Inside Little Nightmares

Chapter 7

(Six's POV)

"Do as I do," Miles whispered. "We're being watched."

I quickly stood up and slumped. The camera didn't notice us. The hardest part was that if any of us were to step out of line (literally and figuratively) we'd be as good as dead. As we walked, the controlled people would turn around or jump and we had to copy them.  We looked to our left and saw some people wearing masks. There were even some children there. I guess not everybody was mind controlled. But why weren't they helping us?

We made it into a dark room, but I guess one of the guards noticed us. We knew because he sent one of his dogs at us.

"To the window!" Miles shouted as we started running to the window (yes I am completely aware of the joke). We both ran into the window and we broke it. "Wow."

"We gotta get outta here!" I gasped. We started running again, but I saw a dog coming after us. "The doggo is coming! Repeat, the doggo is coming!"

"We have to trick the dog!" Miles replied. We ran back down from an elevated platform. The dog snarled at us and did a U-turn to get us.

"Any time now," I shivered as the doggo was dashing at us.

"Now!" Miles shouted. We both started running. Miles latched himself on the helmet and I clung onto his legs.

"Am I hurting you?" I asked.

"I'm ok," Miles replied. He then used his arms to control a corpse to push a mine cart that we were dangling from. Once we got on the ground, I let go of him and he dropped down. "That was too close for comfort."

"Yeah," I sighed. "But how come everyone wasn't a mindless robot?"

"I have more questions than answers," Miles replied as we kept moving. It turned out we still needed the mine cart to keep going. I accidentally stepped on a block that opened a door. "You are a genius Six!" 

"Thanks," I smiled. Miles got himself up to the helmet and controlled the corpse to pus the mine cart. 

"Hop on," Miles called. I went to him and wrapped my arms around him as he controlled the corpse again. But our way out was blocked. We dropped ourselves onto a rectangular platform. "Did you notice that switch above us?"

"What about it?" I asked.

"I need to find a way to get that switch to activate," Miles replied. "What for me down here." I nodded as Miles got himself on the helmet. He controlled the corpse to push the cart and then, he got the corpse on another helmet. And the weirdest thing happened: there was a body in a box! He used it to activate the switch.

I saw him move to me, control the body to press the switch, dropped down, went in the helmet again, and controlled the body to pus the cart. He is a genius. I wrapped my arms around him as he controlled the cart into the next room. 

The room looked more like a building and Miles  controlled the body to pull a switch that controlled the door underneath us. We suddenly dropped down through the door and into the water. We swam our way to the top.

We walked into a control room and pressed a red button that caused the water outside to be drained. Well, not even drained that much. It was still very wet. And when I touched another red button, the water filled up the area and closed off a door in front of us. We also saw a chain above us. 

We swam to shore and saw a red trapdoor. I opened it and we entered. Back to square 1.

"How do we beat the system?" I wondered.

"Beats me," Miles sighed.

"Just wondering," I realized. "What if we pressed the button outside to trick the system and get the door open?"

"Let's try that," Miles considered. He pushed the button to flood the place. Then, I swam downwards and pressed the button. We quickly swam and entered the other door. It looked like some sort of warehouse.

"Maybe we'll need this," I said as I pointed to a shelf. I pushed it outside and set it underneath the chain. Miles pushed the button and up we went. We climbed the chain and saw trains filled with mindless people. It was even more horrible than what happened in the city. A security light was shining down and a pipe was underneath it. There was also a wheel over past the security light.

"Proceed with caution," Miles whispered. We slid down a little decline. As soon as the light passed, I quickly lowered the cage. With only a few seconds to spare, we jumped into the cage and remained there until the light ahead of us passed.