Board Thread:What Would You Do?/@comment-33305666-20171009094603/@comment-28718853-20171010162152

Without wasting another second, I dive into the airshaft. I could hear the Redcap continuing to tear down the door as I made my descent. It was quite fast to move, but not too fast that I lost my grip and fell the rest of the way. Up above was the destructive sound of wood being smashed. She had gotten in.

I expected her to pursue me down the shaft, but to my surprise, there was no sign of her coming after me. It appears that I have managed to elude her for now. I managed to reach the bottom and after several kicks, got the vent to fall off and hit the floor with a startling clang.

The sound carried throughout the basement, and I was certain that the Redcap heard it from above and was now coming down after me, but a quick check revealed that I wasn't being chased. I produced a brief grin of relief when various moans sent shivers down my spine. I turned around and I could feel my heart drop.

Zombies, six of them altogether. They were all eyeing me and were shambling toward me. Now I was wishing that I had risked my life in the blizzard. However, this was no time for hindsight, and I was not about to let a group of undead walkers take my virginity. I place the knife in my pocket and consider what to do next.

As they close in, I pop out of the shaft and pick up the vent that I had removed earlier. I hold it close to my chest to use as a pusher should the zombies get too close. I scoot right, as that seemed to have the biggest opening. Luckily, the zombies, not having the brightest of minds, made no attempt to box me in, and instead kept making an awkward beeline for me, one of them tripping over a mop that was propped up against a stack of boxes.

One of the zombies lunge forward and grabs the vent. My response is to push her away, releasing the vent along with her. She falls to the floor, and that leaves a small amount of room for escape. I take it. "Noooooo!!!" one of the zombies groan as I bolt through the door that was blessedly unlocked and found myself in a dimly lit hallway.

With no time to lose, I run down the hall towards a staircase, remembering that the Redcap could still be searching for me above. I make it, and I hear a buzzing sound. Hornet? Bumble Bee? My answer is given as I gasp at two poles glowing on either side of me. Before I could move anymore, my body undergoes a powerful shock that is enough to incapacitate me.

My vision blurs and I soon hear a voice that...didn't belong to the Redcap. "Whoopee, I caught a man!" I look up and find a cheerful looking Gremlin above me in some kind of saucer. Several irritated groans erupt in the hallway, the zombies have found us. The Gremlin notices them and says, "Oops, thought I locked the door!"

A small cannon extends from the bottom of her saucer and fires several stun bolts at the zombies. The undeads' bodies all tremble erractically and they're soon lying on the floor, unable to move.

"He's mine!" a voice that DID belong to the Redcap shouts. She was standing at the top of the stairs with her blade pointed at the Gremlin. The Gremlin laughs and says, "You're so silly Sapphire!"

Her saucer fires several more stun bolts at Sapphire, who blocks them with her sword. "Do you know how long I've been waiting for a man!?" Sapphire barked at the Gremlin. "Do you know how long I've been waiting for a man?" the Gremlin asked as an odd yellow laser shot out from her cannon and struck Sapphire's sword, knocking it out of her hands.

Before Sapphire can react, the cannon launches a net, which wraps itself around the Redcap and shocks her to the point of unconciousness. The Gremlin chuckles as her cannon retracts into the saucer, replaced by a metal arm that picks me up off the floor.

"Yay, come on new husband, I'm gonna take you to my room and show you all of the inventions that I've built that will enhance our experiences!" she cheers as she carries me off to wherever her mechanical clutter of a room was.

At this point, I didn't know which way would have been better. Perhaps trekking into the blizzard was the best way after all. At least I had a chance of survival and maybe even finding some help out there.

Oh well, better start getting adjusted to my new life as a test subject for the Gremlin's experiments.