Twenty five years ago, a meteorite hit the surface of earth. It caused mass extinction of each and every species on earth. From the space rock escaped the radiations and chemicals, which caused some of the living beings to mutate, and gave them uncanny abilities. And thus began the new age of humanity, the Mutant Age!
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After finishing off everything in the Nanken School, the squad went to the Kyoujo Distrcit Shopping Mall to meet the members.
"(Gigi) Oh hey, people! You were here?"
"(Aura) Yes, and nearly died because of you guys."
"(Smith) Because of us?"
"(Aura) Long story."
"(Gigi) Actually it's good that you guys met us here. We were going to visit you after this mission."
"(Todo) Is there something?"
Gigi told them about the Adam's Rock and the prediction about the future apocalypse.
"(Chae) And just some time ago, we found out the place where the information of ground zero of the apocalypse is kept. And we thought to ask you guys to accompany us, because why not."
"(Gigi) Will you?"
"(Todo) Well, if the gi- (Whole squad agreed) Ahh okay then."
After three hours of rest and preparation, the team embarked to find the location of the information.
The Mutant Foundation booked their own private plane to reach the place. After landing, cars also arrived to pick them up, dropped them at a station, where they were carried by a special private train and then again picked up by cars when they reached the destination.
Finally, they arrived. The Thar desert, India.
"(Nat) This' the place?"
"(Mikasa) Yup. This desert somewhere has a group of old buildings which have suspiciously arisen right after we went to the weird otherworld."
"(Vanda) Quite sus."
The heroes started walking.
The desert surely was hot. But the temperature was easily bearable for any given mutant thanks to their awakened human limitations.
After walking for a while, they found the buildings. "(Cross) There they are, the buildings."
"(Chae) They look older. Shouldn't they be like new and shiny if they are just erected?"
"(Gigi) It's too soon to make any predictions. The buildings were mentioned in Adam's Rock. And it already proved that time travel or predictions are true. So we can say that these were also new buildings, but now are just ancient ruins."
They searched the walls, floors and ceilings of the ruins, and Cross discovered a certain wall which looked like something was written on it. He called the others. Todo asked Aura to read what was written on the wall.
"(Aura) Glekona..... Sioasis.... Kanuakoro...."
As soon as she said these words, the ground started shaking. They heard a huge explosion outside and went to check it.
When they were finally out, they saw that the sky is covered in lights of various colors and the sand was all flying all around. A loud, echoed sound was heard, as though someone is opening a gate. The ground started breaking and spinning as they floated, trapped in the vortex.
All of a sudden, an explosion occured, which consumed everybody. Chae opened her eyes. She looked around. Everyone was injured. Then she looked at her body. Two fingers of her left hand were broken. Her right foot was just clinging to her leg. Mere movements and it would fall off.
She then heard a voice -
"Why are you here?"
Looking up and around, there was no one. Only lights of different colors.
"Oh yeah? First say who are you."
"Imbecile. I am Shreegra Deva. The one who created this palace."
"And why did you?"
"It was my job. Now tell me, why are you here?"
"I am here to unravel the secrets of a rock."
"I can't let you. This place had information that is forbidden for unworthy mortals."
"Oh yeah? We have a planet on line. Can't just let this slip away. Let us do it, or we would use force.".
" How will you with that weak body of yours?"
"I- uhh. Can't you understand? We have the lives of more then 8 million people to protect. And you are just neglecting that? How can you?"
The giant stepped back. Then said -
"So you are the ones..."
"What?"
He touched her head with his finger. Chae's body healed. Then he made way for her.
"Your companions will heal too. Take this route. It will lead you all to the place you want to go - The Gates. Be careful, for there at many a beings to stop you from reaching your goal. You have to go through all of them. *His body starts turning to ash* My work is now done. I have reached the goal fow which I was made. Now, it's upon you all to do your best."
He then perished. Chae was left confused. After a while, others woke up. She then told them about what the giant told her. "(Gigi) So that means that there will be obstructions, hmm? We'll see. We have to get there anyway, so well figure out how to do so too."
"(Todo) Yeah. Cant just back up after reaching this far."
The heroes walked inside the buildings. It was all dusty and messy inside. They walked for some time, and then Smith heard a sound.
