Gemenii Anzhani

Gemenii Anzhani is a young pandorian with a strong heart. He has achieved many feats that cement him as a strong character, even due to him being very young.

***Note: This article contains spoilers. If you want to read the stories of Gemenii before they're implemented look below sweaty***

## Biography

Archie Rose was born in a hospital in the south side of Seamark, Ironhall to Heather Rose Kiff on the 17th of December, 2049. He grew up in poverty, although his father, Lurio Marotta Rose Kiff (AKA Kiff), was very well off and quite famous and well liked. On December 5th, 2054, his life would be changed when Kiff murdered his wife in cold blood and abandoned Archie to live in the streets. Resenting his father, he gave himself a new name, that name being Gemenii Anzhani. He was four years old at the time he was orphaned, and he was forced to fend for himself in the city of Seamark, a place with a large homeless population.

As he got older, he grew up to be pretty smart, learning a lot of tactical information and street smarts. Around mid January of 2059, he began to get vivid dreams about strange people in the streets talking about things, one of the things they were repeating were rumors about the nearby StarWorld, an establishment owned by the band the *Unsung Nebulas*, Gemenii's favorite band. He had known about the place for a while, and he really wanted to go inside as there were many things to do, especially for a younger person like Gemenii, although these rumors he was hearing were rather concerning.

Deciding he had nothing better to do, he decided to try and prove these rumors. Having learned to trust his gut, he decided to go for it. On the night of the 6th of April, 2059 he entered StarWorld after closing, setting off a chain of events over the next three days which would change his life and the life of many others. Up until 1 AM on the 9th of April, the series of events is relatively similar, even in other realities where irrelevant Gemeniis or relevant Gemenii stand-ins the sequence is noticeably similar, however this branches out at exactly 1:04 AM when the light of his resurrection almost an hour prior attracts attention. In some cases, this attention is welcome, but in most cases, it is not.

Not many Gemeniis survive the events of the 9th, but the few who do are gifted with relevance to the mainline story. There are 6 important Gemeniis, only 3 of which being named Gemenii. The other 3 are not technically Gemenii Anzhani clones, but they are stand-ins and they share a lot with him.

## Connections in Music

Gemenii Anzhani's story is one which has become a focus of many songs by *Billy Hill & The Optimists*, his story making up full albums or parts of albums due to his importance. These appearances tell the stories of various Gemenii's throughout the cannon of *A Trip Through the Wormhole*, however the story of Gemenii M. All of these stories in their respective appearances are listed below, sorted chronologically in album release, with a small summary of the album.

### Fiberglass and Flowers Part 3

*Fiberglass and Flowers* is a four-part ambient album which focuses on four different smaller stories from across the greater canon story of *A Trip Through the Wormhole,* just like the two other main albums in the Barriers Trilogy, which Fiberglass is a part of*.* The third part of the album focuses specifically on the story of Gemenii Anzhani (M) in a similar way to TROADS, however in Fiberglass, there are only 3 tracks dedicated to this story rather than a full album's worth. The tracks on Fiberglass and Flowers and go more in depth, single tracks spanning much more of the story than on TROADS.

### The Roar of a Distant Storm

*The Roar of a Distant Storm* by *Billy Hill & The Optimists* was released on April 9, 2022, is an ambient album which uses a mix of modified recordings of piano intros from the early 1900s with mainly original piano songs recorded for the album. It follows the story of Gemenii Anzhani (M) going from the evening of the 6th of April to the morning of the 9th. The album cuts off before it is revealed that Chester came back to call the police to save him, giving the whole thing a darker tone, however the last song is rather upbeat, suggesting not all is awful.

### Twilight and Thunderstorms Part 3

*Twilight and Thunderstorms* is a four-part ambient album which focuses on four different smaller stories from across the greater canon story of *A Trip Through the Wormhole,* just like the two other albums in the Barriers Trilogy, which Twilight is a part of*.* Th*h*e third part of the album focuses specifically on the story of Gemenii Anzhani (K) in a similar way to TROADS and Fiberglass Part . The style draws from Fiberglass in places, but generally the first two songs in both parts are completely different. In Twilight, the songs are much more structured, almost like different acts of a story, especially with the song *Empty Desolation*, a fourteen-minute ambient song consisting of four main acts. Alternate versions of parts of these songs are featured on Solar Eclipse on a March Evening, six out of the thirteen songs on the extras album being made for part 3 of Twilight.

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## The Story of Gemenii Anzhani (M)

It was a colder night in the city of Seamark, Ironhall and I was standing in the massive parking lot of StarWorld, a children’s centre featuring a group of coronians who played music and entertained the kids whose parents took them there.

I wasn’t here today for entertainment though, I was here to investigate. There were rumors that there were other locations that were shut down due to allegations of not being properly managed and cleaned, being deemed too unsafe for children, but construction on this new location was finished just this January.

It was well after hours, being close to midnight when I went in. Surprisingly, the front doors weren’t locked which made it easy to sneak inside. The place was huge and decorated with vibrant colors. I had never been inside, so I was a little lost at first, but I searched the first floor for anything that could be sinister.

I was starting to doubt I’d find anything and I began to lose hope, until I heard voices behind a door. There was a window on the door, with a giant EMPLOYEES ONLY sign plastered over the front. I took a quick peek inside, and counted seven figures inside.

I recognised the six coronians who were the main attraction, being seen everywhere in posters and merchandise, but there was a woman there, presumably a manager or some official for their brand. I took another look, and noticed something unsettling. Most of the people in the room had deep red lights in their eyes, all of them except for one of the band members. I didn’t know their names, but there were signs on all of the walls that featured the names of all the performers.

Their names were Chester, Mila, Maverik, Easton, Luna, Ash. Chester was the one who appeared to be uncorrupted, appearing to be a giant orange cat. Mila also looked like a cat, Easton and Luna both looked like rabbits, Ash looked similar to a fox, and Maverik appeared to be a bird. After a minute, I heard footsteps heading towards the door, and I knew I had to hide. As they walked out, I hid behind one of the decorations against the wall. They all walked past, Chester and the girl going a different direction than the others.

I knew that he would be my only hope to uncover any secrets this place held, if any. I quietly followed, until the woman went a different direction. Chester went into a sideroom and I entered after him, still trying to be as quiet as possible.

I accidentally bumped into a wall while trying to hide, and Chester knew I was there. He was scared for me initially, but when I explained why I was there, he breathed a sad sigh. He told me that he wanted to help me reveal the secrets of this place, so he told me to follow him.

He walked me through a side path and down a set of stairs into the basement.

“Now that we’re away from the others, I can tell you why I was part of this.”

Before he could speak, I heard footsteps behind us, coming from the steps. Chester instructed me to hide, and I ran to the side. It was one of the other band members, specifically Luna. She asked him about a missing instrument, and Chester said he hadn’t seen it. After that, she walked into the darkness to the left of the maintenance hall. Chester took me to the right side and up a set of stairs.

When we got to the top of the stairs, he stopped for a moment. He realised that in order to open the gate, I would have to head to a security room on the third floor of the complex and open the gates with the computer that was in the room. I asked if he would take me there to help me, but he said that he couldn't follow me, as it would draw attention to me, being the last thing I would want.

He gave me a choice between an earpiece or a special pair of glasses that Chester would be able to communicate with me. I quietly snuch to the staircase at the back of the first floor, being shaped like a giant circle with entrances to the left and right portions of the building as well as other doors and rooms on the sides branching off from it. I thought there others would be here, but the place was empty.

I walked up to the second level and started searching for the stairs to the third level. It took a while to find them, as they were nestled pretty deep in either side of the centre of the circle. I walked up and found the computer room pretty easily. I went inside and closed the door behind me, trying to close it as quietly as possible to not alert anyone else of my presence there.

The computer was confusing, but Chester sent a message via the glasses instructing me how to use it. I managed to unlock the gates, and then I clicked the FINISH OPERATION button on the keyboard infront of the monitors. As I pressed it, the speaker in the room said "MAINTENANCE GATES 1-7 NOW OPEN" As it said that, I realised I fucked up. I didn't know if it was on the loudspeaker or not, but I didn't want to risk it.

Chester told me that there were other ways to get to Basement 2, but the doors were locked at the moment. In order to unlock the doors that would lead to Basement 2 I would have to go into the centre of Basement 1 and open them manually on a computer in a maintenance room. He explained how it would be tricky though, because the Basement levels are much larger than the main area that I was in, and Basement 1 was akin to a maze.

He explained how he didn't know exactly why the layout for Basement 1 specifically was chosen to be maze-like, but he presumed it had something to do with the acts the group was doing and they forced Chester to take part in. As I waited a while to make sure the halls were clear, I asked about that woman. Chester told me her name was Laura and that she had only recently joined their group, not even taking part in anything yet, just supporting them.

