Gadget's New Mission

Severed

Mighty and Wesley keep hugging as I'm in relief about what has happened. Wesley saved his life... and Mighty knows it. Mighty now knows what Wesley is truly, and so do I if I didn't know already... Wesley is a hero. As he said himself, he just wants to fight the good fight.

The two stand up. They look at me and nod. I nod back and we continue into the tunnel system. It's starting to get very dark until I see lights up in the ceiling, like the ones you'd see in buildings at Capital City. The walls also changed from stone to metal as we progressed. Whatever we're walking into, it's been developed and worked on by someone...

We come across a fork in the road. We all stop and look at each other with the same nervous look.

"We probably shouldn't split up..."

"Which way should we go then?"

"...I don't know... Left?"

We hesitantly go left. We keep walking for what feels like an eternity. Perhaps the right path was where we should've gone, but I was still kinda stressed out from earlier that I didn't what anything bad to happen while I'm not there. Suddenly, we all stop.

"You hear that?" Wesley says standing perfectly still.

"I don't hear anyth-"

Mighty is screaming. I turn around and see a hole in the ground with his voice echoing from it. Next thing I know Wesley starts yelling. He's trying to pull himself out of a hole that appeared under him. I try to grab his hand but he loses grip and falls... It's happening again... I can't leave them alone this time.

Wesley hole closes up, but I'm able to jump down Mighty's hole before it's enclosed. I'm sliding down a metal tube before I end up slamming into Mighty. We're in a small room with buttons on the wall.

"Gadget! Why did you come down here?!"

"I'm not leaving you behind!"

"I appreciate that Gadget, but I don't think we know what we've gotten ourselves into right now!"

Lights flare up at the wall next to us. We look over and see Wesley through a glass wall.

"Gadget! Mighty! That you?!"

"We're in here, Wesley!"

"What's going on?! I'm in a room with two doors that won't open!"

"We have a bunch of buttons in our room... Maybe one of them-"

There's a loud clang sound. Next comes the sound of gears or cogs turning. I see the ceiling in Wesley's room lowering. This is not good...

"THE CEILING IS CLOSING IN!"

Wesley is punching and kicking the doors with no success. We can't do anything but watch... Except...

"The buttons! That might stop it!"

"You guys better hurry it up!!!"

Mighty tries a button close to the floor. Nothing happens... I try one. Nothing happens... Mighty tries another near the middle. I hear a sheathing sound. I turn around and see spikes coming out of the ceiling!

"Guys! Whatever you did, THERE ARE NOW SPIKES ABOUT TO IMPALE ME!!!"

I start sweating bullets and my head becomes volcanic. I see Wesley slowly and hopelessly backing into a corner. I'm about to lose it before I notice some very small writing on the wall. "Always check where you'd least expect it." What?! Does that mean... I look back at the buttons.

I quickly scan for anything odd. I notice a tiny indentation at the top right corner. I grapple up there and find a tiny button within. I use my pinky and I press it, closing my eyes. There's no noise. Everything stops. I open my eyes and turn to Wesley. His head is merely inches away from a spike. He stays petrified before the ceiling goes back up and the doors open. He runs out in a flash. Our doors open too and we soon follow.