Chapter 3

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A storm began to brew, the dark blue sky being quickly encased in grey clouds. The sparks of electricity from the teleporter began to erupt and the trio appeared and the force of their teleportation almost pushed the man infront of them back.
Machine : Teleport successful!
??? : I'm surprised you were all able to somehow make it here, unfortunately we will have to take the teleporter again back to the place that you just arrived from.
Spy attempted to get his bearings stumbling slightly grabbing onto a nearby rail. Heavy threw up, looking down with his hands on his knees. Soldier, the only one who seemed to be unfazed, see's the man and realises who it is.
Soldier : You! So you're the man behind this, god damnit what have you done???
??? : Ah, yes, you always have someone to blame.
Soldier : You're damn right I have someone to blame, Medic, you sent us aroud some random facilities expecting us to die because of your own mess ups!
Medic : Mein fault? It was all in the name on science dumkoph, of course a simple minded American like you wouldn't understand that.
Soldier : Why you piece of-
An explosion can be heard coming from a nearby building, a blaze of heat bursted from the windows, smoke began to fill the air. Marching noises can be heard coming from some of the metal fences, the robots have arrived. There seemed to be hundreds, thousands of these robots, they began to shread through the fences and entering the area.
Medic : Well that settles it.
Spy : Well thankfully we found these guns along the way, this should make it easier for us to destroy these robots.
Heavy : Well what are we waiting for, do you have a plan German?
The robots steadily approach them, surrounding them, climbing onto their platform.
Medic : Shoot the robots and follow me!
They all ready up their weaponry and start to unload bullets upon the mechanical army. Bullets flied everywhere nuts and bolts bursted out of the robots, holes begans to appear across all the robots. Oil also splurted everyone and onto their clothes and guns. The continous fire of the guns began to be deafening and before they knew it, there were no more robots left.
Medic : Alright let's move, they'll arrive again, follow me.
Medic lead on walking down the set of stairs, onto some concrete. They ran past a sign with the words "Waffenfabrik der Riese". Medic hastily grabs the nearby "electric gun" he had been working on earlier. They rushed up a metal stair case, past the furnace room.
Medic : There, the teleporter, here Soldier, take this gun and I'll tell you when to fire it, just so you have something to do.
Medic gives the gun to Soldier and he gets a feel for it. He flicked the red switch on it, the bulbs across it lit up and a spark of electricity ran across the gun.
Medic : Zehr, get onto the teleporter all of you!
The three of them rush up the stairs and run onto to the teleporter stage. Medic starts fiddling with a nearby control pad. Mechanical clanking could be heard again in the distance. More marching could also be heard. The machine lit up and electricity ran across all the circuits. There was one huge circuit on each side of the teleporter. It seemed to move on it's own, as it had life, pannels around it moving up and down, cogs within the circuit circling around.
Soldier : Uh, Doc, you wanna hurry up!
Medic : Ja, Ja, I know they're coming, hold on let me think!
Medic starts to push the buttons on the control pad, he presses the big red button on it.
Machine : Teleporter countdown beginning!
He runs onto the teleporter stage along with them and stands behind Soldier, electricity began to surround them, then a blue light. The robots had just entered the room, swarming the place immediatley.
Machine : Zwei, Eins. Teleportieren!
Medic : Fire it now!
Soldier presses the trigger, a bolt of lightning was shot from the gun, it collides with the blue light around them, a blue flashing light fills everyones vision, they all disappear and smoke from where the four men stood, filled the stage.

They all fell through the blue void, a blinding light that they could not stare at for much longer.
Spy : Where are we travelling to, Medic?
Medic : Hopefully to a jungle!
They all appear upon a pad. Expecting to be at a jungle, they instead arrived at a big room. A bright but dirty chandelier hung at the top of the room from a grey and drab ceiling. Two sets of staircases, covered in red carpet, appeared around the room, leading up to a second floor. Behind them were two sets of double doors, one had seemed to be breached, sunlight could be seen bleeding into the interior. This place looked old and abandoned, possibly for years. As Medic got his bearings, he looked around at the area he is in, he throws a sour expression on his face realising where he is.