When I was sure the coast was clear, I snuck out of the room and back to the staircase, this time using the one on the other side of the area. As I snuck to the other staircase, I noticed there was another set of stairs that went to another level. I got curious and went up the stairs, but the entire area was pitch black. I wondered why the lights were off only in this area but they were on everywhere else.

I went back down and to the stairs down to the second floor. As I did, I hid behind a plant to catch my breath, but when I did, I heard footsteps rounding the corner. I peeked from behind the pot and saw it was Laura, walking through the area muttering to herself about something , but I couldn't tell what. When she walked by, she was pretty close to where I was, but she didn't see me. When she passed, I let out a sigh of relief.

Just as I did, she stopped in her tracks and looked around. I held my breath. After a moment she pulled out a walkie-talkie and radioed in that she heard a noise by the Right Staircase on the second floor, and that she thought an intruder was inside the building. She walked away, and I got another message from Chester. He told me to be really careful about my noise, because they all have pretty sensitive hearing.

Although it was pretty obvious, I appreciated the help. He told me that there were a couple of staircases that were on the second floor that go both up and down, and that I could use them to get to Basement 1, and then open the doors to get to the second level and finally find out what they were hiding here. I felt nervous, but I was also a bit excited to learn what they were hiding, even if it was a horrible truth.

As I was walking to the stairs, I heard a voice calling out behind me. My heart stopped and I ran off to the side of the hall. I hid from Easton as he walked quickly through the hallway, calling out to me. "Where are you boy, are you lost?" I knew he was trying to lure me out, so I stayed hidden and tried to be as quiet as possible, but my hand shifted when I was trying to support myself.

He stopped for a moment, likely hearing it, but when he walked away, I ran in the other direction and into the stairwell. I ran down past Level 1 and past the Maintenance hall and down to Basement 1. When I walked in, I got a message from Chester telling me he was waiting at the other end of the maze, and that he'd wait there for me to open the doors to Basement 2 before going in.

When I walked in, I heard the door opening behind me. When I looked backwards I saw Ash standing in the doorway. "Heh heh, looks like I've found you, kid. Better start running" As soon as I saw him, I started running through the maze, trying to get into the centre of the area as fast as possible. I stopped behind a corner where there was a dead end to catch my breath and take a quick drink.

When I put the bottle back into my pocket dimension, it made a noise in my hand, alerting him to my position. "Sounds like someone's thirsty," Judging by how his voice sounded, I could tell he was quite far away, but I had to keep moving in order to keep my distance. I stayed put waiting for him to speak again, and I realised I could use some sort of noise to try and distract him, or get him to tell me where he was.

I started running again, and then I stopped after a short while, trying to get some sense of where I was. There was a couple of boxes stacked beside the walls of the maze, and I climbed ontop of them, noticing the maze walls didn't go all the way up. From there I could see the computer room in the distance, and it was pretty far away. It took that glimpse to realise just how massive this area was.

I found a small stone on the ground, and I threw it over the walls, hearing it make a very audible plink sound over the droning humm of the flourescent overhead lights that illuminated the entire maze area. "Trying to distract me, are you? Looks like I'm dealing with a clever boy," Hearing his voice he was pretty close and I slowly walked through the maze, following the way I had seen to get to the middle.

I took it slow from there, looking over the walls whenever I could to see how close I was to the middle, as well as throwing stones over the wall and back through the walls of the maze behind me, hearing his voice almost every time, slowly getting further away from me, but he always seemed to get closer and closer. After a bit, I stopped in my tracks for a bit, listening to his footsteps.

When I stopped to listen, his fotsteps got pretty close and then stopped. I assumed he was behind the wall I was crouching in front of, but when I looked back, I saw him staring at me from the corner of the maze. I imediately got up and started running, hitting a couple of dead ends a couple times. I didn't look back or set my bearings for a full two minutes, and I had my mind deadset on running.

I ran until I couldn't, and I stopped to catch my breaths, taking slow and quiet breaths, opting for my metal water bottle this time. As I put it back, I could still hear his footsteps, thankfully farther back this time. I peeked over the walls and saw that I was pretty close to the middle, so I decided to wait for the right time and just run for it. I made sure he went a different route, and then I ran.

I kept running and I only needed to head in a direct line to get to the room. When I got to it, I looked back and saw him behind me, running as fast as he could. The door was heavy and required a couple of attempts to open, but I opened it and then slammed it shut right as he got to it. I slid the lock on the door and stopped until he stopped banging. I saw through the thick window that he walked back the way he came through the maze.

I was sure he would alert the others to my location, so I had to act fast. I assumed Chester would stop them from going through the staircase he was waiting in. I waited for a minute, but no message was sent I opened the computer and went into the menu where it had listed all of the doors with buttons that read LOCKED and UNLOCKED. I set all the doors to unlocked, hoping there wouldn't be an automated voice this time.

Thankfully, there wasn't and I was able to get out of there quickly. I went through the other door and ran through the maze, being sure to catch my breath and check my bearings every couple of minutes. I took it slow this time, trying to be quiet, but I got to the door, it was hard to open. I tugged on it hard and I almost hit the wall when it flew open. Inside the staircase the lights were off and I walked down the steps to the entrance to Basement 2.

Chester was standing there quietly with shame in his eyes. "If you really want to see what's down here, then I'll open this door, but I warn you you're not going to like what you see. What they did is awful and I'm sorry. I tried to stop them but I couldn't. I couldn't leave this place either." I could tell whatever they did must been awful, but I comforted him and told him it wasn't his fault.

"It's not your fault, don't blame yourself. They held you captive here, and they threatened you if I'm right. I think whatever happened needs to be exposed."

"Yes, that is correct. They threatened me with a fate worse than death if I ever told another soul outside this building, but I'm ready to show you. I'll give you one final choice to turn back. If you choose to accecpt, then I'll show you the awful truth. All of it,"

"I'll go in, no we'll go in together," As I said that, he let out a sigh in pain and opened the door to Basement 2. When the door opened, a series of dim overhead lights lit up in sequence, likely detecting the movement of the door Chester had just opened. As the lights lit up one by one, they illuminated a bleak looking hallway. At first, it looked pretty similar to the maintenance hall, but with more machinery strewn about on the floor and across the rusted shelfs.

As we walked through the halls, our footsteps kicked up dust from the ground. There seemed to be a weird grime covering every surface down there, as well as a fine mist of what appeared to be dust, but it looked oddly colored. Chester explained how Basement 2 had two halves, the machinery half, the part we were in currently, and then the other half. He hesitated a bit before he spoke on the second part of the area.

When we got deeper into the machine bay, he pointed out all the rooms, and noted that they contained all of the parts used for the robots they made. There were lots of these random ones that all looked the same, and Chester mentioned that they would replace the human staff and be more 'kid friendly' but we both knew that wasn't the case, and they were probably trying to make their... process easier.

On the side there were a couple of really large doors that led to a pretty big room. Inside there were robot versions of Chester and the other coronians, likely meant to be used if something went wrong, or to replace them on-stage, because why waste your time practicing your instruments when you can get a robot to do it. The longer I dwelled on that thought, the more I regretted it.

Chester showed me the machines in the large room and then took me to the end of the machine bay. There was a thick metal wall that split both sections of the basement, with a giant gate built into the wall, requiring a passcode. For some reason, whoever set up the lock system decided to make the password 6666, likely stemming from the number of members in the band.

He put in the code, and then paused before opening the door. He looked down, and I saw tears begin to well up in his eyes. He wiped his eyes with his arm, breathed in, and put his hands by his side. "This is it. There's no turning back now. It's time you find out what's really been going on down here." He looked at me, and I nodded at him. He pulled on the handle and opened the heavy door slowly.

There was a pretty big distinction between the two areas right up to the dividing wall. The floor was a lot softer, and seemed to be made out of dirt, or something similar. The ground was a pretty dark color, appearing to be a very dark red. There were a lot less shelves, and infront of us was a bend in the hallway. There was a lot more dust in the air here, so much that it was easily visible in the flickering light from the overhead fixtures.

As we walked into the area, I got a shiver. He walked infront of me, and turned the corner. The hallway was long fowards, splitting off up ahead in a couple directions. In this junction area, there was a giant door on the opposite side of the hall from the other splitting off hallways. He stopped for a moment staring up at the door, and then he opened it. I couldn't believe what I saw inside.

The room appeared to be padded, the walls being a dark green covered in dark spots and deep red streaks. There was a giant ritual circle in the middle of the floor, seemingly drawn in chalk on the flat part of the floor. Around the circle were six coarpses, not fully decomposed. The floor under them was dark red, and the lines went all the way to the wall behind them.

