The backroom

"The backrooms level 0" (part 1)

The bright, luminescent lights buzz softly as several strangers awaken in an unfamiliar place, unbeknownst to them the absolute and long crap show that was about to go down.

Two girls walked closely together, nervously glancing around them. Alice, the older one in the black hoodie and holding a metal pipe, pulled out a compass. "Okay, if we keep going north, we should wind up in the first level soon." They then saw multiple other people waking up from and unknowingly beseeching sleep.

A black haired guy was staring down down at a person who looked to be a tiger hybrid. silently staring down at her and quietly asking her to wake up.

A person then walks in their line of sight, holding a thin blade. "Who the hell are y'all?!?"

"WHO THE F*CK ARE YOU!?" Alice responded, immediately squaring up and dropping the compass.

 "I'm Lillian, and this is Alice," Lillian responded, picking up and pocketing the dropped compass. "Do you know where you are? Are you injured?"

Zaphen raises his blade "DONT COME ANY CLOSER" he yells, his voice shaking.

"Please calm down, both of you," Lillian pleaded to both her ally and the stranger.

"We really don't want to attract any monsters, trust me."Alice grimaced, knowing that Lillian had a point. She was still healing from the last run in with hounds. Her shoulders relaxed a little.

A faint but strong voice was slowly getting louder and Zion grew near. "Do I hear other people? Where am I? Who are y'all?" Zion asks as he sees whos making all the noise.

Mark, the black haired one with the strange looking tiger one then speaks up."So does anyone know where we are, or are we all just lost in this random place?"

Zaphen lowers his throwing knife and calms down a bit, realizing no one is going to hurt him in this group"I have no clue where we are, I was just at my job shelving books and I ended up here somehow" Zaphen says, still shaken up, but no longer angry.

"We're in the backrooms!" Lillian cheerfully responded. "It's basically where you wind up if you glitch out of reality."

 Alice continued to stare down the stranger, but with a more relaxed stance and observing those around her. "Why did so many people arrive at once? And in the same place?" She asked to nobody in particular.

"I have no clue, I mean maybe it's a sign, I read a bunch of books about sci-fi shit like this." Zaphen responded to Alice. Zaphen sat down, exhausted from all the events from his day prior to being dumped in this hell hole.

The walls of the back room starts to split apart just enough to allow one figure walk through. Out steps a scientist his goggles covering his eyes. The rift behind him reveals the inside of a tent lab. The rift shuts close with a loud zap sound. "Wh- IT WORKED! BY EGADS IT WORKED!"

"... Seriously!? How many people are going to show up!?" Alice said, genuinely surprised. Lillian looked at the mad-science person curiously.

"I have no clue but I just want my romeooooooo" Zion says, starting to cry.

"Welcome to Hell," Lillian said, having a bit more composure than Alice.

The scientist starts to look around in surprise as if he just invented fire. He looks towards the group"Hello. I'm Cayden. Sorry for the sc-"A figure falls from the roof on top of Cayden. What ever it is immediately gets up and points a flintlock pistol to Cayden's head. 

Cavid then proceeds to yell "What the blood fuck just happened?"

"Seriously I'm going to start killing people if any more come!!" Zaphen yells in anger

"Then I'll kill you first," Alice shot back at Zaphen.

Zaphen glares at Alice, but stays silent.

Cavid points the gun towards the rest of the group."Answers not threats or i'm putting a golf ball sized hole through you" Cavid shouts.

"Fascinating. Other people in the rift. By any chance did any of you also open the rift? Or did you fall in" Cayden remarks.

"Can we all calm down please? I really don't want to die this young, I'm famous and I just got a boyfriend T^T" Zion says shakily, on the verge of tears.

"Lillian and I fell in. Oh, and to the person with a gun, fire that gun and have fun dealing with the hounds and skin stealers you'll attract," Alice retorted. "Trust me, it's only going to make the situation worse for us all."

Cayden looks at the group. Not giving any care to the angry gun wielding person."Fascinating. You all look human. But are you?" Cayden mutters  these words aimed at the green looking tigger human thing named Dafodile.

Cayden reaches for a book that's tucked into his coat.Cavid removes her sword from her him and takes a defensive postion

"Alright i dont think we should be fighting or threatening each other either, can we all please calm down and just think about our situation right now?" said Dafodile in a concerned voice.

"What do you mean are we human?? Of course we're human, what would we be?? Giraffes?!?" Zaphen exclaimed.

Dafodile decided to the stay quiet at the remark of Zaphen.

"Okay, that's- A SWORD!" Lillian shouted, interrupting Alice and running up to get a better look at it.

"I've never seen a real one."Alice groaned, not wanting to deal with this bullshit today.

"Yeah i agree with Dafodile" Zion says.

Cavid jumps back as Lillian approaches her "I'm sorry rough day missy. One moment I'm fighting a magic spewing queen and the next I'm in an office building. Also I'm calling bullshit on what ever a "Skin stealer" Cavid says pointing the flint lock towards Alice.

Cayden jots down a note about skins stealers and hounds. He marks them with an X to show danger.

"I have a question for y'all," Zaphen says "what gear do y'all have? I think we should stick together as much as I really don't want to, it'll probably be safer. I just have my set of 10 throwing knives, I was going to practice with them after work, but it looks like I can't anymore."

"A compass. A clock. My note book and my goggles." Cayden says out of focus while taking note of "Magic Spewing queen"

 "This gun and the sword. And your head in a moment if you don't tell me where I am" Cavid Demands.

"I agree with Zaphen on this, i think its probably best to know what we have and how to handle the situation." said Dafodile

"I got a pocket knife and a medical kit, and Alice has a few days of food and almond water, and of course, her pipe," Lillian said, speaking for both her and Alice.

 Alice sighed. "We're in the backrooms. You glitched through reality, like the rest of us except for mr. Mad scientist over there."

"Ive got some pens and pencils and a couple cups and plates and mark has his trusty old flash light, and some calming tea." says Dafodile noting she knows Mark and he knows her.

"I have an ace bandage, but I'm using it right now, I injured my wrist a little, it should be fine though. I also have my bow and quiver with 25 arrows, which can be reused as long as they don't break. I was on set before I glitched here, I also have a bundle of bananas" Zion explains.

Cavid points the flintlock towards Cayden"So you opened a portal. Do it again."

 Cayden looks up and immediately freaks out about the gun."Please don't shoot me. There is so much. So much SCIENCE. This dimension proves multiverse theory. It makes quantum physics look like a joke. Also I can't open another one. It took me half a year to make the last one and something tells me hawk eye." He gestures to Zion, "Doesn't have uranium."

"Why do you have bananas?" Lillian asked."I swear if you keep pointing that gun at people we might have an issue. Don't point it at people unless you intend to kill, which, trust me, you really shouldn't." Alice began literally shaking with frustration, gripping onto her long metal pipe.