Beyond the Light.

[Venture]

After the squad had activated their flashlights, they had seen something astonishing, they were standing in a large corridor, large enough for a defender to move across without bumping, the corridor was of Libertonian design, there was a lot of dust and mud around them.

Daniyal: "This looks something like a Libertonian lab of some sort. I guess we gotta uncover the secrets of this place..."

Mark: "Liberty sending men to find their own secrets...sounds ironic, doesn't it?"

Daniyal: "Yeah...It does, If this is a man made structure, there should be generators too. Let's find the main power switch."

Mark: "Alright men," Addressing the squad, "Let's move out and bring back power to the base."

With that said, the squad began moving down the corridor. This place was astonishing, was it some sort of a secret research facility? Was it something the Libertonian government kept as a secret from it's people and it's police and military forces? The team was about to find it out. The team continued on down the corridor then turned left into a even longer corridor.

At the end of the corridor, there was a large hall, possibly a hanger, to the left, a staircase led to somewhere at the top. The soldiers stopped at the foot of the first set of stairs, it was completely covered in dust.

Mark: "Alright, I presume the switch is somewhere at the top, keep on your guard and watch our backs."

Daniyal: "Let's move then..."

The soldiers then continued up the staircase, they all were so incredibly alert. Like some animal in the forest sensing for danger. At the top of the staircase was a large door, as the soldiers got closer, they noticed it was half-open. They crawled in one by one.

On the other side, to the left was a control room of some sort and to the right was something which seemed like another large corridor. But there was a large door and it wasn't open.

Mark: "Let's get in there and see what we can do, I have a feeling this is the power control."

Daniyal: "Just be careful, the power getting activated means someone or something sleeping in this place would be awaken...or maybe not, this place looks abandoned since a long time..."

Mark: "I know man...but we gotta do what we're supposed to do..."

Daniyal: "Alright, I'll get in there and figure out how to get the power back."

With that said, Daniyal went in through the semi-half open door. and he started looking at the controls. The soldiers knew this place was no joke, there was something dangerous about it all, the Libertonian design, and how old this place looked. The purple pulsating rays on the outside were also filled with whiffs of danger.

Suddenly, in the distance, there came a faint sound of rocks dropping.

Mark: "Did we just...get trapped in here? Did those boulders collapsed on that hole we made while getting in?

Daniyal: "Okay! I've found the switch, it's the switch to the backup power generators so we still won't have a lot of light. Here goes..."

Daniyal flipped the switch, and some of the lights came on

Mark: "Daniyal, get over here..."

Daniyal: "What is it...Mark?" He spoke as he walked out of the control room."

Mark: "I think we're...trapped, me and the others heard boulders falling, the sound seemed to come from the place where we had made a hole in, and as now I've noticed, the doors have an airlock of weird design, you cannot see the airlock rays, it just prevents air from escaping. It means we have air here...and gravity."

Daniyal: "That's great...and we're trapped...yep, we gotta get to the main generators and activate all the lights, and look at the hanger..."

Mark turned around to look, the hanger was almost completely lit up now.

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A Nest of Vipers