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Murderworld 2012

The sound of spotlights coming on could be heard, and the darkness that had embraced the people within the room had disappeared. Instead, they were on what looked like an elaborate stage... something out of a reality TV show like the Bachelor. As if things could not get stranger, a large, 65" LED TV came to life, showing a young woman in a white jacket, green shirt, and a horrible yellow and orange polka dot tie.

"Ah! Our lovely contestants have woken up! Welcome, welcome one and all to Murderworld 2012!" The neuro-implants in the sides of her eyes began to glow a bright green in color, and her face had a large smile upon it. "These contestants were carefully selected to take part in the most fun, and dangerous version of Murderworld yet! Winners get to live, if we have any winners, that is. And the losers? Well, they get to die horribly painful and elaborate deaths!"

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As Athos ran, he would pass various buildings. A Bank, a Police Station, and then a school which had the universal "Fallout Shelter" logo attached to the side of it. It was the size of a book, yellow and black, with a symbol for nuclear energy upon it. Hopefully he saw it as he ran by!

But even if he did see it, did he have enough time to find the actual shelter in time?

The bank had possibilities to Athos' mind. The vault might be shielded enough. But he wanted more certainty. He doubted there were any lead-lined fridges around.

Though he knew the nuclear symbol when he saw it. The turtle skidded to a stop and ran back toward the school. He hoped the school and its shelter weren't as fake as the population of this suburb.

Athos ran up to yank a door open to get inside.

The door was not fake! It actually opened up! Inside were more mannequins, mostly of children going to and from lockers or sitting in class. Near the stair leading to the basement, an arrow was pointed with the same Fallout Shelter logo that was on the front of the building.

The turtle followed the arrow. He avoided touching the weird fake kids situated in the hallways. He didn't want to know what this Arcade person had with mannequins.

He jumped down the stairs as many at a time as he could managed without hurting himself. He didn't have an internal timer and didn't want to get caught without SPF Lead.

It would not take long for Athos to find the Fallout Shelter. The door was wide open, showing it was stocked with food, water, and everything you needed to survive a few weeks in a Nuclear Fallout. It even had air purification. Once he got inside, he could see a cot with an army blanket, and a book laying on top of it.

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That was what the cover said, and it looked old, but not 1950's old.

The door was not wide open for long. Athos slammed it shut behind him and locked it. He hadn't seen any living thing in town, and he was not about to easy bake oven himself on the off-chance someone who didn't know how to knock showed up.

He tried to figure out how to lock and seal the door. If he could accomplish that, he'd investigate his surroundings. Maybe thumb through the book on the cot.

The door auto-locked once it was slammed shut. It automatically sealed, and appeared to be easily opened by turning a wheel on the back of the door. Like a sub door.

As he leafed through the book, there were pictures inside of a much younger Alisa Lebeau. In each photo, she was either by herself, or people were far away from her. They showed class pictures, her High-school graduation (to which she graduated VERY early), College Graduation (Again, she graduated incredibly early), a picture of her working at the MET authenticating art, and a picture of her working for Alistaire Shaw. None of those pictures showed a smile. The last picture in there did, however, show her with a smile and even being silly.

Alisa was photographed with a striking blonde man, hugging one and other, and making silly faces in other pictures. She looked human, loved, and even comfortable for the first time in her whole life.She did not look like the villain she appeared at the start to Murderworld.

Attached to the final page was a key. Was it the key to the collar? Or another clue?

Athos backed away from the door when it sealed itself. He settled on the cot and waited. The book seemed to belong to the floating face of his captor.

He took the key from the final page and tossed the book aside. He cautiously inspected the collar around his neck with one hand while he set the key to balance on his knee.

He doubted the collar that would explode on him needed a metal key to unlock, but it never hurt to check now that he had some time to not posture or run for his life.

The key did in fact fit in the lock of the collar. With a simple twist, the collar fell off, showing absolutely no signs of having any explosive son it, just some wires and glue, really. But did that mean just his collar was a fake, or was everyone else's as well?

After five or so minutes, the door opened on it's own. Everything was dark outside of the room. Any mannequins outside of the door of the shelter appeared burnt and misshapen. One even appeared to be missing a head, and had legs where it's arms had once been. An odd creaking could be heard all around him, but it was hard to place.

Athos jumped up when the door opened on its own. The motion sent the fake collar clattering to the floor. He looked around for a geiger counter or some means to know if their was nuclear fallout.

He might have been a mutant ninja turtle, but his was all genetic and not radiation induced.

With nothing of note coming to his untrained eye, he silently moved toward the open door. He doubted his mask would save him from radiation, but it was all he had. He stuck his head out the door to make sure no surprises were coming before making his way out of the shelter and the school.

Athos almost made it out of the school, when the misshapen mannequins all of a sudden began attacking him on the way out. They hit him with their limbs, followed him out of the school and towards the center of the town. All of the mannequins started to walk forward, as though it were like some horror movie. Their movements were twitchy at best, faces burnt or not there at all. It was like a nightmare...

Oddly enough, ALL of the buildings were still standing, just dirty looking, now. And it was dark... as though it the sun were hiding in the clouds. There was no Nuclear Fallout or bomb. It was as though going into the Fallout Shelter just changed where he had been!

Athos scowled. Not that it was easily seen under his half-mask. The blows that bounced off his carapace and front plastron didn't both him. The ones hitting his fleshy parts did. He pulled out his sais and defended himself.

He went on the defensive and tried to back himself out of the misshapen automaton crowd.

He afforded the scenery only a squinted suspicion before knocking a mannequin head off. These things were already burnt and melted, he doubted his powers would be useful at the moment.

