Smores gets thrown out of a truck at the Cali/Nevada border.
"This is as far as we're takin' ya, bub," says the driver.
"Ok thanks," Smores starts walking again! Smores has a tranquillizer dart fired at the back of their head! It misses by a couple of inches. Smores turns, confused, "Whuh?"
Smores doesn't see SHIT.
"Humminbird..." he keeps walking. Smores hears something loud behind him. Smores turns and is hit by a Ford F-150 going 100 MPH. He emits the Wilhelm Scream as he's flung into the air and splats on the pavement. The truck stops suddenly.
"I cannot believe I missed that shot."
The truck's door swings open. A Varian steps out. She's 6'1, wearing a lab coat over a black dress shirt, slacks, and combat boots. Said lab coat seems to have faded bloodstains on it! Her eyes swirl black and white, covered by tinted black glasses. Her horns point upwards, also swirling/striped black and white. Her ears are pointed and are pierced with silver earrings. Her hair is black, somewhat messy, and flows down slightly passed back length.
"Alright..." She sighs and steps over to Smores, looking him up and down. "Smores Bezzle. Works for the Blotlink Impurity Test. Escaped after a... What was it, a fuckin missile strike?? Good lord. Can't tell if you're the luckiest or unluckiest bastard around...Not that that matters now, haha."
Smores is picked up and hoisted over her shoulder.
"Eughhhh," he starts sobbing.
"That was quick. A record, even!...Remind me to write that down. Took a second to start crying. Maybe even less." The truck's cargo bed opens up and Smores is shoved inside. Then, it is promptly shut. It is covered with a tarp. "Next stop..." She climbs back into the driver's seat and shuts the door. "7866 Hartland Street, Meridian, Mississippi." The engine starts and the Ford F-150 begins to speed down the highway. Good luck in the trunk, Smores!
Smores starts SCREAMING. The Radio, playing "A Small Plot of Land," is turned up to max volume. 120 MPH. 250 mph. This is a Catacombis brand Ford F-150.
The Catacombis Ford F-150 vanishes in a burst of white and black energy.
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A Ford F-150 appears out of a swirling black and white portal/burst of energy, bouncing on the ground as it continues to speed down the road.
...It turns around, speeds back to the house, and parks.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
She takes out the truck's keys and steps out of the car, the truck's trunkdoor or whatever the fuck it's called opening as they approach.
"Smores," she says.
"A heem heem whimper...." He's all sgrunkclekd.
"Lol." She pulls them out of the truckbed and hoists them over her shoulders. She then retrieves her tranq rifle from the car's back seat.
"Wahhh," Smores says. Redaxx decides to leave the tranq in the back seat, actually. She then approaches the front door.
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Knock knock.
"Fuck," Spider sighs.
"Huh?" Luna asks. Quiet sobbing can be heard from behind the door. "Wait, hang on. But Eggory's dead."
Melody looks over and innocently goes to the door.
"People can knock on a door-?" Kade says.
"Spider? Do you need an escape route?" Luna asks.
Melody opens the door.
"Damn it, I was gonna get that," Knight sighs.
Spider sighs and clicks her fingers, a staff appearing in her hands.
"Spider, what's going on?" Luna asks.
Uh,oh! There's a Varian at your door!
She's 6'1, wearing a lab coat over a black dress shirt, slacks, and combat boots. Said lab coat seems to have faded bloodstains on it! Her eyes swirl black and white, covered by tinted black glasses. Her horns point upwards, also swirling/striped black and white. Her ears are pointed and are pierced with silver earrings. Her hair is black, somewhat messy, and flows down slightly passed back length.
She has Smores hoisted over her shoulder.
She grins, showing off sharp teeth.
"Impure retrieval squad here. You've got an infestation of 1."
"Hi," Smores says.
"...oh. I see." Luna says. Melody is clearly intimidated and steps back, ears flattening
Knight takes out a gun and aims it at the person. "Move and I'll shoot.'
Luna claps her hands and her sword appears on her hands. "And I'll stab."
"Wh-?" Kade makes sure the sleeping Orpheus is comfy. Sparrow looks over but doesnt get up. Spider watches the woman warily, tightening her grip around the staff.
