Before exiting the Manila room, Thomas quickly looked at the documents the mysterious M.E.G. left there if something didn't changed and to remember all the important info written there.
After six hours of a good sleep, he was full of energy and wanted to try the weird No-clip 'dance moves', as he calls it. While sleeping, his dreams were actualy haunted by the level 0, like he was stuck in one dream loop. The dream was about him, walking inside his house like any other day but in the middle of that house were a door that led him back to the level 0. After six hours of the same dream, he was at one point relieved that he was up again but at the same time scared what might wait at him outside the Manila room.
Leaving the room, Thomas started running as fast as he could towards the first closest wall opposite him while making some gestures with his hands.
But each time he clashed with the wall, all he get were some bruises and raising pain in his left arm, mainly shoulder. So he turned to the Manila room's door and started again.
"Fuck this stupid!" Thomas turned after sixth attempt and started walking towards the door of the Manila room:
"Am I doing something wrong or what? If this is a prank, I'm going to- huh?" but the door were gone and everything around him looked different. The walls were still yellow but their places changed.
The lights around started flickering as the buzzing sounds changed into insects chattering sounds. Buzzing sounds of flies, crawling sounds of cockroaches and other insect related stuff was heard by Thomas who beggin to wandering around with hands covering his ears.
"Someone shut it off!" he spoke after few minutes of hearing that disgusting sounds.
The sound stoped as slight movements were saw further in front of him and when he focused on the spot he saw... Mike, hidding behind a yellow pillar, silently watching him.
"Mike? MIKE! It's me Thomas!" Thomas started waving and running to his partner who, before Thomas was able to reached out for him, ran from behind the pillar, into a near dark corridor.
Thomas slowed in front of the pillar where he saw Mike and stoped completely right after.
"What the..."
"I'm here Thomas!" a voice resembling his partner's suddenly came from almost dark yellow corridor on Thomas' left where the only light was constantly flickering on the end of it. Most of the time leaving the corridor dark.
"Mike, come out! It's me Thomas you don't need to be scared!" Thomas spoke while looking into the corridor and started slowly walking towards it.
"Come here Thomas~... I'm Mike!... This it should way be!" Mike spoke as he looked at approaching Thomas from behind the wall, who suddenly stoped in his tracks.
Mike gestured Thomas to follow him deeper into the corridor but Thomas didn't moved, he just stayed there, with narrowed eyes.
"You are not Mike right."
"Come THOMAS! They are affter us! Hide!" Mike moved towards Thomas and each time the light flickered, he was closer then he should be while still gesturing for Thomas to follow him. It was like each time, Mike ran and when the lights were back, he stoped and was walking again.
"Come T-THoMAs!" with robotic like movements, Mike again gestured with his hand for Thomas to follow him while the lights flickered and Mike was already pretty close in just a second!
"FUCK! YOU ARE NOT MIKE!" Thomas shouted and started running from where he came from as sounds of something which was deffinitely NOT HUMAN started shouting and chasing after him.
"I thought there are not creatures here!- Wait..." Thomas thought with wide eyes while running as he remembered what happened the last time he tried to no-clip. Each time when he turned while failing the no-clip, the Manila room doors were there. That's why he turned when he fucked up the no-clip. But the last time, they disappeared.
"So I've must have no-cliped but this doesn't look like Level 1 at all! Did I cliped somewhere else?! Level 0 must have more floors!" he was talking to himself while trying to decieve what ever was after him but looks like it doesn't work because the thing was still after him and was closing the gap between them really quickly!
The sounds of loud steps and shrieks of unknown danger were quickly approaching from behind as Thomas' stamina reserves were being drained too fast.
"Fuck, I need to hide, I NEED TO HIDE!" was circulating through his mind as he was running through the yellow hallways and rooms of unknown but still mono-yellow level, looking for hiding spots.
Finally, he ran into a dead end with a crawling space under it. The space was wide like the wall and only darkness was seen under it.
