Nightshift 34 - Entry Room
[From hereClark stepped inside the Entry Room. The last time he remembered being here, he'd been fresh off from running out of the Doyleton buses with TK, Wesker, and Claire. Everyone had been injured, TK and himself covered in ashes and soot from the burning bus and covered with the stench of burning flesh. Remembering that night made Clark
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Wally sped into the Entry Room, the beam from his flashlight skittering around the walls and floor. Really not good while running, but it was difficult to keep it focused on the ground in front of him. Which was why he'd already almost had a few close encounters with other patients and, once, the doorway. But he was here now and he could just make out the general shape of the front doors.
Pouring on as much speed as he could muster, Wally raced towards them, only to be brought to a sudden stop when he ran into something. Hard.
"Oof!" was about all he could muster as the impact forced the breath out of him and he bounced off to land in a sprawl on the floor.
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Clark whirled around. And that was all he did, for something suddenly bowled into him hard, far faster than a person, and it was almost like running into himself as full speed. Clark crashed to the ground with a thud, wheezing for breath; he could hear whoever ran into him struggling to do the same. Groaning, the farmboy rolled over and tried to sit up, feeling as if his whole body was one entire bruise, even though he was pretty sure he still couldn't bruise, even in Landels.
What was that? He knew it was no monster, otherwise he'd be fighting for his life right now. In fact, it sounded like a patient. And that "oof", now that he he thought about it, sounded awfully familiar.
Grimacing with pain, the teenager sat up, his foot nudging his fallen flashlight. It spun on its side, the beam falling on the person who'd run into him...
"Wally?"
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He pushed himself to his feet, retrieved his flashlight from where it had rolled, and gave his clothes a quick brush over. They were looking a little worse for wear from the run, which was something else to add to his collection of weird. Normally his aura should have protected them as well as himself, but his slippers were on the verge of disintergration and he hurt all over from hitting Kal. Maybe it was a good thing he hadn't been able to reach his old speeds; if his aura wasn't working properly, he could have gotten himself killed.
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He pushed himself to his feet - not without another pained wheeze - and straightened up, unable to help glaring a little at Wally. This was the guy who'd been hassling him in the courtyard, asking all kinds of questions he wasn't willing to answer and convinced he wasn't Clark Kent. Honestly, who would even want to impersonate him? As far as everyone else was concerned, he was just a farmboy from Smallville, not some...well, not some supposed ace reporter for the Daily Planet.
"How did you do that?" Clark asked. It was more of a demand, but he thought he had a right to know, considering Wally had run into him headlong like an out of control train.
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Celes risked a smile, "Well, I do enjoy a challenge." The large room was empty and noiseless, as though whatever had sped past them had quite simply vanished. The door was just clicking close. Celes sighed. "Well, I suppose they've at least made walking out easy enough. I hope they don't disappoint."
It would appear that they were being allowed to pass freely, even though the Head Doctor continued to childly preen about experimentation. Honestly, he was no Cid Del Norte Márquez. "What do you suppose they'll be hiding outside for us? Potions?" she mused as they walked towards the door.
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Luxord reached into the pocket of his coat with his left hand and pulled out the switchblade he had stolen from that insolent thief. Flicking the switch open proved it was still in good shape, though... it was still flaked with his own blood (he admitted, dislodging an enemy's weapon by stabbing it into his hand had not been his brightest idea, but at least he was healed now). He cast the woman beside him an almost questioning look, then closed the blade back into the handle and slid the weapon into Celes' hand.
"Think of it as a present," he explained before opening the doors.
[To here]
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Yes, this looked right. However right it could for how dark it was. It had been mostly dark then, but Rhode had been borrowing that dead girl's flashlight when she'd gone along with Diva. Maybe Diva was around, still looking for those children of hers. It didn't look like it either though.
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[gone here]
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Albel had only been here once, which was right after that silly little trip to that town a week ago. He didn't exactly have the time to check it out back then, but there wasn't so much interesting things to see anyway. He knew the doors to the side led to the waiting rooms, as he had encountered that fake old man in one of them during 'visiting day'. The doors up ahead led outside, which was exactly where the Elicoorian was heading.
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"In here," Max murmured to Citan as she glanced around her, making sure the room was empty. It looked as if others had gotten here before her, but that was alright. If there were things out there waiting to pounce, they'd found earlier targets.
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And still not a single monster. This was almost ridiculous!
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