>>5741519Making your way down the rows, you feel a cold finger run down your spine as you notice one more item of note: at the end of the field hospital lies another massive airlock! Letting your pals continue to snoop around the medical equipment, you take out your <span class="mu-s">KEYCARD</span> one more time and press it against the scanner!
Drawn over by the hissing and groaning of the door’s mechanisms, Pepper, Raj, and Rodney all join you as you wait for it to open…
What greets you inside blows the rest of your revelations out of the water!
“Is…” Stammers Rodney as he peeks over his shades, “What… what the hell <span class="mu-i">IS</span> that, D?”
“Looks like somethin’ out of a sci-fi flick!” Observes Raj as his eyes bulge out from underneath his bangs!
Pepper remains silent as she mashes the button on her camera with her mouth agape!
You, on the other hand, are still more or less lucid. Rod and Raj are right, you nod as you lead the way in, there’s only one thing it could be…
<span class="mu-s">A PORTAL!</span>
“A p-p-portal!?!” Rodney sputters as you enter the lab’s comparatively sleeker and more modern interior, “L-like teleportation or some shit!?”
Yea, you nod, that shit! Though smaller than the room behind you, the lab is dwarfed by a colossal rectangular gate cobbled together with wires and machines that make your head spin just looking at them!
A metal bridge extends across a small ‘<span class="mu-i">moat</span>’ filled with more unfamiliar gizmos, but no doubt about it–someone, or some<span class="mu-i">THING</span> is definitely meant to walk into whatever this machine produces!
… or it <span class="mu-i">would</span> if it was still working! While the rest of the labs seemed to be in working order, all things considered, the ‘<span class="mu-i">TELEPORTER</span>’ and the console next to the bridge are utterly <span class="mu-s">TRASHED!</span> Kaput! Gone! DONE!
“I was wondering when we’d see some actual sabotage here…” Purrs Pepper as she slinks up next to you and takes a few pics of the machine. How the hell can she be so <span class="mu-i">calm</span>, you growl in an incredulous tone! It’s a dead-end!
“<span class="mu-s">SANDCRAB.</span>” The girl states as she stares you dead in the eyes, “This right here is the biggest breadcrumb on the trail yet. THIS,” she continues as she places a hand on your shoulder and sweeps her other arm across the room, “THIS is just another step in the truth… and it’s a <span class="mu-s">HUGE</span> one!”
“Found a computer, dudes!”
>CONTD. 