Medic : Mein gott, why are we here?
Soldier : Hey, you're the idiot who pressed all those random buttons and thought we'd get to the right area. Don't start asking stupid questions.
Medic (in a quiet voice) : Ironic.
Spy : Hey instead of arguing, how about we actually somehow get out of this, whatever this is.
Medic : It's a cinema, one of our facilities.
Spy : Yeah I can see that by the flags everywhere.
Medic : Well, not nessesarily the "Nazi's" facility, It actually belonged to a group called 935, but you probably don't even know what that is, do you?
Spy : I didn't ask for an entire rundown of what a nazi is and what isn't. You're all the same.
Soldier : Hehe, I agree with that.
Medic : No matter, your little stumpy insults don't affect me, follow me there should be some transport around here.
Heavy : Aww, my head, when will this teleporting end.
They follow Medic they walk around this cinema, mechanical ticking began to slowly arise, very quietly. Medic looks at a nearby calendar, it reads 1965.
Medic : So we have travelled 19 years into the future. Oh, mein, gott.
Medic feels for something in his jacket. He checks up and down. His heart sinks as he realises what he's missing.
Medic : Ah even better, I'm missing the only thing that could write down everything that has happened.
Soldier : Aww, doc. are you missing your little diary.
Medic : Schweinhund, that was my only proof I had seen everything I had seen. Of course you wouldn't be able to comprehend what I saw. I saw a mystical jungle, a pyramid, I was on the moon!
Soldier : Alright doc, sounds like you've lost your mind a bit.
Medic : Shut up.
Spy : Wait, do you hear that?
The mechanical ticking was able to be heard, they all sighed as they realised they had to hurry if they didn't want to meet what was  waiting for them.
Medic : Alright up these stairs and there should be another teleporter here.
They follow medic up the stairs, they walk through some doors that looked drab with age, with dust running along it. The carpet below them stunk of some sort of gas. They all covered their noses and mouthes.
Spy : Oh god it smells how Heavy looks!
Heavy : Alright French that's too far.
Soldier smiles as he looks at the two interacting with each other. They move past portraits of themselves on it.
Soldier : Yeah that's enough proof that we've travelled to the future.
Spy : Look at this one, Heavy looks fatter somehow.
Heavy : Shut up, in next one you look skinny. Weakling.
Soldier : Hold on why's the portrait next to mine blank? And why's yours so much bigger than all of ours Medic? Are you trying to conpensate for something, eh?
Medic : Ah, the blank painting, I don't know, the portrait for mine is much bigger and it shows my superiority compared to all of you.
Soldier : Sure.
They move past a new perk machine. It's much bigger than the rest. Slapped upon the front was the name "Mule Kick".
Soldier : Hey, doc, what are these perks, what do they actually do, I tried some back at that swamp and It tasted good, I think it was called Juggernogg?
Medic : Ah yes, the Perk-a-colas. Group 935 created them, of course I don't want to tell you more as I would be helping the enemy, wouldn't I.
Soldier : Yeah.
They all move down some more stairs as they enter a room with more Nazi propoganda all around the place, the floor was a checkbord pattern with a table at the centre of the room with a rifle on a stand, placed ontop of it. Medic moved swifty to have a closer look at it, the gun looked as if it was wired to the stand, beside the stand was a lever, he pulled down on it and the gun responded. It was as if it was an automatic turret.
Medic : Fascinating.
Louder clanking could be heard from the rooms they have previously been in. Medic knods to the rest of them to quickly move, they approached a busted down wall with some white closet shutters infront. Medic pushes them open and they enter a dressing room. Broken mirrors were all around the room, dirty clothes filled the closests. A hole in the ceiling forced sunlight through it, shining down upon some rubble. Another hole in the wall appeared on the right, through it was a pink glowing light with some brown comfy chairs. The floor beneath them was wooden and creaky. All the bulbs around the mirrors seemed to either be busted broken or cracked. They turn left and walk past a red switch. Ahead of them was another white generic door.
Heavy : When will the doors end!
Upon opening the doors they enter a bigger room. On the left were curtains, on the right was a brown drab wall. Infront of them were some wooden stands that seemed to display some sort of backdrop. behind the wooden stands were gray boxes, filled with clothes, however one seemed to contain a teddy bear.
