Undertaken: darkness calls

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"I told you this isn't a good idea, we should turn back..." says luka. "Shut up man, we didn't walk one hour just to leave now." I snap. "Yea dude, Nico's right." Says rick. "Yea, I know but thousands of people died here, not to mention it was like a week ago." Says luka in a "I told you so" type voice. "Yo niko, aren't you hot wearing that hoodie?" I was wearing an all black hoodie, a black shirt, black shorts, black and red vans, and a winter hat(it's the middle of summer). Rick was wearing a black athletic shirt and and grey sweat pants, along with some grey shoes, and his black hair was sticking up on top. Luka had his "genius by birth, slacker by choice" shirt on, cargo shorts, and red and white Nike high tops, his hair is red and combed to the side. As we get closer to the facility we hear sirens from abandoned police cars and swat cars, and see that the gate is open and right next to it is a body with multiple stab wounds and a cut throat. Police tape blocks off the entrance and Luka says "see we can't even go in. Let's go." I walk forward through the gate looking around curiously. Rick runs by me and looks at the body, he takes his key card and reads "jaxon, Oliver" he wondered why the names were flipped but just left it Alone. He unclips the card and pockets it. Luka gags a little bit when he gets close to the body. I approach the door and look through the peephole and I see a man's eye pop up on the other side. I jump back and fall on my ass. "Yo nico, you good? Calls out Rick. He walks over and pulls me up. "Yea... Yea I'm good..." I breathe in heavily while I ponder as to how that man knew I was there. I hear the gate close followed by the sound of that corpse being broken in half. I turn around and see that when the gate shut that it crushed him until his body became a popped sausage. Luka starts whining "why did we come here! What is wrong with me, I shoulda stayed home! But no, we have no need for living so let's go to a testing facility that they did illegal tests on insane people! Great idea..." Rick tells him "shut up!" And Luka gets in his face. Luka puts up one arm and keeps it against rick's chest so he doesn't walk any closer to him. I step in between them and pry the two apart. I walk back to the door and shiver a bit inside. When I look through the peephole I still see the eye... Not blinking or moving around... Just looking at me... I try the door but it's locked. Rick grabs a rock on the grass and throws it in the window. "Dude!" I say in a yelling whisper. "What? I got us in didn't I?" He goes to vault through the window but hits metal poles that keep people in the facility. Me and Luka start to laugh hysterically. He stands back up and flips us off. "Whens David gonna get here?" I ask. "Any time now." Calls out Luka from over at the gate, still afraid to move closer. we hear someone running up the driveway to this place. "That's probably Dave now." I say. David approaches the gate and climbs over it by hopping on a cop car. David pats Luka on the back and says "why the hell... Didn't... You wait for... Me!" He's exhausted, he probably ran all the way here. "Well you took too long man." Rick says and I nod in agreement. Luka walks to us, somewhat casually but still freaked out. "We need to find a way in." says Luka. I look up and see an open balcony above. The windows are close enough so that if I try and climb on them I could just muscle my way up. I say "Rick, you come with me, Luka, David, stay and wait." "I'm ok with that." Luka says. Me and Rick climb up the windows and hop on the balcony. We stand up there for a second, looking into the decrepit facility. Rick goes to walk in but gets tackled by a man missing almost all of his skin, his silver bones left visible, his pink muscle tissue is ripped, burned and cut. He holds Rick by his neck over the edge of the balcony. I pick up the nearest solid object bash in the man's skull. He lets go of Rick distracted by the pain in his head and I push him over the ledge. He lands headfirst and it explodes against the concrete. Luka jumps back, David looks disgusted, Rick holds his neck, and I flip off the guys dead body. I look at what I'm holding and it's a piece of rubble Coated in blood now. I walk in clenching the rubble making sure i don't drop it. Rick gets his bearings back and runs to the stairs. He and I run down the stairs to the door and at the last flight there are no stairs, it looks like a grenade went off. Soot coats the wall. I hop off into the crater that was made from whatever blew up and Rick follows. We head to the door and find a head speared on a piece of rebar. I cringe a bit and say "ugh... That's gonna haunt me for the rest of my life..." I move the rebar and unlock the door. Rick opens it quickly and says "let's go, get your asses in here!" I slap him in the chest "be quiet dipshit!" We look around a bit and see dead swat units and patients everywhere. The smell is horrible, flies swarm the dead bodies, and maggots crawl all throughout them. I kneel down next to a swat guy and notice he has no gun shot wounds... I pull of the blast shield on his face and find maggots all over his face. I see some crawl in his eyes and almost puke. I stand up and wipe off my knees. Luka walks over to me and slips in a pool of blood. "Rick are you gonna record this? You said you would." David calls out. "Yea, hold on." Rick pulls out his phone "ok this is Rick here, and today we are inside of the facility that got shut down three days ago due to the fact that four prisoners had escaped and then one of them released all of them." He aims his phone around the room and then shows all of our faces. "This is just some of the damage" he says "yo nico hold this for me." "Ok man." I grab the phone. We start to walk around for a while and check every room. We come across a door that requires a key card. "Yo Rick, see if that card has clearance." He walks up to the scanner and pulls out the card. He swiped it through and the door slides open. We walk in and see two corpses one had shot himself (I mean we hope he shot himself), his gun sits beside him, blood is covering the wall and some is in a pool around him, and next to him is what looks like another guard. A thick door is slightly open and there are a few dead scientists in there as well. We walk to a door that was left open and the floor is a pool of blood. i walk through the blood and find myself in front of a broken door. Inside the room is boxes, maybe 20 of them, I didn't take the time to count them all. On of them is broken open we all walk to it and see what looks like the outline of a person in the hay beneath.