When I saw it, I vomitted onto the ground outside the room, and I fell to the ground on my knees. My body felt heavy, as if there was an invisible of force pushing me to the ground. I didn't think I would run away here, but part of my being wanted to. Although this was a terrible sight, I knew that I had to discover the rest. I wanted to know how deep it went. I wanted to know how bad it was.

After trying to process *this*, I got up and asked him to show me the rest. "I need to see it all. For their sake. Their fate shouldn't be locked away forever just because I was too weak. This is not enough." He nodded solemly and stood infront of the room for a moment, before walking to the next rooms slowly, as if he was still trying to process the horrors he was forced to take part in.

As he walked down the main hallway, there were many rooms that he showed me, specifically 24 if my counting was correct. The state of the rooms seemed to get worse as we got deeper into the heart of the facility. As we both walked down the hall, I realised I wasn't even scared anymore closer to the end. I was just appauled. I looked, and it all had the same impact it always did, but I felt myself not being scared anymore.

At the very end of the hallway, there was a giant circular area with a large door at the end of it on the other side. Chester mentioned how he didn't remember that room, so he hesitated to open the door. I expected it to be something worse than all of the other rooms combined; something so horrible it would make me want to die, but to my surprise, there wasn't really anything in the room.

It looked pretty different from the other rooms, being made out concrete. There was a large open area in the middle of the room, and at the back two sets of concrete stairs on either side of the room that climbed up the wall and connected at a doorway at the very back of the room which connect above a landing and led to a set of two giant doors. Chester mentioned how it was probably an emergency exit or something similar, and noted that it probably let outside.

I walked up the stairs and inspected the doors. They were painted red with warning tape on the top and bottom of the giant metal double doors. I tried the handle, but it didn't budge. When I pushed the door, I could hear chains rattling on the other side of the doors, suggesting that it was locked from the outside, and whoever locked it clearly didn't want anyone getting out of here.

When I mentioned the time being almost nine, it sent a shocked expression to Chester's face. "I've got to get you out of here by nine, because it opens at 10. They search the entire place over and you wont be able to hide. You'll surely be killed, or worse if you don't get out, and I think I know a way I can get you out of here before then." He instructed me to climb on his back, and he ran back through the halls.

Running with his torso fowards so I wouldn't hit my head on the ceiling, I could see the rooms that we passed by earlier, now flashing by in dark green and red glimpses. He went through the gate and into the giant room in the mechanical bay. He walked into the room, and set me down. He headed to a computer that was sitting on a table on the left side of the room beside some giant tubes.

"These are the escape tubes. They're meant to send anything that's unwanted here out there, like waste or. . rougue parts. They haven't been used since this place was built, so they're practically brand new." He showed me on the computer how to operate it, just incase I had to do it without him if we ever got seperated from eachother and I needed to escape without detection.

He set a 30 second timer on it, hugged me and then put me on the pedistal. "You're probably the bravest person I've ever met, but there's still more. Please come back tonight, and I'll see you later."

I smiled at him and got into the tube. it sent me up, and right as I got to the top, my watch hit 9 AM. The area I was in was a small exterior room, and when I opened the doors, daylight shone in. Fresh air felt weird, being exposed to the grimy and dust-filled air down in the depths of the complex. I walked away, and straight into the library, seeing if I could dig up anything about the place.

I spent the whole day in the Library across the street, trying to dig up anything I could about the place. I looked through records about the place's existence and anything related to the 179 dissapearances in the area, that I now know were all related to StarWorld. I felt sick just thinking that number aloud. It conjured the images of the ungodly horrors that existed in the 25 rooms with the ritual circles.

In all, the information wasn't really of much use to me, as none were linked to StarWorld directly, only a couple even mentioned the place, most of them didn't due to the wide range of area the victims were from. With this information in hand, I didn't think there would be much new information to be revealed about the individual cases, but when I looked at them as a whole, I discovered something about how they were taken there.

At first, I had assumed that the group took their victims from those who visited the complex during operation hours, but looking at the locations of all the missing reports; where the victims were last seen, only six were last seen at StarWorld, the others seen in many other areas, some being pretty far away from the place, and a few were seemingly abducted from as far as Hollow, being located in the opposite side of Ironhall Island.

After doing all of the research, I looked at my watch and noticed the time. It was about forty five minutes to midnight, and I decided to head to the complex. I arrived at StarWorld at around the same time I had the day prior, but this time I knew what I was doing, or so I thought. I hid on the second floor and waited for their meeting to end and for them to dispurse.

I caught up to Chester, finding him in the same stairwell that we went through last night. He noted that not only the two basement doors were now locked, but a lot of other places were locked off, including the third floor. He gave me a set of instructions and a floorplan to follow. I had to first go to the second floor and use several different computers to open up the third floor, and then repeat the same process as yesterday.

It took me an hour and a half, but I managed to unlock the basement doors, and I decided to use the vents that went around the levels of the building to get around much faster and without being detected, although undoing the screws was a difficult task sometimes, due to the screws being done in so tight, requiring a lot of effort just to undo a single screw, and then I would have to repeat that process.

When I got to the main room in Basement 1 and opened the doors to Basement 2, I realised that I could possibly lock the others out of it, and I brought up the idea to Chester, but he said we might not be able to get through. I looked through the computer and made a pretty big discovery, something that would have been very helpful to have known about yesterday. There was a camera system accescible by every computer.

Using it I could see where everyone was, although there were no cameras in the basement levels, probably due to the nature they were being used in. I watched them all search for me, knowing for sure I was there. Watching them on the camera gave me a pretty good idea. I told Chester that I would go and try to distract the others, trying to make them think I was hiding upstairs while I went into the staircase and down to the basement.

He said it was a risky plan, but it was pretty foolproof. I would have to go to the third floor and make sure they knew I was up there, and then head into a stairwell. After that, he would lock them again, and if I played everything right, they wouldn't suspect that I had snuck away from them and I would be in Basement 2, while they would be scrambling around the main levels of the complex.

Chester stayed in the main room, and watched me on the cameras as I walked through the maze and into the main levels of the building. I didn't bother to be too quiet, but I didn't want to alert everyone to my exact location. I walked through the quiet halls until I got to the first staircase, when I began to hear footsteps. I stopped in my tracks, but instead of running, I walked up slowly pretending not to notice they were there.

"There you are, kid. You can run, but you can't hide forever" It was Mila calling up to me, and when I looked back, I could see her running towards me. I started to run through the building to the second set of stairs, and everything worked out smoothly, until it didn't. As I got to the steps on the third floor, I could hear multiple footsteps running towards me. I looked back and saw Laura, Mila, Easton, and Luna all running towards me.

I ran as fast as I could up the stairs and into the stairwell, faking my footsteps running further down the hall and into one of the security rooms, and then snuck into the stairwell, closing the door slowly, but before they could see me closing the door. As I got into the stairwell, I heard the door click, indicating it had been locked. I took a moment to catch my breath and take a drink, and then I headed down into Basement 2 where Chester was waiting for me.

We both walked into Basement 2, and through the machine bay, and into the second section. All the doors were still open, and I got a shiver as we walked by the rooms. The air felt heavier today, and the air felt warmer. I pointed out, and Chester noticed it too. Something in the air felt different today, but it was probably from coming back here knowing how bad it was down there.

We got to the open area at the end of the hall, and stopped. "There's more. There's a third level, but it was sealed off. If I'm correct it should be just below here."

"There's a third basement level? What could be down there?"

"I don't have any clue, I don't think I've ever been down there, unless that's where they kept the blue energy."

"What's that?"

"I don't know for sure, but I do know that it has strange properties and it was used to fuel this entire operation."

"Is there anything I can use to dig with?"

"There are some tools in that box over there"

"Hand me a shovel, I'm going in." He tossed the shovel to me and I caught it about an inch from my face. I started digging through dirt while Chester swept it to the side. He stopped for a minute to look for a rope or ladder so that we would be able to get out of there. He came back and kept sweeping away the dirt. It was pretty easy to dig away the dirt, in fact it gave much easier than I thought.

I kept digging, and I was digging for a while until I hit metal. I scraped away the rest of the dirt and Chester used an electric cutter to break through the metal ceiling of the next level. He grabbed a rope and tied it to a part of the wall. He tested the rope, and it stuck pretty well, although it did seem pretty old. I tied the rope loosely around my waist and went down into the hope, hitting the bottom on my feet.

I landed inside a room, looking similar to the computer rooms spread out around the upper complex, but this one looked older and didn't have any computers. There were papers strewn all about the table, and there were a few in file folders in the drawers in the desks. I sorted all of the piles of papers into a neat stack. Chester came down, and I showed him the papers. We both decided to look through them together.

Most of the papers were records, but a lot of these were pretty interesting. In these files they kept records of all 179 victims kept on file, as well as all of the information they could gather about him. Chester held a piece of paper, looking pretty distraught. I looked at it, and I was surprised to see a file on *me*. They didn't even know my name. They only had a picture of me sitting on a park bench.