The Mannequins continued their attacks. If Athos took out one, two took it's place. It felt as though it were never ending, as their numbers never appeared to go down.

However, their appeared to be a way out of it all! Near-by, there was an open sewer cover. Not just any sewer cover, but one big enough for Athos to get in and cover securely! The automatons kept walking past it, not even falling in! Perhaps they were blind to it or programed to avoid it.

Well, if that manhole wasn't a peel, Athos didn't know what was. But the lesser of two traps would have to do. He would get overwhelmed by the automatons soon.

He angled himself that way. Then he used his sai to trip a couple mutilated mannequins into the others. It would only hold them back for a hair's breadth, but that was all he needed to make a break for the sewer opening. He jumped for it as hits thunked off his shell.

The sewer appeared to be empty, save for two bodies that appeared half eaten. They both wore "Tech Sync Industries" badges and lab coats. Unlike Athos who escaped into the sewers, the bodies in the lab coats appeared to be desperately trying to get out of them.

Athos was not alone, it appeared, someone came up behind him and tried to hit him in the head with a broom, before realizing he was not the enemy.

"Oh my god, I'm so sorry!" The woman apologized to Athos. "I thought you were another of those... those THINGS! They got Brandon and Jeff... they just... it was horrible!"

The turtle didn't recognize the business name. It Didn't have Stark or Future Foundation or Xavier's on it, so he had no clue.

He heard someone coming up behind him and just managed to spin himself out of the way. He was in a defensive posture when the woman started talking. He straightened up slightly and pointed at the bodies.

"Brandon 'n Jeff?"

"Yeah..." She gave a quick nod of her head."Well... it's what's left of them. Arcade thought it would be funny if a giant crocodile lived in the sewer system under "Nuclear World". And umm... it got them. Jeff managed to disable it before he... passed. I'm the only scientist left in this world. I do not know about the others! My God... it's just been... why is he doing this to us? We did everything Arcade wanted!"

She motioned for Athos to follow her, still clutching the broom in her hands.

"We need to get to the LeBeau residence... the only house that has a picket fence in this world. There is a kill switch to turn off the automatons in this world and open the exit. Arcade named it after the body he's hi-jacked... he's... he's sick, twisted!"

His eyes narrowed. This whole situation rang of the bob, but he was not about to bang around in the sewers.

When she started forward with her mighty broom, Athos followed. This woman might turn stag but standing around wasn't going to get him out of this place.

"He's barmy," he agreed with a growl. He kept his sai at the ready. He moved along much more quietly behind the scientist.

"Yeah... whatever you said." The scientist continued to move through the sewer system with Athos. She eventually stopped over a manhole and pointed up.

"This is the sewer that leads to the house we need to go to. If we're lucky, the Automatons are still waiting by the manhole you jumped down earlier!" She pointed out. "The kill switch is in the living room, under a lamp in the shape of a mermaid. Now try to leave as quietly as possible. The Automatons respond to light and sound."

He glanced up at the manhole cover and then back at the broomed scientist. He furrowed his brows at her. He was dressed as a ninja for a reason.

He motioned for her to stay there before climbing up the ladder to the cover. He hooked a foot around to keep him steady as he tested how firmly the cover was down and how much muscle he needed to open.

He held his breath as he pushed up to give himself a chance to peek around.

As soon as Athos climbed ahead, the scientist dropped the broom and climbed over him, slamming the manhole cap down on the ground and making quite a racket. Her mouth began to split open, showing rows of very sharp, pointy teeth... proof she had attacked the other scientists in the tunnel. She was an Automaton like the rest!

"So close, yet so far!" She mocked Athos. "Come, listen to the music of my people!"

With that, her mouth open up completely and she let of an ear piercing screech, alerting the other automatons to their location! Athos would have to move quickly to get to the kill switch! Perhaps someone hacked into this automaton to let him know the location, and get him out. But now, they may have lost control and she has returned to her true form!

Either way, he had less time to think about it! He had to get to that switch!

He unhooked his foot from the ladder and scrambled up. He drew his sai out of his sash. Athos shoved one of them forward to take the shrieking Automaton in its gaping mouth.

Not that it would slow the others from coming, but the turtle wanted some vengeance before running as fast as he could toward the picket fence house.

Half of the Automaton's head came off from the attack, and it's shrieking stopped. What did not stop, however, were the other automatons who were alerted to it's call. Though they moved at a quick speed, it was not fast enough to get to Athos before he reached the house with the kill switch.

Inside, the house replicated one of the pictures he saw inside of the photo album not long ago. Same mermaid lambs, same gaudy couch, same fuzzy carpet. It was like the damn place had not changed since the 1960's! But that did not matter, what mattered was finding that kill switch and heading for the exit!

After shaking an automaton head off his sai on the run, the turtle ran as fast as he could toward the house. He poked his mutant power. Fuzzy carpet under his bare feet smoldered as he ran toward the living room. He glowed a little as his skin grew warmer.

Athos headed straight for the mermaid lamps. He swatted at them to find the killswitch. He wanted out of here. Though that was assuming the automaton had been on the level with him.

But if not, he assumed the building burning down around him would have the same effect.

The first lamp knocked over had the kill switch. A part of the lamp that broke in half landed on it, causing the automatons to stop dead in their tracks. Right before they could get into the house.

Instead, a door opened up, revealing a corridor outside. Along the far wall was the words "Medieval World" written on the side, while on the wall Athos was closest to had "Nuclear Town" written upon it. He was out, and now he could make Arcade pay for this.

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