//------------------------------// // MEGAN // Story: In The Forest // by Darkness Moon //------------------------------// On the big monitor they saw different slides of mutants and cannibals, with features. “Medicine of longevity? What is that?" Aria asked. Then the image of a mutant virginia appeared; Subject 37-B age... "12 years?!" Sunset said surprised. "Subject 86-6c age, 6 years," Aria said. "Oh no ... it has to be a joke." Adagio said in shock. "Than? What's up?”Sonata said confused. "It can't be true, I don't think so." Sunset said. "Well believe it, the mutants ... are children." Aria said. "Do they experiment with children?!" Adagio said disgusted. "So... we have... all this time we have been..." said Sunset "Killing children." Sonata ended sadly. "I think I'm going to throw up." Sunset said, disgusted. "Calm, it's fine, well, it's not." Aria said. “But those things, they are no longer children, they stopped being so long ago.” “How can you take this so lightly?! We've been killing children! ”Adagio said angrily. "I guess I get used to seeing horrors, from the asylum." Aria said remembering. "That's something we can't erase, Aria is right, they aren't anymore." Sunset said. “We have to focus on getting out of this place.” "On the way out?" Sonata asked worried. "Yes, we must continue, come on Dagi." Sunset touched her shoulder. "I ... it's fine." Adagio gave up. They left the place, hoping and wishing not to go back in there again. They continued until they reached some offices. They saw some cannibals, but as Sunset was in front, they jumped in front of her and praying. They preferred to dodge them and continued traveling through different rooms until they reached a very large one. There was a huge huge device in the middle of the room. "It looks like the machine that appears in that ethical magazine." Sonata said. "It's true, here are all the plans of the machine." Sunset said. "Why do they want this thing?" Adagio asked. "Well, the magazine said that the machine could revive the dead. Maybe that was what they wanted to do." said Aria. "And they used children as test subjects." Sunset said annoyed. "Damn sick." Adagio said disgusted. They approached the machine and it opened, they couldn't believe there was a dead child inside. "Oh ... shit." said Aria. Sunset approached carefully. He was dead. She took out the skewers and carried him in arms to a bed that was in front of the place. Her friends let her pass and approached, when she laid him down. Sonata took a robot toy out of her things, her friends looked at her confused. "I found him in all the caves, I didn't think they would work, but I wanted to gather them anyway. "Maybe it belonged to him" Sonata said, placing it in the boy's arms. "Is he... the same boy you saw?" Adagio asked Sunset. "Yes, it is, if I had reacted on time I-" "Don't blame yourself, it wasn't your fault, it was that red's fault." Aria said. Sunset saw some connection hoses on the bed, saw the monitor, and placed one of them on his arm, the monitor showed a connected part, did the same with the rest until the device opened again. "Wait! I know what you want to do and it's crazy! You don't know if that thing works.” Aria said. "Here in the machine he says how to do it, he puts the dead person in this bed, they are placed in these tubes, and a live experimentation subject is introduced, so says the monitor." Sunset explained. "And who will you put?" Adagio asked. "To one of us?" Sonata said scared. "Do not! I don't think that works, only another child can revive it, but I don't think I can do that." Sunset said confused. "Well... maybe there is an answer on this tape." Aria pulled out a VHS tape out of her stuff. "But what?! Where did you find it?” Sunset said surprised and taking the tape. “After we entered the underwater cave of the hole, I found this tape next to some bones. I was going to tell you, but mutants were attacking us and I think I forgot it.” said Aria. "Okay, it doesn't matter let's go see it." Sunset pulled out her camera. They got together and saw the tape, poor quality, but it started with a roar of mutant. Alot of men tried to contain an Armsy, but they did not succeed and it escaped attacking everyone. They even saw Megan, the camera fell to the ground. They saw the wheelchair moving, a silence, another roar of Armsy, and with that the recording finished. "That thoroughly explains what happened to the place, I think." Aria said. "Yes, well, this doesn't help with the machine." Adagio said. "Maybe if we explore the place further we will have more answers." Sunset said. They left by the nearest door, and saw bloodstrokes, but these were small. "Are those child's?" Sonata asked. "Megan?" Adagio said. "Possibly, let's follow them." Sunset moved forward. And so they did, dodging cannibals, they went down some stairs. They came to a huge room, and in the center there was someone playing, it was a girl. "Oh fuck..." Aria said. They kept coming until they recognized the girl. It was Megan Cross. Sunset came closer and could see her better, her skin was pale and white, her feet and hands had blood. She turned around to see them. Her mouth was dirty with blood. This gave a chill on each of the girls' back. She continued playing with her plane, knocking it down, then she pointed at Sunset, froze, screamed, and collapsed on the floor convulsing. From her mouth came a tentacle of three fingers. These eere like three large and three short. Girls backed away and saw the mutant in a form of a spider. It was coming towards them. "Damn!" Aria screamed. They drew their best weapons and prepared for the fight. First Aria attacked