Hamburg port underground complex,
Approximately 15 meters below sea level.
The underground section of the banquet hall was an enormous place
Long hallways, with the walls pristinely decorated with all manner of sculptures and engravings of things like angels and stuff that people liked to make art of back then,
It was like a castle almost, just with brighter colors, such as white walls with golden trinkets hanging on pedestals, and probably some red and black banners hanging from the walls or high ceiling, instead of the dull gray of castle walls.
It certainly was far more interesting than the grand majority of buildings he ever went into before.
But as much as taking in the sights was cool, he had a mission,
Bismarck had to be down here somewhere.
"Where is this medical complex Nimi was talking about again?" Daniel said to himself.
He went around another corner,
He was only faced with blank hallways,
"Am I lost?" Daniel thought to himself.
He looked around,
All of the hallways looked the same
"Am I in some strange equivalent to the backrooms or something?" Daniel said to himself.
He then looked back over his shoulder, and found a white sign hanging from a wall.
➡️ Medical Facilities
⬅️ Banquet Hall
⬆️ Storage Facilities
⬇️ Enlisted Quarters
Ah good, a sign. He wasn't lost.
Not yet anyway.
"So the hospital is over to the left..."
*radio noises
Immediately as he spoke, Daniel heard noises like you would hear from someone talking over a walkie-talkie
He immediately leaped forwards, taking cover behind some crates.
? "I hear you, I hear you...."
An unknown individual,
Their voice sounded like an average man, but then it switched to a female voice,
However the female voice was... almost mechanical, like someone was speaking through a synthesizer.
Almost alien sounding.
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Daniel attempted to listen in on their conversation
"Oh, observer..... yes, this is instigator,
.....
Ohhhh, yes.... A new target?" "Instigator said
Strange names, Observer, and Instigator.
But the only thing stranger than that was their plot
"Oh.... Oh......
A poor medical accident befalling the leader of the-
.....
What do you mean enough talking? It's not like anyone is down here!" Instigator said
Oh, but unfortunately for them there was,
"Alright, I'll go acquire the weapon..."
*Krrk!
One of the crates that Daniel took cover behind moved, scratching across the smooth floor.
"WHO'S THERE!?" The mechanical female voice went back to being a male voice
Daniel held his breath, sweat forming on his forehead.
*Step
*Step
*Step
The sounds of boots on the floor.....
Daniel's heart was about to explode out of his chest,
He just witnessed an assassination plot,
and if he was found........
There would certainly be no more hope for going home....
*STEP
*STEP
The steps inched closer....
*KLAK!
Daniel pried a piece of wood free from the crates, and threw it down the hallway.
"HEY!" The man- female alien thing shouted, lunging around the corner at massive speeds, almost a blur.
The piece of wood got it's attention, and Daniel seized his opportunity to escape.
While the alien was facing down the hallway, Daniel edged his way over the crates he was behind, and snuck around the corner, taking off his officer boots so his much softer socks touched the floor, muffling his steps.
He ran around the corner, and then shot down the hallway, away from the alien at maximum speed, shutting himself in a room.
After his death defying plight, Daniel sat down, and took a few breaths
This hunt for Bismarck had gone off the rails.....
He flipped on a lightswitch
*Bzz-ZZZzzzz
The lights flashed on, creating a light buzzing sound in the background,
The room he was in looked like a storage room, filled with boxes and crates,
Daniel looked at some of the boxes,
A sink.
Silverware.
A new door.
A rug.
A lot of decoration-type things.
Likely because he was underneath a banquet hall.
However, there was one different thing inside the room,
Daniel looked around at the crates, with seemingly nothing else to do.
Perhaps there might be something else he could use-
A Luger P08 pistol, just sitting on top of a crate
Daniel took the weapon to hand without a second thought,
With a murderous killer down here, there was definitely a need for a weapon.
Also, this was extremely lucky, with Daniel having played enough World War II shooter games to know at least how to use one,
He still had to familiarize himself with using a live one though,
"So this is the magazine releas-"
*click
*klak-ck
The magazine fell out of the gun and onto the floor,
Daniel immediately stooped over and grabbed the magazine.
"Accident..." he said
It was fully loaded, though
He opened the chamber,
*k-thwing!
A bullet fell out of the chamber of the gun, meaning it was fully loaded.
He quickly chambered a round as fast as he could, and inserted the magazine into the bottom,
"Okay, good I have a weapon now, if that killer comes close I can blow a hole in his head." Daniel said to himself.
He looked back onto the crate where he found the Luger,
A device was right next to where he found the pistol.
"What is this...?" Daniel said, picking up the device.
It looked like some strangish thing that you attach onto the gun, by the looks of it.
But Daniel was by no means an expert on guns, so he didn't know anything about it
But that didn't stop him from trying.
"This end goes on here I think....." Daniel said to himself.
*click!
"That was smoother than I thought" Daniel said,
Now, with the devices attached, the Luger now looked like a sci-fi weapon, instead of a World War II pistol
And then, he found two extra magazines for the gun, also pre loaded.
