Homesick

Chapter 17 - CPU's and Monsters

Guess who is back once again.

It's me Bois. So let's begin already.

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The team of four finally reached the snowy outskirts of Lowee.

From here Connor could see that this place was dead.
Any signs of life were gone.

Houses and other buildings were left in ruins, abandoned and destroyed. No signs of fire or anything, just that everything looked broken.

"Ok. We're here. We'll move carefully and quietly. Stay in mission and do not make any detours unless we have to. We can't afford that." Uni said before stepping forward.

They followed her as they went on.

Eventually got to the remains of the closest town and were met with a sight that was only odd to Connor.

They stopped to look around. The girls were making sure they weren't seen or heard.

Connor was standing close to the edge of a hole in the ground.

Literally. It was just a hole in the ground that went straight down until he couldn't see down any further. It was just here in the middle of the street and the weirdest part was that there was more than one of these.

"The fuck is this shite about?" He asked himself.

Before he could step away, he was pulled away by Uni.

"What the hell are you doing?!" She whisper shouted.

"I haven't a fuckin clue! I don't know what's here!" He whisper shouted back.

"Well just stay away from those things! I've seen people fall down them and I have never seen those people come back! I don't want to tell Rom you fell down one of those holes and that she won't see you again... Again."

Uni continued on with the rest of them and he followed close behind.

For some reason, those holes in the ground were giving him this sense of intense danger.

In fact. He felt a sense of danger just being here. It's like all of his senses were telling him to bail out now.

Suddenly, as they were walking, they felt the ground shake a tiny bit and heard loud and heavy footsteps.

They three looked to him.

"Hide." They said.

Next thing Connor knew, he was being dragged to a random building.
He was shoved into a house that didn't even have a roof.

"What's happenin?" He asked quietly.

Uni pointed out the window.

"That's happening."

Looking to where she's pointing, Connor immediately wished he never came here, because there was this big, lanky, creepy thing that represented a fucked up version of Mario or some shit, making its way to the road they were just standing in.

If that thing wasn't as loud as it is, they'd probably be dead.

"What the fuck is that thing?" He asked.

"I wish we could tell you. I wish we could kill it and I wish it just didn't exist.... That thing is what ran us out of Lowee. Barely anything can stop it. The only reason we got away was because it apparently doesn't like anything that isn't at least the room temperature of Lowee." Nepgear explained.

Connor heard quietly crying and looked to see Rom was quietly crying. She was terrified of this thing.

Judging by their looks, Connor would guess they're about three or four, maybe five years older than the candidates he knows.
So Rom would be 11 at most.