It was noon, and as Kim knew that Duncan, as usual, be in his lab experimenting with his machines, she decided to get some air. She took a stroll down the usual path she took. The cherry blossom trees swayed gently and small rays of sunlight emerged between the branches. The further she walked, the more beautiful scenery was found. The trees roots crossed the path and entwined. Strange plants dotted across the grass. She soon lost herself in her surroundings.
Until she stopped. No trees. No flowers. No grass. Just one huge crater. Radioactive sludge dripped from the crevices in the rock, oozing onto the wreckage below. The remains of a place that she had put so far back in her mind and tried so hard to forget. Above towered the broken remnants of Duncan's Castle.
Taint squirmed across the stone, growing up the wall like Spanish Moss. In the distance, she could see the shattered glass of the flux orb. She thought it was over. They nuked the very foundations of the towers. But she still heard the voices. More than ever before, they called from the depths of that wretched place. Beckoning her to come to mother.
She was snapped out of her trance by a shadow in the left tower.
She stopped, trying to find any hint of human life. Sighing, Kim sat cross legged, head in her hands. The voices...She needed to leave o-
A quiet Crack
She shook her head. This was just in her head like th-
Rumble
She turned.
And then, Black.....
