Escape from Starr Park

Chapter 26: Confrontation

As the alarm sounds, all 58 brawlers try and find a hiding place to the best of their abilities.

"So uhhh, when does the park even open to guests?" Max asks, looking at the watch she has. The alarm continues to go off as some late-night guards of the park run over to the library "The files are missing!" One of them exclaims "Come on out!" Another one yells out, pointing a flashlight at some areas. "Who could even get here? The park doesn't open in a few hours!"

"A few hours? I guess there's a clue we can take note of." Max explains to the rest of her trio, keeping her voice down. 3 employees enter the library, looking around for suspects. "What can we do? If we stay hiding, we'll be toast!" Shelly whispers to Colt "I'm honestly not sure, either." He replies, as their conversation continues as quietly as possible, Mortis sneaks up behind the 3.

"Uncle?? What are you doing?" EMZ slowly peaks her head out to see what he is doing. His room came with a shovel, which he can use as a weapon. Quietly sneaking behind the guard, he winds up his shot and hits the guard nearest to him. He passes out from the attack as the two other guards turn their back to see him "Who are you!" Mortis notices their abnormal eyes.

"Guys! Attack!" He yells out. Darryl decides to come out of his spot and throw the barrel he somehow brought with him from his room. He was somehow strong enough to hit the two so hard, it also knocks them out. "Thanks for covering, Darryl." Mortis (Real name: Maximus Oconnell) thanks him. Darryl (Real name: Denzyl Mcguire) lets out a sigh of relief.

The rest of the brawlers slowly leave their spot to inspect the 3 guards. "Y'know, I noticed something odd, especially with their eyes." Mortis explains to the group. Byron (Real name: Benjamin Castaneda) tries and inspects them by opening their lids. "They look like they've been brainwashed or something." He says. Their eyes have an abnormal yellow star-shaped highlight.

"You think Starr Park is also brainwashing its employees as well?" Colette asks "That could be the case." Byron responds. "Well, we need to get out of here! And somehow get the government to shut down this park!" Max yells out as she walks out of the library. Shelly starts shaking "You know, Max. That feels wrong." She turns to her "What makes you think like that?" She asks.

"I feel like, if we don't permanently deal with the person behind all of this, they can easily just start from scratch." "She does have a point..." Meg (Real name: Megane Arias) says. "Well, what do you think we should do?" Max asks her. "I feel like we should blend in as guests or something, look around for clues and if possible, face the park's leader." Shelly suggests to everyone.

"I'm not sure, that sounds like a big stretch." Brock (Real name: Brendan Kemp) exclaims "It'll be more effective in the long run." She responds. Mortis sighs, "I'm in." Shelly turns to him. "Count me in too!" Sandy (Real name: Sani Potts) joins in the conversation. Sooner or later, everyone agrees. "Let's go outside of the building, we can plan on the way there." Max says.

On their way to exit the building before the possible opening of the park, they discuss strategies and such. "How many of you guys had an item in their room?" Mortis asks, claiming that a shovel was present in his room. "Well, I found a guitar in mine and Darryl mentioned sleeping inside a Barrel." Poco (Real name: Porfirio Torres) responds. Darryl brought the barrel with him.

As they exit the building, they find an open place where they cannot be seen easily and start planning there. EMZ (Real name: Emilia Maisha Zavala) looks at her phone, which came in her room. "Shoot, these guys have a website?" She says, on her phone, trying to research some information. "People seem completely unaware of the horrible things that the park is doing."

EMZ sighs, disappointed. She continues browsing the website of 'starrpark.biz' "Investor video?" She taps on the link provided. Colette approaches behind her, trying to see what it holds. "Hey! That seems quite familiar." Edgar hears this and approaches EMZ too. "Isn't that from those VHS tapes we used to collect??" He exclaims. A good amount of the brawler hear this and join in.

"That really is...!" 8-bit (Real Name: Bryan Bitz) "I can remember it." As a group watch EMZ watch Starr Park's investor video. "Hold on is that a backwards message?" 8-bit asks, as he hears in the video. "It may be, let me reverse it." She tweaks some settings in the video "In the future, the children control us with glowing rectangles." The video shares the unsettling message.

"Glowing rectangles?" EMZ reminisces about what she heard. "That obviously means a phone... Right?" Edgar suggests. EMZ exits the browser and looks at her phone. "This is the phone from the game... Same wallpaper and all." Though there was an unknown app, which is of a game." She opens it, assuming it has some clues. As it opens, voices are heard, though it was quite odd.

No characters can be seen. EMZ opens a character menu. Though there are no visuals, only test. "Hey, what's with these names being the same to our game names?" EMZ asks "It's the game we were from!!" Edgar yells out. "Now that we left those rooms, our consciousness are no longer connected to the game, making them unplayable."  "That's... I have no words..." She responds.

"With this vital info, we'll need to destroy this place so that it cannot get its hand on any more victims." Max announces to the group. "Simply shutting down this park isn't enough to permanently stop the problem." "You're right, Maxie..." Meg exclaims. "We will be able to stop Starr Park together!" Surge (Real name: Steve Bently) adds. "Everyone still got their files?"

Everyone nods, some of them raising them to the air. "Awesome! Hold onto those if you can." Max looks at her watch "It's 8AM..." She realizes that people are starting to enter the park. "Ah. They're open now." "Let's blend into the crowd at try and defeat these guys once and for all!" Max cheers, pointing at the entrance of the park.