The Foundation

173

Billy yawned
"How long have we been looking for 173?"
"I'd say...two hours" Axel shrugged, searching every nook and cranny, every hiding spot, crawl space, closet, everywhere"
"Maybe It's not here" Billy sighed. As if pre planned, the second Billy stopped speaking a ear splitting scream echoed around, followed closely by the sound of grinding rock, quickly advancing on the group...yes Billy, in case you were wondering, that sound is GETTING LOUDER
"NOW'S NOT THE TIME NARI!" Billy snapped
They looked around
"We found it" Axel Said, as Jack and Maddison ran ahead, followed by Billy, then Axel, Then Kuku and finally, Ashe pulled Nate ahead.
"C'mon! I wanna see SCP-173!"
"go on your own..." he muttered quietly. Ashe proceeded to ignore him, like she enjoyed to do. Growing up she would always pretend he agreed with her, saying things like
"Aren't I just so pretty?"
Nate's usual response was silence, occasionally he'd say something like ".....No....." with his burnt raspy voice.
"I knew you'd agree with me!" She'd say
"Nari, Hello?"
Oh right of course. Sorry everyone. Anyway, the group waited at the doorway into a room, larger than the one that they were in, but still smaller than your average living room.
"ALL RIGHT, WE ENTER ON THREE! ONE, TWO, THREE!" He yelled, shoving Billy in first, then bringing in the rest of the group, and like that, the staring contest began
"Do NOT break direct eye contact!" He said.
Axel walked around to it's back, but he tripped over something...everyone turned to look at him and it...it was a body...there had to be at least 50...Then they realized no one was looking at it...they rapidly searched the room, with fear
"SHIT, REGAIN EYE CONTACT!" Jack said, though a strange kind of...excitement trembled his voice
They looked around for five seconds, too long, until their eyes found themselves back on Axel, and he was choking.
The sculpture had its stumpy arms around his neck, slowly crushing his throat, he had a good two minutes or below to live. Billy ran over, not removing his eyes from the thing. They were completely stuck to the thing
"Axel, I'm gonna cut your hands, use the blood to slip out"
Axel was shaking his head out of fear, of course, he couldn't say that.
He slashed at Axel's hands, cutting them up. In a painful display, Axel began wiping the blood on his face, trying to slip out. Eventually after what seemed like hours of the terrible wriggling, and cracking, and pure fear that emanated from all of them as they tried to fend off the citizens that were forcing there way into the building to get a better look at what was going on within the confines of the small room while trying not to break eye contact, Axel wriggled out, though in the process one of his eyes, his left one to be exact, exploded in its socket
"SHIT! NATE KEEP EYE CONTACT!" Kuku yelled, running over to Axel
"Oh god...Your eye is..."
"That dosen't matter Right now...what matters is getting this thing back to home base" Axel said, determination filling his voice
"How hard can it possibly be?" He asked, grinning
Billy grinned back
"Yeah Kukie, Relax!"
"It's KUKU!"
"Kukie" Billy Laughed, turning back to it. They walked behind it, ready to throw the net on, when all of a sudden Nate, Ashe, Maddison and even Jack tumbled to the ground as people ran into the room. Ashe almost got trampled, but Nate was able to pull her out of the way of the stampede.
"OH GODDAMIT NARI!" Billy sighed, his stupid face being stupid
"Oh real mature..."
They all looked at where 173 was, and sighed, seeing nothing but a new even spit of Broken necked bodies and headless, blood covered bodies.
"Oh god!"
Jack through his gun up, shooting the roof
"EVERYBODY OUT! Maddison, Nate and Ashe will escort you" he snapped, though Ashe didn't look like she was going anywhere. She was crying.
"I don't wanna die..."
"........your ok....." Nate rasped feebly
"........Nate, Maddison, stay with her and keep everyone in this room...." Jack said
"Billy, Kuku, Axel, With me....It's personal now" he said, rage filling his voice.
They ran through the halls, finding fresh bodies at every turn, and then they finally found it, after following the marks, the tracks, that led them to the atrium, and then they realized where they were. It was a school...all those bodies that they barely looked at...they were kids...Billy's stomach churned just thinking about it. He puked, everywhere
"Ah..." he coughed, and then immediately looked at it
"Dude we got a problem...we're out of cage nets..." Axel said worriedly
"We only have a floor trap...one use...one shot..." Axel said, looking at him
Then Billy had and idea.
"Set the trap up, Jack, Help him, Kuku, keep eye contact."
Jack sighed
"Whatever, If you die it's your fault..." he said, already knowing what Billy was thinking. There was an old test. Too long to explain, but Billy was hoping it wasn't jut a myth, cause if it was he'd be retiring WAY to early. The trap was set up directly infront of Billy.
"All if you...close your eyes..."
"WHAT!?" Kuku Said with fear
"WHAT IF YOU DIE!?" She yelled
"Then call back up..."
he said. Kuku continued to refuse, so Jack covered her eyes. Axel closed the eye he had left, Jack closed his eyes
"...Lets hope this works..." he muttered
"Three...two...one..." he closed his eyes, hearing the rock rush towards him
"Three.....two.....one...." he opened his eyes again, hearing a shock sound as a trap surrounded one seven three. The others slowly opened their eyes, or well...eye in Axel's case...and slowly, one after the other, Starting with Billy, then moving to Kuku, then to Axel, then to a bitter little laugh from Jack...they did it, they captured SCP-173
"I'm so cool"
Shut up Billy