I say "let's go guys, we need to keep moving." and all of them agree. Rick aims his phone at the box and we all walk out of the room. "Alright so we could go this way now." David says. Luka walks up to me and whispers "what the fuck are we doing here man! We're almost knee deep in blood and people are dead everywhere! I just sayin, one of us is gonna get hurt..." "Dude calm down" I start "we're all gonna be fine." Luka gives me an uncanny look and whispers "fuck my life..." We walk back to the room with all the dead people and go through the other door that we saw. Rick aims the phone at our feet showing how our shoes are now red. We walk to the other door and it's locked, so Rick hands me the card and I swipe it. We come down a short hall that leads to a dome shaped room with four doors. I walk to the right with Rick and say "yo, Luka and David, go to the left. We're gonna split up for a bit but we'll meet up here in a little bit." "Ok" Luka and David say at the exact same time. They walk over to the door and find a bar stuck through the handle, so they remove it. Right after that something starts slamming into the door. Luka and David start to back up and then break into a run trying to get to our side. We open the door nearest to us and a man across the way slams the door down. We run into the room that we are next to and trip and fall over desks and chairs. Rick turns on the flashlight for his phone and leads the way. We head for another door and it's locked... I start to bash at it and it starts to give. "Luka! Put all of your weight into it man!" I say and move away from the door. He runs at it and the door falls down. We find ourselves on a floor that is missing half of it and once we walk through the door, the platform that were standing on starts to crumble and fall. Luka flies off the ledge as it falls and when it lands we all end up unconscious for a few minutes. We wake up and Lukas sitting there gurgling. I look up and see his legs crushed and speared by a piece of rebar... Blood is spurting from his mouth and chest. I stand up and tell the others to wake up. David stands up holding his head, Rick gets up breathing heavy. I run to Luka and try and get the rubble off of his legs. "Come on guys help me!" I yell as tears start to ball in my eyes. David comes over and tries to help me pull it off. Rick sits there not moving, now holding his head. I look to Rick and tell him to help but he takes his hand off his head and it's bleeding heavily. He says "I... Can't... See straight... Everything Is just a blur man..." Luka struggles to say "stop... Stop, you gotta leave me... I'm dead even if I get off of this thing." I grab his hand and fold his fingers. I fist bump him gently while I wipe tears away. David starts to cry a bit and then Rick passes out. I move to Rick and slap his face lightly, but he won't get up. I throw him over my shoulder and try my best to move quick. "Where are we?!" I say, "this doesn't look like a normal part of this buildings schematics!" 'Must be some secret sublevel' I think to myself. Me and David walk to a door down the blood covered hall. I hear Rick start to mumble something, it sounded like he had said: "wall fly" I have no clue what wall fly means though. He then screams "we all die!" And I think 'duh' I know this is the end, this compound. I'd known the dangers for about 2 days, when word about the facility spread every where. Rick tells me to put him down and that he's fine now, so I do. He runs to Luka and looks around for a bit. He picks his phone off of the ground and it's still recording. He aims it at Luka and says "we've lost one... But we won't lose another..." His phones screen is cracked, but a broken phone is less important than getting out. He runs back over to us and David grabs my arm as I reach for the knob. He looks at me somewhat concerned and I look back the same way. I slowly open the door and enter the room. It's pitch black so Rick turns on his phones light again. The smell hits us like a brick, I almost puke. I put my shirt over my nose, but the smell is too overwhelming. Covering my nose helps only a little bit, but it's not noticeable. I look in the room and see maybe around 50 naked bodies just thrown onto of each other. Each of them have something done to them, some are missing their limbs, and head, some have cut wrists or throats, the sight is horrific.... Rick runs through the room and straight to a door across the way. He opens it and pukes right when he gets through. I run through and gag on the putrid air. David runs through and falls on his hands and knees trying to breathe clean air. I shut the door behind us and I then punch the wall, it's not thick so my hand goes through it. I pull it out and say "ok, let's go..." Rick shows the camera the Wall. He says "ok" and walks back two steps. I walk away from the wall and press on. We see blood trails on the floor. We follow them until they start to trail up the wall into a vent. Under the vent says the words "don't be afraid of the dark" written in blood. I say "luk- uh... David give me a leg up so I can see into the vent." He gets In yo position and lifts me up and I see an arm just lying there. I get my foot off of his hand and tell them what I saw. Rick aims the camera up into it and shows the arm. we all walk down the dark hall and I start to feel... to feel like I'm being watched... words race through my head, to quiet and fast to understand. We walk into a room and find files on a table. I grab one and read out loud

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