The three bullets never make it to the creature. The lights go out for 3 seconds. When they flicker back on, Martin and the creature are gone.

"MARTIN!"




"We need to get out of here."

"good idea, we don't want that thing following us around. Least now we can see WTF was wrong with it."

"We need to see what is behind the wooden door. Naru, check it. Andrew and I will watch your back"

Naru moves to the door and uses her Xray vision to see through it.

Andrew takes aim through his intervention

Emilia points her gun towards the bodies.

On the other side of the door is a stairwell leading down. There is also a complex mechanism above the door on the other side. It's function isn't clear.

"I bet it is a trap or alarm of some sort"

Andrew scans the room fir any sign of movement or humanly presence with his thermal scope..

"We have to be able to disable this thing, what ever it is from this side of the door. Shooting it with my deagle might break it, but the noise could wake these things up", pointing over her shoulder.

"What do you think?"

"Yeah, agreed. We don't want to piss off anything in here, or break anything of importance"

"So we are just going to open the door and hope for the best?"

"Well, yeah. Unless you want to stand around? Seeing as you can take a few, ladies first. -wink-"

"Sounds like a decent plan to me. Well, when I say decent I mean best we could hope for in the circumstances"

Emilia attempts to open the door with deagle ready.

The mechanism clicks into life and the lights on the other side of the room with the corpses go out, then the ones slightly closer, then the next ones, until the lights are going out quickly and blackness is rushing at the team.

"Don't panic"

Emilia sprays pure oxygen around them to stop the team from hyperventilating.

The darkness is almost upon the team and in it there is a shuffling of thousands of bodies moving as one.

"Get through the door! Now!"

Andrew jumps through the door, brandishing his light weight M4A1
"what do we do about this shuffling noise? Shoot!?"

The team runs through the door just as the blackness reaches them. They slam the door shut behind them, and a great inhuman cry is heard from the other side, a distorted roar from a thousand throats. The wooden door shakes slightly, then all is quiet on the other side.

"Lets go before they break down the door"

Emilia leads the way down the stairs slowly.

"go go go! I'm right behind you!"

nothing opposes them as they descend. There is another door down there this time, a metal door with a circular window in it. Scratched on the metal is "HavE SoMe PiE!", a seemingly juvenile message in a serious surrounding. Under the message is the number 3.