Solar Warden

The others Part 113

Knight woke up in a white room. It was different to the one in the facility. He checked around and was in some kind of seat that was moved back. His helm was still on his head. Thinking about what Ryan happened was different. He could stand up what he did. The others were also in this room. They were two more. Did all the others escape? There were five seats in here. Knight went to one and shock him slightly.

"What?" came the response.

"It's me Knight."

"Oh, where are we, I'm Riley." That the electronic was down he figured out fast.

"I don't know. I check the other." Knight went to the last.

"Wakeup. This is Commander Knight." He shook the soldier slightly, too.

"Knight, what? Oh, I'm Pearce." Pearce looked around. "Seems they got us."

"Yes, but I expected something like what Ryan and Caine happened," Knight wondered.

"Do you feel also that something is odd?" Riley asked.

"Maybe a bit dizzy and moving feels a bit different. But I cannot specify it," replied Pearce.

The door opened and a Gray was standing there. "So you are awake. You can remove your helms if you want. There is no danger."

"What do you want?" Knight asked.

"Nothing. I will just show you around. You can have it in your suits or more comfortable with this one here." He pointed to the wall. It was opening and there some white closes were in sight. "You can also stay here and do nothing."

Knight thought a bit. The suit electronics was not working any more. The using of the air filter was a nice to have thing. But then the suit had not much advantages except in combat situations. He removed his helm and put it to the side. "I think without helm it is comfortable enough."

The others made the same decision.

"What are we, now? Prisoners? Lab rats?" Knight asked.

"You will see what options you will have. But don't worry there will be no harm." The Gray stepped back and waited for the them.

Knight took the lead and stepped out of the door. On the left there was one of those heavy doors like from the generator room of the facility. It was closed. To the right there was also such door, but open. Behind was a shorter hall part followed by a corridor with a bigger door left and right. At the end it was going down. The Gray walked to the open door. "Just follows me."

"We could easily overcome him," Riley whispered.

"Then what? We have no weapons and no clue how to open the heavy door. So we have to wait and watch," Knight whispered back.

They followed the Gray to the end where a stairway appeared.

"We could take the lift, but walking around will show you a bit more." The Gray stepped down.

They went around a corner to the right. Then there was another one to the left. It was approximately going down five meters. The stairs were wide, about six meters. Now there was an opening to see. The bottom was flat. They reached the end of the stairs and saw it.

A whole city was there. Mushroom shaped buildings in a gray, green color. Lights were coming out of the windows. These mushrooms were big. Some had a height of about 20 meters other over the double. The area of the cave could have a size of over one kilometer. They were on a higher point. Some kind of bridge leading to the buildings.

"A whole City. Why have you built this underground? Don't you like the sun?" Knight asked.

"We don't depend on it. This is only a small research outpost as probably you already assumed. There were some needs to build it underground first, because of our research." The Gray led the way to the next building on the bridge path. There were three bridges which led to the middle, the left and right. The center path was directly leading to one of the smaller mushroom to which they walked now.