He attached one of the extended mags to the gun.
"Well... now it looks cursed,
Whoever was down here needed to kill something...." Daniel said,
There was a small orange cap on the end of the barrel of the gun.
It said REMOVE BEFORE FIRING in white letters on it.
Daniel looked at it,
!Achtung!
Magnetic coils must be powered before firing for effective use.
Magnetic coils?
But a Luger P08 doesn't have coils in it?
Unless,
Those attachments he fitted on!
That was an attachment that turned this pistol into a Railgun!
Now why would someone want to kill a person with a railgun? A standard bullet would be plenty fine for that task, and spending lots of money getting a railgun attachment for a pistol was probably a waste.
Unless of course, you weren't trying to kill a person,
Maybe something like an armored enemy?
But then you could just use anti armor weaponry?
Something was strange about this, but Daniel wasn't complaining.
But then.....
*step
*step
*STEP
Was the killer back?
*creeeeek!
The door opened, and Daniel once again, leaped for cover
Daniel was right, it was the killer.
And he appeared to be looking for something,
Daniel got a good look at him,
He looked like an officer wearing an Ironblood uniform,
Daniel looked closer,
The uniform was strange,
Something was surely off.
The killer got furious all of a sudden.
The killer then proceeded to get out his walkie talkie
"The weapon is not here!" He said
......
The weapon? Could he mean?
"You know what I'm talking about! The anti-kansen railpistol you were talking about!
.....
The responding voice on the other end of the phone sounded very familiar,
Almost like he heard it before.
Yeah! It vanished! Mind explaining where it is?!" The killer shouted.
Anti-Kansen?
It all made sense now,
Kansens were manifestations of warships, and since they (presumably) had stronger skin than people, you had to deal with them in one shot.
Daniel looked down at the Railgun Luger in his hand,
That meant that the killer was going after a kansen, but Daniel didn't know for sure which one.
But then... Daniel remembered,
They were talking about killing a leader, and Bismarck was recently hospitalized.
She would be a sitting duck.
Daniel then realized,
He was in the middle of a plan to kill Bismarck!
*Gasp!
Daniel gasped, without even thinking about it.
The killer dropped his walkie talkie
"Hey!" The killer shouted
Daniel switched the safety off
"I know you're in here! Expose yourself!" He boomed.
And Daniel did.
Daniel rose up from behind the crate he was hiding behind,
*BANG!
"Gah!!"
The bullet from the Luger hit the killer right in the head, causing him to stagger.
Only for the disguise to wear off.
The killer was disguised as an Ironblood officer,
The disguise glitched, and then faded off.
Now, instead of an Ironblood officer, the killer was actually a partially clothed girl with light purple skin and yellow eyes.
An alien!
It was one of those sirens!
"Ugh, imagine using a gun that small on a siren instigator! Hahaha!" She shouted.
Daniel looked at the railpistol,
Did it not work?!
Daniel tore off down the hallway.
The siren followed suit!
The siren then summoned six HUGE YELLOW BARRELED GUNS!
Daniel's adrenaline was pumping
He fell into a skid, sliding on the floor.
*PCHEEWWWWW!
The siren fired, and missed, but Daniel felt the heat with every missed shot.
Daniel ducked around a corner, deathgripping his handgun
"I thought this thing was a railgun!" Daniel said,
"Look on the right side!" A voice shouted,
The red cube
Instinctively, Daniel looked at the left side of the railpistol.
A switch on the side was turned "off"
Daniel immediately switched the side on as fast as he could
*krk! Rnnnnn
The gun made a sound like it was warming up, and a small light on the side turned on
"There! It should work now!" The cube said
The siren bolted around the corner,
Daniel wasted no time!
The second he pointed the pistol at it, the siren's face dropped.
Daniel pulled the trigger
*BA-KANG!
The railpistol fired,
and the projectile struck true, dead center,
The siren flew backwards about five feet,
Daniel moved slightly closer,
Yellow blood tricked out of it,
The siren was dead....
But as Daniel looked at his handiwork, he realized that the siren he killed was actually a machine, like a robot.
Either way, the threat was neutralized, then and there.
Daniel breathed in and out.
"I did it! Wooo hooo!" He shouted.
And then he proceeded to throw up because of the extreme stress and anxiety he had just been feeling.
"Ohhhhh, ughhhhhh, I think I need to leave here....." Daniel said.
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As Daniel walked up the small flights of stairs back up to the banquet hall, he couldn't believe what he just did,
So much so, to the point where he forgot why he came down here in the first place.
Upon getting close to the surface, he found the reason why he came down here in the first place staring out of a window, contemplating her life choices,
Or that's what it looked like.
"Bismarck??......" Daniel said tiredly
Bismarck responded to his voice, turning around in spa startled fashion, she probably wasn't expecting him to be there.
"D-Daniel? What are you doing here?" Bismarck said.
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