A Chopper above the North Sea

[Sara Stanton]

Sara nods and thanks Madrox when he finds a bag and starts gently placing the tubes in it.

[Madrox Saavedra]

He started loading another bag.

"We will look."

[Elena Rousseau]

"But if it gets too dangerous, we will have to leave and come back with more people," Elena said from where she was still watching the hallway.

[Stephanie Kaltiera]

I don't even want to think about this mission getting more dangerous than that...thing.

Stephanie nodded, grabbing a back of...well, Will to help carry to the surface. "We'll get all of these containers onto the jet, and go scout around a little bit more. Madrox, this place isn't a ticking time bomb, is it? I read about what happened on the boat...?"

[Madrox Saavedra]

"I'm pretty sure they would have blown this place up already if they weren't quite obviously interrupted."

[Sara Stanton]

"Let's hurry a bit anyway. This place is..." she trails off and hauls a second bag to the shaft.

[Stephanie Kaltiera]

"No argument here..." Stephanie trailed off.

[Narrator]

Whatever the smell was, it seemed to have died down--for now --- and the deathly silence continued.

Something WRONG had happened here.

[Madrox Saavedra]

Madrox carried out another batch of tubes and returned.

"That's almost all of them."

[Sara Stanton]

"How many are missing?"

[Stephanie Kaltiera]

Stephanie shivered. "This place is just...wrong...in every possible way. If we're loaded up we should look around a bit more and then get out of here."

[Madrox Saavedra]

"At least four were... destroyed in testing. The logs indicate eight are still logged out."

[Sara Stanton]

"They must have gotten away with some..." she says, hoping they didn't realize or care which part held Will's consciousness and that it was among the ones they recovered.

[Madrox Saavedra]

"Come on," Madrox said, heading further in, "The faster we get this done the better."

[Narrator]

This next room was much more lab-like -- a lot of workbenches, a lot of closed off and well shielded rooms for more in depth experiments, the like. Rows of chemicals and tools lined the various workstations -- Science was done here, and a lot of it.

The room was lined with many smaller doors leading off into what looked like individual work rooms -- some had long, operating-style tables and equipment in it, others were more empty. There was one with what looked like a giant fuck-off-laser.

Sitting against the back wall, however, was something NOT very sciency. It was a cube, about 10 feet long in each direction, made out of some kind of black, volcanic stone, covered in deeply carved patterns (patterns, it should be noted, that Maddie's database could not recognize). On one side is a door. In the center of the door sat a huge, old lock, with twenty other, smaller locks, around the edges.

None of them were locked at this point in time.

That's where the smell was coming from, for those of us with more advanced noses.

[Sara Stanton]

"What is that?" she mumbles, running a hand over the cube.

[Narrator]

The cube was frigid to the touch.

[Sara Stanton]

Keeping a hand on the cube she walks around to the door and carefully tries to pull it open.

[Narrator]

The door was unlocked, and a gust of super cold air burst out -- freezing, chilling people to the bone.

Inside the cube was a coffin, about 7 feet tall, held in place and closed with a number of thick, heavy chains.

[Sara Stanton]

"I've had it with these sick fucks..."

The cube is eaten away as Sara pulls it's substance into herself, her frame bulking up until she's just a hulking mass of rock that reaches for the chains to rip them off.

[Stephanie Kaltiera]

Steph growled at the stench and unnatural cold, and shifted back to her werewolf form.

[Madrox Saavedra]

"Sara wait!" Madrox interrupted.

[Narrator]

The chains groaned and squeaked under Sara's strain, but they were no match for massive, ancient stone Sara.

Inside the coffin was a horrible creature, identical to the one they had just fought in the hallway. It showed no sign of damage from any attacks -- nor any sign of a heartbeat or anything of that nature.

[Sara Stanton]

She wasn't quite sure what she'd find, but somehow she was prepared for something horrible so she grabs it with the intent of slamming it into what's left of one of the walls.

[Narrator]

The thing didn't react at first, as Sara pulled it out of it's coffin and slung it into the wall, hard.

Then, it took a first, shuddering breath, and began pulling itself to it's feet.

[Madrox Saavedra]

Madrox fired his laser at the thing.

[Stephanie Kaltiera]

Steph snarled and charged in To start shredding and biting

[Narrator]

This time, the laser seemed to reflect off of the thing's surface, impacting on the side, and as it drew to it's feet, it easily smashed Steph to one side.

[Sara Stanton]

"Steph!"

Good job, idiot. Maddie warned you but you just had to ignore everything and let this thing out...

Pushing more mass into one of her arms she takes a swing at the monster.

[Narrator]

The thing caught her hand with it's own, and lashed out, wrapping it's tendril 'round her throat.

[Sara Stanton]

Sara's head withdraws into her body and she tries to push back against it to pin it to the wall.

[Elena Rousseau]

Elena unleashed a blast at the thing's feet, trying to destabilize its footing to give Sarah extra leverage.

[Narrator]

Elena's blasts still had some effect, destabilizing the thing's feet, but the crowded nature of the box make it hard for her to get a great shot off.

Sara would find HERSELF pinned against the wall after a surge from the Thing.

[Sara Stanton]

Sara lets herself get pushed into the wall and tries to pull the thing with her to trap it inside the stone.

[Madrox Saavedra]

Madrox figured out what Sara was trying to do and gave the thing a medium repulsor blast in the back at close range.

[Elena Rousseau]

Elena launched a sustained burst at the creature's back as well, trying to help Madrox.

[Stephanie Kaltiera]

Steph had flown across the room from the creature's smack, breaking several cubicles in her path before slamming into the hard wall and falling onto the ground with a whimper. She made several attempts to push herself back up but her everything hurt too much and she was seeing stars, so she slumped back to the floor to regain some composure.

She appeared, for the moment at least, to be down for the count.

[Narrator]

The gambit worked! The thing quickly found it's whippin' arm trapped in the stone, and it was pelted by blasts from both Maddie and Elena.

It howled again, turning around, and tried to go after the people it could still see -- but it stopped, being trapped by the rock.

[Sara Stanton]

Sara draws in more stone to make sure the thing won't rip it's tentacle out of the stone again to allow the others to take it down.

[Narrator]

The thing was, in fact, pulling at the stone, but that wasn't what was giving way, as a sick tearing sound began to come from the thing's joint.