Yes, an underground bunker, beware the cliche....ness of it!
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As Hailey started to walk down the hallway of the underground bunker, she kept her ears perked for any signs of what could be either Kevin or Ace, but so far, she was alone. Well, she was almost alone as she came to a halt at an intersection in the hallway, two guards were seen patrolling nearby. At first, Hailey was uncertain if she should approach said guards till she saw what was on their arms “Brilliant…Nazis” she muttered.
The two guards had rounded the corner to where Hailey was, but found no one as one spoke into his walkie-talkie, using a foreign language to do so. Hailey watched from where she was, eyes weary of the two guards, just in case. Both guards walked on by as Hailey got out of her hiding place “This is going to be tough” she muttered to herself as she turned and quickly rushed off in the direction where the two guards had come from.
She at least needed a weapon to arm herself, but so far, she was still unarmed and seemed to be heading into rather hostile territory, granted that no one had opened fire on her, yet, she wasn’t going to take that chance either. She had come across another intersection as another set of guards approached, this time, having seen Hailey this time as they called out to her in their language.
Hailey froze where she was, unsure on if she should run or not as she eyed them rather carefully, her hands slightly raised up in a surrendering position as the two guards approached her, guns aimed as well. One guard poked her with the barrel of his gun “Are you the one called Hailey?”
“Uh, yeah” Hailey answered back, eyes still watching the two guards “Why do you ask?”
“The Commander wishes to see you, your presence is required” the second guard told her.
“And if I refuse to go with you?”
One guard shook his head “I’m afraid that is not an option” he spoke as the two of them moved their guns somewhat to indicate for Hailey to get moving “Now move”
At first, Hailey did refuse to move as the two guards poked her a little with the barrel of their rifles in order to get her to move along, causing her to groan somewhat “Alright, alright, I’m moving”
As she was being patrolled down the hallway, there was another question that was bugging her as she looked at the two guards again “Question, are you two, by any chance, Germans? I only ask cause of your accents, it sounds eerily like German, that’s all”
“Yes, we are, as you say, Germans”
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Figured as much, Kevin isn’t all that smart when it comes to making stuff up, Germans and Nazis tend to go hand in hand in the usual gaming sense, so it really isn’t all that a big surprise…I’m amazed he hasn’t gotten these fellows to turn on me and have it all turn into one hell of a fire fight’ Hailey thought to herself as she walked along the hallway being patrolled along said hallway to the destination.
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Soon enough Hailey had arrived in the Commander’s office, to whom she had seen, sitting at his desk, fingers together as he eyed Hailey for a moment, his arm raised up to order the two guards to leave without a single word. As the two guards had left, he spoke to her “You are Hailey, yes?”
“Yeah, otherwise, I highly doubt that I would even be here in the first place” Hailey answered back with a quick little laugh.
As he looked at her still, he leaned forward in his seat slightly. One could tell that he was human, well, as human as he could be anyway. His accent however was still the same as the others, German “Yes, well, this is still a rather odd predicament that you have found yourself in I’m afraid”
“What…are you on about?”
The Commander reached under his desk and pulled out a simple handgun, placing it upon the table and loading it as he aimed it at Hailey “We were all hoping that you would be found within our underground bunker, then of course you would be bought here to my office where I would be the one to kill you, under orders from Kevin”
“Kevin? I should’ve known, too cowardly to come and get me himself” Hailey eyed the Commander for a moment before glancing around the room.
“But as I am still a respectable man, I am going to allow you one last thing, I shall allow you one last thing to say, if you have anything else to say before I kill you” the Commander told her “So, go ahead Hailey”
“Actually…” Hailey eyed the chair nearby “I do, it’s a question actually, can you blush?”
“What?” the Commander questioned a little lost, but before he knew it, a chair was being thrown in his direction. The gun did in turn fire, but it was fired upwards as the gun was knocked out of the Commander’s hand.
Hailey jumped for the gun as it fell to the ground, grabbing it with a roll along the ground before aiming it at the Commander “Seems like the tables have indeed turned, in my favour too”
“You believe that you have won, but I am afraid that you are sadly mistaken young Hailey, if you kill me, the whole base will then be alerted to what has just happened and these guards will shoot you upon seeing you wandering these hallways, I highly doubt that you wish to take that chance, you wont make it out of here alive” the Commander chuckled to her, unflinching at the gun aimed at him.
