the cowardly brother

chapter 5

Waking up in the middle of the night, courage started to think if what he was doing was the best course of action. Currently, he was planning on sneaking out to the lab in hot land. First things first, his stuff. Looking around, courage managed to find his bag, bat, and helmet, all laying next to his bed in a neet pile. Good, that'll make this easier. Putting on his gear, courage began to wonder if he was doing the right thing, does he follows ceroba's orders and stay here like he was told? Or does he honor clovers last wish and save kanako... As much as he respected ceroba, he needed to fulfill his brothers last request, it's the least he could do.

Opening the door to his room, courage is glad the doors and floorboards in this place aren't comically squeaky. Walking into the hall, courage does a quick look back and forth, before quickly making his way to the front door. Walking out, courage is met by the dead of night, how did they have a day and night cycle underground? Courage had no idea, but thats not what he should be focusing on.

As courage started to walk down the road, he started to think about the possible outcomes of his little plan, sure it could go off without a hitch and he saves kanako, but what happens if he fails?....he'd rather not think about that.

While lost in thought, courage failed to notice he had finally made it back to the wild east. The walk through the town was eerily quiet. Makes sense, it was pretty late at night. Walking through the town, courage finally made it back to the vault to the steamworks. The only way to get to hot land (at least to courage's knowledge) was through the steam works. Even if it was gross and creepy.

Walking back up to the door, courage was relieved to find it was still open. At least he won't have to worry about the door opening and waking somebody up.

Walking into the said steamworks, courage noticed that nothing had changed since he was here last. Was this place abandoned or something? Probably, it was pretty worse for wear. As courage continued to walk down the damp, dark hallways of the steamworks, he started to reevaluate his plan. He didn't even know where the lab in Hotland was! All he knew was that #1 there was a lab, and #2 it was SOMEWHERE in Hotland. That's like saying someones house is somewhere in town! It barely helps!

Sighing to himself, courage shook off the feelings of self doubt and dread, he wouldn't try to back out of his problems or run away. He would continue until he saved kanako! For clover.

As he was lost in thought, courage failed to realize he had finally made it to the laundry chute. As much as he hated it, this was the one straight path from here to Hotland, he didn't even know if the other path lead anywhere. Staring down the laundry chute, courage steeled his nerves, before crawling back in and up to Hotland.

Finally making it out of the laundry chute, courage let out a large gasp before toppling over onto the hot ground.

Crawling to his feet, courage thought about it for a moment before finally coming up with an idea, he'll just ask someone! Most monsters around here seemed nice anyways.

Walking forward, clover still saw no monsters out and about, makes sense, it was really late at night, that really isn't helping though. Walking forward, courage decides to walk into underground apartments to try and find anybody. As he looked, courage finally spotted somebody! It appeared to be a monster with a blue hand for a head, sitting at what looked like an information kiosk.

Walking up to said monster, courage realized that they seemed to be very tired, probably pulling the night shift.

"Um, hello?" Courage said at the almost asleep monster.

"Huh wha-?" The monster said, getting startled awake.

"Do you know how I can get to the lab?" Courage asked, trying to lean up to talk to the monsters since he was just barely taller than the desk.