THE FINALE - 【 ZERO 】 ESCAPE

[vivariummods]

It's been ten days since the so-called "anniversary" on Day 90. Every single trace of a makeshift casino has been cleared out, leaving this suspiciously identical second warehouse empty (and the doors within that lobby locked), and Calhoun has mysteriously stopped dropping by as often as he should have. In the rare times he did drop by, he hemmed and hawed about what was happening and outright avoided answering any questions, shrieking that he's a busy mouse and he shouldn't be harassed by test subjects. Thus, for nine whole days, not a single particular event has occurred. No Calhoun Hours, Ambidex Games, or even a little announcement. It's not until the morning of the tenth day that something finally transpired. A loud siren goes off and the sound of a heavy door being slid open echoes from the second warehouse's lobby. Within seconds, however, both nuances cease and silence returns...

Comments

[elliexir]

Honestly, after shit like talking and backstabbing robots, Ellie could possibly believe anything.

"I don't know, I've been through some crazy stuff lately." Translation: tell her your insane theory.

[detectiveofthewest]

"For you guys, it sounds like you took out the power just recently. But for us, it happened thirty days ago. I think after you guys blacked out in that room, you must've been out ever since." In one way or another.

"...And it's not all that uncommon for someone to end up missing bits of their recall here, 'specially if they check out for a bit. Zero has a way to wipe people's memories. That's how we woke up, barely rememberin' anything. You're the same way, right? You don't remember where you were before you were in this warehouse, unless it's in little bits and snatches."

[elliexir]

Ellie stared at Heiji like he just grew three extra heads.

"What? You're bullshitting me." It couldn't be over thirty days ago. It just happened! No one just fell unconscious and stayed that way for a month.

[detectiveofthewest]

"Nope. You can ask the others about the timeline. It's also possible that you've been awake and he just erased the past month, but considering what's happened with some of the people in our group..." He shrugged.

"But why bring the two groups together? 'Specially after all he said about you guys." Unless it really was just the next phase of the experimentation.

[elliexir]

That was completely hard to wrap her head around. Like, the memory loss, yeah, that was understandable, but for this time skip... What was this, some kind of weird comic book world?

But h-hahaha... Zero saying stuff about them... She just looked off to the side, rubbing her nose. "Yeah, and what did he exactly say about us?"

[detectiveofthewest]

"I dunno, somethin' about how we had stuff you didn't. Though as far as I can tell, what we had that you didn't was a lot more annoyin' traps to get out of. Plus, you guys had chickens and a goat? We never got any of that stuff. Had to sleep on the floor for weeks."

He supposed they had more experience in the warehouse than Ellie's group did, but... that wasn't really a positive...