Emily and Ballora were sleeping peacefully, but in Emily's dreams.

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Emily: *wakes up in shock* *sighs* (Gosh, a nightmare).

(Maybe I should wake up Ballora)

Ballora, Ballora wake up.

Ballora: *wakes up with a yawn* Oh hello Emily, did you sleep well?

Emily: Yep.

Ballora: *Gets up* Well it's time for-

*hears something fall*

Emily: W-What was that...?

*groans are heard*

Ballora grabs Emily and they both hide by the door.

Emily: Did-?

Ballora: Shh.

*Ballora peeks through the door and sees two Endo-monsters*

One had long thin fingers which he spent his time touching whatever, so he is blind and can only feel things with his fingers.

(His name is Spindle)

The other that accompanied Spindle had elongated arms and convulsed constantly, and like Spindle she had no eyes (but only black) which means that she is also blind.

(Her name is Twitcher)

Ballora: *stops leaning out, looks at Emily and whispers* Emily listen, there are two of those monsters, but apparently they're blind, so we have to be quiet, you hear?

Emily: *whispers* Yes.

Ballora and Emily quietly leave the room, walking past Spindle and Twitcher.

*hides behind a box*

Emily: *whispers* Now where are we going?

Ballora: *Looks out and sees a door* Okay, there's a door there but the two of them are hanging around all over the place, and they might get separated, so we have to go one by one.

Emily: *whispers* If that's because we can't go together then I'll go first.

Ballora: Okay, just be careful.

Emily walks out and goes to the other end of the site, when Ballora was about to walk past Twitcher suddenly steps in front of her without noticing.

Emily: (Oh crap! Now what?)

Ballora makes a sign to Emily to stay where she is, when Ballora was about to go to the other side she is stopped by Spindle's hand, now she was cornered, with a noise or a touch from Spindle she is dead.

Emily was scared and worried about what is going to Ballora but suddenly...

Emily: (Oh no! What do I do what do-?) *her belly growls*

(Ahhh! No no no no! Not now!) *covers her tummy with her arms*

*Spindle and Twitcher are alarmed*

Those sounds made Spindle and Twitcher alarmed, they turn and go to where the sound came from.

Ballora: (Oh no, Emily!)

Emily: *Starts to freak out* (No no why!? Why now!?)

Ballora: *peeks out* (I have to do something!)

Ballora comes up with the idea of calling the attention of the two endos. Spindle was about to touch Emily with her fingers until Ballora throws something in the distance attracting Spindle and Twitcher's attention, so the two leave and Emily walks out to return to Ballora.

Emily: *Hugs Ballora and whispers to her* Thank you Ballora, you saved me from those monsters.

Ballora: You're welcome, well let's get out of here.

Emily: Okay.

The two leave the area and reach the elevator and go down.

(Hint: There's a vent above Ballora and Emily, why? You'll see soon)

Emily: *sighs of relief* That was close. Umm... Ballora... I'm sorry for almost putting myself in danger, I was just hungry and...

Ballora: No Emily, it's my fault for risking your life.

Emily: But... I insisted on going first. So I swear I won't do it again.

Ballora: Fine.

Emily: By the way... I still feel insecure, so I still feel like we're in danger.

Ballora: Then we'd better stay alert.

Emily: *nods her head* Alright.

After that conversation suddenly something starts to sound in the ventilation above.

*Ballora grabs Emily and they both back away*

And suddenly an Endo-Monster comes out knocking down the hatch!

(His name is Crawler)

Emily: Ahh!

Ballora: Stay with me!

Crawler: Rrrrrr... *Looks at Emily and Ballora like a wild animal*

Give me... the girl...

Ballora: Never!

Emily: (Gosh, he can talk!)

Crawler was about to scratch Ballora and grab Emily, but when he reaches his hand out to them the elevator shakes for a few seconds, alarming Crawler and then he goes back where he came from.

Emily: He retired...?

