Underground

Chapter 30: The Chase

"I'm not finished with my questions!" I yelled as I started to run after him. The chase was on.

"I'm afraid that's all the time we have. I have a job to do, and it involves the touch of the reaper." Herobrine said calmly as he ran away like a coward now.

We seemed to have run for miles, I ran out of breath slowly, and this phased more and more into a dream.

A dream. This is all a dream. I'm fine, Herobrine would have no possible way to even kill me in reality. He'd be powerless. But this is definitely a long dream...

"But when did this dream begin?! Why did you have Angela and I switch bodies?! Are you even real or just a figment of my imagination?! Is this situation even real?! Am I already dead?!" I asked desperately as we continued running. I somehow had the crowbar back in my hand.

"Once again, I don't have the time to answer. I really must be on my way." He calmly said. Animatronics started to appear left and right, I attacked them all with my crowbar, stalling the arrival of his destination.

"Please! I need the answers!" I started to hear faint beeping.

"Fine! If you must!" He gave in, another Foxy appeared in front of me I beat it up then continued to run, "Your "dream" began with your assignment to The Scooper." I seemed to have seen a duplicate of Herobrine, both running from me now, the beeping seemed to have gone slower and louder, "You and Angela switched bodies as a symbolism of having your identity stolen." They both looked back at me as Herobrine spoke. One with glowing eyes and the other with sea blue, the duplicate with sea blue eyes was obviously Steve as he slowly disappeared again, "I am very real along with the situation." He faced forward and stopped running as we ran up to Baby's 'corpse' and Angela, rotted from what looked like days of decay, hanging on a string hook, soaked in dried blood. I paused from shock as I also stopped running.

"I-I... what about my death?" I asked, scared of the answer that came next.

"It's about time for that," He stated as a hospital room appeared behind Baby and Angela. I was in the bed, Jessica and Gabriel were over my bed with worry and tears in their eyes. "...but I'll let you say goodbye first to your wife and son."

I stood there in what I saw now in darkness, and all heard was the monitor slowly beeping, the only thing visible was the hospital bed. I looked back at him as he just stood there. I decided to walk forward, slowly, as my memory of Gabriel started to return as well.

The darkness disappeared as I opened my eyes, the first face I saw was Jessica's, her expression was delighted but worried at the same time because we both knew, I wouldn't be awake for much longer. Gabriel's face was just gleeful as he quickly hugged me, but not tightly to mess with the IVs. I softly hugged him back.

"How did I get here...?" I whispered to Jessica.

"The same way Angela did..." she responded sadly as Gabriel let me go.

"The scar on her cheek?" I whispered to myself but she heard me,

"Yes, you have the same one now... from a probe. You had nightmares for a while, you started to see the animatronics at home even though they weren't really there. Then, bang, one day you just fell to the ground. It's a miracle I'm able to talk to you once again..." the doctor then came into the room, oh god... he is real...

"He's due any minute now Ma'am, too many cases involving that restaurant end the same way. I'm sorry about that." He said... he had normal eyes obviously but from the lights, I saw a contact glare from his eye.

"Am I able to-..." Jessica started, but he already knew what she was going to say and nodded with an answer,

"Yes, it should be fine."

"Then, Jacob... I want you to have a proper goodbye." Jessica said to me as tears filled her eyes. She leaned down and kissed me, I could feel her nose rub onto my cheekbone. I closed my eyes as tears built up, my hand was on the side of her face as I kissed her back until I could hear the line screech, I couldn't open my eyes, I felt the tears run down my cheeks, and eventually my limbs felt numb and I couldn't feel the sweet sensation of blood flowing through my skin, or air expanding my lungs. I felt nothing left except ache.

I broke the Golden Rule... to never... die...

THE END (Unless if you want a sequel)