Shattered Mirror

Chapter 10: The alliance part 1

[That night]

Boxten couldn't sleep at all, ever since he's been in the elevator and doing the floors with the rest of the team, the nightmares kept on getting worse. Now they had Shrimpo who was infected, which made his sleeping issue worse. It felt like having a ticking time bomb but with no way to know when will it explode and kill everyone...what if Shrimpo turns when they're in the elevator?

Boxten turned towards the others who were sleeping soundly in the sleeping bags Dandy thankfully provided them, he wished he could sleep like them...so peaceful....so.....calm.....Boxten felt his eyelids get heavy, before he succumbed to the delayed sleepiness......

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His eyes shot open as he woke up, everyone was gone and the elevator was open. "Did they leave without me?" He walked towards the open door, everyone was hard at work with Goob distracting and Vee extracting. Shrimpo sat near the elevator with Dandy standing near him, shotgun in hand, ready to shoot twisteds who came near them.

Dandy sees Boxten and waves, "Hey Boxten! We let you sleep in while we did machines. So far, we've reached floor 15. You were a heavy sleeper that's for sure." Boxten blushed from embarrassment and let out a soft laugh, "Sorry I guess I was-" The buzzer goes off and everyone came running into the elevator, Goob grabbed Shrimpo and pulled him in as Dandy and Boxten followed suit.

"We're almost there guys! Just a few more floors and then we'll save Glisten!" Vee laughed a bit, "Honestly I forgot why we were here in the first place for a second...hope Glisten is doing ok though..."

[Floor 14]

Boxten ran behind some boxes after being chased by Brightney, his stamina was dangerously low, but only 3/6 machines were done so he'll have time to regain some stamina to sprint towards the elevator. Goob and Sprout were taking turns with distracting the main's while the others extracted.

"Might as well get research while they do machines after all..." Boxten started to grab research capsules, his mind lost in thought of maybe buying clothes from the shop, maybe a new paint job? While he was day dreaming about getting a new paint job, Boxten grabbed a blank capsule.

Immediately the capsule shattered, awakening Rodger. Boxten couldn't move, literally since he was affected by the slowness debuff. Rodger peered down at him with his red eye. The beam started to light up, and Boxten squeezed his eyes shut to wait for his death...maybe he'll meet Glisten when he's a twisted...

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Had to cut the chapter into two parts because y'all were waiting too long for chapter 10. Also a new story called 'The Mental Project' is out! Sorry this wasn't out sooner, I was just dealing with stuff and wasn't able to dish this out sooner...