*The elevator starts to fall, lifting Emily and Ballora*

Emily/Ballora: AHHHHH!!!

After a hard fall, Ballora opens her eyes seeing the damaged elevator and suddenly sees Emily lying on the ground.

Ballora: Emily! Grrr... *gets up and goes for Emily* calm down, I'm here!

(Emily has her eyes closed)

*Carries Emily* Are you okay?

Emily: Hmm...

Ballora: *sighs* You're safe.

Emily: *her tummy growls* Nghh.... *covers her tummy with her arms*

Ballora: Oh dear...

To their surprise, there was a can of food on a shelf, so she takes it, opens it, and gives it to Emily.

Ballora: Emily, look what I found.

Emily: Huh? *gasp* Finally! *takes the can and rubs it on her face*.

After so long of not eating.

Emily starts to eat while Ballora looks at her with pride, then Emily offers her food, Ballora insists for a moment but in the end she changes her mind and eats.

[For this part just imagine it as a montage where Ballora and Emily go through the subway while discovering various things they never saw]

Emily and Ballora reach another area, a very large one.

Emily: Ballora, have you noticed that everything has been quiet since the last time?

Ballora: Yeah...

*The two stop and Ballora kneels in front of Emily*

Ballora: Emily, no matter what happens, I'll be by your side, I won't let you get hurt.

Emily: O-Okay...

Emily was beginning to doubt and have a bad feeling. Later in another part of the area, the two come across a rotting corpse on the floor.

Emily: (Why the heck are there so many corpses?)

Suddenly the two hear a roar, that was Jawlock's roar on the other side of the blast door, he starts hitting on it.

Ballora: Quick over here!

Ballora and Emily hide in a vent, the blast doors are smashed and crates fly out.

Jawlock goes out and starts looking for them but suddenly sees the corpse from before and starts eating it while Emily is disgusted to see it. After a few moments Jawlock runs back to where he came from.

*Emily and Ballora leave*

Emily: *puts her arms on her stomach* Ugh... that was too disgusting...

Ballora: Calm down Emily, just don't think about that again.

[Later]

The two girls find a corrupted endo, but he was asleep, so they sneak past him and enter a room where there were 10 corrupted endos sleeping, so Ballora and Emily walk slowly and try not to wake the endos.

They arrive at a locked door that needs clearance.

Ballora: *Whispers* Damn... we need "clearance".

Emily: *thinks of something* Wait...

Emily remembered something and starts to take something out in her pocket, what Emily takes out is the USB that Bon has, she puts it in and says to Bon.

Bon: *lights up* Hmm? Oh, girls.

Emily: First, be quiet, okay? Second, can you open the door?

Bon: Sure, but it's going to take a while.

Emily and Ballora: Okay.

The two wait for 10 seconds and suddenly they hear Jawlock's roar.

Emily: It's coming!

Ballora: Bon open the door!

Bon: I'm trying!

*manages to open the door*

Bon: Got it!

Emily quickly grabs Bon (the USB) and they start running.

Jawlock was behind them. Emily and Ballora turn left, right, and right again, coming to a spot, and Emily presses a button to close the blast doors.

Jawlock bangs on the doors, unable to open them he growls and leaves.

*Ballora and Emily are relieved*

Ballora: It was close.

Emily: Yeah, where are we by the way?

Ballora: I don't know.

Ballora and Emily walk down a hallway.

A part of the room is floating and there was darkness everywhere.

Elsewhere... there was something on the wall, when they looked at it closely, it was a drawing of... Emily? (By the way it glowed blue)

Ballora: What the...?

Emily (thinking): This is crazy.

Emily: *gasps and points* Look, there's a door up ahead.

Ballora: That's great, surely it's the way out-

*suddenly the lights go out*

Emily: Huh!?

Ballora: Who turned off the light?

Emily: I can't see anything.

Then they hear a laugh and suddenly someone knocks out Ballora.