Spy swiftly moves infront of medic and see's a power switch across the stage. He kicks off towards it and pushes it up. The red curtains began to draw back, a loud wave noise filled the air as the entire cinema felt power again. A massive projector screen slowly lowered, completely blank, as the curtains disappeared a light from the distance shone upon the screen and created imagery. The cinema had revealed itself. Rows of seats filled the room, some on fire, some fitted with rubble. All the way at the back of cinema, Juggernogg could be seen lighting up with the colour red. The ceiling began to break, and the cinema began to shake. From the holes created the ceiling, metallic creatures began to slowly crawl down, they seemed to be on all fours. As they reached the ground Medic rushed to the pedastel at the front which had the same turret from before standing ontop of it. He pulled down the lever and it began to fire at the metallic monsters. Bullets started to fly everywhere as the turret jerked it's head around at all the targets. As their lifeless shells hit the ground, a grey smoke surrouned them.
Heavy : Hold on, what is that smoke coming from robot. We haven't seen before.
Soldier : I dunno but it smells horrible!
Medic : Alright, Spy I need you to go back to where we started and there should be a button on the side of the teleporter stage, press it and run back here!
Spy : Understood.
He jumped off the stage and attempted to run towards the doors at the back of the cinema. Robots from the door emerged from each side and rushed forward, they seemed to be even worse for wear, rust ran along their arms. Their face was less polished and not as clean as before. Spy quickly stopped himself and ran back onto the stage. The turret then aimed at the robots marching down the centre of the cinema, firing raging bullets at the robots. More robots emerged from the back of the room.
Medic : Spy take that door next to the power switch, it'll take you outside and you should be able to get back to the start, it's just a different route.
Spy runs towards the door and pushes it open. He quickly moves up some metal stairs, walking over all the debris. He pushes open another brown generic door. Robots begin to march up from the staircase ahead of him. He pulls out his revolver and fires it. Nothing happens. He fires again. Nothing happens. He flicks the revolver to it's side. No bullets are present. The robots slowly approach the room. He moves back and see's the box that he saw before at the asylum. He opens it and it begins to show random weapons. The robots enter the room and charge towards him. Spy closed his eyes. The box still spins. The box makes a loud ring sound and he reaches out his arm towards the weapon. The robots pounced. A loud swoop of air was blown forward. He opened his eyes and looked at the gun he held, a big machine with a tube at the front of it made out of rubber. The entire gun painted either dark grey or black. A small device on the side indicated how much ammunition was left. He looked at what happened to the robots. They had all been blasted away, across the room were the dead shells of the robots. He laughed and ran down the metal stairs. He pinched his nose as he passed some bins. He pushed the metal gate open and ran across the alleyway of the cinema. The sun beamed down at Spy. He saw a white tower, near the top seemed to be a sphere with glass windows around it. Finishing at the top was a point. The blue sky contained white small clouds flowing along it. The ground beneath him was rocky but patterened. He ran up the stairs near the end of the alleyway. He entered a room with some sofas. In the middle of the room seemed to be wires with smoke coming from it. He attempted to avoid them which was successful. He pushed open the doors and swiftly marched through the room. He reaches the stage and finds the red button. He pushes down on it and a voice across the cinema can be heard.
Machine : Teleporter actiavted.
He smiled, he jumped over the desk and ran through the front two doors which lead to the entire cinema. He could see the trio fighting off hordes of robots. Medic saw him approaching and told them all to get onto the teleporter stage. Spy pulled out his new weapon and shot it at the horde of robots infront of him. They all flew around the room. He ran up the stage and joined them in the teleporter.
Medic : Ready?
Soldier, Heavy and Spy : Ready!
Medic flicked a switch inside the teleporter. Sparks of electricity began to fly off at the top of the teleporter machine.
Machine : Drei, zwei, eins! Teleportieren!
A blinding blue light began to fill everyones vision. The hordes of robots climbed onto the stage and attempted to grab onto the group. But, yet again, they disappeared, leaving only a trail of smoke behind.

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