The Backrooms Explorers: No Way Out

Part 1 : The Backrooms...? |Done

I seem to have appeared in the back room of a retail outlet, with yellowed wallpaper, and the really loud hum of fluorescent lights, these are noticeable louder than most fluorescent lights I had heard before and almost intrusive, I felt like the hum was drilling into my brain and withering away my sanity, I got a bit scared and decided to block out my ears with my hands, I started to walk around for a while, when I came across a message drawn on one of the walls, It read out "Don't move." Next to the message there was a small doodle of a ladder going up into a hole in the wall, with tiny writing that said "Exit." I decided to look for this supposed exit out of this place, I decided to walk in what I assumed was north, After what felt like ages I came across a big empty room, this one was different. All the rooms I had come across were of different shapes, lengths and heights. They felt unrealistic, this one really resembled a "real" room. It was a decently sized, about 2 metres tall and wide enough to be able to fit a small gathering of people. There were desks all over the room, they varied in sizes and materials. But they all had tall paper mountains on them, reminding me of paperwork. I decided to open the drawer of a big, dark oak desk that was quite close to me. In the drawer I found a ballpoint pen, an A4 paper page, and two of what seemed to be... Pistol bullets? I carefully picked up one of them with my fingers and examined it, I then said "Hmmm... It looks like a 9mm bullet." Then I immediately thought of Podróba. He's a big fan of guns, and taught me many things about them. Just as if this place knew I thought of Podróba I heard his voice. "Eliza, where the fuck are we?" I then heard Eliza's voice "I don't know Po... Hey what if Alex is here with us too?" I imagined they weren't real and merely a fragment of my mind creating a dream for me. I decided to play along and walk towards their voices. After turning a corner I encountered both of their backs. I thought to myself "Heh- this idiot. He won't see it coming" I quietly sneak up to Podróba. Standing up and going as close to his ear as possible I shout "BANG! I KILLED YOU." and well... I fucking deserved what happend right after. To say I scared him would be an understatement. Podróba turned around so quickly and absolutely smacked the absolute shit out of me. I groaned in paint and started to laugh, saying between laughter "I'm sorry bro, I just couldn't resist HAHAHA." Podróba looked furious and Eliza was laughing even harder than me. I hear him say "You bitch HAHAHA. you really got me, sorry I smacked you so hard." I replied "It's not an issue it just hurts a bi-" I immediately went quiet after I realized something... I felt pain in a dream. Podróba looked at me worried and said "Hey man you alright?" And I replied "Yeah, yeah. I just.. I thought I was dreaming? But that slap hurt.. wait are you real?" He laughed and said "Me? Real? Of course I am. To be honest I feel you, I thought it was a dream too. Are we dreaming together?" I said in a really butchered Polish while pointing at Eliza. "What about her?" He understood what I meant by that and turned to Eliza. Said "I'm sorry baby." Eliza looked at us in confusion. Then... Podróba smacked her arm... Probably one of his works mistakes ever. She got so angry at us. Specially at Podróba, we had to endure getting shouted at for what felt ages. After she finished calling Podróba every name under the sun, she softly said. "You could have just asked me you idiot." After Podróba apologized about 5 million times. Eliza had calmed down a bit, she said in her now calm voice "So.. what now? How do we get out of here, or do we have to wait for us to wake up?"
I told them about the weird doodle I found and then writing on the wall. Podróba suddenly stops me to say "Oh shit, we actually went past a ladder leading to a hole in a wall. Should we try going back to it?" I paused for a second and said "Yeah. I think that would be the wisest thing to do, I don't think it'll be easy, the rooms look nearly identical." We wonder around for a while, hearing an occasional sounds like whispers and groans, giving us anxiety in the process, we went from being a bunch of newly turned adults exploring the unknown bravely, to being seriously scared, after what felt ages we actually did it, we made it.

We're back to where I had originally appeared, I quickly recognized the area because of the doodle and text written on the wall. I step towards the "Don't move" sign, and immediately froze up. A loud beast like scream roared behind me, I turned around and see a deformed humanoid... Thing? It was running straight at me swinging his arms all weirdly. My instincts kicked in and I just sprinted away as fast as I could. Meeting Podróba and Eliza and telling them to hide behind any wall they could, since the monster was chasing me. They did not listen, they kept running with me, we ran in all directions, turning left, right, and even running in circles, none of us even dared look back and see if it was still chasing us.... Because it was, we all knew it, and we all could hear him, as we're running I shout out to Podróba "how are you guys doing back there? Is everything alright?" Podróba quickly responding "Well yeah. I am, Eliza's falling behind though." I realized, if we kept running we'd get too tired and have to stop eventually, so I formulated a plan. Podróba would go left, I'd go right and Eliza would go straight into a dead end, me and Podróba would come behind whatever the hell is chasing us and tackle it. I shout out the plan to Podróba and Eliza and they agree. I shout "On my mark... GO!" Me and Podróba split into out respective directions while Eliza ran straight on, me and Podróba circle around the walls and find ourselves behind The Thing slowly approaching Eliza who you could have mistaken for the wall with how much into it she was, me and Podróba charge straight on and tackle "The Thing" from behind, Podróba tackling what would be it's back and I tackling it's legs. We successfully tackle it to ground and we shout to Eliza to run away, while me and Podróba try to beat whatever the hell this is, I go for a punch on what seemed his neck, my fist sunk deep into his neck and The Thing yowled out in pain and moving around trying to get us off it. I fall to the ground next to it and get underneath it to grab it from the neck. Podróba gets on it's chest and punches The Thing in the face, where his eyes would be, As soon as the punch connects, the creature let out the loudest scream it could, immediately black goo started to come out of what looked like it's eye sockets and me and Podróba ran away towards Eliza, who was waiting for us with a shocked look on her face while learning on a pillar. She gulped and spoke "Di- did you guys kill whatever the fuck that was?" Podróba answered "I punched it's eyes, black goo started to come out and it screamed out in pain. Maybe it's death, maybe it's just blind now." I stay quiet listening to see if it was chasing us, it wasn't. We decide to keep walking around and after not so long we find the "exit" out of this place. I offer to go first, climbing the ladder and crawling through the whole.. my whole vision went black and then.

I woke up.