“I think I’ll take my chances” Hailey answered back as she pulled the trigger, taking care of the Commander before she walked to the fallen corpse and took what seemed to be a knife of sorts from the body before starting to make her way towards the exit. She was now prepared to fight her way out of the bunker.
As Hailey rushed down the hallway, an alarm begun to blare, followed by Kevin’s voice “Attention all personal, the criminal know as Hailey has killed your beloved Commander, her death is all that is required right now”
“That…that doesn’t even make any sense” Hailey grumbled to herself with a slight roll of her eyes as she continued down the hallway until arriving upon an open area. There was cover available as well as Nazis started to swarm the area she was in, to which Hailey took cover. She started to take out Nazi by Nazi, well, that was until two specific Nazi’s arrived, each holding a gatling gun each, already starting to gun Hailey down at her location, having her pinned down.
As Hailey waited where she was, trying to figure out what to do, on how to take care of these gatling gun Nazis until there was a loud crash. Crashing right through the nearby wall, was Ace as he straight away, killed the two Nazis that had Hailey pinned down and let off a strange roar of sorts.
Hailey poked her head out as her eyes fell upon Ace “Not good, he’s like one of these bosses that refuses to leave you alone, no matter how many times you manage to outmanoeuvre them” she groaned as she ducked away as Ace started to open fire on her for a few moments before stopping, having gone quiet.
Hailey looked back out and saw that Ace had seemed to vanish. She started to move out from her position, keeping on the offensive only to look up as Ace grabbed her and slammed her against the wall, his fists starting to crush her as he just held her there. Yet, Hailey took this chance to pull out the gun she had obtained earlier on and started to fire at Ace in order to at least provoke him to let her go.
Ace hesitated as he let go of Hailey and took a few steps back, seeming to just roar at her as Hailey fell to her knees for a moment. Yet, she continued to fire at him still as she got to her feet again and started to walk forwards whilst Ace moved backwards. Sure, the bullets weren’t exactly harming him, but the bullets striking his armour seemed to be doing enough to at least cause him to flinch, which was good enough for Hailey.
Though, the moment Hailey had ran out of bullets, she had to drop her gun, having no spare ammo on her, nor having the time to run around and grabbing any more. So instead, she threw the gun aside and just ran, heading for the hole that Ace had made from his entrance.
Upon rushing through the gap in the wall, there was at least a small section of tiles available before she found out there was a gap with a few boxes just floating there. Hailey wasn’t about to question it as she slowed down to a halt, questioning on what her next move when Ace activated his thrusters and started to charge at her “I’ve got no choice” was all she had said to herself as she took a few steps back before running forward and leaping for the closest box available.
Ace in turn, started to fly around, firing at Hailey as she pulled herself up onto said box “This has to be one of those unfinished areas that Kora told me about…boxes just don’t float around randomly” she had said to herself as she started to move, jumping from box to box all the while, trying to avoid being shot at by Ace.
So far, all Hailey could do was just to keep moving still, hoping that she wouldn’t run out of boxes to jump onto. Yet, as she continued jumping from boxes still, she did indeed run out of boxes to jump onto, but instead, there was a rather long pipe in place of the boxes.
Hailey did not question it still as she jumped onto the pipe and started to run along it as she looked to her side as she saw Ace starting to catch up again, watching as he flew off ahead in front of the pipe, waiting for her at the end of it “Crap, not good” was all she could say, but yet, just kept on going.
As she reached the end of the pipe, she actually leapt towards Ace, unsure on what was going to happen next. Ace’s hand moved as if he attempted to grab her, but missed as Hailey landed upon his arm before leaping off again onto Ace’s head before leaping off him and started fall into the void.
She fell for only a few seconds as she fell through a portal of sorts instead, striking the ground where the portal had spat her out, rather hard for that matter as it closed behind her. She got up with a groan “That was not fun…” she muttered to herself as she took in her new surroundings. She was now on a street, in what seemed to be a deserted city of sorts “There are either going to be zombies here, or I’m going to hear a siren of sorts to which monsters are going to show up, what fun…”
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(Cookies to those that can guess the two game references right at the end there that Hailey mentioned XD)
