Chapter 2: "Guilt"

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Everything's dark. Ethan looks around, trying to understand the place.

"Where am I?"

He slowly takes steps forward, making sure he is walking on a surface. Taking cautious steps, he sees a handle switch attached to a white wall.

There are words written on the top and bottom of the switch with really bad handwriting.

It reads "ON and OFF"

Ethan pulls the switch down, changing from OFF to ON. Slowly the dark place starts lighting up, removing the darkness.

At first, Ethan puts his hand up to block the shining light. His eyes slowly get used to the light. Nothing changed; It's just now, everything is white

Ethan chuckles: "That was interesting"

Ethan starts walking, maybe trying to find something in this nothingness. After a bit, he spots an object from afar. He walks towards it. now it's visible.

It's a mask, And a familiar one as well. Ethan kneels to pick it up. It's a white mask with a red marker. The marker is extended from above the right eye, to next to the mouth. The mask is crisp and burnt.

Ethan: "what are you doing here?"

Suddenly a floor appears under him. As he stands up and turns around an orange light is reflected from his eyes.

A five-story building is burning down in front of him. There are crowds of people on the streets, running around like ants. You can hear the sirens of cop cars and firefighters. Drones armed with water capsules are flying around the building, trying to put out the fire.

Cop cars have pulled over to make a path for the firefighters.

Random stranger: "Oh my god, what is happening? How did this happen?"

Random stranger 2: "I hope no one is inside"

Random stranger 3: "I think I saw an explosion"

Cops are trying to get people to move: "Everyone in the facility, please leave the scene. Open the path for firefighters. Get out of the way right now"

Suddenly Ethan starts to get transmissions from his ear pod

?: "Ethan, Ethan where are you?"

Ethan: "what?" he says to himself.

The voice sounds familiar

"Ethan, I can't get out."

Ethan is shocked. As if he has remembered something as if this has already happened to him.

Ethan says to himself: "No, no not this again"

Ethan doesn't want to believe but he can't help himself. He clinches the mask as hard as he can

"Ethan, the staircase is blocked, I can't get out!!"

He turns his head away to avoid the sound, he doesn't want to hear the sound anymore

"ETHAN, HELP!!!"

But can't control himself anymore, he shouts in frustration and anger. He will save Jax.

Ethan: "I'm coming Jax, I'm coming"

He starts to power up his shoes and gloves. Ethan puts on his helmet. The HUD starts calculating the gap.

The gap between him on the roof and the building's third floor is too much.

Ethan: "Dammit, I can't make that jump. Chelly is there any other way I can make it from here?"

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