The Village

The Village is the thirty-fifth episode of BEYOND THE EDGE and the fourth episode of Season 3.
== Plot ==
A metropolitan landscape is shown, though it is black and devoid of any color. A group of people in suits are seen walking down one of the former streets.
Man 1: So, this is what happens when corruption hits, ey?
Man 2: Yep, kind of surprising, ain't it? We've only been to negative one for training, not into the actual thing.
Man 1: True, anyway, when are we going to reach that stupid artifact?
Man 3: I don't know, mate, but I know we are close to where it was last detected, before the corruption, at least.
In the distance sits the remnants of what appeared to have been a towering skyscraper. 
Man 1: This where it is?
Man 2: I don't know, let's check.
The three men march up to the fallen building and start looking around. 
Man 1: What are we looking for, anyway?
Man 2: Bodies, inter-dimensional remnants of the sort.
Man 1: Why would some rich guy have some warp portals anyway.
Man 3: Mate, ya ask to many damn questions, and to answer that, I don't know, probably thought of it as some cool display. 
Man 2: There is always the possibility they survived.
Man 3: Whadaya mean?
Man 2: The prophetic "heroes" could have survived.
Man 3: Oh yeah, 'cause portals can just activate on their own.
Man 2: Hey, maybe some COT interference, or something or other.
Man 3: Isn't that illegal or something.
Man 2: I don't know, I don't have access to their legislation at any point in time. 
Man 3: Ahh, I see.
Man 2: Hey Josef, come check the ocean.
Josef: You mean what used to be the ocean.
Man 2: No, you mean the ocean.
Josef: Hell, I thought all water would've evaporated, as per the whole simulation procedures.
Man 2: Nah, it is still here.
Josef: Well I'm not taking a swim with this 50 kilo gear on.
Man 2: Well fine, use your light. 
Josef turns on a high-powered flashlight and shines it through the water. 
Man 3: Hey, what are you doing?
Josef: Just, y'know, searching.
Man 3: Turn that off, quickly
Josef flicks the flashlight off.
Man 3: Thank you, you know the training, light attracts those creatures.
Josef: Oh, well, I didn't find anything in their anyway. 
Man 2, whose name happens to be Oliver, is looking off in the distance at the water.
Man 3: Ay man, whatya looking at.
Oliver is visibly shaken.
Oliver: I-I think I just saw something in that water there.
Man 3, who is named Raul, looks at Josef through his helmet.
Raul: You did something. 
Josef: Hey, I only turned on the light.
Raul: Exactly, and the light attracts the void creatures.
Oliver: There it is again...
Oliver's voice is noticeably quieter and weaker, and he slowly trails off into mumbling. 
Raul: Oliver? You better not be kidding around with us.
Josef: Guys, should we go back to 332.629?
Raul: Oliver! Stop messing with us.
Josef: He isn't messing around, Raul.
Raul: How do you know that?
Josef: I see it too.
Raul, in his suit, turns white and a chill courses throughout his body. 
Oliver then reaches out his hand and reaches for his helmet lock.
Josef: What the hell are you doing Oliver!
Oliver unlocks his helmet and starts removing it from his suit. He shortly after falls to the ground and within seconds deceases.
Josef: Holy shit mate.
Raul: Did he just die?
Oliver's face then goes black and it somewhat reanimates. 
The other two then hear what sounds like a stampede from the south and retreat into a nearby intact building.
Raul (whispering): Dude, what the hell!
Josef puts his gloved pointer finger to his helmet and slowly opens up a door that leads down into a tunnel.
Josef motions Raul in and they quietly shut the door.
Raul and Josef move slowly down the stairs and bump into something.
Raul: Turn on the light a quick sec.
Josef turns the light on the light and aims it at the object they have bumped into. 
Raul and Josef both visibly jump when they see it is a humanoid figure, severely deformed, wrapped in black web-like rope and disemboweled.
Raul and Josef calm down when they realize the person is not animated, but frozen as if they were suspended in that very spot for eternity.
Raul and Josef reach a fork in the hallway, left or right. They decide to go left and are treated with another hatch, leading up. They both come out of it, and are treated with the sight of a lobby of a hotel or similar building. They close the hatch and jump when they both hear audible banging coming from the hatch. The banging is inhuman to Raul and Josef, with every knock being shortly after accompanied by a metallic scratching that continues down the door. Raul and Josef warily step back from the door and look at the walls around them.
Josef: Hey Raul, can we get contact with 332.629?
Raul silently flicks on his radio and whispers.
Raul: 332.629, if you are picking up this signal, we need escort out of 649.
Nothing is heard from the radio and both of them decide to search the building. Raul starts searching down one hallway whilst Josef searches another. 
Raul is walking down the hallway when he hears shuffling from inside a room adjacent to him. He slowly backs up from the room and starts walking back down the hallway towards Josef. 
Though, Raul feels pressure being applied on his protective suit and turns around, he sees a long outstretched finger, thin as a twig, coming from the ventilation shafts above. The finger shrinks back into the vent above and soft quiet footsteps are heard by Raul. He then continues back down the hall and this time stumbles into an elevator, he does not remember there ever being an elevator. Though the elevator is the only source of light and the darkness seems to be creeping from either end of the hallway, so he decides it would be best to ride the elevator to a safer floor.
He cautiously steps into the elevator and presses the button reading '9'. The elevator slowly rises up, and whilst he is waiting, he realizes the elevator ride is unreasonably long. He then looks up at the foam covers of the elevator. One of them is being moved, and it is removed from the ceiling. Raul stares into the darkness of the elevator shaft above and spots movement. He then cowers in fear in the corner and sees the head of some creature, with a cracked porcelain mask shadowing whatever horrors the creature's true face has to display. Raul screams as the light in the elevator shuts off, he feels contorted, long fingers pull him up into the elevator shaft, and he disappears.
Josef is making his way back through the hallway, calling for Raul, as he had heard the quiet, yet desperate scream from Raul. He enters a closet, and notices a lump in the corner, where he had heard the scream from. He checks around and turns on his flashlight to reveal Raul, whose face is now blackened and is wrapped in the same, black web-like rope from earlier. Raul is also disemboweled, like the last person they had seen. Josef suddenly feels pressure being applied on his protective suit and a lump in his throat forms as he spots a finger in front of his face, oozing the same black, rope-like substance that Raul has been wrapped in. Josef drops the flashlight and is taken away.
The flashlight rolls on the ground before coming to a stop, revealing an insignia plastered onto the now-deceased Raul's suit. The insignia reads "BK".
== Episode chronology ==
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