Stanley sprinted down the stairs and saw Sheila and Freddy making their way toward him as well.
"What's going on?" Sheila asked, worried seeing him run out so quickly.
Stanley gulped when he saw them. "We… we have no chance," he said in a scared voice. "The-the Crawlers… there are hundreds of them. And they are destroying everything and everyone on their way to the top."
Sheila's eyes widened in horror when she heard the numbers. "Hun-hundreds?" he asked as her breathing got abnormal.
"I saw it, from the top," Stanley said. "It's horrifying."
"My parents, my sister," Freddy spoke. "We need to go save them."
Stanly grabbed Freddy before he ran away. He had calmed down by now, so he needed his friends to calm down as well.
"Listen to me," Stanley said. "You can't go, Freddy." As much as he knew how much it hurt knowing one's family was dying, he couldn't help himself from stopping Freddy from searching for his family.
