[from here]

"Here we are," Indy announced unnecessarily, jerking a thumb toward the mine entrance. The warning signs were as foreboding as last night and the way in was half boarded up again. As he moved closer, Indy wondered again just how old this mine was. If it'd been there before Landel's, and if--big if--Richter's device was down there ( Read more... )

[from here]Sai hit the ground and rolled as the blasts from their opponent ripped through the air to either side of them. He crawled up onto his knees, pawing around for the flashlight that had been knocked from his hands in the attack. "Naruto?" He hadn't seen if the blond had been hit or not. If he had, this whole venture would have been a ( Read more... )

[from here]This was already further than Sai had gotten the past couple nights, which was saying something. It was getting over the wall that would be the real test, though. The actual act of scaling the brick would be simple, but the night had an odd way of ending before he'd gotten beyond that point. Hopefully the same wouldn't hold true this ( Read more... )

[From here.]The treeline was a welcome sight after the long trek from the quarry, the cold winds fighting the pair the entire time, trying to push them back into the relative protection of the institution's walls. The building may have provided refuge from the elements, but the horrors within had been worse than anything they'd seen outside thus ( Read more... )

[From here.]Upon stepping outside, Castiel used his flashlight to take in what seemed to be some sort of drop-off area for vehicles. So this was how people were supposedly brought to this place. Teleportation seemed just as likely, but his memory of his arrival was either gone or nonexistent. The fact that he still didn't know how much time had ( Read more... )

[From here.]As he entered, Castiel confirmed that this room, unlike the one he'd checked before, was empty. That was preferable; the less people he needed to deal with, the faster he could find what he was looking for. What the room had instead was a plethora of doors. The one to the right most likely led into the room he'd previously checked, but ( Read more... )

[From here]Eventually, the wall at his side turned sharply to the left and he followed suit, outlining the building toward the road ahead. The ground was still rocky here, less so than to the west of the institute, but it wouldn't have been able to stop him either way. The ache in his legs had morphed into a hot, rhythmic pounding that struck with ( Read more... )

[From here]Unlike the western section, the central portion of this hallway was completely deserted. On any other night, von Karma would have used this to his advantage to arrive at one of the upstairs locations before anyone else did. The Janitor's Closet, for one, contained a large cache of metal that he could use to compensate Mr. Geeste for ( Read more... )

[from here]It looked like the hallway opened up over here. Guess he couldn't expect to just run around and follow a linear corridor forever, but now he had to figure out which way he wanted to go. Normally, he'd just run down whatever hallway he happened to lay eye on first, but again, he was running a liiittle blind here ( Read more... )

[From here, with much AUGH]

Of all the things Recluse was expecting when he walked through the door, immediately falling into a lake was not one of them. He began to sink immediately from the weight of his weapons, swimming back up to the surface, spitting out a mouthful of water that he'd nearly swallowed in surprise ( Read more... )