Felix's Facility

I fell forward out of the holding tube, the various wires and electrodes attached to me now snapping away as I spilled out onto the floor. I coughed, hacking up a bit of the preservation fluid that had submerged me inside the tube.

I desperately gasped for a breath in the room which soon lit up, giving me a clear view of the environment. Some kind of holding bay, the tube I had just spilled out of connected to various different monitors and terminals which were all blaring alarms as the steady readouts they had once displayed were now sent out of wack.

I kept frantically sweeping my gaze around the room, barely able to make sense of anything in the onset of panic and confusion that flooded my mind.

I skidded up into the forest clearing near the ruins, killing the engine of the sleek sedan I tore into the lot with and quickly hopping out. I ran around to the passenger side door and yanked it open, grabbing the man I had tracked down and pulled along with me on the journey. "You should already know what this is about, given the location."

I hurriedly pulled him out of the car and pointed us over at an opening my men had already forced open and held open for us. "We gotta hustle, kid."

I let out a bit of a huff as soon as this woman, that I met maybe once or twice in the past, hurriedly grabs me by my arm and basically drags me out of the car. The car ride wasn't comparable to a limo, but still felt almost as comfy, stylish, and luxurious in its own way. However, there are other matters to attend to other than leaving 5 star reviews... Yeah, yeah, I got it uh... I pull out a paper and unfold it to read the sloppily written name on it Saliva? Shit... Sylvie! Sorry, freaking handwriting... I crumple the paper and casually toss it aside. Alright, lead the way!

I ran us along to the entrance, pulling one of my men aside and sharing a few hushed words before patting him on the back and directing him to keep the entrance into the facility forced open. I turned back to the kid and nodded, waving him along as the both of us stepped on through the entrance. We walked down a corridor that got darker the further we descended into the facility ruins, save for a few half-working lights that flickered occasionally. I cast my gaze around the long stretches of hallway which frequently broke off into little subsections or separate rooms, seemingly trying to narrow one room down in particular. "Place is a fuckin' maze... dunno how he ever got anythin' done here." I mumbled, furrowing my brow and keeping a look out.

The scenery looked quite different in comparison to when the rockstar was last here. Still a bit a mess, but certainly nowhere near as bad as it used to be several weeks ago. Initially, it looked like a scene from a disaster movie or a fucked up music video of some sort. As Sylvie led the way, I simply kept an eye out for anything suspicious but so far nothing just yet. Hmm... I wonder if Felix had it made this way on purpose? That, or maybe, he has some sorta obsession with maze puzzles... This was my attempt at humor to diffuse the tension somewhat

I kept silent, letting his joke fall flat onto the silence of the decrepit facility before darting my head towards a rather armored door. "That's it." I took the kid by the arm and yanked him along, walking us up to the door and laying my hand flat over the biometric reader beside the door. The panel flashed red for a moment before sparking and changing green with a tiny chime, prompting the metal door to audibly unlock and slide open. I walked the both of us inside, before being met with exactly what we had come here to find. Felix was holding a handgun, having it trained right at the door as we walked through.

"No movemen- wait..." I blinked a few times, looking the woman up and down for a moment. "Sylvie?" I lowered the gun just a touch, dropping my guard a bit. "And the rockerboy..."

I fully lowered my gun now, rubbing my eyes with my free hand. "It fuckin' happened, didn't it?"

Meow_(:з」∠)_

The door opens and... OH SHI--The sight of Felix... or rather, what looked like Felix, aiming a gun at us caused me to flinch and almost summon an electrical barrier from my guitar strapped to my back, but hearing some verbal familiarity calms me down just enough... Uh... Merc Dude? I cautiously point in his direction It's you... or not you?

The unsurprising appearance of Cassy going about her business almost elicits a chuckle out of me. I give her a brief headpat before refocusing on... whatever this is...

I holstered the handgun on the vest I had pulled on, waving at his barrier to signal him that it was safe. "Yeah, it's me. Well... not really. Second 'me'. That's me." I scratched my head a bit, looking around the room again. "I can see how that'd be confusing." I cleared my throat before eyeing the two of you again. "No, but- that doesn't make any sense..." I turned around to face the various terminals again.

I turned to face the guy Felix seemed familiar with, before turning back to face Felix himself. "Somethin' didn't go right. You ain't supposed to be out unless we pulled you out. And you're... here." I couldn't help but feel unnerved at the casual sight of a carbon copy of a person I had felt familiar with.

I briefly scratched my head trying to process this entire thing... Hrm... so what can we call you Felix? F2? Other Felix? Something? I let out a sigh. Well, according to Saliva--er, Sylvie here, the plan seems to have diverted a bit. No idea if that's a good thing or a bad thing...

"Call me what you like, I can't see it matterin' for long." I kept my view focused on the terminal before stopping on a display and taking it in for a moment. "Shit..."

Uh oh... sounds like this got better... obvious sarcastic tone

"I was supposed to be brought out if he died." I stepped aside from the terminal, pointing at a display that detailed Felix's current status and location. Both readouts were going haywire, unable to get a lock on either thing. Whatever his status was, and wherever he was located, he was most certainly alive.

"He isn't dead, but his vitals got bad enough that the system thought he was gonna die."

"And now I'm here, and he isn't dead."

The vitals gave absurd readouts, detailing a blood pressure of 150/90 to 6228/100547 and everywhere in between and around it. The location readout detailed coordinates that didn't even exist, sometimes replaced with random characters and numbers.

"But where in the fuck..."

As this version of Felix goes about his business... I say my thoughts out loud trying to recall a few things... He had some weird shit inside of him... I meant that in a figurative sense... not that he's constipated. At least, I hope he isn't. Merc Dude's got a lot going on already and all that crap. And then, one time, I zapped him with some fierce ass lightning to help... only... it didn't seem to help all that much. However, the dude told me to meet up here when the times comes... and apparently that time is now...

Not that I had much of a choice... I kinda got dragged into this today outta nowhere

"Hey, he had you down as someone who he trusted for this." I shoved my hands in my pockets, taking a quick glance around the messy room. "There was another, but I couldn't find him for the life of me..."

"Yeah, I know that much." I cleared my throat, beginning to explain. "He'd stop in every now and again to do some memory updates. Copying a scan of his own brain over into mine, grafting it over whatever he laid on at the time. I remember up to... up to a night or to ago." My face dropped as I spoke the words, recounting what had happened the other night. "...Fuck."

"We gotta go to his apartment."

I walked forward, Sylvie matching my stride and rushing out back the way we came with Aleda in tow. "It's hazy, but it was an emergency shove-in anyhow. He was there, and... and Celestia was too."

"Somethin' bad... yeah, somethin' bad happened."

I let out a sigh shortly before following in a hurry right behind them. I got a bad feeling about this... I mumble out loud as if signaling an upcoming foreboding part in a movie...

"D'you always just speak in cheesy movie talk, kid?" I grunted, making our way back to the sedan and hopping into the driver seat. "Get in the fuckin' car."

I circled around to take the front passenger seat, leaving the back seats open for Aleda when he got in.

What a grouch!~ In a hurry, I hop into one of the backseats for this upcoming impromptu adventure...

(alright, can call it here

(ill time it with us pulling up to the apartment when celestia and felix return

((Alright, sounds good! Hopefully I'll also be avail when it happens otherwise if we can't sched it at the same time, you can just assume I'm ghosting along in the background))

(alright, thanks for hopping in for this little tidbit

(gonna hop off now, have a goodnight

((Thanks for having me! Night))