..~| An Uneasy Feeling |~.. [Regretevator]

-/.|.. The Possesed ..|.\-

The day after Bive died...

Gregoriah carefully walked down the hallway, fidgeting with his keys in his hand. There had been some loud commotion the other night. While Reddy was known for killing, it hadn't happened in so long. It was extra unsettling for Gregoriah considering he wasn't the one to normally handle these situations. Usually they'd simply call a mechanic to fix Reddy or call their underpaid janitor to clean up a murder.

He looked ahead of him to see the door to the office already open, which he definitely did not leave open overnight. "Strange..." Gregoriah mumbled to himself, continuing on. As he turned the corner to enter, he instantly stopped and stared at the horrifying scene in front of him.

A dead body hung from the mouth of Reddy who stood there, frozen. Puddles of blood were spilled all over the floor. Gregoriah nearly gaged. Worst thing was, that wasn't a player like the bodies usually were, that was another NPC. Gregoriah recalled seeing Bive once, she was always known as the crazy one. How sad to see a person he could've gotten to know better, but now it was too late. He quickly pulled out his walkie talkie and said into it "Uhhmm... Emerson, I think you need to see this." He slipped the walkie talkie back into his pocket, awaiting Emerson's arrival. Gregoriah tore his eyes away from the bloody murder scene, turning to stare down the halls.

Whatever was going on, something told him it wasn't good.

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"So you're saying... It can appear on any floor... Light people on fire.. Be ANYWHERE at ANYTIME... AND WE DONT KNOW HOW TO GET RID OF IT?!" Pest said. His tone was a mixture of feelings from what DrRETRO could tell. Anger, frustration, worry, fear? She couldn't blame him, even DrRETRO was afraid.

Pest seemed to be extremely distressed and nothing like himself. "I promise, Pest, everything will be alright." DrRETRO reassured him. "Don't tell me what's alright and not alright, I'm perfectly sane." Pest hissed. DrRETRO clearly knew this wasn't true.

With a murderous rock on the loose, out to kill anyone, and can show up on the other floors.. How could anyone be sane?
Nobody was safe now.

"I'll end this madness, just you see." DrRETRO said to Pest before leaving the Subway and onto the elevator again.

The doors closed behind her, leaving her in an unbearable silence. Was the music player broken or something? Who knew. It also felt colder too. DrRETRO hated this feeling, she liked it better when the Regretevator was lively with music and noise and warm and when there wasn't a fucking rock out to kill. Now everything has changed...

Ding!

The doors once again opened. The tumblr ballpit lied ahead of her. She didn't really enjoy this place, but there were worse. She walked out to sit around and clear her head. Maybe in a nice secluded place she'd be able to think straight. DrRETRO stopped herself from taking another step as she heard a familiar whispery voice.

"Very well.. And you're certain the time is right?"

DrRETRO froze and shuddered. She could easily tell it was MR from all her encounters. She leaned up against the outside elevator wall and peered around the corner, just barely. She spotted MR and Gnarpy standing there mid conversation. "Certain." Gnarpy spoke, nodding. MR stared into xis soul, but somehow Gnarpy's tone was so calm and monotone. That was when Gnarpy suddenly spun around and stared in DrRETRO's direction. She was just quick enough to get out of view before xe turned, but caught a glimpse of something rather disturbing. Xis eyes glassy and white, as if xe was possessed. DrRETRO's heart skipped a beat. What even was this?

Gnarpy continued to stare in that direction for a long moment before turning back to MR. "We should take this conversation somewhere more... Private." Xe suggested, almost as if xe could sense DrRETRO near. As DrRETRO turned to glance back around the corner, the two were already gone.

She was drenched in a feeling, almost as if her insides were rotting and being torn apart. DrRETRO faced MR many times, but she'd never seen anything like this. Gnarpy making an alliance with MR? It seemed unlikely. Did that awful rock have more people trapped under its spell? Who knows. DrRETRO breathed heavily, slowly walking back towards the elevator. She stood in the middle of the elevator, aimlessly staring off into space. She knew the others would look up to her to slay MR, but how could she? And even if she did, wouldn't they be worried DrRETRO would die?

Suddenly, a thought popped into her head.
"Mach!" She shouted aloud.
Thankfully there weren't any judging eyes in the elevator at the time.

Although DrRETRO and her never really spoke, she'd seen how powerful she was. Mach was courageous and strong, she was a literal god.

Finally, DrRETRO had a plan.
Let's hope she'd listen.

(Sorry it's a bit shorter than usual ☹️)
(More Mach content coming your way!)