eric whipped around, seeing that CJ was talking to Dino-Snore. “The whole level is flooded.”
“Alright, we behind schedule.” Dino-Snore spoke up. “So Let’s move!”
They all started walking away from the area, down the hall.
After they had left, back in the vat with the girl who had bumped into the glass, the girl’s eyes opened and her hand reached up and touched the glass.
7/7/2002 1:19:30 PM
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