"FUCK!" he shouted as he glanced behind him for only a fraction of second and saw the creature approaching in quick pase. The creature was about two meters tall and had two heads and four arms with four legs. It's entire body looked like a fusion of two different creatures together. One part resembled a S-S (Skin-stealer) and the other was unknown for Thomas but he was not in a mood to discover it.
Throwing himself on the ground, he started quickly crowling through the opening but before he can come out on the other side, the creature's sticky hand grabed Thomas' foot!
"FUCK NOOO!" Thomas tried to kick it away but his attempts were useless as the creature's heads were too far. The creature get him and his struggling led nowhere.
"I need to do something and fast!" he thought as the spray-paint suddenly rolled out from his brown leather jacket but it was too far to reach and the gap was growing as the creature was pulling Thomas out from the crawling space.
"Take this you fucker!" Thomas rolled on his back and when the creature's head was close enough, Thomas kicked it's forehead and leaped for the spray back to the crawling space. The creature was still holding him but now, the grip was not as strong as before and he was hodling the black spray.
"You look like shit, what about a new color Monster!" Thomas said as the second head of the creature looked down, through the crawling space and a burst of fire flew into it's face.
The creature screamed as the flaming black paint was burning it's face and let go of Thomas' foot who quickly moved towards the end of the crawling space and get out of it.
"CoMe BAcK ThOmAaAAS!" was echoing from bellow the wall with sounds of something comming through it while Thomas ran away from it with tired expresion as he hid the spray into the inside pocket of his jacket and his lighter back to his jeans.
"I wonder if it's going to work properly this time" he spoke as he doubled his speed and started making moves with his hands while the sounds of shrieks from before reached his ears again.
"Please work, PLEASE WORK!" Thomas spoke as clashed with the wall in front of him while loud steps were following him, comming from not too distant corner of the mono-yellow wall.
The pain Thomas was waiting for when he did the jump didn't come at first, only a second later as he landed on a cold, wet floor.
Shaking his head, Thomas looked around and saw a large parking lot covered in fog that was reaching his knees while the tempreature here was lower.
Getting up from the ground, Thomas made a winning sign with his hand.
"YES! Thank God it worked! But... Now what..." he spoke as the lights around him flickered for a second and a wooden box appeared in front of him.
"I should probably check it" he said and with caution, he taked a step to it.
The box suddenly shook and exploded as a sharp piece of metal, about 10 centimeters big pierced the palm of his left hand which Thomas used as cover for his face against the sudden explosion.
"AAHHHHH!" a scream escaped his mouth because of the pain while blood started dripping from his hand.
"FUCK!" he shouted while pulling the sharp piece of metal from his hand.
But, something good was acctualy in the box because the explosion revealed a little scratched ice axe with blade stuck into the ground, three bottles of Almond watter and torned but folded piece of white cloth.
"Wow, what a coincidence!" growled Thomas angrily as he quickly approached the torned cloth and used it to bandage his hurt hand.
Picking up one of the Almond water bottles, the water started to flow away from it through a crack on the bottom of it.
"Fuck!" Thomas quickly put the bottom of the bottle to his mouth and started drinking the sweet, vanila and almond flavoured liquid.
After he was done, the place around him started to feel safer and he was not so scared like he was when he got there. Even the primordial fear from before when he was chased seemed to disappear when he drank the Almond water.
"I need this shit in my work. If I had this before, half of the criminals I chased would be catched sooner." Thomas joked as the empty bottle in his hand turned to ash.
"What the-" he stood up quickly and shook with his hand to get the ash away from his hand.
Seeing it's nothing, he slowly took the two remaining bottles of Almond water from the ground and checked them if they are okay.
When no damage was seen on them, Thomas put one of them inside his jacket, into hidden pocket, while the other tucked into right, front pocket of his jeans next to the flashlight.
"Well look at this beauty" he then said and, with little force, Thomas pulled out the red ice axe from the ground.
"You are comming with me" he smiled at the it and with little more confidence, he started walking forward to the depths of Level 1.