"(Smith) Guess it's the first enemy we are gonna face..."
From a dark corner appeared zombie mutants, the ones they met in Glock City.
"(Smith) They are the ones we fought before!"
"(Cross) But if they are here, it would mean...."
Appeared the Zombie King, the biggest of all of them. With it's half body and little bit blown off face, it screeched -
"ALL OF YOU... ALL... YOU.... DIEEEEEEE!!!!"
It attacked. But this time it was different. It was now stronger than what it was months ago.
"(Mikasa) But how? Didn't we killed it back then?"
"(Gigi) You are right, but rather than just asking questions I guess it would be better if we just finish it off once again."
Nat pulled out a sword and slashed the big zombie into dices.
"(Nat) Done it is." After Nat killed the zombie, a door appeared before them.
"(Aura) A door. We have to open it to get to the other room."
"(Vanda) What is this, a game?"
Todo attempted to open the door, but it was locked. Pressure was applied, but it was useless.
"(Gigi) Hmm... We gotta find something here. Mikasa, map around."
"(Mikasa) Roger."
Mikasa used Mapping to search around the place. Only corpses of the already dead were laying around.
"(Mikasa) Gotta increase the power...."
She closed both her eyes, made a weird sign with her left hand and touched the floor with her right. One breath in, and she was able to sense even the insides of every being in that room.
"(Mikasa) Gross. But found something."
"(Chae) Why did you said gross?"
"(Mikasa) *nods* Nothing. So, inside the big zombie guy is the key we are looking for."
"(Gigi) Aight I'mma do it."
Gigi used her portal to open a gate inside the zombie's chest. She put her hand in the entrance, grabbed the key inside and removed it with her hands painted red with the blood. Some organs and stuff of the zombie fell out from the gate before it was closed.
Everyone was just looking at her with a weird expression. She noticed them.
"(Gigi) *Without any expression* What?" *CREEEAAAKKKKK*
The door slowly opened after it was unlocked with the key.
Inside the door was a very dark room. Nothing could be seen.
"(Cross) I will light a fire."
Cross used Burn and tried to light up the room, but it was useless. Light scattered just a bit.
"(Gigi) Maybe because the room has black walls. It is refusing to reflect light. We have to adjust with the little light provided to us."
Cross stepped inside the room to lead them. As soon as he did, a weird thing quicky and silently ram in front of the group. Only the footsteps were heard.
They pretended to ignore that and stepped inside. All of them walked straight, no turns to figure out how big the room was by finding out the nearest wall. But they didn't. No walls even after walking for so long.
Suddenly Aura felt a push on her back. She turned around and saw a smiling face with glowing eyes and grin.
"(Aura) WHA-"
The face disappeared. The group turned around to ask her what happened.
"(Aura) It was a weird thing... I don't know...."
Then, the room was filled with such smiling creatures. Their loud giggles were a pain.
"(Chae) WHAT ARE THESE?!"
Todo was closing his ears, when jis eyes laid upon it.
Fushima.
It was him, no doubts. But how again? Are the beings that they killed coming back? He told them, and all of them saw the living things they killed hidden between those smiles.
Then the smiling creatures opened their mouths, and from inside came hundreds of hands all aiming to capture the group. All of then woke up in another room. None remembered what happened after the hands caught them.
"(Cross) Now what is this?"
"(Todo) The atmosphere... It's different here..."
A ray of light was noticed. That meant they were just on the exit of the building. Smith noticed a window and opened it. Sunlight entered, making the room a lot more visible than before.
They examined the room, and found something interesting.
There was various warnings written on the walls. Under each warning was an arrow sign pointing to a direction.
"(Vanda) What is this?"
"(Gigi) It's written in Hindi, the language of India. We currently are in the Thar desert, so it's not uncommon that we see something written in hindi."
"(Aura) These are... Warnings..... (Reading) Do not follow the arrows..... Go away..... This is not your place..."
"(Todo) Pretty creepy huh? I wonder what would happen if we follow these."
They walked right where the arrows pointed. It pointed to a door. When they opened it, they found a staircase leading downwards.
They went down and found a piece of paper.
It was the paper that Todo found with the dead body of Mark Luther.
*To Be Continued*