//------------------------------// // What Time is It? (Part 2) // Story: Replay // by Scootaloose //------------------------------// It's Adventure Time! (Part 2) I quickly flew towards Daring Do to the tree she was hovering, and she pointed down at the small clearing where the tree was sitting next to. It was a large metal fence, but extremely rusty, bent and tangled like a bunch of audio cables in a stage floor. I saw the sign Daring Do had drawn the previous day sitting in the dirt, extremely worn out and just as rusty as the fence. There was a concrete building with something that looked like an elevator. That must've been what she referred to as the metal box... We landed next to the elevator door which was slightly open, and Daring looked around a bit before speaking. "Yeah... do you recognize anything else other than the sign?" "Yeah, this metal box you mentioned is something called an elevator" I replied, trying not to lose myself to what I was seeing. "It lets you travel up and down long distances without moving a muscle. But the way the area looks I don't think it even works..." Daring Do promptly walked in through the opening. Wow that's careless... this thing could drop at any time!My thoughts were interrupted when she spoke up from inside. "There's a green light blinking in here, Johnny. I think this still works!" Wait what??? "Are you sure??" I said startled, walking inside the elevator. There was a green flashing light next to a cracked display, which was probably the display for the floor level. Daring Do, being the reckless pony she is, touched the light with her nose, which turned out to be a button. The elevator doors slowly closed, trapping us in the dark. It slowly accelerated down, taking us to whatever place this was. The only current source of light was the blinking green button next to Daring Do, who kept looking around as if she could see everything clearly. “Is it supposed to do that?” she asked. "Let's just hope this elevator doesn't drop with us inside..." I sighed. It was like life was watching our every move and felt like messing with us, because as soon as I finished my sentence, the elevator let out a loud clunk, and went free fall mode on us for a few metres before going back to its normal speed. That was enough to make me scared shitless and almost let out another girly scream. Daring Do on the other hoof was just slightly startled by the sudden drop, and shrugged it off. About a minute later, the elevator slowed to a stop and the doors slid open again. Fortunately for us, it slid open completely. It revealed a fully lit up corridor painted in white. The walls didn’t look damaged or cracked, they actually looked mildly clean. However though the lights on the ceiling were flickering on and off every few seconds. The area lacked any signs of recent activity or life. "Wow this is new..." Daring Do commented. "Do you recognize this?" "It's familiar to what I've seen before..." I looked ahead squinting my eyes due to the sudden brightness. The corridor was not too long, and there was a closed door at the end of it, with a faded label that barely read DECONTAMINATION ROOM. "From the looks of that door, this seems to be a lab of some sort", I continued. "We're not going to discover much by standing inside this elevator then. Let's go." Daring Do said, and trotted towards the door, looking from side to side searching for any traps. "Uh, Daring", I called out. "This place doesn't look like it has any traps at all." "You can never be too careful..." she replied as she approached the door. She pushed the button next to the door and it slid open, revealing a small room, with another door with a foggy window. I walked in with her just before the door she just opened closed behind us. The small room had tiny holes on the walls, which promptly blasted us with what was supposed to be a decontaminant, but instead it was a wall of air from the sides. By the time the gust of wind ended, our manes were all messed up and Daring Do's hat went missing. She had a little freakout but we quickly found her hat sitting on the corner, along with my sunglasses which also had flown out of my head. The foggy door slid open and we walked out after picking up our stuff. The next corridor was full of black boxes with blinking lights on the right side of the room - Looking over to the side, there were few consoles on the other side of the wall. Their lights were all blinking erratically and were connected to cables that went through the ceiling. "Whoa...", said Daring Do. I walked next to her to see what she saw. "Whoa indeed...." I replied. "I think those things are server boxes..." "A what now?" she looked at me, I could pretty much see the word "confusion" written on her forehead. "Never mind..." I replied back, because there was no way I could explain to her what the hell a server is. "Let's keep looking around. This is getting weird but at the same time making me curious as hell..." We spent a few moments walking around the server boxes. They were emanating a serious amount of heat; it felt like I walked into a sauna. Not even the cooling fans that ran over the ceiling were helping much. Whatever power supply was keeping these things running must be pretty well hidden because there was nothing that resembled a power plant out in the forest. "Johnny, I found another door!" Daring Do yelled from across the maze of server boxes. After a few moments scrambling out of the corridor of hot boxes, I saw Daring standing by another door. It had a seriously worn out and unreadable label. She opened the door and we walked through a small corridor once again. "So many corridors, this is annoying..." I commented. "This is what I have to deal with on my job, lots and lots of corridors." Daring chuckled, "this is nothing compared to what I've experienced." We approached the door across the corridor, and I pushed the button next to it. A loud hiss came from the door, along with a thick fog coming from the edges. A cold and thick cloud seeped out of the next room, engulfing and blinding us for a few seconds. Daring Do shivered a bit. "Ugh, this is pretty cold..." "And we forgot to bring jackets..." I joked. She chuckled a bit and walked in ahead of me, disappearing in the cold fog that was slowly thinning out. "Um... Johnny, you might want to see this..." she said from inside the fog. I walked in and waited for the fog to thin out a bit more. "Once again... whoa.", she said. "And once again... whoa indeed..." I replied.