Frank runs up from behind, "And I'll... uh... thhhheeeeeooorriiiizzzeee???"
"Can you put me down please-" Smores begs.
Redaxx looks down at Knight with a smirk, "This'll be fun." Smores is dropped directly on top of Knight.
"ACK-" Bunny boy: Crushed.
"ACK," Smores scrambles away, hiding behind Melody, "Hi protect me please?" Melody promptly hides behind Frank, trembling. She hugs Smores so now theyre both hiding behind fox man. He scoops up Melody and grabs Smores by the scruff, trying to run out the back door. "Okay, watch your step-" He swings the back door open and starts fucking sprinting.
"Can we have your name please?" Luna asks, with very little emotion in her voice. She's tired of uninvited guests. Knight shakes his head before getting back up.
"Redacted in both of the most literal ways...Anyway!" Knight is pushed to the ground by an invisible force as the Varian begins to approach Spider.
"MOTHERFUCKER!"
Luna gets in front of Spider, "If you want her, you'll have to go through me."
Cole mumbles, still asleep, "Not much to go through"
"Shut up," Luna sighs.
"You're literally 4'6," Redaxx says, as Luna is thrown across the room by an invisible force. She crashes into the wall.
"THIS IS BULLSHIT!" Knight yells.
Sparrow sits up a bit as he zones back in, "What's going on?"
"Another overpowered entity having their way with us." Luna says. Spider growls and aims a swing with the staff at the Varian's head. Sparrow stands up cautiously. Knight gets back up and starts doing the shooty shoot. Luna rushes Redaxx with her sword, trying to get whatever cuts to her legs as she can.
Spider manages to smack the Varian's horns, catching her in the middle of ducking.
"FFU-" Her horns discharge a small amount of electricity as she disappears before she hits the ground.
"What the fuck?" Knight asks.
"What the fuck was any of that," asks Luna.
She reappears, tackling Knight from behind and trying to wrestle his gun away from him, "-UCK!!" Cole is still peacefully sleeping.
“AHHHHHH” The gun gets taken away as Knight tries to defend himself. Spider looks over and rushes at Redaxx again, going for another swing with the staff at her ribs. Sparrow turns and watches, confused. Spider's staff is suddenly held in the air mid-swing as the Varian pistol-whips Spider in the rips hard enough to break it for a normal person. She gasps as the attack lands and her ribs heal. She drops the staff and her nails morph into claws as she aims a slash at Redaxx's throat.
"Uhhhh," Sparrow is unsure what to do and attempts to run at and tackle Redaxx. Redaxx disappears just before Sparrow and Spider's attacks hit her. This is timed in a way for Spider to catch Sparrow with her claws. She then reappears behind Spider and pistol-whips her right on the back of the neck. Spider growls as both attacks land and she turns around, jumping up and aiming to wrap her hands around Redaxx's throat. Sparrow gets clawed and stumbles a bit as he looks around for Redaxx again. Knight takes out a smaller gun and attempts to shoot Redaxx.
Everybody in the room is frozen. The lights in the room go black and white. Time isn't frozen, they're just... stuck. Perfectly in place. And they feel like they're being squeezed on all sides by an uncomfortably and slightly very very slightly painful force.
"So, Spider. Are you willing to come with me? You've got quite the affliction." The bullet falls to the ground before it hits it's target, like it was stopped midair.
“Damn it, now I know how this feels,” Knight mumbles.
"This is some bullshit," Luna groans. Cole is now whining happily from being squeezed.
Spider growls at Redaxx, "And why would I willingly do that?"
Redaxx smiles, "Just thought I might ask for consent first."
"Yeah well you can stick it where the sun don't shine, love," Spider growls/
“Can I ask a question whoever you are?” Knight asks.
"Is that an offer~?" Redaxx snickers, walking towards the front door. She stops and looks to Knight, though! "What?" Spider, still stuck in the same position, floats through the front door.
“How are you doing this?” Knight asks, “Like, Is it through Telekinesis or something similar?”
"I'm just built different! Simply. Anywayyyy, I've got an impure to contain byebyeee," She whistles, turning and walking out the front door, ignoring the further questioning.