Ballora: Ahh! *falls to the ground*

Emily: Ballora! Ahh! *knocks her out too*

[Some time later...]

*They wake up*

Emily: Ouch... what... what happened? Ballora?

Ballora: Ohh...

The two were tied to a pipeline.

Emily: Huh!? B-Ballora.

Ballora: Huh, where are we...?

Then the two hear a door open.

An Endo-02 entered, the "curious" thing is that it had strange eyes.

Endo-02: *laughs* I've been waiting a long time for you *points at Emily*.

Emily: W-What do you want from me?

Endo-02: Hmph... you'll see when he comes.

Emily: "He"? (*gasps* Ni...N-Nightmare)

Endo-02 leaves and Ballora thinks of a way to escape until Emily sees a sharp pipe behind her and uses it to cut the ropes and they leave.

Ballora: *Looks to the side* Okay Emily, we're trapped but we're going to get out, so stay close to me.

Emily: Okay.

The two begin to escape, along the way they had run into some endoskeletons that were building something.

(This is his appearance, so you know)

(His name is Constructor)

Emily: What are they... building?

Ballora: I really don't know, but it's better not to find out.

Both decide to continue their escape.

Emily: Hmm? *sees something* Ballora.

Ballora: What's wrong?

Emily: Look *points to a map on a wall*.

Ballora: A map, well done Emily.

Ballora approaches the map to analyze it.

Ballora: I know how we can get to the exit, there is a faster way and that is to go to the warehouse that is here.

Emily: Fine.

As they are about to start, the alarm goes off, alerting everyone in the underground. So the two start running to the warehouse, after running a lot they manage to reach the warehouse.

Emily: It was clear that it wouldn't be easy.

Ballora: Don't worry Emily, we'll get out of this.

Emily: *inhales and exhales* Okay, come on.

The two of them, when they saw the warehouse again, noticed that something was wrong, the floor instead of being a floor was made of grids as if... it was a cremation site, the worst thing is that there were burned corpses.

Emily: Umm... I think... we shouldn't be here...

Ballora: We'd better-

*Suddenly flames come out by surprise*

Emily and Ballora fall to the ground in fright, and when they turn around...

(Her name is Inferno)

Inferno: Hello... do you need a flame? *says it in a scary way*

Ballora: Run!

Ballora picks up and carries Emily to run, while Inferno chases after them throwing flames.

Inferno: Don't bother running away... you won't be able to get out of here.

Ballora: We'll see about that! Emily hold on to me.

Emily: Okay! *holds tightly to Ballora in fear*

They reach the final door of the incineration area and Ballora leaves Emily, she opens the door with force, Emily runs to get out and Ballora also exits closing the door, leaving Inferno.

Inferno: ... Sir... they are escaping.

???: Don't worry... I'll take care of it.

Ballora: *hyperventilates for a moment* Okay... okay... we're safe for now.

Emily doesn't say a word, she still can't believe this is happening to her... what did they want from her? She has had those questions in her head that she even has several doubts.

But that's not going to stop her, yet... she's got Ballora... she's all she has left.

Only she hopes that something terrible doesn't happen... if that happens... she would surely lose her... sanity, but it's not the end yet.

Ballora ends up hugging Emily to calm her down, she didn't forget her promise to take care of her.

[22 minutes later]

The two run to the exit in front of them that is about to close.

Ballora: Calm down Emily, we're going to make it!

Emily was smiling at finally being free of this nightmare, when the two walk through the blast doors...

Emily: (Finally, finally!)

Ballora: Finally we can-

...

Emily is shocked... and Ballora... felt like something went through her stomach... it was like a hand shot.

When they both look back...it was Nightmare, the hand returns to her arm and then she laughs, and Ballora falls to the ground as the doors close.

-To be continue-

Geez... apart from that unexpected moment, I was too late with this.

Counting: 2177

I hope you liked this last part of the mini arc of "Escape through the underground".

And... without anything else to say... see you.

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