The Hunt Begins (Dark Data)

[Ash Williams]

Everyone except Ash has now descended to depths of this sinister basement of the castle. The evil dead slayer leaped from the edge and grabbed the rusty chain with his left including a strong grasp. At least Celestia provided a bright light source for him to see his surroundings easier. His chainsaw limb dangled from his right arm with the weight of the appliance being pulled by the zero gravity. Ash wraps most of his limbs around the chain except his weaponized one started to slide down slowly. It was tough for him to use one arm during the process and hope by the time he gets down that his Teammates will still be waiting for him.

After fifteen minutes, Ash finally caught with the duo and landed his feet on the ground when he was a couple feet off the ground. Suddenly, the toxicity from the poison gave an uneasy feeling in Ash but that didn't stop him. He sucked it up to take it in like a truly masculine man. Celestia shined the light for them to see only one way to go was a narrow hallway. She turned around to see Ash made it and can tell there was a pain expression in his eyes but could figure out that he was trying to deal with it.

Revan noticed too and the others thought they probably need to boost their speed up to find the nemesis that caused them to get poisoned. Without further ado, they proceed down the hallway in a fast pace. The deeper they moved into the hall, moans, and screams can be heard which gave a horror sense to them. Celestia gulped with doubt of anything good coming from the sounds but Ash and Revan were ready for anything else bad to happen.

The noises suddenly become louder as they get closer to the end of the hallway. Soon everyone started to feel the unforgiving effects of the poison. It wasn't severe yet but just gave discomfort and a sick feeling.

"Is everyone still doing fine from what happened to us back there?" Revan questioned while concerned for everyone's health.

"Still alive and kicking," Ash assured for Revan's concernment.

"I'll be fine Revan. I've been through worse before anything like this. What about you?" Celestia Responded while leading them with the light.

"I'm ok here, I'm kind of getting nausea but I can take it," Revan said as they made it to the end of the stone hall.

They now entered what appeared to be a big dungeon with locked cells on their left and right. Darkness settled upon this place and Celestia moved her light toward the cell with a curious mind of the noises coming from the cell. As the light moved closer, it slowly revealed the ones causing the ruckus. A shock went down Celestia's spine from the sight. The liberators noticed it was people of the Pale Moors that were locked up but some looked disfigured as if they've been consumed by a disease. They didn't appear to pose a threat but instead weighed down the liberators' feelings. Some hacked and coughed as if they were getting affected by the same substance the liberators inhaled earlier.

"What the hell…" Ash said with a soft surprised as the others were baffled too.

"This is just wicked," Celestia uttered under her breath while looking at the substantial number of people that were kept against their will.

Almost every cell had a living human present but some were slowly dying from terrible symptoms.

After standing there for a minute to understand what they were looking at, Revan came forth to say something.

"We can't just leave these poor people here. They need to be saved or else they'll die," Revan stated for Celestia and Ash to hear.

"I agree too but however though, it would be tough to get everyone out of here through the same way we came in from. Whoever locked up these innocents and experimented on them must be the same person who poisoned us," Celestia said feeling bad for these individuals.

"Remember guys, our time is shortening while we stand here. I say we should find the freak show that caused all this mess in the first place and liberate this verse from Nebula's filthy hands once and for all," Ash spoke with a reminder of their main mission if they want everyone to make it out in one piece.

They already had enough casualties on their hands while losing two fellow primes in the process and one fleeing due to being severely injured. There was now three of them and if they stay around in this Nebula space there was a huge percentage of the chance dying with failure to bring The Pale Moors a brighter future. Revan and Celestia came to an agreement on what Ash just said but after planning their next move, a sinister chuckle echoed throughout the dungeon.
Time was short and they must make hast completing the mission.

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