They only had a single line of information on me. "Unknown name, unknown age, unknown birth date, unknown parents. Child is homeless and is aware of StarWorld, but has never been recorded to have visited. Easy Target." It felt weird to me to see how little others knew about me. It never occured to me just how secret my life was. I hadn't even told Chester my name, well the name I gave myself.

I don't even remember my original name, I don't even remember what my parents looked like, or parent. I remember specifically only having a father, and I was unsure if my parents split up or if I was adopted, but my father abaodnoned me at a young age, leaving me to fend for myself. I remember the day he left me, only remembering the words he said. "You've ruined my life enough. I hope you die soon,"

Just thinking about it sent me to tears. It didn't take long to realise that if I died here nobody would remember me, only Chester would. I looked at him and told me my name. "I don't want to be forgotten. My name is Gemenii. Gemenii Anzhani. Promise me that you won't forget me." He gave me a sad look and hugged me. I felt warm in his embrace. He made me feel better, and I didn't want to leave, but I went deeper.

In these records, we dug up some strange information. Apparently they were in cahoots with some pretty powerful people, Laura being related to the chief of police. Also in these records, we found out more about the nature of the rutials, and the fact that they covered up information and hid from the law. It was also surprising how fast this place was built, being finished in only 8 months, finished in early January of this year.

There was a lot of really weird things hidden in these archives, and Chester decided he would hold them all inside his pocket dimension. I thought this was it, but we realised that there were doors on either side of the room, and a window behind the desk. Although the window was really foggy, I thought I could see something out there in the distance, although it was hard to make out.

Inside the desk, there was a button in a drawer that opened both doors. The door on the right opened up fully, but the door to the left didn't. The wall opposite to the desk was bare and exposed rock, and in front on the other side was a black void, with faint blue lights far off in the distance. The floor was made of metal grates connected together, appearing as if it was meant to drain something.

We walked deeper into the area, and saw something really strange. In front of us, there was a giant mound of what appeared to be flesh, with three strange chalk circles that surrounded the weird mound. The thing was large, and when studied closer, it appeared to be *breathing*. When I got closer, I heard a humming noise, but it wasn't coming from the mound in the centre of the basement.

"I think I know what this is," Chester said in a low voice.

"W-what could this *thing* even be?"

"I think it's the culmination of all the Souls of the victims. That would explains the ritual circles. Apparently they were doing all of this to summon an Angel of some kind."

"An Angel?"

"I saw it when I touched the blue energy."

"Wait, you never told me you touched the energy,"

"A long time ago I did. I came across this place when it was just being built. I heard something calling to me, so I went in. I touched the energy and then that's when they decided to take me in. Apparently because I touched the energy, they saved me."

"Do you think they would spare me if I touched it as well?"

he didn't comment. I walked deeper into the basement and the basement, seeing the blue light in the distance getting closer, but there was an invisible barrier that blocked me. I tried to hit it, and even threw my body at it, but it stayed, shining blue flashed of light as I hit it. I walked back to Chester, and we decided to leave the basement. He went up the rope first, and then he helped me up the hole.

When we got out of Basement 3, I realised the time. It was almost 8 o'clock. He led me through the second segment of the basement, and back to the machine bay. When we got there though, the door was locked. I realised we might be stuck here, but Chester told me to keep calm. He knew there was a second service staircase, and we could use that to go around and send power back to the gate from one of the computer rooms, and then head back to the gate.

When we started to look for the service stairs, he spoke to me, saying that they knew we were here, and that this could be quite dangerous. He followed me as I ran up the service stairs to the second floor, located the computer room, and sent the power back to the gate. It didn't take as much time to send the power back, and I realised that I might be albe to send power to Basement 3 through the computer, but I didn't do it.

When we got out of the room, Maverick spotted us from around the hallway. We both ran to the third floor and then back down to the first, evading Mila and Luna who followed Maverik. When we got to the first floor, I had to take a breath. I had been running so much I could hardly breathe, and Chester knelt beside me as I caught my breath. I checked the time, and it was 8:40, and I knew we had to head back quickly.

I told this to Chester, and he gave me another minute, stating that if I ran to the basement, I could make it to the Machine Bay and into the ejection tubes with ample time if I ran. I started to get up, and I gave him a smile. "You've done good. You're the most courageous per-" A blade went right through his chest as he spoke, and then went upwards towards his neck.

Laura pulled out the blade and laughed at me. I stood there frozen in fear, rushed with anguish and despair. She mocked me as I screamed. I felt tears flowing out of my eyes as she walked away, saying she'd deal with me later. I picked him up and ran as fast as I could to Basement 2 and got into the machine bay. I let him down, and offered to stich him up. He said he would be alright, and he said I needed to leave.

He limped over to the computer and set up the ejection tubes. I hugged him as he lifted me into the tube, falling to the ground as he did. "Thank you," he said as he sent me up. In the seconds before I was sent up, I saw his eyes close and his body go limp. I screamed as loud as I could and banged on the walls of the tube, but it didn't work. It sent me up and back up to the surface and out of the complex.

With tears in my eyes, I ran as far as I could, and let my anger out into the sky. After a while, I snapped into my senses, and realised there *might* be a way to bring him back. I went back into the library and looked at every book relating to rituals and circles, there being only few. I spent the whole day researching the spells they used and the methods of drawing the circles, but the whole day was a blur.

I went straight to the basement when I got there, surprised by the doors being open. I didn't care that they were still in their meeting, I needed to try and bring him back. As I walked through Basement 1 to open up Basement 2, I noticed there were chalk circles drawn all over the floor, looking pretty similarly to those in the deep section of Basement 2, but I tried to ignore them.

When I finally got to the ejection tube room in the Machine Bay of Basement 2, I noticed Chester was gone. The blue stain of his blood was still on the ground, but he was nowhere to be found. With this in mind, I got a hope that he could have survived, and that he could be hiding. I got up and walked out of the room, and into the deep section of Basement 2 and up the Service Stairs.

I went all the way up to floor two amd searched for him there, being mindful to make as little noise as possible. When I snuck around, I went for the security room. As I walked through, I heard shuffling. I held my breath, but I was surprised to see Chester. I felt tears well up in my eyes, and I ran up to him and jumped onto him, enveloping him in a giant hug. He was clearly surprised to see me, and mentioned how there wasn't really much to do here.

He mentioned how he wanted to try and send power to whatever was in the third basement, just to see what would happen. I was excited, and I was ready to finish this. I looked up at him, and smiled. We were finally going to finish this, and I felt a bit bad for having spent the day on researching the ritual circles, even though I wouldn't really have a use for it now, that he was alright.

I stopped talking and everything was silent. It was too quiet, and I thought I heard a faint ringing. "Do you hear that, or is it just me?" I said out loud. He up ahead, and said he didn't hear anything. "I don't hear it, but something certainly feels wrong here, I have a pretty bad feeling in my gut," He looked up, and then behind his back, wearing a truly horrified expression his face.

Before I could say anything, it was too late. I saw the other coronians come up behind, and attack him. Maverick came up behind me and held my eyes open, forcing me to watch. I scremaed as loud as I could, and I tried to fight him off, but it was useless. It didn't take long for him to be dead. I felt the soul drain out of my body as he went limp, almost as if a part of myself died with him.

They all laughed in my face, and Maverick forced me head against Chester's, forcing me to make out with his coarpse. I felt like I wanted to die, and I laid ontop of his coarpse. They kicked me to the ground and left me there. I wanted to die in that moment. Even though my life was awful, it was at this moment I wanted to die. I wanted to join him in the great beyond, but they didn't answer my pleas.

I laid there atop his coarpse in a daze. I thought I was dreaming. I hoped I was dreaming. For what felt like hours, I cried into his arms. My life had been awful before this, but I never could have imagined the pain that I felt in that moment. It would have hurt less if they killed me instead. I stared into his cold eyes and I finally processed the fact that he was dead. I snapped to my senses and thunk of a plan.

With tears in my eyes, I picked him up in my arms and limped all the way down to Basement 2. All of the doors were open so I was able to walk back into the ejection tube room. I pulled out one of the books from the library from my pocket dimension and flipped through the book. I had to wipe my eyes every couple of seconds or I couldn't see the words on the page. It took a while, but I finally found the spell I was looking for.

I found a piece of chalk in the corner of the room and drew two large circles, matching them as closely to the illustrations as possible. When I finished the circles, I lifted the robot body that resembled Chester and put it into the circle on the right, and laid Chester's body on the left one. I finished drawing a few symbols above the circles as well as in between and read the incantation off the page.

