A Shocking Find

What is to be found here can not be leaked outside of our database, and that is vital.
Hey there. You need not know much about me, other than the fact that I am currently the acting leader of a M.E.G. colony in an undisclosed level. When we lost ████████████████, it was key that we found him again, and so I got 5 people to look for him. They were gone for 5 days, whilst the entirety of the M.E.G. higher-ups waited with bated breath. We never ended up finding ██████, but the boys returned with something much more interesting: a whole lot of books an documents. They were dated from 1978-1980, and describe events which I am confident did not happen in our reality. Regardless, just like Gabe, I've made a tiny little story out of my experience reading the very first of these documents. You can probably tell that I was really angry when I wrote this. It's nothing too special, really. Anyway, good luck and goodbye, I guess.
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Sitting in my office, I waited for someone to come. Someone, anyone, anything, even, to come to my office and give me some information about █████████. There was a reason he made me my successor, after all. We were friends, and we helped each other wherever we went. He insisted on doing the most recent expedition alone, and I let him. That was the greatest mistake I ever made.
I heard the door creak open. Finally, a lead to the case! I was met with immediate disappointment, though, as instead of a fine █████████, dozens of books and stuff like that were brought in.
"Jesus Christ." I said. "What on Earth is this?"
"A bunch of books that your group of misfits brought to us!" They chuckled. "Oh, and before you ask, no, they failed to bring ██████."
"Goddammit!" I flipped the desk in sheer anger. "Gabe and his little clique that always argue are useless. Useless! A rotting piece of carpet would suffice as a replacement for them!"
"Err... alright. I best be on my way, then. I'll leave the books here." They quickly ran off. I sat back down, and quickly after began covering my face. "God, how many f****** times will I have to be met with nothing about him? He left this colony in disarray, I wouldn't be surprised if he couldn't handle it and just up and left." I thought to myself. "Ugh, might as well check one of these books out..." I picked up the closest document to me and opened it. "Alright, let's get this ball rolling..."
I began reading. I didn't really pay attention to the source, since I'm not ideologically motivated like that moron, Gabe. At first it was some bureaucratic buzzwords taped together, something I would expect from a government document like that. However, as I began to read more and more, things caught my attention. It began with discussing something about a guy and his dog going missing in the middle of the day. By this point I was still convinced that it was all an elaborate joke, a prank, years in the making, performed by Gabe, or someone else whom I looked down upon just as much. I sighed and flipped to the next page. What I probably should have noticed before but didn't lay in front of me. A VHS tape. Something interesting, perhaps? With nothing better to do, I took the tape and put it into the nearby TV and began to watch.
It took a while before it began playing, as static ran across the screen for what seemed to be an eternity. Once it finally began, it presented footage from some city. There was police and tape everywhere, surrounding an empty spot, with some strange monument behind it. I can't recall ever seeing it but it's as if I... recognized it, in some way. Perhaps a sense of deja vu.
A policeman spoke to the person holding the camera, holding in his hand a few photos and some tapes.
"Here are the photos and recordings from the witnesses, sir." The policeman spoke.
"Good, thank you." Spoke the cameraman. "Just keep this area free off any other people and get some search squads to look for him around town. We'll deal with the rest."
"Alright." The policeman walked off. I was shocked. In my time in The Frontrooms, which was a hell of a long time ago, I can not recall such a person going missing in such a way! I saw FBI agents abound in the footage, so it is nigh impossible that this didn't become global news of some sort. Nonetheless, I continued watching carefully. An agent walked up to the recorder.
They discussed the photos, tapes, and witness accounts. They did this for quite a while, actually, until something happened. Something that would probably change these people's lives together. The monument I mentioned before. It began to creak. I noticed it tilting towards the crowd, where everyone was gathered, and everyone in the footage seemed to notice too. Mass panic began, as audiences that viewed the scene from afar began to flee. The agents and FBI swiftly evacuated too. It would be a thing you would never forget if you saw it in person. I began to sweat as I saw the building tilt more and more, before inevitably falling. Of course, the tape had to become stranger, as instead of being broken apart and causing chaos all throughout the town, the building just noclipped through the darn floor!
The moment I saw the structure fall over and pass through the floor, I knew this wasn't of our reality. I could have believed all of what happened in the VHS before, but I knew this could not have happened in The Frontrooms I know. The thought of this proposition made me scared. How many realities are there? This is too sophisticated to be a prank. The footage felt too real to be considered animated. It, in my eyes, is real.
I immediately took the tape out after that. I was genuinely terrified. I must have sweated an entire ocean by now. I must have underestimated Gabe.
Gabe might have failed to find ██████, but he found something just as interesting.
Whether it's real or not, we need to study these books and tapes further...
...But first, I'll clean up my office, it's a real mess.
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Done reading? That was quicker than I thought. Honestly, I don't have much else to add to what I told you, though, if you really want, I could give you the physical VHS tape and the document alongside it.
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Author: Gooby2 (Check out my other pages there, or don't, I don't care).
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