Night 75: First Floor & Basement Security Station

[lighthearted]

[From here.]

Beyond swaying for a few seconds, Sora's dismount from the warp pad was actually pretty graceful. The first thing he noticed about the room was all the screens mounted on the walls, letting off a faint glow -- though the corners of the room were still left in shadow.

He saw different hallways, different rooms, places that he recognized, along with areas of the basement that he'd seen if only briefly.

"Wow, this is really something. I cant believe they were actually watching our every move..."

For a moment, Sora was too distracted to consider what might be lurking unseen in the dark.

[OOC: We'll be attacked in this room!]

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[redcladidealist]

Lloyd jerked toward the door when the pounding began, heart racing all over again. Something was out there, trying to break in, and it wasn't likely that it was another patient. When it broke through...

He opened his mouth to protest, then closed it, torn by the thought of leaving anyone behind, but knowing they might need the precious minutes that Sora and Link could buy them. Besides which, Lana was already hurt. If monsters attacked Lana and Ryuuzaki, it would be even harder for them to defend themselves. They couldn't afford for Lloyd to waste time arguing here.

Still, Lloyd couldn't just go. Not without saying something. It wasn't in his nature to leave something like this alone. He fixed the two with an intense look. "Don't die," he ordered fervently, almost begged. "Don't turn this into a sacrifice." He stepped onto the warp pad, but kept his eyes on them, as though he could will them into staying safe somehow.

He was still looking when the light from the warp pad swallowed him and Castiel.

[To here.]

[lighthearted]

Sora could tell that Lloyd in particular didn't really want to leave them to fight on their own, but they couldn't waste any more time. Landel was probably already working to get the security system back up. They had to get to him and put a stop to things before that.

As much as Sora might want to confront the man himself, there was an importance in the fight here too, and so he'd keep a path clear for the others. After his failure to be of help in their last fight, he planned to go all out this time around.

Castiel and Lloyd disappeared on the warp pad, which left the two of them. Sora glanced over at Link and smiled. "I don't know about you, but I don't have any plans to die."

The chair held the door for now, but Sora knew they'd break through eventually. He faced the door with his shoulders squared and waited.

[his_legacy]

Link maintained eye contact with Lloyd until he vanished from the platform. Now it was just the two of them, and the fate of those who remained could very well rest on how much time he and Sora were able to buy.

He faced the door beside Sora, knuckles white from their grip on Soma's sword as the door rattled and threatened to snap open. The sounds that came from outside... At the very least, they had the starting advantage that the enemy only had the span of the doorway to enter. As long as they kept that secure, they might be able to last.

Link glanced to his roommate, his friend, as he spoke. He responded with a grim smile and a shake of his head. No, they weren't going to die.

At the very least, he would make sure that Sora didn't.

[lighthearted]

There wasn't much else to be said, not when the door was about to get broken down. Sora was confident both of them were ready to fight their hardest to keep everyone else safe, and he got the feeling that if he could just get his Keyblade out, they would be a great team.

The door didn't want to give so easily. It had been designed to keep the patients out, and so the monsters struggled with it too.

The security system was down, though, which meant that eventually a muzzle full of teeth gnawed a hole in the door. Sora squinted at it, trying to figure out what kind of monster they would be dealing with, but he got the feeling that would stop mattering after a while.

"I'll keep right, you keep left," he told Link while he still had the chance. That would prevent them from getting in each other's way, and if they ended up back to back? Well, Sora was used to that.