"This Body has been destroyed, but this Soul is alive and blazing. Lift up this soul and place it into a new body, another devoid of a Soul." I clapped my hands together and smacked the ground between both of the circles. I felt a surge of energy fill my body, and I started to scream, but I had to fnish the incantation with my own part to the end, not just because the book said, but because I meant it.

"YOU CAN TAKE MY ARM, YOU CAN TAKE MY LEG, YOU CAN TAKE MY HEART OR ANYTHING, BUT YOU CAN'T TAKE HIM AWAY FROM ME" As I finished the spell, flashes of white light flew up from the circles, and then everything went white. I kept screaming. The pain was almost impossible, but I held on. I held on for dear life. I held on for him. It felt like an eternity, but after ages, the light subsided.

It took my eyes a while to adjust to the light, but I could see that the spell worked. I tried to wake him up, but it didn't work and I realised why. Chester's new body was connected to the system, and I needed to switch him to the generator he had. I knew all of this from the blueprints in Basement 3, so it made it pretty obvious what I needed to do. I would have to go to a set of computers and seperate his power from the generators, one being on each level.

I made sure everything was correct using a computer guide next to the computer in the room, and I set off to turn all of the generators on. I realised that the staircase was locked, so I had to go back to the service stairs in the second part of the basement. Luckily, the gate was open and I was able to go in. I took the service stairs to where it ended on the second floor, and I went up to the third floor first.

On the computer, I had to go through a quite lenthy process to disconnect Chester from the main system, but it wasn't too difficult. After I finished the operation, I decided to go through the vents to get to the second floor so I wouldn't get caught. There were some areas that had ladders inside the vents which struck me as odd, but I took them down to the second level and made my way around the level to one of the computer rooms.

I decended out through the grate, surprised by it coming off so easily. I went into the computer room and at this point, I had to switch on the robots own power system, seperate from the grid of the building so that he could gain external power and not rely on the buildings power, because we wouldn't stay here forever. Like before, the process was pretty long and had many steps, but it wasn't too hard.

I walked out of the room, trying to be as quiet as possible. When I got to the first floor, I heard footsteps behind me. I looked back and saw Mila chasing after me. I ran around the corner, and then doubled back trying to trick her. It worked and I managed to get to the computer room without getting caught, although I would have to act fast, because it's pretty likely she heard the door close.

This last process was the hardest one, and it took the longest. At this step, I had to boot up all of his systems, so that he could run independently off a memory card, which was imbued with all of his memories due to the Soul transfer ritual. It took a really long time, and by the end I was worried I would be caught if I left the room, but when I looked around the room, I spotted a vent hidden in the wall.

I climbed up the ladder in the vent and started to walk around. Looking through the grates, I saw that Mila, Easton, and Luna were all at the back of the first leve, so I made my way to the front, and then I would exit the vents and go straight into the basement. As I crawled through the vents, I had a strange feeling, almost as if something was oncoming, but I didn't know what.

**- Point of Seperation: Everything Beyond this point is different in all 3 stories, with the only changes to things prior being the name of Chester and Laura.**

**Reality M - Chester, Laura**

**Reality K - Archie, Juliette**

**Reality T - Pepper, Claire**

## Gemenii Anzhani - The Worst Ending (Reality K)

I kicked out the grate and jumped down to the ground, ending up right in front of the main entrance. As I got up, I heard the doors opening. A boy walked through, noticing me right as he came in. He walked towards me, and I told him everything that happened prior, and he agreed to help me get back to Basement 2, as well as agreeing to help me escape with Archie afterwards.

He seemed pretty nice, and I could tell he was uncorrupted for sure, unlike with the others here, I even had a small doubt about Archie initially, but I've since trusted him due to everything that happened between us over the last two nights. He followed me as I led him through the nearby staircase and down into the machine bay where Archie was laying on the ground.

I turned him over, and found the ON switch on his neck, right below where his memory card slot was. There was a memory card already inside, imbued with the essence of his Soul. The card was bigger than I would think, but it made sense, because the robots were pretty large. I flicked it and it didn't do anything at first, but the boy who came in pointed out a ROBOTS ON switch located on the wall, likely being the last step.

After it was pulled, I heard a loud click, and I flicked the switch on his back on. As I did, I saw his eyes flick open. I hugged him as hard as I could, crying into his arms. "You really did it. You saved my life, I don't think there's any way I can thank you," he said. He held me for a long time, but I didn't really care. After a while, the boy pointed out that we should probably get the hell out of here.

We ran to the main stairway at the front of the machine bay and up to the main area, but the doors were locked. We went to Basement 1 to open up the doors, but then Archie said he had a bad feeling. He decided to hide in the maze, and he said he could monitor us remotely via the cameras, and he noted that he'd come and help us if we needed. I didn't want the others to know I revived him, so it worked out.

I asked the other boy about his name, and he said he didn't tell many people his name. I had already told me my full name when I met with him at the doors, and he told me his name was Corrie. As we walked through the maze towards the centre room, I told him the day I was born, just incase I died here. He looked at me with sadness, but to me it was a normal thought. My life was so dangerous I never thought about these thoughts being wrong.

When we got to the middle room, I unlocked the doors, and then we went on our way to the first level, and then we'd explore this place until we were ready to escape. As we walked through, I began to hear a noise. I looked behind us, and I saw Easton coming up behind us. He ran at us and we managed to only barely escape the basement. He kept slamming on the door, and he managed to break the doors down.

We ran up the stairs to the second level. As we got out though, Juliette was waiting for us. We managed to evade her and we ran around the circle up to the third floor. We went for the main staircase first, but Mila and Maverik were waiting at the top. We ran all the way to the other staircase. He ran through the floor to go hide in a computer room, and I went through the vents.

I crawled through and made my way to the second level. I crawled through, and I felt the air getting warmer. They must have turned the heat on, and I knew for sure when everything got brighter. I was in a part where there weren't any vents, and I went to where I knew there were some, but they were all sealed off. I thought I was going to die there, but I made it to the computer room on the second floor where I had first found the ladder.

I got into the room, and I felt like shit. I tried to get some water from my pocket dimension, but when I tried to, nothing happened. I tried to get other things from my pocket dimension, but I realised I couldn't. I must have lost my pocket dimension when I performed the Soul Transfer. I worried about the documents for a second, but then I remembered the files were with Archie.

Pocket Dimensions are tied to the Soul, and even if the Soul was put into a different body, their pocket dimension would still be accescible. Pocket Dimensions are only destroyed when a Soul dies, which is about nine hours after the body it's incased in dies, or if the soul itself is destroyed, but I don't know how it's even possible to destroy a Soul with a single attack, which would have to require a lot of energy.

I finally gathered the energy to get up, but I was still really hot. I went to open the door, and when I did, it seemed too quiet in the halls. I walked out slowly, and made my way towards the basement steps, but then I felt a blade go through my chest. Juliette pulled the blade out, and then stared down at me as I bled out on the floor. She pulled out a bat, and knocked me out cold.

When I woke up, I was in a strange room I hadn't been in before. I looked down, and saw multiple stab wounds in my chest. Juliette was staring down at me as I woke up, and she taunted me. "Well, well, well. Looks like I finally got you. I can't start the ritual yet, but I'll keep you here for now." She pulled out a remote, and two lights shone on either side of the room, illuminating two glass tubes.

Behind the tubes were Corrie and Archie. They looked distraught and they banged on the glass, but it didn't budge. Juliette laughed at me. "Look at them. Look at how pathetic they are. Look at how pathetic they are crying for such you. Crying over such a loser like you." She said. I didn't think here words would ever hurt so much, but they did. I felt tears running down my cheek, but I felt numb.

I could feel it getting hot in the room again, and I realised there were some burns on my body from the vent. I felt exhausted and tired, and I couldn't even cry in pain anymore. I felt sweat drip down my shirt as she destroyed my emotions. I didn't know if they were cool in there or not, but they didn't appear to be visibly hot. She got up and left the room for a moment, and I looked up towards the ceiling.

"It's hopeless, isn't it? I'm gonna die here, am I not?" I said, not expecting a response, but both of them tried to encourage me. I felt tears stream down my face again. I felt uplifted, but I was still hopeless. I could barely move my body it was so hot. After a while, I noticed I was smiling. I didn't know what I was feeling, but I thought it was happiness. It was a hopeless situation, but they did their best to help me.

The doors opened up and Juliette came back into the room. When she did, I felt the smile drain from my face. I felt my heart sinking. She looked me dead in the eyes, with her knife in hand. She dragged it across my body, it didn't break skin, but it still hurt. She locked her blade like a maniac, trying to taunt me again. She held up my arm, and when she did I felt the Soul drain from my body.

I thought she would cut my arm off, but she dragged her knife across it. She turned her back towards me, and I thought she was going to leave the room. She stood facing the door for what felt like ages, but then she turned around. In a swift action, she brought her knife onto my left leg and cut it clean off. As she did, I let out a scream in pain, just like I did during the Soul Transfer.

