The Alternate Timeline

Chapter 11: The Showdown

Still wheezing, Allison continued to lay on the floor in a crumpled heap, struggling to breathe. Then the gurling started as Allison knew at this very moment that this was it. She was going to die, Luther probably as well. Allison tilted her head back as she could feel herself started to lose some consciousness when suddenly she felt someone press against her chest in a CPR motion, shortly after feeling someone blow some air into her mouth. Again and again and again. This whole process kept happening over and over and over, until finally Allison found it. The gush of air that she needed, returning back into her lungs. And this feeling, it made her feel alive again, and that was when she knew that she was going to live.

Allison sat up abruptly, coughing multiple times as she regained the ability to breathe again. Before she had time to react, she was pulled into a warm embrace with someone, at which after she was released from that person's arms, she knew almost immediately who it was. It was Klaus. This caused her to let out a huge sigh of relief. He had made it there in time, saving her life. She owed him one , she told herself. But her sense of happiness and relief was short-lived, for that was when it occurred to her. Allison paled. LUTHER.

Trying her best to ignore the splitting pain through her right ankle, Allison tried to stand up, desperate to save Luther however much it took. But it must have been because of her serious ankle injury that had caused her to fall back down to the ground again. She frantically tried to get up again but to absolutely no avail. She gestured towards Klaus to help her up but although reading her mind, Klaus shook his head as he knew that Allison was already in bad shape and would contribute little to the given situation. Instead, with one hand on her shoulder, and the other pointing towards the door-way, he 'revealed' to her the motion of two figures. From all the evident and familiar grunts coming from the hallway, Allison almost instantly recognized who it was that was currently fighting with the woman. It was Diego.

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Diego and Klaus had just finished combing through the last few levels that they had assigned themselves to do and were on their way to the lobby to meet up with the rest of their siblings. The long search quest was unbelievably long and useless as the kids just simply weren't there. Well but although long and tiring, Klaus would occasionally babble on about random stuff, lightening up the mood even if it was just for a little bit. After their search, Diego had tried the walkie talkie that he had, to try to communicate with any of his siblings[he had taken along some of his old walkie talkies and given them to each group just in case any of them found something or needed help or anything]. And of course they weren't responding, either because the walkie talky had suddenly stopped working[it did that sometimes] or his siblings were just busy occupied with something. Diego sighed. Luther had told them that should the walkie talkies prove ineffective, they were required to meet back at the lobby after a solid 2 hours , provided they hadn't found anything yet. But yet, the lobby itself was still just as bare and empty as it had been when they first got there, other than Klaus and Diego himself. There were simply no sign of any of their other siblings there. Oh well, I guess that was that then, Diego thought to himself.

Suddenly he heard the undeniable clear sound of static coming from his walkie talkie, starting him. He placed his face closer to the walkie talkie and listened for anything, so as the slightest signs that his siblings were fine over there. Nothing. Diego started to open his mouth to let out a mere "Hello, anybody there?" question but quickly stopped himself. What if something had happened his siblings and that was the reason why they couldn't answer? He knew straight away that even so as a word from the walkie talkie may cause him to unintentionally escalate the situation so still keeping quiet, he leaned his ear closer , listening more intently. That was when he heard it. The soft but subtle sounds of what sounded to be one or two painful grunts, or wait no, they much more sounded like groans, Diego was sure of it. And there was it again another soft but clearer groan before the walkie talkie returned once again to the annoying sounds of static. Even if it was just one or two groans, Diego could undeniably make out the familiar sounds coming from them...Hmm, strange thought Diego. Then it occurred to him. Luther and Allison. They were in trouble. So, without bothering to fill Klaus in on anything, Diego rushed up the flight of stairs up to the third level.