MHAs Masterpiece

8 - Early time skips

Once I was out in the hallway, the noise was mostly muffled, being blocked out by the soft music. I kept walking, the brightly colored posters lined the walls blurring together as my mind drifted.

Eventually, I stopped and glanced around. I had travelled further than I thought, and didn't recognize where in the arena I was, the corridors felt unfamiliar.

I think.

I might be lost.

After about a minute, I decided to try retracing my steps, turning back the way I'd come from. I made a turn, marched straight for a bit, and made another turn, then another, expecting to see something familiar, but somehow I ended in an even less recognizable hallway. I tried again, to retrace my retraced steps to retrace my original steps, and I ended up standing in front of a supply closet that definitely hadn't been there before, I was even more lost than when I'd started. 

I let out a small sigh, abandoning my lackluster attempts of retracing, and set off aimlessly.

As I wandered, the noise of the arena faded completely, the corridor walls here were empty, already having passed all the posters or signs. I proceeded on, finding a few empty rooms filled with stacked chairs, storage rooms, and a couple empty ones. Several men in dark clothing and neon green vests patrolled past me, laughing and making jokes with each other, seemed to paid me no attention or might have somehow missed me entirely.

I considered asking for their help to find my way out, though my pride wouldn't let me admit to getting lost. It was slightly confusing yet no big deal, carrying on, I'm hoping for something, anything that would tell me where I currently was. I entered into a quite hallway with most of the doors locked and tip toed over to the lone door that left slightly ajar.

Peeking my head through the gap, I could make out several beds lined up with curtains hanging between them to offer some privacy. The room I had accidentally stumbled outside of was the medical room.

Feeling a tad worn out from roaming for so long, I decided to step inside, it wouldn't hurt to rest to take a small break. The room had a pleasant scent to it, opposed to the rather smelly one coming from the rest of the arena, I could instantly feel my body relaxing as I laid down.

As I was about to fall asleep, I noticed the curtains on my right shifting to the side, and there was an old lady sitting down by her computer, looking over at me slightly surprised.

"Tired, are we?" she said, smiling.

I thought about a few responses, staring back at her unnervingly as she waited for my reply.

"yeah, i was looking for the bathroom... got lost, and was going to take a break here." 

Unwillingly, I was forced into admitting that I had gotten lost.

"For crying out loud, this place should be off limits to any visitors—I swear, those guards are so useless sometimes, letting a young boy wander through the gaps." She said, placing her hand on her forehead and sighing. "Well, as long as you keep quiet I don't mind you taking a break here anyway."

I nodded, accepting her offer with a silent agreement and got comfortable on the bed. The room was no longer noiseless, broken by the sound of recovery girl tapping away on her keyboard, extremely focused on her... work? A few minutes had gone by in silence, and I felt I had gotten enough of a break, leaning up from bed, I noticed she had gotten a 5 star wanted level.

Perhaps she's using it for her hero training.