She laughed as she walked out of the room. When she left, Archie started punching the glass. I thought it would be hopeless, but it started to crack, and it eventually broke completely through. He broke the other tube too, letting Corrie out of his prison. They both came up to me, and tried to tie up my leg. I felt my mind start to die, and then they lifted me out of the room and headed for the exit on the floor below.

I checked my watch, and I noticed it was 8 O'clock. As we walked through the building, I had a really bad feeling in my gut, and it wasn't the stab wounds. "I have a really bad feeling about this, Archie. I don't think we should proceed." He said that he needed to get me out of there, but I still had a really bad gut feeling. He carried me through the building with Corrie following behind. Surprisingly I didn't see any of the other coronians.

When we got to the front, Juliette jumped out of a stairwell. Corrie ran for the doors, but they were locked. She walked towards Archie and I, but he stood his ground. All of a sudden, I got the same gut feeling again. "Archie this isn't good, it's the same feeling. She's gonna do som-" I couldn't even finish what I was saying before I fell to the ground. When I looked up, Corrie and Archie were on either sides of me.

They tried to run towards me, but they couldn't. There was an invisible barrier blocking them similarly to the one in Basement 3. All I could do was stare up at her. She stabbed me repeatedly, over and over. In my last moments of life, I felt an impossible pain. After what felt like an eternity, everything started to go dark. "I-I'm sorry, Archie, we lost," I said in my dying breaths, and then everything died.

. . .

I was powerless to stop Gemenii being killed. I watched helplessly as he was torn apart by that girl. After she stopped, there was a pause. Everything was silent. My cries were carried away on the wind. I looked across to Archie who was trying to break through the barrier, throwing all his might at it, but in the end it was hopeless. We both stopped at the same time. The silence hung in the air for what felt like an eternity, but then...

Lights shone up from the floor in a circle around where he laid on the floor, shining all the way up to the sky. Everything lit up in a flash of white. All I could hear was Juliette laughing and a loud wooshing sound. It was deafening and it was all I could hear for at least a minute, then the light subsided. Juliette was gone, and Archie and I ran over to his coarpse. I could tell he was distraught, and I couldn't imagine his pain.

He picked up his body and ran into the basement. I followed him as best as I could, all the way back into that large room in the second floor of the basement. He took the piece of chalk that laid beside the two ritual circles. He put his coarpse in one of them, and laid in the other. He recited the incantation, and I started to have a bad feeling. "Hey, I don't think you should do tha-"

I was blown back by a giant explosion. When I got up, I saw Archie's body torn to pieces resting on the ground. Gemenii's body was untouched, however. I stood there and stared at the ground. I didn't know what to do or say. I put a flower over where Gemenii's coarpse led, and I gathered all of the mostly intact pieces of Archie. His head was the most intact piece, but the paint was singed.

The memory card was broken beyond repair. I gathered the pieces and put them into my pocket dimension. I knew I couldn't rebuild them, but I wanted something to remember him by. I waited there, observing a moment of silence, then observed a moment of silence. I walked out of the building, but as I walked away, I turned around and stared at the building. For a second though, I thought I saw a bright light, but it must have been nothing.

## Gemenii Anzhani - An Ending for Sure (Reality M)

I kicked out the grate and jumped down to the ground, ending up right in front of the main entrance. As I got up, I heard the doors opening. A man walked through, noticing me right as he came in. He walked towards me, and I told him everything that happened prior, and he agreed to help me get back to Basement 2, as well as agreeing to help me escape with Chester afterwards.

Something felt familiar about him, yet something felt off about him. I was sure he wasn't corrputed, unlike with the others here, I even had a small doubt about Chester initially, but I've since trusted him due to everything that happened between us over the last two nights. The man disappeared when I headed to Basement 2, and I left without thinking anything of it.

I turned him over, and found the ON switch on his neck, right below where his memory card slot was. There was a memory card already inside, imbued with the essence of his Soul. The card was bigger than I would think, but it made sense, because the robots were pretty large. I flicked it and it didn't do anything at first, but I noticed thee was a switch on the wall labeled with the words ROBOTS ON, likely being the last step.

After it was pulled, I heard a loud click, and I flicked the switch on his back on. As I did, I saw his eyes flick open. I hugged him as hard as I could, crying into his arms. "You really did it. You saved my life, I don't think there's any way I can thank you," he said. He held me for a long time, but I didn't really care. After a while, I let go, still staring into his eyes. It felt amazing, but I realised we should probably get the hell out of there.

We ran to the main stairway at the front of the machine bay and up to the main area, but the doors were locked. We went to Basement 1 to open up the doors, but then Chester said he had a bad feeling. He decided to hide in the maze, and he said he could monitor me remotely via the cameras, and he noted that he'd come and help me if I needed. I didn't want the others to know I revived him, so it worked out.

With a final goodbye, promising I would come back for him once I was sure the coast was clear and all of the doors were unlocked. I walked through Basement 1 and into the main computer room to open up the doors to the main levels, being sure they were locked. After I opened up the doors, I had a bad feeling. I looked behind my shoulder and saw Easton coming towards me.

I ran as fast as I could through the maze and I managed to get to the doors right as he got to them. I lowered the lock on the door manually and waited to catch my breath. He kept pounding on the doors trying to brake in. I had to wait there, but he managed to break the lock and came through the doors. He chased me up the stairwell as I ran out into the main area.

When I got out into the main area, I realised I had dropped my glasses somewhere, but it didn't matter. I ran up to the third floor trying to evade him, and I went up to a computer room to lock the third floor stairs so Easton couldn't come to me. Looking through the computer, I looked around on the cameras, and I saw Easton telling the others I went to the third floor, confirming my belief.

I snuck through the vent systems and made my way all the way back down to Basement 1, and asked Chester if there was anything else I had to do before we escaped, and he said he wasn't really sure. He thought for a moment, and he suggested that I wait the night out. I went back through the vents and into a different computer room. I blocked off the door as best as I could, and I listened in to what the others were saying and doing.

I could see the man who came in lurking around and entering the service stairs. I had no clue what he was doing, but it seemed like he was in some level of cahoots with the others. I managed to catch a conversation between Laura and Maverik, where she mentioned someone named Ethan. I didn't know who she was talking about, but I assumed Ethan was the man who came in earlier.

I looked around, and listened in on small conversations between the coronians and Laura, as well as watching them walk around. I got a bit worried when I saw Mila walking around near where I was hiding, but I didn't make any noise and she walked right by without incident. Everything was going well, until I lost sight of a couple of them. I noticed that Laura and Maverik were seemingly hiding from the cameras, and then I heard the door open behind me.

When I heard the door open, my heart dropped. I turned around as they pulled me out of the room. I managed to break free from Maverik, and I ran as fast and as far as I could until I ended up on the third floor. I went up into the vents and checked the time. It was almost 7 AM, and I decided to try and wait it out until I had to leave. I wanted to get some water, but I realised I couldn't get my bottle from my pocket dimension.

After a bit, I noticed I couldn't get anything from my pocket dimension. It took me a minute to think of a reason why, but when I did, it made a lot of sense to me. I must have destroyed my pocket dimension in the Soul Transfer ritual. In order to transfer a Soul, something must be given in exchange, and the universe must have taken my pocket dimension from me, but it didn't matter too much because Chester still had the files with him.

I crawled through the vents to try and gain some information on what they could be doing so I had some idea of what to do next if anything went wrong. After a while, it started to get hotter. I thought nothing of it at first, but I realised they must have turned the heat on. I crawled through the vents trying to find an open grate, but all of the vents were sealed shut, preventing me from leaving.

I scrambled around looking for an exit, but when I was running through, I saw a knife burst through the vents right in front of me. I pulled it through the hole it left in the ceiling and ran through, evading more that came afterwards. I managed to get away from whoever was throwing them, likely Laura. When I was sure the coast was clear, I used the knife to cut through the metal of the vent. It was surprisingly thin and easy to cut through.

When I landed on the ground, I felt light-headed, and I really needed to cool off. I picked myself up and walked up to the third floor, knowing there were a couple of air conditioned rooms, as well as knowing there were temperature controls. I walked up the main stairs but when I got to the temperature control room, the door was locked. I tried to open up the door, but it didn't budge.

As I tried to open the door though, I heard footsteps behind me. I turned around and saw Maverik standing there holding a knife. I ran away from him, but he threw it at me. It stuck on my chest, knocking me foward as it hit me. I fell to the ground, but I pulled myself up and kept running. As I kept running, I ran into Mila and Luna, who continued to chase me as I ran down a stairwell and to the first floor.