her with sticky bombs then Sonata with the flare gun, Adagio with fire arrows with poison and Sunset with Molotov cocktails. But it didn't seem useful, they didn't do anything to her. "She doesn't die!!" Adagio said attacking with the gun. “You have to burn it! Then attack her together! ” Sunset said fighting with her katana. So it was for almost an hour, only the molotov and the arrows burned it for long moments of time. Sunset approached with the sword and began to attack it with rapid movements. The creature pushed it with it's tentacles. Adagio was helping her, while Aria and Sonata, gave her the final blow. "Shit! This girl was very tough. ” Aria said tired. "What do we do with her?" Sonata asked. "Well, you have to take her with the child, to revive him." Sunset said in pain and carrying Megan. "Sunset, I don't think it will works. She's already dead." Adagio said. "It's not logical to revive one dead with another dead." "I know, but I have to try." Sunset said. "Come on." Then they returned again to the main room, put Megan in the machine, but it didn't work. Her body dropped by releasing an advisory card. "I told you." Adagio said. "A living subject is required, there the machine says so." "Yes, I know." said Sunset. "And what is this for?" she asked. "I don't know, but there's nothing we can do." Sonata said. "She's right, you don't have to feel obligated to do anything." Aria said. "I know, but, let's see one last thing, let's inspect the place, there probably is a clue." Sunset said. But they found some supplies, medicine, food bars, money and coins. Until Sonata found the red guy "sleeping". "Girls?" she whispered out loud. They approached and saw the guy. He was dead, with some crayons on his face and eyes. Besides him there were sketchbooks, crucifixes and papers. "Who did it? A mutant?” Sonata asked. "I don't think so, they are crayons that only children use, it means it was-" "Yes, Aria, Megan has done it. He used the poor child to "revive" her daughter, but I guess she didn't go as he expected. And I don't know why she ended up killing him." Sunset said. "There is another tape." Adagio said. "Where?" Sunset asked. "There, on the desk." Adagio said taking the tape. "What does it say?" her girlfriend asked. 'Second artificial test' read the tape. "Let's see it." Aria said. Sunset took the tape and put it into the camera. They saw a group of scientists in a room with a huge glass, and a giant blue sphere it was very bright. Everything shook and then heard what seemed to be a laser shot which made everyone cover up. Then the recording finished. "Okay... that was interesting." Sunset said confused. "Maybe this acess card will help us." “Wow! Curiously there is a door here called the same as the tape.” Sonata said innocently. "Good guess Sonata, show us that door." Adagio said. They left the room and there was next to the door that said ‘Second artificial test’. Sunset placed the card, opening the door. They walked a long corridor until they reached an excavation of rocks, a cave in other words. They had to continue because the main door were blocked. They got a little lost, but they came back to a modern room, passed the corridor with severed heads and stopped before what appeared to be an elevator. "Don't tell me we need another card because I swear I'm going to break everything in this place." Aria said annoyed. "I'll try with Megan's card." Sunset said. Fortunately it worked, they went in and up until they stopped in a glass hallway. They saw the entire snowy area. “If we were not in a place of experiments and sick people, this would be very beautiful to contemplate,” Adagio said. "It is, it must be the top of the Sahara company. How haven't we saw this before?" Sunset asked. "Well, we are on the other side of the island, and the snowy area is hard to see from there." Aria said. They arrived at the last room, the same one on the tape to be exact it was a kind of a control command post. There was that gigantic stone, but not as on the tape it was turned off. They approached the desk where there were digital control screens showing a plane with coordinates. Specifically that there were three identified subjects, three children, three test candidates, and below all, a button that said "ACTIVATE?". "Oh shit... now I understand everything!" Sonata said. "Really?" Aria said surprised. “This machine knocks down planes! That red man shot down our plane, kidnapped the boy to revive Megan, but she came out as a mutant and killed him. And we are about to do the same!" Sonta said scared. "Sonata that's-" "True." Sunset said. "You're absolutely right, you've discovered the mystery of the peninsula!" “Wow! You mean that if you activate this machine, that thing will turn on like the video and take down the plane seen on the radar?” "Yes... that will happen." Sunset replied. "And with that not only it will kill another child to revive him, but also to condemn the other innocent passengers to death." Aria said. "Yes, that too ... but-" “No Susnet Shimmer! Don't feel obligated to help that child, it was never your fault that he died!" Adagio shouted. "It is! If I had reacted on time I he wouldn't have been taken and killed! ”Susnet said annoyed. "But you're going to kill not only the passengers on the plane, but three innocent children." Aria said. “They are right, you should not feel obligated, it is not your obligation, you know it.” Adagio said. "Sunset ... please ... Don't do it, you don't have to do it.” Sonata begged. Sunset looked at her friends, their faces showed sadness, anger, and despair. She looked at the screen and the button again raising her hand in doubt.