Among us: New features? //Completed

Chapter twenty two:

I turned on my helmet's light and listened to brown's rapid yet fading footsteps, signaling that he was heading away to try and fix the situation. I heaved a sigh then proceeded to get up and follow after him, black grabbing my arm.

"What's wrong?" Raising an eyebrow, I gently tugged my wrist away.

"Where are you going?" He asked, rousing after me.

"To electrical to help brown, seeing as no one decided to go there." Deciding it to be a good idea, I offered my hand to black this time, him taking it and following me on my way to electrical.

~ At Electrical ~

Upon entering electrical, I made notice off all the people that were there, which were only brown and orange. I quickly rushed over, pretending like I just came in to help, while I kept an eye on orange instead. Black was right behind me, catching on on the situation and helping me bend and entwine the wires that were cut. I felt his firm chest press into mine from behind, safely guarding me from orange as I stole a peek over at him.

When I saw him turning my way, I quickly looked away, feeling his burning gaze boring into my sides with a warning. As we finished, so did brown and orange, the lights flickering back to life. I sighed in relief, knowing that we managed to save brown from  his ultimate fate. Brown thanked us, dropping his upper body to a bow. I smiled, also thanking brown in the same manner, when I noticed orange staring at me with murderous intent. His eyes had flushed a red-ish hue, his mouth growing in size as he bared his sharp teeth, almost snarling at us. I shrinked back just a bit, feeling a nervous smile replace my genuine one.

"Hey captain, mind if we accompany you?" I asked once we were standing up straight again. I would have asked to follow him around, but that just sounds wrong.

"I don't see the harm in that. Besides, it's better if we go together, that way the impostor can't kill us. Unless he's stupid and is willing to risk an eye-witness, which I doupt honestly. Plus, you could show me that footage of yours as we're going, aren't I right?" He smiled, turning around and leading the way before I could say anything.

Both me and black wordlessly followed after him. Orange was right behind us, emitting a low and quiet growl, before turning away right after we reached the entrance of electrical. I tensed, only to let out a silent sigh of relief, black following suit, all while brown remained unaware of our little exchange. Or so we thought.

We reached the communications room, brown then turning around and demanding to see the footage I had collected. I was a little taken aback by his brass tone and rough movements, but handed him the i-pad anyways. That's when I realized that our leader was acting strange, unnatural according to his usual manners. The way his hand almost twitched, the way his head was slightly cocked to the side, the way I could see his eyes shaking. Something was definitely happening to him, and it wasn't anything good. I elbowed black in his side lightly to get his attention, gently nodding my head at brown's direction, who was now gripping the i-pad so hard I feared it would break.

You could see the footage play in his eyes. It was like he had been put under a spell, transfixed it seemed. Black nodded in acknowledgement, cocking his head back to where the hallway was, to which I immediately understood what he meant. He wanted us to run away, get someone to help perhaps. Brown seems to have noticed our silent little exchange, looking up from the tablet and at us, fixating us with those piercing eyes of his.

"Is something the matter green, black?" He asked, turning his head from me to black as he called our names.

"N-no, nothing at all! We were just waiting to get your opinion on it. And to see if you finally believe us that orange is the impostor." I spoke, black nodding in agreement.

"I see.." Brown then handed back the i-pad, looking me straight in the eye. "That's some good evidence you've got there, but I can't have you leaking his identity yet."

My eyes widened, realizing what I was up against. Black too saw this, tugging the sleeve of my suit to hurry me on. Quickly, we broke off into a sprint, but not before I caught the slightly crazy look in brown's eyes, him starting to convulse.

"Black! We need to get him to the medical room somehow! We can't leave him, not in the state he's currently in. What if he was poisoned by orange  or somehow manipulated when we weren't looking? Because there's no way that he's an imposter. He's our leader for God's sake!" I spat in a fit of rage, stopping my sprint and heading back to communications where we last saw brown.

Reaching the room, I leaned myself against the doorframe for support, panting and out of breath. As I looked into the room however, my heart sank further than I thought possible.