I knew at that moment I needed to get out of there and quick, because they were starting to close in on me and I wasn't planning on dying tonight. I needed to get out with this information. When I got to Basement 1, Chester wasn't where he was hiding. I began to panic, and I ran to Basement 2 in search for him, but he wasn't there either. I ran up the service stairs, but when I got to the top, Easton and Maverik were waiting for me.

Easton shoved me down the stairs, knocking me out cold against the hard floor. When I woke up, I was laying in the middle of a ritual circle in the room at the end of the second area in Basement 2. "Look who's finally awake" Maverik called out from behind me. I looked up and Maverik, Mila, Easton, and Laura were standing over me. I realised I was bleeding out, seeing stab wounds in my chest, and the same knife from earlier still stuck inside my stomach.

I knew I had to stay calm if I wanted to survive, but I was starting to lose hope. Ash and Luna came in after a short while, taunting me about Chester having abandoned me. "He wouldn't abandon me. I don't know where he is, but I suspect you did something to him" I said. They all looked at eachother and told me they didn't even know where he was. I knew they were being honest, but I knew he didn't abandon me.

None of that mattered now, however because I knew that I was going to die. They gave the knife to Laura. She got really excited, and licked the knife. She got really close to me, and licked my face, as well as dragging the knife across my legs. She held out my arm and cut it clean off. I screamed as loud as I could un pure agony, but all they did was laugh at me as I cried in pain.

I pulled myself together and tried to keep it in. I knew if I kept crying they would only be worse. She played with the knife for a bit longer, until they started to read out the incantation. As they read out the spell in unison, I saw my life flash before my eyes. I closed my eyes as they finished. "Open your eyes kid, I want to see your pain," Laura yelled at me. Maverik held hy head up and my eyes open, forcing me to watch as she readied her knife.

She stabbed me once, then again and again, but I didn't cry. I felt my Soul slipping away from my body, but I held on for dear life. I held on for him. I could tell she was angry, but I held on as hard as I could. She stabbed me over and over again, but I still held on. I saw golden light flash from every wound, but none of them seemed to notice. I kept holding on, until she stopped.

At first, I didn't know why, but then I could hear everything again. "FREEZE! HANDS IN THE AIR AND PUT THE KNIFE DOWN!" I heard a police officer yelled at Laura from the top of the stairs. I looked up and saw a SWAT team running down into the room from the newly open doors at the top of the stairs. Laura got up and started towards one of the officers with her knife in hand, but she got shot before she could even take a step.

They pointed guns at the other coronians and put them all in handcuffs. As they did, a couple of the officers stared down at me, one of them shouting "Hey the kid's still alive," He picked me up and carried me out into the harsh light of day. In the parking lot there was an ambulance, and a bunch of officers talking by one of the police cars. As the officers walked out with my body in their arms, they shouted to the officers.

They came over to look at me as I got lifted onto a stretcher, wondering how I was alive. When I got lifted into the ambulance, I saw Chester by the police car. He turned around and ran over to me. I smiled at him, but I couldn't even speak. I was in so much pain, but I was alive, and he was alive too. They lifted me into the ambulance and drove me off to the hospital where they rushed me into the ER.

When the car was getting started, I watched the other coronians being walked out of the building in handcuffs. For a moment, I felt relief, but then everything seemed to be silent for about a minute. It felt weird at first, but then I noticed that I couldn't hear anything. "Is it just me or is everything quiet?" I said. Just when I finished my sentance and the van began to drive off, I saw a white flash burst through all of the windows and doors of the building.

They put me under, and when I awoke, they were done applying stitches and cauterizing my wounds, and they were just cleaning me up. When they noticed I woke up, I already knew what they were going to ask. "Where are your parents, boy?" one of the nurses asked me. "I don't have any," I said in a low voice. They looked utterly confused, and she told the other to check the records for me.

They couldn't find any information on me, and I explained how I was dumped out into the streets at 5 years old, and I've lived on my own for four and a half years. They looked really shocked, and asked if I wanted a foster home, but I said someone else offered me a home first. After they asked me other questions about my life, they asked how I didn't die, and all I could say was "I'm not sure. I just held on,"

## Gemenii Anzhani - The Best Ending (T)

I kicked out the grate and jumped down to the ground, ending up right in front of the main entrance. As I got up, I heard the doors opening. A man walked through, noticing me right as he came in. He walked towards me, and I told him everything that happened prior, and he agreed to help me get back to Basement 2, as well as agreeing to help me escape with Pepper afterwards.

Something felt very off about him, yet he acted nice to me. I was sure he wasn't corrputed, but I had a really, really bad feeling about him. He seemed to emit a really dark energy that I only noticed when I stopped talking. "Well, I'm sorry that happened to you," He said in a strange tone. "But it's not the worst yet I'm sure," When he finished speaking, I took off and ran down to Basement 2.

I knew he was pure evil, even if he wasn't corrupted. When I got down to the ejection tube room, I turned him on using the switch of the back of his neck, just under the slot for his memory card, but nothing happened. I looked up to the wall, and noticed a switch labeled ROBOTS ON. I flicked it, being the last step to finally revive him, and when I did I heard a loud click. When I did, I noticed there were other robots in the room and wondered if they were all turned on.

I ran over to Pepper and turned on the switch on the back of his neck. When I did, he didn't move for a moment, but then his eyes opened.I hugged him as hard as I could, crying into his arms. "You really did it. You saved my life, I don't think there's any way I can thank you," he said. He held me for a long time, but I didn't really care. After a while, I let go, still staring into his eyes. It felt amazing, but I realised we should probably get the hell out of there.

We ran to the main stairway at the front of the machine bay and up to the main area, but the doors were locked. We went to Basement 1 to open up the doors, and as we walked in, I remembered the man who walked in. He looked scared, and he said he had a bad feeling. I told him to hide, and I assured that I would come back for him. He said he would watch me on the cameras, and that he'd come and help me if I needed it.

WIth a final hug, I walked through the basement and into the computer room. It didn't take me too long to unlock the doors, and I walked through. When I did, it felt very quiet and I felt quite alone, but I walked through anyway. When I did, I heard footsteps behind me. I looked behind and saw Easton running towards me. I ran through the maze, but when I got near the exit, the man from earlier walked into the room.

In that moment, I thought of two options, and I ran backwards to where Easton was. He punched me and I fell to the ground. He stood over me, and I looked back to see the man walking towards me. He had an eerie smile on his face. Easton stood still and watched him walk over to me. "You wanna get the first shot?" Easton said holding a knife to him. "I've already got my own," He said smiling at me.

I thought he was going to kill me, but he stabbed Easton instead. He looked me and saw I was covering my eyes. He looked at me and yelled at me to look. I tried to look away when he continued, but I couldn't look away. It was like someone was holding my eyes open as he continued. He didn't stop, even when I plead him to. He only stopped when he couldn't anymore, and he looked at me covered in his bright orange blood as I ran away.

I ran into the stairwell and locked it behind me as I ran away. I ran all the way up into the second floor, stopping before the door to catch my breath. I kicked the door open, and my heart stopped when I saw Claire and Maverik standing there. I ran out into the hallway, and noticed Maverik was bleeding. Claire looked at me, and pulled out her knife. Before she could do anything, I told her to stop.

"Stop! Some maniac just came in and killed Easton in Basement 1." I screamed at her hoping she'd stop, but she chased after me. When I looked back, I saw Maverik running down the stairs, presumably trying to escape, heading my warning. I as fast as I could trying to get away, and I climbed into the vents to catch my breath. As I sat in the vents, I realised it was getting hotter.

I still needed to catch my breath, as I had ran around the whole place twice just trying to get away from Claire. I tried to grab my water bottle from my pocket dimension, but nothing happened. I tried to get other things, wondering if it was jammed, but I realised I must have sacrificed it in the Soul Transfer ritual, which the book explained required an exchange.

I worried about it for a minute, but then I remembered that Pepper had the documents from Basement 3 in his pocket dimension, so I didn't really matter. At that moment, I had to find a way out of the vents. I assumed Claire must have turned on the vents to try and flush me out. When I tried to go through the greates, I realised they were all sealed off, and I was trapped inside them.

I couldn't find an exit, so I decided to try and break my way out. I kicked the floor of the vent, and it surprisingly gave easily, allowing me to escape with ease. I jumped down to the ground and ran all the way down to the basement. I ran to where Pepper was hiding, and I told him not to leave that spot for any reason until I came to get him, because there was now a killer on the loose.

Pepper mentioned how he heard someone running through earlier, and he thought it was me at first, but the footsteps sounded too heavy, and I assumed it could have been Maverik. Pepper pointed out that Maverik seemed to have snapped out of his corruption from that weird blue energy in Basement 3, and I realised that I might be able to save the others.

I left him there, assuring that I would come back, but he gave me a good idea before I left. "Should we destroy this place? That seems like the best option here," He said. I agreed with him, stating that it might release the souls of the victims. I told him to start at 7 o'clock, giving him my watch so he could keep time. At that time, it was 5 o'clock, so we still had some time to kill.