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Redaxx walks over and hops in the driver's seat of the car. Spider, still held in stasis, is hovered over the bed of the car. A nullsuit floats out of the truck's back window and begins to put itself on Spider. Redaxx starts the car, engine rumbling to life alongside the radio.
Spider growls at the nullsuit, "And what's this when it's at home?"
She ignores Spider.
"Pooooooor Dunce.." She sings along with the radio. "He's less than within uss... The-"
Spider is dropped onto the bed of the truck with a heavy thud, still stuck in stasis. Like a statue.
"Braaiiiiinnns talk." Ropes begin to tie her down. "But the will to live is dead."
A swirling black and white portal crackles to life in the air down the road.
Redaxx smirks. "And prayers can't travel so far these days!" She snickers, turning off the radio. "Christ, I'm a bad singer."
She speeds off down the road, disappearing with a burst of energy once hitting the portal. Said portal disappears.
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The Ford F-150 appears in a parking lot, hitting the ground with a small bounce.
"Good, we're here." Redaxx parks the car and removes the keys, getting out. "You doing alright back there?"
"Oh yeah, I'm just fucking peachy," Spider growls.
"Must be one rotten as hell peach considering what you've got inside you." Redaxx snickers and Spider is lifted back into the air by an invisible force.
The Catacombis building looks like a 2 floor highschool, nothing special. There's hardly any windows, and it appears to be coated with white tiles. There's a large sign on the building with what appears to be a symbol comprised of a dream catcher with the pattern of the symbol for something toxic, with the label CATACOMBIS underneath.
There's two doors in front, with bushes and trees lining the building and parking lot. Redaxx walks through the front door. Spider is carried behind her.
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Redaxx enters with Spider in tow, the inside of the building appearing to be a normal office building's foyer. They head towards Memphi's office. Spider just looks around as she floats, occasionally muttering things under her breath.
Redaxx knocks.
"Miss Norwin? I've got that impure who escaped a little while ago. All suited up and everything. Want me to just drop her off outside your office? Would you prefer mobile or immobile?"
"Mobile. Instruct her to walk inside."
Spider is set down right outside the door to Memphi's office and unfrozen.
"Alright, walk inside."
Spider launches herself at Redaxx the second she's released, attempting to knock her to the floor while landing as many blows as she can. She's quickly surrounded by a good hundred MTFs, all heavily armed! She's also pushed backwards to the ground by an incredibly strong invisible force.
"C'mon. Don't make me repeat myself."
"Well if you want me to walk in, you're gonna have to let me go first."
"I'm not holding you down, I just pushed you over! Closer to the door." Spider's nudged even closer by said invisible force. "Go on."
"No flies on you is there?" Spider sighs, standing up and heading to the door.
"What the fuck does that mean. You should be contained for talking like that, on god."
"Google it, bitch," Spider growls, heading inside. Redaxx does so.
"..Huh. A compliment. My point still stands."
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Spider is met with a long hall. Black brick walls lined with blue LEDs and a black tiled floor. At the end of the hall is a staircase going down.
"Yeah fuck this," She attempts to walk back out, but is met with locked doors. She grumbles and starts to walk down the hall. The hall gets darker the further she goes down the stairs. It begins to get pitch black, and the stairs flatten out into a normal floor again. At the end of a hall is a door illuminated by blue LEDs.
"Yeah.. because this definitely doesn't scream danger," Spider mutters sarcastically as she walks up to the door. It opens with ease. She can see two bright, round lights shining down on some paper, and then a dimly lit computer screen to the left of them.
Dim lights turn on, and the two round ones turn off, appearing to be Memphi's glasses. The room can be seen completely now. There's a... frankly, really messy desk. It has an empty chair in front of it, and one behind it that Memphi's sitting in.
There's two fridges as well, one labelled "FOOD" and the other "STORAGE". Memphi's hair is messy, scraggly, and matted in parts. She's wearing a white tank top and black sweatpants and taking notes vigorously. Behind her and to the left is a computer with black static on it. The computer is... large. Several monitors. Looking up, Spider can see... it takes up the majority of the room. More monitors, more computers. A platform is installed so Memphi can navigate. This... this puts Rose's computer hall to shame. This is all one computer. And it is massive.