I ran upstairs and back up to the second floor where I planned to hide, but He spotted me. "Don't try to run from me, you can't hide forever," He shouted to me. I kept running, but he kept pace with me. I ran up to the third level and ran towards to the closest stairwell, but when I got in sight of it, Claire came from around the corner. "Get back here!" she shouted.

"Be quiet or He'll here you,"

"Do you really think I'm scared?"

"You should be, seeing as Easton is dead, Maverik is either dead or has escaped, and Mila, Luna, and Ash are unaccounted for,"

"They're having a meeting upstairs right now. Stop blabbing and let me stab you now," I got up and ran back towards the stairs, but I completely forgot He saw me go up them. When I ran towards them, I saw Him running up the stairs towards me. I ran back towards Claire, and I just barely dodged her blade. She grabbed me by the back of my shirt and threw me to the ground.

I looked up and saw Him running dead at me, but I knew he wasn't going for me. He jumped right over me and stuck his blade right through her chest. He walked towards me and cornered me against a wall, and held her by her hair, cutting her throat as I looked on in horror. As He did, he started laughing. From the other staircase to the fourth floor, I saw Luna, Mila, and Ash coming down the stairs.

As they walked down and saw what happened, their expressions turned into horrer as He stared at them, still laughing. They ran down the staircase, but He still stood above me laughing like a maniac. Finally he stopped and he knelt beside me. "w-why are you doing this?" I asked.

"Because I fucking can. It's pretty obvious they're not after you anymore."

"how do you know that?"

"If they were gonna kill you boy, they would have by now."

"..."

"Don't be so scared, you're safe, at least for now. If I were you I'd run" As he said that, I pushed Claire's limp body off myself and ran to go hide. I ran to the stairwell and down to the second floor, and went to go hide in the vents again, forgetting they were hot as hell. The door slammed behind me, but when I tried to break through, it didn't budge. I crawled as fast as I could to where I had broken through before, and I jumped down to the ground.

When I got back up, I was blinded by a flash of light. It was similar to the same beam of light that appeared when I performed the Soul Transfer on Pepper, but this time it was more blue. I felt a blast of air pushing me back, and I had no clue what was going on, but I came to only one conculsion that made sense, but I didn't want to think about it, because it was kery likely true.

The only thing I could think of was that Mila, Easton, and Ash had finished the ritual. Although I had a burning fear of whatever it could be they went through those lengths to summon, but I also had a morbid curiosity. I made my way to the service stairs, and went down to the second part of Basement 2. When I got to the bottom, I heard footsteps outside.

I hid between the steps and the ground as Mila, Ash, and Luna walked in. Once I heard them exit the stairwell at what I assumed to be was the first level, I got up and went out into the basement. I walked down the hall, but then I heard a voice far in the distance. I hid behind a wall when I heard the voice, but it didn't seem threatening. It was soft, and at first I couldn't tell what it was saying.

I waited for it to get closer, and when it did, I heard it saying names. I turned around and went back down the hallway back up to the main level to see if the others got out, but it called out to me. I turned around, and saw a shining being. It took my eyes a second to adjust, but it appeared to me a young boy, but made of golden light. He had pretty similar hair to me, but he was a bit shorter.

"What are you doing here," it asked in a curious tone. I explained how I was trying to get out of here, and I asked what it was. It explained how it was The Angel, and it was summoned here. It told me it would leave once it was done, and I left it to do whatever it needed to. I walked back to the service stairs and back up to the main stairs. When I opened up the doors, it was awfully quiet.

I stepped out into the empty halls, and walked through. As I approached one of the computer rooms, I heard someone behind me. I turned to see Luna holding a knife. I walked backwards trying to get away, but then I broke into a run. I wasn't looking where I was going, and I tripped. I tried to be as quiet as possible, but then Luna approached me as well.

Luna had a knife too, and they both walked towards me, but then my heart dropped. He was right behind them. I tried to tell them to stop, but they didn't listen. I tried to look away again, but it still didn't work. He ripped them apart and I had to watch. He didn't stop until I was painted like a flag in shades of Sky Blue and Neon Green. I tore off through the building, when I caught a glimpse of a clock.

It was almost 7:30. I ran into a computer roo while trying to evade Him, and I saw Pepper dousing the floors with gasoline up on the third level, having just come from the fourth floor, presumably having done the basements and going from the fourth floor and continuing down. I knew it wouldn't be long until this place would go up in flames, so I tried to find Ash and tell him to get out.

It didn't take to long to find him, but when I found him, he was with Claire, who had somehow survived. "You little bastard, you told him to kill me, didn't you?"

"What do you mean?"

"You hired him as a hitman so you could end us, didn't you?"

"He tried to kill me. You have to get out of here, it's going down in flames" I tried to plea with them, but she threw a knife at me. I fell to the ground as it hit me. I felt betrayed but I knew they couldn't be saved. "I'm going to give me one more chance. Please, get out of here or He's going to kill you. I didn't hire him, I don't even have any money so how could I have hired him?"

I could tell I was starting to convince them, but it was too late. She looked beyond me and saw Him walking towards them. She pulled out a larger knife and so did Ash. "It's useless just get out!" I shouted. They didn't listen and stood their ground. I admired their courage but it was foolish. I tried to run but he grabbed me and threw me against the wall. He walked up to me and pulled the knife out of my chest.

He grabbed it and stabbed it through my shoulder, pinning me to the wall and forcing me to watch. In a quick movement, he jumped fowards and slashed Ash clean in half. Claire looked at his body on the ground, but as she stared, He stabbed her. He tore them to shreds without holding back, painting the light blue floors with red and dark purple blood.

After that, he stood there staring at me. I pulled the knife out of my shoulder and ran downstairs. As I ran around the level, I saw Pepper pouring the gas line on the other side of the ground. He gave me the other gas can. He ran down the staircase, creating a gas line as he went. I painted the rest of the second leve, and I went down the opposite staircase.

We both met in the middle of the floor, and once we were done, he gave me the match and I threw it at the staircase to the second floor. As I lit it, the flames traveled around the ground and up through the building, following the gas line and burning everything as it went. Before the flames went downstairs, The Angel walked up through the service stairwell. "let's finish this," he said to me.

We went to go leave, but before we did, He walked in. He rushed towards me, and in a split second sliced my left arm clean off. Almost as if I was falling in slow motion, he stabbed me as I fell, but as he did, Pepper pulled me away and out of the building. He held be as I bled out, saying he'd take me to the hospital, but he looked up and put me down. I looked towards the building, and saw him running towards me.

I felt a sudden surge of energy, and I pulled out a trident made of light out of thin air. Pepper looked surprised, and I managed to fight him back into the building. I couldn't hit him, he was simply too fast. He managed to grab by trident and throw me against the flames, but before he could do anything, he ran up to me and stood over me. I stabbed him in the arm, but that only angered him.

I pulled out the trident, and in the time it took me to hit him again, he must have swung his knife seven times. I felt my body splitting apart, and when I tried to get up, my right leg fell to the ground. I felt another surge of energy, and both my missing leg and arm were replace with pure light, just like the Angel. He looked at me in astonishment, but he ran towards Pepper.

The Angel hit him back, but he managed to throw Pepper deep into the fire. I ran towards him and pulled him out of the flames, using all my strength to heave his heavy metal body out of the flaming wreckage of what was once StarWorld. The paint on his body was singed, but he was still relativelt intact. "Get out of here, I can handle him. Get yourself to a hospital," The Angel spoke to me, and Pepper held me as he ran out of the building.

As we ran out of the burning building, I felt my body splitting apart again, but I kept it together. I've come this far and I've accomplished this much, that I wasn't going to give up and die in his arms. He ran as fast as his robot body could take him to the nearest hospital, and ran right into the ER. All of the people inside the building were confused, and I would be too if I saw a burnt robot holding a child who was bleeding out and had an arm and a leg made of pure light.

They put me on a stretcher and put me under. The last thing I saw before they started their operation was Pepper's face staring down at me, clearly proud of me. I was proud of myself too, I had done it, no we had done it. Although most of the coronians were dead, they deserved death for their actions, although Maverik escaped, he seemed to be the only one with remorse besides Pepper.

The place also went up in flames, finally and truly releasing the spirits of all of the victims of those who died there, as well as those who were the most vengeful, but I did have one question; what happened to Him and The Angel? I had hoped The Angel would win, but He was pretty powerful, and I likely didn't see his true power at play, which only made me fear Him more.

That's the end for now. BUT THERE IS MORE WHICH WILL BE SOMEWHERE ELSE BUT YOU DID IT! YOU READ THE FIRST OPTIONAL STORY! CONGRATS ON BEING SWAG!