Memphi glares at Spider.
"Sit."
"I'm alright thanks," Spider returns the glare.
"You are going to sit." Memphi opens one of the drawers in the desk and rummages around in it. Spider just chuckles in response not moving. Memphi's eyes glow blue as she rummages through her drawer. Spider's do the same as she ever so casually sits down in the chair! Wild! Their eyes return to normal as Memphi fishes out a syringe. Spider growls and gets up again, knocking the chair over as she does so.
"Make this easy for me." Their eyes glow blue again as Spider sits down. Their eyes stay blue as Memphi walks over, taking Spider's arm out of the nullsuit, and draining blood from it using the syringe. She reapplies the nullsuit and their eyes return to normal as she walks over to the computer, looking for something behind the main monitor.
"I hope that syringe breaks," Spider mutters. Memphi disregards Spider's comment as she pulls a severed arm out from behind the monitor. The flesh appears black, though the surface skin is normal. Slightly discolored at the extremities though. The arm is hooked up to several wires. Memphi looks at the blood in the syringe. It appears... staticky. Black with green specks of static in it. She squints as she injects it into the arm. The monitors glow green for a second, and return to the black static, though this time brighter. Whispers can be heard from the speakers. Memphi smiles, stepping back.
"So you wanna explain what that was all about?" Spider asks.
She looks at Spider with a smile. Her mouth is full of sharp, sharp teeth, "Do you really wish to perceive it? The future that The Anti intends for these Veils? Catalyst has truly outdone themselves."
"It certainly sounds interesting," Spider sighs. Memphi types some things on the keyboard, clicking ENTER. The screen displays... nothing. And then a garden. A garden in a sea of nothing. Black vines creep up, spreading all over the garden, encapsulating it, and then rotting it. Turning it into nothing. The only thing that remains? A bunker. In the middle of the nothingness, there's a bunker. Inside? A large computer with many monitors. A man with curved black horns, a cracked face, a missing arm, and a cane with a snake's head carved into it. The feed cuts out as he turns to look at the camera.
"And where the fuck did you pull that from?" Spider raises an eyebrow.
"It is my computer in there," Memphi smiles.
"No, you don't say!? What are you gonna tell me next? That the sky is red? Or that that arm belongs to the bloke in that feed?"
"Next, I'm going to tell you that you're going in containment. Impure corruptelam blood... that is valuable."
Spider rolls her eyes, "And how exactly is it, pray tell?"
"You just powered my computer the same amount 50 Impure Varians would. With a single injection."
"So what?" Spider laughs, "You're gonna drain me?"
"Small doses. People with Impurity produce a lot of blood, so drainage shouldn't be an issue."
"And since I'm gonna be used as a battery, you wanna tell me what this computer does? And what that psycho religious talk was all about?"
"No."
"Well this is gonna be fun," Spider mutters sarcastically rolling her eyes.
Memphi returns to taking notes, "And you happen to be in direct contact with the Sorath, correct?"
"Me personally? No."
"Your group. Open Bracket The Kiss Close Bracket."
"Technically, then"
"Tell me what you know about her."
"Oh barely anything"
"Tell me what you know."
"That she's called Sorath and that you guys are so incompetent that ya can't even keep a flower locked up," Spider laughs quickly, stopping as she suppresses a cough.
"Ah yes, we're incompetent for being unable to contain an omnipotent deity. Of course." She continues taking notes.
"So are we done here?"
"Nope."
"Oh joy," They roll their eyes. Memphi appears to be toying around with a laptop. Spider gets up and walks over, trying to get a better look at what she's doing.
She's reading all the test results and has a discord tab open, "The moment you leave my office you will be escorted to the Impurity Containment Block."
"That's nice, I didn't realize Catacombis has a discord," Spider chuckles.
"A few members do. Smores specifically. The escapee, living at Harmonia's residence."
"Please tell me you have a server," she sounds amused.
"No need," she taps a little microphone on her desk, "Intercom system"
"Well you are full of disappointments aren't you?" Spider says. Memphi disregards the comment, continuing to type. Spider glances at the test results, "You know, I'm surprised you're letting me look at this"
"Not like you have any use for them."
"None that you know of, sure."